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Dengzhou.

The prefect Liu Zhenshi and the inspector Li Guoxi stood at the top of the city. They were puzzled when they saw Li Chuang and Cao Cao mobilizing their troops to go eastward along the Tuanhe River.

Li Guoxi asked: "Guardian, are Cao Cao and Li Chuang going to attack Xinye?"

"It's very possible." Liu Zhenshi frowned, "But it's also possible that reinforcements are coming from the south."

"Reinforcements from the south?" Li Guoxi also frowned, "The Qin army and Zuo Liangyu under the command of Commander Ding? If it is them, I just hope they come early, before the rogue bandits retreat and harm us in vain!"

The Qin army is famous for its poor military discipline, and Zuo Liangyu's tribe is even more notorious - the soldiers are like a grate, which is the Ming army of Zuo Liangyu's tribe!

Liu Zhenshi sighed: "In fact, it is unlikely to be reinforcements - we refused Ding Qirui to enter the city before, so he probably has no idea of ​​rescuing us. As for Zuo Liangyu, it is impossible for him to break in and fight the coalition forces of Li Chuang and Cao Cao alone."

Having said this, Liu Zhenshi said no more.

If the rogue bandits invaded Xinye, the possibility of Dengzhou being rescued would be even smaller.

"You keep an eye on the city while I patrol the city and see if I can send troops out to dispose of the corpses outside the city. Otherwise, diseases will appear in the city in a few days."

"Yes."

Neither of them mentioned the matter of sending troops out of the city to attack the camp while Li Chuang and Cao Cao were mobilizing their troops.

For one thing, they didn't know how many of the rogue bandits were left behind - maybe a lot of them were left behind, deliberately pretending to be a small number, so as to lure them out of the city and thus break the city.

Secondly, the troops in the city are limited and their combat power is weak, so it is really not easy to take risks.

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Boom, boom, boom.

Jitan, in the wilderness on the east bank of the Tuanhe River, with the sound of drums and drums, the infantry of the Yibu rebel army walked slowly and slowly towards the predetermined battlefield.

The heroic cavalry guards were divided into two groups, one led by Shen Wandeng and one each led by Li Dingguo, cruising on both sides of the front infantry array.

Liu Sheng rode on horseback and looked at the smoke and dust a few miles to the north with his binoculars. He found that they all seemed to be flying the flag of Li Chuang, and there was no trace of Luo Rucai's troops.

Liu Sheng knew that Luo Rucai's troops would definitely not come to fight - if Luo Rucai was unwilling to fight, Li Zicheng would probably not come either.

Sure enough, soon a scout from the south came over to report.

"Commander, Luo Rucai's troops are crossing the river six or seven miles behind our army!"

Liu Sheng smiled after hearing this, "I knew they would attack from both front and back."

At this time, the walkie-talkie in Liu Sheng's hand suddenly rang.

"Commander, I am Zhang Ao. The reconnaissance cavalry discovered that Luo Rucai's troops are crossing the river at Zhengwan. Do you need our troops to stop them?"

Liu Sheng also brought a secret weapon to Nanyang this time, which were several walkie-talkies.

In addition to having one in his hand, each of the four brigade commanders also had one in hand to facilitate communication with each other on the battlefield - on the great plain terrain of the late Ming Dynasty, the maximum communication distance of this kind of walkie-talkie could reach fifteen or six miles!

This is much more convenient and faster than using messengers to communicate, and it is also safer!

Zhang Ao led the 7th Brigade with more than 8,000 people as the rear army. They would also send out reconnaissance cavalry. The main direction of the reconnaissance was the rear (south). Naturally, they would also find out about Luo Rucai's troops crossing the river.

Liu Sheng replied: "I am Liu Sheng, Zhang Ao listens to the order, the rear army continues to advance, don't worry about Luo Rucai's department for the time being."

"Zhang Ao received it, follow your orders!"

Liu Sheng was not good at commanding ancient armies in battle, so the military formations were relatively simple.

In addition to the cavalry guard protecting the two wings, the infantry is mainly divided into five major military formations.

More than 5,000 people from Helian Yue's army were the forward force, the Guards were the central army, more than 8,000 people from the 7th Brigade led by Zhang Ao were the back force, and Mao Chengguo and Wen You each led the brigades as the left and right armies.

As for the other regiment brought by Wen You, the Minyong Battalion assisted in guarding Xinye to prevent Li and Luo from not following martial ethics and stealing Xinye County - which was the baggage transit station closest to the main force of the Yibu rebel army. The place to store is quite important.

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Li Zicheng led a hundred horsemen to a position more than two miles away from the front of the Yibu rebel formation to observe the rebel formation.

Thinking of something, he took out a bamboo tube.

This is the telescope (only four times) that he captured in Prince Fu's Mansion.

At first, he didn't know that this kind of treasure had been captured in Prince Fu's Mansion, so when he attacked Kaifeng, he took the risk to personally check the layout of the official camp outside Kaifeng City. As a result, he was blinded in one eye by an official archer.

Not long after returning to Luoyang, one of his junior officials responsible for guarding the treasures diligently presented this object, saying that it was found among the many treasures in Prince Fu's Mansion.

After Li Zicheng tried it, he hated it!

Ask the official why he didn't present this treasure earlier.

The junior official explained that he had only discovered it a few days ago, but Li Zicheng was still filled with anger and hatred. Regardless of the persuasion of Li Yan and others, he had this junior official who was related to him pulled out and executed.

Although Li Zicheng beheaded the man who presented the treasure, he still kept the treasure of Telescope with him.

At this time, when watching the enemy's formation from a distance of more than two miles, it was as if he were looking at the scenery two hundred steps away, which was quite clear.

After reading it, Li Zicheng laughed.

"Well, I thought Liu Sheng was so capable, and he managed to put on a military formation in just a long time.

But the news we got before is correct. Liu Sheng's army does have a lot of cannons. "

Li Zicheng had heard that the Weibu rebels had many Hongyi cannons, but when he thought about it, a dozen or so could only reach the sky.

When he took a look today, he realized that there seemed to be dozens of them - because they were covered by the military formation, he couldn't see exactly how many cannons there were with a telescope. As for the smaller squatting tiger cannons, it was even harder to see clearly.

Even if he knew that Liu Sheng had dozens of cannons, Li Zicheng was not afraid.

Because in his understanding, artillery fires iron bullets; even Hongyi cannons can rarely hit more than two miles away.

In addition, at this time, he had nearly ten thousand cavalry divided into hundreds of troops, walking on the battlefield. The formation was not dense and could be withdrawn at any time. Even if the enemy fired artillery, there would not be many casualties.

On the contrary, if the opponent's cavalry tries to drive them away, they will easily be eaten by them.

Although Zhang Nai, who was riding beside him and held the flag, did not have a telescope, his eyesight was very good, and he could vaguely understand the opposing military formation through the flag.

After hearing this, he asked: "King Chuang, how should we fight?"

"First let the more than 10,000 new soldiers charge forward to attract enemy artillery fire. Then let a cavalry unit cut in from the east to disrupt the enemy's formation.

The Chinese infantry moved up the stairs again, and after contact with the enemy, they fought in turns according to the old rules!

With the looks in front of me, as long as we can rush in, we can defeat them in two or three rounds!

He will lead another cavalry unit, look for opportunities to dispatch, or finally pursue and suppress the defeated troops. In this battle, he must let Liu Sheng know that he is called the King of Chuang! "

Li Zicheng had a famous cavalry tactic in later history called "Three Walls".

It talks about using 30,000 cavalry, divided into three layers, just like three stages of musketry. The former will finish the charge and then retreat to rest and recover, while the latter will continue to charge.

In this way, 30,000 cavalrymen alternated back and forth, quickly overwhelming the enemy's formation.

If this method of warfare fails to win in a fierce battle, withdraw and lure the enemy into the infantry formation, let the cavalry repair themselves, and then rejoin the battle...