In the Qing army's tent, Abatai listened to the reports of Mahabi and Boluo who were returning to the camp.

"Master Beile!" Mahabi angrily fisted, "The slave led three thousand cavalry and found a barbarian grain transport team about thirty miles east of Hulao Pass, so he led his troops to kill him."

Mahabi was extremely excited, "When he arrived, the slave found that the barbarians were lined up on the river bank, so he could only get off the horse and climb up the river bank, but when he rushed up with arrows and was about to fight with them, the group of barbarians left their vehicles and ran away."

"The slave went up to check and found that there was no food on the car. At this moment, more than two thousand barbarian cavalry suddenly rushed to the river embankment and headed straight to the war horses left by the slave embankment."

Speaking of this, the Mongolian man was about to be furious. "At that time, the slave led the warriors to rush up the river bank, he could only watch the barbarians snatched the horses. If the warriors who were guarding the horses had not reacted quickly and the slaves rushed down the river bank again, the cavalry would have become infantry and would have to walk back."

Abatai's mouth twitched, and Mahabi led three thousand cavalry to break the food route of Gao Barbarians, but unexpectedly, half of the horses were stolen by the barbarians.

This is really a matter of stealing chickens and losing rice.

"Go Manzi, so cunning!" Abatai gritted his teeth, "So, Gao Manzi has a horse army stationed in Xingyang to protect the food road!"

Mahabi said: "There are more than two thousand cavalry stationed in Xingyang. In addition, the barbarians transported grain on the river embankment. The advantages of the slaves and horse army cannot be fully utilized!"

The Yellow River embankment is tall and large. It takes a quarter of an hour to climb from the ground to the top of the embankment.

Because of this, after Mahabi climbed up the embankment, he could only stare at the Red Cavalry and take away nearly half of the horses when he saw the Red Cavalry rushing towards him.

This is really a great humiliation for the Mongolian cavalry.

After hearing Mahabi's words, Abatai knew that it was not easy to cut off Gao Huan's food route, but he still shouted in a deep voice, "I will add three thousand war horses to you, so you should continue to raid the food route. Don't let the barbarians take the horses!"

The Qing cavalry were all, one man, two horses, or even three horses, to maintain the mobility of the cavalry and the impact of the battle.

Gao Huan wiped out a Jiala of Zhengbai Banner, and there were four or five thousand war horses on Abatai.

Mahabi gritted his teeth, felt deeply ashamed, and saluted: "Zhe! Slaughter must be good-looking!"

Abatai exhaled, looked at Boro again, and said in a deep voice: "Tell me about your situation!"

"Ama!" Boluo said angrily: "I've inquired about it. After several thieves near Xingyang and Zhengzhou, the barbarians and the people ran away. Moreover, the barbarians were prepared and implemented a solid wall to clear the fields. The remaining barbarians were taken into the city, and no one could be caught around them!"

Boro led the cavalry around, divided into groups of 50 miles around the camp, robbed them separately, and ran off the horse's legs, but there was no gain.

Abatai swelled his cheeks, "Then keep going south and go to Mi County and Xinzheng!"

From the information Ma Laoer gave to Shanxi merchants, Abatai knew that the core area ruled by Gao Huan had to go south.

Boluo politely said, "Don't worry, Ama, I will bring enough dry food tomorrow, so I will go to Xinzheng Hemi County!"

Abatai instructed in a deep voice, "Remember, if you don't enter the forest, you won't attack when you encounter a stronghold! Bring more coats."

Boluo quickly promised that Abatai did not have much expectations for the killing of the barbarians and consuming Gao Huan.

At this time, the food route that was discussed last night and the people were captured were not effective. Abatai could only turn his eyes to Li Rutai, and then said in a deep voice: "Tonight, I will take action, occupy the river embankment, build fortifications, and prepare to set up guns and bombard Gao Manzi!"

Li Rutai immediately beat Qian'er and saluted: "Zhe! Slaughter takes the order!"

...

It was night, and it was the third day.

On the river bank one mile east of the vehicle formation, a team of autonomous soldiers patrolled back and forth with torches.

On the river bank, in the viewing building built by the autonomous army, two soldiers stood on the top and watched, and below was a circular fortification built with sandbags.

Gao Huan's army was stationed under the river embankment, so he naturally would not give up on protection of the river embankment.

In order to prevent the enemy from occupying the river bank and facing high ground, Gao Huan set up posts on the river bank on both sides of the camp and sent troops.

The two outposts on the left and right are about three miles away from the camp, which can prevent the enemy from setting up artillery.

After Li Lutai received the military order the day before yesterday, he conducted an investigation on the river bank yesterday and found that Gao Huan had arranged troops.

If the Qing army wanted to mount artillery on the river bank and occupy the river bank between the outpost and the camp, the distance was close, and the shells could bombard the camp, but they would be attacked by the outpost and the autonomous army camp. At that time, they would probably not be able to defend the artillery array and would lose artillery.

On the river section outside the outpost, if the camp is more than three miles away, the accuracy and power of the artillery will be reduced.

Therefore, Li Rutai must first seize the outpost on the river bank.

In the dark night, Li Shutai led the 1,500 Han military flags and lay on the river bank, slowly crawled forward, and came to halfway up the river bank.

He saw that the autonomous army was well defended on the outpost and knew that it was difficult to attack, so he made a gesture. The 1,500 Han army immediately divided into three groups, two groups of people, one left and one right, and he led the soldiers to touch the outpost.

At this time, when the Qing army was more than 100 steps away from the outpost, looking at the autonomous soldiers on the building, suddenly exclaimed, "Who is it!"

"Swoosh" two rockets shot from the river bank, and the light broke through the night sky and illuminated the figure of the Qing army lying on the ground.

"Enemy attack!"

"Dangdangdang!"

The river bank immediately exclaimed and alarm bells.

Seeing that the traces were exposed, Li Ruitai stopped hiding. He jumped up in an instant and roared loudly, "Brothers, kill me!"

Hundreds of Han flags stood up one after another and swung their swords to climb up.

Li Ruitai was the first, but at this moment, the defenders on the river bank cut off the ropes and put down the baffle. Countless stones, wood, and fireballs rolled down directly from above.

Li Lutai couldn't help but be slightly stunned. Seeing the rolling stones rolling down, his eyes were so scared that he raised his eyes and scolded in fear, "Your mother!"

There were no rocks or trees on the river bank to cover it. The stones rolled down the slope, and the Qing army suddenly broke into blood and rolled down the slope.

At this time, Gao Huan put on his clothes and hurried out of the tent. He saw the outpost three miles away, shouting and screaming. He saw the arrows asking for help shot into the sky, and suddenly exploded a knife fireworks. He immediately shouted: "Hurry up! Send troops to reinforce!"

In the camp, there were immediately two teams of autonomous troops to reinforce the outposts on both wings.

Song Xiance listened to the shouts of killing, looked at the flash of fire, and said in a deep voice: "It seems that Abatai wants to seize the river embankment and then attack us from a high point!"

Gao Huan narrowed his eyes and said, "Hmph, he wants to fight for the river embankment, how could I be afraid of him?"

The battle on the river embankments on both sides lasted throughout the second half of the night. The original sneak attack turned into a tough attack. Gao Huan and Abatai continued to invest in reinforcements and fought repeatedly for the position, and the battle became a war of attrition that Abatai didn't want to see.

Fortunately, the one who died this time was not the real Manchu, but the Han Banner Army, which made Abatai not so distressed and was willing to devote himself to it.

In the early morning, the two sides temporarily quit the battle, and the outpost changed hands several times, but in the end it was still in the hands of the autonomous army. The Qing army was unwilling to fail. At the same time, in order to avoid the rolling stones on the front, they occupied a section of the river embankment half a mile away from the two outposts, and sent troops to garrison and consume the stage.

...

Xiangyang, Huguang.

After Li Zicheng entered Huguang, he had a lot of results and seized a large amount of grain. In addition to his own consumption, he also had surplus grains, and distributed seeds and oxen to the people.

This allowed Li Zicheng to gain a firm foothold in Xiangyang, but he also encountered huge resistance.

The lack of naval troops in the rebel army made it difficult for the rebel army to traverse Huguang, which was densely covered with water. Zuo Liangyu had hundreds of thousands of people. Although he was unable to make progress, he had enough to maintain his achievements.

Li Zicheng captured Xiangyang and fought south to Wuchang. Without the support of the people, he could not fight.

At this time, the Shanxi merchants brought news that Gao Huan was hacked by the Qing army, which made Li Zicheng want to return north.

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