Luo Rucai was completely besieged with three times the strength of the peasant army, and the elite troops accounted for nearly 20,000. In addition to these advantages in military strength, the official army also obtained the preparation time for the peasant army to break through. In addition to the surrender of Liu Jinzhong and Li Guoxing, this breakthrough battle will eventually turn into a unilateral massacre.

For this battle, Yang Sichang made a series of meticulous preparations and formulated a strategy of blocking the north and attacking the south.

On the north side, in addition to Ma Xianglin's 5,000 white-rod soldiers, Zhang Yingyuan's 2,000 Hubei soldiers were also sent. Their purpose was not to attack the peasant army, but to hold on in the camps on the north side to block the peasant army's intention to break north.

The reason for this arrangement was because he learned from Liu Jinzhong that the conflict between Wang Guangen and Luo Rucai was not reported to Luo Rucai after Wang Guangen knew that Liu Jinzhong had surrendered to the official army. This shows that he was hesitating, and the north side was where he led the army to station. Not attacking from the north side was to show Wang Guangen that the official army had no malice towards him. If he could defeat Yang Chengzu's troops stationed on the south side, he would definitely choose to surrender voluntarily.

On the south side, Yang Chengzu, the number one general under Luo Rucai, was initially defended by Luo Rucai, but now it was Luo Rucai's main breakout direction. He ordered Wang Guangen as the rear to guard against Ma Xianglin from the north side and behind the army. On this side, in addition to the peasant army led by Yang Chengzu himself, he also concentrated most of Wang Guangen, Luo Ruming and Li Guoxing's troops.

The official army gathered most of the troops and some county soldiers of Li Guoqi, Huideng, Cao Zhiyao, and some county soldiers here. At first, Yang Sichang did not intend to send Zhou Xian to the front line, but this was excellent and very easy to make military achievements. How could Zhou Xian miss it? He took the initiative to ask Yang Sichang for battle. After Yang Sichang thought about it, he finally decided that Wan Ji would go to the outside of the valley to coordinate all county soldiers to guard against the peasant army to prevent the peasant army from breaking through those small paths, and let Zhou Xian follow Huideng into the valley to fight.

Hui Dengxiang initially rebelled as a peasant army. After being besieged by Yang Sichang in eastern Sichuan, he took the initiative to surrender. It had been several months since then. Later, because of his military achievements, he was appointed as deputy general by Yang Sichang. His position was higher than that of Zhou Xian, but because of his previous identity, he now only had more than a thousand soldiers around him, which was similar to the number of soldiers led by Zhou Xian.

Because Hui Dengxiang was familiar with the peasant army in the valley before, and had cooperated with Zhou Xian to disrupt the peasant army in the valley with a heart-breaking strategy, the two were not unfamiliar. However, the role and purpose of Zhou Xian's entry into the valley were different. Zhou Xian wanted to make military achievements so that he could have a good level of advancement. Hui Dengxiang wanted to take this opportunity to gather some defeated peasant army and expand the strength of the headquarters so that he would have more say in the army in the future.

Zhou Xian knew this well. Although he entered the valley with him, he deliberately kept a distance from his subordinates. He did not want Hui Dengxiang to be fascinated for a while and wanted to surrender them before defeating the peasant army. In the end, there were risks. Zhou Xian did not want his soldiers to suffer major losses due to such stupid reasons.

Just yesterday, Yang Sichang received news from a scout that he had found Zhang Xianzhong's traces in the Badong area. The latter led more than 30,000 troops in the entire army and entered the hinterland of Sichuan again from the eastern Sichuan area. It seemed that he wanted to rescue Luo Rucai, but after careful investigation, he found that Zhang Xianzhong entered the hinterland of Sichuan from the south and deliberately avoided the official army in Yunyang.

When Yang Sichang saw Zhang Xianzhong coming to Yunyang to rescue Luo Rucai inadvertently, he breathed a sigh of relief, and the initial concern was gone. He ordered Feng Ruhu, who was stationed in Yongchuan to strengthen his defense in order to prevent Zhang Xianzhong from entering the hinterland of Sichuan again. On the other hand, he ordered Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong to enter Sichuan urgently and attack Zhang Xianzhong from the back.

When Zhou Xian heard this news, he finally let go of a stone in his heart. Although he was very interested in history, he didn't know how Zhang Xianzhong kept mobilizing Yang Sichang's army that day and finally left Sichuan smoothly. He was always worried that Zhang Xianzhong would jump out of nowhere and then directly attack Xiangyang.

Since Zhang Xianzhong has entered Sichuan again, it means that he may not have any plans to leave Sichuan in a short period of time. As long as the official army can completely defeat Luo Rucai this time and then return to the south, how can he have a chance to leave Sichuan?

Zhou Xian couldn't help but think in his heart that perhaps it was because he came to this era that completely changed the overall situation of the world. Some excitement surged in his heart. As long as Luo Rucai and Zhang Xianzhong were defeated, the world might not be able to be saved.

The sound of the gong of "Dingding" broke Zhou Xian's contemplation, which was the signal that the enemy began to attack.

The peasant army completed the assembly in the dark, quietly touched a hundred steps away from the first line of defense of the government army, and then suddenly launched a charge. The flickering rockets on it, and the "squeak" sounded more than a dozen derricks. During this period, the peasant army was not idle and had made so many siege equipment.

The front part was nearly 3,000 soldiers led by Liu Jinzhong and Li Guoxing. They were dispensable in Luo Rucai's mind, and using them to fight with the official army was the best choice. But in a flash, Luo Rucai regretted that he made such a decision.

The peasant army in the front broke through several camps of the government army in a very short time and pressed forward with an unstoppable momentum. However, the government army was in chaos and took the initiative to give up the first line of defense and retreated in a hurry.

Luo Rucai stood up excitedly and shouted loudly backwards: "Ru Ming, lead the brothers to rush forward. Tell them that if you kill an official army and reward five taels of silver, the first one to kill outside the valley will be given the position of general."

A cheer came from the surroundings, and Luo Ruming led his three thousand subordinates to roar forward, preparing to defeat the official army in one fell swoop. But when Luo Ruming had just rushed to the wall after great hardships, he saw Liu Jinzhong and Li Guoxing suddenly led their troops to rush towards the direction of their own army. They were fierce, and the peasant army was unprepared. Liu Jinzhong and others suddenly disrupted the formation of the peasant army.

There were gongs and drums around, and nearly 10,000 officials rushed up from behind the wall, chasing and attacking hard in order to completely defeat the peasant army. The peasant army behind shouted and retreated one after another.

Although Yang Chengzu was frightened, as the number one general under Luo Rucai, he reacted the fastest. He shouted loudly and led his close to thousands of personal guards to the first camp set up by his former army.
Chapter completed!