Chapter 254 Hurt each other
Gao Huan has rescued Cao's army, and the goal of this battle has been achieved.
As for avenging Luo Rucai, it was just a slogan, and he could not really fight Li Zicheng.
The 300,000 Cao troops, initially estimated, about half, nearly 150,000 people broke through, and the remaining half were surrendered, captured or killed during the breakout.
From this point of view, Gao Huan has more Cao Jun recruited than Li Zicheng.
Moreover, if these people can rush out of Zhuxian Town, their quality must be better than those incorporated by Li Zicheng.
If Gao Huan reorganized these 150,000 Cao troops, then Gao Huan's standing army could reach at least 100,000, truly dominating the Central Plains.
At this time, Li Zicheng had actually failed. Not only did he abort the plan to annex Cao's army, but he could not eliminate Gao Huan. Even as long as Gao Huan took action, he would not be able to fight in Kaifeng.
Now Gao Huan hopes that Li Zicheng will withdraw his troops by himself, so that he can have time to recruit Cao's army and strengthen his strength, but Li Zicheng did not withdraw directly, and it seems that he still wants to fight him.
At this time, Gao Huan and the generals had enough food and drink, and then arranged a large army to camp and deploy night defense.
Gao Huan smiled and said to everyone: "Li Zicheng dug several trenches during the day, which saved the soldiers a lot of effort! Li Pingyuan, where is Huanglong?"
After eating and drinking, everyone recovered their strength.
The two generals went out of the line and clasped their fists, "The last one is here!"
Gao Huan ordered: "Take people to connect the trenches and build earthen walls to serve as a military camp!"
"I will obey the order!" Li Pingyuan smiled and said, "Tomorrow, Li Zicheng will find out that we will lose our temper if we use the trenches he dug as a protective trenches! Haha~"
Now nearly 200,000 troops gather together, covering an area of more than ten miles, and are covered with high and high trenches.
Gao Huan laughed and immediately arranged for people to patrol the night, harass the rebels, and let the rest go to rest.
After everyone left, Gao Huan picked up his pen, wrote two letters, and called Song Xiance to say, "Military advisor, send this letter to Kaifeng and hand it over to the high school chief!"
Song Xiance nodded slightly and took the letter, "I will arrange for someone to deliver it now!"
Gao Huan gave him another letter, "This letter will be shot into the camp!"
Song Xiance took it and went out to make arrangements. Gao Huan was wearing armor and sleeping on the camp bed with clothes.
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There was nothing to say all night. Yesterday's battle made the soldiers on both sides very tired. Neither side attacked each other's camp at night and spent the night peacefully.
Early in the morning, just dawn, Liu Zongmin came to the tent of the King of the Break Army.
"Did the King of Chuang get up?" Liu Zongmin asked.
"Report to General Quan, just get up!" said a guard.
Liu Zongmin then got into the tent and saw Li Zicheng wearing armor, "The King of Chuang, Gao Huan's letter!"
Li Zicheng frowned, "Gao Huan, I want to deceive me again!"
Li Zicheng opened his arms and waited for the guards to put on his armor for him before he took the letter to check it out. He looked up and said, "The thief will open his own hands!"
"I'm a thief, your mother!" Li Zicheng was furious and had the urge to knead the letters into a ball and then step on them.
However, Li Zicheng finally barely suppressed his anger and finished reading the letter.
In the letter, Gao Huan scolded you for killing his father-in-law. Li Zicheng saw that Gao Huan spoke fiercely and was extremely angry in the letter, but instead smiled, "Hmph! Gao Huan, I will kill Luo Rucai, what can you do to me?"
Li Zicheng continued to watch, and the content of the second half of the letter did persuade him to withdraw his troops, so he rubbed it and threw it directly on the ground.
"Are the soldiers ready?" Li Zicheng asked.
Seeing that Li Zicheng threw the letter, Liu Zongmin smashed his mouth and said, "The soldiers have already used breakfast, just wait for the King of Chuang to give the order!"
"Then let's go out of the camp!" Li Zicheng gave a deep command, then picked up Fan Yang's hat, put it on his head, and directly left the tent.
There are many soldiers who break into the country, which is not as good as the elite of the autonomous army, and it is easy to explode camps at night.
Li Zicheng was afraid of night battles, so he retreated ten miles yesterday to the village.
At this time, Li Zicheng led hundreds of thousands of troops out of the camp and once again sought a decisive battle with Gao Huan.
Gao Huan's strength grew too fast. If he didn't take advantage of his lack of strength, he would solve Gao Huan. If he waited for another year or two, he would become a confidant of the trespasser army.
Therefore, Li Zicheng made up his mind that he would have to kill or severely hit Gao Huan this time.
At this time, as soon as Li Zicheng left the camp, the scout rushed over and saluted, "Report to the King of Chuang, Gao Huan built the camp and persevered without fighting!"
Li Zicheng snorted coldly when he heard the words, "I want to be a turtle again!"
At that moment, Li Zicheng grabbed the horse's belly, waved the whip, and galloped out. Liu Zongmin quickly led the cavalry to follow and came to yesterday's battlefield.
In the wilderness, the bodies of the autonomous army were cleaned up, while the bodies of the rebel army had not had time to clean up.
Li Zicheng ran all the way and stopped three miles away from Gaohuan's camp. He saw the Autonomous Army and Cao's army, and built an earth wall and a trench protection trench based on the trench dug by the trench yesterday.
Li Zicheng's body shook immediately, almost rushing to the top of his head, and suffered a cerebral hemorrhage on the spot.
"Damn it, the turtle grandchildren are here to save trouble!" Liu Zongmin couldn't help but curse.
Li Zicheng did not expect that the trenches dug during the day and the low walls built were originally intended to trap Gao Huan, but now Gao Huan used them as a means of defense against him.
Previously, Gao Huan had only 30,000 soldiers, and Li Zicheng had six or seven times more troops than him. With the help of the trenches, this elite soldier could be trapped to death. Now Gao Huan has 200,000, and the rebel army could not surround him, so he could only take a head-on defeat.
Now Gao Huan builds a camp and defends himself, and Li Zicheng has no absolute advantage in military strength. If he wants to break through Gao Huan's camp, he can only pay a heavy price.
"King of Breaking! What should I do?" Zhang Ding asked.
At this time, hundreds of thousands of rebels had arrived slowly. Li Zicheng's face was gloomy and he said with hatred: "Liu Zongmin, you go and challenge!"
Liu Zongmin had to take his troops and go to war, but Gao Huan had already ordered that he would not go to fight, and he would greet him with bows and arrows and bird guns in the near future.
At this time, Li Zicheng looked for a while and heard Liu Zongmin cursing the defenders in the camp for a while. He did not see the defenders going to fight, and then he understood Gao Huan's meaning.
Li Zicheng then pulled out his horse and returned to the camp.
In the next few days, the rebel army still went to challenge every day, but Gao Huan remained behind closed doors.
This made Li Zicheng helpless, and gradually felt relieved in his heart, but he was unwilling to give up, so he let Gao Huan go.
"King of Breaking!" The curtain was lifted up, and Liu Zongmin entered the tent with anger. "Today there were more than a hundred large trucks entering the enemy camp, and they were transported all food and grass!"
When Li Zicheng heard the words, his expression was gloomy. Gao Huan was backing Xuzhou, with a steady stream of food and military funds transported over. The army did not have to worry about food and drink, but his army had hundreds of thousands of troops transported grain to replenish supplies without a base.
Gao Huan is not afraid of being inconsistent or consumption, but Li Zicheng's logistics pressure is too great and he cannot afford it at all.
After a few days of fighting, he broke into the camp and realized that the war could not continue.
Gao Huan strengthened the camp day and night, and the camp defense became stronger and stronger, and he did not have to worry about food and drink, but the crusade army lacked food and clothing. If he continued to delay, his strength would inevitably reverse.
At this time, there were already voices of retreating in the camp.
Li Jiyu, who was standing aside, saw Li Zicheng's dilemma, and suddenly stepped out and said: "If the King of Chuang is unwilling to retreat like this, Gao Huan will be given the advantage. His son has a plan to bring some trouble to Gao Huan."
"Oh?" Li Zicheng raised his eyebrows and said, "What's your idea?"
Li Jiyu said: "The son of Luo Rucai is in our hands. The King of Chuang can give him to Gao Huan!"
Liu Zongmin laughed and said, "What's your bullshit idea? Isn't this cheaper Gao Huan?"
Li Jiyu said, "Gao Huan wants to recruit Luo Rucai's men and send the child back. If Gao Huan kills him, the generals of Cao's camp will definitely be disheartened. If they don't kill him, they can also sting a poisonous sting in Gao Huan's heart!"
When Li Zicheng heard the words, he showed a rare smile on his face, "This plan is good! I will leave it to you!"
Li Jiyu was overjoyed and kowtowed, "Son will do it now, so he will not let his father down!"
Li Zicheng waved his hand and then burst into laughter.
Li Jiyu walked out of the handsome tent and smiled on his face. He gave Luo Rucai's son to Gao Huan, which was both disgusting Gao Huan and convenient for him.
After seeing off the child and entering the camp, Cao Jun lost his thoughts and could only be loyal to himself.
"Haha~ Gao Huan, don't thank me!" Li Jiyu laughed in his heart.
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