Chapter Twenty-Three: Raising Enemies and Being Proud

Pingdingshan City, the official army that "retreated" from Nanyang finally stopped its pace in Nanyang!

The prefect's yamen, from the first day of the arrival of Yang Sichang's army, the prefect moved out of the yamen very well, and it temporarily served as Yang Sichang's marshal's mansion!

"Marshal, last night our army suffered more than 6,000 casualties, of which more than 2,000 were seriously wounded! Cao Wenzhao carefully reported the losses in last night's battle! Although sufficient preparations had been made for the rogue stolen camp, Wang Feng and the others, the casualties were still not small!

"More than six thousand?" Yang Sichang didn't expect that he had already made so many preparations and still suffered such a large number of casualties, so he couldn't help but feel a pain in his heart! After all, these more than 6,000 horses were trained by the imperial court with real money, and now they were all gone, so how could he explain to the imperial court. Yang Sichang seemed to have seen the emperor's anger when he heard the news!

"Dashuai, you don't have to worry too much, since ancient times, we can't bear the child to trap the wolf! Our loss today is in exchange for tomorrow's victory, as long as we completely annihilate this gangster, how can the emperor blame you, he will only praise you!" Wang Feng saw that Yang Sichang was worried about something, and hurriedly said comfortingly!

"Ben Du is not afraid, Ben Du is pitiful for those sacrificed brothers!" Wang Feng saw through his thoughts, Yang Sichang hurriedly explained, "Ting Guang, what to do next, you can arrange it!"

"Then the general is welcome!" Wang Feng arched his hand towards Yang Sichang!

"The last general will obey the general's orders!" Cao Wenzhao and the others hurriedly said!

"Wen Zhao, what do you say these rogues are most interested in now?" Wang Feng didn't give a direct order, but instead asked a question that didn't seem very related!

"Grain and grass?" has been in the army for many years, and of course Cao Wenzhao knows that the most troublesome thing for the people who lead the troops is nothing more than the problem of grain and grass, not to mention that for the rogues with hundreds of thousands of troops, the pressure is even greater!

"That's right! Your next task is to escort two or three carts of grain and grass every day, and you must be robbed by this rogue!"

"Rob it?" Cao Wenzhao was a little suspicious that he had heard the wrong order!

"That's right, your mission is to be snatched away by the rogue!" Wang Feng said with certainty again!

"The last general listens to the order!" but ...... "As a soldier, Cao Wenzhao must obey the order, but as a courtier of the Ming Dynasty, Cao Wenzhao still wants to know the reason!"

"Raising enemies and being arrogant, do you understand?" Wang Feng stared at Cao Wen and said!

"Raise the enemy and be proud!" Cao Wenzhao seemed to understand, "General rest assured, the last general will definitely complete the task!" After speaking, Cao Wenzhao went down with an excited face and prepared to go!

These days, a large number of rebels have heard that Gao Yingxiang's troops have won the battle, and they have come to surrender one after another. The rapid increase in personnel has made the already overstretched food crisis even more prominent! Gao Yingxiang has been having a headache for the past few days!

"The marshal wants me to say that we can't accept those troops anymore! We really can't accept those teams with more children and women than adult men!" Liu Zongmin always saw that the wide playground was occupied by those family members!

"Yes, yes!" Liu Zongmin's words resonated with the big and small leaders present, and in their opinion, these old and weak people have no other purpose than wasting food!

"Dashuai, keeping these family members will only consume food and restrain the combat effectiveness of the brothers! Dashuai can't hesitate!"

"Dashuai, we can't do this, we raised troops in the first place just to let the people live a good life! Now we have begun to abandon our former ideals before we have succeeded, what is the difference between us and the imperial court in Beijing!" As soon as he heard the proposal of Liu Zongmin and others, Li Zicheng could no longer sit still!

"Okay, then you said that if we don't abandon them, then what are we brothers going to eat! Since you advocate keeping them, then you can solve the food problem for us!" Liu Zongmin almost roared, he always felt that this Li Zicheng was always working against him, no matter what kind of proposal he made, he was always the first to jump out and oppose it!

"I will find a way to make food, but I absolutely do not agree to do this!" Li Zicheng did not make any concessions on the issue of principle!

"You ......" Liu Zongmin was speechless with anger, if it weren't for Gao Yingxiang's face, Liu Zongmin would have to do it!

"Okay, okay, you are all Ben Shuai's right-hand men, what kind of system is it to quarrel like this in front of so many leaders, Ben Shuai has his own ideas about this matter!" Gao Yingxiang also has no way, the two of them are confidants and are not anyone, it is better to put it aside for the time being, but the food problem has indeed reached the point of urgency, and it must be solved immediately!

"Report!" A small colonel rushed in, "The spies came to report, and an officer and army were escorting grain and grass towards Pingdingshan!"

"What you said is true?" Gao Yingxiang stood up anxiously!

"Hui Dashuai, this is what I saw with my own eyes, this group of officers and soldiers is about 2,000 people, and they are escorting seven or eight truckloads of grain!"

"Seven or eight carts of grain!" Gao Yingxiang's mouth kept repeating, these seven or eight carts of grain can solve the problem of eating for three days of the righteous army, this temptation can not be said to be small!

"Marshal, the last general asked for war to intercept this batch of grain!" Liu Zongmin was always the first to ask for battle!

"No, this time Ben Shuai will personally lead the troops forward!"

"Quick, quick, you must leave the Nanyang Realm before dark, quick!" The immediate general kept urging his soldiers to speed up his pace, he knew very well in his heart that this Nanyang had already been occupied by the Liukou, and if the Liukou learned that they were escorting the food, he would definitely not let him go so easily, so the only way now was to speed up!

"General, it's not good, the rogue is coming!" a small colonel pointed to the front of the smoke and dust and shouted!

"Grandma, I'm really afraid of something! Quick, everyone line up! Array!" At the urging of the general, a team of more than 2,000 people quickly built a chariot formation with the help of grain trucks!

"Shoot the arrows, release the arrows!" the few hundred crossbowmen in the official army kept repeating the same action, and the sparse bows and arrows began to reap the lives of the unlucky ghosts!

"Rush!" Gao Yingxiang jumped directly across the car formation, and before the two archers could react, there were two more bright red wounds on their necks!

I don't know if it was Gao Yingxiang's bravery that inspired them or the food on the cart tempted them, all the soldiers of the rebel army had to hit the chariot formation with their bodies as if they were dying! The chariot formation of more than 2,000 people could not withstand the several charges of the rogue!

"Retreat, retreat!" the general, who knew that there was no point in resisting, shouted to retreat, and just as he was about to turn his horse to run, an arrow pierced his chest, and the general could no longer sit still and dismount!