The order was passed out one by one, to Li Zicheng of the Chinese army, and then to Gao Yingxiang after the break, but at this time, more than 70,000 peasant troops had all entered the carriage gorge.

When Gao Yingxiang heard the news from the front, he immediately sensed the danger and hurriedly ordered the rear team not to advance and quickly withdraw from the canyon.

But at this moment, there was an earth-shattering roar from the peaks on both sides of the gorge, and everyone looked up to see countless stones and giant trees rolling down from the peaks, rolling down towards the mouth of the canyon. The momentum is really shaking and thrilling.

In a short time, the mouth of the gorge was blocked by rocks and huge trees, and it was not easy for people, not even monkeys, to climb up. When Gao Yingxiang saw that it was not good, he hurriedly ordered people to open a road, but before these people stepped forward, countless random arrows flew down from the mountains on both sides, and immediately shot down a peasant army.

Gao Yingxiang knew that if he stayed here, he would have to stare at the arrows of others, and now he had to retreat into the valley. Fortunately, the peaks on both sides of the canyon were so steep that the officers and soldiers could not climb up to attack them from the heights.

So tens of thousands of peasant troops had no choice but to drive into the gorge of the carriages.

At this time, the guide had already heard a loud noise at the mouth of the canyon, and he laughed: "You gang of thieves have already entered the place of death today, and if you want to escape, unless you grow wings......

A soldier punched him in the ribs and knocked him out of breath: "Damn, you rabbit cub, cut off your eight and a half pounds in a while, and see if you can laugh......"

This guide was sent by the official army, Liu Hanru was more familiar with the terrain here, he saw the peasant army all the way to the north, so he came up with a plan, sent a few local soldiers to put on makeup, disguised as woodcutters, touched the front of the peasant army at night, scattered and waited for them, if the peasant army was not familiar with the terrain, it was bound to find a guide, as long as they found them, they would lead the peasant army into the carriage gorge.

The Carriage Gorge is a Jedi, two mouths in front of and behind a valley, and there is no other place to go around, no matter who it is, as long as it goes in, it is a dead end. You don't need to fight, just besieging can starve people to death inside.

Since the peasant army had never been here, they were finally fooled, and although Luo Rucai was alert and saw through the guide, it was too late.

At this time, Li Zicheng and Gao Yingxiang both came to the front, saw Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai, and interrogated the guide, but the guide was silent, no matter how he whipped it, he didn't speak. Gao Yingxiang knew that most of such people were outlaws, and one life had already been handed over to Liu Hanru, and it was useless to fight again, so he ordered the guide to be beheaded.

After killing the guide, the group had to lead the army forward, hoping to find a way out.

After walking for dozens of miles, I have arrived at the mouth of the canyon in front. Before approaching the mouth of the valley, I heard the sound of cannons, only to see that there was a big camp outside the mouth of the valley, the camp gate was facing the mouth of the valley, the stone platform had been erected in front of the camp, there was a zhang high, there was a suspension bridge on the platform that could be put down, leading to the valley, there were artillery on the stone platform, countless officers and soldiers were holding bows and arrows and muskets, and they were already in full battle.

There is a big tent in the distance behind him, and a big flag is erected in front of the tent, on which are written the five big characters of "Governor of Yansui, Chen".

The peasant army didn't know who this governor of Yansui was, but Gao Yingxiang and the others were shocked when they heard that this person's surname was Chen, and they didn't need to ask, this person was Chen Qiyu.

Since Chen Qiyu joined the official army to suppress thieves, he has won every battle, and there were tens of thousands of peasant troops in his defense area, but after a year, these tens of thousands of people have been wiped out. Chen Qiyu's reputation is also getting louder and louder.

This time, after Lu Xiangsheng recommended Chen Qiyu as the governor of Shanxi, Chen Qiyu had already arrived in Shanxi, but soon after, the peasant army of Gao Li and others entered Sichuan, and other large peasant armies entered Huguang. Chen Qiyu is overkill here. So Lu Xiangsheng asked him to lead the army to intercept the peasant army.

Liu Hanru and Lu Xiangsheng had a common plan, that is, to wipe out the peasant army on the Sichuan-Shaanxi border, where the mountains are high and the pits are deep, and the terrain is complicated, if Gao Li's peasant army can be trapped here, it will not take a few months, and it will be able to win without a fight. Therefore, Lu Xiangsheng sent Liu Hanru and Qin Liangyu to chase after him on the one hand, and let Chen Qiyu intercept him in front on the other hand, and he himself took Sun Chuanting and Zhang Yi to Shaanxi in the starry night to meet Chen Qiyu.

But at this time, there was a rebellion in the Nanyang area of the hinterland of Henan, and the rebels were one of the official troops, and they mutinied because they could not get the money, and they approached Luoyang. The court ordered Lu Xiangsheng to quell the rebellion quickly, so Lu Xiangsheng had to let Sun Chuanting take Zhang Yi to meet Chen Qiyu, and he took Zu Kuan, a famous general in Liaodong who had just arrived, and three thousand Guanning iron horsemen under him to Nanyang to quell the rebellion.

When the Gao-Li coalition army broke through Liu Hanru's defenses and entered the mountains on the Sichuan-Shaanxi border, Chen Qiyu received an order from Lu Xiangsheng to strictly prevent the peasant army from entering the hinterland of Shaanxi. When he received a secret report from Liu Hanru that the peasant army had entered the Carriage Gorge, he immediately built a platform at the mouth of the canyon to defend it, and he set up his camp at the mouth of the canyon, and prepared more rockets, bows, crossbows, and boulders to prevent the peasant army from breaking through the valley mouth.

From the moment the peasant army entered the carriage gorge, Chen Qiyu knew that this group of thieves was going to be finished. He agreed with Liu Hanru that one would block the back road and the other block the front road, so that the peasant army would be trapped inside.

Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng and the others looked at the formation of the camp opposite, and their hearts were chilled. Judging from their combat experience over the past few years, it is almost impossible to break through Chen Qiyu's camp. Because the mouth of the valley is not wide, only six or seven zhang wide, such a narrow valley mouth, no matter how many people and horses, can not be deployed, the artillery bows and arrows of the officers and soldiers can come in handy to block the mouth of the valley. If you rush one by one, it is a way of adding fuel to the play, and you will die as much as you go up.

Several leaders of the peasant army looked at the terrain, their brows were raised, and Gao Yingxiang ordered to camp in the valley first, and then find a way.

This siege was even more treacherous than the last time on the banks of the Yellow River.

Everyone entered the big tent, all of them were calm and silent, Gao Yingxiang was still like that, with no expression, and his tone was also very calm: "You are in charge, the current situation is extremely urgent, the longer we are trapped here, the more officers and soldiers will increase, and the more difficult it will be to rush out, so everyone should find a way to come out as soon as possible." ”

Zhang Xianzhong slapped his thigh: "So far, I can only fight." The road behind has been blocked, and it is impossible to open a way out, so let's attack forward with all our might, no matter how many people die, we must enter Chen Qiyu's camp and rush out. ”

Luo Rucai shook his head: "The terrain is too unfavorable, we can't spread our people, I can only rush up twenty or thirty people at a time, such a few people, it's not enough for people to stuff their teeth, so rush again and again, as if the meat is chopped up, and feed the tiger one bite at a time, this tiger is not afraid of death." ”

Gao Yingxiang agreed with him: "Cao Cao is right. Attacking hard is not the way to go. The officers and soldiers are condescending, and there are artillery, and hard work is to send them to death. It's better to set up camp first, and then send people to look around, to see if there are any remote paths that can go around the valley, even if it is dangerous, as long as people can get out. ”

After he finished speaking, he looked at Li Zicheng, Li Zicheng nodded again and again: "King Chuang is right, let's not fight first, send more people to find a way, even if there is no road, see if we can open a road, it is better than fighting hard to die." ”

There were no more objections. So he first set up camp, and then sent out people to look around.

The people sent out were all living in the mountains for a long time, with sharp legs and feet, and were good at climbing, and these people carried rope hooks, climbing poles, knives and axes, etc., and began to search for their way everywhere in the canyon.

After searching for several days, everyone was deflated, and then they understood why this valley was called Carriage Gorge. It's really like a huge carriage, only the front and back can be passed.

Gao Yingxiang and others receive the same reward every day, and there is no way out. They also went to explore it in person, only to see that the peaks on both sides towered into the sky, and the walls were like cutting, and even monkeys could not climb up, let alone people. In other places, there are pine branches with strange shapes, covering half of the peaks, and it is difficult to see the peaks.

As the days passed, the peasant army had been trapped in the valley for seven days, and an atmosphere of panic began to emerge in the army. It was the middle of winter, tens of thousands of horses were trapped here, there was nowhere to get food, and the grain they brought was scarce day by day, and some battalions began to kill horses to satisfy hunger. What's worse is that for many days, the sky has been dark and gloomy, and every day there is a cold fog at the bottom of the valley, and the wet and cold weather has made the bowstrings of many warriors unglued and unusable.

The people in charge knew that if they didn't think of a good way, people would start starving to death.