Zhou Fang ran back in disgrace and reported to Gao Yingxiang. [No pop-ups. 】

Gao Yingxiang didn't expect Bai Qi to flee suddenly, because Li Yanhong's lady and those cavalry under him were here, and it stands to reason that Bai Qi would never escape alone.

But Bai Qi just hit him coldly, and Gao Yingxiang was furious. He knew that if he held Bai Qi in his hand, he would hold half of Qin Jun's life. Bai Qi has a very high prestige in the Qin army, great skills, and with him as a hostage, it can be said that the Qin army has become his helper.

If Bai Qi fled, it would be impossible for the Qin army to be controlled by him.

As for Li Yan, Gao Yingxiang thinks that his status is far worse than Bai Qi, firstly, Li Yan is not from Qin, and secondly, Li Yan is too young, although he has some ability, his prestige in the Qin army is not too high. Using Li Yan as a hostage, Qin Jun didn't pay much attention to it.

Gao Yingxiang immediately sent Zhou Fang to lead 500 people to search around, and he must capture Bai Qi back.

At the same time, he gave a death order, ordering the siege troops not to retreat, if anyone took a step back, the battlefield was immediately beheaded, and his general Liu Zhe led the big knife team to supervise the battle behind, which had the slightest intention of cowardice, and immediately beheaded.

Zhou Fang took five hundred people, mounted his horse, and began to search along the way he came. He thought that if Bai Qi wanted to escape, he must flee west, so that he could return to Xi'an, and it was impossible to flee to other places. There are Hong Chengchou's officers and troops in the north, Lu Xiangsheng's men and horses in the south, and Tongguan in the east, where there is nowhere to go except the west.

He thought well, Bai Qi did flee in this direction. It's just that he never expected that Bai Qi would follow his team at this time.

Just when Bai Qi took Zhou Fang into the dense forest, he quickened his pace, turned three times and turned twice, and disappeared, Zhou Fang found that Bai Qi was gone, and immediately asked people to go to find it.

The peasant soldiers who were looking for Bai Qi scattered and spread over half of the forest, and Bai Qi saw the opportunity and attacked a lone peasant army.

Bai Qi became a general step by step from a soldier, needless to say, his kung fu is by no means ambiguous. In particular, Bai Qi is good at assassination and counter-assassination, in the Warring States Period, when assassins were prevalent, Bai Qi also suffered several assassinations from enemy countries, but he failed to succeed, which also shows that Bai Qi is powerful.

He quietly brought down a peasant army, then quickly changed into his clothes and hat, and smeared some wet mud on his face, so that no one could tell that he was white.

After dressing up, Bai Qi mixed into the ranks of the peasant army. So Zhou Fang searched for a long time, but he couldn't catch a single hair from him.

Zhou Fang went back to see Gao Yingxiang, Bai Qi was also mixed with these people, and when Gao Yingxiang ordered Zhou Fang to take five hundred people to look for it, Bai Qi joined the five hundred people, rode a horse, and ran among these people.

Running and running, Bai Qi deliberately slowed down, and in this way he slowed down all the way, gradually reaching the rear.

Zhou Fang only cared about leading people to find Bai Qi, how could he pay attention to the people who were lagging behind in his team, so Bai Qi was getting farther and farther away from the people in front of him, and when he was about a stone's throw away, Bai Qi sneered, turned around, and ran south.

Bai Qi knew that Zhou Fang would not go too far, because Zhou Fang felt that Bai Qi had escaped alone, and there was no horse, so he must be nearby. Therefore, Bai Qi made a circle to the south, and after detouring for more than ten miles, he looked at the direction and turned to the west.

In the dark night, he was the only one and the horse, and there was no movement, and Bai Qi secretly prayed, hoping that Li Yan would not encounter any danger.

Gao Yingxiang couldn't care about it at this time, and the siege battle in front of him had reached the most intense level. There were corpses everywhere in the city and under the city, and the sound of shouting and killing shook the heavens and the earth, mixed with the inaudible sound of swords and guns colliding, which could be heard from ten miles away. Gao Yingxiang knew that if he couldn't take Tongguan as soon as possible, Hong Chengchou would definitely send people and horses to reinforce him.

Seeing that another group of peasant soldiers who had attacked had all fallen, he also had red eyes and personally rushed up with his elite soldiers.

King Gao Chuang personally went out on horse, and the morale of the peasant army was greatly boosted, and they attacked the city again.

When the guard saw that the banner had arrived under the city, he panicked, but also wanted to make a miracle and ordered the archers to shoot arrows around the banner.

So the arrows were fired at the head of the city, and they all shot at the banner.

The soldiers around Gao Yingxiang had already prepared, and the four of them stood in front of Gao Yingxiang, erected a rattan card to shield him, and blocked the arrows for him.

With a whoosh arrow, the arrow in the flag hand behind Gao Yingxiang fell, and the big banner fell to the ground.

When the officials and soldiers at the head of the city saw that the banner had fallen, they immediately cheered.

At this time, I saw a person jumping forward, picking up the big flag, holding it high, roaring and screaming and rushing up. The officers and soldiers fired arrows at him, but he used a long sword to dance into a sword flower and block the arrows. But the banner kept waving in the air.

This person is Hao Dayong, after this battle, the army no longer calls him by his real name, but takes a loud nickname - Hao Shaoqi.

With the charge of He Shaoqi, Gao Yingxiang's elite soldiers climbed to the head of the city desperately, at this time the officers and soldiers in the city have been killed and wounded more than half, more than 4,000 people, only less than 2,000 remained, and there are many wounded, and finally can no longer withstand the crazy attack of the peasant army, several battlements at the officers and soldiers were killed and wounded, and the peasant army climbed to the top of the city. Although the defender commanded the officers and troops behind to plug the gap, he could not annihilate the peasant army in Shangcheng as soon as possible.

He Shaoqi came to the city, waved the big flag, climbed the ladder, and quickly approached the city. There were three officers and soldiers at the battlement, and when he came up, one of the officers and soldiers poked his spear at the top of his head, and he shook the flag and roared, and the banner was smoothed, and the tip of the spear on the top pierced the officer's chest. Half of the officer's body had already poked out, and the spear came too fiercely, and he didn't have time to dodge, and was hit in the chest.

As soon as he screamed out, Hao Shaoqi used his arms to pull him away from the city and fell straight to the bottom of the city. The other two officers and soldiers were stunned by Hao Shaoqi's innate divine power, and before they came back to their senses, Hao Shaoqi had already jumped onto the city, and the banner was swept away, and the two officers and soldiers were immediately swept off their calves and fell to the ground.

Hao waved the flag to the city, the flag danced like the wind, and no one dared to approach within a zhang of his side.

With his majesty, the peasant army behind went to the city one after another.

As soon as the guards saw this situation, Tongguan could no longer be saved, and there were tens of thousands of peasant troops outside the city, and his entire army was wiped out in the blink of an eye. In order to save some men, the defender ordered the city to be abandoned.

Hao Shaoqi chased down the horse all the way, came to the city gate, and several peasant troops worked together to open the city gate, Gao Yingxiang took the lead, leading more than 20,000 peasant troops, and entered the pass.

At this time, the Tongguan guard had already led the remnants of the defeated army, and fled, there were no people in the pass, only some food, weapons and other things, and it was easy to occupy, Gao Yingxiang could not chase and destroy the remnants of the enemy, and immediately sent someone to inform Huanglong, and quickly retreated to Tongguan.

Then he welcomed Li Yan and others into the city, and placed them in the Guannei together with the families of the old camp.

This great war did not end completely until dawn. The peasant army suffered more than 5,000 casualties and killed more than 3,000 officers and soldiers, which was a disastrous victory, but after winning Tongguan, entering the Central Plains was just around the corner, and the price was worth it.

But Huanglong's side was not so lucky.

After dawn, it was not until nearly noon that Huang Long withdrew to Tongguan with his men and horses.

When Gao Yingxiang took them in, he was taken aback, Huang Long brought five thousand people and horses, and only four or five hundred people came back, and the people who came back were also injured, Huang Long received two arrows on his back, fortunately it was not too deep.

He knew that these 5,000 centaurs were the bait thrown out, and it was not easy to get 500 people back. The combat effectiveness of the Guanning Iron Cavalry is far above them.

Gao Yingxiang placed these wounded soldiers, and at this time Zhou Fang also came back, kneeling in front of Gao Yingxiang dejectedly. No need to ask, I didn't find Bai Qi. Gao Yingxiang didn't blame him, after all, Bai Qi played tricks, and even he deceived him, Gao Yingxiang knew that Bai Qi was far away from Tongguan at this time, and he couldn't catch up at all.

Fortunately, Tongguan was already in hand, the Central Plains was close at hand, and he would soon be able to join the peasant armies of Henan, Gao Yingxiang felt that the initiative was already in his own hands.

Without waiting for the peasant army to catch its breath in Tongguan, the scouts came to report, Hong Chengchou led a large group of men and horses, and pounced violently.

It turned out that after Hong Chengchou sent Cao Wenzhao to deal with Huanglong, he climbed a high platform in the camp to watch, and saw the cavalry of both sides fighting to the death outside the camp, and felt that this matter was a bit strange. There were not many people sent by Gao Yingxiang to sneak attack, and it stands to reason that if the enemy was prepared, the sneak attack should not continue. If you want to continue fighting, reinforcements will definitely be sent.

But the peasant army did not come up with reinforcements, but these thousands of men and horses were entangled with Cao Wenzhao in a fight to the death.

Hong Chengchou is scheming, and he has used the strategy of attacking the east and the west many times, and at this time he suddenly thought that the men and horses sent by Gao Yingxiang were to drag down the officials and troops, attract his attention, and then secretly exercise tricks.

He immediately sent someone to check, and soon after, the scout came back to report that Gao Yingxiang's camp was gone, and the tents were all pulled out, and it seemed that the peasant army had left the place and headed east.

Hong Chengchou immediately realized that Gao Yingxiang was going to attack Tongguan. As long as you open Tongguan, you can drive straight into the Central Plains.

At this time, he finally understood that the Qin army had sent suspicious soldiers, just to let him divide his troops to intercept and disperse his troops.

So Hong Chengchou sent someone to inform Zuo Liangyu in the starry night, asking him to return to the army quickly and rush straight to Tongguan. He himself ordered the whole army to attack, first extinguished the peasant army in front of the battalion, and then rushed to Tongguan without stopping.

Huang Long was fighting, and when he heard the drums in the official barracks, and then there was a crowd of people shouting and horses, and he made a noise, and he understood that Hong Chengchou already knew Gao Yingxiang's plan and was ready to gather the whole army to reinforce Tongguan.

Originally, his 5,000 cavalry did not have the upper hand over the 3,000 men and horses of Guanning Iron Cavalry, and he couldn't beat others. Huang Long just gritted his teeth and died. He made up his mind that even if the 5,000 men and horses were exhausted, he would also drag down the officers and soldiers as much as possible.

After Cao Wenzhao was a fierce general, he fought fiercely and treacherously, and after the melee with the peasant army, his men attacked from time to time, attacked in multiple ways, broke through the encirclement of the peasant army, and rushed in from the other direction, like the tide of the sea, wave after wave, so that the peasant army lost one and the other. It didn't take long to kill nearly a thousand peasant troops.

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