The arrival of the uninvited army completely disrupted the rhythm of the invading army. And the fierceness of this black-armored cavalry also made Gao Yingxiang's hope of turning defeat into victory a mirror.

In May, he received the order, sent troops from Yu on the first day of July, entered Tongguan on the 9th, went to Weinan on the 13th, arrived in Lintong on the 16th, arrived in Xi'an on the 17th, and rushed to Xuao on the 19th.

The above is the itinerary of these days for Zu Kuan, the commander in charge of the reinforcement and suppression. And the commander of this unexpected black-armored cavalry is him.

In the original history, Sun Chuanting predicted that "the thieves came far away, the road was dangerous and the rain was pouring, the people and horses were tired, and they faced the battle in the mountains, but there was nothing to do, and the thieves could be pushed and captured." First defeated the Chuang army at Heishuiyu and drove it to the Ma Dynasty, and then Hong Chengchou "led the army to gallop at night and re-enter the battle tomorrow", and Zu Kuan, who came from Henan, finally annihilated the Chuang army.

Perhaps because of the emergence of Zhao Ying, the general trend of history has not changed, but the details are occasionally different. The location of the decisive battle between Sun Chuanting's Qin soldiers and the Chuang army was directly placed in the Ma Dynasty, and Hong Chengchou's people did not come, but Zu Kuan still arrived at the right time.

If there was no Zu Kuan, not in the mountains but in this open field, fighting with the remnants of the battle, the newly established Qin soldiers would actually have some signs of defeat, and the general trend of history might be rewritten on this day. However, Sun Chuanting is still quite favored by God, Hong Chengchou has not arrived, and with a single ancestor Kuan, the last straw in the spirit of the army that has been exhausted to the peak has been broken.

Zu Kuan's thousands of Guanning troops in his hands couldn't defeat Manchuria, and it was more than enough to deal with the intrusive army. After leading the vanguard to break through Liu Zhe's army, his subordinate guerrilla Zu Jinzhong and the general Gao Gui divided into two groups, one cut off the connection between Liu Zhe and Gao Yingxiang, and the other directly attacked Gao Yingxiang's Chinese army. After Zu and Gao's second general, the Chinese guerrilla Li Yingke took the remaining main cavalry to dismount and fight on foot, and the three-eyed guns continued to shoot.

Liu Zhe died in battle, his head was cut off and he was tall to show the public, and the rest of his department was in an uproar, the morale of the soldiers collapsed, and they broke through separately.

Yang Zhaofeng was surrounded by the chaotic cavalry and flowed in one direction, he couldn't find Yang Chengfu, he was anxious in his heart, and he looked around while galloping.

The cold light was a little cold, his pupils were open, and he had no time to cover it under the distraction, but a shot was raised in the side, which resisted the blow for him.

"Kill talents, beware!" Yang Zhaofeng broke out in a cold sweat, and looked gratefully, the armor of the person who spoke was full of blood, and it turned out to be Han Gon, the general of the Breaking Army who he had seen on the side of the Nine Dragons before.

"Let's go!" Han Gon shook his spear, turned his horse to the side, and everywhere the horse was, the officers and soldiers avoided it. Yang Zhaofeng was excited, and he didn't have time to think about it, so he patted his horse to join the group of cavalry gathered behind him.

Han Gon led the people, first rushed to the east for a while, but to no avail, and then took the horse's head and went back to the west. He and more than ten of his men were highly powerful, and Yang Zhaofeng was sandwiched in them, almost no need to resist the enemy, just follow closely. Seeing Han Gon's back-and-forth clashes and wanton crisscrossing among countless officials and soldiers, Yang Zhaofeng couldn't help but admire: "What a tiger general!" ”

The shadow of the sun gradually slanted, Yang Zhaofeng was sweating profusely, and followed Han Gon to gallop in the vast sea of soldiers. The crowd was chaotic, swords and swords, and he was eagerly searching for Yang Chengfu's figure, but the familiar person just didn't appear.

"Second brother, second brother......"

Raising his eyes forward, he saw Han Gon fighting without distractions, and he suddenly thought: "Brave like Han Yingtou, he will inevitably be in prison, and he will not be able to advance or retreat." Today's catastrophe, I'm afraid I can't get through it. "Turning his mind and thinking again, "The sword has no eyes, and the second brother may have encountered an accident...... Alas, that's it, thinking that I will have to look for him soon, what is there to regret? ”

Thinking like this, the big stone in my heart was instantly put down, and a kind of courage rose for no reason. He let out a long whistle, tightened his grip on the hilt of his sword, and under the surprised gaze of the side rider, he accelerated forward and rushed to the front of Han Gon.

"Good boy, there's a kind!" Han Gon was surprised at first glance when he saw that Yang Zhaofeng was not afraid of the axe and took the lead, and then laughed, "You are left and I am right, how about it?" ”

"Very good!" Yang Zhaofeng swung a knife to kill an officer and soldier scratching his hand, and the blood that shot "poofed" splashed on his face, hot and sticky, he licked the blood stains on the side of his mouth, and echoed loudly.

The two horsemen were fighting in front, and in the distance, a huge cheer suddenly broke out, and the cheers like a landslide and tsunami spread along the flow of people, resounding over the entire noisy battle array. Han Gon and Yang Zhaofeng both heard it really - "King Chuang has been obtained!" ”

Gao Yingxiang was captured alive.

With the fall of the pole that had been standing on the high place, and Gao Yingxiang's iconic white robe and white helmet being lifted high, Han Gon was sure that his army had been defeated. But after only a brief moment of hesitation, Han Gon returned to his fighting state. The fate is determined by himself, Gao Yingxiang was captured and Liu Zhe was killed in battle, but he didn't want to be captured yet.

Gao Yingxiang's capture not only brought a huge shock to the intruders, but also had a great impact on the officers and soldiers. They jumped in joy, the formation began to slacken, and the entire large formation shook towards the place where Gao Yingxiang was captured.

Han Gon took the gun and slapped Yang Zhaofeng's leg lightly, and shouted, "It's now, let's go!" ”

Yang Zhaofeng's brain was blank, and he followed closely behind on horseback, and the scimitar in his hand kept swinging and chopping, as if it was mechanically controlled. But gradually, he found that the frequency of doing it himself was slowly decreasing, which was not only due to fatigue, but more importantly, to the fact that there were fewer enemies around him.

Han Gon's eyes were very keen, he seized the short moment of loosening of the official formation, and jumped out of the horse, this is the last hope, not only people, but the galloping horse seems to have forgotten its fatigue, burst out with the greatest energy, and tried his best to break through this layer of barriers.

The horse is scattered.

Yang Zhaofeng's mouth was wide open, almost unable to believe that he could really escape. In the midst of the mad running, he turned his head to look back, the surging chaos gradually drifted away, and the shouting of killing in the boiling sky gradually weakened, so that it was replaced by the wind again. He even saw that hundreds of horsemen were divided into the official army, and they wanted to chase after them, but they stopped a few hundred paces away, as if they were scolding.

He, as well as Han Gon and more than ten other horsemen, fought through the formation!

It's over, it's finally over. Yang Zhaofeng had mixed feelings, feeling the oncoming breeze, and his eyes were a little red and swollen. At this moment, there is no success or failure, death or life in his head, there is only happiness.

He was lucky enough to survive the test of life and death once again.

The last elite of the thousands of troops finally fell apart with the arrival of Zu Kuanbu, the death of Liu Zhe, and the capture of Gao Yingxiang. Each team and unit completely lost its unified structure and command, and each of them broke through the encirclement. Because Hong Chengchou's department did not arrive, Zu Kuan's department had fewer people, and Sun Chuanting's department was exhausted for a long time, so in the end, there were many more people who escaped than in the original history.

But even so, Gao Yingxiang is gone, and there is no possibility of revival of this breaking army.

As for why Zu Kuanbu, who had been fighting in Henan, suddenly appeared here, if you really want to talk about it, you have to blame the Manchurians thousands of miles away.

In May of this year, Huang Taiji, the Great Khan of the Later Jin Dynasty, officially proclaimed himself emperor and changed the name of the country to "Great Qing", taking this year as the first year of Chongde. In the following June, the Qing soldiers broke the border wall in three ways and entered the Kou, and Gyeonggi warned the police. Chongzhen was in a hurry and once again ordered the soldiers and horses to be the king of all places, and Zu Kuan's department was also among the edicts.

In fact, when he arrived in Xi'an on the 17th, he received a notice from the military headquarters to withdraw his troops, but at that time he happened to receive an alarm about the invasion of the army and sweeping the army, so he rushed to help. If Gao Yingxiang had stayed in the Qinling Mountains for a while, maybe he would not have suffered such a fiasco. Fate makes people, this can be seen.

Gao Yingxiang was captured by Zu Kuan, but he returned to his heart and had no time to deal with the next affairs. The tasks of "checking the speed" and "selecting the prisoners and escorting the prisoners" fell to Sun Chuanting. Sun Chuanting had a shallow foundation in Qin and urgently needed a big victory to establish his prestige, so he basically took the credit for himself in his subsequent reports, rarely mentioning Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng, who were responsible for coordinating various localities and really discussing and deciding to transfer Zukuan into Shaanxi. even boasted of his great achievements in his self-made "Jianlaolu", which is all a later story.

Besides, Yang Zhaofeng followed Han Gon from the south to the west, Yu Lu didn't dare to slow down half a step at all, and ran wildly until the hinterland of Heishuiyu before stopping to rest. At the beginning, there were hundreds of people who broke through together on the battlefield, and then there were many soldiers who joined the camp along the way, Yang Zhaofeng roughly nodded, and the number has exceeded 1,000 people.

Han Gon is sophisticated, and he is very familiar with military affairs. Although he was defeated, he was not frightened, on the contrary, he thought about it, and while dispersing the movements of some sentinel reconnaissance officers and soldiers, he did not forget to send some henchmen to various places to find the traces of the rest of his comrades who had escaped.

The plan to break into the camp was frustrated, Gao Yingxiang was captured, and the officers and soldiers relaxed in high spirits. In addition, Zu Kuan left, Sun Chuanting considered that his soldiers and horses were just beginning, but he was still a little conservative and cautious, and did not go into the mountains to search and kill. Han Gon didn't want to return to the lofty mountains of the Qinling Mountains, so he took this opportunity to gather the remnants of the defeated army of the Ma Dynasty in the first battle. A company stayed in Heishuiyu for five days, and successively gathered a horse army of more than 2,000 horsemen.

These people come from a variety of backgrounds, most of them are in the army, and there are many miscellaneous cards. Han Gon first relied on his henchmen and former status and fame to control most of the cavalry of the intruding army, and then, with them, he successfully controlled all of this horse army. Everyone knows that he has the ability, even if he is a little unconvinced, he is alone, and it is not easy to make a noise.

Yang Zhaofeng was full of expectations and carefully searched among the two thousand people, but unfortunately, he still couldn't find Yang Chengfu. Perhaps it was because Yang Chengfu led people too deep into the belly of the official army at that time, and none of the two hundred horsemen of Zhao Ying's cavalry appeared here.

He was alone, and at first he was a little helpless. However, Han Gon seemed to take good care of him, and even temporarily promoted him as his deputy to deal with the gathering of troops in the past few days. Yang Zhaofeng's original worries were gradually put down, but he still felt that the future was uncertain.

Seeing that there were more and more routs coming and going from the army around him, one night, Yang Zhaofeng couldn't help but ask Han Gon: "When are we leaving?" ”

Han Gon glanced at him and said, "Where are you going?" ”

Yang Zhaofeng stood stunned for a moment, not knowing how to answer. Qinling is really a dangerous road, and these intruders have finally been able to breathe, and they will not pin their heads to the waistband of their trousers again.

He didn't respond for a long time, Han Gon shook his head and patted him on the shoulder: "Wait for the news." ”

Waiting for news? What news are you waiting for? Could it be that they are waiting for news from the invading infantry in the Meridian Valley?

Yang Zhaofeng was puzzled, while Han Gon stared at the dancing bonfire, with a smile on his face. After a long time, Han Gon turned his head to look at him, with a smile on his face, his eyes suddenly became extremely sharp in an instant, and Yang Zhaofeng felt like a knife penetrating his body.

"Wait for news from Zhao Ying."

Han Gon said indifferently, and after that, Yang Zhaofeng, who was stunned, left with his head held high.

At this moment, Zhao Dangshi, who was hundreds of miles away, sneezed like a spirit.

Not far away, Hou Dagui was scolding: "Oh my God, it's been a few days of cat urine, and it's finally stopped." ”

Zhao Dangshi blew out the nasal serum and said, "Is the front part out of the valley?" ”

Hou Dagui shook his head and walked over and said: "Who knows, I heard that after King Chuang left, the scorpion block didn't accept the tune of Zhongdouxing at all, and there were fewer things on both sides that delayed the trip because of the competition for camps and paths?" ”

Zhao Dangshi sighed and lay down with his head back. Although Gao Yingen, the "middle fighting star", is Gao Yingxiang's younger brother, his ability is limited, not to mention the scorpion block, and even there are many people who don't take him seriously in the palm plate of Zhang Miaoshou. He couldn't suppress the old men of the family, and the disputes between the battalions and departments were repeated, and the speed of the march was lower than before Gao Yingxiang left.

I don't know what the situation is on Gao Yingxiang's side, and what happened to Yang Chengfu and them. Zhao Dangshi was never very optimistic about this raid on Xi'an, he was not only worried about the setback of the invasion army, but also worried about the safety of Yang Chengfu and others.

"If you lose...... Zhao Dangshi lay in a simple tent, thinking a lot, and he didn't feel sleepy. Thinking of this inadvertently, I was afraid for a while, and I still forced myself not to think about the result of this hypothesis coming true.

There was a loud snoring nearby, thinking that Hou Dagui and they had fallen asleep. Zhao Dangshi tossed and turned, couldn't sleep, and his right eyelid couldn't stop jumping.

The insects outside the tent were chirping, and he had just turned over, when suddenly a low voice came: "Envoy, urgent report." ”

Zhao Dangshi immediately got up and walked out of the small tent, under the dim moonlight, Zhou Wenhe's square face looked particularly gloomy.

"Is it from King Chuang's side?" The two walked to a secluded place, and Zhao Dangshi asked. Zhou Wenhe went out for five days, and he was in front to inquire about the military situation, and he must have brought major news when he came back this time.

Zhou Wenhe nodded and said calmly: "It is reported that King Chuang was defeated, his whereabouts are unknown, and the Ma army has been scattered. ”

This sentence was like a slap in the face, which made Zhao Dangshi feel terrified, he took a deep breath, tried to calm his emotions, and then asked again: "Is there anything else?" ”

Zhou Wenhe really lived up to his duty of not collecting hundreds of generals at night, and with such important things in mind, his expression remained unchanged, and he said: "The army of the scorpion block has left the north entrance of the meridian. After risking his life overnight, he found out that his deputy Zhang Wenyao had led his troops to leave the west a few days ago. ”

"Going west?" Zhao Dangshi frowned. It stands to reason that the infantry of the army will go out of the meridian pass, and when they are successively reorganized, they will find the whereabouts of the horse army and work together to map Xi'an. Could it be that Gao Yingxiang's failure made the scorpion block change his mind? What is Zhang Wenyao's intention to go to the west?

Zhou Wenhe didn't wait for Zhao Dangshi to figure it out, and continued: "There is one more thing, the lineage of the Chuang army led by the middle section, the middle fighting star and the Fanshan Harrier has stopped marching ...... at present."

Neither of them is long, but there is no doubt that they are important pieces of information.

One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and Zhao Dangshi had a premonition that the situation of the Chuang army and even the entire Liukou group would be turned upside down because of the defeat of this invasion of Xi'an.