"King Chuang! The brothers couldn't stand it, so they quickly notified Zhang Xianzhong, the eighth king, and asked him to lead the army straight to the Lancao River, and urged Cao Cao and the group of guys in Ge Liyan to tear the hole from the crazy man He, pour it out along the Lancao River, and enter Henan! ”

Li Zicheng squeezed the old felt hat on his head tightly in his hand, squinted his slender eyes, stared at the fast-moving official and military flags in the distance, and listened to the shouts of killing that were getting closer and closer.

"One year high!" Gao Yingxiang called out to his nephew, "You go to the eight kings of Xiying, sue him, hurry up and let his four generals press the whole army up, and assist Lao Cao to tear the opening, everyone entered Henan, opened the city and the village, I Gao Yingxiang asked him to take the first share of Xiying!" ”

Gao Yigong took more than a dozen pro-soldiers and whipped the horse's buttocks, and ran towards Zhang Xianzhong's camp in the center of the camp with a puff of smoke and dust.

"Array! Get ready to attack! ”

arranged a messenger to supervise the breakthrough, Gao Yingxiang turned on his horse, commanded his old battalion to open a formation, and began to block Zuo Guangxian's pursuers. He knew very well that if he didn't repel this group of guys first, he wouldn't be able to get out even if he wanted to!

Li Zicheng and his wife also led the remnants of their own troops to line up next to Hao Shaoqi's department. Liu Zongmin looked at the fine armor of the flag next to him with some envy under his recognition flag, "Old Hao, when did you get this body?" ”

"Just now! Picked from Zuo Guangxian's nephew! For this, Lao Zuo fought with Lao Tzu for more than ten miles, and later returned his nephew's body to him, so he didn't chase Lao Tzu! Damn, for this armor. More than a dozen of Lao Tzu's brothers were killed, but it was still worth it! Lao Liu, go on! ”

In a flash of cold light, Hao Shaoqi threw the treasure knife made of iron and steel with the sheath over, Liu Zongmin didn't look at it, he reached out and grabbed it, and the knife lay in his hand as meekly as a pigeon that had been raised by him. Using his blacksmith's professional eye to identify this knife, Liu Zongmin had to admit that this was a good guy he had never seen.

"Our old Liu now knows why those dogs are working so hard! If our Liu Ye's head can be exchanged for such a knife, it will be worth it! There is a place to find the silver. Such a treasure knife. I'm afraid that if I have money, there is nowhere to find it! ”

"Brother Jiexuan, I gave you this knife!" Hao Shaoqi shouted not far away.

"How good is this?!"

"Jiexuan, Brother Flag Waver has a lot of kindness. You just have to take it. There will be that damn ghost. Bumps into your knife, you grab another one and give it back to the flag wavers! ”

Li Zicheng, who recognized himself as his own, smiled and laughed for the two fierce generals who broke into the camp haha.

Soon. The Western Front troops of the Ming Army, dominated by Zuo Guangxian, pressed over.

Unlike other units in the Qin army, Zuo Guangxian's subordinates were all cavalry from Gansu, Ningxia and other places, and basically had nothing to do with the peasant army dominated by Yan'an Prefecture in northern Shaanxi. As soon as the two families met, public and private enmity were suddenly intertwined, and there was no nonsense, and the people rushed to kill in one place.

Gao Yingxiang commanded the old camp to go straight to Zuo Guangxian's family, as long as these horses were killed, Zuo Guangxian would collapse without a fight, and Zuo Guangxian, as an experienced general, also immediately commanded his family to meet Gao Yingxiang's cavalry and pounced.

An extremely tragic and bloody battle broke out on the Pingchuan River between the two small dirt mountains. In the face of the temptation of huge material interests, the soldiers of the Ming army and the low-level officers burst out with unprecedented combat effectiveness, dividing and surrounding the cavalry of the peasant army, while the soldiers of the peasant army who were caught in the encirclement were constantly slashing and killing, and at the same time cursing the enemy in front of them with the most vicious words, holding the idea of killing one more and fighting with the officers and soldiers to the death.

In the melee, sometimes they clash alone, forming a battle between generals and soldiers; In the blink of an eye, perhaps because a certain leader or someone would be surrounded by the other party, his family or personal soldiers rushed forward, and it became a melee of flesh and blood. After a period of scuffle, the situation of generals and soldiers against soldiers reappeared. Sometimes Zuo Guang forced Gao Yingxiang to take a few steps back, and sometimes Gao Yingxiang forced Zuo Guang to take a few steps back, and the two sides launched a cruel tug-of-war, both of which endured in attrition to see who could hold on to the last moment.

The scales of victory seemed to be slowly tilting towards the side of the left light.

Gao Yingxiang was very keen to discover this.

Time and space do not belong to the peasant army, it is not good for him to drag on for a long time, and he only has this little capital in his hands, once he fights it out, let alone give orders in the peasant army with complex contradictions in the mountains, I am afraid that a land protector can clean him up! It is better to think that it is the best policy to repel the official army in front of you first, and then quickly advance eastward to break through!

Thinking of this, he waved the long sword in his hand. "Retreat!"

Seeing Gao Yingxiang's cavalry quickly retreating eastward, he couldn't help but burst into cheers in the official camp, in the end, the thieves couldn't hold on! We won!

Seeing that the peasant army kept throwing gold and silver utensils and splendid satin leather robes on the ground when they retreated, some officers and soldiers could not hold it back, and the prancing horses chased after them.

If it was the Ming army in Qi Jiguang's era, when they saw such a scene, they could still turn a blind eye and wait until the opponent was defeated before cleaning the battlefield, but unfortunately, decades have passed, and the Qi family army has also disappeared on the bank of the Hunhe River.

"If you dare to act without permission, cut it!"

After all, Zuo Guangxian is a general who has been on the battlefield for many years, and when he saw that Gao Yingxiang's men and horses had left a lot of property when they retreated, their troops were not in chaos, he had some doubts in his heart, and seeing that his subordinate officers could not hold back their greed for goods, he made intimidation and prepared to stop this chaos.

However, when the military order was issued, there were already two thousand generals rushing out with two or three hundred cavalry, and the other officers saw this, fearing that they would not be able to grab it, so they also rode out.

"Not good!"

Seeing this, Zuo Guang knew that it was not good, and he often saw such a scene when he fought against the Liukou, and the peasant army resisted head-on, and when they could not defeat the official army, they pretended to be defeated and retreated, and discarded the gold and silver treasures along the way. The officers and troops pursued the rout, and the chaos caused by the scramble for gold and silver treasures caused them to lose their will to fight, and the troops lost their formation and fell into confusion. The peasant army would take advantage of this almost abrupt turn back to kill it, and the officers and troops would suffer great losses in the confusion. In the past, officers and soldiers were often killed and defeated by the trick of the rogue, which can be described as repeated tried.

Today, at this juncture, Gao Yingxiang sacrificed this magic weapon again! As long as you can repel Zuo Guangxian, keep the capital and break through Tongguan. What is the loss of gold and silver wealth? It's a big deal, when you get to Henan, you can grab it again when you get to Nanzhili!

Just as the officers and soldiers bowed their heads to pick up the goods that had been discarded on the ground. A gong sounded.

"Shoot me at the arrow!"

In the peasant army formation, from Gao Yingxiang downward, including Gao Guiying, all the people pulled out their strong bows and shot at the officers and soldiers who had gathered on the battlefield just now to rob the property! Indiscriminate diffusion. It caused more than 100 casualties to the officers and soldiers. But the bigger blow is the chaos. The officers and soldiers who were able to fight hand-to-hand with the peasant army just now turned into a rout.

"Kill!"

Liu Zongmin and Hao Shaoqi, two fierce generals, saw that the official army was already showing signs of collapse, so they did not chase and kill at this time. When?

They each shook the weapons in their hands and led their subordinates straight to the officers and soldiers to kill them.

Liu Zongmin's horse was fast, and he waved his newly-acquired treasure knife to cut off the cavalry of Zuo Guangxian's subordinates who were blocking the way, and came straight to his handsome banner.

"Not good!"

Seeing Liu Zongmin leading people straight to him, Zuo Guangxian couldn't help but feel a little panicked in his heart, and was about to call out to Jia Ding to come forward to stop him, but in the afterglow of his eyes, he saw someone pulling a bow and releasing arrows at him, and hurriedly bowed his head on the horse's back, and hugged the horse's neck tightly.

An arrow broke through the air, swept Zuo Guangxian's helmet and hit his war horse's buttocks, the horse couldn't bear the pain, the front hooves were raised, "Herod" screamed, and the Zuo general soldier was lifted off the horse.

Several family members hurriedly stepped forward to rescue, and someone led the horse to ask Lord Zuo to get back on the horse, but at this moment, Liu Zongmin had already led people to pounce in front of him, and the two family members hurriedly stepped forward to stop them, and Liu Zongmin cut them off the horse one by one.

"This guy is really right, good knife!" Liu Zongmin praised in his mouth, and went straight to Zuo Guang, who was more than ten steps away, as long as he was killed, the officers and troops on the Western Front would collapse, and then the peasant army could put its main force into the battle against He Madman.

Taking advantage of the confusion of the formation of the official army, Liu Zongmin slashed to death two family members in a row, and stabbed an officer in the chest with a knife, a few steps closer to Zuo Guangxian, but he could no longer get close, Zuo Guangxian gathered dozens of family members, each wielding swords and guns, fighting to the death, and dozens of peasant army cavalry who followed Liu Zongmin to break through were also stabbed to death or cut off their horses.

"Whoosh!"

Hao Shaoqi, who was fighting to the death on the other side, shot an arrow at this side, just shooting Zuo Guangxian's flag officer off the horse, and the handsome flag in his hand fell to the ground.

"Zuo Guang died first! Zuo Guang died first! ”

The cavalry around the banner were all old from fighting with him from south to north, and they were already extremely sensitive to the grasp of the battlefield shape, and when they saw Zuo Guangxian's handsome flag landing, they immediately shouted in unison, adding another fire to the panicked morale of the officers and soldiers.

If it was an ordinary Ming army general, it was easy to lose control of the troops in such a situation, so he could only return to his horse and flee first, and then find a way to slowly gather the scattered soldiers. Even if he does not flee first, as long as he panics, it will affect his troops, and then create more chaos and trouble in the already chaotic battlefield situation, causing the troops to fall into a situation of disintegration and disintegration. However, as we said before, Zuo Guangxian had a lot of battlefield experience, and the training and discipline of his troops were stricter than those of other units of the Ming Army. Although he was frightened and frightened when he fell off the horse, and his whole body was in pain, seeing Gao Yingxiang's continuous waving of troops to cover the killing, he was still able to shout loudly on the horse to greet his subordinates to meet him, and he was extremely brave.

Seeing the commander like this, his soldiers quickly got out of the chaos and slowly regrouped to counterattack the peasant army.

However, Zuo Guangxian and the peasant army no longer attacked, and the battle was in a stalemate, and both sides were unable to achieve victory, so they only hoped to fight and retreat, preserve their strength, hold on desperately, and not be defeated. This kind of battle is really a cover attack in retreat, with both sides trying to maintain a neat formation and constantly counterattack.

However, the formation of the respective main forces is getting bigger and bigger.

"King Chuang! Zuo Guangxian's donkey ball finally retreated! ”

commanded his subordinates to hastily clean up the battlefield and peel off the armor of those who died in battle. Especially the dozens of family members in the Zuoguang Pioneers, the armor on their bodies has become a treasure in the eyes of everyone. In order to kill these people, almost the peasant army had to pay more than three times as many casualties, and their armor and weapons in their hands became the target of public criticism.

Li Zicheng ordered someone to put away the armor, picked up a few pairs of bloodstains and sent them to Gao Yingxiang, along with more than a dozen captured official and military horses.

"It is inconvenient to stay here for a long time, and while the officers and troops are temporarily retreating, we will go east. Go and join the Eight Kings, Cao Cao and others. As much as you can tear the opening, when you arrive in Henan, the brothers will be able to let go of their hands and feet! ”

Looking at the loot sent by Li Zicheng, Gao Yingxiang was very satisfied.

Order. The nearly 10,000 people under Gao Yingxiang's headquarters began to move rapidly eastward. Straight to the breakthrough point this time. Ran grass river direction.

Yunjia Mountain, also known as Wenxian Mountain, is part of the Python Ridge mountain system. It is located at the junction of Henan and Shaanxi, in the east of Luonan County, Shaanxi Province. The entire mountainous area spans two provinces and three counties (Luonan, Danfeng, and Lushi) (Shaanxi, Henan), covering an area of dozens of square kilometers. Yunjia is connected to the arrow pole ridge in the east, and the Lancao River is bordered by the south, and Gao Yaozi is connected to the south. Overlooking the wax peak in the distance, the Ganjiang River in the west, the real ditch in the north, the avenue leading to Luoyang floats over the foot of the mountain like a ribbon.

And the Orchid Grass River lies next to this avenue.

If you want to break through here, you must first take Yunjia Mountain. Yunjia Mountain originates from the Python Mountains, and the mountain range is between the border of Henan and Shaanxi. There is a stone cottage on the mountain, the east, the north and the west each have the walled gate, there are watchtowers, there are 10 cannon holes of 2 feet of caliber around the city wall, the city wall is about more than zhang high, it is built according to the mountain. The iron lock pass on the arrow pole ridge in Yunjia Mountain is even more dangerous, and one man is not open for ten thousand people, and it has become a place where ancient and modern soldiers must fight. The thousand-year-old road at the foot of the mountain was of extraordinary strategic significance to the Ming army and the peasant army.

If you want to get through Guò here, you must first conquer the temples on the hills on both sides of this thousand-year-old road, and defeat the He Maniac He Ren Long Department stationed in it. Otherwise, it is more difficult to enter Lushi, Baofeng and other places in Henan if you want to get through the avenue of guò than to ascend to the sky!

In the history we are familiar with, the famous Xu Laohu's Long March passed through this place, and it took a lot of twists and turns to break through this pass, defeat the encirclement and interception of the militia and the Northwest Army, and enter Danfeng County, Shaanxi.

And another famous incident, Shangshan Sihao, who once made Liu Bang, an old rascal, give up the idea of changing the crown prince, lived in seclusion in this mountain.

However, at this time, Yunjia Mountain did not have the dusty atmosphere of the hermit, but people shouted and neighed, which disturbed very much.

Along the Wenggou River, Luo Rucai's Cao Ying, Lao Hui Ma Shouying, Ge Li Yan He Yilong, Zuo Jin Wang He Jin, Reincarnated King Liu Xiyao, Troubled King Lin Chengcheng, Guotianxing Hui Dengxiang, Huaguan Suo Wang Guangen, Xingshi Wang Guoning and other battalions of soldiers, horses, dependents, as well as the hungry people who came to the river, have fetched water and horses to quench their thirst. Tens of thousands of people shouted and neighed, and various sounds formed a noisy reverberation in the valley.

He Renlong's troops, on the other hand, were divided into two parts and deployed in various temples on the mountains on both sides, echoing each other with flags and horns.

"Guys, are you doing a good job?"

Another voice replied, "Well guarded!" ”

"Is it well guarded?"

"Hold it firm!"

The familiar northern Shaanxi accent floated down the hillside and reached the ears of several peasant soldiers who were drinking horses by the river, and they spat hatefully towards the mountain, "Damn! Don't get complacent! After the big plate holders have discussed, we will give you some spicy taste! ”

And the rulers of their houses are the princes of their houses.

The leaders of these peasant armies are gathering in the Guandi Temple in Gaoyao Village by the Wenggou River to discuss how to break through the resistance of the madman He on the opposite side.

"Let's talk about it! Everyone, we have all arrived here, how can we go from Shaanxi to Henan, it depends on us! ”

In the main hall, the pig's head and three animals on the old man Guan are still steaming, as the Datong township of the Shaanxi people, the status of the second brother Guan in their minds is naturally different, and this group of peasant troops hopes to be blessed by the martial saints.

It is bordered by Guanpo Town of Lushi County in the east, Luanzhuang Town and Yuling Town of Danfeng County in the south, Sanyao Town in the west, and Wangling Township in the north, which is the east gate of Luonan County and the west gate of Lushi County in Henan. And the Lancao River, Yunjia Mountain, Iron Lock Pass and other places are the iron locks of this door.

As the leader of the peasant army along the way, Luo Rucai, nicknamed Cao Cao, blinked his small eyes and scanned the leaders of the peasant armies sitting in the main hall one by one.

"Cao Shuai, that crazy guy is not easy to deal with!" He Yilong, nicknamed "Ge Li Eye", as a figure whose strength and qualifications are not inferior to Cao Cao, took the lead in speaking.

The nickname derives from his physical characteristics. Geli is a small animal in the native language of northern Shaanxi, with bad eyes, and it should belong to an animal like a mole (do you remember the one in the black cat sheriff?). And He Yilong is just a short-sighted eye. Therefore, he took this characteristic as his bandit.

"Moreover, Madman Hong personally supervised the battle in Tongguan and hung a heavy reward, it is said that as long as Madman He guards this Lancaochuan Avenue, he can actually teach the general soldiers of a town!"

"In order to be promoted, Maniac He has long held back his red eyes, and this terrain is favorable to him, I am afraid that this battle will not be easy to fight!"

The relationship with Ge Li has always been good, and the two often fight side by side.

Cao Cao's little eyes glanced back and forth at Lao Huihui, Ge Li Eye, and He Jin, who reported the number Zuo Jin Wang, and suddenly laughed loudly, "Not bad!" This terrain is in his favor, but this battle also has to be played differently! ”

His laughter surprised everyone a little, could it be that this Cao Cao is the same as Cao Cao in that play, laughing at others for not being able to use soldiers? (To be continued......)