Nearly 8,000 rogue cavalry marched in front. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoThe galloping horse's hooves are like countless drums striking the earth, making a deafening rumbling sound.

More than 100,000 rogue infantry, following closely behind, the sound of footsteps, mixed with the friction and collision of armor and weapons, has a terrifying power and murderous aura.

"King Gao Chuang, Ming Gouzi has run away! They have retreated to the other side of the river to the east! ”

Li Zicheng, who was moving forward with a group of cavalry in front, stood in the pile of human corpses and horse corpses that had been torn apart and blackened, and shouted loudly to Gao Yingxiang, who led the Liukou infantry to come quickly.

Gao Yingshen raised his head to look east, and could faintly see that on the east bank of Yishui rolling north in the distance, there were faint soldiers, horses and flags of the Ming army.

"King, what should I do, do you cross the river to pursue, or do you turn back to attack Song County?" When Gao Yingshen approached, Li Zicheng asked urgently in a low voice.

"Hmph, if this Ming army is not removed, it will be difficult to dispel the evil anger in my heart!" Gao Yingxiang said hatefully: "The enemy army is not far from the east coast now, if it is not drummed, as soon as our army retreats, it will come back to harass it." Spread the king's military order, the whole army immediately crossed the river and chased and killed such a bright dog! ”

Gao Ying paused and shouted undoubtedly. "Besides, on the other side of this Yishui is Jiugao Mountain, which is an important place to enter Ruzhou, and if our army wants to regain Ruzhou in the future, it will definitely take this place to enter the army. Now, it is just a blow to destroy the Ming army and capture Jiugao Mountain. ”

"King, I am afraid that when our army attacks with all its might, the defenders of Nasong County will go out of the city to harass." Li Zicheng had an uneasy look on his face.

As soon as he finished speaking, a tall and strong, fleshy, fierce general with a beard as hard as a hedgehog roared loudly: "How dare his grandmother!" King, if you give me a soldier and horse, I will go and take Nasong County, so as to prevent future troubles! ”

Li Zicheng turned his head to look, but this person was the general who had always been good friends with him, Liu Zongmin.

Liu Zongmin, a native of Lantian, Shaanxi, like Li Zicheng, was cast under Gao Yingxiang's account, and was one of Gao Yingxiang's right-hand men.

However, at this time, Liu Fangliang still led thousands of wounded soldiers and was stationed in Luoning County, so he did not march with the army for the time being.

"Good! However, General Liu did not have to attack the city with all his might, but only needed to surround the small county seat of Songxian County, so that the defenders did not dare to come out lightly. If the Ming army is destroyed here, the Ming army in Song County will be frightened, and it may fall from the wind. Gao Yingshen nodded at Liu Zongmin, and then said: "I will give you 10,000 infantry, and give me a firm siege of Nasong County, even if it is a person and a dog, I must not be released from the city!" ”

"King Chuang, you can just take a look."

Liu Zongmin promised loudly, and then led 10,000 infantry to retreat from the original road and head towards Songxian.

Seeing that Liu Zongmin led 10,000 infantry to go far, Gao Yingxiang shouted: "Pass on my military order, and the whole army will immediately cross Yishui and eliminate this Ming dog!" ”

Immediately, there was a tsunami of shouts around them. The whole army then turned around and headed east, rushing towards the three pontoon bridges leading to the east bank of Yishui.

When the Liukou army was marching in the direction of Yishui, Li Xiao and Zu Dale, the two of them, had just come down from the "Ancestor Temple" on the top of the main peak of Jiugao Mountain and Xianglong Peak, and returned to the formation.

The Patriarch Temple is said to have been built to commemorate Yin Jiao, the son of the King of Shang.

It is said that Yin Jiao was dissatisfied with his father's immorality, and did not want to enjoy a rich life only in the palace, he escaped from the palace without permission, and then traveled to the mountains and rivers of the four directions, and finally he found that the scenery of Jiugao Mountain was pleasant, it was a good place for seclusion, so he set up a grass house on the mountain, practiced in seclusion, and prayed to God to punish sinners and bless the people of Limin. The Emperor of Heaven remembered that he cared for the people, so he named him "Jiugao Patriarch" and ordered him to spread medical skills here to save the world. Yin Jiao stayed in Jiugao Mountain for nearly forty years, and finally attained Taoism, and on the top of Xianglong Peak, he took a crane to turn into an immortal.

The local people, remembering his kindness, built a "patriarch temple" on the peak where he ascended to immortality to commemorate it.

Subsequently, after generations of repair and reconstruction, this ancestral temple has been preserved to this day.

Li Xiao and Zu Dale, after hearing the legend of Yin Jiao, went to the ancestral temple early this morning to burn incense and worship the prince of the Shang Dynasty who ascended to heaven.

In front of the statue of Yin Jiao, Li Xiao solemnly lit incense and kowtowed, and secretly prayed in his heart, wishing that this Jiugao patriarch who had ascended to immortal would bless the battle against Gao Yingxiang's department and win smoothly.

Although Li Xiao didn't believe in ghosts and gods in his heart, after coming to this ancestral temple to burn incense and worship, Li Xiao felt that his heart was much calmer.

When the two of them came out of the temple, they suddenly heard the sound of cranes chirping overhead, loud and high-pitched, reaching the hearts of the people. Looking up, two white cranes flew from nowhere, crossed the roof of the ancestral temple and flew away.

"Li Xiao, when we went out of the temple gate, we heard the crane singing, but it was an auspicious omen, it seems that our army is fighting against the thieves of Gao Yingxiang, but we can expect to win smoothly." Zu Dale looked happy.

Li Xiao smiled: "The so-called auspicious rui is mostly for self-comfort." Iron striking still needs its own hardness, and if you want to defeat the thieves, you need our army to work harder. Of course, if you get an auspicious omen, it is very good for boosting the morale of the army. ”

When the two returned to their respective formations, they could clearly see that on the other side of the Yishui River, there were rogues pouring in like dark clouds in the sky, and they rushed towards Jiugao Mountain with overwhelming momentum.

Looking at the surging rogues on the other side, Li Xiao suddenly felt an inexplicable sadness in his heart.

How many of these 100,000 rogue soldiers were just ordinary people in the past, and among them, there were farmers, townspeople, and merchants, all kinds of people. They may have joined the thieves in the first place just to have enough to eat, or they may have just wanted to survive. And in the cruel battlefield fighting, these poor people, their humanity became more and more annihilated, their hearts became more and more vicious, and finally they became devils who no longer had any morality and conscience except for killing and plundering.

I'd rather be a peaceful dog than a troubled person.

Such a cruel and bloody chaotic world must be completely ended in the future!

Of course, Li Xiao knew that among the 100,000 rogues, the soldiers with real combat power might only be 50,000 or 60,000, and the rest of the rogue's family members, although everyone also held swords and swords, could only follow behind the large army and fight a tailwind battle.

Sure enough, Li Xiao saw that the rogues on the opposite side were divided into two major parts in front, and the more than 50,000 infantry in front of them were divided into three lanes, and from the three pontoon bridges, they strode into the bridge.

Li Xiao, who was halfway up Jiugao Mountain, could only see the heads of people on the bridge swaying from a distance.

He kept the pontoon bridge and let the enemy troops stride through, but he had a purpose.

Because, Li Xiao knew that from Jiugao Mountain to Yishui, this narrow and open area would be the final burial place for those rogues who crossed the river.

When the enemy infantry began to pass through the bridgehead and rush towards themselves, the more than 1,000 cavalrymen turned their horses and fled slowly towards the Jiugao Mountain behind them.

When the rogue infantry pursued to the foot of Jiugao Mountain, two miles away, they stopped one after another, waiting for the team behind to arrive.

After nearly 50,000 soldiers crossed the river, they quickly formed a huge rectangular battle formation along a position two miles away from Jiugao Mountain.

Gao Yingxiang, who was in charge of the formation on the other side, hesitated for a moment, and then ordered, and divided the 8,000 cavalry into two parts, and he personally led the 4,000 cavalry to cross the river to supervise the battle, and strive to wipe out the sparse Ming army on the opposite side in one fell swoop.

"King Gao Chuang, let me go, you can stay on the west bank." Li Zicheng pleaded.

"No need, such a small Ming army, this king will wipe them all out today!" Gao Yingxiang's face flashed with hideousness, and he said to Li Zicheng: "I will personally lead the troops to go, and you will be here on the west bank, waiting for my good news." ”

A trace of helplessness flashed on Li Zicheng's face, as if he was annoyed that he had lost the opportunity to make meritorious contributions. However, he agreed with him, and Gao Yingxiang crossed the river with 4,000 cavalry.

After they crossed the river, they joined the infantry in front, and at this time, Gao Yingxiang's eyes were immediately attracted by the steep and winding Jiugao Mountain two miles away.

"It's a steep mountain, there is really a husband who is in charge, and there is no way to open it." Gao Yingxiang sighed softly.

"King Gao Chuang, looking at it from below, the Jiugao Mountain in front of it is a very good place to hide soldiers, and the small Ming army in front of it is afraid that it is a lure soldier, but the king needs to be careful." Next to Gao Yingxiang, a person who looked like a deputy general whispered to him.

This person's name is Gao Jiaolong, but he is the old brother of Gao Jiazhuang who raised troops with Gao Yingxiang that day, and is now a lieutenant in Gao Yingxiang's army. When he saw that Jiugao Mountain in front of him was so steep, he couldn't help but play a small drum in his heart.

Gao Yingxiang nodded, he whispered to Gao Jiaolong for a while, and Gao Jiaolong immediately led three thousand cavalry to pounce towards the Ming cavalry scattered at the foot of the mountain in front.

When Gao Jiaolong led the cavalry to rush out of the Liukou array, the soldiers in front of the Liukou battle formation saw a slight squeak halfway up the Jiugao Mountain in the distance.

Soon, they saw that in the direction where their three thousand cavalry had charged, more than a dozen strange-looking wooden machines had been pushed out of the dense bushes.

"Trebuchet! It's a trebuchet of a clear dog! ”

Beside Gao Yingxiang, a wounded cavalryman who still had a burnt smell on his body shouted in horror.

"King Gao Chuang, Fang Cai, it was these Ming cavalry who tempted me to wait until the river, and these trebuchets fired cannons together, killing and wounding more than 2,000 brothers in our army, I thought they had fled, but I didn't expect that they were still hiding in this halfway up the mountain."

The cavalryman looked anxious and spoke in a slur manner.

Gao Yingxiang frowned, and shouted urgently: "Quickly let Captain Gao return to the main formation!" ”

The two cavalrymen shouted their promises, shot like arrows, and chased wildly towards the cavalry team of Gao Jiaolong in the distance.

At this time, the Gao Jiao Dragoons, who were rushing all the way, suddenly heard a strange and small whistling sound in the air.

Gao Jiaolong subconsciously looked up, only to see fourteen or fifteen big black dots, roaring towards his own direction.

"! It's the Ming dog throwing the earth-shaking thunder! Gao Jiaolong's face changed drastically.

"Ming Gouzi set up an ambush, and the whole army retreated quickly!" The pale-faced Gao Jiaolong shouted hoarsely. Immediately, he took the lead and turned around and fled.

It's late.

Before his order could be conveyed around, more than a dozen earth-shattering thunderbolts had already roared.

"Bang 。。。。。。"

About a dozen or so explosions sounded violently, exploding in the chaos of the three thousand rogue cavalry, and in the dazzling bright yellow firelight, men and horses were torn apart, and blood rained down.

At least 2,000 rogue cavalrymen were killed on the spot by 14 40-kilogram trebuchet thunderbolts that exploded almost simultaneously.

The flying fragments even splashed to the 1,000 Ming cavalry who were still a mile away from the Liukou cavalry, causing several Ming cavalry to suffer slight scratches.

Gao Jiaolong, who fled the fastest, suddenly felt that his right calf was slashed by a sharp and hot object, and the huge pain made him almost fall off his horse instantly, but fortunately a personal cavalryman supported him in time.

The cavalryman then looked horrified, and snorted: "Captain, your legs are 。。。。。。 ”

Gao Jiaolong, who almost bit through his jaw in pain, controlled his consciousness of almost fainting, and when he was about to arrive at the main formation, he subconsciously looked at his right leg, and he was horrified to find that his entire right calf, from the position below the knee, was cut off extremely neatly by the fragment, and the sharp and powerful fragment even cut the saddle open, revealing the pig iron seat inside.

Gao Jiaolong screamed and fainted.

He rolled off his horse, but fortunately he was caught by several infantry who rushed up to meet him, and he avoided the fate of falling to his death.

Seeing that his cavalry had returned from a fiasco, Gao Yingxiang was so angry that he almost went crazy.

Up to now, he has not even killed a single Ming army, but he was bombarded twice by the Ming army with earth-shaking thunder, and he actually killed more than 4,000 cavalry of his own family, which is simply a shame that he has never encountered!

"King Gao Chuang, what should I do now?" A subordinate general next to him came over with a frightened look on his face and asked in a trembling voice.

Gao Yingxian had not yet answered, and at this moment, two miles away from Jiugao Mountain, there was a dense and subtle commotion.

Gao Yingxiang took out a clairvoyant mirror and immediately saw that from the bushes at Jiugao Mountain, a large number of Ming infantry came out and rushed down the mountain at a trot.

Soon, those Ming troops put out a battle formation with backing and back guns, and lined up a long snake formation at the foot of the mountain.

On both sides of the gun and shield battle array, there were Li Xiaojun's rampant team in heavy armor, and the 3,000 infantry of the Zuda Music Division.

And behind that rampant team, there were the cavalry of Li Xiaobu and Zu Dale Division, all concentrated here, and the total number of cavalry was more than 3,500 people.

Gao Yingxiang roughly estimated that the number of soldiers in the Ming army in front of him added up to more than 10,000 people.

He noticed that those Ming troops lined up in the mountains, with strict arrays and neat armor, should be rare elite troops. It seems that he really accidentally fell into the ambush of the Ming army.

Seeing that there were so many Ming troops lurking in this Jiugao Mountain, the Liukou soldiers suddenly began to make a commotion.

"King Gao Chuang, why don't our army retreat for the time being?" The general of the Kou Sect seemed to be shocked by the murderous aura of the Ming army's battle array in the distance, and he asked Gao Yingxiang in a low voice.

Gao Yingxiang himself quickly began to think in his heart.

Fall back?

Can you really retreat?

Since now, there are as many as 50,000 troops, the number is very large, if you want to retreat to the other side of the Yishui, but there are only three floating bridges to cross, if you retreat, the Ming army pursues and kills, these soldiers, I am afraid that they will immediately collapse, trample on each other, I am afraid that the whole army will be wiped out.

Gao Yingxiang was soon ashamed of his cowardly thoughts.

Grandma's, now, there are as many as 50,000 troops in her own array, which is five times the number of the Ming army on the opposite side, and she wants to retreat, which is really a shame for the ancestors!

Although the enemy army has some trebuchets, as long as their own soldiers can rush over in one fell swoop and strangle with them, these trebuchets of the Ming army may not be useful.

Thinking of this, Gao Yingxiang's eyes were full of killing intent. (To be continued.) )