The Yellow River, the turbid muddy river water, rushes out of the mouth of the pot with a roar, and goes straight down for thousands of miles, showing the greatness of all things in heaven and earth, and the insignificance of human life.

After the raging roar, in this section, it was changed to a mother-like docile and peaceful, thick yellow, sparkling waves, small waves, gently lapping the embankment for hundreds of millions of years, people can't help but settle down.

But now, tens of thousands of poles nesting on this dilapidated wharf, facing the Yellow River, really feel their own insignificance and powerlessness, one by one, anxious almost at any time to explode.

Gao Yingxiang really wanted to leave this time, but he was pressed by Lu Shi on a small place along the Yellow River in the east of Yichuan, and there was no room to turn around, what else could he do if he didn't leave?

However, it is not easy to cross the Yellow River, not to mention that the Shanxi officials and soldiers who have long been rumored on the other side have slowly gathered into two or three thousand men and horses, and they are ready to fight, even this ferry is a serious problem.

Although he constantly sent people around to collect ferries, it was also a drop in the bucket, and if he wanted not to be hit by the officials and soldiers, he would have to be at least twice as brave as his daring brother.

At that time, Gao Yingxiang was standing on the edge of the rolling Yellow River, facing this ancient moat, and was worried about the problem of the ferry, when suddenly his cronies came to report, saying that not far from his residence, more than 30 carts suddenly appeared, and the cars were full of materials. It's just a swagger.

Gao Yingxiang glared at the cronie fiercely, if it weren't for the cronies, he would have whipped down a long time ago, so that this eyeless thing that knows which pot will not be opened will have a long memory.

When is it now, and I still have the heart to make trouble with myself.

Now, who else will be in front of tens of thousands of rogues in big cars and small cars swaggering through the market? Isn't that hairy boy from Lu Shi? I didn't dare to do anything to him if I bullied me, everyone saved face about this, can't you pretend that you don't know? But this kid shouted so loudly, and the whole world knew about it, isn't this a slap in the face?

However, since the whole world knows it, it would be too demoralizing to be a turtle with a shrunken head, so Gao Yingxiang asked casually: "Whose team is it?" How dare you be so bold? But before the cronie could report, he turned around, pretended to continue to check the topography and water potential of the Yellow River, and then deliberately sighed: "At present, it is important to cross the river, so don't make any extraneous branches, this time count them lucky." ”

But the next sentence from the cronie immediately changed Gao Yingxiang's original intention.

"King Da Chuang, this time this convoy is under the banner of the government."

Gao Yingxiang was completely blinded by this news, turned around slowly, stared at the cronies kneeling on the ground in a daze, and asked without believing his ears: "The banner of the government?" Can you see it really? ”

The pro-soldier hurriedly bowed his head and said with certainty, the small one is really real, and it is indeed the banner of the government. Afraid that Gao Yingxiang would not believe it, he looked left and right, pointed to a high slope not far away, and whispered to Gao Yingxiang: "If King Dachuang doesn't believe it, then please move and pedal high, and you will know at a glance." ”

Gao Yingxiang was even more confused, and he also moved to the top to see that the official transport convoy was too close to him. ”

Full of doubts, he hurriedly took a group of cronies and leaders, and hurried up the hill with Hulala.

I didn't need to use my hands to fight the pergola, and at a glance I saw a convoy of thirty carts transporting supplies, just outside the camp of his army, less than two miles away, the speed was comparable to the slow march of a snail, and dozens of coachmen escorted by the car, all of them looked nervously here, but they just didn't beat the horses and went fast, and the flaming red official flag fluttering in the hulala, it was better to be like Xianbei, swaggering and stretching in this stuffy summer breeze.

Gao Yingxiang opened his mouth wide in confusion, just opened his mouth wide, turned his head to look at the group of generals around him, and for a long time, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty, pointed to the carts that were slowly swallowing, and asked the brothers around him uncertainly: "Then, is that really the convoy of the government escorting materials?" ”

Those brothers were also confused by this strange scene, and their expressions were the same as Gao Yingxiang's, but after everyone carefully identified them, they all nodded with difficulty to make sure that what Gao Yingxiang saw was true.

This is strange, when, dozens of official and military coachmen, are not afraid of these tens of thousands of rogue troops? When did they dare to swagger in front of these tens of thousands of robbers? Is there still a royal law here?

A team leader came back to his senses and shouted, "This is too *** bullying, isn't this a child with a meat bun, dangling in front of a group of dogs?" ”

As soon as these words came out, he was glared at by countless eyes on the spot, what kind of metaphor is this, isn't this scolding himself for being a dog? Soldiers can be killed, but not humiliated.

Although the leader of the team was a rough man, he was glared at by everyone's murderous eyes, and he also knew that he had said the wrong thing, and now he offended everyone, he couldn't say, as long as King Da Chuang turned around, he would be a pain of flesh and skin, so he quickly changed the topic, "King Da Chuang, I please take the people of the headquarters, kill them, take those carts of materials, and open a good market for us today." ”

At this time, Lao Ga Da heard this, and sighed in his heart, things are abnormal for demons, this is not only abnormal, but also very abnormal, that is the demon of demons, in case of being calculated, then he will suffer a big loss, so he frowned and said: "Don't break into the king, if things are different, it will be a demon, in case this is a trap and bait set by the officials and soldiers, then wouldn't we——"

Gao Yingxiang suddenly interrupted Lao Gada's analysis, raised his hand and said: "We have been stationed here for two days, what tricks the officers and soldiers have already come out, why wait for this time?" "Standing on tiptoe again, looking into the distance, as far as the eye can see, there is no dust in the endless sky, even if there are thousands of ravines, it is dusty, it seems that there is no ambush there.

In this dry season, don't say it's a large group of people, even if it's dozens of people, walking on the Loess Plateau where everything is about to burst into flames, it will be full of smoke and dust to the sky, not to mention thousands of troops and horses, if you want to fight with yourself, then don't think about it without 10,000 regular troops, you know, you are almost a deep Jedi now, there is the situation of Xiang Yu at the beginning, and the boat is broken, but one is active, the other is passive, don't look at the 30,000 thieves, only 10,000 are their old foundations, old subordinates, In fact, those who have just been coerced, in the face of the official army, they also know that they will definitely die, so they will unite to fight to the death.

Besides, he is really in danger, Lu Shi, who is only ten miles away from him, will not sit idly by, he also needs to contain the official army for him in Shanxi, to ensure that the Yichuan he just got is not harassed by the official army from Shanxi, although now Shanxi and Shaanxi have been watching each other's excitement, but in case Yang He's old man gives a death order, it will really be enough for him Lu Shi to drink a pot, because, after all, the soldiers in Shanxi are still a few points stronger than the soldiers in Shaanxi.

In this case, in order to collect more materials, in fact, even in order to boost the morale of the dead who was suppressed by Lu Shi, he should also send troops to grab the fat in front of him, and he should send troops, otherwise it will be difficult to straighten his waist in front of Lu Shi in the future.

In fact, in his heart, Gao Yingxiang has always thought that he will have a chance to fight with Lu Shi sooner or later, but of course it is not now, that is when he will return to his hometown after he regroups in Shanxi, with a million troops.

"Big Hammer, you took your own headquarters, rushed out immediately, and brought me this pot of fatty meat." After the big hammer that had just asked for battle was given the order, he turned around and ran out of the sight of the robe that was about to beat people.

Waiting for the sledgehammer to go away, Gao Yingxiang still thought about it, then looked around, and loudly ordered his generals: "Don't be idle, everyone, all the whole team, in case there is a change." ”

When the generals heard this, they agreed to the promise, got on their horses one after another, beat their horses and rushed back to their own team, and put their men and horses in order.

Gao Yingxiang watched his tens of thousands of troops hustle and bustle for a while, and everyone began to coax the whole team to prepare for war, and at that time he smiled inexplicably wryly in his heart, when did he face more than 30 coachmen, he would be like a great enemy to reorganize his arms and fight? ”

Look at the dusty place far away to the west, that is Lu Shi's camp, I don't know what Lu Shi is doing now, I robbed the official army, you shouldn't meddle in it.

The sledgehammer roared out of the camp with the three thousand elites of the headquarters, but as soon as the gate of the camp was opened, the snail-like officer and army coachman immediately shouted, unloaded the war horses that had been prepared long ago, flew on the horses, beat the horses and whipped away, and did not even look at those material carts.

By the time the sledgehammer arrived with the men and horses, there were only thirty carts of supplies piled up there.

"It can't be a fraud." One of the soldiers of the sledgehammer couldn't help but be suspicious of the quiet cart, but as soon as everyone lifted the straw mat, there were crossbow arrows flying out like locusts below.

The sledgehammer looked left and right, and suddenly strode forward: "Whatever he does, I'll talk about it after watching it." With that, he lifted the straw mat on the car.

There were no locusts, no poisonous smoke, and the cars were neatly stacked sheepskin bags, each with as many as 300 of them, and the smell of fishy smell was vomiting in this big summer.

Gao Yingxiang, who followed closely, was also confused by this strange material, and at this time, a pole that grew up on the edge of the Yellow River next to him suddenly jumped to his feet excitedly and shouted: "King Da Chuang, we have been saved, we can cross the Yellow River, God really protects King Da Chuang." ”

"What do you say, what is this? Gao Yingxiang was even more confused, how could this nearly 10,000 sheepskin have something to do with his crossing the river?

It's no wonder that Gao Yingxiang doesn't understand, Gao Yingxiang was born in western Shaanxi, too far away from the Yellow River, in fact, he hasn't even seen the Yellow River, these sheepskins are the famous sheepskin rafts on the Yellow River. The raft, known as the "leather boat" in ancient times, is a primitive and ancient means of water transportation, with a history of about 1,500 years. The mode of transportation of sending people across the river and carrying goods on sheepskin rafts is popular along the Yellow River in Qinghai, Gansu and Ningxia, with Lanzhou being the most common.

The sheepskin raft needs to be blown by the mouth to make it full, so the locals see someone boasting about the sea and saying big words, often with "please go to the edge of the Yellow River" to ridicule, which means to let it blow the sheepskin bag or cowhide bag, according to research, the saying "bragging cowhide" comes from this.

The key to making a sheepskin raft is to peel the parchment sac intact, each sheepskin raft needs 9-12 pouches, do not look at the parchment sac small, if 50 pouches are tied into a large raft to carry the goods, its momentum is like a majestic "warship" can take 30 people at a time and not sink, when ferrying, carry it to the upstream and put it down, row to the opposite shore hard, when returning, the raft passenger will carry the raft on the shoulder, walk to the upstream, and then go back downstream, fast, simple and light.

Gao Yingxiang really had a feeling of being in a dream, and he was in a desperate situation, if this was really the case, then these sheepskins could be tied into two hundred rafts, and five or six thousand troops could be spent at a time.

Now, Gao Yingxiang is a little confused, is this a trick of the government, especially the Yichuan government? If it's a ruse, that's too cute.