Chapter 11 Tuoda

(The cow man finally appeared, so guess what will happen next?) Ask for a red ticket! )

Li Zicheng rode on a horse, standing on the side of a general wearing a delicate scale armor, a little back, stopped and looked at the opposite team, and couldn't help but be a little secretly surprised in his heart, although there were not many soldiers in this Xingtian army, only more than 400 people came here, but towards the opposite station, each of them was as tall as a pine, and there was a posture of Mount Tai collapsing in front and the color unchanged, standing on the slope like a rock.

And what surprised Li Zicheng secretly was not only these, but the quality of the equipment of this Xingtian Army far exceeded his imagination.

The soldiers of the Xingtian Army on the opposite side, almost all of them are wearing armor, the front row is a sword player with a shield, the two wings are a firecracker carrying a bird's gun, the second row is a crossbowman with a bow and a crossbow, each with two bags of arrows, and the back is a forest of spears that stands tall like a forest, and each of these soldiers of the Xingtian Army has a strange style of leggings on their calves, even if their armor is not neat, but after wearing these leggings, it still makes them look much neat and mighty.

You must know that armor is a rare thing in these years, even among the officers and soldiers, the vast majority of people cannot be equipped with armor, at most, it is good to have a mandarin duck battle jacket, and only the most elite Guanning iron cavalry can basically wear all armor. And the four hundred soldiers and generals of the Heavenly Army in front of him have basically reached the point where everyone has armor, which can almost be said to be extremely rare among the righteous army.

However, it is a pity that the armor of the Xingtian army is very messy, there are a small number of iron leaves composed of iron armor, there are also some leather armor, and there are many at a glance can be seen to be from the official army hanging iron cotton armor, the worst is naturally the common cotton armor of the official army, but this also illustrates a problem, that is, the armor of this Xingtian army is obviously captured from the enemy after a lot of battles, which can be seen at a glance for Li Zicheng, who has been fighting all year round.

When Tian Jianxiu came back with a leader of the Xingtian Army last night and told him that Xiao Tianjian, the leader of the Xingtian Army, promised to give them a large number of urgently needed supplies, Li Zicheng didn't dare to believe it, but now it seems that this Xingtian Army should indeed have this kind of capital.

Not only Li Zicheng was looking at the generals of the Xingtian Army opposite, but many of the generals of the Righteous Army who came with Gao Yingxiang this time were also looking at the soldiers and horses of the Xingtian Army, and they all put away their contempt for this pole that had just become famous in the Fengxiang area.

And Gao Yingxiang, who was straddled and sat on horseback, was also paying attention to the opposite army and horse for a while, and there was a slight look of surprise in his eyes.

If this were not the case, he would have probably led his troops to Huangyang County to besiege Huangyang County at this time, and would not personally lead his troops over to meet this pole leader who was only a little famous in the local area, but today when he saw the troops of the Xingtian Army here, he put away the contempt in his heart, and couldn't help but be a little secretly surprised.

Tian Jianxiu took Xiao Tianjian to ride a horse to Gao Yingxiang's army, and he took the reins of the horse from a distance, turned over and got off the horse, and Xiao Tianjian also immediately turned over and dismounted, and followed Tian Jianxiu to stride towards the position where the banner of the word was erected.

Although Xiao Tianjian was a little agitated at the thought of meeting the most famous leader of the rebel army in the world soon, he didn't feel any nervousness, so he followed Tian Jianxiu's back, and quietly looked at these Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng's subordinates around him as he walked.

Because Gao Yingxiang is in the position of the Chinese army, the core subordinates under Gao Yingxiang's command should be concentrated here, so it is obviously much stronger than the two wings and the soldiers and horses behind, and the equipment is also much better, although it is not yet to the extent that everyone is wearing armor, but everyone has a decent weapon in their hands or on their bodies, but compared to the equipment level of the Xingtian Army, Gao Yingxiang and these troops obviously do not have the idea of unified equipment, and the weapons in their hands can be said to be varied. But there is one thing that Xiao Tianjian secretly admires, that is, these subordinates who belong to the core of Gao Yingxiang's subordinates, intentionally or unintentionally, all reveal a more or less fierce temperament.

This is the temperament that most of the people in the Xingtian army do not have, the reason is very simple, Gao Yingxiang began to rebel in the early years of Chongzhen, and it has been more than six years now, and the troops who followed him are not millions, at least there are hundreds of thousands of people, from the beginning of their uprising in Shaanxi, then to Shanxi, and then to cross the Yellow River into Henan, and then south into Huguang, and now back to Shaanxi.

Over the years, the subordinates who followed him can be said to have changed one stubble after another, and fought with the officers and soldiers at least more than 100 times, which is like a big wave of sand, and the subordinates who can survive until now are basically people who have been in battle for a long time, and no one has not gone through countless battles in front of the battle to get to this point, so it is not surprising that he can be called a man of a hundred battles, and he can reveal such a fierce temperament.

In this regard, the Xingtian Army under his command is obviously far inferior to these people, after all, they have only been in the army for a few months, and many of them have only experienced one or two or two or three battles, and now it is obviously too demanding for them to have the temperament of these battle-hardened veterans.

However, Xiao Tianjian has no idea of being arrogant, because compared with these Gao Yingxiang's generals, his subordinates of the Xingtian Army obviously have a greater advantage, that is, the discipline that the Xingtian Army has worked hard to build since it became an army, but this is an advantage that is difficult for these Gao Yingxiang's subordinates to achieve.

When Tian Jianxiu took Xiao Tianjian into the Chinese army, Xiao Tianjian finally saw a group of characters who knew at a glance that they belonged to the generals under the towering banner of the characters, and the few people on horseback in the center stood out like chickens, so he immediately turned his attention to a few of them.

The general standing in the center, wearing a very well-made mountain armor, wearing a gilded bronze helmet, a shark skin sheath sword hanging from his waist, his face was slightly red, with a slender beard, straddle and sit with a tall jujube red Hexi horse, looking very heroic, with a kind of outstanding momentum, although Xiao Tianjian did not dare to say for sure, but at least he could be sure in his heart that this person was his thunderous rebel hero Gao Yingxiang.

With this excellent mountain armor alone, Xiao Tianjian has seen it for the first time so far, because he has heard that in the Ming army, people who can wear such a fine mountain armor can generally only be equipped with high-level generals above the guerrilla level, and low-level officers generally wear scale armor or worse iron armor, which is mainly because the mountain armor is difficult to build, and it is difficult for ordinary craftsmen to build, and it is very labor-intensive and time-consuming, so where such armor can be produced, It can only be built by the military war bureau or the ordnance bureau in the north and south of Beijing, so the output is very limited, and Gao Yingxiang can wear such a fine mountain armor, at least it shows that after he rebelled, he killed more than one Ming army general above the guerrilla level, so he can obtain such armor, which makes Xiao Tianjian quite admirable in his heart.

And a general who was close to his side was also riding on horseback, but obviously his figure was not tall and mighty, and he was only wearing an ordinary scale armor, covered with a coarse cloth shirt, wearing a red tasseled felt hat, his face was also dark, and the beard on his chin was obviously rarely taken care of, which looked a little messy, but what made Xiao Tianjian dare not despise was this person's two eyes, but they flashed with a terrifying light, even if his appearance was not good, but after matching these eyes, Still don't dare to be underestimated.

Tian Jianxiu took Xiao Tianjian to the banner of the Chinese army, and immediately hugged his fists and reported to the two generals standing in the center: "Qi Yu to break the king, Qi Yu to break the general, the subordinates have invited Xiao Dangjia of the Xingtian Army to come over!" ”

Xiao Tianjian could determine the identities of the two people standing in front of him at this time, so he didn't make a big deal, and immediately clasped his fists and said to Gao Yingxiang in the middle: "Xiao Tianjian of the Huangyang Xingtianjun has seen King Gao Chuang, and he has seen General Li Chuang, Xiao is so polite!" ”

But what surprised Xiao Tianjian a little was that Gao Yingxiang did not immediately dismount and return the salute because of Xiao Tianjian's salute, but sat on the horse's back and raised his right hand slightly, and said lightly: "General Xiao is polite!" No need to be polite! Yesterday, I heard that Brother Tian said to a certain that General Xiao is willing to provide us with a batch of grain and weapons, thank you Gao for this! ”

Xiao Tianjian was slightly stunned, he didn't expect Gao Yingxiang to be so big, he responded to their request this time, thinking about the fame of Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng, so he took the initiative to agree to give them a large number of grain and weapons, but he didn't expect Gao Yingxiang to see him come over to pay respects, and he didn't even want to get down the horse.

Tian Jianxiu didn't expect Gao Yingxiang to be so big about Xiao Tianjian, and it can even be said that he was neglectful, although Gao Yingxiang was already famous, but in the end he was just the leader of a bigger pole all the way, Xiao Tianjian's Xingtianjun was not as strong as Gao Yingxiang, and his reputation was not as big, but after all, he was also the leader of the righteous army, not to mention that people helped them this time, and gave them so many grain and straw equipment, which is a charcoal in the snow. Even last night he mentioned that he wanted to win over Xiao Tianjian to follow Gao Yingxiang, but after all, they didn't agree immediately, and now the relationship between the two parties is still equal, and now they take the initiative to go out of the village to meet them, but Gao Yingxiang doesn't know why, today he will be so snub to Xiao Tianjian, which can't help but make him a little embarrassed.