In the canyon, as Gao Yingxiang expected, there was no ambush, the road was unimpeded, and he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw that the exit was in sight. The front is Zhao Cheng, I don't know what happened to Huozhou and Fenxi, if King Lu Yan took both cities, then he is now either attacking Zhao City, or on the way to attack Zhao City, if this is the case, he suddenly killed from the oblique stab, wouldn't it make King Lu Yan suffer a big loss!

The more Gao Yingxiang thought about it, the more hot he became, he had fifty or sixty thousand cavalry, if King Lu Yan was attacking the city, he would kill him from behind, and it was very likely that he would rush the 100,000 troops under King Lu Yan in one fell swoop.

He was about to give the order to slow down the whole army, and then sent scouts to Zhaocheng to investigate the situation and then decide to stop, when a burst of shouting and killing suddenly sounded at the valley mouth, and a team of officers and soldiers rushed out from both ends of the valley and blocked the valley mouth!

Gao Yingxiang chuckled in his heart: "Oh no, it's an ambush!" ”

At this time, the more than 50,000 cavalry led by Gao Yingxiang was only more than a mile away from the valley mouth, but the officers and troops in front of them were densely lined up in a long snake formation, blocking the valley mouth tightly.

"One, two, three rows......" Gao Yingxiang quickly calculated the number of officers and soldiers, the width of the valley is only more than 300 steps, and the denser row of the infantry station can squeeze down 2,000 people at most, and the cavalry occupies more space, it is good to squeeze out a thousand horses in a row, as long as you count how many rows there are, you will know how many officers and soldiers are coming on the opposite side.

The officers and soldiers were lined up very neatly, and Gao Yingxiang counted them clearly in the blink of an eye, fifteen rows of infantry and ten rows of cavalry, that is to say, there were only 40,000 officers and soldiers on the opposite side.

Gao Yingxiang came to the fire: "Damn, King Lu Yan, you are too crazy, 30,000 infantry, 10,000 cavalry dare to come to block the way of my more than 50,000 cavalry, is it really your grandfather Gao is paper paste?" ”

At this moment, Li Zicheng's anxious voice came to his ears: "Uncle, what should I do?" ”

What to do? Naturally, he did it!

Gao Yingxiang shouted backwards: "Order, the whole army slows down, line up a long phalanx, two hundred horsemen in each row, half a step horizontally, five steps longitudinally." ”

With his roar, the high-character banner slowly moved downward, and the whole army began to slow down, and the herald turned his horse's head and ran backwards. Soon the cavalry behind quickly spread out to both sides, densely lined up row after row.

When he was still about a mile away from the valley mouth, Gao Yingxiang didn't care about what was happening in the back row, and directly shouted: "The whole army accelerates, rush me." ”

The high-character handsome banner suddenly pointed forward, and the cavalry in the front row shouted in unison: "Rush." "Accelerate and rush forward.

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng was still a horizontal sword, standing at the front of the large array, he saw the thief Kou starting to charge, and immediately raised his right hand and shouted: "The two wings are ready, the first row is ready." ”

At the same time, rows of musketeers appeared on the ridges on both sides, and they also raised their flintlock pistols to aim at the thieves in the middle.

Gao Yingxiang didn't pay attention to either side at all, just stared at King Lu Yan opposite, and rushed forward with his head covered.

When the thief approached two hundred steps, Lu Xiangsheng suddenly waved his right hand down and shouted: "Let go." ”

A puff of smoke rose from both wings and in the middle, and the thieves in front and on both sides fell in a row like wheat harvesting.

Lu Xiangsheng shouted without stopping: "The second emission, the third emission...... The tenth discharge, the first discharge, the second emission ....... ”

Gao Yingxiang looked at Lu Xiangsheng not far away with grief and indignation, he finally understood what was going on with the rain of bullets that night, the musket with such a long range, such a rotation kept being released, what could he do even if he had fifty or sixty thousand cavalry? If you give him another 50,000 or 60,000, you won't be able to rush up!

At this time, the front of the musket array between 100 and 200 steps has been completely blocked by casualties and horses, there are human corpses and horse corpses everywhere, everywhere is the screams of the wounded rebels, everywhere is the war horses that have lost their control, the rebels behind can't rush up at all, and there are countless musketeers on the mountains on both sides are harvesting wantonly, Gao Yingxiang finally rushed, he screamed sadly: "Withdraw." Then he turned his horse's head and ran the way he came.

At this time, the high-character handsome flag has changed hands several times, whenever the raised guard falls, there is always another guard to take over the handsome flag, continue to hold high, now hear Gao Yingxiang's mournful voice, the handsome flag finally fell, not knocked down, but the flag of the guard himself put down, he will the handsome flag back horizontally, on his shoulder, turn the horse's head and run.

This is actually a kind of flag language, Shuai Qi drove forward, the whole army charged, Shuai Qi fell back, the whole army retreated, saw Shuai Qi fall back, all the rebels turned around and ran, they couldn't bear it for a long time, just afraid that they would be cut off by the leader of the battle if they escaped without authorization, and now that the commander has ordered, they naturally ran away without hesitation.

Fleeing all the way and being attacked by muskets on both sides, when Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng escaped from the canyon, almost all of them escaped, more than 50,000 people rushed in, and less than 20,000 escaped in the end!

Gao Yingxiang can't care about being sad, so King Lu Yan doesn't know if he will catch up, so let's run away.

Lu Xiangsheng wanted to chase here, but the whole canyon was full of human corpses, horse corpses and war horses scurrying everywhere, the cavalry couldn't rush through at all, but the infantry could pass through, but in the middle, I was afraid that I would be trampled to death and trampled by those crazy war horses, and what was the use of the infantry rushing over, the cavalry of the Shangren's family chasing after it?

He had no choice but to order: "Order, the musketeers retreat a hundred steps back to trim, the general Cao Wenzhao led 10,000 cavalry to come forward to trap all the galloping horses, and then the generals Wang Chengyin and Zhang Shujia led 10,000 pikemen and 10,000 halberd soldiers to clean up the battlefield, all the horse corpses were collected as military rations, and all the thieves were buried on the spot, so as not to leave them alive." ”

It's not that Lu Xiangsheng is really as murderous as the king of Hades, this time the thieves are all cavalry, those who are lightly injured must have run away on horseback, and those who stay and can't run must be seriously injured, I don't know if they can be saved, why waste precious medicinal materials. Besides, since they have become thieves, they must have the consciousness of being killed by the imperial court.

The heralds began to scatter orders, and soon Cao Wenzhao led 10,000 cavalry into the canyon and began to set his horses. Because Lu Xiangsheng confessed before the war, try to shoot people and not horses, so there are still more surviving war horses, and the last statistics show that there are more than 20,000 horses, so that the Tianxiong Army has finally reached the standard configuration of three points of cavalry and seven points of infantry.

After Cao Wenzhao led people to take away all the surviving horses, it was a matter of pikemen and halberd soldiers, Lu Xiangsheng looked at the valley full of corpses, and couldn't help but think of what the emperor once said: "This will be the world of muskets and artillery in the future, and all cavalry and crossbows will be eliminated by history!" ”

When he first heard this, Lu Xiangsheng was very disapproving, if he wasn't the emperor, Lu Xiangsheng would have wanted to go up and choke him a few words, what kind of joke, cavalry and bows and crossbows have always been the masters of the battlefield, how could they be eliminated!

Now that he believes it, this is just the musket, the light cavalry is already helpless, and when it is equipped with more powerful artillery, the heavy cavalry will be hated on the spot, and this will be the world of muskets and artillery!