Chapter Twenty-Nine: Embarking on the Journey

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Looking at the thick smoke billowing from behind him, Xiao Tianjian took a deep breath, turned his horse's head and walked out of the mountain gate, and behind him were a group of neat and neat Xingtian army troops and a large number of vehicles full of various supplies.

After dawn, all the troops of the Xingtian Army gathered in the large colonel field in the village, led by the soldiers, and the recruits and soldiers followed, and made an oath before the expedition on the school field, Xiao Tianjian personally made the last mobilization in public, and gave an explanation to all the troops about this time they abandoned the local area and went out with Li Zicheng's department.

For this departure from Tianlong Village, everyone has actually been mentally prepared, but when they really want to leave here, many people still have a feeling that is difficult to give up, after all, they have been here for several months, everyone is already familiar with the grass and trees here, and it is a little sad for many people to leave here and embark on an unknown road.

But Xiao Tianjian has also made it clear that they are not escaping from here this time, but to break out of a wider way of life, and staying here will only attract a large number of officers and soldiers to flock to it, it can only be a dead end, as the saying goes, the tree moves the dead and the people move the living, rather than waiting to be suppressed by the officials and soldiers, it is better to give up this place and find a way to live.

And Xiao Tianjian also attached a sentence, if anyone doesn't want to leave, it's not impossible, he won't force it, after all, some people are locals, and it is understandable that they are unwilling to leave their homeland, so he will leave some food for those who don't want to leave and let them go home.

But no one is stupid, if they can survive here, they will not join the Xingtian Army and follow Xiao Tianjian to rebel, so this is also in vain, everyone would rather choose to follow Xiao Tianjian outside, and no one will choose to take some food and go home, just the thief name that he is carrying now, and being denounced after going back is enough to make them lose their heads, so in the end, no one chose to stay in the local area.

After Xiao Tianjian's words, although some people were still a little reluctant, they didn't have any antagonistic emotions, but they were very grateful to Xiao Tianjian for telling them all these things, so that they could clearly know what they would do next, but after Xiao Tianjian ordered the pull, the morale of the generals was boosted.

With the sound of a departure horn, the officers in the team began to give orders, a team of soldiers began to turn around, a column of drummers with Xiao Tianjian set off, towards the mountain gate, the last person in charge of the hall is a soldier led by Feng Gouzi, they lit the torches that had been prepared, walked to all parts of Tianlong Village, and set fire to the houses, not long after Tianlong Village, a huge flame was ignited, and the smoke and flames rose to the sky, as if they were marching for their expedition.

When he saw the smoke rising from the Tianlong Village, Li Zicheng sat on horseback and said to the generals under his command: "It seems that this Xiao Tianjian should be a believer, and he will do what he says, and we have another strong help for this trip!" ”

The generals also nodded, for the unhappiness between Xiao Tianjian and Gao Yingxiang this time, they had already learned the details, from the perspective of most people, they couldn't complain about this Xiao Tianjian, but what made them a little dissatisfied was that as a latecomer, Xiao Tianjian and his Xingtian Army should at least be under Gao Yingxiang's command even if they did not vote under Li Zicheng, and they should not be on an equal footing with them at all, but at present, this Xingtian Army has to become its own army like them, which makes them somewhat dissatisfied.

But the next scene made Li Zicheng and the others shake slightly, and when they saw a neat group of soldiers and horses walking out of the mountain gate of Tianlong Village, they began to be somewhat stunned.

Because what they thought was different was that although the Xingtian Army broke the cauldron this time and burned down their Dazhai with fire, when they came out, their morale was still so strong, everyone silently stepped on the sound of drums, neatly marched out of the cottage like an iron stream, and lined up in the open space outside the mountain, during which there was no chaotic sound, only a crisp and neat officer's order, which was issued, and then the officers under the jurisdiction of the people immediately ordered the prohibition to be carried out according to the order. There is no chaos at all.

They are all people who have fought from one battle after another, of course they know what this means, at first when they saw the first part of the Xingtian Army, they all thought that it was just the most elite sentry of the Xingtian Army, which was deliberately taken out by Xiao Tianjian to show off, but today when they saw all the Xingtian Army out of the village, they found that it was not the case, the more than 1,000 generals at the forefront of the Xingtian Army could not distinguish those who were the 400 soldiers and generals led by Xiao Tianjian the day before yesterday, so this proves that, The strength of the Xingtian Army was much stronger than they had originally imagined, and its strength was far beyond their expectations.

And the quality of the equipment of these more than 1,000 soldiers and horses also made them feel red-eyed, almost half of them were equipped with armor, each of them had at least two weapons, and they were neatly dressed in gray leggings, which made their military appearance look much neater, and compared with the equipment of the soldiers and horses who came out in front of the Xingtian Army, they couldn't help but look back at the soldiers and horses behind them, and couldn't help but feel a little inferior, because among the 7,000 men and horses they led, they could only make up a few hundred pieces of armor in total. The number may not be as large as the number of armor equipped by the more than 2,000 people of the Xingtian Army, and many of them have not even been equipped with serious weapons, and a large number of them belong to the old and weak.

Even the quality of the equipment of most of the officers and soldiers they had seen before could not catch up with the quality of the equipment of this Xingtian Army, they really couldn't imagine why such a pole of the Xingtian Army that had just formed an army had such good equipment, this person was really angry compared to people! Many people's eyes began to show greed.

Even when they saw the large number of soldiers who escorted the convoy out of the village later, they also remained solemn, although Li Zicheng and his subordinates knew that these people who came out later should belong to the auxiliary soldiers of the Xingtian Army, and they would not be used on the battlefield under normal circumstances, but with their equipment and performance, they are definitely not bad, and these auxiliary soldiers are all young and strong people, compared with the auxiliary soldiers on Li Zicheng's side, Li Zicheng and the generals under him really have a feeling of embarrassment.

And what shocked them even more was that the Xingtian Army had a lot of materials, and it was far beyond their expectations, just the carts with mules and horses, the Xingtian Army drove out more than 60 vehicles, each cart was filled with various materials, most of which were loaded with bags of grain, and they could calculate that the Xingtian Army alone was enough for the Xingtian army to consume for two months, no wonder the Xingtian Army would be so generous, and gave them a thousand stone of food at once, it turned out that the food of the people was indeed enough, That's why it's so generous.

In addition to these wagons with livestock, there were dozens of wheelbarrows pushed by manpower, each of which was also loaded with food and other goods, which made those of them who had eaten all day red.

And that's not all, and then there was something even more surprising to them, in the middle of the ranks of the Xingtian Army, there were actually several strangely shaped gun carriages, all of which were equipped with a medium-sized Furlong cannon, and each gun carriage was equipped with two sturdy mules, and it took no effort to pull these gun carriages.

Li Zicheng and his generals couldn't help but gasp, they didn't expect that the Xingtian Army even had this kind of big killing weapon, and there were quite a few of them, not counting the small tiger squat cannons and other artillery that they hadn't seen that might be mounted on the car, if they were all added, the Xingtian Army alone would have no more than one or twenty guns, so equipped, looking at the Zhulu Righteous Army that had just jumped out of Shangluo, I am afraid that there would not be so many artillery pieces from him.

Li Zicheng couldn't help but secretly call it a fluke, this time his uncle Gao Yingxiang did not want to forcibly accept the Xingtian Army into the gang, and Xiao Tianjian turned against him, if Gao Yingxiang turned his face the day before yesterday and wanted to eat the Xingtian Army, then there will be a bloody battle between the two sides, although Li Zicheng believes that his uncle Gao Yingxiang may eventually win, but it is estimated that after this battle, I am afraid that he will have to pay a very heavy price in exchange for the destruction of the Xingtian Army, if this is the case, then Gao Yingxiang is afraid that in a short period of time, there will be no way to recover.

Seeing that several war horses came out of the Xingtian Army's formation, and rushed towards Li Zicheng and their party, Li Zicheng picked up the reins of the horse and greeted him, and Xiao Tianjian, who was sitting on the horse galloping, hugged his fists and smiled: "General Xiao really believes in people, Li is waiting here!" ”

Before Xiao Tianjian came over, he also saw that Li Zicheng's subordinates had put away their tents and lined up to prepare for the pull-out, compared with Gao Yingxiang's troops yesterday, although Li Zicheng's troops were much less, but they were more sturdy, and the people who were coerced were not too much, after the queue, they were far more capable than the soldiers and horses directly under Gao Yingxiang, and Li Zicheng's soldiers and horses were divided into two pieces, and the more than 4,000 people in front of them should belong to Li Zicheng's core generals, although the equipment was not very good, But most of these people have weapons to use, and the latter group of more than 3,000 people obviously belong to the auxiliary soldiers, many of them are women and children, they should be the wives and children of the generals under Li Zicheng, and they are listed as a separate battalion, so that the distinction is no longer chaotic, so Xiao Tianjian also secretly admires Li Zicheng's ability to control his subordinates, if it weren't for this, Xiao Tianjian really wanted to underestimate Li Zicheng!

"Don't dare to be! But Xiao made Li Chuang wait for a long time! Now that our troops are ready, they can set off at any time, I don't know if General Li Chuang has any other orders? Xiao Tianjian's first impression of Li Zicheng was quite good, so in front of Li Zicheng, he put away his style of rejecting people thousands of miles away, and lowered his posture and said to Li Zicheng.

"How dare you command! King Chuang ordered me to arrive in Longzhou first this time, and he led his troops south to attack Baoji first, in order to attract the attention of the government for us, so that we can act more conveniently, and now King Chuang has been away for three days, so let's not delay! It's best to set off for Longzhou now, and the government will be caught off guard! Li Zicheng said to Xiao Tianjian very politely.

Xiao Tianjian nodded and said: "I am willing to take Li Chuang's head as a horse, as long as Li Chuang's general commands, I am willing to be the pioneer of Li Chuang's general!" ”