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Gao Yingxiang immediately on a hill, looking at the rolling down the slope of the soldiers and horses, his heart couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion, two months ago, he and a large number of rebel leaders gathered in the land of Shangluo, surrounded by strong enemies on all sides, the provincial officers and soldiers guarded the main road so that they could not go out of the mountain, so they thought of turning into Hanzhong to go north.

But what they didn't expect was that they were not familiar with the local roads, and found a few guides to guide them, who knew that among these guides, there were actually people who were secret agents of the government, but they were lured into the carriage gorge, and then they were besieged in the carriage gorge by a large number of officials and soldiers and local villagers.

Although their various rebels tried their best to attack separately and wanted to break out of the carriage gorge, the officers and soldiers who set up an ambush this time were extremely brave, so that they were blocked by the officers and soldiers many times when they broke through the siege.

The two mountains of the carriage gorge are sandwiched between a ditch, the mountain is high and the road is steep, the cliffs on both sides are high and difficult to climb, the officers and soldiers build a fort at the exit, block the exit, the righteous army can not come out, and the village Yong occupies the mountain, and keeps firing cannons and throwing stones into the valley all day long, killing the soldiers of the righteous army at the bottom of the valley, so that the righteous army trapped in the valley suffers heavy losses.

Just in time for the long-term drought and no rain, God opened his eyes at this time, and the heavy rain poured down in Shangluo, and it rained intermittently for a month.

Under such circumstances, the horses were exhausted, the clothes and armor were rotten, the bows and arrows were all gone, the wounded could not be treated, the dead had no place to bury, there was nothing to eat, the soldiers were trapped in the muddy water all day long, ten people and nine were sick, after the food was exhausted, they began to kill horses to satisfy hunger, but even if they killed the war horses in the valley, they could not find dry firewood to cook them, and the hungry people ate horse meat raw, but later even the war horses were killed, so that quite a number of soldiers of the righteous army starved to death.

Gao Yingxiang and his nephew Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, Lao Huihui, Cao Cao (Luo Rucai) Scorpion Kuai, Zhang Miaoshou and other leaders all fell into despair, thinking that they would definitely be wiped out in this carriage gorge this time.

So Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng adopted Gu Junen's advice and sent people out of the mountain to find Chen Qiyu to surrender, but Chen Qiyu didn't believe them, and resolutely refused to surrender, so he had to kill them all in the carriage gorge!

Gu Junen couldn't make a plan to regenerate, so he asked Gao Yingxiang to preside over and search for the gold and silver treasures obtained in recent years among the rebels from all walks of life.

So Gao Yingxiang collected more than 100,000 taels of gold, silver and jewelry, and once again sent someone to sneak out of the mountain to buy off Yang Yingchao, the prison army under Chen Qiyu's account, and the officials around Chen Qiyu.

It is ridiculous that after Chen Qiyu accepted their surrender, he did not tie up these leaders and confiscate the weapons and armor of the rebels, but arranged a pacification officer for every hundred people in the rebels, and prepared food for the rebels in each county along the way, intending to send the rebels back to their hometowns for resettlement.

The result was that not long after the rebels who were already in a desperate situation came out of the mountain, after a few full meals, they immediately killed and tied up these pacifying officials, and cleaned up all of them, once again raised the anti-flag, and jumped out of Shangluo.

After Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng jumped out of the encirclement, they all laughed loudly, laughing and scolding Chen Qiyu and his group of officials and generals for their stupidity.

But after thinking about it, they couldn't laugh again, although this time they were lucky to get out of danger, but when he led the army into the carriage gorge, the strength of the rebels from all walks of life was still nearly 70,000, but after two months, there were only less than half of the soldiers and horses left with him Gao Yingxiang out of the carriage gorge, and the soldiers of the rebels from all walks of life were added together, and there were only less than 36,000 people left, and almost half of the brothers remained in the carriage gorge and turned into piles of dry bones. Whoever remembered that the brothers who had been talking and laughing with them not long ago were gone, and they couldn't be happy, so soon after leaving the carriage gorge, they divided into three routes, set off separately, and began to march towards the hinterland of Shaanxi.

Fortunately, these people don't care too much about human life, although this time the difficulty of the carriage gorge made them suffer heavy losses and lost the lives of many soldiers, but they don't care very much about this kind of thing, rebellion, there must be a little wisdom to lose their heads one day, not to mention this world, after so many years of their conquest, they have long known that as long as there is food, there will be countless homeless people will follow them, this recruitment is something they have never worried about, especially now that they have returned to Shaanxi, Shaanxi has been in the past ten years, It has long been full of hungry people, and as long as the displaced people are not appeased by the government one day, they will not be without soldiers.

It's only been a few days since he jumped out of the carriage gorge, and the strength of his troops has quickly recovered to more than 30,000 people, and all the battalions under his command have been replenished with enough manpower.

Gao Yingxiang sat on horseback, looking at the soldiers rolling under the mound, secretly recalling the experience in the past few months, and couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion.

At this time, a general of low stature, dressed in a shabby cotton armor, wearing a felt hat, and a sword hanging from his waist, led his horse up from under the mound.

"Foolish nephew, see uncle!" After that person came to Gao Yingxiang's side, he immediately bowed his hand to Gao Yingxiang.

Gao Yingxiang looked down, the corners of his mouth showed a slight smile, the person who came was not someone else, it was Li Zicheng, the nephew who was now under his command as the eighth team general, his nephew was relatively promising, I think he was just a post pawn back then, and he did not follow himself to rebel at the earliest, but in the second year of Chongzhen, the imperial court abolished the post stations in various places, and as a result, he was unable to make a living. His nephew is still quite capable, he has a lot of generals under him, and he will win people's hearts, and he has become the most powerful battalion commander among the battalions under his command.

If it weren't for the advice of Gu Junen, Li Zicheng's strategist, it is estimated that they would have starved to death in the Carriage Gorge at this time, where could they be so majestic in the Shaanxi territory.

So he smiled and said: "Hongji (Li Zicheng's original name also has a table word) and I don't have to be polite, what do you have to do with me?" Just say it! ”

Li Zicheng straightened his waist at this time, and said to Gao Yingxiang with a worried face: "Uncle, although our temporary relief this time highlights the encirclement of the official army, but at the moment we are short of grain, and there are few war horses left, and the battalions in the army are even more short of weapons, although some new recruits have been recruited, but there is a lack of armor, and those dog officials of the imperial court are also sending a large number of officers and soldiers from the direction of Hanzhong to chase after them, let's think of a way to solve the problem of grain first!" Get rid of the officers and troops behind you as soon as possible! ”

Gao Yingxiang nodded, Li Zicheng said that he also knew very well, they lost too much in the first battle of the Carriage Gorge, although after coming out of the mountain, Chen Qiyu supplemented them with some food, but these days, they continue to recruit new Ding, and the food consumption is very large, although they came along the way, they also laid down some Zhuangzi, and also captured Linyou County, but for so many of their generals, the gains are still far from enough, not to mention the armor, the quality of their equipment is very poor, after the battle of the Carriage Gorge, Most of the bows and crossbows in their army have been soaked in water for a long time, degummed and cracked, and even the feathers of the arrows have fallen off and deformed, so that they can no longer be used, and the guns of the army are even more rusty, and most of the gunpowder is damp, so that they cannot be used, not to mention the mules and horses, most of which have been slaughtered and eaten by them in the gorge of the carriage, although some have been captured after coming out, but most of them are some pack horses or horses, and the war horses do not need to be mentioned at all, there are not a few at all, and even many generals now have to march on foot. If they encounter a large force of officers and troops again, they may not be able to fight again.

"The front is Fengxiang, let's rush to Fengxiang, although we will raise the anti-flag after going out of the mountain this time, but it is estimated that the news will not spread to all parts of the country so quickly, we might as well go directly to Fengxiang City, falsely claiming to be ordered by Chen Qiyu's dog official, passing through Fengxiang, asking them to open the city to send food and supply us, you will lead the crowd to take the opportunity to seize the door, as long as Fengxiang is captured, we don't have to worry about the food armor anymore! In addition, along the way, tell those local small strands of poles, let them also provide us with some food, either follow us or be destroyed by us, let them think for themselves! Gao Yingxiang is still experienced in the end, and immediately came up with a solution.

The expression on Li Zicheng's face also relaxed a little after hearing this, this world is originally a big fish eating small fish, when they rebelled, who has never done anything black and black, not to mention that now with their strength, they do have the capital to do so, they have come all the way, and it is not that they have not encountered local poles that are not open-eyed, but in the face of so many soldiers and horses, even if one person spits and smears, he can drown those small strands of poles, so they also surrendered some local poles along the way, enriching their strength.

"Zicheng obeys the order, please rest assured, I will immediately lead my troops to Fengxiang, as long as Fengxiang County has not learned the news that we will raise the anti-flag again, I think we will definitely open the city gate!" Li Zicheng immediately hugged his fist at Gao Yingxiang and said.

"Good! There you go! Be careful on the road, we just won Linyou, maybe Fengxiang will get the news, don't be careless! Gao Yingxiang nodded.

Li Zicheng nodded in agreement, turned around and turned over on his horse, rushed down the mound with a wave of the horsewhip, and quickly greeted the crowd below, and then the generals of the four or five thousand eight teams left the main force with Li Zicheng and went straight to the direction of Fengxiang.