When Gao Junshan opened his eyes, the sky was already dark, and the battle had long since ended.

The death posture of the rebels was horrific, with half of their heads cut off on the ground, half of their heads cut off, their hands and feet cut off, and their chests and intestines exposed...... Seven or eight vultures hovered in the sky, waiting to eat the corpses on the ground.

He was very sad because the rebels lacked armor to equip themselves, which made them so vulnerable. On the other hand, the corpses of the Ming court army, all blue helmets and silver armor, and even combat boots and handguards, most of the corpses are intact.

I have to admire the Guanning Iron Cavalry, which can still fight their way out of the encirclement when the strength is absolutely weak. It is absolutely impossible to achieve this without excellent military qualities, rich combat experience, and a commander with a strong ability to adapt to changes on the spot.

The arrogant army will be defeated, and it is most appropriate to send Cao Wenzhao in this sentence. Cao Wenzhao's Guanning Iron Cavalry has been invincible and invincible since the battle with the righteous army, and the three thousand iron cavalry always fight with tens of thousands of righteous troops, and hundreds of thousands of heads must be killed in each battle, and the self-damage is negligible.

This time the pursuit of Gao Junshan also underestimated the combat ability of the righteous army, thinking that Lao Tzu was the first in the world, and did not take the righteous army in his eyes, and sent more than 20 scouts and horses did not return, nor did it arouse Cao Wenzhao's vigilance, and still did not move, losing the initiative in the war. When he found that the battle situation was not in his favor, he had to fight to the death to escape from the pocket that Gao Junshan had laid for him.

Cao Wenzhao ran away, leaving behind more than 1,300 corpses and fled. The rebels also paid a heavy price, and 3,623 young lives were forever lying in Taohuawu, the land of fruit trees. Gao Junshan believes that the blood of these 3,623 rebel soldiers will not be shed in vain, and this Taohuawu will erect a heroic monument in the future.

He ordered the burial of 3,623 martyrs, and requested that the more than 3,000 martyrs be recorded, and he could not forget these heroic martyrs, and planned to engrave these names on the monument that would be erected here in the future.

In this battle, only eleven prisoners were captured, and one of them seemed to be a civilian official, and Gao Junshan asked people to bring him over for questioning.

This person was dressed like a master, Gao Junshan was carried by his own soldiers because of an injury to his crotch, half lying on a stretcher, he asked very politely: "May I ask your Excellency's surname?" ”

The man was so proud that he would not speak.

Gao Junshan said coldly: "Do you want to be a nameless ghost?" I will be happy to fulfill you. ”

The man was so frightened that he knelt down and begged for mercy: "My lord, I have an eighty-year-old mother and a three-year-old child, and I beg my adult to spare my little life." ”

"Your name?"

"The small surname is Shi, and the name is Sanwei."

"Shi Sanwei?" Zhuang Youfu said on the side, "Aren't you the Shi Sanwei of Wendeng Zhi County, Shandong Province, who favoritism and bribery and is known for his greed for money?" Aren't you Shi Sanwei, one of the "ten children" of the Donglin Party, under Wei Zhongxian? Aren't you the one who oppresses the people, brutalizes the loyalty, and has a bad stomach? ”

The man muttered, "Exactly, exactly." The little ones are guilty. ”

Zhuang Youfu said indignantly: "You! Shi Sanwei, in the sixth year of the Apocalypse, led people to break into my house, forcibly took away my father, framed him as Zhou Qiyuan's comrade, put him in prison and beat him to death, and then seized my family's property, and the seventy-six people were almost wiped out by you. ”

Shi San was frightened and said, "You, you are the Zhang Erwa who escaped?" ”

Zhuang Youfu's eyes were on fire: "Do you remember me?" ”

Gao Junshan asked: "Who is Zhou Qiyuan?" ”

Zhuang Youfu said: "Back to the King of Qin, Zhou Qiyuan was a Donglin Party member who resigned from his official position to lecture at home, and in the sixth year of the Apocalypse, Wei Zhongxian was imprisoned and killed on charges of gathering disciples to give lectures and criticizing the evils of the times. ”

Gao Junshan closed his eyes and said: "This guy will be handed over to you Zhuang Youfu, I don't have to ask if it is dead or alive." ”

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According to the information of Sun Kewang and Feng Shuangli, the righteous army in Shaanxi now only has this road from Gao Junshan, and Hong Chengchou, Cao Wenzhao, He Huchen, Yang Qi, Zhang Yingchang, Shi Wufu and other Ming troops have been stationed around Huanxian.

Gao Junshan originally planned to use troops in the direction of Hanzhong, and held in Hanzhong for two or three years to observe the movements of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong. Judging from the current situation, the Ming court has killed Gao Junshan's Hanzhong strategic plan, and he is now a lone sheep who has fallen into the wolves, and he must try his best to survive at the moment.

The night battle of Taohuawu swept away the worries for Cai Zhishan's march to Pingliang, and Gao Junshan led the troops back to Huanxian County, and issued an order for a major strategic transfer, leaving only Ma Jinzhong, Hui Dengxiang, and Sun Jiye with a total of more than 20,000 people, and the enemy in Huanxian and Tiejiaocheng.

In the days of waiting in Huanxian County, because Gao Junshan was injured and had difficulty moving, Liu Fanglan died newly, and Han Yuyan and herself needed to be taken care of, so Ji Ya took the initiative to take on Gao Junshan's daily life and changed his body and medicine, and the relationship between the two instantly became close.

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At the end of August in the fifth year of Chongzhen (1632 AD), Cai Zhishan's 20,000 troops used explosives and artillery to open the gate of Pingliang, and the base camp of Gaojun Mountain was also successfully moved to Pingliang.

Pingliang is located at the eastern foot of Liupan Mountain, the upper reaches of the Jing River, across Longshan, east of Xianyang, west of Anding, south of Qinzhou, Fengxiang, north of Guyuan. Pingliang is known as the "Longshang dry wharf", is the "Silk Road" must pass through the important town, known as the "first city out of Chang'an in the west", since ancient times for the barrier of the three Qin, control the five plains of the important town, is the "soldier must fight for the place".

There is a Han Wangfu in Pingliang City, the first Hongshe of the Han Wangfu Palace, ten miles around, the palace pavilions, five miles around, the scale is magnificent, there is Xiao wall outside the outer house, there is a brick wall inside.

Han Wangfu is a city within a city, and there are six gates alone, namely: Lingxing Gate, Duanli Gate, Carrier Gate, Guangzhi Gate, Tiren Gate, and Xiangxiang Gate. There are carrier halls, cunxin halls, Dongfu Palaces in the house, as well as Bingzhong Hall, Huidi Hall, Shende Hall, Yuyuan Hall, Hotel Hall, Qin Hall, and there are Lanxiang Building, Kanhua Building, as well as Jinxiang Pavilion, Tiliang Pavilion, Shoubai Pavilion, Yongchun Garden, Juchun Garden.

In the house, there are the Carrier Division, the Discipline Division, the Treasure Office, the Dining Office, the Good Doctor's Office, the Gongzheng Office, the Ceremony Office, the Guangshou Warehouse, the Hyogura Room, and the Driver's Warehouse; Outside the house, there are the left and right long history division, the book hall, the trial office, the worship office, the honor and health department, and the herd office.

The base camp of Gao Junshan is placed in the Han Wangfu. The Carrier Hall was converted into a council chamber; The Cunxin Hall became the inner chamber of Gao Junshan, where Han Yuyan and Ji Ya lived; Bai Wenxuan, Zhang Cong, and Zhuang Youfu's personal guards lived in Dongfu Palace; Cai Zhishan's 10,000 direct troops occupied the hall pavilion in the mansion.

The owner of the Han Wangfu was imprisoned by Cai Zhishan and waited for Gao Junshan's fate. Gao Junshan hesitated on the issue of how to send down the king of Han. If it is killed directly, how big the subsequent chain reaction will be, Gao Junshan is not easy to judge, if the Ming court wants to raise troops to retaliate, with Gao Junshan's current strength, it will be death; If he is released, it is difficult to guarantee that this King Han will not come back to retaliate.

In the conference hall, Gao Junshan was discussing with Tian Wenju and Liu Hongru, and Tian and Liu had the same opinion, and they proposed to put King Han under house arrest, which may be useful in the future. Gao Junshan also thought that this topic was feasible, and with King Han as a hostage, he would have bargaining chips if he wanted to negotiate with the Ming court in the future.

Liu Fangliang and Bailisha were responsible for cleaning up the assets of Han Wangfu. The royal family of the Ming Dynasty wantonly collected money, looting the people's fat and ointment everywhere, don't look at a small Han Wangfu, whose treasury stores millions of silver, silk and satin, pearl agate, tea and wine, grain and grass piled up.

Gao Yigong and Tian Wenju were responsible for public security and taxation, protected the fair trade of merchants, and abolished the liao salary, training salary, and expulsion salary, reducing the burden on the local people.

Everything was operated according to the template of Huanxian, and the social order was quickly stabilized. Gao Junshan put the rice on the market, sold it at a low price, and sold it to the poor people at the price of vegetables, and at the same time, in front of the Tiren Gate of the Han Palace, set up four cauldrons, boiled porridge and gave it to the hungry people for free.

All kinds of divisions and offices set up in the palace of the king of Han are retained, and those who are really talented and large and small are all retained.

There is a Chongwen Academy in the east of Pingliang Han Wangfu, Gao Junshan sent Bai Lisha, Sun Yuanhua and Zhao Shichun to enter the Chongwen Academy, the original order of the academy is the same, in addition to the Chinese language education, but also to the students of the academy to open mathematics.

When the prefect of Pingliang Mansion was broken, he disappeared, and Gao Junshan appointed himself as the prefect, of course, he was not subject to anyone's control. And the prefect's yamen became the camp of the Red Army friends and Li Busi.

Cai Zhishan changed Bingzhongtang into a training center and trained soldiers in the Han Wangfu. Gao Junshan wanted to see how Cai Zhishan trained the army, although his arrow wound had not healed, he still came to the training ground that day, and only Bai Wenxuan followed him.

On the training ground, there was a team of 100 people, all of them wearing brand-new light red armor, dazzling in the sunlight. Each of them has a three-eyed gun, and it is a team of three-eyed gunners practicing live-ammunition. They lined up in a column, and at the back of the queue a hundred households rode on horseback, holding a horn in his hand to direct them, and Gao Junshan watched quietly.

I saw a hundred households sound the horn, one eye sounded in unison, the training ground was full of smoke, and those who could not be put in the back and the point were recorded by the Wu Chief, and the hundred households sounded the horn again, and the two eyes sounded in unison, and then the Wu Chang recorded the sound after the sound and the point could not be put down, and the three eyes sounded, and this round of training was over.

Gao Junshan stepped forward with great interest to talk to Baihu, and when Baihu saw that it was King Qin coming, he hurriedly dismounted and saluted.

Gao Junshan asked curiously: "I see that after every gunshot, someone is recording, why is this?" ”

Baihu replied: "Back to the King of Qin, every time the gun is fired, the commander of the army will record who did not release the gun according to the sound, and punish him after he finishes it." ”

Gao Junshan pointed to the horizontal lines drawn on the wall 80 paces away and asked, "Why do you want to draw white lines on the wall?" ”

Baihu replied: "Back to the King of Qin, it is a horizontal road drawn with lime, as high as a human chest, one foot wide, and used for drills." ”

Gao Junshan understood that the white lines were bullseyes one by one, which were used by the three-eyed gunner to shoot targets, but what puzzled Gao Junshan was that since it was a target, it was clean and clean, and there was no trace of a single shot, so he asked again: "Why didn't anyone hit it?" ”