Li Jing was startled when he saw Gao Yingxiang suddenly saying that he was going to kneel down to him, and his left hand didn't even hold the pagoda, so he stretched out his hand to support Gao Yingxiang, and then looked at Gao Yingxiang with a moved face, and suddenly showed a little hesitation on his face: "King Chuang is the emperor of the world, how dare I, Li Jing, climb high!" ”

"Brother looks down on this king?" Gao Yingxiang glared and said angrily.

Li Jing heard this, and called sincerely: "Second brother! ”

"Big brother!" Gao Yingxiang raised his head and his eyes were teary.

The two looked at each other, and then Li Jing reluctantly pushed Gao Yingxiang away: "Second brother is waiting here, big brother, I'll go and go back!" ”

"Big brother, don't worry about me, little brother, I can hold on for two days!" Gao Yingxiang inadvertently pointed out the time.

"Second brother, rest assured, within one day, I will return with the Heavenly Palace army to relieve the siege of the second brother!" Li Jing bowed his hand to Gao Yingxiang and left without looking back.

Under Gao Yingxiang's eager gaze, Li Jing rode his horse to leave the army, and then stepped on the clouds, leaving Huarong Dao and going straight to the Heavenly Palace.

Then there was no then, Hong Chengchou had no more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, but they were all elite pro-soldiers he had accumulated over the years. The Hong army is really powerful, every time it is crushed by Gao Yingxiang's heavy armored cavalry, and then it takes advantage of the twenty-mile bad road to regroup. Gao Yingxiang was firmly blocked at the mouth of Mao's house, and he could not enter an inch. In the end, Gao Yingxiang, who fell into madness, led the team into battle in person, but failed to get through the lifeline.

You come and go, don't give an inch of land, two days of fierce fighting, Gao Yingxiang did not wait for the reinforcements that Li Jing said in despair, but waited for another group of people.

Gao Yingxiang made a mistake from the beginning, he didn't know how much Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng attached importance to him. With Yang Su's guideline that it is better to behead one person than to defeat a thief, coupled with Yang Su's sufficient troops to replenish and the transferred food and grass military salary, Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng changed their usual defeat and expulsion, but wanted to kill the thieves, and Gao Yingxiang became their first target.

Gao Yingxiang has been digging soil in the mountains in the past, Lu Xiangsheng and Hong Chengchou defeated Gao Yingxiang several times, but he easily relied on the terrain to escape, and the Ming army had few soldiers and the court had no money, so it was impossible to maintain the army for a long time. And Gao Yingxiang waited for a while for the limelight to pass, and went out of the mountain again, relying on the tens of thousands of elites under his hands, and soon he was able to pull up a large group of people.

This time, Gao Yingxiang was clever to learn from Zhu Yuanzhang and raid Nanjing, Lu Xiangsheng and Hong Chengchou were first shocked, the previous capital Fengyang was broken by the Liukou, Yang Su did not punish Hong Chengchou but made him guilty and meritorious service, when Shaanxi was encircled, Hong Chengchou's Deng Xi was defeated, causing all the Liukou to escape from Shaanxi and miss the overall situation, Yang Su still did not punish Hong Chengchou.

At this time, in addition to Sun Chengzong's Guan Ning army and the forbidden army stationed in the capital, the elite Ming army in the whole world was in the hands of the two of them, so if Gao Yingxiang was allowed to break through the capital of Nanjing, even if the emperor did not punish them, Hong Chengchou would have no face to continue to lead the army.

But people are different, a smart person like Zhang Fengyi, seeing that things can't be done, he thinks about the aftermath for himself and his family as early as possible, while people with great wisdom like Lu Xiangsheng and Hong Chengchou are forced to a dead end, and what they think about is how to kill Gao Yingxiang.

That day, after Lu Xiangsheng learned of Gao Yingxiang's intentions, he came up with a plan, a plan to take the opportunity to completely eliminate Gao Yingxiang.

And this plan is to trap Gao Yingxiang in the south where there is no place for him to hide, as long as Gao Yingxiang can't escape, then he will definitely die.

After defeating Gao Yingxiang's army under the city of Nanjing, Hong Chengchou went to pursue Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others who fled everywhere and drove them out of Nanzhili, then returned to Hubei to block Gao Yingxiang's road to the north.

King Gao Chuang, under the attack of Lu Xiangsheng and Hong Chengchou on both sides, stubbornly held on to Huarong Road for a day, and finally the 20,000 army completely collapsed, and Gao Yingxiang, who was seriously wounded, with the last remaining dozens of henchmen, was blocked in a cave by the Ming army in despair.

"Gao Yingxiang, you have no way to go to the sky and no door to the ground at this time, and you haven't come out to surrender, is it possible that you still want to escape?" Zuo Liangyu stood arrogantly at the entrance of the cave and shouted to Gao Yingxiang, who was hiding in the cave.

After a long time, Gao Yingxiang's weak voice came from inside the cave: "Dare to ask the outside but Zuo Zongbing in person?" ”

"I didn't expect you to have some knowledge, it's the official!" Zuo Liangyu smiled proudly.

"General Zuo can fight well, and no one in the Ming army can produce a general on the right. As an enemy, how could this king not know the name of General Zuo, and he couldn't imagine that Gao could go to Huangquan with General Zuo, and he would not be lonely along the way! Gao Yingxiang laughed.

Zuo Liangyu looked annoyed, pointed at the cave with a spear in his hand and shouted: "Gao Yingxiang, you dare to speak wildly when you are dying, I want to see if you and this general are dead!" ”

"Hahaha, General Zuo misunderstood, today Gao was unfortunately killed, he knows that he will die, why do you need to curse General Zuo, Gao is just a pity!" Gao Yingxiang said very regretfully.

Zuo Liangyu was stunned at first, and then thought that Gao Yingxiang had been trapped in the cave by him, and at this moment there were all Ming troops outside, but he was not afraid that he would delay time, and asked Gao Yingxiang in confusion: "Gao Yingxiang, what do you mean by this?" Ben will have the first merit of capturing the thief today, and the addition of the official is just around the corner, where do you need a dying person to come to pity! ”

"General Zuo is really smart and confused for a while, can't he see that he is now in a catastrophe with the wisdom of a general?" Gao Yingxiang asked rhetorically.

"You should tell Ben about how a big disaster is coming, Ben will be rewarded with a whole corpse later!" Zuo Liangyu held back his anger and asked.

Gao Yingxiang, who was hiding in the cave, although he couldn't see Zuo Liangyu's expression clearly at the moment, there was no doubt that Zuo Liangyu must have taken the bait, otherwise the great work would have been in front of him, Zuo Liangyu would have sent someone in to get his head, where would he talk to him here, Gao Yingxiang held back the disdain in his heart, and said lightly: "The birds are all gone, the good bow is hidden, the cunning rabbit is dead, and the lackeys are cooking, don't General Zuo understand?" ”

"Joke!" Zuo Liangyu scolded repeatedly, and said angrily: "This general is the chief soldier of the Ming Dynasty and a member of the imperial court. How could he be as worried about these as you and other rogues, who would have stayed until the world was peaceful, and then enjoyed the happiness at home by the imperial court, wouldn't it be better than licking the blood with this knife. ”

"That's someone else, what will be the end of General Zuo, don't you know it in your heart?" Gao Yingxiang asked with a sneer.

"What's the end? I would have made meritorious service to the emperor, what could I do! Zuo Liangyu's expression changed and he shouted loudly.