Chapter 40: A Mess
Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang, saw that the pursuit of the Ming army failed, and led a group of cavalry to return to a chaotic camp in a daze, at this time the fire was pervasive, and the smoke covered the sky and the sun rolled up, and from time to time there were panicked Kou troops rushed out, and Gao Yingxiang, who was irritable and angry, raised his knife and slashed, and even beheaded several people and finally stabilized the panicked deserters. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Under the leadership of Gao Yingxiang, more and more Kou troops were gathered to save people and extinguish fires according to orders, looking for materials that could be used.
Gao Yingxiang regretted very much that he and Zhang Xianzhong joined forces at the beginning, otherwise there would not be this defeat, not to mention the loss of soldiers and the great injury of vitality, after this defeat, his prestige will inevitably plummet, and even Fengyang City, which is guarded by less than 4,000 Ming troops, can not be taken, and what face does he claim to be the king, Gao Yingxiang has given up the idea of continuing to attack Fengyang City, and it is the best policy to stay away from the Anhui territory earlier, find a place that can be attacked and looted, and develop and grow as soon as possible.
At this moment, a person rode a horse in the distance, in addition to more than a dozen horse-riding soldiers around me, there were more than 100 foot soldiers behind him, and this person was Li Zicheng.
Li Zicheng and Gao Yingxiang soon joined forces, and the two looked at each other indifferently, except for the humiliation and helplessness they felt, they didn't know what to say.
Li Zicheng's face was dark, he looked extremely embarrassed, tens of thousands of soldiers and military families under his command, only these more than 100 people could be found and gathered, full of anger for a while, I didn't know who to vent, all the way to the horse, but it was miserable for those Kou soldiers who were unintentionally blocking in front of the war horse, and they were directly knocked over and trampled by.
To say that Li Zicheng is also unlucky, first almost in his sleep, was burned alive by the sudden fire, finally escaped, and unfortunately encountered the arson and murder of the Ming cavalry, fortunately, the moon is dark and the wind is high, Li Zicheng who is hiding on the side is untidy, it looks like a small leader of the Kou army at most, Zhang Tanghuai led a hundred horsemen just rushed to kill a while and left quickly, you must know that there were only more than ten people around Li Zicheng at that time, and all of them panicked, if the Ming army blindly attacked, presumably Li Zicheng had no way to escape.
Li Zicheng was a little lucky, he escaped death, but he was also unlucky, several years of his belongings were burned, and thousands of thousands of elite soldiers who fought with the Ming army for many years were killed and wounded, and he wanted to recover, but he didn't know that it was going to be the year of the monkey, Li Zicheng, who was not used to Zhang Xianzhong, immediately put all the responsibility on his head, didn't know that Zhang Xianzhong's current situation was not much better than Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng, and the relative losses were greater.
Zhang Xianzhong, who was furious, held a big knife in his hand, angrily cut off all the objects in the camp tent, and the surrounding generals stood on both sides, looking at the nose and nose for a while, and did not dare to come out, so as not to be used by Zhang Xianzhong to vent his anger, at this time, a partial general with a gray face and many burns pushed away his own soldiers into the account, stepped forward and knelt down and said in a deep voice: "Marshal, the Ming army attacked at night, our army suffered heavy casualties, and the morale was low and could not fight again, please withdraw and retreat, lest ..."
"Shut up!" Zhang Xianzhong shouted violently, interrupted the admonition of the partial general, stared at a pair of tiger eyes and said in a deep voice, "You cowardly, dare to disturb the hearts of our army, damn it!" Without waiting for the surrounding generals to react, Zhang Xianzhong walked up quickly, slashed the kneeling general, and then turned his head and said coldly, "Those who dare to retreat will be killed!" Looking at the corpse of the general who was lying in a pool of blood in a different place, the Kou generals in the big tent only felt a chill on the back of their necks, and many people immediately swallowed the advice to retreat back into their stomachs.
"Marshal, Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng are leading their troops to gather soldiers and actively look for available supplies!" Ai Nengqi, one of the generals of Zhang Xianzhong's righteous sons, stepped forward and admonished, then hesitated for a moment and then said, "The last general thinks that the two of them have withdrawn their troops, so they must be guarded against!" ”
"To roll around, two inadverted goods, the two of them did not do their best when they were defeated, of course they should really believe the words of those who came back," Zhang Xianzhong secretly regretted that he should not have beheaded all the messengers who were sent by him to contact with the prefect Yan Rongxuan and escaped back, suddenly Zhang Xianzhong seemed to think of something, raised his eyebrows and asked coldly, "Wait, do those two dare to touch Lao Tzu's materials and soldiers?" ”
Ai Nengqi nodded slightly, which confirmed Zhang Xianzhong's conjecture.
"Ge Laozi, take everyone with you, and go with Lao Tzu to meet these two white-eyed wolves!" After Zhang Xianzhong finished speaking, he rushed out of the camp with his knife, and the generals looked at each other, although they knew very well that it was hopeless to capture Fengyang after this fiasco, and they should immediately withdraw their troops and flee elsewhere, so as to recuperate and recover as soon as possible, but Zhang Xianzhong, who was completely immersed in anger, couldn't listen to the advice at all, and now it's good, in this case, they have to do it with Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng, who are also the 36th battalion, but they can't change anything, they can only follow immediately.
The camp was in ruins, full of smoking tents and flags, and corpses were charred by the fire. The Kou army, trampled to death by the chaotic army, was even more miserable, and the flesh and blood were blurred, and it was completely a mess of meat sauce.
The two armies of hundreds of people were tense, and Zhang Xianzhong, who was the leader, glared at Li Zicheng coldly and couldn't wait to immediately step forward and chop him into meat sauce.
Li Zicheng sneered, and while holding the handle of the knife, he looked at Zhang Xianzhong with contempt, and hooked his fingers provocatively.
Zhang Xianzhong had already held back his anger, and Li Zicheng actually led the army to snatch the supplies in his camp and recruited hundreds of soldiers away, which was unbearable, Zhang Xianzhong shouted, and was the first to rush to Li Zicheng with a knife.
Li Zicheng did not show weakness, and immediately bullied himself, and the war knife in his hand slashed angrily from top to bottom.
The two looked at each other unpleasantly, but the culprit Ming Army had returned to Fengyang City, and Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, who had nowhere to vent, suddenly regarded each other as mortal enemies, coupled with the matter of snatching supplies and soldiers in front of them, so that the saber rattling completely aroused the anger in the hearts of the two.
"Stop!" With an angry shout, King Gao Yingxiang stepped forward with a sigh, "You and I are brothers in the 36th battalion, in line with the original intention of helping the poor and helping the people to help the heavens and soothe the people, just to overthrow the corrupt court, now I don't think about what the future will be, but I am here to fight, and I am not afraid of laughing and generous!" ”
"King Chuang, dare to ask, do you plan to withdraw your troops and no longer capture this Fengyang City?" Zhang Xianzhong took advantage of his strength to push, and while forcing Li Zicheng to retreat, he questioned Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang.
"Morale is low, there is no way to fight, the imperial court reinforcements are not far away, or early..."
"Gao Yingxiang, are you worthy of those dead brothers? Lao Tzu suggests that you still call yourself the turtle king with a shrunken head! Zhang Xianzhong's face was full of ridicule and showed no mercy.
"Presumptuous, look at Lao Tzu cleaning you up!" Li Zicheng has always respected Gao Yingxiang, how could he endure such an insult from Zhang Xianzhong, and he was about to step forward with a knife, but Gao Yingxiang stretched out his hand to stop him.
Gao Yingxiang was not angry, but when he thought of the dead brothers, his expression was a little gloomy for a while, and he looked at Zhang Xianzhong and said indifferently: "People have their own ambitions and cannot be forced, for the sake of the brothers who are also in the 36th battalion, this king reminds you, don't harm those brothers who have been following you, let them die in vain!" ”
"Let's go!" Without waiting for Zhang Xianzhong to answer, Gao Yingxiang left this place with everyone, but Gao Yingxiang was also kind, and asked Li Zicheng to put down all the looted materials, as for those soldiers, they were taken away directly, because with Zhang Xianzhong's character, these people would definitely not survive if they stayed.
"Bad seed, goddamn guy!" Zhang Xianzhong was so angry that he jumped to his feet, but they couldn't keep Gao Yingxiang at all.
"Prepare the whole army, attack the city according to the original plan, and those who violate the order will be beheaded!" Zhang Xianzhong looked at the generals around him and gave a desperate order.
Zhang Xianzhong is not stupid, he knows very well that once Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng leave, it may be difficult to capture Fengyang City with his troops, but he is already cornered, if he does not take Fengyang in one go, I am afraid that he will immediately become a laughing stock, there is no place to stand in the thirty-six battalions, and the Ming army must still be immersed in the joy of victory after this great victory, maybe he will not think that the Kou army will continue to attack the city, maybe it is possible to fight a battle.
It's a pity that Zhang Xianzhong would never have thought that there was a person from the afterlife who was extremely familiar with his personality in Fengyang City, and Han Yu, who knew very well that Zhang Xianzhong would not give up easily, would never give him any chance to turn the tables.