readx; At noon, the long-lost sun had just shown its little face from the cloudy sky, and soon disappeared again. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info But Gao Yingxiang, the "King of Chuang", had no patience to continue to wait, and immediately ordered the whole army to open. In an instant, more than 30,000 cavalry swarmed out of Shangzhou City, along the rugged and ice-covered path, heading due north.

In fact, this famous bandit leader is not yet forty years old this year, but the dry and cold climate of northern Shaanxi and the continuous battles have made his appearance age prematurely. At this moment, he was wearing heavy armor, surrounded by more than a hundred ironclad cavalry, and slowly advanced his army with a goshawk-like gaze. He usually doesn't smile, but the corners of his mouth finally showed a cold smile, and he secretly said in his heart: God has eyes, I have finally killed King Gao Chuang again!

His experience in the past few years has been full of ups and downs. Since he led a group of outlaws to start an incident in his hometown of Ansai, he gradually became famous among the many thieves in Shaanxi by virtue of his "righteousness" and the courage to confront the officials and soldiers.

According to the rules of falling grass, the leader should be given a loud nickname. He didn't think that names such as "Xiashan Tiger" and "Crossing the Sky Star" were not domineering enough, so he gave himself the name of "King Chuang". It is with this aggressiveness that he crisscrosses Shaanxi, Shaanxi, Henan and other places, and his subordinates fight more and more. In the past, he was still nominally based on Wang Jiayin, but later the "big dragon head" Shen Yikui and Wang Jiayin were killed in the thief fire, and Gao Yingxiang took over most of their remainder and finally became the biggest thief leader.

But just when his "career" was booming, Gao Yingxiang planted a big heel in Shaanxi. A mysterious army called the "Qin Soldiers" sprung up, first defeating his son-in-law Li Zicheng, and then under the command of the trilateral governor Hong Chengchou and the governor of Shaanxi, Sun Chuanting, who threw off his armor and collapsed.

The most unfortunate thing is that when Gao Yingxiang planned to cross the Qinling Mountains and enter Sichuan from Shaanxi, he was ambushed by mistake and was killed by a little-known general, and he was also captured. Later, he learned that this young general's name was Li Dingguo, and he was not yet twenty years old at the time.

Just when Gao Yingxiang was disillusioned and was about to accept Ling Chi's fate, he was suddenly secretly released on the way to Jingshi. Although he didn't know what was going on, Gao Yingxiang firmly believed that "if you don't die in a big disaster, you will be blessed", and soon found his old department and regrouped in the mountains of northwest Hubei Province.

The subsequent process can be described as "peak and loop". Not only did the sworn enemy Hong Chengchou sit in Xiangyang and no longer march to encircle and suppress him, but a mysterious organization, the White Lotus Sect, came to his door and provided him with a large amount of grain, grass, silver and horses. The envoy of this organization told Gao Yingxiang that the reason why he was released was the result of the White Lotus Sect Master's mediation. Now that Hong Chengchou is not attacking, it is also the credit of the White Lotus Sect. In return, the White Lotus Sect asked Gao Yingxiang to lie dormant. When the time is ripe, he will support Zhu Changxun, the king of Fu, as the emperor.

Gao Yingxiang was a smart person, and he guessed with his intuition that the White Lotus Sect was not very loyal to Zhu Changxun, but just wanted to muddy the water so that he could profit from it. But this coincides with himself, if the world is not in chaos, how can these thieves have another chance. Therefore, he made a request to the White Lotus Sect that after the matter was completed, he would split the soil and seal the territory and become a real king, and Shaanxi, Gansu, Hanzhong and Sichuan must all belong to him.

The White Lotus Sect agreed to Gao Yingxiang's request. With the funding of the White Lotus Sect and Hong Chengchou's appeasement, Gao Yingxiang's power swelled dramatically, and the troops directly under him soon grew to nearly 200,000 people, of which nearly 100,000 were able to fight, and other thieves also regarded him as the "big dragon head".

Not long ago, Zhu Yousong and Hong Chengchou finally rebelled in Xiangyang and proclaimed Zhu Changxun as emperor. Gao Yingxiang also took immediate action, and his task was to capture Shaanxi. This is in line with Gao Yingxiang's intentions, because Shaanxi is his birthplace, he has been brilliant here, and he has been wiped out here, and now he wants to completely occupy this place and crush all the forces that dare to block him, especially to break Sun Chuanting's body into thousands of pieces, and avenge the revenge of the arrow. As for the future, what Zhu Changxun, what White Lotus Sect, hum, let's see!

At the beginning, everything went well, and more than 100,000 troops poured out from the northwest of Hubei Province, and they encountered no decent resistance in the Hanzhong area, and soon occupied Xing'an Prefecture and Hanzhong. Southern Shaanxi is known as the "Little Jiangnan", with fertile land and many wealthy households. Gao Yingxiang was also unceremoniously, using the usual methods of thieves, grabbing wherever he went, killing all the rich and robbing their wealth, and then coercing the local people to join the gang. In just half a month, tens of thousands of more people have been added to his subordinates, but the Hanzhong area is full of mourning and miserable.

However, Gao Yingxiangzhi was not here, and his eyes were always fixed on Xi'an, north of the Qinling Mountains. If Xi'an can be defeated, the situation of the imperial court in Shaanxi will completely collapse, and when the time comes, the imperial court will take Sun Chuanting's life without him doing it himself. However, he also knew that Sun Chuanting was powerful, so he didn't dare to attack rashly, but captured Shangzhou and garrisoned it here, and sent sentinels to investigate the movements in the north.

A few days ago, the spies reported: Yang Sichang, the prefect of Xi'an, led more than 10,000 Qin soldiers to garrison Xi'an, and the main general was named Xie Yong. The governor of Shaanxi, Sun Chuanting, led Zuo Guangxian and He Renlong to hold Tongguan, and the officers and troops of the two places could not hold out.

Gao Yingxiang couldn't help but feel a little worried when he heard the news. He knew the strength of the Qin soldiers, especially the two fortified cities of Xi'an and Qinwangzhuang were more than ten miles apart, and they were at each other's throats, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and he didn't want to make the mistake of Li Zicheng back then. And Tongguan is also difficult to fight, because Sun Chuanting is there.

However, Gao Yingxiang is not a vegetarian, he quickly came up with a plan, that is, to feint Xi'an. He sent several suspicious troops to break through to Xi'an, and in terms of troops alone, it was not a lot, adding up to 20,000 or 30,000 people. These suspicious troops were active in Lantian, Zhen'an and other counties, and made a posture to encircle Xi'an. If Sun Chuanting was fooled and rushed from Tongguan to Xi'an for reinforcements, then Gao Yingxiang personally led the main army to attack Tongguan. Taking Tongguan is equivalent to sealing the gate of Shaanxi, and at the same time, it also echoes the Hong Chengchou army in the middle road, and it is only a matter of time before it is occupied in Ganxi.

Just yesterday, Gao Yingxiang suddenly received an urgent report: Sun Chuanting had led 5,000 men from Zuo Guang's first army out of Tongguan, and it seemed that he was going to Xi'an. Gao Yingxiang heard the news of great joy and mobilized the army overnight, even ignoring the bad weather the next day, throwing it out as planned. He knew that Sun Chuanting was powerful, and if he was allowed to retract back to Tongguan when he noticed something was wrong, then his plan to lure the enemy would fail, so he had to go all out to capture Tongguan as quickly as possible.

But how did Gao Yingxiang know that every move of his tens of thousands of troops was clearly seen by several scouts lurking on a nearby mountain. The two carrier pigeons immediately flapped their wings and flew off. The north wind calls and the clouds are gloomy, which seems to indicate that a tragic war is coming!

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