Gao Yingxiang opened his eyes suddenly, sweating profusely, making him very uncomfortable in the winter, the nightmare just now seemed to be still haunting him, he gasped a few times heavily, and then sat up.

"What time is it?" He asked in a hoarse voice.

"It's more than three quarters of the unitary time, and it will be the Xin time in a while."

Gao Yingxiang nodded slightly, his heart relaxed, by this time, the officers and soldiers had not caught up, that is, they really couldn't catch up.

"Where's the credit?"

In this battle, several of the thieves around him who were used to being used to were either killed or separated, so Gao Yigong became the most useful person in his hands.

"Waiting for news out there."

"Let him sleep for a while, I'll wait." Gao Yingxiang stood up in his clothes.

They are now on Shigu Mountain, which was originally a stockade for local residents to resist the Jin soldiers during the Southern Song Dynasty, but was captured by Gao Yingxiang, and thousands of people who came with him gathered here.

If you lose your grain and grass, lose your gold and silver, you will take this stockade, and everyone can only eat indiscriminately, and when you are exhausted, where will you have the strength to take care of the rest!

Out of the house, the pungent smell of blood mixed with the chill of Dongyu, which made Gao Yingxiang sneeze, he rubbed his eyes, and then saw a strange bright star, hanging in the cold northern night sky.

It was dark early in winter, and it was already dark all around, with only a few torches like ghost fires, slightly illuminating the eyes. Gao Yingxiang sighed, so embarrassed, but rare, he left Chu'zhou City with three thousand horses, in order to avoid attracting the attention of officers and soldiers, these three thousand horses were scattered by him, and now with him, there are only a thousand horses.

A strong sense of foreboding enveloped Gao Yingxiang's heart, and he looked at the sky again.

It was a clear sky, but because it was only the sixth day of the first month, the moonlight in the sky was dim and the stars were shining, giving people a sense of deep and distant sky.

"Is that a credit over there?"

The sound of hurried footsteps mingled with the sound of weapons scraping on the iron armor, Gao Yingxiang coughed and asked in the direction where the voice came from.

After a while, Gao Yigong appeared in front of him: "King Chuang, I have already got the news, Zhu Dadian's department has not yet been encircled, but Lu Xiangsheng is urging very urgently, that is, it has been these two days." ”

Gao Yingxiang nodded, his heart was a little relieved, there were two days of effort, he was enough to get out of Lu Xiangsheng's encirclement, from Feng'yang Mansion to the south of the river he was familiar with, if Liu Zeqing's side can be loosened again, he may be able to cross the Yellow River and go to the north of the mountain 'East River' to make trouble for a few days.

"Thank you for your hard work, you can rest first."

"The villain is not tired!"

Hearing Gao Yigong say this, Gao Yingxiang felt a trace of warmth in his heart, he still had loyal subordinates after all. He settled down and fought between the north and the south, his family and children were nothing to him for a long time, but the heir ...... "Yigong, you are also surnamed Gao, and others say that you are my nephew." Gao Yingxiang suddenly said: "If you can go back to your hometown in Shaanxi this time, are you willing to be my son?" ”

Without waiting for Gao Yigong to agree, he strode forward until he came to the gate of Shigu Village. found that the sentry was placed quite carefully, and no one dared to leave the post to be lazy, Gao Yingxiang was even more satisfied, and secretly regretted it in his heart, Gao Yigong had such a talent, and he should have pulled it out a long time ago!

Gao Yigong followed at this time, perhaps because he had figured it out, and was waiting for Gao Yingxiang's words to start, but at this moment, there was a faint sound of horses' hooves in the distance.

Gao Yingxiang's heart moved, and he exchanged glances with Gao Yigong, Gao Yigong shook his head, indicating that it was not the person he arranged to go out.

The mountain road is difficult to walk, if it weren't for the Shigu Village, that person would not have been here at all!

After a while, I heard someone shouting loudly outside: "The people in the village listen, be careful, thieves and thieves have entered our territory, Prime Minister Lu Xiangsheng and General Zu have led a large army to clear it, and the villages are on guard, if there is any movement, they will go to the ......."

When he shouted this, the man suddenly stopped, and then he heard another person ask in a strange tone, "Why didn't you shout?" ”

"There are strange things in the village, how can there be no dogs in the cottage, but I shouted so loudly, but there was no sound of dogs barking." Although it was still twenty or thirty zhang apart, when he heard such a voice, Gao Yingxiang's face suddenly changed greatly.

When they broke into the village, naturally there were no chickens and dogs, and there was not a single dog in the village, so where was there any dog barking?

"Let's go!"

The two people outside turned around and left after speaking, and Gao Yigong said in a low voice: "I'll go and capture them!" ”

"When they put out the torches in the night, where are they going to catch them!" Gao Yingxiang sighed: "But for a while, I think Lu Xiangsheng and Zu Kuan can't catch up, you wake people up, let's leave overnight, and strive to enter Feng'yang at dawn!" ”

"If you light a torch at night, I'm afraid you'll be caught up soon......"

"No need to light a torch, you tell everyone, go north, go to the star above your head!" Gao Yingxiang pointed to a bright star in the sky.

That's the Celestial Pivot.

The brightest of the seven stars of the Big Dipper, Gao Yingxiang originally wanted to point to the North Pole, but for some reason pointed to the Big Dipper. Gao Yigong glanced at the star, didn't think much about it, and immediately went to give the order.

Although the Chuang army slept and rested, they were all lying in their clothes, and there were only more than a thousand elite horsemen left, so they were all gathered soon. They quietly and silently left the stockade, and when they reached the level and made their way, they extinguished all the torches and began to walk north. Although the speed of travel was not fast, Gao Yingxiang looked back and forth in the team and felt extremely satisfied.

"King Chuang, everyone seems to be complaining." Gao Yigong heard the whispers around him, and whispered to Gao Yingxiang.

"It's okay, when marching at night, some complaints are always inevitable, but let them keep their voices quiet, if they are caught up by Lu Yanluo, everyone will not have good fruit to eat."

Lu Yanluo is the name of Lu Xiangsheng, but Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang, has always disliked to use this title, because it will show that they are afraid of Lu Xiangsheng. But at this time, he couldn't help but say the nickname.

Gao Yigong glanced at him in surprise, only to feel that Gao Yingxiang's face was dark in the starlight.

They traveled through the night like this, and according to Gao Yingxiang's meaning, they could re-light the torches when they entered the Fengyang realm. Walking through the forest path, the thieves are difficult to care about, Gao Yigong was faintly worried about this, and wanted to speak to King Chuang, but he thought that King Chuang had been fighting for many years, and he should have expected this.

However, not long after they descended from Shigu Mountain and headed north, they heard a trumpet and cannon, shouting and killing the sky, and there were fires everywhere!

"Hugh is going to let Gao Yingxiang go!"

"Thief, don't be caught yet!"

When Gao Yingxiang sounded the horn, his whole body was shocked: "It's Lu Yanluo!" ”

This kind of cannon is only used by Lu Xiangsheng's "Tianxiong Army", and Gao Yingxiang is no stranger to this!

Immediately afterwards, he heard the sound of horses' hooves like a torrential rain, as well as the roar of the musket when it was fired, this kind of combat method, he was also no stranger, it was Zu Kuan's Guan Ning Army!

"Let's go!" didn't have time to think about it, Gao Yingxiang urged the horse to leave, there were only less than 2,000 horsemen around him, where could he fight against Lu Xiangsheng and Zu Kuan!

Gao Yigong and others escorted him and fled, not only them, but the entire army began to run wildly, and the screams of the fighting were close to each other, and many of them simply panicked and broke directly into the forest. Fortunately, the forest was deep and dense, and after escaping for a while, no one came to chase them, so they dared to slow down.

Even Gao Yingxiang himself is the same, when the sound of the fight is far away, he is frightened, and then look around, there are many shadows, but there are only three or five hundred horses, and most of the horses that have been changed have been lost. In the midst of the chaos, they also strayed from the path and walked into the woods, not knowing where they were now.

After finding a vacant land, he looked up at the starry sky and saw that the Big Dipper was still shining, so he breathed a sigh of relief and laughed hoarsely twice: "Ha, ha, now we have fewer people, and it is more convenient to do it, when we Lao Tzu raised the army, the number of people was not as large as this, and as long as we got rid of Lu Yanluo, our Lao Tzu ascended to the heights, and the scattered troops would come to take refuge again......"

Before the words fell, I saw the stars not far away, which seemed to flash with fire. At this time, there were also smokers among the people, and the fire was a bit like the head of a pipe, but Gao Yingxiang was trembling: "Musket!" ”

Then he saw a row of tongues of fire spewing out, and then the piercing sound of the lock sounded, this voice Gao Yingxiang had never really heard, but he had heard the rest of the thieves say many times, when the tiger guard of the Wuwei young tiger began to charge and assault, it would blow this terrible sound, stabbing people's hearts with creeps!

"Yu puppy!" Gao Yingxiang was furious, he ended up now, most of the blame was on Yu Guozhen, he didn't expect this guy to be cunning, and he actually hung behind Lu Xiangsheng and Zu Kuan and chased him!

But he still maintained a bit of sanity, and did not come forward to fight, only relying on these hundreds of remnants to resist Yu Guozhen, who has always been fierce, which is really stupid. He turned his horse and fled, but the forest was dense and the grass was so difficult for the horse to walk that he had to abandon his horse, and then he threw down his armor, and fled with only his sword and the gold and silver that he had with him.

At this time, there were only three or five people left around him, and he didn't even know where he was.

The voice to be pursued was also reported, Gao Yingxiang did not dare to delay this time, he did not know the road, he could only run forward according to the direction pointed by the Big Dipper, after a long time, his body was really exhausted, and he found a leeward place to sit down and gasp.

"Damn...... Unexpectedly, he encountered such a big defeat, and Lu Xiangsheng was not deceived by me......"

At this time, he still couldn't understand why he was still recognized by Lu Xiangsheng when he broke his tail to survive, throwing out foot soldiers and Luo Rucai and most of the rogues. Thinking about it, I could only sigh a long time: "It's not my plan, it's really providential...... But fortunately, we still have a useful body, brothers, after this escape, you are my right-hand man, when I regroup, I must give you the post of a general, if you have the ability to lead an army, I will also do my best to help. Glory and wealth, let's ......"

He knew that this was a critical time, so he had to make all kinds of promises, lest these people have any other thoughts. It is a trivial matter to abandon him, but if he is captured and sacrificed to the court, it will be miserable.

"I'm afraid you won't have this opportunity." Before he finished speaking, he heard a voice faintly speaking!

(To be continued)