The general Li Zicheng continued his march west from Fuping. On the one hand, Fuping County has already let him grab almost everything, and there is no point in staying any longer; On the other hand, he had already received the news that Ma Shiyao, Li You, Gu Ying and other generals had been killed, and he couldn't help but be furious.

Until now, he still didn't know that the opponent on the opposite side was Zhu Youzhen's Qin soldiers. In his opinion, since Gao Jie broke away from the camp, it is very likely that he defected to the official army. And the assassination of Ma Shiyao and others is estimated to be the official army of Xi'an, and even Gao Jie himself.

Thinking of this traitor who cuckolded himself, Li Zicheng was furious, so he personally led a large army to chase after him, so as to capture Gao Jie alive and break him into thousands of pieces.

At this moment, he ordered all the people in his headquarters and marched towards Meijiaping in a majestic manner. The forward troops were Liu Zongmin and Hao Shaoqi, each commanding 2,000 cavalry; He led a thousand of the most elite iron horsemen and fell slightly. On the left wing are Yuan Zongdi and Liu Fangliang, behind the palace are Li Guo and Tian Jianxiu, and the brother-in-law Gao Yigong protects the whole camp and his dependents in the center, and these three parts also have two or three thousand men and horses each.

There was only the right flank, which was supposed to be Gao Jie's troops. Now that Gao Jie has defected, there is no suitable general for a while, so he has to let the rest of the partial generals, such as Liu Tichun, Liu Rukui, Ren Jirong and other troops together, adding up to more than 2,000 people.

The total number of troops in each army was more than 15,000 men, and the number of dependents reached nearly 30,000. As the saying goes, there are 10,000 people, there is no shore and no shore, although it looks spectacular, but it is not easy to mobilize. It took a lot of time just to drive the troops out of the county town and deploy them in the sequence of the five armies.

When the march began, because most of the old camps were dependents, the speed was slow, and even the left and right flanks and the troops behind the palace were also suppressed. Only the forward troops of Liu Zongmin and Hao Shaoqi, as well as Li Zicheng's Chinese army, were not affected, and they soon marched to the vicinity of Meijiaping.

At this time, Ma Shiyao's rout had already retreated. Li Zicheng gathered the remnants of the army and first inquired about the situation of the enemy army on the opposite side. Hearing that it was not Gao Jie's people, Li Zicheng was also a little surprised, and he couldn't think of any officer and soldier who could be so powerful. But when he heard that there were only a few hundred people on the other side, he was still relieved. I thought that Liu Zongmin's forward alone was already several times larger than the enemy, and it only took one rush to completely annihilate the opponent.

So all the departments stepped forward together, and soon arrived outside Meijiaping Town. I saw that there were indeed dozens of cavalry officers and soldiers at the entrance of the town, but there was no banner, and I couldn't tell who was in charge. Seeing that Li Zicheng's army arrived, these dozens of people were neat, and they didn't even say hello, and immediately turned their horses and left.

Seeing this, Liu Zongmin and Hao Shaoqi laughed and said: "The officers and soldiers are really timid and afraid of death, so they ran away without fighting!" I don't know how Ma Shiyao usually leads the soldiers, and he can't even beat such an opponent! ”

Li Zicheng also sneered for a while, and pondered for a moment before saying: "This official army doesn't look like it's from Xi'an Mansion, maybe it just came from other places." While they are still on their footing, we should immediately hunt them down. And maybe Gao Jie will also chase them all the way! ”

So thousands of thieves clamored in unison, and chased after them like horses.

But the foot strength of these dozens of horses is not weak, no matter how they chase, they are always more than a mile away. Seeing that the enemy army was gradually turning towards the mountainous area in the north, coinciding with Gao Jie's marching route, Li Zicheng believed that they were in the same group as Gao Jie, and desperately urged Liu Zongmin and Hao Shaoqi's forwards to continue to chase.

But after chasing for a long time, they had already chased from Fuping to Tongchuan County in Yaozhou Prefecture, but the enemy army ran farther and farther. Moreover, the territory of Tongchuan is mountainous, and the roads are getting more and more rugged. Although Li Zicheng wanted to continue to catch up, it was almost noon, and the team couldn't do it without eating. He had to order the forward and the Chinese army to rest in place, burying the pot and cooking while waiting for the old battalion and other troops who were left behind.

But the thieves hadn't even breathed their breath, and the small group of officers and troops who had been chasing hard had taken the initiative to turn back! This time, the number of people was even smaller, only a dozen horses, and they stopped when they were a hundred steps away from the camp.

At the head was a sixteen or seventeen-year-old general, without any armor on his body, wearing only ordinary cloth clothes. While showing off his martial arts on the horse, he shouted at the top of his voice: "If there are any thieves with eggs, dare to come alone and fight your grandfather Li Laiheng for three hundred rounds!" ”

Hao Shaoqi, who broke into the camp, was like a raging fire, and when he heard it, he was furious, and immediately said to Li Zicheng: "Let me go and slaughter this little bastard and cut off his eggs as bubbles!" ”

Li Zicheng knew that Hao Shaoqi's martial arts were strong, so he nodded and said, "Go ahead, be more careful!" Since there are more than a dozen people on the other side, you can also take a dozen people! ”

Hao Shaoqi received the order, so he hurriedly selected more than a dozen cavalrymen. They had just dismounted from their horses, taken off their heavy armor, and had to reassemble at this point. After a long time, he was ready, stepped on his horse and shouted, and rushed out of the camp to take the officers and soldiers.

As soon as he left the camp gate, more than a dozen sharp arrows roared through the air. The enemy was still a hundred paces away, and the thieves didn't expect them to shoot such a long distance. Caught off guard, several thieves were shot by sharp arrows and fell off their horses.

Although Hao Shaoqi was not hit by the arrow, he was also startled. When I looked down, I was even more surprised, because these arrows have one of the biggest characteristics: long!

Bows and arrows were not a rare item in this era, but the length of the shaft was generally less than two feet. But the dozen or so arrows were more than three feet long, and it was clear that the bow from which they were fired must have been extra-large.

Hao Shaoqi's expectation was really good, this was another sharp weapon of Qin Bing: a longbow!

Since ancient times, bows and arrows have been a common weapon in the army. However, the bows and arrows of the squadron are basically short bows, which are simple to make and have a fast rate of fire, but the range is short and the power is not large enough, so it is difficult to shoot through heavy armor.

Under the circumstance that the research and development of firearms could not be achieved overnight, Zhu Youzhen started the idea of a longbow. In his previous life, he had heard how the English longbowmen were, how far and how far they could shoot, and so on. Therefore, after the Qin soldiers became an army, Zhu Youzhen also wanted the craftsmen to try to produce longbows.

But when I asked, I learned that the making of the bow was extremely exquisite, and there were strict restrictions on materials and craftsmanship. These craftsmen can only make short bows, and they have never seen the longbows that Zhu Youzhen said, let alone make them.

Fortunately, when Lee Jung-yeon bought rice from the Ryukyus, she smuggled in ten Japanese longbows by the way. The bows of these bows are made from whole maple soaking potions, which are extremely tough, and they are nearly two meters long, unlike short bows that can be carried on the back. But for the cavalry, it is just like hanging a spear, hanging the bow on the bird's wing ring, which solves the problem of difficult carrying.

After testing, these longbows have a range of up to 200 paces! In contrast, the range of the short bow is only ten steps at most. Of course, the force required to draw a full longbow is also much greater than that of a short bow, so the rate of fire is much lower than that of a short bow.

Since it could not be imitated for the time being, Zhu Youzhen regarded these ten bows as treasures and easily refused to use them. But in today's situation, these longbows come in handy and shine!