The house leak happened to rain overnight, and it turned out that the governor of the three sides, Hong Chengchou, arrived with troops. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info Hong Chengchou's commander-in-chief He Renlong, Bai Guangen, and Zuo Guangxian each rushed into the battlefield with 10,000 military horses.

The inseparable SX officers and soldiers who were fighting with the peasant army saw that their reinforcements had arrived, and their morale couldn't help but be even higher, "Kill the rogue!" Kill the rogues", the officers and soldiers shouted, swarming up and pounced.

After the two official troops rounded, the attack was even more ferocious, Gao Yingxiang knew that he could not retreat, so he could only grit his teeth and hold on, the white robe and white scarf he was wearing had been stained red by the blood of the officers and soldiers.

"The thief Gao Yingxiang, eat a shot from Lao Tzu." The chief soldier He Renlong shouted loudly, and a big iron spear quickly greeted Gao Yingxiang.

He Renlong, a native of Beicaidi, SXMZ County, Ming Dynasty (now belonging to Lijiazhan Township), was a Wujin scholar during the Wanli period]. The battle is brave, and people call it "He Madman". He was promoted to general, deputy commander-in-chief, and commander-in-chief.

Gao Yingxiang was not ambiguous, and a big iron rod also danced like flying, and the "clanging" of a gun and a stick sounded.

The two were in the middle of a battle, when a north wind blew, and a dark cloud rushed from the northern sky, mixed with lightning and thunder.

In an instant, the wind blew fiercely, dark clouds filled the sky, and then bean-sized raindrops fell from the sky, and the windows crackled. Another thunderbolt, deafening. Suddenly, the raindrops were connected into a line, and with a bang, the heavy rain sloped down from the sky as if the sky had fallen.

Seeing this, Gao Yingxiang took the opportunity to get rid of He Renlong and found the Collapse Sky and the Scorpion Block.

"******, this ghost weather, big brother, let's withdraw......" Chuang Tiantian said as he wiped the rain from his face. The rain was too heavy, and after a while, the whole body was soaked, and the clothes and armor had begun to drip.

The official army was overwhelming, Gao Yingxiang had no way to reverse the situation, Tie Qing's face was blue, he gritted his teeth, and said loudly: "Brothers, retreat, quickly retreat to the mountains, and wait until you get to the mountains, and then think of a way." ”。

Seeing that there were more and more officers and troops, Chuang Collapse Sky and Scorpion Block and others knew that if they didn't retreat, they would be surrounded, so they followed Gao Yingxiang to retreat into the Shaanxi NS District Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou saw that the Liukou had retreated into the mountains, and they didn't dare to chase them in easily, so they sent troops to guard all the passages in and out of this mountainous area, and they planned to starve Gao Yingxiang and others to death in this mountain.

There is nowhere to forage in the barren mountains and mountains, and there is no way to enter, and there is no way to retreat.

In order to get out of the predicament, on this day, the leaders gathered in Gao Yingxiang's big tent to discuss countermeasures.

"Brother Gao, you are our head, you have to quickly think of a way, in addition to trees, there is mud and stones, we can't find anything to eat, we have tens of thousands of horses, people eat horses and chew, and the food consumed every day is not a decimal, and after a long time, even if the officials and soldiers don't come to fight us, we can't support it for long." Liu Guoneng said anxiously.

Liu Guoneng has a black face and short beard, thick limbs, and a rough face, looking like a farmer.

"This is not a place to stay, we need to get out of here quickly." Scorpion Block Tuoyangkun also said.

After listening to the words of the two, Gao Yingxiang looked at everyone, laughed, and said, "Brothers, since Gao led the people in the first year of Chongzhen, he has been fighting in several provinces, and it has been eight or nine years, and I don't know how many dangers I have experienced during this period, but I haven't broken through every time, don't worry, I already have a good plan in my head, but I am considering and perfecting it." Please wait another day or two. ”

"Since Brother Gao said so, we are relieved and take our leave." After Liu Guoneng finished speaking, he walked out of the big tent with Scorpion Block Tuoyangkun, Zhang Miaoshou and others.

After everyone left, Gao Yingxiang restrained his smile and paced back and forth in the big tent with a frown, he was thinking about how to get out of the current predicament.

Just now, he lied to everyone, and in front of everyone, he had to make a confident appearance

"The official army that encircled and suppressed himself was the Qin army and the Hong army led by Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou, their combat effectiveness was very strong, although their righteous army was numerous, but there were not many elite soldiers, and they couldn't fight hard, and the neat king Zhang Fatzi died under Sun Chuanting not long ago, so the only way to avoid these two people and find another way can do it, but the road out of the east has been blocked by King Lu Yan, where is the right place to go?"

He pondered......

"King Chuang, it's time for you to eat." Itogu Huanglong came in and said.

He was holding a bowl with several pieces of chicken in it. This person can speak well, and he will see the wind and rudder, so he is very liked by Gao Yingxiang, and it can be said that he is Gao's life secretary.

Looking at the chicken in this bowl, Gao Yingxiang knew that it must be a hunting pheasant, he loves chicken, and he has chicken at almost every meal, but today he really has no appetite, because the life and death of tens of thousands of people in the whole army are still waiting for him to make an idea.

"You can take it away, I can't eat it." Gao Yingxiang frowned and waved his hand.

Looking at Gao Yingxiang with a sad face, Huang Long said flatteringly: "King Chuang, what are you embarrassed about?" If you look at your subordinates, you might as well say it, maybe I can share some worries for you. ”

Hearing this, Gao Yingxiang glanced at him, sighed, and said: "Huanglong, don't you know, tens of thousands of people in the whole army are blocked here by the official army, there is no food or drink, if you don't leave, you will starve to death, but if you want to leave, I don't know where to go, I'm anxious, if it goes on like this, we will be all finished, you say, what should I do?" ”

Hearing this, Huang Long was silent, he didn't know what to do, after thinking about it, he said: "King Chuang, why don't you call all the leaders for a meeting, there are many people and ideas, maybe there will be a way." ”

"Oh, you're right, you go out and send everyone to a meeting." Gao Yingxiang said

"Yes, my subordinates will give orders." Huang Long said, bowed down, and went out.

After a while, Liu Guoneng, Scorpion Block, Tuoyangkun, and the leaders of more than a dozen peasant armies, large and small, who had received the order, all rushed to Gao Yingxiang's big tent.

"King Chuang, you summoned us, do you have a way to defeat Hong Shatou and Sun Chuanting?" Scorpion Block Tuoyangkun said excitedly.

Smiling and nodding, Gao Yingxiang said, "Yes, but I still want to listen to everyone's opinions first." You can say whatever you have in mind. ”

looked at Gao Yingxiang, and saw his composure and self-confidence, Liu Guoneng nodded secretly: "It is worthy of being the king of Chuang, there are many ideas, since he asked everyone to say it, then say it, anyway, in the end, he will have an idea." ”

Thinking of this, Liu Guoneng arched his hand and said: "Then I'll say it first, at present, our army is located in southern Shaanxi, and the road out of the east has been blocked by Lu Xiangsheng, only to go south to SC or west to GS But our army is currently short of food and grass, people and horses are scarce, and they are not suitable for long-distance expeditions, and Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou are well versed in the art of war, and maybe they have set a trap for us to drill, so only one can come by surprise." ”

"Surprise? What's the surprise? Scorpion Block Tuoyangkun asked.

"This, I'm also thinking about ......," Liu Guoneng said scratching his head.

Hearing the unexpected words, Gao Yingxiang had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and thought: "Isn't there a meridian valley in Hanzhong leading to Duling (now southeast of Xi'an), in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Wei Yan, the general of Shu, suggested that Zhuge Liang send a surprise army from the Meridian Valley to Chang'an, the western capital of Wei, but Zhuge Liang denied it, this road is difficult to walk, but if you take this road, Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou will never think that after they understand, our army has occupied Xi'an." Yes, that's it. ”

Thinking of this, he laughed and said: "What Brother Liu said is right, it is the same as what I thought, I plan to attack Xi'an from Meridian Valley and beat Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou off guard." ”

"Meridian Valley? Is this a difficult road? Scorpion Tuoyangkun frowned and said. Thinking of the unpredictable weather and difficult geography in the Meridian Valley, Tuoyangkun felt a chill in his heart.

The Meridian Valley is located in the Qinling Mountains of today's SX Province, and is the main traffic route of Sichuan and Shaanxi.

According to the "Chang'an Chronicles", the valley is 660 miles long, the north mouth is called Zi, the south is 100 miles in Xi'an, the south mouth is called noon, and it is 160 miles east of Y County, Hanzhong Prefecture. From the southwest Qinling Mountains of SX Governor A County in the north, to the north of SQ County, the north exit is called "Zikou", and the southern exit is called "Wukou". It is the most precipitous of the six avenues connecting the southwest in the Qinling Mountains, and there have been many attempts by soldiers to smuggle in the history of the country, but no one has ever succeeded.

In ancient times, there were six main roads that crossed the Qinling Mountains to the southwest and the surrounding areas, from west to east: Chencang Road, Bao Slope Road, Fu Luo Road, Meridian Road, Kugu Road, Wuguan Road.

The Qinling Mountains are high and the valleys are deep, these six avenues are all dangerous, in the wars of the past and present, they have been broken many times, or smuggled over, but the meridian road in the Meridian Valley is the only one of these six ancient roads, the only one that has been smuggled many times, but has never succeeded.

Therefore, some historians have issued an exclamation that "the six roads of the Qinling Mountains, the meridian is the king".

Wei Yan's strategy was later tried, but they all failed, such as the Eastern Jin Dynasty's Huan Wen attack on the former Qin, that is, like Wei Yan, smuggled across the Meridian Valley, but before he left the valley, he was ambushed by the former Qin army.

Looking at the many leaders in the big tent, Gao Yingxiang said: "It is precisely because it is difficult to walk that Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou could not imagine that we can achieve the goal of a surprise attack on Xi'an. If you don't go to the Meridian Valley, then our army will face the attack of Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou, and what will be the final outcome, everyone understands for themselves, rather than this, it is better to gamble. Do you dare to bet on this? After saying these words, he looked at everyone with burning eyes.