The Temple of Nourishing the Heart.

Zhu Youzhen's face was full of excitement, and on the top of the imperial case, there was a report by Chen Qiyu.

He didn't expect that Chen Qiyu would be able to encircle and suppress the main force of the Liukou, and trap these Liukou in the Carriage Gorge of Xing'an Prefecture. The song is written in great detail, including the situation in Xing'an Prefecture, several encounters, and the situation in the Carriage Gorge, all of which are clearly written, and after reading it, I fully understand the situation of the two warring parties, and from the current situation, the army of the imperial court has the absolute upper hand. Such an opportunity is too difficult.

Besiege the Liukou, let the Liukou defeat themselves without a fight, such a plan, of course Zhu Youzhen is in favor, although it is said that it needs to cost some silver taels, but it is not a big deal, gritting his teeth and sticking to the past, as long as the main force of the Liukou is eliminated, he will find a way to make money in the future, besides, Su Tiancheng of Jiangning County is really good, the income of Nanjing City Bo Si is getting higher and higher, there are already more than one million taels of silver, and it has entered the treasury, in the second half of the year, to do work for Su Tiancheng, the income of the City Bo Si is all attributed to the imperial court, and it is millions of taels of silver, Most of the problems can be solved.

Soon, the holy decree went down, and the imperial court allocated 500,000 taels of silver, ordering Chen Qiyu to do his best to exterminate the rogue.

Jiangning County, Su Tiancheng, who always pays attention to the situation, also got a letter from Qu Qingze, the imperial army led by Chen Qiyu surrounded the Liukou in the Carriage Gorge, the Liukou can no longer escape, this time, the Liukou will suffer a devastating blow, the court is very happy, and the emperor rarely has a smile.

When he saw the letter, Su Tiancheng's face became even more gloomy.

He already knew the ending, the Battle of Carriage Gorge, which was written into history, and he knew very well that the problem was with the officers around Chen Qiyu. greedy for money and appeased the rogues, causing most of the rogues to escape, and the main leaders all escaped.

This is by no means good news, after the rogues got out of the Carriage Gorge. Entered a new stage of development, slowly began to grow, only to Chongzhen ten years ago, Sun Chuanting, Yang Sichang and others, once again exterminated the Liukou, won a big victory. That time, because of the contradictions within the imperial court and the kindness to the Liukou, the opportunity to exterminate was missed. Since then, the imperial court was no longer able to exterminate the Liukou, and was finally beaten into the capital by Li Zicheng and destroyed the Ming Dynasty.

When Su Tiancheng received the letter, it was already July.

He looked up to the sky and sighed, time has passed, there is no power to return to the sky, everything that should happen. It may already be happening.

The situation facing the Jiangning battalion began to become sinister. After the Battle of Chexia Gorge, a major event will happen, that is, Fengyang Mansion was attacked by the Liukou, and the imperial tomb was destroyed.

Nothing like this can happen.

From this day on, the training of the Jiangning battalion. Suddenly began to get nervous, it was already the busy farming season, and the autumn harvest was about to begin, but the Jiangning camp canceled all the vacations, all the soldiers. No going out.

The drought in Shaanxi has lasted for several years, but this year is particularly strange, that is, there is a lot of rain.

The rain hasn't stopped since June.

The rogues in the carriage gorge encountered an unprecedented predicament.

Gao Yingxiang originally thought that the officials and troops of the imperial court would definitely attack, at least to enter the carriage gorge to test it, but his estimation was a mistake of principle, and the officials and troops of the imperial court did not attack at all, but just guarded the mouth of the gorge.

After more than ten days passed, Gao Yingxiang began to get anxious.

The rain was always continuous, and the inside of the carriage gorge was very wet, and the sergeants couldn't support it.

He summoned Luo Rucai, Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng and others to discuss the next move.

A few people understood that the imperial army had taken the last measure they wanted to see, and they were going to trap them to death.

It is definitely not possible to sit still and wait for death, after a few people discussed, it was decided to start a breakthrough, no matter what, we must try the strength of the official army, continuous rain, it is also beneficial to them, the Shenji battalion of the official army, can not play a role, the brothers they lead, the combat effectiveness is needless to say, if you can rush out of a bloody road, the large army breaks through the encirclement, it will achieve the greatest victory.

At the beginning of July, the first breakout began.

Gao Yingxiang personally led 10,000 soldiers, including 2,000 cavalrymen, to rush out of the gorge and rush towards the officers and soldiers waiting at the mouth of the gorge.

Chen Qiyu and Lu Xiangsheng have accurately predicted it, they have already made preparations, half a month has passed, the Liukou in the Carriage Gorge, has not moved, they guessed, the Liukou must have known the intention of the imperial army, to fight to the death, began to break through, on both sides of the gorge, have already arranged sergeants, twelve hours, non-stop observation, if the Liukou break through, they will definitely be able to find.

As for the sergeants waiting at the mouth of the gorge, they are all the most elite sergeants, after receiving the holy decree, Chen Qiyu also gave a death order, never allow the rogues to escape, no matter how big the casualties are, they must completely annihilate the rogues in the gorge.

From a distance, seeing Liukou rushing out from the mouth of the gorge, Chen Qiyu's face showed a sneer, and Zhang Pu, who was standing beside him, looked solemn and did not speak.

Soon, the red flag was raised, and it was not the sergeant who greeted the rogue, but a dense rain of arrows.

The screams came and went, and the rogue continued to fall to the ground with arrows, but the rogue team was not chaotic and still stubbornly rushed forward.

Two rounds of arrow rain finally slowed down the impact speed of the rogue.

At this time, the blue flag was raised.

The sergeant who shot the arrow, quickly dodged away, and the rumbling sound of horses' hooves remembered that the cavalry was dispatched.

A loud crash sounded.

The two cavalry met, the sound of swords rang out, burying the screams, the horses roared and the horses neighed, the mouth of the gorge was already a bloody scene, the officers and soldiers and the rogues launched a fierce battle, on the one hand, they were thinking about breaking through, on the other hand, they were thinking about defending to the death, and no one retreated.

The foot soldiers followed closely and rushed directly towards the rogue, and the sergeants on both sides fought together.

However, the huge advantage is still on the side of the imperial army.

The battle lasted for half an hour, and the red flag was raised again.

The rumbling sound of horses' hooves sounded again, and another group of cavalry joined the warband.

This group of cavalry dealt a devastating blow to the rogues.

Gao Yingxiang didn't expect that the officers and soldiers were so tenacious and so desperate, they didn't retreat at all, seeing that his brothers were losing more and more losses, he was already thinking about leading his brothers to retreat into the carriage gorge.

The reason why I insisted on holding on for such a long time was also to think that if the officers and soldiers were red-eyed and could rush into the Carriage Gorge, that would be the best result, and once the officers and soldiers entered the Carriage Gorge, they should not think that they would be able to get out.

The addition of another cavalry of the official army made Gao Yingxiang feel the danger, at this time, he could not fall in love with the war, whether it was able to attract the officers and soldiers into the carriage gorge, at least to ensure that 10,000 brothers could not be completely annihilated.

After evacuating the battle and entering the Carriage Gorge, Gao Yingxiang saw that there were less than 5,000 brothers who followed him into the canyon, that is, in half an hour, he lost more than half of his brothers.

The officers and troops did not enter the Carriage Gorge.

Gao Yingxiang's face was flushed, and his fists were clenched tightly, obviously holding back his anger.

Soon, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, Li Zicheng and others came up.

With such a big loss, everyone was dumbfounded.

Zhang Xianzhong, who had a hot temper, couldn't help it at first, and began to scold the officials and soldiers, he was originally a subordinate of Zijin Liang, after Zijin Liang was killed by the imperial court, he became an important leader among the Liukou, and his status was even higher than Li Zicheng.

Zhang Xianzhong was not convinced, he always believed that the officers and soldiers were vulnerable, this time, it must be the brothers' lack of preparation, so that they suffered a big loss, and they took a little rest, he wanted to personally take the brothers to kill a bloody road, and also give the officers and soldiers a little color.

Gao Yingxiang did not agree to continue to fight, but the defeat he had just suffered, at this time, it was difficult to say anything, and he could only rely on Zhang Xianzhong, after all, between them, they were nominally superiors and subordinates, but in fact they were relatively independent.

Zhang Xianzhong said that he would do it, he believed that the officers and soldiers were exhausted after fighting, and launching an attack at this time would definitely be able to achieve unexpected results.

Zhang Xianzhong's proposal, even Gao Yingxiang felt that it made sense, the official army had just experienced a big victory, it must be to celebrate the victory, I am afraid there is no preparation, if at this time, the official army can be defeated, and everyone can break through the siege, even if it is the biggest victory.

When Zhang Xianzhong rushed out of the gorge with 10,000 soldiers, they were greeted by officers and soldiers who had been prepared for a long time.

As in the previous mode, first two rounds of arrows rained, followed by a cavalry charge, and after half an hour, the second group of cavalry began to charge again.

Zhang Xianzhong's losses were even worse, and when he returned to the canyon, there were less than 4,000 soldiers left under his leadership.

Inside the carriage gorge, morale was extremely low, and after two breakouts, more than 10,000 brothers were lost, and there was no hope for the development of this trend.

From the beginning of July to the middle of July, for half a month, the rain has not stopped.

Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, Li Zicheng and others, with their brothers, organized several breakouts, but each time they were defeated, and the number of brothers lost was close to 30,000.

The pessimistic atmosphere began to spread in the carriage gorge, there was not enough food and grass, and after a long period of rain, the arrows of the bow and arrow fell off, so to speak, Gao Yingxiang and others had fallen into a desperate situation.

They really don't understand, this time, why are the officers and soldiers so powerful, they have broken through many times, and they see that the brothers are about to kill a bloody road, but in the end, they were killed back into the canyon, the officers and soldiers are very smart, and they don't enter the canyon at all, in this case, the idea of relying on the terrain of the canyon to annihilate the officers and soldiers does not exist at all.

After a few people discussed, they decided to rest for a while, and finally organize a breakout, if not, then they had to think of other ways. (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )