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74_74481 The sound of killing suddenly rose, and countless torches suddenly shot out on the top of the grass chain ridge and the surrounding mountains, and the sound of golden drums shook loudly. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info followed by the front and left and right wings of the thieves sounded like a dense sound of birds like popping beans, mixed with the roar of cannon fire from time to time!

The valley was so dense with thieves that there was no way to avoid it, and in an instant they were shot and fell down in pieces. Since the battle broke out very suddenly, the thieves panicked for a while, instinctively retreated backwards, and could not organize effective resistance at all. Even the leaders of the thieves such as Gao Yingxiang, Liu Zhe, and Gu Junen were coerced by the rebels and retreated a long way back.

At the beginning, Gao Yingxiang was also very nervous, and the first thought that came to his heart was: Oh no, he really fell into an ambush again! But after all, he was very experienced in warfare, and soon realized that this ambush was different from the last time he wiped out his entire army.

First of all, the terrain of this ambush is roughly surrounded by mountains on three sides, and if you blindly drill forward, you will indeed be hit in three directions. But the road behind is still unblocked, and the army can withdraw at any time, so that the whole army will not be wiped out.

Second, it was already late at night, and under the cover of night, it was impossible to see how many officers and soldiers were ambushed on the mountain. Although the shouts from the opposite side were fierce, and the first round of gunfire was fierce, they did not rush down the hill, and after a volley, it seemed that the shooting stopped.

Third, now Gao Yingxiang has more than 30,000 iron cavalry, although some losses were lost in the previous battle, but compared with the whole army, it is only a drop in the bucket. The last time he was ambushed, he had already lost consecutive battles, and there was not much left of his men; This time it was different, he had just occupied the entire territory of Hanzhong, and his troops were strong and his morale was strong. Even if Sun Chuanting brought all the officials and troops from Tongguan and Xi'an, the two sides would be able to fight.

After thinking about this section clearly, Gao Yingxiang immediately scolded his subordinates to stop running away and gradually stabilized his position. The officers and troops really didn't chase after them, and the troops behind them could also be contacted, so Gao Yingxiang breathed a sigh of relief. In a rough number, there were as many as four or five hundred thieves who had just been killed by guns and artillery, and who had been trampled to death in the midst of the chaos. Although the losses were heavy, compared with the more than 30,000 troops, they were not yet wounded.

At this time, Gu Junen also offered a plan: "King Chuang, how can I think that the Northern Army is bluffing and trying to scare us back?" Otherwise, why didn't you take advantage of the victory just now? In my opinion, this must be the lack of strength of the Northern Army, so I had no choice but to take advantage of the suspicious tactics of the night envoy. We don't have to rush to withdraw our troops, and of course we don't have to attack in the dark, as long as we temporarily garrison our troops, and wait until dawn, the enemy will naturally run out of skills. ”

Gao Yingxiang also felt that Gu Jun'en was reasonable, so he nodded and said: "This king must take Tongguan this time, our army is strong, what is it if you encounter a small ambush halfway!" The order went down, and the soldiers in the valley withdrew temporarily, and the troops behind followed closely, and camped here tonight to prevent the enemy from sneaking up, and then marched after dawn. ”

It seemed that as they expected, the officers and soldiers did not attack the thieves again, and the thieves in the valley retreated smoothly. But the terrain outside the valley was too rugged and narrow to find a complete piece of flat land to camp on. In addition, Gao Yingxiang's original plan was to quickly cross the Qinling Mountains, and he did not prepare too many camps and other burdens.

The thieves had no choice but to let the horses lie down in a circle, and the soldiers lay down casually in the middle, even if they were camped. It was the middle of winter, the water on the mountain turned into ice, and the north wind was howling, and the taste could be imagined. The thieves did not have the quality of the Manchu Eight Banner Army, and they complained bitterly.

Gao Yingxiang saw that the "camp" had stabilized, and he also felt sleepy, and just wanted to lie down with his clothes for a while, when he suddenly heard a loud "boom" in the valley. Almost at the same time, a red-hot cannonball whizzed into the thieves' makeshift camp. The thieves here are so dense that people are next to each other, and the horses are crowded with horses, and it is difficult to even move. As soon as the cannonball went down, the screams of the men and the sorrow of the horses immediately sounded violently, and the thieves immediately blew up the camp, and the position that had just been stabilized was immediately in great chaos.

Gao Yingxiang was furious! Judging from the position of the artillery glowing, it can be judged that this cannon was fired not on the mountain, but at the bottom of the valley, and it was quite close. This shows that the officers and soldiers have moved the artillery down and are really going to launch a pursuit. Gao Yingxiang thought to himself that I was only temporarily retreating because it was dark, and thought that I was really scared! He immediately ordered Liu Zhe to send 500 elite soldiers into the valley to give the officers and troops a counter-raid, and make sure to leave their artillery behind.

The five hundred thieves immediately slaughtered into the valley, and they were also very clever, and would rather stumble forward in the dark, rather than hold torches to illuminate them, let alone shout, thinking that it would not be easy for the officers and soldiers to find and take aim. They are only afraid of cannons and birds, and as for close-range cold weapon combat, they feel that they still have a fight with the officers and soldiers.

The road into the valley went smoothly, and the officers and soldiers did not seem to notice that they had come in, and there was no movement after the cannon had just fired. The little leader of the thieves who led the team was secretly happy in his heart, and whispered to his subordinates to speed up, as long as they touched the vicinity of the cannon, it was done.

But they hurried and hurried, but they couldn't find out where the artillery of the officers and soldiers was. Not to mention the cannons, apart from themselves, there is not even a figure at the bottom of the valley. According to the distance estimate, it was long past the position where the cannon fired just now, but no matter how carefully these people searched, they still found nothing.

"Damn, these turtle grandsons only fired one shot, and when they saw us coming in, they threw the cannon into the grass and ran away, right?" The leader of the thieves said in confusion.

"The one in charge of the plate, why don't we go back and return to King Chuang!" The thief beside him was a little timid, the strange atmosphere at the bottom of the valley, coupled with the countless torches on the top of the surrounding mountains before, were all gone at this time, only a dead silence remained, and his voice trembled a little when he spoke.

The leader of the thieves was bolder than the others, and thought for a while: "Maybe the enemy really ran away with a single gun, otherwise why didn't he attack now?" It is better to pick up a torch and search the ground nearby, preferably to find the abandoned cannon of the enemy. That thing was so heavy, how could they carry it away so quickly? After finding it, it will be dedicated to King Chuang, and we can also ask for a reward. ”

Most of the thieves were simple-minded and reckless men with well-developed limbs, and since the leader spoke, they lit torches one after another, and soon illuminated the valley floor. It was really empty, and they were looking down for the cannon, when they heard another loud bang on the opposite side of the mountainside, and then the dense sound of bird guns rang out again!

"Withdraw! Evacuate! Quick..."

The hapless leader had just shouted half a sentence when he was suddenly accurately hit by a bullet from the temple and fell in the flames.