Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, and Li Zicheng, the three thieves, can be said to be the three most well-organized among the thieves, among which Gao Yingxiang's department has the strongest combat effectiveness.

The last time Zhao Yan attacked Gao Yingxiang, he did not lose much of his backbone personnel, in the combat mode that a backbone can pull up a huge team at any time, Gao Yingxiang's failure and hurt his muscles and bones, this comeback has never been huge. Zhang Xianzhong is the same, and the backbone personnel have not been lost at all. Li Zicheng was even more slippery, and ran away the last time he saw Zhao Yan.

These three thieves are the most difficult to deal with, they have been jumping up and down in the Ming Dynasty for seven or eight years, and their military quality is not weaker than that of the official army, because the main force of the thieves is also mostly from the official army.

In the prelude to the rebellion of the border army, it was not only those military households who were regarded as discarded, but also some officers who joined the rebellion.

In order not to implicate their clan, they used nicknames incognito, so that the government did not know their real names. The reason why these officers also rebelled was also because the imperial court was in arrears of military salaries.

Their military literacy is more or less, and after so many years of wandering battles, the thieves of various departments have also realized their advantages.

That's the people, and the mobile warfare.

The reason why they could not fight the southeast was because the people there refused to cooperate, it was not their fertile land, and only the northwest and Central Plains provinces were the most suitable areas for their survival.

However, when Gao Yingxiang entered Henan this time, he found that the situation had changed differently from the past, and the people of Henan were generally 'revolutionary' and not high.

This is true the further east you go, and the farther east you go, the richer the people become.

Henan, which has been undisturbed for two years and has been relieved by Zhao Yan, is like a ripe peach, which looks mouth-watering, but unfortunately it is not easy to pick.

Gao Yingxiang's brigade had just arrived in Yuzhou and was heading to Yexian County, when a group of 3,000 soldiers and horses blocked the official road.

When Gao Yingxiang saw the soldiers and horses, his scalp was numb.

If nothing else, the equipment of this army is exactly the same as that of the Shandong Army, and judging from the banner, it is the inspection brigade that travels from various places.

Gao Yingxiang is no stranger to the inspection brigade, this is Zhao Yan's soldiers and horses, there are traces of them in the northern provinces, these inspection brigades have two soldiers and two horses, and artillery, very strong, local bandits are not opponents at all.

I saw the three thousand people, all of them sitting on the horses, all of them were dark plate armor, flashing with a cold cold light, in this slightly sultry early summer, the momentum was chilling.

Run!

This was the first thought that flashed through Gao Yingxiang's mind, but as soon as he ran like this, he would definitely become a lost dog like what happened to him eight years ago.

There are only 3,000 people in front of you!

Gao Yingxiang cheered himself up, suddenly made up his mind, immediately ordered the team to shrink, and then began to set up the formation.

The old and weak waste was in front, behind was a row of young and strong, and further back, there were 10,000 elite horsemen in his hands.

Being able to ride a horse is the power of youth.

This elite horse was brought by Gao Yingxiang from Shaanxi, and it has always been a treasure in his hands, and it is rarely used to clash with the official army. However, at this time, it is not possible to touch it, Gao Yingxiang knows very well what the consequences of defeat in front of the Shandong army are.

However, when Gao Yingxiang was setting up the formation, the two inspection teams on the opposite side were completely motionless, quietly watching the thieves in the distance shouting for their lives.

When Gao Yingxiang laid out the formation and the whole team pressed forward, the inspection brigade on the opposite side suddenly moved, and the three thousand cavalry were directly divided into two teams and walked along the left and right flanks of the thieves.

However, just wandering away, there was a disturbance in the thief array, and Gao Yingxiang immediately ordered someone to suppress the chaos.

Only the two inspection teams circled around the team of thieves, and the thieves' elite cavalry did not dare to go out to meet the battle, Gao Yingxiang was naturally there, his 10,000 elite cavalry, in front of the Shandong cavalry, was not even a slag, and sending it was equivalent to delivering food.

However, not allowing the elite cavalry to meet the enemy is equivalent to still being harassed by the cavalry, which is very dangerous.

But the strange thing is that the inspection brigade did not attack when the thieves did not have the cover of fine cavalry, but only slowly circled around the two flanks.

Because their attack is meaningless, with their 3,000 people, it is possible to defeat Gao Yingxiang, a thief, but if they want to snatch back those soldiers and civilians in the array, they will lack manpower.

The thieves' elite cavalry hid in the formation, and the periphery was a layer of human flesh shield composed of ordinary people, which obviously felt very tricky for the Shandong soldiers who had undergone the indoctrination of national thoughts.

Moreover, their task is only to drag down the thieves who have entered Henan, and the method of harassing them with cavalry is obviously the best, so that Gao Yingxiang has been gathering his troops together to defend all the time, which is the most ideal state.

"What do these Shandong soldiers want to do?" Gao Yingxiang looked at the cavalry wandering back and forth in puzzlement, and suddenly sighed in his heart, thinking secretly: Is there artillery?

But when I looked around, I didn't see any artillery, so I was relieved.

Gao Yingxiang was really frightened by the artillery of the Shandong army, and the last shelling killed tens of thousands of elite cavalry of the coalition forces in one fell swoop, which was definitely a nightmare.

The inspection brigade does not use artillery in peacetime operations, although they are equipped with artillery. Artillery is mobilized for clearance only in the face of some bandits occupying fortifications.

The two sides were in a stalemate for nearly two hours, and Gao Yingxiang saw that there was no way, so he had to transfer out 10,000 elite horsemen and order the brigade to continue to move forward.

As soon as the elite rider moved, the inspection team suddenly retreated.

…… Night began to fall, Gao Yingxiang with a huge team of nearly 200,000 people, resting directly on the official road, the night thieves do not camp, so many people, camping is very troublesome, and not everyone will camp, the sea of people is their line of defense.

It's rarely dark at night, except when the clouds are thick. And this night was too cloudy, and when I looked up at the sky, I could see the twinkling stars in the sky.

It was such a night that the inspection brigade emerged from the faint light. I saw 1,500 cavalry rushing directly into the thieves and rushing forward all the way to kill.

The thieves who were woken up by the sound of horses' hooves in advance took refuge in all directions, and in a few moments, the entire camp of thieves was woken up, and when Gao Yingxiang came with men and horses, the 1,500 cavalry floated away like the wind.

It can only be disturbed at night, and it is impossible to defeat it. Because the place where Gao Yingxiang camped was a high ground, if the cavalry rushed up, the war horses would have no strength.

When Gao Yingxiang fell asleep again, the 1,500 cavalry came back again, and it was another disturbance, which once again made the entire battalion extremely noisy.

Gao Yingxiang saw the tricks of these inspection brigades clearly, and immediately sent the backbone out, so that the people on the highlands could sleep peacefully, and they didn't care about the homeless people below the highlands.

Thieves often drag their families with them, so they often have to protect those old and weak, but Gao Yingxiang's backbone troops have already lost most of their families before entering Shanxi from Hequ.

For Gao Yingxiang, those old and weak are completely burdensome, but they can't be blatantly abandoned, and in the case that the backbone is not small, it is okay not to protect those old and weak.

The next day, the thieves set out again.

At this moment the cavalry of the inspection brigade appeared again, this time half less than yesterday's daytime, only fifteen hundred, and apparently the other fifteen hundred rested.

"Humph! It's naïve to think about the tiredness of the night. After Gao Yingxiang penetrated the intentions of the inspection team, he sent out 10,000 elite horsemen, and then ordered the team to continue to move forward.

Thinking about it, those Shandong soldiers did not dare to act rashly in the face of an enemy ten times larger.

"Kill!" One of the commanders in front drew his saber and struck forward.

Gao Yingxiang thought wrongly, and saw that as soon as the 10,000 elite cavalry left the brigade, the 1,500 cavalry immediately launched a charge. Rush to the rogue spirit riders ten times their size.

The fifteen hundred cavalry were very neat, like a torrent rushing towards the ten thousand rogue spirit horsemen, and the rogue spirit horsemen were frightened by the momentum for a moment.

No one wanted to become the cannon fodder in front of them, and they began to dodge.

Wow!

With the neighing of the horses, the cavalry in front raised their spears and shot the bullets at the thieves in front, and after the sound of fried beans, a row of thieves fell from their horses.

"Boom ......" The sound of the horse's hooves trampling came from far and near, and it crashed directly into the thief's spirit horse.

The melee began to unfold, and the inspectors who lined up in a dense formation faced the loose rogue elite horses, occupying a local numerical advantage, plus being protected by plate armor, they were immediately invincible, and in less than half a minute, they cut down hundreds of rogue thieves and broke through the formation of the rogue thieves.

The inspectors quickly began to form a team, and with incredible speed, they lined up in a neat formation again, and rushed towards the thief spirit cavalry again.

Some of the thieves also howled and drove their horses forward, which seemed to arouse some fighting spirit, and the thieves behind rushed forward without any fear.

They think about it, they have tens of thousands of people, and victory is absolute, just don't let yourself be the price of victory, so the positive in the back is a little cringe in the front.

The two sides collided again, and the scuffle began again.

The sharp blades cut off the thieves one by one, but the thieves seemed to have slashed on the iron lumps, and the weapons in their hands were uneven, and it was difficult to do any harm to these inspectors.

However, the thieves who couldn't see the situation clearly behind them also surrounded them, and the 1,500 inspectors were surrounded for a while.

All the inspectors of the salt were frantically slashing, the well-crafted steel knife cut out one after another, and the inspector of the salt in front finally rushed out after hacking to death a dozen people, and opened the opening, just like a flood, 1,500 inspectors of the salt Ding continued to expand the opening, and then all rushed out.

And that passage was full of the corpses of thieves.

The inspection team that rushed out stopped a hundred meters away and began to rectify again, but the thieves and thieves who were a hundred meters away were terrified, and no one wanted to step forward.

An army without faith, everyone is greedy for life and afraid of death.

Gao Yingxiang's troops are far from forming the level of Li Zicheng in the later period, even if Li Zicheng shouted the slogan of dividing the acres equally, his faith is not very strong.

If there is no one with the strongest faith in this type of army, it is none other than the later generations of the G Party.

After the inspection team was finished, they slowly retreated, because their horsepower was no longer enough, and they had to go back to change horses and fight again.

They have to carry out the disturbance to the end, and it is frequent, non-stop disturbance!

(To be continued)