Gao Yingxiang is not the kind of person who has no knowledge, so he naturally doesn't believe in that kind of baseless rumors, and the thief who called to ask him also shook his head and said: "Although I haven't seen him, I don't think it's a rumor." But the little one had contact with Zhao Killxing's soldiers and horses in Fengyang, and Zhao Killxing's most powerful soldiers and horses were not those cavalry, but their infantry troops. Those infantry troops acted in unison, and they were not comparable to ordinary officers and soldiers. ”

"How many are there?" Gao Yingxiang asked.

"The infantry is about 3,000 men."

"Huh! But three thousand men, if he doesn't come, he will be, and if he does, he will definitely besiege and kill them. Gao Yingxiang smiled contemptuously, and couldn't help but be sure in his heart, he had 20,000 strong men, 40,000 elite cavalry, and 30,000 women, counting the 4,000 cavalry, his strength was ten times that of Zhao Killing.

The 40,000 elite cavalry are mostly composed of descendants, and they are neatly armored and not chaotic when they are born in the official army. If it is said that which thief is stronger than Gao Yingxiang, the northwest thief will inevitably boil, only Gao Yingxiang can convince the public, and many small thieves have fought with Gao Yingxiang.

However, at this time, Gao Yingxiang obviously said that it was not easy, Lin Yi and Wu Yongliang's cavalry took turns, like two nasty flies, biting when they saw a bargain, and disturbing people at night.

Gao Yingxiang tried his best to get rid of the other party's harassment, but apparently all of them were bankrupt. The horses were driven by others, and some thieves rode horses to catch up, and they came at another burst of random gunfire.

Coupled with the fact that this was a plain area, Gao Yingxiang could not ambush the cavalry that attacked them at all. Within two days, Lin Yi and Wu Yongliang attacked at night, mainly launching rockets at night.

The marching speed of the brigade of thieves was very slow, and it took only sixty miles in two days, and the king of the sky could not support it first, so he took the people to turn south directly, obviously wanting to go south to Huguang.

But in less than half a day, Gao Yingxiang received the news that the King of Heaven had been killed, and the official army composed of 4,000 cavalry attacked the troops of the King of Heaven, and directly dispersed the thieves of the King of Heaven, and the King of Heaven was killed.

…… On June 21, a group of men and horses under the banner of Zhao appeared on the other side of the Tun River, directly blocking Gao Yingxiang's way, the number of people was only 4,000, but these 4,000 people were blocked on the other side of the river, which became a headache for Gao Yingxiang and other bandit leaders for a while.

It was absolutely impossible to return to Tongguan and Shaanxi, because Shaanxi could not find so many rations at all, and only by entering the Central Plains could it find enough rations to maintain the size of the troops.

The water level of the Tun River is not deep, but it is only waist-in. After Gao Yingxiang personally surveyed the terrain by the river, he decided to have people fill in the Tun River and then forcibly cross the river.

The result was beyond Gao Yingxiang's expectations, and the crossing of the river was extremely smooth. Zhao Killxing's soldiers and horses did not attack, but retreated ten miles, obviously afraid of them.

Nearly 500,000 thieves began to cross the river one after another, and the first to cross the river was Gao Yingxiang's 40,000 elite horsemen. At noon that day, 500,000 thieves all crossed the Tun River.

At this moment, the retreating officers and troops suddenly approached, and set up a formation half a mile away from Gao Yingxiang's army, inviting the thief army. The 3,000 infantry were arranged in three horizontal formations, with 1,000 cavalry on each flank. Gao Yingxiang looked at the officers and soldiers in the distance with a clairvoyant mirror, and dared to rank in front of 500,000 people, were they looking for death?

Gao Yingxiang immediately summoned the leaders of the other bandits and began to discuss the tactics of attacking the official army.

Soon the thieves quickly adjusted and put out their effective formation, with the cannon fodder in front and the elite cavalry behind, those cannon fodder were some old and weak women and children, and behind were some strong men, and at the back were their elite cavalry.

In the first wave of attack, the number of thieves involved reached more than 50,000, and the cannon fodder in front was driven by the elite cavalry behind, looking at the officers and soldiers in front of them worriedly, but they had to be forced to move forward by the cruel reality, if they wanted to have rations, they had to participate in the battle, and they were at the front.

The fine rider in the back is very calm, anyway, the person in front who died first has a sense of security in the back.

The army of thieves was like a surging sea of people, pressing towards the officers and soldiers two thousand meters away, Zhao Yong held a telescope in his hand, and looked at the surging sea of people with a calm face.

"Lao Lin, I'll rely on you to cover the wings for a while." Zhao Yong said to Lin Yi with a smile.

"No problem." Lin Yi pulled down his mask, and then rode his horse back into the formation. Zhao Yong lined up the first battalion according to the battle formation, followed by the artillery of the battalion and the artillery battalion that were dispatched together this time. Lin Yi's 2,000 cavalry protected the wings, while Wu Yongliang's 2,000 cavalry protected the artillery in the rear and was also used as a reserve.

"Rocketeers in position." Zhao Yong ordered, picked up the binoculars again and glanced at the thieves who had approached within 1,500 meters, and shouted, "Ignite the fire." ”

The mournful whistling of rockets sounded immediately, and hundreds of rockets continued to rise into the air, dragging tail flames across the sky, leaving a long trail of white smoke in the air.

Launched at an angle of 45 degrees, it quickly fell 1,500 meters away, and the thieves went exactly there. I saw hundreds of rockets falling from the sky, and most of them exploded on the heads of the thieves.

Almost all of them hit, and no less than thousands of thieves fell, and the grass on the ground was immediately ignited by rockets, and some of the thieves even caught fire.

The army of thieves was in a state of confusion, and the old and weak women and children were screaming and running around in the explosion, and soon a second wave of rockets followed, causing huge casualties again in the dense crowd of thieves.

When they saw the rockets falling from the sky and they were the target, a sense of powerless fear came out of their hearts, and they instinctively wanted to escape, and some of the thieves rushed out of the team and fled backwards.

"Zhao Killing's Denglai weapons are sharp, far from being comparable to other officers and soldiers." Gao Yingxiang looked at those powerful rockets and said to the leaders of several bandits around him: "Do you have a way to break it?" ”

"Hurry up and rush over, the officers and soldiers are only so manpowered, can they still resist our 50,000 elite horsemen?" The old man returned to Ma Shouying and said in a deep voice.

"Yes, there are only 7,000 officers and soldiers, and it is very easy to attack." The One Word King echoed.

"King Chuang, I watched Zhao Killing's Denglai soldiers all wearing armor and acting as one, they must not be as easy to deal with as the Shaanxi border army......" Zhang Xianzhong, the eighth king, seemed a little suspicious.

"Worry about a fart, what are some people afraid of." Ma Shouying said that if it was in the past, three thousand officers and soldiers would be enough to make them afraid, but Ai Wannian and Cao Wenzhao have all been killed by them this year, and Hong Xiangjiu's 30,000 horses are even more helpless.

"Didn't you see their weapons? Compared to your people, you are completely a turtle. Zhang Xianzhong retorted loudly.

"Alright, don't make a noise." Gao Yingxiang hurriedly stopped, and then said directly: "Brothers, gather all the elite horses in your hands and follow me to kill the officers and soldiers." ”

Soon, the thieves of all the tribes concentrated their elite horses. Gao Yingxiang rode a horse, dressed in armor, and commanded in the elite cavalry array.

Fifty thousand elite horsemen were quickly gathered together. Under Gao Yingxiang's order, 50,000 people rode horses of varying fat and thin, and the horses trotted towards the opposite officers and soldiers.

Boom Boom Boom Boom ...... The thunderous sound of horses' hooves became louder and louder, and 50,000 cavalrymen set out in unison, and the head was black and the tail could not be seen.

"Here we are." Zhao Yong looked at the cavalry in the distance and ordered: "Don't move the artillery yet." ”

Gao Yingxiang led people to rush into the rocket strike range of the official army, but was not attacked by the rocket, and immediately said with great joy: "The official army has no rockets." ”

The power of that rocket is absolutely terrifying, and that shrapnel will kill and injure people within five meters in diameter, and it definitely has a huge lethality for a rogue in a dense formation.

Gao Yingxiang led the men and horses to slowly run to 400 meters away from the front of the first battalion, and then stopped, because after all, they were a rabble, and they had only traveled more than 1,000 meters, and the cavalry was in chaos, and the interval between each cavalry was very large.

"Let the artillery and rocketeers get their hands dirty." Zhao Yong sneered at the large number of thieves.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

"Whew......"

Just as Gao Yingxiang was ordering the troops to reorganize the formation, there was a sudden burst of artillery fire from the side of the officers and soldiers, and the rear of the officers and troops directly emitted gunsmoke.

"Bah...... Boom ......"

The fierce shelling began, and the artillery battalion led by Huang Yao became the main force of the shelling, and the cannon mount was at a 20-degree angle, bombarding the dense rogue elite cavalry, and there was almost no need to aim, because there were thieves everywhere in front.

The first to arrive were the shells, which caused extremely huge casualties to the thieves after exploding, and the shells that entered the bandits' formation reached more than 400 rounds.

These more than 400 shells, like a god of death, quickly harvested the lives of the thieves. After each shell fell, the crater was in shambles, and the thieves around them fell to the ground like wheat harvesting.

But for the thieves, the nightmare has just begun. As soon as the shell passed, hundreds of rockets flew over the head, and when these rockets hit the ground, they would scurry under the feet of the thieves with white smoke and 'babbling' sounds, and then rush to someone's side, and suddenly explode with a bang, the feeling is absolutely devastating, and many thieves are frightened and crazy to ride their horses to avoid the rockets scurrying around them.

The fuses of these rockets explode at a distance of 1,500 meters, and when they hit these four or five hundred meters, they will naturally run all over the ground, just like rats whistling around.

The chaos after the shelling, because of these rockets scurrying on the ground, immediately spread to the whole army, and the thieves avoided the rockets one by one, and there was a burst of confusion and people neighing.

Even the rogue, who still maintained his composure, was knocked out of position.

Gao Yingxiang was immediately dumbfounded, trying hard to restrain the team, but the chaos was unstoppable, and at this moment, the cannon sound rang out again.

There weren't many shells flying, about a dozen. But then, the cannons rang out one after another, almost one after another, and the shells began to bombard the thieves continuously.

Many thieves were shocked, how could the cannon still go off? How many cannons did the officers and soldiers have?

The second wave of shelling was not as neat as the first, but it was continuous, which made the thieves feel very stressed, because at any moment there could be shells that could fall next to them and blow themselves up.

The artillery of the officers and soldiers is so powerful that where the cannonball hits, anyone within eight meters will be killed, unless someone else is acting as a meat shield in front of them.

The 50,000 elite cavalry of Gao Yingxiang and other thieves were directly tensed at this moment, and immediately some elite cavalry began to flee the battlefield on horseback.

Horses are important to them, definitely life-saving things.

The rout soon began to spread, and all the rogue elite horsemen, even Gao Yingxiang himself, hurriedly wanted to withdraw from the shelled area.

The two wings of the first battalion and the first battalion and the second battalion of the cavalry behind the formation quickly attacked at this time, and pursued the fleeing thieves. The artillerymen turned the firing angle to the maximum, fired another shot, and then stopped the shelling.

The four thousand cavalry were different from the chaotic rogue cavalry, and the formation was very close to catch up with the fleeing rogue cavalry, Gao Yingxiang and other rogue leaders wanted to stabilize their positions to resist the official army iron cavalry, but they were unable to return to the sky, under the impact of Lin Yi and Wu Yongliang, Gao Yingxiang's rogue leaders could only start to run away.

"It's so unbeatable, it doesn't even happen in close combat." Zhao Yong pursed his lips and said very depressedly. However, Gao Yingxiang obviously can't be solved with a single shelling, Zhao Yong ordered: "Get on the horse and pursue." ”

…… In late June, Lu Xiangsheng arrived from Yunyang, but what he saw was a large number of prisoners, and in only two days, the Denglai army captured nearly 300,000 people.

For Zhao Yong and Lin Yi, the main task this time is to capture the population, so after Gao Yingxiang retreated on the 21st, he bit all the way, the cavalry battalion was arresting people all the way, and the infantry battalion rode to catch up with the thieves, and when they encountered the thieves who dared to resist, they dismounted and defeated, if the scale was small, they left some soldiers behind, and the other soldiers continued to pursue.

On the 22nd, Zhao Yong chased Gao Yingxiang for five battles, due to the fast march, the artillery was left behind, the horses did not carry many rockets, and Zhao Yong did not have ultra-long-range fire support.

However, the precise coordination between the various arms of the Denglai infantry, as well as the perverted protection ability, especially the strength of the supporting firepower, Gao Yingxiang drove the thieves who came forward and were all defeated in less than a moment.

The thieves were terrified by Zhao Yong's infantry battalion, and Lin Yi and Wu Yongliang's cavalry battalion haunted them like ghosts, and they could attack them at any time.

But if you encounter these cavalry, you just need to surrender.

The first to be captured were the old and weak soldiers, because they could not run. Then the captives were the strong men and women, who had no horses to travel, and were simply intercepted.

On the 23rd, Gao Yingxiang fled to the southwest with more than 100,000 people, and Zhao Yong and they couldn't encircle it at all, after all, they were all plains, and they didn't have enough troops, so they could only pursue all the way.

It's like gnawing on a big pie, capturing the thieves one bite at a time, and those thieves generally don't dare to resist as long as they are caught up.

However, due to the large number of captives, it was necessary to leave some people to take care of them, and the rest of the thieves were on horseback, so the speed of capturing the members of the thieves became slower.

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng arrived with men and horses, blocked Gao Yingxiang's front, and captured most of the thieves with the cooperation of Denglai's soldiers and horses.

In the end, Gao Yingxiang fled with more than 20,000 people into the mountains at the junction of Shaanxi, Henan, Shu and Chu.

And Lao Hui Ma Shouying and the Eight Kings Zhang Xianzhong saw that the official army only pursued the thieves in the brigade, and they had no time to take into account the characteristics of the small stock for a while, so they broke away from Gao Yingxiang.

Lao Hui Hui Ma Shouying should flow to the east of Henan, and Zhang Xianzhong, the eighth king, should flow to the direction of Huguang.

(To be continued)