Chapter 415: The Rock

As a former chivalrous man, and now the leader of the peasant army, Cheng Hao has always had a very high opinion of himself, although he is not a person with an arrogant temperament, but he has always been smooth sailing, which has made him develop this habit of looking down on himself, which also means that he does not look down on most people, if he is tutored in many ways when he is a teenager, maybe he can still change this not very good habit, but at this age, it is completely impossible to change, and his thinking has been fixed.

People with this kind of stereotyped thinking, it is impossible to suffer setbacks, once they suffer a major failure, it is easy to collapse, Cheng Hao is one of the typical, after being stimulated by Song Qing, this person is basically wasted, if it is not for the fact that I happened to hear about Gao Yingxiang and others later, suddenly I had a flash of inspiration, and felt that I had found an ideal road for myself, otherwise it is estimated that I would have become a drunkard at this time, and I don't know where to get drunk, sighing that the world is unfair, and I am not only born Yu but also Shengliang.

Because of this, Cheng Hao's love from the bottom of his heart for the cause of getting himself back on his feet and regaining his self-confidence is also very lucky, and he also feels very lucky to be able to get to know such a big brother as Li Zicheng, although Li Zicheng's cultural level is far worse than him, and his martial arts are slightly inferior, but in terms of marching and fighting, he is much more than him, a hero, and far more than him, and he is far more than in the means of control, which is almost the perfect image of the master in Cheng Hao's heart, that is, it is Gao Yingxiang who is now in charge of the camp. And the other old leaders are still there, Li Zicheng is just a newcomer, otherwise Cheng Hao will respect the other party as the future emperor.

Even so, his heart was full of pride, feeling that what he had done was the greatest cause in this world, and anyone who stood in their way should be crushed by the wheel of history and turned into dust and disappeared into the wind and rain. And when this person who hindered their cause became the enemy Song Qing, his belief was even stronger, and he very much wanted to send troops to destroy Song Qing who had entered Henan, on the one hand, to avenge his own shame, and on the other hand, to get rid of a big enemy for the peasant army, or for Li Zicheng.

It's just that there are not many people who think like him, Song Qing was so good in the battle to defeat Zhang Xianzhong that he frightened many leaders of the peasant army at the first time, and for the leaders of the peasant army, breaking into the camp is actually just a big name and a big word. Everyone was originally called the 36th Battalion, but as time went by, many leaders died, and Gao Yingxiang's Chuang Zi Banner became bigger and bigger, so everyone called the Chuang Battalion, but many people didn't listen to Gao Yingxiang at all, just marched together to fight, and it was no problem to obey orders in peacetime, but it was really time to fight a big battle with exhaustion. Many people have their own little abacus.

Therefore, after Song Qing's army appeared and defeated Zhang Xianzhong in an instant, many people retreated, intending to give up the territory in Henan. Don't think about attacking Wei Hui again, it's better to withdraw to the north bank of the Yellow River as soon as possible, even if you continue to fight with the officers and soldiers there in Beizhili and Shanxi again, it is better than facing an opponent like Song Qing, who is obviously not good at stubble. Anyway, whether it is Zuo Liangyu or the uncle and nephew of the Cao family, they are all familiar with it, and no one will cause them such a big harm.

Cheng Hao was very angry at this idea of fright. But he didn't have the slightest way, because it wasn't him who could call the shots at all, even if his immediate boss Li Zicheng couldn't be the master either, unless they led their own troops to attack, but Li Zicheng currently has more than 6,000 people, even if Cheng Hao himself feels that there is no play, he has also seen Song Qing's soldiers and horses, and he knows that Zhang Xianzhong's 50,000 people have been defeated by others, and he doesn't expect to rely on 6,000 people to win Song Qing's elite Xuzhou soldiers.

Fortunately, Gao Yingxiang, who has been hesitating in ambiguity, finally opened his mouth after thinking about it for several days, and decided to touch Song Qing, so there are still more than 200,000 people in the camp, and he was frightened by Song Qing's 10,000 soldiers and horses and did not dare to go south, which is really a little unreasonable, even if he, the old and serious king of Chuang, feels awkward, so he made up his mind to touch it first, if the other party is really difficult to deal with, then there will be nothing to worry about when he goes north, it is better than immediately leading the army to the north now, fought to the death with the uncles and nephews of the Cao family and other Ming troops in Beizhili, and then suddenly found that Song Qing was not so powerful, and he would regret it when the time came.

Since Gao Yingxiang is the king of Chuang, his prestige in the camp is naturally huge, he issued the final order, even if the leader who does not want to meet with Song Qing must be executed, unless he encounters a major defeat, no one wants to offend the most powerful king of the peasant army, so the 200,000 soldiers almost all came together overnight, anyway, they have grabbed enough in the nearby state capitals and counties, whether it is gold, silver or food, they have made a big vote, and it is not bad to come and fight with the only Ming army in Henan. If they are lucky enough to repel the other party, or even wipe them out directly, then they can toss here for a while, and then find a way to leave when the Cao family's uncle and nephew come over.

Song Qing himself didn't expect that the peasant army would suddenly mobilize men and horses in such a short period of time and drive towards him, he was somewhat lucky, glad that he had never given up the battle between the horses during this period of time, even if the loss had been not small, but he still gritted his teeth and persevered, if he really gave up temporarily before, I am afraid that he will not even know how to mobilize an army to kill him now, and if there is a mistake in a hurry, I am afraid that he will be directly beaten back to Xuzhou.

This is by no means a joke, although the overall combat power of the peasant army is low, compared with the later Li Zicheng heyday, but after all, there are more than 200,000 troops, more than 20 times his army, even if his Xuzhou soldiers can be one as ten, the remaining half can also completely defeat them, if you want to deal with these ant-like homeless people, you can only set up a very strong position in advance, and then guard the position as a turtle, and kill all the opponent's offensive strength, so that those big thieves are distressed, and then take the initiative to retreat, so that they can leave Henan and go to the north to fight with the Cao family's uncle and nephew or Hong Chengchou, there is no other way.

The other party's more than 200,000 soldiers were killed, and the Xuzhou soldiers were also nervous, all kinds of defensive formations were placed in turn, and orders were also issued, and the Xuzhou soldiers were originally very sensitive to orders and the like, and now there are officers everywhere urging, so the efficiency has also been improved all of a sudden, and it only took half a day to set up a formation in the west of Tangyin City, just waiting for the opponent's men and horses to kill over, so as to give them a head-on blow and prove who is the boss in Henan.

This slogan was sent by Song Qing, after the continuous propaganda of the propaganda team, the Xuzhou soldiers have always felt that they are the number one force in the Ming Dynasty, they can quickly defeat any enemy under the same number, even in the face of four to five times the strength of the force, they can deal with it, if the other party's strength is weak, for example, like Zhang Xianzhong's team before, they can even defeat the other party, and now they have sent out 200,000 troops to deal with them, which can only show that the Liukou attaches too much importance to them, They valued it so much that they didn't dare to come over to find fault with their troops if they didn't send twenty times their troops, which made them have a great sense of pride in their nervousness.

Driven by this sense of pride, Song Qing put forward the slogan of letting the Liukou know who is the boss in Henan, which was unanimously praised by all the officers and soldiers, they have always been the boss, except for the Jiannu outside the Guan, no one is their opponent, needless to say the Ming army in the Ming Dynasty, not to mention that most of these people in front of them have no armor, and they are holding dilapidated weapons, even if the number of the other party is more than 200,000, they are not worried that they can't beat it, at most it is just more casualties.

Two days later, when Gao Yingxiang led more than 200,000 soldiers and horses to Tangyin, what appeared in front of him was a rock-like military formation, even if King Gao Chuang was not too familiar with various formations, but he could also see at a glance that something was wrong, because in his opinion, this formation had almost no flaws, although the troops were far inferior to his side, but it seemed that it was impossible to be broken anyway, this feeling he hadn't appeared for a long time, and the last time he appeared seemed to be in a war with Cao Wenzhao, That guy's military formation seems to be very similar to the formation in front of him, but it is still inferior in many places, at least at that time, he still has some hope.

"Lao Cao, how about you take a look?" Gao Yingxiang really couldn't see through it, and he didn't have much confidence, so he could only ask Luo Rucai, who was nicknamed Cao Cao next to him, after all, Luo Rucai was the person with the most ghost ideas in the entire camp, and many times everyone couldn't see through it, or there were some panicked things, and he finally came forward to solve them.

It's just that this time Luo Rucai can't see it accurately, he is the old leader of the 36th Battalion when he gathered in righteousness, he has experienced many big battles and small battles over the years, but it is the first time he has encountered this kind of impenetrable formation, and there are only some things like rejecting horses on the periphery of the military formation on the opposite side, but the number of rejecting horses is too much, and it is even more than a dozen zhang away and there are stones all around, as if he wants to block the enemy in this way, the problem is that this kind of thing intercepts the cavalry at most, and the infantry only needs to run a few steps a little more, was able to run over successfully, and he didn't know what the use of Lu Dao's hard work was to get it out, no matter how he looked at it, he felt that the other party was wasting his efforts.

If Zhang Xianzhong is here, he can ask, after all, he has fought with Song Qing, the problem is that the eight kings have slaughtered the village at this time, and they have not come to participate in their general battle, and everyone is only here to ponder. (To be continued......)