Chapter 39: Three Ways to Advance
Looking at the Ming army waiting in the distance, Gao Yingen slowly raised his right hand and clenched it into a fist.
Immediately after that, a long and loud trumpet sounded from behind him, and then more horns sounded from all directions, continuous and echoing each other.
The huge tide of horses slowly stopped, and the reactions of the various formations after receiving the sound of the horn were fast and slow.
Some had stopped early, but others were still advancing, and the formation was scattered, and it took a long time for it to slowly begin to tend to a straight line.
Of course, they only tend to be straight, and in fact, if you look at them from the air, you will find that their front lines are staggered and inconsistent.
It is completely different from the Ming army with a strict formation under the city of Pizhou, and it is clearly distinguished.
Gao Yingen has long been accustomed to all this.
Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, Lao Huihui and others led the elite under their command to advance in the direction of Gongchang with a large team, looking for an opportunity to enter Fengxiang eastward, leaving only 1,000 elite horsemen for him to manage these new homeless people.
Today, most of the more than 100,000 people under his command are homeless and hungry people who have been coerced after entering Shaanxi, and many of them are old and weak, and there are not many young and strong, only more than 50,000.
Now many of the infantry team don't even have decent weapons, many of them make their own simple wooden spears, or directly hold sticks, and even some can only hold stones as weapons, and a kitchen knife is already a good weapon, most of them are holding farm tools.
It is estimated that there are about 40,000 people in this part, and there are almost more than 10,000 infantry troops with decent weapons such as spears and waist knives.
There are even fewer who have armor, only a few veterans who have fought a few battles and seen blood, and this part is only more than 3,000 people.
In fact, Gao Yingen himself doesn't know much about the number of infantry teams and the old and weak under his command, but he only knows a rough idea.
However, Gao Yingen didn't care, because it didn't matter how much of this part was, even if it was dead, it wouldn't hurt.
The important thing is the horse team in the army, which is the elite cavalry below.
As long as the horse team does not suffer many casualties and the elite cavalry is still there, then no matter how big the losses are, they can make a comeback.
Gao Yingen glanced to the left and right, and beside him, there were three people dressed as border armor and generals.
These three were not his subordinates, but leaders of the same position as him.
The one-word Wang Tuo Xianling, Liu Guoneng, and Gao Yingdeng, the king of the sky, all have thousands of fine riders under the command of the three of them.
Tuo Xianling and Liu Guoneng were two, one was wearing purple flower armor, and the other was wearing a blue rivet cloth face armor.
And Gao Yingdeng, the king of the heavens, wore the most luxurious, wearing a bright gold mountain patterned armor, a tiger head with a tiger head on his arm, and a robe with a belt.
Even more like those Confucian generals on the mural, only the left sleeve was put on, and the right sleeve was tucked into the waist, exposing the right shoulder.
It's just that his face is ugly, he has a nose that turns the sky, his eyes are small, and his face is full of meat, without any Confucian demeanor, which destroys all the momentum.
But Rao is like this, but no one dares to laugh at Gao Yingdeng.
Because the people who laughed at him were all cut down by him with a knife, and the meat was chopped up to feed several of his wide-backed wild dogs.
After Gao Yingen was stationed on the horse, the three of them also stationed on the horse together.
Gao Yingen is Gao Yingxiang's younger brother, Gao Yingxiang's power is now in full swing, although it is not explicitly said, but all the camps are already faintly following his head.
Gao Yingxiang is very qualified, and all the battalions in the past followed Wang Jiayin's account, and at that time, Gao Yingxiang was already prominent, as a general and leading the troops.
Then Wang Jiayin was killed, his troops were defeated by Cao Wenzhao, and King Zijin Liang was pushed by everyone to be the leader of the alliance for his own use, and set up 36 battalions, and Gao Yingxiang was also the sole leader of one battalion.
Then all the way, after several twists and turns, whether it was breaking the Central Capital or turning back to Shaanxi, everyone was also under the leadership of Gao Yingxiang.
Now Gao Yingxiang can be said to be one and the same in the army, and he responds to every call, and everyone gathers.
Even the eight kings Zhang Xianzhong, Lao Hui Hui Ma Shouying, Cao Cao Luo Rucai and other leaders with many troops can only live under them, co-camp with them, and listen to their arrangements.
Although the three of them are the masters of a battalion, they did not slack off Gao Yingen, and even when they made decisions, they were mainly based on Gao Yingen.
When Gao Yingxiang evacuated Guanzhong at that time, he agreed to leave Guanzhong temporarily at the time of the alliance and look for grain and grass in three ways.
Then, in July, they marched together in three directions and attacked Guanzhong.
"The Ming army has such a small number of people, and they dare to go out of the camp to fight, they are really not afraid of death."
Wang Tuo Xianling looked at the Ming army waiting in the distance and laughed disdainfully.
After entering Shaanxi, especially after plundering Pingliang, his power soared, with 900 elite horsemen and 4,000 horsemen, which was more than twice as strong as before.
Gao Yingen was much more cautious than Tuo Xianling, and he examined the Ming army under the city of Pizhou in the distance and identified its banner.
There were two Ming armies under the city, he recognized one of them, and that Ming army was the Changping army under Zuo Liangyu, who had been hanging behind them before, but the other one didn't know much.
Gao Yingen and Li Zicheng didn't recognize Cao Wenzhao's banner, but they didn't blame them.
When Cao Wenzhao was originally famous, he was still the position of chief military officer of Lintao.
After Chongzhen was transferred to Datong in the seventh year, he was called into the Guannei to suppress bandits when he was appointed as the chief military officer of the aid and suppression, and the banner and so on were changed.
Although he fought in Shangzhou for a while, Cao Wenzhao was a night attack, the battle of Jinlingchuan, Cao Bianjiao and the vanguard broke through the troops behind the palace, and everyone only saw Cao Bianjiao's general flag, not Cao Wenzhao's general flag.
"Where is there a Ming army under the city, why haven't you seen that banner?"
Gao Yingen asked with a solemn expression.
He Renlong was with Zuo Liangyu before, but He Renlong had shown up in Fengxiang Mansion before.
After Gao Yingxiang's victory, he sent a letter to them, asking him to lead the attack on Pizhou, so he led the troops over.
Breaking into the sky, Liu Guoneng spat on the ground and scolded.
"Zuo Liangyu, a stupid thing, dared to go out of the city, the soldiers under his command were more wasted than the crazy man He, if it wasn't for Tang Jiuzhou in Henan, he would have chopped and fed the dog."
"It doesn't matter who he is, more than 100,000 people in our four battalions will run over him directly, and they will all be crushed to death."
Gao Yingdeng's voice was as ugly as a broken gong, and he said coldly.
As soon as Gao Yingdeng's words came out, he also won the approval of Liu Guoneng and Tuo Xianling.
"I asked the governor of Na Bizhou before asking for so much money and food, and he agreed so happily, there should be more money and food in the city, hehehehe......"
Gao Yingden sneered.
When passing by the city, they will not actually break all of them, after all, it will take a lot of people to die to break them, and it is an extreme waste of time, and many times they will directly extort the city fee.
Some local officials, fearing that the city would be broken, only hoped that they would leave quickly, so they would also make a private agreement to send them money and food, hoping that they would leave quickly.
The three of them were dismissive of it, but Gao Yingen didn't take it much easier.
The terrain of Pingliang and Pizhou is close to the first line, with mountains on both sides, and there is only one avenue to walk, and hundreds of thousands of people are too crowded.
So Gao Yingxiang led people south to Gongchang Mansion, transferred from Gongchang Mansion to Fengxiang, which was relatively gentle, and then attacked the Guanzhong area through Fengxiang Mansion, and agreed with him that at the end of July, he would enter Guanzhong.
At this time, five or six days have passed in July, and it is almost the appointed time, and the arrow has to be sent.
"Since the Ming army dares to go out of the city to fight in the field, it must have something to rely on, so first send a foot team to try the depth and then make calculations."
After Gao Yingen pondered for a moment, he also made a decision.