Chongzhen nine years.

July 19th, evening.

Zhouzhi County Heishuiyu.

Before dawn, there are no stars and moons.

The converging warriors looked ahead, seeing nothing, and an endless cloud of inky night enveloped them.

The food has long since been eaten, and there is not much left of the people.

Since Longting entered the new meridian road and turned to Heipu Road and left Tunxianyou Temple, more than 50,000 soldiers who broke into the camp were beaten to the point where they didn't know how to fight back under the tenacious resistance of Sun Chuanting's four days and three victories.

Yang Kai stood under a tree, staring blankly at the mountain pass in the distance, the battlefield where they had always wanted to break through, but had not advanced an inch, was also pitch black in front and back.

Before he could sit firmly on horseback in this troubled world, he had already experienced two such cruel wars in succession.

The mountains on both sides of the official road are deserted all year round, but now, I see broken guns and halberds stuck obliquely in the loess, corpses and stumps everywhere are ignored, and the red flags that have fallen to the ground are soaked in blood and water because of the mud smashed by the rain, and the air is filled with a disgusting smell of blood.

Yang Kai's thoughts were flying, and the clatter of horses' hooves in the camp was very loud in the silent night, and it was heard far away.

"it, I'm thinking about running away at this time, what did I do earlier!" The person on horseback, the sturdy middle-aged Yang Taisui turned over and dismounted from a distance, and scolded.

The peasant army here suffered heavy casualties, most of them were subordinates of the second subordinate of the dry rooster Zhang, and there were also some remnants of other old management teams, Yang Taisui was different from them.

He is not the descendant of King Gao Yingxiang, let alone the admirer of this old boss, but an out-and-out thief. Before the peasant army entered Henan, it had been crisscrossing the Lushi Mountains for many years.

At first, there were already hundreds of people at the bottom, all of whom had horses, specializing in stealing local copper mines and selling them, and the Ming court denounced them as mine thieves, which were difficult to control for many years.

Later, the peasant rebel army broke through the Yellow River, and the miners thought they had met a savior, and actively participated in the uprising and acted as guides. As a result, the peasant army went straight to the empty and uninhabited land, and it was as swift as the wind and rain, and it was also listed as a key target of the officials.

After that, Yang Taisui also simply took the hundreds of brothers under him to join the camp in full swing, and he was quite famous, and he also served as a small pipe team in the camp.

At its peak, there were more than 200 people in charge of the team, leading four or five thousand people, but unfortunately it was not a lineage, and in the past three years, the cannon fodder has been doing all day long to attract the attention of the officers and soldiers, and the matter of the queen has not been much dead, and now it can only be subordinated to the two subordinates of the dry rooster Zhang.

Half a month ago, for strategic purposes, Gao Yingxiang decided to take the Meridian Dao to attack Xi'an, out of Zhouzhi County was strangled by the officials and troops of Sun Chuanting's department, trapped in Heishuiyu, the front was difficult to achieve, the back road was blocked, and the inside and outside were fried, and it was time for life and death.

According to Gao Yingxiang's meaning, he suffered too many defeats in Henan, and the morale of the generals under the battalion was low, so he wanted to take advantage of the Tartars to offend the Great Wall, Chongzhen summoned Lu Xiang to be promoted to the king of Qin, and Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three provinces, was confronting Li Zicheng.

After receiving the letter asking for help from Sanheguan, he had already borrowed more than 6,000 people from Hong Chengchou with He Renlong as the vanguard, set up an ambush in the Heishuiyu Pass, and prepared a pocket array waiting for them to drill.

Yang Taisui reported to the top three times, hoping that Gao Yingxiang would change his mind and withdraw the army into Sichuan for repair, but what he got was only eight words: If you can't win this battle, why should you break into the camp?

The encounter in the past six months has indeed made this team enter the point of no return, and if they retreat at this time, the defeated army is like a flood, facing Sun Chuanting's rear cover, no one knows what will happen.

But forward is undoubtedly hell, after four days of fighting, the results of the battle are already obvious, Sun Chuanting is not incompetent, the situation has developed to such an extent, wanting to attack Xi'an has undoubtedly become a fool's dream, so King Chuang now only has one mind left.

Breakthrough.

Out of consideration of the battle situation, Gao Yingxiang's troops were divided into two routes, and ordered Zhang Erbu, who was also a non-descendant, to be the vanguard of the operation, and sent a descendant of Yidougu Huanglong as the deputy battalion, so that they could stabilize the morale of Zhang Erbu's army, so that they could do their best to fight on the front line, so as to disturb the sight of the officers and soldiers, so that his old man could wait for an opportunity to escape.

To put it mildly, it is to let you go to the front as cannon fodder, cover the retreat of the rear descendants, and finally give you the title of a martyr.

This is Gao Yingxiang's effective shelling method, which has been used outside Chuzhou City half a year ago, and now it has to be repeated.

Among them, anyone with a little vision can easily see it.

Despite this, when the order is like this, they can only carry it out, after all, the soldiers who broke into the camp were the first to look forward to the king of Chuang, and the people under the king's order had no reason not to carry it out.

The soldiers who had gone through four days of fighting, both men and horses, were exhausted. Even in the wet and muddy field, many brothers fell asleep with their eyes closed, and got up one after another when they heard the noise.

The middle-aged man who turned over and dismounted adjusted the leather armor on his body, and shouted at Yang Kai, who was standing in a daze under the tree, with a move: "Come here, arrange the actions after dawn." ”

After many years in the army, countless brothers have died, and the one who makes him feel fortunate is that the younger brother entrusted by his parents on their deathbed is still alive.

Yang Kai is not yet nineteen years old, his figure is not stout, but he is already an old soldier, the stout place on his body is not false at all, and it is even better in appearance, everyone in the team calls him "Brother Kaier".

With the light of Yang Taisui, he has the title of managing the team, you must know that the current Yang Taisui department, there are less than 400 people left, and a management team is in charge of more than 20 people, such an identity is indeed not bad.

Yang Kai walked towards the place where everyone had gathered, looked around, and asked, "Big brother, are we still going to take the lead?" ”

"The old boss has finally made up his mind to leave, we are in charge of covering, Sun Chuanting outside the mountain pass is strong and strong, and he is destined to make a name for himself with the old boss, and it will be another hard battle tomorrow morning."

Yang Taisui sighed, muttered and said: "No way, who let Lao Tzu not be a 'biological son', destined to have no father's pain, no mother's love, we do all the dirty work, we have to rely on ourselves to replenish the source of soldiers, and we have to rush ahead as cannon fodder, I don't think his old boss will last long." ”

Yang Kai had already heard of his complaints, and it was naturally impossible for him to be as happy as he was when he was the king of the mountain, but now this has become the fundamental way for them to make a living.

If you are trying to survive, then there is no joy to speak of.

He touched his head and looked into the distance again.

In the official and military camps on both sides of the pass, there was not a single flash of fire.

The more Yang Kai looked at it, the more he felt that his heart was not steady, and he had already found out earlier that the iron horse with the word "Guan" came to help Sun Chuanting, and he had already entered the official army camp at night.

The leader of the troops was none other than Zu Kuan, one of the culprits who had caused the peasant army to change color when they heard "Lu" at Wuli Bridge and Zhulong Bridge in Nanzhili seven months ago.

With more than 6,000 people in front of Sun Chuanting, he has already won three victories in four days, and if he encounters strong reinforcements at this time, will he take advantage of the low morale of the camp at night to make another quick attack?

He believed that Sun Chuanting had such courage.

If he is not mistaken, Gao Yingxiang is about to be arrested, so can the eldest brother, himself, and these brothers still have the luck to survive this life-and-death contest?

He felt he had to do something.

A month ago, Yang Kai was still a migrant worker who was obsessed with everyone.

After graduating for a year and a half, I lived in a 20-square-meter rental house, worked during the day and studied for the public examination at night, and just lay on the table at three o'clock in the middle of the night to take a nap, and then ......

There is no then.

When he woke up again, he was lying in the pile of corpses, occupying the body of this young man, who was also named Yang Kai.

Probably because of the crossing, all the injuries on his body have disappeared.

He gained the memories of the original owner and likewise figured out the background of this era.

There is no lofty identity, just a part of the melting pot of the peasant war in the late Ming Dynasty.

The only thing that is different from ordinary people is that he also has an eldest brother who is as close as his parents to rely on, at least he doesn't have to worry about being bullied by his peers.

However, in just over a month, the two major battles that he was caught off guard and the experience of more than ten battles with the army made him personally understand what it means:

"In troubled times, people are like mustard. Under the corrupt government, the people are not as good as ants. ”

In the ranks of the peasant army, the non-descendants have no status and are not reused, they can only be cannon fodder, and Yang Kai wants to solve this dilemma first.

Earlier, he told his eldest brother about this war several times, and asked his eldest brother to report it to Gao Yingxiang, and now it seems that it still has some effect.

History will soon confirm his idea, and then their small team will have the opportunity to enter the field of vision of many people in charge.

Becoming a camper is just around the corner.

He didn't want to use the identity of his descendants to survive, but that his descendants could recruit and control more people, which was not only a rise in status, but also an important capital for them to survive.

Only with a gun can they come out of power, and if there are no people and no horses, they are nothing.

Thinking of this, Yang Kai also clenched the saber that still had some blood stains on his waist.

During this time, he discovered that the first thing he had to learn to discard, and what he brought with him after three hundred years, was kindness.

After a whole month, in addition to the group of brothers around the eldest brother, only this saber that does not know how many people's blood has been sucked can give him the most sense of security.

In contemplation, Yang Kai didn't hear a word of the eldest brother's next arrangement.

Yang Taisui is coarse, he doesn't know a few words, since his parents were forced to die by the official army, he took over the work of his father, took four younger brothers and three younger sisters to make a living, and after many years of turbulence, only Yang Kai was left.

After all, Yang Kai was still young when he joined the army, and his temperament was weak, although the brothers did not respect him, he was also quite loved by the brothers, but his recent actions were a little out of place compared to the past.

But all this was well concealed by the tense battle, and did not arouse much suspicion among the people.

"Your uncle, what are you doing in a daze, did you hear the arrangement after dawn?" After Yang Taisui finished speaking, he gave Yang Kai a burst chestnut.

Yang Kai covered his head and grinned, the blood stains on his face ruined the harmonious smile that should have been full of youth:

"Big brother, shall we rush out?"

"Uncle, we cover the movement of the rear troops, it is difficult to escape a bitter battle, victory or defeat is determined, when the time comes, do you hear me follow closely behind the team?"

Yang Kai nodded quite obediently, and his eyes became resolute.