Chapter Twenty-Three: A Thousand Horsemen (Part II)

Originally, Gao Yingen probably saw that the people in the camp were gradually improving, and he was worried that he returned to the camp and became a Hakka, for various reasons, he wanted to stop in the Nanyang area, kill people and grab goods, and wait and see the situation.

In front of him, Yang Kai mentioned many times, don't forget the great responsibility of the fame of Gao Yingxiang, the old boss of Guangfu, stop in Nanyang is to sit on the shore and watch the fire, and go north to join the camps, it is to risk the enemy to help, maybe the north will be defeated first, they don't need to fight and withdraw the generals, and they can also make a good reputation.

Moreover, going north along the way, there are cities on the roadside, which can't delay their purpose of strengthening the camp, listening to his careful analysis, his eyes lit up, and he felt that Yang Kai's plan seemed to be beneficial and harmless, and praised him for his talent a few times, and agreed.

As soon as the day of the breaking of the city passed, Gao Yingen ordered the wounded to stay in the city to wrap their wounds, and the rest of the teams to leave. Sure enough, the number of their new team has exceeded 8,000 people.

Among them, the number of Wei Qianfu increased the most, more than 3,000. Yang Kai had more than 1,500 people under his command, and the other two old management teams were more than 2,000 people, and Gao Yingen had more than 300 personal soldiers under his command. In addition, there is another thing, that is, Cai Qian transferred to Wei Qianfu's camp and served as a small pipe, leading fifty pipes, about 1,000 people, and provoked Yang Kai's old brothers to give him the hat of "three family slaves".

Whether it was Yang Taisui who was excluded from the forest on the day of his death, or before the siege, he was driven out of the field for the night, or even after the city was broken, he was still not reused.

Han Bin is extremely arrogant, Cao Mang has a black face all day long, although Zhao Hu has some courage, he is just a small soldier under Yang Kai's subordinates, and even the two newly recruited newcomers who are soft and don't know what to do with birds are on an equal footing with Cai Qian.

Moreover, since he joined Yang Taisui's department, his combat exploits have been good, and Wei Qianfu suffered heavy casualties when he fought with Qin Yimingbu before, which was also the time to employ people. After entering the city, the conflict with Yang Kai made him fight on the woman's belly with a gun all day long, as if he wanted to vent all the anger he received from Yang Kai on these innocent women. At this time, Cai Qian turned his head to his camp, of course he couldn't be stingy, so he had such an arrangement.

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The army from the north and south of Shang, take the Lanwu Ancient Road branch, easily enter the boundary of Zhuyang Town, Lushi County, Yang Kaizhang array front camp walked in front, they first found a high mountain and dense forest location, buried Yang Taisui, set up a tombstone for him, and neatly placed more than a dozen jars of wine brought out from Shangnan City in front of the tomb, and then led the team to leave.

The Lu family is located in the west of Henan, belongs to Henan Prefecture, and the capital city is Luoyang, so Yang Kai and others did not dare to venture north, so they could only go straight to the northeast along the edge of Henan and Nanyang, and enter Kaifeng through Ruzhou. The total journey is about 900 miles.

Embarking on this road, Yang Kai sat on a tall horse, he looked back at the team behind him that was already difficult to see the end at a glance, the few flags were still fluttering, and the guns and halberds were lined up again; There are newcomers and old people in their own camp who brag and fart, and are familiar with each other, and there are soldiers and soldiers who are happy, and they have long lost the haze of the old boss's arrest, and they are probably satisfied with the food and clothing life of these few days.

Thinking about the first day he crossed here, did he ever think that he would become the leader of a thousand cavalry and become the core of this new camp?

Never thought about it.

In the more than ten years of the Tianqi and Chongzhen dynasties, how many heroes went forward to participate in this peasant uprising war, how many unyielding soldiers turned into white bones, how many battalion leaders betrayed their beliefs, and the faces of the war are still moving. Gao Yingxiang, who once scolded Fang Xuan and had the best scenery, was defeated, did he have to wait quietly for Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong to get up?

Can I give it a try?

Gao Yingxiang, who was in the position of the Chinese army, swayed on the back of a horse, and the soldiers behind him drove a carriage, on which was a woman he was not tired of.

After a few days, the team gradually became stronger, Yang Kai seemed to have verified a truth, the ass decided the head, he changed, especially the ambition seemed to be getting bigger and bigger.

Fortunately, he was still sober, and quickly pressed the reverie in his heart, this matter is not urgent, and the road still has to be taken step by step to be steady.

Moreover, this road is difficult, and if the foundation is not strong, there will be many troubles in the future.

Thousands of horses in front, a few days of hurrying, to the northeast after a few days of depth, along the way they finally began to encounter the remnants of the thieves who retreated south, after exchanges, they were from the direction of Luonan Yiyang by Zuo Liangyu painlessly defeated the remnants of the retreat south.

It is said that Zuo Liangyu's troops did not chase them for a long time, but went to the direction of Luodong, specifically whether they wanted to form a block in the Dengfeng area to block the pace of the westward advance of the camp, or they wanted to go deep from Dengfeng and attack the group of thieves active in the middle of Kaifeng from the flank, and the remnants are unknown.

Considering that all parties consider that taking the opportunity of winning the war, it is more likely to advance eastward. Yang Kaifang's decision to go north to Kaifeng also made so many efforts to convince everyone, but he didn't expect that the journey of a thousand miles was not more than halfway through, and he first ushered in a piece of bad news.

The ambitions that had just been born and had not even become a prototype were instantly suppressed.

He pulled out the map that was stuffed into the cloth bag on the edge of the saddle and considered it carefully, but the situation was already like this, so what was the use of thinking about it?

I have to say that from the arrival of Longting to the great destruction of Shangnan, although there seem to be twists and turns along the way, it is still within his expectations, especially the big victory in the battle of Shangnan City, which gave him a lot of self-confidence. But there are always things in the world that he doesn't expect, and the situation on the battlefield has always changed rapidly.

Suddenly, he thought of the gambler who was exhausted in life and death on the gambling table, he succeeded in his fight, and his daughter was in his pocket, and when he faced the gambling game again, he was no longer a carefree person, and he would often suffer from gains and losses, Yang Taisui was like this at the beginning, and his current situation was not this gambler, who could it be?

But he thought about it again, if he was intimidated by a mere Zuo Liangyu now, what would he do in the future when facing famous generals such as Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting and this noisy battlefield?

Don't dare to try, and leave timidly every time?

Fear the enemy like a tiger.

Thinking about this, the unyielding will cleared the haze in his heart, and the sun was shining, shining on the vast and strong, yellowing earth in front of him, and the mountain road was small, but it could no longer stop his determination to sit down and move forward.

Yang Kai quickened the pace of the march of their battalion in front of the formation, and after entering Ruyang, he increased the proportion of reconnaissance in the front, which was distributed in a fan shape, and put it forward to twenty miles away, still focusing on speeding up. He handed over all the things of the people and plundered to the infantry team in the rear, and he did not want any remnants encountered in the front, and let them be incorporated into the rear camp.

As for the recruits who had not yet mastered the horse nature, he sent Han Bin to take extra care of him, and only ordered Cao Mang and Yang Kai, the two vanguards, to be around him to ensure that if he encountered an enemy in front, he would have a strong enough impact.

In this way, it was another few days of marching, and their team had more than 10,000 people enveloped, and the silver money plundered along the way was even more innumerable.

On the whole, it was quite orderly, going straight through Ruyang, bypassing Yuzhou and taking the mountain road between it and Xuchang, and continuing to move forward, Yang Kai gradually began to think about how to resist the enemy.

The problem now is not that they are undermanned, but that the soldiers are too weak. Many of the veterans of the camp are from military households in important towns in the northwest, even if they are not as good as the regular army, they are not comparable to the farmers who only know how to cultivate all year round. The thousands of cavalry soldiers under his own battalion, he can roughly control it, but there are too many people behind him, such a team, fighting with the enemy, winning is good, all are brave men with the help of the force, and the defeat is scattered, and the battle of breaking into the camp in Zhuxian Town is a painful lesson.

For two days in a row, Yang Kai did not encounter the remnants of the defeated and retreated south, Yang Kai's heart was a little uneasy, and at this moment, a team of rangers rushed back from the front.

Finally, they received the news of returning to the camp: "Returning to the camp is burning Xiguan, a group of thieves are infested, and the bloody blades have been dispersed repeatedly. "Good news finally came in the night, and they caught up with the peasant army at its peak.