stubborn thief

Chapter 105 Master
The mule battalion lined up on the mountain, watching the peasant army crossing the river condescendingly.

He looked straight at Wei Qian'er's eyes, pointed to the other side and shook his hands and said, "Here, general, is this a trap?"

Those Shaanxi people who have been on the border for generations, even if they rebelled, if the Taoist Tartars were allowed to come in, they would immediately turn around and help the frontier army fight the Taoists.

"Look at your ignorance, how can you let the frontier army escort the invaders by trapping captives?"

Cao Yao likes to bicker with Wei Qian'er very much, and now he can be regarded as using his experience of traveling around, raising his arms to introduce several leaders: "I don't know which leader is on the opposite side, the soldiers who surrendered to Yiding and the frontier soldiers guarding the Great Wall are all Let him get it."

Liu Chengzong asked: "How do you know that they are guarding the Great Wall? I don't think Yijia is any different from us."

"Look at the queue. The soldiers outside have no requirements in the queue, but it's different on the Great Wall. I guarded two side walls in Datong."

The two side walls that Cao Yao mentioned were the Great Wall, and the area between the two Great Walls was the military buffer zone of the Ming Dynasty.

"In order to march on the side wall, they usually walk with five horses and ten men in parallel. Our soldiers outside have no such requirements."

After all, Cao Yao pointed to the frontier soldiers on the other side carrying infantry spears, bird blunderbuss, and three-eyed blunderbuss marching behind the Mongolian Yiding: "They must be the frontier soldiers of the Great Wall."

Liu Chengzong nodded slowly, then waved his hands and said to everyone: "Pull the team a little to the east, there are pack cannons on the horses behind, don't beat us up."

The people on the other side of the river also had pack cannons.

In fact, compared to the peasant army on the other side of the river, Liu Chengzong paid more attention to the officers and soldiers who came out of Yonghe Pass.

Not every officer is as brave as Lu Cheng.

For example, the General Manager of Yongheguan came out with a team of more than 300 people. Halfway there, he found that the number of peasant troops was extremely large, and ordered him to stand in place to observe the situation.

After standing for a while, Yi Ding, a surrendered soldier in solid armor on the other side, came out from the mountain path.

The leader of the army was always very well-behaved, seeing the situation without saying a word, turned around and waved a small flag, and led the soldiers directly back to the customs.

Liu Chengzong could see clearly from the mountain, that's right.

People can't just think about getting promoted and getting rich.

Think about parents, wives and children, and then think about the monthly payment.

Don't fight in the field, stand on the city wall, even if you are worthy of the emperor's kindness for not paying military salary for many years.

"Now it depends on whether they are friends or foes with us. Listen carefully. When we see that the situation is not good, let's go down the mountain from the east and don't go to the west. They have to go around from the west to go up the mountain, and they can't disperse."

The three post chiefs all responded solemnly, turned their heads and conveyed the order to their respective captains, and each team listed the teams according to the location of the Chinese army.

Just when the mule battalion was in formation, the peasant army on the other side had discovered that the officers and soldiers had retreated to Guancheng, and the people laughed loudly.

There were even two ragged hungry people who had already crossed the river, deliberately ran to a place not far from Guancheng, took off their pants and swayed left and right.

Liu Chengzong frowned and smiled ugly: "Those two guys are pissing on the defenders?"

unacceptable.

Even Cao Yao shook his head while laughing: "Being a soldier is too difficult these days, you either have to be a brave dead man like Lu Guerrilla, or you're as cowardly as this general, and you're almost as good as sitting on your head and shitting." ...Won't the mother be bombarded? Anyway, I can't stand it."

"If you can't bear it, you have to bear it. There are thousands of people here, and there are thousands of soldiers in armor. If you can't bear it, you will die."

Liu Chengzong shook his head, suddenly raised his arms and pointed out, "Look at the other side, there are horse soldiers coming."

Looking at the movement, it should be found that they are on the mountain.

However, the peasant army did not regard them as enemies in the mountains as Liu Chengzong imagined, but horsemen quickly crossed the river from the pontoon bridge, ordering people to bypass the mountains one by one.

Then the cavalry soldier approached cautiously and shouted: "Mao Shang is General Liu?"

General Liu?
Liu Chengzong was about to step forward to answer when he was stopped by Cao Yao: "Beware of fraud."

Afterwards, Cao Yao stepped forward to condescend, without showing his face, he only asked, "Which General Liu?"

"General Liu from Yan'an Mansion!"

Cao Yao turned his head and glanced at him, the meaning was obvious: I was looking for you.

He asked again, "What do you want General Liu to do?"

Liu Chengzong frowned and looked at the other side, his heart pounding.

Could it be that the father and elder brother are so strong that they recruited a group of frontier soldiers and Mongolian barbarians while he was away, and expanded the team tenfold to come to find themselves?

In my heart, I felt that this was too unreal.

And if his father and brother were old acquaintances in Yan'an Mansion, he should send someone he knew to come. He knew so many people in Yan'an Mansion that it would be impossible for him to have no old acquaintances.

Hearing the loud voice of the horsemen dismounting from Shanmao, they said: "Our chief's surname is Gao. He said that you owed him a meal and didn't pay him back!"

Liu Chengzong wanted to jump off the cliff and cover the horse soldier's mouth.

He didn't even need to look back, he could feel the eyes of his subordinates looking at him in unison.

Cao Yao in front also turned his head and widened his eyes, mouthing silently, "Is there such a thing?"

Liu Chengzong owed a lot of people a meal, but those people died in autumn.

Only one surnamed Gao is still alive, and he knows who it is.

If it was Gao Yingxiang, Liu Chengzong felt that he could probably guess why he came to him.

The rebels in Shaanxi are all huddling together to keep warm, and Gao Yingxiang is no exception.

The cavalry soldiers at the foot of the mountain were still wondering, how could there be no sound on the mountain after what the king told him to say... Suddenly they heard a loud shout.

"He still owes my family a bronze beast swallowing the knocker!"

There was no sound at the foot of the mountain, but there was the sound of horseshoes rattling away.

The cavalry led their horses and hid on a mound where they could not be hit with bows, crossbows and muskets. Then they shouted: "The leader said, if you don't fight, wave the flag!"

After finishing speaking, he pressed the horse's buttocks and flew onto the mount, and ran towards the pontoon bridge.

The little guy wiped his sweat while running, secretly glad that he really saved his life.

It sounds friendly from the front, but suddenly it feels like neighbors instead of old friends.

Neighbors who have feuded neighbors like building three feet of courtyard walls and moving more than three feet to make field piles.

Ride the horse on the Yellow River floating bridge and look forward.

On the mountain on the west bank, the banner of Chuangzi is swaying;
Looking back, on the east bank, a red flag is waving.

It seems that there is no hatred again.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he ran to the other bank, Gao Yingxiang led several leaders down the mountain, galloped his horses like a whirlwind, and asked with a tense face: "It's Liu Chengzong, what did he say?"

"He said, he said the chief owed him a bronze beast swallowing the knocker."

Gao Yingxiang was taken aback for a moment, then burst out laughing, lifted the knife and said with a smile, "Ha, hahaha! This little lion really holds a grudge!"

After finishing speaking, he put Guan Dao on the ground, stretched out his hand and said, "Go and ask him if he dares to come to see me on the pontoon bridge!"

The horse soldiers had no choice but to report back again.

The filthy Heavenly Monkey rode over and said strangely: "When did King Chuang owe someone a bronze door knocker, why didn't you pay it back? No wonder they won't let you go."

"What a fart!" Gao Yingxiang said with a smile, "That's because I was released by the magistrate, and I went back at night and beat his door knocker. His little lion ate all the food for my beheading. If I didn't beat me, the anger in my heart would be broken." Are you comfortable?"

Not to mention Liu Jiusi, the heavenly monkey, even Buzhanni and Huntianhou, who came over on horseback, were stunned.

In their hearts, the so-called owed a meal should be a beautiful story similar to a meal.

Why is it connected with the decapitation meal?

Buzhanmu said in a daze: "He's too ugly, he'll eat the same as other people's heads!"

"It's more than just eating, forget it, I won't tell you these things."

Gao Yingxiang waved his hands, recalling the scene of a big fat boy studying and practicing martial arts holding a stewed sheep's trotter, holding a large bowl and snoring mutton noodles in the prison.

This thing can't be described at all, if it is said, it will starve these hungry ghosts to death.

Not sticking to the mud, the eyeballs were tilted upwards, thinking about what it would be like to eat a meal with a severed head.

Even if Gao Yingxiang didn't say anything, he had already swallowed hard, opened his mail shirt, reached into the clothes and stroked his dry belly, and said to himself: "No, I have to get a lamb to eat at night... eh , King Chuang."

Buzhemu said: "I still haven't figured it out. Even if we are old acquaintances, we should send someone to say something. We can join forces and fight together. Why do we have to let him come over? Besides, he will come over?"

"meeting."

Gao Yingxiang said categorically. In fact, he hadn't seen him for many years. He didn't know whether he would come or not, but he still told his left and right: "It will come later, don't care what we say, don't interrupt me It's a big deal, I came here just to join forces with him."

Huntian Monkey Zhang Mengjin said: "Why do you have to join forces with him?"

Why else, it's useful!

Gao Yingxiang glanced at Huntian Monkey: "The four of us join forces... I really don't know how many of you three have. Calculated by seven thousand, can you wipe out a guerrilla general?"

Don't say that Gao Yingxiang didn't know, and they didn't know about Mud, Shangtian Monkey, and Huntian Monkey themselves.

Even if the number of people is investigated clearly, it is one number now, and another number tomorrow, maybe more or less, Emperor Zhenwu can't tell.

They all revolted due to hunger, relying on their strength and luck to survive a series of robberies; their subordinates are also like this, if they do not become thieves, they will starve to death, and it is normal not to become thieves when they are not hungry.

"uncertain."

Not sticking to the mud answered easily: "Ambush, take advantage of the unprepared guns and blunderbusses, and my three divisions will drive troops to fight, and wait until they are exhausted to break through the king and then use their armor. It is not difficult to win."

Treating hungry people as cannon fodder is a cruel and effective tactic.

"It's not difficult to win. People who are about to die can use their lives, but it is difficult to make them honestly lay an ambush."

Gao Yingxiang didn't mean to ridicule, let alone look down on anyone, but just stated the facts.

An ambush is more demanding of a soldier than a regular engagement.

If only 500 people fight by luck, it is okay to say that [-]% of the regular army will take the peasants to control the two, and they can try to intercept.

But the more troops you can mobilize with your own side, the larger the enemy's target, and the larger the scope of the scout Tangqi covering the battlefield, the entire ambush encirclement will also expand accordingly.

Six to seven thousand people like them went to ambush, and the encirclement had to start shrinking at least sixty miles away, avoiding eyeliners in all directions, not being in the enemy's sight, and holding on tightly until the enemy reached a suitable ambush location.

You don't even need to think about what happened after the war, this alone will make people die.

"Think about it again, Wang Daliang attacked Hanzhong, Zhou Dawang made troubles in Wudu, Han Chaochao messed up Qingyang, and Zuo Guangzi and Wang Erge all went to Hancheng."

Gao Yingxiang said: "Which one is not going to grab it, of course there are us and King Hengtian, quickly destroy all the military forts on the side wall of Fugu, what's the benefit for the overall situation?"

"This time, we originally said that we would continue to attack the military fort. It was only after the news of Liu Chengzong's robbing the post station spread to the north that we realized that without the express delivery shop at the post station, the connection between Shaanxi and Yansui Town was broken. Yan'an Mansion was empty on the map. Like nothing."

Unstained eyeballs rolled around, nodding one after another, he understood: "Being with him can make us live two years longer, what does King Chuang mean?"

"That's right, let alone the fact that Shaanxi's army is so powerful that the imperial court will encircle and suppress it sooner or later. How powerful it is in Huanglong Mountain, why is it that they were driven into Mobei by two hundred cavalry from the army? How can a single thief fight against the army? Whether it is a thief who is a looter, or a mutiny, no one can do it alone, and joining forces is the general trend."

Three reckless thieves, you look at me, I look at you, three different faces, full of the same ignorance.

Gao Yingxiang turned his head to look at the three ignorant people, sighed, and looked at Buzhanni with expectant eyes: "Do you know what the general trend is?"

He knows it without sticking to the mud, but he can't answer it, and he doesn't know how to describe it in words.

On the contrary, the dirty and beetle-headed monkey came up to him with a cruel look on his face: "Compare the size, the bigger one wins!"

"That's right! The general trend is that from Fugu to Jinsuoguan, one can enter and leave to plunder all directions, retreat to recuperate, and the north guards the frontier army to attack the south, and confronts the government and army in a divided manner!"

Gao Yingxiang knew where his desire to join forces with Liu Shizi came from.

The leaders of the gang around them must be courageous, courageous, and courageous, but they are not born well, and rebellion depends on the strength of their heads and arms.

It's not that they can't achieve great things, everything is learned, and Gao Yingxiang's background is not good, but after so many years of being a horse bandit, he has suffered a lot and naturally has more things to think about.

Given time, these leaders can accomplish great things.

Only, they don't have that much time.

The imperial court will not give them time to grow up, and the emperor in the Forbidden City will not give them time to study.

Huntian Monkey was distracted.

He couldn't understand what Gao Yingxiang said, and he wasn't interested. Anyway, he believed in Gao Yingxiang, so he just told him what to do, and it was annoying to go around a lot: "Chuang Wang, just say it, and arrest him, it's the general trend... ...Hey, I'm here!"

Several people looked up to the other side, and the horsemen they sent to deliver the message led them back on horseback.

Gao Yingxiang looked over, and saw that the leading young man had broad shoulders, a broad shoulders and a broad helmet, his face was sharp and angular, and he couldn't see the appearance of the fat boy in the prison in Mizhi County. He laughed loudly: "Good Liu Shizi, see you Master won't get off the horse?"

"Tch, it's not good to use your identity to suppress people as soon as you meet." Liu Chengzong didn't get off his horse, and was ready to retreat at any time with the red flag between his legs.

On the pontoon, Gao Yingxiang turned his head and smiled at several people, "I'll just say he holds grudges."

After finishing speaking, he turned his head and asked, "It's just compensation, what do you want?"

What else could Liu Chengzong want, he said: "Food, my people don't have enough food."

"No problem, I will compensate you for food, and you will have enough to eat...but."

Seeing Gao Yingxiang's quick promise, Liu Chengzong turned over and was about to get off his horse, but suddenly he heard Gao Yingxiang say something again, and his body on the saddle stopped: "But what?"

"I'll return your door knocker, so you should also return my severed meal."

Same problem, changed mouth.

Liu Chengzong asked: "Then what do you want?"

"Go back to Shaanxi with me, finish what you haven't done, and demolish all the express delivery shops in the north of Jinsuo Pass."

Liu Chengzong raised his face and smiled, "It's easy to say."

As soon as the words fell, he got off his horse, clasped his hands together and said, "Student Liu Chengzong, pay homage to Master Gao."

　Good morning!Today, one scene and one story are published together.

　　
　
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