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Chapter 296 Breakthrough
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As the encirclement of Baoji meticulously arranged by Young Master Zhang became tighter and tighter, the various thieves in the encirclement had huge differences on the strategic choice of going south and going north. Forced to do so, Gao Yingxiang, the leader of the thieves, decided to adopt Fan Wencheng's suggestion to go north to break through the encirclement. At the same time, since it was impossible to persuade all the thieves to act together with him, Gao Yingxiang had no choice but to let the thieves from all walks of life make their own choices. Those who were willing to go north to break through followed him, and those who were unwilling did not force them to choose the direction of the breakout. In this way, it was inevitable. This led to the complete split of the nearly 12 bandit army.After some final discussions, about [-] rebel troops decided to break out to the north under the leadership of Gao Yingxiang and Luo Rucai, and many other small thieves decided to bring nearly [-] rebel troops to join the old thief leader Wang Ziyong and Wu Yangui. Go south and try your luck.

Although he convinced most of the rogue army to choose the right path, Fan Wencheng couldn't see any joy on his face, because Fan Wencheng was very clear about the combat effectiveness of these rogue troops. Less than half of them are fighting, and those who can really fight tough battles are the six or seven thousand cavalry under Gao Yingxiang's command and the four or five thousand direct descendants under Luo Rucai's command. up.Although Fan Wencheng was drooling, he still couldn't persuade Wang Ziyong and Wu Yangui, who still had a little bit of the main force, to go with Gao Yingxiang. In desperation, Fan Wencheng had to offer Gao Yingxiang two strategies according to the actual situation. It is to destroy the Dasan Pass in Sichuan as a precautionary measure, and to leave a retreat for the rogue army going south. The second is to break through the encirclement to the north quickly, and must break out of the encirclement before the main force of Shaanxi and Gansu reaches the battlefield.Gao Yingxiang was well aware of Fan Wencheng's rich experience, so he adopted it together.

On March [-]th, after hastily destroying the wall of the Dasan Pass, the rebel armies that went south and north parted ways. Leading an army of [-] rebels to break through the encirclement to the north, they learned the lesson from the failure of the last time they went north to break through. The town broke out to the north.But it is a pity that Hong Chengchou, who has been closely monitoring the actions of the rebel army, did not give Gao Yingxiang and Luo Rucai a chance to approach Long'an in order to retaliate against Young Master Zhang for his contempt. They are already in full battle on the north bank of the Weishui River.

"Brothers, life and death, let's fight here! Come with me!" In order to boost morale, Gao Yingxiang, who is quite powerful, went to the front line and personally led his ace armored cavalry to charge Hong Chengchou's army. The heavy cavalry roared across the dry and water-scarce Weishui River, and charged the eight thousand Hong Chengchou troops on the north bank. Hong Chengchou entertained with a bow and crossbow, and also came to the front line in person, raising his sword and roaring, "Brothers, it's time to wipe out the rebels! , You must block the thieves! Shoot me, shoot me hard!"

"Xuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu......!" Amidst the continuous sound of arrowheads piercing the air, raindrops of feathered arrows fell on the head of Gao Yingxiang's iron cavalry. Although the bandit soldiers in iron armor were not afraid of bows and arrows, their horses neighed miserably in the rain of arrows, the blood of the horses splashed, and the people in the muddy Weishui River turned their backs and horses into a mess, but Gao Yingxiang was not afraid at all, and swung a steel knife to block The bows and arrows of the Ming army were drawn in the lower frame, and only one word was shouted repeatedly, "Rush! Rush! Rush!" Encouraged by Gao Yingxiang, the rebel cavalry charged even more fiercely. The north bank hides and goes up.At this time, Hong Chengchou waved the flag, and three thousand infantrymen stepped forward with their guns raised, and in an instant, neat rows of mountains of bright guns were erected behind Juma's antlers.

"Kill!" The first rogue cavalry rushed to the front of the spear formation, and the first spear pierced the throat of his horse accurately. The soldier was a little slow to dodge, but was chopped off by him in the shoulder, blood spattered, and his shoulders and arms were almost cut off. At this time, under the careful training of Hong Chengchou, the skilled Shaanxi infantry stabbed him twice again, stabbing the chaos together. Although the lower abdomen of the bandit cavalryman failed to pierce his iron armor, he was lifted up into the air. Other Ming army spearmen stabbed randomly, and immediately pierced countless blood holes on his face and limbs without armor protection. On both sides of him, countless rogue cavalry also suffered the same fate, and their hoarse screams echoed along the Weishui River.

"Kill the thief!" "Kill the dog officer!" Amid the deafening slogans, swords were waving everywhere on the north bank of the Weishui River, steel was colliding fiercely, the sound of chopping, screaming and wailing, the screams of killing and death, and the screams of wounded soldiers The creepy screams, the howling of war horses, and the sounds of knives and guns chopping armor made goosebumps all mixed together.Relying on the slight geographical advantage built by Juma's antlers, Hong Chengchou's [-] infantry and [-] archers successfully entangled Gao Yingxiang's ace cavalry, while the [-] Ming army cavalry stood behind the battlefield to prevent the thieves from increasing their troops.Sure enough, not long after Gao Yingxiang's cavalry was blocked from the frontal attack, two rebel infantry also outflanked the cavalry's two wings, trying to cross the river and attack the Ming infantry's two wings. As soon as he went up, he immediately fought with the rebel infantry on both wings.

The fierce bloody battle lasted from [-]:[-] in the morning to [-]:[-] in the afternoon. Hong Chengchou's army, which had a weak terrain advantage, firmly held its position, and also repelled the charge of the rebel army many times and killed a large number of enemies. There were also quite a few casualties, and the hastily built blocking fortifications were also completely destroyed. Gao Yingxiang's cavalry, who had already retreated from the position to rest, saw an opportunity to take advantage of it, and began to regroup under the leadership of Gao Yingxiang, only waiting for the Luo Rucai army who was rushing forward to retreat. , You can break through the blocking position of the Ming army in one go-for the rogue army eager to break through, annihilating Hong Chengchou's army is undoubtedly a dream, and defeating Hong Chengchou's blocking is victory.But at this moment, a rebel scout suddenly rushed from the east and shouted from a distance: "King Chuang! King Chuang, it's not good! Traitors, traitors Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong came with their troops to kill them! "

"How is it possible?" Gao Yingxiang was very surprised, thinking that the troops of the two traitors, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, arrived in Mei County only the day before yesterday, and according to the distance, they would not arrive at the Baoji battlefield until noon tomorrow, how could they come so quickly?Fan Wencheng was not surprised, because he knew very well that no matter who surrendered to the new master, he would usually work harder in order to show himself in front of the new master than in front of the old master—Fan Wencheng himself is a typical example. typical.At this time, the scout had rushed to the front of Gao Yingxiang's banner, rolled off his horse and knelt on the ground, panting heavily, and said: "I report to King Chuang that the troops of the two traitors, Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng, have already crossed the Lishui River. Come here at full speed, and it will take at least half an hour, at most three quarters, to reach the battlefield."

"Damn it, these two traitors came so fast!" Gao Yingxiang cursed.Fan Wencheng next to him hurriedly said: "King Chuang, don't pay attention to them. According to the students, it is enough for King Wang Zuogui to lead the infantry to stop the two traitors Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong. King Chuang, your iron cavalry is our absolute main force. Come down and continue to attack Hong Chengchou's blocking position, as long as we break the blocking of Hong Chengchou's barbarian, we will win."

"That's right, I don't have time to pay attention to those two traitors now, and we will deal with them later." Gao Yingxiang agreed with Fan Wencheng's opinion very much, pointing to Wang Zuogui, who is a middle-level thieves from all walks of life, and ordered: "The king of troubled times , you immediately take your headquarters to the east, and block the two traitors, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, for two hours!" Wang Zuogui, the very old bandit leader, was very confident, and he hurriedly led the seven to eight thousand troops to the east with a promise. When Hong Chengchou on the north bank of the Weishui River discovered this situation, he immediately shouted with joy: "The rebels divide their troops and go to the east. It must be that our main reinforcements have arrived. Brothers, work harder and persevere!"

"Dog Killer!" A moment later, after the Luo Rucai army, who had been unable to attack for a long time, retreated, Gao Yingxiang's iron cavalry roared in unison, and they patted their horses and rushed towards the blocking position of the Ming army that was already full of dead soldiers from the two armies.To the surprise of Gao Yingxiang and Fan Wencheng, Hong Chengchou's right-hand man, Du Wenhuan, had already personally led the infantry of the Ming army to launch a counter-charge against the rebel cavalry. Gao Yingxiang was overjoyed at first, and said that the Ming army had taken the wrong medicine and gave up blocking The position was a dead end, but when the two armies met directly in the river, the river was already full of corpses and the river was stagnant, so Gao Yingxiang's iron cavalry could not exert its impact. Cutting off the leg of the man and the leg of the horse, Gao Yingxiang's iron cavalry cried out and fell into a hard fight.Seeing this scene, Fan Wencheng, who finally understood Hong Chengchou's intentions, couldn't help secretly praising him, "It's not easy for this barbarian Hong Chengchou to command in front of the battle. Unfortunately, if this barbarian surrenders to Da Jin as Si Baylor's slave like me, he will also belong to Si Baylor." A general."

Although Gao Yingxiang's iron cavalry fell into a bitter battle, Fan Wencheng, Luo Rucai and others were not very worried, because Hong Chengchou's move could certainly use the river terrain to allow the infantry to restrain the cavalry, but in this way, the casualties of the Ming army's infantry who had lost the protection of the fortifications also immediately increased. As long as it takes a long time, Hong Chengchou's army, which is at an absolute disadvantage in strength, will no longer have the strength to stop the rogue army.It's a pity that when Fan Wencheng and Luo Rucai were secretly rejoicing, there was an extremely loud shout of killing from the east. Wang Zuogui's bandit soldiers who had gone to the east to block the Ming army's reinforcements retreated like a tide in less than an hour. When he came back, Wang Zuogui, with a feathered arrow stuck in his shoulder, was still at the front, screaming in disbelief, "Damn it, you're crazy! Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, two traitors, were infected with mad dog disease by the mad dog army of the little dog officer." !"

"How did Wang Zuogui lose so quickly?" Luo Rucai and Fan Wencheng looked at each other face to face, and when Wang Zuogui rushed to the front and asked carefully, Luo Rucai and Fan Wencheng knew that when Wang Zuogui's army went to stop Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong's army, Wang Zuogui was first Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong scolded Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong in the battle for helping the tyrant and betraying the revolution. Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were furious. Wang Zuogui's army, who had turned into a descending tiger and hadn't even had a full meal for several days, was about to collapse at the touch of a finger. He was chased and slaughtered by Li Zicheng's and Zhang Xianzhong's troops like ducks. Wang Zuogui himself was shot by Zhang Xianzhong's arrow and almost died Zhang Xianzhong surrendered to Young Master Zhang's certificate of surrender.

After a little hesitation, Wang Zuogui's defeated soldiers had rushed to the battlefield like a tidal wave, and immediately disrupted the flanks of the rebels' main formation. Behind them, Zhang Xianzhong's army and Li Zicheng's army drew their sharp swords. Li Zicheng's army used Wang Zuogui's defeated troops as the vanguard to directly attack the rebels. Although they were three or four miles away, Luo Rucai and Fan Wencheng could still clearly hear the slogan of Li Zicheng's army, "Kill the thieves! Kill the rebels! Kill the rebellious thieves!" The slogan was so majestic that it even surpassed the morale of Hong Chengchou's army who had been boosted by the timely arrival of reinforcements.At this time, Hong Chengchou mobilized the last [-] cavalry reserves, beat all the drums, and launched a full-scale counterattack against the demoralized army of thieves.

The troops of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong are actually not many, less than 6000 combined, but the victory lies in the high morale, and the superior number of the rebel army has been exhausted because of the long-term attack on Hong Chengchou's blocking position. When reinforcements from the Ming army arrived, the morale of the few remaining soldiers suddenly dropped to the extreme.With no fighting spirit in the soldiers, Fan Wencheng shouted desperately, "Don't be afraid! Don't be afraid! Our strength is still superior, hold on! As long as we are steady, there is still hope of breaking through!" But many small bandits, in order to preserve their strength, Still scrambling to be the first to lead the army to retreat to the south of Dasan Pass, the thieves, women, children, old and weak with little combat effectiveness fled south faster one by one, and only the two armies of Gao Yingxiang and Luo Rucai could barely support them.In the end, Gao Yingxiang and Luo Rucai had no choice but to organize the army and fight while retreating, slowly retreating back to Shencha and using the terrain to stop the Ming army from chasing and killing. The terrain around Chacha is easy to defend and difficult to attack, so I didn't run to die foolishly, but just drove the thieves back to Shencha and called gold to withdraw the troops.

After the Weishui War ended, the Ming army did not return to Yimen Town. The joyous Hong Chengchou and Du Wenhuan had the opportunity to meet Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng's army. When the two sides met, Hong Chengchou, Du Wenhuan and other Shaanxi-Gansu generals screamed out—— Because they never dreamed that the Ming Army team that arrived on the battlefield one day earlier than expected to reinforce them turned out to be the old opponents of the Shaanxi-Gansu Ming Army for three years, old enemies who had made countless sworn enemies in the past three years, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong team!Surprised, although Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong took the initiative to salute Hong Chengchou, the governor of Shaanxi, Hong Chengchou, who never believed in the sincerity of the rebels' surrender, said with a straight face: "Don't dare to be! Where is Wu Zimian? He took the wrong medicine. You have a fever, why are you sent to be the vanguard?"

Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong spared no effort to come to Fengxiang mansion to reinforce Hong Chengchou day and night, but what they got in exchange was Hong Chengchou's face, and the two rebellious and troubled heroes suddenly became furious.Fortunately, the two supervisors of Li Zicheng's army and Zhang Xianzhong's army, Yang Ge and Gao Huan, stood up in time. Yang Ge's face was uglier than Hong Chengchou's and said: "Hong Zhongcheng, generals Zhang and Li, are the main force of Zhang Butang's personal roll call. Zhengyin Pioneer, what do you want to ask Marshal Wu?" Gao Yao also looked as if Hong Chengchou owed him 3000 taels of silver, humming and said: "If Hong Zhongcheng has any questions, you can go directly to Wenzhang Butang to ask. But our family I don’t understand why General Zhang and General Li walked 380 miles in more than four days, came here to reinforce you, killed the enemy and saluted you, why didn’t you ask them to get up?”

The eunuchs in the Tianqi Dynasty were the worst to be messed with. Hong Chengchou, who had no strong backing in the court, dared not offend these eunuchs and supervisors who could report directly to the emperor and Wei Zhongxian. Immediately vented, he honestly helped Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng, and thanked them—but refused to apologize for anything, and Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong's anger subsided a little.Immediately afterwards, after saying a few unnutritive and polite words, Hong Chengchou began to adjust the army's camp in order to effectively prevent the thieves from breaking through. Although Ge and Gao Huan didn't understand military affairs, seeing the angry faces of Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng, Yang Ge hurriedly asked Li Zicheng in a low voice: "General Li, is there any problem with Hong Zhongcheng's arrangement?"

"Eunuch Yang, Yimen Town is the forward position to prevent the thieves from breaking through. If the thieves break through, the army in Yimen Town will be the first to fight the thieves." Li Zicheng said in a low voice: "Originally, we were stationed here. It's nothing, but our army is in a hurry, and the soldiers and horses are very tired. If the thieves sneak up at night, we may suffer a big loss. It's best to let us rest for a day or two before stationing here. No problem."

"Hong Zhongcheng, it doesn't make sense for you to make such an arrangement." The villainous Yang Ge and Eunuch Yang immediately questioned Hong Chengchou without hesitation: "General Li and General Zhang's troops are mostly infantry, and they walk 380 miles in four days. Lilu, the soldiers and horses are exhausted and need time to rest, and you have arranged for them to be stationed at the forefront, how can they rest? If the thieves attack overnight, who will be responsible for the defeat?"

"That's right." Gao Yao understood, and echoed, "When we came here, Eunuch Tang, the godfather of the servants, already said that General Zhang and General Li are now members of the imperial court, and their soldiers are also from Ming Dynasty. Soldiers, please treat your slaves and maidservants equally—this issue, Zhong Cheng, should you think about it again?"

"Eunuch Gao, Mr. Zhong Cheng has no other intentions, but just thinks that General Zhang and General Li are familiar with the situation of the thieves..." Du Wenhuan, Hong Chengchou's right-hand man, was a little unconvinced and just wanted to refute.Unexpectedly, Yang Ge immediately interrupted: "By the way, General Du, godfather also said one more thing, this time you have to check the 'actual' number of soldiers in your army, and pay the military salary and military rewards, and Replenish the military pay that was owed in the past few months - I will be free later, can you recount the number of soldiers in your army?"

"Ah?!" Du Wenhuan was completely dumbfounded, and such a scene also appeared in his mind - all the ingots of white flowers grew wings, and flew farther and farther away from him!After regretting that he shouldn't have interrupted indiscriminately, Du Wenhuan quickly changed his words and said: "The two father-in-laws are right. The troops of General Li and General Zhang are very tired and need time to rest. It is really not suitable to be stationed in Yimen Town. The thieves broke through to the front line—how about the last general begging Lord Zhongcheng to let the last general lead his troops to station here?"

"Ha——." Hearing this, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong couldn't help laughing together.Hong Chengchou, who had malicious intentions, was like a defeated rooster, and said dejectedly: "Well then, General Du, you lead two thousand troops to station in Yimen Town to monitor the movements of the thieves and beware of the thieves breaking out overnight. General Zhang and General Li, please garrison at the mouth of the Qingjiang River, so that your army can take a good rest and prepare for another battle."

"Master Zhang really didn't lie to us. These two bastard eunuchs really work." Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong looked at each other, and while smiling, they also strengthened their determination to hang out among regular officers and soldiers—after all Well, the little boy Zhang Master obviously didn't want us to be Song Jiang, but he treated us as regular officers and soldiers sincerely.

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Leaving aside the fact that Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong rejoiced in the north for their right choice of surrendering to Young Master Zhang, Gao Yingxiang, Luo Rucai and other thieves returned to the Dasanguan area in disgrace, but were surprised to find that Wang Ziyong, who had just parted ways with them in the morning, , Wu Yangui and other thieves' army also dragged their flags and returned to the vicinity of the destroyed Dasan Pass.After sending envoys to each other to ask carefully, Gao Yingxiang, Luo Rucai and the bandit leaders found out that after the bandit army headed by Wang Ziyong and Wu Yangui went south, they were also attacked by Baigan soldiers stationed in Fengxian County and Hanzhong General Zhao Guangyuan of the Ming Army. The army's resolute resistance, the white pole soldiers who are best at mountain warfare did not choose to use the city wall of Fengxian County to defend to the death, but took the initiative to attack and start a field battle with Wang Ziyong and other bandits at the source of the Jialing River. Playing hard, Qin Liangyu's mother and son, who took the lead, beat their helmets and armors, and the shit was fucked. Chen Datou, the medium-sized thief, was also hooked down by white soldiers in the rebellious army, and shot to death. The defeated rebels had to return to Dasan Pass to reorganize team.

"I just said, there is no good end to going south. Is Qin Liangyu, that old bitch's white soldier, so easy to deal with?" After hearing the messenger's report, Luo Ru let out a gleeful laugh, and said to the thieves again "My lords, don't be in a hurry. Although we lost the battle today, it doesn't matter. The dog officer's army also lost a lot. We still have an advantage in strength. The terrain in the north is open, which is good for us to break through. As long as we work together , take the lead, and tomorrow you will definitely be able to break out of the encirclement of the puppy officer."

All the thieves were downcast, and most of them refused to make a sound. Only a few thieves agreed. Gao Yingxiang murmured and asked Fan Wencheng: "Mr. Fan, you have a lot of ideas and a lot of experience in the battlefield. I plan to divide the army tomorrow There are two groups, one is to break through the encirclement through the road of Yimen Town, and the other is to break through the encirclement to the northwest along the road of Shenshahe, so that the army of Xiaogouguan can take care of one thing and lose another. ,what do you think?"

"Chuang Wang Gaoming, the students think so too." Fan Wencheng also agreed with Gao Yingxiang's plan, and added: "However, in my opinion, in order to gain a greater grasp, we should work on Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng. Convince them to abandon the darkness and turn to the light, and return to our army, then we are basically [-]% sure of breaking through."

"Those two traitors have become dogs for the puppy officer, will they come back again?" Luo Rucai asked doubtfully.Fan Wencheng smiled, and said darkly: "Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong are both smart people, and they won't be afraid that Officer Zhang Xiaogou will use them as Song Jiang. As long as you explain to them how powerful they are, and give them enough benefits to win them back, or There is great hope. King Chuang, don’t be angry. In fact, your general is more useful than before. You can imagine that if you are on the battlefield, your general will suddenly stab the barbarian army in the back. What will it be like?"

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