Gao Yingxiang was not the kind of person who was unsightly, so he naturally didn't believe in the unfounded rumors. The bandit shouted to ask questions and shook his head and said, "Although I have never seen anyone, I think it's not like a rumor. But the young man had contact with Zhao Shaxing's soldiers in Fengyang. Zhao Shaxing's most powerful soldiers were not those cavalry, but their infantry. Those infantry and soldiers acted consistently, and were comparable to ordinary officials."

"How many people are there?" Gao Yingxiang asked.

"The infantry army is about three thousand."

"Ha! There are only three thousand people. If he doesn't come, he will definitely surround them and kill them." Gao Yingxiang smiled contemptuously, and he couldn't help but feel relieved. He had 20,000 strong men, 40,000 elite cavalry, and 30,000 women. Including the 4,000 cavalrymen, his military strength was ten times that of Zhao Shaxing.

Most of the 40,000 elite cavalry were composed of surrendered people. They were from the official army and had neat armor and were not chaotic in the army. If any bandits were stronger than Gao Yingxiang, the bandits in the northwest would inevitably be in the midst of the crowd. Only Gao Yingxiang could conquer the crowd. Many small bandits had fought with Gao Yingxiang.

However, Gao Yingxiang was obviously not having a good time at this time. Lin Yi and Wu Yongliang, the cavalrymen, took turns to move out, just like two annoying flies, biting them when they saw the cheap, and tickling them at night, making people feel uneasy.

Gao Yingxiang tried every means to get rid of the other party's trouble, but it was obviously all bankrupt. The horse was driven by others, and some thieves rode on horseback and shot him again.

In addition, this is a plain, Gao Yingxiang could not ambush the cavalry that sneaked into attacks. Within two days, Lin Yi and Wu Yongliang attacked at night, and the main focus was on launching rockets at night.

The marching speed of the thieves was very slow. After only 60 miles in two days, the King of Crazy Heaven could not hold on first, and led his men directly to the south, obviously wanting to go south to Huguang.

But less than half a day later, Gao Yingxiang received the news that the King of Cang was killed. The official army composed of 4,000 cavalry attacked the King of Cang and directly defeated the King of Cang and killed the King of Cang.

...On June 21, a group of people under the banner of Zhao appeared on the other side of the Tun River, blocking Gao Yingxiang's way. The number of people was only 4,000, but these 4,000 people were blocked on the other side of the river, which became a headache for Gao Yingxiang and other thieves leaders.

It is impossible to return to Tongguan and return to Shaanxi. Shaanxi cannot find so many food rations at all. Only by entering the Central Plains can you find enough food rations to maintain the size of the troops.

The water level of the Tun River is not deep, it just goes into the waist. After Gao Yingxiang personally surveyed the terrain by the river, he decided to ask someone to fill the Tun River and then forcefully cross the river.

As a result, it was beyond Gao Yingxiang's expectation that the crossing of the river was extremely smooth. Zhao Shaxing's soldiers did not attack, but retreated ten miles instead, obviously because they were afraid of them.

Nearly 500,000 bandits began to cross the river one after another, and the first one was Gao Yingxiang's forty thousand elite cavalry. At noon that day, all 500,000 bandits crossed the Tun River.

At this moment, the retreating official army suddenly approached and set up a formation half inside and outside the Gao Yingxiang army to attack the bandit army. The three thousand infantry soldiers were arranged in three horizontal lines, with one thousand cavalry on each wing. Gao Yingxiang looked at the official army in the distance with a thousand miles mirror. How dare they line up in front of 500,000 people? Are they looking for death?

Gao Yingxiang immediately recruited the leaders of other thieves and began to discuss tactics to attack the official army.

Soon the thief quickly made adjustments and formed their effective formation. Cannon fodder was in front and the elite riders were behind. The cannon fodder were all old, weak, women and children, behind were some strong men, and at the end were their elite riders.

In the first wave of attack, the number of thieves involved reached more than 50,000. The cannon fodder in front was driven by the elite cavalry behind, and looked at the official army in front with anxiety, but had to be forced forward by the cruel reality. If they want to have food, they have to participate in the battle and be at the forefront.

The Jingji behind was very calm. Anyway, the person in front who died first felt very safe behind him.

The thieves were like a surging sea of ​​people, pressing towards the official army two thousand meters away. Zhao Yong held a telescope in his hand and looked calmly at the surging sea of ​​people.

"Old Lin, you will be able to cover your wings later." Zhao Yong said to Lin Yi with a smile.

"No problem." Lin Yi pulled the cover down and then rode his horse back into the formation. Zhao Yong arranged the first battalion according to the combat formation, followed by the base artillery and the artillery battalion that was dispatched together this time. Lin Yi's two thousand cavalry protected the two wings, while Wu Yongliang's two thousand cavalry protected the artillery behind and also used as a reserve team.

"Rocket soldiers are in place." Zhao Yong ordered, picked up the telescope and looked at the thief who had approached within 1,500 meters, shouting: "Light."

The shrill rocket roared immediately, and hundreds of rockets continued to take off, dragging their tail flames across the sky, leaving a long white smoke in the air.

The launch at a 45-degree angle soon landed 1,500 meters away, and the thief was just around the corner. Hundreds of rockets kept falling from the sky, and most of the rockets exploded on the thief's head.

Almost all of them hit, and thousands of fallen thieves were no less than ten thousand, and the grass on the ground was immediately ignited by rockets, and some thieves even caught fire.

The thieves' army suddenly became chaotic, and the old, weak, women and children screamed and ran around in the explosion. Soon, the second wave of rockets followed one after another, causing huge casualties in the dense thieves.

The elite cavalry composed of Dings behind, some of the horses were frightened to the point of being crazy. When they saw those rockets descending from the sky and they were targets, a sense of powerless fear emerged from their hearts and instinctively wanted to escape. Some thieves rushed out of the team and fled backwards.

"Zhao Shaxing's Denglai ammunition weapon is sharp, far from comparable to other government troops." Gao Yingxiang looked at the powerful rockets and said to several thieves' leaders around him: "Can you have a way to break it?"

"Just just rushed over, the government army had only a few people, and could it resist our 50,000 elite cavalry?" Lao Hui Ma Shouying said in a deep voice.

"It's the most, the official army has only 7,000 people, and it's very easy to attack." Yizi Wang said.

"King of Chuang, I see that Zhao Shaxing's Denglai soldiers are all wearing armor and acting consistently. They must be not as easy as Shaanxi border troops..." The eight kings Zhang Xianzhong seemed a little doubtful.

"I'm worried, what are you afraid of if there are a few people?" Ma Shouying said, if it were the past, three thousand officials would be enough to scare them, but Ai Wannian, Cao Wenzhao and other people have been shot dead by them this year, and Hong Xiangjiu's 30,000 troops will do anything to them.

"Didn't you see their military weapons? Compared with your troops, you are completely a terrifying bumpkin." Zhang Xianzhong retorted loudly.

"Okay, don't make a noise." Gao Yingxiang quickly stopped him, and then said directly: "Brothers gather all the elite cavalry in their hands and follow me to kill the official army."

Soon, the bandits of various tribes gathered their own spirit cavalry. Gao Yingxiang rode a horse, wearing armor, and lived in the spirit cavalry formation for command.

Fifty thousand elite cavalry soon gathered together. At Gao Yingxiang's order, 50,000 people rode different fat and thin horses, and the horses trotted towards the opposite army.

Boom boom boom boom... The sound of thunderous horse hooves became louder and louder, and 50,000 cavalrymen were dispatched together, and the head was so dark that the tail could not be seen.

"Here you come." Zhao Yong looked at the cavalry in the distance and ordered: "Don't move the artillery first."

Gao Yingxiang led his men into the rocket strike range of the government army, but was not attacked by the rockets. He immediately said happily: "The government army has no rockets."

The power of the rocket is absolutely terrifying. The shrapnel can kill people within five meters in diameter. For thieves with dense formations, they definitely have huge lethality.

Gao Yingxiang and his men slowly ran 400 meters away from the front of the first battalion, and then stopped because they were mobs after all, and only took more than a thousand meters of distance, the cavalry was in chaos, and the interval between each cavalry was very large, so they rushed over and delivered military merits to the government army.

"Let the artillery and the rocket soldiers fight." Zhao Yong looked at the numerous thieves with a sneer.

"Boom boom boom..."

"call out……"

Just as Gao Yingxiang was ordering the troops to rectify the formation, a series of artillery fires suddenly came from the government army, and smoke from gunpowder came out of the back formation of the government army.

"Ye...boom..."

The violent artillery began, and the artillery battalion led by Huang Yao became the main force of the artillery. The cannon was mounted to a 20-degree angle and bombarded the densely packed thief cavalry, with almost no aim, because there were thieves everywhere in front.

The first one to arrive was the artillery shells. After the explosion, they directly caused huge casualties to the thieves, and more than 400 shells were shot into the thieves' formation.

These more than 400 shells were like death gods, quickly harvesting the lives of thieves. After each shell fell, the crater was in a mess, and the surrounding thieves fell to the ground like harvesting wheat.

But for the thief, the nightmare has just begun. Just after the shells passed, hundreds of rockets flew over their heads. After these rockets arrived on the ground, they would rush around at the thief's feet with white smoke and "Yiyiyi", and then rushed to someone's side. Suddenly, it exploded. The feeling would definitely make people collapse. Many thiefs were frightened and rode their horses crazy to avoid the rockets running around.

The fuses of these rockets exploded 1,500 meters away. When they hit four or five hundred meters away, they would naturally run around the ground, just like whistling mice.

The chaos after the shelling, because these rockets running around on the ground, immediately spread to the entire army, and the thieves were all avoiding the rockets, and a chaotic man was neighing.

Even the thief who remained really calm was knocked out and lost his position.

Gao Yingxiang was stunned and tried hard to restrain the team, but the chaos was unstoppable. At this moment, the sound of cannons started to sound again.

There were not many artillery shells flying, about a dozen. But then, the cannons continued to sound, almost one after another, and the shells began to bombard the thieves.

Many thieves were extremely shocked. How could the cannons still be fired? How many cannons did the official army have?

The second wave of shelling was not as neat as the first wave, but it was continuous, which made the thieves feel very stressed because shells could fall to their sides and blow themselves to death at any time.

The official army's artillery is amazingly powerful. Wherever the shells hit, people within eight meters will be killed, unless someone else is playing a meat shield in front of them.

Gao Yingxiang and other thieves' 50,000 elite cavalry were in a state of chaos at this moment, and immediately the elite cavalry began to ride horses and escape from the battlefield.

Horses are very important to them and are definitely something to save lives.

The defeat soon began to spread, and all the bandits and elite cavalry, even Gao Yingxiang himself, hurriedly wanted to withdraw from the shelling area.

The first battalion and the two wings of the cavalry behind the formation quickly attacked and chased towards the fleeing bandits. The artillery adjusted the firing angle to the highest, fired another shot, and then stopped the artillery.

The four thousand cavalry were different from the chaotic bandit cavalry. The formation was very close to the escaped bandit cavalry. Gao Yingxiang and other bandit leaders wanted to stabilize their positions to resist the official cavalry, but they were unable to turn the world back. Under the attack and pursuit of Lin Yi and Wu Yongliang, the bandit leaders Gao Yingxiang and the bandit leaders could only start running away with them.

"It's so unstoppable that even close combat has not happened." Zhao Yong curled his lips and said depressedly. However, Gao Yingxiang obviously could not solve it with a single shelling. Zhao Yong ordered: "Get on the horse and chase it."

...In late June, Lu Xiangsheng arrived from Yunyang, but saw a large number of prisoners. In just two days, the Denglai army captured nearly 300,000 people.

For Zhao Yong and Lin Yi and others, the main task this time was to capture the population. Therefore, after the 21st day of the fight, Gao Yingxiang was shocked and retreated, he bit the whole way. The cavalry battalion was catching people all the way, while the infantry battalion rode a horse to catch up with the bandits. When they encountered bandits who dared to resist, they would dismount and defeat them. If the scale was small, some soldiers would be left behind and the other soldiers would continue to pursue them.

On the 22nd day, Zhao Yong chased Gao Yingxiang for five battles. Due to the rapid march, the artillery was left behind and the horses did not carry many rockets. Zhao Yong did not have super long-range firepower support.

However, the precise cooperation between the various types of soldiers of the Denglai infantry, as well as the abnormal protection ability, especially the strength of supporting firepower, Gao Yingxiang drove the bandits forward and all were defeated in less than a moment.

The bandits were frightened by Zhao Yong's infantry battalion, and Lin Yi and Wu Yongliang's cavalry battalions appeared around like ghosts, and could attack them at any time.

However, when encountering these cavalry, you just need to surrender.

The first ones were captured were the old, weak and disabled soldiers because they could not run. Then the other ones were captured were the strong men and women. The horses that had no transportation were intercepted.

On the 23rd day, Gao Yingxiang and more than 100,000 people fled to the southwest. Zhao Yong and the others could not encircle them at all. After all, they were all plains and did not have enough troops, so they could only pursue them all the way.

It was like eating a big cake, capturing the thieves one by one. As long as those thieves were caught, they generally did not dare to resist.

However, because there are too many prisoners, some people need to be left to take care of them. In addition, the remaining thieves are riding horses, so the speed of capturing thieves members has also slowed down.

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng arrived with his men and horses, blocked Gao Yingxiang's front, and cooperated with Denglai's troops and captured most of the bandits.

Finally, Gao Yingxiang fled into the mountainous areas at the junction of Shaanxi, Henan, Shu and Chu with more than 20,000 people in desperate situations.

When the old Hui Ma Shouying and the eight kings Zhang Xianzhong saw that the official army was only pursuing the brigades, they had no time to take into account the characteristics of the small group, so they separated from Gao Yingxiang.

The old Hui Ma Shouying flew east of Henan, while the eight kings Zhang Xianzhong flew toward Huguang.

(To be continued)
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