In fact, what Hao Yaoqi guessed was not completely wrong. There were not many ambushing officials here, with less than 6,000 people. However, there were three thousand cavalry, which was more than the rebel army. Moreover, the rebel army was waiting for work and occupied the advantage of the territory. When fighting with it, the rebel army did not have any advantage at all.

In addition to being brave and good at fighting, Hao Yaoqi also has another advantage, that he is more able to recognize the situation on the battlefield. He has been a thief for more than 20 years, and no matter in various dangers, he can always turn bad luck into good fortune in the end. One of the main reasons is that when he loses, he will escape first.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Hao Yaoqi vaguely wanted to lead his troops to retreat temporarily. But at this moment, he saw a horseman in the distance through the firelight. The man on the horse was tall and tall, wearing bright light armor, holding a spear. He was traversing back and forth on the battlefield, constantly knocking down his own soldiers. Dozens of horsemen beside him, holding a spear, and then killed the enemy. His face was shining with a calm and arrogant look.

When Hao Yaoqi saw this, he was furious and urged the horse to rush forward, slashing the current general with a knife. He roared wildly, "Sister Gao Jie, do you still remember your grandfather?"

Gao Jie looked at Hao Yaoqi from afar, pointed his gun in front of him and said coldly: "Hao Yaoqi, get off the horse and kneel down, I will spare your life."

Hao Yaoqi snorted, "You dog thief, do you remember how the King of Breaking used to treat you in the past? A bastard who is not a thing, not only surrendered to the official army, but also kidnapped the concubine of the King of Breaking. Only beasts like you can do such bad things. Dogs know how to repay kindness. You, a wild donkey who eats other people's cold rice, are even worse than pigs and dogs. What about mountain hoist? I think you are a pheasant. Today I chopped off your dog's head and cut off your thing to feed the pig. I sent your son to be a eunuch, send your daughter to be a prostitute, and let your turtle son lose his son..." Hao Yaoqi was wandering around the world. Before the uprising, he was a gangster in the city. In terms of courage, how many people could compete with him in the army. But in terms of verbal battles, he said he was second, and no one dared to be the first. All kinds of dirty words came out instantly, and Gao Jie's face was flushed and speechless.

It is said that Hao Yaoqi and Gao Jie were old acquaintances, but why did Gao Jie hate him so much? This starts with Gao Jie escaping from the rebel army.

Xing was originally Li Zicheng's concubine, but because of her wit and cleverness, Li Zicheng asked her to take charge of the logistics of the entire army. Gao Jie was still young and handsome at the time, and was a rising star in the army. He went to Xing's place to receive military rations, weapons, and various supplies every day, and had contact with him. After a while, the two fell in love with each other and did a miserable thing.

The two were worried that Li Zicheng would find it, so they planned to flee and surrender to the Ming army. However, Gao Jie was a general in the rear camp and rarely could go out, and he had to take Xing family with him. But the opportunity finally came. The official army sent a large army to encircle and suppress the troops. All the elite troops of the rebel army were released, and Gao Jie and Hao Yaoqi stayed behind. He knew that Hao Yaoqi liked to drink, so he gave him several jars of fine wine. Hao Yaoqi couldn't bear it, so he drank Ning Zhen that night. When he woke up, Gao Jie had already left and took Xing family and thousands of soldiers away.

Although Li Zicheng did not blame him, he immediately made a great vow to tear Gao Jie out of pieces. The two fought many times later, but Hao Yaoqi was just brave and Gao Jie was brave and resourceful, so he did not get any advantage. However, his anger was added to his heart and he became more hatred of Gao Jie.

Gao Jie's face was flushed and he urged his horse to step forward, trying to stab Hao Yaoqi down with one shot. But Hao Yaoqi was not a weak person. He lifted his horse forward and fought with Gao Jie with a knife.

The rocket shooting ignited the fallen leaves under the forest, ignited the trees, and the fires soared into the sky. Hao Yaoqi was able to see the situation of the official army. The number of people was not large, and he might not be defeated if he continued to fight. Moreover, this place was only more than twenty miles away from the social flag. If Gao Jie was delayed here and waited for reinforcements to arrive, he might be able to fulfill his long-cherished wish to kill Gao Jie. Thinking of this, he was more motivated, waved his arms, and shouted and kept slashing towards Gao Jie. But the two of them had a force of half a pound, and no one could do anything to each other.

Gao Jie had other ideas. Seeing that he could not fight for a long time, he quickly separated from Hao Yaoqi and retreated backwards, completely ignoring Hao Yaoqi's loud shouting. He decisively took the defensive force, using the hills on both sides as positions, and the cavalry harassed and restrained them to kill and injure the infantrymen of the rebel army.

Hao Yaoqi thought Gao Jie was weak, so he used his cavalry to intercept the cavalry, and the infantry rose up to attack the hills. He intended to wipe out all the infantry officers and soldiers first, and then deal with Gao Jie.

The sound of drums moved the ground, the sound of killing shook the sky, and the sound of cannons was like thunder, making the night uneasy at all.

Tanghe County, also known as Tangxian, is located southwest of Nanyang. Tanghe and Tongtianhe converge here, and more than 80% of the territory are hills. Sun Chuanting captured Fancheng and agreed with the official army to attack Xiangyang from north to south. Unfortunately, under the persistence of the defenders, he ended with the defeat. However, he did not withdraw all his troops back to Nanyang City, but instead stationed nearly 10,000 troops in Xinye and Deng County cities, taking the junction to jointly defend the Xiangyang defenders.

After Li Zicheng led a large army to arriving, he wanted to eliminate the two cities and integrate with the Xiangyang defenders. However, every time the army attacked, the Nanyang defenders would provide timely assistance, causing them to lose their troops and lose nothing. In the end, he gave up attacking the two cities and let Liu Fangliang lead 50,000 people to station in Tanghe and restrain the official army from going south.

Liu Fangliang stationed in the city with 20,000 troops, and 30,000 troops on the west bank of the Tang River, connecting more than ten floating bridges. In this way, not only did the troops of Xinye and Deng County, but also guarded against the Nanyang defenders, making Sun Chuanting feel like a thorn. The most important thing was that he established a ferry on the banks of the Hanshui River 30 miles east of Fancheng, and carried grain and grass into Xiangyang with a boat, which solved the risk of grain and grass for the defenders. Although the grain and grass he opened was nearly a hundred miles away than crossing the river from Fancheng, and even crossed mountains and ridges, at least he did not have to rely on the breath of the official army. When Hao Yaoqi went north, he chose to walk on this road.

After getting the order to go to Sheqi and Li Guohuihe, Liu Fangliang thought about it and thought that the water on the Sheqi side was shallow and could easily cross the river. However, the 200,000 troops passed there, which inevitably caused chaos. He left some thoughts and transferred 30,000 troops to Sheqi, leaving 20,000 troops in Tang County. When the army crossed the river, he went north from the west bank of the river in time and used the traction for the army on the west bank of the Tang River near Sheqi. In order to avoid the dispatch of troops to attract the attention of the official army, the troops heading north were divided into three batches and gradually went.

Liu Fangliang went to Sheqi to explain the matter to Li Guo, and stayed in Tang County for his deputy general Xie Junyou. Thirty thousand people left one after another. Although Liu Fangliang would come back as soon as possible, Xie Junyou was unhappy. The King of Breaking Army had a few times the rate of troops fighting Sun Chuanting, and he still had more defeats and fewer victory. He was afraid that the official army would suddenly escape from where he would defeat his own army. In fact, not only himself, most of the Breaking Army were afraid of Sun Chuanting and believed that he had the ability of unpredictable gods and ghosts. He inspected twice in armor, and everything was as usual, satisfied, and was about to return to the city.

Suddenly, a personal soldier pointed at the south side and asked in surprise: "General, do you see if there is a fire there?"

Xie Junyou looked up and saw the moon hanging high, and the sky was blue and gray everywhere, but the south side was red like the sunset. He was shocked and muttered in a low voice, "Damn it, I knew it was uneasy tonight." Then he quickly ordered: "Hurry, send a whistle to go and find out what happened there as soon as possible?"

The whistle cavalry had just been sent less than a quarter of an hour when they saw a cavalry returning from the south with arrow wounds. "The government army set up an ambush, General Hao fought hard, please send reinforcements as soon as possible."

Xie Junyou asked again how many officials and how the battle was, but he couldn't explain it clearly.

The news spread throughout the camp in an instant, and several generals came, all looking at Xie Junyou. Seeing that he was just frowning and speechless, one of the generals stood up and said, "General, Hao Yaoqi is the beloved general of the King of Chuang. If he sits and watches him defeated, it is probably difficult to explain to the King of Chuang. Moreover, when General Liu left, he asked us to welcome Hao Yaoqi. At this moment, he is in a custody, so why should we send someone to pick him up?"

Xie Junyou glanced at him. The general was named Ren Jiguang. He was the head general of the first battalion and had thousands of troops under his command. "Have you ever thought that the official army had attacked a long time ago and did not attack late. Why did he choose to attack the night before General King of Chuang attacked Nanyang? Think about it carefully, there are indeed many unusual places today. First of all, the scouts sent to Nanyang tonight did not come back, not one, but nothing. Also, these official army did not attack our army on the west bank of the Tang River, but crossed the Tang River and set up an ambush on the south side more than twenty miles downstream of our army. Listen to the cavalry and barracks, there were at least thousands of official troops there. Where did they cross the river? How many people? I haven't figured out these, will the ambush of the official army be there again?"

After he said this, everyone was silent and frowned and pondered.

Another general, Xiao Yunlin, stood up and said, "General Xie, no matter what the government army plans, Hao Yaoqi has to save him. Otherwise, not only will he not be able to explain to the King of Chuang, but he will also easily disappoint the hearts of the soldiers. What do you think this is good? Our army still has thousands of cavalry here, so let them rescue General Hao. Let them be careful all the way, and even if there is really any problem, they can withdraw in time. In addition, send more scouts to the direction of Nanyang to explore the movements of the government army over there. In addition, send people to the Sheqi immediately and inform General Li Guo and Liu Fangliang of the situation here, and let them decide." Xiao Yunlin was a native of Jingmen, Huguang, and has followed Liu Fangliang for many years, giving advice and many suggestions.

Xie Junyou thought for a while and walked thousands of cavalry, which would not affect the defense here, and could also explain to Hao Yaoqi. He turned to his general Niu Wancai and said, "General Niu, then you will lead the troops to reinforce General Hao! Other units will guard all places to prevent the official army from attacking."

Niu Wancai was a cavalry general and commanded three thousand cavalrymen. He probably thought it would be him, so he laughed and quickly bowed his order.

Xiao Yunlin frowned slightly. Niu Wancai had the most cavalry under his command, and he was indeed the best candidate to go to rescue. But he was rough-minded, sloppy, brave enough, and lacked wisdom. The most important thing to go to reinforce was to be careful. Moreover, the number of three thousand cavalry seemed to be a little less. So he stood up and said, "General, his subordinates also have hundreds of cavalry in their hands, and are willing to accompany General Niu to go with him."

Xie Junyou agreed to his request, and at the same time transferred hundreds of cavalrymen to gather enough 4,000 cavalry to the two.

The cavalry speeded at a very fast speed, and there was nothing wrong with the road. Hearing the shouts of killing approaching, the two gradually accelerated their speed. After crossing the three hills, they finally saw the battlefield ahead. The flames burned half of the trees on the hills into charcoal, and all over the mountains were corpses, including official troops and trespassers. The remaining men and horses fought around the two small hills, and there were low shouts of killing everywhere. Hao Yaoqi was covered in blood, his eyes were red, and he held a long sword in his hand and roared forward, "Crush, rush! Kill all these official troops."

Hearing the sound of horse hooves galloping, Hao Yaoqi looked up and saw that the King of Breaking King in the distance were particularly obvious. He laughed and looked at Gao Jie not far away and shouted loudly: "Child Gao Jie, grandpa's reinforcements have arrived, you are finished."

Gao Jie also saw the reinforcements of the rebel army and sneered, "You are finished. Hu Zi, fire an arrow."

Li Chengliang, who was next to him, drew an arrow from his back, ignited the ignition arrow with flint, then pulled the string and pulled the bow, and shot it directly above. The arrow flew into the sky with a sharp call, and exploded like a firecracker at the highest point. The sparks flew and could be seen within twenty miles.

Xiao Yunlin was surprised when he saw the fire that broke out, but seeing that Niu Wancai had already led his troops to rush down, he hesitated and left three hundred cavalry on the hill with him, so that others could follow Niu Wancai to rush over.

Although Gao Jie was unable to defeat Hao Yaoqi for a while, the situation was obviously more beneficial to him. However, with Niu Wancai's joining, the situation reversed instantly. Gao Jie used cavalry to alternately cover, fought and retreated, and finally retreated to the original entrance of the road. The cavalry lined up and gave up the mobility of the cavalry. The infantry on both sides helped each other and formed a defensive situation.

The number of rebels was superior, but it was difficult to defeat Gao Jie for a while. The two armies were anxious and difficult to separate, and the bodies covered the valley entrance.

At this moment, the sound of war drums suddenly came from the distant sky. It was like thunder, but it was dull at first, but later it became louder and louder. Hao Yaoqi looked back in shock, but the hills were separated by him and could not see anything, but Xiao Yunlin, who was standing on the high ground, suddenly appeared from all over the hills, holding torches and quickly gathered here. The nearest ones were only five miles away from here, and the far ones were less than ten miles away, and it arrived in an instant. His heart suddenly fell to the bottom of the ice, shouting loudly, warning everyone, but it was too late.

Gao Jie knelt on the ground with one knee, clasped his fists and said upwards: "Master General, annihilate, and captured more than 10,000 thieves. Only Hao Yaoqi led hundreds of remnants to flee west, and the current trend is unknown."

Sun Chuanting sighed, "I spent countless energy to hide the thieves and successfully ambushed here. I thought I could destroy all the thieves in Tanghe, but I didn't expect that there were only more than 10,000 people. Gao Jie, you stay here and collect available horses. If there are bandits who are willing to surrender, temporarily incorporate them into your army. Kill everyone else, don't have a captive."
Chapter completed!