Hall of Care for Heart.

Zhu Youjian's face was filled with an excited expression, and on the imperial desk were the memorials reported by Chen Qiyu.

He did not expect that since Chen Qiyu was able to encircle and suppress the main force of the bandits and trap these bandits in the Chexiang Gorge in Xing'an Prefecture. The memorial was written in very detailed, including the situation in Xing'an Prefecture, several encounters, and the situation in the Chexiang Gorge. After reading it once, he fully understood the situation of the warring parties. Judging from the current situation, the imperial army had an absolute advantage. Such an opportunity was too difficult.

Zhu Youjian certainly agreed with the plan to siege the bandits and let the bandits lose without fighting. Although it would cost some silver, it was no big deal. Gritting his teeth and persevering in the past. As long as the main force of the bandits was wiped out, I found a way to make money in the future. Besides, Su Tiancheng in Jiangning County is indeed good. The Nanjing Maritime Conducting Department has been getting higher and higher income, and it has already reached more than one million taels of silver. It has entered the treasury. In the second half of the year, Su Tiancheng will be given to Su Tiancheng. All the income of the Maritime Conducting Department will be attributed to the court. That is another few million taels of silver, which can solve most of the problems.

Soon, the imperial edict was over, and the court allocated 500,000 taels of silver, and ordered Chen Qiyu to do his best to eliminate the bandits.

In Jiangning County, Su Tiancheng, who was always concerned about the situation, also received a letter from Qu Qingze. The imperial army led by Chen Qiyu surrounded the bandits in the carriage gorge. The bandits could no longer escape. This time, the bandits would encounter a devastating blow. The court was very happy, and the emperor rarely smiled.

When Su Tiancheng saw the letter, his face became even more gloomy.

He already knew the ending. The Battle of the Carriage Gorge was written into history. He knew very well that the problem was the officers around Chen Qiyu, who were greedy for money and recruiting bandits, causing most of the bandits to escape, and all the main leaders escaped.

This is by no means good news. After the bandits escaped from the Chexiang Gorge, they entered a new stage of development and gradually began to grow. Only in the tenth year of Chongzhen, Sun Chuanting, Yang Sichang and others wiped out the bandits again and achieved a great victory. That time, because of the contradictions within the court and the kindness towards the bandits, they missed the opportunity to wipe out the bandits. Since then, the court has no longer been able to wipe out the bandits, and was eventually thrown into the stable by Li Zicheng and destroyed the Ming Dynasty.

It was already July when Su Tiancheng received the letter.

He sighed to the sky, time has passed, and he is powerless to turn things around, and everything that should have happened may have happened.

The situation facing Jiangning Camp began to become dangerous. After the Battle of Chexiangxia, a major thing will happen, that is, Fengyang Prefecture was attacked by bandits and the imperial tomb was destroyed.

Such things must never happen.

From this day on, Jiangning Camp's training suddenly became nervous. It was already the busy farming season and the autumn harvest was about to come, but Jiangning Camp canceled all vacations and all soldiers were not allowed to go out.

The drought in Shaanxi has lasted for several years, but this year is particularly strange, that is, there is a lot of rain.

The rain has not stopped since June.

The bandits in the carriage gorge encountered an unprecedented dilemma.

Gao Yingxiang originally thought that the imperial government army would definitely launch an attack, and at least they had to enter the carriage gorge to test it, but his estimates were made that the imperial government army did not attack at all, but was defending the entrance of the gorge.

More than ten days later, Gao Yingxiang began to worry.

The rain was always constant, and the inside of the carriage was very wet, and the soldiers could no longer hold on.

He summoned Luo Rucai, Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng and others to discuss the next step of action.

Several people understood that the court army had taken the measures they were most reluctant to see, guarding the gorge to trap them to death.

It is definitely not possible to sit and wait for death. After a few people discussed it, they decided to start breaking through. No matter what, they had to try the strength of the official army. The continuous rain was also beneficial to them. The Shenji Battalion of the official army could not play a role. Needless to say, the combat effectiveness of the brothers they led was. If they could break out of a bloody road and the large army broke through, they would have achieved the greatest victory.

In early July, the first breakthrough began.

Gao Yingxiang personally led 10,000 soldiers, including two thousand cavalrymen, and rushed out of the gorge and rushed towards the official army waiting at the gorge.

Chen Qiyu and Lu Xiangsheng both accurately predicted it and had already made preparations. Half a month passed, and the bandits in the carriage were not moving. They guessed that the bandits must have known the intentions of the court army and had to fight to the death and began to break through. Soldiers had already been arranged on both sides of the gorge, and they kept observing for twelve hours. If the bandits broke through, they would definitely be able to discover it.

As for the soldiers waiting at the entrance of the gorge, they were all the most elite soldiers. After receiving the imperial edict, Chen Qiyu also issued a death order, and the bandits were not allowed to escape. No matter how serious the casualties were, they would wipe out the bandits in the carriage.

From a distance, when he saw the bandits rushing out from the gorge, Chen Qiyu sneered on his face. Zhang Pu, who was standing beside him, looked solemn and didn't say anything.

Soon, the red flag was raised, and the one who greeted the bandits was not the soldiers, but the dense rain of arrows.

Screams came one after another, and bandits were constantly hit by arrows and fell to the ground, but the bandits were not in chaos and were still rushing forward tenaciously.

The two rounds of arrow rain finally slowed down the bandits' impact.

At this time, the blue flag was raised.

The archery sergeant quickly dodged away, and the sound of horse hooves rumbling, and the cavalry was dispatched.

A huge impact sounded.

The two cavalrymen met, and the sound of swords and swords sounded, burying screams, horses neighed, and the gorge was already a bloody scene. The official army and the bandits fought fiercely, thinking about breaking through, and on the other hand, thinking about defending to the death, and no one retreated.

The infantry followed and rushed directly towards the bandits, and the soldiers on both sides fought together.

However, the huge advantage is still with the imperial army.

The battle lasted for half an hour and the red flag was raised again.

The rumbling sound of horse hooves sounded again, and another cavalry joined the battle group.

This group of cavalry has caused a devastating blow to the bandits.

Gao Yingxiang never expected that the government army was so tenacious and desperate, and would not retreat at all. Seeing his brothers losing more and more, he was already thinking about leading the brothers to retreat into the carriage.

The reason why I have to persist for so long is that if the official army is red in their eyes and can rush into the carriage gorge, it will be the best result. Once the official army enters the carriage gorge, don’t think about being able to go out.

The addition of another cavalry of the official army made Gao Yingxiang feel dangerous. At this time, he could not fight anymore. Regardless of whether he could attract the official army into the carriage, at least he had to ensure that ten thousand brothers could not be completely wiped out.

After evacuating the battle and entering the carriage gorge, Gao Yingxiang saw that there were less than 5,000 brothers who followed him into the canyon. In other words, in half an hour, he lost more than half of his brothers.

The official army did not enter the carriage.

Gao Yingxiang's face turned red, his fists were pinching tightly, obviously holding back his anger.

Soon, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, Li Zicheng and others came to meet him.

Everyone was stunned for such a huge loss.

Zhang Xianzhong, who was in a hot temper, couldn't help it first and began to curse the official army. He was originally a subordinate of Zi Jinliang. After Zi Jinliang was suppressed by the court, he became an important leader among the bandits, and his status was even higher than that of Li Zicheng.

Zhang Xianzhong was not convinced. He always believed that the government army was vulnerable. This time, the brothers must have been inadequately prepared, so they suffered a great loss. After a little rest, he would take his brothers to fight out a bloody path and give the government army some color.

Gao Yingxiang did not agree to continue playing, but he had only suffered a defeat. At this time, it was hard to say anything. He could only let Zhang Xianzhong. After all, they were nominally superiors and subordinates, but in fact they were relatively **.

Zhang Xianzhong did it as soon as he said that the government army was exhausted after fighting. At this time, he would definitely achieve unexpected results when attacking.

Even Gao Yingxiang thought Zhang Xianzhong's proposal made sense. The government army had just experienced a big victory and must have celebrated the victory. I am afraid there was no preparation. If the government army can be defeated at this time and everyone breaks out, it will be the biggest victory.

When Zhang Xianzhong and ten thousand soldiers rushed out of the gorge, they were greeted by the prepared official army.

Like the previous mode, first there were two rounds of arrow rains, followed by the cavalry charge. After half an hour, the second group of cavalry began to attack again.

Zhang Xianzhong suffered even more damage. When he returned to the canyon, the soldiers he led were less than 4,000 left.

In the carriage gorge, morale was extremely low. After breaking through twice, more than 10,000 brothers were lost. If this trend continues, there is no hope.

From early July to mid-July, the rain and rain have not stopped for half a month.

Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, Li Zicheng and others organized several breakthroughs with their brothers, but they returned in a crushing defeat every time, and the loss of brothers was close to 30,000.

The pessimistic atmosphere began to spread in the carriage gorge, and there was no enough food and grass. After a long period of rain, the arrows of bows and arrows fell off. It can be said that Gao Yingxiang and others were already in a desperate situation.

They really didn't understand why the government army was so powerful this time. They broke through many times. They saw that their brothers were about to open a bloody road, but they were eventually killed back into the canyon. The government army was very smart and did not enter the canyon at all. In this case, the idea of ​​relying on the terrain of the canyon to annihilate the government army was no longer there.
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