In a straw shed at the edge of the mountainside outside the northern end of Heishuiyu, Sun Chuanting was talking with Yang Mingsheng, and occasionally raindrops dripped from the roof.

After Yang Mingsheng dropped a piece of white zi, he raised his eyes to look into the valley. Under the cover of rain and mist, the endless straw huts on both sides extend to places that cannot be seen in the valley. Some of the Qin soldiers under the straw huts sat on the ground and some were raising their bowstrings, while others were closing their eyes to rest. Five days ago, the Qin army drove the camp to Heishui Valley, selected the terrain and waited for the arrival of the camp.

Yang Mingsheng turned his head and looked at Sun Chuanting, who was thinking hard, and said worriedly: "Sir, it has been raining for four days, but the thief has not seen any of them. Could it be that the thief went to fight Hanzhong? Wouldn't the arrangement of the thief fall into the empty space?"

Sun Chuanting thought for a long time and finally dropped the dark man in his hand. He looked up and smiled, "Boxuan, your qi cultivation skills are still a little lacking! The road from Shiquan to Hanzhong is narrow and difficult, easy to defend and difficult to attack. If the leader of the Sichuan Army is not a mediocre, he will come out of Hanzhong to choose a place to defend and defend. If the thief heading west, he will see that it is difficult to break, and he will retreat without fighting. It is not a secret matter to have a way to lead to Xi'an in Ziwu Valley. There are many intelligent people among the thieves, and they will definitely choose easy to abandon! Even if you and I are released into the thief camp, this is the same choice!"

Yang Mingsheng bowed and smiled and said, "Thank you Lord Futai! Students have always taken adults as their example and imitated the adults' steady and solemn style everywhere. Unfortunately, they have not achieved the samadhi of learning to walk in Handan!"

Sun Chuanting laughed: "Boxuan's words are like a scroll unfolding in front of my official's eyes. I vaguely saw Boxuan's hands and feet on the ground, crawling forward! Hahaha!"

Yang Mingsheng smiled bitterly and said, "Don't joke with students. Adults are judicious and have profound wisdom. Students will benefit a lot from relying on adults. But I hope that two or three of the tens of them can learn will be satisfied!"

Sun Chuanting put away his smile and said, "Mr. Fang has gone to the capital to participate in the spring exam next year. If nothing unexpected happens, he will definitely be able to go to high school next year! You and Yichen, Luzhong are both people who are optimistic about by our officials! You should work harder and get a chance to show your talents as soon as possible!"

Yang Mingsheng was about to reply when a sound of horse hooves came from the direction of Heishuiyu. The two looked down and saw a soldier wearing a straw raincoat appearing in the rain and fog.

After a while, he rode to the foot of the mountain where Sun Chuanting was, turned over and got off the horse, and climbed up along the slippery steps.

Sun Chuanting smiled and said, "It must be a thief who is here!"

The visitor climbed the hillside and entered the awning. He knelt down on one knee in a straw raincoat and hat, clasped his fists and reported loudly: "Report to Lord Futai, the vanguard of the thief has arrived! Ten miles away from Lord Zhou! General Zhou asked how to meet the enemy!"

Sun Chuanting shouted sternly: "Let the vanguard and attack the middle section! Tell Zhou Yuji that this battle will definitely not be able to teach Gao Chuang to escape! He will live to see people! He will die to see the corpse! Otherwise, he will come to see him!"

Liu San led two thousand thieves in front of him, and passed Tianxing to follow him as a vanguard. Heishui Valley from Shiquan to enter Ziwu Valley and then Gao Yingxiang led a large group of people into the valley. Tens of thousands of people carried the carts and carried the load for a long time before they all entered the valley.

Not long after the entire army entered Heishui Valley, as a black cloud enveloped the canyon, it started to rain lightly in the sky. Gao Yingxiang ordered to move forward at full speed, fearing that the rain would increase and that the horses and vehicles would be unable to move.

Not long after, the dark clouds above the canyon gradually spread to the entire sky, and the drizzle turned into a pouring rain. The relatively wide mountain road became muddy, and the marching speed of the team that stretched for more than 20 miles suddenly slowed down.

At this time, the forward had been marching for more than thirty miles, and it was already difficult to turn around and return. He could only bite the bullet and move forward, hoping to get out of Heishui Valley earlier.

When camping at night, tens of thousands of people could only set up tents in mud and water. The heavy rain had poured the trees thoroughly. If you wanted to make a fire, you could not find dry wood. Fortunately, the thieves brought the dough cakes that had been steamed long ago and fed them from Ziwu River on the west side of the road. They ate with their mouthfuls of water and rice. Before lying on the wet ground to sleep, many people thought that they would open their eyes tomorrow and the sky would clear up.

Who knew that when I woke up the next morning, the heavy rain continued to fall, and there was no sign of abating.

Amid the scolding of the leaders of all sizes, the thieves had to curse and move forward.

On the fourth day, the camp was out of food.

Although the three counties were broken and a lot of food was robbed, more refugees were forced or voluntarily joined. The team of thieves, which originally had only more than 10,000 people, quickly expanded to more than 30,000, doubled. So many more mouths were added to the snatch of food recently.

Gao Yingxiang thought he would be able to walk out of Heishui Valley in three days, and then directly capture Xingping County, and there would be food again soon, but it was already the fourth day and he had not yet walked out of Heishui Valley.

He wanted to send someone to urge the forward to speed up the march, but the soldiers and vehicles on the road ahead blocked the road, and they might have gone out after a round trip.

Gao Yingxiang sent the only hundreds of bags of dry cakes to the old camp of the Central Army, and then ordered the moldy dry cakes that were poured in rain to be distributed to the leaders of the team, and told them that each of them could only eat half a dry cake for a meal. These thousands of soldiers of the old camp were his foundation, and no one could starve them when they were hungry, and he didn't care about the lives of others.

More than two thousand war horses fell down nearly half. They could have slaughtered and eaten meat, but where to find dry firewood? Gao Yingxiang could only give up. The rest of the war horses also lost weight and could not be used for a short period of time, so they could only lead them forward.

The hungry thieves could only continue to move forward. Gao Yingxiang sent people everywhere to announce that they would leave Heishui Valley tomorrow and then break the county town, so that they could eat whatever they wanted.

This did work. The soldiers' resentment that had gradually increased quickly subsided. Everyone was entering the city and holding their shields and eating for a while.

On the fifth day, when Tianxing sent someone to send a message to him and walked out of Heishui Valley, Gao Yingxiang was infected with wind and cold because of heavy rain inside, and lay down on a stretcher.

Not only him, he marched in the rain for several days, 10% of the team of tens of thousands of people were infected, and hundreds of people fell into mud and water while walking. The combat effectiveness of the entire thief team dropped sharply. Even if most of them walked out of Heishui Valley, they would have to repair for several days before they could recover.

Liu San walked into the ambush circle of the government army with nearly two thousand exhausted people. Because the rain and fog obscured their sight, and the thieves lost their energy to search for sentries at the mountain at this time, the thieves did not expect the government army to wait for them here. They just wanted to quickly walk out of the valley and completely lost their vigilance. Under the gaze of the government army halfway up the mountain on both sides, they continued to move forward.

When most of Gao Yingxiang's central army completely entered the ambush circle, with the sharp sound of trumpets, arrows and rain on the hillsides on both sides were falling along with raindrops.

The straw hut built by the official army did not get wet. Although the force was smaller than usual, the arrows shot were enough to kill most of the thieves who only wore cloth armor and cloth clothes.

The thieves who were blinded by the sudden arrow shot could only hide around in screams. Their bow strings were already wet and could not fight back at all. The thousand archers of the official army were more relaxed than usual to shoot targets. The dense crowd did not need to aim, just shoot directly into the crowd.

After the archer shot eight rounds, the short horn sound just now turned into a long tone. More than 10,000 Qin soldiers, led by their respective generals, walked slowly from the canopy with guns and knives to the bottom of the mountain.

After receiving the order, Xu Zhong and Liu Yingjie rushed into the valley with their soldiers.

The reason why the official army took a slow step was because the ground was too slippery, especially when walking down from the mountainside. If you want to charge hard, you will definitely fall.

In order to prevent the mud from slipping, Yang Mingsheng thought of a solution - tie a rope to his shoes. Several thick ropes were tied on the soles of the shoes, so that he could hold them more firmly when he pushed the ground.

This method is simple and feasible. After trial, as long as you don’t run quickly, the chance of falling is greatly reduced.

Most of the thieves had not eaten for more than a day. With the heavy rain for several days, the temperature in the mountains dropped a lot. The thieves who were in a semi-starved state had no ability to resist. Faced with the official army all over the mountains, only Gao Yingxiang's old camp resisted fiercely. The rest of the thieves knelt on the ground and waited for death except for scattered flight.

Luo Shifang led hundreds of people to the old camp from one side of the mountain, and hundreds of people were also marching towards the thieves on the other side, and the two teams formed a siege attack.

The old soldiers who had originally had more than 4,000 people who had broken into the camp reacted when the official army quickly shot out the third round of bows and arrows. Some hid behind the rocks and trees, some raised their shields to cover them, and some simply used their companions' bodies as shields. The two rounds facing them, hundreds of long arrows only killed more than a hundred soldiers.

After the official army came down, it was not enough to arrange the formation. The bandits had already tried their best to meet them. The two sides quickly fought in a group of cities, and then the official army that came down from the mountain joined the battle group.

After being stabbed and killed more than a hundred people by the old barbarians in the camp, the Qin army was suddenly panicked and someone wanted to turn around and run away.

Instead of using the long spear during the cavalry war, Luo Shifang used a long iron rod, weighing about twenty kilograms.

He rushed forward from the crowd to the front of the team, swung the round iron rod with both hands and swept horizontally. With a few clicks, the fierce thieves in front of him broke their bones and fell to the ground.

Then the iron rod in his hand hit the head of a thief. The thief's head was instantly broken, and the white and red brain splashed everywhere, and the body suddenly fell to the ground.

Seeing that he was so fierce, the thieves around couldn't help but dodge to both sides. Seeing that the commander was showing great power, the morale of the terrified general immediately rose. A blank mind recalled the usual movements of training. With the shouts of the team officials, the official army lined up in an uneven formation, and the long spears that were more than ten feet long flashing with cold light were held up and moved forward.

The battle basically ended after about an hour. The thief army had neither physical strength nor morale. After the bandit camp was strangled by the surrounded official troops, the remaining ones knelt down and asked to surrender, but there was no Gao Yingxiang in it.

Zhou Yuji held a big sword with blood. After briefly interrogating an old camp leader, he cut off his head with one knife, and then greeted him. Hundreds of soldiers followed him in the direction when the bandits came.

Gao Yingxiang was lying in a cave halfway up the mountain. The simple stretcher under him was covered with several sheepskin mattresses. Mixed 100,000 and Gao Yingen squatted beside him. Hundreds of personal soldiers were distributed outside the cave to watch. There were dozens of running horses tied to the trees at the foot of the mountain, and dozens of bandits were watching.

Listening to the faint shouting from the distance, Gao Yingxiang struggled to open his closed eyes, and two flushed appeared on his cheeks that had quickly lost weight in the past few days.

He started to have a high fever since last night and his mind became confused. Due to lack of medical treatment and medicine, Hun Hundred Wan and others were helpless. Seeing that the heavy rain was still going on, Gao Yingxiang was afraid that he could not hold on. In desperation, his personal soldiers found a cave and left him here to rest and hide from the rain for the time being. They also luckily avoided the ambush of the government army.

Gao Yingxiang's mouth twitched, a wry smile appeared on his face, and he said with difficulty: "I didn't expect to be ambushed by the government army. This seems to be the place where I, Gao Yingxiang, buried my bones! You two should take people away, it's too late to be too late!"

Gao Yingen said with tears in his eyes: "Brother, stop talking! Keep some strength! I will take you away now!"

After saying that, he stood up and shouted outside the cave: "Several people are carrying the King of Break!"

Several personal soldiers flashed into the cave, leaned over and lifted the stretcher and walked outward.

At this moment, a few whistles came from the foot of the mountain, and then a few screams rang out.

Hunqianwan and Gao Yingen's face changed: The official army is chasing us!

When Zhou Yuji led his soldiers to the vicinity of the cave, there were only a few dozen bandits left with hundreds of soldiers, and they were killed by the government troops in a moment. The rest had already followed 100,000 people to cross the mountains and ridges, leaving only Gao Yingen and Gao Yingxiang lying on a stretcher in the cave.

Before the official army arrived, Gao Yingxiang felt both sad and angry and helpless when he saw him abandoning him. This was the old brother who was extremely respectful to him and shouted at him one by one. He only saw his true face when things happened.

He looked at his younger brother with a compulsion and reluctance mixed in love, and said in a weak but firm tone: "Three brothers, kill me! Go quickly! Leave some incense for my Gao family!" He had already thought of what kind of destiny would be to meet him after falling into the hands of the court.

Gao Yingen naturally understood what his brother meant. Their three brothers and their second brother died young, and their parents passed away when he was five years old. It was Gao Yingxiang who pulled him up since childhood. The two of them depended on each other and struggled in the world.

He didn't want his brother who loved him like his father to fall into the hands of the government army. That would be a huge humiliation for the arrogant brother. Gao Yingen's eyes were covered in tears, and he raised his long sword with trembling arms.

I remembered the hardships of following my brother to travel around to make life since I was a child, and the care and care of my brother for many years. The glory and wealth that he enjoyed afterwards, the mellow and beautiful woman, and the scenes of the past appeared in his mind. His body shook violently like leaves in the autumn wind, and tears flowed down involuntarily. He really couldn't do it!

With a bang, Gao Yingen threw away the long sword and threw it on Gao Yingxiang's body and cried bitterly. He couldn't help but feel a little regretful: If the brother hadn't zào    fǎn, the two of them should have lived a life of hard work but food and clothing. They should have children under their knees, and then they would have been married and funerals until the day when they died of old age. If they had known this, they would have regretted it!

When Zhou Yuji escorted Gao Yingxiang and his brothers appeared in front of Sun Chuanting, Sun Chuanting looked at Gao Yingxiang on the stretcher with both hands on his back, and suddenly burst into laughter, with a full sense of pride and joy.
Chapter completed!