In March of the third year of Jianwen, the good news reached Beiping, and King Yan defeated Sheng Yong in Jiahe.

This was also expected by Zhang Zhaohua, after the battle of Dongchang, the Yan army was defeated, and the generals were defeated, and all the soldiers wanted revenge and blood shame, so everyone worked hard. And Sheng Yong, who won, was quite arrogant, thinking that he would be able to destroy the Yan army. The generals of the imperial court carried gold and silver utensils and splendid clothes with them, and prepared to break through the Beiping period and feast on a large scale, and until the defeat, these items were all obtained by the Yan army.

King Yan has a good saying, "Those who are afraid of death will die, and those who donate life will live", just like the battle of Baigou River, the southern army was cowardly first, and left when they saw the battle, so the Yan army had to kill it;

And the most wonderful and inexplicable place is that there are two or three times, the king of Yan and the southern army are stalemate, or the southern army is about to win, there will be a violent wind, and the Yan army is just in the tailwind, this battle of the river, originally the Yan army from the time of the time to the future, repeatedly advanced and retreated, the victory or defeat is undecided, the soldiers on both sides are exhausted, suddenly the northeast wind rises, the dust rises to the sky, and the sand and gravel hit the surface. The southern army was against the wind, and it was not visible at hand. Yan Shi shouted with the wind, pursued the southern army, chased to the Hutuo River, trampled and drowned, and the dead were invincible. This is beyond the human power to anticipate.

King Yan led 3,000 cavalry, marched west along the river, and met the southern army again, so he fought fiercely again in Gaocheng. The course of this battle is being told by Xue Lu for Gao Chi and Zhang Zhaohua-

"Ping Bao'er really almost caught up with His Royal Highness King Yan several times," Xue Lu said: "His Highness's armor was pierced by Ping Bao'er's spear, but fortunately he didn't hurt his flesh and skin." ”

"In the Heian Army, there was a watchtower tied with wood, several feet high. Xue Lu said: "Ping Bao'er, the commander of the building, sent a strong crossbow to shoot us. Ten thousand arrows rained down, and we couldn't dodge, and many people were killed and wounded. ”

As he spoke, he spread out a flag and said, "His Royal Highness King Yan asked me to give this flag to the prince, saying that I should carefully collect it and leave it for future generations to see, so that they can know that it is difficult to resist disasters today." ”

Zhang Zhaohua looked down and saw that the arrows on the king's banner were like hedgehogs, and they were counted clearly, and there were actually sixty-two arrows.

Governor Gu Cheng sat at the bottom of Gao Chi, he couldn't help but be moved to tears when he saw this battle flag, and said: "The minister has been in the army since he was a child, and he has experienced many battle formations of all sizes, but he has never seen such a fierce battle for so many years. ”

Gu Cheng is a battle-hardened veteran, he has been raising troops with Emperor Gao since he was a child, and he has seen all kinds of fierce battles, but he is also moved by the difficulty of King Yan today, not to mention Gao Chi and Zhang Zhaohua, they can't help crying.

Zhang Zhaohua collected the arrows and the royal flag, and she maintained this flag more than any other treasure, even her most cherished Hongwu glazed red porcelain.

And when King Yan returned victoriously, the first thing he did was to summon Zhang Zhaohua and say to her with a smile: "Hutuo wheat rice, the kindness has not been reported for a long time." ”

It turned out that King Yan fought this time, and with the fried rice made by Zhang Zhaohua and the specially ordered stove, he never ate cold rice again. There was a little light and warmth in the camp tents everywhere, and although this small charcoal stove could not cook and could only boil water, it was enough for every officer and soldier to eat a bowl of hot and fragrant mush.

King Yan lit a fire in the camp, drank a few bowls of rice paste, suddenly felt warm in his belly, stood up and inspected the battalions, and found that the officers and soldiers had such supplies like him, and couldn't help but be very happy - because King Yan knew the importance of sharing weal and woe with the officers and soldiers, and every time he went out on an expedition, he only nibbled on thick noodles and flatbreads, and the only place where he was treated more favorably than the officers and soldiers was to drink some hot water. Now I can't help but be overjoyed to see that all the people in the camp have hot water to drink.

Therefore, this sentence that King Yan said to Zhang Zhaohua is actually to compare her to Feng Yi of the Han Dynasty, and it is recorded in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty that before Liu Xiu became emperor, he galloped from the southeast of Ji to Raoyang Wupu Pavilion, tired and hungry. At this time, Feng Yi made bean porridge for him to drink. After Liu Xiu went to Nangong, when he encountered a strong wind and rain, Feng Yi made him wheat rice again, which gave him the strength to march from the Hutuo River to Xindu.

After Liu Xiu became the emperor, he gave Feng Yi a treasure and money, "There is no bean porridge in the palace, and the wheat rice in the Hutuo River has not been reported for a long time." ”

And the kindness of sending food in danger is called "Hutuo wheat rice" - and such a thing did not only happen in the Han Dynasty, the Taizu Emperor Gao of this dynasty, before it was developed, was suspected by Guo Ziyi, Guo Ziyi's two sons did not give Emperor Gao food, and Queen Ma stole two freshly cooked cooking cakes from under the stove, put them in her arms, and gave them to Emperor Gao to eat. When Emperor Gao became the emperor, he often mentioned this matter to his ministers and compared it to "Hutuo wheat rice".

King Yan also said "Hutuo wheat rice", but Zhang Zhaohua didn't dare to be it, can she compare to Feng Yi, or to Queen Gao? ”

King Yan wanted to reward her, but the things in the treasury were originally under Zhang Zhaohua's control - Princess Xu had already handed over the key to her, and King Yan marched to war, and whenever he went to a place, he only collected heavy grain and grass, and did not plunder the people, so there was nothing else to give her. He thought about it and said, "Zhang, what do you want?"

Zhang Zhaohua really has it, she asked first: "Father, I heard that Jianwen sent an envoy to Beiping, but is there such a thing?"

It was the king of Yan who first sent a messenger to answer the letter from heaven, asking for "the righteousness of the relatives of Long, the restoration of the kings, the rest of the soldiers and horses, and the use of the blade as agricultural tools, so as to calm the army and the people of the world, so that each can live according to his own life, and his grace is great." Fang Xiaoru thought that this was an opportunity to slow down the Yan soldiers, and he proposed to Emperor Jianwen that an answer to Zhu Di's letter could be used to relax the fighting spirit of the Yan soldiers. Because it would take at least a month or two for the correspondence to be exchanged, during this period, the soldiers and horses of the official army had gradually been concentrated, and only when the distant Yunnan army arrived, a major battle could be waged against the Yan army.

Therefore, Emperor Jianwen sent Xue Yan, Shaoqing of Dali, to Beiping with an edict to announce a truce.

Xue Yan came to Peking on April 16, exactly one day earlier. When King Yan mentioned this, he sneered, because this Xue Yan was full of unsightly and sneaky methods, and he carried thousands of wills printed on small yellow paper with him, and secretly distributed them in Baoding and Daimyo, so that the soldiers and people of the Yan army knew the orders of the imperial court and did not follow King Yan anymore.

And the edict of Emperor Jianwen he brought, King Yan read it, and roughly said to pardon the sins of King Yan's father and son and all the soldiers, so that they should return to their own country, do not pre-empt military administration, and still restore the prince and will always be a vassal auxiliary.

King Yan couldn't help but look up to the sky and smile, and finally said to Xue Yan, who was in a cold sweat: "The clan is in danger, the calamity is endless, the society is deeply worried, my wish, I will want to dedicate the traitorous ministers to my emperor to the emperor to take the Taizu Emperor Gao's spirit, follow me to the soldiers, I got it from the imperial examination, and now the edict asks me to disarm and release the army, it is for me to be bound with my bare hands, this traitor's plan is not the original intention of the Son of Heaven, although the three-foot boy, not to be bullied!"

Following King Yan's words, the generals held their swords and pressed their swords, making a lot of noise, and they all demanded to kill Xue Yan. King Yan coldly saw that the time was almost up, so he stopped the angry soldiers and said, "There are only a few traitors, Xue Yan is the messenger of the Son of Heaven, and it has nothing to do with it!"

In the angry eyes around, Xue Yan trembled, sweating, there was no tongue to fight the Confucianism and courage at all, and after he retreated, King Yan said to the generals: "I saw Xue Yan roe head rat eyes, vain words, he is not here to seek peace, but to spy on the reality of our army - I want to read, show off my martial arts." ”

Zhang Zhaohua also heard that King Yan was going to have a big military parade, and she wanted to ask King Yan for permission to line up her women's army in the phalanx.

King Yan was about to refuse, but he didn't know what he thought of, and agreed to her request.