At the same time as the Yan army went south, the official army was heading north. Ping'an led tens of thousands of soldiers and horses from Zhending, intending to recover Tongzhou, and the imperial court ordered Xu Huizu, the Duke of Wei, to lead the Beijing army to aid at the beginning of the first month. And the king of Yan went all the way south to defeat the enemy on the east and west wings, so he led his troops from Guantao to cross the Wei River to go down to Dong'a, pull out Dongping, trap Wenshang, and go to Kejie.

Sure enough, as Li Yuan and Zhang said, no one could stop Xu and Su where the Yan army went, although Ping An heard the news, but King Yan calmly set up an ambush in the Huai River and defeated him. However, King Yan wanted to defeat him in one fell swoop, stationed in the north of the Suishui Xiaohe Bridge, ordered to leave more than 1,000 soldiers guarding the bridge unmoved, and secretly personally led the army to transfer to the east, and at a place three miles away from the official army, he crossed the river to the south bank in the middle of the night and went around behind the official army. After the Yan army was mobilized, the officers and soldiers did not notice it, and they did not find out until the next morning.

So at the beginning of the battle, the situation was in favor of the Yan army, the two armies fought fiercely, from noon to unitary time, the king of Yan commanded the army to advance bravely, almost when he was about to win, suddenly the fog was filled, and it was difficult to distinguish between the enemy and me in the battle array - Gao Xu had just killed a thousand enemy households, but suddenly heard "Reinforcements are coming, and the Yan thief is killed!"

Gao Xu's eyes widened, and sure enough, a team appeared in the southwest direction, and the word embroidered on the banner was not "Yan", he chuckled in his heart, knowing that the most likely was the arrival of the soldiers and horses of the chief soldier He Fu, so he immediately turned his horse back and came to King Yan's side.

King Yan still pointed to the soldiers and horses coming from the opposite side and said, "Gao Xu, look, is it your uncle's soldiers?"

Gao Xu stood on a high place, and found that his field of vision was much broader, and he could really see the soldiers and horses on the opposite side, as King Yan said, the person who was the leader was long and jade, and his face was very familiar, it was Xu Huizu, the Duke of Wei.

"Your uncle is here," King Yan said with great joy, "to help me secretly!"

Gao Xu said: "Father, the Duke of Wei is loyal to the imperial court, he will not let us go! In my opinion, the enemy army is fiercely encircled, so let's retreat quickly!"

Ever since Gao Chi Gao Xu and Gao Sui successfully escaped from the Jingshi, King Yan has always believed that this was Xu Huizu's secret help, because the horse that the three of them secretly ran out of at that time was Xu Huizu's good horse. In April of the third year of Jianwen, King Yan also met Xu Huizu in Baigou River, although Xu Huizu had direct contact with him at that time, he did not send a single soldier, but only led the army to cover Li Jinglong's retreat. He felt that Xu Huizu was Princess Xu's brother after all, and he was still facing him at a critical time, so he thought that Xu Huizu was only doing superficial work in this battle.

However, Gao Xu saw it clearly, he repeatedly told King Yan that Xu Huizu would not surrender, but King Yan didn't listen, he could only watch Xu Huizu lead the army to attack, and the Yan army was scattered and killed, and the good situation of Fang Cai came to naught in an instant.

King Yan frowned tightly, and when he saw Xu Huizu shoot his subordinate Li Bin with an arrow, he angrily signaled the Yan army to retreat - at this time, the fog was getting heavier and heavier, and when the Yan army was defeated, the officers and soldiers did not dare to chase after it, for fear that the Yan army would suddenly kill the horse pistol.

King Yan who returned to the camp was blown to ashes by the wind and sand, and the rest of the people were the same, everyone almost couldn't recognize each other, and they were about to cancel the teasing, but they saw that King Yan looked very bad, and stood silent again.

"Sure enough, you're right," King Yan said to Gao Xu, "Xu Huizu is a loyal minister of Zhu Yunwen. ”

Gao Xu said: "My son has always said, but my father doesn't believe it, if we hadn't met him today, we would have been defeated safely." ”

King Yan knew that Xu Huizu had obtained the true inheritance of his father Xu Da with soldiers, and that he would be a strong opponent as an enemy, so he couldn't help but worry: "I am close to the Xu family, and Huizu is still my enemy.

He was sad here, and Zhang Zhaohua decided to use it again in order not to make Princess Xu sad.

She knew that a large part of Shandong's troops were attracted to Suzhou by King Yan, and at this time there were only Dezhou Shengyong and Jinan Tiexuan in Shandong, so she nailed her target to Sheng Yong stationed in Dezhou.

In the battle of Jiahe before, because Sheng Yong underestimated the enemy, he was defeated and fled back to Texas, and he was depressed from then on. Soon Li Yuan and her burned the grain ship in Pei County, and Sheng Yong was always short of food. Li Yuan went south with King Yan this time, Zhang Zhaohua and Chen Mao, the second son of Chen Heng who stayed in Beiping, planned to go south, led an army of 3,400 people, and rushed all the way to the city of Dezhou.

"Enemy attack, enemy attack—" The officers and soldiers defending the city saw the swarming Yan soldiers and immediately rang the bronze duo.

Sheng Yong put on armor and climbed the city gate to take a look, only to see that there were only two or three thousand soldiers and horses under the city, and he was shocked in his heart: "King Yan is now surrounded in Suzhou, is it a feint to attack Suzhou, but in fact he wants to capture my Dezhou City?

Sheng Yong didn't dare to go out of the city, but he just shot arrows, and there was a rain of arrows on both sides, and when the Yan army retreated to a certain distance, the southern army couldn't shoot them. Chen Mao sent a few cavalry to rush back and forth under the city, burned down the houses outside the city, and ordered shouting and scolding to lure the defenders out of the city.

Zhang Zhaohua listened to it for a long time, and suddenly said: "General, this kind of scolding is not powerful!"

Chen Mao raised his eyebrows and said, "I have heard that the Niangzi Army is good at scolding for a long time, and I want to ask the Niangniang to give orders and show us with one hand!"

Zhang Zhaohua couldn't help glaring at him, Chen Mao immediately returned to his serious expression, and his subordinates made noise again, Zhang Zhaohua was angry and laughing, and ordered Hanying and Cuiying to stand on the dirt slope and scold with their throats.

The two of them scolded, and the Yan army at the bottom shouted hello, but in the end it was too late to applaud, just carrying the back of the Yanling knife, knocking on the shield over and over again to make a noise to demonstrate - Sheng Yong in the city was so angry that his eyes and nose were crooked, because the woman's scolding was too poisonous, if the Yan army laughed forward and backwards, then the officers and soldiers were almost angry.

When Zhang Zhaohua heard the sentence "the thief who is held by the dog", he couldn't help but cough violently a few times, Han Ying thought that Zhang Zhaohua would not let him scold, so he reluctantly closed his mouth, wiped a handful of saliva and came over to ask for credit.

Chen Mao laughed so much that he fell off the horse twice, and when he climbed up again, his whole body was trembling: "It's so scolding! It's good to scold! It's really a lesson! No one will dare to mess with Niangniang in the future! You have all seen it, what should you do when you see the Women's Army in the future?"

Yan Jun clamored together: "Hide and go!"

Zhang Zhaohua was embarrassed, but suddenly saw the city gate in front of him open, and the officers and soldiers rushed out, and suddenly said: "Hurry up and prepare!" It turned out that the defenders in the city were not angry, so they opened the city gate and sent 5,000 people to pursue the Yan army.

According to the plan, the Yan army first rushed up to fight the officers and soldiers, and then retreated and lured them to the river.

Chen Mao saw that the heat was almost over, so he waved the flag, Yan Jun turned around and ran, he took out his bow and arrow from his waist, took a light arrow up, and aimed at the crowd behind him, about ninety steps. His bow and arrows could be thrown at a distance of up to two hundred paces, and the enemy forces behind him were already within easy range of his projectile.

"Whoosh-"

At the vibrating sound of the bowstring, the cheek of a Southern soldier who controlled the horse was shot through the cheek.

Sheng Yong could see clearly from the city tower, and immediately shouted: "Liu De! This general ordered you not to pursue! Return to the city quickly!"

Zhang Zhaohua also took an arrow up, aiming at the general who slowed down and wore a red tasseled helmet, he should be Liu De in Sheng Yong's mouth, she shot an arrow over, and the general flew over where he grazed his ear and neck, this arrow aroused Liu De's anger, he immediately left Sheng Yong's order behind, and brandished a Yanling knife to chase Zhang Zhaohua.