Since the oath of Wuchang, the army of the king of Qin slowly went east, Wang Guan and Luo Xian led 50,000 sailors down the east of the river, Chen Hongyi and Liu Jian led 5,000 cavalry and 30,000 infantry in Jiangbei, and Cui Ju, Zheng Yuan, Xiao Jing, and Chen Ying each brought 10,000 horses from the south bank to Jinling.

Since his ascension to the throne, Pharmacist Zhu has rapidly expanded his army, aiming to dominate the world. Most of the men in the southern part of the Huainan River were conscripted into the army, and the weapons were insufficient, so they collected farm tools and kitchen knives and cast them into swords, and there were 500,000 troops in three months.

The news of King Qin's army going east had already reached Jinling, and Zhu Yaoshi appointed He Wuji and Wang Tiezhu as the left and right marshals, and each led 200,000 troops to set up Jiangbei battalions and Jiangnan battalions in Huaiyang and Shicheng to deal with Qinwang's soldiers and horses in various places.

On the south bank, King Qin's soldiers and horses stopped when they arrived a hundred miles away from Shicheng, and also set up a large camp in the south of the Yangtze River to strengthen their momentum. Wang Guan Luo Xian's sailors took a boat down the river to the east, and they were about to reach the Huaiyang River, but they stopped to set up a water village to wait for Chen Hongyi and Liu Jian in Jiangbei.

Before Chen Hongyi arrived in Huaiyang, news came that the naval army had been defeated and the Jiangnan camp had been breached. It turned out that Wang Guan Luo Xian thought that most of Zhu Yaoshi's army were northerners who were not accustomed to water warfare, and relied on their own tall boats and poor defense of the water village, so He Wuji recruited hundreds of fishermen to drive small boats into the water village at night and set it on fire, most of the building boats were burned, Wang Guan and Luo Xian only escaped with a dozen building boats, and the rest of the building boats were all burned down, and most of the soldiers were burned to death and drowned.

Cui Ju and others' Jiangnan camp was even more miserable, Wang Tiezhu was already a fierce general, and when he heard that King Qin's army had set up camp, he came to attack overnight. Zheng Yuan, Xiao Jing, and Chen Ying resisted for a while, and were hammered to death by Wang Tiezhu, and the army immediately collapsed. Before Zheng Yuan, Xiao Jing and Chen Ying could escape, they were chased by Wang Tiezhu and hammered to death.

Cui Ju took Shen De in the back village, and seeing the collapse of the army, Shen De stabbed Cui Ju immediately: "The lord will go first, and Shen will personally break the back!" ”

Cui raised his head and ran westward without looking back, Shen De swung his knife and took Wang Tiezhu directly, and slashed over, Wang Tiezhu resisted with a hammer in his left hand, and with a bang, Shen De's mouth was numb. said that it was too late, Shen De hurriedly lowered his head, and Wang Tiezhu swung a hammer with his right hand and flew over Shen De's head. Shen De turned the long knife and poked it at Wang Tiezhu's waist, Wang Tiezhu grabbed the long knife with his right hand and threw it behind him, Shen De jumped over and knocked a soldier off the horse, grabbed the horse and fled.

Wang Tiezhu chased after him with a hammer, but the horse was physically exhausted and had to abandon Shen De to clean up the battlefield. Shen De ran west for dozens of miles to rest, and was meeting Cui Ju with hundreds of people turning back.

After Cui Ju escaped for a while, he felt that it was a pity to leave a brave general like Shen De, so he brought hundreds of personal soldiers to meet Shen De, and happened to bump into Shen De who had escaped.

Shen De breathed a sigh of relief: "Thank you for the rescue, Shen has been in battle all his life, except for General Chen, he has never met an opponent, and he was almost planted in the hands of that person today!" ”

Cui Ju helped Shen De up: "As long as the general is here, we can always make a comeback, now it seems that King Qin has come to naught, it is better to return to Chenzhou first and then make plans!" ”

Shen De nodded: "It's a pity that these tens of thousands of troops were beaten and broken up overnight, and the enemy's weapons training was not as good as ours, but they couldn't withstand the continuous impact that they were not afraid of death, plus the leading generals killed dozens of our generals in a row, and our morale was all over at once." It's been a terrible battle! ”

Cui Ju looked at the distance and saw that there seemed to be torches, so he picked up Shen De and continued to flee west.

Chen Hongyi and Liu Jian stomped their feet and scolded again and again in the army, and Chen Kuandao reported with scouts: "King Han, Lord Chen, the enemy's Jiangbei camp has also poured out of the nest and marched towards our camp, and the enemy army on the other side of Shicheng is also crossing the river and wants to eat us!" ”

Chen Hongyi closed his eyes and thought for a while: "Order the infantry to retreat first, all the cavalry stay, the old man will meet them!" In order to prevent accidents, King Han followed the infantry first! ”

Liu Jian pulled out his sword: "Don't go, the three-way army has already lost two roads, even if we retreat, we won't be able to hide for long!" Instead of dying, it's better to fight vigorously! ”

Chen Kuan looked at Liu Jian: "King Han, the enemy army adds up to more than 500,000 horses, stay behind, there is more than one luck!" ”

Chen Hongyi put his hands on Liu Jian's shoulders: "Do you believe in being a teacher?" ”

Liu Jian looked at Chen Hongyi firmly: "Disciples trust Master all the time!" ”

Chen Hongyi suddenly grabbed Liu Jian and twisted his hands back: "Chen Kuan, lead someone to tie up King Han and send him back to Xiangyang!" The old man galloped south of the Yangtze River with 5,000 cavalry to gain time! You and King Han go back and gather the men and horses to fight again! ”

Liu Jian struggled desperately: "Master, the apprentice doesn't want to live in the world, you let go of me, I want to fight side by side with you!" ”

Chen Hongyi slapped Liu Jian's neck, and Liu Jian fainted: "This kid has too much nonsense, and he can't do martial arts, staying will only drag me down!" Chen Kuan, you hurry up, the old man is going to assemble the team! ”

Chen Kuan received the order, took Liu Jian on his back, found a carriage, and retreated first with the infantry.

Chen Hongyi put on his armor and helmet and walked out of the camp, picked up the torch and threw it to the camp tent, turned over and went to the cavalry station, and raised his sword: "My warriors of the Chen family's army!" The only son in the family is out of the ranks! All the brothers died in battle! The younger brother who is in the army with the brothers is out! Father and son in the army are out of the ranks! ”

After Chen Hongyi finished speaking, no one came out, Chen Hongyi took off his helmet and revealed his white hair: "Our Chen family army must pass it on!" The more people stay, the more trouble! Do you all want to die here? The people who came out of the queue went to catch up with Chen Kuan and follow him back to Xiangyang! Those who remain, we will fight a bloody way to the east, and rushing through the enemy army is the way to survive! ”

The cavalry began to move, and after a while, more than 3,000 people came out of the column and knelt on the ground: "General Chen, take care! ”

Chen Hongyi laughed: "Don't make life and death parting!" Don't cry either, we rushed over to eat fragrant and spicy food, rob them of meat to eat, and burn their military rations! Those of you who go back will follow Chen Kuan to teach the newcomers! Three months later, we will meet at the foot of Jinling City! ”

Everyone was worried about life and death, but Chen Hongyi said that he could meet under Jinling City in three months, everyone looked at Chen Hongyi's white hair, and raised the knives and guns in their hands: "Recover Jinling!" Conquer Jinling! ”

This is Chen Hongyi, he has been marching and fighting for decades, and everything he has said has been fulfilled, even if he has lost battles, but he Chen Hongyi can always stand up again and again. This is a famous general, tempered by thousands of tempers, not only has the courage to move forward, but also has the far-sighted strategy to pass on the torch, and the hooligan energy who refuses to admit defeat and refuse to suffer!

He Wuji took 150,000 people out of Huaiyang and headed west, someone had already reported that Chen Hongyi's army had fled west, He Wuji and everyone were very proud, the army also slowed down, and the team was also disorganized.

Chen Hongyi and the remaining more than 1,000 cavalry also ran west for more than ten miles at first, and then ran north for a while, avoiding He Wuji's forward cavalry before continuing to march southeast.

At this time, it was already May, just in time for noon, the weather was hot, and He Wuji and several lieutenants camped in the Chinese army and began to rest. Suddenly, there was a noise in front of the battalion: "Enemy army! Enemy! Cavalry! Cavalry! ”

"Run! Come on! ”

He Wuji was alert, drew his knife and cut open the camp tent and ran out from behind, and the sound of horses neighing and slashing came from behind him.

Chen Hongyi took the lead in overturning the camp tent where He Wuji was before, and waved his sword to cut down He Wuji's handsome flag and threw it to the cavalry behind: "Don't stop, break through their Chinese army!" ”

More than a thousand cavalry roamed like a long snake in the camp of tens of thousands of people, and everywhere they went was the light of swords and blood. The rest of the army was leaderless, so they had to fight on their own, avoiding Chen Hongyi's blows. Chen Hongyi also did not love to fight, and took He Wuji's handsome banner from the camp of tens of thousands of people and continued to the east.

He Wuji was secretly glad that he had escaped the catastrophe, but he was still a little annoyed when he lost the handsome flag, and he comforted left and right: "It's just a group of cavalry of the Liang Army who are panicking!" We'll be ready for the next time we set up camp! There are 30,000 of us in the back, and it is more than enough to deal with this little cavalry! ”

After walking fifty miles to the east, Chen Hongyi ordered people to erect He Wuji's handsome flag with a long pole, and set up a tent to wait for He Wuji's rear army.

He Wuji's rear army saw that Shuai Qi was so close, thinking that the commander was waiting for them, so they hurried away, and several generals rode under Shuai Qi one after another, and regretted it as soon as they rushed in, Chen Hongyi's subordinates surrounded them with bows and arrows. The generals of the rear army became Chen Hongyi's prisoner in an instant.

Several generals thought that they would definitely die, but Chen Hongyi loosened them and comforted them with good words: "You are all deceived, I am Chen Hongyi, I will not kill you, as long as you follow us back to your army, I have something to say to the sergeants!" ”

Several people readily agreed, and then led Chen Hongyi's army back to the rear army. When Chen Hongyi arrived at the rear army, he cried: "It's May now, if you go to the west to fight again, you will delay the farming time, and there will be no harvest!" Our family will have no food to eat, and we will all starve to death by then."

The whole army was in an uproar, it turned out that after Zhu Yaoshi ascended the throne, he changed the first year of Anping to the first year of Anping, and changed the eighth day of the third month to the eighth day of the first month. In the past, the imperial court issued an edict to persuade the peasants, and the people of the agricultural department went to the states to gather the people to plough the fields, raise seedlings, plant seedlings and fertilize them, but now it is May, but they have not yet gone to cultivate.

Chen Hongyi saw that there was an effect, so he said loudly: "Marshal He remembered that everyone has wives and children, and the former army also defeated Chen Hongyi, so he sent me to take the marshal's banner to give an order, let everyone go home to plow the fields and sow seeds, and then return to the army to serve after planting seedlings!" ”

When everyone saw the handsome flag behind him, and saw that this group of men and horses was majestic and majestic, several generals did not speak, so they lost their weapons, took off their armor, and scattered. When everyone walked away, Chen Hongyi said to several generals: "If you go back now, you will die, I think it is better to run for your life!" Give them some money, and don't treat them badly! ”

Left and right gave fifty pieces of money to several generals, and several generals took the money and thanked them and fled.