Sheng Yong pondered for a long time, and said solemnly to Zhang Shixing: "You are the emperor's pro-Jane commander of Xiaolingwei, although most of Xiaolingwei has collapsed and has existed in name only, but this handsome respects you as a man and keeps you in the army." If you insist on going your own way, I will not stop you, please take care of yourself. If I fall for the tricks of the thief, I will not send a single soldier to save me. Hello for yourself. ”

Zhang Shixing said angrily: "The humble body has already promised the country, and he has long put life and death aside. In case God has mercy, let me kill the swallow thief, and return the people of the world to a peaceful world, and the rest of my wish is enough. ”

Sheng Yong nodded and said, "Okay, you go, I'll cheer you on the drums at the head of the city." ”

The drums of the city of Texas sounded, and the knock was shocking and urging people to forge ahead.

At the opening of the city gate, Zhang Shixing rushed out first, followed by more than 100 elite horsemen, and rushed towards Zhu Di, the king of Yan.

When King Yan saw it under the banner of the door, he smiled dumbly, and said to the left and right: "I wanted to kill a bear (Sheng Yong's homonym bear), but now I have a deer (Zhang Shixing's homonym)." ”

King Yan did not wait for Zhang Shixing to kill in front of him, turned his horse's head, and fled backwards.

Zhang Shixing is willing to give up and chase closely. Chased out more than ten miles, suddenly heard a cannon sound, ambushes in all directions, Zhu Neng on the left, Zhang Yu on the right, surrounded Zhang Shixing more than 100 people.

Zhang Shixing's face was fearless, brandishing a steel knife, slashing left and right, killing more than a dozen people, but the Yan army besieged several times, Rao is brave and invincible, still unable to break out of the encirclement, and most of the soldiers around him were also lost.

Tie Xuan, the secretary of the military department, saw it from a distance in the city, and said to Sheng Yong: "General, Commander Zhang has 100 people against 1,000 people, and he can't see it, you still send someone to save him, otherwise he will have to die." ”

Sheng Yong was indifferent, and said expressionlessly: "Ben Shuai can't send troops to save him, this must be King Yan's plan to lure the enemy, you see that there are only more than 100 people around Commander Zhang, and after fighting for so long, the whole army has not been wiped out, it must be the Yan thief who uses him as bait to lure me to rescue, and then take advantage of the situation to seize Texas." Texas is a place where the army gathers, and there are a lot of military resources, if there is a mistake, the overall situation collapses, I have to be cautious. ”

Tie Xuan said with tears in his eyes: "You, I, Gao Shenjun, and Commander Zhang once fought in the city of Jinan to fight against the Yan thieves. In this way, I will take 3,000 elite soldiers to the rescue, and you will guard Texas. ”

Sheng Yong persuaded: "Tie Shangshu, you are a civil official, you have never been on the battlefield to fight with people, how can you lead troops to save people?" Just don't trap yourself in it. Zhang commanded him not to listen to my orders, but to blame, life and death, no wonder others. ”

Tie Xuan said: "Having said that, he is also full of enthusiasm and serves the country, not himself." I'm going to save him. ”

Sheng Yong waved his hand impatiently and said: "In this case, you are the secretary of the military department, the counselor of the military, please take care of yourself." ”

Tie Xuan arched his hand and said, "Thank you, General, for your permission." With that, he hurriedly ran down the city tower, ordered three thousand military horses, opened the city gate, and rushed straight towards the Yan army.

Seeing Tie Xuan leading his troops to kill, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, sneered and said, "It's just in time." Then he waved the command flag in his hand, and Yan outflanked Qiu Fu and Tan Yuan in two more ways, and tightly surrounded the soldiers led by Tie Xuan.

Although Tie Xuan is a civilian official, but after the battle of Jinan, he is also quite familiar with military aircraft, and the military horses he leads are equipped with firearms.

Zhang Shixing took advantage of the situation to break through the encirclement and joined Tie Xuan in one place. The two fought and left, retreating in the direction of Texas City.

King Yan was furious, so he mobilized all the men and horses to attack Tie Xuan, after all, Tie Xuan's department was few people, outnumbered, and gradually lost support, he and Zhang Shixing fought hard to kill the enemy, blood-stained robes, and their lives hung by a thread.

Suddenly, there was a cannon fire behind the Yan army, and a team of men and horses rushed in, led by a person with thick eyebrows and thin eyes, a straight nose and a wide mouth, it was the new Pingyan general Sheng Yong. The Yan army was fighting a bloody battle with Tie Xuan, and there was no strength left to resist Sheng Yong, so he was rushed by Sheng Yong unexpectedly, revealing a big gap. Sheng Yong rescued Tie Xuan and Zhang Shixing from the encirclement, and quickly withdrew to Texas, but they still couldn't hold out.

King Yan was so angry that he scolded at the halberd at the head of the city under the city.

Zhang Yu said: "His Royal Highness King Yan, our army is good at field battles and is not good at attacking fortifications, so our army should go around the city, abandon Dezhou, follow the south of the river, and harass the towns on both sides of the canal. Sheng Yong gathered in Texas, and everything he needed came from the canal. Now if he is cut off from his food, he will have no food to eat, and he will have no choice but to come out. Our army waited for it to go out of the city, and returned to the division to attack it, all of which were broken. In this way, Jinan, Dezhou and other places will surrender without a fight, and half of the Central Plains will be owned by me. ”

King Yan nodded and said, "It's really a clever plan, pass on my will, and immediately send troops south." ”

So King Yan led his army south to Linqing and set up a large camp here. Then the soldiers were divided into two routes, one way the army was led by Zhu Neng against the Wei River, from Guantao to Daimyo, all the way to burn and loot, and burned all the grain ships on the Wei River. The other army was led by Zhang Yu to go south along the Huitong River, pass through Xin County, go to Dong'a, arrive at Dongping, seize its food and salary, cut off its transportation, garrison Wenshang, and ride until Jining.

Shandong and Hebei provinces were earthquaked, and emergency documents flew to the Shengyong base camp in Dezhou like snowflakes.

Sheng Yong urgently recruited Tie Xuan, Zhang Shixing, Gao Wei and others to come to discuss.

Tie Xuan sighed: "The swallow thief's trick is very poisonous. Texas grain and salary are all dependent on the Cao Yun, now the Cao Yun is cut off, the grain is not continued, such as the dry guard of this city, there is the danger of destruction, if you go south, and the swallow thief to fight to the death, there is still a glimmer of life. ”

Sheng Yong said: "Isn't that exactly the plan of the Yan thief to divert the tiger from the mountain?" ”

Zhang Shixing hurriedly said: "General, now in Texas is sitting and waiting for death, and going south is standing to die, I would rather die standing than sit and die." ”

Sheng Yong said unhappily: "Before the decisive battle, don't talk about life and death lightly." ”

Gao Wei pondered for a moment and said: "The Yan thief garrison is in Linqing, and he divides his troops to the south, it must be to lure me to attack him from behind, presumably the Yan thief has already prepared, if I attack Linqing, I will be hit by the enemy." It is better for our army to bypass Linqing, go straight to Dongchang, stop the Yan thief head-on, and seek an opportunity to fight with him. ”

Sheng Yong and the others carefully checked the map, and they all nodded and said: "This plan is very good, our army will go straight to Dongchang, block the way of the Yan army, and fight to the death here." ”

On the same day, Sheng Yong and Tie Xuan led the army from Dezhou to the south, avoiding Linqing, and penetrating Dongchang from Gaotang Prefecture, blocking the way of the Yan army.

Zhu Di, the king of Yan, was overjoyed when he heard that Sheng Yong led his army to leave Dezhou, and immediately sent rangers to reconnoiter along the way, and learned that Sheng Yong was stationed in Dongchang, and Zhang Shixing led an army of 3,000 troops to garrison the slippery mouth, which were horns for each other.

King Yan hurriedly summoned Zhang Yu over and said: "Shimei, you take advantage of the enemy's unstable foothold, immediately lead three thousand elite cavalry to attack the slip at night, cut off his arm first, and then return to the army Dongchang, and join the brigade, you will definitely be able to break Sheng Yong." ”

Zhang Yu obeyed the order, led 3,000 elite horsemen to attack the town of Huakou overnight, and came to the outside of the town at dawn, but saw that the southern army camp only set up a horse rejection and a deer barrage, and did not build a wall. He couldn't help but be overjoyed, and with an order, the three thousand Yan troops descended the mountain like a fierce tiger and rushed straight to the camp tent of the southern army.

Zhang Shixing just led the army here last night, and he didn't have time to build a wall, and he came here from Texas, running around for days, exhausted, and sleeping in the camp tent, and suddenly heard the endless shouting and cheering outside the tent, and the people and horses were mixed, this sound seemed familiar, and suddenly reminded him of the night when his parents died tragically more than ten years ago, he hurriedly turned over and got out of bed, took a steel knife, and rushed out, in a trance, he saw a tall figure, it was when he ran up the mountain that night, he turned back and hurriedly glanced at the enemy horseman, it turned out to be him, Zhang Yu, the governor of the Yan army, led his troops to kill his parents. Thinking of this, Zhang Shixing was furious, and rushed towards Zhang Yu like crazy, the sword flashed, and he slashed at Zhang Yu's vital point, completely ignoring his own door.

Zhang Yu parried a few times, turned the horse away, Zhang Shixing couldn't catch up, and jumped behind and scolded.

Zhang Yu circled his horse and came back, pointed at him with a knife and said: "Zhang Shixing, you are defeated by me today, you should admit defeat and surrender, why are you such a scoundrel in the market?" ”

Zhang Shixing's eyes widened angrily and said: "You kill my parents, I have an enmity with you, how can I bring you down, you come here, I will fight you to the death." ”

Zhang Yu sighed and said strangely: "You and I are our own masters, and we have no personal enmity, when did I kill your parents?" ”

Zhang Shixing said with a crying voice: "Twelve years ago, did you join Lan Yu in the fishing sea to attack the Northern Yuan royal court. ”

When Zhang Yu heard this, he also remembered the past, the expression on his face was painful and proud, and under the light of the fire, it looked a little weird, and he nodded and said: "Yes, I led Lan Yu to attack the Northern Yuan Royal Court, because I was the privy envoy of the Northern Yuan." After this battle, I was awarded the Jinan Wei Deputy Thousand Households for merit, and then gradually promoted to the Yanshan Left Guard Commander Servant, under the command of King Yan, so that Si, a lifetime of ambition to be able to display, it is really a waste of time. ”

Zhang Shixing said angrily: "I don't want to listen to your bullshit resume, let me ask you, have you ever killed a Mongolian civilian couple near the fishing sea?" ”

When Zhang Yu heard this, he looked up to the sky and laughed: "I have killed countless people in my life, where do I remember what civilian couples lived." You have revenge, but you have no revenge to die. ”

After that, he urged the war horse, brandished the steel knife, and killed Zhang Shixing.

Zhang Shixing jumped to the side, dodged his blow to open the mountain, and slashed at Zhang Yu's thigh with a backhand, Zhang Yu waved the knife to block, who knew that Zhang Shixing was a false move, between lightning and fire, he threw away the steel knife, rubbed his body up, stretched out his arm, buckled Zhang Yu's right wrist, and with a force on his hand, he pulled Zhang Yu off the horse.

Zhang Yu rolled on the ground a few times, just stood up, Zhang Shixing's fists had arrived, and he instantly hit more than a dozen punches, Zhang Yu blocked left and right, but his fist and foot kung fu and Zhang Shixing were too far away, and he was hit by a few punches in the shoulder and chest and abdomen, and fell to the ground with his back facing the sky, Zhang Shixing jumped forward, rode on his body, turned his palm into a knife, and slashed straight at his throat, and shouted: "Father, mother, you open your eyes in the spirit of heaven, and the child has come to avenge you today." ”