Zhu Di was suddenly startled, grabbed the reins, and saw several war horses appear on the hillside, and the people on the horses were Li Jinglong, Guo Ying, Sheng Yong and others. Li Jinglong pointed at Zhu Di with a horsewhip and said: "Yan thief, you have fallen into the siege of our army, and if you don't get off your horse and surrender, spare your life." ”

Zhu Di was furious, ordered the flag to point, and ordered his subordinates to rush to the hillside, shouting: "Those who capture Li Jiujiang will be knighted." ”

When the generals of the Yan army heard this, they were excited, and they rushed to the mountain one after another.

Li Jinglong and others saw the Yan army rushing forward, so they turned their horses' heads and disappeared behind the hillside, and when the Yan army rushed to the middle of the mountain, a group of Ming troops appeared on the top of the mountain, and dozens of small cars were launched, which were loaded with hundreds of rockets, and after lighting the fuse, thousands of rockets roared out and shot into the Yan army's formation.

This kind of firearm of the southern army is called a swarm of bees, also called a hundred tigers rushing arrows, it is a rocket installed in a cylinder container, and dozens of barrels to hundreds of barrels are often set up in battle, and the medicine line of each rocket is connected to a bus, and when it is launched, the bus is ignited, and all the arrows are fired together, and the momentum is like a thunderous blow, and there is nothing in the world that can be its front. This was naturally the idea of the veteran Guo Ying, who often used this method when the Ming army fought against the Yuan army.

At this time, the cavalry of the southern army was led by Ping'an and Zhang Shixing from the left and right sides respectively, Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng saw that the big thing was not good, and each brought their headquarters to meet them, desperately resisted, and killed a difficult solution.

Zhu Di looked around in the formation for a while, and found that his army was attacking from the back, and the southern army was condescending, quite advantageous, and often charged slightly, killing his own army on his back, and retreating one after another, and the front and rear teams were crowded together, and it was difficult to deploy the troops.

Thinking about this section, Zhu Di ordered Zheng He to beat the drum, and he personally led the Chinese army to rush to the top of the mountain, he must take this place today in order to reverse the decline, otherwise he will definitely lose.

Zhu Di brandished his sword, and the spurs of his feet kept piercing the mount under him, and the red horse was in pain and rushed towards the hillside like crazy.

At this time, there was a thunderous cannon sound on the hillside, accompanied by a piece of white smoke rising, and the choking smell of gunpowder came to the nose, and a rain of bullets fell from the sky, Zhu Di felt that his ears were buzzing, like a swarm of bees passing by, but strangely speaking, this rain of bullets did not hurt Zhu Di at all.

Zhu Di slapped his horse and galloped up the high slope, only to see that hundreds of Southern soldiers were busy filling a small cannon called Ma Dan with gunpowder, preparing for a second launch, Zhu Di rushed forward, brushed a few swords and cut down a few Southern soldiers, and the rest of the Southern soldiers saw this, threw down the artillery, and ran away.

Zhu Di was about to chase, and countless southern troops suddenly burst out of the bushes on the top of the mountain, the first one with thick eyebrows and fine eyes, tall figure, it was Sheng Yong, the commander of the Shandong Dusidu, Sheng Yong saw that there were only hundreds of horsemen around Zhu Di, and shouted: "Capture King Yan, the official will be promoted to the third level, and the reward will be ten thousand." "With that, he led the army to rush.

Zhu Di was not afraid, swung his sword left and right, and the person was killed immediately, and the southern army couldn't get close to him for a while.

In this way, they fought for a long time, it was late, both sides sounded their gongs to collect their troops, and Zhu Di, the king of Yan, also led the army to rush down the hillside, but his own team was gone, and only Zheng He and other three horsemen were left around.

Zheng He was a little panicked, and said with a crying voice: "Your Highness, this black light is blinding, and I don't know where our army's camp is, how can it be good?" ”

Zhu Di said in a deep voice: "Don't panic. Zhang Yu has been following me for a long time, and he has won the true knowledge of my art of war, and he must have camped in the upper reaches of the river. And Li Jiujiang is a cowardly person, and he will camp in a place where he is backing the mountain. If we go up the river, we will return to the camp. ”

When everyone heard the words, they settled down, listened to the sound of the river flowing, and came to the Baigou River, the oblique moon in the sky was like a hook, the river was sparkling, and there was no sound around, and Zhu Di jumped off the horse, walked carefully to the river, identified the direction of the river, and then led everyone to walk upstream.

After walking for about half an hour, Zhu Di suddenly found that there was a cold light flashing in front of him, he immediately drew his sword in his hand, and the other three also stopped their horses, stretched their bows and arrows, and waited for someone to come.

The sound of horses' hooves on the opposite side was getting closer and closer, Zheng He's heart was about to jump to his throat, he was about to launch an arrow, Zhu Di held him down, and said in a low voice: "Don't worry, wait a little longer." ”

Four horsemen appeared on the opposite side, and Zhu Di suddenly shouted: "Is the person on the opposite side Yan Jun?" ”

The person on the other side was taken aback, and blurted out: "Exactly, I am the commander of Qiu Fu." Who are you? ”

Zhu Di said: "I am King Yan. ”

Qiu Fu urged him to step forward, and when he saw that it was really King Yan, he hurriedly jumped off his horse, knelt down and kowtowed, and said, "His Royal Highness King Yan, why are you here?" I got lost and was looking for the location of the big camp. ”

Zhu Di smiled: "Lone is the same as you." Get on your horse. ”

Qiu Fu hurriedly got up, turned over and got on his horse, and the four of them joined Zhu Di and others and marched towards the parade together.

Zheng He said strangely: "Your Highness, how do you know that the person on the other side is Yan Jun?" ”

Zhu Di said: "Most of the war horses in our army are high-headed horses, and the sound of horses' hooves is heavy and clear, and most of the southern army are low horses, and the sound of horses' hooves is deep and muffled, so I know that the people on the other side are Yan Army." ”

When Zheng He and others heard this, they were full of admiration.

Everyone walked for another hour, and saw that the lights were bright in front of them, and a large camp on the north bank stood near the river, Qiu Fu immediately stepped forward to investigate, and came back after a while and said happily: "His Royal Highness King Yan, the front is really a big camp of our army, and the generals are anxious about the disappearance of His Highness." ”

Zhu Di hurriedly beat the horse across the river, to the middle of the stream, the river did not pass the horse's belly, the horse was almost washed away by the river, Zhu Di desperately beat the horse a few times, the red horse fluttered a few times, and landed on the opposite bank, there were already generals waiting on the shore to welcome him into the camp.

Zhu Di sat down in the Chinese military tent, Zhu Gaoxu's face turned pale and said: "Father, you didn't return in the middle of the night, I was very anxious, and I sent people to look around, but there was no trace, but fortunately I was safe." ”

Zhu Di looked around at the generals and said with a smile: "Gu has long said that the destiny of heaven is mine, what can Li Jiujiang do to me?" ”

All the generals bowed their hands in unison and said: "The king is blessed with all the heavens, and he will definitely be able to break the enemy." ”

Zhu Di slapped the table and said, "Okay, let's have a good discussion about how to defeat the Southern Army tomorrow." ”

So Zhu Di and the generals discussed the strategy of war and defense, and they had no sleep all night.

Early the next morning, Zhu Di led a large army across the Baigou River and came to the southwest, waiting for an opportunity to find Li Jinglong's main force for a decisive battle.

According to the Malay report, Li Jinglong's army was indeed encamped under the hillside of yesterday's battle.

Zhu Di led the army to come, only to see Li Jinglong lining up the army into a long snake formation, and the banner stretched for dozens of miles.

Zhu Di turned back to the generals and said: "Although there are many southern troops, but the rabble, who will break it with me?" ”

A general in the Yan army jumped out of the formation and shouted, "I am willing to capture Li Jiujiang to present it to His Highness." Zhu Di fixed his eyes and saw that this person was the general Qiu Fu, and said happily: "Okay, Commander Qiu, Gu will personally cheer you on the drums." ”

After that, he personally played the drumsticks and beat the drums of war. Na Qiu Fu led 3,000 elite cavalry to kill Li Jinglong's army.

Li Jinglong ordered the sergeant to erect a horse to resist the horse, and hide behind it to cast a fire gun, the cavalry of the Yan army who rushed in front of him were shot and fell from their horses like the autumn wind sweeping the leaves, Qiu Fu saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly ordered his cavalry to sweep the formation to the left, and opened the bow and arrows on the horse, and many soldiers on the left side of the southern army fell to the ground with arrows, and the formation was chaotic.

Zhu Di ordered Zhang Yu to lead the Chinese army to take advantage of the momentum, hoping to break the enemy's formation from the left flank. The two sides fought in one place, and it was difficult to solve the problem.

At this time, Zhu Di was surrounded by a burst of cannons, and Ping An led the army to kill. Chen Heng, the governor of the rear army, hurriedly led the army forward to intercept, Ping An Ma was fast, rushed left and right, and killed Chen Heng in front of the horse in a few rounds, the cold light flashed, and Ping An came to Chen Hengzha, Chen Heng raised his knife to fight, but he was seventy old men after all, his strength was slightly worse, and he was pressed down by Ping An forcefully, and the back of his knife was cut on his shoulder, and a sharp pain came, and his body was crooked, and he was planted under the horse.

Ping An was about to step forward and shoot Chen Heng's life, the deputy generals Xu Li and Chen Wen immediately stepped forward to stop them, and the three of them fought in one place. Chen Heng took the opportunity to ride another horse and fled back into the formation.

Zhu Di saw that he was safe and brave, and he was afraid that Chen Heng and others would not be able to resist it, so he hurriedly ordered Xu Zhong, the former military governor, to go to help in the battle. After Xu Zhong arrived at the battle, he saw that Ping'an was fighting with Chen Wen and Xu Li, and Chen and Xu gradually lost their strength, so they shouted loudly, joined the battle group, and stabbed with guns.

Zhang Shixing, who was sweeping the formation, saw it, and hurriedly slapped the horse and danced the knife to block it, the two fought in one place, Zhang Shixing slashed with a knife, Xu Zhong waved the gun away, but Zhang Shixing's wrist flipped, and the knife slid down the barrel of Xu Zhong's gun, Xu Zhong saw it, and hurriedly threw the gun, but he took a step slower, and an index finger of his left hand was cut off by a knife, Xu Zhong screamed in pain, but his right hand drew a knife in his hand, slashed left and right, like a mad tiger, and fought to the death. Zhang Shixing was helpless against him.

Li Jinglong saw that the left flank of the southern army and the rear of the Yan army were in a state of stalemate, so he waved the flag and led the Chinese army to kill Zhu Di, the king of Yan.

At this moment, King Yan was only protected by Zhu Neng, the governor of the left army, and Li Bin, the governor of the right army. Zhu Neng saw that the enemy was strong and spread all over the mountains, and he was worried about the safety of King Yan, so he said to King Yan: "I am outnumbered by thieves, and it is difficult to fight with him, so it is better to recall several armies and attack them." ”

King Yan said categorically: "Li Jiujiang's elite are all here, so I should be the only one to frustrate his momentum, so that the generals can concentrate on breaking the thief." If the army is recalled, they will work together, and the situation will be suspended, several times that of me, and it will be difficult to break it! ”

When Zhu Neng and Li Bin heard this, they commanded the left and right armies to come forward to fight with the southern army, and the two sides fought in one place, and the shouts resounded in the sky.

Zhu Di saw that there were few Yan soldiers, and he was forced by the southern army step by step, and gradually retreated, in order to boost morale, he said to everyone on the left and right: "Today's battle, I watch the thieves like a child's play, although the thieves are numerous, but in the middle of the day, they will be broken." ”

So Zhu Di led dozens of horsemen to break into the southern army's formation, rushing back and forth to kill, invincible, killing and wounding a lot, and not daring to attack him.

Li Jinglong saw that Zhu Di was as brave as this, and at this moment, he couldn't care about Emperor Jianwen's holy decree of "don't hurt my uncle", and ordered the arrow to be released.

For a time, the flying arrows were like notes, Zhu Di's war horse was three easy, three were wounded, the quiver he wore was exhausted three times, the sword blade was broken, and he was also exhausted, so he had to retreat.

Li Jinglong was overjoyed when he saw this, and waved his army to chase, Zhu Di retreated to a river embankment, with tens of thousands of troops in front and a surging river behind him, and only more than ten horses left around him.

Li Jinglong looked at it and laughed and said, "Yan thief, look where you are fleeing, if you don't get off your horse and surrender, when will you stay?" ”