The next day, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, ordered the generals to march in formation, and at noon came to the east of the Jiahe River, and met the southern army, Sheng Yong was also in strict formation.

Zhu Di personally led three horsemen to the front of the southern army to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, only to see the southern army's artillery, firearms, crossbows, chariots, etc., all lined up, and the defense was tight. Then they swept away from afar.

Sheng Yong saw it in the formation, and couldn't help but be furious: "The swallow thief deceived me too much, and he dared to send several horsemen to spy on my formation." More than 1,000 horsemen came to chase, Zhu Di saw the southern army chasing, so he reined in his horse and turned around, controlled the strings, and saw that the chasing horse was approaching, so he drew the bow and arrows, and with a whoosh, killed one person immediately. The pursuers immediately stopped, and Zhu Di hit his horse and left. The pursuers saw it, and chased it closely, Zhu Di opened his bow and released arrows again, like the three, killed several people in a row, the southern army finally did not dare to chase, Zhu Di slowly returned to his own position.

Zhu Di said to the generals: "The southern army is easy to hear, and this battle will be won." He led 10,000 cavalry, and immediately carried 5,000 foot soldiers into the enemy's formation.

When the army arrived in front of the southern army, when the two armies were about to clash, the foot soldiers dismounted, and with a shout, they attacked the left of the southern army.

The Yan army made a lot of hooks in advance, tied a long rope behind, so that the warriors rushed to the front of the formation, threw at the Yan army, connected its shield, pulled it violently, the shield of the southern army fell down, can not be covered, the Yan army then took advantage of its gap to send arrows to attack it, and there were many arrows in the southern army who fell to the ground.

Sheng Yong saw that the situation was not good, and urgently ordered to fire firearms, but the Yan army had already attacked the front, and the southern army fired firearms in a hurry, but they were not accurate, and they could not shoot the enemy.

Seeing this, Zhu Di immediately led the cavalry to go around behind the southern army, took advantage of the weakness to enter, and went straight to the heart, and the enemy rushed forward.

Tan Yuan, the commander of the capital, saw that the dust was rising in the southern army's formation, and wanted to lead his troops to rush forward. Zhu Neng dissuaded: "Without the order of King Yan, you must not move without permission." ”

Tan Yuan said disapprerovingly: "Governor Zhu, things on the battlefield are changing rapidly, how can you wait for military orders for everything, what is the difference between that and a dead person." Yesterday, King Yan said that he led the elite cavalry to attack behind the enemy, and when the enemy army moved, our Chinese army would attack it, and the enemy army would be defeated. ”

Zhu Neng said: "King Yan said that when the thief travels five or six miles in a hurry, he is out of breath, and the Chinese army is waiting for him to run over, and then he will attack him, and I will take advantage of the situation to chase the north, and the thieves will be defeated." Be careful not to fight back, the thief will fight to the death in order to survive. Now that the thieves have not moved, how can I fight back? ”

Tan Yuan said in a large formation of the guide army: "Governor Zhu, please look, didn't the southern army move?" ”

Zhu Nengshou set up a pergola and looked into the distance, only to see the southern army shouting and shaking the sky, and the dust was flying, and he really couldn't see whether the enemy formation was moving forward.

Tan Yuan said: "Governor, I'm afraid your eyes are not very good, you'd better climb the watchtower to see clearly, otherwise you will miss the military aircraft and you can't afford to bear the blame." ”

Zhu Neng heard that he was reasonable, so he climbed up the watchtower and carefully watched the battle between the two armies.

Unexpectedly, he heard a burst of people in his formation shouting horses, and Tan Yuan was so eager for meritorious service that he didn't wait for the general's order, and led his headquarters of 5,000 men and horses to kill in the southern army formation.

Zhu Neng patted his thigh and said, "The shaft dares to bully me." Hurriedly climbed down the watchtower, led Zhang Fu (Zhang Yu's son) and other troops to march forward and kill the southern army.

Zhang Shixing was fighting with Zhu Di, the king of Yan, in the battle. After he killed Zhang Yu, he was appointed by Sheng Yong as the commander of the Pingshan Guard, and he had a real 5,000 Shandong soldiers under his command.

Suddenly, I heard someone shouting: "Commander Zhang." He looked back and saw that it was Zhang Chang, the flag officer under him, Zhang Chang was twenty years old, tall and long-armed, with big shoulders and a round waist, and his strength could carry the tripod, so he was appointed as the flag officer. Every battle must be the first to the soap flag, the Yan army is afraid of it like a tiger, and the army calls it "soap flag Zhang".

Zhang Chang waved a soap flag to the west, signaling that enemy troops were coming from the west. When Zhang Shixing saw that he was attacked by the enemy on his belly and back, he hurriedly ordered his own guard to send two thousand soldiers to the west, and the rest of the soldiers surrounded the chariot in a circle, formed a formation on the spot, and used firearms to resist the cavalry of King Yan.

At this time, the Yan army in the west rushed to a general, saw Zhang Chang was waving the flag and shouting, Zhang Gong shot an arrow, an arrow hit Zhang Chang's throat, and shot him to death.

Zhang Shixing shouted: "Return my brother." The spear rushed forward, and with one shot, the swallow raised his knife to separate him. Zhang Shixing drew his gun and came back, one swept thousands of troops, but hit the leg of the opponent's horse, only to hear a click, the gun was broken into two, the horse neighed, fell to the ground, and threw the Yan general off the horse.

Zhang Shixing pulled out his waist knife, cut off the man's head, and killed him with one sword. This person is Yan General Tan Yuan.

At this time, Zhu Neng led the army to kill and joined the Yan King Jingcai in one place. Sheng Yong also led the army to arrive, and also formed a chariot formation to fight with the Yan army. The two sides fought evenly.

After fighting for a long time, it was getting late, and the two sides collected their troops and returned to the camp.

Zhu Di once again escaped with the team, with only more than ten horsemen around him. It was the end of the month, and there was no light in the sky, so they could not tell the direction, so they had to camp on the spot.

At this moment, Sheng Yong was entertaining the generals in the big tent of the Chinese army, he was wearing a red brocade robe, raised the golden Nine Dragons Imperial Cup in his hand and said to the generals: "Thanks to your hard work today, the Yan thief was killed." This is the emperor's wine glass, I will use this cup to toast you a glass of wine, may the emperor bless, tomorrow the flag will be victorious, and the horse will succeed. ”

Everyone also raised their glasses and congratulated: "Sheng Hou is mighty, if you can defeat the Yan thief in this battle, I am afraid that you will be crowned a duke." ”

Sheng Yong laughed when he heard this: "Thank you for your auspicious words, when you take Beiping, Ben Hou will drink with you again." Drink three cups today, let's rest early, nourish your spirits, and break the enemy in one fell swoop tomorrow. ”

After drinking three glasses of wine, the generals dispersed.

Zhu Di woke up in the morning and looked around, and there were all the southern troops within a hundred steps. The left and right pro-soldiers turned pale with fright, and said in a panic: "Your Highness, go quickly, I will wait for you to break off, otherwise you will be captured for the enemy." ”

Zhu Di said calmly: "Don't be afraid. It is difficult to distinguish between the enemy and the enemy, and we will be safe and sound when we go out calmly, but if we panic, we will surely die. ”

After that, Zhu Di ordered everyone to get on the horse, and the group lined up neatly, blew the horn, and walked outside the camp.

The southern army in the camp thought that the army was assembled, and they lined up one after another, and Zhu Di seemed to be reviewing the army and calmly passed in front of the team.

Zhang Shixing had just gotten up and walked outside the tent when he suddenly heard a horn and hurriedly asked the soldiers around him what was going on.

The soldier pointed to Zhu Di and the others in the distance, and said: "I don't know where the general came from, the golden helmet and golden armor, so not majestic, blowing the horn, ordering everyone to gather, he is reviewing the army." ”

Zhang Shixing put up a pergola with his hand, looked into the distance, and found that the general's figure was very similar to Zhu Di, so he hurriedly jumped on his horse and ran towards him, shouting: "The general walks slowly, Zhang Shixing comes to visit." ”

When Zhu Di heard Zhang Shixing's voice, he immediately whipped him, beat his horse and fled, Zhang Shixing couldn't catch up, and scolded him later.

Zhu Di ran for more than an hour and finally returned to his camp. The generals in the camp greeted him, Zhu Neng knelt down and kowtowed, and said with tears in his eyes: "Your Highness, you must not take risks lightly in the future, this is the second time you have lost with the brigade, so how can we and other courtiers be embarrassed." ”

Zhu Di helped him up and said, "Lonely should obey orders." ”

When Zhu Neng heard this, he burst into tears and laughed, and then his face became gloomy and said: "In yesterday's battle, another general was lost. That Tan Yuan did not listen to the order, and went out to fight privately, so that he died. ”

Zhu Di asked for details, sighed and said: "I once told him that the killing is ominous, and the result will be fulfilled today." ”

Then Zhu Di said to the generals: "Yesterday, Tan Yuan saw that the thief array moved, and immediately attacked, but the counterattack was too early and could not succeed, the so-called poor and unstoppable art of war, I warned you before, and ordered you to wait for the whole army, wait for the thief to run over, and attack it according to the momentum, and you will win a complete victory." He also, although the thief was frustrated, his edge was still sharp, and he would fight to the death. It is more important to face the enemy than to judge the opportunity to change, and to know the advance and retreat, it is necessary to solve it. Today's thieves come, you wait and fight, I use fine horses to go back and forth between the arrays, thieves have a place to take advantage of, that is, break into the attack, the narrow road meets the brave wins, this light and martial arts so break the king to find also. ”

While he was talking, he reported that Sheng Yong's army was coming to attack the camp. It turned out that Sheng Yong heard Zhang Shixing's report that Zhu Di, the king of Yan, led more than ten horsemen to escape from his own camp, thinking that the Yan army was defeated and had an opportunity, so he led the army to chase after him.

Yan Wang Zhu Di shouted well, then ordered the whole army to go out to welcome, at this time the Yan army is in the northeast, the south army is in the southwest, the commanders of both sides gave an order, the drums in front of the battle were loud, the two sides advanced east and west, and fought in one place.

From the time of Chen to the end of the day, Zhu Di was in battle to supervise the battle, the soldiers of the Yan army fought bravely, and the soldiers of the southern army did not show weakness, shouting to kill the thief, and the two sides fought equally.

Zhu Di, the king of Yan, saw that he could not win in the front, so he ordered the strange soldiers to break into the enemy formation from the two wings, and rushed back and forth, and there was a crack in the large array of the southern army, and then the number of those who reunited was four, and the two armies had won and lost each other, and they retreated and advanced repeatedly, and each other's soldiers were exhausted, and they sat down in place to rest. After a while, the resumption of the battle was in one place, both sides held on to each other, and the flying arrows were handed over.

Suddenly, at this moment, the northeast wind rose strongly, the dust was full of sky, and the sand and gravel hit the face, and the southern army happened to be at the downwind outlet, the sand and dust squinted, and there was no one in sight.

The Yan army took advantage of the wind to kill and shouted to attack the thief, but the southern army could not resist it and retreated one after another. Zhu Di, the king of Yan, saw that the opportunity could not be lost, and hurriedly ordered the elite cavalry to attack the southern army from the left and right wings, he personally beat the drum behind the battle, the drum shook the sky, the southern army was defeated, abandoned and left, and was beheaded more than 100,000 levels. The Yan army chased to the Hutuo River, the southern army drowned and trampled on the dead is incalculable, the river is cut off, the rest are scattered and fled, Sheng Yong fled to Texas alone.

Zhu Di led the troops to chase Sheng Yong's camp, came to the front of the Chinese army tent, he kicked off the saddle and dismounted, walked into the tent, saw that Sheng Yong's cups and plates for yesterday's banquet were still there, and there was still the big red brocade robe on the golden chair, he picked up the Nine Dragons Cup, looked at it carefully for a long time, and sighed to the left and right: "This is the thing used by Emperor Taizu Gao, the young master does not know how to cherish it, but he gave it to the Yong general, and abandoned it like a shoe, which is really a pity." ”

After that, he put the big red robe on his body again, looked around and said, "Sheng Yong's robe is good, Gu Ke will give him to Zhu Neng." ”

As soon as the words fell, a person broke into the tent, his face was full of dust, he couldn't see his true face, and when he saw Zhu Di, he pulled out his waist knife, slashed it, and shouted in his mouth: "Sheng Yong, take your life." ”