Just when the potter and his subordinates were devouting how to deal with Jiang Qi's 10,000 soldiers and horses, the scout reported that Jiang Qi's vanguard was coming again.

The general who led the troops was the vanguard officer under Jiang Qi, the Jizhou military general Cheng Ping, who was praised by Ling Cao for his bravery.

The potter raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "Captain Ling, you take the soldiers and horses under your command to fight, you don't need to defend in the city, you go directly to meet the enemy head-on, I have my own scheduling!" ”

Ling Cao was very bitter in his heart when he heard this.

The two thousand people under his command must be numbered or not, and they must have no morale, and they are exhausted by repeated battles, and they will go out of the city to fight Yuan's army directly...... How can they be opponents of enemy forces?

But he didn't dare to say this frustrating thing directly to the potter, but just explained euphemistically: "Taifu, the soldiers under the command of the last general have been fighting fiercely for days, and the morale is too low, to put it mildly, even if the number of people under my command is more than that Cheng Ping, I am afraid that I will not be able to win, not to mention that there are only 2,000 people now, it is better to let the last general raise morale and kill Cheng Ping for Taifu in the city......"

The potter chuckled and said, "Don't worry, if you fight, your morale will naturally rise!" ”

"......" Ling Cao was speechless when he heard this.

This is what the potter dares to say, if this is replaced by someone else, Ling Cao will dispose of him on the spot.

But no matter what, this is an order given by Taifu, Ling Cao didn't dare to slack off, even if the potter asked him to send him to death, he had to go.

As a result, Ling Cao could only lead the crowd out of the city to face the battle.

The two armies met each other, and even the formation was almost not opened, and the generals of both sides directly led the crowd to rush forward and launched a bloody battle under the city.

Under the leadership of Ling Cao, the Jinling army had the determination to die, but unfortunately there were too few of them, especially in the phalanx composed of a few men and horses, once someone fell, there would be a vacancy immediately, and it would be difficult to fill the rear.

There are a lot of Jizhou soldiers under Cheng Ping, and if one falls on the front line, there may be two or even three people who come up to fill the position.

Seeing that the Jinling army was already left with these combatable soldiers, Cheng Ping was overjoyed, he roared behind him, and rushed forward with his horse and sword.

Cheng Ping planned to fight in front of him, drive his morale, and let Yuan Jun completely wipe out the two thousand Jinling soldiers in one go and win the victory of this line.

Cheng Ping is indeed as Ling Cao described, he is a fierce general in the Jizhou Department, good at leading the generals, not to mention, but also extremely brave, Ling Cao and he fought with him for a few rounds and then couldn't resist, led the troops to retreat backwards in a hurry, his formation was routed on all fronts, and retreated towards the city gate.

And Cheng Ping and his generals also chased after him when they saw the situation, and followed closely.

Not long after the two armies were entangled under the city gate, all of a sudden, they heard the sound of shouts and charges from the other two directions on both sides of the city gate.

Then, I saw that the four marquis of the Shanman battalion each led a thousand soldiers and horses, and with two teams as one, they outflanked them from two directions respectively, and attacked Cheng Ping's left and right wings.

The pottery merchant calculated that the Hebei army attacked Licheng three times in a row, and each time it had an advantage, he had already guessed that Ling Cao and the others were already at the end of the crossbow, and this time they came to attack, they must have come with the idea of winning or losing a battle.

They will surely charge unscrupulously, regardless of everything.

And the potter himself secretly led the mountain barbarian battalion to lurk here, thinking that Jiang Qi and Cheng Ping had not yet received any definite news, so as long as Ling Cao was allowed to fight and make enough declining performance, Cheng Ping could enter the army desperately.

And the mountain barbarian battalion, under the leadership of the four military marquis, lurked out from the other two city gates, outflanked left and right, and waited for work, and it should not be possible to win.

Prince Taiping has been on the expedition for seven years, not only has obtained the true inheritance of Huangfu Song, but also has experienced a hundred battles, dealing with a brave and unscrupulous Jizhou general like Cheng Ping, not to mention that he is able to capture, but also basically nine out of ten.

Cheng Ping's two wings of soldiers and horses were attacked by the mountain barbarian battalion, and they were attacked on three sides, and they were unable to change their formations when they were under the city, and soon fell into a stalemate.

No matter how Cheng Ping drank, he couldn't stop Yuan Jun's chaos.

At this moment, a sudden shout was heard, and a figure rushed over from the crowd on the side of the Xuzhou army, like a bolt of lightning, roaring and jumping up and slashing straight at Cheng Ping.

Cheng Ping was caught off guard, and was knocked off the horse by the black shadow, and rolled on the ground twice in embarrassment.

The two guards behind Cheng Ping blocked in front of him, wanting to protect him, but the black shadow's movements did not stop at all, and after the shot, Pu Dao directly slashed the two guards to the ground, extremely fierce.

Cheng Ping stood up with a disgraced face, wiped his mouth, and looked at the black shadow fiercely, but saw that the other party was just a sturdy half-grown child.

Cheng Ping's face turned green all of a sudden—angry.

"Where's the hairy cub!"

The young man did not answer, but rushed over like a whirlwind, picked up the sword and slashed at the head.

Cheng Ping didn't expect this little cub to be so fierce, his subordinates were not soft at all, and hurriedly and instinctively raised the war knife in his hand to parry.

But the little monkey cub seemed to have expected Cheng Ping to do this, grabbed the blade of the knife erected by the other party, jumped up and hit Cheng Ping's chin with his knee, and kicked him all over the place.

Cheng Ping stepped back in pain, but the other party didn't give him a chance at all, and after the blade, his throat was cut, and blood flowed out.

The eleven-year-old boy Ding Feng, the first time he participated in the fierce battle, he killed the vanguard officer under the account of Jiang Qi, the general of Jizhou!

Having lost the vanguard commander, the rest of the soldiers were quickly scattered by the Jinling soldiers and the Nanban battalion.

Ling Cao was covered in blood, his face was sleepy and tired, but he couldn't close his mouth happily.

He came to the pottery merchant who had just left the city and asked him: "Taifu Shenshu, kill Cheng Ping in one battle!" Our morale has really come up! What's next? ”

The potter pointed to Guo Jia behind him and said, "Ask him." ”

Guo Jia said with a smile: "Captain Ling is a little restless, Jiang Qi only sent Cheng Ping to lead the troops over this time, presumably thinking that Cheng Ping must break the city, his battalion is not prepared at the moment, the defeated soldiers are now going back to report, Jiang Qi will not be able to react for a while, he can't say that he is still hesitating, and now he is taking advantage of the high morale, and the enemy does not know the reality of our situation, it is the best policy to forcibly attack the village and crusade against Jiang Qi!" ”

The potter turned his head to look at Ling Cao with a smile and said, "Understand, right?" If you want to win, then this is the only chance! Quickly organize all the soldiers and horses that can go into battle, and the mountain barbarian battalion will also cooperate with you, taking advantage of Jiang Qi's lack of reaction, and attack! ”

Ling Cao suddenly came to his senses and said, "No! ”

The Shanman battalion cooperated with Ling Cao's generals and began to march rapidly towards Jiang Qi's camp.

The potters are supervising in the back.

At this time, I saw Ding Feng carrying Cheng Ping's head and came to the front of the potter.

The potter glanced at the head in Ding Feng's hand and said, "Ding Feng, you have made a great contribution, what reward do you want?" ”

Ding Feng's request is very direct and very realistic.

"I want a meal of meat."

The potter laughed and teased him, "Yes! I will attack Jiang Qi's camp in a while, if you can also take his head, I will not only give you a meal of meat, but also find you a beautiful woman, how about it? ”

Ding Feng shook his head heavily.

"I'm only eleven, and finding beautiful women is not good for my health, so I don't grow one."

Beads of sweat flowed from the potter's head.

It can't be seen that Ding Feng's elders have done a good job of educating him on physical development.

As for not growing up, eleven years old is such a big person, even if it doesn't grow much in the future, it doesn't seem to be a loss.

"And what do you want?" The potter asked rhetorically.

Ding Feng pondered seriously for a moment and said, "Two meals of meat to eat, the beauty will keep it for me!" Give it to me when I'm fifteen! ”

The potter smiled and said, "You kid, you are a natural talent." But I like your directness, go for it! Let me see if you can kill Jiang Qi. ”