The battle of Pingyang is imperative, don't look at Zhao Ming talking to the king of Pingyang in a consultative tone, if the king of Pingyang does not obey, Zhao Ming will definitely ask for the right of Ran Huguo to give him the right to control the front-line soldiers and horses of Pingyang, and die to the king of Pingyang.

King Pingyang was silent for a while, and finally asked, "If you fight, what are the chances of King Wu winning?" ”

Zhao Mingdao: "In military affairs, there is never a complete victory. If the tens of thousands of Huns outside the city really have no cavalry, this king has a seventy percent chance of winning. ”

Zhao Hu said: "What if there is? ”

Zhao Ming continued: "If there are 30,000 or 40,000 Huns outside the city, and thousands of cavalry, this king will definitely not persuade the king of Pingyang to fight, but hopes that we can hold on and protect ourselves first, and then talk about anything else." ”

Zhao Hu put his mind at ease, as long as the martial king Zhao Ming is not a hard fight regardless of the severity, he nodded and agreed: "In this case, I will go out of the city to fight and kill Hu!" ”

After the banquet, although the general policy had been decided, Zhao Ming and the others still did not dare to be careless, and immediately sent scouts to investigate the situation of the Xiongnu troops hundreds of miles away.

Early the next morning, the news was confirmed. The Xiongnu in Pingyang no longer had cavalry, and not all of the Xiongnu soldiers and horses were Hu, half of them were Han soldiers. This comes from the fact that your scout has captured the opponent's scout.

This was the first time that Zhao Ming had the upper hand in the scout battle.

Zhao Ming, Zhao Hu and others were overjoyed when they heard this, and without further ado, everyone immediately reorganized the army and prepared to attack the Huns.

Before noon, Zhao Ming had already marched eighty miles, and the vanguard cavalry had stuck to the Xiongnu to prevent the Xiongnu from having a chance to escape.

The Xiongnu had to defend the camp. Although there were many Han soldiers in the Xiongnu army, the main general was still the Huns, so the camp was also very loose.

Zhao Ming only attacked the camp for less than an hour, and he had already broken through the left camp of the Xiongnu, and the cavalry drove straight into the camp and defeated the Xiongnu.

In this battle, tens of thousands of beheadings and tens of thousands of prisoners were captured.

Ten percent of the captives were Han Chinese, which shows that the Huns were brave and fought to the death.

In the Xiongnu camp, there were also a large number of grain, grass, and goods plundered from various counties, and the harvest was quite rich.

Zhao Ming collected his troops and returned to the city to count the battle damage.

Yuan Hu and Yuan Xiang each suffered more than 2,000 casualties, Zhao Hu also lost less than 2,000 soldiers and horses, and on Zhao Ming's side, the 5,000 cavalry lost four or five hundred, and the loss was not large, and the Imperial Forest Army was almost undamaged if it did not participate in the battle.

Zhao Ming ordered Yuan Hu and Yuan Xiang to replenish their soldiers and horses among the captives, replenishing 10,000 people, and handing over the remaining captives to Zhao Hu to be incorporated into the army.

Everyone was overjoyed, held a banquet to celebrate, and sent a war report to the Hedong camp.

What Zhao Ming didn't know was that his good news was exchanged for Ran Huguo's endless troubles.

The victory of Pingyang was a great victory, destroying 10,000 enemies, capturing tens of thousands, plus the total annihilation of the Hun cavalry on the banks of the Fenshui River. The imperial court's confidence was greatly boosted for a while, and they wrote letters one after another, asking the Hedong army to press the front line and fight a decisive battle with the Xiongnu as soon as possible.

A 14-year-old Xiaowu King can defeat the Xiongnu one after another, which shows that the Xiongnu are not so terrible. I have an army of 300,000 in Hedong, and I should go to the front line as soon as possible, fight a decisive battle against the Huns, and rescue Jinyang, the importance of Jinyang is known to everyone in the court.

For a while, Ran Huguo was on the cusp.

The dignified general of the guard, with 300,000 armor under his command, is it not as good as the 14-year-old Xiaowu King?

The prince is not mediocre, although he withstood most of the pressure, but he also had a thought in his heart, this 300,000 army is best defeated by the Xiongnu, which not only weakens the strength of the local officials in each county, but also recovers the lost territory, which is the most ideal ending.

However, it was said that Zhao Ming and others led the army to hold in Pingyang, waiting for further orders from the Xiongnu and Ran Huguo.

But the Huns were not seen for several days, which made Zhao Hu, the king of Pingyang, have some thoughts and try to send troops to recover the counties of Pingyang occupied by the Huns.

Zhao Ming hurriedly stopped: "We only have 40,000 soldiers and horses, how can we divide the counties?" Today we have taken it back, and tomorrow it will be occupied by the Huns, and it is very likely that we will not even be able to hold Pingyang. If you want to really take back the counties of Pingyang, you can only wait until the Hedong army moves to Pingyang. ”

After some painstaking persuasion, Zhao Hu reluctantly put away his thoughts.

After waiting for a few more days, a messenger from Jinyang broke out of the encirclement, and the news arrived in Pingyang first.

According to the messenger who broke through, he said: "The Xiongnu have besieged Jinyang very urgently in recent days, and Jinyang may not be able to hold it for long. ”

After the messenger finished speaking, he urged the horse to rush to the camp east of the river.

On the second and third days, two groups of messengers came in succession, with the same purpose as the previous group, only to ask for help.

Three letters asking for help in three days shocked the imperial court.

In Pingyang City, Zhao Ming is also thinking, it seems that the destruction of Jinyang City is already an irreparable thing, and now the Hedong camp has not been integrated, and it is impossible to rescue Jinyang.

Although Fan Zeng has a plan to break the situation, the premise is that Jinyang can hold on for another month or two, and there are continuous messengers asking for help at the moment, but I am afraid that Jinyang is really precarious and difficult to hold.

At this moment, Fan Zeng said at the bottom: "The Huns are very ambitious. ”

Zhao Mingqi said: "What does this mean? ”

Fan Zeng said: "With the ability of the Hun cavalry, how can the Jinyang messengers break out of the encirclement one after another to send letters? It can be seen that the intention of the Xiongnu is not in Jinyang. ”

This remark reminded Zhao Ming that it was okay for the messenger to come once, and he broke out of the encirclement one after another, so the Hun cavalry was not too wasteful?

In this way, there is only one explanation, the messenger was deliberately released by the Xiongnu, and the purpose was to ask him to ask for help.

The more Zhao Ming thought about it, the more wrong it became, surround the point to send reinforcements? So he asked: "In the opinion of the father, what is the intention of the Huns?" ”

Fan Zeng said: "If the minister's guess is right, the Xiongnu want to force the Hedong camp to fight a decisive battle." The 300,000 troops of the Hedong battalion have not been integrated, and the sooner the decisive battle, the more beneficial it will be for the Xiongnu. Otherwise, once General Wei is integrated, even if he cannot defeat the Xiongnu, he can build an impregnable defense line on the front line of Pingyang and Shangdang, making it difficult for the Xiongnu to advance an inch. The Xiongnu moved south, and the intentions were so great that they could not be satisfied by half of the state. ”

Zhao Ming nodded, thinking: The Xiongnu deliberately released messengers to put pressure on the Hedong camp, forcing the Hedong army to save Jinyang and start the decisive battle early.

With the annexation of the state, the millions of Xiongnu people have a place to live. Moreover, the capture of the prestige of the Great Yan Prefecture can make the status of the Xiongnu among the Hu people rise greatly, as long as they ascend to the heights, perhaps many tribes will soon come to join the state to take refuge, and the power will only increase.

The heart of the Huns is really quite big.

Thinking of this, Zhao Ming said with some uncertainty: "My imperial grandfather and the crown prince and uncle, I'm afraid they won't be so mediocre that they have to force Ran Huguo to fight a decisive battle at this time." ”

Scheming is Jia Xu's forte, but I heard him say leisurely: "Not necessarily, if this battle is won, it will be the prince who wins; If the battle was lost, the prince still won. ”

"What's the explanation?"

"Our army won and the Huns lost, naturally the prince won, this doesn't need to be explained. If our army is defeated, the prince will have three victories. First, according to the intelligence, Ran Huguo has never participated in party struggles, and is a rare Qingliu person in the imperial court, and is definitely not the prince's party, if this battle is lost, Ran Huguo's position as a general will inevitably be lost, and the prince's party can take the opportunity to get the position of General Wei, which is a victory for the prince. ”

"Second, if this battle is lost, 300,000 elite soldiers of each county will be destroyed, and the strength of each county will be greatly reduced, which is the second victory of the prince."

"Third, although the Xiongnu won, they may even occupy the entire territory of Bingzhou, but they can only stop here, the northern army has already Chen Bing Hanoi, and the prince's move may have already thought of the outcome of the battle of Bingzhou. When the Hedong army was defeated, the Hanoi defense line may have been impregnable, and it would be difficult for the Xiongnu to surpass it. Although the state was lost, the imperial court only lost a state, and the territory could be fought back if it was lost, and the four major armies of the imperial court and the two forbidden armies were not damaged, and the foundation of the imperial court was not shaken. In the next few years, Hanoi will fight against the Xiongnu on the front line, and it will be able to temper the two forbidden armies that have long been slack. Although the Xiongnu are now prosperous, but the Great Yan Dynasty is so strong, the future stalemate, compared to the national strength, the fight is the population, it does not take a few years, the Xiongnu will be weak, and then counterattack and merge the state, it is easy to win, this prince wins. ”

"Hiss..." Zhao Ming gasped: The prince is the prince, the person who can put the emperor in the air and play with my father is so high, the Northern Army Chen Bing Hanoi has already set a strategy for the next few years before the war. His eyes were always on the world, not on the state.

Zhao Ming smiled bitterly: "In this way, our army will be defeated?" ”

Jia Xu nodded and said, "If Ran Huguo can withstand the pressure and follow the steps, there may be a chance." If you send troops in a hurry, you will be defeated. ”

Zhao Ming was sad in his heart, after all, he was unable to return to the sky, and now what he had to consider was not how to defeat the Huns, but how to return to Longxi alive.

Helpless, he now has some experience of Yue Fei's mood, and he has the intention to kill the enemy, but there are too many constraints, even if he is a martial king, he can't change anything, in this big game of chess, the only thing he can change is to let himself go back alive and take his ten thousand horses home as much as possible. Let no one dictate their own destiny.

Five days later, Ran Huguo's army moved to Pingyang. After all, the imperial court gave an order, and Jinyang must be saved.

In the big tent of Pingyang, Ran Huguo was promoted to the tent, and Zhao Ming was also here.

The war is about to start, and Zhao Ming doesn't plan to stop it, let alone do anything like that.

He knew he couldn't stop it.

He just wanted to see how Ran Huguo was going to fight this battle now, and then see what his mission was. If it is too dangerous and is a task of nine deaths, then even if he tears his face, he will carry out the martial king's frame to refuse.

Because this is destined to be a big defeat, and there is no hope for a big defeat, so why send it to death again?

If anyone wants to take this opportunity to kill him, he will not hesitate and resist to the end.

"Martial King?"

Zhao Ming never expected Ran Huguo to be the first to point to him, so he had to say, "This king is here." ”

Ran Huguo said: "Our army is about to go deep into Taiyuan, and the matter of grain and grass is very important, so we must not be careful. I would have ordered you to lead 30,000 horses to supervise the transportation of grain and grass, but do you have any objections? ”

This...... Zhao Ming was a little stunned, he didn't expect Ran Huguo to give him a soy sauce task, they all said that the three armies had not moved, and the grain and grass went first, and he also knew the importance of grain and grass, but the big war was coming, and Ran Huguo actually sent him to the rear to transport grain, this situation was completely to take him out and make soy sauce, and when his first wave of grain and grass arrived, maybe the war had already had a result.

This is a character that seems to be important, but turns out to be a soy sauce.

Zhao Ming didn't know what this Ran Huguo thought, but no matter what, it was good news, and he didn't hesitate at the moment, and said, "This king has orders." ”

After that, Ran Huguo issued more than a dozen military orders in a row, which can be seen Ran Huguo's strategy, the army kept the formation moving slowly, and was not in a hurry to rescue Jinyang at all.

Probably Ran Huguo also wished that Jinyang would be broken immediately, so he would build a defense line on the spot and no longer go deep into Taiyuan.

But he also knew that if his army did not enter the land of Jinyang, Jinyang City might not be broken.

Therefore, he is not in a hurry to march, and since you are waiting for me to come, I will take my time, try to keep the army strong, and even if there is really no hope of victory, I hope to bite off a piece of your flesh.