By the end of the evening, Wang Pu had not yet gone up the mountain. So Zuo You and Cao Bin said goodbye and left.

Guo Shao sent them to the door of the fasting room, and went down to another room from the eaves. The rain was still falling, and the water was left behind in the columns between the tiles. Guo Shao found that the door was just hidden, so he pushed it open casually, and saw a beautiful woman in plain clothes kneeling on the futon in front of the Buddha statue. She is Zhou Xian, although she has removed all the jewelry at this time, and she does not apply grease powder to her face; But the delicacy of her beautiful white face is the appearance of the dust.

Green lanterns, ancient Buddhas. However, the woman on the futon is indeed graceful, her chest is full, and the kneeling posture makes the skirt tight, and the rounded buttocks line is highlighted. Her eyes were closed, her long eyelashes trembling slightly, her smooth lips moving gently as if she was meditating on something, and her hand was counting a string of Buddhist beads.

Guo Shao was stunned, Zhou Xian is really stunning, different postures have different styles...... She was originally the queen of the Southern Tang Kingdom, but Guo Shao thought that this kind of beauty did not belong to anyone, she only belonged to the winner.

"What are you asking for in front of the Buddha?" Guo Shao asked.

Zhou Xian opened his eyes and glanced back at Guo Shao, his eyebrows full of pity and pity. Guo Shao walked over and sat down cross-legged on the futon next to her. The light outside had gradually dimmed, and the light rain was still falling.

Zhou Xian said quietly: "I'm sorry for the king, and I'm even more sorry for Jiamin...... For her own sake, regardless of Jia Min's life or death, I don't know what happened to her now. ”

Guo Shao said kindly: "Emperor E's temporary warning, I told my subordinates not to leak it out for the time being, and I didn't mention it when I sent someone to Jiangning City to ask for the guilt." The lord of the Southern Tang Kingdom should not know, so he shouldn't do anything to Emperor E's sister, you don't have to worry too much. ”

"He'll find out sooner or later." Zhou Xian shook his head slightly.

Guo Shao thought about it for a while, and then heard the sound of wooden fish in the distance, so he didn't say anything to Zhou Xian, and left the room after a while.

……

The weather finally cleared, and in February of the sixth year of Xiande (959), spring was bright and bright, and the decisive battle finally came. Both sides of the Qinhuai River are crowded with people, the south ** is on the north bank, the main force of the Zhou army is on the south bank, and the army extends along the river bank, with at least 200,000 people on both sides.

In such a large-scale scene, the drums and trumpets on both wings could not hear each other, and as far as the eye could see, the situation in the distance could not be seen, and Guo Shaozhong's army could not control the army immediately; Each department has its own commander-in-chief, who has discussed tactics and tactics in advance, and has temporarily adapted to its own situation.

The generals were scattered to the various departments, and Guo Shao rode his horse to inspect the army between the ranks in front of him to boost morale. The soldiers saw that he was shouting loudly, and the sound was overshadowed for a while. At this moment, Guo Shao suddenly grabbed the reins of the horse and turned over from the horse. Wang Pu and the generals who accompanied him all stopped and looked sideways.

Guo Shao strode straight to a soldier holding a tiger flag, and the soldier suddenly tensed up and stood up straight, not daring to look at him. Guo Shao reached out and grabbed the flagpole, handed it to the sergeant next to him, and then grabbed the soldier's hand.

A pair of cracked hands were spread out, covered with dirt that could not be washed off, the cracked wounds were shocking, and a piece of torn linen was wrapped around the palm. Guo Shao turned his head to look at everyone, and his entourage was all silent. He untied the sackcloth from the soldier's hand with his own hands, tore open his shoulder scarf, and wrapped it around the soldier's hand again.

"Guo Dashuai......" the soldier couldn't speak.

Guo Shao returned the flagpole to him just now and said, "I will not forget the soldiers who fought bloodily on the battlefield. ”

A military general immediately raised his spear and shouted: "Fight for Guo Dashuai!" The army was in an uproar, and the shouts became more and more majestic, and even the men and horses in the distance looked this way.

Guo Shao turned over his horse, glanced into the distance, looked back left and right, and said: "Look at the hardships and toils of the soldiers, but the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty is stubbornly resisting, and for his own selfishness, he uselessly makes more people bleed!" We have persuaded us to surrender many times to no avail, so we can only enter Jiangning City and recover Jiangnan! ”

He drew his sword and said loudly: "The king is unjust, the world is unified, and he will win!" The crowds of people shouted one after another that they would win, and their coercion overwhelmed the South ** camp opposite.

At this moment, I suddenly saw a bright fire in front of the left wing, and although the sun was shining in the sky, the fire was stronger than the sun.

Several giant rafts carrying firewood swam from the west of the Qinhuai River, caught fire in the wind, and the smoke billowed into the sky, heading straight to the South ** Navy Water Village on the opposite bank. It was Luo Yanhuan's trick, which was used up in Anhui, and now it is repeated.

The raft, twenty-three feet wide, floated like a volcano, moved slowly after catching fire with the wind, but there was nothing to stop it on the water. The southern ** warship hung its sails, turned around and ran with the wind. The raft slowly moved to the vicinity of the water village on the opposite bank, and after a short time, the flames spread and ignited the fenced boat of the water village, and the fire became even bigger.

A large cloud of smoke was spreading, and the scorching temperature covered the surrounding upper and lower grounds, and the south ** retreated in front of it, and there was chaos.

Not far from the southeast of Shuizhai, Shi Yanchao, who was already ready, waved his iron gun and shouted: "Kill!" The first horse galloped out of the crowd, and the nearby iron riders swarmed and shouted and swarmed up. The horses rushed straight into the river, and the water in this area was very shallow, and the water was no deeper than the horse's back. The cavalry trudged through the water, splashing everywhere.

Shi Yanchao took the lead in crossing the Qinhuai River, the front was full of smoke, and the south was in chaos. But out of nowhere, arm-thick crossbows flew, and even the loud thud of the bed crossbow could be heard in the noise. Someone was hit by a crossbow bolt and fell from his horse screaming. Shi Yanchao didn't straighten out the people, so he rushed straight to the south** chaotic army, and many elite soldiers behind him hurriedly swarmed up.

The nearby Nan** people were in a mess and had no resistance. Shi Yanchao and the others almost ignored the enemy soldiers, and drove the chaotic soldiers straight to the north. When the men and horses crossed the river, it was relatively slow, and the river slowed down the following horse teams; The people in front rushed fast again, and Shi Yanchao's troops and horses became like a long snake formation. In the smoke, there were rebellious soldiers who didn't have time to run away, and they were slashed by the Zhou soldier on the horse, and the soldier's hand was covered on his head, screaming miserably.

Shi Yanchao's forward went around from the chaotic soldiers to the flank of the big camp in the east, and the front was like a forest of swords and guns, a thick phalanx, and the sea of people lined his men and horses very thin. But Shi Yanchao didn't care about the number at all, and took the lead in slamming the front side of the South ** Central Array.

In the army, he seems to be the one size bigger, taller and stronger than everyone else, and he is imposing. "Whew!" A heavy iron spear with a whole body, he took off his hand and flew forward, not far away with a scream, the powerful heavy iron gun directly broke through the armor of a soldier and pierced his torso! A group of throwing spears roared away, and the spears of the chief in the southern ** camp fell a lot. Shi Yanchao sat on a galloping iron horse, and soon rushed to the enemy ranks, and the iron spear he held again in his hand slammed into the chest of a soldier on the side, blood flowed wildly, and the soldier was lifted by the rapid force, his body slammed backwards, and knocked over two more people.

The crowd around was crowded, and the foot soldiers turned their heads to look at the horsemen who had come here, but before they could react, Shi Yanchao led his troops to directly break through the phalanx, and entered with one blow. The morale of the south ** here is very low, and they can't help fighting, so they didn't kill a few people, and a large group of people threw their weapons and fled.

The arrows clanged on Shi Yanchao's armor, and the elite soldiers pounced lifelessly to protect his wings, and the war horses crisscrossed the enemy camp, and no one could stop them. Before Shi Yanchao could rush over, many soldiers began to run from a distance. Shi Yanchao's face was excited, his body was full of bloodstains, he was holding a saber in his left hand, an iron spear in his right hand, and the weapons made by his two hands were extremely light in his hands, cutting melons and chopping vegetables, completely ignoring the feelings of the other party's soldiers.

"Kill!" Shi Yanchao pointed south with his saber, and a group of iron horsemen followed him in a roundabout way to the river. In front of them were the long-range light soldiers of Nan**, guarding the men and horses by the river with bows and crossbows, and they had to turn around and greet the iron cavalry of the Zhou army rushing from behind with countless arrows. Shi Yanchao's people and horses suffered a lot of losses, mainly because the horses were injured and the soldiers were left behind.

But as soon as the iron cavalry rushed into the crowd of light soldiers, it was devastating, and the crowd scattered like ants frightened.

…… On the Qinhuai River, a large number of Zhou army ships rowed boats to transport troops across the river. The fire in the west was unquenched, and even the river was covered with a faint layer of smoke, and the black ash of the reeds in the air fell down, in addition to a large number of arrows. The arrows fell into the water, "ding-dong", splashing, and the surface of the river really seemed to be raining.

There were several shallow waters in this section of the river, and the large war ships of the Zhou army could not enter, and the troops were transported by small boats and various civilian boats temporarily requisitioned. There were even a few boats on this side, and the soldiers on board held rough wooden shields on top of their heads, because the canopy on their heads was full of holes, and arrows kept falling.

"Ahh Suddenly there was a cry of pain, and the troops turned to see that one of the soldiers who was rowing had dropped his oar, and his hand had been nailed to the side of the boat by an arrow, and the blood stained the planks red, and his face was full of pain.

The shouting outside grew louder and louder, and the man in the bow jumped straight into the river and waded from the river to the shore. A young general shouted and shouted: "Rush up, kill!" A group of people threw away the broken wooden shield with many arrows nailed to it, picked up their weapons and rushed out.

The water and banks of the river shimmered, and the metallic luster of the plate armor stood out in the sunlight. This group of men and horses is Zhang Jiankui's division on the left wing of the Tiger Ben Army, and the armor and weapons are the most sophisticated infantry, and the infantry who fight the vanguard is generally the first to go up. Even the Third Army commander Yu Hou Zhou Tong also personally rushed to kill in the crowd.

The light soldiers of the south ** on the river bank were in disarray, and the cavalry of the Zhou army were rushing in all directions. Zhang Jiankui's department also crossed the river and climbed up from the water in a mess, but no one straightened out the queue at all, Zhang Jiankui had already gone up first with a big axe, and the troops were also rushing with arrows.

On the entire riverbank, the shouts of "rushing to ......" and "killing ......" resounded all over the land, and a large number of soldiers spread forward, all of them were chaotic soldiers, but the momentum was like a flood.