"Rumbling ......" The sound of countless iron hooves stepping out has been chaotic, like continuous muffled thunder.

Zhu Gaoxu turned around and made a detour to the east, and was coming back from the right battalion with a green flag to meet Zhu Gaoxu's department.

At this time, Zhu Gaoxu no longer dared to fight. The cavalry generals of the Southern Army are safe and brave, and at least they don't lose to Zhu Gaoxu in a heads-up!

The iron cavalry under the command of Ping An is also very elite, and they have just come up to engage in battle, and they have enough horsepower and physical strength; And Zhu Gaoxu's troops first defeated the first cavalry of the Southern Army, and then flanked the army formation of the Crashing Army, and the strength of men and horses was consumed...... If you want to fight hard, victory or defeat is still unpredictable, but at least you can't solve the battle for a while!

"Whoop...... The war horse under Zhu Gaoxu's seat had just sprinted for a while, and the sound of panting was very loud. He remembered the experience of escaping from Beijing to Beiping, where a horse was tired and died. Now this battle is almost entirely dependent on the physical strength of men and horses.

Zhu Gaoxu judged: There is little chance of retreating from the original road to the west. A large force of cavalry in Ping An is behind, and he will press his tired men and horses over there and beat them violently!

He took his own soldiers and the Quan Yong team, and ran to the east again...... At this moment, the battle broke out in the north of Zhending City, and Zhu Gaoxu was surrounded because he attacked the flank of the southern army.

The situation faced by Zhu Gaoxu's more than 2,000 cavalry was very critical, and to the west of him was the Ping'an Cavalry Brigade!

To the north is an infantry phalanx organized by a certain infantry master!

To the south is the ten-meter-thick wall of Zhending Castle!

To the east is the large array of the Chinese army of the Southern Army, and the large array of foot and cavalry is heavy, and I don't know how many layers the phalanx has!

Zhu Gaoxu secretly scolded himself: The southern army only has so many fierce generals and warriors on the west wing, and the strength seems to be very strong, and King Yan has a chance of winning? While riding a horse and jogging, he observed the north, Zhang Wu's thousand general battalions could not break through the southern army infantry formation in front of him!

Zhang Wubu was supposed to attack north, but now he is fighting back and forth, but he is retreating step by step. The pikemen in front of the southern army's infantry formation were very dense, and Zhang Wubu could only run back and forth, attacking with a cavalry bow, and trying to kill ...... Zhang Wuying kept shooting and killing the soldiers of the Southern Army, but it was not the goal that Zhu Gaoxu wanted, he wanted Zhang Wuying to defeat all the phalanxes over there as soon as possible!

But it looks like that's an impossible goal.

Zhang Wu's only role was to slow down the advance speed of the Southern Army's infantry formation, otherwise Zhu Gaoxu and the others would soon lose their galloping space and be surrounded by a group of infantry and unable to move!

If the cavalry has nowhere to run, what is the effect of standing in place, Zhu Gaoxu can think of it with his toes!

As far as he could see, his people seemed to be left with only a bubble, drowned in the ocean, and the bubble could burst at any moment......

Zhu Gaoxu was in a trance at this time, and his intuition seemed to be over! He carried his head to life and death on the battlefield, but most of the time he was nervous and focused on fighting, and only then did fear creep in.

If a man dies suddenly, he is not afraid. The most terrifying thing is to wait for death...... In his previous life, Zhu Gaoxu learned about a kind of torture, which is to tie people to the beach and wait for the tide to drown, which is said to be very inhuman......

Zhu Gaoxu secretly scolded: At least ten times as many people besiege Lao Tzu, is there such a war?

If he surrenders to the imperial court now, will Emperor Jianwen spare his life for the sake of his relatives...... Zhu Gaoxu didn't even need to imagine it, and immediately felt that it seemed unlikely.

Zhu Gaoxu was busy observing the situation while running a horse, hoping to find a way out, but ...... The infantry phalanx of the Southern Army, the three adjacent phalanxes in front and back are like pinzi, and if you want to rush out of the gaps in the phalanx group, I am afraid that it is like entering a maze of twists and turns, and the possibility of survival is not very large.

…… Suddenly, at a certain moment, at a certain angle in the running, there seemed to be a dusty place in the dusty air. At a glance, Zhu Gaoxu saw a scene in the distance, although it flashed, but at least he saw it!

For a moment, he immediately threw everything around him out of his mind and focused all his attention on recalling the image just now. Outside the large array of the Southern Army, there are a large number of Yan Army foot cavalry, attacking the front fiercely!

Directly north of here, it seems to be very stale, and there is not much progress; Further east, the southern military formation seemed to be showing signs of confusion.

Zhu Gaoxu rode his horse and ran to the east of Zhang Wubu. He saw that part of the phalanx of the Central Army of the Southern Army was turning!

Originally, the orientation of the infantry of the Southern Army was to face the north...... The army of Yan came from the north. Now the phalanx over there turned left, obviously aimed at Zhu Gaoxu, wanting to completely surround him to death!

It's just that it's more difficult for the infantry phalanx to turn at right angles; On the contrary, like the infantry formation here, it is directly exchanged back and forth, and as long as the command is appropriate, it is easier to turn to one hundred and eighty degrees. As a result, the first part of the Central Army of the Southern Army has not yet completely adjusted the formation.

Zhu Gaoxu suddenly had a bold idea!

Now that you're in, you'll go all the way to the dark and continue to attack forward!?

Zhu Gaoxu processed a lot of information in his mind in a short time, and he only had the intuition of vague judgment, and there might be a slight opportunity to go east...... But when I thought about it a little, I felt that it was very absurd, almost equivalent to death; In the midst of the hectic situation, there was no time to think carefully about where that intuition came from.

However, seeing that the front is collapsing and shrinking, is there still a chance?

"What the hell!" Zhu Gaoxu scolded. Anyway, I owe 200,000 yuan, so what if I owe 100,000 yuan? Lao Tzu Suo|Ha!

He turned his head and said, "Order, Zhang Wu immediately led the army to follow the red flag to attack the east!" The right battalion fought and retreated, moving closer to most of us! ”

"Order!"

Zhu Gaoxu reined in his horse, turned around and shouted: "Brothers, we are surrounded on three sides and the city wall on one side......

Right now, we have reached the critical moment of survival, if we are defeated, the officers and soldiers will not let us go! Instead of being killed as an animal, it is better to fight! I, Zhu Gaoxu, will rush to the front, die with my brothers, and never steal my life! ”

At this time of wanting to die or live, the pro-soldiers unexpectedly still supported Zhu Gaoxu, and there were responses behind him, "I want to live a life, I want to die a death...... "Fight!" ”

Zhu Gaoxu pulled out the long-handled knife from his back, turned his head and saw Wang Bin's eyes staring, and said, "It's a pity, I'm sorry brother......"

Wang Bin said: "My life has long been the prince's." ”

Zhu Gaoxu raised his saber and pointed obliquely ahead, "The whole army is ready to attack!" ”

The iron horsemen around him raised their spears, shrugged their bodies, kicked their horses and began to set off.

"Kill!" The armies roared in unison, and the horses quickly accelerated.

Near the dust, there is the messy infantry that has just turned! The Yan Army's forward was non-stop, showing no signs of slowing down, and pounced in a straight line!

"Shhh The war horse neighed, Zhu Gaoxu almost didn't fly out of the horse's back, he clamped the horse's belly with his legs, leaned forward, fell on the horse's back, and stabbed straight forward with a long knife. There was a clanging sound and the cries of a war horse from the left and right, and the front hooves of a war horse were raised high, and the knight was thrown down.

More iron cavalry followed and rushed into the enemy line, and the disorganized infantry took refuge in all directions.

Zhu Gaoxu led the Red Banner to rush through this infantry formation non-stop, and then continued to rush forward to kill, so that more people and horses could pass behind to keep up. At this moment, he looked out of the smoke and vaguely saw that there were dense flags in front of him, as if there was a general in that position.

At this time, the infantry of the Southern Army, which had just broken up, rushed to the east, and Zhu Gaoxu and the others followed and slaughtered and killed into another phalanx, in which the defeated soldiers and the infantry in the queue were mixed together, and Zhu Gaoxu immediately killed them.

"Boom!" The saber that Zhu Gaoxu dragged to the side suddenly rose upward, and an enemy soldier hugged his neck with both hands, and blood came out of his fingers!

The Yan army rushed to the middle of the battle, and a large number of soldiers of the southern army were terrified and chaotic.

"Whew! ......" There were a few shouts from the front, and a group of cavalry kicked their horses to meet them in the place where the banners were dense. A moment later, the thumping of metal and screams rang out in all directions. Zhu Gaoxu put his left hand on the hilt of the knife, held the knife with both hands, and slashed it head-on, with a "clang", the spear and wooden pole provoked by the enemy knight were directly cut in two! The sword flashed, and the enemy soldier screamed and fell backwards.

At this time, Zhu Gaoxu felt the lightness under his seat, and the neighing of the horse shook his eardrums, and his people rushed forward. "Bang dang!" The heavy armor fell to the ground, Zhu Gaoxu's eyes were full of golden light, and Venus slowly floated up in front of him like a dandelion flower.

The left and right quickly rushed over, protecting Zhu Gaoxu and fighting. A cavalryman turned off his horse, handed over the reins of the horse, and glared: "I live in Xiejie and Torch Lane, called Chen Dazhu!" ”

Zhu Gaoxu was slightly stunned, and immediately understood the meaning of this sentence, took the reins of the horse, turned over on the horse, turned his head and said, "Brother, I remember!" ”

"Kill!" Zhu Gaoxu rushed to the front, and suddenly saw ten steps away, a white-haired general standing among the horses, stretching out his hand to draw his sword. At a glance, you can see that the veteran is dressed extraordinarily, is it Geng Bingwen? Zhu Gaoxu knew that Geng Bingwen was very old.

Zhu Gaoxu just wanted to kick his horse and rush up, but suddenly a group of infantry rushed out from among the cavalry, holding fire guns in their hands! At this time, less than ten steps away, Zhu Gaoxu saw that the mouth of the black hole was already aimed at him.

He was in a hurry, and he leaned down in a hurry. At this moment, the view was suddenly blocked by a horse rushing over.

"Bang bang bang......" The person in front of Zhu Gaoxu trembled, the spear in his hand also flew out, and the whole person fell backwards.

"Wang Bin!" Zhu Gaoxu roared, he couldn't care about much, he had already seen the enemy horses on the left and right of the veteran, and he was about to rush forward to escort him! Zhu Gaoxu took a deep breath, raised his saber flat, and threw it forward.

"Shhh The saber misses the shot and is stuck in the shoulder of the veteran's mount. The horse slammed forward, knelt on its legs, and the veteran fell off his horse.

Zhu Gaoxu rushed forward playfully, slashed two people left and right, and stabbed him with a shot in the front, he didn't want to dodge, and the spear pierced into the armor from under his armpit. The horse was stabbed again, and he rolled off his horse.

At this time, the soldiers of his own soldiers had already screamed and pounced on him, and a cavalryman directly threw down an enemy soldier with his body.

Zhu Gaoxu rolled and rushed up, and the veteran was just about to get up, but he punched him. The veteran's teeth splattered into the air along with the blood, and the man fell on his back again.

Zhu Gaoxu pounced, stretched out his hand on his waist, and pulled out the Yanling knife. "Ahh Zhu Gaoxu's face was covered with blood, his eyes were round and red, and he stabbed the Yanling knife at the veteran's neck.

But he suddenly stopped his hand, hesitating whether to capture it alive or kill it!

At this moment, the veteran struggled to raise his head, stared at Zhu Gaoxu and said: "The old man followed Taizu to fight the country, and would rather die on the battlefield than be humiliated when he was old, Gao Xu, fulfill the old man!" ”

Taking advantage of Zhu Gaoxu's slight hesitation, he reached out and grabbed the blade, and pulled it violently on his own neck!

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(In the article "The Battle of Jingyan and Geng Bingwen and Mu Sheng's Family" by historian Gu Cheng, it is verified that Geng Bingwen died in the Battle of Zhending; There is also Mu Chen's "Haoliang Shen'an Geng Cemetery Field Tablet" to corroborate, as well as a large number of tombstone rubbings to prove that Geng Bingwen "aided Zhending and died in battle". The Geng Bingwen mentioned in the 130th volume of the "History of the Ming Dynasty" was cheeky and surrendered, and then was impeached and committed suicide, which is more distorted; Why it is recorded in this way is unknown. ）