Zhao Junsheng completely underestimated the harmfulness of the rumors, and once they spread in the army, they soon became known to everyone, and the soldiers were panicked, worried that their hometown would be destroyed by the remnants of the family, the remnants of the Northern Yan and the Goguryeo, and that their vested interests would be encroached upon by these bad people.

Early the next morning, in order to stabilize the morale of the army, Zhao Junsheng had to personally refute the rumors and said: "In response to the rumors in the army in the past two days, this king has also heard a little, this king is here to explain to the generals to clarify, there are indeed some families who have lost their power and land want to turn around, and some people want to rebel, but this king has long been aware of their conspiracy and has made relevant arrangements, and the soldiers must worry, this is just a trivial matter, they can't make the climate, the soldiers just have to fight with peace of mind, and those people have their own people to take care of!" ”

Zhao Junsheng's personal refutation of the rumors played a role, but it could not completely dispel the doubts and worries of the soldiers.

Zhao Junsheng returned to the camp with a gloomy face, and said to the generals and officials who followed up: "This matter must be someone who deliberately spread rumors!" Guo Yi, send someone to find out, who came out first! ”

Guo Yi stood up and hugged his fists and said: "King, the minister has sent someone to investigate this matter, and now he has eyebrows, and he is about to report to the king." This matter came out of the mouths of some soldiers who collected the corpses, and then the minister sent people to interrogate some of the soldiers who collected the corpses, and they claimed to have heard from the people who collected the corpses from Liu Songjun's side! ”

Cui Hao stood up and said: "King, this makes sense, this matter must be a ghost done by Tan Daoji, the purpose is to disturb the morale of our army, so that our army has no intention of fighting, and has to retreat!" ”

Zhao Junsheng was furious: "Order, the army is leaving!" ”

Tens of thousands of horses under the leadership of Zhao Junsheng drove to the outside of the Liu Song army's military camp, and Gao Jinzhi had already led the army to wait outside the camp.

Zhao Junsheng looked at the horse, "What's the matter, why did Liu Songjun only send 5,000 men and horses out?" ”

"Will there be fraud?" Dongfang Chen said next to him.

Zhao Junsheng immediately summoned the scout camp general to ask: "Have you explored the surroundings clearly?" Are there ambushes? ”

The general of the scout camp said: "Rest assured, the king, there are no ambushes within a radius of ten miles, and even if there are, it will never be possible to hide from the eyes and ears of our army's sentinels!" ”

At this moment, Gao Jinzhi's horse galloped out of the formation, stopped in front of the two armies and shouted in the direction of the Qianjun formation: "I am Gao Jinzhi, the general under the command of Marshal Tan, I heard that the northerners are fierce, who has the courage to compete with a certain sentence?" ”

Cui Hao asked: "King, I heard that this Gao Jinzhi is a confidant general under Tan Daoji, he and Xue Tong are compared to Guan Yu and Zhang Fei by the world, and their martial arts are definitely not weak, does he want to fight?" ”

Zhao Junsheng nodded, "Everyone has come out to challenge alone, if our army doesn't send people out to fight, the morale of the soldiers will definitely be affected!" ”

After speaking, Zhao Junsheng asked the generals: "Which general is willing to step forward and compete with the enemy generals?" ”

"The last general is willing to take off the head of the high man and sacrifice it to the king!" The partial general Wang Qian clasped his fists and said.

"General Wang is loyal and brave, good!"

This Wang Qian immediately hit his horse and rushed towards Gao Jinzhi, he carried a spear, and while beating the horse and galloping, he shouted: "Gao Jinzhi, wait for Wang Qian to come and take your head!" ”

"Hahaha······ No one dares to speak outrageously and eat me! Gao Jinzhi galloped to meet him, and slashed with a sword.

This momentum is majestic, Wang Qian showed cowardice in his heart, raised his spear to block, and the battle was not three, Wang Qian was cut under the horse by Gao Jin.

There were a lot of cheers from Liu Songjun's side, and one of them banged on his armor with his weapon, shouting non-stop.

On the other hand, on the side of the cadres, the soldiers sighed in their hearts one by one, and their morale dropped a lot.

Before Zhao Junsheng could speak, there was a general next to him who beat the horse and killed him, and everyone turned their heads to see that this person's name was Li Tong, and his father was Li Yuande, a general of the Southern Dynasty, and Li Yuande was now a high authority under Zhao Junsheng, so most of the generals knew this Li Tong.

Li Tong beat his horse and galloped towards Gao Jinzhi, "Gao Jinzhi is rampant, wait for Li Tong to come to meet you!" ”

Gao Jin looked at it, it turned out to be an old acquaintance, and even laughed shamefully: "Li Tong, an ungrateful man who betrayed his master, used to have three family slaves surnamed Lu Bu, and now there are also four family slaves surnamed your father Li Yuande, you still have the face to be embarrassed, what face does your father and son have to stand between heaven and earth?" ”

Li Tong was scolded by Gao Jinzhi so bloody, so angry that he was smoking, and for a while the blood rushed to the top of the door, messed up, and Gao Jinzhi fought seven or eight together, and was beheaded by Gao Jinzhi under the horse.

"Good, the general is mighty, mighty ······" There were loud cheers from Liu Songjun's side.

"Hey—" The soldiers on the side of the cadre army sighed one after another, and their morale fell again.

Wang Huilong said: "I think that although General Li Tong's martial arts are not as good as Gao Jinzhi, Gao Jinzhi should not be so easy to kill him, it must be that General Li Tong was upset by Gao Jinzhi's scolding and lost his cool to death!" ”

After being killed two generals in a row, some of the generals on the side of the cadre army were afraid to play, some were not confident in their martial arts, and some were disdainful of the form of fighting generals.

Zhao Junsheng watched two battles and found that this Gao Jinzhi's martial arts are indeed good, and the average general is really not his opponent, if he plays, he will naturally be sure to win this Gao Jinzhi, but he is the king, he is the commander of the army, and he can't play in person, otherwise he will be laughed at and no one is available.

"Which other general is willing to go to war and take the head of Gao Jinzhi for this king?"

The generals lowered their heads, and when Li Bao saw it, he immediately slapped his horse and rushed over and shouted: "I, Li Bao, came to meet you!" ”

Now Zhao Junsheng is also a powerful force in the world, some of his generals and staff officials have been clearly understood by the Southern Dynasty and other ten miles, Li Bao has always followed Zhao Junsheng, is the first group of people to follow him, although there is no big record, but it is also a good reputation.

Gao Jin looked at it and smiled shamefully: "A caretaker is also worthy of working with this general, why don't you come to die quickly?" ”

Li Bao was furious: "What kind of ability is it to take advantage of the tongue in vain, eat me with an axe!" ”

A big axe slashed over, Gao Jinzhi's eyes lit up, and he knew that he had underestimated Li Bao when he saw this momentum, this was definitely a strong opponent.

"Dangdangdang" The two fought each other for three rounds in a row, and the two staggered and then immediately turned around and fought again.

Li Bao and Gao Jinzhi can be described as chess opponents, and they will be inseparable from good talents.

These two fought for more than an hour without winning or losing, it was noon, both of them were a little tired, Gao Jin forced Li Bao to retreat, and shouted: "Hungry in the belly, when I am full, I will fight with you again in the afternoon, do you dare?" ”

"Why don't you dare?"

The two immediately returned on their own horses.

Zhao Junsheng had no choice but to order the troops to be withdrawn and to fight again in the afternoon.

After noon, the two armies faced each other again, Li Bao and Gao Jinzhi fought again, from noon to unitary time, seeing that it was dark, Gao Jinzhi shouted: "It's late, do you have the courage to fight again tomorrow?" ”

"Why don't you dare? Whoever doesn't come is the grandson! ”

Zhao Junsheng always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say it, so he had to order the troops to be collected and returned to the camp.

Back at the camp, Zhao Junsheng was thinking about this at dinner, and he called Li Bao over: "What do you think of Gao Jinzhi's martial arts?" ”

Li Bao replied truthfully: "Very strong, the last general's martial arts are fierce, but they can't last long, Gao Jinzhi's martial arts have almost reached the state of combining rigidity and softness!" When the last general fights him, he always feels that he has some mercy on the last general! ”

Zhao Junsheng squinted his eyes, "He's not showing mercy to your subordinates, he's delaying time!" ”

"Procrastinating for time? Why did he do that? ”

Zhao Junsheng said: "Before you, he has killed the two generals of this king, if he kills you again, this king is angry and directly swings his troops to pounce, how can he resist my tens of thousands of iron horsemen with only 5,000 foot soldiers?" This king suspects that this matter is not simple, tonight you take 3,000 cavalry to quietly touch over and see what the hell Gao Jinzhi is doing! ”

"Yes, King!"

After dinner, Li Bao took 3,000 cavalry to quietly touch the camp of the Liu Song army, and found that the camp of the Liu Song army was still brightly lit and full of sentry posts, but there was no sound.

Li Bao asked the lieutenant general, "Do you see anything wrong?" ”

The adjutant general frowned and observed, "How can the last general think that a camp of tens of thousands of horses can be silent?" Also, it's strange to see the sentries and archers on the arrow towers and the walled walls motionless, and the patrols are also absent! Ah, I see! ”

"Got what?" Li Bao asked.

The adjutant general said: "It's a straw man, those sentries and archers must be grass men, they are used to confuse our army, and there is no one in the camp anymore!" ”

Li Bao was puzzled: "Impossible! ”

"General, do you really send a few people over to investigate!" The adjutant general suggested.

"Okay, send someone to fight horses and investigate!"

It didn't take long for Shi Chang, who was sent to investigate, to send someone back to report: "General, the wall and the arrow tower are all scarecrows, the camp is empty, and Liu Songjun has already run away!" ”

Li Bao and the adjutant general looked at each other when they heard this, and the adjutant general immediately said: "General, it has been less than an hour and a half since the two sides collected the troops back to the camp, and it will take time for them to eat and prepare for retreat. ”

Li Bao thought for a while and said to the adjutant general: "Send someone to report to the king, and the others will light torches with the general to pursue Liu Songjun!" ”

"Yes, General!"

As the adjutant general said, Gao Jinzhi and the five thousand men and horses did not go far, they had only set off for less than half an hour, and they had not yet walked out of ten miles, and Gao Jinzhi did not expect that his strategy had revealed flaws and was noticed by Zhao Junsheng.

When Li Bao chased after him with 3,000 cavalry, he knew that he had not been able to deceive the Qianjun, so he had to personally leave 1,000 people behind and let his lieutenant leave quickly with the remaining 4,000 people.

Li Bao led 3,000 men and horses to be blocked by Gao Jinzhi after a fight, Gao Jinzhi with 1,000 infantry set up a circular defensive formation, fully resisting Li Bao's cavalry for two hours.

Gao Jinzhi broke through with dozens of people seriously injured, and Li Bao wanted to pursue, but Zhao Junsheng sent someone to tell him to stop the pursuit and wait until dawn to make plans.