Ping'an rushed out of the east gate of the camp with a halberd and a horse, and there was already chaos and fire outside. He turned his head to see that countless officers and soldiers had been driven into the trench he had dug himself, only to see that the ditch was crowded with people, and the sound of ghosts crying and howling shook the sky.

He let out a long sigh and turned back to the barracks. At this time, a group of Yanshi horsemen rushed over, and Ping'an fixed his eyes to see that the person in front of him was not the king of Gaoyang, who was it?

Now that the defeat is decided, Ping An really has no face to scold. When he mentioned the halberd, he simply did it directly, and he wanted to fight Zhu Gaoxu to the death!

"it!" Ping An scolded in a low voice and rushed out.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Gaoxu, the king of Gaoyang, shouted first: "What General Ping can do now is to surrender to my father as soon as possible, which can still reduce the needless sacrifices of the soldiers!" ”

Ping'an glared at Zhu Gaoxu clearly, and in the firelight, Zhu Gaoxu's face was not mocking. Zhu Gaoxu hugged his fists on his horse and said: "General Ping always calls himself his brother. Brother-in-law! Let's each be our own master, just to decide the winner. What good is it to continue the fight now, except to have more orphans and widows? ”

A righteous brother surprised Ping'an very much, he gently reined in the horse, stared at Zhu Gaoxu by the firelight, and saw his sincerity. Ping An blushed suddenly.

The two looked at each other, but Zhu Gaoxu didn't rush over. Ping An was silent for a long time, holding the halberd tightly in both hands, and finally threw his weapon on the ground with "clang", and the cavalry around him also lost their weapons when they saw this.

All the swallows immediately rushed up and rushed straight to Ping'an. At this time, Zhu Gaoxu's voice said: "Take him everywhere and shout to the officers and soldiers: The general is safe here, don't resist uselessly!" ”

So Ping'an still rode a horse, was taken away by Yan Cai, walked in front, and heard Yan Cai's soldiers shouting along the way: "The general is safe here......" Everywhere he went, all the officers and soldiers really abandoned and surrendered.

Zhu Gaoxu patted his horse closer to Ping'an and said in a low voice: "From today on, I am no longer General Ping's enemy, and General Ping has to remember this sentence." ”

Ping An turned his head to look and saw that Zhu Gaoxu's eyes reflected the light of the torch, and the voice and words he spoke just now were very strange.

Ping An was a little confused in his heart, and he didn't understand for a while what Zhu Gaoxu was telling himself to remember so mysteriously. Ping An finally spoke: "Those three cannons rang out, and Lao Tzu was so miserable!" It happened to rush together with Yan Shi, why was it so coincidental?! If it weren't for bad luck, victory or defeat would not have been predicted...... Alas! The matter has come to this point, if you want to kill, you have to listen to the respect. ”

Zhu Gaoxu smiled bitterly and whispered again: "Brother Yi will understand my words in the future." ”

…… In the battle of Lingbi, the Northern Army won a complete victory! More than 100,000 officers and soldiers barely escaped, more than 30 military attachés above the third rank were captured, and more than 100 civil and eunuch officials were arrested, but He Fu, another member of the official army, was missing.

The sky was white, and the soldiers had not slept all night, but there was still a lively scene inside and outside the Lingbi, and cheers came and went. The unprecedented victory made everyone feel sleepy.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, the generals of the Northern Army shouted and killed, and asked King Yan to cut peace on the spot!

Zhu Gaoxu had mixed emotions in the crowd, and when he saw such a scene, he felt that he was a safe general, and he must have made too many generals of the Northern Army suffer losses before he was hated by this. On the other hand, he was a little worried about peace, for fear that this capable person would be cut.

But Zhu Gaoxu couldn't do anything, and all the power of life and death was in the hands of King Yan. No matter what the reasons for everyone, the final decision is made by King Yan...... Because King Yan also has his own reasoning, he doesn't necessarily listen to others.

At this moment, King Yan raised his arm, calmed down the generals, and said as expected: "Taizu Yangshi, now only Ping Bao'er is left, and I can't bear to kill him." And send it back to Beiping. ”

No one shouted to kill the generals anymore, and when Zhu Gaoxu saw this, he had to admire his father's control.

Then King Yan ordered more than 100 civil officials and eunuchs to be released, showing great leniency!

Zhu Gaoxu remembered the legendary King Yan's violence against the nine clans at every turn, and saw the benevolent style of the King of Yan at the moment, and occasionally felt a little confused. He has been trying to speculate about his father, but he still doesn't know how deep King Yan's heart is.

However, at the moment, Zhu Gaoxu has some understanding of King Yan's actions:

King Yan's methods of dealing with various forces are very sophisticated. Now Jing Nan has not won, so he is very lenient to civil officials; Because the role of civilian officials in the war is not very large, it belongs to the stage that can be put on hold for the time being. When King Yan can really control the world, maybe the situation will be different.

King Yan is not Emperor Jianwen, the biggest difference between them is that Jianwen will suddenly make a lot of enemies for himself; But King Yan will not, he will divide the enemy, prevent the opponent from grouping, and then break each one. But the intentions of the superiors may be the same, that is, to maintain their own power and arbitrariness.

Zhu Gaoxu was just a small citizen in his previous life, with a low education, and he was not interested in things that had nothing to do with life. After coming to the backward Ming Dynasty, he felt that his knowledge was improving...... Not only because he is familiar with powerful people, but he also has the advantage of being able to think for himself and not follow the crowd.

…… In his previous life, he was addicted to gambling, and then he finally woke up, also because he could think. I once saw a theory of probability in my cousin's textbook. The probability of an event will tend to a fixed value because it is repeated too many times, just like tossing a coin. And as a gambler, the probability of winning is no more than fifty percent, and the more times he gambles, the more he loses, the outcome of losing is basically doomed. That's when he realized how stupid it was to gamble.

……

On the south bank of the Huai River, Sheng Yong looked at the river and looked very lonely.

It was the beginning of the lunar month, and the first light snow in Huainan came early, and the fine snowflakes floated on the water and disappeared in an instant. The snowflakes fell on Sheng Yong's sideburns and turned gray, and he seemed to have aged a lot all of a sudden.

"Dashuai, it's snowing, let's go back to camp." The ministry general persuaded.

Sheng Yong sighed: "I suddenly felt that there was only one person left in this world. ”

He rarely has a sad time. At this time, the generals persuaded: "The commander has a family and relatives, and so many brothers in the army are still there." ”

Sheng Yong said: "Actually, I don't have a deep personal relationship with Ping'an, and before the Battle of Pingyan, we didn't have much contact. But when peace is lost, I feel so lonely in the world! I remembered that on the side of the political envoy in Beiping, I echoed each other step by step with Ping'an, and the general had fought countless battles all his life, but he had never been so compatible with people......"

"The civil servant who came back said that it was all right. King Yan treated him like a guest, entertained him with good wine and food, and specially sent elite soldiers to escort him to Beiping. The general said again.

Sheng Yong shook his head and sneered: "Sooner or later, it's a dead word." ”

The ancestor of Ping'an, the adopted son of Taizu, was close to the emperors and magnates; Sheng Yong was born as an ordinary military general, but he knew the battle of the court better than Ping'an...... It is precisely in this way that Sheng Yong climbed faster than Ping'an, formed an alliance with Tie Xuan, and befriended Huang Zicheng, and finally got his wish and got the title of General Pingyan.

Sheng Yong continued: "Yan rebels don't kill Ping'an, it's really a coy gesture, and it will be shown to our remaining officers and generals." No matter what the situation of the war, peace must die! ”

Two generals in a row asked suspiciously, "Why?" ”

Sheng Yong didn't answer.

The possibility of the unfavorable battle of Yanwang is very small, and now the official army has been defeated again, and there are few soldiers left, and the situation is completely inferior to the early stage of the Pingyan battle. Rao is the king of Yan is unfavorable, and Ping An will die, and there are too many people who hate Ping An by the generals over there.

If King Yan defeated so many people ...... the heroes of "Jingnan", and rebelled with his head, the benefit would be the turn of Ping An who was completely in the wrong position? Sooner or later, it will be cleared and made available!

Sheng Yong had a feeling of sadness for the dead rabbit and the fox. But maybe his feelings are wrong, and in the end, I am afraid that peace should come to mourn him?

The Ping'an family at least has a good relationship with the Ming royal family...... What is his mediocrity? Those who hate peace hate Sheng Yong even more! The danger that peace has caused to Yan Shi, he has also surpassed it.

Thinking of this, Sheng Yong realized that his sadness was not that he couldn't let go of any friendship with Ping'an, in fact, he didn't care much about Ping'an's life or death!

He cared about peace, and it was very helpful for the court to win the war. Ping An was captured, and he could no longer fight side by side with him, and this war was even more difficult to fight.

Sheng Yong was very unwilling, he did his best to have today's status. Life and death on the battlefield, racking their brains behind their backs, but once the battle of Pingyan fails, all this will come to naught!

He didn't want to lose his glory and wealth, lose the glory of being recognized by the world, and he didn't want to die.

Sheng Yong said: "We have one more chance!" The reinforcements from the provincial guard posts that were deployed half a year ago are finally coming. I want elite soldiers! As long as we get this force, we can still fight. ”

The general hurriedly praised: "When the national disaster is at the head, the most loyal to the saint is the handsome!" It is really necessary to let the eunuchs and brocade guards in the army report the words of the marshal back to the court. ”

Sheng Yong was noncommittal, he was so persistent in working for the imperial court, not because the civil officials said that he was moral, he was fighting for opportunities for himself.

"Let's go!" Sheng Yong put away those useless sorrows. Anyway, the past is a foregone conclusion, so it's better to plan more for the future. Sheng Yong has always been a calm and calm person.

He took a few generals with him and left the riverbank.

After Sheng Yong returned to the camp, he wrote a secret letter to his concubine Mei Yin, telling him to stick to the city and Jinjin in the east, and not to let Yan Shi take the road to the south. At the same time, he wrote a letter to Xu An, the prefect of Fengyang, to burn all the pontoon bridges and boats in the territory. Then he sent the officials in the army to the upper reaches of the Huai River, ordered the prefectures and counties to burn the boats, and all the Huai River lines were put under martial law.

After he deployed, he personally inspected the river near the camp and made sure that the soldiers controlled all the boats.

Now although there are many people in Sheng Yong's hands, most of them are composed of some village warriors and officials. After he arrived at the Huai River from Shandong, he has been recruiting troops, but against the elite of the Yan Division, these horses cannot be put in a field battle!

His consideration was that relying on the Huai River, he could drag on as long as he could. Everything he is doing now is to slow down the speed of Yan Shi's southward movement.

Sheng Yong only waited for the imperial court reinforcements to arrive, and then looked for an opportunity to compete with Yan Shi in the end!