Chapter 871: Duel
The battlefield was set up in front of Jiuzhi Mountain, and the shepherd boy picked up old knives and guns. The wind blows the water of the Wujiang River, just like Yu Ji is not an overlord.
This ballad is not right, Jiuzhi Mountain is indeed an important battlefield for the Chu and Han dynasties, but it is the place where Xiang Yu made a great effort and defeated the princes and 560,000 allied troops with 30,000 people.
Liu Bang was beaten to the point that he lost his armor and fled from Xuzhou with only a few dozen soldiers, and even his father was thrown on the way. How similar the history is, today Zhu Di plays the role of Liu Bang.
Although he brought out more than 20,000 cavalry from the chaotic army, which seemed to have more capital than Liu Bang at that time, he did not think that he had the same chance of making a comeback as Liu Bang.
Zhu Xiongying is by no means Xiang Yu, and he has achieved the ultimate in "it is advisable to chase the poor bravely". He finally understood how frightened and helpless he would be when he returned from defeat that day, and now he was going through what he had experienced on that day, which was longer and more painful than that.
In two months, he fled from Xuzhou to Henan, then returned to Shandong, and from Shandong to Hebei, panicking like a lost dog.
Zhu Xiongying still chased and chased him, and the defenders who had opened the door to him before to give him convenience also turned their faces and did not recognize people, and chased and beat him fiercely.
Of the more than 20,000 men and horses brought out of the chaotic army, less than 2,000 are now left, and their advisers and good generals have also been lost.
Zhu Neng died in Pizhou, Ping'an and Yao Guangxiao were separated and did not know whether they were alive or dead, and Zhang Yu and Qiu Fu were cut off for him in Henan and Shandong respectively, and never returned.
I think how full of ambition and high spirits he was when he led more than 300,000 troops out of Beiping to the south, and he never thought that he would end up in such a situation in just a few months.
Speaking of which, he himself got carried away, if he had set up camp in Xuzhou, he would have dug a large number of trenches as a position, even if Zhu Xiongying had powerful firearms and strong cavalry, he was helpless, or he could listen to Ping'an's admonition at that time, and he would not have been defeated so badly when he moved to Xuzhou City.
Even if he returned to Beiping, he was at most just taking a breath, and he had to flee with his family to find a place to settle in Dongshengzhou or Nanshengzhou, but he didn't expect that in the end, his uncle had planned a good destination for him earlier.
But he doesn't regret it, if his husband can't fight for his dream once he is alive, it will be in vain. However, he had already admitted in his heart that Zhu Xiongying was wiser, braver, and more far-sighted than him, and he was worthy of being the person his father fancied, and he was not unjustly lost.
Bang Bang Bang ......
A fierce explosion interrupted his thoughts, making his heart tremble, and a pair of tiger eyes kept glancing around, "The tyrant is coming?" ”
"Father, don't be surprised that someone has set off firecrackers!" Zhu Gaoxu went to Zhu Di and pointed to a large village next to the official road.
Zhu Di picked up the telescope hanging on horseback and looked at it, only to see that every household in the village was pasted with red Spring Festival couplets and said in surprise: "Is it already the New Year?" Where have we been? "He fled for his life in a hurry along the way, where do you remember the days.
Zhu Gaoxu nodded and replied: "It should be in Xiongxian now, and today is Chinese New Year's Eve, and eighty percent of people have made dumplings just now." ”
Zhu Di sighed and said, "It's Chinese New Year's Eve, even if it's not far from Beiping, I'm afraid I won't be able to go back today." Gao Sui, you tell everyone to stop and rest, you go to the village to find the chief to get some dumplings, even if the brothers can eat one by one. ”
Zhu Gaoxu was just about to leave, but Zhu Di stopped him again, groped around on his body, took out a jade pendant and handed it to his son, "Don't block people during the New Year." ”
Zhu Gaosui took the jade pendant and left, and after half an hour, he and the soldiers carried dozens of wooden barrels over, except for seven or eight buckets of dumplings, the others were all dumpling soup.
Even if he could only receive two dumplings, the soldiers were very happy, talking about what filling they had eaten, and then holding the lunch box and filling it with dumpling soup.
Zhu Gaoxu came to Zhu Di with two lunch boxes, one of which contained dumplings, and the other contained dumpling soup.
Zhu Di pinched two and stuffed them into his mouth and swallowed them, "This pork filling is too fat and salty, my father doesn't like it, my son will eat it himself, I will drink hot soup to quench my thirst." ”
It was the middle of the afternoon, the bright sun hung in the southwest direction, but it was cold and there was no temperature, and the dumpling soup in a lunch box was poured into the stomach and the body finally warmed up.
Zhu Di put down his lunch box and leaned against the haystack on the side of the road, chewing a piece of wheat stalk in his mouth, looking at the clear blue sky intently.
It had been a long time since he had been panting so comfortably as he was now, and he muttered: "I will have a lot of idle days when I go to Dongshengzhou in the future, and I don't know how to spend it." ”
"It's not too early for my father, let's hurry early, and it's not too late to rest in Beiping."
"Okay, let's go!"
Zhu Di got on the horse and subconsciously glanced at the road, his face changed, and he hurriedly picked up the telescope, only to see a large piece of dust in the middle of the air in the distance, and shouted: "Zhu Xiongying's child is chasing again!" Get on board! ”
Yan Jun hurriedly got on his horse, whipped the tired horse with a leather whip to protect Zhu Di to continue his escape, and not far away, he saw the smoke and dust billowing in front of him.
At first, the Yan army thought that it was the men and horses sent by Beiping City to meet them, and they cheered excitedly, but when they got closer, they were desperate, and those in front of them wearing black armor and red cloaks were not the Long Xiang army that had been chasing and killing them for more than two months.
"How did they get ahead of this king!"
As soon as the words came out, Zhu Di felt that his words were too stupid, he had already gone around in Henan and Shandong, why couldn't Zhu Xiongying send a team of men and horses to wait for the rabbit first.
Now that he was being attacked by Zhu Xiongying back and forth, where was there to live, he pulled out the long knife on his waist and roared loudly, "Sons! We have nowhere to run, so let's fight the tyrant with this king. ”
There was a voice beside him who shouted loudly: "Second prince, you take Your Highness from elsewhere and hand it over to me here, brothers come with me to buy time for Your Highness!" ”
Zhu Gaosui snatched the reins of Zhu Di's horse with one hand, and pulled him to rush diagonally towards the wheat field on the side of the official road.
"Zhang Fu!" Zhu Di shouted sadly, before he personally promised Zhang Yu to take care of his family for him, watching Zhang Fu moth to meet the enemy army like a moth to the fire, Rao is Zhu Di is strong and ruthless and can't help but cry.
How did the more than a thousand weak divisions deal with the thousands of elites who were waiting for work, Zhang Fu's life-threatening fight was just a slight delay in the speed of the Long Xiang army, and then it was quickly divided and killed.
Zhu Di couldn't bear to look at it anymore, but he kept urging his horse to run quickly, only the whirring wind in his ears, as well as sporadic gunshots and screams, which were the few soldiers he had left who were easily hunted by the other party.
That's right, it's the hunt! He himself was not Zhu Xiongying's prey, and he had been chasing and intercepting him for two months, playing with him on applause.
The shocking battle in his heart may just be a gorgeous hunt in Zhu Xiongying's eyes, and his dignified prince army commander may just be a roe deer!
Now he fled again in a hurry, through wheat fields, woods, and barren beaches, until a great river stopped in front of him, leaving him with nowhere to go.
This is the Baigou River, last year it was on the north bank of the Baigou River 500,000 Ming troops, because the Baigou River allowed him to easily capture more than 200,000 Ming troops, but in just one year, the situation reversed, and the Baigou River became his dead end.
One of the soldiers dismounted and went to the front, hoping that the frozen river would carry them through, but as soon as they reached the middle of the journey, they fell into the water with a thud, and after a few struggles, they did not move, leaving only a huge hole in the ice.
No one is going to save him, everyone can't save themselves, at least this drowned comrade can be left with a whole corpse.
The rumbling sound of horses' hooves was getting closer and closer, and those dragon soldiers had already caught up but did not come forward to kill, just stopped two miles away, quietly looking at them like clay puppets.
Zhu Gaosui had already pulled out his knife and clamped the horse's belly and was ready to fight desperately at any time, seeing that the Ming army did not make the slightest movement, he asked strangely: "Father, what tricks do they want to play." ”
"They just want to play with us, and the prey they have caught so hard will not be easily killed. See, the hunter is coming, I'll play with him when there is no way back! ”
With the billowing smoke and the sound of rumbling horses' hooves, I saw countless black-armored cavalry rushing over, seeing that there were 50,000 people, led by Zhu Xiongying, who was wearing gold armor and crossing a white horse.
Zhu Xiongying also stopped two miles away, and with an order, a black-armored cavalry galloped towards the Yan army. Zhu Di stopped Yan Jun who was pulling out his gun, "Don't shoot, it's just one person, how can this king be afraid of him!" ”
The black-armored cavalry didn't stop until thirty paces away, and asked loudly on his horse, "Where is King Yan?" ”
Zhu Di took a few steps forward, "This king is here!" ”
"The emperor's holy edict was transmitted, 'In the fifteenth year of Hongwu, I competed with you in the imperial garden for nunchucks, and I lost at that time and agreed with you to compete later. However, you and I have never seen each other again, and now that you are dying, you are willing to have a fair fight with me. ”
Zhu Di laughed when he heard this, "Zhu Xiongying really holds a grudge, I still remember the things of these years, no wonder I have been using the king's portrait as a target." ”
The black-armored soldier replied: "Spread the emperor's holy message, 'I am magnanimous and never hold grudges, I just want to defeat you completely, so that you can die without any pride in front of me!'" ”
"Haha! Good! This king will compete with Zhu Xiongying's children, but it can't be done without a lottery, if this king wins, he will let go of my subordinates. ”
"Spread the emperor's holy message, 'If you win, I will not only release your subordinates, but also your family!'"
Zhu Di raised his eyebrows, "Okay!" You go and tell Zhu Xiongying, this king agreed! ”
"Then please go naked to the battle between the two armies with only nunchucks!"
"Haha...... Zhu Xiongying is really suspicious, and he thinks about everything! Okay, this king is going to the armor and clothes, you can see it for him! ”
At that moment, Zhu Di took off the armor and shirt on his body, and only a thin yellow silk pants and a pair of riding boots were left on his body.
All the Yan soldiers wept angrily: "We are not afraid of death, Your Highness does not need to be humiliated for us!" It's a big deal to fight with a tyrant. ”
Zhu Di turned his head and smiled, "This king knows that you are not afraid of death, but it is better to live than to die." Even if it's not for you, this king will have to be a princess. The tyrant is arrogant and arrogant, and his words count. ”
He looked at Zhu Gaosui again, "No matter if you win or lose, I'm afraid that my father won't be able to come back, and I have nothing to be sad about asking for benevolence." Don't act impulsively and take care of your mother with your eldest brother. ”
Zhu Gaosui kowtowed with tears in his eyes and said, "The child knows!" The other soldiers also knelt on the ground and wept silently.
Zhu Di followed the black-armored soldier to the middle of the two armies in a cry, Zhu Xiongying rode to him, took off his golden helmet and rode on the horse to look down on him condescendingly, "Haha...... Zhu Di is so bold, I didn't misunderstand you, you are worthy of being my opponent! ”
Zhu Di looked up at Zhu Xiongying and asked coldly, "If this king wins, will he really let my family leave?" Don't think that this king is wagging his tail at you and begging for mercy, negotiating with you! ”
"Huh...... What do you think of me, I am the son of heaven. Everyone says that I am like Taizu, but I am more tolerant and generous than Taizu, especially those who are not a threat to me, even Zhu Yunzhen is actually not ready to kill him, it is you Zhu Di who used him to kill him, if you die, you will have the face to see the first emperor! ”
"This king doesn't have this concern, the first emperor is benevolent and fratern, and now he should be in the immortal class, and a wicked person like this king will be in hell if he dies, and he won't be able to see him!"
"Hahaha......" Zhu Xiongying laughed and said: "Zhu Di, I really like you, because you and I are the same kind of people." But because of this, I have no way to tolerate you, as long as there is a threat to me, no matter how devout he is to me, I will not spare him, such as you, such as Madu! ”
"Huh...... Uncle has always liked not to interfere in political affairs, and this king suggests that you release him as soon as possible, otherwise you will be asking for trouble. ”
"It's not that I want to kill him, this is Taizu's last wish, Taizu was thinking about getting rid of him before he died. Taizu is right, you are not wrong to say that he is a trouble, and it is not easy to be trapped in the Purple Mountain, so I will clean him up when I get rid of you. ”
"Then pass the king's level first, and say in advance that nunchucks are not long-sighted, if you are injured, don't be angry and break the contract."
"You're too worried, you haven't hurt my ability yet! Don't talk nonsense, do it now, if you freeze, you'll be unfair again. ”
Zhu Xiongying jumped off the horse, took a nunchuck from the horse and walked towards Zhu Di in his hand, "I'm going to do it!" ”
As soon as he spoke, he swung sharply, and a nunchuck swept towards Zhu Di, who neither dodged nor blocked, but fired back in the same way.
Clang!
The steel nunchucks collided in mid-air, scraping a string of sparks, showing the power of the man. Zhu Di didn't give Zhu Xiongying any respite, and without waiting for the flying nunchucks to stabilize, he immediately went straight to Zhu Xiongying's head, and Zhu Xiongying hurriedly dodged and swept Zhu Di's ribs......
In later generations, action movies often have people with swords and bells to fight dozens or hundreds of rounds, but they have never seen two people with nunchucks fight like this, and the winner is often determined by a few faces.
is really because the trajectory of the nunchuck is difficult to control after the collision, even if it is a movie, no director will shoot such a shot, otherwise it will only make the actor's nose blue and face swollen.
But Zhu Xiongying and Zhu Di presented such a wonderful scene, the two of them can be said to be as perfect as the fingers of the arm, the nunchucks are danced into a phantom and weird, from time to time in the air collide and rub dazzling sparks, the two are also dazzling.
Whoa......
Another fierce collision, the two chains were entangled together, no matter how hard the two pulled inseparable, the two raised their feet and kicked each other's chests at the same time, and then fell to the ground on their backs, and the nunchucks also came off.
Zhu Xiongying got up from the ground and said, "Stop, don't fight yet!" ”