Chapter 869: One to Five Thousand
Escape, desperately escape!
This was something that had never been done before Ping An in his life, and he held the reins of his horse in one hand and poked the horse from time to time with the short stab on the boots, and on each side of the horse's belly there was a palm-sized flesh that was poked with blood, and the poor horse did not know how many times he was stabbed by his master. It hissed in pain and continued to run helplessly.
The phrase "just fleeing with one's body" has always been an exaggerated sentence, and if any general really doesn't even have a personal soldier, then he probably won't be able to escape.
However, Ping An gave an example of "fleeing only with his body" today, and he could be sure that except for himself, no one in the 60,000 army escaped, including Zhu Neng, the deputy Zhu Di assigned to him.
If it weren't for the good horse under him, Ping An could be sure that his current self would have the same fate as them, and he was extremely glad that he left his son in Beiping this time.
In fact, he still hadn't figured out what was happening outside Pizhou City, and when he tightened the reins of his horse and slowed down, a personal soldier rushed in front of him.
Ping'an then saw Zhu Xiongying wave the nunchuck in his hand, and the head of the soldier broke like a watermelon, and then fell off the horse like a broken sack, and then the nunchucks swept towards him with a whistling sound.
He has been by Zhu Di's side for many years, so he naturally knows the power of the nunchuck, he did not do anything to resist and counterattack, but dodged with all his might.
But he still didn't dodge Zhu Xiongying's attack, his shoulder was wiped by nunchucks, although it was only rubbed, but half of his body was numb, and a large mouthful of blood spit out, he was sure that his strong and powerful right arm was useless.
After that, his mind was blank, only the thought of escaping was left, so to speak, he was in a panic, relying on his excellent mount and excellent horsemanship, and the excited shouts behind him quickly turned into a terrible wail, and he did not dare to look back, it must be a hell there.
Fleeing from evening to night, from late night to dawn, Ping An did not stop for a moment, and went around just to quickly rush back to Jiuzhi Mountain, so that Zhu Di could move to Xuzhou City as soon as possible, otherwise he would end up like himself.
The eastern sky was already faintly white, and the Nine Mountains were in front of him, and the horse's speed slowed down again, and Ping An stabbed the horse's belly again, but the horse did not speed up as before, and fell to the ground with a stumble.
Ping An flew out far away, his body slid far on the ground, and when he raised his head, half of his face had been ground to blood, and several figures rushed out from both sides of the official road to hold Ping An down, it turned out that the horse fell not because of loss of strength but because of a tripping horse.
"It's me! Peaceful! Not the enemy! Ping An roared loudly, for fear that he would be slaughtered by his own people as enemy spies.
Several Yan army scouts also recognized Ping'an, "It's really a big flood that washed away the Dragon King Temple's own family and didn't recognize his own family, and the small one accidentally injured the governor, and asked the governor to punish him!" By the way, didn't you take someone to Pizhou, how did you come back alone. ”
"What so much nonsense! Help me up and go to Your Highness! ”
A few Yan army scouts were about to help him be safe, but he suddenly fell on his stomach, put his ear on the ground, and rubbed it up, "Damn! Chasing after you! How could it be so fast! Hurry up and take me to your Highness! ”
Zhu Di had just gotten up and was getting dressed and wearing armor, and he was surprised to hear that Ping An had come back alone, and immediately asked people to take him to the handsome tent, and when he saw his own soldiers helping Ping An in embarrassment, he asked: "Ping An, what's wrong with you!" ”
The soldier who broke free from Ping An and helped him stepped forward and bowed down on one knee, "Weichen is incompetent, and the 60,000 army has been wiped out......"
"What! All 60,000 troops were wiped out! Zhu Di was dumbfounded, his eyes were full of suspicion, "What about Zhu Neng!" ”
"Commander Zhu is most likely killed in battle, and Wei Chen will explain it to His Highness in detail when he turns around. Now that Zhu Xiongying has been killed, there are still at most twenty miles from here, please Your Highness immediately order the whole army to fight, gather all the horses and tripping horses in the camp and place them on the south side of the camp, scatter more thistles and mines, especially let the artillery be in position and can fire at any time, and let the soldiers dig more trenches, and prepare to hold on for a long time......"
Ping An poured out all the countermeasures he could think of, but Zhu Di frowned when he heard it, "Zhu Neng is dead?" You can tell me what's going on! ”
"Your Highness doesn't know, that Zhu Xiongying's Long Xiang army is not afraid of death, and its combat power is extraordinary, and our cavalry is also brave but far inferior, and there is absolutely no chance of winning a head-on battle with it. However, as long as our army can hold the camp, we can slowly find their flaws......"
"Haha......" Zhu Di looked up to the sky and laughed, "Why destroy your own ambition and increase the prestige of others!" The Mongols immediately won the world, and my uncle told me that they had fought across the desert as far as Europa, occupying almost the entire continent. But now it's not that the king is running around, the king's cavalry is the most brave and good cavalry in the world, no matter how strong it is, how strong can it be! ”
Zhu Di didn't believe in Ping An's words, and even thought that Ping An was making excuses for his failures.
Ping An knew that Zhu Di was unruly, and let him admit that it was more difficult for a person to be better than himself than to kill him, especially since that person was still Zhu Xiongying.
He continued to persuade: "Wechen knows that His Highness doesn't believe it, but in any case, I still ask His Highness to give an order, and it will not hurt to do what Wechen said before." ”
He even pointed to his swollen shoulders and weakly drooping arms, "Your Highness, Wechen's arm has been abolished, this is always something that can't be faked, please listen to Wechen!" ”
Seeing that Ping'an was about to bite his lip, and his suggestion was indeed not harmful, Zhu Di nodded and said: "Okay, okay, this king will order that you go down first to recuperate your injuries, and when we get to Yingtian, I will ask my uncle to personally treat you, and it will not be wasted." ”
Ping An nodded, but he felt that it was far away to go to Yingtian.
As soon as Zhu Di's military order was passed down, scouts immediately came to report that Zhu Xiongying's army had arrived at a place ten miles away from the Yan army camp.
"This kid is coming fast! When you are safe, do not go with you, but rest in the back tent, and do not mention your defeat to anyone else. Zhu Di said and strode out of the tent.
There was a small dirt slope outside the camp gate, Zhu Di took the general who rushed to hear the news to climb up, he took the telescope and looked at it for a long time, and when he put down the telescope, his face was more solemn, "What kind of Longxiang army looks good!" ”
Qiu Fu also took the binoculars, "It's just a showcase, the tyrant is riding a white horse in golden armor for fear that we won't recognize him, please order His Highness to order Wei Chen to take someone to pull his head off." ”
"Chop wood with a cattle-killing knife!" Zhu Di turned his head to look around at the generals around him, "Sheng Yong, you take your subordinates down to check their quality." ”
It was not only Chang Tong who was captured alive but also Sheng Yong, who, like most of the captured Ming generals, surrendered to Zhu Di.
Zhu Di also did not refuse to accept all the orders, and sent the house to the women, and when he incorporated the captured Ming army, I don't know if he was worried that they would affect the combat strength of the Yan army, and he did not completely disrupt and reorganize them and the Yan army, but just stuffed some captains into them.
Perhaps in order to show trust, Zhu Di also received a lot of elite soldiers from the Ming army to his own personal army, Wang Dahe is one of them, he used to be just an ordinary cavalryman, and now he is Zhu Di's personal soldier, and he also got a small flag official.
Wang Dahe stood at the bottom of the dirt slope and looked at Sheng Yong, who was leading the way, and couldn't help muttering in his heart: "In the end, it is not biological, only the life of being cannon fodder." ”
In Wang Dahe's opinion, this battle is very boring, to put it bluntly, it is an uncle and a nephew fighting for family property, and there are more such things in both the market and the countryside.
Ordinary people fighting for family property are just fighting, and finally find the elders in the clan to mediate, and if they can't do it, they go to the yamen to fight a lawsuit.
This royal family is fighting for family property, and he can't figure it out, the two uncles and nephews of such a big country as Daming share half of their children and grandchildren, and they can't enjoy the benefits, why do they have to fight to the death, but in the end it is their hard-working Qiu Ba and ordinary people who die.
With the roar of horses' hooves, Sheng Yong took five thousand cavalry out of the camp and killed the Longxiang army ten miles away.
Zhu Di raised the telescope again to observe Long Xiangjun's every move, he wanted to see what the Long Xiang Army was capable of being blown into the sky by Changtong and annihilating the Ping'an Army, and it was best to see their flaws.
However, after Sheng Yong led the army out of the camp, the Ming army on the opposite side did not have any reaction, seeing that the ten miles away from Sheng Yong were half gone, the Long Xiang army finally made a move, only to see a knight in golden helmet and armor came out of the crowd and rushed towards Sheng Yong's five thousand cavalry.
A pair of five?
Zhu Di's eyes were about to pop out, he was also the kind of unruly character who refused to admit defeat, but he would not be so arrogant that he thought that he could fight against 5,000 people at the same time.
"It's arrogant!" Zhu Di scolded in his heart, but he ordered viciously: "As long as the tyrant enters the range of artillery fire, he will fire immediately, and let him turn into flying ashes!" ”
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