On the morning of the next day, the 70,000 Jiangnan Army also arrived 20 miles north of Wu County, about 10 miles away from the Jingzhao Army camp, and Xiang Fa also ordered the camp to be set up.

The two military camps were far away from each other, and in the middle was a ten-mile-wide wilderness, which was enough to set up a battlefield for the two armies to face each other.

On the day when Xiang Faza set down the camp, a general led 3,000 soldiers to the Jingzhao army camp to shout and scold, which is also the practice of the two armies.

If you are neither willing to fight alone nor decisive battle, then hang up the exemption card, but this situation is very depressing, the opposing general led the army to show off his might in front of the camp, which has a great impact on morale.

Single challenge is generally a small-scale battle, mainly in the battle of the generals' martial arts, mainly playing a role in boosting morale, like Wang Gui and Liu Jian led the army to lose three times in a row in Xiangzhou, in fact, it refers to the defeat of a single challenge,

Perhaps Xiang Fa felt that the morale of his army was not high, so he ordered the general Du Yaoge to lead 3,000 troops to the camp of the Jingzhao army to invite a single battle.

Outside the camp, Du Yaoge kept provoking and scolding, and inside the big tent of the Chinese army, Li Yanqing asked coldly: "The enemy will come to challenge, who wants to fight in the first battle?" ”

As soon as his words fell, Hu Qing'er rushed out of the ranks, "Jumping beam clown, why do you need a general to fight, wait for the little woman to take other people's heads and give wine to the generals!" ”

Wang Gui, Liu Ji, Niu Gao, Yang Zaixing and other generals all wanted to fight, but they were preempted by the female general Hu Qing'er, and everyone looked at each other, with a wry smile on their faces.

Li Yanqing immediately ordered: "General Hu can go to war, please lead 3,000 troops to suppress the formation!" ”

"Obey!"

'Boom! Boom! Boom! The drums in the camp of the Jingzhao army sounded loudly, and then the camp gate opened, and fifty female cavalry surrounded a female general and rode out, followed by three thousand soldiers, and the deputy commander Liu Jian carried a big knife for the female general Hu Qing to suppress the formation.

Hu Qing'er wears a phoenix winged hood, wears a pink and white Shunshui Mountain pattern armor, has black heart goggles on the front and back, a deadly soft whip at the waist, seven willow leaf flying knives on the back, a bag of flying stones in front of the saddle, a pair of long leather boots on her feet, a embroidered dragon knife in her hand, and a tall and majestic rouge horse on her crotch, which makes her particularly heroic.

The general Du Yaoge on the opposite side is a native of Xiuzhou, born in the golden gun class of the forbidden army, making a big iron gun, martial arts are very strong, he looks burly, full of meat, looks very strong and fierce, he didn't expect the other party to actually come out of a female general, he couldn't help but be angry, pointing at Hu Qing'er and scolding, "Little lady, you dare to come out to humiliate your grandfather, wait for grandpa to catch you, strip you of your clothes......"

Zheng Chen, who was sweeping the formation in the distance, was a little worried, he had heard that when Jing Zhaojun held a martial arts competition, it was a young female general who won the championship, could it be this woman.

He saw that Du Yaoge was a little underestimated by the enemy, and hurriedly shouted: "General Du, don't underestimate the enemy!" ”

He was afraid that Du Yaoge would not hear, so he sent a personal soldier to remind him that Du Yaoge was scolding, and a soldier rushed to shout: "General Du, Zheng has ordered you not to underestimate the enemy!" ”

Du Yaoge finally stopped scolding, he snorted coldly, waved the big iron gun and shouted: "Little girl, brother, I'll let you stab you three times first!" ”

Du Yaoge scolded very obscene and shameless, which made Hu Qing'er hateful, and he had a murderous intention in his heart, and he screamed, galloped on the horse, and Du Yaoge also urged the horse to kill, he said that letting Sandao first was just talking, and his boss Zheng Chen had already reminded him not to underestimate the enemy, how could he really let the other party. ”

The two approached, Hu Qing'er seized the opportunity, and split out more than a dozen knives in an instant, Du Yaoge saw that the opponent's knife skills were sharp, and he had no way to judge the knife momentum, so he simply did not block it, turned the horse and ran sideways, so that Hu Qing'er split all the more than a dozen knives, and the two horses staggered.

Hu Qing'er was angry in her heart, changed her left hand to hold the knife, waved her right hand, and a flying knife shot at Du Yaoge like lightning, Hu Qing'er generally uses flying stones, only when she moves to kill in her heart, she switches to flying knives, she has two kinds of flying knives, one is usually carried around, the knife is only three inches long, very delicate, arbitrarily cutting people's throats, and the other is used on the battlefield, the knife is one foot long, extremely sharp, and can be killed with one knife.

Du Yaoge caught a flash of cold color in the corner of his eyes, he suddenly realized that something was wrong, and hurriedly turned sideways to dodge, but it was too late, the speed of the flying knife was incomparably fast, he only felt that the vest was cold, and the flying knife had already shot through his vest, Du Yaoge screamed, rolled and fell off the horse, and was killed on the spot.

At this moment, someone in the army sweeping in the distance shouted, and a black horse rushed out, "Give my brother his life!" ”

The general who rushed out was Du Yaowu, the younger brother of Du Yaoge, the two brothers looked quite similar, Du Yaowu was also burly, with a big waist and a round waist, but there was no long horizontal meat on his face, slightly less fierce than his brother, Zheng Chen didn't hold it at once, he secretly complained in his heart, the Zheng family had married a distant daughter of the Zheng family to Du Yaowu in order to win over the Du brothers, if the two brothers were killed, how could he go back and explain to the Zheng family.

Du Yaowu's eyes were red with hatred, and he didn't speak, urging the horse to go straight to Hu Qing'er to kill, Hu Qing'er sneered, galloped on the horse, waved his hand, and a flying stone was hit, the speed of the flying stone was faster than the flying knife, and it was more difficult to detect, when Du Yaowu suddenly found the flying stone, the flying stone had arrived in front of him, 'Bang! With a crisp sound, the flying stone hit his face all over his face, the bridge of his nose was shattered, and blood foamed everywhere, Du Yaowu's eyes turned black, and he immediately turned over and fell off the horse.

The soldiers of the Jiangnan Army were in an uproar, they were all one face, the two generals were all dismissed, one was killed and one was injured, this female general was too powerful, but the Jingzhao Army was drumming loudly, cheering and shouting, and some soldiers had already rushed forward to cut off Du Yaoge's head, and tied Du Yaowu up.

At this time, Liu Jian waved his sword and shouted: "Kill!" ”

"Kill-" The three thousand soldiers shouted and killed the enemy, the Jiangnan army lost two battles in a row, and their morale was low, Zheng Chen had no intention of fighting, and shouted 'Withdraw!' He turned his horse's head and ran first towards the camp, and the soldiers behind him ran wildly, and the last few hundred ran a little slower, and were caught up by the Jingzhao army, killing more than a hundred people in a company, and the rest of the soldiers were so frightened that they knelt down and surrendered.

At this time, the bell for the collection of troops was heard in the distance, which was that Li Yanqing did not allow them to chase down any further, and there was a forest on the side of the road ahead, and the enemy army was likely to lie in ambush in the woods.

The Jingzhao army was well-trained, and the soldiers stopped the pursuit and escorted hundreds of prisoners of war back to the camp.

In the first battle, two generals were broken, and Xiang Fa was extremely angry in his heart, and scolded Zheng Chen, who took the initiative to ask for help, to the point of spurting blood.

Inside the big tent, Xiang Fa walked back and forth, looking distraught, he had just gotten the accurate situation, now Li Yanqing's men have more than 20,000 people, at least more than 40,000 people, Xiang Fa of course knew how these troops could suddenly come out, except for prisoners of war, there should be no other way, but he didn't expect Li Yanqing to convert prisoners of war into soldiers so quickly.

The reason why he did not attack Li Yanqing's army for a long time was because the other party only had 20,000 people, while he had 80,000 troops, plus the 30,000 troops who went north, they had as many as 110,000 people, which was more than five times that of the other party.

But Xiang Fa never imagined that the enemy army grew rapidly, and in a few days it increased to 45,600 people, and his own army was also reduced to 70,000 people, which was not enough to double, which made Xiang Fa very annoyed, and he knew that he would follow Liu Yanqing's suggestion and annihilate the Jingzhao army in Runzhou.

It's just that there is no regret medicine in the world, and now it's too late to regret it, so we still have to face the reality and come up with a proper way to deal with it.

In fact, the countermeasure is to fight or not to fight, of course it is impossible to retreat north, Xiang Fa cannot hand over Hangzhou to Li Yanqing, if he takes a detour to Hangzhou, he is afraid that he will not be able to avoid the pursuit of the enemy, especially since the other side has 3,000 cavalry, it is easy to turn the retreat into a rout of the whole army.

After thinking about it, Xiang Fa had only one choice, that is, war, his troops were more than 20,000 people than the other party, and there were two elite armies of Tiger Ben and Flying Bear, and the other side except for the 20,000 elite army, the other new armies were not strong in battle, and he might not lose to Li Yanqing.

Thinking of this, Xiang Fa made up his mind that he would no longer fight alone, but directly deploy a decisive battle.

He walked back to the table, sat down, took a pen and wrote a letter of invitation to fight, and handed it to a soldier to send to the other party's camp......

The camp of the Jingzhao Army was full of joy, Hu Qing'er won two battles in a row, which greatly improved the morale in the barracks, and the soldiers were very excited, and they got together to discuss Hu Qing'er's stunts, flying knives, flying stones, this kind of partial martial arts is more interesting.

"Lao Li, I think Qing'er's flying stone stunt has surpassed you."

Wang Gui was drinking the broth, while joking with Li Yanqing with great interest, when the two were alone, Wang Gui would occasionally forget about the upper and lower dignity, but today's Hu Qing'er's flying stone stunt made Wang Gui seem to have returned to his youth, he knew Li Yanqing's flying stone well, and his intuition told him that Hu Qing'er's flying stone had surpassed Li Yanqing in speed.

"I said Lao Li, why don't you have a competition with Qing'er!"

"Alright, drink your soup!"

Li Yanqing stretched out his hand and knocked on his head, and scolded with a smile: "Qing'er surpasses me, it's too late for me to be happy, but you, a bastard boy, don't practice martial arts well, just watch the young juniors behind you surpass you one by one!" ”

Wang Gui has been brave and ruthless since he was a child, and he likes to compete with people alone, even if he becomes the commander of the capital in the future, he will also fight heads-up like an ordinary general, Li Yanqing said that he has his mind, he can't compare to Cao Meng in strength, and he can't compare to Gao Zhong and Yang Zaixing in marksmanship, he always boasts that his knife skills are unparalleled, but today he saw with his own eyes that Hu Qing'er's knife skills are very sharp, and he may not be able to do it if he slashes more than a dozen knives in a row, Wang Gui is also worried in his heart, he gritted his teeth and said: "Damn, start practicing knives tonight, let the juniors see, My Wang Guibao knife is not old. ”

Li Yanqing smiled and said, "Two days ago, I received the military express from the imperial court, and I saw the news of the fifth brother. ”

Wang Gui perked up and hurriedly asked, "What is Lao Yue doing?" ”

"He followed the old general Zong Ze to win a series of battles in Bozhou, defeated 6,000 gold soldiers, and was promoted to a ranger general from Wupin by the imperial court."

Wang Gui's eyes widened, "Obediently, Lao Yue's promotion speed is no less than mine!" ”

Li Yanqing knew that Yue Fei had saved Zhao Gou's life, so Zhao Gou would take care of it a little bit in terms of promotion, but last time Wang Gui led the army to burn Liyang County, Yue Fei also contributed to the battle, but he did not get any reward, which made people feel deeply unjust, and now he has been promoted, which is also a kind of compensation for his past.

The five-rank official is a big hurdle for both civil officials and military generals, and after this hurdle, it will be much easier to be promoted in the future, and Li Yanqing is also sincerely happy for Yue Fei.

At this time, as soon as the curtain was lifted, Liu Jian walked into the big tent quickly and said with a smile: "Xiang Fei can't hold his breath." ”

"Did he send a letter of invitation?"

Liu Jian nodded, handed a letter of invitation to war to Li Yanqing, Li Yanqing thought about it, Cao Meng's army should also enter Changzhou, but they still need to be given a time to rest.

He wrote in the invitation to fight: 'Two days later, the decisive battle!' ’