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In the early morning of the next day, when the Yan army had assembled on the north bank of the Baigou River, all the southern troops were already in battle on the south bank. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Li Jinglong lined up 600,000 southern troops along the riverbank, and the horizontal formation was dozens of miles, which was magnificent.

Gao Wei, a white-haired scholar who accompanied the military counselor, was also on a horse, and when he saw Li Jinglong's formation, he was very worried and said:

"The general column is so long, our central strength is too weak, and the two wings are beyond the reach of the whip, once the enemy attacks the center, I am afraid it will be easy to cut us off."

Li Jinglong smiled: "What I'm afraid of is that he won't impact." Mr. Gao doesn't have to worry. According to Jinglong's meaning, the old gentleman should go back to the camp to rest; The farther away from the old gentleman, the better, otherwise if something goes wrong, Jinglong can't afford to explain it to the emperor. ”

After that, he ordered the two guards around him to send Gao Wei back to the camp immediately. Gao Wei repeatedly refused, but he couldn't resist Li Jinglong, so he had to obediently go back to the camp between the two soldiers.

Shen Ruoyu was on the side and asked cautiously:

"General, won't you let me go back to guard the camp too?"

Li Jinglong said: "Lord Shen, please take care of yourself." You're not too good to protect yourself. That old gentleman Gao is already seventy years old. ”

Shen Ruoyu breathed a sigh of relief, a little funny. Yan Bing had already begun to cross the river at this time.

Qu Neng and Ping'an were on the two wings of the long formation, and when they saw the Yan army crossing the river neatly and quickly, they were a little anxious, and kept looking back at the general standing on the high slope and commanding, expecting him to give the order to attack.

Sheng Yong and Guo Ying were in the middle of the middle, nervously looking at the more than 200,000 Yan troops who crossed the river surgingly, not as anxious as Qu Neng and Ping'an, but they also sat up straight on their horses, holding their steel guns tightly, ready to attack.

The speed at which the Yan army crossed the river was very fast, and in the blink of an eye, most of them had reached the south bank, and they quickly lined up the pointed formation. Shen Ruoyu and Li Jinglong stood side by side on the high slope, looking at Zhu Di, the king of Yan who was leading the way in front of the Yan army, their hands and feet were a little cold. He asked softly:

"Isn't the general going to attack halfway?"

"How can I learn from the tricks used by the anti-king?" Li Jinglong smiled disdainfully, "Today, you don't need to attack half-crossing, you can also wipe out the Yan army." ”

The general did what he said, and faced the Yan army who hurriedly crossed the river; The southern army then stood still, and waited gracefully for all the 200,000 Yan troops to reach the south bank, and lined up the formation of the charge.

The general seemed to be quite sure; Shen Ruoyu had no experience, so he could only sit and watch.

Seeing that the southern army did not react, Zhu Di gave an order, the Yan army drums and trumpets sounded in unison, and the king of Yan waved his stainless steel lance, led the three guards of Duoyan to the forward, chanted loudly, and stabbed towards the center of the dragon-like southern army's horizontal formation like a sharp knife.

As if they couldn't resist it, the officers and men of the Southern Army standing in the center of the long formation retreated one after another. The Yan soldiers are like the sharp waves at the head of the tide, charging forward bravely; Sheng Yong and Guo Ying led their subordinates to reluctantly fight each other, and gradually retreated, and soon the long formation of the southern army turned into an obvious funnel shape. Shen Ruoyu suddenly realized, seeing that King Yan had been deceived, he couldn't help but be a little surprised, and the general turned out to be not as useless as he imagined. He watched nervously as the tide of battle quickly changed. The Yan army continued to advance, unaware that it had gone deep alone and fallen into the pocket of the southern army.

Li Jinglong waved the flag, and the soldiers of the Southern Army, who had been in a long formation on both flanks in the distance, had been angry for a long time, and finally waited for the general's instructions, and immediately outflanked them from the periphery to the center, and quickly approached; Qu Neng and Ping'an took the lead, and instantly broke through the rear army of the Yan army behind Duoyan Sanwei, and in the blink of an eye, they formed a huge ring formation, firmly encircling the Yan army's forward, the Chinese army, and Yan Wang himself.

The 600,000-strong army surrounded the Yan army, which was less than half of its own, and had an obvious advantage. On the periphery, the rear army of the Yan army, which had been dispersed, was like ants on a hot pot, panicked and chaotic, desperately trying to break through the encirclement and rescue their own commander, but they couldn't enter the encirclement for half a step, but they were constantly crushed and eaten away by the southern army on the periphery.

The Yan army, which was trapped in the heavy encirclement, was calmer than the comrades on the periphery, and tried their best to move closer to the king of Yan, wanting to protect the king of Yan from breaking through. The arrows of the Southern army rained down on the center of the siege; Zhu Di, the king of Yan, struggled to push away the human shields crowded around him, raised his arms and shouted something, while swinging his sword and cutting down the two Southern soldiers who surrounded him, like a brave and invincible forward warrior, leading his subordinates to clash and fight in the encirclement.

King Yan is indeed very shrewd; Since the Son of Heaven has an order, he must not hurt the four emperor uncles and let me bear the charge of killing my uncle, from top to bottom, no one in the southern army dares to do anything to King Yan; The soldiers of the Southern Army who rushed in front of King Yan couldn't dodge, so they could only be damaged under King Yan's sword, and they didn't even dare to defend themselves. Seeing this, Guo Ying and Sheng Yong immediately commanded the crowd to release arrows more intensively, and the rain of arrows frantically poured on the heads of the Yan army that was in retreat, as if a hurricane swept by, and countless soldiers fell one after another.

Shen Ruoyu couldn't hold it back, and finally said:

"General, this is likely to hurt King Yan! The emperor will blame you and me! ”

Li Jinglong is obviously worried; He immediately raised the flag and ordered the army to stop firing arrows.

Fierce battles are still ongoing; Qu Neng and Ping'an had already rushed into the encirclement, killing the Yan army that was difficult to fly, invincible, as if entering a no-man's land. Wu Jie, who was on the periphery, got Li Jinglong's instructions and ordered his subordinates to fire artillery at the dense place of the Yan army.

Shen Ruoyu only felt extremely anxious, but he didn't dare to show it in front of the general, he suffered for a long time, and finally couldn't hold back anymore, and said:

"General, do you know what I'm thinking right now?"

Li Jinglong was not stupid, looked at his expression, and said, "What adults are most worried about is the safety of King Yan, right?" ”

Shen Ruoyu said: "If I go and snatch King Yan out alone, the anti-king will become our prisoner and hostage, and the remaining Yan army will be captured obediently, then the rebels will be peaceful in an instant, and King Yan will not worry about his life." What does the general think? ”

Li Jinglong looked at him, just like a few months ago in Zhengcunba, when he heard Shen Ruoliao ask Ying to go out alone to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, the general's face was exactly the same.

He said with a smile: "Lord Shen, this is not as good as you dealing with those hundreds of government soldiers outside Jinan City. One man and one horse, the head of the * general in a million army, has also been a myth since ancient times, not to mention that you are going to capture the anti-king alive? Jing Long dared not invite the adults and Gao to go back to the camp together, it was already too risky. ”

Shen Ruoyu couldn't wait for him to finish; Whether the general agrees or not, it doesn't matter to him. He wasn't worried that Zhu Yunwen would punish him anyway, he just didn't want to leave anything behind him. He laughed and said:

"Don't worry, I've got the numbers myself. Zhong Kexi, you guys stay where you are. ”

As he spoke, he had already jumped out, galloped down the high slope, and in an instant left the command platform far behind.

Zhong Kexi and the ten cavalrymen watched in amazement as Shen Ruoyu rushed towards the melee army of millions, like impatient rabbits, jumping out of reach in the blink of an eye, and quickly shrunk into a small dot under the field of vision.

The southern army was dense layer by layer, and the encirclement became tighter and tighter, and the Yan army in the heavy encirclement was rapidly shrinking and digesting. Qu Neng and Ping'an were particularly fierce, everywhere they went, it was like a hurricane sweeping the ground, only to see the flesh and blood heads bursting out with the yellow sand and gravel, the roar of the southern army and the screams and wails of the Yan army were mixed together chaotically, and the middle was still clearly distinguishable The hoarse shouts and orders of Zhu Di, the king of Yan. The two sides in the chaos were already dazed, completely indistinguishable between east and west, north and south, and instinctively swung their knives and slashed when they saw the color of each other's armor. The bloody general Qu Neng seems to be particularly so, the war horse under his crotch, the battle armor on his body, and the steel helmet on his head are no longer visible in their original appearance, I don't know how many layers of blood and dust are soaked, and the steel lance in his hand has always been sweeping in all directions and crashing into the Yan army beside him.

Shen Ruoliao had already rushed into a messy battlefield, and soon ran to a place only a hundred steps away from the center, suddenly taken aback, subconsciously reined in the horse, and was so startled that the second-rate son under the crotch hissed and jumped up irritably: Qu Neng's long lance penetrated the two Yan horses, and dragged the two strong and brave Duoyan Fan horsemen off the horse like sugar gourds, and smashed head-on on the Yan Jun who pounced on the side; Unexpectedly, the two dead horsemen came up behind King Yan himself, turned the horse's head sideways, and stabbed Qu Neng in the chest with his sword; Qu Neng, who killed the red-eyed, didn't look at who it was, and swept away the Flying Sun Sword horizontally, with infinite power, which shocked Zhu Di and almost fell off the horse. Li Jinglong, who was on the hillside, was shocked and stood up from his horse; The nearby Nanjun and Yan Jun were also collectively stupefied, and watched Qu Neng's lance blade swoop like a hungry tiger pounced, roaring and sprinting towards the unbalanced Yan King on horseback.

Zhu Di sat unsteadily, the reins in his hands were difficult to borrow, hearing the sound of the wind from the long lance, he knew that something was wrong, and immediately instinctively let go, kicked his calf, and the whole person took advantage of the situation and planted the onion on the ground, instantly avoiding Qu Neng's attack, but the calf had been sent to the tip of the lance, and he couldn't escape it anyway. At this point, he didn't have time to think about it, and unconsciously glad that he just hurt his leg, which was better than letting Qu Neng stab his heart cold. With a twist in his heart, he raised his arms to the ground so as not to break his neck.

However, to his surprise, he fell to the ground without feeling any pain in his leg. He got up quickly, unscathed from head to toe, and there was nothing out of the ordinary. On the contrary, Qu Neng, who stood in front of him immediately, his eyes widened in horror, his face was like ashes, and the long lance in his hand that was like a tiger just now was lying on the ground like a dead corpse, standing upright with a bright red arrow, and the arrow was deeply embedded in the steel at the tip of the lance.

Shen Ruoyu, who was far away, put down his arm, and the longbow fell to the ground. He only felt paralyzed, his eyes were full of stars, he leaned down, and lay weakly on the neck of the second-rate son. Almost; Just the slightest bit of it, Qu Neng's lance, which doesn't have long eyes, will pierce King Yan's leg like wearing a mutton skewer. If he is a moment late, or a centimeter off, or a point weaker, he will watch King Yan destroy in front of him.

Zhu Di didn't make a sound, turned over and got on the horse; The soldiers around him were still in a daze; He shouted something, no one heard clearly, but like thunder, everyone was a spirit, woke up, and the chaotic battle continued earth-shatteringly; In surprise, Qu Neng's war horse under his crotch was cut off by the Yan army, he planted his head, hurriedly got up and picked up the lance, split the Yan soldiers who came up on both sides, and continued to fight.

Li Jinglong stood still, and he hadn't come back to his senses for a while; Shen Ruoyu was in the army, and saw that Zhu Di continued to calmly command Qiu Fu to lead the army to attack the backbone of the Southern Army and break through. At this time, the general Qiu Fu also looked small and powerless in the face of the enemy who rushed towards him like a flood in the mountains; The encirclement of the southern army became tighter and tighter, denser and denser, and more and more impregnable, and the Yan army in the encirclement could only rely on the sword and shrink sharply. At this time, even the brave Duoyan Sanwei was in a mess, and when he hit the tip of the Southern Army's spear, he even forgot how to fight the enemy, but instinctively swung his knife and slashed in panic, and was soon easily cut down by the angry and passionate Southern Army soldiers.

In this situation, even Yan Wang Zhu Di gradually couldn't hold it back, and finally couldn't pretend to be calm anymore, and shouted with his arms:

"Don't panic, everyone! When the troops were dispatched today, Mr. Jin Zhong had a prophecy that before sunset, the enemy would be defeated! - Before sunset, the enemy will be broken - those who retreat will be killed-"

However, none of this has worked; In the powerful encirclement of the Southern Army, retreating is dead, advancing is also dead, and standing still is even more certain death. Countless Yan troops fell one after another, flesh and blood flew everywhere, and those who were still alive could only flee in all directions in horror, no longer taking King Yan's words to heart, and even everyone couldn't hear King Yan's shouts at all. The soldiers of the Yan army fled to avoid death, broke down to get rid of the heavy persecution, and atrophied against atrophy.

Zhu Di, the king of Yan, had no choice but to continue to take a few main generals to take the lead and kill the enemy bravely. Shen Ruoyu was still anxious to save King Yan just now, at this moment, in the midst of the red-eyed southern army, he knew very well that even if he rushed to King Yan's side, it would be impossible to break out with the prince, and he was in a dilemma for a while.

The billowing dust and blood of the melee obscured the day, making it impossible to tell whether it was morning or dusk. The facts have long since passed in Japan and China. The Yan soldiers were sleepy and tired, and they were tired to death; The victory of the southern army is in sight, this time it is determined to annihilate the Yan army, from the morning to now, the water and rice have not entered, and the morale is only getting higher and higher, and they do not realize that the day is coming to an end.

The defeated Yan army continued to resist passively; However, the tenacious Yan King Zhu Di will never give up until he dies; The mount under the crotch was already exhausted, and he couldn't help but say that he changed into Xue Liu's horse next to him, with a longbow in hand, and with a world-famous good archery, he shot down the southern army that swarmed up. Soon the arrows ran out, Zhu Di put away his longbow, waved his golden lance, braved the flying rocks and arrows, and rushed to the left flank of the southern army first; Seeing that the soldiers of the southern army rushed to the king of Yan, they did not dare to kill the king of Yan, but no one retreated to avoid it, and saw that many people fell under the lance of the king of Yan, and the soldiers behind were like someone commanding, and they pointed the spear and spear at the king of Yan's horse; Zhu Di struggled to wield the lance, stirring up a piece of brains, and his head flew sideways, but he couldn't move forward half a step, but was slowly forced to retreat by the southern army, seeing that the left side was as solid as a rock, he finally withdrew the lance, turned the horse's head and rushed away.

Shen Ruoyu had been following King Yan's tracks, but he didn't dare to approach, and he was always only watching at a distance of half a hundred steps. He saw King Yan fighting everywhere, the mounts under his crotch had been changed three times, and his whole body was covered in blood and yellow sand, except for a long black hair on his chest, he couldn't see any difference from ordinary cavalry soldiers.

In other words, seeing that their army had basically disappeared at this time, and the southern army was still rushing to pounce like an ant colony, the general trend was inevitable, the defeat was decided, and they might have dismounted and surrendered a long time ago. Shen Ruoliao had already made up his mind, at the end of this battle, no one dared to hurt King Yan, he must have tied him up and escorted him back to the camp, waiting to be escorted back to Jingshi. He can wait until he returns to the camp, find an opportunity to rescue King Yan, and then escape with King Yan, which is much safer than robbing King Yan in a million army on the battlefield now.

However, in any case, King Yan was defeated, and there was no possibility of maneuvering after that, and how much responsibility did he bear in it; Perhaps, he can only send the prince to a distant and safe place, and never return to the Central Plains, and then he can apologize to the prince and all the Yan soldiers he has friends with a death. That's all there is to it.

At this time, the encirclement of the powerful southern army was getting smaller and smaller, and gradually forced King Yan to the Baigou River, and he was still forced to continue to retreat, and he retreated to the embankment on the river bank, and there was no way to retreat.

"The anti-king dismounts and surrenders! Seeing this, the soldiers of the Southern Army shouted in unison, and the shouts of 600,000 people shook the entire riverbed, and the faces of all the soldiers of the Yan Army who were still alive changed color in unison, and everyone instinctively squeezed towards King Yan's side, shrinking into a ball of despair.

The armies of both sides, whether victorious or alive, all hope is gathered on this one man.

Tremble in the balance; Seeing that he was cornered, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, suddenly jumped to the highest part of the embankment, turned back, raised his horsewhip, and waved at the opposite side of the riverbank.

There was a sudden moment of silence in the chaotic battlefield. All hundreds of thousands of people, whether they were the Southern Army or the Yan Army, were a little dazed for a moment when they saw King Yan acting like this.

Including Shen Ruoxiao, he was also confused by Zhu Di: More than 300,000 people of the Yan army have all crossed the river, whether they are dead or alive at this moment, they should all be here, could it be that King Yan still has reinforcements?

The officers and men of the Confederate army involuntarily stopped, and then, without any instructions, withdrew a little later; Everyone thought of the same possibility.

On the high ground in the distance, Li Jinglong was in a hurry; He could see clearly that there was nothing on the other side of the river, and Zhu Di was just at the end of the road, old and cunning, so he was just making a fool of himself. He waved his hand desperately and shouted, while waving the flag to let the southern army continue to surround it, victory is in sight, don't fall for the tricks against the king.

When the soldiers of the Southern Army saw the general's flag, they were furious, and they were about to charge the river embankment again, but Zhu Di suddenly shouted:

"Reinforcements are coming! Brothers, cheer up, our reinforcements are coming! Everyone—"

A cloud of dust had risen high in the distance, and the ground under his feet trembled slightly, and it was clear that cavalry was rushing towards it. Everyone felt it. The soldiers of the Southern Army looked at each other, not knowing for a moment which one was lying, King Yan and the general. Zhu Di had already led the only remaining Yan army that had regained hope to rush down the embankment and re-encircled the southern army.

Soon, a cavalry of more than 10,000 people appeared in the field of vision, rushed to the front in an instant, and entered the battlefield; The general led by Zhu Gaoxu was Zhu Gaoxu, shouting all the way to his father and king Mo Shock, and rushed to Zhu Di's side like thunder.

Zhu Di was overjoyed when he saw the reinforcements falling from the sky, and exclaimed:

"Cool?! What are you doing here?? ”

Zhu Gaoxu said: "The more than 10,000 cavalry newly recruited by Master Daoyan have been trained and formed, and I am worried that my father will not have enough manpower, so he sent me to come from Beiping Starry Night to reinforce. Father don't worry, there are children here, and Li Jinglong will be killed today! ”

More than 10,000 energetic and angry Yan cavalry suddenly joined the battle, although the strength was still too weak for the 600,000 Southern Army, but it seemed to immediately reassure the defeated Yan Army. The new 10,000 cavalry were even more invincible, like a naturally more intact Duoyan Sanwei. On the side of the southern army, the soldiers mistakenly thought that they had been deceived by the general, and the fierce impact of the reinforcements made the army's heart turbulent, and they couldn't resist it for a while, so they scattered outward.

The situation has taken a slight turn; Zhu Di was still calm and said to Zhu Gaoxu:

"Don't talk big and boring; We have already lost 50,000 people in one day yesterday, and today it is estimated that we have lost more than 100,000 people, plus your 10,000, and now there are only 150,000 people, how can we defeat Li Jinglong's 600,000? It's still about saving your life. The coming day is long; We took everyone out of the encirclement, went back to Beiping to rest and recuperate, and talked about going south later. ”

Zhu Gaoxu patted his chest: "Father, don't worry!" Father just follow me, and the child will break through for you! ”

Zhu Di said: "Listen to me; If I make a feint from the front, the enemy will inevitably assemble against me; You see the right moment, flank from the side, and I withdraw my troops and raid the rear, so that we can get out. As soon as I go out, you immediately break through by yourself, leave me alone, let's meet in Tongzhou. ”

Zhu Gaoxu was a little surprised: "Father ......"

"What's the wordy?" Zhu Di twisted his eyebrows: "Don't go yet!" ”

"Yes!" Zhu Gaoxu roared, rode his horse and raised his flag, and gathered his troops.

Zhu Di stared silently at his son's back for a moment, then turned back to Xue Liudao, who had been following behind:

"Raise the flag, charge!"