"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince asks to see you."

As soon as King Liang and Sun Xiu had discussed it, they heard someone outside come in to report it, and Sun Xiu gave him a reassuring look and motioned for King Liang to do as he was told.

King Liang steadied his mind, looked at Sun Xiuyuan's back, and then shouted loudly: "Let His Royal Highness the Crown Prince come in!" ”

"Xizu has seen his uncle!" After all, King Liang is his elder, and before he catches the other party's handle, Sima Shu has to salute the other party even if he is dissatisfied.

"Xizu, don't be polite, is there something wrong with His Royal Highness coming to this king so late?" King Liang stared at Sima Shu and asked.

"Uncle, I just heard that General Zhou led the army to the enemy's camp and has not returned yet, why didn't Uncle send troops to rescue?" As the saying goes, saving people is like fighting fire, Sima Shu didn't talk nonsense, and directly showed his intentions.

"This ...... This is mainly because the widow could not figure out the situation of the enemy army, and rashly sent troops to rescue him at night, fearing that the enemy army would be ambushed. Therefore, the widow plans to wait until after dawn to send troops to the rescue! Sima Tong's face was righteous and awe-inspiring, and he said it in a high-sounding manner, as if he was righteous.

"Yes...... However, I'm afraid that Lord Zhou won't be able to hold out for long, and if we send our troops late, won't we be trapping General Zhou in a desperate situation? After listening to Sima Tong's nonsense, Sima Shu really wanted to destroy the other party with one shot, but in order to save General Zhou's life, he had to endure it for the time being.

"Eh, the prince is serious, with the courage of General Zhou, let alone persist until dawn tomorrow, even if you persist for another three or five days, there will be no problems. The prince can rest assured that when the day comes, my 60,000-strong army will attack the enemy's camp at the same time, and we will be able to defeat the thieves by joining forces with General Zhou. Why risk the night now? No matter how Sima Shu fought for it, King Liang always refused to send troops to the rescue.

Faced with the obstinate King of Liang, Sima Shu had nothing to do. At present, King Liang is the commander of an army of 50,000, and without his orders, Sima Shu does not want to mobilize a single soldier. In the end, Sima Shu gritted his teeth and said fiercely: "Since King Liang refuses to send troops, then Gu will take his troops and horses to go, but when it is dawn, King Liang must send troops to meet us." ”

"Hmm...... Well, since the prince was so insistent, the widow agreed. The widow then ordered: order the prince to lead the soldiers of his headquarters to reinforce General Zhou! When King Liang saw that the prince was willing to lead the troops to rescue Zhou alone, he remembered Sun Xiu's instructions, and immediately agreed, and couldn't wait to write a military order.

"Damn! It turned out that he was waiting for me here, this is to let Lao Tzu die! You wait, wait for Lao Tzu to come back and clean up your old horseman! Sima Shu secretly discussed King Liang while taking over the military order and preparing to send troops to rescue Zhou.

When Sima Shu returned to his big tent, he saw that Zu Ti, Sima Ya, Jiang Tong and others were there, obviously they were all waiting for news. When Zu Ti saw the prince returning, he hurriedly asked, "How is Your Highness?" Did King Liang agree to send troops? ”

"nnd, sooner or later, the palace will pick the skin of the old horseman, and the king of Liang agreed to send troops, but he only allowed the palace to lead the troops and horses of the headquarters, and he himself still did not move, saying that the time was not ripe, and he was deliberately trying to kill General Zhou."

"What! How can King Liang regard national affairs as child's play? His Royal Highness's command was full of no more than 9,000 soldiers and horses, and the enemy's cavalry alone was as many as 50,000, plus the outcasts, the rebel army had more than 100,000 troops. If we can't send a large army, how can we do it with our little force? Jiang Tong was furious when he heard this, he was very angry at King Liang's private abolition, if it wasn't for everyone to stop him, he really dared to scold King Liang in front of him.

"It's too late to say anything now, we must not wait until dawn to send troops, and with the old general's small strength, it will never be possible to support it until dawn. So the palace should set off immediately, now you hurry up and prepare, and the army will start immediately in a quarter of an hour~! ”

"Yes!"

Soon the whole camp was lively, and some unreasonable people stopped to watch, and saw the prince leading an army of 10,000 to leave the camp and head northwest. There are those who have good deeds, and they can't help but talk about it.

"What is the prince doing here?"

"You don't know? The crown prince was sent by King Liang to save General Zhou! ”

"What? This, isn't this for the prince to be sent to death? ”

"Hey! You're going to die! You dare to say that! ”

Sure enough, justice is at ease in the hearts of the people, and those middle- and lower-level officers have been moved by the prince's righteous deeds, if it weren't for the pressure of the upper-level officers, maybe they would have followed the prince a long time ago. Perhaps Sima Shu didn't expect that his momentary move would inexplicably win the hearts of most middle and low-level officers.

The movements on the side of the Jin army were quickly known by the rebels' scouts, and Qi Wannian did not panic after learning that there were 10,000 Jin troops coming towards him. He has 100,000 troops under his command, and he doesn't take the Jin army in his eyes at all, as long as the main force of King Liang does not move, Qi Wannian is sure to block the Jin army outside.

"Come on, go and invite General Hao Duyuan!" Not long after, Hao Duyuan, who was commanding the battle in front, hurried over, took the document and looked at it, it turned out that the Jin army reinforcements had arrived.

"What are your Majesty's plans?"

"I plan to send 30,000 cavalry to raid those reinforcements, anyway, the surrounding area has become a turtle in an urn, if we can take the opportunity to destroy another 10,000 Jin troops, then the strength advantage between us and the Jin army will be expanded. Moreover, it is said that Meng Guanzheng, the general of the crossbow, is coming with 10,000 Su guards, and before he arrives, we must destroy the Jin army as much as possible. ”

"Your Majesty, can you find out who is coming?"

"Hehe, I think it's funny when I say it, it is said that it is the prince's pro-army. And this group of Jin soldiers is still trained by the prince himself, you say it's funny or not, how much ability can a hairy boy have, and he can't train any elite soldiers. This time, I plan to let you lead 30,000 cavalry to capture that Sima Shu and me. ”

"Yes! Commanded! Sima Shu must be captured and dedicated to His Majesty, if we can catch the crown prince of the Jin Kingdom, maybe we can negotiate to demand that the Jin army withdraw from Guanzhong. ”

"Hahaha, yes, that's it, there you go! May the general be successful! ”

Sima Shu was on a horse, and his heart was very nervous, this was the first time he commanded a large army to fight, so he was very careful. Almost step by step, for fear of being ambushed by the enemy.

"Report!" With a loud shout, a herald came to him on horseback, "Your Highness, 30,000 rebel cavalry are rushing towards our army!" A meeting with our troops is expected in a quarter of an hour. ”

"Order, line up to meet the enemy!"

With Sima Shu's shout, the army suddenly stopped advancing and began to line up to meet the enemy under the command of the officers in accordance with the requirements of the usual training. In front were 3,000 musketeers, behind were 2,000 longbowmen, and 1,000 Mo swordsmen and 1,000 dragoons stayed in the rear as reserves, ready to surprise the enemy at any time.

The remaining 2,000 sword and shield soldiers were divided into the left and right flanks to prevent the enemy from attacking the musketeer positions from the flanks. The front of the whole position was dissatisfied with the repulsion of the cavalry, and the baggage soldiers and men began to dig trenches, which were even covered with wooden thorns.

Three thousand musketeers lined up in three rows, with a gap of half a meter between each person on the left and right, and a meter between the front and rear, and in an instant a fairly wide frontal defensive formation was completed.

As soon as Sima Shu's side was ready, the Hu cavalry led by Hao Duyuan arrived. Although Hao Duyuan was a little strange about the equipment of the Jin army, he didn't pay attention to it, in his opinion, just this Jin army in front of him, as long as the Hu cavalry under his command could scatter the opponent's formation with a charge.

"Brothers! Come on! Whoever catches Sima Shu will be rewarded with ten thousand dollars, and the official will be promoted to three levels, kill! Hao Duyuan waved his sword, and the cavalry under his command rushed towards the Jin army like a tide. There was a shout of killing on the battlefield!

"Rush! Kill! ”

"Catch the prince!"

Looking at the surging rebels, Sima Shuqiang pressed down the uneasiness in his heart, and issued a battle order in an orderly manner, and soon the three rows of musketeers and longbowmen were all ready to shoot, and the Hu cavalry first entered the range of the longbow. The English longbow copied by Sima Shu's craftsmen had a range of about 250 meters, while a single smoothbore flintlock pistol had a deterrent effect only when it came within 100 meters.

"Shoot the arrows!" Two thousand longbowmen shot two thousand arrows in an instant, and Hao Duyuan didn't expect the archers of the Jin army to shoot so far, and when they were caught off guard, at least nearly a thousand people lost their combat effectiveness. Before Hao Duyuan came back to his senses, something even more terrifying happened.

According to the usual training, after the longbowman shoots the first bow arrow, the musketeer will also start firing, although the hit rate of a single flintlock musket is low, but in this intensive platoon gun fire, there is no need to think about the hit rate at all. For a while, there was a thunderous sound on the battlefield.

"Bang bang!"

"Bang bang!"

Because the Hu people and war horses had never experienced this kind of thing, they suddenly became restless, and the impact formation, which was originally neatly arranged, suddenly became loose, and from time to time some people were shot and fell, and many people were even more frightened, because they couldn't figure out what weapons the Jin army used.

The musketeers standing in the first row immediately crouched down and loaded their ammunition after firing, while the second row of musketeers continued to shoot, followed by the third row, which in turn formed a continuous rain of bullets and covered the Hu cavalry. Coupled with the longbowmen who carried out long-range strikes from time to time, the first wave of blows alone caused the Hu people to leave more than 10,000 corpses behind.

Hao Duyuan was not injured because he was hiding behind and commanding, but even so, he was frightened by the Jin army opposite. He only saw that the Jin army on the opposite side continued to have a thunderous sound, and there was black smoke, his cavalry could not break through the Jin army within 100 meters, and they lost one-third of the cavalry in just one round of impact, but they didn't touch a single hair of the Jin army!

This is too terrifying, the combat effectiveness of the Jin army is too strong!

Hao Duyuan completely lost confidence, and what he was thinking about now was not how to catch the prince of Jin, but how to get out of here. The combat effectiveness of the Jin army is really too unexpected! If he had known that the Jin army was so strong, he would not have instigated Hu to rebel if he said anything.

Not only Hao Duyuan was shocked, but even Zu Ti and Sima Ya couldn't believe that the musketeers had such a strong combat effectiveness, only 3,000 musketeers, which made tens of thousands of Hu cavalry helpless. No wonder the prince has always said that muskets are the direction of development of future army equipment.