Volume 3 Thousands of Miles of Rivers and Mountains 155 A fierce battle of life and death
After being silent for a long time, Zheng Xin finally said hatefully: "Qiu Yizhi, don't be complacent, but open your eyes and see who this is?" ”
Qiu Yizhi was short-sighted, and when he heard Zheng Xin's words, he only saw a person escorted out of the opposite array, this person's face was confused, and he was wearing black clothes, which made it even more difficult to see this person's face, so he asked left and right: "Who is this person?" Do you recognize? ”
The left and right sides shook their heads and said, "I don't know", "I can't see clearly", "I don't recognize".
Wei Chi Jiming, who was personally guarding Qiu Yizhi, said: "I know this person, it's the one named Zhao Fuyi, the uncle of the little uncle, right?" ”
When Qiu Yizhi heard the news, he panicked, and then calmed down - Zhao Fuyi had lived in Jinling for a long time and did not cross the river north with him, so it was not strange that he was arrested by Zheng Xin.
But I heard Zheng Xin on the other side shouting again: "The saint has three outlines and five constants. Qiu Yizhi's fabrication of will and usurpation of the position of the prison country is already unjust, if you still have some filial piety in your heart, you should not quickly surrender and save your mother's uncle's life! ”
When Qiu Yizhi heard this, he suddenly realized that Zheng Xin had arrested Zhao Fuyi to threaten him. It's a pity that Zheng Xin is not very well-informed, and he has not found out that he has always had a grudge against Zhao Fuyi's uncle, but he is not too close. For Qiu Yizhi, it is naturally good for Zhao Fuyi to be alive, but it is actually not a big deal to die......
Zheng Xin was a little silent when he saw one of Qiu Yi, and he was talking to people on both sides, thinking that he was quite jealous of Zhao Fuyi's life, so he continued to shout: "Qiu Yizhi, I think that you have a lot of credit by the side of Emperor Daxing, if you are willing to restrain the horse from the precipice and abandon the darkness and turn to the light, I can not only not blame the past, but also give you an official job, how about it?" ”
Qiu Yizhi looked up to the sky and laughed: "Zheng Xin, since you intend to do evil, then do evil to the end, why do you pretend to say these words?" If you have a kind, you will kill Zhao Fuyi, so that the soldiers of the two armies can see your courage! ”
Zheng Xin thought that Qiu Yizhi might not be able to see his uncle Zhao Fuyi's face, so he would be free from war and rest the army, which would somewhat disturb his mind and leak out. Unexpectedly, Qiu Yi's heart was like iron and stone, and he couldn't splash water or knife in, and he didn't panic at all.
So Zheng Xin laughed and said: "Okay, you Qiu Yizhi, seeing that your loved ones are about to be killed, you are unmoved, and you are really a thief who does not recognize your six relatives and has a heart like iron!" ”
He intended to provoke Qiu Yizhi, but unexpectedly Qiu Yizhi did not answer, but shouted loudly: "Escort the rebellious traitor Zheng Chao to me!" ”
Zheng Chao is Zheng Xin's eldest son, and his courage and talent are quite impressive, although he has not yet been canonized as a son after adulthood, he is the most suitable heir in Zheng Xin's mind.
Therefore, when Zheng Xin saw Zheng Chao being escorted to the front of the two armies with five flowers, he was indescribably anxious and distressed, but he could only try to put on a calm appearance, but he didn't recognize his very valued son.
Qiu Yizhi was unrelenting, and asked loudly: "Zheng Xin, this person, I'm afraid you won't know him, right?" ”
He saw that Zheng Xin was silent, and this indifference was obviously disguised, so he said loudly: "Hmph, you Zheng Xin still has the face to say that I 'don't recognize my six relatives, and my heart is like a stone'." You are full of self-interest, full of desire for undivided blessings, and you can't even recognize your own son! ”
Since it has been broken by Qiu Yizhi, Zheng Xin can no longer pretend to be deaf and dumb, so he replied: "Qiu Yizhi, what are you doing with my son?" You and I have public enmity and personal grudges, so naturally we can compete one-on-one with open swords and guns, so why bother with our children and grandchildren? ”
Qiu Yizhi sneered again: "You say this high-soundingly, but I don't know who first arrested my relatives and sent them to the front to blackmail me?" ”
Qiu Yi's sharp teeth are famous, Zheng Xin worshiped one of Qiu Yi more than ten years ago and studied under the dead Prime Minister Zhong Li Kuangmen. At that time, Zheng Xin often debated classics with Qiu Yizhi, although his eloquence was not bad, but he never argued with this righteous brother who was more than ten years younger than himself.
Time has passed, and now that the two brothers met before the battlefield of life and death, Zheng Xin once again fell behind in the verbal battle with Qiu Yizhi, and was speechless by him.
Seeing that Zheng Xin was speechless, Qiu Yizhi raised a smug smile on the corner of his mouth, and said loudly: "You just said that there is a public enmity and personal grudge between you and me, let me tell you, what you said is wrong, and it is very wrong!" There is no personal enmity between me and you, only public indignation! ”
"If there is any public outrage, you can tell me about it!" Zheng Xin held back for a long time before he could hold back this half sentence.
Qiu Yizhi sneered again: "You killed the king and killed the teacher, and you did all the evil things that lost your conscience." I have already written a message about these things to the world. Now it's the yellow-mouthed child and the white-headed old man, and they all know your evil deeds, these things, you have the face to do them, and I don't have the face to say it in front of this army of hundreds of thousands! ”
He paused for a moment, and then said: "I will take Zheng Chao down, and this is the same reason." He is your firstborn, and how effective are the sins you have done. Killing the king is the sin of great rebellion, the first of the ten evils, and the sin is unforgivable. Come on! Give him Zheng Chao to correct the Fa on the spot, so as to save him from the suffering of Ling Chi, which can be regarded as God's benevolence! ”
Zheng Xin hadn't answered yet, but the emperor Zheng Qi on the side was panicked - Zheng Chao was his only biological brother after all!
I saw that Zheng Qi, who was the emperor, could no longer care about the majesty of the Son of Heaven, and on top of the imperial chariot, Chao Qiuyizhi took a deep look and said almost pleadingly: "Uncle, please, spare my brother's life!" Please! ”
Qiu Yizhi didn't give the emperor face, and said very bluntly: "Your Majesty, the big war is about to break out, so don't stay here anymore, please go back to the battle first." ”
As soon as he finished speaking, the soldiers who escorted the emperor dragged the emperor's imperial chariot back, followed by the roar of war drums from the array, and then an extremely burly general standing on Zheng Chao's side pulled out a three-foot-long sword in his hand, and slashed at the back of Zheng Chao's neck with a loud shout.
Zheng Xin's love for his son was finally shown at this moment, and he shouted: "Slow! ”
As soon as he spoke, he saw a red light flash, Zheng Chao's head left the body that had been attached for more than ten years in blood, and he rolled on the ground with a "grunt", and the carcass that had lost its head finally collapsed weakly, and blood gushed out from the wound on his broken neck.
Zheng Xin was accustomed to seeing bloody scenes, and he could see that his son died in front of him, so he was finally shocked, and shouted left and right: "Give me ten thousand arrows to shoot this villain of Qiu Yizhi!" ”
Obeying the order left and right, he immediately opened his bow and arrows, and fired it like a storm on Qiu Yi's head.
The guards on both sides of Qiu Yi hurriedly supported the huge square steel shield that was the signature of the "Dangya Battalion", blocking the arrows that had almost reached the limit of their range one by one. Qiu Yizhi was taken aback by this sudden arrow attack, and immediately ordered his archers to shoot back.
In this way, a big battle that decided the ownership of the world broke out in the bickering of the coaches of both sides.
Because the armies on both sides were born from the old Youyandao army, when the army was established, they both attached great importance to the cooperation of various arms, and also paid attention to the thick shield and strong bow. Therefore, the two sides shot at each other for a while, but they were evenly matched, and Zheng Xin's side only relied on the numerical advantage to cause a few more casualties than the opponent.
If he continued to shoot arrows at each other like this, Zheng Xin could naturally wipe out the opponent slowly with several times more troops, but no matter how he said it, he was fighting away, and the arrows transported across the river were limited, so he could not continue to consume.
So Zheng Xin followed the strategy he had formulated before, and divided the whole army into four teams, each with more than 50,000 people. Among them, the first team continued to contend with Qiuyi's headquarters in the front; The other two teams pushed forward steadily, attacking the opponent's left and right flanks; The remaining team of men and horses served as a reserve to protect Zheng Xin's safety and prepare to launch a final attack or deal with the Bohai Iron Cavalry that had not yet appeared on the battlefield.
This method of warfare is extremely safe, and what is pursued is to rely on the superiority of troops, surround the troops of Qiu Yi, and then slowly devour and disintegrate. All of a sudden, the war drums of Zheng Xin's army rang out in unison, and the sound of killing shook the sky, and the three teams of men and horses were like three tall and thick iron walls, crushing over from three directions to Qiuyi's place.
Zheng Xin's move, Qiu Yizhi had already considered it when he was studying the combat strategy with Lin Shuhan, Zhao Chengxiao and others, but he didn't expect Zheng Xin to have such a momentum when he used it, which made him a little flustered, and hurriedly ordered his 80,000 horses to be divided into two teams, led by himself and Zhao Chengxiao, respectively, to fight against the enemy forces crushed by the left and right.
As for the enemy army in front, Qiu Yizhi was ingenious, sending people to push the emperor's imperial chariot, canopy and a full set of honor guards in front of the two armies, and only sent more than 1,000 people to guard the left and right.
You must know that Zheng Xin only has two sons in total, the eldest son Zheng Chao has been killed on the spot by Qiu Yizhi before, and now only this second son Zheng Qi, who has become the emperor, is left. If Zheng Qi dies again, then Zheng Xin will have no heirs under his knees, and he may not be able to give birth to a son in the future.
Therefore, Zheng Xin saw the emperor's umbrella cover appear in the direction of his attack from a distance, so he hurriedly ordered the frontal army to slow down the attack, so as not to hurt Zheng Qi's life. He immediately sent people to investigate the situation around Zheng Qi, and wanted to send strange soldiers to save the emperor's son. But the reward received was that the emperor had a few personal guards around him who seemed to be vicious, not so much escorting, but monitoring the emperor, once the emperor had the possibility of falling into the hands of the enemy, they might immediately kill the emperor.
Zheng Xin had seen Qiu Yizhi's previous cool methods, and knew that when he couldn't hold the emperor in his hands, he would not hesitate to kill the emperor.
Thinking of this, Zheng Xin secretly cursed in his heart, and immediately sent an order to stop the frontal offensive, and reduce the number of frontal troops to 30,000, and the reduced men and horses were replenished to the left and right flanks, and continued to squeeze towards Qiuyi.
Such a change of formation made Qiu Yizhi besiege from the north to be attacked from two sides, although he was still at a disadvantage, but the pressure was reduced a lot, and he could stabilize the situation and prepare for the next move.
So Qiu Yizhi sent someone to Zhao Chengxiao to give him an order, asking him to stabilize the front and not let the enemy break through behind him. He himself sent a crack squad of more than 1,000 men that had been prepared to rush forward to the enemy's front.
This hand is a strategy that Qiu Yizhi is familiar with, and when he has been fighting with the enemy many times and is in a state of anxiety, he sent a team composed of bandits' own soldiers and village warrior regiments to use the tactics of breaking through the center to disrupt the opponent's formation, so as to win in the chaos and turn the tide of the battle in one fell swoop.