Zheng Xinnai is the eldest brother, and it is natural that he is the head of the three, and after a little discussion with the other two, he gave three orders - one is to immediately send someone to report the battle situation here to his father Zheng Rong in Jinling City; the second is to join forces in one place, set up camp on the spot, first stabilize the situation, and prevent accidents; The third is to immediately get in touch with the defenders in Wenzhou City, wait for an opportunity to kill out of the city, and completely annihilate the Lingnan Army with internal and external cooperation.

Although there is nothing brilliant about these measures, they are also foolproof and safe, and Zheng Sen and Zhang Long have no reason to oppose them, so they deploy accordingly.

Needless to say, the first two items were extremely smooth. It turned out that the Lingnan Army suffered successive defeats, and it no longer had the will to fully control the situation on the battlefield, and only cared about ensuring that its large camp was not attacked, leaving a Wenzhou city without any monitoring and control.

The spies sent by Zheng Xin easily infiltrated the city, and after getting the news, they easily came out of the city; With Zheng Xin's warrant again, he easily sneaked into the city, agreed on the time, direction and scale of the general attack, and easily returned to the camp again.

In this way, the defeat of the Lingnan Army's Zheng Yu is already decided.

Zheng Yu himself smelled of defeat, did not sleep well all night, and the next day he gathered his army at dawn, wanting to move west to Quzhou according to the original plan.

Unexpectedly, the officers and soldiers got up earlier than them, and what they waited for was for the Lingnan Army to abandon the camp and have no evidence of guarding it, so that it could be completely annihilated in one go.

Zheng Yu saw the officers and soldiers waiting in front of him, and immediately panicked - he also understood that the officers and soldiers had guessed his movements and were about to intercept them in front, but he could not retreat back to the camp again and wait for death - he had fallen into a desperate dilemma.

Zheng Yu, who had no one to discuss with him, was in such a predicament, thinking only of being able to boost the morale of his soldiers, and then with his bravery, he broke through the defense line of the official army and killed him. Therefore, he took out all the gold and silver treasures that he had looted in Jiangnan and prepared to take to Lingnan in order to make a comeback, and distributed them to the soldiers of the whole army, and then waved the command flag and commanded the whole army to assault.

Unexpectedly, this move had the opposite effect, and each of those soldiers divided the treasure worth dozens of taels of silver, thinking only that they could survive this almost inevitable battle, so that they could enjoy the huge amount of money that had just arrived, and where did they still want to fight desperately.

The sergeants took a few symbolic steps forward, and then stopped, as if observing the movements of the enemy forces in front of them.

Zheng Xin, Zheng Sen and Zhang Long, who led the army in front, are also experienced in commanding the army, and what they were afraid of was that the enemy army would grab and bite indiscriminately under the predicament and lose the battle inexplicably, but now they saw that the Lingnan army was not moving forward, and they seemed very hesitant, and they did not have the slightest sharpness to survive.

Although they didn't know the reason, they only knew that such a great opportunity could not be easily let go, but they could not lightly attack the enemy, so they discussed letting Zheng Sen lead the elite cavalry to test it first--when it was done, the whole army attacked; No, it can also rely on the excellent mobility of the cavalry to quickly get out of the battle.

Since the death of General Cui Nan at the hands of Zheng Gui, the king of Lingnan, when it comes to the world's assault ability, there is no general in the world who can compare to Zheng Sen, the second prince. I saw that he was wearing heavy armor, and a war horse more than a foot taller than an ordinary horse on his crotch was also wearing heavy armor, holding a halberd, and he took the lead and rushed towards the Lingnan army.

Behind him were cavalry from the Youyan Road that had traveled thousands of miles south - these cavalrymen had been fighting on the northern steppes for a long time, and the confrontation with the Turks and other northern nomads never stopped for a day. Today they finally came to the Jiangnan Plain, there was no rival opponent in front of them, the smoke and dust raised by the horses' hooves rose behind them, and in front of them was the Lingnan army full of panic, following the commander Zheng Sen to charge forward.

Although the Lingnan army is also experienced in a hundred battles, but the opponents are those elusive Lingnan barbarians, who have never encountered such a group of heavy cavalry frontal charge, and have not yet met the enemy is cowardly, and for a while they can't even maintain the formation, they actually began to slowly retreat.

The slackness of this moment made the already superior combat effectiveness even more disparity, and the heavy cavalry led by Zheng Sen, like a huge wave, slammed into the Lingnan army, instantly shattering their defensive line. With the invincible aftermath of the first contact, Zheng Sen continued to advance, all the way to the core of the Lingnan Army's formation.

Zheng Xin, who was observing the movement ahead behind him, saw that his second brother had won the first battle, and his heart was both happy and sad - the joy was that the enemy army was beaten by Zheng Sen and had no power to fight back, and it didn't seem to be luring the enemy to go deeper; The worry is that if the Lingnan army is defeated by a small force of cavalry like Zheng Sen, it will be useless to rob itself.

So he didn't even discuss it with Zhang Long beside him, so he took it upon himself and gave an order - the whole army was divided into three teams and rushed to the enemy from the left, center and right directions; Then he sent an order to the defenders in Wenzhou City, asking them to leave the city immediately, intercept the back of the Lingnan Army, and strive to surround the entire Lingnan Army, and not let anyone escape.

Zheng Yu did not have any way to deal with it, he could only be beaten passively, and after only two hours of fighting, the dignified 50,000 Lingnan army had been surrounded by the imperial court's soldiers and horses, and was also divided into two sections by Zheng Sen's elite heavy cavalry, and the left and right could not take care of each other.

Zheng Xin, who was temporarily the commander-in-chief, saw that the overall situation had been decided, so he had the opportunity to sell favors in the market, and ordered more than 100 cavalrymen under his command to repeatedly gallop in front of the enemy army with the banner of their own name written on it.

While they galloped wildly, they also shouted loudly: "Those who surrender are not to blame, and those who resist are burned!" Those who surrender are not to blame for the past, and those who resist are burned! Those who surrender are not to blame for the past, and those who resist are burned! ”

After shouting two teas in a row, the morale of the Lingnan army finally collapsed, and gradually some soldiers gathered into a team of two or three hundred people, waving white flags and holding high weapons, and surrendered to the officers and soldiers.

Of course, the officers and soldiers would not embarrass them, and after disarming them, they were sent to the rear of the battle to be guarded by special personnel. When the other Lingnan soldiers saw that their comrades were being treated acceptably, they followed suit and surrendered.

In the blink of an eye, tens of thousands of Lingnan troops died and surrendered, and only a few thousand people were still holding steel swords in their hands, confronting the huge officers and troops, and their faces showed obvious expressions of panic and despair.

Zheng Xin, who had already won the victory, was proud in his heart, and rode around the remnants of the Lingnan Army on his horse, and suddenly saw that one of the enemy soldiers was neatly dressed and gorgeous, tall and fat, and looked extremely conspicuous among the defeated troops.

Although Zheng Xin had never seen Zheng Yu himself, he also learned from the battle reports collected from all sides that this Zheng Yu was a big fat man, and now there was no one in the Lingnan Army who was equally fat except for the person in front of him, so there must be no doubt that this person was Zheng Yu.

So Zheng Xin shouted loudly: "Hey! The person in front of him is Zheng Yu? Come out and talk to me! ”

When the big fat man Zheng Yu heard this shout, he was shocked and panicked, and he wanted to deny it at first, but when he thought about it, there were tens of thousands of people in this army, who didn't know him, the second son of the king of Lingnan? So he had to boldly say: "I'm Zheng Yu, I don't know what the eldest brother has to say?" ”

Zheng Xin and Zheng Yu are uncles and brothers, and if they are the closest relatives of the same generation in addition to their own brothers, it is not surprising that Zheng Yu calls Zheng Xin "big brother".

But these words sounded in Zheng Xin's ears, but they didn't taste - why do you call me a brother when you are a defeated soldier - so he sharply accused: "Which is your eldest brother?" Your eldest brother is Zheng Nuo, the eldest son of the King of Lingnan, who is now being imprisoned by the imperial court. If you want to see him, come with me, I can arrange it. ”

When Zheng Yu heard this, a chill ran on his body - he looked at the panicked thousands of men and horses under his command, surrounded by tens of thousands of troops in the imperial court, and he also knew that he had reached a situation where it was difficult to fly, and it was already an extremely luxurious thing to be able to save his life on the battlefield.

However, from the second son of the Lingnan King who was on the dominant side, to a prisoner of the first order, such a rapid fall in identity was also unacceptable to Zheng Yu, he gritted his teeth and said: "Okay." His Royal Highness the Great Prince said it beautifully. However, Zheng Yu is not a coward, and His Royal Highness wants to capture me as a prisoner, I'm afraid it won't be so easy! He suddenly remembered that there were thousands of soldiers beside him, and he shouted, "If you want to arrest me, first ask my brothers if they agree!" ”

Zheng Yu originally thought that if he asked such a question, his soldiers would inevitably shout in unison, "Don't agree!" ”。 But he didn't expect that the soldiers around him just looked at each other and exchanged heads, but none of them spoke loudly.

Zheng Yu couldn't help but feel a little cold, and looked up at Zheng Xin, but saw an obvious contemptuous expression on his face: "Zheng Yu, don't be bluffing, it's better to quickly disarm and surrender, and take the blame." If you still want to resist stubbornly, please look here! ”

As he spoke, Zheng Xin pointed behind him - I saw the direction of his finger, thousands of archers had already opened their bows and arrows, aiming straight at Zheng Yu, just waiting for Zheng Xin's words, he could shoot Zheng Yu into a fat hedgehog.

Seeing this, Zheng Yu sighed: "Alas! Success or defeat is a matter of course. But after all, I am still a child of the Zheng family, if I surrender, can I save my life and leave some dignity for the royal family? ”

When Zheng Xin heard this, he sneered and replied, "Zheng Yu, haven't you figured out the current situation yet?" Even if you don't surrender, can you still escape the word 'death'? You are right, you are also a child of the Zheng family, your identity is here, your life and death depend on the decision of my father, and no one can do anything. Well, I advise you to come out and surrender quickly, otherwise if you force me to move roughly, it will not leave dignity for the royal family! ”

The news that Zheng Yu surrendered and the main force of the Lingnan Army was completely annihilated, like growing wings, flew to every corner of the Han world. People of insight from all over the government and the opposition were overjoyed when they heard the news.

Since the later years of Emperor Shenzong, the battle for succession buried in the center of the imperial court finally ended with Zheng Rong's complete victory.

However, Jinling City, where the emperor is currently located, is extremely calm, and the already very quiet "Qingya Temple" seems to be more peaceful and tranquil than before, as if it has not been affected by the stormy waves of the outside world at all.

In the eyes of Emperor Zheng Rong, since the capture of Zheng Gui, the king of Lingnan, his uncompetitive son Zheng Yu has no qualifications to wrestle with him, and the defeat of the Lingnan army has been decided, and all subsequent battles are just routine.