Of course, the officers and men of the Lingnan Army were unwilling to obey such an absurd order, and only stood guard with bows and arrows behind the preset bunkers in the battalion, and did not dare to act rashly.

The Lingnan Army's reaction was not unexpected by Qiu Yizhi, he immediately ordered someone to escort Zheng Yu to the Lingnan Army, and let the "black-necked toad" ask loudly: "The second prince of Lingnan is here, do you dare to disobey the order?" ”

There was not a day that the Lingnan army did not see Zheng Yu, and they were all shocked to see that he had been captured by the opponent. At this moment, the old general Sun Hao is not in the army, and the 20,000 defenders have no backbone, and they don't know how to deal with it.

But I heard someone shouting on the other side: "The second prince ordered you to open the city gate, go out of the camp and line up, and are not allowed to carry weapons, understand?" ”

Although Zheng Yu's body was involuntarily, his mind was still quite clear, and he struggled to raise his head and shouted to the camp: "Don't listen to their nonsense, everyone stick to the camp, don't come out easily!" ”

Qiu Yizhi sneered, took out the treasure knife at his waist, rested it on Zheng Yu's neck, and said loudly to the camp: "If you don't leave the camp again, I will kill the second prince, and you will be the accomplices below." I wonder if you can take this responsibility? ”

When the officers and men of the battalion heard these words, they immediately began to whisper.

Qiu Yizhi was afraid that they would delay for a long time and make any changes, so he ordered the "black-necked toad" to shout to the camp: "My lord said, if there is no response, only dozens of them, you will do it!" ”

"One!"

"Two!"

"Three!"

…………

When the "black-necked toad" counted to "seven", four or five officers who looked like generals finally flashed out of the battalion, and one of them said to Qiu Yizhi: "Wait! Now that Lord Qiu has succeeded, I hope that my subordinates will be merciful, don't hurt the second prince of my family, and I will just leave the camp as ordered. ”

Zheng Yu still wanted to stop them, but unfortunately his mouth was tightly blocked by the officers and soldiers escorting him on both sides, and he couldn't say half a word.

Qiu Yizhi was naturally extremely happy when he heard this, and replied loudly with a smile: "Okay! I will do what I say, so please line up outside the city, and you are not allowed to carry weapons!" I also hope that you will act quickly, if you delay again, it is no wonder that you are soft and fast, and accidentally hurt the second prince. ”

The generals of the Lingnan army were shocked when they heard this, and hurriedly urged their soldiers to move open the camp gate, all of them took off their armor and weapons, and walked out of the camp one after another, with their hands empty and without armor, and stood in line in turn—although they were reluctant, Zheng Yu had to hurry up in the hands of the enemy—and the formation was completed in less than half an hour.

Seeing Qiu Yizhi, half of his hanging heart was only half relieved, and he saw Wu Changxi, Zhang Qi and the military advisor Lin Shuhan from a distance, and packed up 20,000 soldiers and horses who were rushing to his side, so he said to a few Lingnan officers who were only wearing underwear and shivering in the cold wind: "I have no intention of embarrassing you below, and I don't want to kill indiscriminately." Now the main force of the Lingnan Army is in the midst of fire, so let's put out the fire quickly. ”

A leading officer of the Lingnan Army bowed to Qiu Yizhi and said, "Our army has finally been defeated, I will be convinced, but can I ask the lord to release the second prince of my family?" I have an explanation in front of the Lingnan prince? ”

Qiu Yizhi liked this kind of straightforward and upright rhetoric the most, so he also said bluntly: "Forgive me." But please rest assured, the prince of Lingnan has spared him twice, and he will not be embarrassed and abuse the second prince because of this, please step down. If you delay and hesitate any longer, it will be difficult to keep your promise in order to protect yourself. ”

The Lingnan generals had no choice but to choose to believe in Qiu Yizhi, leading an unarmed army of 20,000 to retreat like a tide.

Qiu Yizhi did not dare to relax, and divided the remaining 20,000 troops into two - 10,000 stayed outside the camp to monitor the enemy's movements and prevent enemy sneak attacks; The other 10,000 entered the camp to sweep up, took over the entire Jinling camp, and got in touch with the defenders of Jinling City.

As soon as Qiu Yi's soldiers and horses entered the camp, they didn't do anything else, first put down the big banner with the four golden characters of "Lingnan Wangfu" written in front of the big tent of the Chinese army, and slowly raised the battle flag with the name of Qiu Yi, which also made the Jinling defenders know that the camp here has been captured by themselves.

At this time, several carriages drove out from behind the enemy and stopped steadily in front of Qiu Yizhi, and a few people in the car picked up the curtain and came down, it was Wen Lingjiao, Wu Ruofei, Yang Qiaoer and other female dependents - several of them were sent by Qiu Yizhi to hide nearby before the war, and when they saw the banner of their own name raised in the camp today, they knew that the great success had been accomplished, so they were relieved to boldly come out of the hiding place.

Qiu Yizhi saw that a few of them were safe and sound, and he felt relieved in his heart, and thought of the chaos outside the camp, so he hurriedly let a few of them go to the camp to rest.

But Qiu Yizhi was afraid that the Lingnan Army would also draw gourds in the same way and set some traps in the camp, so he also followed into the Jinling camp set up by the Lingnan Army and felt relieved to check it in person.

The soldiers of the Lingnan Army were quite honest, and they left in a hurry, and they didn't even have time to destroy the military rations and equipment, and they didn't have the leisure to set up any traps.

Qiu Yizhi was rejoicing, but he heard a faint shouting and scolding outside the camp, as if he was calling for a battle.

Qiu Yizhi felt both funny and strange, and smiled at Lin Shuhan beside him: "The Lingnan Army is also persevering. We have Zheng Yu in our hands, and we are not afraid that they will fight, but it is not a matter for them to block in front of us like this, and we will go out and meet them for a while. ”

After that, Qiu Yizhi ordered Zheng Yu to be escorted to the front of the camp, and he led Wei Chi Jiming, 17 personal guards and 200 village warriors, and drove out of the south gate of the camp on horses.

When Qiu Yizhi saw such a scene, he secretly reminded himself in his heart: "Although the opponent is a defeated army, he has an advantage in numbers after all; Although he is now taking the initiative, he is only barely winning, and his men are all tired soldiers and their numbers are small. Therefore, we must not underestimate the enemy. ”

Lin Shuhan also saw the stakes, and whispered in Qiu Yizhi's ear: "The so-called 'mourning soldiers will win', the appearance of the army on the opposite side is quite neat, if you feel that you are not sure of victory, go back to the camp first and stick to it, and get in touch with the defenders in Jinling City, which is also a good way." ”

Qiu Yizhi nodded, and also replied in a low voice: "Look and talk, see and talk." But in his heart, he was thinking about how to destroy the enemy.

At this moment, I suddenly heard the war drums in the Lingnan army formation roaring like the sky. Listen with bated breath, but listen to the drumbeat calmly and neatly, very confident, not like the newly defeated army is bluffing.

Qiu Yizhi felt strange and said to himself: "The Lingnan army has just been attacked by my fire attack, and it is a little reluctant to pull up these troops in a short period of time, how can they have such momentum in the blink of an eye?" Also, the opponent's guns were either lost in the fire or captured by me, and now where do these war drums come from? Listening to the sound of drums, it doesn't look like a broken drum collected from a garbage heap......"

He was thinking about it, but he saw a passage in the Lingnan army formation, and out of the passage came out of the majestic two rows of honor guards, each holding a sword and ritual weapon in his hand, but the unfurled banner made Qiu Yizhi startled-

I saw that on the more than a dozen golden dragon flags, a line of words the size of a bowl was clearly and clearly written: "Han Lingnan Wang Zheng"!

"It can't be the opponent Fox fake Huwei, pretending to be the name of the King of Lingnan, trying to scare me away, right?" This was Qiu Yizhi's first reaction, but after a little thought, he overturned his thoughts, "What a noble and majestic person the King of Lingnan is, even if his soldiers eat the bear's heart and leopard gall, they don't dare to pretend to be his name......"

Qiu Yizhi was thinking wildly, and listened to the war drums in front of the battle, but saw more than 100 elite cavalry in the Lingnan Army walking out of the middle of the honor guard unhurriedly, surrounded by one person, wearing a red robe and gold armor, and sure enough, it was Zhenggui, the king of Lingnan himself!

When Qiu Yizhi saw it, his face turned colorless with fright, and he hurriedly beckoned to the "black-necked toad" behind him: "Quick, pass the order down, go and tell Zhao Chengxiao that the prince of Lingnan has arrived in person, and wants him to lead the whole army out to line up and confront the enemy." ”

The "black-necked toad" also knew that the situation was not trivial, so he hurriedly agreed, turned around and went down to give the order.

Qiu Yizhi saw that the "black-necked toad" was walking quickly, and just turned around to see the movement ahead, but saw Lingnan King Zheng Gui raising his whip and pointing at him, and said: "Virtuous nephew, I haven't seen you for a few days, and I have won such a big battle, which is really gratifying!" ”

Qiu Yizhi swallowed a mouthful of saliva, but he didn't know how to respond, so he had to deflect the conversation and said: "I don't know that the prince is coming, and it is really a sin to miss the welcome." I only know that the prince is still fighting with His Royal Highness the Emperor in the west, how can he reach Jiangnan in a blink of an eye? ”

This sentence is exactly what Qiu Yizhi wanted to ask: he knew from the news he got before that the king of Lingnan was fighting with His Royal Highness Zheng Xin in Hanzhong, where Sichuan and Shanxi were handed over, and the war was very fierce, and it should be difficult to get out. Even if he heard the news of the defeat in Jiangnan, Sichuan was thousands of miles away from here, and it would take at least seven or eight days to walk, so why did he suddenly come to him?

Qiu Yi's material was thought out carefully and thoroughly, but he guessed the wrong day of King Lingnan's departure from the beginning.

It turned out that after Zheng Gui, the king of Lingnan, heard that his second son Zheng Yu besieged the county seat of Shanyin, he sent someone to open the topographic atlas and looked at the nearby terrain, and knew that Zheng Yu had many auspicious battles in this battle, and the Jiangnan side had to come to Jiangnan again by himself, and it was impossible to clean up the mess.

So he used a risky plan, leaving only a partial division to continue to make the illusion of attacking Hanzhong City, and he personally led the main army, risking being besieged between the mountains, interspersed with the north of Hanzhong, and caught Zheng Xin, who was defending the city, off guard.

In this battle, it took only one day to attack Hanzhong City, which had been held for two months, and all the elite soldiers defending the city were surrounded and captured, and even His Royal Highness Zheng Xin was only under the desperate protection of a few cronies, and barely escaped from the city.

It stands to reason that after taking Hanzhong City, the road of Shanxi Road has been opened in front of the king of Lingnan, and it is necessary to take advantage of the situation to go north, attack Chang'an, look at the Dasanguan, and press the inner road of the pass, and immediately see the hope of capturing Chang'an and ascending to the pole to claim the emperor.

But after all, Lingnan Wang Zhenggui is a person who is deeply versed in military strategy, and knows that Shu Road is cramped, and it is difficult to transport a large amount of food supplies in a short time, and it is difficult for him to launch a larger-scale offensive before spring.

Therefore, he immediately ordered his headquarters to be stationed in Hanzhong, consolidate the defense of the surrounding areas, and no longer go north to expand the results of the war, and he hurriedly led only 2,000 elite soldiers around him, and came to Jiangnan through Bashu, Yungui, and Lingnan, wanting to take advantage of the fact that the Lingnan army still had an advantage in Jiangnan Province, defeat Qiu Yizhi and take Jinling City in one go, and completely control the whole Jiangnan Province in his own hands, and wait until the New Year to see how the situation changes.