Under the siege of the Jin Army and the New Red Army, the Red Army officers and soldiers in Jiankang City have long been panicked, and there is no fighting spirit at all, and the remarks of the death of the country can be heard every day, coupled with the propaganda of the Jin Army and the New Red Alliance Army outside the city, a large number of deserters climb down the city wall almost every night and throw themselves into the Jin Army and the New Red Army.

The Jin Army and the New Red Coalition Army besieged the city for only three days, and there were no less than 20,000 Red Army soldiers who defected.

In this case, there are still generals who are loyal to Shi Huai and are willing to lead troops into battle, among them, the most active is Xu Hua, the lieutenant general of Chiguo.

Xu Hua is an authentic military general, he has no eloquence, and he does not have much commanding ability, but he is strong in martial arts, brave and good at fighting, and he is a good hand at charging into battle. He proposed to Shi Huai that he was willing to personally lead the cavalry out of the city and fight to the death with the Jin army and the Xinchi coalition army, if he could win, it would be the best, if he could not win, even if the whole army was wiped out and died on the battlefield, he would play the majesty of the Red Kingdom.

In the current situation, Xu Hua still dared to go out of the city to fight with the enemy, Shi Huai was also deeply moved, he approved Xu Hua's request, and personally climbed the city gate tower to cheer for the cavalry corps commanded by Xu Hua.

At this time, Shi Huai didn't think that Xu Hua could turn the tide of the war and defeat the Jin Army and the New Red Alliance, but Xu Hua had a saying in his heart, even if he wanted to die, he had to die with dignity, and he couldn't sit back and wait, and he wanted to fight the majesty of the Red Kingdom with a head-to-head confrontation.

The 100,000 Red Cavalry, against the million Jin Army and the New Red Alliance, the strength of the two sides is completely out of the same level.

For the Red Cavalry who took the initiative to go out of the city to fight, the Jin Army and the New Red Coalition Army did not retreat in the camp, and the First Army, the Iron Lion Army and the Seventh Army went out of the camp one after another to fight.

The two sides lined up and started a large-scale confrontation in front of Jiankang City.

Cavalry has an advantage over infantry, but that's also relative, if the difference in strength between the two sides is too great. The advantage of cavalry will also be lost, not to mention, the Jin army still has the Seventh Army to restrain the cavalry.

As the war drums of both sides beat and the trumpets sounded in unison, a fierce battle was about to break out.

At this time, the cavalry commanded by Xu Hua was really a little 'sluggish and cold. The tragic sense of the strong man who is gone and will never return, looking at the Jin army battle formation in front of him, the red cavalry led by Xu Hua not only did not retreat, but rushed straight to kill, facing the edge of the Jin army to launch a cavalry charge.

Soon, the soldiers of both sides came into contact, but in an instant, the battlefield clashed with a chord, and the galloping horses crashed against the shields of the infantry. The infantry was crushed and crushed, and the cavalry was also overturned.

In an instant, the soldiers who were in direct contact with each other fell together.

The Jin army used its own flesh and blood to resist the charge of the red cavalry, and then, the shield soldiers retreated, and the spearmen topped, stabbing the red cavalry in front of them with their spears. The Red Cavalry was also not to be outdone, wielding swords and spears on the horses. Slash and slash the Jin soldiers below.

From the very beginning, the battle between the two sides fell into a life-and-death battle, with shouts of killing and screams spreading throughout the battlefield and beyond. Wait until the Red Cavalry is completely entangled by the infantry of the Jin State. When mobility was at its lowest, the hoplites of the Kingdom of Jin finally joined the battle.

As soon as the hoplites entered the battlefield, the situation of the two sides was evenly matched.

The Red Cavalry could not stop the advance of the hoplites, who advanced like a meat grinder, slow but capable of strangling everything. Tearing everything apart, hordes of red cavalry fell under the hooves of the hoplites.

Xu Hua is very brave and fierce, but how can his two fists be able to defeat his four hands? Soon, he was entangled by several golden generals. was in a dilemma, and at this time, Guan He, who was holding the Nine-Turn Soul Breaking Knife, rushed towards him quickly.

Xu Hua was already overstretched and difficult to deal with under the siege of several golden generals, and now that Guan He rushed over again, he couldn't resist it even more. After more than a dozen rounds of fighting, Xu Hua's shoulders, arms, ribs, and thighs were all cut out, dripping with blood, dyeing most of the armor on his body red.

Seeing that his situation was critical, several red generals hurried over and desperately resisted Guan He and the others, and then replaced Xu Hua in the battle.

The charging formation of 100,000 red cavalry, with the cooperation of the infantry and cavalry of the Jin State, was dissolved invisibly, and not only failed to repel the Jin army, but was also crushed by the other side.

Taking advantage of the gap between his generals and Guan He and others, Xu Hua raised his eyes to observe the situation on the battlefield, and saw that his cavalry and the enemy had formed a fighting situation and fell into a comprehensive passivity, so he immediately ordered the whole army to retreat and widen the distance between him and the enemy.

As soon as the red cavalry heard the order to retreat, the rear of the whole army changed to the front team, and retreated more than a mile like a whirlwind, retreating directly to the moat of the capital.

Seeing that the distance between the enemy and us had been widened far enough, Xu Hua ordered to stop the retreat and sent someone to count his own battle losses.

After a fierce battle, less than 50,000 of the 100,000 Red Cavalry remained, but in the blink of an eye, more than half of them were lost.

Listening to the damage reported by the various corps, Xu Hua's cold sweat flowed out, no wonder since the start of the Jin Chi war, the Jin army has been like a bamboo, but his own side has been defeated again and again, the combat power of the Jin army is indeed terrifyingly high, it seems that it is rare to go out of the city to fight today.

Thinking of this, he turned his heart sideways and shouted loudly to the people on the left and right: "Today, if you can't win, I swear to die with the gold thief, and if you have brothers who are afraid of death, you can turn around and go back to the city now, I don't blame you, if there are brothers who are not afraid of death, then follow me to kill the enemy again!"

"General Xu, kill!"

At this moment, people have completely abandoned their personal life and death, and only think about avenging the fallen brothers.

Tens of thousands of Red Cavalry flinched, and people shouted in unison on their horses.

Xu Hua turned his head and looked around at the cavalry behind him, his heart was surging, his blood was surging, and he looked up to the sky and said with a long smile: "It is my Xu Hua's luck to be able to fight side by side with so many brothers who live and die together, even if I die on the battlefield, what is there to fear?"

As he spoke, he shifted his gaze to Shi Huai at the city gate, and at the same time arched his hand. He shouted loudly: "King, please cheer for us again!"

Shi Huai's brows were twisted into a pimple, his side had less than 50,000 horsemen left, and the Jin army on the opposite side was still crowded, as if there was no reduction in the strength of the fierce battle just now. If I continue to fight, I'm afraid that there will be no return.

He held the arrow stack in his hand, looked at Xu Hua who was covered in blood, his heart was painful and reluctant, and he called out urgently: "Xu Hua, this king knows that you have the heart to serve the country loyally, and you will lead the soldiers to withdraw to the city......"

Before he finished speaking, Xu Hua had already said with a straight face: "King, please forgive me for the difficulty of obeying my fate! We are martial artists, we should fight on the battlefield, even if we are crushed, it is also our glory. I hope that the king will be fulfilled and cheer for us!"

The cavalry was used to attack the enemy, not to defend the city, and it was useless to be trapped in the city. It will only become a burden that consumes grain and grass.

Xu Hua has now made up his mind that he will either die in battle. Either kill the enemy and retreat the enemy.

Looking at Xu Hua's firm expression, Shi Huai had already seen his intentions, his heart was sour, and he subconsciously gritted his teeth, clenched his fists, and followed. Then he looked at the ministers on the left and right.

Among the many red ministers, many of them had already lowered their heads with red faces, and compared to Xu Hua, they certainly felt ashamed, it was they who advocated giving up resistance all day long. Disarm and surrender to the Kingdom of Jin.

"If all of my people can serve the country loyally like General Xu Hua, and have the determination to die, how can I be where I am today!" I don't know if Shi Huai is complaining about everyone or himself, he retracted his gaze, grabbed the drum hammer with his hand, raised it high above his head, looked at the drum surface, and smashed it with all his might.

"Boom!"

The drums beat together, and the horses neighed.

War horses are also spiritual, especially war horses that often fight, as long as they hear the sound of drums, they will know that they want to fight, and they will naturally get excited.

At this time, looking at the red cavalry outside the city, the war horses all raised their front hooves, screaming again and again.

"Knock! knock! knock—"

Shi Huai continued to beat the drum, Xu Hua held a long knife in one hand and a reins in the other, and after stabilizing the excited war horse, he turned around and yelled: "Kill-"

"Kill—" The red cavalry shouted in unison, and tens of thousands of cavalry were like a tide, rolling up the dust in the sky, and rushing towards the Jin army camp again.

Jin Jun.

Lin Haotian's side, who was watching the battle in the back, and Shi Huai's side were completely different atmospheres, one was relaxed, talking and laughing, and there were even guards who prepared tea for Lin Haotian.

Looking at the red cavalry that was counterattacking in front of him, Lin Haotian said with a smile while leisurely drinking tea: "This Red Army is not bad, fierce and tough, and would rather not give in, but it's a pity that it's too stupid, it's meaningless to die on the battlefield in vain, it's better to withdraw to the city, kill the military horses, and serve as military food!"

"Hehe-" Song Hao was also happy, and said: "If the Red Army is not stupid, how can the armies of my Jin and Xinchi countries be able to kill under Jiankang City?!" Then, as soon as the conversation changed, he asked curiously: "After breaking through Jiankang, what is Brother Lin Xian going to do with Shi Huai?"

Lin Haotian pondered for a moment and said, "If you stay to give alms, it will eventually become a disaster in the future." ”

Song Hao didn't think so, what kind of disaster could a monarch who had died become and what could he do in the future? He shook his head and said, "Why should Brother Xian rush to kill them all? After the destruction of the Red Kingdom, Brother Lin Xian can naturally occupy the entire wood land and most of the red land, can he still tolerate a single person?"

Lin Haotian raised his eyebrows, looked at Song Hao strangely, and said as a matter of course: "Cutting the grass without removing the roots, the spring breeze blows and grows again, doesn't Brother Song understand this truth? ”

Song Hao was speechless by Lin Haotian, but it didn't mean that he agreed with Lin Haotian's statement, he hated Shi Huai very much, but he felt that if he really wanted to kill Shi Huai, he would have gone too far.

As the two of them were talking, they heard the sound of horses' hooves, and then, with a bang, a bloody, round human head was thrown at the feet of Lin Haotian and Song Hao.

Lin Haotian didn't feel anything, but Song Haoke was taken aback and subconsciously exclaimed.

He raised his eyes and saw that Guan He was coming quickly, and when he got close, Guan He turned over and dismounted, knelt on one knee, and saluted Lin Haotian: "My lord, the master of the thief army has been cut down by the last general, and the head is here, please take a look." ”

Lin Haotian was happy, lowered his head and glanced at the bloody severed head, and then said to Guan He: "General Guan has worked hard, take the brothers of the Seventh Army back to the camp to rest!"

"My lord, the last general will not be tired!" As he spoke, Guan He turned back to the two lieutenants who came over, Zhang Shun and Wu Xiu, and said, "You two take your brothers back to the camp to rest first." I'm here to supervise the battle!"

Zhang Shun and Wu Xiu should have given their hands and left.

Lin Haotian turned his head sideways and asked, "What is the name of the enemy's commander?"

Guan He hurriedly replied: "My lord, this last general forgot to ask, I only know that this thief's surname is Xu, and the thief army calls him General Xu." ”

Lin Haotian picked the corners of his mouth noncommittally, raised his head and said: "This red general can also be regarded as a loyal and loyal person who serves the country loyally. His body was found and buried with his beheading. ”

Guan He grabbed his hair and wanted to say something, but seeing Lin Haotian's gaze turn to his face, he didn't dare to say more than half a word, and hurriedly bowed down and responded: "Yes!

At this time, Wang Han on the side opened his mouth and said: "King, this person's name is Xu Hua, and he was originally Shi Huai's doorman. Later, after Shi Huai succeeded to the throne, he was promoted to lieutenant general. ”

"Oh, I see!" Lin Haotian nodded, and then said with a smile: "So people's vision is the most important, and if you choose the wrong master, the consequences can only be like this." ”

Guan Heda nodded in agreement, and was also glad that he had taken refuge in the Jin Kingdom. Assisted by the coach of the Golden Army, Lin Haotian. And Wang Han was silent, the reason why he defected to the Jin State. It's not that he doesn't want to assist Shi Huai, but Shi Huai can't tolerate himself, doesn't give himself a way to live, and has no choice but to rebel from the Red Country.

The Red Cavalry led by Xu Hua did not cause much damage to the Jin army, but wiped out their own army. Including Xu Hua, he was slashed and killed by the Jin army.

The annihilation of the Red Cavalry means that Jiankang has no strength to go out of the city to fight, and now, there are no reinforcements from the Red Kingdom to reinforce Jiankang.

The Red Army in Chi Zhanmu was under the flanking of the Second and Sixth Army Corps. Most of the counties in the north of the Red Kingdom were occupied by the Jin army, and they were unable to support Jiankang, and now even the southern counties have become precarious with the full-scale invasion of the Yan army, and they are too busy to take care of themselves, so at this time Jiankang has really become a veritable lonely city, and there is no foreign aid to look forward to, and whether it can hold on depends on the defenders themselves.

However, at present, there are not many defenders in Jiankang City, and after losing the cavalry corps, there are only more than 300,000 troops left, and the only thing that can make people feel a little more relieved is the 100,000 forbidden army in the capital. Even if the current situation in the capital is so critical, even the central army has a large number of deserters, but the forbidden army is still neat and stable, and there is no case of desertion.

Now Jiankang can make Lin Haotian worry about the capital forbidden army, he has asked Yin Liang about this matter, hoping that Yin Liang can think of a way to make the capital forbidden army defect, so that he can get rid of a big trouble for his own siege.

But Yin Liang couldn't do anything about it.

The main commander of the forbidden army in the capital is Lin Zhengling, Shi Huai's confidant and favorite general, like Xu Hua, he is also Shi Huai's disciple, and he is absolutely loyal to Shi Huai, and if he wants him to defect, it is even more difficult than ascending to the sky.

Hearing Yin Liang say this, Lin Haotian was also discouraged, it seemed that it was impossible to make the forbidden army in the capital of the Red Kingdom defect, so he then shifted his target and retreated to the next best, hoping that Yin Liang could persuade the generals of the Central Army of the Red Kingdom to turn against him.

Yin Liang is a general, and he is very familiar with Jiankang's defense situation, and he can tell it without even thinking about it.

At present, the main generals of the four cities in the southeast and northwest of Jiankang are Bai Rong, Zhou Gui, Gao Peng, and Qin Ze. Yin Liang has the deepest friendship with Bai Rong among them, and he doesn't dare to say that he is a friend of his life, but at least he is also a confidant who talks about everything.

The Li family and the Bai family are world friends, Yin Liang and Bai Rong have known each other for a long time, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they grew up together in open crotch pants, and they have been friends for decades.

Now Lin Haotian asked him to persuade the red general to defect, and the one he was most sure of was Bai Rong.

Of course, he is sure that he is relative to the other three generals, after all, he has now defected to the Jin country, and Bai Rong is not sure whether he will take him as a friend and confidant.

However, after he defected to the Jin Kingdom, he really couldn't shirk the first task given to him by Lin Haotian, so he could only agree to it.

That night, late at night, Yin Liang didn't bring any of his entourage, dressed in civilian clothes, rode a horse, and went to Jiankang's Dongcheng alone.

When he was still fifty paces away from the moat, he was spotted by the soldiers who were keeping watch at the head of the city.

Because it was late at night and the distance was long, the soldiers could not see his appearance clearly, and someone shouted and asked, "Who is it?"

"I am General Bai's old man!" Yin Liang hurriedly grabbed the reins of the war horse, afraid that the soldiers defending the city would recognize his identity, and he deliberately lowered his voice, he replied: "Brothers, please let General Bai go out of the city and ...... See you with me!"

"Fart! Now that the enemy army is besieging the city, if you are really the old man of our White General, how can you get in? I think you are a fine work sent by the enemy, brothers, let go of the arrows-"

"Wait, wait!" Yin Liang was startled, and said repeatedly: "I am indeed General Bai's old man, if the brothers don't believe it, just ask General Bai and ask." ”

At this time, the head of the city was silent, and after a long while, someone from Fang said, "What's your name?"

"In Xiaguangwu, report to your general, and your general will know. Yin Liang replied loudly.

Yin Liang didn't dare to report his real name, and the reason why he used the title of Guangwu Resident was also meaningful.

There is a fake lake in his general's mansion, which is extremely huge, Bai Rong used to be a guest in his mansion, and once laughed that his fake lake was like a thousand mansions, and he also gave this fake lake a name, called Guangwu.

Now that he has reported the title of Guangwu Resident, he will not feel anything to others, but when Bai Rong hears it, he will definitely guess who he is. (To be continued......)