Seeing his husband and wife behaving like this, why didn't Gonggong Li understand the meaning of his tactful resistance? He smiled bitterly in his heart: The adults in the court are too self-righteous, don't say that tens of thousands of soldiers and horses inside and outside Daning City are in Zhu Quan's hands, and they are hundreds of wolf-like guards in the palace. Although he thought like this in his heart, his face showed a look of danger and forced himself to say: "Your Majesty's will is here, if the prince can't return to Beijing, I'm afraid that our family will not be able to go back and hand over the will." ”

Xu Ying took the Chinese medicine bowl from the maid's hand and handed it to Zhu Quan.

Zhu Quan saw that Gonggong Li was not far in front of him, knowing that his beloved wife was deliberately playing tricks on himself, so he could only do the fake show, and drank the bowl of soup and medicine with a bitter face.

Xu Ying turned around and said: "The royal family still takes care of family affection, and at this moment, the prince is in a difficult situation, but Gonggong Li wants him to forcibly return to Beijing, I am afraid that His Majesty will not act so ruthlessly if he knows about this." Only when the prince's condition recovers a little, he will be ordered to return to Beijing to face the saint. ”

Gonggong Li knew that he was in a tiger's den right now, and after a long sigh, he said helplessly: "Then our family has to go back to Beijing like this to resume their lives." Then he turned and walked out of the room. Returning to Beijing and not being able to recover may be a life of death, but if King Ning is forced to raise troops like King Yan, then he is seeking his own death and has no life. ”“

Xu Ying was relieved when she heard this, and asked Ma Sanbao outside the room to settle Qin and his party in the palace without slacking off.

When the footsteps of everyone outside the room were far away, Zhu Quan turned over with a carp, sat on the edge of the bed and frowned and said: "I am so good, but I am pretending to be sick, and now it seems to be a fake, and I feel quite uncomfortable in my abdomen." ”

Xu Ying saw Gonggong Li and his entourage go away, but Zhu Quan still had a sad face, and sat back on the edge of the bed with care in his heart and said in surprise: "That's just a cool medicine to dispel the heat, boil it extra strong, do you really drink it to spoil your stomach?" ”

Zhu Quan turned his head and said: "The medicine just now made me feel stuffy, come over and let my husband hug me, kiss me, and dissipate my anger." As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to Xu Ying's waist and hugged him.

Xu Ying couldn't help but blush slightly when she heard this, and hurriedly ran away two steps, and said in her mouth: "You have a bad stomach all day long." ”

In August, the weather was still hot, and in the Yan army camp outside Beiping City, Zhu Di looked at the camp tent that could not be seen at a glance, and recalled that he had to report to the imperial court to Changxing and Geng Bingwen as the general, and the commander of the army came north, claiming to be 300,000 people, and his mood couldn't help but be quite heavy. At first glance, the military horses in their hands are close to more than 100,000 people, quite powerful, but in fact, the military spirit has not yet stabilized, except for the three guards of Yanshan led by Zhang Yu, the rest of the departments are all coming from the recent past, among which there is no shortage of generals and soldiers who are swaying left and right, and it still takes a few days to stabilize the morale of the army, and the grain and grass captured in the guards around Beiping are concentrated, so that they dare to confront Geng Bingwen.

A few days later, Geng Bingwen, the general of the conquest, personally led the main force of the army of 120,000 to pass Zhending, camped on the south bank of the Hutuo River, the governor Xu Kai led an army of 30,000 troops to garrison Hejian, all commanded Pan Zhong, Yang Song led an army of 20,000 troops to garrison Juzhou (now Renqiu, Hebei), and more than 9,000 vanguard troops and horses guarded Xiongxian County. It turned out that Zhu Yunwen, the emperor of Jianwen, was furious after learning that Zhu Di was plotting rebellion, and urgently summoned Changxing to wait for Geng Bingwen to lead the army to suppress the rebellion, so although the counterinsurgency army claimed to be 300,000, it was actually only about 180,000, intending to wipe it out before Zhu Di's climate was completed.

Under the cover of the night, Xiongxian City, the soldiers stationed in the garrison faintly heard the sound of footsteps in the distance, and hurriedly threw the torch in their hands far away, and under the light of the fire, they could see the tide-like figure touching under the city wall. The 100 households led by the Yan army saw that the Yan army was attacking at night, and ordered his subordinates to open their bows and release arrows. For a while, the sound of the warning resounded throughout the city, and the defenders of the city rushed up to the city in a hurry, and the arrows and rolling logs fell together, smashing at the enemy who attacked at night.

There were tens of thousands of horses and horses in the Yan army under the city, and seeing that their whereabouts were revealed, they simply lit the torches in their hands one after another, and the stormy arrows shot out one after another in the strong crossbows, suppressing the defenders at the head of the city. Groups of Yan soldiers struggled to lift the ladder and rushed forward, setting up the city wall. The chariot made of thick trees was covered with solid cowhide, enough to resist arrows, and gradually accelerated under the vigorous push of the Yan soldiers hiding underneath, and rushed towards the city gate.

With a steel knife in his mouth, the Yan soldier who was attached to the ladder ant saw that his city head was not far away, and when he was happy in his heart, the wind came and screamed miserably, and the rolling wood pushed down by the defenders at the head of the city smashed his brain, and when the body fell, he brought the two comrades on the cloud ladder to scream and fall, and broke his tendons.

When the arrow in the hand of one of the defenders at the head of the city was just about to be shot out of the string, the arrow from the city had already penetrated into the chest under the severe pain in his chest, and his body was soft on the top of the city.

Although the defenders of Xiongxian County resisted desperately under the leadership of the leading generals, the height of the county city wall was not as high as the state capital, and the Yan army outside the city was tens of thousands, and the strength was far stronger than the defenders.

With a loud "boom", the city gate finally broke under the continuous collision of the rushing cars, and a group of Yan army generals and soldiers danced swords in their hands, roared into the city.

In the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15, a bright moon hangs high in the sky in the dark sky, which is brighter than in the past. Pan Zhong, who was wearing armor, and Yang Song patrolled the city of Juzhou, thinking of the bloody battle they would face soon, they were all in a heavy mood, and they were not in the mood to enjoy the moon during the festival.

When the two of them were about to walk down the city after inspecting a circle, there were exclamations from several soldiers on the side, and when they turned their heads, they saw a few fires shaking in the night in the distance under the city, and gradually approached the city wall of Juzhou, and the sound of horses' hooves became clearer and clearer.

Pan Zhong took a look, but saw that there were several people wearing Ming army uniforms. Under the light of the torches, it was vaguely visible that the comer's face was covered with blood, and he looked quite embarrassed, and he couldn't help frowning and shouted in a deep voice: "This official is the commander of the imperial court's conquest army, Pan Zhong, who is coming?" ”

Under the shouting of Yang Song, the defenders at the head of the city stretched out their bows and arrows, poked out from the battlements of the city wall, and aimed at the knights of unknown origin under the city, and if the other party made the slightest abnormal move, they would shoot down the arrows.

A moment later, a hundred households covered in bruises and covered in blood were escorted to the top of the city tower, and Xiang Pan and Yang were full of panic, and the Yan army attacked Xiongxian at night, and asked the two adults to send troops to rescue quickly.

Pan Zhong interrogated left and right, and saw that there was no flaw in the words of this hundred households who came to report the emergency, so he waved his hand to help him down, turned his head to Pan Zhong and said: "The defenders of Xiongxian County are less than 10,000, so I will lead 15,000 military horses to the rescue, and ask Lord Yang to lead the remaining 5,000 men and horses to defend the city." ”

About half an hour later, a team of soldiers with torches, galloping out of Juzhou, under the reprimand of thousands of households, countless torches gradually gathered, like a burning dragon in the night, along the official road straight to Xiongxian.

Although the army went to the rescue, it was not very hasty. From time to time, scouts who explored the way ahead hurried back and told the commander of the capital, Pan Zhongyu, that there was no trace of the Yan army ahead.

Xiongxian County is still less than ten miles away from Juzhou, which is one of the reasons why Pan Zhong dared to rescue overnight. In the middle of the night, the army had already marched two-thirds of the way along the official road, and the flames in Xiongxian County were already visible.

Pan Zhong heard the scout's report, saying that it was the Yueyang Bridge not far ahead, and he quickly ordered the army to speed up and cross the bridge to help Xiongxian. It turned out that although the Yueyang Bridge was the only way to go, it was built with bluestone, strong and reliable, and it was not possible to destroy it in a hurry if it was not manpower.

Soon after the huge reinforcements crossed the bridge, a group of black shadows ran out of the woods half a mile away from the Yueyang Bridge, carrying piles of things that had been prepared for a long time on their shoulders, and hurried towards the Yueyang Bridge. Under the bright moonlight, it can be vaguely seen that they are wearing Yan army uniforms.

Under the rough shouting and scolding of the first thousand households, more than 400 Yan soldiers piled up the bundles of firewood and grass that had been prepared on the bridge deck, higher and higher, completely plugged the Yueyang Bridge, and then poured fire oil on it, and ignited it with a fire breaker.

The flames jumped quickly on the firewood and grass, and after a few moments, the bridge deck was already in flames, and the heat was scorching within a few feet, and it was impossible to get close.

Pan Zhong led the army to cross the bridge, and the sound of the soldiers behind him suddenly heard the exclamation of the soldiers behind him, and when he hurriedly turned his head, he saw the flames rising in the night behind him, which was the direction of the Yueyang Bridge that he had just crossed, and he couldn't help but be shocked, and hurriedly ordered the whole army to stop advancing.

Several of the sergeants in charge of the herald were armed with torches, and galloped on the side of the army, which was still slowly advancing, and made all the soldiers turn around and return.

At this moment, there was a banging sound from the grass in the wilderness on both sides of the official road, followed by the sound of the bowstring vibrating like rain hitting plantains, and the arrows of unknown value flew out from the strong bows and crossbows in the hands of the Yan army in ambush, and attacked the army that had not recovered from the official road.

The sudden arrows were like a storm in the dark night, and they shot the long queue on the official road to the back. Countless soldiers and generals didn't have time to protect themselves with shields, so the arrows that came from them pierced through the chest, abdomen and skull, and they fell to the ground screaming and killing in the blood splash.

Some clever soldiers have already thrown the torches in their hands on the ground at this time, and they are struggling to extinguish them with their feet, but the torches held by more than 10,000 troops are difficult to count, and most of the panicked people have already lost their cool when they see the ghostly arrows coming in the dark night one after another, and they have already lost their calm. The officers and soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and the cowardly crouched or crouched, hiding behind their shields, and their bold mouths shouted and cursed with their bows and crossbows to shoot indiscriminately into the darkness of the four fields, and the moment they got up, they often killed the whistling enemy arrows.

Pan Zhong was also hit by an arrow in the shoulder, and the blood flowed straight down, but fortunately he was wearing fish scale armor, and his injuries were not serious, seeing that the enemy army was just hiding in the darkness beyond his sight, he opened his bow and arrow, and did not rush forward, so it was obvious that he planned to completely break the morale of his army with bows and arrows, and then make a fatal impact after his whole army was scattered. He was a veteran general in the army, and he knew that if such a situation of only being beaten and unable to fight back continued for a while, he was afraid that the whole army would collapse, so he hurriedly shouted orders, and let a group of soldiers with shields protect the periphery of the two wings of the army, and the army turned around and retreated.

In the grass more than 100 steps away from the official road, Zhu Neng, who led about 20,000 Yan troops to ambush Pan Zhong, saw that Pan Zhong's army was suddenly ambushed, although it suffered heavy casualties, but it did not collapse under the constraints of thousands of households and hundreds of households, but slowly retreated like a giant python in distress, and did not order a rapid pursuit, but continued to kill and wound the defeated army with arrows and no power to fight back. After the enemy army withdrew for about half a mile, he ordered all the troops to gather on Shangguan Road and pursue him.

Pan Zhong led the defeated army to turn around in a hurry, seeing the flames on the Yueyang Bridge rising into the sky, and the enemy ranks and tails chasing and killing, where was there time to extinguish the fire in a hurry, and saw that the river under the bridge was only a few zhang wide and narrow, and he was desperate and hurriedly ordered the army to swim and cross the river.

Zhu Neng heard that the former army had returned, saying that the enemy army had broken and dispersed in the swimming, and immediately ordered the whole army to cover up and kill.

Pan Zhong led the army mostly for the south, swimming through a few zhang wide and narrow river, if it is not difficult for them on weekdays, but at this time the army is scattered under the fight for me, self-trampling under the heavy casualties, countless soldiers or in the crowded push under the roll into the river drowned, or to the rear of the arrow shot indiscriminately shot in the river to death, a number of more soldiers saw that the sky had no way into the ground and no door, under the leadership of their own thousands of households have thrown away their weapons and returned to the Yan army.

The fish scale armor Pan Zhong wore was originally a strong armor to resist the sword, but it was a great burden to be in the water, and after getting an arrow in the leg, he poured several saliva of water.

Zhu Di knew that he wanted to fight against the imperial army, and the most important thing was to expand the military strength as soon as possible, so he had already strictly ordered Zhang Yu, Zhu Neng and other generals under him, and all those who surrendered to him were not allowed to kill indiscriminately, and those who surrendered were all officials in their original positions and commanded the old department, so Zhu Neng ordered his troops to go to the river to get water to extinguish the flames that were still burning on the bridge, and pursue the enemy army to expand the results of the battle.

The night of killing finally passed, and at dawn, before dawn, there was a sudden sound of horses' hooves on the official road, and about 18,000 Yanshan escort cavalry galloped under the leadership of Zhu Di himself. Crossing the solid and still solid, but giving a fire to the smoke and fire of the dark Yueyang Bridge, went straight to Juzhou. It turned out that since he knew the distribution of the imperial army, he led 30,000 soldiers and horses to attack Xiongxian, but he ordered Zhu Neng to lead 20,000 Yan soldiers to hide on the road from Juzhou to Xiongxian, and ambush the reinforcements led by Pan Zhongsuo at dawn.