Zhu Di knew that most of the cavalry under Ping'an had elite border knights transferred from the important towns of the nine borders by the imperial court, and the Yanshan escort cavalry under his command could not have a significant upper hand in cavalry and melee combat, thinking of the fear of the generals under his command last night, knowing that even if he was defeated today, he would shake the morale of the army, so he immediately instigated the sweaty horses to gallop and take the lead.

The cavalry of the Yan army, which had not yet been put into battle, saw the handsome flag of the word "Yan" waving forward, and rushed forward with a clamour. He Fu, the commander of the Southern Army, who was responsible for pressing the formation in the rear, saw that the enemy's cavalry was pressing on the whole army, and immediately ordered all the cavalry of the Southern Army to attack. For a time, the cavalry of the two armies surged forward like the Yangtze River pushing forward, and launched an extremely tragic battle within a radius of several miles in front of the two army camps.

The battle lasted until dusk, and the two armies returned to their respective camps. In the tent of the commander of the southern army, Ping'an and He Fu recalled the battle situation during the day with dark faces, and their hearts were extremely heavy. It turned out that the cavalry of the two armies fought in the daytime, the Ping'an array beheaded the Yan general Wang Zhen, and the southern general Huo'er gray war horse was captured by the Yan army, and the two soldiers were injured and damaged, which can be described as equal, but the Yan King Zhu Di was cunning and unpredictable, and actually sent 5,000 cavalry to detour behind him, led by Zhu Quan, the king of Ning, to intercept and kill the grain transportation brigade of the southern army dozens of miles away, and burned most of the grain and grass. The two of them considered that there was not much food and grass in the army, so how could they not be anxious.

"There is not much grain and grass in the army, our army must temporarily retreat, tomorrow I will lead all the cavalry to receive the grain and grass, you lead the army and fight and retreat, if the Yan thief chases all the way, we simply retreat to Xuyi, according to the city to hold on, in order to wait for the reinforcements to arrive." After a long silence, Ping An finally said with a frown. ”“

He Fu thought for a moment and immediately agreed. At that moment, the two of them sent a message to the generals in the army, asking them to tell the whole army, and tomorrow all the horses of the southern army will fight and retreat to the south with three cannon sounds.

At dawn on the second day, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, immediately ordered Zhu Quan to lead 10,000 cavalry to continue to detour through the rear of the southern army to attack the grain road, and he personally led all the remaining cavalry to shout an invitation to battle in front of the two army camps.

He Fu, the commander of the southern army, saw the courage and good fighting of the Yan cavalry yesterday, and immediately ordered the army to strictly guard the camp and not come out, and let the Yan soldiers lie outside and shout and scold, only to turn a deaf ear.

Zhu Di saw that the southern army was cowering in the camp and refused to fight, although he pretended to be calm on his face, recalling the situation when all the generals under his command thought of returning, but his heart was very anxious, just because he knew that Sheng Yong would definitely lead the army towards his back road at this time, and if the army under his command was hindered by the imperial army for two more days, the generals would mutiny under the wavering of the army's heart. Thinking of the treacherous environment in which he was about to suffer from the enemy and not with me, Zhu Di immediately rode his horse back to the camp and ordered all the generals under his command to leave the camp and make an all-out blow to break through the southern army camp and clear the way to the south.

He Fu stood on the watchtower in the camp, saw the Yan army pouring out of the nest from afar, lined up outside the camp, and immediately ordered all the generals and soldiers in the camp to defend the village to repel the Yan army's upcoming attack. Although he had the intention to retreat, he did not dare to give the order to retreat when the two armies were close at hand, and in any case, he had to repel the strong attack of the Yan army before making plans.

Zhu Di had frost on his face, a sword in one hand, and before riding a horse to inspect the military formation, his eyes swept over the generals under his command, and said coldly: "Go forward bravely, reward." Those who retreat from the battle, slash. He knew that today's battle was a matter of life and death, and now that he and all the Yan soldiers were already in the place of death, if he didn't want to sit still, he had to fight his way out.

As three cannon shots roared over the wilderness, shattering the palpitating tranquility, the Yan army's infantry divided into three routes and attacked the southern army camp.

In the camp of the southern army, the non-commissioned officers and colonels of the southern army who were preparing for war with weapons in their hands heard the three earth-shattering and roaring cannons, and they couldn't help but be confused, and they turned their heads to look back, and finally some people couldn't stand the huge oppression brought by the tens of millions of Yan soldiers outside the camp who roared in unison, and threw down their weapons with trembling hands and feet and turned around and fled towards the back of the camp, shouting in their mouths: "Withdraw the troops, withdraw the troops ......"

It turns out that the difficulty of such a large number of troops to calmly retreat in front of the enemy is even higher than that of pursuing the enemy's defeat and escape, and it is necessary to order unity, so Ping An and He Fu planned last night that today's army took three cannon shots as an order, and the armies fought and retreated under each other's cover, but the two of them ignored one thing, when the two armies were fighting, three cannon sounds were the most commonly used means of command, Zhu Di led the whole army to assault in a desperate fit today, and it was inadherent that such three cannon sounds were used to urge the whole army to attack, resulting in an instant, There were countless generals and soldiers of the Southern Army, all of whom thought that the commander had issued an order for the whole army to retreat.

He Fu naturally knew that this was the order for the enemy to attack, and saw from a distance that hundreds of generals and soldiers in the crowded formation in the camp were constantly throwing down their weapons and turning to flee, driving more and more men and horses to join them, and its momentum was already irreparable, and he couldn't help but face like ashes, gritted his teeth and stomped his feet fiercely, immediately turned over and stepped on the war horse, and led his own soldiers to flee backwards.

There are many brave and good fighters in the southern army, and at this time, seeing that the military flag of the commander is retreating, and the fighting spirit is also lost, they have led their military horses to turn around and flee, but in a moment the defeat is intensifying.

Although the camp built by the southern army is very strong, it is a pity that the rout has been achieved, irretrievable, the unguarded camp wooden fence was cut down and pushed down by the Yan soldiers who were like a mad tiger, but the effort of half an hour was small, and the three Yan troops attacked the camp from the left, the center and the right in succession.

Zhu Di never expected that the enemy army would collapse at such a touch and be vulnerable, so he immediately led the cavalry of the Yan army to cover up from the gap in the camp that the infantry soldiers kept breaking.

The sunset is like blood, and the dusk and sunset. A bloodied, tall general of the Southern Army endured the severe pain caused by two arrows on his shoulder and back, and led hundreds of exhausted knights under his command to flee all the way south. It was the cavalry generals of the Southern Army, all of whom commanded Ping'an. It turned out that he heard three cannons in his army camp a few miles away today, and learned that after He Fu's soldiers and horses were defeated, in order to cover the retreat of the rear army, he immediately led the army to respond.

With the sound of dense horses' hooves, a group of Yan cavalry surged from all directions, and in front of him, a good horse with a black body and four hooves like snow stood quietly under the military flag. Sitting upright on the horse, staring coldly at peace, it was none other than Zhu Quan, the king of Ning. Since he was ordered to lead the cavalry to intercept the grain road behind the southern army, he knew that the enemy army was bound to divide his troops to protect the grain transportation team after suffering this loss yesterday, and he always led the army to circle in a peaceful circle within a radius of more than ten miles nearby, so as to avoid fighting, and the Yan army reported by the scout broke through the southern army camp, and the cavalry of the enemy brigade went to the camp to reinforce under the leadership of this old acquaintance Ping'an, and immediately decided to divide his more than 10,000 cavalry into several roads, led by Jing Jun, Sima Chao and the rest of the Yan generals, and intercepted the defeated southern army layer by layer. But he personally led 2,000 cavalry to recuperate dozens of miles away, waiting for work.

Zhu Quan looked at the bloodstained soldiers of the Southern Army from Ping'an more than 20 zhang away, and couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart, thinking that there were many brave men under the command of Ping'an, who had followed the Liangguo Gong Lanyu expedition to the desert in the past, and annihilated all the main forces of the Northern Yuan Dynasty in the fishing sea, his mood was extremely heavy, and he secretly thought: It's a pity that these elite knights of my Ming Dynasty did not die in the desert, and died in battle with the barbarians, but today they will die in my hands. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but shout angrily: "It's hard for the horseman to fly at this time, is it still worthy of a battle?" If you have a little courage, how about fighting to the death with this king alone? ”

Ping An turned his head and looked at the hundreds of bloodstains behind him, showing that he was sleepy and tired, and he could be described as a wounded subordinate, and immediately spit out a mouthful of bloody spit, and shouted angrily: "I and you and the other thieves swear not to stand together, why don't you dare?" Then he turned his head and shouted to the sergeants, "Let's see that I have picked this thief under my horse." With that, his legs clamped the horse's belly violently, urging the gray horse under his crotch and rushing towards Zhu Quan. He saw that the Yan army was besieged in all directions, and the Yan army that was gradually approaching was overwhelmed, if he fought in chaos, he might be able to get away with it, but he was afraid that few of his soldiers would survive, and when he heard Zhu Quan's challenge, he immediately agreed. Just because he knew that the identity of Ning Wang Zhu Quan was extremely important, and he could be said to be second only to the Yan thief Zhu Di in the rebel army, if he could stab him under the horse, the morale of the enemy army would be greatly reduced, and he and the troops under his command could also have some hope of escaping.

The four hooves of the "dark clouds cover the snow" were raised and the dust splashed down, and Zhu Quan held a long sword in his right hand, staring at the mortal enemy with a bloody face and red eyes riding a horse to meet him. It was extremely difficult to maintain balance under the bumps of the war horse, and even if he had a thousand arm strength, it was impossible to use a long weapon with a wide opening, so Zhu Quan still used the three-foot long sword that he was best at.

The two war horses quickly approached Zhong Ping'an, and the spear was about to stab out obliquely, but when they saw the oncoming black horse suddenly accelerating and rushing diagonally, the sword light like a match was dazzling, and they didn't have time to take a closer look, and immediately flipped their wrists, and the barrel of the gun swung lightly, intending to knock away the enemy's inconspicuous sword momentum.

It turned out that Zhu Quan had seen Lan Yu in the past, and he had already known what the Qinglong Glaive Knife was, and it was impossible for a sledgehammer of several hundred catties to be flexible on the flat ground, let alone on a galloping war horse? It's pure nonsense. The gun is the king of a hundred soldiers, and it has always been liked by the skilled warriors, because its extremely lethal assassination moves are not only tricky and difficult to defend, but also not a wide open dance, so it will not affect the balance between the knights and horses.

Under the exchange of blades, Zhu Quan's three-foot long sword dissolved the violent power of the opponent's spear and slashed down the barrel of the spear.

Ping An didn't have time to think about it, and his left hand suddenly let go of the barrel of the gun, avoiding the disaster of severed fingers, and blood gushed out from the cool room under his ribs. Although he saved the fingers of his left hand with a quick reaction, he still dragged Zhu Quan with a sword with deep internal force under his ribs, and his armor was torn and he was severely injured.

When the two horses staggered past, Yu Yonghu turned around abruptly with a roar, and the spear clenched in both hands stabbed hard, like a poisonous dragon out of the water, and went straight to Zhu Quan's heart.

If it is a change of people, it is difficult to escape such a lightning shot back to the horse between the staggered horses. Helplessly, Zhu Quan used to see Lan Yu in his spare time in the army, and often practiced this unexpected and thunderous killing move. When he was on the wrong horse, he was already prepared, and his body swayed obliquely, not only did he avoid this extremely powerful spear thrust, but when he held the sword, he firmly clamped the rest of the opponent's spear ruler when he swung it down, and summoned up his internal force to pull forward sharply with the galloping momentum of the dark clouds covering the snow.

Although Ping'an is brave and fierce, he has already been wounded under the hard battle, and the blood gushes down his ribs, but his hands still hold the spear and refuse to let go. It was dark in front of him, and he turned over and fell off the horse.

Several Yan army knights saw that this vicious and abnormal Southern Army general was defeated and fell off their horses as soon as they joined together, and immediately cheered and rode their horses to pounce, holding it firmly with all hands and feet.

Zhu Quan looked up at the frightened cavalry of the Southern Army, and shouted: "Wait for the horse to dismount and surrender quickly, so as not to kill this king." "Under the agitation of internal forces, the sound shook the four fields.

Seeing that their main general was safe and invincible to King Ning's blow, all the southern soldiers looked at each other and lost their last fighting spirit and remaining bravery, and they all turned over and dismounted, knelt on the ground and asked to surrender.

At night, in the open space in front of the Yan army camp, dozens of generals of the Southern Army with a solemn look were tied and brought to Zhu Di, the king of Yan. During the day, the southern army was defeated for dozens of miles, and the Yan army pursued all the way to victory, capturing 37 enemy generals such as Chen Hui, Ma Pu, Xu Zhen, and Sun Cheng, 150 court ministers, more than 20,000 horses, and capturing countless southern soldiers.

Zhu Di saw that he was safe, and He Fu was not among the two commanders, and he couldn't help but feel a little dissatisfied in his heart. He Fu is not enough, Ping An is brave and good at fighting, it can be said that he is second only to Sheng Yong in the imperial army, if this guy escapes, it is difficult to guarantee that he will not lead the imperial court reinforcements to cause chaos for himself at a critical moment.

At this moment, with the sound of footsteps, Zhu Quan came to the front, and his fingers were tied to Zhangyu by ropes, his hair was scattered, and the big man with crooked armor smiled and said: "The younger brother is fortunate not to be dishonored, and he has already taken this guy down and handed it over to the fourth brother to dispose of." ”

Under the swaying of the torches, Zhu Di saw that this person was the commander of the Southern Army, who he was quite afraid of, and he couldn't help laughing and stood up, stretched out his hand and slapped Zhu Quan on the shoulder, and laughed: "Brother Xian has such the courage to capture this man alive." Speaking of this, he slowly walked to Ping'an's side, and asked in a deep voice with some smugness: "To this day, what else do you say?" ”

Ping An knew that he and Zhu Di and Zhu Quan had fought bloody battles several times, and the grudge was too deep, so he no longer had the heart of luck, closed his eyes and said coldly: "I just want to die quickly." ”