The mother and son chatted a few words, and Zhu Gaoxu finally said that he was going to Yongping tomorrow, so he came to say goodbye to the mother concubine and resigned.

Princess Xu cared about it, you have to be careful in everything, if you can't beat it, you must run, and you must protect yourself.

Zhu Gaoxu said that his father's important affairs are important, and no matter what, Gaoxu will complete it.

Amitabha, Princess Xu put her hands together, her mother is a woman, and she can't help your father's affairs, but she will definitely chant the Buddha, I wish you peace and return as soon as possible.

At this point, Zhu Gaoxu also said something similar, and got up and left immediately.

Princess Xu smiled and nodded.

Xu Miaojin will find that from beginning to end, after Princess Xu came in, Zhu Gaoxu didn't look at him directly, even when he left, he lowered his eyebrows and was very polite: "Third aunt, Gao Xu left first." ”

He really pretended to be exactly like his father.

After Zhu Gaoxu left, Xu Miaojin stepped forward and took Princess Xu's hand: "Eldest sister, it's still really hot, I still like winter, when it snows, you can play with snowmen, I remember that it seems to be seven or eight years old, or how old is it, the snow in Beiping, it's so big--"

Princess Xu covered her mouth and smiled: "Silly girl, you never came to Beiping City before you were ten years old. ”

“。。” Xu Miaojin wanted to stomp her feet angrily, but Zhu Gaoxu lied to me again.

Early the next morning, Zhu Gaoxu got up to wash, and then put on his armor with the help of Zhong Xian, Ruo'er, and Yaya.

After listening to Xu Xiang's experience, Zhu Gaoxu was ready to wear three layers of armor, but it was too hot now, so he wore a set of chain soft armor inside.

This is the coolest set of armor, and the rest of the leather armor and his exclusive pangolin are placed on horseback first.

Zhu Gaoxu rode alone and twice this time, in addition to the shadow, he also carried a horse, led by Zhao Qing.

In the future, he plans to let his subordinates have two horses, which will become more organic and motivated, but for now, he can only do this with a few generals, mainly because he doesn't want to bear too much weight before the war.

When he left the city, his two battalions of more than 2,000 soldiers and horses had gathered outside the city.

After months of training, more than 2,000 people rode horses on the scene, the formation was tight, and the birds were silent.

"Your Highness."

"Your Highness."

The generals came to see each other.

Zhu Gaoxu looked at the more than 2,000 subordinates, and his heart was full of pride, and he waved his big hand: "Go, Yongping." ”

The long horse team rushed out like a flood, and the dust in the sky spread outside the city of Beiping, like a long smoke in the distance.

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Yongping City is located in the west of Shanhaiguan, guarding the middle of the road from Shanhaiguan to Beiping, the location is very important, and it is also very important for the success or failure of Yan Wangjing.

If there is no Yongping City, the soldiers and horses of Shanhaiguan can directly approach Beiping, and the soldiers and horses of the 100,000 Daning Xingdu Division stationed in Songtingwei can also follow closely behind, because of Yongping City, nearly 50,000 soldiers and horses stationed in Shanhaiguan can not move.

At the beginning of September, in order to give Li Jinglong time to concentrate his army and prepare materials, Wu Gao raised his army again and attacked Yongping.

Yongping guards Guo Liang desperately defending, and the small Yongping is unbreakable.

Guo Liang was originally from Hefei, but his father Guo Ju was a hundred households in Nanningwei, and since then he grew up in Guangxi with his father and participated in many counterinsurgency campaigns by the Ming army against Guangxi.

Speaking of which, he and Yang Wen, Wu Gao's deputy opposite, are also familiar with each other.

Four years ago, that is, in the twenty-eighth year of Hongwu (1395 AD), the local officials of Longzhou, Fengyi, Nandan and other prefectures in Guangxi rebelled, and the Ming Dynasty made Yang Wen, the general of Zhengnan, the chief military officer, and led 30,000 people to support the Beijing Guard, and the two sides had cooperated.

Guo Liang has rich combat experience and defends properly, and Wu Gao has repeatedly attacked in vain.

Yang Wen shot arrows and surrendered, Guo Liang didn't even look at the generals' soldiers, and tore them up directly.

Guo Liang even said to the generals that Yang Wen was in Guangxi to quell the rebellion, slaughtered the city at every turn, and left no chickens and dogs, more than 30,000 people in the Guangxi Huang Shitie rebel army, surrendered after the defeat but were killed, and the rebels' villages, such as Gengwu, Lotus, and Dateng, were razed to the ground, not to mention the old and young women, and even the dogs were all killed.

The defenders were shocked, resisted, and did not dare to surrender.

Guo Liang didn't talk nonsense, it was Yang Wen's Huang Shitie uprising at the beginning, and the one he killed was full of blood, and there was not a single live dog left.

However, although Guo Liang instigated everyone to resist, with Wu Gao's attack, his soldiers became fewer and fewer.

By the 18th of September, there were less than 2,000 people in Yongping City, and almost all of them were wounded, half of them were strong men recruited from the vicinity, not regular guards, and hundreds of stove households (salt makers).

On this day, Guo Liang walked up to the city again and took a look at the outside of the city, which was densely packed with officials and troops outside Yongping City, and Wu Gao's tens of thousands of troops surrounded them.

King Yan's henchman Qianhu Wang Zhen said in a deep voice: "I'm afraid I can't hold it." ”

Today is the end, but tomorrow Wu Gao will attack again, and the situation will be very dangerous, and the number of soldiers in the city who can move is already less than 2,000.

The faces of the surrounding generals changed slightly.

Guo Liang remained silent: "The king will definitely come to save us, everyone can rest assured." ”

Because King Yan had come to the rescue several times before, when Guo Liang said this, everyone was still willing to believe it, just to pray that King Yan's army would arrive as soon as possible.

In fact, Zhu Gaoxu's soldiers and horses had already arrived nearby at noon.

At this time, Zhu Gaoxu was leading 2,000 soldiers and horses to rest near Xifengkou, waiting for dark.

In the past, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, came to the rescue of Yongping, all of them drove straight in, since Beiping took the avenue to Yongping, Wu Gao arranged a sentinel ride in the west of Luanzhou to Kaiping, as long as he saw the Yanwang cavalry rushing to the distance and immediately turned back, Wu Gao had enough time to retreat.

This time, Zhu Gaoxu planned to catch them off guard, so after setting off from Beiping, he did not follow the official road.

He took 2,000 soldiers and horses, first to Jizhou, after resting in Jizhou, from Jizhou to the north to the mouth of the Great Wall of Huangyayu, and then along the Great Wall to the east, all the way to Xifengkou.

When his soldiers and horses arrived at Xifengkou, they had already reached the north of Wugao's soldiers and horses, and further north outside Xifengkou was Songting Pass, where tens of thousands of troops of Chen Heng and Liu Zhen were stationed, guarding King Yan while also watching King Ning.

Wu Gao didn't expect Zhu Gaoxu's soldiers and horses to go around in a big circle and go around behind him.

If Zhu Gaoxu had more soldiers and horses, he could continue to go east along the Great Wall and take the opportunity to cut off their way back to Shanhaiguan.

Of course, no matter how many soldiers and horses he has, the greater the movement, and the closer he is to Yongping, the easier it is to be discovered.

Now there are only 2,000 soldiers and horses, and it is far from Yongping, so Wu Gao has not found it for the time being.

This time Xu Xiang is not there, Zhu Gaoxu is his own commander, he is good at learning, and now he is more and more experienced in fighting, and he now feels that fighting in war is the same as doing work in later generations, just think more about it in advance, where is it easier to do? Where it is easy to make mistakes, how to do the best with the least cost.

So after thinking about it carefully, Zhu Gaoxu felt that he had too few soldiers and horses to rush Wu Gao's tens of thousands of troops, and it was hot in the afternoon, so he waited directly at Xifengkou until it was dark.

Xifengkou is more than 200 miles away from Yongping, and at about six o'clock in the afternoon, the sun went down, and Zhu Gaoxu rushed to Yongping with all his army.

After dark, we have arrived in Qian'an County, on the north bank of the Luan River.

This is where the former Xingzhou Right Tun Guard is located, and the Wu High School Army Camp is here, but it will be dark, and they are on the other side of the river, and they don't know that Zhu Gaoxu's soldiers and horses are coming.

Zhu Gaoxu and the generals rested in the dark for about two quarters of an hour, and the whole army found a place to cross the river, at that time he didn't know that this was the Wu Gao army camp, just because his army was all stationed in the north, and knew that this place was suitable for crossing the river.

Zhu Gaoxu's soldiers and horses rushed up and shot at them, and then marched south along the official army camp and set fire everywhere.

The scene of "whoosh" is full of rockets, and even Guo Liang, who is far away in Yongping, can see it clearly.

"The king has come to our rescue." Guo Liang was extremely excited, shouting around, and the soldiers guarding the city suddenly became excited.

Wang Zhen immediately said: "Do you want to lead your brothers out of the city and attack inside and outside?" ”

"Rest easy." Guo Liang immediately said, I don't know how many Yan troops have come, let's see if there is fraud.

What if the officials and soldiers themselves are burning themselves and deliberately luring them?

However, he also ordered Wang Zhen to put in order the soldiers and horses, and all the war horses that could be ridden were brought out, and 1,200 horses were gathered to stand by.

Just as Guo Liang was preparing in the city, Zhu Gaoxu's soldiers and horses had already come from north to south along the official army camp.

His men and horses are from north to south, and they also want to get close to Yongping, hoping that Yongping can come out and attack inside and outside.

At this time, the scene was full of fire, and Zhu Gaoxu's soldiers and horses were shooting out the rockets they brought, and each of them brought 20 rockets from Beiping.

Zhu Gaoxu demanded that the strappling fire be dispersed and not shot in a large battalion.

Everyone followed Zhu Gaoxu's personal banner to the south.

There is a swallow character on the big flag, which is not Zhu Gaoxu's own flag, which makes the officials and soldiers think that it is the main force of the Yan army.

"Huh" Yongping City is full of flames, many of the flames are because the officials and soldiers are chaotic, and they push down their torches, plus the weather is dry, the fire burns quickly.

The shouts and killings around were overwhelming, and no one knew how many Yan troops came.

A large number of officers and soldiers gathered at the Wu High School military camp.

Zhu Gaoxu led the generals to rush to the front, and went in the direction of Yongping City in the night, shooting when he saw the official army camp along the way, and then pretending to rush to kill, and immediately retreated.

In this way, the officers and soldiers simply thought that they were ambushed on all sides, and there were Yan troops everywhere.

After a while, Zhou Hu rushed over: "Your Highness, do you want to find a southern army camp to rush?" ”

Zhou Hu never shoots arrows, so he follows Zhu Gaochu with a big axe on his back, and now Zhu Gaoxu's soldiers and horses are shooting arrows, without his share, he is a little unhappy.

"There's no hurry." Zhu Gaoxu said with a smile: "Wu Gao and Yang Wen are both generals in the army, and they have a good way of governing the army, and many Liaodong soldiers and horses have been stationed here for a long time. ”

Wu Gao and Yang Wen are both generals who have led the army for many years, will they not be attacked at night?

After listening to it, the generals looked at it, and sure enough, they found that what the king of Gaoyang said made sense.

Chen Wen on the side nodded secretly, His Royal Highness learned quickly, not only commanding better and better, but also learning to observe the overall situation, and after a few more battles like this, he would soon become a general who stood alone.