Then Zhu Gaoxu said: "I'll look forward later, a small half of Wu Gao's guards here are soldiers and horses from the south, so it should be easier to fight." ”

On the opposite side, there is also a part of the guards brought by the governor Geng Zhen from the south, everyone understands this, and the king of Gaoyang County wants to find a good fight.

The persimmon is also picked and pinched softly.

Even Zhu Gaoxu himself felt that he was becoming more and more good at fighting.

While everyone was talking, they had already come to another big camp, which was late from Zhu Gaoxu's surprise attack, and at this time a large number of soldiers and horses were already gathering at the gate of the camp, but Zhu Gaoxu's cavalry went up to shoot arrows, and the opposite side suddenly scattered with a bang.

A wave of infantry battalions that had just gathered was directly scattered by a rocket.

"Hahaha." The generals laughed, this is obviously a soft persimmon.

"Zhou Hu, Song Meng."

"The end will be." Zhou Hu and Song Meng responded one after another.

"Each of you will take two hundred-man teams to go up first, beware of the pit, if there is a pit, if you can't go deep, you will retreat, don't do it."

"No." The two immediately ordered the soldiers and horses of two hundred households under their subordinates and rushed forward to kill.

Zhu Gaoxu asked Wei Da to prepare a team of five hundred, if Zhou Hu and Song Meng entered, they would immediately rush in smoothly, and if Zhou Hu and they were defeated, they would be postponed.

Veda also took the order.

"Let's go, let's go on." Zhu Gaoxu and the rest of the people continued to shoot along the outside, setting fires, and bluffing.

This time he didn't charge the battle in person, because it was night, and he didn't know if there was a pit or something on the other side, in case he was unlucky and fell into the pit and died, it would be too unlucky.

But Zhu Gaoxu is really lucky, Zhou Hu and Song Mengchong have a trap here, but there are only a few of them.

Zhou Hu and Song Meng were also fierce, and they were trapped by dozens of horse soldiers, but they still rushed forward regardless of it.

The soldiers and horses of the guard here were originally bombing the camp, and they collapsed on the spot, and Veda saw it and hurriedly rushed in with people.

They couldn't ride a thousand horses, and in about half an hour, they rushed through the officers and soldiers of this battalion and killed them directly under Yongping City.

Guo Liang, the head of the city, was overjoyed, and finally determined that it was the Yan army who came, and immediately ordered the soldiers and horses to rush out to help.

Defeat will spread like a plague, one of Wu Gao's battalions was penetrated, and the whole army collapsed immediately, Wu Gao didn't know how many Yan troops came, he could only see that there were fires burning everywhere, and he slowly retreated while reorganizing his troops and horses that night.

Originally, he wanted to retreat to Funing to stabilize first, but the night was dark and chaotic, and the news from various departments was not smooth, many people ran behind Funing, and Wu Gao had no choice but to order to continue to retreat to Shanhaiguan.

Tens of thousands of horses and horses dropped countless baggage and armor, and fled to Shanhaiguan overnight, suffering heavy losses, becoming the biggest defeat since the attack on Yongping.

Near dawn, a group of cavalry outside Yongping City came to Zhu Gaoxu's camp.

As soon as he entered the camp, he saw Zhu Gaoxu yawning and welcoming him.

Guo Liang, Wang Zhen and other Yongping guards jumped off the horse with excited faces and knocked down one after another.

"Meet Your Highness."

"Meet the King of Gaoyang."

Four shouts rang out in one, each with its own name.

Zhu Gaoxu remained silent and looked at the generals.

Generally speaking, the person who is called the king of Gaoyang County is more popular, and the call of His Royal Highness is intentionally befriended, and some people like to call him the king of Gaoyang, such as Qiu Fu, which is also a manifestation of friendship.

Therefore, we Chinese have a deep cultural heritage, and there are several ways to say that even a title is in it.

Originally, Zhu Gaoxu didn't know, but later he only understood after listening to Xu Xiang's reminder.

Of course, this is not absolute, it can only be said that it can be seen roughly.

Zhu Gaoxu didn't care about this, laughed, and stepped forward to help Guo Liang first: "General Guo, brothers, please get up, I hope Xiao Wang is not late." ”

He called himself Xiao Wang, and the generals Chen Wen and Wei Da behind him were thoughtful.

On the other hand, if Zhu Gaoxu was not close enough to him, he would not call himself the king, or Gao Xu.

Xiao Wang sounds humble and seems to respect each other, but in fact, it is a manifestation of not wanting to get closer to the other party.

Chen Wen immediately observed the generals opposite, and after a while, he found that Wang Zhen and His Royal Highness did not deal with each other.

Zhu Gaochu led the troops to save them overnight, but Wang Zhen didn't have any happy looks, but had an expression as if Zhu Gaochu owed him a million.

This kind of name is obviously deliberate.

Wang Zhen was originally the right guard of Yanshan for 100 households, and Tan Hai was a good brother, a subordinate of Tan Yuan, and a person from the prince's side.

After Zhu Di won Yongping last time, he was promoted to a thousand households, and Guo Liang was stationed here.

At this time, Guo Liang and Zhu Gaoxu were touting each other, one said that Guo Liang was good, and the other said that His Royal Highness played well last night.

Wang Zhen watched coldly, Guo Liang was still doubting whether Zhu Gaoxu could do it last night, and today he was a highness, and he was very affectionate.

He thought in his heart, I want to have two thousand elite cavalry, and last night I could attack Wu Gaojun's army, and I could fight better than Zhu Gaoxu.

In the formation of Wu Gao's fiasco last night, Wang Zhenneng chased all the way to Shanhaiguan, and it is estimated that he can kill countless heads.

But Zhu Gaoxu chased him to Funing and returned to the army, obviously timid and afraid of being ambushed.

He thought about it for a while but still couldn't hold back, and said loudly: "Congratulations to the King of Gaoyang County for his big victory last night, I don't know how to win?" ”

Zhu Gaoxu ignored him, what are you, you don't respect me, I need to give you face?

He said to Guo Liang: "General Guo, the siege of Yongping has been lifted, and our army will be stationed outside the city for the time being, and I also ask the general to find a Lang Zhong to help us take a look at the wounded soldiers." ”

Guo Liang immediately said: "This is a trivial matter, and the end will arrange it immediately." ”

Brush, Wang Zhen's face was flushed, but he didn't expect Zhu Gaoxu to ignore him, he was very faceless.

He stood there with his eyes fixed with an ugly expression, and then noticed that there were people on his left and right looking at him, and many people had mocking expressions in their eyes.

Only then did he remember that the king of Gaoyang County was kind on the surface, but in fact, he was not easy to mess with, but he had broken into their thousands of households and snatched Xue Xun.

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To the south of Yongping is the Luanzhou Station, and Zhu Gaoxu stationed his soldiers and horses around the Luanzhou Station, and the post station was his camp.

Guo Liang is very on the road, and he will send someone to send two pigs and dozens of catties of wine, it is said that Yongping has been trapped for a long time, and it is not easy to get two pigs.

Zhu Gaoxu expressed his gratitude, and at noon that day, he killed the pig and drank wine to celebrate the victory, and at the same time reported to Zhu Di, the king of Yan.

At the same time that Zhu Gaoxu repelled Wu Gao, on September 28, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, went out of the city with all his elite and ordered the prince to stick to Beiping.

On the 29th, the army of King Yan was still on the way.

Chen Wen hurried back to the camp from outside with a team of cavalry.

After seeing Zhu Gaoxu, he said: "The salt works in Yongping are mainly on the coast of Changli and Leting, but our army and the southern army have fought for Yongping many times, and most of them have been deserted, and many local stove households have also been recruited by Guo Liang as defenders. ”

It turned out that after Zhu Gaoxu repelled Wu Gao, he immediately sent Chen Wen to see the local salt farm, and found that the salt farm was even more deserted than the last time he came, and only one piece was still running, mainly to supply salt to Yongping Mansion.

It is said that this salt field was destroyed by the Yan army itself, and the southern army almost didn't care about it.

The court is still moral? Zhu Gaoxu felt a little funny, probably the court felt that these salt farms were originally his own, so he was embarrassed to destroy them.

And the Yan army destroyed a lot, leaving a piece to produce salt for himself.

It is said that Guo Liang ordered that as long as the southern army came to fight Yongping, the local stove households could go home and hide, and they would not be held accountable.

As soon as the southern army leaves, you can come back and make salt.

So every time the Southern Army came, they saw that there was no one in the salt field, and they didn't care about it, just continue to fight Yongping.

Zhu Gaoxu thought about it, there is only one salt field in Yongping, and the price of salt in Beiping City will rise in the future, which is a good thing.

He didn't get a new order from King Yan, so he could only stay here like last time.

But he didn't have nothing to do.

In this battle, Wu Gao was defeated, and less than 1,000 people were killed, but more than 1,300 were captured alive.

If it hadn't been for the night attack, Zhu Gaoxu would have been afraid of being ambushed by Wu Gao, and would have dared to chase after him for a while.

The main reason is that he only has 3,000 soldiers and horses, and he has practiced for a long time, and he doesn't want to sacrifice in vain, after all, it is not the previous Zhu Gaoxu, if he wants to replace it with the previous Zhu Gaoxu, he really dared to chase him outside Shanhaiguan that day.

Now Zhu Gaoxu is still cautious and conservative in fighting.

"Let's go, let's see the surrenders." Zhu Gaoxu took Chen Wen and other generals to see the surrendered troops captured last night.

The soldiers who were captured last night were all guards from the south.

But the guards who came from the south were not necessarily southerners.

When Lao Zhu mobilized the whole country, he transferred the southern soldiers to the northern guards, so like Yan Wang's subordinates, Daning Xingdu Division, more than half of them were southern soldiers.

And now many of the guards who have been transferred from the south are northern soldiers.

This time, Zhu Gaoxu caught a bunch of northern soldiers.

Zhu Gaoxu is still the old routine, at noon, first let people send lunch, and then there is a pot of broth, of course, the meat has already been eaten by his soldiers and horses, and now there are only bones and broth, but for the soldiers, it is also a good treatment.

When the generals were eating, Zhu Gaoxu entered the camp.

Many people couldn't help but stand up when they looked at Zhu Gaoxu's clothes.

"King Gaoyang has come to see everyone." Wei Da's voice was very loud, and he shouted loudly, and many people at the scene quickly knelt down.

"Meet the King of Gaoyang." There were captured generals who took the lead, and many people subconsciously bowed.

"Brothers, please get up, they are all my Ming brothers, they are all their own people, eat first, eat first." Zhu Gaoxu smiled and helped up the leading deputy Qianhu.

How dare the deputy Qianhu really eat, quickly put down the dishes and chopsticks in his hand first.

"What's your name, which one is it from?" Zhu Gaoxu asked in a good voice.

"Back to Your Highness, humble Yizhou Wei Deputy Qianhu Zhou Tai."

Yizhou Wei is in Yizhou, located in the southernmost part of Shandong, at the junction with Jiangnan.

"Who else is in the house?" Zhu Gaoxu chatted with him casually.

Zhou Tai said that there is a mother-in-law and son at home, both of whom are in Yizhou.

The implication is that he doesn't want to surrender, for fear of being investigated by the imperial court.

Zhu Gaoxu said directly: "You changed your name to Xu Tai, the court didn't know that you were here, it was so dark last night, everyone thought you were killed, and in the future, you will fight back to Yizhou and bring your mother-in-law and son out together, wouldn't it be wonderful?" ”

Zhou Tai's eyes widened, his face flushed.

Veda said angrily: "Your Highness wants to greet you, are you happy, mother-in-law, like a man?" ”

"Hmph." Zhou Hu didn't know when he was holding the big axe in his hand, snorted slightly, and shook the axe in his hand.

He still has the blood stains of last night's battle on him, I don't know if he didn't wash it on purpose, it looks crimson, or it's scary.

Zhou Tai's heart trembled, and after thinking about it, he could only stiffen his head and kneel down: "I am willing to serve His Highness." ”

He thought very clearly, the generals who surrendered to King Yan in front of him did not have too many soldiers and horses, and he was not inferior to a thousand households, and if the court wanted to investigate it, it had to start with the senior generals.

If you refuse now, you will be beheaded immediately.

"Hahaha, hurry up, Xu Qianhu, now you are Qianhu." Zhu Gaoxu laughed and helped him up.

Xu Tai (Zhou Tai) set an example, and most of the rest of the hundred households and the general banner all surrendered.

After a morning's reorganization, Zhu Gaoxu became more than 3,000 people, and 1,000 more soldiers and horses came out.

He divided the thousand into three, and the original two thousand into three.

A large number of officers were promoted from among the surrendered troops, and the distribution was re-disrupted.

But there weren't many war horses last night, so of the more than 1,000 people who surrendered, two-thirds did not have war horses, so they could only be used as infantry first.

Another day later, King Yan came to Yongping City with a large army.