Sujiaqiao is east of Baoding, south of the Huitong River, and is also backed by a water source, the key is to garrison there, which can divide troops to cut off the transportation of the southern army from the sea, so that the southern army only has a supply line from Dezhou and the river.

With King Yan's ability to command troops, the two supply lines of the southern army, the sea and the waterway, must be cut off, but it is difficult to cut off the waterway, so the only way to cut off the sea is to cut off the sea.

Ping An sighed when he heard this: "If Li Jiujiang reuses the two generals, this battle will be won." ”

He has always been straightforward and fast-talking, and he is easy to offend people, so he will simply call Li Jinglong's nickname.

On the other side, Qu Neng and Sheng Yong's faces changed slightly.

Sheng Yong hurriedly laughed to hide his embarrassment: "When a soldier fights, it is a matter of course, for the sake of the saint and the people of the world, dare not do your best, General Ping, I hope we will cooperate more on the battlefield." ”

Qu Neng said: "I am willing to work together with the two of you." ”

After saying that, they hugged their fists together, drove, and turned away with their respective personal soldiers.

Ni Niang's, Ping An scolded in her heart, these two bastards are really slippery, for fear of offending Li Jinglong.

As Qu Neng and Sheng Yong expected, while the southern army was gathering at the Baigou River one after another, on April 20, nearly 200,000 Yan troops crossed the Yuma River and stationed at Sujiaqiao.

King Yan first cut off the supply of the southern army at sea, and then called a meeting of the generals.

At the meeting, Li Bin, Li Yuan, and other generals all believed that they could go south from the upper reaches of the Baigou River and fight a decisive battle with the officers and troops.

Why? Zhu Gaoxu will also listen carefully and study hard.

Now judging from the map, the southern army lined up along the middle section of the Baigou River, and the large battalion was stationed on the east bank from north to south, stretching for several miles.

They were to the east of the Southern Army, Sujiaqiao.

If you go directly to the west, you can immediately fight a head-on battle with the Southern Army, but you have to face the 600,000 troops of the Southern Army.

Now the meaning of Li Bin and Li Yuan and other generals is to go around the top first, and the whole army will go around to the north of the southern army and fight from the north to the south.

In this way, the left flank of the Southern Army was hit.

Zhu Gaoxu understood as soon as he heard it.

The southern army garrisoned soldiers and horses from north to south, a long dragon.

If they had crossed from the east, the two sides would have faced each other head-on, facing an army of 600,000 men, and they would be easily surrounded.

Now go around to the north and hit the leftmost flank of the northern part of the Southern Army, which may become 200,000 against 100,000, or even 50,000.

You must know that the 600,000 troops of the southern army stretch for several miles, and it will take a while for the southernmost soldiers and horses to move north.

Fighting a war is really a science, and Zhu Gaoxu first felt Li Yuan's ability.

As soon as Li Yuan surrendered, Xu Xiang privately told Zhu Gaoxu that Li Yuan's ability was above the generals, not weaker than Li Bin and Xu Zhong, or even stronger.

King Yan took the generals' intentions and immediately decided to move the army to the south of Xincheng County.

Xincheng County is just north of the Baigou Henan Army.

His campaign was to march dozens of miles, and even the southern army did not expect that everyone would start a frontal battle between Xiongxian and Baoding County.

Unexpectedly, on the night of the 23rd, the Yan army made a big move, except for a few soldiers and horses to guard Sujiaqiao, the whole army of nearly 200,000 horses came to the south of Xincheng County.

Qu Neng and Sheng Yong were also powerful, but they didn't expect Yan Jun to be so cowardly, they didn't dare to fight them head-on, so they ran to their side and left flank.

But the southern army still kept a hand, and when the Yan army reached the left flank of the southern army, they knew that the opposite side was all elite.

Qu Neng, peace is here.

At noon on April 24, the advance of King Yan first encountered the infantry camp of the southern army, and the two sides immediately started a big battle, and after fighting for less than an hour and a half, the southern army collapsed and fled in all directions.

Zhu Di, the king of Yan, was overjoyed when he heard the report, and immediately ordered the cavalry to pursue, forcing the left flank of the southern army to collapse to the south, thus driving the chaos of the soldiers and horses in the north of the southern army.

At this time, it was getting late, and the Yan army took advantage of the victory to chase and kill, and was at one end, when suddenly the cannon roared from the east, and Ping An rushed out with more than 10,000 elite horsemen.

Immediately afterwards, Qu Neng's father and son and Yu Tongyuan and other generals led the infantry to kill from the west side, the scene of artillery was continuous, and on the road where the southern army had just collapsed, there was actually a kind of land mine, Ming Shilu said, "The thief hides the firearm in the ground, and the so-called one of the bees and the people who carry the horse pill are all hit, and the shooting of people and horses is all pierced." ”

This kind of firearm buried in the ground is very powerful when exploded, and it is said to be able to wear through people and horses.

The pursuing Yan army was caught off guard by bombing, with heavy casualties, and then Ping'an and Qu Neng's soldiers and horses were killed, and the Yan army was defeated and retreated while fighting.

Zhu Di saw that the Ping'an cavalry was powerful, and said to the generals around him: "Ping'an Zhuzi, he used to follow me out of the fortress, and he knew my method of using soldiers, so he broke him first." ”

After he personally led an elite cavalry from the north shore back to the Heian army, he wanted to attack Heian from behind.

Unexpectedly, the two armies had just come into contact, Qu could see that Ping'an was suffering from the enemy, so Yu Tongyuan and Teng Ju led troops to kill from the flank, Yu's soldiers and horses were all Sichuan troops trained by Qu Neng, their front row was full of pikemen, dense like hedgehogs, behind were firecrackers, and then archers.

When Qu Neng attacked Changyi Gate last time, he gathered 400 archers, but they were not returned after the battle, and now with the follow-up supplements, it is close to 800, nearly doubled.

The infantry of the southern army was in front with pikemen, the gunners were in the middle, and the archers were shooting at the Yan cavalry in the back row.

King Yan rushed left and right with his elite cavalry, and the infantry of the southern army in front of him was fighting more and more, and a large number of southern troops found that the banner of King Yan was here, and they crowded to this side.

Seeing that the situation was in danger, there was suddenly a commotion in the safe riding formation, and then someone rushed out of a bloody mouth.

It turned out to be Duoyan Sanwei's Fan Cavalry Thousand Households Wang Gou'er and Thousand Households Huaju and other leading soldiers to kill and save Zhu Di, Wang Gou'er was extremely brave, the arrows were not missed, and the horse ejaculated exquisitely, King Yan watched him shoot while running, and shot several arrows in a row, and the southern army was shot down by several people, and rushed to the front of King Yan in one breath.

"Okay, okay, what's your name?" King Yan said overjoyed.

"Back to the king, the lowly king dog."

King Yan thought to himself that this name was too rubbish, these Fan people just had no culture.

But he didn't care about anything now, so he hurriedly took the remnants of the soldiers and Wang Gou'er's soldiers and horses to converge, fought a bloody way, and returned to his main force.

When breaking out of the encirclement, King Yan suddenly found that the southern army did not dare to shoot arrows at him, and many archers of Qu Neng were originally preparing to shoot Wang Gou'er's cavalry, but when they saw that King Yan was riding first, no one dared to shoot.

King Yan was overjoyed, thinking of the legend in the Jingshi, the eldest nephew Zhu Yunwen said, "Don't make me kill my uncle's name", it seems to be true.

At that moment, King Yan decided to try again, he was also bold, and personally led the army to the palace, and sure enough, he found that the southern army behind did not dare to shoot him.

At this time, the sky was getting darker and darker, and the southern army did not dare to pursue, for fear of being ambushed by the Yan army.

King Yan was lost because of the queen of the palace, after the sky was too dark, but fortunately, he dismounted and saw the direction of the river, so he returned to the camp.

On the afternoon of the battle, the southern army had a slight victory, and almost surrounded Zhu Di, the king of Yan, in the north, and Li Jinglong was very proud in his heart.

With the experience of Qu Neng's breakthrough of Changyi Gate last time and this small victory between Ping An and Qu Neng, Li Jinglong decided to give his subordinates greater autonomy.

Li Jinglong was degraded for nothing in history, in fact, he led 600,000 troops for the second time, and he fought much better than the first time, if it weren't for God's help, he really had a chance to destroy Zhu Di.

That night, the Southern Army agreed in the camp that they would learn from the Yan Army.

The last time the Yan army came from the east, they did not engage them in the east, but went around to the north and hit their left flank.

This time, Ping'an and Qu Neng decided to go further, also to the north, and then to the back of the southern army, and then wait for the two sides to fight, and then attack from behind the southern army.

For the sake of mobility, the southern army gave Ping'an tens of thousands of cavalry, and at the same time, Qu Neng and his son abandoned all the infantry battalions and distributed 10,000 cavalry.

The elite of 20,000 cavalry gave Ping'an and Qu Neng.

I have to say that Li Jinglong really has no problem commanding this time, at least he recognizes the ability of these generals.

In the early morning of the same day, before dawn, more than 20,000 elite horsemen of the southern army rode from the west bank of the Baigou River, along the periphery of Xin'an County, to the north, and circled behind the Yan army.

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Time goes back to the night before.

The big camp south of Yanjun Xincheng County.

The Yan army was stationed on the Liuli River in the east, ensuring the water source and ensuring that no enemy could approach in the east.

In fact, when the camp was stationed that day, there were two voices in the army, one was that the west side was against the Liuli River, so there was no need to defend the west, and the other was that the east side was against the Liuli River, so there was no need to defend the east side.

At that time, Li Yuan, Li Bin and other generals proposed that the east of the camp should be leaned against the Lili River, because the southern army was against the Baigou River in the west, so that the two sides could stagger and face each other across the river, and whoever wanted to attack whom, they would have to cross the river.

However, Zhang Yu, Huo Zhen and others proposed that like the southern army, the west side should be close to the river, so that they could advance and retreat freely and attack the southern army at any time.

After thinking twice, King Yan adopted the statement of confidants such as Zhang Yu and Huo Zhen, and like the southern army, the west was by the river.

He just wanted to attack the Southern Army in the most convenient way.

As a result, the southern army was attacked for the first time that day, but it was almost defeated, if it weren't for Wang Gou'er and others rushing out of the Ping'an army with a horseman, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, would almost be trapped in the battle.

After returning to the army that night, King Yan convened the generals to discuss the matter.

He first praised Wang Gou'er, and gave him a nice name, called Wang Yan.

Then discuss how to fight tomorrow.

While King Yan and the generals were discussing, Zhu Gaoxu was standing in the middle of the left head, thinking about the battle during the day today.

Today, the front army of the Yan army came out first, and Zhu Gaoxu was the left deputy general of the front army, and he originally wanted to play the vanguard, but the right deputy general Wu Da was eager to seek merit and took the initiative to ask Zhu Gaoxu to let him play the vanguard.

Zhu Gaoxu thought that it was exactly what he wanted.

Because he remembered that the Yan army won the battle of Baigou River, but the Yan army was defeated in the early stage and was almost surrounded.

He can't remember how he lost in the early stage, but since he would lose in the early stage, of course he didn't want to play as a striker.

And he deliberately closed the point, he won many battles some time ago, and now he has to let Zhu Di see, when I, Zhu Gaoxu, am not present, can you still win?

Just when Zhu Gaoxu was thoughtful, Xu Zhong, who was standing next to him, seemed to be a little anxious, and gently bumped Zhu Gaoxu with his shoulder.

"King Gaoyang, what are your plans for tomorrow?"

Xu Zhong seems to be in a hurry to make military merits, as a general who surrendered, he is now one of the main generals of the five armies, and Xu Zhong also wants to perform in front of Zhu Di.

has finished the text of the hegemony at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

(End of chapter)