After Ping An took the cavalry away, Wu Jie made every effort to strengthen the city defense, strictly defended it, and waited for the Yan army to attack in a big way, and at the same time issued an order to step up the military and notify Sheng Yong.

Sheng Yong was also inquiring about King Yan's intentions before he got the news, which side did King Yan want to fight?

After getting the news, he discussed with his subordinate Chen Hui and other generals, but he was also in a dilemma.

Because Yan Jun's division into two ways is quite disgusting, which makes it difficult for Sheng Yong to distinguish his true intentions.

According to Sheng Yong's idea, it is best to hold Texas and let King Yan attack the city, he will defend the city with 200,000 people, and King Yan will not be afraid to attack with 100,000, even if he comes to attack with 200,000.

But if King Yan doesn't come to fight him, if he really goes to fight Wu Jie Ping'an, he will definitely send troops to save him.

But on the way, I was afraid of being ambushed by King Yan.

Sheng Yong thought about it and decided that he couldn't be led by the nose by King Yan, and he should take it step by step and fight steadily.

He has assessed the strength of King Yan, at the peak there were more than 200,000, but last time Dongchang was defeated and suffered heavy losses, plus King Yan also had to prevent him from sneaking up on Beiping, and it was estimated that he would bring out about 150,000 soldiers and horses at most.

So Sheng Yong decided to send the whole army out and give reinforcements, but the road was extremely slow, and a large number of sentinels were sent to investigate, and the whole army was condensed.

He had more infantry and fewer cavalry, and he also had to protect grain and grass, so this arrangement was also the safest.

Seeing that Sheng Yong was mobilized, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, decisively raised his troops, wanting to break Sheng Yong first.

On March 22, Sheng Yong led his army to advance and set up at Jiahe in the south of Wuyi County (near Wuyi County, Hengshui City, Hebei Province, a tributary of the Zhanghe River), and the next day the Yan army also marched here, and the Yan King garrisoned 40 miles away from Shengyong.

On March 22, while the Yan army garrison was opposite Sheng Yong, Zhu Gaoxu, who was wandering near Zhending, received an order from the king of Yan to return and attack Sheng Yong.

In fact, Zhu Gaochu came out for more than ten days, and at first the southern army was afraid that most of the Yan army would attack, and a few days later, Wu Jie saw that Zhu Gaoxu's soldiers and horses were not the main force of the southern army, but to confuse and hinder him and Ping'an from sending troops outside.

But this will be safe to wander outside, Wu Jie is mostly infantry, a large amount of grain and grass are in Zhending City, and he does not dare to go out of the city easily, so he can only contact Ping'an, and he wants to break Zhu Gaoxu first, after all, he can't catch up with the cavalry when his infantry goes out.

Ping An tried to fight Zhu Gaoxu many times in the past few days, and he almost doubled his strength with more than 20,000 cavalry against more than 10,000 cavalry, and it was difficult for the two sides to distinguish the winner from the loser.

After fighting a few times, Ping An felt at a loss, so he stopped fighting directly, cruising outside, and followed Zhu Gaoxu.

Because he found that Zhu Gaoxu's subordinates had a very powerful cavalry, and Zhu Gaoxu's subordinates had a lot of bows, often the two armies had not yet taken over, the other party was overwhelming, and the Ping'an cavalry was shot a few times, and the loss was not small, and when he finally rushed to the front of the Yan army, Zhu Gaoxu's cavalry turned around and ran, and those elite cavalry could still shoot while running, and he was angry many times in front of the battle and scolded Zhu Gaochu for not having martial virtues.

Zhu Gaoxu's style of play is completely the Mongolian tactics of the peak, and Ping An really can't do anything about him.

After suffering a few losses, Ping An also had to admire Zhu Gaochu in his heart, what he admired was not Zhu Gaoxu's style of play, this style of play was created by the Mongols, and in the end it was not lost to them Daming.

What he admired was that Zhu Gaochu used the Ming army and the feudal cavalry, and he could reproduce this tactic very well, and he didn't know how Zhu Gaochu practiced it.

After the two sides were entangled several times, Ping An suffered a loss every time, and decided not to attack, responsible for being optimistic about Zhu Gaoxu's soldiers and horses, and at the same time sending a message to Zhendingcheng, so that Wu Mingxian soldiers could help Sheng Yong.

Because they have determined that King Yan will give priority to Sheng Yong.

Ping An originally wanted to ignore Zhu Gaoxu, and take 20,000 soldiers and horses to fight the Yan army, and help Sheng Yong by the way.

But Zhu Gaoxu's cavalry used it so well, he was afraid that Zhu Gaoxu's dog skin plaster would stick up, so he would fight Zhu Gaoxu first.

After thinking about it, in order to be safe, it was decided that the whole army would go together to help Sheng Yong, although the speed of the march should be limited.

After all, in his opinion, Sheng Yong's 200,000 soldiers and horses could not be defeated by the Yan army so quickly.

Wu Jie had a safe hand to contain Zhu Gaoxu, and finally prepared to send troops to help.

But the night before the army, Zhu Gaoxu received a secret order from King Yan and immediately returned to the army to break Sheng Yong first.

On the afternoon after getting the secret order, they had just fought with Ping An in a small area and withdrew.

"Bring in the two General Li and General Wang." Zhu Gaoxu called Li Xian, Li Yuan, Wang Zhong, Xu Xiang, Chen Wen and other generals.

He showed the orders of King Yan to the generals, and then asked everyone what to do?

Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, and then Wang Zhong spoke first, and he took the initiative to say that he was willing to take three thousand cavalry to break off, and be responsible for containing Ping'an, so that King Gaoyang and Li Yuan and others could return to attack Sheng Yong.

This is a relatively safe and normal way of playing, first of all, there must be someone on this side to contain it, otherwise it will be troublesome for the 20,000 cavalry to follow from behind.

That would be equivalent to Yan Jun adding 10,000 fine horses, and Sheng Yong adding 20,000 fine horses.

At this time, Zhu Gaoxu was even thinking, on the side of Ping'an, did he also want to ignore himself and return to the army to help Sheng Yong?

Both sides were thinking about it, but in the end, only Zhu Gaoxu made a decision.

Li Yuan began to show his outstanding military ability, and said directly: "Rest early tonight, let the brothers eat enough, get up early in the middle of the night, and the whole army will go to Jiahe together, and I will definitely be able to join the battlefield tomorrow." ”

"Wait for Ping An to wake up the next morning and find that he will run over again, we have already finished the fight, and he will have to be careful then, we will ambush him halfway."

"Ping'an, this person is very careful with his soldiers, let's get an ambush halfway through, which is enough to delay him from coming to the rescue."

"General Lee's brilliant plan." Zhu Gaochu was full of praise, this Li Yuan was really good at using soldiers, and Zhu Gaochu decided to listen to him.

That night they made preparations, leaving behind 500 elite cavalry, all lightly armed, and trying to run as fast as possible, and prepared 500 earthen stoves, and let them cook porridge the next morning, which they used to confuse peace.

That night, at about three o'clock in the middle of the night in the later generations, Zhu Gaoxu gathered his whole army and headed east.

Ping An and Zhu Gaochu have been entangled for more than ten days, and every night they guard against Zhu Gaochu coming to attack him, thinking that Zhu Gaochu will run away in the middle of the night.

After waking up the next day, Ping'an ran to a high place to take a look, the place where the Yan army was stationed on the opposite side was full of smoke, and hundreds of earthen stoves were burning, he laughed: "Hurry up and eat, and play with the king of Gaoyang County later." ”

I thought I was going to repeat the daily cat and mouse game again.

When they got up safely, Zhu Gaoxu and the others had already arrived in the south of Shulu County, less than ten miles away from the Jiahe battlefield, and the Yan army had already begun to attack and mingled with the southern army.

There is an official road between two mountains on this side of Shulu County, although the depth is not long, but it can also ambush soldiers.

Li Yuan arranged a hundred people here and asked them to wait for the five hundred horsemen who had burned the fire from the original camp.

And prepare a large amount of wicker, dragged behind the horse.

When the five hundred horsemen who had burned the fire in their camp returned, they dragged the wicker behind their horses with these 100 men, and ran on both sides of the mountain, making dust billowing and rolling as if there were thousands of horses.

Later, Ping An found out that he had been deceived, and he was really furious, and immediately rushed with 20,000 cavalry.

But after arriving here, Ping'an found that he could ambush soldiers, and he was extremely cautious, and after observation, he thought that the Yan army had ambushes here.

At that time, Ping'an said wildly, King Gaoyang actually wanted to ambush me, it was really vicious, watch Lao Tzu beat his ass.

He went directly around the north side of the mountain, but found that he had only ridden a few hundred horses, and he was deceived again, and he was half dead of anger.

Li Yuan used one army after another, and the two stratagems delayed Ping'an's 20,000 elite cavalry, so that Sheng Yong did not receive reliable support, while King Yan was supported by Zhu Gaoxu's 10,000 cavalry.

However, Sheng Yong used his troops very well, and he had a large number of generals, even with the support of Zhu Gaoxu, the Yan army almost suffered another crushing defeat in the Battle of Jiahe.

In the early morning of the 22nd, Sheng Yong also knew that the Yan army was coming, and lined up on the north bank of the Jiahe River.

The Yan army came along the river, and the king of Yan was also extremely bold, relying on Emperor Jianwen not to kill him, so he first led a few personal soldiers to the front to watch the formation of the southern army.

Sheng Yong was cowardly, and he really didn't dare to shoot guns and arrows, so he could only send cavalry to drive away.

This should be replaced by peace, immediately let the arrows be fired, and first overturn King Yan.

It was precisely because no one dared to shoot him with an arrow that King Yan arrogantly looked at the formation of the southern army at close range, and then turned around and ran.

After seeing the formation of the Southern Army, King Yan decided to attack the left flank of the Southern Army first.

Zhu Neng and Zhang Wu led 15,000 cavalry and 5,000 infantry to attack Sheng Yong's left flank.

But Sheng Yong is not Li Jinglong, his soldiers and horses are very layered, with a combination of guns and arrows, a tight defense, and Zhu Neng is not as brave as Zhu Gaoxu.

After fighting all morning, the Yan army could not advance an inch.

At this time, there were people who died up, and in the afternoon, Tan Yuan of the Yan army saw that the attack of the Yan army was unfavorable, and without waiting for the order of the king of Yan, he led his subordinates to directly the large formation of the central army of the southern army, intending to alarm the formation of the southern army and attract the main force for the left flank.

Sheng Yong's generals were not to be outdone, and they also met the troops, and the two sides were in a scuffle, and it was difficult to distinguish between the top and the bottom.

When Zhu Gaoxu arrived at the scene with 10,000 elite horsemen, it was already afternoon, and it was getting dark.

Because he had to maintain his physical strength and horsepower before coming, he spent the last ten miles jogging and trotting, and before he arrived, he replenished food and rested for a while.

Therefore, although he rushed to the scene from more than 100 miles away, the physical strength and horsepower of the whole army were well maintained.

"King of Goyang"

"King of Goyang"

When several nearby generals saw Zhu Gaoxu, they all gathered around, their expressions anxious.

"What about my father?" Zhu Gaoxu asked.

"The king said that it was getting dark, and the southern army was a little loose, and he personally led Zhu Neng and Zhang Wu to go around Sheng Yong's back with a large number of feudal horses——"

Zheng Heng explained to Zhu Gaoxu that because Tan Yuan was caught in the formation, and at the same time caused a little chaos in the middle of the southern army, in order to save Tan Yuan, King Yan couldn't rush in head-on, so he went around the back of the southern army.

"The southern army is in a tight formation, densely packed, and it is not a wise move for the king to put himself in danger." Li Yuan said directly at this time.

He is a straight person, he doesn't know how to beat around the bush, a bit like Han Xin, he is very good at using soldiers, but he is not very good at behaving in the world.

If King Yan was at the scene, when he heard Li Yuan's words, he would have to write him down in a small notebook.

"Go, help my father." Zhu Gaoxu did not hesitate, gave an order, and took 10,000 soldiers and horses from his headquarters to go around Sheng Yong's back.

While circling, observe the scene.

In any case, King Yan can't have an accident now, and he still has to do his best to keep King Yan out safely.

(End of chapter)