Zhu Gaoxu exhaled deeply, it was okay for the two sides to shoot with bows and arrows, but he was afraid that someone would not talk about martial arts and concentrate the archers to shoot them on their side.

Although there are quite a few of them with bows here.

At this time, they had already entered the wave of Yan troops in front, and many Yan troops saw them coming, and they were also moving closer to them.

Suddenly, a group of about forty or fifty horsemen in front of them ran this way.

While running, he shouted: "King Gaoyang is not here, King Gaoyang is not there?" ”

"Who's up ahead?" Wang Bin was drinking.

"Tan Yuan's subordinate Shi Cheng."

Zhu Gaoxu was overjoyed when he heard this, and he didn't say anything: "Go." The horse clapped towards the voice.

When Wang Bin heard Shi Cheng's name, he hurriedly signaled his subordinates to get out of the way.

A moment later, Shi Cheng drove his horse and led the team to Zhu Gaoxu's horse team.

"You wait for me." Shi Cheng asked his subordinates to wait on the side, and he ran to Zhu Gaoxu alone, dismounted, and fell to his knees: "Shi Cheng pays a visit to the king of Gaoyang County." ”

"Shi Qianhu, this is your subordinate?" Zhu Gaoxu said with a smile.

When he first met Shi Cheng, Shi Cheng was still a hundred households, and at the end of last year, he and Tan Yuan broke through Cangzhou, and finally became a deputy thousand households.

But he is not Tan Yuan's confidant, and he has risen very slowly.

"They are all the subordinates of the last general, and the last general thought that the whole army was going to be wiped out, and the lost King Gaoyang led his troops to kill him."

After Shi Cheng finished speaking, he hurriedly stepped forward and said in a low voice: "Tan Yuan died in battle. ”

"Ahh Zhu Gaoxu was surprised.

It turned out that Tan Yuan had just taken the soldiers and horses to attack Sheng Yong's army, and Sheng Yong's general Zhuang had to lead the troops to meet him, in the melee, Tan Yuan was unlucky, the horse stumbled, and fell to the ground, Shi Cheng was on the side at that time, he originally led his own soldiers to rush over, and there was hope to save Tan Yuan.

But in an instant, Shi Cheng thought of the last time Tan Yuan slaughtered the city, because Shi Cheng released the teenagers and girls, directly gave Shi Cheng a slap in public, and then ordered the massacre, and finally it was after King Gaoyang arrived that he saved more than a dozen teenagers and girls.

After Tan Yuan followed King Yan to break Cangzhou, King Yan said to let people go, Tan Yuan directly killed more than 3,000 soldiers, which was inhumane.

Shi Cheng hated Tan Yuan's actions very much, so after hesitating, Zhuang De immediately covered his troops and directly killed Tan Yuan on the spot.

Tan Yuan's character is extremely poor, cruel and tyrannical, this can be regarded as evil retribution.

When he said this, Shi Cheng's expression was not good-looking.

He is a kind person, although he looks down on Tan Yuan and hates him, but after all, he is a colleague and his superior, and he is always a little uncomfortable in his heart.

Shi Cheng then said, later King Yan rushed in, the two sides were fighting again, Shi Cheng desperately gathered with King Yan, King Yan and Zhu Neng fought with Zhuang De again, and beheaded Zhuang De, which was regarded as revenge for Tan Yuan.

Then a large number of southern troops covered it, and King Yan asked Shi Cheng to stay behind the broken queen, so they were surrounded.

When he said this, Shi Cheng's expression was even more ugly.

After King Yan let Shi Cheng break off, it was equivalent to sending him to death, if it weren't for Zhu Gaoxu also bringing troops in, their more than 1,000 horsemen would all be besieged and killed here.

The loss of King Yan in this battle was not small, the general Tan Yuan was killed in battle, and Dong Zhenbao, a thousand households under Tan Yuan, was also killed in battle.

Just as the two of them were just talking a few words, there was a sudden wild shout in front.

Zhu Gaoxu looked up, and his face changed greatly.

I saw that from the west and east, there was a battalion (about 5,000 men each) of the southern army, which was running northward, and was firmly blocking their retreat.

This has to be blocked, they are full of infantry battalions of the Southern Army in all directions, if they can't break through in a short time, the reinforcements of the Southern Army will only increase, and Zhu Gaoxu will be surrounded here.

"No, let's go." Zhu Gaoxu was shocked, and wanted to disperse these two battalions of southern troops before they were all in place and the formation was completed.

"King Gaoyang, you must rush out quickly, and you can't let the southern army line up." Li Yuan caught up and said.

"Shi Cheng asked your soldiers and horses to gather with us, and ordered the whole army to prepare to break through the siege, go north, fight north."

At the same time that their soldiers and horses were desperately rushing north, the southern army also noticed that they wanted to escape, and from the east and west flanks, there were a steady stream of infantry battalions running north, trying to seize the Yan army before breaking through and forming an encirclement.

There were already about two or three thousand southern troops in the far north, and they were the first to arrive, and under the command of a thousand households, they were forming a formation.

"Block them, we are a great achievement, everyone obeys the order." Chiho waved his long knife: "Ready, raise the shield." ”

His voice just fell, buzzing.

Facing the Yan army, a salvo of thousands of arrows flew over.

The southern army has a shield to raise a shield, and those without a shield can only grit their teeth and bow their heads.

Fluttering, arrows rained down, and the Southern army screamed again and again, and fell a large area.

"Onward." Chinohe ordered again, not caring about the person who was hit by the arrow.

The southern army moved forward frantically, and the somewhat scattered formation, which had been shot by the rain of arrows, became dense again.

Qianhu gave an order as he turned his head and watched a steady stream of infantry running behind him.

"Tell them to line up in the back first, and line up first." Qianhu called a pro-soldier and signaled the newly arrived battalions not to be in a hurry, not to mess up, and to line up behind them to stabilize their positions.

He was ready to sacrifice more than 1,000 people, resist the Yan army, and buy time for the rear formation.

"Rushing" in front of Zhou Hu already felt that shooting with arrows was too slow, and with an order, the two fierce generals and He Ruhu rushed forward with cavalry.

Zhu Gaoxu also followed.

There were very few bows and arrows in front of him, and he decided to rush forward, and he must break them first.

Zhou Hu Chong was the most fierce, Yan Jun only shot two waves of arrow rain, he had already rushed to the front, and Yan Jun could only stop shooting arrows on his side.

Boom, the cavalry and infantry collided together, repeating the killing just now, and after a large group of infantry was knocked down, more infantry rushed up behind.

A large wave of infantry in front was scattered by the cavalry, but the infantry in the back rows were still very neat, and Zhou Hu's first wave of charges failed to completely break through this group of infantry.

Bang bang bang, the sound of fire guns in front of them was loud, and the cavalry who rushed up fell to the ground one after another, the distance between the two sides was too close, and the cavalry could not break through the foot camp, so they could not open the distance, and there was no room for movement and acceleration.

Then a torrent of infantry pikemen swarmed up, often four or five stabbing at one cavalryman.

Zhu Gaoxu's cavalry was obviously more than the infantry battalion opposite, but a wave of charges did not break through.

Zhu Gaoxu soon found out why.

Because of the previous battle between King Yan and Tan Yuanbu and the Southern Army, a large number of dead and wounded soldiers and war horses on both sides were on the ground, thus forming an obstacle.

This made Zhu Gaoxu's cavalry unable to rush at all, and because there were some cavalry battalions of the Southern Army in the middle of their cavalry regiment, there were even cavalry still fighting stubbornly, and they were actually not pinched into a big fist as a whole.

He looked back and saw that his 10,000 soldiers and horses had almost formed a long line of more than a mile, and there was still a battle going on in the middle, and from time to time the southern army on both sides attacked his two flanks.

In today's situation, it's a bit dangerous to completely take all 10,000 cavalry out.

Just when Zhu Gaochu was thinking about how to kill him in one go, a southern army in front was approaching, and he might have seen that Zhu Gaochu was the main general, and he actually rushed towards him boldly.

"Look for death." Sheng Jian, who was following Zhu Gaoxu, immediately led a cavalry to meet him.

But the opposite side is very orderly, more than a dozen people in a row, four or five rows walk together, hugging into a small group, and a small group forms a large group.

Seeing the cavalry rushing up, they raised their guns one after another.

There was an uproar, and the rows of spears were like hedgehogs, which suddenly gave Sheng Jian a headache, and the cavalry did not dare to rush forward at will.

He is not as good as Zhou Hu in the war, this requires Zhou Hu to be here, and he will directly rush forward with people and horses.

Li Yuan looked at it and said, "The other side is well-trained and specializes in dealing with cavalry." ”

As he spoke, Yan Jun's side and the rain of arrows shot over, and more than a dozen people fell on the opposite side, but the rest of the people did not hesitate and continued to approach.

In the face of dense spears, the cavalry had no room to accelerate, and had no choice but to shoot arrows while retreating.

The first time Zhu Gaoxu saw this style of play, it was very powerful.

To put it simply, basically opposite is a small regiment of a hundred people, usually a row of about ten people, ten rows, now I see only five rows, because many people have died in battle.

But in any case, they will always be in a row of about ten people, several rows huddled in a small group.

And then everywhere it was, every dozen steps there was another small group, many small groups, forming a large group, with a few spaces in between.

The cavalry was going to rush into the middle of the large regiment, and there were spears on all sides, and a dozen spears stabbed one, which was very powerful.

In all the small regiments, there were pikemen in the front, shieldmen in the middle, archers and muskets in the back.

I don't know whose soldiers and horses, they look very elite, and they are the first to run to the north today, trying to block their wave of reinforcements.

"Special mother, like a hedgehog, it's not easy to fight." At this time, one of Shi Cheng's subordinates ran back covered in blood and shouted.

"If it's not easy to fight, you have to fight." Zhu Gaoxu said in a deep voice.

Shi Cheng immediately said: "The last general will lead people to rush up, and King Gaoyang will follow behind." ”

Some of his soldiers and horses were his own, and some were Tan Yuan's.

When Zhu Gaoxu heard this, he nodded decisively.

Shi Cheng immediately summoned his subordinates and rushed me.

At the sound of an order, he accelerated and rushed forward on the spot.

He is also very brave in battle, and he moves forward as if he is dying, and his subordinates have no choice but to follow.

At this time, there was not much room left for them to accelerate and rush, and many war horses couldn't increase their speed, but Shi Cheng rushed forward.

He himself was a man and a horse, booming, crashing into a dense pile of pikemen.

Zhu Gaoxu's eyes trembled, and he couldn't look directly.

With Shi Cheng taking the lead, the Yan army rushed directly with horses regardless of their lives, and the southern army suddenly formed a little chaotic.

"Let's go." Zhu Gaoxu also frantically followed, ran to Shi Cheng's side first, and found that Shi Cheng was not dead, and there was a broken spear head stuck in his body, and he turned over and climbed up.

The southern army behind was about to rush up, but Zhu Gaoxu had already arrived, tiptoeing like lightning, breaking through the air, and the horse lance swept through the air, sweeping in front of the southern army.

When Dangdang, the spears of the Southern Army either broke or flew down, and many people screamed.

"Get on the horse." Zhu Gaoxu flew past Shi Cheng's side, and while collecting the lance, he stretched out his hand and pulled it.

Shi Cheng also hurriedly took Zhu Gaoxu's hand, swished, was pulled hard by him, and sat on the back of the horse.

"Wow" The shadow let out a long roar and jumped to the left front.

Whoosh, several arrows in the southern army formation were shot behind by the fart drum of the shadow, and if the shadow ran slower, Zhu Gaoxu would be shot several arrows.

(End of chapter)