The first reinforcements to arrive were 500 cavalry led by Gao Li, the garrison of the border city.

When entering the prince's military camp, the Yuanmen fir wood had turned into charcoal, and the camp was full of corpses, including Han army costumes and Huainan rebel costumes.

"Find the whereabouts of His Royal Highness the Prince." Gao Li waved his hand.

The blood-colored clump, the deepest part of the place from the gate to the camp, and then pointed in the direction of the rear camp. However, there was no need for them to show the way, and Gao Li could already hear the tired sound of fighting.

He rode his horse desperately, rode the horse fast, and saw from a distance on the hill, in the midst of the heavy maintenance of the Han army, there was a person lying prone on the ground, one holding a sword, and one person in white clothes. Hearing the sound of their horses' hooves, they both raised their heads, their eyes lit up with ecstasy.

Then an arrow shot out from an unknown place in the distance, and in the midst of everyone's exclamations, it hit the shoulder of the young man holding the sword, and with a clang, the sword in his palm fell.

"Quick." Gao Li's heart tightened, and he roared like crazy. Hundreds of horses formed a long battle line and rushed straight towards the hill, pulling a gap between the mixed armies of both sides.

An hour later.

The soil is charred and yellow.

The dust has settled.

A few strands of loose hair slipped out from under the armor, covering the blood marks from the arrows on her left cheek, and Liu Ying looked a little embarrassed. And when the arrow cluster was pulled out, it brought out a dull blood flower that made him snort even more, and the wound on his left shoulder was wrapped by the inner attendant, Liu Ying looked back and smiled, "Thank you General Gao for coming to help in time." ”

"Your Highness kills the minister. It is the minister's responsibility to put His Highness in danger. The minister does not do his duty, and he cannot afford the words of His Royal Highness. Gao Li knelt down on one knee and said solemnly.

The battle suffered heavy casualties, only two of the six Northern Army captains survived, the pioneer general Fan Yan was unconscious, and the deputy general Zhang Kai was seriously injured.

Liu Ying smiled reluctantly, turned around and asked the guards who walked by, "How is General Zhang now?" ”

"Your Highness, the military doctor said. Although General Zhang's injuries look a little terrible, they will actually be able to take care of them for a month. ”

Wuyang Hou Fan Hao rushed back in the evening of the same day.

On the second day, Taiwei Zhou Bo rushed back.

"Of the 1,800 northern troops guarding the first gate, more than 132 survived, of whom 36 were seriously wounded. Among the three lieutenants of the Northern Army, Captain Shi Kang and four others were killed, Dong Jie broke his arm, and Li was seriously injured. ”

In the re-erected tent of the Chinese army, the scribe was reporting the casualties of the Han army in this battle, and his voice was sad.

"The border troops who are guarding the camp. Yu Ninety-six survived, and General Fan Yan fell into a coma. ”

The scribe covered the bamboo slip in his hand and said compassionately. "His Royal Highness has guards around him, and only sixteen people survived. Eleven people were seriously injured. ”

There was a huge Chinese military tent, 4,000 men and horses, and in the end, only these 244 people remained.

Seat in the tent. Liu Ying sighed lightly, her face gloomy.

"But now that Yingbu has been captured." Zhou Bo raised his robe and arched his hand, "Then Huainan has no owner, and it will be down in the near future." It's just that, "he remembered that he had been frightened this day, and he couldn't help but darken half of his face. frowned and said, "Your Highness really shouldn't put yourself in danger and let your ministers wait. It also worries His Majesty and Empress in Chang'an City. ”

At this time, Liu Ying had already taken off her wartime uniform and put on a soft dress, she couldn't stand the force, and leaned slightly on the top of her back, losing some blood on her face. Pale and pale with a shallow scar on the left cheek. Liu Ying smiled and said, "Mrs. Zhou's words are reasonable. It's just that Gu thinks that if Yingbu can't see Gu, then his thousands of men and horses are wandering in Huaibei, not to mention disturbing the people, it will be difficult for our army to capture him. ”

"So what?" Zhou Bo was sparse by nature, and he didn't understand the meaning of his words, so he was waiting to talk about it. Suddenly, he saw the young man's transparent eyes, his mind raced, and he suddenly took a breath.

Yingbu wanted to capture Liu Ying, the prince of the Han Dynasty, as bait to contain the Han army. So, why can't he, Liu Ying, take advantage of the situation, and use himself as bait to contain the 3,000 rebels of Yingbu in this acre and three-inch military camp on the north bank of the Huai River?

With 4,000 Han troops fighting 3,000 rebels, they had to lose, and this achievement, put on any other army of the Han Dynasty, was nothing but a failure, and there was nothing to boast about.

But it was none other than Liu Ying who led this army.

This noble young man was not a general known for his bravery, not a martial artist in the true sense, not like his father, he had not even really experienced the battlefield, and when the moment of life and death was in front of him, there was no need to ask any noble or unavoidable reasons, just if he had the courage to make this decision, he should be worthy of praise and admiration.

However, he fought, defended, and withstood the attack of the Huainan army, which was known for its bravery, with a military strength roughly equivalent to that of the Huainan rebels, until the arrival of Han reinforcements.

In Zhou Bo's wordless gaze, the young man in Xuanyi got up, walked out of the camp tent, and looked at the front of the big tent, two days ago, the land that was stained with the blood of countless Han soldiers. It was now a barren and clean place, with the bodies that had once been piled up on the ground buried in the grass.

Liu Ying looked at it again and again, as if in the spring of next year, this blood-watered land would take root and sprout, pull out new green grass, and the green grass would grow until midsummer, and a group of Han family sons and daughters wearing armor would come out with a smile, kneel down on one knee to worship, and say in unison, "His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

"Taiwei Zhou feels reckless?"

Liu Ying's concentration did not give half of his spare light to the old generals who had the honor of being a big man around him.

"No, ah, no, I don't dare." Zhou Bo said embarrassedly.

If it is any Han general next to him, it is naturally his business to meet the enemy on the battlefield, and there is nothing to say. Liu Ying's difference lies in his identity, which is destined to prevent him from making a mistake, which will implicate too many people.

But aside from his status as a prince, although the battle itself was not good, the post-war effect was greatly good.

If Yingbu is captured, Huainan Yu Yong is not afraid, and Huainan is just around the corner. The Han people in Huainan will suffer less from the war. And the soldiers on both sides who should have paid for their lives in this war will survive even more.

"Lone also feels that Lone is reckless." Liu Ying didn't seem to hear his words, and said to herself, her voice soft, "If Gu didn't insist on going his own way and avoiding the border city, maybe these more than 3,000 Han troops would not have sent their lives to the bank of the Huai River." ”

The first time you go to war, the first time you kill, no one will remain indifferent as if nothing had happened. Maybe the situation was urgent and I didn't have time to think about it at the time, but afterwards, I remembered the person who fell in front of me with blood flowing, and when he died, he still stretched out his hand and looked at you deadly. How can you eat and sleep peacefully, and sleep at night?

Zhou Bo frowned and looked at the young man in front of him, he was also a soldier, so he naturally knew that Liu Ying was the threshold in his heart, the sixteen-year-old young man had seen the bloody battlefield for the first time, and he was always a benevolent and weak lord.

No.

Zhou Bo cut the railroad in his heart.

The prince of their Han dynasty is benevolent but not weak.

How can a weak person meet the enemy generously in an instant? How can a weak man hold a sword against a fierce rebel army?

Zhou Bo turned against the light of the sky, tilting his head against the young man in Xuanyi standing at the entrance of the tent. His silhouette is thin, which is a weakness that he looks down on every day. However, there was already a faint hint of respect in his eyes.

A military commander who gallops on the battlefield. What kind of prince do they want?

He doesn't have to go to the battlefield in person, and he will win the three armies; But he must have the courage to take on the war.

He doesn't have to be able to be smart and strategic. But he needs to be able to make decisions and be clear about the situation.

Among the three armies, how can there be so much attention. Those who were afraid of blood and death were dragged out and beaten down with a board. I can't think about it that much. But Liu Ying's status is noble, and he really can't do it. Zhou Bo was embarrassed for a while, frowned the boss's eyebrows, and was at a loss for what to do, when he suddenly heard a laugh outside the tent.

"Your Highness's words, Xiang listened to it, but felt that it was wrong."

Xu Xiang walked over dressed in white. Hanging purple bag from his waist, he smiled and looked pale. The words are like a sharp knife, "The so-called righteousness does not guard wealth, and compassion does not command soldiers." It is also said that small mercy is the enemy of great mercy. After this battle, the people of Huainan should be grateful to His Royal Highness. The other Han armies should be grateful to His Royal Highness, need to know. The Chinese army and the Han army are human lives, and their human lives are also human lives. ”

"It is a talent for a soldier to fight to the death to meet the enemy. They exchanged 3,000 lives for 30,000 lives of the Han army, as well as the peaceful life of 30,000, 60,000 and even 90,000 people in Huainan. These 3,000 Chinese troops," Xu Xiang's face slowly solemnized, "died as he deserved." ”

Zhou Bo looked at this young man dressed as a Confucian with an interesting look, he had never studied literature, and he had always hated Confucianism the most, but now he felt that this Confucian teenager's words were on his stomach.

Around the prince, there are also some talents.

"What the gentleman said is," Liu Ying was stunned and bowed, "It's Ying who wants to go wrong." ”

In the autumn and September of the 11th year of the Han Dynasty, Yingbu, the king of Huainan, traveled from Jian Dao with 2,800 people to attack the prince's military tent. The Chinese army was brave from top to bottom, holding each other for half a day, and the Han army reinforcements arrived and captured Yingbu.

Huainan was in turmoil, Yingbu's second son, Yingzhun, Yinghan's generals, could not serve the public. In the same month, Jiujiang and Lujiang were under the river.

Twenty-sixth, Emperor Gao edicted the world, named the prince Liu Chang as the king of Huainan, the capital of Lu'an, and ordered Zhang Cang to be the minister of Huainan.

"Who is this scabies? His name was familiar. Liu Bang flipped through the war report and asked Zhao Yaodao, the imperial historian next to him.

"Your Majesty has a good memory." Zhao Yao bent over and said with a smile, "This is a captain of the Northern Army, who served under the captain of Changle and was on duty in the front hall of Changle. Oh," he added casually, "Speaking of which, he is still the son of Chen Liuli." ”

"Lisheng? Which Lisheng? Liu Bang couldn't think of it for a while.

"It's Li Shengli who eats it."

"It's him." Liu Bang muttered.

Li Sheng's food was born, and he made great contributions to his Han dynasty, but he died before the Han Dynasty unified the world.

Back then, when he was still an inconspicuous part of the many rebel armies against Qin, he had been left by Chen, and Li Sheng came to surrender. and help himself conquer Chen Liucheng. Later, he made the merit of surrendering the seventy-two cities of Qidi, but because Han Xin, the Han general who attacked Qidi at that time, broke the contract, he was cooked to death by Qi Shengsheng with five tripods.

It seems that I am indeed old. Liu Bang smiled, and only then did he have some distant feelings for those old people.

"In this case, give him a marquis."

"But," Zhao Yao said in surprise, "Your Majesty, Li Yao's military merits are not enough to seal the marquis." ”

"Hey—" Liu Bang waved his hand, "for his father's sake." ”

So Feng Bei Military Academy Captain Li Zhen was the Marquis of Sorghum, and Feng Benhe was the Marquis of Sihou.

With military merits, Wuyang Hou Fan Xue changed the food song to 1,100 households on Friday. Xinwu Marquis Jin She was the general of the chariot cavalry, and the Yifeng fixed food of 5,300 households. The general of the chariot and cavalry irrigated the baby as the pioneer, benefiting 2,500 households. It is ordered that the infant food Yingyin 5,000 households, in addition to the previous food.

At the same time, Zhang Kai, who was injured in his left eye in the Battle of Huaibei, was given the title of Marquis of Guannei.

In October next year, the next Yucheng Hengshan, Yuzhang and Lu'an. Ying Zhun committed suicide, Ying Han fled, entered Vietnam, and died in Fanyang.

At the end of October, the Huainan Rebellion was put down. At this time, the princes had returned to the army, and the crown prince Liu Ying was about to return to Chang'an.

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Note: The Marquis of Guannei is a virtual lord and has no food.

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