The next day, the morning light was twilight, and Ning Jun woke up from his sleep.

After a long period of exhaustion, despite sleeping all night, many people still feel tired, even sore, and do not want to get up.

But everyone knew that now was not the time to sleep, the Chu army was still around, and the situation was still very dangerous, so they still cheered up and got up from the tent.

The Huotou battalion had already prepared breakfast and distributed it to each battalion in advance, and the soldiers could get up and line up to collect it according to the ranks.

When you wake up early with a hint of night chill, it's a happy thing to be able to eat a hot meal and make your stomach feel swollen and warm.

Especially in this cruel battlefield, it is the only expectation that can be satisfied.

Bai Yi'an was also mixed in with the soldiers, and together with them, he used the standard food in the army, and he didn't talk about the boss of the Hou Ye at all.

And Zizi used the food that was only full and didn't care about the taste, and mingled with the soldiers.

Such a pro-people attitude naturally attracted the touching of all the soldiers, and they loved this coach more and more, and faintly no longer regarded him as a high-ranking family minister, but had a bit of his own meaning.

So after letting go of the awe, someone finally couldn't help but ask after taking a sip of wild vegetable rice soup: "General, there is Ruichang City in front, which is the place of Ningguo." When we get there, will we be able to go home safely? ”

The questioner was a young man who looked to be sixteen or seventeen, very young.

However, according to what we learned when we chatted together just now, he has been in the army for three years, participated in four large and small battles, and personally beheaded two levels, so he is a real veteran.

In this chaotic world, even in the Ning Kingdom, which has been stable for more than ten years, there are still a large number of people who can't survive and can only starve to death or flee.

In contrast, this young man was able to enlist in the army and beg for a bite to eat in the battalion, according to his words, he was already very lucky.

Some people want to lick the blood from the knife, but they can't ask for it, and in the end it becomes the blood licked by others, which is even more miserable.

Therefore, the young man who came out of the suffering had a very simple idea of life, to live.

He wanted to live to be forty years old, so that he would surpass the eldest chief in the village and become the oldest.

If you can, with the reward of military exploits, buy a few acres of land in your hometown, build a house, marry a wife, and give birth to two fat babies, and you will have no regrets in this life.

The teenager has already counted.

If he wants to accomplish this, he must kill at least ten people, so that he can have enough military merit rewards, so that he can be promoted to the rank of chief, and even the deputy team leader, and can receive more money.

Now that he has killed two people, he only needs to kill eight more people to achieve his goal.

However, with the defeat of Ningguo, the young man also knew that if he continued to fight, he would not wait to complete his goal and realize his ideals, and it was more likely that he would die directly on the battlefield.

Therefore, he didn't want to kill enough eight people, he just wanted to go back alive, even if he was poor, just to be alive.

When the other soldiers heard the young man's words, they couldn't help but look at Bai Yi'an expectantly.

To survive and live is the most simple desire of living beings, and it is also the most instinctive need, pure and direct.

However, in the face of so many simple eyes, Bai Yi'an was speechless for a while.

What is he going to say?

Say you can't go back.

Not only can't I go back, but I also plan to take you to death, and I want to use your lives to buy time for Ning Guo.

This reality is too cruel for anyone to accept.

So in the end, Bai Yi'an had to smile and say confidently: "Yes, we will definitely be able to go back." As long as we pass Ruichang, we will be able to return to the country, and then we will have a strong city wall, sufficient food, and countless comrades, and the Chu people will not dare to fight them. We'll be safe. ”

"Really?"

"Great, I knew that the general would be able to take us home, as the general said."

"I believe the General."

When the surrounding soldiers heard Bai Yi'an's words, they couldn't help but become excited with joy.

Looking at Bai Yi'an's eyes, it seems that he sees faith and light, which are equally pure.

In the face of these purities, Bai Yi'an was a little unbearable, so he got up, patted the ashes on his body, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, Ben will not lie to you, isn't Ben also here?" ”

When the soldiers heard this, they believed.

The general is also here, the emperor is also here, and so many ministers and generals are also here, if they can't go home in front, how can these high-ranking royal relatives and nobles continue to move forward?

How precious their lives are!

Because of the concealment of what happened last night, coupled with the isolation of the classes that exist on weekdays, the soldiers did not notice that now in the barracks, the emperor and many ministers are actually gone.

The only thing that really stayed was Bai Yi'an, Hou of Wu'an, who was close to them and laughed in front of him, and said that he was also here.

The soldiers, who didn't know that they had been betrayed, thought of this, and looked at the smile of the commander, and suddenly became full of confidence.

Bai Yi'an knew that he was very hypocritical, disgusting, and shameless at the moment, but he still did it.

Let yourself become hypocritical, disgusting, and shameless, and become the person you hated the most in the past.

Because only in this way can these soldiers who believe in themselves be deceived into Ruichang, deceived them into fighting to the death for Ningguo, and deceived them into dying for their ideals and beliefs.

In order to achieve the above, he did not hesitate to change.

Think of it as the last bit of indulgence before you die.

Moreover, Bai Yi'an had no intention of surviving, and was already ready to accompany these soldiers to die and pay for their lives.

Although this exchange of compensation, he did not ask the soldiers' wishes.

In this world, there is no fairness and justice at all.

In the end, the relevant conversation about Wu Anhou eating with the soldiers and walking through Ruichang to go home, I was also there, under the spread of people with good intentions, it was just a time for a morning meal, and it quickly spread throughout the entire military camp and became known to everyone.

Under this influence, when the army set off and the soldiers lined up to leave the camp, the morale became extremely high.

The Ning army firmly believed that under the leadership of the general, he could get through the last difficulties and go home smoothly.

Bai Yi'an also rode a red horse, leading a group of guards to gallop back and forth in front of the marching military column, using a way to show his own existence, confirming his words in the morning and boosting morale.

In the end, surrounded by cheers, at noon, Bai Yi'an led his troops to the city of Ruichang.

……

Ruichang City Head.

Huang Xuan and Sun Siwen stood side by side, on the city tower, watching the distant Ning army.

This morning, that is, Bai Yi'an shared the weal and woe with the soldiers, and made inspiring remarks such as "go home" and "I am".

After a day and night of hurrying and hurrying, Huang Xuan finally arrived at Ruichang City this morning with 30,000 soldiers and joined Sun Siwen, who was stationed here.

Huang Xuan followed the promise made before the separation outside Changsha City last time, and the army led Sun Siwen to meet in Yuzhang County.

However, the two who parted for the time being didn't have time to talk about their separation, so they were attracted by Ning Jun's arrival.

"The Ning army has been defeated one after another, and has been on the run for so many days, how can it still have such morale?"

Huang Xuan looked at the Ning army's style array for a while, and saw that its morale was high, the formation was neat and tight, and there was no appearance of a defeated army at all, and he couldn't help but be surprised: "Who is the general of the Ning army who leads the army, who can make the defeated army rejuvenated, has such ability?" ”

Since the war between Chu and Ning, after a series of wars, with the deepening of contact and understanding, gradually everyone in Chu State also knows that the Son of Heaven, who was born as a great general in Ning, is actually not as brave and good at fighting as rumored outside, and is a famous general in the world.

The reason why the other party was able to achieve the position of the great general of Qianyue relied on his family background and the strength of the innate second realm.

In addition to these two points, the ability to lead troops to fight can only be said to be average, and he can be regarded as a qualified general.

Well, don't be fooled by the evaluation of "qualified generals".

You must know that in the system of the countries south of the Yangtze River today, according to the grass-roots establishment of five people and one army, two soldiers and one tithe, five tithes as a team, two teams as pawns, and five pawns as battalions, generally two to five battalions of soldiers and horses will have one captain, two to five captains, and a miscellaneous general.

According to this convention, according to the minimum standard, according to the calculation of two battalions and one lieutenant, two lieutenants and one general, at least four battalions of 2,000 people, one general can be appointed.

Of course, under normal circumstances, such a small general, will not appear.

Because it's such a waste of name.

belongs to the rotten hair of the Lord, which belittles the gold content of the title and official position in disguise. It will also lead to the phenomenon of redundant officials and redundant personnel, and increase financial expenditures.

In reality, it is generally about 5,000 to 10,000 people before a general will be arranged.

Yangzhou folk, commonly known as the 10,000 generals, came here in this way.

Like that kind of general who only leads 2,000 people, he can only be regarded as the master of 1,000 people, with an empty name, but he is just a captain.

After such an explanation, what is the level of Emperor Ning Shenqiu's so-called "qualified generals", I think everyone knows it.

But 10,000 people will be enough.

With a level of ability like this, there is naturally no problem with ordinary generals.

Who is Ke Shenqiu?

The Son of Heaven of Ningguo, the leader of the Jiangdong and Lingnan Four-Nation Alliance, the commander of the Eastern Expedition, was in charge of the 600,000 Eastern Expeditionary Army of Ningguo.

With such an identity and such a military ability, it is naturally very fatal.

Therefore, from the time when Shenqiu decided to personally lead the troops to the east, the defeat of Ningguo was actually somewhat doomed.

Therefore, after seeing the mental state of the Ning army outside the city, Huang Xuan didn't take the credit for Shen Qiu at all, and only thought about which martial marquis in the Ning army had such skills.

"In the Jiangxia camp of the Ning Army, there are three people in the first place. Among them, Lord Ning needless to say, another Wuyang Marquis Li Dao had been beheaded by the king a few days ago.

Now if someone can control the overall situation, I think there is only the remaining deputy marshal of the Ning Army, Wu'an Hou Bai Yi'an. Sun Siwen thought for a while and said.

"Wu Anhou, ......"

When Huang Xuan heard this title, his expression moved slightly, and he couldn't help but sigh: "Twelve years ago, the Marquis of Wu'an first commanded the division of the Four Kingdoms, and broke the 300,000-strong army of Zhou and Shu in northern Jiangbei.

I thought it would be the last swan song of Wu'anhou, but I didn't think that twelve years later, I would be able to see the demeanor of the new Wu'anhou again.

Haha, it's worth the battle, it's worth the battle. ”

Huang Xuan said in the end, laughing, this doppelganger with Lu Yuan's thoughts, was in a very happy mood.

Seeing this, Sun Siwen showed a hint of agreement on his face.

As an authentic Yangzhou native, he can be said to have grown up listening to the story of Wu'anhou's prestige, and naturally has a high degree of recognition for it.

Now to be able to fight the new Wu Anhou, of course, I feel a little excited and honored.

Just agreeing, Sun Siwen couldn't help but worry: "The current Wu'an Hou has such ability, I'm afraid that if you want to destroy this Ning army outside the city in this battle, it won't be as easy as expected." ”

Seeing this, Huang Xuan didn't care and said: "Now this Marquis of Wu'an is no matter how capable he is, but now he is under siege, there is a shortage of soldiers and food, and I am in a strong city, what are his concerns?" ”

Speaking of this, he smiled again: "Besides, there are not only two armies here, and now the king has also led his troops to come, and our army is flanked before and after, several times the enemy, and the advantage is exhausted, and it is easy to break the enemy." ”

The voice fell, but I saw smoke and dust billowing in the distance, and a light horse came from the west.

When he arrived outside the city, he wandered around the Ningjun array camp to monitor, and the flag he carried was fluttering high, and the word "Chu" was written in big letters.

Immediately after the Ning army, the main army led by Lu Yuan, the king of Chu, also arrived at the same time.

……

"It's Ning Jun ahead?"

Lu Yuanning's army arrived outside Ruichang City, and the army under his command was encamped, and he took a group of generals to board the command car, looking at the Ningjun array in the distance, and couldn't help but comment: "It's quite majestic." ”

After escaping for three days, it is indeed commendable to be able to maintain the appearance of today.

"No matter how majestic it is, it is not as powerful as my Great Chu soldiers. Today, the king has led his troops here, and the Ning army will be destroyed. ”

Someone next to him complimented.

"Haha, that's a good point."

When Lu Yuan heard this, he couldn't help laughing, and then asked: "I heard that in the Ning military camp yesterday, two teams of men and horses escaped, and even the men and horses who were arranged to monitor and set up ambushes on the periphery were broken through the three lines of defense, and they were not left?" ”

The general in charge of this matter saw that the king asked about the matter, and slowly came out to ask for guilt: "Your lord, last night there were more than 100 people from the north and south camps of the Ning army. When the men and horses arranged by the last general found out, they all immediately started to intercept them.

However, these fugitives are all martial artists who have cultivated their internal strength, and their lowest strength is also a third-rate realm, and there are many first- and second-rate masters among them.

They all rode fast horses, and when they left the camp, they fled with their heads bored, and did not love to fight.

Although the ministers tried their best to stop it, they still couldn't stop it, and they were escaped by those Ning people.

The last general was derelict in his duties, let go of the Ning people, and asked the king to surrender. ”

With that, the general fell to his knees and knocked his head hard.

After listening to him, Lu Yuan just glanced at the general, and said, "It's okay." Didn't you say that? The Ning people who escaped were all martial arts masters.

This generation has outstanding martial arts, light skills, high and high, if you want to leave, even if you are alone, you may not be able to leave all.

This is not a crime of war, no wonder you, get up. ”

When the guilty general heard this, he stood up and said gratefully: "Thank you for your wealth." ”

Lu Yuan nodded slightly, and then continued: "However, Ning Jun has left so many masters at once, it seems that Shen Qiu and those ministers in his army should have almost run away. Now in the Ning army, the rest are basically abandoned sons and have been abandoned. ”

The two fleeing Ning armies added up to nearly three hundred.

Three hundred martial arts masters or more, this is not something that can be made up casually.

Even if it is the 80,000 soldiers and horses brought by Lu Yuan, in the whole army, the third-rate masters and above add up to more than 1,000 people, and they basically serve as grassroots officers such as the commander of the army and the team leader.

There are only 50,000 people left in the Ning army, and so many masters have run away at once, which is almost equivalent to halving the combat power of the middle and high-level levels.

Of course, those who can be taken away at this time basically have backgrounds and identities, and whether these noble-born people will fight for their lives on the front line of the battlefield is also a question.

From this point of view, it is difficult to say whether the combat strength of the Ning army has suffered serious losses.

It's just that no matter what, the strength of the remnants of the Ning Army in front of him has been weakened, but this is certain.

At this moment, in front of Lu Yuan's army, a knight of the Yining people rode his horse and arrived in front of the camp being built.

"Listen to the Chu army inside, my general, I have heard that the Chu army is brave, and I yearn for it, and I can't wait to fight.

Today, you are waiting for the commander to come, and you want to cut off the way back to our army.

In this case, why not show the carriages and horses, line up separately, and fight in a dignified manner.

The winner gets his wish, and the loser does.

Life and death in this battle, each according to his ability, what is it? ”

The knights of the Naning Army came to invite battle.

He ran back and forth several times in front of the Chu military camp, informing him of his intentions before going back.

"King, Ning Jun invites battle, do we want to fight?"

On the command car, after listening to the words of the Ning Army knights, the generals couldn't help but look at Lu Yuan, wanting to get a signal.

"No, we're not going."

Seeing that the generals were looking at him, Lu Yuan sneered: "Previously, I invited the Ning army to fight, but they retreated into the camp and avoided fighting. Now that they are surrounded by me, they are short of food and food, and their disadvantages are clear, but they want to fight with me.

How can such a good thing be fulfilled?

The order was given to the army to strengthen the camp and guard against the Ning army. The Chu army in Ruichang City did not have to fight.

Lone wants to surround and kill these 50,000 Ning troops, surround them until they run out of food, and starve them to death.

I'm going to see if they have the strength to fight me when they're so hungry and dizzy.

If there was still at that time, haha, I wouldn't mind being lonely and fighting with them. ”

Lu Yuan came all the way and made all kinds of arrangements, in order to be able to eat as much of the Ning army as possible at the lowest cost.

Now that it looks like it is about to succeed, how can it be possible to give up its advantage and fight to the death with a Ning army that is filled with the belief of going home and has high morale?

That's a great thing to do!

If there are too many casualties, even if you win, you will not win.

It's good right now.

The Ning army has been blocked under the city of Ruichang, there is no way to retreat, and it is facing the dilemma of lack of food, which can be described as an absolute death.

Lu Yuan didn't need to do anything at this time, just block their way out, and he could starve people to death under the city without any effort.

So much beauty!

Thinking of this, Lu Yuan remembered what he had just said, so he said again: "By the way, didn't Ning Jun run a lot of high-level officials?"

I see that the Lord of Ning is sinking on the hill, and he is among those who have fled.

Those soldiers of the Ning Army were facing a desperate situation at this time, and their morale could still be so high, they must have been deceived by the high-level generals and did not know the truth.

thought that the emperors and generals in the army were living and dying with him, so he was not afraid of danger.

Send someone over and inform the low-level soldiers of the Ning army of the news that their emperor, ministers, and generals have all run away.

I want to see if those Ning soldiers can maintain their current morale after knowing the truth, and are willing to sell their royal relatives and nobles for a group of people who are greedy for life and afraid of death, and sell their lives desperately. ”

A heart-wrenching remark came out of Lu Yuan's mouth, which immediately caused the generals to laugh.

But it is.

The high morale in front of Ning Jun was obviously unreasonable and abnormal.

At this time, the Chu army's side will expose this lie, which will definitely make the morale of the Ning army drop greatly, and lead the people in their army to be suspicious, and the generals will not believe it.

In this way, it is easy to break.