Mei Zhenyi smiled: "Princess, do you hear the cheers of the whole city? In any case, the enemy army has retreated, and your wish has been fulfilled." ...... It's cold in the city, let's go back to the post house to rest first, I'll send you!"

Mei Zhenyi helped Princess Yuzhen to go down to the city, and Jiang Hua, the assassin of Wuzhou, greeted her with her wife, so that the inner family hugged the princess. This Lord Assassin did not dare to go to the city to hide in the mansion when he was fighting, and he was very active at this time, but he was not a faint official, he understood that he did not understand military affairs, and handed over the power of Wuzhou to Mei Yi for the time being.

When the people of Wuzhou heard the cheers in the city, they already knew that Princess Yuzhen had ascended to the city and the rebels outside the city had retreated, so they went out of their homes to welcome the princess. There were officials to escort the people from approaching, but the people still gathered around the roadside and cheered, and many of them knelt down. Princess Yuzhen has experienced this, her tears of excitement are about to fall, walking is like stepping on the clouds, holding the cold armor on her Mei Zhenyi, it seems to have become extremely warm.

Mei Zhenyi had just sent the princess down to the city, and Mei Liu, who was in charge of patrolling the city, ran up to the West Gate Tower, handed Mei Yi a bunch of silk books, and reported: "Outside the East Gate, someone quietly dived across the Jushui River and shot this letter into the city, which said that the lord of the city will open it himself. I didn't dare to delay, so I delivered it immediately. ”

Mei Yi opened it and looked at it, and was surprised that it was now a handwritten letter from Cheng Xuanhu, the assassin of Haozhou. Before the war in Wuzhou, Mei Yi had sent people to Haozhou for help, Cheng Xuanhu had no reason not to save him, but he also did not have the right to send troops across the state. The order given by the imperial court to the state capitals was to hold on to their respective armies, and the matter of suppressing the enemy was the responsibility of the two armies of Li Xiaoyi and Heizhi Changzhi.

Cheng Xuanhu first asked Li Xiaoyi, the commander of the Pioneer Army, for reinforcements to Wuzhou, but Li Xiaoyi ordered him to hold on to Haozhou to prevent the rebels from escaping west along the Yangtze River into Sichuan and Shu. Cheng Xuanhu had no choice but to wait, and when Li Xiaoyi led the army to Gaoyou to fight a decisive battle with Xu Jingye's main force, and the rear army of Hei Zhi Changzhi also approached Jiangnan, Cheng Xuanhu sent someone to ask for his life.

Hei Zhi Chang Zhi got Mei Xiaolang's orders early, and after receiving the letter. Immediately ordered Cheng Xuanhu to lead Peng Ze's water division to aid Wuzhou, and asked him to march carefully, enter the city for reinforcements, and not get entangled in the field outside the city. Cheng Xuanhu received the order and immediately led 3,000 sailors to take nearly 100 warships of all sizes down the Yangtze River to reinforce Wuzhou. At the same time, he sent his capable men to ride fast horses around the rebel lines. Along the north bank of the Yangtze River, he went first, and then quietly crossed the river to the city of Wuzhou, and shot the letter in.

Seeing this letter, Mei Yi understood why Wang Naxiang retreated, there must be a detective cavalry who appeared Peng Zeshui and went down the river. Speculate on the route of Cheng Xuanhu's march, if you want to enter Wuzhou, first go east from the Yangtze River, go north of Wuzhou, and then go south along the Qingyi River. There is no army of sailors in the Jushui River, and it is necessary to land at the confluence of the Jushui River and the Qingyi River.

Wang Naxiang will definitely not attack the city after receiving the news, if the siege is in full swing, and there is a sailor behind him to land and kill, he must be defeated. So is he running away or is he going to fight now?

Qingyi River is more than three miles away from the city, standing on a high place and looking out, you can vaguely see that although Mei Yixian's army retreated, the formation was not chaotic. It is heading to the Qingyi River. He immediately sent Mei Dadong to sneak down to the city and follow behind to snoop, not much time Mei Dadong came back to report, Wang Naxiang did not leave, the army was arranged along the river into a shield array, spearmen were lined up behind the shield wall, eighteen siege trestles were arranged behind the shield wall, and a fire was lit next to it, and the archers could be seen tying things to the shaft of the arrow from a distance.

As soon as Mei Yi heard it, he knew what Wang Naxiang wanted to do, this was a plan to besiege the city and send reinforcements, and he wanted to ambush Peng Ze's sailors on the bank of the river. The surface of the Qingyi River is not very wide. If you erect an arrow tower, you can shoot an arrow through the center of the river at the narrowest point of the river. Wang Naxiang must have set up a formation along the river to prevent the sailors from landing, and at the same time turned the trestle into an arrow tower and ordered the archers to attack the ship with rockets.

If Cheng Xuanhu suffers a great loss in such a battle, the sailor is the most dangerous when he crosses the river, and in ancient times, the warships were all wooden sails, and the most feared thing was fire attack. If Wang Naxiang relied on eighteen arrow towers to shoot rockets from a high position, and a shield array and spears were lined up on the shore to prevent the sailors from grabbing the beach. Peng Ze Shui will be very passive.

Cheng Xuanhu only brought 3,000 people, if these people entered Wuzhou, then there would naturally be no problem with the defense of Wuzhou, but in the battle by the river, Wang Naxiang had more than 5,000 people. It also occupies a favorable position. If you encounter it suddenly. Cheng Xuanhu doesn't know how to use soldiers, and there is a chance that he will plant a big heel. If the two sides fight to the death. It is possible that Cheng Xuanhu's entire army will be annihilated.

In Mei Yi's opinion, in fact, Cheng Xuanhu did not need to enter Wuzhou City, he only needed to go ashore on the other side of the Qingyi River three miles away. Then Wang Naxiang did not dare to easily cross the river to attack the naval division, nor did he dare to attack Wuzhou City on a large scale, and the dilemma would naturally retreat, which was the best military strategy.

Will Cheng Xuanhu use troops like this? If he won't, is it too late to send someone to intercept the sailor and inform him now? Mei Yi glanced at the distance and sighed secretly in his heart: "Cheng Xuanhu probably won't use troops like this, and even if he will, it will be too late." ”

Because on the horizon in the direction of Jiulian Mountain, a sail shadow can be seen shaking, and the west wind has been blowing for the past few days, and Peng Ze's sailors are very fast, and they have arrived at this moment! It will not be long before the sailors will reach the place where Wang Na is arrayed, and the encounter will begin. There is also Wuzhou City behind him, Wang Naxiang dared to fight a decisive battle with the sailors in such a formation, obviously looking down on the soldiers in Wuzhou City, knowing that they did not have the strength to go out of the city to fight in the field.

Mei Yi frowned, clenched his fists, and ordered, "Find Zhang Guo!"

Mei Zhenyi sent the princess back to the post house, and explained a few words to the Wuzhou Assassin History, said goodbye and went out to prepare to return to the city.

Before he had reached the west gate, he heard a rumbling in the distance, and the ground trembled. What's going on, could it be an earthquake? No, it was clearly the sound of horses' hooves, and it turned out to be a large group of people rushing out of the west gate.

He hurriedly boarded the west gate in three steps and two steps, but now Zhang Guo was standing there with a command flag, and then looked outside the city, a puff of smoke and dust was raised, and in front of the smoke and dust was a black torrent, and there was a group of heavy cavalry rushing towards the direction of the Qingyi River. Mei Zhenyi asked in surprise: "Elder Zhang, what is going on? Where did the heavy cavalry come from in the city, and where did Uncle Yi go?"

Zhang Guo handed him a letter: "This is written by Cheng Xuanhu, after Mei Yi received the letter." Looking at Peng Ze's reinforcements from afar, he led the army out of the city to meet him, and that team of heavy cavalry was temporarily trained by him to become an army these days. ......”

When Mei Zhenyi landed in the city, the naval division and Wang Naxiang's army had already engaged, and the first few warships were caught in flames. The sailors abandoned their ships and landed on the shoals, but they were sniped by shields and spearmen on the shoals, and they became a mess. Cheng Xuanhu sent an order in the flag language on the building boat behind him, restraining the navy from being chaotic, covering with crossbow arrows, and organizing small boats to charge ashore. More than three miles away, you can see the light of fire and smoke.

Seeing this letter, and then looking into the distance and listening to Zhang Guodi's explanation, Mei Zhenyi also understood what was going on. As for the heavy cavalry. It was indeed Mei Yi's temporary drill, the Wuzhou garrison lacked drills and was not strong in combat power, and could not conduct field battles with the military formation, but there were also a few people who were good at riding and shooting, and there were also some people in the brave city and countryside who had served in the military and had been on the battlefield and could ride horses to kill. Mei Yi has been picking and choosing these days, and the six Mei brothers have barely picked out one hundred and eighty strong men.

One hundred and eighty horses were barely enough. The most important thing in the city is heavy armor, the armory of Ningguo County has been moved, and what is lacking is well-trained cavalry. Mei Yi himself once said that as long as he was given 800 well-trained subway rides, he would be able to go out of the city and defeat Wang Naxiang's big array. But now he had only one hundred and eighty men, and he was not well-trained, but he had rushed out of the army, and he had to rush out of the city in a hurry.

Mei Zhenyi grabbed Zhang Guo: "Old Zhang, why didn't you stop him?"

Zhang Guo: "Cheng Xuanhu took the risk to come to his aid and was in danger, how could he see that he could not be saved by death?"

Mei Zhenyi: "I'm not talking about this, you know that Mei Yi has lost a divine skill now." It's too dangerous to do that as a boss again!"

Zhang Guo: "Mei Yi said that after this battle, whether it is victory or defeat, Wang Naxiang will no longer have the power to attack the city, and it doesn't matter whether Wuzhou has him as a coach or not." ...... Mei Yi also said that he has experienced countless battle formations, and it is impossible for the cavalry under his command to have a miraculous skill like him, and he also rushes to kill on horseback? Now he is still strong and has a body of martial arts, of course, he can go out of the city to attack and kill. It's just that you don't have a miracle like everyone else!"

Mei Zhenyi turned around and was about to go down to the city, when Zhang Guoyi stretched out his hand and flew out of his sleeve to tie him up, and said apologetically: "Young master, I have offended! Mei Yi left the old slave here to watch the young master." Don't let you be like he did. The old slave can't stand it today. As long as you can not get out of the city, you can punish you as much as you want afterwards!"

Mei Zhenyi stomped her feet: "Old Zhang." You don't have to tie me up, I cast a spell in Cuiting Nunnery yesterday, and my divine energy was almost exhausted, and I couldn't use any magic spells this month, even if I wanted to go out of the city, I couldn't help him. ”

When Mei Zhenyi and Zhang Guo were talking in the city, Mei Yi had already led one hundred and eighty heavy cavalry to rush into the enemy camp. Although Wang Naxiang looked down on the defenders of Wuzhou City, he did not completely despise it, he left two hundred light cavalry behind the formation to guard the direction of Wuzhou City, but he did not expect that such a fierce iron-armored heavy cavalry would rush out.

Mei Yi waved his long lance and rushed to the front, the six Mei brothers followed closely on the left and right, and the cavalry team behind him was like an ironclad torrent, not entangled with these cavalry, and rushed directly over more than ten horses. It is impossible for this group of heavy cavalry to fight a full-scale battle with 5,000 rebels, but if they only choose one direction to charge with all their might, they can still penetrate the enemy position.

Mei Yi was very clever and did not directly from behind the large formation**, in that case, the heavy cavalry would penetrate the enemy formation and fall into the riverside shallows. He led the horse in front of him, inserted it horizontally along the back of the enemy's shield wall, and rushed in a straight line between the shield wall and the arrow tower. What will be the result of the heavy cavalry rushing into the formation of soldiers and archers?

Mei Yi had no other requirements for his cavalry, that is, he wanted them to rely on their heavy armor and not be afraid of ordinary swords and arrows, and the periphery was covered by dancing with a lance, and the others tightened their formation and followed the front to shoot arrows. The place where you pass first knocks over the arrow tower, or ignites it with rockets, and the city has long been prepared with rockets to deal with the siege trestle, and now it is also **.

This time, the charge penetrated the entire large array of Wang Naxiang along the back of the shield wall, and the enemy lost nearly 500 men, 13 of the 18 arrow towers were knocked down, and the remaining 5 were also on fire. Nearly half of the 180 heavy horsemen were lost, and most of them crashed into the arrow tower and fell off their horses, making it difficult to get up in heavy armor.

This should not be the usual result, but Mei Yi was already quite satisfied, because at this time, Peng Ze's water division had already rushed up, and more importantly, the forward of Wang Naxiang's army had been crushed.

Peng Zeshui was walking in the middle of the river and suddenly encountered an ambush in a narrow part of the river. The rockets on the shore were raining rockets, many sails were burning, the crossbowmen on the big ships did not have an advantage in shooting, the boats charged ashore, and encountered a row of shield walls and dense spears, and the battle was very passive on the shallows.

That's when it happened. How could a large number of ironclad heavy cavalry suddenly come out of this land where the water network in the south of the Yangtze River was crisscrossed? The number of people was small but very strong, rushing into the enemy line like a tiger entering a pack of wolves, a large part of the shield wall in front of the river beach fell to chaos at once, and the tall arrow towers also fell to the ground one after another. This was a godsend, and the big ships took the opportunity to dock, and the crossbows and arrows on the ship's floor were all on the ship, and the sword and shield soldiers jumped out of the boat. Wielding a long knife, he rushed over in formation.

The tide of battle on the river bank has been reversed, and the opponent's cavalry has also outflanked it, Mei Yi shouted loudly, and led his men to return to their horses with less than 100 heavy horses and rushed towards the opponent's cavalry, which was another tragic battle. Mei Yi stepped on the lance, and he didn't know how many enemies he overturned, and suddenly appeared in front of him. It turned out that once again broke through the enemy line.

He shouted the order and turned around his horse, and there were still more than sixty horsemen left behind him, but now he didn't have to do it anymore - the enemy army had been defeated.

Wang Naxiang's military flag has fallen, the river beach is full of shouts of killing, the sailors and shields rushed ashore, large warships lined up along the river, crossbow arrows rained down, the rebels' defense line along the river has long ceased to exist, the enemy formation has been broken, and the rebels are scattering and fleeing. Looking east, about two or three hundred remnants had fled the battlefield. It should be that the king saw that the situation was not good, and fled with his own soldiers.

Mei Yi shouted: "Put down the knife and gun to avoid death!"

This shout was like a thunderclap, which shook the entire battlefield, and not far away, two fleeing cavalrymen stepped off their horses and fell off their horses. The battlefield was silent for a moment, and then I heard a clanging sound nearby, and many people took off their knives and guns, and they didn't know whether they were frightened or threw them to the ground.

Mei Yi suddenly appeared, and the people nearby were all looking at him, whether it was an enemy or a friendly army, everyone's eyes were straight, as if they had seen some terrible monster. There was awe or fear in the eyes. At this time, a voice in his ear said, "General Mei Yi, haven't you seen any changes in yourself?"

This was the voice of the fairy child's breeze, and Mei Yi suddenly realized that when he was rushing to kill just now, he didn't know when his divine skills had been exhausted. He hadn't noticed it himself. But others can see it clearly. Mei Yi took the lead, and the spear in his hand was full of cold shots, and no one could stop him on the battlefield. Even the men and horses didn't know how many enemy troops he had picked up, and even the Chinese army flag in the center of the big array was thicker than the mouth of the bowl, which was interrupted by him.

Mei Yi heard the sound of the breeze, and gradually came back to his senses, and his murderous aura gradually crept in. He did something that everyone didn't expect, turned over and dismounted, stuck the lance in his hand on the ground, and respectfully bowed three times and bowed nine times in the direction of Wuzhou City.

This is a difficult action, in ancient times, a full set of heavy riding armor had hundreds of catties, and it was impossible to perform a big gift wearing armor, but Mei Yi's movements did not have a trace of distortion, just heard a click, the armor behind him was torn, and the chest armor in front of him was also broken, and the person still kowtowed in a regular manner.

The heavy cavalry behind them did the same, the six Mei brothers took the lead in dismounting, they couldn't be like Mei Yi wearing heavy armor and bowing, they could only salute with fists in the direction of Wuzhou City, and then more than 60 horsemen also dismounted and saluted, although I don't know why, but the boss has done it.

Afterwards, some people speculated that after General Mei Yi's great victory, who was the one who dismounted and knelt down to worship? Some people contacted the previous events and guessed that he was worshipping the banner of the Yuzhen princess in the city, while others said that he was worshipping the royal Tianwei, and some people guessed even more bizarrely, saying that General Mei was invincible on the battlefield, just like being possessed by a god, and he should be worshipping a god.

After Mei Zhenyi heard about this, he knew very well in his heart that Mei Yi was worshipping the fairy child Qingfeng, and at that moment, it was also the time when he had exhausted his antecedents and realized the Tao.

Wang Naxiang's men lost nearly 2,000 men, and only escaped less than 300 horsemen, and the rest all surrendered as prisoners. Seventeen ships of the Peng Ze Navy Division were burned and more than 800 people were killed or wounded. The war has been won, and the remaining things are to clean up the battlefield, settle the prisoners, treat the wounded, and compensate the dead, these things do not have to worry about the Mei family, Mei Yi has returned to the temporary military and political power, and the Wuzhou government is all responsible.

In the evening of the same day, Princess Yuzhen held a banquet in the post house to thank Cheng Xuanhu, the assassin of Wuzhou, who came to the rescue, and all the generals of the navy, and also thanked the people of the Mei family who had made meritorious contributions to the history of the Wuzhou assassin and the defense of the city, as well as the local garrison generals and the leaders of the people, and there were more than 60 people attending this celebration banquet. said that Princess Yuzhen was a treat, but in fact, it was all handled by Wuzhou Mansion, and Jiang Hua's face was happy.

At the banquet, Mei Zhenyi asked Cheng Xuanhu: "Mr. is a scholar, why did he personally lead the water army?"

Cheng Xuanhu sighed: "The main force of Peng Ze's water division was ordered to hold the Yangtze River, and only these three thousand people could be divided, and I was in a hurry, so I came in person." I've read a lot of military books before, but the first time I fought in my life was useless, if it wasn't for General Mei Yi going out of the city to respond, I'm afraid I would have to feed the fish in the Qingyi River. ”

Mei Yi smiled: "As the saying goes, a hundred battles become famous generals, and the battlefield is ever-changing. But Mr. Cheng doesn't have to be annoyed, you are very admirable as soon as you introduce the courage of a literati, you can't establish a meritorious career of both civil and military, I salute you!"

On this day, I didn't drink less, and I was drunk a lot. The next day, the Wuzhou Mansion still held a banquet to entertain another group of guests, and it turned out that the reinforcements sent by General Heizhi Changzhi also arrived.

When Hei Tooth Changzhi heard that Wuzhou was besieged, he agreed that Cheng Xuanhu would divide his troops to come to the rescue, but he didn't expect Cheng Xuanhu to kill and retreat the rebels. With Mei Xiaolang's secret advice, Heiya Changzhi also sent his subordinate Tang Di to lead 3,000 light horsemen to the south, and crossed the river to Wuzhou with this partial division as the vanguard.

Tang Di's cavalry arrived a day late, and by the time they arrived, Wang Naxiang's army had been defeated. But when people come thousands of miles to rescue, they must always be warmly received, and it is another feast.

The position of the rear army led by Heiya Changzhi is very important and embarrassing, and the order he received is "subsequent response", not "coordinated operation", if Li Xiaoyi is not defeated or deliberately delays the fighter plane, it is inconvenient for him to directly enter the main battlefield, which will not only be suspected of robbing military merits, but also does not conform to the arrangements of the imperial court.

Empress Wu meant that the Tang royal family Li Jiadi led the army to quell the rebellion, and the main responsibility of the rear army was to supervise the war.

One of the most important tasks of Heizhi Changzhi is to write a war report, and he must report to the imperial court about any battle on the front line, what the process and result are. If Li Xiaoyi had any different intentions, the military situation reported was different from the battle report of Heizhi Changzhi, and the imperial court would be able to detect it immediately.

This time, in the name of reinforcing the defense line in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and cutting off Xu Jingye's retreat, Tang Di was sent to cross the river to Wuzhou, and the battle of Wuzhou was won a day ago. After Hei Tooth Changzhi received Tang Di's return, the battle report was written like this-

"The rebels sent the demon Zuo Youxian to kidnap Princess Yuzhen, and on the way, he was greeted by Mei Zhenyi, the captain of the Ducai, who led all the families and asked Donghuamen Jihai Zhenren and other masters to help rescue the princess back to Wuzhou. When the rebels heard the news, they sent Wang Naxiang to lead a total of more than 10,000 cavalry to besiege Wuzhou City, assassinate Jiang Hua and his subordinate officials, and with the assistance of the guerrilla general Mei Yi, they recruited 8,000 strong men to defend the city, and fought a bloody battle for more than ten days to protect Wuzhou.

At the critical moment, Princess Yuzhen landed in the city, and the righteous words severely reprimanded the hypocrisy of the thief, and the rebels retreated in an uproar. Haozhou assassin Cheng Xuanhu, on the order of the general of the black tooth Changzhi, led 3,000 sailors to reinforce Wuzhou, just cutting off the retreat of the traitors. The guerrilla general Mei Yi led the people out of the city to pursue, and defeated the rebels in two ways. Tang Di, the vanguard of the rear route army, led a light cavalry to Wuzhou the next day to clear the remnants of the enemy. The battle was a complete victory, Wang Naxiang only fled with more than 100 remnants of cavalry, and the rebels on the west line of the Yangtze River had been cut off. ”