Bright Spring

"Damn it!" Pan Zhong cursed in mid-air, and immediately fell into the river with a "plop".He was wearing heavy armor, and suddenly fell into the water, as if he was tied to a stone and sank into the river. Pan Zhong thumped a few times, but he couldn't get up.

At this moment, a few people with reeds in their mouths suddenly appeared from among the aquatic plants in the river. They swam together and caught Pan Zhong with a net. Pan Zhong was dragged to the south bank like a fish.

After he was dragged ashore, he immediately began to struggle desperately, but he was completely soaked, the armor and clothes were heavier, and the light was dim. He couldn't get rid of the fishing net on his body.Immediately, several Yan soldiers rushed forward, knocked Pan Zhong to the ground, and tied him up with rope.Pan Zhong finally gave up his resistance, looked at the river without blinking, and sighed: "Could it be destiny?"

On the north bank of the Moon Ripple Bridge in the night, the flames shone brightly for a while.After a long time, Yang Song was also tied up.Zhang Bao, a general who had just come from Zhending, was also tied up.

Surrounded by all the riders, a big man in heavy armor rode over, pointed at them with a whip, and said, "Surrender to avoid death!"

Yang Song desperately raised his head and cursed: "Yan Ni!"

The big man on the horse was furious and ordered: "Cut it off!"

When it was Pan Zhong's turn, seeing that his companions would rather die than surrender, he said: "I will not surrender, nor will I scold King Yan, please go to the river to die!"

At this moment, the general named Zhang Bao shouted: "King Yan, spare me!"

"Fuck! Soft bones!" Pan Zhong couldn't help cursing.

He was soon dragged to the river by several soldiers, looking at the moonlit river, Pan Zhong closed his eyes.

Chapter 41 Maintaining the Situation

On August [-], Zhu Gaoxu followed King Yan and led his army to Manzhou.Wuzhou was empty, and the officials opened their doors and surrendered, so most of the Yan army was stationed inside and outside of Wuzhou.

The king of Yan was promoted to the hall in the lobby of the Yamen of the state capital, and ordered the generals to settle down and go to the lobby to discuss matters.

Zhu Gaoxu's left security department surrounded a piece of land in Fuqian Street and set up camp. Wang Bin and others chose a house, and more than [-] people lived in it with Zhu Gaoxu.When Zhu Gaoxu came in, the yard was full of people and horses, and he didn't know where the original owner of the house had gone, he should have been driven away by the soldiers.

He asked Wang Bin about the Southern Army general he captured last night, and Wang Bin brought him into the inverted room after a while.

"If you want to kill, kill!" The man with his hands tied behind his back hummed again as he entered.

Zhu Gaoxu said: "You want to show your loyalty and bravery, I have already received it, so there is no need to repeat it."

The man froze for a moment, but didn't know how to respond.

Zhu Gaoxu sized him up, the man's face was wiped, and it was not as dirty as last night.He doesn't look like a very fierce person. In the words of the alchemist, this man has a "female appearance", the edges and corners of the facial contour are not clear, the face is round, and the eyes are big.Just looking at his appearance, he is gentle, but his identity is indeed a general, and the formation of troops last night was quite organized.

Zhu Gaoxu stepped forward with a calm tone, as if chatting, "The person who arrested you is called Wang Bin. Wang Bin may have told you that I am the second son of King Yan, Zhu Gaoxu, the king of Gaoyang County. What is your name?" , what official position?"

Even the county king introduced himself first, the man hesitated for a moment, then said: "I am Baihu, Liu Ying."

"A hundred households?" Zhu Gaoxu was a little surprised, "Last night you formed an array, but there were more than 100 people."

Liu Ying said: "The camp is too chaotic, Chief Qian and Deputy Chief Qian are missing. I will gather my subordinates first, and then I will call other troops to form the formation."

"Liu Baihu's talent is not limited to Baihu." Zhu Gaoxu praised him, and went up to untie Liu Ying's rope with his own hands.

Liu Ying moved his arm, and stood there a little dazed, because Zhu Gaoxu treated him politely, he was embarrassed to curse, but he was also embarrassed to surrender immediately, with a very embarrassed expression.

Zhu Gaoxu persuaded: "Military officers in the court are all hereditary, and hundreds of military officers are even tens of thousands. If you have a hundred families, you will still be a hundred when you grow old. Who remembers whether you are dead or alive? What's more, you were defeated last night." If you are captured, even if you can go back now, what awaits Liu Baihu is probably the military law. We are all men of the Ming Dynasty, and I am still the grandson of Taizu, so why should Liu Baihu choose to stand in line with his life?"

Zhu Gaoxu paused for a moment, and his tone became a little more serious, "Even if the imperial court has to choose a team, will it be Liu Baihu's turn?"

Wang Bin said from behind: "Liu Baihu, the person in front of you is the prince. Don't miss the opportunity, turn around and slap your thigh again!"

Liu Ying stood there frowning for a while, then suddenly knelt down on one knee, clasped her fists and said, "The sinful general has heard of King Gaoyang's name in the capital, and the sinful general is willing to do the work of a dog and a horse!"

Zhu Gaoxu stretched out his big palm and patted Liu Ying's shoulder, "Very good, I have to go see King Yan first."

As soon as he walked out of the room, he heard Wang Bin's voice behind him saying: "Cut the round card, the shield you took last night? I see your face looks like a round shield, haha..."

Zhu Gaoxu went to the lobby of the yamen, and saw that King Yan was already sitting on the public seat under the plaque of "Mirror Hanging High".

King Yan first heard that Zhang Bao, the general of the Southern Army who had surrendered last night, exaggerated the battle situation last night in the lobby.He also said in public: "The southern army is vulnerable, we will go south immediately, and we will take advantage of the victory to defeat Geng Bingwen in one fell swoop!"

Then, King Yan ordered Zhang Bao to be sent back!Zhang Bao was worried and a little reluctant, but he left anyway.

After sending off the surrendered general, the King of Yan immediately looked back at the generals and said, "Just now I told Zhang Bao, and when he went back to shout, the Yan army will rush to attack Zhending... But I will wait for a day until Geng Bingwen moves to Hutuohebei. When we landed, the army was in turmoil, and our cavalry took advantage of the situation to attack them!"

When Zhu Gaoxu heard this, he seemed to understand it, but he didn't seem to understand it, and he was a little confused.

The way of thinking of the ancients is very strange. Why did Geng Bingwen move to the north bank when he heard the news?Or the Southern Army's vanguard was defeated, and Geng Bingwen wanted to cross the river to fight in the field to regain morale; or he considered that the Hejian Mansion in the northeast still had officers and troops, and wanted to flank the invading Yan Army?

These inferences and considerations all have certain truths and certain possibilities.What Zhu Gaoxu didn't understand was why King Yan could be sure?

Zhu Gaoxu didn't think he was stupid than the ancients, that's why he thought the way of thinking of King Yan and Geng Bingwen was very strange.In Zhu Gaoxu's view, after this set of strategies, every link is full of uncertain factors.

No matter what, Zhu Gaoxu still had self-knowledge, so he didn't say a word after listening.He only waited for King Yan to finish speaking, then he stood up and clasped his fists and said, "Father, I caught a hundred households of the Southern Army last night. Please deal with it yourself."

It seems that it is not in accordance with the rules to not report the captured prisoners, not to mention that the generals on the left guard were watching, Zhu Gaoxu reported first.

King Yan turned his head to look at Zhu Gaoxu, stood up, and said casually, "Okay."

The Chinese military ordered a day off, and Zhu Gaoxu took people to the shop to "requisition" a batch of cotton cloth, and called the soldiers to cut it into pennants.There are hundreds of red flags, one hundred green flags, and one hundred green flags. Zhu Gaoxu ordered to write the word "tiger" on them and fasten them to the small flagpole.

In the evening, he summoned his generals to discuss matters in the mansion.

When the six members of Qianhu and Deputy Qianhu arrived, and after seeing the ceremony, Zhu Gaoxu asked someone to send them the green and blue pennant flags, and said: "We are cavalry, and the conflict is vertical and horizontal. In the future, people and horses will inevitably run into chaos. , You can’t find each other. Take the flag back, tie it on your back when you choose 100 people to go into battle, and I also ask the soldiers to plant the red flag. On the battlefield, you can recognize it at a glance.”

Qianhu Zhang Wu's complexion immediately became very ugly, he may have heard the clue from the words... the criticism of Zhu Gaoxu may have been listened to.

Zhang Wu frowned and said: "King Gaoyang is also a man who has experienced many battles, why do we need this kind of thing? We know these flags, and the enemy soldiers also know them. Didn't they invite the enemy soldiers to attack King Gaoyang's army?"

Zhu Gaoxu turned his head and said: "My personal soldiers all choose the most elite soldiers, are you still afraid of the enemy's attack?"

Zhang Wu was about to refute again, Zhu Gaoxu said coldly: "Zhang Qianhu, do you want to disobey orders?"

"The last general... dare not!" Zhang Wu said with a dark face, and sighed.

The generals were silent, although they didn't object, they seemed to be dissatisfied with this matter.

Zhu Gaoxu waved his hand and said, "It's gone."

Several generals saluted one after another: "The last general will retire."

All the troops rested in the city of Wuzhou for one night, and after breakfast the next day, they moved out of camp one after another.Zhu Gaoxu was ordered to lead his army southward with the main force of King Yan.

Halfway through, Zhu Gaoxu redeployed his command and transferred a total of [-] cavalry from the two power and brave teams to the Chinese army, under his direct command.Zhang Wu and other two thousand households each commanded two cavalry with [-] cavalry.

Zhu Gaoxu also ordered Wei Da to take over the military position of Qianhu and command the Quanyong team.This adjustment, only waited for Zhu Gaoxu to report to King Yan after the army re-camped.

The generals complained quite a bit about this, and their private complaints gradually reached Zhu Gaoxu's ears.However, Zhu Gaoxu planned to go all the way to the dark... Wouldn't it be better than that night when everyone couldn't find each other and rushed up to mess around?

The army marched mightily on the plain, and the flags and flags were like clouds, which was very spectacular.At this time, the autumn is high and the air is crisp, which is a good time for galloping horses on the battlefield.But Zhu Gaoxu was unhappy along the way.

He felt that he commanded more than 2000 cavalry at once, which was a bit beyond the scope of his ability.The generals under him were also dissatisfied, but only because of his status as the king of the county, they barely maintained the situation.