Beacon quenching beauty

Qi Tianbao, the pioneer of the middle road, led an army of [-], and immediately left Kaifeng Bei'an Yuanmen, marched quickly, and met the Yuan army head-on.

Yang Jing, general of the left army, and Xue Xian, general of the right army, each led their [-] cavalry to circle east and west, avoiding the vanguard of the Yuan army, trailing on the flanks, not to attack without authorization, and waiting for orders at any time!

Zhao Guowang, the chief of ten thousand, led an army of [-], and marched along the middle road with the pioneer Qi Tianbao. He had to be separated from the pioneer army by ten miles, and he was not allowed to attack without authorization.

Song Wuyi, commander of the Left Route Army, led [-] troops to guard Kaifeng.

Song Qingshu himself led [-] troops to support him.

After passing the order, he waved his hand, "Go, we are going to make the Yuan army look good today, so that Tuoyin can go back to where he came from!"

The generals got the order, looking at the general's military order today, it is very different from the previous two days' plan of only focusing on defending Kaifeng, there must be other considerations, everyone can't help being encouraged and excited.

They have followed Song Qingshu for a long time, and they know the style of the general's use of troops. There must be someone behind this arrangement, so everyone can just follow orders.

Song Gaishi came out and followed Song Qingshu anxiously, "Brother, what about me?"

Song Qingshu looked back and smiled, people's hearts are always biased, the generals under him, he likes Song Gaish the most, don't look at this guy as a big and thick bear, but he really likes him, so he left an easy job for Song Gaish, " This general wants you to lead people to retreat to the Longtang area, thirty miles east, and wait there to ambush and defeat the generals of the Yuan army who fled there, and if you catch them, come back and claim the credit."

Song Gaishi counted and calculated, but he couldn't figure out where he could take the remaining soldiers and horses, "Brother, we are out of soldiers, you let me go to Longtang by myself?"

"My bodyguard team is divided into 500 people and brought to you first. It is certain that we will not be able to hit Longtang today, and it may not be tomorrow. You go to prepare, look at the terrain, see where you can ambush, place trip ropes on the road, etc. Tomorrow, I will send Jiang Yu to bring a team to you."

Yin Dezhu, the captain of Song Qingshu's personal army, was promoted by him to be a general, and led the troops to Xinyang to help Wang Daquan defend the city. Jiang Yu was the newly promoted captain of the personal army.

Song Gaishi was ordered to trust Song Qingshu's arrangements, and he didn't ask why the Yuan army retreated to the east, but just patted his chest to guarantee, "Okay, brother, don't worry, as long as there are Yuan army generals who are defeated and escape, I will definitely be able to escape." catch."

Hundreds of miles away, Wang Baobao also issued an order, ordering the vanguard of the Yuan army led by Tuoyin to speed up and attack Kaifeng the next morning!

After Wang Baobao issued the general order, he smiled at Zhao Min, "Sister, I just found out that this time we have unintentionally taken a huge advantage."

Zhao Min was dressed in men's attire and walked with the army, with his head held high and his chest held high, and he rode heroically on his horse and asked, "What's cheap?"

Wang Baobao said, "This General Dingbei Song Dynasty has had bad luck recently. For some reason, he fell out with Chen Youliang, the rebel from the Taiping Kingdom at this juncture. Chen Youliang sent an army of [-] to attack Xinyang to the south of him. He is now Gu Nan. I can't take care of Bei, no matter how powerful he is, he will be useless, haha, God really helped me! This battle will definitely be won."

Zhao Min remembered that at the Shaolin Martial Arts Conference back then, Song Qingshu only learned a few quick-handed insidious kung fu before he dared to stand up and challenge the heroes of the world for Zhou Zhiruo, and said, "This person has good aptitude, but it's a pity that he often has to act emotionally. Once the blood is on his head He just ignored everything. Back then he almost lost his life because of a beautiful girl, but it was Master Mingjiao Zhang who saved him."

Wang Baobao remained silent, and asked suddenly after a while, "Sister, have you never been worried that the Ming Church sent troops to rescue that Song?"

Zhao Min looked back at him with a half-smile, "I don't think you've ever worried, brother, so don't worry about me as a helper."

Wang Baobao shook his head, "What are you and me doing? Tell me, why aren't you worried? Let me hear if the two of us, brother and sister, have thought of one place."

Zhao Mindao, "The reason is very simple. Even if the Mingjiao wants to send troops to rescue Kaifeng now, Song Qingshu may not dare to let them come. It is easy to ask the gods to send the gods away. What should they do if they come? And Mingjiao will not do what they can. Please, according to what you said just now, I guess Mingjiao is more likely to attack Chen Youliang in Jiangxi. First, make a posture of besieging Wei and saving Zhao. Stay, why not do it."

Wang Baobao clapped his hands, "Wonderful, it's exactly what I thought, sister, you can recognize a woman so much, even in today's imperial court, there are few people who can match it."

Zhao Min raised his eyebrows helplessly, "Brother, you don't have to bother to praise me anymore. I'm not a three-year-old kid who will be hooked if I coax him. I've made up my mind. When the war here in Henan is over, I will Take them back to the desert."

Wang Baobao planned to attack Kaifeng early in the morning of the second day, but he didn't want the striker led by Tuoyin to fight with Qi Tianbao's troops who took the initiative to attack in the evening.

Wang Baobao's intuition was wrong, and immediately after receiving the news, he ordered the whole army to stop and set up camp where they were. He only sent his deputy general A Luwen with a team of [-] people to reinforce the [-] former army led by Tuo Yin. True and false.

It stands to reason that Song Qingshu is fighting on two fronts at this time, and the most urgent thing is the lack of troops. The remaining troops in his hands may not be able to defend Kaifeng City, let alone take the initiative to attack. He can suddenly send troops out to meet Tuo Yin. The biggest possibility is that he and Chen Youliang have made peace, and Xinyang's main force retreated.

Sitting in Wang Baobao's big tent, Zhao Min smiled and said, "An even bigger possibility is that he was bluffing and trying to scare us, brother, why can't you help but stop immediately."

"It's better to be safe." Wang Baobao was not afraid of being laughed at by his younger sister, with hundreds of thousands of troops in his hands, no matter what he could not be ignored.

Qi Tianbao looked at the dark and endless Yuan army on the opposite side, and for the first time since joining the army, he had an ominous premonition, thinking that he might be doomed this time!These are just the forwards of the opponent, and the main force is still behind. When will this fight?If you don't die in battle, you have to die from exhaustion.

But there is still a glimmer of hope in my heart. In the morning, I saw Song Qingshu's dispatch with confidence, as if he had a plan to retreat from the enemy. As long as he can withstand the vanguard and let the general have time to arrange arrangements in the back, their generals may not be able to Can't turn around, win more with less!

Putting his heart to one side, he secretly fought, the general treats them well on weekdays, how can he back down when they are in crisis, and there is no wealth that falls from the sky, if he can win this battle, Qi Tianbao can take the lead, and in the future Rewards are absolutely indispensable to him.

He raised his arms and shouted, "Brothers, go! Tuo has been defeated many times by our men, this time we have to tell him to roll back with his tail between his legs!"

Tuoyin planned to attack Kaifeng city all the way to show off his might, but unexpectedly encountered Qi Tianbao's head-on attack on the road, and quickly sent orders to fight, while sending people to report to Wang Baobao.

The two armies fought fiercely tens of miles north of Kaifeng City until it was dark, and the moon was dark and the stars were sparse. Standing face to face, they could not see clearly. There was no possibility of a night battle.

Tuoyin waited for Wang Baobao's lieutenant Aruwen and [-] backup.

Qi Tianbao waited for a military order from Song Qingshu, ordering him to persevere through tonight, and the next morning, the left and right generals Yang Jing and Xue Xian came to the rescue.

Qi Tianbao gritted his teeth and mobilized the whole army overnight. He must fight the enemy bravely and fight to the death with the Mongolian soldiers who have escaped from the cause. He must persist until the general's reinforcements arrive.

In the early morning of the second day, Tuoyin came back and finally saw the situation clearly. Don't look at Qi Tianbao's incomparable bravery, leading his generals on a rampage. With Arwin's back-up, it's no problem to beat him two or three times.

Tuoyin immediately ordered to surround Qi Tianbao's army, wanting to catch a turtle in an urn.

On the other side, Arwin sent a fast horse to report to Wang Baobao that the enemy army was normal, although they attacked bravely, their strength was obviously insufficient, so there was nothing to fear.

Because Qi Tianbao has persisted until the time Song Qingshu said, so he is not in a panic, and the orderly command will fight back. He is getting rid of the idea of ​​urging the Yuan army to shrink and encircle him, and he is determined to squeeze Qi Tianbao to death if he cannot catch him. , The outer positions on the east and west sides were in chaos at the same time, and a large group of cavalry charged over.It was the left and right generals Yang Jing and Xue Xian who came to the rescue.

Tuoyin and Aluwen hurriedly ordered the soldiers on the east and west sides to turn to meet them. Qi Tianbao saw the advantage in the encirclement, and ordered his men to break through to the east.

This scuffle lasted for two hours. The Yuan army ran in panic due to internal and external enemies, and was beheaded countless times. When it was almost noon, Tuo Yin found that he seemed to have been fooled again. Although the two cavalry teams who came to rescue Qi Tianbao The attack was menacing, but there were not many people. Although the casualties were heavy for those who rushed back and forth like this, they did not break up their own army.

Almost turning his nose in anger, he repeatedly shouted orders to regroup.Just when the chaotic men and horses were being reorganized and ready to fight again, there was a lot of shouting and killing from the direction of Kaifeng coming from the south, and another large group of men and horses who could not see the beginning and the end came to kill.

Tuoyin and Aluwin called out "Ku Ye" at the same time, the enemy army was attacking more and more, coming out from all directions and directions, and I don't know how many calls behind them, this is really killing people. After such a few shocks, the army's morale will inevitably be in chaos.

On the other side, Wang Baobao was relieved after receiving the urgent report from Aruwen, and ordered the army to move on.Not long after leaving, the second reporter sent by Aruwen arrived again, and he ran away in a panic, and the news he brought back was also very bad: the vanguard and Aruwen's troops suffered several batches of uprisings one after another in the morning The army's sneak attack was defeated and retreated. I implore the prince to send troops to support quickly.

Wang Baobao frowned, "Big defeat, how many ambushes did they encounter?"

The spy said, "Tens of thousands, at most the same number as ours, it's just that they are very cunning, dispatching sneak attacks from different directions, General Tuoyin and General Aluwin are overwhelmed, that's why..."

Wang Baobao was so angry that he slammed his whip, "Two idiots!"

Looking around, he secretly thought who should be sent to help.The army behind was mostly infantry, and they couldn't move fast, so they could only send someone to lead a team of cavalry to catch up quickly to help them control the situation.

Although the lieutenants around are all good, they are certainly no better than Tuoyin and Aluwen. The name of Song is well-deserved, and he is really capable of changing his tactics. He must send a shrewd person to stabilize the situation and stop being attacked by him. lead by the nose.

Feeling awkward for a moment, Zhao Min suddenly said, "Brother, let me go."

"Are you going?" Wang Baobao hesitated. In terms of his quick mind, the girl had nothing to say. It was just right to let her go at this time, but after all, it was his own sister, and he had to worry about her safety when he sent her to the battlefield.

Zhao Min said, "You are the commander-in-chief of the three armies and you can't move lightly. I'm afraid it might not work if you let someone else go. Don't worry, I will take Xuan Ming and the elders with me. Even if I still don't win, they will protect me from danger."

Wang Baobao was very clear about the abilities of the two elders, Xuan Ming, and knew that they should be able to protect Zhao Min even in the chaos, so he nodded and said, "Okay."

Zhao Min led a team of people and rushed forward to a place that was forty or fifty miles away from the closed city. He saw that the battlefield ahead was extremely chaotic. Everyone's eyes were red, and if you look carefully, you will find that most of the chaos is your own soldiers and horses.

Secretly frightened, he stopped and did not join the battle group, but ordered someone to send an order to let Tuo Yin and A Luwen pack up the remnants and retreat quickly.

The rebel army saw a large group of Yuan troops with a reorganized appearance and marched again. Although they did not move, they also secretly became vigilant. When it's done, it's ready to close.

Zhao Min knew that today's battle was defeated, Tuoyin and Aluwen's soldiers had been beaten to the point of losing confidence, at this time even if he brought the people he brought over, he might not be able to win the battle, for the current plan All he had to do was wait for his brother to come with the army behind him.

Let Tuoyin and Aluwen lead the group first, and then lead the people to slow down, and prepare to retreat ten miles to camp and rest.

Not long after walking, there was a strange voice behind him. Looking back, he saw dust billowing in the sky in the distance, almost covering half of the sky, and the momentum was astonishing. The horse rushed over, "Princess, it's dangerous, retreat quickly, the enemy army is chasing again!"

Zhao Min was shocked, and secretly thought that Song Qingshu had a total of 10,000+ people, at least half of them should be divided into Shou Xinyang, and there are at most 8 people left here. Where did he conjure up so many people now?

Without thinking carefully, order to withdraw quickly.

After running for a few miles, a group of people in front of them blocked the way. I don't know if they just came here by detour, or if she deliberately let them go when she led people past. A big word 'Chang'.

"Mingjiao Chang Yuchun!" Tuoyin exclaimed, Chang Yuchun was extremely brave and invincible on the battlefield, the Yuan army was almost famous and fearful, and his reputation over the years has been huge!

A Luwen also retreated to Zhao Min's side, and said anxiously, "Princess, what should we do? The pursuers will arrive in no time, and once we fight Chang Yuchun here, they will definitely attack."

Zhao Min made a decisive decision, "Let's separate, divide into three groups, go in three directions, and see who he chases!"

Tuoyin and Aluwen didn't dare yet, they were afraid that if the princess was folded here, they would not be able to afford it even if they fled back, Aluwen said, "Princess, you are too valuable to take risks, let's concentrate our forces to move forward Go ahead, Tuoyin and I went to catch Chang Yuchun, you see the opportunity and go first."

Zhao Min waved his hand, "Don't worry, I have expert guards by my side, so I can definitely run away. Now the enemy is strong and we are weak, so don't force yourself. According to what I said, divide the troops into three groups and go in three directions!"

The situation was urgent, and there was no room for long-winded sentences. After giving the order, he brought his own men and horses, picked a direction to go east, and galloped away.She thought carefully and took a southeast route. Although Wang Baobao's army was in the north, she would go further and further away if she walked in the opposite direction.

After running to the southeast for more than ten miles, another group of troops appeared in front of him. Zhao Min secretly hated, thinking that sending troops this time was a sure thing, but why did it become like this.If you lose the first battle, you will be greatly restrained later. The opponent is very familiar with the terrain here, and it seems that they have set up ambushes on several roads in advance.

Relying on the fact that there are many people with him, he is not afraid, so he sends an order to rush over!

Xuanming and Elders protected Zhao Min from left to right, and took the lead. When they rushed to the front, they suddenly said '噫' together, and saw a young man in front of the opponent's formation, wearing a white robe, it was Mingjiao who advocated Wuji.

Zhao Min trembled immediately. She didn't want to go to Shandong but chose to come to Henan because she didn't want to meet Zhang Wuji. She didn't expect to do the calculations, but she still didn't escape. Looking at that vigorous and handsome figure, her heart was agitated, and for a moment Can't tell what it's like.

Zhang Wuji also saw the two elders Xuanming, frowned slightly, thinking why these two people are everywhere, and came here again, the Yuan army general in the middle who was protected by them might not be low in status.

He stared at him, and saw a thin, not tall man, wearing a Mongolian fur robe and sitting on a horse, with a helmet on his head, covering half of his face, with only a pair of bright eyes very familiar to him, and he felt a pang in his heart. Rin, he couldn't move for a while, and just looked hard.

Zhao Min stood there blankly for a while, then suddenly came to his senses, urged his horse forward, and raised his voice, "Master Zhang, hello, we haven't seen each other for a long time." He raised his hand and took off his helmet, revealing his entire face.

The two elders Xuanming hurriedly followed up with protection.

"Sister Min!!"

Looking at the still beautiful and unparalleled face, Zhang Wuji was instantly stunned, "Sister Min! Why are you here?"

"I'm here to help you, brother, to put down the Henan rebels!" Zhao Min stared at him, "Master Zhang, it's a good idea that we will withdraw from this road, so wait here in advance to stop us?"

"It's Qingshu's arrangement,...I...I don't know it's you." Zhang Wuji was at a loss for a moment, and the sore and bitter mood when Zhao Minchu left suddenly came back to his heart, and his voice trembled, "Min Sister, you, have you been in the Central Plains for the past few years and have not returned to the Mongolian desert? Then why did you tell me that you went to the desert?"

Zhao Min smiled lightly, "What difference does it make if I live in Dadu or in the desert? Do you know what use I can be in Dadu, come to me again? Brother Wuji, it's useless to talk about the past, I just ask you are you now?" Do you want to stop me or not?"

He Biweng shouted from the side, "Boy surnamed Zhang, our princess has been very kind to you in the past, if you turn your back on her and arrest her this time, it would be too heartless and ungrateful!" If Zhang Wuji's opponent really fights, he probably won't be able to protect Zhao Min completely, so if he wants to run him down with words, it's best not to make a move, just let him go.

Zhao Min raised a palm to stop He Biweng from speaking, without turning his head, he faced forward and said, "Mr. Asking for help, Zhang Jiao is mainly willing to give way without using weapons, then we will be grateful; if not, we will follow the rules of the two armies and fight by our ability!" A few words are very clear, I believe Zhang Wuji heard it too.

Sure enough, after Zhang Wuji was silent for a while, he pulled the rein of the horse and walked away sideways, ordering, "Get out of the way, let's retreat to Kaifeng." A general behind him stepped forward and said something in a low voice. Helpless, he had to turn around and send an order.

After a while, the team behind Zhang Wuji changed formation, the left side changed to the front team, and retreated to the south. Zhang Wuji followed the team and looked back at Zhao Min, "Ms. Min, take care of yourself!"

Zhao Min smiled wryly, "Thank you!"

Zhang Wuji returned in vain from the ambush all the way. On the way, he met Song Qingshu who was rushing over. He was guarded by a large group of personal soldiers, and he could only ask loudly in the crowd, "Master Zhang, why is your team so neat? All the way Yuan army fled in your direction? Didn’t you meet them?”

Zhang Wuji was still in a trance, feeling like he was dreaming when he suddenly saw Zhao Min again just now, he immediately stepped forward, "General Song, go back first, we'll talk when we go back."

Song Qingshu didn't understand, so he saw that his expression was not right, so he ordered the soldiers to turn around and go with Zhang Wuji. The two rode out together for a while, and Zhang Wuji said, "I'm sorry, Qingshu, I let the Yuan army go."

"Why?" Song Qingshu was astonished, "How could you let go of such a great opportunity?"

"It's sister Min."

"what?"

"The person leading the army is Minmei, and she is accompanied by the elder Xuanming," Zhang Wuji said bitterly, "I can't do anything to Minmei!"

Song Qingshu opened his mouth in surprise, "Didn't you say that Ms. Zhao went back to Mongolia..." Suddenly remembered something, and exclaimed, "You let the whole team brought by Ms. Zhao go? And the second elder Xuanming? Oops! Ge Shi is still in the Longtang area ahead, and there are only a few hundred people around him!!"

Pulling the rein suddenly, the horse let out a long hiss and got up. Song Qingshu didn't care about other things, and shouted loudly, "The rear team has changed to the front team, hurry up! Go back quickly! Go to Longtang to save people!!" He was so anxious that he rode his horse and left.

Zhang Wuji followed in surprise, "Qingshu, the elder Xuanming is also here, be careful!"

After going back and forth like this, it was already too late when they arrived at Longtang. Looking around, there were corpses of rebel soldiers all over the ground. Song Gaishi's group of hundreds of people was almost wiped out.Lying on the ground, they died in different ways, some were shot to death by arrows, some were picked up by guns, and some were simply trampled to death by horses when the Yuan army brigade ran over and couldn't dodge in time.

"Unrivaled! Unrivaled!" Song Qingshu could only feel his heart beating wildly in his chest.

"General, Song, Commander Song is over there... over there..." A blood-stained hand stretched out from the pile of dead people and pointed to the east.

Song Qingshu dismounted from his horse, "Gai Shi! Gai Shi!!" He searched all the way, and finally found Song Gai Shi behind a small dirt bag.

Song Gaishi no longer had his usual mighty appearance. He was lying on the ground covered in blood, his face was pale, and a half-broken gun head was stuck in the middle of his chest.

"matchless!"

Song Qingshu flew over, picked him up halfway with trembling hands, poked him, he still had a slight breath, looked at the tip of the gun on his chest but didn't dare to pull it out, he was afraid that if he pulled it out, he would spurt blood and die immediately.

Softly, as if he was afraid of disturbing others, he whispered in Song Gaish's ear, "Gaishi, wake up, can you hear me, open your eyes and have a look."

The body in the arms moved slightly, and Song Gaishi's pale lips twitched twice, as if struggling to wake up.

Song Qingshu suddenly remembered that he was carrying a life-threatening thing, so he untied the small gourd around his waist, unplugged it, and poured two mouthfuls of ginseng soup into Song Gaishi's mouth, half of which overflowed, and the other half was forced into it by him.

That old ginseng is indeed a good thing, Song Gaishi slowly opened his eyes, looked at Song Qingshu and forced a smile, and said in a low voice, "Brother..."

Song Qingshu held back his tears, "Gai Shi, hold on! Don't be afraid, I'll take you back right away and find a doctor to treat your injuries."

Song Gaishi shook his head lightly, "Brother, it's useless."

Song Qingshu hugged him up with both arms, "Nonsense! Why didn't it happen? Let's go back right away. If you dare not come back to life, I will deal with it by military law."

Song Gaishi leaned his big head on his shoulder, and his lips were right next to his ears, "Brother, you are quite strong...you can hold me up, I know you are powerful...but...but I usually look at you as sickly... You always want to take care of you because you look sick, alas...cough cough..." A mouthful of blood spattered half of Song Qingshu's neck, "I can't...I can't take care of you anymore...Brother..." The voice gradually Low, eventually no smell.

Song Qingshu walked forward step by step, his mind went blank, and he murmured repeatedly, "Gai Shi, hold on, hold on..."