Poor Family 1

  Chapter 826 The decisive battle in Suzhou (Part 1)

  The next morning, the 70,000 Jiangnan Army also arrived 20 miles north of Wu County, about 10 miles away from the Jingzhao Army Camp, and Xiang Fa also ordered the camp to be set up.

  The two barracks faced each other far away, and in the middle was a wilderness that was ten miles wide, enough to set up a battlefield for the two armies to confront each other.

On the day when Xiangfa set up his camp, a general led 3,000 soldiers to the Jingzhao Army camp to yell and curse. This is also the practice of the two armies fighting. , You can also set up a decisive battle.

  If you don’t want to be singled out or have a decisive battle, then you can hang up the exemption card, but this situation is very depressing. The opponent’s general leads the army to show off in front of the camp, which has a great impact on morale.

Single challenges are generally small-scale battles, mainly fighting martial arts in the battle of generals, and mainly play a role in boosting morale. For example, Wang Gui and Liu Qi led the army to lose three battles in a row in Xiangzhou. challenge failed,

  Perhaps Xiang Fa felt that the morale of his army was not high, so he ordered General Du Yaoge to lead 3,000 troops to the Jingzhao Army camp to invite a one-on-one challenge.

  Outside the big camp, Du Yaoge kept provoking and yelling. Inside the big tent of the Chinese army, Li Yanqing asked coldly: "The enemy will come to challenge you, who would like to fight first?"

  As soon as he finished speaking, Hu Qing'er came out first, "Jiaoliang clown, why do you need a general to fight, and wait for the little girl to take the other's head and serve the generals with wine!"

  Wang Gui, Liu Kai, Niu Gao, Yang Zaixing and other generals all wanted to fight, but unexpectedly they were preempted by the female general Hu Qinger. Everyone looked at each other with a wry smile on their faces.

  Li Yanqing immediately ordered: "General Hu can go to battle, please Liu Tongzhi lead 3,000 troops to fight!"

   "Follow the order!"

  'Boom! Boom! Boom! There was loud drumming in the Jingzhao army camp, and then the gate of the camp opened, and fifty female cavalry surrounded a female general flying cavalry and rushed out, followed by 3,000 soldiers. .

Hu Qing'er wears a phoenix-winged hood, a pink and white armor with a mountain pattern along the water, black heart mirrors on the front and back, a soft whip around the waist, seven willow-leaf flying knives on the back, a bag of flying stones hanging in front of the saddle, and a pair of pedals. A pair of long leather boots, holding an embroidered dragon knife in her hand, and a tall and handsome rouge horse under her crotch, she looks extraordinarily heroic. She has a pink face, peach cheeks, almond eyes and willow eyebrows. All the generals and soldiers of the army applauded.

The opposite general Du Yaoge is from Xiuzhou. He was born in the Golden Spear Squad of the Forbidden Army. He wields a big iron spear and is very skilled in martial arts. I couldn't help being furious in my heart, pointing at Hu Qing'er and yelling, "Little girl, how dare you come out and humiliate your grandpa, wait until grandpa catches you and strips you of all your clothes."

   Zheng Chen, who was in the distance, was a little worried. He had heard that when Jing Zhaojun held a martial arts competition, a young female general won the championship. Could it be this woman.

  Seeing that Du Yaoge underestimated the enemy, he quickly shouted: "General Du, don't underestimate the enemy!"

   Fearing that Du Yaoge would not hear him, he sent another soldier to remind him that Du Yaoge was yelling at him, and a soldier rushed over and shouted, "General Du, Commander Zheng ordered you not to underestimate the enemy!"

  Du Yaoge finally stopped yelling and scolding, he snorted coldly, swung his big iron gun and shouted: "Little girl, brother, I will give you three swords first!"

Du Yaoge scolded very obscenely and shamelessly, which made Hu Qing'er hate him so much, he felt a murderous intent in his heart, scolded coquettishly, galloped his horse, Du Yaoge also urged the horse to kill, he said that San Dao was just talking, his superior Zheng Chen has already reminded him not to underestimate the enemy, how could he really let the opponent. "

When the two approached, Hu Qing'er seized the opportunity and made more than a dozen slashes in no time. Du Yaoge saw that the opponent's saber was sharp and he couldn't judge the saber's direction, so he simply didn't block it, and ran sideways, causing Hu Qinger to slash all of the dozen or so knives. In the air, the two horses passed by each other.

Hu Qinger was annoyed in her heart, she switched to her left hand to hold the knife, and with a wave of her right hand, she shot at Du Yaoge with a flying knife like lightning. Hu Qinger usually used flying stones, but only when she had murderous intentions in her heart, she switched to flying knife. There are two kinds of flying knives in her, One is usually carried with you, the length of the knife is only three inches, it is very delicate, and can be used to cut people's throats, the other is used on the battlefield, the knife is one foot long, it is extremely sharp, and can kill with one blow.

Out of the corner of Du Yaoge's eyes, he caught a flash of coldness. He suddenly realized that something was wrong, and turned sideways to hide, but it was too late. The speed of the flying knife was incomparably fast. With a scream, Du Yaoge rolled over and fell off his horse, killing him on the spot.

  At this time, someone in the army rushing in the distance yelled, and a black horse rushed out, "I will pay for my brother's life!"

The general who rushed out was Du Yaowu, the younger brother of Du Yaoge. The two brothers looked quite alike. Du Yaowu was also tall and tall, with big arms and round waist, but he didn't have any hunks of flesh on his face, and he was a little less fierce than his elder brother. Secretly complaining, in order to win over the Du brothers, the Zheng family had already married a distant daughter of the Zheng family to Du Yaowu, if both brothers were killed in battle, how would he go back and explain to the Zheng family.

Du Yaowu's eyes were red with hatred, and he didn't speak. He urged his horse to go straight to Hu Qing'er to kill him. Noticing that, when Du Yaowu suddenly found the flying stone, the flying stone was already in front of him, 'Pa! ’ With a crisp sound, the flying stone hit his face, his nose bone was crushed, and blood sprayed everywhere.

The soldiers of the Jiangnan Army were in an uproar, they all met face to face, two generals fell off their horses, one died and the other was injured. Du Yaoge's head was captured, and Du Yaowu was **** again.

   At this time, Liu Kai waved his sword and shouted sharply: "Kill it!"

   "Kill—" three thousand soldiers shouted and killed the enemy. The Jiangnan Army lost two battles in a row, and their morale was low. He turned his horse's head and ran towards the camp first, followed by the soldiers who ran wildly behind him. The last few hundred people ran a little slower and were caught up by Jing Zhao's army. They killed more than a hundred people in a row, and the rest of the soldiers knelt down in fright surrender.

  At this time, the bell to withdraw troops was heard in the distance. It was Li Yanqing who forbade them to pursue any further. There was a forest beside the road ahead, and the enemy might be ambushing in the forest.

  Jingzhao’s army is well-trained, and when orders are followed, the soldiers stopped chasing one after another, and escorted hundreds of prisoners of war back to the camp.

   In the first battle, two generals were defeated. Xiang Fa was so annoyed that he scolded Zheng Chen who had volunteered for the job.

In the big tent, Xiang Fa walked back and forth quickly with his hands behind his back, looking distraught, he just got the exact situation, now Li Yanqing has more than 20,000 men, at least 40,000 people, of course Xiang Fa knows why these troops suddenly There should be no other way except prisoners of war, but he didn't expect Li Yanqing to convert prisoners of war into soldiers so quickly.

The reason why he has not attacked Li Yanqing's army for a long time is because the opponent has only 20,000 people, while he has 80,000 troops under him, plus the 30,000 troops who went north, they have as many as 110,000 people, which is five times that of the opponent More than that, he didn't take Jing Zhaojun seriously at all, just like a cat playing with a mouse, he played and teased the 20,000 enemy troops to their heart's content before devouring them.

But Xiang Fa never imagined that the enemy's army grew rapidly, and it increased to 45,600 in a few days, and then increased, and his own army was reduced to 70,000, which was not even doubled. Fa was very annoyed. If he had known, he would have followed Liu Yanqing's suggestion and wiped out Jingzhao's army in Runzhou.

   It’s just that there is no medicine for regret in the world, and it’s too late to regret now, so we still have to face the reality and come up with a proper countermeasure.

In fact, the countermeasure is to fight or not to fight. Of course, it is impossible to retreat to the north. Xiang Fa cannot hand over Hangzhou to Li Yanqing. Turn a retreat into an army rout.

After much deliberation, Xiang Fa had only one choice, and that was to fight. He had more than 20,000 troops more than the opponent, and he also had two elite armies of Huben and Feixiong. The army is not strong in battle, so he may not lose to Li Yanqing.

  Thinking this through, Xiang Fa made up his mind not to single out, but to directly deploy a decisive battle.

  He walked back to the table and sat down, took a pen and wrote an invitation to fight, and handed it to a soldier to send him to the opponent's camp

The Jingzhao army camp was full of joy. Hu Qinger won two battles in a row, which greatly improved the morale of the barracks. The soldiers were very excited, and they gathered together to discuss Hu Qinger's special skills, such as flying knives and flying stones. more interesting.

   "Old Li, I think Qing'er's flying stone skills have surpassed yours."

While drinking the broth, Wang Gui happily joked with Li Yanqing. When the two of them were alone, Wang Gui occasionally forgot about the superiority and inferiority. But today, Hu Qinger's flying stone skills made Wang Gui seem to be back in his youth. He knew Li Yanqing's flying stones well, and his intuition told him that Hu Qing'er's flying stones had surpassed Li Yanqing in speed.

   "I said Lao Li, why don't you compete with Qing'er!"

   "Okay, let's drink your soup!"

Li Yanqing reached out and tapped him on the head, and scolded with a smile: "Qing'er surpassed me, I was too happy, but you bastard, if you don't practice martial arts well, you will just watch the young juniors behind you pass you one by one! "

Wang Gui has been brave and fierce since he was a child, and he really likes to fight in single-handed combat with others. Even if he becomes the commander-in-chief in the future, he will fight in single-handed battles like ordinary generals. Li Yanqing actually hit his mind, and his strength can't be compared to him. Cao Meng, his marksmanship is no match for Gao Chong and Yang Zaixing. He always claims that he is unparalleled in swordsmanship, but today he saw with his own eyes that Hu Qinger's swordsmanship is very sharp, and he may not be able to do it with more than a dozen swords in a row. Wang Gui thought Also worried, he gritted his teeth and said: "Damn it, I will start practicing swords tonight, I want to show the younger generation, my Wang Guibao sword is not old."

  Li Yanqing smiled and said: "Two days ago, I received the imperial court's military bulletin, but I saw the news about Fifth Brother."

  Wang Gui cheered up, and quickly asked, "What is Lao Yue doing?"

   "He followed the old general Zongze in Bozhou to win consecutive battles and defeated six thousand gold soldiers. He has been promoted by the imperial court to a ranger general from the fifth rank."

  Wang Gui's eyes widened, "Hey, Lao Yue's promotion speed is no less than mine!"

Li Yanqing knew that Yue Fei had saved Zhao Gou's life, so Zhao Gou would take care of him when he was promoted, but last time Wang Gui led the army to burn Liyang County, Yue Fei also participated in the battle, but he didn't get any rewards, which is deeply regrettable Unjust, now that he has been promoted, it is also a kind of compensation for his past.

  Fifth rank official is a big hurdle for both civil servants and military generals. After passing this hurdle, it will be much easier to be promoted in the future. Li Yanqing is also sincerely happy for Yue Fei.

   At this time, the curtain was lifted, Liu Kai quickly walked into the big tent and said with a smile, "Xiang Fei can't hold his breath anymore."

   "Has he issued an invitation to challenge?"

  Liu Kai nodded, and handed an invitation letter to Li Yanqing. Li Yanqing thought about it, Cao Meng's army should have entered Changzhou, but they still need to give them a rest time.

  He took a pen and wrote on the invitation letter: 'The final battle will be held in two days! '

  (end of this chapter)