Daming: From the end of Hongwu

Chapter 263 261-August [-]th Breaks the Southern Army
The sun rises and the sun sets, as if it is only a blink of an eye, and the [-]th day of the eighth month will come quietly.

Compared with the festive atmosphere in Xiongxian County, Zhuozhou City seems to be a lot more chilled out. Even under this chilling, the people in the city are also very careful, such as admiring the moon, eating moon cakes and other festive operations, some are simple, just ask for this The war can end as soon as possible.

Some old people often sigh at home these days, the days of peace have not passed long, why is it here again.

The population of the entire Hebei region has not slowed down, and if the fight continues, the population will not be completely wiped out.

When the old man thought of this, he couldn't help shaking his head. When he was young, he had seen hundreds of miles of villages with no one in them, thousands of hectares of fertile fields left uncultivated, and the land was left in vain.

Anyone who saw that scene would regret it.

The reason for that situation is the continuous war.

Soldiers in armor hurried past on the street, orderers rushed to the four directions one by one, and the sound of horseshoes was like drums of war, beating in everyone's heart.

It seemed to be getting dark.

At this moment, Zhu Di summoned all the generals to sit in the conference room, announcing the military operation to attack Xiong County tonight.

Beside him is a box of mooncakes.

Zhu Di gently picked up one of them, and everyone's eyes fell on the mooncake. They looked at it, and on this Mid-Autumn Festival, their eyes seemed to be filled with the scene of a family reunion and well-being in Beiping.

But the next moment, Zhu Di dropped the mooncake heavily on the ground.

He stood up with a sullen face, pointed to the box of mooncakes, and asked one after another: "Want to eat? Who dares to eat? Can I eat again?!"

Everyone didn't know what Zhu Di was going to do, and no one dared to answer.

Zhu Di suddenly raised his voice and said: "Don't dare to eat it, and you can't eat it. Now Yang Song's soldiers and horses are right in front of you, followed by Pan Zhong and Xu Kai. The soldiers' peak is pointing directly at Zhuozhou City. How do you eat this mooncake? How do you celebrate this festival? Today is the festival If we pass it, tomorrow we may not have tomorrow. You think I don’t know anyone who is homesick during this kind of festival. I miss home too, and I want to sit in the gazebo with my family and eat moon cakes. moon."

"But can we? Don't forget why we stayed in Zhuozhou City. We are going to fight to Nanjing City. How can we have leisure time to watch the moon? If you want to be lively, well, then wait until the day of success, Lao Tzu Throw a hilarious banquet to celebrate our deeds!"

"Your Highness, I am not homesick." Zhen Wu said aloud.

The other generals agreed again and again.

Zhu Di nodded and said: "It's good if you don't have it, but the soldiers under your command will inevitably think this way, but the soldiers in Xiong County are not immune to the vulgarity. And this is our opportunity to destroy the city. As long as our soldiers stop homesickness, fear death, and take advantage of the unpreparedness, we will destroy Hexiong County. When the time comes, we will drink his wine and eat his cakes. Why not be happy? "

As soon as this was said, all the generals except Zhen Wu and Zhang Yu were a little surprised.

Attacking Xiong County at night, Zhu Di is planning to attack Xiong County at night.

This idea immediately came to everyone's mind.

Afterwards, each of them became excited, and they joined forces with Zhu Di. First, they were too closely related to Zhu Di and the imperial court would not tolerate them. Second, they wanted to fight with Zhu Di to make a name for themselves in Nanjing City, instead of living in the small city of Zhuozhou. guard.

Zhu Neng stood up abruptly, and vowed: "Your Highness, Zhu Neng is willing to be the vanguard. Zhu Neng can guarantee that none of my soldiers will retreat, and the battle will never stop."

The others reacted, and they all stood up to fight, with excited expressions.

Zhu Di raised his hand and pressed it.

Only then did the excited generals survive.

Zhang Yu asked aloud at this time: "Your Highness, who will lead the army to stop Pan Zhong in Mozhou? How many people will he lead?"

When the other generals heard this, they immediately thought of Pan Zhong from Mozhou.

Everyone frowned, just like what they had discussed before, if Pan Zhong didn't solve it, the army would not be able to attack the city with one heart.

If it is just to reprimand Pan Zhong, then this task is too heavy. It is not even an exaggeration to say that it is tantamount to shouldering the burden of life and death for the army.

Successfully blocked it, the army was safe and could attack the city with peace of mind.

But if there is a slight negligence and Pan Zhong is allowed to support Xiong County, the army will be in crisis.

This task is not unimportant.

Zhu Gaoxu was a little eager to try, but just about to stand up and ask for a fight, he accidentally caught a glimpse of Zhen Wu who was seated on Zhu Di's right. After thinking for a while, he suppressed the thought of asking for a fight.

This is really not the time to show off.

Although he has great self-confidence, he knows that Zhen Wu is more secure than him.

It's not that he is modest, he followed Zhen Wu when he joined the army at the age of 12, from an ignorant rookie to a fighter who is now a handy leader in battle, and Zhen Wu's figure is indispensable in his growth.

It is not even an exaggeration to say that he learned half of his skills from Zhen Wu.

Therefore, he knew exactly how capable Zhen Wu was.

This kind of important battle naturally made Zhen Wulai more reassuring.

At this time Zhu Di was also selecting generals.

His eyes scrutinized everyone, and finally stopped unexpectedly on Zhen Wu's face in an unremarkable manner. He looked at Zhen Wu's face sitting indifferently, as if seeing Zhen Wu for the first time in a daze. The appearance of time.

At that time, Zhen Wu's face was full of self-confidence, as if no one in the world was like him, and he had an inexplicable sense of superiority, and it seemed that difficult things in the world were easy for him, but the funny thing was , He was in a mess at the time, life was difficult, and he didn't know where his confidence came from.

This caused Zhen Wu to have a very special temperament, quite different from the crowd.

However, after so many years, Zhen Wu has also changed. Not only has he become a father now, he has grown a beard, and these years of living and sleeping on the battlefield have also made his previously fair face turn a little yellow and a little rough.

But this change gave Zhen Wu even more stability, as if no matter how important the task was in his hands, he would handle it properly without any mistakes.

"Zhen Wu." Zhu Di said softly.

Zhen Wu got up and looked at Zhu Di.

Zhu Di asked, "How many soldiers and horses do you need to stop Pan Zhong?"

Zhen Wu, who had always been indifferent, suddenly grinned at this moment, and the smile was full of pride. He smiled, then quickly put away the smile, and said resolutely and loudly: "If there are five thousand soldiers and horses, Pan Zhong can be defeated, if there are [-] troops, Zhen Wu will definitely wipe out Pan Zhong."

Stop Pan Zhong?
阻？
Ha ha!

Who is blocking whom?
Pan Zhong could stop several of his charges!

As soon as Zhen Wu's words fell, all the generals looked at Zhen Wu in surprise. The right guard was full of pride, and the rest of the people had expressions of admiration, and Zhu Di's eyes suddenly burst into a strong light.

This is Zhen Wu.

This is his number one general.

When others were worried about blocking Pan Zhong and making mistakes, Zhen Wu wanted to directly defeat or even wipe them out, and the strength Zhen Wu requested was only one-to-one with Pan Zhong.

Zhu Di laughed out loud, feeling that Zhen Wu's words were to his liking, and he asked Zhen Wu freely: "Do you have a plan in mind?"

Zhen Wu nodded. He had been thinking about this for the past two days, so even if Zhu Di didn't choose him, he would stand up and challenge Pan Zhong.

Zhu Di went on to say: "Tell me, what is the total annihilation method? If it is feasible, I will not move any of your soldiers and horses, and I will have full power to command. You give me a battle to destroy Pan Zhong."

Zhen Wu pulled out a map, pointed at Xiongxian County and said, "Once we attack Xiongxian County, Yang Song will go to Mozhou for help immediately, and there is a Baigou River between Xiongxian County and Mozhou. ..."

Zhen Wu moved his fingers to the bridge connecting the two banks of the Baigou River, and continued: "This bridge is called the Moon-like Bridge, and it is the only way for Pan Zhong to support, but I expect that Pan Zhong will support with all his heart and will not defend heavily. For this bridge, I only need to send one person to lead more than a thousand soldiers, and lie down in the water with a reed in their mouth. Pan Zhong's soldiers and horses are bound to be in chaos, and they will be even more confused because they have no way to retreat. In this situation, if Zhuge Liang lives again, he will only be captured by me."

Hearing this, Zhu Di yelled "Hello", and said excitedly, "That's right, and we can also place a batch of guns on the river bank in advance, and when the hundred guns fire together, Pan Zhong will be scared to death, so the battle will surely be successful." , let’s do this, this time you don’t care about Xiong County, you are allowed to lead all the soldiers and horses under your command this time, just kill Pan Zhong for me... Wait..."

As he was talking, Zhu Di also became interested. The siege of the city was so damn cool to fight in a field battle. His face was full of excitement and anticipation: "What the hell am I going to fight in Xiong County? This time I will fight with you!" Pan Zhong, you continue to be Lao Tzu's lieutenant general, and we will kill him, Pan Zhong."

"Ah?" Zhen Wu was a little startled.

Zhu Di glanced sideways at Zhen Wu and said, "What's wrong? Afraid that I'll take credit for you, or are you unwilling to obey orders under me?"

"No no no."

Zhen Wu hurriedly shook his head: "If His Highness can come in person, the odds of winning will be greatly increased."

"Do you need to say that?" Zhu Di said a little proudly.

Zhu Gaoxu was a little envious, and he also wanted to fight in the wild.

The rest of the generals laughed a little when they heard this. After so many years, who didn't know Zhu Di's temperament, he was used to beating the Mongols, and his favorite thing was to ride horses into battle.

Siege?

This kind of battle is very annoying to Zhu Di.

Zhu Di turned his head to look at Zhang Yu and said, "I'll leave all the rest to you, so you just said can you take Xiong County for me overnight?"

Zhang Yu stood up and said, "If Xiong County cannot be taken down, I am willing to give this head of Humble Job to Your Highness."

Zhu Di waved his hand and said: "What do I want your head for? I only want Xiong County, and I tell you, even if you all give me the head to climb the city, you will take Xiong County for me. There is no room for failure in this battle." , and Zhen Wu and I promise that no one will disturb your siege, and now I ask you if you can do it."

All the generals stood up one after another, each firmly said: "Don't worry, Your Highness, we will definitely go to Xiong County."

"it is good."

Zhu Di nodded, then waved his hand annoyedly and said, "I don't care how you attack the city, you go and discuss it yourself, don't interfere with our discussion on how to fight Pan Zhong." Zhu Di urged, "Don't Nonsense, hurry up and go, go."

Zhang Yu and the others were stunned for a moment.

This time it was Zhen Wu's turn to hold back his laughter. Zhu Di's temperament was vigorous and decisive at best, and doggy at worst. He changed at will, but Zhu Di had the capital to change, and no one else could do anything about it.

Zhang Yu and the others had no choice but to get up and go to the side to discuss how to attack the city.

But Tan Yuan, Wang Zhen, Zheng Heng, Zhang Wu and others all stayed and discussed with Zhen Wu and Zhu Di the details of beating Pan Zhong.

Zhu Di did not delay, and asked directly: "Who is willing to ambush soldiers in the water?"

Zhen Wu kept his mouth shut, he couldn't do this, he had to stay in the front and break through the formation, otherwise Pan Zhongxing might be able to break through and rush out if the troops were relatively low.

However, Tan Yuan and others couldn't be as indifferent as Zhen Wu. After the task of ambushing soldiers in the water, after finishing the task, they should be ranked in the top three in the credit book.

Who would dislike a lot of credit?

So for a while Tan Yuan and others started arguing, Zhu Di got a headache from the quarrel, pointed at Zhen Wu and said, "It's up to you."

As soon as the words fell, everyone stopped arguing and looked at Zhen Wu.

Zhen Wu's eyes first looked at Zhang Wu, Xue Lu and other young people, but after thinking about it, he finally focused on Tan Yuan.

"Your body..." Zhen Wu said hesitantly.

Tan Yuan was in a hurry: "If you keep doing this, I beg Your Highness to switch camps, believe it or not."

He knew that Zhen Wu had always cared about him, and he could clearly feel that if Zhu Di was the person Zhen Wu respected the most in this military camp, then he was the second most respected person by Zhen Wu.

But he is not old yet and can still fight, otherwise it would be great if he just resigned and stayed in Peiping.

"Okay, then you come. If you go, I don't worry. If you swing a big gun, you will be able to guard the Moon-like Bridge so that no one can cross it." Zhen Wu said.

Tan Yuan smiled and said, "That's right."

Seeing this, Zhang Wu and the others lost their temper and had no choice. No matter whether it was Tan Yuan's qualifications or ability, the others couldn't fault him.

After that, everyone discussed for a while, and waited until everything was discussed.

Zhu Di ordered the whole army to set off.

……

All the soldiers were brainwashed before the battle, and set off towards Xiong County with high morale. The moon on August [-]th was very bright. It seemed that only this moment in a year could show closeness to all things on the earth. It sprinkled the moonlight Pave the way for those who are still moving at night.

After the army arrived in Xiong County, they were divided into two groups.

Zhen Wu and others bypassed the city and went straight to the Baigou River. When they were still three miles away from the Baigou River, the army stopped and waited for Pan Zhongjun to come.

And Tan Yuan led the people forward.

Before leaving, Zhen Wu stopped Tan Zhong and asked him to look at Tan Yuan more. Tan Zhong said he knew it, and excitedly told Zhen Wu how many people must be beheaded this time to make meritorious service.

Zhen Wu smiled and nodded.

Tan Yuan and the others galloped all the way to the Yueyang Bridge. They first hid the guns on the side of the bridge. Tan Yuan calculated the time. Fighting should have started in Xiong County by this time, so he waved the soldiers to start entering the water.

More than a thousand sergeants, well-trained, slowly merged into the water without making a sound.

The water was a little cold at night, and it spread to the skin, causing goose bumps, but fortunately it was only August, and the soldiers were all northerners, so they didn't feel much chill.

I don't know how long it took.

It was about midnight.

The sound of horseshoes on the south side of the Moon-like Bridge resounded in the silent night, and it was heard from afar. More than a thousand soldiers in the Baigou River sank into the water with reeds in their mouths without any orders from others.

For a while, the water waves rippled, but only for a moment, the water surface returned to calm, as if it was no different from the past, and even under the moonlight tonight, there is a different kind of scenery, which is particularly beautiful.

It's just that the underwater edge is undercurrent.

Pan Zhong led a large number of cavalry troops to Yueyang Bridge first. As Zhen Wu had guessed, he only wanted to rush to rescue Xiong County as soon as possible, and did not observe possible ambushes on the road or in the water.

A group of soldiers and horses galloped past directly from the Moon-like Bridge.

Behind, a group of soldiers rushed to the army, did not stay, but followed.

It didn't take long for all the [-] soldiers and horses led by Pan Zhong to pass through the Yueyang Bridge. At this time, Zhen Wu and the others, who were three miles away from the Yueyang Bridge, couldn't hold back their horses and sniffed.

Zhen Wu held the spear tightly in his hand, held his breath slightly, and waited for Pan Zhong and others to appear before their eyes.

Sanli says it's far or not, and it's close or not.

It was close enough to rush over with a sprint, but it was also far enough for all of Pan Zhong's soldiers to pass through the Moon-like Bridge. Soon, Pan Zhong's soldiers and horses appeared in front of Zhen Wu's eyes.

Zhen Wu looked at Zhu Di.

There was excitement in Zhu Di's eyes, and with a big wave of his hand, all the soldiers and horses lying in ambush were killed together, like a thunder on the flat ground, Pan Zhong's hands trembled when it exploded, and his heart trembled.

How could someone be lying in ambush? !

Could it be that Xiong County has been destroyed?

He hadn't figured it out yet, he had already seen a general rushing towards them like a thunderbolt in his eyes, he hurriedly shouted and lined up, but there was no time at this moment.

Countless off-string arrows have already flown over.

Puff puff.

The sound of sharp arrows piercing the body kept ringing. Pan Zhong quickly judged that hedging was useless. After the strong man broke his arm and cut off more than a thousand cavalry, the messenger quickly notified the rear infantry to line up, and he led the rest of the cavalry to turn their horses to return. Go to the back of the infantry camp, and then fly and charge.

He showed the basic quality of a general, adapting to the situation, but he didn't think of the difference in the quality of the soldiers of the two sides, or thought of it, but he didn't think there would be much difference.

But this is dead wrong.

Zhen Wu and other right-guarding cavalry troops, who have confronted the Mongols head-on many times and were able to win, are also in the forefront of the entire Yan army.

As for the soldiers and horses that Pan Zhong brought, he didn't know how many of them were there, and how long they hadn't fought.

The thousands of broken soldiers and horses left behind by him only felt that several rounds of arrows rained as if they had not stopped, and when they managed to slow down, the opponent had already reached their faces.

And the opponents are all skilled in horsemanship, as if they can do acrobatics on horseback, the angle of the gun is often beyond their expectations, and when they dodge, they are pierced through the throat by the opponent.

After the southern army was cut off, everyone's expressions changed.

How the hell is this fierce.

Didn't it mean that the Yan army was vulnerable?

This is that bastard farting loudly!

But at this moment, Zhen Wu's gun moved according to his will, stabbing, picking, or directly smashing the opponent's head, and sitting on the horse, he didn't stop for a moment, and rushed forward flexibly, as if galloping on a spacious official road. Unrestricted running.

One person and one horse, people borrow the power of the horse, and the horse borrows the courage of the man, and they are invincible.

The dark soldiers and horses behind Zhen Wu followed him forward, like a huge wave, extinguishing the small flame in the Southern Army's back at once, and rushed towards Pan Zhong in a turbulent manner.

When Pan Zhong urged the horse back, when he looked back, he was so frightened that he almost fell off the horse.

How...how...so fast!

There are more than a thousand people who have broken it.

And... whose subordinate is that general with the long spear? Why is he so brave? !
Could it be that the horse he was riding was also a red rabbit!
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