At the third watch, Li Yanqing returned to his warship with his personal guards, and he finally breathed a long sigh of relief, and immediately ordered the fleet to evacuate in the direction of Taihu Lake in the north.

"Husband, why don't we go south directly into Hangzhou Bay, and then take the sea route north to the mouth of the Yangtze River." Hu Qing'er suggested on the side.

Li Yanqing shook his head, "We have already crossed the river to do the test just now, the river is too narrow, our hull is too big, the other party can easily intercept us, if the other party attacks with fire, all the boats will be burned by the flames, we can't take this risk." ”

This time, Li Yanqing brought a total of 60 thousand-stone warships into Beijing, a total of 3,000 heavy armored infantry, and a large amount of grain and grass supplies, Li Yanqing had already considered the handling of the crisis in the event of a crisis, and his fleet would either enter Hangzhou Bay or retreat, and enter Taihu Lake from Huzhou, which would be 50 miles longer than entering Hangzhou Bay.

Although Hangzhou Bay is more than 30 miles away, from the perspective of safety, it is much better to retreat into Taihu Lake than to forcibly break through the heavy encirclement and enter Hangzhou Bay, and it is not much.

The fleet pulled up its sails and began to move north rapidly, and at the same time, Zhao Ji ordered Yang Chu to lead 10,000 elite soldiers to the north to pursue Li Yanqing.

Zhao Ji also ordered the guards of Ningguo Mansion and Jiaxing Mansion to each lead 5,000 troops to come to support, and in fact, 20,000 troops came to besiege Li Yanqing.

At the fifth watch, the fleet left the Grand Canal and entered the Wucheng River, at this time, the fleet had entered the boundary of Huzhou.

Li Yanqing stood on the side of the ship and watched into the distance, and in the hazy morning light, a black line could already be faintly seen chasing along the official road, and it was still about five or six miles away from them.

Li Yanqing immediately ordered: "The fleet is docked, and the heavy infantry is ready to fight!" ”

The fleet soon docked, the heavy infantry had already changed their armor, they rushed ashore under the leadership of the main general Guan Sheng, and quickly lined up, and in a short time, three thousand heavy armored infantry had already lined up in three rows, blocking the way of the pursuers.

The army that came after was Yang Chu led 10,000 elite Huainan army, this army was recruited in the autumn of the previous year, Zhao Gou ordered a total of 100,000 troops in Huainan and Jiangnan and other places, as a new forbidden army to defend the capital, stationed in Lin'an Mansion and its surrounding state capitals, and Yang Chu led this 10,000 people is one of the elite, strong armor, excellent weapons, preferential treatment, usually stationed in the area of the Huantang River.

Raising troops for a thousand days, using soldiers for a while, raising soldiers for two whole years, and today they are entering battle for the first time, but the army they are facing is the heavy infantry in the Jingzhao army.

The heavy infantry is known as the first army in the northwest, not only because they are wearing heavy armor and have strong combat effectiveness, but also all the soldiers are experienced in a hundred battles, and they were later selected to join the heavy infantry, and their murderous spirit and will to fight are far from being comparable to the pursuers.

10,000 pursuers have been killed, Yang Chu looked at the dozens of big ships on the river, it was less than a mile away from him, he was extremely anxious in his heart, and at the same time there was an unbearable excitement, the emperor decreed, no matter who he was, as long as he offered Li Yanqing's head to the crown prince, a reward of one million taels of silver, Yang Chu seemed to see that the rich and noble lord of his life was in front of him.

Although Yang Chu was also from the Northwest Army, he had not encountered the Iron Harrier cavalry of Western Xia, and his understanding of heavy armor was not deep enough, he saw that the other party only had three thousand people, and his own team was three times that of the other party, he suddenly shouted excitedly: "The army is arrayed, ready to release arrows!" ”

10,000 infantry quickly lined up, 3,000 crossbowmen in front, 7,000 sword and shield troops and pikemen in the back, when the two armies were 100 paces apart, Yang Chu shouted an order: "Release the arrows!" ”

There was a bangzi sound, and the overwhelming rain of arrows shot into the oncoming heavy infantry formation, and the dense rain of arrows jingled into the soldiers of the heavy infantry, and the arrows could not penetrate the armor, and not a single heavy infantry fell.

Yang Chu immediately realized that something was wrong, the opponent's heavy armor couldn't shoot through the arrow, his scalp was a little numb, and he was afraid that he would encounter a strong enemy today.

But retreat was obviously impossible, and when he saw that the pikemen and sword and shield troops behind him were eager to try, and their morale was high, he shouted, "The crossbowmen retreat, and the infantry are killed!" ”

The red flag waved, 3,000 crossbowmen quickly retreated, and 7,000 infantry shouted and rushed towards the enemy.

Li Yanqing also ordered: "Beat the drum and attack!" ”

"Boom!"

The drums of war beaten, slowly but forcefully, "Knock! Boom! With the sound of heavy drums, the three thousand heavy armored infantry approached the oncoming Huainan army step by step, every step was so shocking, and every step was so imposing.

Yang Chu shouted, "Kill! ”

"Kill!"

Seven thousand soldiers of the Huainan Army shouted and rushed towards the hoplites on the opposite side, and the two infantry collided in an instant, like two stormy waves colliding in a storm.

The sword of the chopping horse was split into a bloody road, the spear smashed through the iron wall, the iron wall of the incomparably strong heavy armor army advanced layer by layer, the sword of the chopping horse was waved, and the sharp blade split the defense of the Huainan army, and the heads flew sideways, and the limbs were everywhere.

The spears were cut off one after another under the bright blade, but the Huainan army was too numerous, and the strong impact force also overturned nearly a hundred heavily armored soldiers.

But one group of soldiers fell, and another group of soldiers immediately replenished, and the two armies were wrapped together, and the battle was inextricably linked, and at this time, the three thousand crossbowmen also took the form of sword and shield troops, and they killed the heavy infantry from behind, and the heavy infantry in the back row also turned to meet the battle.

Looking from the big ship, on the long front, 3,000 heavy armored infantry and 10,000 Huainan County were mixed together, and the two armies fought extremely bloody.

Although the Huainan army far outnumbered the heavy infantry, the heavy infantry relied on their unparalleled equipment and swords to defeat the enemy.

The wounded soldiers of the Southern Turquoise Army knelt on the ground and pleaded bitterly, but they were still chopped to pieces by the heavy infantry that came up in formation, and the blood flowed like rivers and corpses were piled up, and the entire riverside became a slaughterhouse on earth.

Li Yanqing sighed softly, they were all Great Song Dynasty troops, they shouldn't kill each other like this, he turned back to Hu Qing'er and said, "End this battle!" ”

Hu Qing'er understood, and immediately turned around and shouted: "Come a hundred warriors, get off the boat with me!" ”

I saw a group of cavalry rushing down from the big ship, about 100 people, the first female general, wearing a beautiful helmet, wearing silver dragon armor, holding a willow leaf broadsword, and twelve short flying swords on the back, murderous, it was Hu Qing'er, who was known as a female flying general in the Jingzhao Army.

They did not enter the enemy formation, but surrounded from the periphery, and went straight to the Huainan Army Shuai Banner, Yang Chu was under the Shuai Banner, and there were five hundred personal soldiers around him, at this time, only a woman's voice came, "Shrink your head Wang Ba, dare to come over and fight?" ”

As soon as Yang Chu turned around, it turned out to be a female general who scolded her for shrinking her head, Yang Chu was furious and urged the horse to yell: "Little lady, if Lao Tzu catches you, you will be better off than dead!" ”

He swung his gun and killed Hu Qing'er, his own soldiers followed, at this time, Hu Qing'er suddenly urged the horse to gallop from the side, she waved her hand, a flying stone was shot, and then a flying sword shot like lightning.

The speed of the flying stone is incomparably fast, this flying stone is hitting the forehead of Yang Chu's war horse, the war horse screams violently, the front hooves are raised high, and Yang Chu is almost overturned below, at this moment, the lightning fast flying knife appeared in front of Yang Chu's eyes accurately.

Yang Chu was taken aback, and opened his mouth to shout, only to hear 'poof!' With a sound, the flying knife shot from his brow into his head, Yang Chu's eyes were dark, and he immediately turned over and fell off the horse, and died tragically on the spot.

Yang Chu's personal soldiers were shocked, rushed up to grab the corpse, and hundreds of cavalry killed them, all of them were extremely brave, plus Hu Qing'er's big knife flew up and down, and the corpses were all over the place, killing more than 200 people in an instant, and the rest of the soldiers were frightened, and turned around and fled.

The pro-soldier department cut off Yang Chu's head from Wang Jin, ran on the tip of the gun and shouted: "Yang Chu is dead!" Yang Chu is dead! ”

The Huainan army was already unable to support it, and when it heard that the main general was dead, the army suddenly collapsed, and the army was defeated like a mountain, turning around and running in the wilderness, throwing away his armor and running for his life.

In this battle, the Huainan army lost more than 2,500 people, the main general Yang Chu was killed by Hu Qing'er, and the heavy infantry also suffered nearly 300 casualties, but due to the inconvenience of chasing the enemy, it was impossible to capture prisoners, so the army simply cleaned up the battlefield and got on the ship to continue to advance.

At noon, the fleet finally sailed into the vast Taihu Lake.