The corpses of soldiers floated everywhere in the Baigou River, which was stained red by blood, and nearly a thousand cavalry horses splashed thousands of red droplets, killing the king of Yan who crossed the river on foot.

If it weren't for the talisman that his nephew, Emperor Jianwen, didn't want to bear the charge of killing his uncle, Zhu Di would have been killed by random arrows.

Li Jinglong, who personally led the troops to chase after him, saw that he was able to capture King Yan alive, and said with great joy: "The person who captured Zhu Di will be rewarded with a thousand taels and made a hereditary commander." ”

The officers and soldiers immediately perked up and cheered and chased after the Yan King who was moving towards the wolf, and Chen Hui stepped on the corpse of the Yan army and stabbed Zhu Di in the leg with a spear.

Zhu Di was frightened and hurriedly blocked, almost fell headlong in the water, and suddenly saw his son Zhu Gaoxu leading 3,000 battalions to rescue, overjoyed, and said: "This king is tired, my son will attack the thieves on behalf of my father." ”

Zhu Gaoxu first shot an arrow at Chen Hui, who was chasing after him, and said angrily: "Take your life!" ”

Immediately commanded three thousand iron horsemen to swarm across the river, and fought with many officers and soldiers, Chen Hui's war horse was injured and had to jump off the horse, which made Zhu Di calmly go ashore, turned over the war horse led by the soldiers, and found a high ground to watch the whole battle.

On the other side of the battlefield, although the Yan army wearing black armor frantically killed the official army and obviously had an advantage, the official army did not retreat in the next step of Qu Neng's father and son's courageous resistance.

After a long time, I adapted to the courage of the Yan army, and the combat power of the official army was gradually stimulated, and they continued to fight back as if they were desperate. Zhu Di's brows tightened, if Zhang Yu couldn't defeat Qu Neng, Gao Xi's side of less than 10,000 people would definitely not be able to hold out for too long, and when Li Jinglong led the army to encircle, it would be a big deal!

Yu Tongyuan, the Marquis of Yue Wang, led 30,000 fresh troops into the battlefield, Lu Liangwei commanded Teng Ju to lead 10,000 southern soldiers to come up from the flank, and in the face of the fierce offensive of the official army, Zhu Neng, Zhang Yu and others were almost unstoppable, which made the Yan soldiers who fell into a bitter battle for the first time disgraced.

Zhu Di, who was anxious, looked at Zhu Gaoxu, who was desperately blocking the enemy, although he killed Chen Hui's department, but was blocked by Li Jinglong's tens of thousands of foot soldiers, and was gradually forced into Baihegou.

That's when it happened. A 10,000-strong janissary wearing dazzling flying fish suits appeared on the battlefield, as majestic as the emperor's personal expedition, and the officers and soldiers erupted in deafening cheers.

Zhu Di's face instantly became gloomy, staring at the middle-aged general riding a white horse, and the flag fluttering behind him with the big Xu character was his brother-in-law Xu Huizu.

Zhu Di sneered: "You Li Jinglong has Xu Huizu to help, and this king also has Xu Hao!" Look at who killed the deer today, and herald the Shenji Battalion! ”

At the moment of life and death, King Yan finally threw his biggest reliance on the Shenji Battalion to the battlefield, but saw the flat ground half a mile away behind him. Clumps of branches and grass were lifted one after another, revealing the muzzles of 500 swarthy guns, and the soldiers shouted slogans to adjust the angle, loaded the shells and gunpowder and inserted the lead.

The sound of war drums played a rapid drum beat, and 10,000 musketeers in new red military uniforms stood up with flintlock pistols and gunpowder bags.

Zhu Gaoxu listened to the familiar melody. hacked an officer to death and yelled: "Retreat!" ”

Li Jinglong sneered: "Isn't it just a firearm? The firearms battalion was ordered to meet the enemy. Soon, tens of thousands of officers and soldiers with firearms in their hands were running forward in a scattered manner.

Across the endless Baigou River, Zhang Fuxian, who was wearing a straight military uniform, gave a new-style military salute to King Yan, and turned his head to look at the surveyors waving flags. He said in a deep voice: "Fire!" ”

Boom! In an instant, 500 artillery pieces roared in unison, and the roaring flowering shells densely covered the head of Li Jinglong's army.

"Shoot!" Zhang Fumian continued to give orders without changing his color, and the 2,000 musketeers at the front immediately half-squatted on the ground, raising their guns and shooting at the officers and soldiers on the other side of the river. Behind them stood two thousand musketeers firing a volley.

I saw that the violent explosion sound that was ten times louder than the previous cheers of the officers and soldiers completely suppressed a murmur on the battlefield, and the air flow of the explosion rolled wildly, immediately blowing down all the surrounding officers and soldiers. Stumps and severed arms flew everywhere, and strangely shaped corpses lay everywhere.

There were frightening shallow pits of smoke on the flat ground, and before the officers and soldiers could come to their senses, another round of shells tilted down, like a landslide and a violent wind and rain, countless officers and soldiers would be blown up and killed in the blink of an eye, and flames were burning everywhere, and the blue-black smoke and flames blocked the sunlight, accompanied by the strong and pungent smell of gunpowder, and in the rapid gunfire, groups of officers and soldiers fell in pools of blood, which was completely a one-sided massacre.

Li Jinglong, whose face was like earth, was stunned, and the chaotic and terrifying scene in front of him subverted the cognitive level, and suddenly the ten-zhang tall handsome flag behind him was hit by a rapidly flying cannonball, and it snapped.

Zhu Di was also shocked by the overwhelming battle situation in front of him, he never expected the Shenji Battalion to be so terrifying! When he thought about it, Xu Haoqian told him that he must dispatch the Shenji Battalion at the most critical moment, if he can make hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers huddle together, even if the muskets and artillery can't kill many enemies, they can also turn the tide in one fell swoop with their momentum.

In particular, the 500 newly cast cannons are unimaginably powerful, and those who have not experienced them will surely flee in panic.

At this point, Zhu Di couldn't help but sigh convincingly: "Xu Hao is really Zhuge is the reincarnation!" ”

The superstitious soldiers were frightened by the breaking of the handsome flag, and before Li Jinglong could react, the Chinese army, which had suffered heavy casualties, lost its fighting spirit, threw away the weapons and flags in his hands and turned around and ran.

Xu Huizu's 10,000 guards were killed by a third before they could kill the enemy, gritting his teeth and leading a thousand iron guards to rescue Qu Neng's father and son.

The Shenji Battalion, which was stepping on the drum, crossed the river with muskets and gunpowder in both hands, and the blood-red Yanzi battle flag fluttered in the wind.

Zhang Fu ordered the craftsman battalion to build the pontoon bridge that had already been made, the engineer battalion pushed over the boat hidden on the shore, and the artillerymen quickly disassembled the artillery and turned it behind the carriage.

Li Jinglong was caught by his own soldiers and fled to the south, while Guo Ying sighed softly, and the tens of thousands of people in the command post slowly headed west.

Hundreds of thousands of officers and troops who fought in the 10,000 Shenji battalion were defeated and lost, and the ecstatic Zhu Di then let Zhang Fu lead the army to chase the enemy, and he took Zhu Gaoxu to lead the last 20,000 cavalry to the main battlefield.

After a killing, Qu Neng's father and son were fortunately rescued by Xu Huizu in time, and the generals such as Teng Ju, commanded by Yu Tongyuan, the Marquis of Yuewang, were killed one after another, half of the officers and soldiers died on the battlefield, and half of the officers and soldiers were forced to surrender.

Li Jinglong, who was in a panic, was pursued south by the Yan army, leaving Tongzhou and defeating Jinan. On the ninth day of the first month of May, King Yan occupied the city of Dezhou, collected the treasury, registered the people, and obtained millions of grain and grass, and since then there has been no shortage of military rations.

At the same time, Qinhuangdao began a vigorous large-scale production movement, craftsmen were busy cutting down trees, building blast furnaces, building warships, surveying mineral deposits and preparing to open mines, Xu Hao, who learned that King Yan had won a great victory, urgently needed more manpower, and hurriedly sent people to ask the craftsmen and people of Hebei to come here.

Zhu Di, who was in a good mood, thought of the source when he drank water, obeyed Xu Hao's requests, and acted according to orders from all over the country. Because Qinhuangdao is a county under the jurisdiction of Beiping Prefecture, Yongping and Shanhaiguan are guarded by confidant generals, and there is no doubt that Xu Hao, who has the ability to penetrate the heavens and the earth, will have bad intentions.

In order to commend all the officers and men of the Shenji Battalion who shined in this war, the lieutenants were all promoted to first-class official positions, and the young Zhang Fu stood out from then on and was promoted to the commander of the Beiping Command Division, and Xu Song was promoted to the hereditary thousand households of the artillery battalion.

Xu Hao's official position was not rewarded, and Zhu Di, who learned that there was a gold mine underground, generously gave him the entire Qinglong County as a food estate, and rewarded thousands of people, promising hereditary replacement, so Xu Hao became the only one since the Hongwu Dynasty changed the nobles and nobles, and he really owned the fief.

Of course, Xu Hao is not standing on the cusp, under the military household system of the Ming Dynasty, countless generals are essentially fiefdoms, eat empty salaries, and the nature of labor military households is almost no different from Xu Hao.

Moreover, the combat power of the Shenji Battalion has attracted the attention of people, and Xu Hao, as the founder, deserves to be entitled. Xu Hao's status in the Beiping system is high, although he is not very qualified, he is old enough, if he follows the order of following King Yan to raise troops, his qualifications can at least rank in the top three, not to mention that he is also the nephew of King Yan, the most trusted confidant of the first emperor. At the same time, Xu Hao and the civil and military officials basically have no hatred or resentment, and their status has always been the most transcendent, so no one expressed dissatisfaction.

Together with Mu Hui, he was promoted to the commander of the Shanhai Wei Water Division, Mu Hui was promoted to the hereditary thousand households, and Zhou Peng took office as the commander of Qinglong County.

One person has ascended to heaven with a chicken dog, and an old brother from a brocade guard has his own promotion and reward, in short, everyone is happy.

Because of the temporary opening of the Caoyun waterway, his friend Xue Wen, who had long wanted to take refuge in his family, went north from Texas, accompanied by his friends Yu Peng and Zhou Xin, who abandoned their official positions and did not do anything.

It turned out that the two of them were born under the rule of Yanwangfu in Hebei, and in the past six months, because they were born in the north, they were suspicious and excluded by officialdom, and they lived a good and depressed life, so they took the initiative to come back without Xu Hao writing a letter to persuade them. In addition, his friend Sun Taoyuan is an official in Fujian, and he is smooth and comprehensive, and he has not been implicated.

In addition, Yang Shiqi also gave up the rare opportunity to be recommended by Fang Xiaoru to enter Beijing as a Hanlin, and resolutely came to join Xu Hao, who had the grace of knowing him, but in fact, he had already seen that King Yan was likely to ascend the throne as emperor in the future, so he bet in advance.

Yang Shiqi took the sea route, accompanied by Xiao Wei, a thousand households of Weihai Weishui Division, and a large number of school captains and their families, including 2,000 displaced people and orphans adopted by Xu Hao.

Just because Weihaiwei was created by Xu Hao, the battle situation was unfavorable, and it was because the imperial court was worried about surrendering to the enemy, and deliberately transferred the entire guard to the hinterland.

Xu Hao, who received the news, was surprised and delighted, just because there were not enough people, and he wanted to send people to recruit secretly, but who knew that they all took the initiative to come, and couldn't help but sigh: "An interest group or party has begun to emerge." ”

The children who are most concerned about have been reading for two years, I don't know how much basic knowledge they have learned, Xu Hao has a headache, and I don't know what happened to Baihua, and now there is an urgent shortage of textbooks!

Unknowingly, there was such a great achievement, Xu Hao muttered: "How can there be a rush to fight for hegemony in farming?" (To be continued......)