Chapter 294: Fierce Battle in Baoding

At the end of September of the first year of Jianwen.

The rebellion-fighting war that had been silent for more than a month became hot again under the command of General Xiao Fan. The 300,000 army of Zhending Prefecture led the camp to the north. The vanguard officer Ping'an led 50,000 troops to advance, and the remaining 250,000 were the central army. Sheng Yong was appointed as the commander of the left wing, Qu Neng was the commander of the right wing, Xiao Fan led the central army alone, and Geng Bingwen was the governor of the rear army.

The 300,000 army was like a tiger coming out of the cage, and forced it towards Baoding Mansion in a black way.

After ten days of marching, 50,000 troops under the command of the vanguard Ping'an came to the city of Baoding.

Qiu Fu, the vanguard of the Yan army, was ordered by Zhu Di to lead 50,000 people out of the city to meet the enemy, and the two sides began to test sexual confrontation.

In early October, a 100,000 army of both sides fought at the city of Baoding. Before the war began, the scouts sent by both sides had already handed over. Dozens of people and teams of scouts met unexpectedly more than 20 miles outside Baoding City. Then a small-scale charge and fight were launched, and a fierce confrontation was held. The scouts on both sides were killed and injured. Then the 50,000 vanguards under Ping'an arrived, which officially kicked off the offensive and defensive battle of Baoding.

The 50,000 vanguards had not yet established a stable foothold. The Yan army vanguard Qiu Fu led his troops to attack, and the Youyan landlords in Beiping made horses, so most of the Yan army vanguards were cavalry. Although the number was not large, it also put a lot of pressure on Ping'an.

When the vanguard was still ten miles away from Baoding City, the gate of Baoding Mansion suddenly opened, and nearly 10,000 cavalry teams formed a cone-shaped charge formation. Under Qiu Fu's leadership, they rushed out of the city like wind and clouds. Flags were flying on the plains, and the shouts of Yan's army shook the nine heavens, and charge without warning. When the Southern Army had just arrived and had not yet set up its formation, Qiu Fu's nearly 10,000 cavalry had already arrived.

Ping An, the vanguard of the Southern Army, was slightly panicked and the army was not stable before the army could face the battle. This is a taboo in the army. If the vanguard fails in the battle, it will inevitably affect the entire situation of the battle. Ping An cannot bear such a great responsibility.

"Arrange the defensive round formation! Shield and spear come forward!" Ping'an ordered sternly in a hurry. At this time, Qiu Fu's cavalry was getting closer and closer than four miles from the vanguard of the Southern Army.

Amid the rumbling sound of horse hooves, the Southern Army hurriedly set up its formation. The matter started to be hasty, and the round defensive formation was scattered and loose, and all the empty gates were visible.

Ping An is a general of the tiger. The general of the tiger means that when fighting wars, they often have no life. In the era of cold weapons, generals who have no life can usually mobilize the combat power and morale of the entire army.

Seeing Qiu Fu's cavalry getting closer, Ping An's eyes were immediately bloody and red. He inserted his long sabre into the ground, then tore open the armor and underwear on his body, revealing his bronze skin, his upper body was naked, and his eyes were ripped off and shouted: "Damn his mother! His personal guards, follow me! Kill the enemy and eliminate the thieves and serve the court!"

As soon as he finished speaking, nearly a hundred guards behind Ping An stepped on their war horses at the same time, drew their swords and sheathed them, shouting violently: "Kill the enemy and eliminate the thieves and serve the court!"

"drive!"

Ping An took the lead, followed by a hundred guards, and rushed towards Qiu Fu's 10,000 cavalrymen like moths to the flames.

Qiu Fu led ten thousand cavalrymen and saw the 100-man cavalry team coming towards him in the speeding sped. Qiu Fu was slightly stunned. When he saw the flag representing the Southern Army vanguard in front of the cavalry team, a sarcastic smile quietly appeared on the corner of Qiu Fu's mouth.

A team of just a hundred people dared to face my 10,000 cavalry head-on. What is the difference between hitting a stone with an egg? Ping An, you are too arrogant. Could it be that you were blinded by the frequent victory of the Southern Army recently?

The thought flashed, but Qiu Fu still didn't dare to be careless. He rushed over and raised his sword and shouted: "The front of the army is Ping'an, the soldiers accelerated the charge and annihilated them for me! Those who get the head of Ping'an will reward 100 taels of gold!"

When the Yan cavalry heard this, their eyes turned red and kept urging the war horses to attack, waving their long sabers, screaming and speeding up.

The two sides were getting closer and closer, and the Yan army's vanguard was floating quickly on the vast plain like a large dark cloud, while the safe hundred-man cavalry team was like a small boat, moving forward quickly and quickly approaching the Yan army.

It's close, a hundred feet, fifty feet, ten feet...

boom!

The two sides inevitably collided and made a huge blow of gold and iron.

The hundred-man guards were immediately hit by the powerful impact of Yan cavalry and more than twenty people flew away. The remaining dozens were like they were in a huge black vortex, with red eyes and desperately waving their sabers, rushing left and right, and slashing and slashing.

In the fierce battle between the enemy and us, the peace with his naked upper body became the most conspicuous target. His head on his neck represented a hundred taels of gold, and all the sabers of Yan soldiers greeted him.

Ping'an was also red in his eyes at this time. He ignored his own safety and waved his long sabre and drew a semicircle. The Yan army in front of him was struck off his horse and fell to the ground with screams.

A Yan Jun Baihu in black iron armor roared and slashed at Ping'an's head with a knife. The snow-white sword light flashed by. Ping'an didn't think about it and raised the knife and rushed up.

clang!

Ping'an's hand holding the knife was slightly numb, but the sword of Yan Jun Baihu was shaken off by Ping'an and flew out.

Ping An was slightly stunned. I heard that the Yan army was a border army with hundreds of battles. The terrifying combat power of the Mongolian Tartars did not dare to lightly touch their edges. Why couldn't they even hold the sword? With such a small strength, how could they gain the reputation of the border army of Yumeng?

Before he could think too much, Ping An pulled the knife back and stabbed it hard, stabbed it hard into Baihu's abdomen. Blood burst out. Baihu screamed and fell off his horse and twitched constantly, and he could not live anymore.

Next, Ping'an saw the strangest war in his life. The soldiers of the Yan army shouted and shouted enthusiastically, but their combat power was very ordinary. They came and went with swords and swords, and they could easily block the weapons. The weapons in their hands were involuntarily shaken off. Then, with their frightened eyes, they watched Ping'an's guards ruthlessly swung their swords at their necks.

Countless Yan cavalry fell off their horses, and Ping'an and his guards became more and more surprised.

What is going on? Why is the Yan army invincible like a piece of paper? It falls down as soon as it touches. The first time it was fighting so easily. Except for the more than 20 guards who were knocked away at high speed when the two sides collided at the beginning, Ping'an's fight was very easy after falling into a fierce battle, and there were basically no casualties. This feeling was like a super master in the martial arts world facing a group of weak civilians. Wherever the sword passed, it was like chopping melons and vegetables, and there was no pressure to fight.

Ping An, who was full of doubts, didn't bother to think carefully at this time, shouted loudly in a hurry: "Send the whole army to attack! Hurry up! Get the cheap ones!"

The 50,000 vanguards of the Southern Army, who were deployed in a circular formation to defend, saw the general order issued by the vanguard officer, and changed the formation without hesitation. As the shouts of killing like a mountain collapse and the ground was cracked, the black vanguards of the Southern Army rushed up together. The running flag soldiers quickly shook the flags, and the team quickly turned into a return geese formation, with two big wings on the left and right sides surrounding nearly ten thousand Yan cavalry.

Ping An raised his arm and shouted: "Kill!"

The left and right ends of the Huiyan Formation converged and successfully completed the encirclement.

This was a battle without any suspense. When the Yan cavalry was killed to the point where only more than a thousand people remained, the vanguard Qiu Fu held back his heartache and shouted bitterly: "Break through the siege and retreat quickly! Return to the city!"

After desperate battles, Qiu Fu rushed out of the southern army and hurriedly put down the suspension bridge in Baoding City. When Qiu Fu returned to the city, only hundreds of people were left behind the 10,000 cavalrymen under his command, which could be said to be wiped out.

The defeated Qiu Fu knelt in front of Zhu Di and cried loudly. Zhu Di and Daoyan had gloomy faces and remained silent.

All the senior generals in the Yan army knew the reason for the defeat this time, but they just didn't dare to publicize it.

The consequences of the entire army's poisoning were finally revealed in this battle, and the result was that the entire army was wiped out. Fighting was a desperate effort. Without strength, it was like a group of lambs waiting to be slaughtered. Facing the ferocious tigers and wolves, no matter how hard they fought, it was futile.

At the city of Baoding, the vanguard Ping'an looked excited. Although he still didn't know why the Yan army was so beautiful, this was a huge joy for the entire Southern Army. In the first battle of attacking Baoding, Ping'an's troops wiped out nearly 10,000 enemies and obtained countless war horses, armor, and weapons. With the victory of this battle, when the emperor was victorious in the future, it would be no difficult for Ping'an to reward him on his merits.

The 250,000 central army led by Xiao Fan had not arrived yet, and Ping'an looked at the towering Baoding city wall in the distance, and a sense of pride arose.

"Damn it! War is so easy, why are you waiting for the main force? I led 50,000 people to capture Baoding. Wouldn't the credit be even greater?" Ping An rubbed his hands excitedly and murmured to himself.

He did what he thought of, and Ping An turned his head and shouted: "Come on, prepare for the weapons to attack the city, beat the drums to attack the city, and defeat Baoding for me!"

Dongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdong!

The drum that shocked the hearts of the people was pounding with a rapid rhythm. The 50,000 vanguards of the Southern Army carried the siege ladder and Feiyun claws, took the powerful victory, and shouted and killed the sky and rushed towards the Baoding city wall...

In the afternoon, when the main force of the 250,000 army led by Xiao Fan arrived at the city of Baoding, he saw this scene.

Ping An Jing stood naked in front of the drum and beat hard. The vanguard carried the ladder and screamed in desperation to launch attacks again and again on Baoding City. Under the moss-covered city wall, the bodies of the Southern Army or Yan Army soldiers were piled up like mountains. In the moat of the besieged city, bright red blood slowly flowed, and the broken limbs and arms under the city were seen everywhere, including broken flags, whineful war horses, swords discarded by rolling blades, and smoke drifting with the wind with the burnt smell... The whole scene was as tragic as hell.

In the vanguard army, Ping An beat the war drum again, which shocked people's minds. The soldiers' eyes were red, and they picked up swords and screamed and rushed towards the city wall.

Seeing this scene, Xiao Fan opened his eyes wide in surprise.

"Fifty thousand people attacked the strong city of the defenders with 100,000... Did Ping An take the wrong medicine?"

As we all know, the casualties of siege are greater than those of defending the city, and they are several times larger, so there is a saying in military tactics that "ten encirclements" is the saying. The fortifications of the city walls can largely avoid casualties of the defenders. On the contrary, the siege party has no other cover except the weapons in his hands, and it is reasonable that the casualties of the defenders several times higher than those of the defenders.

Ping'an led only 50,000 people to attack Baoding City, which had 100,000 defenders. Is this guy crazy?

While speaking, Ping An, naked and covered in blood, ran quickly to the Central Army Commander's banner and bowed to Xiao Fan with his fists.

"General Ping'an, you are..." Xiao Fan stared at him strangely.

Ping'an's very young man slapped his chest and said, "They will have the will of death, and the soldiers will fight to the death."

"But you're shirtless..."

"Cool, comfortable, easy to kill the enemy!"

"You should put on your clothes quickly. If the manly-style monk in Baoding City sees your tendon flesh, he will definitely covet your beauty and try every means to get you on his bed..."

Ping'an grinned indifferently and said, "Mr. Xiao, today we will fight a big victory. We will fight fiercely with Qiu Fu outside the city. The last general's vanguard soldiers wiped out more than 10,000 enemies, and four rounds of attacks and annihilated thousands of enemies. His grandmother! Today, I don't know if Yan Ni bumped into Tai Sui. The bear soldiers under his command were caught in evil, and they were all like paper. If we slashed down with one knife, they couldn't stop them. They could kill more than 10,000 casually. The battle was easy!"

Xiao Fan was stunned when he heard this, and then turned his head meaningfully to look at Cao Yi. The two quickly exchanged their eyes and smiled mysteriously together.

No wonder Ping An had the confidence that he dared to attack Baoding City with only 50,000 people. It turned out that Xiao Fan had set up a killing move early to show his power. The soldiers of the Yan army were weak, and it was probably Wang Gui's poisonous rice that had played its role.

The one who made the greatest contribution to this battle was Wang Gui, a tyrant businessman in Peking. This guy set a record. The murderer of the largest poisoning incident in history, with as many as 100,000 victims. Others mixed white powder into rice. This guy mixed rice into white powder. The soldiers of the Yan army were excited and took medicine for more than a year. How could they not be poisoned?

It would be great if there were ecstasy these days. You can imagine that 100,000 Yan soldiers held up swords and listened to the strong rhythm of the sermon drums. 100,000 madmen were wielding swords and shaking their heads wildly. The scene, tsk tsk...

Xiao Fan laughed and turned his head to ask Cao Yi: "Has Wang Gui withdrawn from Peking?"

Cao Yi's expression was a little strange: "Retreat, the Jinyiwei escorted him to our camp last night..."

"Here was there last night?" Xiao Fan was stunned: "Then why didn't he come to see me last night?"

Cao Yi's face twitched and said, "Because Wang Gui... was injured."

"Being chased by Yan army?"

"No, Wang Gui was always jumping around before he arrived at our camp... He was injured only after entering our camp."

Xiao Fan frowned and said, "Who hurt him?"

"...Your master, the old immortal Taixu." Cao Yi seemed to hold back his smile.

"That old guy is taking drugs too? Why are you crazy? Why are you trying to beat Wang Gui?"

"In order to avoid the pursuit of Yan army, Wang Gui evacuated from Peking and shaved his hair, disguised himself as a monk, and left Peking unimpededly until he entered our camp safely. Wang Gui might have been overjoyed, so he pronounced "Amitabha" and was heard by your master. You know, the old god hated monks very much, so Wang Gui was tragic..."

Xiao Fan was stunned.

Taoist priest beats monk, according to Taixu's words, it is natural and Wang Gui asked himself...

"What's the point?"

"Two broken ribs, the head swollen into a pig's head, the right hand was broken, and two pairs of pants were changed. It is said that even the shit was slap out at that time..."

Xiao Fan: “…………”

"Wang Gui is still lying in the camp and crying all night..."
Chapter completed!