In November of the second year of Jianwen, Dongchang City.

Zhu Di looked at the enemy troops arrayed behind the city, and the humiliation under Jinan City resurfaced in his heart.

Because Tie Xuan hung a sacred plaque of the late emperor Zhu Yuanzhang on the top of the city, Zhu Di, who was in the name of peace, had to stop attacking the city. After fighting with Tie Xuan for several months, he had no choice but to retreat due to lack of food and grass.

The city of Jinan, which was once within easy reach, turned into an insurmountable chasm because of a few small wooden signs. How could Zhu Di not sigh in anger at this?

General Sheng Yong of the Southern Army gathered up the remnant troops left by Li Jinglong, led his army to pursue Zhu Di who returned from the north, won a great victory, and regained Dezhou.

Zhu Yunwen was overjoyed when he heard the news. He promoted Tie Xuan to the position of Minister of the Ministry of War, appointed Sheng Yong as Marquis of Licheng, and General Ping Yan, replacing Li Jinglong as the commander of the southern army.

After receiving the reward, Sheng Yong became more courageous in fighting. He marched into Dingzhou and Cangzhou one after another, winning consecutive battles and regaining a large area of ​​land occupied by the Yan army. His troops were directed towards Peiping.

Zhu Di was finally angered by the aggressive Sheng Yong and decided to seize Cangzhou while the Southern Army was not yet stable.

He pretended to attack Liaodong, but actually turned south from Tongzhou. When he arrived in Cangzhou, the Confederate army was unprepared, and they recaptured Cangzhou in less than two days.

Then Zhu Di crossed the river from Changlu and advanced to Dezhou.

After Sheng Yong resisted for a while, he abandoned the city and left. Zhu Di effortlessly recaptured Dezhou.

Zhu Di pursued all the way through Linqing, Guantao and then to Dong'a and Dongping, forcing Sheng Yong to retreat to Dongchang.

Zhu Di, who did not want to go to Jinan to face Tie Xuan, chose to attack Dongchang. If he could defeat Sheng Yong in one fell swoop, he could bypass Jinan and drive in.

Sheng Yong lost Cangzhou and Dezhou one after another. This time when he faced Zhu Di in Dongchang, he did not choose to retreat. Instead, he sent troops under the city to fight Zhu Di decisively.

Now, Zhu Di pointed his riding whip at the handsome flag with the word "Sheng" at the foot of Dongchang City, and sneered in his heart.

Sheng Yong, you are still too naive. You actually gave up a city that could be defended by danger, and lined up outside the city to fight me head-on. No one has ever won in this world. It's time for you to learn from me, Yan.

The power of the military cavalry has increased.

The war drums were beaten to a loud roar. After thirteen drums, Zhu Di took the lead in pulling out his sword "Cang Long" and rushed to the front of the Confederate army's formation.

Seeing how brave their commander was, the soldiers of the Yan army behind him followed him one after another. The sound of horse hooves was deafening for a while, and Zhu Di's 30,000 front troops were like a surging tide, sweeping towards Sheng Yong's battle formation.

Zhu Di's attack this time brought a total of 110,000 main troops, including 30,000 front troops, 50,000 middle troops, and 30,000 mercenary "Duoyan Three Guards" composed of Mongolians. The 110,000 troops were all uniform

Elite cavalry. In addition to Zhu Gaochi's 30,000 cavalry left behind in Peiping, Zhu Di's trip can be said to have brought all the strength to the bottom of the box.

On the other hand, Sheng Yong, when Li Jinglong completely defeated the 600,000-strong army, he spent several months collecting the defeated troops and reorganizing them. Only then could he barely organize a team of more than 80,000 people, most of whom were soldiers.

The infantry and cavalry had lost their horses and there were only about 7,000 people.

Sheng Yong did not panic when facing Zhu Di's attack of 30,000 troops. He waved his flag and formed a strange formation in the shape of a "mountain".

Zhu Di charged several times and failed to disrupt Sheng Yong's army, but he did not retreat. Instead, he patiently faced Sheng Yong in a stalemate and waited for an opportunity.

The opportunity he is waiting for is Zhu Gaoxu.

You must know that Zhu Di's best cavalry tactic is Zhenghe Qisheng. On the battlefield, he often uses the impact of the cavalry to put frontal pressure on the enemy. If the enemy does not resist carefully, he may break through the center of the army.

As a result, he retreated steadily.

In order to block Zhu Di's frontal attack, the enemy would often mobilize troops on the left and right flanks to help defend the Chinese army, which exposed a flaw on the flanks. At this time, Zhu Gaoxu would lead the highly maneuverable Duoyan Three Guards to raid the flanks of the enemy's formation, and engage Zhu Di on the front.

The right and wrong complement each other to completely crush the enemy's formation.

Zhu Gaoxu had Zhu Di's blood flowing in his body. He knew how to seize the opportunity, so he didn't let Zhu Di wait for too long.

It was Shenshi at this time, and the dazzling sunlight was shining on the battlefield from the west, so Zhu Gaoxu came out from the west and attacked Sheng Yong's left flank who was arrayed in the north of Dongchang City.

Facing the dazzling sunshine, Zhu Gaoxu believed that the enemy would collapse without a fight.

However, he soon discovered that he was wrong.

Not only did Sheng Yong's left wing show no flaws, it seemed to be waiting for his arrival. These soldiers fighting behind the city were armed with strong shields, spears, firearms or powerful crossbows, and launched a fierce counterattack against Zhu Gaoxu's three Duoyan guards.

Fighting against the city means there is no retreat, only victory or death.

The Southern army, which was originally a mournful soldier, was boosted to the extreme by Sheng Yong's last-ditch approach. They smeared poison on the spearheads and arrow clusters in order to kill the enemy with one blow and deal the heaviest blow to the Yan army.

When the cavalrymen of Duoyan's three guards fell off their horses one by one, Zhu Gaoxu realized that something was wrong. He turned his horse's head and wanted to meet his father in front of the enemy's line, but a gap suddenly opened in Sheng Yong's left wing.

Of course, this is not a flaw that Sheng Yong deliberately exposed, it is his fangs for counterattack.

Sheng Yong's only 7,000 cavalry rushed out from the gap on the left wing, smashing into pieces the three Duoyan guards who were turning from the left to the frontal battlefield, causing nearly a thousand casualties.

When Zhu Gaoxu finally stopped his formation and prepared to attack, Sheng Yong's cavalry retreated from the gap again, as if nothing had happened.

Zhu Di witnessed all this on the front battlefield and was so angry that he almost burst into tears.

He knew that Sheng Yong came prepared, but he didn't expect that he would see him so accurately and calculate so thoroughly.

On the surface, Sheng Yong set up a mountain formation. If he rushed too far in front, he would be easily attacked by bows, crossbows and firearms from both wings. But Sheng Yong had already expected that Zhu Gaoxu would attack in the direction of the sun, so he arranged

During the formation, the right side is empty and the left side is solid. Only in this way can Zhu Gaoxu, who thinks he is a surprise soldier, head-on.

But at this time, the two sides were already in full-scale battle, and they had no choice but to attack. Zhu Di took heart and decided to continue to attack the center. He waved his flag and ordered General Zhang Yu, who commanded 50,000 Chinese troops, to follow him and attack the center, and then took the lead.

Rush towards the handsome platform where Sheng Yong is inserted in the middle.

It's too early to talk about victory or defeat now. Next, it depends on whether your crossbow is faster or my fine cavalry is faster.

However, Zhu Di soon discovered that Sheng Yong's Chinese army seemed unwilling to fight him, and could only retreat in the face of his attack.

At first, Zhu Di thought that Sheng Yong had placed his main force on the left side and that there was insufficient combat power in the middle, so he retreated.

But the more he rushed forward, the more he discovered that Sheng Yong's soldiers were becoming more and more numerous and dense. From the beginning, there were one person at ten steps and one person at five steps, and in the end, there was a Confederate soldier in only two or three steps.

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A chill ran down Zhu Di's spine, and he finally realized that he had been tricked. Because Sheng Yong was fighting with his back to the city, and although the soldiers did not retreat, the battlefield was only so large. The closer Zhu Di got to Dongchang City, the more soldiers would be waiting for him.

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At the same time, because Zhu Di charged forward too fast, his cavalry team was stretched into a long and thin line. The two wings of the Shengyongshan formation moved closer to the middle, and soon cut off Zhu Di's cavalry into several sections.
Chapter completed!