Returning to the Yan army, Zhu Di immediately launched his soldiers to attack since he had made up his mind. Countless Yan army soldiers shouted and fought with the army of the three guards of the Liao king blocking the north.
The three guards of the King of Liao were almost unable to withstand the attack. Fortunately, Xu Huizu saw that the situation was not going well and provided support. After that, Zhu Zhi returned to his three guards to command the battle, and finally withstood the Yan army's attack.
In the evening, both warring parties stopped their troops and returned to their camps. Zhu Di stood outside the camp and gloomily looked at the situation in front of him, silently.
Their army fought for a day and suffered considerable losses, but made no progress and were still blocked here and could not advance any further.
Moreover, he could definitely tell that this battle was personally commanded by King Zhu Zhi of Liao, and Zhu Zhi knew very well how to command him.
He was also very aware of Zhu Zhi's abilities. Now that the number of troops on the opposite side was no less than theirs, it was almost impossible for him to defeat them.
Moreover, Zhu Di looked back to the south and west. The pursuers from these two groups did not move much today. Only the army led by Xu Huizu moved to support the three guards of the King of Liao. Then there was no other movement. There was no attack on his camp.
There were no restrictive actions.
Dao Yan was very confused about this, but Zhu Di understood it very well. Until now, Yunxi was not willing to lose too many people, and wanted to persuade him to surrender, so he has not done anything.
‘But, do you think I will surrender like this? I will never surrender unless everything is exhausted!’ Zhu Di sneered in his heart and turned back to his tent.
Zhu Di summoned his generals to gather together. He first expressed his condolences to those who were injured on the battlefield today, and also personally examined the injuries of these people, which moved his generals before they started eating.
Because Zhu Di had already explained their relationship just now, the atmosphere at the dinner table was quite good. Everyone was chatting while eating, which was quite lively.
Just as they were chatting, Huo Zhen suddenly said: "Is there a ballad singing outside?"
After hearing Huozhen's words, several people stopped talking and listened carefully. Sure enough, they heard the sound of singing, and the tune sounded like a ballad from Peiping.
Huozhen said: "This is a ballad I often heard when I was a child. It is a ballad about missing relatives far away. Why, our soldiers are still in the mood to sing this ballad at this time?" Although Huozhen is a Mongolian, he grew up in Peiping.
Da was the only one among the generals present who grew up in Peiping, so he was the first to recognize it.
After hearing what Huo Zhen said, Zhu Di turned serious and said, "The sound doesn't sound like it came from our camp." Then Zhu Di immediately stood up and walked out of the tent. Although others were puzzled, they also followed Zhu Di out.
Big account.
Zhu Di walked to the door of the big tent, listened attentively, and gritted his teeth and said, "Sure enough, it's the ballads singing on the other side!"
Huo Zhen didn't think too much. Hearing the ballads of Peking being sung across the street, he was surprised and said, "Why are they singing such ballads? Could it be that Peking has been conquered?"
Before Zhu Di could speak, Dao Yan said loudly: "Nonsense! This is clearly a plan of the enemy to disturb the morale of our troops with songs. There are left and right guards of Yongqing in the formation opposite, and their accents are similar to those of Beiping City. They must be from Yongqing.
Sing ballads.”
Huo Zhen said: "But I have been to Yongqing. Although the accents there are similar, the songs are not exactly the same. But the songs they sing now are the songs of Peiping."
Dao Yan continued: "The tones are similar, so why is it difficult to teach everyone to learn to sing a similar song? This is the other party's attempt to disrupt the morale of our troops."
"Generals, please return to the armies under your command immediately and ask the soldiers to calm down. Don't think that the people on the other side are singing Peking songs!"
Zhu Di nodded and said: "Master Dao Yan's words are what I mean. You should quickly return to the army you command to appease the soldiers!"
Since Zhu Di said so himself, everyone dispersed to comfort their soldiers, but the doubts in their hearts were not completely resolved.
Zhu Di said with a livid face: "Yun Xi's plan is so vicious! The plan of being besieged on all sides will mess up the morale of our army. It is really a good plan."
Dao Yan also echoed: "And he also used this plan effectively. The person who came up with this plan really understands people's hearts."
Historically, Han Xin used the tactic of being surrounded on all sides to defeat Xiang Yu's defenses, making him think that all the Chu lands had been occupied by the Han army, and he lost his will to fight, and was ultimately defeated.
But the people who used this strategy obviously understood that Zhu Di was not someone who was easily influenced by others like Xiang Yu, so this time they targeted Zhu Di's soldiers, making them think that their hometown had been lost, thus losing their will to fight. From just now, Huo Zhen
It can be seen from the performance that this strategy is very successful.
Dao Yan knew that he could do nothing at this time, so he could only continue to analyze: "I just don't know who came up with this plan."
Zhu Di said: "I know Zhu Zhi, Xu Huizu, Zhang Wen, Lan Zhen and others, and I can never think of such a plan. So it was either Yunxi himself who came up with it, or the civil and military people around him."
"In my opinion, Yunxi has often had some fantastic ideas in the past few years, and most of them were thought of by himself." Zhu Di really guessed it right.
Dao Yan said: "What about tomorrow?"
Zhu Di said: "Looking at this, it will be difficult to drive the army to attack fiercely tomorrow, hey!"
"Moreover, tonight we will order all the ministries to strictly guard the camp to prevent them from hijacking the camp. Now that the morale of the military is unstable, if the enemy hijacks the camp and breaks into the camp, the consequences will be disastrous."
Zhu Di's bodyguards hurriedly went to various places to send orders, asking them to pay extra attention to prevent the camp from being robbed.
However, the night passed peacefully, and no one came to rob the camp.
Early the next morning, Zhu Di, who had also been on guard all night without sleeping, said to Zhu Neng with groggy eyes: "The army cannot attack today. You arrange for people to take turns on guard duty to prevent the Confederate army from attacking during the day. I will take a nap and two
If Gu has not gotten up after an hour, it must be because my guards did not follow my instructions to ask Gu to get up, so you must ask me to get up!"
Zhu Di only had two hours of rest every day in the past few days, and he couldn't stand it without sleeping this night.
Zhu Neng agreed: "Your Highness, I will remember it."
Zhu Di patted Zhu Neng's shoulder and said, "The only person I can trust at this time is you." Then he stood up and went back to the back tent to sleep.
But probably because God didn't let Zhu Di sleep, he suddenly heard countless shouts coming from outside, and the voices were a little frightened.
Zhu Di immediately asked: "What's going on?"
Zhu Neng looked confused: "I don't know either."
At this moment, a guard ran in with a look of panic and said to Zhu Di: "Your Highness, Your Highness, outside, in the sky, in the sky,"
Zhu Di shouted: "Quickly tell me, what happened in the sky?"
The man said in horror: "There is someone in the sky!"
"What, there is someone in the sky? Is someone flying?" Zhu Neng shouted.
The guard said: "It's not flying, but it is indeed in the sky."
After hearing what the guards said, Zhu Di and Zhu Neng didn't understand what was going on in the sky. But no matter what happened, they had to go out and see for themselves.
The two of them walked a few steps quickly outside the tent and immediately looked up. At this sight, they were also stunned.
At this time, there were two huge balls in the sky. I don't know what they were made of. There was a big basket under each ball, and there were people in the baskets.
After Zhu Di was stunned for a moment, he lowered his head and looked around. Countless soldiers were kneeling on the ground, thinking that the things flying in the sky were gods or monsters, and they were terrified.
Some people shouted "Monster!" and stretched out their bows and arrows to shoot down the things flying in the sky. However, the things flying in the sky were not low, and even the arrows shot by the strongest people could not hit them.
At this moment, countless things that looked like flowers fell from the sky. Zhu Di subconsciously took one and saw that it was a daffodil. There was nothing else on it, but the soldiers were even more frightened: How could it be possible in the sky?
Suddenly there are so many narcissus flowers, and it is wrong to say that they are picked from the ground. No one in the north is planting narcissus on a large scale. 'This must be the trick of the gods!' Countless people thought this way.
The wind was blowing from the northwest today, but it was not very strong. Several things in the sky, which they did not know what they were, marched slowly from north to south, until they left the sky of the Yan Army camp and reached the place where Yun Xi was now personally in charge.
At the gate of the army's camp, it slowly descended and stopped there.
Then a few people walked out from there and walked into the camp.
I don’t know who shouted first. Zhu Di only heard someone shouting: "The army of the imperial court is helped by gods! It seems that destiny is indeed on the emperor today!"
Then countless people shouted like this, and there was no order in the military camp. Everyone was talking about something to relieve the shock in their hearts. Even the generals, and even Zhu Di's most trusted general, murmured to themselves, not knowing what they were saying.
There is no way to maintain order.
In fact, what they saw was a hot-air balloon. In June of this year, Yunxi remembered that he wanted to study hot-air balloons (Chapter 347). At that time, Yunxi didn't pay much attention to it, and just ordered him to go over.
But a few days ago, when he personally led the Northern Expedition to Xuzhou, he suddenly received a report saying that a hot air balloon capable of carrying people had been developed and tested several times with success. The test even caused panic in the capital.
Chang Sheng and Xue Ning, who were in charge of the order in the capital, personally found the place where the experiment was conducted and asked about it. Later, Queen Xue Xiyao also personally asked about it. In the end, Xiyao didn't know what Yunxi was thinking and made up nonsense, saying that it was just the big kite that blocked the matter.
After receiving the order that the research was successful, Yunxi immediately realized that it could be used to shock the enemy. At this time, everyone would be frightened when they saw someone in the sky. So Yunxi designed such a strategy, and used it after calculating the wind direction.
As for the daffodils, Yunxi had people deliver them from the south as quickly as possible.
However, even though Zhu Di didn't understand what was going on, he knew that he had no hope at all.