The next morning, 70,000 Jiangnan troops also arrived twenty miles north of Wu County, about ten miles away from the Jingzhao Army camp. Xiangfa also ordered the camp to be set up.

The two barracks are far away, with a wilderness of ten miles in the middle, which is enough to set up a battlefield for the two armies to confront each other.

On the day Xiangfa set off the camp, a general led 3,000 soldiers to the Jingzhao Army camp to yell. This is also the routine of fighting between the two armies. Both sides can send letters of invitation to each other, and they can fight one by one or form a decisive battle.

If you are not willing to fight one-on-one or decisive, then put on the battle-free card, but this situation is very depressing. The opponent's general leads his army to show off his power in front of the camp, which has a great impact on morale.

Single challenge is usually a small-scale battle, mainly fighting martial arts in the battle between generals, which mainly plays a role in boosting morale. For example, Wang Gui and Liu Qi led their troops to lose three consecutive battles in Xiangzhou, which actually refers to the failure of single challenge.

Perhaps because Xiang Fa felt that his army was not very morale, he ordered General Du Yaoge to lead three thousand troops to the Jingzhao Army camp to invite a single battle.

Outside the camp, Du Yaoge kept provoking and scolding. In the central army's tent, Li Yanqing asked coldly: "The enemy general came to challenge him, who would like to fight the first battle?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Hu Qing'er took the lead and left the list, "Why do you need a general to fight? Wait for the little woman to take someone else's head to drink for all the generals!"

Generals such as Wang Gui, Liu Qi, Niu Gao, Yang Zaixing all wanted to fight, but unexpectedly, they were taken first by the female general Hu Qing'er. Everyone looked at each other and smiled bitterly on their faces.

Li Yanqing immediately ordered: "General Hu can go to war, please lead three thousand troops to the battlefield!"

"Abide by the order!"

‘Dong!Dong!Dong!’ The sound of drums sounded loudly in the Jingzhao Army camp, and the camp gate opened. Fifty female cavalry surrounded a female general and flew out, followed by three thousand soldiers. The deputy commander Liu Qi held a big sword in his hand to press the formation for the female general Hu Qing.

Hu Qing'er wore a phoenix winged horn on her head, a pink-white mountain-patterned armor, black heart-protecting glasses in front of the back, a fatal soft whip on her waist, a seven-mouth willow leaf flying knife on her back, a bag of flying stones in front of the saddle, a pair of long leather boots on her feet, and a dragon embroidered sword in her hands, and a tall and majestic rouge horse under her crotch, which made her look particularly heroic. She has pink face and peach cheeks, almond eyes and willow eyebrows, and her appearance is extremely beautiful, which makes everyone applaud the three soldiers of the Jingzhao Army.

The general Du Yaoge on the opposite side is from Xiuzhou, born in the imperial guards' golden spear squad, and used a big iron spear. He is very skilled in martial arts. He is tall and has a fat face, and looks very strong and fierce. He didn't expect that a female general came out of the other party. He couldn't help but be furious and pointed at Hu Qing'er and cursed, "Little mother-in-law, how dare you come out to humiliate your grandfather. When grandfather catches you, strip your clothes all over."

Zheng Chen, who was surging in the distance, was a little worried. He had heard that when the Jingzhao Army held a competition, a young female general won the championship. Could it be this woman?

Seeing that Du Yaoge underestimated the enemy, he quickly shouted: "General Du, don't underestimate the enemy!"

He was afraid that Du Yaoge would not hear it, so he sent another personal soldier to remind him that Du Yaoge was cursing, and a soldier rushed over and shouted: "General Du, General Zheng ordered you not to underestimate the enemy!"

Du Yaoge finally stopped yelling and scolding. He snorted coldly, waved his big iron spear and shouted: "Little mother, brother, I'll let you kill three times first!"

Du Yaoge scolded him very vulgar and shamelessly, which made Hu Qing'er hate him. He felt murderous intent in his heart. He shouted and ran away. Du Yaoge also urged the horse to come. He said that letting Sandao first was just a verbal talk. His boss Zheng Chen had already reminded him not to underestimate the enemy. How could he really let the other party?

When the two approached, Hu Qing'er seized the initiative and slashed more than a dozen swords in an instant. Seeing that the opponent's swordsmanship was fierce, Du Yaoge had no way to judge the swordsmanship, so he simply did not block it and ran away, causing Hu Qing'er to slash over ten swords in the air, and the two horses passed by.

Hu Qing'er was angry, and she changed to hold the knife with her left hand, waved her right hand, and shot a flying knife at Du Yaoge like lightning. Hu Qing'er used a flying stone like a fire, and only when she was in a murderous intent in her heart was used to use a flying knife. There are two types of flying knifes. One is usually carried with her. The knife is only three inches long, very delicate and arbitrarily cut off people's throat. The other is used on the battlefield. The knife is one foot long and is extremely sharp, and can be killed with one knife.

Du Yaoge caught a flash of coldness from the corner of his eyes. He suddenly realized something was wrong and wanted to hide, but it was too late. The speed of the flying knife was extremely fast. He felt that the vest was cold. The flying knife had shot through his vest. Du Yaoge screamed, rolled down and died on the spot.

At this time, someone in the army raided in the distance, and a dark horse rushed out, "Give me my brother my life!"

The general who rushed out was Du Yaoge's brother Du Yaowu. The two brothers looked quite similar. Du Yaowu was also tall and had big arms and round waists, but there was no horizontal flesh on his face, which was slightly less fierce than his brother. Zheng Chen did not hold him back. He secretly complained in his heart. In order to win over the Du brothers, the Zheng family had married a distant Zheng family daughter to Du Yaowu. If both brothers were killed, how could he go back and explain to the Zheng family?

Du Yaowu's eyes were so red that he didn't say anything, and urged his horse to go straight to Hu Qing'er. Hu Qing'er sneered and rode his horse quickly. With a wave of his hand, a flying stone was shot out. The speed of the flying stone was faster than that of the flying knife and was more difficult to detect. When Du Yaowu suddenly discovered the flying stone, the flying stone had arrived in front of him. With a crisp sound, the flying stone made his face bloom, and the bones on the bridge of his nose were smashed to pieces, and blood foam splattered everywhere. Du Yaowu's eyes turned black and he turned over and fell off the horse.

The soldiers of the Jiangnan Army were in an uproar, and they all met each other. Both generals were dismissed, one died and one was injured. This female general was so powerful, but the Jingzhao Army made loud drums and cheers. Soldiers rushed forward and chopped off Du Yaoge's head and tied up Du Yaowu.

At this time, Liu Qi waved his sword and shouted loudly: "Kill it up!"

"Kill" Three thousand soldiers shouted and killed the enemy. The Jiangnan army lost two consecutive battles, and their morale was low. Zheng Chen was not interested in fighting, so he shouted "Retreat!" He turned his horse's head and ran towards the camp first. The soldiers behind him ran wildly. The last few hundred people ran a little slower. They were caught up by the Jingzhao Army and killed more than a hundred people in a row. The other soldiers were so scared that they knelt down and surrendered.

At this time, the bell of withdrawing troops came from afar. Li Yanqing was not allowed to chase them anymore. There was a forest next to the road ahead, and the enemy might be ambushed in the woods.

The Jingzhao Army was well-trained and ordered to stop. The soldiers stopped chasing and took hundreds of prisoners of war back to the camp.

The first battle defeated two generals. Xiang Fa was extremely angry and scolded Zheng Chen, who volunteered, tortured.

In the big tent, Xiang Fa stepped back and forth with his hands behind his back, looking upset. He had just obtained the accurate situation. Now Li Yanqing's subordinates have more than 20,000 people, at least more than 40,000. Of course, Xiang Fa knew why these troops suddenly emerged. There should be no other way except prisoners of war. But he didn't expect Li Yanqing to convert prisoners of war into soldiers so quickly.

The reason why he was slow to attack Li Yanqing's army was because the other side had only 20,000 people, and his subordinates had 80,000 people. In addition, the 30,000 troops heading north, they had as many as 110,000 people, more than five times that of the other side. He did not take the Jingzhao army seriously at all. Just like a cat playing with a mouse, he played 20,000 enemies and then swallowed them up.

But Xiangfa never expected that the enemy's army would grow rapidly, and in a few days it increased to 45,600 people, and the other would rise, and his army also reduced to 70,000 people, which was less than doubled. Xiangfa was very upset. If he had known that he would have followed Liu Yanqing's advice and annihilated the Jingzhao army in Runzhou.

But there is no medicine for regret in the world. Now it is too late to regret. You still have to face reality and come up with a proper solution.

In fact, the solution is to fight or not, so it is certainly impossible to retreat north. Xiang Fa cannot hand over Hangzhou to Li Yanqing. If you take a detour to Hangzhou, you will be afraid that you will not be able to escape the enemy's pursuit. Especially with three thousand cavalry on the other side, it is easy to turn the retreat into a defeat of the entire army.

After thinking about it, Xiang Fa had only one choice, that is, fight. His troops were more than 20,000 more than the opponent, and there were two elite troops, Hu Ben and Fei Xiong. Except for the opponent's 20,000 elite troops, the other newly added troops were not strong in battle, and he might not lose to Li Yanqing.

After figuring this out, Xiang Fa made up his mind to no longer fight one-on-one, but directly deploy a decisive battle.

He walked back to the table and sat down, picked up his pen and wrote a letter of invitation, handed it to a soldier, asking him to send it to the other party's camp.

The Jingzhao Army camp was full of joy, and Hu Qing'er won two consecutive victories, greatly increasing the morale in the camp. The soldiers were extremely excited and gathered together to discuss Hu Qing'er's unique skills, flying knives, flying stones, and other side martial arts were even more interesting.

"Old Li, I think Qing'er's flying stone skills have surpassed you."

While drinking the broth, Wang Gui was joking with Li Yanqing with great enthusiasm. When they were alone, Wang Gui would occasionally forget the superiority and inferiority of the superiors and subordinates. However, today Hu Qing'er's flying stone skill made Wang Gui seem to have returned to his youth. He knew Li Yanqing's flying stones well, and his intuition told him that Hu Qing'er's flying stones had surpassed Li Yanqing's speed.

"I said Lao Li, why don't you compete with Qing'er!"

"Okay, drink your soup!"

Li Yanqing reached out and knocked him on the head, and cursed with a smile: "Qing'er surpasses me, I'm not too happy. But you, a slut, don't practice martial arts well, just watch the young juniors behind you overtake you one by one!"

Wang Gui has been very brave and fierce since he was a child. He likes to fight with others one-on-one. Even if he becomes the governor in the future, he will fight like an ordinary general. Li Yanqing said that he was thinking. His strength was not as strong as Cao Meng, his marksmanship could not compare to Gao Chong, and his marksmanship. Yang Zaixing always claimed that he had unparalleled sword skills. But today he saw with his own eyes that Hu Qing'er's sword skills were very sharp. He might not be able to do it. Wang Gui was also worried. He gritted his teeth and said, "Damn, I will start practicing swords tonight. I want the younger generation to see that I, Wang Gui, will never grow old."

Li Yanqing smiled and said, "I received the military news from the court two days ago, but I saw the news about Brother Wu."

Wang Gui was excited and asked quickly: "What is Lao Yue doing?"

"He followed the veteran general Zong Ze to win a victory in Bozhou, defeating six thousand Jin soldiers, and was promoted to a fifth-rank Ranger General by the imperial court."

Wang Gui widened his eyes, "Good, my mother is no less than mine!"

Li Yanqing knew that Yue Fei had saved Zhao Gou's life, so Zhao Gou would take some care of his promotion. However, last time Wang Gui led an armies to burn Liyang County, Yue Fei also worked hard to participate in the war, but he did not receive any rewards, which is deeply unfair. Now that his promotion is a kind of compensation for him in the past.

The fifth-rank official is a big obstacle for both civil officials and military generals. After passing this obstacle, it will be much easier to improve in the future. Li Yanqing is also sincerely happy for Yue Fei.

At this time, the curtain was lifted, and Liu Qi quickly walked into the tent and smiled: "Xiang Fei can't hold back."

"Have he given a letter of invitation?"

Liu Qi nodded and handed Li Yanqing a letter of invitation to fight. Li Yanqing thought about it and said that Cao Meng's army should have entered Changzhou, but they still need to give them a rest time.

He then picked up his pen and wrote in the invitation letter: 'The decisive battle will take two days!'
Chapter completed!