Before Deng Ming went to Tan Hong's camp, everyone agreed that if Tan Hong could be lured out of the camp, they would choose to fight here. The rocks in front of the river bay covered their views, interfered with the command of the pursuers, blocking dozens of spearmen could completely block the narrow road, and the full moon-shaped river bay could also provide good cover for archers deployed on the other side. There are several other places suitable for defense here, but the distance from Tan Hong's camp here is the most appropriate. In short, when the opponent is prepared, the terrain here determines whoever attacks along the river bank is at a disadvantage.

The sharp arrow, which broke through the air, immediately knocked down the enemy soldiers who were chasing the first ones. After seeing the formation in front of them, everyone complained. But behind them was a long column, and the soldiers waiting to receive the rewards pushed the people, constantly crowding forward. The people in front could not retreat, so they could only walk forward with their teeth.

During the more than an hour when Deng Ming and Zhao Tianba returned, Li Xinghan was not idle. Since he decided to stick to this place, he not only widened the widest section of the road so that he could stand down more of his own people, but also raised the ground at his feet to gain a condescending advantage. As for the small road in front of the defensive location, Li Xinghan cunningly removed a layer of soil and replaced it with a few rocks full of moss.

This is not that Li Xinghan was proficient in defensive battles before, but when Deng Ming came back, Li Xinghan, who was anxious, kept wandering on the shore. When his feet slipped, he fell down and got up dizzyly, and he was very angry with the moss. Li Xinghan was determined to let the enemy suffer the same great loss. During the inspection, he found that it was indeed slippery, and Li Xinghan almost fell into the water again. In order to facilitate Deng Ming's passage, they also laid some branches on it. After they passed, Li Xinghan's men quickly removed him, and even quickly threw some river water before the enemy arrived.

The Qing army vanguards who were pushed forward were hard to climb on one side, and the water surface of Jiangwan on the other side, and each person had to face at least two Ming troops on the front. Li Xinghan and his men easily defeated one enemy after another. Many of them were not defeated by them at all, but were constantly pushed by the people behind. They fell to the ground as soon as they slipped under their feet, and were slashed by Ming army swords and could never stand up again.

Zhao Tianba took the bow and arrow from a archer, stood on the shore and aimed calmly, and was separated from the enemy on the opposite side by a not-wide water surface, but could aim without threat. Zhao Tianba hit the vital point of an enemy soldier with each arrow and killed him directly. This behavior made the officers and soldiers of Tan Wen's side show admiration.

Deng Ming had already decided to breathe, and he also walked up to the front two steps to watch the battle. Seeing Deng Ming reaching the front row, Zhao Tianba quickly stopped shooting and pulled him: "How did your highness come up? What should you do if a rock scratches your highness?"

While speaking, Zhao Tianba came to recommend Deng Ming and wanted to drag him behind the soldiers. But Deng Ming struggled and refused to retreat. First of all, Deng Ming thought that Zhao Tianba was really too involved. He was not Prince Han or any other royal family at all. Deng Ming was very surprised how Zhao Tianba acted like a real person now, and had such a strong sense of responsibility for his safety. Secondly, Deng Ming felt that since he had to pretend to be a royal family, he had to show courage and play his due role. Deng Ming believed that taking arrows and stones in person could undoubtedly greatly inspire the fighting spirit of the soldiers.

"Everyone is fighting, how can I retreat?" Deng Ming threw away Zhao Tianba and the other two Ming troops who came to pull him, and said loudly: "I don't know how to use weapons and can't fight with everyone to kill the enemy. Standing here is the only thing I can do. How can I retreat to the back?"

Deng Ming was talking about what he said, but the people around him were extremely moved. Zhao Tianba was in a state of excitement and said repeatedly: "Your Highness is too humble, your Highness is just not a skill."

This is not a flattering Zhao Tianba's style. According to his observation, Deng Ming's health is good and he is taller than ordinary people (including Zhao Tianba, Zhou Kaihuang and Li Xinghan and others). Modern people are more nutritious, of course, they are better developed than hungry and full ancient people, but Zhao Tianba thinks that Deng Ming is quite lacking in exercise, and is not very strong without physical strength.

In the eyes of people around him, it is normal for the royal family to not learn the skills of fighting. It is rare for Deng Ming to dare to stand on the front line, but Deng Ming felt that he was underestimated. He reached out to Zhao Tianba for a bow and arrow, and wanted to fight side by side with the soldiers around him.

Deng Ming's actions aroused a lot of admiration around him. In the admiring eyes of people around him, Zhao Tianba handed the bow and arrow to Deng Ming with a clear respect. When Deng Ming raised the bow and arrow, the archers who were shooting couldn't help but use their light to pay attention to his martial arts.

"Due to the effect of gravity, like shells and bullets, the orbit of the arrow is also a parabola." Deng Ming silently recited the knowledge he had learned in his mind. After opening his bow vigorously, he guessed the approximate trajectory of the parabola, lifted the arrow upwards, and then fired it out.

But the flying arrow did not draw the trajectory of the parabola that the shooter imagined. Deng Ming watched it fly straight over the rock wall of three people on the opposite side, and disappeared into the woods in a flash - it was a completely celestial cannon.

Several Ming soldiers around him had already opened their mouths and planned to cheer loudly as soon as they saw Deng Ming hit the enemy soldiers. However, seeing that the arrow was so outrageous, they had to swallow the words "Your Highness's Shoot" back into their stomachs.

More enemy soldiers were pushed and squeezed through the corner by the people behind. They could not see Li Xinghan's battle queue in front, but they could see the bows and arrows constantly shooting from the side. Tan Hong's soldiers, who were completely beaten and could not fight back, pushing the people in front more forcefully, hoping that the front row would break through the enemy's defense as soon as possible and drive away the archers near him. Some people could not stand the flying feather arrows, so they simply jumped out of the river bay, raised their weapons above their heads and tried to flow across the water to attack the Ming army that shot arrows.

But Jiangwan was far more difficult to pass than these reckless soldiers imagined. When they struggled to move forward with their weapons, they were the best targets for Ming army shooters. At the same time, they had to fight hard with the cold Jiangliu. The soldier who walked the farthest could not reach the center of Jiangwan. At that time, the river water had already reached his neck. Before he could think about whether to retreat or start swimming forward, his feet slipped and the river rushed out of the bay and rolled up the river surface to the surface to sink.

Until this time, Tan Hong, who was located behind the rock, still didn't know what was going on in front of him. When he heard the sound of the bow and arrow breaking through the air at the beginning, Tan Hong shouted in anger: "Who is shooting arrows? Isn't I strictly order not to shoot arrows, I have to catch them alive?"

In order to ensure that the surviving Prince of Han was captured, Tan Hong issued an order before setting off, forbidding the front team soldiers and the vanguards to carry bows and arrows. After seeing Zhao Tianba and the others throwing their weapons, Tan Hong took it for granted that the other party had no weapons in their hands, and that the one who shot the arrow must be his subordinates.

Following the crowd, he heard the more intense killing shouts coming from behind Shanyan, and seeing the bodies of Qing soldiers being rushed down from the upstream by Jiang Liu, Tan Hong realized that his troops were facing strong resistance, but at this time he was still uncertain whether it was a slum or a trapped beast from the other side.

After the vanguard stopped due to the battle, Tan Hong's entire queue immediately stopped. He was eager to know what was going on ahead, but the people in front could not retreat but were pushed forward. Tan Hong's personal guard was also blocked by this large group of soldiers and could not squeeze forward to inquire about the situation of the battle.

It took a long time before Tan Hong's guard finally squeezed to the front and grabbed a front row to ask what was happening behind Shan Yan.

"Are there less than a hundred people on the other side?" Tan Hong frowned and thought after learning about the approximately troops on the other side. It was not that he had not considered the issue of ambush, but he estimated that the Ming army's defeated soldiers were only hundreds, and most of the Ming soldiers had already thrown away their weapons during the escape. Such combat power did not pose a threat to Tan Hong's well-equipped 1,600 army.

"It was probably the guards of the King of Han's mansion," the personal soldier who went up to investigate the situation took great effort to squeeze forward, and used more effort to squeeze back to Tan Hong, reporting to Tan Hong all the situations he had mastered and the estimates of the front-line officers: "The front row was held back, and there seemed to be no progress. It was estimated that there must be spearmen on the opposite side, and there were also a large number, at least a dozen guns and at least a dozen bows."

"This should be the guard of the Han Palace," Tan Hong also made a similar judgment. He did not think that the hundreds of defeated soldiers could be organized by the Han Prince. Even if there were hundreds of defeated soldiers, they probably could not retain so many weapons and combat-capable soldiers: "They were desperate, but they were just using this bay entrance to carry out their final resistance."

Since he had been pursuing for so long, Tan Hong certainly did not want to retreat at the last moment. He was not willing to hold nearly two thousand troops in his hand. He saw dozens of troops, perhaps hundreds of enemy soldiers would admit defeat and immediately turn back to the camp. Tan Hong felt that he had discovered signs of the opponent's death struggle, and the enemy's final struggle was nothing more than that. He immediately ordered a guard officer to take 400 soldiers up the mountain, detour to the rear of the Ming army position, and attack the Ming army from both front and back.

Tan Hong ordered: "You must move quickly and move forward at full speed. Don't wait until dark to let Prince Han run away!"

When the Qing army began to try to detour, Deng Ming pulled the bowstring for the third time.

"The arm and the bow are a little distance..." Zhao Tianba stood next to Deng Ming and explained to him the key points of using bows and arrows. The enemy who rushed up had no time to fight back, and the Ming army was calm to deal with them. Deng Ming already knew that he should make the left hand holding the bow form an angle with the face where the bow was, otherwise the string would hit the arm when it bounced back, which was really painful.

"Room the arrow..." According to Zhao Tianba, the arrow flies a straight line, so when aiming at the target, you must aim the straight line of the arrow shaft at the target. Deng Ming did not understand why there was gravity, but the orbit of the arrow was not a parabola, but there was nothing to argue with a sharp shooter like Zhao Tianba. Although Deng Ming did as he said, he still did not hit the person, at least he would not fly several meters above the crowd.

Zhao Tianba said while reaching out to help Deng Ming adjust the bow and arrow. Although he made it clear in the previous few times, Deng Ming still shot all of them. So this time Zhao Tianba simply stood behind the side and helped Deng Ming aim.

Deng Ming saw his arrow aiming at an enemy soldier who was crowded in the team and staggering forward. He could see the anxious expression on the enemy soldier's face. The enemy soldier pushed his companion forward and looked at Deng Ming nervously, and his eyes were full of tension when he looked at the Ming army archers.

However, the soldier's eyes did not turn on Deng Ming. Before he found that Deng Ming had aimed at him, Zhao Tianba had already shouted softly from behind: "Let me go!"

While hearing this, Deng Ming felt that his hand that helped him hold the end of the arrow shaft was loosened, and his fingers also loosened. The bowstring made a "bang" sound, and the feather arrow also came out.

This arrow did not kill anyone immediately like Zhao Tianba - after all, Zhao Tianba was not as good as his own archery aiming, but he also hit the target accurately.

"Your Highness's Shooting!"

The Ming soldiers around who had been paying attention to Deng Ming's actions cheered in unison. The other archers of the Ming army realized that Deng Ming had achieved a record, and they followed the second wave of cheers in unison:

"Your Highness's Shooting!"

When Zhao Tianba saw the target being shot under the ribs, he was also very excited. He was the first to cheer. Xiying had been working with the Ming court for a long time. Needless to say, Emperor Yongli, Zhao Tianba witnessed that other royal children under the protection of Xiying were far away from the battlefield and hid in the safe rear. Even civil officials sent by the court to the army could commit suicide and sacrifice their country with righteousness when the city was broken, but they would not climb to the city to kill the enemy.

In the past, Zhao Tianba's concern for Deng Ming came from Yuan Zongdi's orders. He knew that this person might be very important to the court, and it was his responsibility to protect Deng Ming. However, when Zhao Tianba saw Deng Ming dare to take the lead in his battle at the critical moment of life and death, and saw that he achieved the results of war (although Zhao Tianba's help), he felt a sense of respect surged from his heart: "What an amazing family member, a noble family member of the Tian family who is willing to kill the enemy side by side with us soldiers. Perhaps the King of Jin would also appreciate his courage?"

Just now, Li Xinghan had discovered that Deng Ming bent his bow and shot arrows in the distance, and cheers came to his ears, giving him a lot of encouragement - there has never been such a big man willing to take risks on the front line, and Li Xinghan had never seen it, nor had he heard of it. This kind of courage only existed at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty. Later, an emperor of Wuzong went to the battlefield, and it has never been heard of it in the past hundred years.

After learning that Deng Ming had achieved the results of the battle, Li Xinghan was also excited. The clans who he had worked hard to protect did not stay behind to watch the success or failure, but were not afraid of death and to kill the enemy. At this time, the sword in Li Xinghan's hand was already covered in blood. He shouted loudly and chopped down another soldier who rushed forward, and then shouted to his subordinates: "Your Highness is watching us kill thieves. Brothers, try to kill thieves, don't let Your Highness down!"

While everyone cheered for Deng Ming, he himself stared at the target he hit in silence. The moment the Qing soldier was caught in an arrow, he showed an expression of surprise on his face, and then his body shook, and he fell out of the team with an incredible expression and rolled into the river next to him.

Deng Ming was looking at the person he had hurt with his own hands in a complicated mood. The expression on the enemy soldier's face never felt like pain but was surprised, as if he could not believe that he had suffered fatal injuries. The enemy soldier struggled desperately in the water with this expression for a long time, and had been trying to climb ashore from the water again.

However, the soldier's actions failed. Deng Ming saw bright red rising from the water next to the person he was hurt. The soldier's struggle became slower and slower, and finally stopped gradually. His body turned over and lay on his back in the water, with his eyes wide open, his face still had the look of surprise and confusion, as if the soldier had not accepted the fact that he was injured and was dying until his death.

"I killed someone," Deng Ming murmured in his heart. Nearly a hundred soldiers on the battlefield cheered for his bravery. Deng Ming was so excited that he seemed to burst into tears when he saw a Ming soldier not far away: "It is said that war is the most inconsistent black and white. I cruelly killed a man, a kind of person, and watched him die in pain. Usually this behavior would be despised and hated by people around him and would be punished, but in the war, they thought I did a good job and watched with me what kind of great pain this person swallowed his last breath, and were very excited about it."

Deng Ming raised his head, Li Xinghan on the opposite side was shouting and fighting fiercely, and the Ming army archers beside him were constantly shooting at the enemy on the opposite side. Suddenly, the fantasy that had always existed in Deng Ming's heart seemed to pass away with the life of his first victim. At this moment, Deng Ming felt that his carefree student life in the peaceful era of more than ten days ago had gone far away, becoming unusually far away, while the life-and-death battle in front of him became extremely real - this kind of life had always made Deng Ming feel like he was dreamless and not real.

"I can't go back." Deng Ming had such an idea in his mind. When he finally accepted that war was part of real life and the most important part, the student life in the peace era became like a dream.

The roundabout troops sent by Tan Hong had entered the woods and began to climb up the mountain with great effort, intending to circumnavigate the rear of the Ming army's position. After they walked up the mountain for about a mile, a loud arrow broke the silence in the woods.

After hearing the harsh whistle of the arrow, Deng Ming looked in that direction. According to the agreement of the officers before the war, the Ming army hidden in the woods would send this warning signal once it discovered that the Qing soldiers of Tan Hong's troops began to detour in the mountains. At the same time, it would trigger a series of reactions.

The whistle of the first arrow was not over yet, and a second whistle sounded far away, and then another sound came from a mile away.

Further west, a Ming soldier hidden in the woods finally checked the bamboo whistle tied to the arrow shaft and blew it gently. After hearing the unambiguous whistle, the soldier opened his bow and shot the arrow into the sky with all his might. Suddenly, another loud whistle sounded in the air.

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