Chapter 599: King Chuang, Run Away! (The second update, ask for subscription)
What is Li Zicheng going to do?
After receiving the news that the Shun army was about to break through the northern defense line, although the reserves were mobilized to block the breakthrough of the thieves, Zhu Guoqiang's heart was still a little uneasy.
Why are they mobilizing their armies to attack with all their might now?
It stands to reason that sometimes they should be more defensive, but they do the opposite.
There was a mouthful, not a mouthful of holding the teacup, staring at the posture of the enemy and the two sides on the sand table, Zhu Guoqiang's brows furrowed.
For the past three days, the thieves have been trying to break through the northern defenses. Doing the opposite in this way must be a plot.
Why did Li Zicheng do this?
I must have wanted to break through.
Want to break through?
How did these hundreds of thousands of troops break through?
But what if you leave these hundreds of thousands of troops here and only take the elite with you?
This?
Is it possible?
Li Zicheng is not Chongzhen, for him, he has never had any face, no face, the reason why he has been able to get to this point today is because he can afford to put it down.
Don't look at him violently leading hundreds of thousands of troops to Baoding. If the opportunity is not good, he is afraid that he will abandon these centaurs as soon as possible.
The reason why he was able to stand out among these heroes in the late Ming Dynasty was because of the decisiveness that he could afford to put down!
However, something seems to be wrong.
What's wrong?
With his brows tightly locked, staring at the defense line of the officers and soldiers on the sand table, Zhu Guoqiang's heart suddenly tightened. Hundreds of kilometers of defense line, just hundreds of thousands of troops, seems to be surrounded by iron barrels, but in fact it is simply a sieve, even if it is not full of loopholes, as long as you try carefully, you will definitely be able to find out the loopholes, and where are the loopholes?
It's the junction of the various lines of defense!
The encirclement is too large because of the limited number of troops. The defenses in many places are actually very thin, if ......
The reserves that were put in today were transferred from there! It's the defense of the left flank!
"It's broken!"
With an exclamation, Zhu Guoqiang shouted.
"Quick, put the reserves into the left flank, Li Zicheng must want to ......"
Almost as soon as Zhu Guoqiang's words came out, someone came in to report.
"Report to the prison country, the thieves took advantage of the night to break through from the junction of our army's left flank position!"
As soon as he heard the report here, Zhu Guoqiang walked out of the room quickly, and said as he walked.
"Quick, prepare the horses, gather the Flying Tiger Town, and never let the thieves escape!"
If Li Zicheng is allowed to escape now, it will undoubtedly be a return to the mountain. No matter what, I can't let him escape! At least he can't be allowed to become a thief again, wandering around, harming the world.
He must not be allowed to escape.
"King Chuang, King Chuang, you really disappointed me."
Zhu Guoqiang complained in his heart.
"You say you are a thick-eyed fellow, how can you just run away? Is this what you should have done? It's also so disappointing......
……
After all the way, Li Zicheng did not lead the troops north, after all, the main force of the official army was in the north of Baoding, and as soon as he broke out of the encirclement, he went straight to the direction of Taihang Mountain, and after running for a day, the mountain shadow of Taihang Mountain finally appeared in his sight.
"Father, in another fifty miles, we will reach Taihang Mountain, should we camp at the bottom of the mountain tonight, or will we find a place to settle down after entering the mountain?"
Glancing into the distance, Li Zicheng looked at Li Shuangxi again, and then said.
"Let's go into the mountains, it's safer to go into the mountains!"
As soon as Li Shuangxi saw it, he gathered more than a dozen guards and soldiers, and ordered the guards to go to the post first and guard on all sides, and the rest followed the emperor and the military division to the left and right and behind, not daring to be negligent.
Climbing this small hill, which is only a dozen zhang high, Li Zicheng can clearly see tens of thousands of horses marching along the official road in the direction of Taihang Mountain, but there are less than 30,000 people left.
Thinking about how imposing the hundreds of thousands of troops were when they left the capital, and now?
However, there are only more than 30,000 cavalry left, and if it weren't for the mobilization of troops and the hard attack on the defense line of the official army, the Ming army thought that they had broken through to the north and exposed the hole in the west, I am afraid that even these more than 30,000 men and horses may not have a chance to escape.
As for the 200,000 horses left in Baoding, how many days can they last?
God knows that, I'm afraid. Looking at the soldiers with panicked expressions, Li Zichang sighed and looked in the direction of Taihang.
The majestic Qianli Taihang Mountain, in Li Zicheng's eyes, is like a sleeping dragon lying on the ground, the twilight is low, and only the boundless moonlight is seen. From time to time, a few fires appear in the dim twilight.
Listening to the sound from time to time on the official road, looking towards the east, after thinking for a while, Song Xiance said to Li Shuangxi, who was standing not far behind him:
"Double happiness, the cavalry of the Ming army should not be far from us, and their brigade is probably four or five hours behind us, if it is fast, it will be two or three hours."
Li Shuangxi asked in a puzzled whisper:
"Strategist, how do you figure out what they're moving?"
Song Xiance explained:
"After the Zhu thief learned that the emperor broke through, he would definitely send troops to pursue, for him, the 200,000 troops surrounded in Baoding were not worth mentioning at all, the key was still in the emperor, so he would definitely order the troops to pursue."
Li Shuangxi was not surprised to hear the military advisor say this, after all, even in his opinion, those people who stayed in Baoding as cannon fodder were simply dispensable roles for Dashun, as long as the emperor was there and the generals were there, in less than a year, they could pull out an army of one million.
I think so, how can the officials and the army not know?
"When the emperor rode into Shangluo on the eighteenth day, and then went out of the mountain, he ......"
Before he finished speaking, seeing the emperor's serious expression, Li Shuangxi stopped talking, when he rode into Shangluo Mountain in the eighteenth year, what now?
Even if there are 30,000 horses, what can you do?
Maybe in this Taihang Mountain, there will be another battle of life and death waiting for them, thinking of this, Li Shuangxi's mood immediately became heavy.
Li Zicheng didn't speak, he just stared at the east.
That kid should be almost there!
Compared with Li Zicheng, Song Xiance's mood is that complicated.
Standing on the hill, he first glanced at the starry sky, although he did not see any abnormal celestial phenomena. But on the way south, I saw some visions, which were inauspicious celestial phenomena, and what did that celestial phenomenon portend?
Song Xiance has no bottom in his heart, of course he didn't say it to others, he just kept it in his heart, and the current situation is not exactly in line with that celestial phenomenon?
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart - could it be that this is the will of heaven?
Could it be that Dashun really doesn't have the number of days for Ming?
If this is really the number of days, I am afraid that I am empty and loyal, and I will not be able to "return to heaven"!
Just when Song Xiance was secretly thinking about the will of heaven, he suddenly heard the emperor ask.
"Double happiness, have you found the prime minister?"
"No, since we broke through, I haven't seen the prime minister, I want to ......"
Li Shuangxi sighed.
"It should be more auspicious and less ......"
The prime minister has no whereabouts!
When he attacked the defense line of the official army and took advantage of the situation to escape from the encirclement, the prime minister had no whereabouts in the chaotic army, and no one cared about him at that time, and he was now dead or alive.
I'm afraid only God knows.
Listening to their words, Li Zicheng thought about it, and then secretly thought to himself in his heart.
"The prime minister shouldn't have escaped by himself, right? That kid is a scholar, and his eyelids are very alive. ”
If he escaped like this, wouldn't that mean that he felt that he had run out of energy?
Li Zicheng's mind suddenly sank for no reason, and his color became even more ugly.
He looked into the distance and thought to himself.
"Impossible, when we were in Shangluo Mountain, there were only 18 horsemen, and now we are still strong and strong, how can we not have a chance to turn over?"
Thinking in his heart, he said again.
"We have to hurry up, we can't let that kid catch up, the top priority is to leave this place quickly, as long as we measure Shaanxi, we will have a chance to think in the long run."
That is, when his words fell, he heard the sound of rolling thunder in the distance,
Where's the rolling thunder!
It's clearly the sound of horses' hooves from thousands of horses.
The pursuers have arrived!