When the night of April 28 in the third year of Yongchang in Dashun fell on the battlefield on both sides of the Hudu River in Gong'an County, Jingzhou Prefecture, Li Zicheng, the son of Yongchang, felt that he had won the victory!

The Ming army, which was still resisting on the battlefield, had changed from the original three to the current one, which was the one that held Tangjiashan.

The battle at the Lotus Temple ended when the Shen time was about to pass! After paying hundreds of casualties (mainly wounded by arrowheads, most of which were able to heal), the warriors of the Dashun army finally broke through the defenses of the Ming army and stormed the temple. After a short and fierce fight, Li Zicheng's "Chuang" word Daxu fluttered high above the Lotus Temple - Li Zicheng himself is now moving to the Lotus Temple, waiting for the good news that Tangjiashan was breached.

In the northeast corner of the battlefield, more than 10,000 large Shunbu cavalry commanded by Liu Zongmin also won the battle, and drove the troops of Jin Shenghuan and Qiu Lei, who were twice as many as them, to the west bank of the Hudu River. However, Li Zicheng did not let Liu Zongmin return, but ordered him to continue to lead troops to chase and kill!

Half of Liu Zongmin's troops are cavalry, and it is really easy to cut melons and vegetables when chasing and killing the infantry of Jin Shenghuan and Qiu Lei!

Li Zicheng, who has fought an old war, knows too well that when the two armies really clash, when you come and go, you can't kill many people. Especially when the two sides of the confrontation are relatively regular, when the soldiers have a suit of armor to protect their lives, it is not easy to hack individuals to death. Even if you hit it with an armor-piercing blunt object, it would take a lot of effort to knock a big living person to death—that's the enemy! Where is it so honest that you can't use a shield or a weapon to resist? The cold ones have to knock back.

But once the winner is decided, when one side begins to flee in a hurry, it can be easy to slaughter, and it is a one-sided slaughter, and the side being chased loses its armor and has no way to form a strong formation. And if there are many cavalry on the chasing side, and the tail rank pursues, it can chase tens of thousands of enemies alive.

Li Zicheng, who is the best at using cavalry, how could he let go of such an opportunity? Therefore, after learning that about 20,000 or 30,000 Ming troops had crossed the Hudu River and fled westward, they immediately asked Liu Zongmin to lead his troops to chase and kill. Now it's been twenty or thirty miles away!

In addition, the ironclad cavalry of the Ming army, which had been active on the edge of the battlefield since the morning, had now retreated to Xi'an, Hudu River, to rest.

However, they were not repelled by the cavalry of the Dashun army, but were beaten until they were sleepy and had to retreat. However, it did not retreat far, and remained in the lower reaches of the Hudu River, occupying several villages along the river as support points.

Because of their bravery in the daytime battle, they routed thousands of cavalry of the Dashun army, killed or captured seven or eight hundred people, and captured six or seven hundred horses. So their withdrawal made the knights of the Dashun Army on the battlefield of Tangjiashan breathe a sigh of relief - these iron-clad killing gods are finally gone! Let's go, don't send it!

Since they didn't send it, of course no one bothered them to rest...... There are more than 1,000 people in the Communist Party, and with them or not, they can't change the outcome of today's battle of Tangjiashan.

"Emperor, the Zhu thief on Tangjia Mountain still refuses to surrender! And he was very stubborn, and killed Hao Xiaozhong, who was sent up the mountain to persuade him to surrender! ”

Gu Junen, the division of the Second Army, came in from outside the main hall of the Lotus Temple in a hurry, saluted Li Zicheng, who was eating meat and steamed buns, and then reported the results of persuasion.

When Li Zicheng heard that Hao Xiaozhong was killed, he didn't care too much, but just snorted: "Looking for a better coffin, Hao Xiaozhong has been restrained." ”

"Emperor," Gu Junen said, "only send back a body, no head!" ”

"No head?" Li Zicheng smiled, "Then build a shorter coffin." ”

"Yes." Gu Junen answered, but he didn't move to send it to Hao Xiaozhong, he still had to give Li Zicheng advice!

"Emperor," Gu Junen said, "there are more than 10,000 people on Tangjia Mountain...... In this battle, we destroyed at least 20,000 or 30,000 Zhu thieves, and there were thousands of prisoners alone, a great victory! ”

He only said half of what he said, and the other half was just to accept it when he saw it!

Another big victory is at the bottom, and Zhu Cihong should not dare to send troops to follow the Dashun army into Sichuan.

In addition, the elite of the Ming army stuffed in Huya Mountain should also be able to be mobilized. As long as they can be attracted to the public security and Shishou area, Li Zicheng will be able to return to Huya Mountain.

Moreover, Tang Jiashan defeated tens of thousands of Zhu Cihong's miscellaneous troops in this battle, which must have made the miscellaneous army leaders who obeyed Zhu Cihong fearful. Without them to help Zhu Weixi, relying on Zhu Cihong's lineage alone, it would be good to be able to digest Huguang, and if you enter Sichuan, it would be too tight.

Li Zicheng nodded and laughed: "It's indeed a big victory...... If you fight for another day, you should be able to take Tangjiashan, the Zhu family thieves in Tangjiashan are elite, and if you destroy them, Zhu Cihong will really hurt your vitality. ”

King Chuang and the Ming army have fought for an old time, and they know that the ordinary Ming army is a number, and the real combat effectiveness is still the family members. If you can't eliminate the family, it is useless to kill many ordinary Ming soldiers.

And the Ming army on Tangjia Mountain is so stubborn and so capable of fighting, most of them are mainly troops of generals, so Li Zicheng wants to take advantage of the hot iron and destroy them in one fell swoop!

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At the same time, the public security county, which is less than 30 miles away from the Tangjiashan battlefield, was already completely in a state of martial law preparation.

Zhu Cixun, who was sitting in the county town of Gong'an, also became nervous, and he did not expect that the 50,000 army of Daniel Zhang, Qiu Lei, and Jin Shenghuan would be crushed in the face of a Dashun army similar in number to them. Now only Daniel Zhang and Zhu Cizhao are stationed together in Tangjiashan, who is still insisting on resisting...... With such a small amount of land in Tangjiashan, it is estimated that it can accommodate more than 10,000 people.

The rest of the army was either wiped out by Li Zicheng or was being wiped out......

Li Zicheng's army is so capable of fighting!

"Chitose Lord, Chitose Lord, you, you will give five hundred slaves and maids, and the slaves and maids will take them to the battle, either rush to Tangjia Mountain, or martyr the Ming Dynasty!"

In addition to Li Zicheng on the battlefield of Tangjiashan, who gave Zhu Cihong a headache, there was also a nagging eunuch in his ear, named Wang Chengen!

Wang Chengen has been guarding Zhu Cizhao for the past two years, assisting him with all his heart, and he wants Zhu Cizhao to grow into a pillar of the Ming Dynasty like Emperor Chongzhen.

I didn't expect the crown prince Zhu Cihong to be so ruthless, he actually sent his younger brother to the battlefield, and he also besieged people on Tangjia Mountain, and he was about to die......

Wang Chengen originally wanted to "die" with Zhu Cizhao, but Zhu Cizhao was not worried about Zuo Mengmei, so he let Wang Chengen follow him all the time, which delayed Wang Chengen's death.

And Zhu Cihong really doesn't have any tricks for this king's companion - he is the prince who has debts to pay! And he also owes Wang Chengen a huge debt...... He can have today, Wang Chengen has made great contributions!

Therefore, Zhu Cihong could only persuade him with good words: "Wang Companion, don't worry...... How could Hongu watch the fourth brother die? The palace has already asked Yan Yingyuan to reorganize the army, and as soon as it dawns tomorrow, the palace will take the eight thousand elites in the public security city to fight with Li Zicheng! ”

"Really?" Wang Chengen doesn't believe Zhu Cihong a little - this Zhu Cihong likes to deceive people too much!

"Of course it's true! Xiaobao, hurry up and take Wang Companion to the school to watch Yan Yingyuan's whole army! ”

Huang Xiaobao, who was guarding the side, hurriedly stepped forward and dragged Wang Chengen away.

Yan Yingyuan is really reorganizing the army, what Zhu Cihong and Wang Chengen said is not completely nonsense, Yan Yingyuan's reorganizing the army is true.

In order to defend the public security city when necessary, Zhu Cihong had temporarily set up a guard division of the New Army, that is, to mix his guard battalion with three newly organized regiments (Ma Jiaolin's old department) to strengthen control.

With three regiments of more than 8,000 defenders, the public security county and a large number of supplies stored in the city can be regarded as peace of mind.

As for Li Zicheng, who was besieging Tangjiashan outside the city, he could only ask Wu Guoyong's infantry to run faster.