Chapter 117: Faithful Town
Liu Yongxi replied very clearly: "Since they are all in the line of loyalty camp, it is naturally more appropriate for Empress Fengtian to take the name!" ”
Empress Gao was very happy to hear Liu Yongxi's reply: "Then thank you, Your Majesty, General Hao, what do you think of the word faithful?" ”
Although Liu Yongxi said that Empress Gao would be responsible for choosing the name, Empress Gao knew very well that she was only responsible for choosing the name, and it was up to Liu Yongxi to decide whether Hao Shaoqi's army was called the "Loyal Army", "Loyal Battalion" or "Loyal Town" or even Loyal Town.
And Hao Shaoqi is also an extremely interesting figure, he knows very well that since there are precedents of "loyalty" and "loyalty", his own army must also start with the word "loyalty": "The word loyalty is excellent, please give it the name officially to Your Majesty!" ”
After all, in Liu Yongxi's army, the battalion was only a tactical unit of 500 people and a battalion, and now the formation of the loyal battalion is extremely chaotic, and the subordinate units are more than 10,000 people, and the few are less than 1,000 people.
But Liu Yongxi didn't answer Liu Yongxi's question directly, but asked another beauty next to him: "Sister Xing, do you think the name Zhongxin Town is good?" ”
Mrs. Xing has been very happy in the past two days, after all, she was definitely proud yesterday.
Although Empress Gao already has the name of "Empress Fengtian of the Ming Dynasty", but yesterday she gave Mrs. Xing enough face to ask Mrs. Xing for her guilt, and in the eyes of outsiders, it seems that Mrs. Xing is the Empress Fengtian of the Ming Dynasty, and Empress Gao is just a concubine who made a mistake, and then she forced Empress Gao to kneel to serve His Majesty Emperor Chengtian, and Empress Gao also completely did what Mrs. Xing did, and her knees were still bruised when she got up at night.
So now Mrs. Xing immediately laughed when she heard Liu Yongxi specifically ask her about the naming of Hao Shaoqi's department: "Zhongxin Town, this name is good, Hao Shaoqi, do you remember me?" ”
Hao Shaoqi hurriedly saluted Mrs. Xing: "Weichen has seen Queen Xing, Queen Xing was as kind to the villain back then, how could the villain forget Empress Xing!" ”
In fact, although Hao Shaoqi had seen Mrs. Xing a few times back then, he was just a standard-bearer at that time, and he had no contact with Mrs. Xing at all, but when he said this, he naturally narrowed the relationship with Mrs. Xing: "Your Majesty, I think General Hao Shaoqi himself is very loyal and faithful, and talents are extremely rare!" ”
Although Mrs. Xing did not express her opinion, since Hao Shaoqi was said to be "loyal and faithful", she naturally agreed with the opinions of Liu Yongxi and Empress Gao, so Hao Shaoqi immediately thanked Mrs. Xing: "Thank you Empress Xing, the villain will try his best to serve the court!" ”
Liu Yongxi laughed: "General Hao Shaoqi, you don't have to be so polite, I have high hopes for you, whether you can defeat the Western Thief in the shortest possible time this time depends on how you perform?" ”
Although Hao Shaoqi is exquisitely on the surface, he is actually one of the best generals in the camp, and this time he defected to Liu Yongxi and Queen Gao in order to make contributions and achieve a career, so when he heard Liu Yongxi say this, he naturally cheered: "Wait for Your Majesty's orders, I will take Zhang Xianzhong's head for Your Majesty!" ”
And at this moment, Zhang Xianzhong didn't expect the situation to change so much: "The Yue Ming army came so quickly, it arrived in Jingzhou so soon!" ”
His righteous son Zhang Kewang said very seriously: "The spies all show that Emperor Guochengtian has entered Jingzhou yesterday, and has brought tens of thousands of Yue Ming elites, and Hao Shaoqi in the south has also come with tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to defect to Emperor Chengtian Liu Yongxi and Empress Gao!" ”
Zhang Xianzhong originally thought that as long as he went to the front line to supervise the battle, the situation in Yiling would definitely be fundamentally reversed, after all, the Dashun army was already a army of soldiers and horses that had been defeated repeatedly, and there was not much courage to spare.
But no one expected that the loyal battalion, which had been defeated for the rest of its life, was trying to turn the tide again and again at critical moments, although the Great Western Army launched attacks again and again, but the loyal battalion was stubbornly defending the stronghold and not retreating, even if it was dead and wounded, it was unwilling to retreat, and the more it fought to the back, the more uncomfortable the Great Western Army became.
Although a lot of camps were barely captured, the losses of the Great Western Army were also amazing, the front line could be described as a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, and the sequelae of the Great Western Army's major killings in Sichuan were exposed for the first time, although Prime Minister Wang Zhaoling assured Zhang Xianzhong that he could take into account both Sichuan and Huguang provinces after leaving Sichuan, but now all the news from Sichuan is bad.
Moreover, in the past, the Southern Ming forces in Sichuan Province were all under the banner of the Longwu Dynasty, but since the Chengtian Emperor Liu Yongxi had personally conquered Huguang, and the Longwu Dynasty lost Fujian and Jiangxi, everyone thought that the Longwu Dynasty was exhausted, so no matter what grievances there were in the past, the Southern Ming armies in Sichuan Province changed the Longwu banner for the first time.
Now that the Great Western Army has only taken Huguang with all its might, it may be even more difficult to retreat to Sichuan, so Zhang Xianzhong's temperament has recently become impatient, not only killing many deserters and officers who are ineffective in combat, but also killing many officers who he thinks are ineffective in combat.
But no matter how much Zhang Xianzhong kills, he can't solve the problem of the loyal battalion not retreating, and the loyal battalion's backup is endless, not only the soldiers and horses from other directions are transferred to deal with the Great Western Army, but now they have the full support of the Yue Ming army, and even Hao Shaoqi jumped out to cause chaos for Zhang Xianzhong.
So Zhang Xianzhong is angry now: "They are all chaotic ministers and thieves, trying to make trouble for the emperor, but the emperor will not let them succeed, since the emperor has arrived in Yiling, what kind of pseudo-Chengtian Dynasty is waiting to collapse!" ”
Speaking of this, Zhang Xianzhong suddenly sneered: "What do you say about Emperor Chengtian, isn't it the little sincerity of the Ming Kingdom?" I am less than twenty years old this year, how much knowledge can I have, I have been fighting horses for decades, and I have never seen any scenes, and I guarantee that I will cut off the head of this little emperor with one knife! ”
Zhang Kewang heard Zhang Xianzhong say this, and knew that the situation was a little bad, although Zhang Xianzhong was calm and relaxed, but he knew his father-in-law's temperament very well, and every time he sneered like this, he was impetuous and wanted to kill!
And Zhang Xianzhong's other righteous son, Zhang Dingguo, also found that Zhang Xianzhong's situation was a little wrong, and immediately stood up and persuaded: "Father, let's be careful, this is Yiling!" Back then, Liu Xuande was defeated in Yiling and returned to White Emperor City! ”
Yiling is the old battlefield of the battle of Wu Shu, when Liu Bei's Shu army suffered a devastating blow here, decades of business to pay off, and finally could only return to the White Emperor City, and now the Great Western Army encountered the problem of the Shu army in the same year, although it occupies the advantage of troops and local battlefield advantages, but can not convert this advantage into victory, but can only fight a war of attrition with the loyal battalion, and now the reinforcements of the loyal battalion have arrived at the battlefield.
But Zhang Xianzhong kept sneering: "That's right, this is Yiling, but I'm not Liu Xuande, whether it's Liu Yongxi or Tian Jianxiu, Liu Tichun, Yuan Zongdi, Gao Yigong, or Li Guo, they will all be defeated by my subordinates!" ”
Zhang Kewang and Zhang Dingguo were secretly frightened when they saw that Zhang Xianzhong had already pulled out his knife and knew that he had decided to kill, and Zhang Dingguo was very bold and ready to change the topic: "Since my father has made up his mind, has he already thought of a plan to break the thief!" ”
Zhang Kewang immediately added: "Then do you need to say? The father must have thought of a perfect plan, the Chengtian Emperor is just an ignorant child, how can he win the mastery of his father! ”
Zhang Xianzhong inserted the half-drawn war knife back again, obviously Zhang Kewang and Zhang Dingguo's statements made him very useful, and he even said a little proudly: "That's right, I have seen ten or even a hundred times more sinister scenes than the current ones in my career of Rong Rongma, what is the difficulty of breaking through a mere loyal battalion!" ”
Zhang Xianzhong became more and more fluent in speaking, obviously thinking of how to break the loyal battalion and the Yue Ming army: "In fact, the loyal battalion can hold until now, because I deliberately left the Royal Forest Army to prepare for the decisive battle, and now it seems that the loyal battalion has come with two reinforcements, but in fact, it is the most vulnerable moment of the loyal battalion!" ”
Zhang Kewang immediately asked very cooperatively: "Father, how do you say this?" Since the Loyal Battalion already has two reinforcements, why is it still the most vulnerable moment? ”
Zhang Xianzhong has already organized the language: "You have seen too few big battles and tough battles, and the loyal battalion did not retreat before, but since there are reinforcements that may arrive at any time, their fighting spirit is naturally not as good as before!" ”
Zhang Xianzhong has already thought about everything: "But now it's too early for reinforcements to arrive in Yiling, as long as we seize the opportunity, we can not only break the loyal camp in one fell swoop, but also take advantage of the situation to sweep away the puppet Chengtian Dynasty and possess Huguang!" ”
Zhang Dingguo immediately persuaded: "Father, Liu Yongxi and Hao Shaoqi are not good people, father must be careful!" ”
And Zhang Kewang also persuaded beside him: "Yes, now that the reinforcements have not arrived and the fighting spirit of the loyal battalion has dropped greatly, it is naturally not difficult to break the loyal battalion, but it is not easy to wipe out Liu Yongxi's Yue Ming thieves and Hao Shaoqi's thief army in one fell swoop!" ”
It's just that Zhang Xianzhong laughed: "You are completely wrong, as long as you break through the loyalty camp, everything will be done, and then the defeated army of the loyalty camp will retreat like a tide, and the Yue Ming thief and Hao Shaoqi must still be on the march, most of them will be scattered by the defeated army, and we can naturally lay the victory by taking advantage of the victory!" When the time comes, let alone one Liu Yongxi, even ten Liu Yongxi and a hundred Liu Yongxi can be easily swept away, and Hao Shaoqi is not a problem! ”
Although Zhang Xianzhong was extremely optimistic and put forward a set of feasible plans, Zhang Dingguo still pointed out that his plan had huge weaknesses: "Father, I think it is not easy to break the loyalty camp, but I can always seize the opportunity, but it is not easy to completely break the loyalty camp before the Yue Ming thief and Hao Shaoqi!" ”
Zhang Xianzhong laughed: "You have seen too few big scenes, and you don't know what it takes to seize the fighter plane to create the fighter, this time I personally ran a trip to let you see what the Son of Heaven has a unique vision!" ”