"This strong man" Before the general finished speaking, he saw the strong man in front of him carrying Liu Liangzuo's head close his eyes and fell unconscious.

In fact, Zhou Cao had already exhausted his strength, and he had an obsession with a cushion in his heart, so he went crazy and killed Liu Liangzuo desperately, he was seriously injured and shed a lot of blood, he cut off Liu Liangzuo's head and sat on Liu Liangzuo's corpse and was waiting for death, he had no ability to resist at that time, but the soldiers of the Huai'an Army had already been scared stupid by the scene of Liu Liangzuo's head being cut off alive, and no one had the courage to raise a knife to cut Zhou Cao, which allowed Zhou Cao to escape.

As the east gate was broken and the news spread, the morale of the Huai'an soldiers of the other three gates collapsed instantly, countless Huai'an soldiers surrendered on their knees, Huai'an was completely breached, and the army went to the city to kill and clear the remnants of the enemy. Killed all the way to Liu Liangzuo's General Soldier's Mansion, arrested all the old and young of Liu Liangzuo's family, and those who dared to resist were killed.

Zhu Cihong heard that Liu Liangzuo was killed by a strong man in the city, and because of this, Huai'an City was able to be breached, and he was taken aback, and when he saw Zhou Cao who was carried down, he looked at his coarse cloth clothes stained dark red with blood, as well as wounds everywhere, and immediately full of respect, there is no doubt that Liu Liangzuo can be killed among thousands of Huai'an troops, this must be a great warrior.

"Come on, this person killed Liu Liangzuo, it should be the first credit, no matter what, if you want to wake this person up, this prince will reward him heavily." Zhu Cihong commanded.

With Zhu Cihong's orders, a military doctor suddenly came forward to treat Zhou Cao.

The next is to clean up the battlefield, compensate the dead soldiers, three days of battle, nearly 50,000 dead and wounded on both sides, of which the Ming army as the siege party, 30,000 dead and wounded, most of them are the first time on the battlefield of Yangzhou soldiers, Zhenjiang soldiers and Beijing camp. Liu Liangzuo's Huai'an army suffered nearly 20,000 casualties, and the rest all surrendered.

Such heavy casualties made Zhu Cihong feel heavy, this is just attacking Liu Liangzuo's troops who are like a rabble, if they are against Li Zicheng's elite, or even the Qing army

Thinking of this, Zhu Cihong shook his head helplessly, such a Ming army is not enough to see at all, it will definitely be abused into ashes, and there is almost no hope if you want to rely on them to protect the Ming Dynasty.

It seems that if he wants to protect the Ming Dynasty and even destroy Li Zicheng and the Qing army, the only way to reorganize the new army is to re-establish a new army, Zhu Cihong has the confidence to give him a year, he can train an army with unprecedented combat power, and only they are his future capital.

There were more than 20,000 corpses to be disposed of, and Zhu Cihong sent people to be busy for a day before dragging all the corpses out of the city for burial.

"Your Highness, how should Liu Liangzuo's family deal with it?"

"What do the three elders think should be done?" Zhu Cihong looked at Ma Shiying, Gao Hong, and Shi Kefa, although the result had been decided, he still let others open this murderous mouth.

"Naturally, all the families of the traitors should be punished, and they have to be reported to the world to deter other people with different intentions!" For the family of Liu Liangzuo, the thief, naturally no one has any objection to this result.

Although Zhu Cihong knew that many of them might be innocent, but the law of the Ming Dynasty was like this, and it was also needed to deter other generals, so he didn't say much, but out of sight was pure, and he told Ji Feng to deal with this matter on his own.

Killing Liu Liangzuo, by the way, raided Liu's mansion, considering that he might hide a huge wealth in the mansion like Liu Zeqing, Zhu Cihong ordered someone to conduct a three-foot search of Liu's mansion, and he really found Liu Liangzuo's hidden huge wealth.

After counting, a total of more than 1.7 million taels were confiscated, only more than half of Liu Zeqing's, but these were enough for Liu Liangzuo to secretly expand the army to 100,000, fortunately, Liu Liangzuo was exterminated by Zhu Cihong in advance, otherwise if he really waited for him to expand his army to 100,000, it would really become a self-respecting army and become very tricky.

In addition to Liu Liangzuo's Huai'an army, all kinds of armies were killed and wounded in this battle, of which more than 10,000 were killed and nearly 20,000 were wounded, and it took nearly 500,000 taels of silver to compensate these dead and wounded soldiers, and the remaining 210,000 troops, Zhu Cihong was not stingy, and each of them was paid two months' salary, and more than 500,000 taels of silver were spent.

After these calculations, there are still more than 700,000 taels of money and property obtained by the confiscation of Liu Liangzuo, and there are three cabinet ministers here, and Zhu Cihong is not easy to swallow all of them privately, and most of them are collected into the treasury.

In this regard, although Zhu Cihong was reluctant, he didn't particularly care, after all, he could still call the money from the treasury in the future, but the process was a lot more troublesome, and it was more efficient not to take it out of his pocket directly.

With the breakthrough of the north of Huai'an, Liu Liangzuo's family was beheaded all over the house, and the news that Zhu Cihong, the prince of the Ming Dynasty, gathered 260,000 troops to suppress Liu Liangzuo's rebellion spread all over the world, and the hearts of the people in Jiangnan were greatly boosted, and many hopes for the Ming Dynasty were restored.

Since Li Zicheng broke through the city of Beijing, Jiangnan can be said to be panicked, afraid that Li Zicheng will conquer Jiangnan in the near future. Now with the victory of a big war, the hearts of the people in the south of the Yangtze River have settled down a lot, the Ming Dynasty did not really go to the west of the sunset, lost hope, the Ming Dynasty and His Royal Highness the Prince, as well as the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Ming Dynasty, these armies under the leadership of His Royal Highness the Prince, will be able to keep the south of the Yangtze River, not to mention the Northern Expedition to recapture the capital, at least the river can be ruled by rowing the river.

After this war, Zhu Cihong not only achieved the effect of establishing authority, established his imperial authority early, but also restored the confidence of the people in Jiangnan in the Ming Dynasty.

Two days later, most of the things that should be dealt with in Huai'an City were dealt with, and Gao Hongtu and other three pavilion elders and several general soldiers came to Zhu Cihong and begged Zhu Cihong to go down to the south of the Yangtze River as soon as possible.

"Your Highness, the country cannot be without a king for a day, now that the traitor has been destroyed, the minister begs His Highness to return to Nanjing as soon as possible to ascend the throne and inherit the unification." Shi Kefa bowed to Zhu Cihong and said.

"I implore Your Highness to return to Jiangnan to inherit the unification!" Gao Hongtu and Ma Shiying also pleaded together.

Zhu Cihong nodded, returning to Nanjing to ascend the throne has indeed become the most important event at the moment, after all, only when he ascends the throne and inherits the unification, can he, the prince of the Ming Dynasty, rightfully dominate the Ming Dynasty, and can he really start to take revenge in his heart.

"Since Liu Liangzuo's traitor has been exterminated, the Japanese prince of the Ming Dynasty set off south to Nanjing to inherit the unification." Zhu Cihong said, looked at Ma Shiying and said, "Elder Ma Ge, you were busy with the enthronement in Nanjing a while ago, I don't know how you are preparing at this moment?" ”

Ma Shiying was slightly stunned, reacted instantly, felt embarrassed, and said with a little red on his old face: "Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, the enthronement has been prepared, and he can ascend the throne when His Royal Highness the Crown Prince returns to Nanjing." ”

He was originally preparing for King Fu to ascend the throne, but now he has been replaced by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and when he was asked like this, he was naturally embarrassed, afraid that Zhu Cihong would pursue him, and he had no extra expression in Zhu Cihong, and it seemed that he had already revealed the matter of his original support for King Fu.

Gao Hongtu secretly glanced at Ma Shiying, his expression flashed with pride, and he said in his heart, no matter whether His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will investigate Ma Shiying's support for King Lifu, Liu Liangzuo, a rebel thief, was promoted by Ma Shiying, and his future for Ma Shiying has come to an end, and after returning to Nanjing, he will no longer be qualified to compete with him for the position of the first assistant of the cabinet, and their Donglin Party is about to dominate the court in the second.

Zhu Cihong didn't know Gao Hongtu's thoughts, and he wouldn't care if he knew, because Gao Hongtu still needed his nod if he wanted to be the first assistant, and he was the first assistant, but he Zhu Cihong was the emperor, and in the future, as long as the new army was formed by him and there were soldiers in his hands, there would be no problem in overturning the entire Donglin Party.

Zhu Cihong instructed the three pavilion elders to go down and prepare.

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