Chapter 144: The Two Armies Meet

The boundary of Shayang County, this place is only more than 100 miles away from Wuchang City, 100,000 soldiers wearing green armor of the Western Army rushed alone, led by Zhang Xianzhong's general Luo Rucai, after the east out of Shu Road, three consecutive days of rapid raids on hundreds of miles, the purpose is very clear, is to attack Wuchang, capture the Ming Emperor in Wuchang City, and raise the prestige of the Great Western Kingdom.

"General, there will be one day at most to reach the city of Wuchang." A general of the Great Western Army said to Luo Rucai.

"Okay, hahahaha, I will capture the Ming Emperor later, and everyone will be rewarded." After Luo Rucai laughed, he rode his horse and galloped, and the 100,000 troops behind him also accelerated and ran to follow.

Luo Rucai's heart was excited, the western part of Hubei is a flat river, there are almost no checkpoints and important towns that must be passed, and the 100,000 troops can bypass various counties all the way to Wuchang City.

Luo Rucai had long known that the Ming Emperor had been staying in Wuchang and had not left, and the Ying Long Army, who was powerful in the world, had also heard that he had gone north to Shandong to resist the Qing army a month ago, that is to say, the Ming Emperor had only tens of thousands of troops at most at this time.

Luo Rucai is not worried about whether he can break through Wuchang in one fell swoop, because even if he can't break through Wuchang and capture the Ming Emperor, but besiege Wuchang City for a few days, and send people to scold the Ming Emperor outside the city every day, it can also make him Luo Rucai famous all over the world, such a good opportunity, how can Luo Rucai not be excited, not enthusiastic.

Although the snow stopped, it also covered the earth with a layer of silver, and the whole land was white.

Zhu Cihong led more than 90,000 troops including Yinglong's army out of Wuchang and marched west to meet the enemy.

Although Wuchang City is the first important town in Hubei, the city is high and the river is deep, and if the city is defended, it is impossible for Zhang Xianzhong's 100,000 army to break through, but Zhu Cihong does not want to defend, but intends to annihilate Zhang Xianzhong's 100,000 army that rushed out of Sichuan and went deep alone.

In addition, coupled with the approaching New Year, Zhu Cihong also plans to rush back to Nanjing City for the New Year, but also must be quick to decide, is to take the initiative to go out of the city to meet the enemy, Zhu Cihong has a very confident victory, for the upcoming first year of Zhongxing to add another color!

The 15,000 men of Huang Degong's Third Army of Yinglong Army opened the way in front, and since it had just been formed and had not yet completed basic training, the weapons of this Third Army were still swords. In the middle is Zhou Cao's Second Army and 4,000 artillery battalion soldiers, a total of 19,000 people carrying flintlock pistols on their shoulders, as if they were stepping on neat steps, guarding Zhu Cihong's chariot, and the momentum is breathtaking! The 60,000 Hubei Army followed. Nearly 100,000 troops marched mightily.

"Brother Zhou, this is your Ying Long Army! It's so imposing, even my grandmother's white pole soldiers who have been trained for many years are insufficient, Brother Zhou, how did you train it, it's too powerful. Ma Yue'e was a few months younger than Zhou Cao, dressed in white armor, riding on her own warhorse, and after observing Ying Longjun in shock for a long time, she couldn't help but pat her horse to catch up with Zhou Cao, blinking her eyes and asking.

Zhou Cao glanced at Ma Yue'e, her face was slightly red, but her expression was not revealed at all, and said: "Miss Ma has won the award, Miss Ma doesn't know, Ying Longjun's training is actually arranged by the emperor himself, and Zhou Cao can't be praised by the girl." ”

The two major wars, Anqing and Tai'an, respected the prestige of the first strong army of the Ming Dynasty of the Yinglong Army. Zhou Cao looked at the dragon head chariot not far behind him, and his face showed reverence, the emperor is the king of the Holy Ming, and only the emperor can train a strong soldier like Ying Longjun in just a few months.

"The emperor is so powerful!" Ma Yue'e followed Zhou Cao's gaze, there is no doubt that it was the emperor sitting in the chariot, her eyes couldn't help but show strangeness, the emperor looked fifteen or sixteen years old, isn't it too powerful, worthy of the current emperor, no wonder grandmother always said that the emperor is the master of the Ming Dynasty.

A charcoal stove was burning in the carriage to warm the carriage, and Zhu Cihong was lying on the soft couch in the carriage, resting his head on the beautie's knees, and letting the beauties massage his head.

Zhu Cihong embroidered the fragrance emanating from the beauty, and only felt that her body and mind were rippling, and this beauty was Huang Ying.

Since opening his heart last night, Zhu Cihong has not been forbearing, since Huang Ying has affection for him, and has paid so much for him silently and without regrets, he is determined to accept Huang Ying, but Huang Ying seems to have some knots in his heart, Zhu Cihong faintly guessed what it was, and he didn't mind.

Zhu Cihong was faintly ruthless in his heart, he didn't mind that, and he endured the guilt of the queen and opened his heart and was ready to accept it, but who would have thought that it would be Huang Ying's turn to start escaping, so that he couldn't sleep all night because he was burned last night, which is too unforgivable. Zhu Cihong decided to take the initiative to attack, to follow the beauty when he went out, and lay on the beauty's lap at the moment to make up for sleep, this is what the beauty owes him, pay half of it first, and let the beauty pay it back at night.

The corners of Zhu Cihong's mouth hooked a trace of evil smile, his eyes were too lazy to open, his hand wrapped around the waist of the beauty, and took advantage of the moment when the beauty's delicate body was stiff, his head moved up to the beauty's warm and soft arms, exhaled comfortably, and continued to make up for sleep.

It's good to be the emperor, if someone else went out to fight, he not only took a carriage but also brought a beauty, and he would have been scolded to death by the soldiers a long time ago, but when it was the emperor's turn, everyone took it for granted, and the emperor didn't do it, and others would have objections.

Huang Ying bit her red lips lightly, and her cheeks were red again, but the hateful little enemy didn't even bother to open his eyes. In the end, I had to sigh softly in my heart, and shook my head slightly with a smile, and a heart had already melted into a pool of spring water.

Huang Ying was full of entanglement, her heart had been frozen, and she was going to leave silently after returning to Nanjing, but now because of Zhu Cihong's change of attitude, she could clearly feel Zhu Cihong's gentle pity for her at this moment, which made her heart instantly disturbed, she didn't want to do this, but the little enemy was the emperor, and such a noble identity had to rely on her forcibly, and she was not allowed to refuse at all, so it became like this.

"Damn little enemy, what should I do with you." Huang Ying muttered, thinking of what happened to her, she felt inferior and wanted to escape, but she was helpless, holding a pink fist, shaking on Zhu Cihong's eyelids with annoyance, her expression was very cute. No matter how Huang Ying is three years older than Zhu Cihong, she is still a nineteen-year-old girl.

After the army marched out of Wuchang for about two hours, a scout came to report quickly.

"Newspaper"

"Your Majesty, a thief scout was found thirty miles away!"

Scouts were usually scattered ten to twenty miles away from the main army, which means that the two armies were only fifty miles apart at most.

Zhu Cihong opened his eyes, a sharp light flashed out, and he said with a cold expression: "Command the army, after accelerating ten miles, wait on the spot to meet the enemy!" ”

Catching up with the sharp light in Zhu Cihong's eyes, Huang Ying's heart suddenly trembled, and there was a trace of affection in her eyes, the first time Zhu Cihong made her heart sink was at this moment, an emperor who was usually gentle, but cold and domineering when facing the enemy.

Zhu Cihong looked up just in time to see the strange affection in Huang Ying's eyes, smiled, took a puff of the warm fragrance on Huang Ying's body, and continued to close his eyes and enjoy.

When the two armies were only about thirty miles apart, the Ming army took the lead in stopping and lined up on the spot to prepare to meet the enemy.

"Zhou Cao, you led the second army of Yinglong's army to ambush on the left flank." Zhu Cihong's order came out of the carriage.

"The last general commands!"

"Huang Degong, you led the Third Army of Yinglong Army to ambush on the right flank."

"The last general commands!"

"Pay attention to concealment, this time you must defeat it and annihilate Zhang Xianzhong's 100,000 thief army in one fell swoop!" Zhu Cihong walked out of the carriage, the biting cold wind did not make him feel any discomfort, but the upcoming battle made his blood boil.

After Zhou Cao and Huang Deli led the army to hide, Zhu Cihong ordered the scouts to be released and let the thief scouts come here to investigate.

Luo Rucai had already received the news that the Ming Emperor had sent troops to Wuchang to face the battle.

"Newspaper"

"Report to the general, the Ming army has set up a formation more than 20 miles away to meet the battle, and the Ying Long army has about 4,000 people, a total of more than 60,000 troops!"

The military uniform of the Ying Long Army is different from that of the ordinary Ming Army, and everyone carries a gun, which is very easy to distinguish, Zhu Cihong deliberately left the Ying Long Army of the 4,000 artillery battalion, so as not to arouse Luo Rucai's suspicion, after all, the Ying Long Army is such a strong army, if Zhu Cihong, as the emperor, really did not stay alone to protect himself, it would seem abnormal.

After Luo Rucai listened to the scout's report, he was a little surprised, and the more than 60,000 troops dared to come out for a decisive battle, and they were also relieved. As for finding that there were 4,000 Ying Longjun following, this was expected by Sun Kewang, but he didn't care, after all, although Ying Longjun's fame was shocking and fearful, what could a few thousand people do, Luo Rucai had an army of 100,000 in hand, what was there to be afraid of.

"Hmph, just a yellow-haired child, if you think that if you defeat a Zuo Liangyu, you dare to defy the heroes of the world, and you will pay the price!" Luo Rucai sneered, only when Zhu Cihong was arrogant after defeating Zuo Liangyu's hundreds of thousands of troops, he did not doubt him.

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