Chapter 15: The Mother-in-law of King Chuang was kidnapped
"There's movement!"
Li Zicheng, who was still asleep, suddenly woke up, and listened vigilantly, vaguely, as if he could hear a lot of shouting.
Through the tent, a faint light of fire could be seen outside.
"Come on, what's going on outside?" Li Zicheng sat on the bed, yawned heavily, and asked the soldiers outside the tent loudly.
"Hongji, what's wrong with you?" Gao Guiying, who was sleeping on her side, opened her eyes in a daze, and subconsciously tightened the quilt, "You tossed for half the night, I'm very tired." ”
"Gui Ying, rest well, I'm so angry tonight that I'm tired of you." Li Zicheng felt that it should not be a big deal, so he turned back to appease.
Gao Guiying was indeed tired, nodded and continued to sleep.
Not long after, a personal soldier walked into the tent, "King Chuang, it was a fire in the front camp, and Li Fuchen had already called someone to save it!" ”
"It turned out that it was just a fire, this Li Fuchen has a heart, what about Liu Zongmin?" Li Zicheng nodded with satisfaction, and suddenly asked again.
"King Huichuang, you forgot, the general post has been sent by you to camp in the upper reaches of Luoshui!" The soldier shouted.
"Well, I did forget, you can take someone to put out the fire." Li Zicheng patted his head, and only after the soldiers went down did he shake his head: "This Li Yan, I was angry for a while, he really called Liu Zongmin to go." ”
The camp is huge, Li Zicheng's big tent is in the middle, and Zhu Youhua and the others have made a lot of noise, but they won't be able to spread here for a while.
Li Fuchen's subordinates were indeed the first to act, but they were not fighting the fire, they were setting it on fire.
These intruders, who had already decided to follow the leader and return to the court, ran around the camp one by one, shouting, and setting fires everywhere, but they were very orderly.
They first picked the outer camp tents and set them on fire, and there were special people to burn the grain and baggage, so that the chaos on the periphery would not alarm the inner layer for the time being.
The outskirts were inhabited by homeless people, and there were many people, and when the fire spread, it had already become a sky-high flame, and the homeless people fled for their lives in all directions, even if they had the heart to extinguish it, it was too late.
I don't know how long it tossed and turned, Li Zicheng sat up again.
"Hongji, what's wrong with you?" Gao Guiying got up in a daze, with a little anger in her voice, she couldn't understand what Li Zicheng was tossing.
"It's not right out there!" Li Zicheng's heart was pounding, and he quickly stood up and began to put on his armor, "This movement is too big and chaotic, I'll go out and have a look, Gui Ying, just fall asleep!" ”
Gao Guiying nodded, lying on her stomach and said: "It is estimated that the bonfire is too strong, and it was swept away by the wind, although there are already people fighting the fire, but it is always okay to go and see......"
"I'll be waiting for you in the tent."
Li Zicheng put on a dirty fashion, opened the curtain of his tent with wooden sticks to block the wind, did not take a knife or a gun, and walked out directly.
He wanted to see what was going on.
The next moment, a wave of heat rushed in.
Li Zicheng only noticed at this time that there was already a lot of chaos outside the tent, and there were homeless people and old camps running around everywhere, and at least a few hundred horsemen rushed murderously in front of him.
These cavalrymen under the banner of the Ming Dynasty, slashed and slaughtered everywhere in the huge army camp, galloping rapidly, this scene made the battle-hardened king stunned on the spot.
Didn't you say that there was a misfire?
How could there be people from the imperial court??
And he has already hit the outside of his tent???
The officers and soldiers are all in Luoyang City, and they have just fought a bloody battle during the day, they must have suffered heavy losses, how dare they go out of the city and attack at night!
Li Zicheng's mind was full of question marks, but the oncoming cavalry explained all his doubts.
Zhu Youhua took the lead, wearing fine iron armor, holding a goose-winged knife in his hand, and shouted: "Whoever kills Li Zicheng will be rewarded!" ”
Hearing this, Li Zicheng looked around and saw a lame horse tied to a stake, and without thinking about it, he galloped over and got on the horse.
"Gui Ying..."Li Zicheng, who was about to pat the horse away, suddenly remembered something, hesitated for a moment, turned the horse's head, and shouted: "Drive!" ”
Li Zicheng turned his head and disappeared into the chaotic camp, and when Zhu Youhua arrived with people, he was already out of sight.
At this time, he rode from afar, but it was Liu Yuqi, who had entered the camp alone earlier, and this time he was also carrying a head in his hand.
"King Nanyang, this is the head of Li Fuchen, I brought it to you!"
"You killed him!?" Huang Hu looked surprised.
Liu Yuqi killed Li Fuchen, who was in battle.
In this way, it will be impossible for Li Fuchen's subordinates to enter the imperial court camp to serve.
"This kind of person, if you can betray the Li thief today, you can betray the king of Nanyang tomorrow, and if you don't kill him, will you wait for him to stab us in the back and then go to the Li thief?" Liu Yuqi didn't care.
"But ......" Huang Hu still felt a little pity, "You can wait for him to bring his subordinates over before it's too late!" ”
"Those bandits are useless to stay, don't just do it, Liu Yuqi, you killed it well!" Zhu Youhua said.
Liu Yuchi pursed his lips and smiled: "King Xie Nanyang!" What to do with these two? ”
Zhu Youhua turned his head to look at it and found that these two or two had been caught, one was Li Yan, the military division under Li Zicheng's account, and the other was naturally Gao Guiying, the wife of King Chuang, who was brought out in his sleep.
"Do you all recognize me?"
Gao Guiying turned his head and didn't speak, Li Yan broke free from the two cavalrymen, spat on Zhu Youhua's face, and scolded sharply: "Zhu Youhua, your Zhu family's anger is exhausted, Daming should die!" ”
Regardless of his previous life or present life, Zhu Youhua was spit on his face for the first time, his expression changed immediately, and after wiping it off, he asked playfully:
"You are Li Yan?"
"It's me!" The latter raised his head and shouted.
Huang Hu stepped forward with a knife, "King Nanyang, tell the last general to cut off his sacrificial flag!" ”
Li Yan sneered: "Hurry up and do it!" ”
"No, he's just begging for death." Zhu Youhua smiled coldly, and rode his horse and said: "Take Gao Guiying back, as for this Li Yan, leave him alive, someone else will kill him!" ”
"Let's go!" Huang Hu didn't ask much, and directly waved his hand and ordered.
On the battlefield, it was changing rapidly, and at this time, the huge barracks had begun to be noisy, and more and more people woke up and went out to investigate.
Although most of the people were shattered by the fire and chaos as soon as they appeared, and the order of the front camp had collapsed, the fire had not yet spread to the entire camp.
After Li Zicheng fled, he soon organized a part of his troops with Gao Yigong and others to start extinguishing the fire and advancing.
Zhu Youhua finally killed Li Zicheng's big tent, but he didn't stop long, let Li Yan go, and turned around and left with Gao Guiying, who was barely wearing a few clothes.
The reason is very simple, the camp is in chaos, if the action is fast, no matter how bad the cavalry is, they can fight through the camp, and then return to the city with a complete victory.
But what if it's slow?
The number of intruders is huge, and there are many high-level generals such as those who have made great achievements, and they led their troops to counter and became the turtle in the urn.
At this time, there is no room for delay.
Zhu Youhua took Gao Guiying to his horse, and just like Li Zicheng had just escaped, he retreated to Luoyang City without looking back.