Tianxiong Army, a team that started at the end of Wei, Daimyo, Guangping, and Shunde were not important military towns of the Ming Dynasty, and there was not even a Tunwei Thousand Households, historically, Lu Xiangsheng did not have the elite of the Qi family army supported by Zhang Bin, and the Tianxiong Army was almost composed of ordinary people.

Why does a team composed of a group of farmers, artisan households, merchants, and even lowly musicians have such strong combat effectiveness?

First of all, it's because of Lu Xiangsheng.

Although he was born as a Jinshi, he is excellent in martial arts, and he is skilled in martial arts.

How good is his martial arts?

According to the Qing historical manuscript, in the first battle of Julu, the Tianxiong army led by Lu Xiangsheng was only 5,000 people, but Dolgon led the main force of 80,000 Eight Banners to participate in the battle, and the difference in strength between the two sides was more than ten times!

In that battle, directly from noon to sub, Lu Xiangsheng led 5,000 Tianxiong troops to fight fiercely with the main force of the Qing army's Eight Banners for six hours, the Tianxiong Army was killed and wounded, and the casualties of the Eight Banners Army also reached a terrifying more than 20,000 people!

Of course, most of the Qing army was wounded, and not many were killed, after all, they could fight wheel battles without having to fight to the death with the Tianxiong army.

In the end, the 5,000 Tianxiong army was killed by the Qing army only more than 20 people, Lu Xiangsheng directly led these more than 20 people to launch a suicidal charge, rushed to the Qing army commander Dolgon, at this time, he also personally killed more than 20 Eight Banners elite before being killed by random arrows, its martial arts are high, it can be seen!

Not to mention his strategy, the peasant army led by Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, and Zhang Xianzhong, regardless of whether it was 300,000 or 500,000, was beaten by tens of thousands of people with him, Lu Xiangsheng was in Japan, and the peasant army was basically fleeing everywhere, and he was chased by him with no way to go to the sky, no way to enter the ground, and he couldn't live in fear, so he got a terrifying nickname "King Lu Yan".

A large part of the reason why the Tianxiong Army is so strong in combat is because it is led by Lu Xiangsheng, a civil and military all-rounder.

Secondly, the soldiers of the Tianxiong Army have a great characteristic, that is, many of them are related to each other, if you hurt one of them, many people will fight with you, if you kill one of them, it will be even worse, a bunch of people will never die with you!

Therefore, the Tianxiong Army has always been more and more courageous, and it cannot be defeated no matter how it fights.

Finally, the most important point, Lu Xiangsheng must take the lead in every battle, take the lead in desperately, the soldiers of the Tianxiong Army are inspired by him, they are not afraid of death, and he can also share the joys and sorrows with the soldiers, what the soldiers eat, he eats, if the imperial court food is not paid in time, he will starve with the soldiers, so the soldiers of the Tianxiong Army are willing to follow him to fight hard.

At that time, the peasant army was simply afraid when they saw Lu Xiangsheng, and ran away when they saw the Tianxiong army, and there was such a saying among the peasant army: "Lu Lian made this person, whoever bumps into him will die, and he must not be touched." ”

If Lu Xiangsheng is here, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong may not be able to get up, but unfortunately, Chongzhen blindly commanded, let Lu Xiangsheng be the governor of the world's soldiers and horses, but let the eunuchs raise the hidden supervision army, as a result, the world's soldiers and horses were all high and subliminated, Lu Xiangsheng only led the five thousand Tianxiong army and the main force of the Qing army to fight hard, one of the Ming Dynasty's optimus jade pillars fell in the eleventh year of Chongzhen!

Of course, with Zhang Bin's protection, it is difficult to repeat the tragedy of history, whether it is Lu Xiangsheng or Sun Chuanting, Zhang Bin will not let them fall easily, they will surely shine brightly in this period of history.

The first battle of Xiuwu was just a small test of Lu Xiangsheng's knife, but his bravery frightened Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng, when he cut down the last stubborn anti-thief around him, and when he raised his eyes and looked around, there was no one standing on the city wall, most of the anti-thieves knelt on the ground, kowtowed vigorously and begged for mercy, and the rest basically became corpses.

What's going on, according to the news found by the scouts, there are more than 50,000 people in Gao Yingxiang's department stationed in Xiuwu County, and there are only 10,000 people killed on the city wall here, what about the others?

Soon, Qi Xianzong and Qi Zhenzong on both wings sent people to bring news one after another that the thieves had escaped from the West Gate!

If he was in charge of clearing out the anti-thieves, he would definitely take Qi Xianzong and Qi Zhenzong to lead 10,000 elite cavalry to pursue, but unfortunately, the will he received this time was to rescue Zheng Wang Zhu Yiduo, in order to prevent accidents, he had to give up the idea of pursuing the anti-thieves, and directly ordered Qi Yuanfu to lead the Tianxiong army to garrison Xiuwu, and he led 10,000 elite cavalry, fast horses, and went straight to Huaiqing Mansion City.

Huaiqing Fucheng and Wen County and Hanoi are actually on the same line, and the distance between them is less than 20 miles.

At this time, Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng were leading the army to flee in the direction of Wen County, and when they heard that there were 10,000 officers and soldiers behind them who were frantically rushing over, they were so frightened that they almost whipped their foot soldiers with whips, and as a result, when they ran to Wen County, most of their foot soldiers were tired and couldn't move on the ground, and some even had convulsions all over their bodies, foaming at the mouth, however, the officers and soldiers did not catch up, according to the news from the rear reconnaissance horse, the officers and soldiers did not run in the direction of Wen County at all, but went directly to Huaiqing Mansion City!

Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng were so angry, they both felt that they were really played hard by the officers and soldiers behind them this time.

In fact, Lu Xiangsheng didn't want to trick them at all, he was really in a hurry to go to Huaiqing Mansion City.

However, when he worked hard to lead the army to Huaiqing Mansion City, he ate a closed door.

They were obviously wearing the regular military uniforms of the imperial court, and he also ordered someone to shout outside the city gate, but the four gates of Huaiqing Mansion were still closed, and they were not allowed to enter at all!

The defenders of Huaiqing Mansion City were too cautious, Lu Xiangsheng had no choice but to write a letter by himself, and stamped it with the seal of his governor, let people shoot into the city, and asked the defenders to open the door and let them go in to rest.

They set out from Xinxiang in the morning, rushed for nearly two hours, and built two hours of siege equipment outside Xiuwu City, and then stormed for nearly an hour to take Xiuwu City, and when they hurried to the outside of Huaiqing Mansion, it was already night, seeing that it was going to be dark, they didn't even eat dinner, and even at noon they just hurriedly ate some dry food, and now they are tired, hungry and thirsty, just want to go into the city to have a hot meal, drink some water, and then have a good rest.

He explained all these in the letter, but he didn't expect that after the letter was shot in, there was no response for a long time, until the sky was already dark, and a shout came from the tower of the city gate of the east gate: "Who is Lu Xiangsheng, come forward and listen to the order." ”

Lu Xiangsheng was waiting not far from the city gate at this time, and when he heard this voice, he thought that people were going to open the city gate, so he hurriedly stepped forward, came to the city gate and arched his hand: "The next official is Lu Xiangsheng." ”

The man on the tower of the city gate said unceremoniously: "The prince has an order, ordering you to camp outside the city, and if the thieves don't leave Huaiqing Mansion for a day, you can't leave!" ”

When Lu Xiangsheng heard this, he was dumbfounded, what does this mean, he has already explained in the letter that in order to be in a hurry, they did not bring any grain and grass baggage, and camped and garrisoned, how to camp, they didn't even bring a camp tent.

Also, they haven't eaten a bite of food since they got up in the morning, and they haven't even had time to drink water, so they rushed over in such a hurry, and it was too unreasonable to let them drink the northwest wind outside!

No matter how good his temper was, he was a little angry, Qi Xianzong and Qi Zhenzong gritted their teeth angrily, if it weren't for Lu Xiangsheng in front of him, they would probably be scolded.

Lu Xiangsheng thought about it, but still arched his hand and said, "The lower official obeys the order." ”

"Hmph." , There was just a cold snort from the city gate, and then there was no sound, it is estimated that the person who ordered the Zheng Wangfu had already seen the angry expressions of Qi Xianzong and Qi Zhenzong and others, so he snorted coldly to show his respect.

Zhu Yiduo, the king of Zheng, was originally a merciless person, and he thought that the imperial court should send a large army to save him, so he didn't even bother to show his face, but just sent a royal official to convey his will, and then, there was no more.

Lu Xiangsheng looked at the closed city gate, clenched his fists vigorously, and finally gritted his teeth and ordered: "Order, retreat three miles, and gather at the small river you just passed to rest." ”

Qi Xianzong and Qi Zhenzong were unconvinced: "Lord Lu, we are here to rescue them, and the city is not allowed to enter, is it too much?" ”

Lu Xiangsheng shook his head helplessly, and said solemnly: "Listen to my orders and stand back." ”

When Qi Xianzong and Qi Zhenzong saw Lu Xiangsheng's expression, they could only grit their teeth and lead the army back.

At this time, the palace official on the city gate tower came out of the darkness, ran down the city gate tower quickly, and went straight to King Zheng's mansion on horseback.

Zheng Wangfu is located in the middle of Huaiqing City, covers an area of thousands of acres, sits in the north and faces south, slightly rectangular, there is an official road in front of the palace door in front of a hundred steps, there is a memorial arch several zhang high on the side of the official road near the palace, there are four big characters of "Prince Zheng's Mansion" on it, the golden light is shining, it is magnificent, there is a stone tablet nearly eight feet high in front of the archway, and the eight bright red characters of "civil and military officials have dismounted so far" are particularly conspicuous.

The royal palace official also dismounted here, and then trotted all the way, passing the archway and arch bridge, crossing the "golden threshold", and entering the palace.

There are three halls in the palace before, in and after the palace, the front hall and the nave are two miles apart, the nave and the apse are less apart, but there is also one mile xu, the three halls are surrounded by corridors, the pillars all adopt the square octagonal stone pillars, the main hall is surrounded by marble steps, the end of the ground is extraordinary.

At this time, Zheng Wang Zhu Yiduo is in the apse of the banquet, and Wuzhi County King Zhu Yizhong drinking and having fun, the table of the two is full of mountain and sea delicacies, looking at it makes people salivate, the whole hall is even more silk music bursts, dancing girls are in groups, so lively.

The royal palace official ran three or four miles, running out of breath before coming to the outside of the main hall, he didn't have time to rest, directly greeted the guards outside the hall, and then walked in quickly, kneeling not far from the entrance of the main hall, and said loudly across the group of dancing girls: "Lord Qiqi, the cavalry sent by the court has retreated." ”

As soon as Zheng Wang Zhu Yiduo raised his hand when he heard this, the entire hall suddenly quieted down, and even the dancing girl maintained the movements just now, standing there like a sculpture, and then he said proudly: "Where did you retreat?" ”

The ceremonial official hurriedly bowed his hand and said: "The lower officials faintly heard on the tower of the city gate, it seems that they have retreated to the Wenjian River in the east of the city. ”

When Zhu Yiduo heard this, he sneered: "It's about the same, tens of thousands of horses, I want to come into the city to eat and drink for nothing, when my silver is picked up from the ground, I know, go down." ”

The ceremonial officer secretly wiped his sweat, stood up, and respectfully withdrew.

Zhu Yiduo raised his hand again to signal the music and dance to continue, until the silk music sounded, he raised his glass to Zhu Yizhong and said: "Big brother, now we can sit back and relax, there are 5,000 guards in the city, and there are thousands of Ding Guards, plus the court outside the city has tens of thousands of elite horses, even if the thief eats the gall of the ambitious leopard, he will not dare to come to make a mistake." ”

He turned out to be Brother Zhu Yizhong, what is going on, since Zhu Yizhong is his eldest brother, how did he become a prince?

It's very simple, because he is the eldest son, and Zhu Yizhong is just a concubine, and the rule of inheriting the title at this time is "to establish the eldest but not the young, and to pass on the heir not to the concubine." Therefore, he is the prince, and his eldest brother Zhu Yizhong is only the king of the county.

Zhu Yizhong is cruel and abnormal to others, but he is very respectful to his half-brother, no way, who calls someone the eldest son.

When he heard this, he immediately flattered and said: "Brother Wang, two days ago, I got two stunning slave girls, who are sixteen years old, and they are also twins, otherwise, I will send them over tonight to let Brother Wang be happy." ”

When Zhu Yiduo heard this, he smiled cheaply: "Oh, it's still a mother and twins, okay, this time can scare me, I don't have the heart to do anything, now that the imperial army is finally here, I can also relax." ”

Zhu Yizhong followed with a cheap smile and said: "Brother Wang has worked hard, you have worked hard for our Zheng Wangfu family for so long, you should also work on something else, I will let people send those two female slaves over now." ”

Zhu Yiduo laughed when he heard this: "Okay, I'll work hard a little harder, hahahahahaha." ”

There was laughter and laughter in King Zheng's mansion, singing and dancing, but there was a sound of cursing on the bank of the Wenjian River, Qi Xianzong gnawed on the cold dry food, and scolded in the direction of Huaiqing Mansion: "Damn, what the hell, we rushed over so desperately, we didn't even give us food." ”

Qi Zhenzong took a sip of river water, and then cursed: "Is it really not a thing, if you don't give food, you don't even give saliva to drink!" ”

Lu Xiangsheng ate a mouthful of dry food and drank a mouthful of river water, and added a few sticks of firewood to the small fire between the three of them, and then said lightly: "Okay, okay, be careful of the trouble coming out of the mouth, fighting outside, isn't it normal to eat dry food and drink cold water, what is there to complain about." ”

Qi Xianzong was unconvinced: "My lord, eating dry food and drinking cold water in a foreign campaign is also a last resort when there is no way, they know that we don't bring any grain and grass, but they leave us outside, it's really annoying." ”

Qi Zhenzong followed closely and said: "Yes, we ran hundreds of miles and ran here to save them, not only did they not say anything at all, but they also locked us outside the city to drink the northwest wind, how can this breath be swallowed!" ”

When Lu Xiangsheng heard this, he persuaded: "Okay, okay, people are princes, we have to endure it if it doesn't like it, hurry up and eat, go to patrol after eating, and come back to take turns to rest, it's not too early at this time." ”

When Qi Xianzong and Qi Zhenzong heard this, they threw the remaining dry food into their mouths angrily, chewed it a few times, drank a few mouthfuls of river water, swallowed it hard, and then stood up and looked at Lu Xiangsheng.

Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help but smile and shook his head, these two brothers really came out of the same mother's womb, not only the same movements, but even the expressions are the same.