After the good news of the killing of Zilharang came, Zhu Yulu, Ma Jixiang, and even the civil and military officials under them could not believe that the news was true...... Obviously, he fought so hard, and suddenly said that he had killed the enemy commander, nine times out of ten...... No, it's a false positive.

Two days later, Zhang Hanru's group of officials who were locked up in confinement came, and after repeated confirmation, Zhu Yulu and Ma Jixiang finally believed that the Chu army had fought an unprecedented victory and really killed Jierharang!

Capture the thief and capture the king first!

Everyone knows the truth of capturing the thief and capturing the king first, but it is difficult to do it in actual combat, the two armies are fighting, and the enemy commander under heavy protection is killed first, the difficulty is not ordinary, but the Chu army has completed this impossible task, thus laying the victory in one fell swoop, Zhu Yulu and Ma Jixiang both fell into irrepressible ecstasy, and under extreme excitement, they were dizzy for several days and didn't know how to come.

If the Longwu regime is compared to a big tree, the princes and nobles and the ministers of civil and military affairs are the branches and leaves at the top of the canopy, and their personal life and death, honor and disgrace, and even the fate of the entire family are closely related to it. The battle of Ningzhen was won, this big tree will not fall, and it will be more prosperous in the foreseeable future, these princes and nobles and ministers of civil and military affairs are one of the biggest beneficiaries, regardless of whether there were contradictions and differences before, at this moment they are indeed full of gratitude to Wang Kefan, and regard him as the dry city of the country, an irreplaceable pillar of society.

Zhu Yulu was raised in captivity before, and he had no intersection with Wang Kefan, so he couldn't talk about contradictions and differences, so his joy was more pure, and the victory or defeat of the Battle of Ningzhen was related to the national fortunes, and it will be written into the annals of history. To be able to witness the birth of a major historical event and even participate in it. also played a very important role, which made Zhu Yulu feel extremely excited and proud.

Ma Jixiang is an official who was born as a military general. is even more of a complete politician, seeing that Ning Zhenhui's victory has been decided, in addition to being happy, he thinks more than Zhu Yulu and has a more long-term view, and writes a letter to Wang Kefan in private......

(In the feudal society, the words "government" and "governance" were generally used separately, and government was the means of management and governance, and governance was a stable and peaceful social state.) As long as the ruler has a little discipline, he hopes to use guò to implement "government" means to achieve the world's great "governance", of course, this is just hope, under normal circumstances, the ideal is very full, but the reality is very skinny, Chongzhen definitely does not want to be the king of the country, and he has been working hard for more than ten years, but in the end he played the Ming to death...... "guest" is a parasitic state. Politicians are parasites on the political system, who only care about power, only about their own interests and those of small groups, and often fight to the death. Completely ignoring the overall interests of the country, there has never been a concept of forbearance for the country in their dictionary, for example, the Donglin Party in the late Ming Dynasty is a typical representative. ）

There is no festival in the horse auspiciousness. Officials like Zhang Hanru still have a little bit of discipline, after the victory of the battle of Ningzhen. The danger of the country's demise has been temporarily eliminated, and a broad road seems to be in front of us. Zhang Hanru's worries and worries for many days were swept away, and while he was happy, he began to think about the future of the Longwu regime, and he was very entangled in the mentality of Wang Kefan and Chu Jun, and had new worries and worries, but he didn't show it......

The soldiers of the Chu army didn't think so much, compared with Zhu Yulu's simple purity, they were the real purity, the battle was not over, and there were still tens of thousands of Tartars waiting for the Chu army to eliminate, how could they have time to think about those bullshit things?

Pursue! Catch up! We must not let He Luo run away! The Chu army was in high spirits, knowing that the injured beast was even more ferocious, but they did not hesitate to chase after it.

Zhu Yulu also wanted to go with him, but was directly blocked by Wang Sheng, and he didn't talk about it at all.

"Wang San'er! I've always treated you as a good person, but I didn't expect you to be a wilt, more bad water than Wang Laosi's stomach! When you were beaten by He Luohui, the lonely king was not afraid of danger to help you, and now it is easy to counterattack, and you want to win, but you cross the river and tear down the bridge, are you afraid that I will not succeed in robbing you? ”

"Your Highness has misunderstood."

Wang Sheng is a sincere person, although Zhu Yulu is strong, he answered honestly, and explained sincerely: "At the beginning, He Luo would attack, and our army would defend, although the situation looked dangerous, the battle situation was under control, and the last general could ensure the safety of His Highness...... Now although our army is counterattacking, but the Qing army is desperately breaking through, the battlefield shape is changing rapidly, if His Royal Highness is close to the former enemy, the soldiers may not be able to protect thoroughly, in case something goes wrong, even if he can behead a thousand ranks, it is difficult to blame, and please forgive me for the difficulties of our waiting. ”

"Don't say it's useless, you're being ungrateful anyway! In this way, I will follow Lu Renqing together, there is no danger in the Chinese army if I don't leave him, okay? Zhu Yulu didn't bargain, and directly showed his hole cards.

"That's not going to work either. If His Highness wants to go to the former enemy, at least after our army is encircled, at that time, it should not be risky. ”

"Don't bluff me! I know! I asked someone that this battle must be a quick victory, how can there be such a thing as a siege? ”

Zhu Yulu had already done his homework in advance and asked the insiders for advice on the current battle situation. He Luohui's troops were scattered among the mountains, and the Qing army of the three roads marched hand in hand, once caught up by the main force of the Chu army, it would immediately fall apart, and if you were lucky, you could run out some, and if you were unlucky, the whole army would be annihilated, in short, there was no condition to put the troops back together and resist stubbornly, and there was no battle process of encirclement and encirclement.

He pointed at Wang Sheng and said bitterly: "Bad! You're so bad! At this juncture, you still lied to me, saying that you didn't lose anything when you had a bad stomach, right? ”

Wang Sheng tried his best to make a calm expression, but his face was slightly hot, and explained: "Even if it is a quick battle, there will be a small group of remnants of the enemy besieged, and the last general has not deceived His Highness, in short, this matter is not discussed, Your Highness will stay here for two days first......"

Wang Sheng's oil and salt did not enter, and Zhu Yulu had to stay in his Chinese military camp.

suddenly changed from an important role to an audience, which made Zhu Yulu have a huge gap, from morning to night, he was restless, and when each Chu army pursued the troops set off, he personally ran to see them off.

"Guozhang (Gu Zongfuzi), if you catch He Luohui or any Manchu clan, you will try to bring it back alive, I can use it when I worship the filial piety tomb, please."

A part of the Ji'an battalion participated in the pursuit battle, led by Gu Zongfu, Zhu Yulu was neither big nor small in front of Wang Kefan and Wang Sheng, and he was still a little reserved in front of a general of Gu Zongfu's level, although he wanted to follow him to the front line, but he finally couldn't help but say nothing.

"No!" Gu Zongfu is an old-school general of the Ming army, he has great respect for the Ming Dynasty clan, and he knows that his big mouth is not guarded, and he deliberately speaks less in Zhu Yulu, and he can say a word and never say two words, which makes the Chu officers and soldiers who are familiar with him very surprised, you know, Gu Zongfu usually speaks without slipping, and sometimes he can't control his mouth in front of Wang Kefan, but Zhu Yulu is also a prince who has not slipped away, and the image of the prince in everyone's minds is far from it, but Gu Zongfu has changed his normal state in front of him, and everyone feels very uncomfortable.

"Go ahead, I wish you a victorious start and success!" Zhu Yulu didn't like this either.

Most of the generals of the Chu army didn't respect him so much, and a young man like Jingliang had nothing to say to him, Zhu Yulu felt happier instead, Gu Zongfu saw that he was always too restrained, so he had to hold it together, too tired.

"Thank you Tang Wang Jiyan!" Gu Zongfu is a family of Jiangmen, and several generations have been loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and he respects the identity of the Tang King, not Zhu Yulu.

With his order, the ranks of the Ji'an battalion began to set off, and the soldiers sang war songs and strode towards the vast mountains.

"Ten thousand people are single-minded, Mount Tai can be shaken.

Only loyal and righteous, angry bullfighting.

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Go to the water and fire, dare to stay late?"

Looking at the generous and heroic soldiers, Zhu Yulu's heart fluctuated, and he asked Gu Zongfu: "Guozhang, after the victory in the battle of Ningzhen, can we recover Nanjing?" ”

Gu Zongfu was about to say goodbye, but replied solemnly: "Bike!" ”

"In the future...... In a few years, will we be able to drive the Tartars out of the customs and return to Beijing? Zhu Yulu is full of longing, but he feels that the scene is too far away, like a sweet dream, and he always has to wake up and return to reality in the end.

Gu Zongfu replied categorically: "Daming Zhongxing, the destiny of heaven returns!" ”

"Good! You can say that again! The soldiers of the three armies are united, and they will definitely be able to defeat the Manchus! Zhu Yulu laughed happily, paused, and asked Gu Zongfu again: "When the world is peaceful, what do you want to do?" Are you still a general in the army? ”

Gu Zongfu was silent for a moment, then raised his head and looked at Zhu Yulu calmly: "At that time, I was probably dead. Sooner or later, the Tartars will be driven out of the pass, but among the 100,000 soldiers of the Chu army, many of them will die on the battlefield. ”

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With the courage to see death as home, the elite Chu army of more than 5,000 people in the Ji'an, Puqi and Chongyang battalions, interspersed from the diagonal spur to the northeast, marched day and night, chasing and intercepting the Qing army.

A string of torches like a long dragon through the mountains at night, Gu Zongfu and others led the 5,000 Chu army to undertake the task of frontal combat, each soldier had to wear armor and carry weapons, in order to improve the speed of the march, Wang Sheng sent most of his auxiliaries and cattle to help the soldiers carry heavy armor and lighten their burden.

However, the path in the mountains was rugged and difficult to navigate, and the Chu army had to bypass the blocking troops of the Qing army's Bashan and other departments, and also beware of Tan Tai's receiving troops, turning around in the mountains, and the speed of the march was affected by Yanzhòng, and the only thing that could help them was the small group of harassment troops and blocking troops sent earlier, which dragged the speed of the Qing army even slower.

If someone can overlook the overall situation from a high altitude, they will see that the two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties are trekking hard, chasing and fleeing, and the distance between the two sides is getting closer little by little. (To be continued......)