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Huang Degong of Jizhou, Zhou Yuji of Tai0yuan, Zhao Shujiao of Yan 0 Sui, Man Gui of Shanhaiguan, Hou Shilu of the south and other Qin Wang's divisions began to slowly close the siege.

If Huang Taiji wants to break through the siege, he must break through one of them, and in doing so, he will inevitably reduce his Eight Banners again, which Huang Taiji does not want to see.

Fortunately, these Ming troops who came to help were afraid of the Tartars, and although they had His Majesty's strict orders, they also stopped and stopped one by one, for fear of being eaten by the Tartars.

At this time, the Praetorian Guards had also arrived at Cuiping Mountain in Jizhou, and a certain temple in Cuiping Mountain was temporarily requisitioned by Zhu Youxiao as the location of his palace.

The Praetorian Guards are also here to take a break for a while, and the next thing to deal with the Eight Banners will naturally be dealt with by the reinforcements of the King of Qin from all over the country.

Zhu Youxiao was very relieved that this time the Tartars did not enter the customs as the capital was besieged like the change of their own lives, and the Tartars swaggered as if they had entered a bad situation in a no-man's land.

The current situation at least made the Tartars pay a lot of casualties, and they did not even succeed in plundering a large number of strategic resources out of the customs, and now they are surrounded by a large number of Ming troops in the Jizhou area.

However, in this battle, the Praetorian Guard army also experienced a tempering of blood and fire, with more than half of the cavalry battalion suffering casualties, the infantry battalion also suffering more than 500 casualties, the baggage battalion also losing four or five hundred, the engineer battalion was quite complete, the artillery battalion had zero deaths, and five people were wounded by sharp arrows.

However, it can withstand the attack of the main force of the Eight Banners for several days, and after the end of the battlefield, the number of armored soldiers alone is counted in thousands, so it can be said that the results of the first battle of the Praetorian Guard have far exceeded that of any Ming army today, and this blocking battle is also the biggest victory since the war with the Tartars.

And this victory was personally commanded by Zhu Youxiao.

No one expected that Zhu Youxiao and his Praetorian Guards would be able to block the Eight Banners Tartars, and those civil officials who were looking forward to Zhu Youxiao becoming the second Zhu Qizhen had mixed feelings when they knew that Zhu Youxiao had repelled the Tartars and surrounded the Tartars.

At this time, the old monk of the temple brought tea, and Zhu Youxiao took it first, and then asked Tang Fusheng to come closer, and asked, "How is the progress of the various armies now?" ”

Tang Fusheng hurriedly arched his hand and said: "Yansui General Zhao Shujiao has controlled the west of Jizhou, Man Gui is about to arrive in Jizhou, ready to control the east of Jizhou, Huang Degong has also controlled the north of Jizhou, in addition, Hou Shilu's department is also under the leadership of Lu Shilang to block Li Yongfang's department. ”

Zhu Youxiao nodded and asked, "Where is the current whereabouts of the Tartar Amin?" ”

"It has joined Li Yongfang's ministry and is about to come north", after Tang Fusheng said, Zhu Youxiao nodded and instructed: "Urge the divisions of the king of Qin from all over the country to speed up their advance, and be sure to reach the territory of Jizhou within three days, so as not to disturb the people, if it is discovered, it will be severely punished!" ”

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In Yongping, Wu Xiang, the general soldier of Jinzhou who entered the king of Guanqin with Man Gui, was not in a very good mood, because he had just learned the news that his brother-in-law Zu Dashou was killed by the imperial court.

Wu Xiang looked out of the tent in a panic, he didn't know if he should go to King Qin again, the order of Wang Inspector urging him and King Mangui Qin was still in his hands, and the vanguard cavalry of Mangui had already been drawn, and he didn't know what to do now.

"Will the imperial court do this to me", Wu Xiang said to himself.

Outside the tent are the eighteen heavily armored soldiers who are strictly guarded, all of whom are relatives who have followed Wu Xiang for many years, and their bravery is no less than that of the white armor soldiers of Manchuria. Wu Xiang is now letting these eighteen heavy armor soldiers stay away from his Chinese army tent for a moment, and the reason is to guard against Man Gui.

Wu Xiang had an intuition that His Majesty should have given Man Gui a secret order to guard himself, otherwise the most elite 2,000 Mongolian cavalry under Man Gui would not stay in Yongping City forever, and their only purpose was to monitor themselves.

At this time, a burly young man with a somewhat similar appearance to Wu Xiang walked in, this person is Wu Sangui, although he is only sixteen years old, but he has already served as an official in a thousand households, of course, his current task is only to do chores for his father, and he is not the big traitor who sacrificed Shanhaiguan to sit on the Tartar lackeys and bury the national fortune of China for hundreds of years in the future.

"Father, Uncle Fan asks to see".

Wu Sangui took a step back after speaking, and it was Fan Wencheng who opened the curtain and came in, and smiled at Wu Xiang: "Brother Wu, don't come to harm, Fan Mou came to see you, but he didn't stop for several days, and he didn't come to you until today." ”

Wu Xiang saw that it was Fan Wencheng, so he pulled Fan Wencheng in, and looked out for a long time, and saw that the cavalry patrolling Mangui was not here, so he breathed a sigh of relief: "Now is the time when you and I are fighting, Brother Fan, you came to Wu at this time, did you come to the door to seek a dead end?" ”

Fan Wencheng smiled: "If Brother Wu wants to give Fan's head to Zhu Youxiao, even if you take it, but Brother Wu, you also have to touch how long your own head can grow on your neck?" ”

"Why?" Wu Xiang's heart moved slightly, he also guessed why Fan Wencheng came, although he was not close to him, he really wanted to hear what Hou Jin thought about Zhu Youxiao's actions now.

"I think your brother-in-law, General Zu, has worked hard for the Ming court for more than ten years, and has made countless meritorious contributions, but in the end, he has also ended up with a bird, and a good bow is hidden; That Zhu Youxiao's desire to get rid of you Guan Ning Iron Cavalry is obvious, and you have tens of thousands of Guan Ning elites under the command of Wu Da Commander, do you think that he Zhu Youxiao will only move Zu Dashou and will not move you? ”

Fan Wencheng showed a harmless smile of humans and animals, looked at Wu Xiang for a long time, and picked up the yellow whiskers under his chin very smugly.

"Sangui, serve tea!"

Wu Xiang's attitude suddenly turned to indifference and enthusiasm, and after giving an order to Wu Sangui, he personally came over and bowed his hand to Fan Wencheng and said, "Please also ask Mr. to save me." ”

Let a general soldier of the Ming Dynasty, who is almost a local prince, beg himself, this is something that Fan Wencheng never dared to think of when he was a talent, and it is precisely because of this that Fan Wencheng felt more and more that he had a wise choice to take refuge in Nurhachi back then.

"That contemptible person has something to say, in fact, Brother Wu should have already understood, now the Ming Dynasty has long lost your place for Guan Ningbing, even if you flee back to Liaodong now, you will be controlled by the superintendent Wang Zaijin, it is better to vote directly for my Dajin, my Great Khan is eloquent, and he has long had the ambition of plotting the Central Plains, and he can be the ancestor of today's Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasty.

"There is no basis for what I said, this is a letter written by my Great Khan, and Brother Wu can personally open it."

Fan Wencheng took out a letter and handed it to Wu Xiang, Wu Xiang was silent after reading it, he had to admit that the price offered by Huang Taiji was big enough, and he was directly crowned the prince, which was unthinkable in Daming, but to be honest, Houjin at this time was just a backward and barren country, and it was a little reluctant for Wu Xiang to give up the position of the chief soldier of the Ming Dynasty to be a copycat prince.

But now, as Fan Wencheng said, he definitely can't stay in Daming, but he is afraid that Zhu Youxiao will attack him if he drives away the Tartars this time, so Wu Xiang feels that he has to make the choice of defecting to Huang Taiji, so he said: "This is not an unwise move, but now Man Gui is very strict with me, and it is not easy to act." ”