At about five o'clock in the morning, Zhu Youzhen was sleeping soundly, and suddenly heard a big chaos in the city!

Immediately afterwards, the door of his bedroom was slammed open, and Shi Biao hurriedly rushed in and said, "Your Highness, it's not good, Zhang Ming led his troops to mutiny!" ”

Zhu Youzhen shivered, sat up from the bed and said, "What's the matter?" Didn't Zhang Ming get arrested? ”

Shi Biao's face turned red and said: "The last general is incompetent, let this damn guy escape!" ”

It turned out that after the Mongols temporarily withdrew last night, Shi Biao was afraid that the enemy army would take advantage of the slack spirit and kill the horse pistol again, so he kept monitoring the head of Nancheng.

But after all, he was only a hundred, and he had never commanded so many troops, nor had he ever taken on such an important responsibility as defending the city alone. Under the high level of mental tension, he only cared about letting the soldiers of the Qi family army observe the movements of the enemy army, but neglected to monitor the other Ming soldiers, especially the general Zhang Ming.

After Zhang Ming was tied up, he was taken to a Guandi temple under the city. At the beginning, there were two soldiers of the Qi family army who guarded him. Later, when they heard the sound of cannons at the head of the city, the two soldiers knew that the enemy had begun to attack the city, but they were so anxious that they could not see the battle situation. Later, I couldn't help it, so I threw Zhang Ming alone in the temple and returned to the city to join the battle.

As soon as the two left, Zhang Ming immediately started to think. He expected that Zunhua City would be difficult to hold, and once the city was broken, it would be all burned. The Mongols didn't care who resisted or who didn't, they were either beheaded or taken back as slaves.

But if Zhu Youzhen was lucky enough to hold Zunhua City, he would have no good fruit to eat. Just because of the major crimes of his risking the airspace and losing the pass, beheading is already the lightest punishment, and Ling Chi is likely to be executed, and even his family members will be implicated!

After thinking about it, Zhang Ming finally bit his teeth, and his heart was endless, so he simply led his troops to break through! As long as he doesn't die, and Zhu Youzhen dies in the city, there is no proof of death, and no one will report to the court that he has eaten empty wages.

As for the lost city, he can put the blame on the dead ghost Zhu Youzhen, saying that he took the initiative to provoke the Mongols, which attracted the big move of the Duoyan Department. Anyway, Zhu Youzhen is dead, and whatever he says is what he says.

In this way, although it is necessary to spend tens of thousands of taels of silver up and down, at least he can save his life. As long as you can live, you will have the opportunity to reinstate the official and even go further. When the time comes, the wool will come out of the dogs, and it will be fished out of the military pay.

After making up his mind, Zhang Ming rubbed to the offering table in the temple, exerted his strength to feed, and desperately used the table legs to grind the rope, and finally broke the rope.

Seeing that there was no one around, Zhang Ming first quietly hidden. Later, seeing that the Mongols had temporarily withdrawn their troops, and Shi Biao led most of the Qi family army to guard the western city wall, this guy took advantage of the unpreparedness and slipped to the south city.

He has been the master of Zunhua for many years, and he naturally has a group of dead friends under him, who serve in thousands of households and hundreds of households. Usually these people are in collusion, Zhang Ming eats meat, they drink soup, and their lives are moisturized.

The gate officials of the southern city were one of them. He had heard that Zhang Ming had been arrested, and he thought to himself that if the backer had fallen, how could there be eggs under the nest? When he was in a panic, he suddenly saw Zhang Ming appear in front of him, he was really surprised and happy, and was about to shout, Zhang Ming hurriedly stopped him and said, "Silence!" Find a room and gather all the brethren! Remember, don't let Shinking's men find out! ”

After a while, the gang gathered in a small house inside the south gate.

Zhang Ming told everyone his thoughts, these guys who were greedy for life and afraid of death hit it off, and immediately went separately to secretly connect in series.

The Ming troops defending the city were originally their subordinates, and they had never seen a battle, and they had already been frightened by the Mongols. At this time, the governor came again to encourage them to abandon the city and flee for their lives, which was really what he wanted.

So in the early morning, Zhang Ming took advantage of the fact that most of the soldiers of the Qi family army were tired and leaning on the head of the city to nap, and suddenly led the troops to make noise, opened the south city gate, and rushed out of the city.

When Shi Biao, who was guarding in Xicheng, got the news, there was a big chaos in the city. The Ming troops on all four walls scrambled to retreat from the city, running around the crowded streets, all trying to get out of the city through the south gate as soon as possible. For a while, people shouted and neighed, made a mess, and even trampled on each other, causing many casualties.

There are even some ruffians and local hooligans, taking advantage of the chaos in the city, to break into people's houses, rob the property of the people in the city, and even * people's daughters!

Seeing this scene, Shi Biao's head buzzed, and he was deeply afraid that Zhu Youzhen and Qi Meifeng would lose, so he hurriedly rushed to the general's mansion.

After listening to Shi Biao's hurried report, Zhu Youzhen was so anxious that he yelled: "Let's go out quickly, first guard the south city gate, stop the officers and soldiers from fleeing, and then hurry up to quell the chaos in the city!" If the Mongols know that we have civil strife and immediately attack the city, we will be all finished! ”

Shi Biao was told by Zhu Youzhen, his mind calmed down a little, and he secretly admired in his heart: Don't look at His Royal Highness King Xin, who is usually not serious, it seems that he has no other ability than scolding; When it comes to the critical moment, it can really hold on!

In fact, Zhu Youzhen was also flustered in his heart. But he also knew that since Qi Meifeng was seriously injured and fell into a coma, he had become the backbone of the Qi family's army and even the whole city. If he panics, then wouldn't others be even more doomed?

So he had no choice but to support himself and rushed out of the general's mansion with Shi Biao.

Fortunately, Zhang Ming's move to lead the army to mutiny was also very hasty, and he only cared about fleeing for his own life, and he didn't have time to pay attention to Zhu Youzhen at all, because the general's mansion was not affected by the chaotic army.

Zhu Youzhen saw that the street was in a mess, and he thought that he had to cut through the mess quickly, so he immediately said to Shi Biao: "Shi Biao! This king orders you to lead the Qi family army, and immediately let these rebellious soldiers lay down their weapons and obey orders on the spot! If you dare to disobey, you will be killed! ”

Shi Biao received the order and immediately led more than 100 Qi family troops to unceremoniously rush towards the Ming troops who were running around the streets, ordering them to immediately lay down their arms.

These Ming troops usually have no discipline at all, at this time seeing the chaos in the city, the main general Zhang Ming has run away, these Qi family troops who came from afar are nosy with rats, and they are not convinced, and they have drawn out their weapons, wanting to rely on their own strength to force the other party to retreat.

Seeing that these Ming soldiers refused to obey orders, Shi Biao immediately said angrily: "Kill me!" ”

The soldiers of the Qi family immediately lined up the mandarin duck formation and killed these Ming soldiers.

This mandarin duck formation was originally a formation created by Qi Jiguang in order to deal with the Japanese invaders, combined with the terrain characteristics of narrow mountain roads and numerous rivers in Zhejiang, Fujian and other places. This kind of formation is based on a team of 12 people, each holding a different weapon, taking care of the front and back, advancing and retreating, combining long and short, attacking and defending, and can give full play to the attack power of 12 people, while the enemy will be severely restricted, and the strength will not be used.

After mastering this formation, as long as you have the strength and resolutely obey the order, even the farmers who don't know martial arts at all will be able to deal with those who are skilled in martial arts and are not afraid of death.

However, this formation is a pure infantry formation, which is only suitable for dealing with scattered Japanese pirates, especially adapted to the characteristics of the complex terrain of the southern water towns and the difficulty of deploying large troops. If the battlefield is changed to a horse in the north, or against the Mongols or the Later Jin army, which are mainly cavalry, there is no chance of victory. Therefore, the Qi family army later invented a chariot formation to deal with the charge of the cavalry.

Including Qi Meifeng's previous use of the Mandarin Duck Array to deal with thousands of bandits, it was also a last resort. Fortunately, the bandits can only play with their lives, and they don't understand the formation at all, so the Qi family army can win more with less.

But at this time, in the narrow streets, the power of the Mandarin Duck Array was brought into full play. Those Ming troops were called armies, but in fact they had never fought a single battle, and their combat effectiveness was not as good as that of bandits, let alone comparable to the murderous Japanese bandits.

The Qi family army only charged, and the rebels on the street were killed dozens of people on the spot. The rest saw that the situation was not good, and they didn't even dare to escape, so they threw down their weapons one after another, knelt down and shouted for mercy!

Zhu Youzhen saw that Qi Jiajun quickly controlled the situation on the street, and hurriedly said: "Tie up these rebels first, find a place to detain them, and wait for them to fall!" Now let's hurry to the South City Gate! ”

But by the time they arrived at the south city gate, Zhang Ming and other officers had already opened the city gate, cut down the drawbridge, galloped away, and disappeared into the vast night.

But the 1,000 or so Ming troops who ran out of the city with them were not so lucky. There was a big commotion in Zunhua City, how could the Mongols not know? At this moment, thousands of their elite horsemen had already circled from the west of the city to the south of the city, wielding a snowy butcher's knife at these fleeing Ming troops!

Zhu Youzhen climbed to the top of the city and watched these Ming troops crying and fleeing in all directions, but they couldn't outrun the Mongols' horses at all. These soldiers of the Duoyan Department were frustrated in the siege of the city last night, and they were already holding their stomachs, and they were just venting on these defeated soldiers who had no fighting spirit at this time. They shot with bows at a distance, and slashed with sabers at a distance, and they killed them heartily!

A small number of Ming troops turned their brains quickly, and when they saw that they could not break through to the south, they turned around and rushed towards the south gate, trying to escape back into the city.

But their escape pointed the way out for the Mongols. These Mongolian cavalry suddenly discovered that the south gate of Zunhua City had lowered the drawbridge and opened the city gate! They immediately galloped wildly and went straight to the city gate, wanting to take advantage of the chaos of the Ming army to enter the city.

When Zhu You saw this scene, he hated these chaotic troops so much! He had wanted to open the gates and gather the remnants back into the city. It can be seen that the Mongolian cavalry is as fast as lightning, and they are about to chase the Ming army in, so they have to turn their hearts sideways and say viciously: "Close the city gate!" ”

By this time, the defeated Ming army had fled to the city. When he saw that the gates of the city were shut, he wept and cried out.

Zhu Youzhen knew that they would not be spared, so he couldn't bear to look at it anymore, don't look over, but tears rolled down involuntarily.

Immediately afterwards, the Mongols' iron cavalry had already slaughtered the edge of the city. I only heard the screams of the city, and in less than a meal, the Ming army of nearly 1,000 people was killed by the Mongols!