An hour of fierce fighting destroyed the camp of the Liukou, but it took two hours to find Yu Jiye, and they hid it so well that Yang Chao had never found out that they were all near Cangzhou.

"This official doesn't plan to stay in Cangzhou for long, now you can surrender."

Yang Chao summoned the magistrate of Cangzhou, and directly said that the magistrate's face was the color of pig liver.

This speculative magistrate was completely depressed, originally with the intention of welcoming the new dynasty and getting promoted to make a fortune, but now Yang Chao has killed so many people in Cangzhou, it is strange that the rogue does not slaughter the city, he wants to leave now, wouldn't he roast the magistrate on the fire.

The magistrate begged bitterly: "Adults, don't do it." ”

Yang Chao was also distressed by Li Zicheng's style of slaughtering without surrendering.

After a moment of silence, he said to the magistrate: "You can send someone to discuss with the Liukou and surrender the city, but let them not slaughter the city, otherwise I won't leave, and they will never want to enter the city!" ”

A day later, Yang Chao's army set up camp, lined up in formation, and slowly advanced, more than 1,000 people divided into three phalanxes to advance alternately.

And the cavalry behind them sent it for five miles before turning back and entering Cangzhou City.

Yang Chao's combat power frightened the Liukou, although they suffered heavy casualties, they finally promised not to slaughter the city, Yang Chao warned them that if they dared to slaughter the city, even if it was the end of the earth in the future, they would be killed.

The usual columns were divided into three rows and marched in unison, but there were four distinct teams, and at the front were the people who led the horses and dragged the baggage, and the number was about 1,000 people.

They are not ordinary people, but refugees from Xinjiangkou Wharf, they followed Yang Chao to Zhejiang, and did not return to Xinjiangkou after returning, but stayed in Zhenjiang for about ten days. Without waiting for Nanjing's ship to pick them up, they were ordered to go north.

After the baggage horses. It is three hundred elite soldiers, this is Yang Chao's personal soldiers. But not all the pro-soldiers, there were still more than 100 people left in Nanjing. Zhao Kang took them to guard the camp, and at the same time negotiated with the Nanjing government on behalf of Yang Chao.

After the pro-soldiers, it was about 400 people. This is Lu Mo's general team, after Lu Mo is the princes under the protection of Yu Jiye, after the princes are Song Kun's general team, and what remains at the end is the artillery team brought by Hu Quan.

The groom is in the front, the artillery team is in the array, and the prince is in the center.

In addition to these troops, Yang Chao also sent dozens of fast horses for other soldiers who were good at riding horses to ride to inquire about the news.

A fast horse galloped back. Jumped down in front of Yang Chao.

"My lord, there is Wu Bridge in front."

"Are reinforcements coming?"

Yang Chao asked, and Tanma shook his head.

But when they learned that there was Wu Qiao in front of them, the others couldn't help but sigh.

After crossing the Wu Bridge, it is Dezhou, and it enters the territory of Shandong.

Although it is said that they are geographically connected, they always give people a feeling that it is safe to enter Shandong.

"Don't be careless! Shandong may not be without rogues. ”

Listening to the relaxed tone of his subordinates, Yang Chao admonished.

"Moreover, Gao Jie is in Shandong!"

Yang Chao added.

These words made many men snort secretly, and Gao Jie made him a big ugly. It almost put his whole army in trouble.

"I don't know where Wang Pu's backup is?"

The chaos in Gyeonggi and Shandong made Yang Chao lose contact with the follow-up troops, and the scouts he sent did not return. The scouts from the south didn't come either, I'm afraid there would be an accident on the road, and Yang Chao didn't want to continue to send scouts.

"Forget it, don't mention it. You come with me to meet our crown prince, maybe you will be the emperor in the future. ”

After leaving Cangzhou, these dragon sons and phoenix grandchildren are treated much better, and they can ride on horses and let people lead the horses forward.

The only bad thing is that the speed has been reduced too much, and it took two days to walk from Cangzhou to Wuqiao. In this way, they still feel hard.

It's just that there are many fewer complaints, and the first Yang Chao is pressing here. They still have to give the face of the world's famous generals, and the sense of security in the second army also makes them less anxious than in the past. To put it bluntly, the reason why I complained at that time was not unrelated to the anxiety of being in danger.

"Minister, Yang Chao, see His Royal Highness!"

took many men, Lu Mo and other subordinates to kneel on one knee together.

It's not the first time that Yang Chao has participated in these princes and princesses.

But the first time he brought other generals under his command to see, he had only let Yu Jiye take care of them before, and others were forbidden to approach, and even kept the identity of the prince secret from others, for fear of causing other trouble.

Now that he is almost in Shandong, the further south he goes, the safer he is, and Yang Chao is actually a bit careless about the mentality of the soldiers.

"General Yang is flat! Listed as a general flat. ”

Sitting on a horse, the crown prince Zhu Cihong, who let a soldier lead the horse, deliberately put on a majestic posture and raised his hand.

But Zhu Cihong Chongzhen was born in the second year, and he is only fifteen years old this year, except for a small belly, there is no majesty.

"Minister, Your Highness Xie!"

After Yang Chao got up, he walked to the prince's horse and took the place of the soldier who led the horse to lead the prince's horse.

It's not that Yang Chao wants to talk to the prince, but he wants to talk to the prince, if Yang Chao can ride a horse, he will definitely choose to go with the horse now, since he can't ride a horse, just lead the horse for him.

"In front of His Highness is Wu Qiao, does Your Highness want to rest for a few days?"

Yang Chao knew that these princes grew up in the deep palace since childhood, and they were just reading and having fun on weekdays, and they were seriously lacking in exercise, which could not be compared with the nomadic princes at all, especially this Zhu Cihong, Yang Chao found that he had a serious problem of adapting to the soil and water, but fortunately, he had a thick foundation, and now he still looks like a little fat man, otherwise he should be thin.

The little fat man thought about it seriously for a while, and replied that Yang Chao was quite surprised: "Let's go to Nangi." The father is killed, the world is grieving, and this king can really worry about hardships! ”

Yang Chao nodded, and couldn't help but take a few more glances at this little fat man, in the end, he was the prince, although he was afraid to die, he had to make an excuse for himself, who said that the education of the Ming Dynasty was not good, this thick black alone is worthy of praise.

Yang Chao actually didn't want to stay, because he never waited for backup, which made Yang Chao worried, otherwise he wouldn't be so cramped in Cangzhou. Now there are only 1,000 people and more than 1,000 soldiers here, a total of less than 3,000 people, and there are only more than 1,000 people who can fight.

So Yang Chao said: "Then Weichen retired." ”

After speaking, Yang Chao bowed his hand, and at the same time bowed to the princes and princesses behind. inadvertently saw the last princess Zhu Yujiao, and found that the princess was also looking at herself, and nodded with a smile.

He turned around and left.

He didn't hear the princess murmur to the palace maid at this time: "What a young man! ”

Go all the way to the front. Finding that several of his generals were extremely silent, Yang Chao noticed it. I found that everyone was preoccupied.

"A lot of men, what's wrong?"

Yang Chao couldn't help asking.

Many men raised their heads and frowned slightly: "My lord, will the crown prince really ascend the throne?" ”

Yang Chao nodded.

Many men took a deep breath: "Then we can be regarded as a meritorious escort?" ”

Yang Chao nodded again.

Yang Chao finally knew why these people were so preoccupied, and the skill of escorting could be described as a miracle.

It's just that Yang Chao has never taken this seriously, and he is quite disappointed in this action, the first is to organize Li Zicheng to enter Beijing. Completely protected the Ming Dynasty, but failed, the second is to keep Chongzhen to go to Jiangnan, also failed, and then to protect one or two princes, for Yang Chao, his battle plan has achieved the most secondary results, not worth rejoicing.

But for these subordinates, they have indeed made a great contribution, not only to escort. And it may be the merit of the establishment, which is a greater merit than the escort, as long as the crown prince is the emperor. One by one, they are just around the corner.

Many men lowered their heads, and Yang Chao found that his body was trembling.

And Lu Mo next to him always had a serious and holy look on his face.

Yang Chao knew that although Lu Mo was an officer, he always had the soul of a scholar in his heart, and he always wanted to be an official in the imperial examination and then let his mother get an edict.

Yang Chao smiled at this time: "Lu Mo, you have to get what you want, the merit of escorting and making great contributions, I will guarantee your mother a lady!" ”

Lu Mo suddenly knelt beside Yang Chao: "Mark the grace of Lord Xie's cultivation and promotion, and I dare not forget it forever!" ”

Yang Chao immediately helped him up. Escorting a prince made two high-ranking officers in his army so out of shape, Yang Chao suddenly made up his mind.

"Come back. The news of the prince's presence in our army must continue to be kept secret. ”

In fact, Yang Chao still plans to be safe. I told the soldiers about the identity of the prince, but now I have changed my mind, Zhu Cihong's identity has too much influence on ordinary people, and I can not care about it, but I can't ask these soldiers who are deeply affected by the imperial power not to care, exposing the identity of the prince will definitely affect the morale of the army.

Yang Chao decided that when Huai'an was raising the identity of the prince, the civil officials of Huai'an would have to cooperate with him obediently.

I believe that Wang Pu's reinforcements should have converged at that time, and there is no need to worry about the safety of the group.

Where is Wang Pu?

In fact, I'm also hurrying north.

It's just that their speed is greatly affected, and there are a large number of routs from north to south, and quite a few of them are going south along the canal.

There is Gao Jie's army, and there is Liu Zeqing's army in Shandong.

When Chongzhen let King Qin, Liu Zeqing held his troops back, and as soon as he heard that Beijing had fallen, he immediately went southeast from Shandong, burning and looting along the canal, which seriously interfered with Wang Pu's speed of going north.

Liu Zeqing is still not worried, and his combat power is not strong.

But the combat power of Gao Jie's subordinates should not be underestimated, and many men in front of him suffered a loss.

Just by looking at Gao Jie's battle trajectory, you can know.

When he was under Gao Yingxiang, he was a general, alongside Li Zicheng, and later Li Zicheng merged with the rest of Gao Yingxiang, Gao Jie and Li Zicheng's first general, stabilized Liu Zongmin.

Later, he colluded with Li Zicheng's wife to escape, and after surrendering to the Ming army, he specially suppressed the peasant army.

Last year, he was promoted to the position of deputy commander-in-chief, and fought with Sun Chuanting with Bai Guangen, the commander-in-chief. In Baofeng, Henan, Jiaxian area and the peasant army fierce battle, finally defeated in Tongguan, fled to Xi'an, Li Zicheng attacked Xi'an, and fled to Yan'an, Li Zicheng sent his son Li Guo to pursue, and fled to Shanxi. This year, Gao Jie was promoted to the general soldier and was ordered to rush to Shanxi, but he did not dare to engage Li Zicheng in battle, and retreated all the way to Gyeonggi, where Li Zicheng chased after him and could only go south.

Just this distance can be called a long march, even if there are no elite soldiers under his hands, it is time to train out.

In addition, he was born in the peasant army, and there are many veterans who have fought for decades in the elite, although the discipline cannot be compared with Yang Chao's army, but the quality of individual soldiers is even much higher than that of Yang Chao's army.

Wang Pu also received harassment from Gao Jie's subordinates, all the way to the battalion, from more than three months to go, but walked for a month, has not yet gone out of the Jianghuai area, Wang Pu was furious, several times wanted to pursue Gao Jie's department, but suffered from no cavalry, can not catch up at all, can only suffer a dumb loss, was attacked by someone and robbed a batch of military funds.

Another reason for Wang Pu's slow march was that there was a shortage of people, it was said that Yang Chao had 20,000 refugees in his hands, and there should be no shortage of people, but Shi Kefa didn't know what the considerations were, and he didn't unify Wang Pu to set off with these people at the first time. (To be continued...... ）。