The battle outside Kaiping City, although it ended with the retreat of Jiannu, but the people took the initiative to retreat, and the loss of cavalry was less than 800, while the Ming army left more than 300 cavalry and more than 2,300 infantry, fortunately, after cleaning the battlefield, a total of more than 2,000 uninjured war horses can be used.

But the strength is still far weaker than the Haoge army of Jiannu!

The cavalry is not said to be able to be trained immediately, there are less than 700 sergeants who can be qualified for the cavalry arms, Sun Chengzong asked these people to receive horses, fill them into iron cavalry, and let a few soldiers send the remaining war horses back to the Royal Forest Army camp in Beijing!

"Dashuai, these war horses are all treasures! Shall we keep it for ourselves? "Sun Chengzong's generals are not happy.

Sun Chengzong smiled slightly, "When we want to use it, the emperor will naturally allocate it to us, if there is no inspector this time, there is no emperor's magic spear, where are you going to get horses?" ”

Everyone stopped talking, and Zhu Youzhen didn't say anything, after all, he was just a herald, but he was still moved by the teacher's loyalty and righteousness, and he completely thought of himself as the emperor!

Sun Chengzong saw that everyone was unhappy, and explained with a smile, "Jingshi is making a food shortage!" Jiannu's mission to leave Haoge's army is to destroy the grain transported from Shandong to Beijing, and the horses can save their lives at a critical moment! Is it important for everyone to have horses to ride, or is it important for the lives of the people and the stability of the Jingshi? Aren't we fighting wars to serve the country just for the emperor and the people of the dawn? ”

"The Admiral understands." All the generals knelt together.

Zhu Youzhen nodded secretly, a teacher is a teacher, and he has the potential to be an instructor! Very good at doing ideological work, if all the armies of the Ming Dynasty are like this, if the soldiers of Liaodong are also like this, brought out by the teacher, then even if there is no musket, nothing, I want to bring down Huang Taiji, it is like taking a bag!

"The old man analyzed, Jiannu will desperately retreat to Luanzhou, and there will be no need to attack the city, our task is to follow Jiannu! Keep an eye on them! Before the winter, they will definitely withdraw, as long as we ensure that the grain of Shandong Cao can arrive in the capital smoothly and temporarily solve the food shortage in Beijing, we can be regarded as having a clear conscience, as for the emperor's holy decree to ask for four cities in a row, and defeat the Haoge army, the old man is really powerless, and I hope that the inspector will truthfully report the military situation on the three sides. Sun Chengzong inspected Xun Corridor.

Zhu Youzhen nodded, comforting the old man, "It's already rare for adults to be like this, and the emperor didn't say what would happen if adults couldn't do it, I guess the emperor's holy decree was just to give adults some sense of urgency and point out a general direction to adults, and Lord Sun was relieved." ”

Sun Chengzong said curiously, "Lord Inspector, you still advocate a bloody battle with Jiannu today, and you have to fight hard?" Changed so quickly? ”

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen smiled, "I guess the emperor didn't expect that Jiannu's iron horse was so powerful in the wild, I have to follow the emperor's wishes?" Now that I have seen it, of course, it is necessary to focus on the protection of the army, the capital is now in short supply, and only Lord Sun can restrain the Haoge army and ensure that Shandong Caoliang arrives in the capital. Of course, it's better not to rush these wild boar skins. ”

Sun Chengzong laughed, "The old man is relieved that the inspector can figure this out, I hope you can explain your uncle, as long as the prince agrees, the emperor will most likely agree, and the relationship between the emperor and the prince is not ordinary." Say hello to your uncle instead of the old man. ”

Zhu Youzhen raised his forehead again, "I haven't gone back so soon to recover my life, I have to watch the adults settle down outside Luanzhou City to be able to feel at ease, besides, didn't you say that you would hurry after eating?" ”

Sun Chengzong was moved, and held the hand of Jian Xunlou, "Okay, good, good, the old man is afraid that the little inspector will be tired, so he asked you to go back to your life first, since you are willing to go, it is the best, I am really worried that Jiannu will let us camp!" You know, even with the strength of our alliance with Ma Shilong, if we want to fight against half of the army of the Jiannu Hauge Legion, we are not sure of winning! ”

Zhu Youzhen nodded, and said in his heart half of the army? Even if Jiannu's 1,000 iron horsemen want to eat your more than 4,000 horses raw, it should be possible, right? If he hadn't injured Hauge by mistake, the whole army would have been wiped out by now, but for the sake of taking care of the faces of the soldiers of the border army, he didn't say anything.

The army didn't come out for long, and it met the army of Ma Shiliang and Ma Shilong, who had returned from the defeat in Luanzhou!

Sun Chengzong saw the remnants of Ma Shilong supporting each other on the horse, and he almost didn't faint, he knew that he had suffered a big defeat!

Ma Shilong turned over and dismounted, knelt on the ground and cried, "Handsome, Ma Shilong is not angry!" We were almost wiped out! ”

Sun Chengzong froze, "Speak slowly, what's going on?" ”

"I arrived outside the city of Luanzhou, set up a large camp, and began to let the infantry attack the city, it was just a test, I didn't expect Kaiping's Haoge army to come so soon, the cavalry corps charged outside, and thousands of iron cavalry in the city also followed, and a flank attack on both sides! Our 2,000 infantry were wiped out, and I managed to break out of the bloody road with my iron cavalry, or else we would all be dead. Ma Shilong snorted a handful of tears, and his dark face was full of anger and unwillingness!

Sun Chengzong waved his hand, "You get up, you can't be blamed for this, the old man is also responsible, he shouldn't have arranged an ambush in Luanzhou, he should have concentrated all his men and horses to attack Kaiping's Haoge army!" How many centaurs do you have left? ”

Ma Shilong stood up, "More than five hundred cavalry." ”

Sun Chengzong ordered dejectedly, "Scout go and explore!" Look at the camp built by Ma Shilong, is there still a slave? The army will unite and continue to march towards Luanzhou! We just want to sue Sù Jiannu, we are not afraid! We're just clinging to them and pestering them! Moreover, the old man believes that Jiannu will also take care of the heavenly fire in our hands! ”

Ma Shilong looked surprised, he didn't know what Tianhuo was, and while marching, the generals on the side happily told him about the majesty and domineering of Tianhuo! While speaking, he also looked at the submachine guns carried by Zhu Youzhen and Gao Dewei.

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen was not in the mood to care about this, and whispered to Sun Chengzong, "Lord Sun, let's go to Luanzhou City to station, if Jiannu gets angry and goes out of the city to fight us to the death, what should we do?" ”

Sun Chengzong shook his head, "This possibility is very small, if they want to fight, it means that Hauge is dead!" The decisive battle is the decisive battle, next to my Ming Dynasty's Jingshi, we are not afraid of them! ”

Zhu Youzhen sighed, still a little apprehensive in his heart, to be honest, although the battle outside Kaiping City, fortunately not the whole army was wiped out, but his confidence in the combat effectiveness of the Ming army has been greatly discounted, originally he just thought, is it that my Han people are afraid of death, not as brave as the Jiannu outside the Guan? Now it seems that it is not all, the technical and tactical level and morale of the people are much higher than that of the Ming army, even if the equipment is the same and the number of people is comparable, ten Ming infantry may not be able to beat a Houjin cavalry!