Chen Hongfan hurriedly dismounted, knelt on the ground and said: "The ministry is angry, and the lowly officials haven't eaten much, but the officials and generals at the bottom have eaten too much!" ”

Wang Zhichen also had nothing to do with Chen Hongfan for a while.

Since the imperial treasury was full and corruption was strictly investigated, the Ministry of War brought a total of more than 500,000 taels of military salaries to Jizhou.

And Wang Zhichen was worried that one day he would collude with him to resell gunpowder, so he had already let Chen Hongfan monopolize this military salary and use it as a capital to secretly expand soldiers and horses, and listen to his moderation.

But Wang Zhichen didn't expect Chen Hongfan to eat so ruthlessly, before he said to himself that he had recruited 100,000 soldiers and horses, and he wanted to increase his military salary, a few days ago he asked him how many soldiers and horses he actually had, and said that there were 80,000, and now on the day of the expedition, he found that there was not even 80,000 at all.

Wang Zhichen had to ask again: "You tell the truth to this church, how many soldiers and horses are there?" ”

Chen Hongfan replied: "Thirty thousand! ”

"Answer truthfully!"

The king's ministers roared angrily.

"Ten thousand, the ministry is angry!"

Chen Hongfan replied with some embarrassment.

"Can this be ten thousand? If you don't tell the truth again, this parish will ask the king to kill you! ”

Wang Zhichen said.

"Ministry, we are now going to the side of the Qing monarch, we are going to rebel, why are you still taking the order of the Son of Heaven to behead your position."

Chen Hongfan said quite aggrieved.

Wang Zhichen shouted: "This hall said that if you can cut it again, you can cut it!" ”

Wang Zhichen said and ordered: "Come on, take down Chen Hongfan!" ”

"Yes!"

Wang Zhichen's own family members answered.

Seeing this, Chen Hongfan hurriedly said: "The ministry is gracious! To be honest, there are only 3,000 people, but they are all elite! Each can fight well, and one can be worth ten, and besides, if we eat empty wages, will not the tyrant's officials and generals eat empty wages? They certainly don't have twenty thousand! The advantage is still on our side. ”

Wang Zhichen: "......"

But he has no other way now, who has made him and Chen Hongfan become people in the same boat.

So, Wang Zhichen still asked the family to release Chen Hongfan.

……

However, the guards that Zhang Gui trained for the Apocalypse did not eat empty salaries, at least not obviously.

Because the salary is issued by a special logistics officer, not the chief officer.

In addition, the officers have a high amount of pensions, and there are special military judges in-house, and there is a system of regular verification of the status of the soldiers.

Therefore, in the Guards, not to mention that the officers have received strict ideological education and assessment, even if they are paid empty salaries, it is not a very cost-effective thing.

In addition, because Zhang Gui knew that the war had to pay attention to logistics, and in order to solve the problem of the survival of a large number of displaced people, he also organized and trained a large number of logistics battalions for the Tianqi Guards to be responsible for logistics supply.

Therefore, the soldiers and horses led by the apocalypse at this time are said to be more than 20,000 horse infantry troops, but in fact, with the auxiliary soldiers of the logistics battalion and the temporarily organized people, there are no less than 50,000 soldiers and horses.

The king's ministers did not know any of this.

Now he is still leading Chen Hongfan's 3,000 soldiers and horses to continue to come to Beijing.

But even if Wang Zhichen didn't know how much the 20,000 soldiers and horses of the Apocalypse had been paid, he was still a little worried because he actually only had more than 3,000 soldiers and horses on his side, so he asked Chen Hongfan: "Can your 3,000 soldiers and horses really clear the king's side?" ”

Chen Hongfan said: "Please rest assured! The three thousand soldiers and horses are all elite, all of them are armored, and they are powerful, how can the soldiers and horses of the imperial court be compared. ”

Wang Zhichen looked at it and said, "Well, this hall does look like it has a sense of vitality!" ”

"Report! There is a court army ahead! ”

At this time, Chen Hongfan's sentry rode to report it.

Seeing this, Wang Zhichen ordered: "Hurry up and prepare to destroy the enemy!" ”

The guards on the Apocalypse's side also discovered the rebels and began to rebel in preparation for the next battle.

Soon, in the afternoon, the main forces of the two armies officially met and set up a formation.

"Huh, why are there so many?!"

Wang Zhichen looked at the evening sunset, pressing the horizon to appear, the armor was shining, like an iron stream pouring in, the imperial army said, in astonishment.

"Hey, why so little?!"

At this time, the apocalypse on the opposite side saw the rebels on the opposite side standing in twos and threes under the sunset. He also said in astonishment, and said to Xiong Tingbi, who had been promoted to the secretary of the military department: "Didn't his king's minister say that he would come to the side of the Qing monarch with an army of 100,000? ”

Xiong Tingbi said: "Back to Your Majesty!" It may be that they are eating too badly. ”

"Then what are you waiting for, Xiong Qing, you lead the infantry army to advance quickly to annihilate the enemy, and I personally lead the cavalry to outflank them!"

As he spoke, the apocalypse rode away on his own.

Xiong Tingbi had no choice but to obey the order here, and decisively let the spear rush forward first with the spear in hand.

"This ......"

Chen Hongfan already had the idea of escaping from the battle.

But because Wang Zhichen, the governor of Jiliao, was still by his side, he had not yet made up his mind completely.

Wang Zhichen is actually a civil servant who doesn't know much about soldiers, and he is better at making money, so now he is just asking Chen Hongfan: "Chief soldier Chen, what should you do now?" ”

Chen Hongfan glanced at the infantry on the opposite side, and all the spearmen who rushed quickly were there, and he had confidence for a while, and said, "Don't worry!" Their infantry dared to charge at our cavalry and wait for their duty to defeat them. ”

As he spoke, Chen Hongfan rushed over with his cavalry.

But none of the spearmen of the Guards showed any intention of flinching, and bit at his cavalry like rows of fangs, completely taking out a life-for-life posture.

These spearmen were well-trained Guards spearmen, and their method of combat was simple, that is, they rushed desperately with spears.

Seeing this, Chen Hongfan decisively chose to escape, did not choose to fight to the death, and then quickly ran towards Jizhou City before the cavalry of the Guards led by Tianqi himself completed the roundabout encirclement.

Chen Hongfan and his subordinates are very good at riding, especially when they escape, because they have rich experience in escaping.

Chen Hongfan was able to rise to the rank of chief soldier, in addition to being good at spending money, he was good at escaping from the battle, and he ran directly from a small general flag to a general soldier.

Therefore, he insisted on running out with hundreds of cavalry before the cavalry of the Guards closed up.

And Wang Zhichen was too late here, because he was sitting in a sedan chair.

That's right, he, like most civil officials, can't even ride a horse, and he can become the governor of Jiliao, but it is purely because the person in the position of the governor of Jiliao changed too quickly, and it was his turn.

When Wang Zhichen saw Chen Hongfan fleeing, he was also anxious, and he wished that he could gallop on horseback.

But now he had to shout, "Carry the hall away!" ”

But Wang Zhichen's palanquin man had already run away.

For a moment, he could only watch as the cavalry of the Guards surrounded him.

For a while, Wang Zhichen had no choice but to draw his scribe sword, thinking, "Do you want to be martyred?" Earn a reputation for your family after being a martyr? ”

Wrong!

Soon, Wang Zhichen realized that he was now rebelling, and he was going to the side of the Qing monarch, not to kill the enemy for the imperial court.

Self-suicide is not considered martyrdom, at most it is suicide in fear of sin.

By this time, the Apocalypse had already ridden towards him.

When Wang Zhichen was struggling with whether to commit suicide in fear of sin, he saw the Apocalypse and the Son of Heaven behind the Apocalypse, and because of this, he knelt on the ground on the spot and cried: "Your Majesty! ”

"Devouring the Starry Sky: Signing in to Become a God"