Let's go back and talk about Zhu Gaoyuan.

In fact, he only delayed for half a night in Guide, and then he sorted out the situation in Guide with a quick knife to cut through the chaos, and after arranging the affairs of Guide, he continued to go south.

And from Guide to the south, it was already under the control of the Ming army,

Therefore, Zhu Gaoyuan and the 1,000 Yiding accompanying him no longer need to travel day and night.

Therefore, from Guide to the south, it is a day and night journey, and the speed becomes faster.

From Tongzhou to Guide for more than 1,000 miles, Zhu Gaoyuan walked for nine nights, but from Guide Mansion to Yizhen for more than 800 miles, he only walked for six days, with an average of 140 miles a day!

This marching speed was already very close to Xiahou Yuan's speed record.

Xiahou Yuan, who was named "Xiahou Swift" by the history books, once created a long-distance cavalry march record of six days and a thousand miles, which is also a marching record clearly recorded in the history books.

When you arrive, you can still go into battle.

There are also tigers and leopards who forcibly march 300 miles a day, and they also enter the battle immediately after arriving.

However, these marching records are nothing compared to the Mongol cavalry, which can march tens of thousands of miles in two months, with an average of more than 180 miles per day!

In the thirteenth century, the Mongol cavalry made several westward expeditions, with an average daily speed of more than 150 li.

What is even more exaggerated is that the Mongol cavalry not only marched, but also included the time of the battle.

Of course, the Mongolian cavalry had an advantage that the Central Plains cavalry could not compare, that is, Maduo.

The Mongol cavalry usually had two or even three horses, which could be switched for riding, while the Central Plains cavalry generally had only one horse.

Zhu Gaoyuan's Qianyiding is also a Mongolian cavalry, the people are Mongolians, and the horses are Mongolian horses, but there is only one horse, so after a long-distance march of more than 1,800 miles in half a month, there is nothing wrong with the Qianyiding, but the fat loss of the war horses is extremely serious, and many war horses are already on the verge of exhaustion.

Horses are like that, you don't stop them and they run until they die.

The other is that those eunuchs and nobles are about to be unable to hold on.

Especially those nobles who have been pampered since childhood, they have already complained of hardship.

However, Zhu Gaoyuan did not have the slightest sympathy, and continued to forcibly march south.

Finally, on the evening of May 4, Zhu Gaoyuan rushed to Yizhen with 1,000 Yiding.

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When the horn sounded outside the line, Huang Degong was drinking in his tent.

Huang Degong is also from the army, but he is fundamentally different from Liu Zeqing, who is also from the army, and is even more different from Gao Jie and Liu Liangzuo, two thieves.

Wherever Huang Degong went to suppress thieves, he would strictly restrain military discipline and absolutely not allow nuisance and plundering of the people.

Unless he encountered thieves coming to attack the city, Huang Degong did not even allow his own army to enter the city and station, but only allowed to camp outside the city, and did not commit any crime against the people.

It is precisely because of this that the people of Luzhou Mansion, Anqing Mansion and Chizhou Mansion have set up a shrine for him, which is a spontaneous act of the common people, not persecution.

This shows how strict Huang Degong's military discipline is.

And Huang Degong is not greedy for money, nor is he lustful, the only thing is to drink.

Huang Degong had to drink almost every meal, and he could control himself not to get drunk in the early stage, but when he became one of the warlords of the four towns in Jiangbei, he also began to swell, and he was drunk almost every time he drank.

But now Huang Degong has not yet begun to expand.

Hearing the sound of the horn outside the gate, Huang Degong also said that Gao Jie led the troops to commit the crime, and said that a thief is a thief, and a dog can never change eating, and finally stretched out the dog's paws to Nanjing? So today, this town will cut off your dog's claws, so that your insatiable thief can have a long memory.

At that moment, Huang Degong deduced and got up: "Come on, put on armor for this town!" ”

When even two family members lifted the curtain and entered, they put on armor for Huang Degong.

After only a moment, the straight body armor was already put on, and then the shackle was put on his head, and he took the double iron whip from the hands of the family, and Huang Degong came out of the tent proudly, and his weapon was a double iron whip.

At this time, the 30,000 soldiers and horses under Huang Degong's command had already rushed out of the tent and drove behind the fence to wait for them, these 30,000 people were all soldiers, including more than 7,000 cavalry.

Although Huang Degong's strength is not as strong as Gao Jie's, his strength is still very strong.

"The town!" Seeing Huang Degong riding over, the soldiers gave way to both sides.

Before the thieves captured Beijing, Chongzhen had issued an edict to entitle Wu Sangui as Pingxibo and Huang Degong as Jingnanbo, but the generals and soldiers in the army were still used to calling him the head town.

Huang Degong bowed his head and said, "What about the thieves? ”

Deputy General Tian Xiong frowned and said, "Yu Zongzhen, it doesn't seem to be Gao Jie's thief. ”

"What, not Gao Jie?" Huang Degong had already ridden his horse to the front of the formation as he spoke, and when he looked up, he saw that a well-organized cavalry had already lined up on the opposite side.

The number of this cavalry is not very large, at most a thousand horsemen.

But it gives people a strong sense of oppression, Huang Degong has experienced countless battles, is a discerning person, and can see at a glance that this is a real elite cavalry, much stronger than the 7,000 cavalry under his command.

Another is that this cavalry seems to have marched forcibly, and many of the horses are so tired that they are foaming at the mouth.

Huang Degong's face immediately showed a look of doubt, such a forced march at the expense of horsepower, after encountering the enemy, there is still horsepower to fight? Is this a rush to give him a head?

At this time, the sound of trumpets and cannons suddenly sounded on the opposite side.

Immediately, a horse slowly came out of the formation and came this way.

When I got a little closer, I saw that this person was wearing a python robe and a three-mountain hat, and he turned out to be a eunuch.

Seeing that this person had no intention of stopping, the generals and family members on both sides of Huang Degong pulled their bows and arrows, preparing to shoot this eunuch to death with an arrow, but Huang Degong hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop it.

When he got closer and could see the eunuch's appearance clearly, Huang Degong's face suddenly changed.

Huang Degong once served as the deputy chief soldier in Beijing, and he knew many great eunuchs in the Forbidden City, and he could recognize this one in front of him even more turned into ashes - Admiral Wang Chengen, the eunuch of Jingying.

"Princess!" Huang Degong hurriedly turned over and dismounted, and threw himself to the ground.

The civil officials of the Ming Dynasty were proud of themselves and did not take the eunuchs in their eyes, and the generals did not dare.

In normal times, Wang Chengen may not take a look at Huang Degong, but now it is different from the past, the world is in turmoil right now, and the status of military generals has actually been greatly improved.

"Don't dare to be, Jing Anbo has tormented our family."

Wang Chengen hurriedly dismounted and returned the salute, but he almost fell.

"Princess, be careful!" Huang Degong hurriedly stepped forward and held on, "Slip carefully." ”

"It's not slippery." Wang Chengen shook his head and said, "It's a hurried march of more than 1,800 miles, and our two legs have been ground to the point of flesh and blood." ”

"More than 1,800 miles of rapid march?"

Huang Degong's expression froze when he heard this, what's going on?

Wang Chengen waved his hand again and said, "Don't talk about this, Jing Anbo hurriedly followed our family to see the saint." ”

"Holy Lord?!" Huang Degong exclaimed in surprise, glared at Wang Chengen in disbelief and shouted, "Princess, what did you just say?" Holy? Did I hear me right? ”

Huang Degong's roar was also heard by the soldiers in the front row.

"Holy?" The soldiers in the front row immediately looked at each other in disbelief.

"Our family still dares to deceive Jing Anbo." Wang Chengen waved his hand and said, "Please." ”

At that moment, Huang Degong hung the double iron whip on the side of the saddle, and then left Wang Chengen and galloped towards the cavalry in front of him, shouting the saint in his mouth.

The Ming Dynasty was the most upright in the country, and the emperor's position in the eyes of the gentry and the common people was unshakable.

Therefore, although Zhu Yousong, the king of Lifu, also had a share of Huang Degong, when he learned that the emperor was still alive, he did not hesitate to put Zhu Yousong aside.

With the emperor here, what do you have to do to supervise the country?

"Holy? Holy! Holy Peace?! ”

Huang Degong shouted loudly as he ran.

The Mongol cavalry in the column gave way to the flanks one by one.

Soon a voice sounded from the depths of the queue: "Jing Anbo, I am here." ”

With this voice, a row of civil officials slowly stepped to the sides, revealing a middle-aged man in cotton armor.

It is not appropriate to say that a middle-aged man is not right, Chongzhen is only thirty-three years old this year, but due to his perennial work in state affairs, his temples have grown gray hair, and he looks very haggard.

After running more than 1,800 miles in half a month, can you not be haggard?

Huang Degong had seen Emperor Chongzhen and knew Chongzhen.

Looking at the emperor with a haggard face and gray temples, Huang Degong cried out.

Huang Degong really cried, crying so much that tears and snot flowed down, like a helpless child.

Unlike Gao Jie, Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo, Huang Degong still respects his father very much.

Although Huang Degong has not read much, his admiration for Confucian filial piety is as good as that of scholars.

Zhu Gaoyuan was touched, and even cried along, then the eunuchs cried, and then the civil and military generals and several nobles also cried, and finally Qianyiding also wiped his tears.

Yiding was also emotionally aroused, and he was also sad when he thought of his abandoned wife and children.

This scene stunned the 30,000 Ming troops lined up on the opposite side, what is the situation? What's this?

After a long time, the monarchs and ministers gradually held back their tears, and the Yiding in the array slowly stopped their sorrows.

"Holy." Huang Degong choked up and said, "You must have suffered a lot on the way south from Beijing, right?" The minister failed to go north to King Qin before, and then he failed to meet the holy car halfway, and he deserved death! ”

"This journey is really hard, and I have narrowly escaped several times." Zhu Gaoyuan said with a smile.

"However, it's all over, didn't I get to Yizhen and see Aiqing?"

"Yes, yes, what the Holy One said is very true." Huang Degong nodded again and again, "As long as there is a saint, the Ming Dynasty will still be there, and the thieves will not want to turn the sky upside down!" ”