"Fuck it! Have the ability to give Lao Tzu a good time! ”

"Shut up!"

"Get on your knees!"

The dilapidated Dong'e outside the city and Tian Cewei took over some of the courtyards outside the city that still existed, leaving a courtyard for Zhu Youzhen to rest.

Just as he sat down, there was a cacophony of noise outside the bedroom.

Zhu Youzhen walked out of the bedroom, and when he came to the door, he saw Sun Ji, the commander of the Tiance Guard, with six Tiance guards, escorting a man dressed in tattered paper armor and unkempt hair to him.

The two soldiers swung their knives, and the scabbard hit the man's leg, causing him to kneel directly on the rammed ground, and Sun Ji also said:

"Your Highness, this is Shen Zhi, the head of the thief."

"You're the King of Qi, aren't you? Hehe...... It's just a doll, and she still learns to lead soldiers? This time it's Lao Tzu......" Although Shen Zhi knelt down, his mouth was unforgiving.

"Smack-" Sun Ji slapped him in the face, and the sudden slap made him speechless for a while.

It's Zhu Youzhen, he doesn't have a good impression of people like Shen Zhi.

It's not that the other party doesn't have a good impression of the other party because they are rebels, but because they don't have a good impression of their actions.

Therefore, without waiting for Shen Zhi to speak, Zhu Youzhen said:

"If you rebel because the court is not effective in disaster relief, or you can't survive, you can pay three points to you."

"It's just that you are just bewitching the people for your own selfish desires, and you also ordered the slaughter of the city, such an act, the human face and the heart of the beast are ......"

After that, Zhu Youzhen glanced slightly, looked at Sun Ji, and explained:

"Pull to the north tower of Dong'e City, hook the tongue and set up ......"

"Yes!" Sun Ji responded when he heard this, and Shen Zhi heard that Zhu Youzhen wanted to torture him like this, and immediately wanted to break free of the soldiers who held him back, but with his personal strength, he could only be escorted away in unwillingness.

A quarter of an hour later, Sun Ji asked people to use a one-foot iron hook to penetrate Shen Zhi's tongue, hook it and pull it out, fix it on the wooden frame, and then tie Shen Zhi to the wooden frame of the cross, standing straight on the tower of Dong'a Beicheng.

He cried out in pain, but because his tongue was hooked out, he could only cry and get angry, and at last he was abandoned on the gate tower.

The wind and snow in October were biting, and Shen Zhi's body was getting colder and colder, and finally the wound on his tongue finally coagulated, but it was torn open because of his powerless gesture of bowing his head.

His wail rang out again, a scene that made the surviving refugees outside the city both angry and terrified.

In addition to their fear, Zhu Youzhen ordered Sun Ji to lead 3,000 troops to recover Pingyin.

The distance between Dong'e and Pingyin is only fifty or sixty miles, so before dawn, Sun Ji brought the heads of the generals of the Pingyin rebels to restore Pingyin.

After a short rest of three hours, Zhu Youzhen left 100 households of soldiers and horses to escort the capture of Dong'e and Pingyin, and he led 5,000 troops to continue south to quell the rebellion.

His next target was Xia Zhongjing, a rebel general with more than 10,000 troops and a hundred miles away besieging Dongpingzhou......

"Boom-"

"Run! The officers and soldiers have fired! ”

"No retreat! No return! Take a step back and slash! ”

Almost when Zhu Youzhen left, it was also very lively inside and outside Dongping City.

The volley of artillery caused tens of thousands of displaced people outside the city to run around.

Except for the overseer team, which numbered no more than 1,000 people, the other tens of thousands of displaced people were already scattered.

They were like headless flies, and when they heard the sound of the cannon, they retreated in a hurry, and when the cannon sound was over, they pushed the cloud cart forward under the supervision of the overseer.

Among the rebels, the man wearing a red scarf held all kinds of farm tools and carried bags of sand to fill the moat, and at the rear of the battlefield, Xia Zhongjing, the rebel general, also cursed:

"Rubbish!"

"Tens of thousands of people can't break through a city with only 500 people garrisoned!"

Xia Zhongjing was very angry at this sentence, but it also illustrated the gap between the two sides.

But things on the battlefield often can't be judged by numbers.

Let tens of thousands of rebels dressed in single clothes and holding farm tools in their hands, it can be said that a few days ago the rebels who were still peasants went to attack Yuan Keli and stayed in Dongping City, five hundred elites in armor, plus there were tens of thousands of people in the city, and thousands of men helped garrison it, and it was normal that they could not be defeated.

But Xia Zhongjing didn't think so, as a Ming version of the MLM leader before the rebellion, he didn't know how to lead troops to fight at all, and he didn't know how to attack the city.

Right now, he is completely relying on the yellowed copy of "The Art of War" in his hand to sharpen his knife.

Under such a sharp sharpening of the knife, he still thought that he had the ability to command thousands of troops.

"The team is pressing, before sunset today, Dongping must be defeated!"

Xia Zhongjing was dressed in the snatched armor and commanded his subordinates to give orders, and the way to pass the orders was to let people run to the front and tell the soldiers of the Overseer team one by one in the most direct and stupid way.

In other words, the overseers actually have no direct generals, their direct general is Xia Zhongjing, and Xia Zhongjing actually drank tea and watched the play a mile away from the overseers.

But even so, under the deterrence of the warlords, the rebels still intensified their attack on Dongping.

After two hours passed, rebels began to land on the city wall, and Xia Zhongjing saw this, and immediately stood up from his chair and said:

"Seeing that there is no there, let the people of the Warlord team press on it, and attack the city from that gap!"

"Yes!" Hearing Xia Zhongjing's words, the soldiers around him began to urge the Overseer team again, and in this situation, the Overseer team was gradually gathered, and Xia Zhongjing hadn't noticed that the distance between him and the Overseer team had exceeded three miles.

"After conquering Dongping City, I will be able to build armor and recruit troops, hahahaha......"

Xia Zhongjing laughed, and then he suddenly heard some muffled voices.

"Huh?" He frowned slightly, then looked up to the sky:

"What's going on? Sullen thunder? ”

Xia Zhongjing looked at the sky for a while, but felt that the dull sound in his ears was getting closer and closer, and finally ......

"Boom ......"

When the rumbling sound of horses' hooves appeared, a red wave was hitting the horizon a few miles behind Xia Zhongjing.

"Broken thief!"

Among the iron horses, Zhu Youzhen rode wildly, Lu Wenzhao and Lu Xiu took the armored brocade guards to defend him left and right, and then there was the Tiance Guard Iron Horse like a red tide.

In two hours, without changing horses and people, the army soared a hundred miles until it reached Dongping City, and Xia Zhongjing's big tent became a target.

"No pond ride, no big flag, no order, no order...... It deserves to be broken! ”

Zhu Youzhen whipped him, and the war horse under his crotch also went crazy.

The generals around him saw that their Qi King was not stage frightened, and in order to protect him and show his bravery, everyone whipped one after another, and for a time increased the speed of the horse to the extreme.

"Run!"

When Xia Zhongjing saw the red tide of the Ming army's iron cavalry rushing to the battlefield, he snatched the reins of the horse in the hands of the soldier next to him, and turned over on the horse while urging the horse, and was about to flee the battlefield on the horse, unable to raise the slightest intention of commanding the army to resist.

"Lu Xiu! Get me the guy who ran on horseback! ”

Zhu Youzhen turned his head sideways and gave an order to Lu Xiu next to him, and Lu Xiu also looked at him: "Get the order!" ”

With that, he drew his knife from his leg and slashed the horse's hip with a stab wound on the horse's hip, and the stimulated horse also neighed and galloped forward, and the horse suddenly passed the iron horsemen around him.

"Prepare for the protrusion!"

Zhu Youzhen bowed down and rode his horse, holding a knife in one hand and a rein in the other, and gave an order to Sun Ji beside him.

Seeing this, Sun Ji hurriedly asked people to wave the flag.

The three flags around the Chinese army began to wave, and without much words, thousands of iron horsemen began to disperse in a fan shape, with twelve people as a team, rushing towards the battlefield.

"Reinforcements from the officers and soldiers are coming! Come on! ”

"Run!"

The rebels were not all fools, and some of them saw the red tide rushing towards them, and immediately threw away the siege equipment in their hands, ignoring the cloud carts and sandbags, and scattered in a hurry.

The Warlord team stuck in the middle is not running, nor is it not running.

When they were at a loss, Zhu Youzhen had already led the troops to arrive, spanning three miles.

The 100 squads in the front row raised their horses, and with the sound of "crackling" bullets under the pull of the trigger, thick smoke then rose, and like wheat falling in autumn, the rebels of the Overseer began to fall in rows.

"Squat down and surrender without killing!"

When the cavalry was finished, the former iron cavalry skillfully roared while putting the cavalry back into the bag, but at the same time as he roared, he also drew a long knife and a short hammer.

"Uh-huh...... Run! ”

The figure of the iron knight in the pupils gradually enlarged, and after all, someone couldn't stand it and turned to run away, and this run completely invalidated the circle formation of the Overseer team.

The Chinese iron cavalry in the back row staggered his position, raised his gun and aimed at the round formation of the warlord, and pulled the trigger in the next second.

The sparks flew and the shield was pierced, and the soldiers holding the shield fell in rows, revealing the unsuspecting rebels of the Overseer behind the shield array.

"Kill—"

When thousands of iron horsemen rushed head-on, the warlords without formation were chiseled through, crushed, and knocked into the air in an instant.

The short hammer and long knife have become the best weapons for harvesting life, and Zhu Youzhen took out his four-force bow with a thousand golden bodies, rode back and forth in the chaos, and shot nine arrows in a row, each arrow did not enter the cheeks of the rebels......

Lu Wenzhao and Sun Ji followed Zhu Youzhen closely, but after following for a while, they found that it was not necessary.

Zhu Youzhen's equestrian and archery skills are too good, he knows that he is not old and has little strength, so he does not draw his sword to fight at all, but uses a bow and arrow to face the face every few steps.

Seeing this, the two also began to fight to their heart's content, and at this time, Lu Xiu, who had come out of the battle in advance, rushed from a distance, and the tip of the five-foot-long knife still had a person's head hanging on it.

"Xia Zhongjing is dead! The armies are persuaded to surrender, but those who surrender will not be killed! ”

Zhu Youzhen, who was on the horse, had been paying attention to the Quartet, and when he saw Lu Xiu returning victoriously, he shouted loudly when he was riding the horse.

As soon as he shouted, more than 100 Tiance Guard Iron Horsemen who were guarding him noticed it, and they all shouted.

And their shout directly stunned everyone.

The Warlords were also completely annihilated by the Ming army at this moment, leaving only the rebels who retreated to each side.

The group of peasants with farm tools in their hands looked around, and when they saw that the overseers had all fallen to the ground in less than a quarter of an hour after the battle, and that there were few corpses of officers and soldiers on the ground, they also dropped their farm tools and crouched down in surrender.

"Surrender!"

Zhu Youzhen shook off his right arm, which was sore from pulling the bow many times, and ordered at the same time.

After Sun Ji received the order, he also began to order people to surrender, and asked people to go to Dongping City to let the Zhizhou in the city prepare meals and bean feed.

The changing battlefield situation made the Dongping defenders dumbfounded, and no one expected that the battle would suddenly end in a quarter of an hour.

When they saw the documents hanging on behalf of the king of Qi, the governor of Dongping Prefecture on the head of the city immediately crawled with a bloody face, and asked people to open the city gate and kill the sheep and the army.

He wanted to see Zhu Youzhen, but Zhu Youzhen didn't have time to deal with him.

After the battle, he led the people in brocade clothes away from the battlefield for three miles, and then sat on the ground, panting for breath, twisting his somewhat stiff right arm.

"Lu Xiu, remember your merits, and after returning to Beijing, go find Huachun to pay a thousand taels of silver!"

Zhu Youzhen did not hesitate to reward, and when Lu Xiu heard this, he also took off Xia Zhongjing's head on the tip of the knife and handed it to the brocade guard next to him, and then said with a smile: "Thank Your Highness for your favor." ”

When he was happy, Sun Ji and Lu Wenzhao, who had a lot of blood stains on their bodies, also rode over, and then turned over and dismounted.

Sun Ji first made a report: "Your Highness and the rebels have all been defeated, and the beheadings should be around two thousand, and the number of prisoners will not be less than seven thousand. ”

"When the army gallops, the military horses that are left to recover their horsepower are also on the way south, thirty miles away from here, and it is estimated that it will take another hour to walk slowly."

Although one person and four horses are the standard of four horsemen, it is easy to lose weight if they gallop too much.

In addition, if one person and four horses rushed into the battlefield, I was afraid that a lot of horses would be damaged, so after galloping to a distance of 20 miles from Dongping, Zhu Youzhen ordered 300 people to stay behind, take care of more than 15,000 military horses, and help them recover their horsepower, while he led the troops to gallop and kill Dongpingzhou.

Dongping's battle was even simpler and easier than he imagined, compared to Shen Zhi of Dong'a, he could still command the soldiers and horses to defend in formation, which dragged on for two quarters of an hour. Dongping Xia Zhongjing's performance can be said to be sparse.

Although in the face of Tiance Guard, even the same number of Jianjiao did not dare to say that they could win, but at least the generals should retreat with the elite.

If the foundation is gone, it's useless to run out alone.

"The rebel rabble, wait for the follow-up military horses to arrive, set off immediately, search for Xu Hongru's traces, and decide a battle!"

After fighting two battles in a row, Zhu Youzhen also figured out the quality of the rebel generals and the quality of the soldiers and horses.

In general, the rebellion of the Wenxiang Sect this time basically used one-tenth of the elite to coerce nine-tenths of the rebellious people to attack the city.

But this so-called elite, let alone dealing with the elite of the Ming army, is that they can't deal with some guards wearing mandarin duck battle jackets.

But that's fine, although the rebels' combat strength is not good, if the good news of the continuous defeat of the enemy spreads, then it can greatly deter the vassal kings of the Central Plains.

Yes, Zhu Youzhen wants to take this opportunity to renovate the vassal kings of the Central Plains in one breath and release tens of millions of acres of vassal kings' fields.

"Your Highness, Dongping Zhizhou prepared pigs and mutton ...... for the brothers"

Half an hour after Zhu Youzhen gave the order, Tian Cewei cleaned up the battlefield and ordered Dongping Zhizhou to take care of the prisoners, and Lu Wenzhao also came over with a plate of roast lamb legs.

Zhu Youzhen glanced at the leg of mutton, then glanced at the Tiance guards and horses who were sitting on the grass to rest, cut the mutton with a knife in one hand and the other hand, and then asked:

"Go and ask Sun Ji, how are the casualties of our army?"

"Back to His Highness, seventeen people were injured, and none of them died, but more than one hundred and twenty military horses were injured in the legs, and after the injuries recovered, I am afraid that they can only be used as horses."

Lu Wenzhao came prepared, and had already asked Sun Ji about the deaths and injuries of the soldiers and horses.

But even so, the news that no one died in Tiancewei is still quite shocking.

Just looking back, it's not surprising that no one was killed or injured, and when there were no blunt weapons, how could these emaciated farmers cause harm to them?

"Let the armies eat quickly, and set off for Yuncheng in half an hour, Yu Linwei is estimated to have arrived in Yuncheng."

Zhu Youzhen was in a hurry to capture Xu Hongru, and Lu Wenzhao hurriedly went to inform Sun Ji when he saw this.

Fortunately, Dongping has abundant materials, horse material and grain.

After feeding the war horses with horse feed to restore their horsepower, Sun Ji personally came to pay his respects, and Zhu Youzhen directly ordered when he heard this:

"Each person brings three catties of beans on the horse and marches to Yuncheng!"

"Get the order—" Sun Ji responded, and then asked the herald to give orders to the whole army.

At this moment, it was already six quarters of the unitary hour (18:30), and a touch of fish white belly gradually appeared on the horizon, and the army was ready to set off towards Yuncheng, which was one hundred and twenty miles away.

In order to capture Xu Hongru alive, Zhu Youzhen couldn't care about horsepower, and the army rushed towards Yuncheng, which was one hundred and twenty miles away.

Thirty miles to change once has become the norm of Tiance Guard, but when the sky is dark, and the army is only thirty miles away from Yuncheng, suddenly the Tang cavalry in front of him fired an arrow.

"Appeal ......"

Seeing the sound of the arrow exploding in the night sky, Zhu Youzhen also spoke:

"The whole army dismounts and regains its horsepower."

Night is not as good as day, there is no flag to read, so it can only be passed on by word of mouth.

Fortunately, the army was relatively gathered, so it was only a tea time, everyone turned over and dismounted, and then fed the prepared three catties of beans to the four war horses.

After two teas, the light of fire came towards the army in the dark night.

A team of brocade-clothed guards rode their horses, turned over and dismounted, and said to Zhu Youzhen:

"Your Highness and Yu Linwei have sent news that Yuncheng has been breached, and Xu Hongru has already driven to Jining two days ago."

"......" heard that Xu Hongru had gone to fight Jining, so Zhu Youzhen asked:

"How many soldiers and horses did you bring?"

"Yuncheng is returning thousands of elites, tens of thousands of chaotic people, and some other chaotic people scattered in the countryside are also gathering to Xu Hongru's headquarters." Jin Yiwei replied, and after Zhu Youzhen heard this, he turned his head to Lu Wenzhao and said:

"Where is Yuan Keli now?"

"Back to His Royal Highness, Governor Yuan should be in Ziyang County," Lu Wenzhao replied.

"Ziyang County ......" Zhu Youzhen muttered, and then frowned:

"According to the speed of the rebels' walking, the rebels should be sixty miles away from our southeast right now, and Yuan Keli should also know the intentions of the rebels, and the two sides should meet tomorrow morning and fight each other on the east side of Shushan Lake."

"Your Highness, we ......" Lu Wenzhao said tentatively, while Zhu Youzhen raised his hand and said:

"First deal with the other rebels who are trying to join forces with Xu Hongru." After that, Zhu Youzhen ordered Sun Ji:

"Order the whole army to rest for two hours, and set off south in two hours, tomorrow I will capture Xu Hongru alive!"

(End of chapter)