The shouts of killing in the city shook the sky.

On the castle tower of the southern city.

The red lady guarded Li Yan.

Next to Gu Shunyi, Li Moran and Tang Wancai were all standing here.

Gongzi Li Yan lay quietly on the bed, his pale face slowly turned bloody, and his weak breathing became more and more regular.

Just after the second watch, Li Yan opened his eyes.

"Wake up, wake up...... Childe woke up......

The red lady cried with joy, Tang Wancai all came around, His Majesty said that he could wake up before the third watch, and it was really not bad.

Li Yan's vision saw that these people were blurry, and gradually became clear.

「…… Where is this? …… Could it be that it didn't come true in a dream?" Li Yan's lips moved slightly, and his voice was weak.

"General...... This is not a dream, Your Majesty is here, Your Majesty has treated you with a ......" The red lady cried with joy.

"Your Majesty? …… Thank you for Your Majesty's grace......" Li Yan's face was full of excitement.

"The general has a good rest, His Majesty's reinforcements have also arrived, the thieves have been killed, Hu Maozhen has run away, Ma Huabao is dead, and His Majesty is cleaning up the remnants of the enemy in the city."

"Hooray...... Hooray, hooray...... Go and ...... Don't worry about me......" Li Yan said and pushed the red lady away.

Leaving a few soldiers to serve here, the Red Lady, Tang Wancai, Li Moran, Gu Shunyi and others left Li Yan's room.

Their mission was to defend the southern city and not let go of a single soldier of the thieves.

At this time, the red lady, regardless of the fatigue of continuous battles, was full of endless strength, commanded hundreds of soldiers under his command, and killed and captured all the fleeing thieves.

……

The shouts of killing in the Beicheng area shook the sky.

Wang Chengen and Li Mou, with 4,000 soldiers and Jinyi guards, rushed to the north gate before dark and entered the city like a tide.

1,000 Jinyi guards and 3,000 cavalry advanced from north to south.

At this time, the thieves stranded in the city were mainly the remnants of Zhang Shiyi and some of Hu Maozhen's stranded soldiers and horses, as well as the part of Liu Liangzuo's partial division that failed to escape, adding up to more than 20,000 people.

The number of thieves is the largest, but these soldiers will be killed because of the main general, and the dragons will be leaderless, and they will fight separately.

was soon beheaded by the Ming army in the streets and alleys, and most of them knelt down and begged to be prisoners in order to survive......

Under the cover of night, Lu Xiaofeng in the southeast of the city with 500 soldiers was chasing and killing the remnants of Ma Huabao.

Ma Huabao was cut off by Chongzhen at the head of the city, and all his soldiers and generals saw it.

Therefore, the hearts of these 10,000 soldiers and horses were scattered, and they could not form an army. At this time, Lu Xiaofeng came out of the city with soldiers and horses, and it was night, and the shouts of 500 people were also the momentum of thousands of troops.

The 10,000 thieves surrendered one after another, and some of them fled.

Lu Xiaofeng left 300 people to guard the prisoners, and led 200 cavalry to chase and kill the fleeing thieves overnight, chasing for more than ten miles in one go, until these thieves and thieves ran away without a trace, and Lu Xiaofeng collected his troops and came back.

Until the third watch, Lu Xiaofeng's 500 men and horses killed more than 1,000 thieves and generals, and captured three or four thousand people.

……

On the third watch that night, there was a three-way intersection dozens of miles southeast of the city.

Liu Zeqing's three-way pursuers became three-way deserters, and the remnants of the defeated soldiers converged here to rectify the soldiers and horses.

Hu Maozhen's 10,000 soldiers and horses, there are still 7,000 left, the remnants of Ma Huabao ran back with more than 2,000 people, and Zhang Shiyi's 10,000 soldiers and horses were all wiped out, and none of them came back.

30,000 chasing soldiers, there are only more than 9,000 people left in front of him, Ma Huabao was killed, and Zhang Shiyi has not come back until now, it must be more than lucky.

In such a war situation, Hu Maozhen didn't know how to explain to Liu Zeqing when he went back.

At this moment, Ma Luan also came to their army with more than a dozen martial arts masters.

In the first battle of Tianchang, dozens of martial arts masters invited by Ma Luan planned to beat Chongzhen with more victories and fewer victories, but suffered heavy losses.

Hu Deji, the savage of Paradise Village, was killed, Ye Xiaohan, the deputy leader of the Beggar Gang, was killed, Xia Chenglong and Xia Suiliang, and He Taichong, the two veterans of the Erxian Guanguan

and Zhang Songzhou and others were seriously injured.

Only Nanjing Jinyiwei commanded Ma Luan to retreat.

After he escaped from the city with the Jinyi Wei and the disciples of the Beggar Gang and the injured martial arts masters, he also planned to go to Yangzhou and join Hu Maozhen's men and horses here.

These defeated generals, including martial arts masters, were all dejected and sighed.

originally planned to eat Li Yan's soldiers and horses, but he never dreamed that Chongzhen could come so quickly, otherwise, how could he be so defeated?

Ma Luan said: "You don't have to be discouraged, victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, my master will soon be out of the customs, faint Jun Chongzhen can only bow down in front of my master, let's go to Yangzhou first, Yangzhou City is high and deep, solid as gold, and fight to the death with faint monarch in Yangzhou City."

"Master Ma has a point." These martial arts masters all agreed.

They know that Ma Luan's master, Jinzhang Wu Shen, is an unfathomable Zen master, and is now the old abbot of Nanjing Bao'en Temple, and the abbot of Shaolin Temple (referring to North Shaolin and Songshan Shaolin Temple) is as famous as the abbot of Shaolin Temple.

Especially in the Jiangnan martial arts family, Wu Shen is definitely a master second to none.

These martial arts masters are just looking at Ma Luan's master's face, and they will respect Ma Luan, only Ma Luan is the head of the horse, not because of Ma Luan's identity as the commander of the Nanjing Jinyi Guard, the martial arts world and the official road have always been two-legged.

Hu Maozhen said: "But the commander makes it difficult to enter Yangzhou City."

Everyone was shocked and looked at Hu Maozhen.

Ma Luan said, "Why did General Hu say this?"

Hu Maozhen smiled bitterly, "Master Ma and everyone don't know, Yangzhou City hides the dragon and crouching tiger, the people are fierce, and there are more Yangzhou soldiers Liu Zhaoji, Yangzhou prefect Ma Minglu, and Tang Laihe, who promoted the official Tang Laihe, they organized the soldiers and civilians in the city to close their doors. Uncle Gao Jie failed to enter Yangzhou City at the beginning, and now Uncle Liu Zeqing has not been able to enter Yangzhou City."

"Oh, such a thing?"

Of course, these martial arts masters don't know the inside story, they are all Nanming's territory, and Nanming's army can't enter the city?

"If they want to rebel and fail, do they dare to resist the will and disrespect it?" Ma Luan's eyes immediately widened when he heard this.

Emperor Wu of the Ming Dynasty Chongzhen