Chapter 619: Chongzhen's Three-Way Troops (Four Changes)
When he arrived on the shore, even Chongzhen himself felt that the thrilling fight just now was a big deal that had never been done before or since, and he was already desperate at that time.
Now that I think about it, I still have lingering palpitations, thanks to the magic skill of treading waves, otherwise the consequences are really unimaginable.
It took a long time for Liu Zhaoji and these people to kneel in front of Chongzhen to see him and thank him, if it weren't for the emperor's miraculous achievements, fighting water thieves and crocodiles at the bottom of the lake, all of them would be broken bones now, or together with thousands of other soldiers and civilians, they would have become fish and turtles.
At this time, the sky had already darkened, Chongzhen took these soldiers and drove back to Yangzhou City overnight.
When they arrived in Yangzhou, Wang Chengen also entered Yangzhou City with 50,000 soldiers and horses.
As soon as the prince saw that the rain had stopped, he discussed with Li Yanyi, and hurried away overnight.
They rushed to Yangzhou as soon as possible, and they also wanted to rush to Yangzhou Qinwang as soon as possible.
Overnight, 50,000 troops arrived safely in Yangzhou, and the threat of thieves blowing up the lake was lifted.
In the next step, Chongzhen plans to use troops against Liu Zeqing on a large scale, and he must eliminate several of his strategic bases in Jiangbei.
One is Guazhou, the other is Shatou Town, the other is Jiangdu County, and the other is Yizhen County, all of which have Liu Zeqing's heavy troops.
Now Liu Zeqing's territory has shrunk significantly, and he has been driven from Huai'an to the riverside, and almost half of his 100,000 soldiers have been lost.
Now the conditions are also ripe, Chongzhen's soldiers and horses in Yangzhou, together with the 50,000 troops brought by Wang Chengen and Li Yan, plus the thousands of soldiers and horses in Yangzhou and the thousands of captive soldiers reorganized, are close to 70,000 horses.
And now the supply of grain and grass is also very sufficient, on the one hand, the prince is constantly raising escorts to the front line in Shangjing, and on the other hand, every time Chongzhen occupies a place, the local officials of King Qin are also raising grain and grass.
For example, after Chongzhen came to Yangzhou, Ma Minglu, the prefect of Yangzhou, Tang Laihe, the official Tuiguan, and Zheng Guangyuan, the rebel in charge of trough transportation, were all raising grain, grass, soldiers and horses for the imperial court, and logistical supplies.
Therefore, Chongzhen does not have to worry about the grain and grass for the time being, and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses have food and grass together, which is actually a big problem.
These civil and military ministers who came to King Qin in the south shared their worries and worries for Chongzhen, which really saved Chongzhen a lot of heart.
After resting his troops and horses in Yangzhou for two days, Chongzhen immediately divided his troops and sent generals, and decided to use troops on three routes against Liu Zeqing.
sent the generals Li Yan and the Red Lady to lead 20,000 troops to attack Guazhou, sent the generals Liu Zhaoji and Han Hu to lead 20,000 troops to attack Shatou Town, and after taking Shatou Town, they smashed Jiangdu County, and at the same time sent the generals Li Mu and the prefect Sang Kaidi and Chen Qianfu to lead 20,000 troops to attack Yizhen.
Chongzhen sat in Yangzhou, leaving more than 10,000 soldiers and horses to work as kings......
Liu Zeqing's camp in Shatou Town.
Liu Zeqing, Xing Shi, Wang Zuntan and Ma Tianlu waited in Bai Yongfu's Shatou Town military camp for a day and a night, but they did not hear the explosion from the lake.
Several people were very puzzled and anxious.
Wang Zuntan was also very anxious on the surface, but in fact, he was more worried in his heart, worried about whether Chongzhen could hold the lake embankment.
At this time, Ma Tianlu was most anxious in his heart, these three Jianghu martial arts masters were absolutely foolproof, they promised to blow up the lake within one day, why is there no result yet?
was about to send soldiers to investigate, when someone came to report that the five people who were sent to blow up the lake, including the three martial arts masters, were all buried at the bottom of the lake, and none of them were spared.
"What's going on?" Liu Zeqing and the others all widened their eyes.
Zhang Tianlu grabbed the collar of the clothes that reported the incident, and explained the details of the report.
When they learned that Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty had practiced the magic skill of treading waves and killed them all in the lake, these people stared at them incredulously.
Isn't that too mysterious......
Only Wang Zuntan was surprised on the surface, but he was very happy in his heart, and secretly sighed that His Majesty is really a god!
"Uncle, no, there are definitely ghosts here." Zhang Tianlu said.
"Where the ghost you say? Are these people unreliable? They bragged, they didn't have that ability at all, they grandstanded, and they ended up in the lake
self-defeating ......"
Liu Ze's face was pale, every time he had a chance to win, in the end, it was always empty.
Zhang Tianlu said: "No, Uncle is angry, his subordinates suspect that someone has leaked secrets, otherwise Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty would not have been able to kill these three masters in the lake at that juncture, how could they get such accurate information?"
Zhang Tianlu's words made the frightened Wang Zuntan chuckle in his heart.
Liu Zeqing felt that what Zhang Tianlu said was reasonable, "You mean that we have a traitor here?"
Liu Zeqing said, sweeping over everyone's face when his gaze fell on Wang Zuntan's face.
Wang Zuntan gripped the hilt of the sword angrily, "The subordinates also feel that this matter is strange, if there is really a traitor, this kid is too hateful, it is difficult to eliminate the hatred in his heart if he catches him and breaks this person's body into thousands of pieces!"
At this time, Xing handed Liu Zeqing a color and asked him to borrow a step to speak.
When he arrived at a place where there was no one outside the tent, Xing said, "Uncle, the slave family suspects that Wang Zuntan is a female cadre."
"Wang ......" Liu Zeqing stared at Wang's beautiful eyes with a surprised expression, "Impossible...... Brother Taiping is loyal to Benjue, how could he betray Benjue?"
Xing said, "Uncle, this time and that time. People are always changing, and he was loyal to his uncle before, which does not mean that he will never change his mind. In a battle outside Yangzhou, maybe he was arrested, and he surrendered to Chongzhen, who was greedy for life and afraid of death, and came to go undercover. He should have used a bitter trick, because only a few of us know about the bombing of the lake, and who else but him could be a female?"
Liu Zeqing's face was gloomy, and he passed over the few people who knew about it again in his heart, first of all, he and Xing were excluded, Zhang Tianlu and Zhang Tianfu could not be traitors, Hu Maozhen was in Guazhou, and Bai Yongfu had no such possibility, there was only one Wang Zuntan left, could it be that this Wang Zuntan really had a ghost?
Xing Shi said again: "Uncle is not as good as this, let's not wronged him, you can blow him up two sentences to know that it is false and true, just now when we talked about traitors, the slave family looked at his face a little abnormal."
"Madame Gaoming, if it's really this kid, see if Benjue doesn't pick his skin!" Liu Zeqing said and returned to the tent with Xing.
But at this time, Wang Zuntan was gone.
Liu Zeqing, Xing Shi, Bai Yongfu and others hurriedly searched, but the entire camp and the place where Wang Zuntan lived were searched, and there was still no trace of Wang Zuntan.
At this time, a soldier came to report that Wang Zuntan rode a fast horse out of the camp and flew away, saying that Uncle Feng was on an important matter, so no one dared to stop him.
"Sure enough, it's this dog thief, chase after it!" Liu Ze's anger was like thunder.
Soon, Liu Zeqing, Xing Shi, and Bai Yongfu chased out of the camp with a thousand cavalry horses, and they didn't chase ten miles away, when they saw a fast horse galloping in front of them, and the person on the horse was Wang Zuntan, who was carrying a sword.
Liu Zeqing shouted: "Chase quickly, Benjue wants to live!"
Emperor Wu of the Ming Dynasty Chongzhen