Seeing that there were more and more people running back ahead, the prison guards on the side couldn't hold back any longer.

Hurriedly stood up and tried to stop the rout of the army.

That's right, it's a big rout!

A large army that was defeated before even the battle began.

However, no matter how hard he tried, he still couldn't stop the rout of the army.

Even the troops behind began to flee en masse.

In this case, even Zhu Yuanzhang's scalp is numb.

He could only call on his troops to follow him closely.

Retreat to the left.

Lao Zhu led the troops to fight for many years in his previous life, and knew that once the troops were defeated, they would not be able to stop them at all.

It is safest to retreat with your own troops as much as possible.

But as more and more people learned the news, the army began to run back in frenzy.

What's more, he directly took off Dashun's military uniform and became a deserter.

This look, if it weren't for Lao Zhu knowing that Dashun had just been established.

He had to think that this was the end of the dynasty!

……

Three days later.

Somewhere in the jungle.

Many blue-clad soldiers lay on the ground on all sides.

There is no image to speak of.

looked at the exhausted appearance of many soldiers around him.

Song Xiance, the military division of Dashun, asked the deputy general beside him.

"Where are we now? How far is it from the capital? ”

The lieutenant general, who sat down to rest, heard this and quickly glanced around.

He replied with a wry smile: "Strategist, I don't know where this is?" However, judging from the direction of our retreat, this should be Yongping. ”

"Yongping?"

Song Xiance recalled the distance from Kaiping to Shuntianfu and found that it was still hundreds of miles away.

This means that they retreated here from Shanhaiguan in one fell swoop.

"Ugh."

When he remembered the battle a few days ago, Song Xiance sighed.

When attacking Wu Sangui, he said that if he could surrender, he would surrender.

It's really not good, and you must not fight with Wu Sangui for too long.

Their real enemy was never Wu Sangui, but Jiannu in the Northeast.

However, Li Zicheng was too arrogant, and he actually wanted to defeat Wu Sangui first, and then turn his head to fight Jiannu.

Is he playing at home?

Thought that Jiannu would stand quietly and watch us beat Wu Sangui?

Alas~

As soon as I thought that the army of 200,000 was gone.

Song Xiance was heartbroken.

Finally, Dashun defeated Daming, and the hundreds of thousands of elite troops that had been accumulated were lost in one fell swoop.

As a feudal dynasty that has just established a system, it lost the first battle of the founding of the country, and I am afraid that there will be more turmoil in the future.

And Jiannu is not a fool, he will not let them go so easily, and he will definitely attack Shuntianfu in one go.

When the time comes, what will Dashun do to block it!

"Report~!"

Just as Song Xiance was thinking about Dashun's future path, a notice interrupted his thoughts.

"Strategist, we found a troop of ours not far ahead!"

"Check their identities, and if it's true, let them be included in our department."

Song Xiance couldn't help but say thoughtfully.

In the past few days, they have encountered too many scattered troops, and they can only verify it in this rough way.

A short time later, the scout walked in with a somewhat emaciated face.

"See Strategist."

"Get up, what's your name, and which unit is it from?"

"My name is Zhu Guorui, and I am a sentry commander of the 15th battalion under the command of Ruhou."

Zhu Yuanzhang lowered his head and replied.

On that day, when the army was scattered and fled, he was also coerced by the troops and retreated to the rear.

Fortunately, he broke away from the team first and was coerced.

Otherwise, I don't know where it was swept now.

"Well, how many people are on your team now?"

Song Xiance, the fifteenth battalion under Liu Zongmin, still knew that this was a new battalion that had just been formed.

However, he didn't bother to confirm Lao Zhu's true identity.

Now is not the time to worry about this, the priority is to organize the rout as much as possible.

to deal with the next battle to defend the capital.

"About a hundred people."

In fact, there are not so many at all, only seventy or eighty people.

But in order to realize his importance, Lao Zhu deliberately said more.

These were the soldiers he had gathered around him after his troops had broken up.

After all, when the troops were broken up and everyone was rushing to flee for their lives,

Gather as many people as possible, so that you are more likely to escape.

It's human nature.

Seeing that there were still many people under Lao Zhu's command, Song Xiance waved his hand.

"You are now merged into our ministry and work together to protect Your Majesty's retreat!"

"Your Majesty? Plum...... Your Majesty is still alive? ”

Lao Zhu was stunned for a moment, and almost called out Li Zicheng's name.

Fortunately, he came to his senses immediately and changed his tune.

Before he came in, someone had already told him Song Xiance's identity.

Li Zicheng's top adviser was named the founding army division after the capture of Beijing.

If he said something in front of Song Xiance, I am afraid that he would not be able to cut off his head immediately.

And Song Xiance heard the pause in Lao Zhu's words, and knew very well that Lao Zhu had just subconsciously called His Majesty's real name.

However, this was believed by him that Li Zicheng had lost his majesty in the hearts of the low-level generals in the army.

Therefore, it is normal for soldiers to have contempt in their hearts.

After all, they lost the big war.

Thinking of this, Song Xiance had a headache.

I can't take care of the problem of reprimanding Lao Zhu for his words.

just waved his hand and asked the deputy general to take Lao Zhu to arrange a position, and then let him go down.

Here, Lao Zhu followed the deputy general to a clearing.

"Well, that's your place, if you're not satisfied, you can change places, anyway, you won't be able to rest for long."

Lao Zhu raised his eyebrows and hurriedly asked.

"What do you mean, general? Why can't you rest for long? ”

"Isn't Your Majesty safe and sound?"

Hearing this, the adjutant general smiled.

"Brother, we have lost the battle now, and the army of pigtails is chasing after us to cut it, if you want to die, you can rest here for as long as you want."

Zhu Di hurriedly shook his head.

"That's okay, I don't want to be beheaded by the pigtail army, I haven't married a daughter-in-law yet, but I can't just die."

"It's good that you know, hurry up and rest, we still have hundreds of miles to get to the capital, and the road is still far away."

The adjutant said, shaking his head.

"I don't know if you're unlucky or lucky, you just joined the army and encountered such a big defeat."

"But at this time, you are still dutiful, and you can be regarded as loyal."

With that, the lieutenant general left.

And before leaving, he also told Lao Zhu that he had been promoted.

Now it's not the sentinel chief, it's the brigade.

This can make Lao Zhu happy, the reason why he did not withdraw to the capital at such a dangerous time, and stayed where he was.

Isn't it just to get into the Dharma eye above?

It has only been long since he joined Dashun, and he has become the head of the brigade.

That's a fast ride.

Sure enough, the greater the risk, the greater the benefit.

……