Chapter Eighty-Four: The Vanishing Ming Army
However, Liu Rukui was not complacent because of the praise of his subordinates, and he would naturally not be a fool to be able to achieve his position. He is analysing the possible factors that could lead to this situation.
A sentence that the Ming army ran out of gunpowder, this point of view caused him to feel a sense of identity.
I had heard King Dashun say before that there was news from the inside, saying that the Ming army was running out of gunpowder. Now, it seems, that was the case.
Thinking that if the Ming army ran out of gunpowder, it would be fearless, with the 30,000 Dashun army in his hands and so many old camp brothers, it was completely possible to fight with the Ming army, and even had a great chance of winning, his face slowly became good-looking.
"God is going to do a great job for me, haha. Come, give orders, the army goes forward, if you find that the Ming army is retreating, then rush up, destroy them, and don't let them escape back to the city of Beijing. ”
After Liu Rukui had his own analysis, he decided to take the initiative. Of course, he is also ready to retreat at any time when something is not good.
This is actually the consistent routine of the Dashun Army. If you can fight, you will fight, if you can't fight, you will run, and then reoccupy a place, fool more people to join it, and find an opportunity to fight again.
That is, at this time, the Ming Dynasty was very weak, and some local generals liked to support their own troops, preserve their strength, and always fight on their own, which gave the Dashun army a chance.
If it was a strong period of the Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that it would not give Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong the possibility of rising at all.
With the idea of wanting to make a great contribution, Liu Rukui took the initiative to come with an army of 30,000, and in the process of coming over, he also encountered many deserters who were defeated from the front. When these people saw so many Dashun troops concentrated here, they immediately had confidence, and a large number of people joined Liu Rukui's team.
Of course, there are also a small number of people who were really frightened by the powerful firearms displayed by the Ming army, and directly chose to continue to run.
Among them, many of them were farmers before, but later for various reasons, they lost their homes and became homeless, so they joined the Dashun army for a bite to eat.
originally thought that the Dashun Army was so powerful that it could win the world, so if you rebelled with them, you could have a future if you didn't get it. But when they saw the power of the Ming army's firearms, this idea disappeared.
The future is important, but what is it compared to a small life?
Of course, Liu Rukui didn't know the thoughts of the ordinary soldiers below, and he was now bent on finding the main force of the Ming army, and then attacking and destroying it.
If he can really destroy the main force of the Ming army this time, it is impossible to become a general in power, but there is still a high chance that he can be promoted from a mighty general to a general.
With such thoughts, Liu Rukui kept urging the army to move forward, but he didn't know that his move had already stepped into the palace of Hades.
Zhu Changwu and the dragon soldiers were rushing towards him.
There was no rush to march because he needed both himself and the dragon soldiers to conserve their strength. In the final analysis, there are only more than 200 of them, and it is impossible to kill all the hundreds of thousands of thieves outside the city, what he can do is to preserve his strength as much as possible when he does not encounter the enemy's main force.
Originally, I wanted to see the enemy and then accelerate the pursuit, but I didn't want to, and the drone showed that the enemy actually took the initiative to come.
"Hey, there are quite a few people coming, this is a big fat sheep, haha." Through the picture transmitted by the drone, Zhu Changwu saw that a large team of Dashun troops was coming from their southeast, and he laughed happily.
Not only Zhu Changwu was laughing, but even the more than two hundred quasi-dragon soldiers around him were also laughing.
After the battle just now, they have more confidence in the weapons in their hands. At this moment, they have already given birth to a feeling that I have a gun in hand, and I have the feeling that the world has come.
When the morale was high and the morale was higher, the Dashun army actually took the initiative to kill it, how could this not make everyone happy and excited.
As for saying that they only have more than 200 people, and there may be tens of thousands of enemies, this point was directly ignored by them.
With the latest weapons in their hands, the last thing they are afraid of is that there are many enemies.
What's wrong, when the guns go off, or are they going to be scared one by one?
Can't even get close in front of him, there is nothing to fear from such an enemy.
"Everyone, do you see the barren meadow in front of you? With this as the center, the encirclement is laid, and here we are ready to fight the enemy a head-on blow. ”
Since the enemy came on their own initiative, it saved them the trouble of pursuit. Zhu Changwu decided to come to a place to wait for work.
With the order of the great general, more than two hundred quasi-dragon soldiers immediately began to make various preparations. Outside the wasteland, several positions were soon preset, especially five heavy machine guns, which formed a cross-fire network at this time, which could ensure that when the fire was fired for a while, there would be no dead ends and no chance for the enemy to counterattack and breathe.
As soon as everyone arrived at their position, not far away, there was the sound of chaotic footsteps, and more than 30,000 Dashun troops slowly appeared in the sight of the quasi-dragon soldiers.
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Daming Jingshi, Beijing City.
The Ming army said that it was going out for a military parade, and then there was no movement.
Li You felt that something was wrong, so he sent someone to find a way out of the city to see the situation.
It doesn't matter if you don't look at it, it's startled when you see it. There was no Ming army outside the city.
This is 50,000 Ming troops, how can it be said that it will disappear when it disappears? There must be a lot of articles in this.
Unable to get in touch with King Dashun in the city, Li You found Wang Zhixin and discussed what to do next.
In the palace of Yushi Mao Yujian, when Li You led people here, Wang Zhixin and others hurriedly greeted him. This is the favorite general of King Dashun, and he can get his appreciation and recommendation, which will be of great benefit to gain a foothold in the Dashun Dynasty in the future.
"Do you know that all the Ming troops are out of the city?" As soon as they met, Li You asked.
"You know, didn't they say to go out of the city for a military parade?" Wang Zhixin replied with a smile.
Wang Zhixin said this, and Yang Guanguan, Mao Yujian, Wu Mengming, Luo Yangxing and others who followed him also nodded.
They nodded and laughed at the stupidity of the Ming army, this is going to be destroyed, and they don't know what kind of soldiers they have, and what is the point.
"A group of fools, I have already sent someone out of the city to see, there is no Ming army outside the city at all, we are all fooled." Seeing that Wang Zhixin and the others didn't know the whereabouts of the Ming army at all, Li You said angrily.
"What? The Ming army was not outside the city, so where did they go? Mao Yujian's mouth was fast, and after hearing it, he said in surprise.
"You ask me, how do I know?" Li You, who was almost laughed at by Mao Yujian, was very dissatisfied and glared at him.
"General, you can't be mistaken, can you?" Wu Mengming asked, but this result was something they hadn't thought about at all.
"How could you be mistaken, that's 50,000 Ming troops, 50,000. Where can they hide from being found? Besides, what's the use of hiding now? Li You looked at Wu Mengming with an idiot gaze again.
He found out that these people who took refuge in King Dashun were not very reliable, and when something happened, they asked this and that one by one, but they didn't even believe themselves. Is it necessary for him to lie to these people?
didn't want to continue to explain, so Li You said: "Okay, the current situation is that the Ming army has indeed disappeared." As for where it went, I'm afraid we won't be able to guess it for a while, but since the Ming army has left the city, and now there is no Ming armed force in the city, then we should do something of our own. You've been staring at the palace, is Chongzhen still in the palace? ”
Asked by Li You, Wang Zhixin instinctively replied: "Yes." ”
"Are you sure?"
"It's... It should be there, I sent people to keep an eye on the outside of the palace, and I didn't see the emperor's Luan driving out. Wang Zhixin was stared at by Li You's gaze, and he was a little unsure, and he was a little hesitant when he spoke.
"What? Not seeing the emperor's luan drive out proves that he didn't leave the palace? Won't Chongzhen come out on his own? Li You was really angry by this answer.
originally thought that with the cooperation of Wang Zhixin and these people, he could know Chongzhen's every move. But now it seems that this is simply some waste, unusable waste.
"Ahh No way. Why did the emperor leave the palace? Is he going to run away? Wang Zhixin still has his own cleverness, and this time he finally reacted.
He is not like Li You, Li Zicheng has already sent a letter to him, telling Chongzhen that he wants to break through to the Jingshi. So Wang Zhixin has never thought about Chongzhen's escape, he has always thought that the emperor will defend the city of Beijing, and at the same time wait for King Qin's army to arrive.
But now, looking at Li You's meaning, Chongzhen clearly wants to escape. If that's the case, he's no longer in the palace. After all, Chongzhen has two legs, he can go wherever he wants, and he doesn't have to be Luan to drive out of Beijing, isn't that the same as telling everyone where he is?
In that case, how could he still escape?
"Alright. Now you lead the way, and we will go to the palace at once, and we will know when the time comes. By the way, didn't you say before that there were 2,000 brocade guards? Take them all this time, in case Chongzhen doesn't run away, then we will kill him and capture him alive. Li You saw that they couldn't do anything with Wang Zhixin, so he decided to follow his plan.
Li You actually wanted to enter the palace, which frightened the king's heart.
But when I was surprised, I thought about it the other way, now there is no Ming army in the Jingshi, that is to say, the current palace defense force is also very weak, even if this is the case, it may not be impossible to directly attack the Yellow Dragon.