Emperor Ming Dynasty

Chapter 213
"It's a matter of course for soldiers to eat food."

The man puffed up his chest, looked at him with a strange look and said, "The emperor is gone, so it's impossible for our Guan Ning army to take refuge in Li Zicheng, right?"

"Between Kingslayer and Jiannu, do we still have a choice?"

"This—" Li Jizu choked instantly.

He turned his head and asked You Shiwei for help.

You Shiwei smiled, and said casually: "Untie this brother!"

"What's your name?"

"Hu Xinshui!"

The young general was taken aback for a moment, then blurted out.

"You are held hostage by Wu Sangui, and you have to obey him and serve Jiannu."

You Shiwei said loudly: "We won't pursue what happened before, but you have to listen carefully. The Guan Ning Army was cultivated by the imperial court with great painstaking efforts. Now that they meet us, they will return to the Ming Dynasty."

"Da Ming? Didn't the Ming Dynasty fall? The first emperor is dead."

Hu Xinshui froze.

"Nanjing has a court again."

You Shiwei couldn't help explaining: "We belong to King Yu and are members of the Ming court."

"Soldiers eat food, slaves can eat it, and the imperial court can eat it too."

Hu Xinshui nodded, tilted his head, hesitated for a while, and then hesitated: "Nanjing court, is there any food and salary?"

"Whether there are any in Nanjing, I don't know!"

Hearing this, Li Jizu quickly interjected, "His Royal Highness, there is plenty of food."

"You know, three meals a day, dry food, and meat every now and then, do you understand this kind of happiness?"

As soon as these words came out, more than a hundred Guan Ning soldiers were shocked and moved.

Hu Xinshui was full of disbelief, and asked suspiciously: "Is the general lying to me? How can there be such a good army in the world?"

"Why did I lie to you?"

Li Jizu was in a hurry, he patted his chest and said: "King Yu is different from other people, he keeps his promises, and there are countless money and food in his bag, and he will never treat you badly."

You Shiwei knew it was too late, seeing that they didn't believe him, he couldn't help but shook his head and said: "Well, you get into the army first, if what we said is false, you just run away."

"Really not lying?"

Hu Xinshui asked carefully.

"Of course!"

You Shiwei nodded, and said to himself: "But you also have to obey the military order, if you violate it, you will definitely be executed."

"As it should be!"

Hu Xinshui nodded, and responded with a gulp.

Immediately, a group of a hundred people collected their weapons and moved with the army.

"You are not the only ones in Ruzhou Prefecture!"

You Shiwei saw that Hu Xinshui had a good conversation and was bold and careful, so he couldn't help thinking about it.

"There are thousands of people!"

Hu Xinshui betrayed without hesitation: "The Prince Yu of the Manchu Qing Dynasty stayed in Luoyang with his Eight Banners. Han people like us sprinkled out to collect grain."

Manchu food shortage.

Guan Ning's army has not yet fully returned.

You Shiwei knew it in his heart, and was quite happy to get such military intelligence.

Suppressing his joy, he continued to ask: "Hasn't the intruder been defeated? Why didn't he stop in Luoyang?"

"I don't know either!" Hu Xinshui shook his head and said, "As a general, how could the Jurchen tell me this?"

"However, those Han Eight Banners in the army clamored in private, as if waiting for something to come, Tongguan is like paper."

What can break Tongguan?
You Shiwei was shocked, and then he thought of the shocking bombardment of Dingbei Leopard by King Yu, which scared Chen Yongfu enough.

Could it be the red cannon?

Think about it in your heart, the more you think about it, the more likely it is.

You Shiwei hurriedly called Li Jizu, and whispered in his ear, and the latter kept nodding, the more he thought about it, the more he understood.

"Ride fast, go and inform the Highness behind me that I will occupy Ruzhou City, and wipe out the grain scraping team by the way."

You Shiwei ordered calmly, and Li Jizu nodded again and again, and hurriedly ran back.

"Your horses are fine."

Hu Xinshui looked at the Qin army's cavalry and said with emotion: "Our Guanning iron cavalry is carefully selected on the grassland. I didn't expect that it is only slightly better than you."

"We are Hexi horses." You Shiwei said a little proudly: "Hexi Jianma is not inferior to your Liaodong horses, but the road is blocked and the good horses cannot arrive."

Chatting along the way, You Shiwei wanted to know more about Luoyang's military situation, and Hu Xinshui also confided in it.

It's a pity that the small general manager's position is too low after all.

And here, Zhu Yixi also waited for Li Jizu's report, and she was determined.

"It turns out that Duoduo is not only short of food, but also really waiting for the red cannon."

King Yu said with emotion.

"Your Highness, Doduo has been searching for food and grass these days, but he is not necessarily short of food now."

Chen Yongfu also excitedly said: "However, we are close to Ruzhou, Jiannu will definitely take action, and will never sit idly by."

"There is no shortage of food, what if the artillery arrives now?"

Zhu Yixi shook his head and said, "Now that our soldiers have entered Ruzhou Prefecture and attacked the food search team, they must have heard the news."

As he said that, King Yu's face changed, and he hurriedly said:

"Let the whole army speed up, and we must take Ruzhou. I want to make his food road longer."

"Obey!" Chen Yongfu bowed his hands in response.

Thanks to the pioneers, the official road was able to leave, and the tens of thousands of rear troops moved faster and faster.

When we arrived in Ruzhou, it was already the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, and You Shiwei went out of the city to meet him.

King Yu was in a hurry, glanced at You Shiwei who had a rough face, and couldn't help admiring: "You Tongzhi is indeed a veteran, well-informed and experienced."

"Your Highness's praise!" You Shiwei was overjoyed, but he put on a gesture on his face and hurriedly waved his hands: "This is all thanks to His Highness."

That's what he said, but Zhu Yixi laughed because of his delighted look.

He just likes people with such emotions written on their faces, and generals with too deep thoughts are scary.

Of course, it is also possible that it was acted, but being able to act is also a self-protection strategy for others, proving that they have no two intentions, and they can see through without telling the truth.

"Your Highness, the more than [-] Guanning Army in Ruzhou Prefecture who were raiding for food and grass have finally defeated all the prisoners."

"Guan Ning Army?" Zhu Yixi frowned and said, "Wu Sangui is also near Luoyang?"

You Shiwei glanced at Li Jizu, and then said: "Wu Sangui is not in Luoyang, but some soldiers and horses were assigned to Duoduo's banner, and he doesn't know who he is."

"Manchu is trying to check and balance!"

Zhu Yixi understood that the [-] Guanning Army was almost half of the Eight Banners, and even Dorgon was quite afraid.

"I can tolerate intruders and western thieves, let alone those Guan Ning soldiers."

Zhu Yixi waved his hand and said: "It's not their intention to surrender and become a slave. If you can surrender, you can surrender, but you must be closely supervised, just in case."

"Of order!" You Shiwei nodded.

"The longer you wait, the more food Jiannu will have, and the more likely his logistics will arrive."

Looking at the tense and excited faces of the generals, Zhu Yixi couldn't help but said in a deep voice: "I mean, the cavalry battalion will go to various places to attack its food collection team, so as to startle the snakes and let Duoduo come to Ruzhou City for a decisive battle."

(End of this chapter)