Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 190
"Damn it! Give me a good time if you have the ability!"

"To shut up!"

"Your Majesty!"

Outside the dilapidated Dong'e city, Tiancewei took over some courtyards with surviving structures outside the city, and reserved a courtyard for Zhu Youjian to rest.

It was just that when he just sat down, there was a noisy sound from outside the bedroom.

Zhu Youjian walked out of the bedroom, and when he came to the door, he saw Tiance Guard Commander Sun Ji leading six Tiance Guard soldiers, escorting an unkempt man in tattered paper armor to come before him.

Two soldiers swung their knives, and the scabbard hit the man's leg, causing him to kneel directly on the rammed earth. Sun Ji also bowed and said:
"Your Highness, this is Shen Zhi, the leader of the bandits."

"You are some kind of king of Qi, right? Hehe...you're just a baby, and you still learn to lead the army? This time it's me..." Although Shen Zhi knelt down, his mouth was not forgiving.

"Pa—" Sun Ji slapped him on the face, and the sudden slap made him speechless for a while.

But Zhu Youjian, he doesn't like people like Shen Zhi.

It's not that they don't like each other because they are rebels, but they have contempt for their actions.

Therefore, without waiting for Shen Zhi to speak, Zhu Youjian said:

"If you rebelled because of the imperial court's ineffective disaster relief, or because you couldn't survive, Gu can respect you three points."

"It's just that you are just bewitching the people for your own selfish desires, and even ordering the massacre of the city. Such behavior, human face and animal heart..."

After all, Zhu Youjian took a slight glance, looked at Sun Ji, and confessed:
"Pull it to the north tower of Dong'e City, and hook it up..."

"Yes!" Sun Ji agreed when he heard the words, and when Shen Zhi heard that Zhu Youjian was going to torture him like this, he immediately wanted to break free from the soldiers who were holding him back, but with his own strength alone, he could only be taken away unwillingly. .

A quarter of an hour later, Sun Ji asked someone to penetrate Shen Zhi's tongue with a one-foot iron hook, hook it and then pull it out. After fixing it on the wooden frame, he tied Shen Zhi to the wooden frame of the cross, standing upright. On the upper floor of Dong'a Beicheng.

He yelled in pain, but because his tongue was hooked out, he could only cry and get angry, and was finally abandoned on the city gate.

The wind and snow in October was biting, and Shen Zhi's body was getting colder and colder. Finally, the wound on his tongue solidified, but was torn open because of his inability to lower his head.

His wailing sounded again, and this scene made the surviving refugees outside the city both vent their anger and fear.

When they were afraid, Zhu Youjian ordered Sun Ji to lead [-] troops to recover Pingyin.

The distance between Dong'e and Pingyin is only fifty or sixty miles, so before dawn, Sun Ji brought the head of the rebel general from Pingyin to restore Pingyin.

After a short rest for three hours, Zhu Youjian left a hundred soldiers and horses to escort the capture of Dong'e and Pingyin, and led five thousand and five thousand troops to continue southward to counter the rebellion.

His next target is the rebel general Xia Zhongjing, who has more than [-] troops and is besieging Dongping Prefecture a hundred miles away...

"Boom-"

"Run! The officers and soldiers fired!"

"No retreat! No retreat! Anyone who takes a step back will be cut off!"

Almost when Zhu Youjian left, Dongping City was also very lively.

The unison of the artillery caused tens of thousands of refugees outside the city to scurry around.

Except for the supervising team, which numbered no more than a thousand people, the other tens of thousands of refugees were already scattered.

Like headless chickens, they retreated hastily after hearing the sound of the cannon, and then pushed the cloud cart forward under the supervision of the supervisory team after the sound of the cannon was over.

Among the rebels, a man wearing a red scarf was carrying all kinds of agricultural tools and carrying bags of sand to fill the moat. At the rear of the battlefield, Xia Zhongjing, the general of the rebel army, also cursed:

"waste!"

"Tens of thousands of people can't break through a city guarded by only [-] people!"

Xia Zhongjing's words were very angry, but it also showed the gap between the two sides.

But things on the battlefield are often not discussed in terms of numbers.

Let tens of thousands of rebels wearing single clothes and holding farm tools, it can be said that they were farmers a few days ago, go to attack Yuan Keli's [-] elites in armor who stayed in Dongping City, plus tens of thousands of people in the city, thousands of men Ding helped to garrison, and it was normal that they could not be defeated.

But Xia Zhongjing didn't think so. Before the rebellion, he was just a leader of the Ming version of pyramid schemes, so he didn't know how to lead troops to fight, and he didn't know how to attack a city.

Right now, he is completely relying on the yellowed "Sun Tzu's Art of War" in his hand to sharpen his sword.

With such a sharpening in front of the battle, he still thought that he had the ability to command thousands of troops.

"The supervising team is pressing forward. Before sunset today, Dongping must be captured!"

Xia Zhongjing wore the snatched armor and ordered his subordinates to deliver the order, and the way of delivering the order was the most direct and stupid way of letting people run to the front and tell the soldiers of the supervising team one by one.

That is to say, the supervising team actually has no direct generals, and their immediate general is Xia Zhongjing, and Xia Zhongjing is actually drinking tea and watching a play one mile away from the supervising team.

But even so, under the deterrence of the supervisory team, the rebels stepped up their attack on Dongping.

Two hours later, rebels began to land on the city wall at the top of the city, and Xia Zhongjing immediately stood up from the chair and said:

"See if there is no one there, let the people of the supervisory team press up and attack the city from that gap!"

"Yes!" Hearing Xia Zhongjing's words, the soldiers around him began to urge the supervisory team again, and under such a situation, the supervisory team was gradually gathered, and Xia Zhongjing hadn't noticed that the distance between him and the supervisory team had exceeded Three miles.

"After defeating Dongping City, I will be able to build armor and recruit troops, hahahaha..."

Xia Zhongjing laughed loudly, but at this moment he suddenly heard some dull voices.

"Huh?" He frowned slightly, then looked up to the sky:

"What's going on? Menlei?"

Xia Zhongjing looked at the sky for a while, but felt that the muffled voice was getting closer and closer, and finally...

"Rumble..."

When the sound of rumbling horseshoes appeared, a red wave was hitting on the horizon a few miles behind Xia Zhongjing.

"Break the thief!"

Among the iron cavalry, Zhu Youjian rode his horse and galloped wildly. Lu Wenzhao and Lu Xiu led the armored brocade guards to guard him from left to right, and further outside was the Tiance Guard iron cavalry like a red tide.

In two hours, without changing horses, the army flew a hundred miles, reaching Dongping City, and Xia Zhongjing's account became the obvious target.

"No pool riders, no big banners, no order flags, no order orders...they should be broken!"

Zhu Youjian swung his whip, and the horse under his crotch also galloped like crazy.

The generals around saw that their own King Qi was not stage-frightened. In order to protect him and show their bravery, all the generals waved their whips one after another, and immediately increased the speed of the horse to the extreme.

"run!"

When Xia Zhongjing saw the red tide-like iron cavalry of the Ming army rushing towards the battlefield, he grabbed the reins from the hands of the soldiers next to him, turned on the horse while urging the horse, and was about to flee the battlefield on the poor horse. He couldn't afford to command the army to resist thoughts.

"Lu Xiu! Bring back that man who ran away on horseback!"

Zhu Youjian turned his head to give an order to Lu Xiu next to him, and Lu Xiu also narrowed his eyes: "Decree!"

After that, he would pull out the small knife on his leg, and cut a knife wound on the horse's buttocks under his crotch, and the stimulated war horse also neighed and galloped forward, and the horse speed passed the surrounding iron cavalry all at once.

"Prepare for a face-off!"

Zhu Youjian bowed and rode his horse, holding a knife in one hand and the rein in the other, and gave orders to Sun Ji beside him.

Seeing this, Sun Ji hurriedly asked people to wave the flag.

As soon as the three flags next to the Chinese army's banner began to wave, thousands of cavalry began to fan out without saying too much, and a team of twelve people rushed towards the battlefield.

"Reinforcements from officers and soldiers are coming! Run!"

"Run!"

Not all the rebels were fools. Some people saw the red tide rushing in, and immediately dropped the siege equipment in their hands, regardless of the cloud carts and sandbags, and dispersed in a crowd.

The supervising team stuck in the middle didn't run, and it didn't matter if they didn't run.

When they were at a loss, Zhu Youjian had already led the troops to arrive, spanning three miles.

One hundred teams in the front row raised their guns, and with the sound of "cracking" bullets when the trigger was pulled, thick smoke rose, like fallen wheat in autumn, and the rebels of the supervisory team began to line up. fall down.

"Squat down and surrender without killing!"

When the cavalry was finished, the cavalry of the former army roared skillfully while putting the cavalry back into the pouch, but they also pulled out their long knives and short hammers while roaring.

"Ah... run away!"

The figure of the cavalry in the pupils gradually enlarged, and finally someone couldn't bear it and turned and ran away, and this run completely invalidated the circle formation of the supervisor team.

The cavalry of the Chinese army who followed in the back row staggered their positions, raised their guns and aimed at the formation of the supervisory team, and pulled the trigger in the next second.

I saw sparks flying, the round shield was penetrated, and the soldiers holding the shields fell down in rows, revealing the defenseless rebels of the supervising team behind the shield formation.

"kill--"

When thousands of cavalry rushed towards them, the formationless supervisor team was cut through, crushed, and sent flying in an instant.

Short hammers and long knives have become the best sharp weapons for harvesting life, and Zhu Youjian took out his four-strength bow with a thousand gold body, rode his horse back and forth among the chaotic army, and shot nine arrows in a row, each arrow into the cheeks of the rebels...

Lu Wenzhao and Sun Ji followed Zhu Youjian closely, but found it unnecessary after following for a while.

Zhu Youjian's equestrian and bow skills are so good, he knows that he is too young and not strong, so he doesn't draw his sword to fight at all, but uses bows and arrows every few steps.

Seeing this, the two began to fight to their heart's content. At this time, Lu Xiu, who had come out ahead of schedule, galloped from a distance with a head hanging from the tip of the five-foot long knife.

"Xia Zhongjing is dead! All the troops persuaded to surrender, and those who surrender will not be killed!"

Zhu Youjian, who was riding the horse with a sudden face, kept paying attention to the four directions. When he saw Lu Xiu returning from victory, he shouted loudly while riding the horse.

When he yelled, the hundred or so Tiance guard cavalry who guarded him noticed, and they all yelled.

And their shout directly stunned everyone.

The supervisory team was also completely wiped out by the Ming army at this moment, leaving only the rebels retreating on all sides.

The group of farmers holding farm tools looked around and saw that the supervisory team had fallen to the ground less than a quarter of an hour after the battle started, and after the corpses of officers and soldiers were rarely found on the ground, they also dropped their farm tools and squatted down to surrender. .

"Surrender!"

Zhu Youjian shook his sore right arm from drawing the bow many times, and gave the order at the same time.

After Sun Ji got the order, he also began to order people to accept the surrender. In addition, he sent people to Dongping City to ask the Zhizhou in the city to prepare meals and beans.

The ever-changing battlefield situation made Dongping defenders dumbfounded, and no one thought that the war would suddenly end within a quarter of an hour.

When they saw the documents hanging on behalf of the king of Qi, the magistrate of Dongping Prefecture on the top of the city immediately scrambled and crawled with blood on his face, and asked people to open the city gate to kill the sheep and reward the army.

He really wanted to meet Zhu Youjian, but Zhu Youjian didn't have time to talk to him.

After the battle was over, he led the men in Jinyiwei three miles away from the battlefield, then sat down on the ground, panting heavily, and twisted his somewhat stiff right arm.

"Lu Xiu, remember your meritorious service. After returning to Beijing, go find Hua Chun for a thousand taels of silver!"

Zhu Youjian generously rewarded him, and upon hearing this, Lu Xiu also took off Xia Zhongjing's head on the tip of the knife, handed it to the Jin Yiwei next to him, and then bowed with a smile, "Thank you, Your Highness, for your kind reward."

When he was happy, Sun Ji and Lu Wenzhao, who had a lot of blood on their bodies, rode over and got off their horses.

Sun Ji bowed first and reported: "Your Highness, the rebel army has been completely defeated. The number of beheads should be around [-], and the number of prisoners should not be less than [-]."

"When the army was galloping, the army horses that had recovered their horsepower were also on their way to the south. It was [-] miles away from here. It may take another hour to walk slowly."

Although one person and four horses are the standard for four cavalry guards, it is easy to lose weight if you gallop too far.

In addition, if one person and four horses rush into the battlefield, many horses may be damaged. Therefore, after galloping to Dongping [-] miles away, Zhu Youjian ordered [-] people to stay behind and take care of more than [-] army horses. Helping them recover their horsepower, he himself led the troops to gallop towards Dongpingzhou.

Dongping's battle was simpler and more relaxed than he had imagined. Compared with Dong'a's Shen Zhi, he was able to command troops to defend in formation, which lasted for a quarter of an hour.Dongping Xia Zhongjing's performance can be said to be poor.

Although facing Tian Cewei, even the same number of Jianlu would not dare to say that he could win, but at least the generals should lead their elites to retreat.

If the foundation is gone, it's useless to run out alone.

"The mob of the rebel army, wait for the follow-up army to arrive, and set off immediately to search for Xu Hongru's traces, it depends on the battle!"

After fighting two battles in a row, Zhu Youjian also found out the quality of the rebel generals and soldiers.

In general, Wen Xiangjiao's rebellion this time basically used one-tenth of the elite to coerce nine-tenths of the rioters to attack the city.

But the so-called elites, not to mention dealing with the elites of the Ming army, even some guard soldiers wearing mandarin duck battle jackets, they can't deal with them.

But that's fine, even though the rebel army's combat power is weak, if the news of successive defeats spreads, it can greatly deter the feudal lords in the Central Plains.

Yes, Zhu Youjian wants to take this opportunity to reform the vassal kings in the Central Plains in one go, and release tens of millions of acres of vassal land.

"Your Highness, Dongping Zhizhou prepared pork and mutton for the brothers..."

Half an hour after Zhu Youjian gave the order, Tiance guards cleaned up the battlefield, and ordered Dongping Zhizhou to take care of the prisoners, and Lu Wenzhao also came over with a plate of roasted lamb legs.

Zhu Youjian glanced at the leg of lamb, then glanced at Tiance's guard horse sitting on the grass to rest, cutting the lamb with a knife in one hand, and then asked:
"Ask Sun Ji, how are the casualties of our army?"

"Returning to Your Highness, seventeen people were injured, and none of them died. However, more than one hundred and twenty army horses were injured in their legs. After the injuries are healed, I am afraid they can only be used as draft horses."

Lu Wenzhao came prepared, and had already asked Sun Ji about the casualties of the soldiers and horses.

But even so, the news that none of Tian Cewei died was quite shocking.

Just looking back and thinking about it, it's not surprising that no one was killed or injured. Tiance Guard was one of the top three, and without blunt weapons, how could these thin farmers cause harm to them who were tall and burly?

"Let all the troops eat quickly, and leave for Yuncheng in half an hour. The Habayashi guards have probably arrived in Yuncheng."

Zhu Youjian was in a hurry to capture Xu Hongru alive, and Lu Wenzhao hurriedly notified Sun Ji when he saw this.

Fortunately, Dongping has plenty of supplies, including horse feed and grain.

After feeding the horses with horse feed to restore their horsepower, Sun Ji came to report in person, and Zhu Youjian immediately ordered after hearing the words:

"Each person takes three catties of beans and mounts a horse, marching towards Yuncheng!"

"Decree—" Sun Ji responded, and then ordered the messengers to send orders to the entire army.

At this moment, it was six quarters of the unitary hour (18:30), and a white belly gradually appeared on the horizon, and the army was ready to go, and set off for Yuncheng, which was [-] miles away.

In order to capture Xu Hongru alive, Zhu Youjian didn't care about his horsepower, and the army rushed towards Yuncheng, which was [-] miles away.

It was Tian Cewei's routine to change trains every [-] miles, but when the sky was dark and the army was only [-] miles away from Yuncheng, the Tangqi in front suddenly fired arrows.

"Call..."

Seeing the sound of arrows exploding in the night sky, Zhu Youjian also said:

"Dismount all troops and restore horsepower."

Night is not as good as day, and there are no semaphores to read, so it can only be passed on by word of mouth.

Fortunately, the army was relatively concentrated, so it was only a cup of tea, everyone got off their horses, and then fed the prepared three catties of soybean feed to the four war horses.

After the time of two cups of tea, only the fire came towards the army in the dark night.

A group of royal guards came on horseback, got off their horses and bowed, and said to Zhu Youjian:

"His Royal Highness and Habayashi Wei have sent news that Yuncheng has been breached, and Xu Hongru has set out for Jining two days ago."

"..." Hearing that Xu Hongru had gone to fight Jining, Zhu Youjian asked:

"How many soldiers and horses did you bring?"

"Yuncheng reported thousands of elites and tens of thousands of rioters, and some other rioters scattered in the countryside are also gathering at Xu Hongru's headquarters." Jin Yiwei reported, and after Zhu Youjian heard this, he turned to Lu Wenzhao road:

"Where is Yuan Keli now?"

"His Royal Highness, Governor Yuan should be in Ziyang County," Lu Wenzhao bowed in reply.

"Ziyang County..." Zhu Youjian murmured, then frowned and said:
"According to the walking speed of the rioters, the rioters should be sixty miles to the southeast of us right now. Yuan Keli should also know the intentions of the rioters. The two parties should meet tomorrow morning and fight on the east side of Shushan Lake."

"Your Highness, we..." Lu Wenzhao said tentatively, while Zhu Youjian raised his hand and said:
"First deal with the other rebels who tried to join forces with Xu Hongru." After finishing speaking, Zhu Youjian ordered Sun Ji:

"Order the whole army to rest for two hours. After two hours, go south and set off. Tomorrow, I will capture Xu Hongru alive!"

(End of this chapter)