The ruthless emperor in the late Ming Dynasty forced Chongzhen to abdicate at the beginning

Chapter 57 Two Great Generals

Tongzhou.

Located eighty miles east of Beijing, adjacent to the canal, it is a distribution center for goods from the south, and it is also the east gate of the capital.

At this time, inside and outside Tongzhou City, the two sides of the canal were very lively. After more than ten days of integration, Hong Niangzi had completely subdued Liu Fangliang's 8 horses, combined with her own 11, for a total of [-] troops.

In the past ten days, Hong Niangzi has built two big camps on the north bank of the canal, one on the south bank, and several pontoon bridges on the canal, forming an integration with Tongzhou City.

Food, grass, materials, and silver were also piled up in the city. The 200 million reward silver in vain made more than [-] bandit troops very motivated.

Although Hong Niangzi was born in a rough place, Li Yan is a literati who is familiar with military books. Under the guidance of precepts and deeds, the layout of the three camps is also very good.

The two camps on the north bank are backed by the canal, the one on the south bank is based on the canal and Tongzhou City, and the three camps are closely related to Tongzhou City. There are a large number of horse-rejecting piles, horse pits, and tall archery towers on the periphery.

A ditch was also dug on the inside, and a half-meter-high wall was piled up with sandbags. This was Zhu Cihong's order. Although Hong Niang felt that it was unnecessary, she carried it out. Anyway, idle is idle.

"Report!"

"Report to the General!"

"A Ming army came from the south. It is huge in scale. The horse infantry is about [-]. It is only two days away from Tongzhou."

In the past ten days, in order to win over the red lady, Zhu Cihong not only gave her the Chengguo Duke's Mansion, but also made her an earl, and changed the protector general into the protectorate general.

As for the gold and silver jewellery, cloth and satin that women like, they even rewarded several big baskets.

However, Hong Niangzi is not interested in these.

However, after more than ten days, the red lady showed no sign of running away, but was honestly camping and building fortifications, Zhu Cihong, who had been worrying all the time, finally relaxed a little.

She also paid more attention to her 11 horses, almost as a direct line to support.

At this moment, Hong Niangzi was also taken aback when she heard that Ma Ma came to report.

"How come there are so many people?"

"Isn't it just Wu Sangui's [-] cavalry?"

"Back to the general, in addition to the Wu character banner, there are Gao Zi and Liu Zishuai flags in the team." The spies added again.

"Oh!"

The red lady got up and walked back and forth for two steps, not bothering to think about it, anyway, the other party will arrive in two days.

at the same time.

Wu Sangui and the others also learned about the situation in Tongzhou Camp.

After learning that there were more than [-] horses in Tongzhou, the three of them were also shocked.

Two days later, when the army arrived in the southern suburb of Tongzhou, Wu Sangui's expression turned ugly when he saw that the red lady hadn't come out of the city ten li to meet her. He had already sent someone to notify her.

The three of them ran all the way to the city of Tongzhou with their own soldiers, only to see the red lady leading a group of generals to greet them at the door.

"General Wu, General Gao, and General Liu have worked hard all the way, please hurry up, this general has already prepared a banquet in the city to clean up the dust for the three of you!"

The red lady immediately stepped forward to greet her warmly, and made a gesture of invitation after speaking.

But none of the three got off their horses.

Gao Jie and Liu Zeqing were just looking at the red lady curiously.

Wu Sangui frowned slightly, looked at the red lady displeased and said: "General Li, don't rush to catch up with the wind, since you have surrendered to the imperial court, you should know the court's laws, why don't you worship me when you see me?" After speaking, he squinted She glanced at the generals around her.

The red lady saw that her enthusiasm had bumped into a cold face, and this Wu Sangui wanted to give her power, and her face turned cold instantly.

And the generals behind her were all furious, shouting and cursing.

"Fuck! Wu Sangui, what are you?"

"A despicable villain who only knows how to attack!"

"Don't be ignorant of flattery. It would be considered polite if my great general came to the door to greet you. Would you like to pay homage?"

"Hmph! My general is the great general who protects the country personally appointed by His Majesty. You are just a group of general soldiers. Why don't you get off your horse and pay homage?"

"presumptuous!"

"Bastard general, a group of rebels dare to run rampant here. Did you forget the one who was killed by grandpa last time?"

"Bold, wait for the bastard, the grace of the Holy One, let him live, dare to bark again?"

"Hmph! My family's commander-in-chief is His Majesty's personal command to suppress the bandits, a loyal and brave marquis, kneel down to me."

"Your Majesty!"

For a while, the gate of the city was full of shouting and shouting.

The faces of Hong Niangzi, Wu Sangui, Gao Jie, and Liu Zeqing were all as dark as the bottom of a pot.

Wu Sangui even had killing intent in his eyes.

He didn't expect that this red lady is a girl and a traitor, not only won't buy him, but also allows her subordinates to be rude, which is simply unreasonable.

It wasn't until Sifang's subordinates turned red-eyed and drew out their weapons that the four waved their hands to stop it.

"Red Lady, I don't want to talk nonsense with you. Take your troops and retreat to the north bank immediately, and leave Daying City empty. I want to take over the defense of Tongzhou City."

Wu Sangui said coldly.

His Majesty has hoarded a large amount of food and salaries in the city. He must first take over the lifeline of these armies in order to prepare for the next battle. As for the red lady, there will be plenty of opportunities to deal with it in the future.

"Hmph! Wu Sangui, don't we go to heaven? Why does this general want to give up Tongzhou City to you?"

"If you want a big camp, build it yourself and repair it yourself!"

The red lady laughed back angrily, this Wu Sangui was too arrogant and shameless.

"Hmph! This Marquis is the general who suppressed the bandits personally appointed by His Majesty. The enemy is currently in charge, and it is justified and logical to take over the defense of Tongzhou!"

"Hmph! I thought you were the governor of soldiers and horses, but it turned out that you were just a general who suppressed thieves!"

"So, are you determined not to give in?" Wu Sangui's face turned livid.

"If you want me to give up Tongzhou, it's fine, take His Majesty's imperial decree, otherwise don't think about it!" The red lady stretched out her hand.

"You... good! Ben Hou depends on how long you can be arrogant!"

Wu Sangui's angry face turned from blue to black, and he stared at her intently, but he had no choice but to turn around and leave.

This gang of mobs, who were murdered by him back then, still dare to be so rampant in front of him, they should have killed them in the first place.

Seeing the three of Wu Sangui leaving with livid faces, after calming down, Liu Fangliang's former subordinates were still a little scared, obviously they were killed out of the shadows.

"General, Wu Sangui won't directly bring troops to kill him, will he?"

"Yes, their soldiers and horses are not less than ours, and they also have cavalry."

"Look at how promising you are, we are now members of the imperial court, and we wouldn't dare to directly kill him with ten courage.

What's more, our big camp has been properly arranged, as long as we strictly guard, if they really dare to attack, we will see who will suffer! "

The red lady scolded angrily, then waved her hand.

"Let's go, let's eat those wine and meat by ourselves. If we knew this, feeding pigs is better than feeding them!"

"Yes, these guys are too arrogant."

"It's just that you look down on us and don't take the general seriously."

A group of people cursed and returned to the city.

On the other side, Wu Sangui and the others also returned to the army cursing, and began to go south of the city.

When it was dark, Zhu Cihong's decree finally arrived, but he didn't say who restrained whom, but asked the red lady to provide food and grass for King Qin's army.

After Wu Sangui read the imperial decree, his brows were wrinkled into Sichuan characters.

He couldn't figure out why His Majesty didn't just ask him to control the red lady, or even all the generals.

Because during these days, my father had already sent someone to inform him in detail of what happened in the city.

After some analysis, he found that apart from him, Wu Sangui, His Majesty had no other suitable candidates to serve as Governor Qin.

His Majesty has long distrusted civil servants, and even the minister of the Ministry of War is resigned, let alone other civil servants.

And the two dukes were at odds with His Majesty. Although Zhou Yuji was highly valued that day, on the one hand, His Majesty relied on him to guard the city, and on the other hand, no matter his official position or merit, Zhou Yuji would be inferior to him.

Besides, he really couldn't think of anyone else?
Hong Niangzi was straightforward. After reading the imperial decree, she immediately sent someone to deliver the three-day food needed by the [-] troops.

This kind of sending food like a beggar will undoubtedly make the three of them half dead with anger.

However, the imperial decree didn't say it clearly, and the red lady said that she would give it after eating, so the three of them had no choice.

(End of this chapter)