Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 330 Abandoning Cangzhou

An hour of fierce fighting destroyed the camp of the rogue bandits, but it took two hours to find Yu Jiye. They hid themselves so well that Yang Chao hadn't noticed that they were all near Cangzhou.

"I don't plan to stay longer in Cangzhou, you can surrender now."

Yang Chao summoned the magistrate of Cangzhou, and directly described the magistrate's face as a pig's liver.

This speculative magistrate is completely depressed. He originally planned to welcome the new dynasty and get promoted to make a fortune. Now that Yang Chao has killed so many people in Cangzhou, it’s no wonder that the rogues didn’t slaughter the city. If he wants to leave now, won’t he put the magistrate on fire? Serve on the grill.

The magistrate begged bitterly: "My lord, you must not do it."

Yang Chao was also troubled by Li Zicheng's style of massacre if he didn't surrender.

After a moment of silence, he said to the magistrate: "You can send someone to discuss with the rogues and offer the city to surrender, but tell them not to slaughter the city, otherwise I won't leave, and they will never enter the city!"

One day later, Yang Chao's army set up camp, marched slowly in formation, and more than 1000 people were divided into three square formations to advance alternately.

The cavalry behind them had been sent for five miles before turning back and entering Cangzhou City.

Yang Chao's combat power shocked the bandits. Although they suffered heavy casualties, they finally agreed not to massacre the city. Yang Chao warned them that if they dared to massacre the city, they would be wiped out even in the ends of the earth in the future.

The usual column is divided into three rows and advances in unison, but there are four distinct teams. At the front are civilian husbands leading horses and dragging luggage, the number of which is about 1000.

They were not ordinary peasants, but refugees from Xinjiangkou Wharf. They followed Yang Chao to Zhejiang, and did not return to Xinjiangkou after returning, but stayed in Zhenjiang for about ten days.Before the Nanjing ship came to pick them up, they were ordered to go north.

After the heavy cavalry, there are three hundred elite soldiers, these are Yang Chao's personal soldiers.But not all the soldiers, more than 100 people remained in Nanjing, Zhao Kang led them to guard the camp, and represented Yang Chao to negotiate with the Nanjing government.

After the personal soldiers, there are about 400 people. This is Lu Mo's general team, after Lu Mo is the princes under the protection of Yu Jiye, after the princes is Song Kun's general team, and the last one is the cannon brought by Hu Quan Team.

The groom is at the front, the artillery team is at the front, and the prince is at the center.

In addition to these troops, Yang Chao also sent dozens of fast horses for other soldiers who were good at riding horses to inquire about news.

A fast horse galloped back and jumped off in front of Yang Chao.

"My lord, Wuqiao is ahead."

"Are reinforcements coming?"

Yang Chao asked, Tanma shook his head.

But knowing that Wuqiao was ahead, the others couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

After Wuqiao is Dezhou, it enters the territory of Shandong.

Although geographically connected, it always gives people a feeling that it is safe to enter Shandong.

"Don't be careless! Shandong may not be free of bandits."

Hearing the relaxed tone of his subordinates, Yang Chao warned.

"And, Gao Jie is in Shandong!"

Yang Chao added.

Many men couldn't help snorting at these words, Gao Jie made him make a big fool of himself, almost putting his entire army in trouble.

"Wang Pu's backup is somewhere?"

The chaos in Gyeonggi and Shandong caused Yang Chao to lose contact with the follow-up troops. The scouts he sent out did not come back, nor did the scouts from the south. Maybe there was an accident on the road, and Yang Chao was unwilling to continue sending scouts.

"Forget it, don't mention it. Come with me to pay a visit to our prince, maybe he will be the emperor in the future."

After leaving Cangzhou, the treatment of these sons and phoenixes is much better. They can ride on horses and let people lead them forward.

The only bad thing is that the speed has dropped too much. It took them two days to walk from Cangzhou to Wuqiao, so they still felt hard work.

It's just that there are fewer complaints. First, Yang Chao is suppressing here. They have to give back the face of the world's famous generals. Second, the sense of security of being in the army also makes them less anxious than before. To put it bluntly, before that time So complaining has nothing to do with the anxiety of being in a dangerous situation.

"Chen, Yang Chao, see your Highnesses!"

He brought many men, Lu Mo and other subordinates to kneel down on one knee.

This is not the first time Yang Chao participated in these princes and princesses.

But it was the first time that he brought other generals under his command to see him. Before that, Yu Jiye was only allowed to take care of them. Others were not allowed to approach them. He even kept the identity of the prince secret from others, for fear of causing other troubles.

Now that we are almost in the territory of Shandong, the further south we go, the safer we will be. In fact, Yang Chao has the same mentality as the soldiers on this point, and he is somewhat careless.

"General Yang's body! Listed as a general's body."

Sitting on the horse and letting a soldier lead the horse, the prince Zhu Cihong deliberately put on a dignified look and raised his hand.

But Zhu Cihong was born in the second year of Chongzhen, and he is only 15 years old this year. Apart from a small belly, he has no dignity at all.

"Sir, thank you Your Highness!"

After Yang Chao got up, he walked up to the prince's horse, and took the place of the soldiers leading the horse to lead the prince's horse.

It wasn't that Yang Chao wanted to curry favor with the prince, but that he wanted to have a conversation with the prince. If Yang Chao could ride a horse, he would definitely choose to go with the horse now. Since he couldn't ride a horse, he might as well lead the horse for him.

"Your Highness is in front of Wuqiao. Do you want to rest for a few days, Your Highness?"

Yang Chao knew that these princes grew up in the deep palace since they were young. They usually read and played for fun, and they lacked serious exercise. In this regard, they could not compare with the nomadic princes, especially this Zhu Cihong. Yang Chao found that he had serious acclimatization. Fortunately, he has a solid foundation, and now he still looks like a little fat man, otherwise he should look thinner.

The little fat man thought about it seriously, and Yang Chao was quite surprised by his answer: "It's better to rush to Nanji. The father died, and the world mourns. This king can really worry about hardships!"

Yang Chao nodded, and couldn't help but take a few more glances at this little fat man. After all, he was the prince. Although he was scared to death, he still had to find an excuse for himself. Who said that the education of the Ming Dynasty was not good? The thick and black alone is worthy of praise .

In fact, Yang Chao didn't want to stay, because he still hadn't waited for backup, which made Yang Chao worry a lot, otherwise he wouldn't be so cramped in Cangzhou.Now there are only 1000 civilians and more than 3000 soldiers here, a total of less than 1000 people, and only more than [-] people who can fight. If they don't join the backup, they will never be safe.

So Yang Chao said: "Then the humble minister will resign."

After finishing speaking, Yang Chao cupped his hands, and at the same time bowed to the princes and princesses behind him, and accidentally saw the last princess, Aimee Zhu, and found that the princess was also looking at him, and nodded with a smile.

Turn around and leave.

He didn't hear the princess murmuring to the maid at this moment: "You are so young!"

Walking all the way forward, he found that the generals who followed him were extremely silent. After Yang Chao noticed it, he found that everyone seemed preoccupied.

"Many men, what's wrong?"

Yang Chao couldn't help asking.

Many men raised their heads and frowned slightly: "My lord, will the prince really ascend the throne?"

Yang Chao nodded.

Many men took a deep breath: "Then we can be considered meritorious escorts?"

Yang Chao nodded again.

Yang Chao finally understood why these people were so preoccupied, and the skill of protecting the driver was a kind of miraculous skill.

It’s just that Yang Chao has never taken this seriously. He was quite disappointed in this action. The first was to organize Li Zicheng to enter Beijing to completely protect the Ming Dynasty, but it failed. The second was to save Chongzhen and go to Jiangnan, which also failed. The second is to protect one or two princes. For Yang Chao, his battle plan has achieved the worst results, so it is not worth being happy.

But for these subordinates, they have indeed made a great contribution, not only as a escort, but also as a meritorious service. This is a greater contribution than the escort. As long as the prince is protected as the emperor, they will all be prosperous. .

Many men lowered their heads, and Yang Chao found that his body was trembling.

Lu Mo, who was next to him, always had a serious and sacred look on his face.

Yang Chao knew that although Lu Mo was an officer, he always had the soul of a scholar in his heart, and he always wanted to be an official through the imperial examination and let his mother get an imperial order.

Yang Chao said with a smile at this time: "Lu Mo, you are going to get what you want, and you will make great contributions to protecting your car. I will guarantee your mother a royal wife!"

Lu Mo suddenly knelt beside Yang Chao: "Thank you sir for your kindness in cultivation and promotion, I will never forget it forever!"

Yang Chao immediately helped him up, escorting a prince made two high-ranking officers in his army lose their composure, Yang Chao suddenly made up his mind.

"Let's go back to the army. The news that the prince is in our army must continue to be kept secret."

In fact, Yang Chao planned to tell the soldiers the identity of the prince after he was safe, but now he has changed his mind. Zhu Cihong's identity has too much influence on ordinary people. Exposing the identity of the prince will definitely affect the morale of the army.

Yang Chao decided that when Huai'an was raising the status of prince, the civil servants in Huai'an would have to obediently cooperate with him.

I believe that Wang Pu's reinforcements should have gathered at that time, so there is no need to worry about the safety of the group.

Where is Wang Pu?
In fact, I am also hurrying northward.

It's just that their speed was greatly affected. There were a large number of routs from north to south, and quite a few of them went south along the canal.

There is Gao Jie's army, and Shandong Liu Zeqing's army.

When Chongzhen gave way to King Qin, Liu Zeqing held back his troops. As soon as he heard that Beijing had fallen, he immediately went south from Shandong, burned, killed and looted along the canal, which seriously interfered with Wang Pu's speed of going north.

Liu Zeqing didn't worry about it, and his combat power was not strong.

However, the combat power of Gao Jie's subordinates should not be underestimated, and many men in front suffered a dull loss.

You can tell just by looking at Gao Jie's battle trajectory.

When he was under Gao Yingxiang's command, he was a general, tied with Li Zicheng. Later, Li Zicheng merged with the rest of Gao Yingxiang's troops.

Later, he colluded with Li Zicheng's wife and fled. After surrendering to the Ming army, he specially suppressed the peasant army.

Last year, he achieved the position of deputy commander-in-chief and fought with Sun Chuanting together with the commander-in-chief Bai Guangen.He fought fiercely with the peasant army in Baofeng and Jiaxian, Henan, and was finally defeated in Tongguan. He fled to Xi'an. Li Zicheng attacked Xi'an and fled to Yan'an. Li Zicheng sent his adopted son Li Guo to pursue him and fled to Shanxi.This year Gao Jie was promoted to the commander-in-chief and was ordered to rush to the aid of Shanxi, but he did not dare to fight Li Zicheng, so he retreated all the way to Gyeonggi.

Just the running distance alone can be called a long march, even if you don't have elite soldiers under your command, it's time to train them.

In addition, they are from the peasant army, and there are many veterans who have fought for decades. Although they can't compare with Yang Chao's army in terms of discipline, the quality of individual soldiers is even much higher than Yang Chao's army.

Wang Pu was also harassed by Gao Jie's subordinates, and he walked steadily all the way. He started walking in March, and he walked for a month. He still hadn't left the Jianghuai area. Without cavalry, they couldn't catch up at all. They could only suffer a dumb loss, and were attacked and robbed a lot of military resources.

Another reason for Wang Pu's slow march is that there is a severe shortage of civilian husbands. It is said that Yang Chao has [-] refugees in his hands, so there should be no shortage of civilian husbands. Set off.

(End of this chapter)