Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 10 Liu Zeqing's Obstacle on the Canal
"The world of Ming Dynasty is over. Ji Province and Lu Province have all surrendered the intruders. It's fine if they don't send troops to chase me and kill me." Zhu Cihong was pessimistic. He will listen to him and take him seriously.

As the saying goes, things turn around. Once the emperor, there were courtiers. Now the capital has been occupied by intruders, and the Ming Dynasty has also perished. Except for those who are die-hardly loyal to the Ming Dynasty, no one will regard him as the prince anymore.

Liu Bao is an eunuch. While his body is different from ordinary people, the thoughts in his mind are also different from ordinary people. For some reason, he may have thought of a poisonous plan after seeing what Zhu Cihong did before.

He gave Zhu Cihong an idea and said, "Your Highness, don't we have Mongolian iron cavalry? Isn't it easy to send them ashore to the coastal states and counties to intimidate those local officials?"

"Besides, even if they stay behind the city wall and can't come out, we have nothing to do with them. Don't there still be landlords in the countryside? Most of them have ice cellars and silver cellars." After finishing speaking, Liu Bao licked his tongue , like a poisonous snake that slanders in front of the monarch.

However, Liu Bao's starting point for all these words was for Zhu Cixiang's benefit. As far as the royal family was concerned, eunuchs like him were truly selfless.

Zhu Cixiang thought it was a good deal when he heard it. Using his own force to exchange ice, grain, and even money and other resources with the states, counties and landowners along the canal was a good deal.

So Zhu Cihong immediately ordered the fleet to stop, and put Zhang Yong's team of Mongolian heavy cavalry archers on the shore. Zhu Cihong didn't care where Zhang Yong and the others went, any prefecture, county, or landlord Laocai's home would be fine, as long as it could be given to him. Just bring food and ice.

So Zhu Cixiang lived happily on the ship relying on these Mongolian cavalry, as well as the support from coastal states, counties, and landlords along the way.

In order to take care of King Yong and King Ding who were not able to take care of themselves, Zhu Cihong also bought a few good-looking maids and seven or eight servants when they passed by Linqing.

After a few days of instruction from the maids and eunuchs, they were assigned to King Yong and King Ding by Zhu Cihong, and asked them to take care of the daily life of the two princes.

Even though they were taking a boat on the canal all the way south, Zhu Cixiang and his party fortunately did not encounter any danger and easily left the areas controlled by the Chuang Army, namely Hebei Province and Lu Province.

However, when he came to Huai'an Mansion, an area temporarily controlled by the Ming Dynasty, he encountered something that he could not imagine.

Guarding Huai'an is Liu Zeqing, the former general of Shandong. Ever since the bandits invaded Lu and Hebei provinces, the canal has not seen a fleet for a long time, let alone Zhu Cihong's huge ship with nearly a thousand people. Team up.

Because Zhu Cihong did not fly the royal flag on the ship, Liu Zeqing thought it was a thief or the Qing army after discovering Zhu Cihong's whereabouts, so he sent a guerrilla general with a thousand troops to stop it.

The guerrilla general did not fight Zhu Cixiang, but watched from a distance, maintaining a stalemate with them.

At first Zhu Cihong thought that Liu Zeqing sent this army because he misunderstood his identity, so he quickly sent a guard fire cavalry ashore to inform Liu Zeqing of his identity.

Unexpectedly, after informing Liu Zeqing of this matter, he instead sent more troops to surround Zhu Cihong, and suddenly, a surrounding circle was formed.

Seeing Liu Zeqing's actions, Liu Bao gritted his teeth and stomped his feet angrily, and said with a look as if he had a hatred for killing his father, "Liu Zeqing, how dare he send troops to surround us? His Highness is here, is it possible?" Is he going to rebel?"

Then he looked at the three princes who sat upright and said nothing, "Three lords, you are the assistant ministers of the Eastern Palace. It's time to come up with an idea."

But no matter what, Li Wenkui, Zhang Ruowang, and Li Jin just didn't speak. If it weren't for the bean-sized sweat dripping from their foreheads, others would think they were dead.

Zhu Cilang knew that it was impossible to count on these civil servants, so he stood up and said, "I rescued the Emperor Daxing from the chaos alone, and went all the way southward for thousands of miles. Will he be blocked by the little Liu Zeqing in this little Huai'an mansion?"

"Zhang Yong, you took people out for reconnaissance, tell me how many people are Liu Zeqing outside?" After speaking, Zhu Cihong turned his gaze to Zhang Yong.

When Zhang Yong heard Zhu Cihong calling him, he stood up, bowed slightly and said, "Go back to Your Highness, I saw two or three thousand people during the day, and just now I saw many torches moving around in the distance outside the cabin, I'm afraid Now there are only more than 3000 people outside, no less than 3000."

Hearing that there were another 3000 people outside, Zhu Cihong couldn't help being shocked. He only had 700 people in his hands, yet Liu Zeqing managed to gather four or five times his own strength in half a day.

However, in order to stabilize the morale of the army, he still pretended to be calm and said, "Huh, it's just three thousand chickens and dogs, they are not our single-handed enemy."

Li Jin and the others sneered in their hearts when they heard Zhu Cihong's words. Although they knew that fighting was not a matter of numbers, they had four or five times the force advantage. Unless the gods came down to earth, no one could beat them.

At this time, Zhang Yong asked Zhu Cihong stupidly again, as if he wanted to demolish him, and said, "Then Your Highness, are we going to attack now?"

After hearing this, Zhu Cihong said speechlessly, "Dizzy, doesn't this Mongolian man have a brain? I was just blowing my mind. I only have a few hundred people in my hand. If they are exhausted, they will be gone. Liu Zeqing still has tens of thousands of people." Woolen cloth.

But the cowhide has been blown out, and Zhang Yong demolished himself like this, Zhu Cihong can't slap himself in the face by himself, so he should take back the words as soon as he said them.

Just when Zhu Cihong was thinking about what to do so that he would not lose face and save his reputation, the system suddenly issued a task for him.

"Temporary mission, defeat Liu Zeqing's army surrounding your troops. Reward points are one thousand, one low-level lottery, limited to 24 hours."

The system didn't say "choose" this time, it seems that he was forced to accept it and implemented it, Zhu Cihong thought to himself.

Just when Zhu Cihong was thinking about it because of the system's prompt, Li Wenkui and the others saw that Zhu Cihong was speechless for a long time, thinking that he was overwhelmed by Zhang Yong's questioning.

Li Wenkui and the others thought to themselves: The crown prince is still a child, and he is still very immature. This time, Zhang Yong's stupid words made him learn a lesson, which is really unexpected.

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