Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 141 The heroine
"Who are you?" Zhu Cixiang rode up to Rogge and asked.

He had already noticed that Tong Mengchun was fighting with Rogge before, and Zhu Cihong felt that he should respond to his order to stop the Fengqiu soldiers and civilians of the Tartars, but he didn't know the true identity of Rogge and his group.

"My lord, I am under the lord Yue. Don't ask so many questions. There is a group of Tartar soldiers chasing Xiangyong in front. I don't know what's going on now. You should send someone to look at it." Luoge paralyzed He fell to the ground and said to Zhu Cihong.

He didn't know Zhu Cihong's identity, but felt that the armor worn by the man in front of him was so gorgeous and clean, he must be someone with a high status in the imperial court.

"It's easy. Zhang Chao, take two hundred cavalry to the front and have a look. If there are Tatars, kill them. If you encounter those local warriors, bring them back."

"For my great cause, they gave up their lives to fight. I can't ignore them. Now that the battle is over, I should reward them for their merits."

Zhu Cihong is not a cruel person, he will always remember those who worked hard for him, and will reward them well.

Unlike his cheap old man who slammed the door, the generals under him were only willing to give him a few dozen taels of silver after a big victory, which is not enough to be embarrassing.

You must know that in a big city like Jinling, it costs one or two hundred taels of silver to groom a famous prostitute, and dozens of taels of silver are enough for dignitaries.

"You are the emperor?" Hearing that Zhu Cihong called himself "I", Rogge's attention was attracted by Zhu Cihong.

"Ah."

When Rogge heard that Zhu Cihong had admitted, he quickly dragged his disabled body to the ground, wanting to bow down to Zhu Cihong.

"Grassman Rogge sees my emperor."

"You just fought a battle, and you have injuries on your body, so you don't need to salute." When Luogge lowered his head, Zhu Cihong saw that his body was covered with various scars.

Because he felt sorry for such a warrior, Zhu Cihong specifically allowed him not to salute.

"I never imagined that the emperor would be so sympathetic to our soldiers and civilians. I, Rogge, have lived for 30 or [-] years, and today I am finally lucky enough to see Tianyan. I really have no regrets in dying." Rogge did not expect his emperor to be such a kind person. , he felt that his hard work was worth it.

He thought that an emperor like Zhu Cihong must be a good emperor, able to lead all of them out of the troubled times and usher in a new peaceful and prosperous age.

At that time, everyone will not have to live in fear, let alone run around all day for their livelihood, worrying about what to eat tomorrow after filling their stomachs today.

At the same time, Zhang Chao has brought two hundred cavalry to the place where Aunt Wang and the Eight Banners soldiers were fighting just now.

As soon as he came here, he saw a hundred and ten Eight Banners soldiers killing a group of village braves, women and children in an almost cruel way.

Aunt Wang's group and the Xiang Yong from before were numerous, but they had no martial arts skills and did not know how to fight, so they were beaten to a pulp by the Eight Banners soldiers in a short time.

That is to say, the Tartars are cruel by nature, and they became interested in seeing these people with mantis arms as chariots, otherwise Aunt Wang and the others would be wiped out before Zhang Chao's arrival.

"It's really cruel." Zhang Chao saw an Eight Banners armor brutally killing a woman with a whistle stick with a sharp knife.

I saw that the Eight Banners armor used a knife to cut her clothes for a while, and then chopped on the shoulder blades, arms, abdomen, back, and legs. There were so many scars that the woman almost turned into a bloody person.

But the Eight Banners infantry was not in a hurry to end him, and slashed at non-lethal places like playing a game, making her endure great pain but couldn't get rid of it.

"Kill them all." After Zhang Chao said, he led the cavalry to form a wedge formation, and charged into the center of the Eight Banners soldiers first.

Then they were divided into two, and then they fell into chaos when they were disrupted, and quickly eliminated them like a sharp knife.

"Are you officers and soldiers?" Aunt Wang was shocked when she saw Zhang Chao's group of cavalry moving like a gale. However, she managed to get rid of this group of Eight Banners soldiers in the blink of an eye.

"Well, I am Zhang Chao, the commander of the imperial guards and horse troops. I serve His Majesty, and I am ordered by the emperor to destroy this group of Tartar soldiers." Zhang Chao told Aunt Wang about his identity and purpose.

"Is the Emperor here too?" Aunt Wang asked.

"Yes, you can see me if you come with me." After saying that, Zhang Chao ordered people to take the ears of the hundred and ten Tartar soldiers, and Mrs. Wang and her group back to report.

"Your Majesty, luckily, these are the ears of those Tartar soldiers." Returning to Zhu Cihong's side, Zhang Chao placed a bag full of Tartar ears in front of Zhu Cihong.

"Very good." Although the ear that had just been cut off was covered with blood, Zhu Cihong was not bothered, because these things were a manifestation of military exploits and the greatest glory of a warrior.

"When I rushed over, I found that this woman had a group of women and children, and a group of village warriors who were fighting hard, so I brought them here too."

"Oh, there are women?" Zhu Cihong did not expect that in this era of barbarian invasion, women would come forward.

This is very different from the women who are bound by etiquette in his impression.

"Minist Wang Tong, kowtow to the emperor." After seeing Zhu Cihong, Aunt Wang immediately kowtowed to Zhu Cihong.

She is a rural woman, not bound by etiquette, and etiquette has never bothered to care about these poor people, so she is not shy at all under the gaze of a group of men, but is generous.

Just because of her status as a woman, she seems to have relatively little experience, thinking that when she sees the emperor, she can be called the emperor, or the emperor's master. I don't know if she should be called His Majesty Zhu Cihong, or other titles.

And she doesn't need to kowtow. China's etiquette restrictions on women are actually not that heavy. Men have to kowtow when they see the monarch, or even kneel three times and kowtow nine times, but women only need to bend down and say "Happiness" is enough.

"Haha." The surrounding soldiers burst into laughter when they heard that she called Zhu Cihong like that, as if they were laughing at her ignorance.

"Did you just fight with the Tatars? How many Tatar soldiers did you kill? Were you injured? What a heroine. If we, the Chinese, were like this, how could the Tatars break through and even drink from the Yellow River?"

Zhu Cixiang sighed, war is originally a man's duty, but because of traitors such as Wu Sangui, Hong Chengchou, and Zu Dashou, as well as fatuous monarchs and incompetent generals, women and children are now required to fight. This is really shameful.

"Back to the emperor, all those Tartar soldiers were wearing heavy armor, ordinary swords and guns couldn't break through their defenses, and I only killed one in two quarters of an hour of fierce fighting." Wang Tong said embarrassedly to Zhu Cihong.

(End of this chapter)