Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 246 Li Zicheng's Raid
After learning that Kong Youde and other [-] Han and Mongolian officers and soldiers had changed their banners and surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Cihong couldn't help but slapped the table to applaud them.

"Great, with these 5 horses, it's just like a tiger with wings added. Li Zicheng, a gangster, can no longer be arrogant in front of me."

Zhu Cihong originally had 10,000+ troops, and now he has [-] Han and Mongolian elite soldiers from Kong Youde and others, while Li Zicheng has only [-] to [-] remnants and defeated generals.

Judging from the current situation, it is easy for Zhu Cihong to eliminate Li Zicheng.

After all, Zhu Cihong's military strength is much larger than Li Zicheng's, and Zhu Cihong's supplies are far more abundant than Li Zicheng's. His money and food have to be transported thousands of miles from the south of the Yangtze River.

However, with a large number of tank ships, coupled with the assistance of hundreds of thousands of civilians in Jiangbei, Henan, it is very easy to transport large quantities of materials to the front line.

This is nothing, but the news that came next made Zhu Cihong even happier.

"Your Majesty, the spies came to report that Kong Youde and others changed their banners and rejected Li Zicheng's surrender." Zhang Chao suddenly walked into the account to report.

Just now Zhu Cihong only knew that Kong Youde and others had changed their banners and surrendered to him, but he didn't know that they rejected Li Zicheng's offer to surrender.

But this is nothing, the next news is the blockbuster.

"Li Zicheng became furious and sent [-] troops to attack, vowing to crush Kong Youde and others." Zhang Chao continued.

Zhu Cihong was not very surprised at this point. After all, Wu Sangui was like this a few months ago. He first accepted Li Zicheng's surrender, and then turned around and made friends with the Qing army.

In desperation, Li Zicheng sent 10,000+ troops to destroy Wu Sangui. Originally, the tens of thousands of Wu Sangui and Gaodi were nothing to Li Zicheng, and they could be wiped out with a flick of his fingers.

It was a pity that Li Zicheng did not expect that Dorgon would soon bring the Eight Banners army to support Wu Sangui. Only then did Li Zicheng suffer a complete defeat.

"Great!" Zhu Cihong jumped up from the chair excitedly.

He thought to himself, once Li Zicheng dispatched troops like this, Kong Youde and others will be regarded as having formed a relationship with Li Zicheng from now on, and they will honestly fight under his command in the future.

"Hurry up, call up the army, and distribute some dry food to those who haven't finished eating. Let's go to support Kong Youde."

"By the way, take another 5 people with food and water for a day. Kong Youde and the others have fought for a day and have no supplies. They must be exhausted. If there are no supplies, they will have to kill horses, drink horse blood, and eat horse meat later. .”

Zhu Cihong thoughtfully asked his subordinates to bring supplies to Kong Youde. After all, from now on, the officers and soldiers of Kong Youde and others belonged to Zhu Cihong.

"But they haven't asked for help yet." Seeing Zhu Cihong's anxious look, Zhang Chao persuaded.

Zhu Cihong is the emperor, the Ninth Five-Year Lord. Before Kong Youde and others asked for help, Zhu Cihong rushed to help. Isn't it a bit too that, and he doesn't have the majesty of a superior.

"Don't think so much at this time, Kong Youde and the others are already mine."

"Since they are my people, I have an obligation to protect them. Now that Li Zicheng has sent troops to attack, it is another good opportunity to severely injure them. No matter what, we must send troops tonight."

Regarding the current situation, Zhu Cihong saw very clearly that there were only two forces left on the Tongguan battlefield, namely himself and Li Zicheng. Although Kong Youde and the others had just joined, they were also members of the Ming army.

Once they were defeated, all they lost would be Zhu Cihong's strength.

Once they sit back and watch, the morale of the Ming army will definitely be a problem in the future. Zhu Cihong dare not make fun of the army he has built with great difficulty.

Under Zhu Cihong's will, more than [-] Ming troops were mobilized again soon, and even the Manchu Eight Banners left by Duoduo were incorporated into Xiaoqiguard by Zhu Cihong and temporarily put into battle.

Although they had just fallen into Zhu Cihong's hands, many people did not change their minds, but it didn't matter, Zhu Cihong used them as mercenaries.

He promised that as long as these Eight Banners cavalry fight for themselves, they will be free people from now on, and they can go wherever they want. As long as they don't become bandits, Zhu Cihong will release them on the spot.

And for every person killed on the battlefield, Zhu Cihong would reward them with two taels of silver, and pay them one tael of silver every month.

Not to mention, Zhu Cihong even promised that as long as they hit Liaodong in the future, he would give them a holiday and let them go home.

With such multiple incentives, and the fact that the enemy is Li Zicheng's rogue army, these Eight Banners cavalry don't have any psychological burden to fight. Anyway, they have been fighting for a long time today, and they don't mind working overtime at night.

Just when Zhu Cihong led his troops to the place where Kong Youde and others were stationed, that is, when they marched outside the south gate of the Qing army camp.

Kong Youde and others are on the battlefield, personally commanding the soldiers to resist Li Zicheng's attack.

"Crossbowman, release the arrow quickly, don't stop, don't let the intruders approach us." Kong Youde put one hand on the rejecting horse, and ordered his men to release the arrow almost madly.

The rushing infantry rushed very fast. After fighting in the Central Plains for a long time, they were very good at fighting with their iron feet.

"General, we are out of arrows." A low-ranking officer came to Kong Youde and whispered to him.

They have been fighting for a whole day, from morning to night, and they don't know how many waves of arrows they have shot.

Even if they still have arrows, the crossbowmen have long since lost the strength to shoot.

Bows and crossbows are no better than swords, especially bows, which consume a lot of strength, and the hand that pulls the bowstring hurts if you shoot too much. A strong adult can only shoot [-] arrows at a time. up.

"If you don't have an arrow, then take a spear and point it at it." Kong Youde roared angrily.

Although the crossbowmen were all elites in the army, in order to block Li Zicheng's attack, Kong Youde had no choice but to throw them into the battlefield.

Kong Youde finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the crossbowmen also picked up their spears and guarded behind the Juma, and the infantry line was a little thicker.

"Send someone to ask His Majesty for help." Seeing Zu Dashou, Kong Youde suddenly remembered that they hadn't asked Zhu Cihong for help after they were besieged by Li Zicheng.

"No, Li Zicheng is surrounded on all sides and no one can escape." Zu Dashou said desperately.

He never imagined that after a day's battle, they would be surrounded by Li Zicheng here. You must know that they were always chasing Li Zicheng in the past, and there was no time when he chased him to beat him.

Looking at the Qing army camp to the north, Zu Dashou thought, it would be great if the Qing army camp hadn't been burned, otherwise they could still go in and resist Li Zicheng for a while longer by relying on the camp's wooden wall.

Moreover, the camp was so large that Li Zicheng couldn't surround it. They had enough opportunities to send people out to ask for help.

(End of this chapter)