Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 8 Leaving Beijing and Tianjin, encountering Tongzhou defense envoys on the way, fight!
Early the next morning, Zhu Cihong assembled his troops and counted his remaining troops.

There are 52 Mongolian heavy cavalry archers, 81 fireclaw cavalrymen of the Ming Dynasty Imperial Guard, 49 heavy infantrymen from the Fifth Army Battalion, [-] sword and card players, [-] long spearmen in the guard, and [-] archer in the guard. One hundred and one people.

Calculated, Zhu Cihong currently has a total of nine horse infantry teams, nearly 700 people, although it is not worth mentioning compared with the 10,000+ Shun Army in the capital, but if it is local, it is enough to run rampant in townships and counties up.

Before leaving Wangjiazhuang, Zhu Cihong did not forget to say goodbye to Master Wang, after all, they bothered a lot when they came here all night.

"Master Wang, I really disturbed you a lot last night, so I'll use this jade pendant made by the Imperial Palace to make up for you." In order to express his apology and compensate Master Wang at the same time, Zhu Cihong took out a jade pendant with dragon patterns.

This jade pendant was taken from Liu Bao's body. Originally, Zhu Cihong didn't like gold and jade, but Liu Bao was an eunuch who liked these treasures the most.

When he came out of Jiading Bo's mansion yesterday, he took a lot of things with him, and today when he heard that Zhu Cihong wanted to use some gold and silver to compensate Lord Wang, he took out these things.

"This, this is too precious." Although Master Wang is only a rich man, he also knows that the value of such a finely carved jade pendant will definitely not be low, so he feels that what Zhu Cihong gave is too precious.

But Zhu Cihong didn't care. For those in power, money is really something outside of them, so they don't care much at all.

"Oh, well, then I'll accept it." Master Wang said with a sigh.

Zhu Cihong didn't think there was any surprise, on the contrary, he thought Master Wang was some kind of honest person.

He didn't know that what Master Wang was lamenting was actually regretting that he had passed on the secret of Zhu Cihong's whereabouts to the Tongzhou government yesterday.

Master Wang originally thought that Zhu Cihong and the others were bandits who came to eat the big family, so he asked his servants to report to the government quickly, hoping that the government would quickly wipe them out, but he did not expect that Zhu Cihong and the others would actually come up with such a valuable thing today.

But it was too late, no matter how regretful it was, it was too late.

Coincidentally, because of Princess Changping's injury, she couldn't go by land, so the doctor suggested that he had better go by land and water, so that the princess would not suffer from the bumps.

So Zhu Cihong decided to go to the port of Tongzhou, where he requisitioned the canal ships, and then went all the way south to the south of the Yangtze River to land in Jinling.

At the same time, the defense envoy of Tongzhou, the highest military and political officer in Tongzhou newly appointed by Dashun, received the news from Master Wang that a brigade of well-equipped bandits robbed the village, so he was going to destroy them.

However, because most of his men were former Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers with poor discipline and low combat effectiveness, they were not happy to hear that they were going to fight the bandits. In addition, the Tongzhou defense envoy did not want to fight the bandits and cause casualties to his troops.

So it was delayed until the next morning, when the Tongzhou defense envoy went to the military camp to gather troops.

It took a long time for the Tongzhou defense envoy to bring his troops to the vicinity of Tongzhou port.

Coincidentally, Zhu Cihong had almost arrived near the port of Tongzhou at this moment, and the two sides bumped into each other on the official road after a while.

Zhu Cilang looked at the uniforms of the soldiers on the Tongzhou defense envoy's side, but didn't realize that they had surrendered to Dashun, and thought they were the local Ming army.

The defense envoy of Tongzhou stared at Zhu Cihong and his party, including guards, imperial guards, and Mongolian cavalry. For a while, he couldn't understand the origins of Zhu Cihong and others.

After a while, both sides decided to send people to question at the same time.

Zhu Cihong sent Zhang Yong to inquire about the origin of the army in front, and at the same time reported his family name, only to see that Zhang Yong slapped the grassland horse under his crotch after he was ordered, and then came to the front of the Tongzhou defense envoy's army.

"Who is the leader of the army in front? Please report your name. We are the guards of the Prince of Ming Dynasty. You should quickly get out of the way and don't try to stop him." Zhang Yong's voice was deafening.

The Tongzhou defense envoy originally wanted to send someone to question him, but now he heard Zhang Yong's words and felt that it was unnecessary.

He thought: Why is the prince of Ming Dynasty here, and there are so many people around him, is this an opportunity bestowed on me by God?

If the crown prince can be captured in front of Emperor Yongchang, he must be promoted and rich. An increase in rank and title must be indispensable. Even if I can't catch him, just fighting him will show my loyalty to Dashun.

So the Tongzhou defense envoy made up his mind, drove the BMW under his crotch, and led [-] soldiers behind him to fight Zhu Cihong.

Zhang Yong saw that the defense envoys of Tongzhou drew out their weapons without saying a word, and charged at them aggressively. Knowing that they were enemies, not friends, he turned his horse and ran back to his own army.

But Zhu Cilang saw the Tongzhou defense envoy approaching aggressively, knowing that the battle was inevitable, he did not hesitate, and immediately ordered the soldiers to shoot arrows.

The defense envoy of Tongzhou was so eager to make meritorious service that he forgot to ask the soldiers to hold up their shields. In addition, most of his soldiers were light infantry. When they were shot by Zhu Cihong's two hundred archers, dozens of people died immediately.

But he thought that he had already rushed, and he must not give up halfway, so he bit the bullet and faced the rain of arrows, and continued to kill Zhu Cihong.

When Zhu Cihong saw it, he snorted coldly and said, "I really don't know how to live or die, and dare to charge my army formation, it's just looking for death."

Although Tongzhou's defense envoys had many soldiers, Zhu Cihong's soldiers were more elite.

He ordered the heavy infantry of the [-]th Army Battalion to be the central army, and the remaining swordsmen and pikemen guarded the two wings. As soon as the battle was fought, the defense of Tongzhou was unable to move and fell into a stalemate.

Then Zhu Cilang took advantage of his own cavalry and ordered Zhang Yong to lead the Mongolian cavalry to outflank the Tongzhou defense envoy from both wings.

First, he used bows and arrows to shoot out a shower of arrows, then put on his prairie saber and rushed into the unsuspecting Tongzhou defense envoy.

Zhang Yong and the cavalry under his command defeated the Tongzhou Defense Envoy's army with just a few ins and outs.

Soon, the defense envoy of Tongzhou was caught, and the soldiers tied him up and sent him to Zhu Cihong.

Seeing a middle-aged general who was tied up like a crab in front of him, Zhu Cihong said with a smile, "Did you just want to catch me and send me to the capital to find the intruders to receive a reward."

The defense envoy of Tongzhou saw that Zhu Cihong did not ask his subordinates to kill him immediately, but came to see him in person, thinking that he still had a chance of life, and maybe if he begged for mercy and showed his sincerity, Zhu Cihong would not kill him.

So he knelt on the ground and grabbed Zhu Cihong's boots with snot and tears and said, "Your Highness, it's all my fault that I was deceived by lard and deceived by that intruder."

"I know I was wrong. Please forgive me, Your Highness. I will definitely do what a dog can do in the future." The Tongzhou defense envoy also used two words that he had memorized while listening to storytelling.

However, it was a pity that these words, which were as insincere as an opera, could not move Zhu Cixiang. Looking at the ugly face of the Tongzhou defense envoy lying on his boots, Zhu Cixiang felt sick and kicked him away.

Then Zhu Cihong turned around and went to ride his own horse. He waited until he sat down on the horse's back and said, "Take it to the woods and kill it."

With a single word, Zhu Cixi sentenced the Tongzhou defense envoy to death.

(End of this chapter)