"Prince, didn't we ask you to escort your mother back to the palace? Why are you back again?"
When Zhu Yuanzhang saw Zhu Cihong leaving and returning, he pretended to be displeased.
When Zhu Cixiang heard this, he couldn't help but shrink back, then straightened up immediately, and said respectfully: "My mother is being cared for by her sister and the imperial doctor, and I feel that I can't help much by staying there!"
"So I want to help my father, so that I can gain more knowledge, and then I can share my father's worries. In this way..."
After what happened just now, Zhu Yuanzhang was originally worried that Zhu Cixiang would be influenced by Zhou Hou. Now he was quite relieved to see that Zhu Cixiang had no doubts about him when he talked, and the more he spoke, the bolder he became, and his voice became louder, and he was quite relieved.
He immediately calmed down and said gently: "Okay, it's rare for you to have such filial piety, so I will give you some guidance today."
"Look, Wang Dehua's team of soldiers..."
"Look at that, the cavalry charging like this..."
"Look, he is about to change his formation. You must attack before he closes up..."
...
Since the war was constantly changing, and Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to test Zhu Cixiang's level, he did not tell the reason. He just gave random instructions based on the situation ahead and secretly observed the other party's expression.
When he saw Zhu Cixiang frowning frequently at first, he nodded repeatedly soon after, and in the end he was able to say a word or two to him, and he was very happy in his heart.
At this time, Zhu Cixiang pointed at a group of cavalry in front and said, "Father, is there something wrong with Jin Shenghuan's cavalry's attack method? If he had no backup, he would have lost at least twice as many troops!"
Zhu Yuanzhang took a look and said with a smile: "You are right. If he does this, he will indeed lose more soldiers and horses!"
Zhu Cixiang heard this and said with some confusion: "Jin Shenghuan can be considered a strong soldier, and he has suffered losses before, how could he do this again?"
"because of him......"
After Zhu Yuanzhang finished speaking, he changed his words and said: "There is nothing surprising about this!"
"You must know that everyone has inertia. Even if you know it, you will still make mistakes on the ever-changing battlefield, so generals must develop good habits from the beginning..."
Zhu Cixiang took another look and said with some confusion: "Is this really the case? But Jin Shenghuan changed the formation before and reduced a lot of losses. Why can't it be reversed now?"
When Zhu Yuanzhang saw him questioning frankly, he felt even more relaxed and said with a smile: "This is caused by the different depths of habits. You don't have to worry too much about it. Look over there..."
After he dealt with Zhu Cihong, he saw that Huang Nilu's volley of fire guns seemed to have reached its limit, so he said to Wu Laoliu on the side: "Send the signal!"
Wu Laoliu was stunned for a moment, then took out a loud arrow from his waist and looked at Zhu Yuanzhang with a puzzled look on his face.
After receiving the other party's confirmation, he shot the resounding arrow upwards.
"boom!"
As the sounding arrow exploded in the sky, everyone present was shocked.
Wang Dehua, in particular, hurriedly looked to the rear and relaxed a little when he saw that no soldiers were coming.
However, he did not dare to fight anymore at this moment and quietly retreated with his bodyguard.
When Jin Shenghuan, who was fighting fiercely, saw this, he immediately shouted dissatisfied: "Wang Dehua, now that things have happened, why don't you fight to the death?"
"Do you think you can escape the capital alive after the incident is defeated?"
Wang Dehua saw that Jin Shenghuan was so ruthless and immediately counterattacked: "Jin Shenghuan, what are you talking about? The governor is...".z.
"go***!"
Jin Shenghuan cursed angrily, and then shouted to the soldiers: "Retreat!"
After he drank, he immediately turned his horse's head and galloped forward.
When the soldiers who were fighting fiercely saw Jin Shenghuan leaving, they had no intention of fighting and fled one after another.
Jin Shenghuan was originally the main force in the confrontation, but now that his side withdrew, the Ming soldiers immediately rushed over like tigers descending the mountain.
When Wang Dehua saw this, he cursed Jin Shenghuan and fled with his followers.
Seeing the sudden change in the situation, Zhu Cixi said with a surprised look on his face
: "This...this is victory?"
Seeing Zhu Cixiang's childlike expression, Zhu Yuanzhang laughed and said, "Yes, this is a victory!"
"You have to remember that momentum is the most important thing on the battlefield. Once the soldiers are discouraged, even if there are thousands of troops, they are just lambs to be slaughtered!"
Zhu Cixiang nodded solemnly, and just as he was about to speak, he heard another shout, and then saw Jin Xuan rushing in with more than a thousand soldiers and horses.
"Kim Hyun!?"
Zhu Cixiang thought that Jin Yiwei had said yesterday that Jin Xuan was confronting Song Xiance a hundred miles away and would lead his army to help today. He looked at Zhu Yuanzhang with some confusion and said, "Father, is this your arrangement?"
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and said: "Yes, my father captured Empress Cen Hangui in Jizhou..."
It turned out that Zhu Yuanzhang had previously planned to divide his troops into five groups in order to disperse Mr. Zou Da's forces and relieve Li Jing from worries about attacking the Jurchens. However, he unexpectedly captured Zhu Ji later.
Zhu Ji was very tough at the beginning, but after he tried more than twenty punishments from Jin Yiwei, he immediately used them all.
When Zhu Yuanzhang learned that Mr. Zou Da only had more than 4,000 wolf soldiers around him, and that Cen Hangui was not on good terms with Mr. Zou Da and was eager to make meritorious deeds, he sent out the five suspected soldiers that had been prepared to test Mr. Zou Da's side. Reaction.
After he estimated that the secret agents had spread the news, he captured them all and tortured them one by one.
During the interrogation process, Brother Li accidentally discovered Mr. Zou Da's spy lurking in the army.
When Zhu Yuanzhang saw that the spy was hiding so deeply, he knew that the other party should be Mr. Zou Da's confidant. Even if he was captured, he might not be able to find out useful information.
Therefore, he deliberately let the other party participate in the operation, followed the clues to find out a group of people who were in contact with the other party, and finally captured them all.
Sure enough, after the spy was captured, he refused to say anything and sought death several times.
Fortunately, other people were captured this time. Under Brother Li's repeated interrogations, one person finally couldn't bear the torture and was the first to speak.
As this man confessed, others also told the truth.
Zhu Yuanzhang used the information and contact information obtained from the spies to not only successfully mobilize the wolf soldiers of Mr. Guo and Cen Hangui, but also severely cheated Mr. Zou Da.
After he captured Cen Hangui, he used his identity to successfully evade surveillance along the way.
When he arrived near the capital, he learned that the capital was full of rumors and Zhu Cixiang and others were helpless. He originally wanted to risk entering the city to subdue the Beijing army and put down the rebellion.
At this time, news came from Jin Yiwei that because Brother Li Wu ordered Jin Yiwei to recruit soldiers at a high price around the capital, some ruffians under Jin Shenghuan took the opportunity to surrender, which made Song Xiance suspicious of Jin Shenghuan.
Although the two of them are in harmony on the surface, they are secretly wary of each other.
After Zhu Yuanzhang learned of this, he planned to capture Song Xiance and conquer Jin Shenghuan.
However, there were only dozens of people around him at the time, and he was worried that he would not be able to do it.
Just when he was hesitating, Brother Li Wu and Jiang Yingkui arrived with three thousand cavalry, solving his worries.
It turned out that with the "help" of the wolf soldiers, Li Jing and others successfully defeated Hauge and Obai's troops.
Because they were worried about Zhu Yuanzhang's safety and to prevent the Jurchens from coming back, they decided to divide their troops into two groups.
The group, led by Li Jing and Gu Yanwu, continued to pursue the Jurchens and consolidate the results.
The other group, led by Li Wuge and Jiang Yingkui, rushed back to the capital to support Zhu Yuanzhang.
Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly had more than 3,000 troops and horses, and he was very happy.
He asked Jiang Yingkui's thousand men to disguise themselves and sneak into the capital to spy on Liu Chang and others.
He, Brother Li and others pretended to be wolf soldiers, escorted Cen Hangui, and went to see Song Xiance in the name of returning reinforcements.
Unexpectedly, Song Xiance was also very alert. Seeing that Cen Hangui arrived suddenly, he asked the deputy general to receive him, while he pretended to be a guard and observed secretly.
Although Song Xiance did not know Zhu Yuanzhang and others, he saw that Cen Hangui behaved differently and took the opportunity to escape, thus escaping.
