"Come forward! Well done, Lao Chen!"
"Master Hou, this is not entirely due to me, Old Chen... Mainly because there is a situation in the Tianjin Acropolis. It seems that some people have revolted!"
"Haha, this is called the Dao, many helpers, and the unfaithful, few helpers... Well, we are all following the Dao, so we have more help!"
"What the Marquis said is very good, but there is an uprising among the people in the Tianjin Acropolis. After we enter the city, can we still..."
Those who were discussing the right and wrong were Li Guo and Chen Yongfu. These two are so proud!
Although the uprising in the Tianjin Acropolis was extinguished, the changes in the city still affected the morale of the defenders on the city wall. People panicked, and the defense was not reliable. As a result, the Boy's Army under Chen Yongfu rushed forward and attacked the south city wall that Zhu Chunjie was personally defending. Moreover, even the gunpowder stored in the south gate tower was inadvertently lit, and the fire burned so fiercely!
Li Guo glanced at Chen Yongfu who was hesitant to speak. He understood what the other party wanted to say and stopped pretending to be confused. He laughed and said: "What kind of fortune can the poor people get? The rich households in the city will not welcome King Chuang."
Chen Yongfu smiled and cupped his hands: "With these words from the Marquis, brothers like the general can be free to fight!"
Li Guo smiled and nodded. Just as he was about to say a few words of encouragement, he heard the rapid sound of horse hooves. Li Guo turned around and saw several passing cavalry galloping towards him, arriving under Li Guo's banner.
"Master Marquis, Mr. Li has sent a young man to report that there is an emergency on the north bank of the Wei River. Prince Zhu Thief led his troops out of the city and has defeated Tang Tong's troops."
Mr. Li is Li Yan's nickname, and his subordinates also call him that. Li Yan and Lady Hong were in charge of the battle on the Wei River, and the battle seemed to be going relatively smoothly. It seems that all the sand ships of the "Zheng family" have escaped.
So Li Yan and Lady Hong had free time to pay attention to the battle on the shore, but they found that Zhu Cixiang actually led the troops out of the city himself and defeated Tang Tong.
Li Guo snorted: "This Tang Tong is really useless! Mr. Chen, I will leave Tianjin Nancheng to you. I will lead my troops across the river to capture the crown prince of the Zhu family!"
Chen Yongfu said: "Don't worry, Mr. Hou, the soldiers from the Ministry of Staff have already rushed to the city wall. Sooner or later, they will be able to capture Tianjin Nancheng."
Li Guo nodded approvingly. He knew Chen Yongfu's abilities. Since his men had already rushed up the wall of Nancheng, it was only a matter of time before they broke through the city.
So Li Guo separated from Chen Yongfu and took his 2,000 cavalry to a canal dock west of Tianjin Wei. Li Yan left some canoes there to build new pontoon bridges so that the armies of Li Guo and Chen Yongfu could return to the north bank of the Wei River if necessary.
However, building the pontoon bridge took a lot of effort. When Li Guo led his troops to the dock, the pontoon bridge had not yet been completed. While Li Guo was waiting for the pontoon to be completed, Zhu Cihong and Wu Sanfu, who had just defeated a ragtag group of people, were not idle either. They left two assistants in command of the right division, Wang Yan and Wang Qi, to monitor Tang Tong's remaining troops. Then they turned their troops to attack the man-made mound on the north bank of the Wei River.
The archers sent by Tang Tong were also guarding there, about four to five hundred people. When Zhu Cihong and Wu Sanfu arrived with their troops, they had been shooting arrows there all morning. All of them had sore arms and no strength to fight anymore.
Wu Sanfu was also brave. When he reached the bottom of the mound, he dismounted and summoned a battalion of swordsmen. They lined up in a line. Everyone held a three-pointed two-edged sword and launched an attack from above.
In fact, this man-made mound is not very high, the highest is only one or two feet, and the archers guarding it cannot stop the impact of this group of ferocious iron soldiers.
And those archers had no intention of dying for Emperor Dashun. Seeing that they were no match, they immediately knelt down and begged for surrender, and returned to the Ming Dynasty anyway.
The man who led his subordinates to surrender was a short and stocky Tang Family Army Commander named Yu Shaoan, who was in his twenties. He was dragged all the way from the mound to Zhu Cixiang's horse by Wu Sanfu.
Yu Shaoan saw a young man in golden armor looking at him with a smile, feeling a little strange. Wu Sanfu on the side shouted: "This is the crown prince, why don't you kowtow!"
He is the prince! ?
The prince of the Ming Dynasty is now wearing a helmet and running freely on the battlefield? What's going on?
"Are you from the army?" Seeing that he was in a daze, Zhu Cihong spoke first without waiting for him to kowtow.
Yu Shaoan was actually from the Ming army. He was a general in the Ming army. He was promoted after following Tang Tong and joining Dashun. Because he had only joined the army for a short period of time and had not even changed his jacket, Zhu Cixiang could tell his origin at a glance.
"The younger one was originally the commander of Miyun General Town, and he followed that thief Tang Tong..." Yu Shaoan kowtowed quickly, "But the younger one is in Shunying and has always wanted to find an opportunity. When I saw Master Wang just now, I immediately submitted to him."
"Oh..." Zhu Cixi still had a smile on his face, "You turn out to be a loyal minister!"
"Yes, yes, I am loyal..." Only he knows whether Yu Shaoan is a loyal minister of Ming Dynasty, but he certainly does not want to be a loyal minister of Dashun.
"Since you are a loyal minister," Zhu Cixiang smiled, "go and help me do something... to persuade Tang Tong to surrender! He is now trapped in a barrier by my soldiers and horses, and there may be one or two thousand people. If If you are willing to surrender, you will be spared, and everyone who follows him will be rewarded with two taels of silver. If you are stubborn, everyone will be beheaded when the barrier is broken!"
What? Persuade Tang Tong to surrender? Isn't this a suicide? Wherever Yu Shaoan dared to go, he kowtowed and begged in tears. Zhu Cixiang didn't talk nonsense to him, and waved his hand and sent someone to escort Yu Shaoan away.
Seeing Yu Shaoan being taken away, Wu Sanfu rode his horse to Zhu Cihong's side and whispered: "Master Qiansui... we can't cross the river without a boat! Why don't we go to Dagukou first for shelter.
There are thousands of Su Guansheng's navy at Dagukou, and many dignitaries and officials who ran out of the capital on March 16 and March 17 are mostly gathered there, carrying a lot of gold and silver with them... "
On the 16th and 17th, Zhu Cihong raised a lot of gold and silver by issuing orders to leave the city. At the same time, the officials and nobles he let go also took away a large amount of gold and silver.
Most of this group of people are now gathered in Dagukou, waiting for the right wind direction before leaving.
If Zhu Cihong loses the money deposited in Tianjin Wei Nancheng, he will have no choice but to rob their money.
But in this way, Zhu Cixiang's "court" became a bit scattered.
"No!" Zhu Cixiang shook his head and said, "Lao Taishan, my father, the emperor, and my mother are all in Weinan City, Tianjin. How can I ignore them and leave?"
Hearing Zhu Cixiang mention Wu Xiang, Wu Sanfu was also moved, but then he frowned and said: "But the Wei River can't be crossed..."
"Why can't we get through?" Zhu Cixiang raised his whip and pointed at the mound that had just been captured, "Put my dragon flag there!
In addition, send people to chase Shen Shachuan and order him to return immediately! "
"I have received the order!" Wu Sanfu received the order but had not yet had time to arrange it. A few horses flew from the north without stopping at night, found Zhu Cixiang's three-army command flag, and ran near Zhu Cixiang, only to be stopped by Chen Yidao.
Chen Yidao went up to inquire, then galloped to Zhu Cihong and Wu Sanfu, "Report to Lord Qian Sui, Ye Busuo found a group of cavalry approaching from the northeast, numbering more than a thousand cavalry."
"northeast?"
"More than a thousand riders?"
Zhu Cixiang and Wu Sanfu looked at each other.
"Do you know whose cavalry family it is?" Zhu Cixiang asked.
"still not clear."
Wu Sanfu said: "Maybe they are reinforcements from the bandits, right?"
Zhu Cixiang shook his head: "When can you come to us?"
Chen Yidao replied: "According to Ye Bushou, it can arrive in one and a half hours at the fastest."
Zhu Cixiang's eyebrows knitted together. If any rebellious reinforcements really came, he would have to deal with his father, the emperor and his mother. Although he was a filial son, he also shouldered the glorious mission of reviving the Ming Dynasty, which was entrusted by Zhu Yuanzhang. This Emperor Taizu Gao is older than Emperor Chongzhen...
Thinking of this, Zhu Cixiang gritted his teeth and said to Wu Sanfu: "Take the cavalry to force Tang Tong and see if you can pull him over. If you can pull him over, set up an ambush at the barrier where Tang Tong is entrenched. Ruo Ruo is coming. The bandits' reinforcements will definitely find Tang Tong first.
"The prince has a wonderful plan, I will do it immediately!"
"In addition, give Cao Youyi an order to take all the people and money out of Beicheng and join me here."
