please make me king

Chapter 1196 Battle outside the city
"Report, Huaiqing Mansion will be here in ten li or so ahead!" Pingdong General Hong Chengchou rode on his horse, listening to the report of the scouts in front of him with a blank expression.

"Okay, how many soldiers are there in the Ming army?" He already knew about the Ming army's siege of Huaiqing Mansion, so he had no choice but to lead a large army to rescue.

Even Yang Sichang and Zhu Dadian knew the strategic significance of Huaiqing Mansion, how could he, Hong Chengchou, not know?
Hearing that Zhu Dadian led the main force of the Ming army to attack the rebel army crossing the river in Meng County, he created a triangular area between Meng County, Huaiqing Mansion and Wen County, and completely wiped out this army.

As a result, Hong Chengchou did not expect that Zhu Dadian was so cunning.

After the deputy commander-in-chief Mou Wenshou was defeated by Li Fuchen of the rebel army, he suddenly led his army northward, and instead joined forces with Daming Governor Yang Sichang to besiege Huaiqing Prefecture.

"After all, I have underestimated the heroes of the world!" Hong Chengchou secretly sighed, and silently made up his mind, "This time we must not let them run away again!"

"People outside Huaiqing Mansion shouted, horses neighed, flags fluttered like clouds, the camp was boundless, and there were about ten thousand elite soldiers!" The scout hesitated for a moment, and finally concluded.

"More than [-] people? More than [-] people dare to invite me to fight, how brave!" Hong Chengchou snorted coldly when he heard the words, and his heart became more and more unhappy.

It turned out that Zhao Guangyuan, Li You, Li Jiyu, Li Fuchen, and Luo Shangwen's five battalions of the rebel army had already crossed the river, and only Ma Jinzhong and Zuoying battalions were still crossing the river.

So in addition to the fifth battalion of [-] people led by Hong Chengchou, there are also three battalions of Li Xin, Tuo Yangkun, and Wang Ding who are stationed in important places.

In this small place of Huaiqing Mansion, the rebel army has assembled [-] soldiers and horses, exactly twice the strength of Yang Sichang and Zhu Dadian's troops.

That Hong Chengchou has been familiar with military books since he was a child, and he is quite talented.

Since he first led the army, he has always been handy.

Except for the previous defeat at the hands of Zhang Shun in Luoyang, he did not encounter much setbacks, so he was somewhat arrogant.

Now that the strength of our own troops is twice that of the enemy's, our appetite can't help but increase a lot.

"After crossing the river tomorrow, the two battalions of Zuoyao and Ma Jinzhong will go to Wen County to meet with Zuo Shuai; then please ask Zuo Shuai Li Xin to lead the third battalion to go northward and insert between Huaiqing Mansion and Xiuwu on February [-]st. On the way back, this old man must completely eat the main force of the Ming army!"

And at the same time that Hong Chengchou's army discovered the main force of the Ming army, the scouts of the Ming army naturally also discovered the movement of the rebel army.

"Report, I found that the main force of the thieves has traveled more than ten miles from Meng County, and is heading all the way to Huaiqing Mansion!" Some scouts also reported to Yang Sichang and Zhu Dadian.

"It seems that this time we won't be able to take down Huaiqing Prefecture!" Yang Sichang, Minister of the Ministry of War and right supervisor, looked at the crumbling city not far away, and couldn't help regretting.

The Ming army attacked fiercely for two days, and it seemed that the city was about to fall. For some reason, it was so short of breath after all.

Zhu Dadian, the Governor of Water Transport, couldn't help but asked, "Then let's..."

"The time has dragged on for too long, and the soldiers are tired, so it's not easy to go!" Yang Sichang took a deep look at Huaiqing Mansion, and finally made up his mind.

"Let Li Chongzhen block the opponent's striker, and let the army retreat to Qinghua Town for the time being!"

"Aren't you going?" Zhu Dadian frowned and said a little uneasy.

"If you don't go, you won't be able to go!" Yang Sichang said helplessly.

"Since the army of thieves is approaching, if you are attacked by them, you will know the consequences!"

Since ancient times, soldiers have benefited from advancing but not retreating.

Retiring troops before the battle is the most dangerous thing, one carelessness will lead to the defeat of the whole army.

Although the Ming army can't be called retreating before going into battle, it is actually almost the same.

The distance between the two sides was only more than ten miles, and before the Ming army changed its formation and retreated, the rebel cavalry might roar in and disturb their formation.

"Okay, then let's meet this 'thief chieftain' for a while and see what kind of abilities he has!" Zhu Dadian is also a man who knows how to fight, so why doesn't he know Yang Sichang's concerns?
It's just that the two never imagined that their opponent was not the famous "Shun Bandit" or the bandit who stirred up the world, but Hong Chengchou, a descendant of the Ming Dynasty.

According to their thinking, judging from the current layout, it is obvious that there is no "shun thief" style of quick changes, presumably it must be an unknown person somewhere.

Yang Sichang and Zhu Dadian are familiar with military strategies and have been engaged in military affairs for many years. They think they can wrestle with someone who comes, so they just don't leave if they can't leave, and they are ready to fight each other to the death.

In fact, Yang Sichang and Zhu Dadian were wrong this time.Restricted by the dilapidated horse farms left by the Ming Dynasty to the rebels, although the rebels have expanded their army several times, many battalions are still dominated by pure infantry.

This time, apart from Wang Ding's Yulin Battalion, there was actually no second cavalry battalion in the Southern Route Army.

For this reason, Hong Chengchou had to borrow some cavalry from various battalions, barely formed a cavalry of more than a thousand people, and temporarily entrusted the young and vigorous Li Fuchen to lead it.

Although Li Fuchen has made a lot of contributions today, he is actually only fifteen or sixteen years old, and many cavalrymen are quite dissatisfied.

How did Li Fuchen know that they were not dissatisfied with himself, but with Hong Chengchou, the descendant of Ming Dynasty who came by airborne.

It's just that everyone didn't dare to disobey Zhang Shun's military order, so they tried different ways to give him "eye medicine".

"Not convinced? Not convinced, right!" "Horse kite" Li Fuchen gambled and couldn't help sneering.

"Whoever can beat the spear in my hand, I will give him the vanguard position!"

"If you can't even win against a half-child like me, just obediently be my grandson, and do what you are told to do!"

"Straight mother thief, I'm afraid you are the grandson!" Some people couldn't hold back, they got on their horses and were about to challenge Li Fuchen.

Li Fuchen took a gun barrel himself, got on the horse and poked the man off the horse as soon as he got on the horse, and everyone couldn't help but be in an uproar.

Then Li Fuchen won three more in a row, and then he overwhelmed the crowd, rectified the soldiers and horses and dared to come all the way to Huaiqing Mansion.

Seeing that he had already seen the city of Huaiqing Prefecture, suddenly a group of cavalry came out from a diagonal stab and blocked them in front of everyone.

Li Fuchen looked up and saw that there were about [-] people coming with bright swords and armor, all of whom were elites of the Ming army.

He couldn't help but stepped forward and said with a smile: "Good dogs don't block the way, where did the mangy dogs come from to run wild here!"

"What a thief, dare to compete with grandpa!" Li Chongzhen couldn't help being furious when he heard the words, and couldn't help stepping forward to challenge.

Originally, he had [-] Liaodong iron cavalry under his command, but in the previous battle between Henan and the rebels, more than half of his cavalry was lost, which can be called the first shameful thing
Now when he sees a "baby" who doesn't know the heights of the sky and the earth, he can't help but go up to him and provoke him, determined to kill this "thief" to dampen his spirit.

"I can't ask for it!" Li Fuchen laughed when he heard the words, took off the spear from the winning hook, pointed at Li Chongzhen sideways and smiled.

"What a big man, if you lose, don't cry!"

(End of this chapter)