The white porridge and pickled mustard is enough, why am I wearing a royal robe?

Chapter 226: Fight all the way to Xi'an

The capital is three hundred miles outside.

Huang Taiji's camp is stationed here.

This time, Huang Taiji did not lead the army in person, but sent Abatai, who had been defeated by the Kitchen King.

Abatai believes that this is Huang Taiji giving him a chance to atone for his sins. Abatai also knows that part of the reason for letting him come is that he is the only person in the entire Huang Taiji team who has seen the Stove King. .

After knowing the power of the Kitchen King, he will not take it lightly at all. Instead, he will be 100% energetic to deal with the Kitchen King.

This is the cleverness of Huang Taiji. He had already thought of this when Abatai returned from defeat.

The person sent by the Ming Dynasty to join forces with Huang Taiji to deal with the Kitchen King was Yuan Chonghuan.

In the military tent, Abatai looked at this enemy who had been fighting against him for many years.

Yuan Chonghuan has been fighting against the Houjin people in the Ningjin area, and has kept these people away from them for many years.

Yuan Chonghuan lamented that so many cavalrymen suffered such a disastrous defeat when facing the Stove King.

We can't say that his emperor was any worse than Huang Taiji. I can only say that the environment he was in was different, so the results were different.

Abatai, who had experienced such a disastrous defeat, could still be alive, and could still be sent to command the three armies, which is enough to show the wisdom of Huang Taiji.

Powerful beyond everyone's imagination, Abatai could be sure that if it were Huang Taiji himself who faced the Stove King, he would probably end up with the same end.

"Three hundred people were used as bait first, and less than a hundred people fought against us. The Kitchen King did not hurt anyone, and our warriors did not even get fifty steps closer to the Kitchen King," Abatai said with emotion again, and he was also using his emotion to fight against the Kitchen King. , the Kitchen King said the troops he equipped when he faced him.

He came here originally to meet with the generals of the prairie people to discuss what to do next.

"As a result, wherever the Kitchen King passed by, the people took refuge one after another. When the Kitchen King attacked the city, nine times out of ten, there were zero casualties. Before the battle started, the soldiers on the city walls either rebelled or rebelled out of fear of the Kitchen King's power." Yuan Chonghuan said with emotion.

"This is also a weakness of the Stove King," Yuan Chonghuan thought to himself. In order to show his sincerity, he expressed his guess. This is not something difficult to see through.

Yuan Chonghuan did not dare to think that if the same situation happened to Emperor Chongzhen, Abatai might have been beaten to the end.

Even though he had been on the battlefield for a long time, he still felt frightened when he saw this thing.

Henan is located in the plains, and there are too many places that can be used as battlefields. The so-called magic weapons of the Stove King are probably like artillery, and they are inconvenient to move. They can only ambush at fixed positions in advance.

Yuan Chonghuan was surprised that this rough and arrogant prairie man could say such words, because except for Huang Taiji, the prairie generals he faced basically looked down on their Ming people, not to mention being extremely arrogant.

Kitchen King, this can be regarded as a unique existence in history.

He looked at Yuan Chonghuan and said, if it were him before, he would not have said such words even if he admired him in his heart, but after experiencing the failure of Kitchen King.

Yuan Chonghuan frowned. If the Stove King was so powerful, why did he use 300 people as bait? But he quickly reacted.

"The land of two prefectures and six counties in Henan, the land of two prefectures and nine counties in Shaanxi, and the land of two prefectures and four counties in Shanxi," Yuan Chonghuan was very sad every time he mentioned an inch of land.

"So, where do we start?"

"I also thought about this later. This may be the only weakness of the Stove King," Abate looked at Yuan Chonghuan. If Yuan Chonghuan even wanted to conceal this matter, he, Abata, might need to consider whether to report it. Huang Taiji asked Huang Taiji to write a letter to Emperor Chongzhen and ask someone to lead the army.

Abate asked.

How many years have passed, how many dynasties have risen and fallen, how many people have revolted, but I have never heard of such a person with such a reputation.

Abate showed a smile on his face, "You are an upright man,"

"We may be able to seize this weakness, cannibalize the Kitchen King's troops, and attack the Kitchen King's prestige."

Although some of Abatai's cavalry were killed by the Ming army on their way to escape, the number they killed was always a minority.

Most people still died in direct combat.

"Thank you, I'm surprised that you can say such things," Yuan Chonghuan said more, perhaps because he saw Abate's frankness.

The defensive positions of these defense lines are marked on the map. Yuan Chonghuan spread out this map. Daming will not lose anything, but may gain more trust from Abatai.

Facing the Kitchen King, the failure was entirely due to the lack of understanding of the enemy. The Kitchen King was too powerful.

Abata admired this man in his heart, "Yuan Chonghuan, you are a rare warrior. Abata, I admire you."

Yuan Chonghuan also saw with his own eyes how magical the Kitchen King's sacred chariot was. It traveled three thousand miles a day and was as big as a house.

And this man could actually say such a thing.

"Look, the Kitchen King has already occupied these places," Yuan Chonghuan pointed to the three provinces of Henan, Shaanxi and Shanxi on the map.

He had resisted the Jin people in the north for many years. Every time he looked at the land that once belonged to them from a distance, Yuan Chonghuan felt a burst of heartache.

Yuan Chonghuan opened the map he brought. This is the map of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty's defense line against Houjin, which is the nine-sided town, Abatai also knows.

Abatai chuckled, "After experiencing the battle with the Stove King, Abatai has understood what it means that there is a world outside the world. Pride and ignorance are the most powerful enemies of a warrior."

"Ashamed, it is indeed me. Of the six thousand people, three hundred came back in the end." Abatai could face this failure calmly. He was not arrogant when he faced the Stove King.

Abatai has obviously matured a lot.

Abatai sighed after hearing this, "If I were to face the Stove King, I would probably face the same situation. There is no way around it, whether it's the instrument that killed countless of my warriors, or the incomparably huge... The sacred car.”

What's more, those ordinary soldiers who don't have very good psychological quality.

"You led those six thousand cavalry."

Yuan Chonghuan was suddenly a little surprised, and at the same time he thought more highly of Huang Taiji.

Yuan Chonghuan then said, "The Kitchen King is becoming more and more powerful right now. Firstly, it is because the Kitchen King himself can bring out more and more powerful weapons. Secondly, it is because of the power and reputation that the Kitchen King has accumulated."

These great rivers and mountains, now, the hinterland of the Central Plains, the land in the middle of Qin, and large areas of land have fallen into the hands of the Kitchen King.

What a great river and mountain, but it fell into the hands of rogue bandits.

"Such a large territory has been captured by the Kitchen King," Abatai was also very surprised. No wonder, the Grand Master was extremely sure that Emperor Chongzhen would definitely join forces with them. The situation in the Ming Dynasty had reached such a critical level.

Someone else wouldn't be in a hurry.

Yuan Chonghuan gave a wry smile, "The most important thing is that the Stove King won these cities, many of them, without spending a single soldier." This sentence made Abatai have a deeper understanding of the Stove King. The knowledge is so powerful.

It might be a coincidence that a city could be captured without spending a single soldier, but so many cities are like this, which is enough to show how strong the Kitchen King is.

Yuan Chonghuan said this, his original intention was to make Abatai more fearful of the Stove King, and to let him know that if the Ming Dynasty was gone, the people of the Later Jin Dynasty would not have a hard time.

After all, no matter how much the Kitchen King makes troubles, it will only bring disaster to the land of the Ming Dynasty. But if the Ming Dynasty falls, the Kitchen King will go to the north.

If he hadn't suggested to Emperor Chongzhen that Huang Taiji should know about the Kitchen King and send troops south, maybe Huang Taiji's troops would not come into contact with the Kitchen King until the Ming Dynasty fell.

By then it was too late.

"The Stove King is powerful, but no matter how good the Stove King is, there is only one. Now, his troops are divided into three groups, one is to surround Xi'an, the other is to bring disaster to Shanxi, and the other one is led by the Stove King himself in the hinterland of Henan."

Yuan Chonghuan pointed at the map and said, "So, we just want to avoid the Kitchen King and find trouble with his other two troops."

"Do the other two troops have the weapons that Kitchen King used against me?"

Abate asked.

"This is unknown," Yuan Chonghuan was helpless. Yuan Chonghuan had no idea how many so-called magic weapons the Kitchen King had.

According to the intelligence obtained by the court, the Kitchen King's magical soldiers are becoming more and more numerous, and their power is becoming more and more powerful.

The other two armies of Zao King did not seem to suffer many casualties when they attacked Fucheng.

Moreover, according to intelligence, the number of those two groups of soldiers is also increasing.

They have the golden sign of Stove King, and they are almost like a snowball rolling down the hillside, getting bigger and bigger, and becoming more and more difficult to contain.

Yuan Chonghuan proposed to start from these two roads, but there was really no other way. After all, there was the Kitchen King on the main road, and the Kitchen King was an almost difficult opponent for them to defeat.

It cannot be said that they are difficult to defeat. Their total number of soldiers and horses now exceeds one hundred thousand. However, in the first battle, they cannot just go to the Kitchen King's hardest point.

If it fails, it will have a huge blow to morale.

Therefore, no matter from which point of view, attacking the other two routes of Kitchen King is the best choice.

"Okay," Abate also knows this. When the situation is unclear, you cannot put all your eggs in the same basket.

"Then, where should we start our attack?"

Abata asked. In his opinion, Shanxi is the best choice.

After all, if you want to attack the Kitchen King's siege of Xi'an Fucheng, you have to go from Shanxi or Henan, or go south to bypass it.

No matter which one it is, it is not as fast as directly attacking Shanxi.

"Xi'an," who knew that Yuan Chonghuan actually said Xi'an directly.

Abatai was a little confused, "Why Xi'an? Shanxi is obviously a better choice. If we start from Xi'an, we have to bypass the first two troops of Zao Wang."

Abate asked.

"You don't know something," Yuan Chonghuan said with a smile on his face. When it came to leading troops in war, it might be difficult for him and Abate to choose a stronger one.

But in terms of understanding of the territory of the Ming Dynasty, even ten Abatais cannot compare to Yuan Chonghuan.

"There are many ravines in Shanxi, and the terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack. The Kitchen King has a sacred chariot. If we can't deal with the soldiers and horses on the North Road of the Kitchen King in a short time, we will easily be surrounded by the Kitchen King. If you are surrounded by them, you will not get any good results," Yuan Chonghuan said, pointing to Shanxi.

Since ancient times, those who can incorporate Shanxi into their territory are all powerful dynasties.

This is all because the terrain of this place is really complex, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the morale of the warlords is divided. Yan Xishan can be regarded as a big warlord just by sitting in this province.

Attacking Shanxi is not the best choice.

On the contrary, in Yuan Chonghuan's view, the group of soldiers and horses besieging Xi'an was the easier group to win.

There is no need for them to completely destroy the enemies along the way. As long as they defeat them once, they can deal a huge blow to the Kitchen King's prestige.

Break the Kitchen King's undefeated golden body.

When the Kitchen King attacks the city in the future, the soldiers on the city must also think carefully before taking refuge with the Kitchen King. The Kitchen King is not an undefeated god. If he fails, those who surrender must be liquidated.

"I see," Abatai nodded. With the power of Kitchen King's weapons, if there really was such a terrain, as many of them would die as many as they came.

What's more, his elite soldiers and horses are cavalry. In that kind of terrain, his cavalry is not easy to use.

"Then as you said, I will fully cooperate with you," Abate smiled, as if he trusted Yuan Chonghuan.

Only Yuan Chonghuan knew that these cooperations were based on the existence of the Stove King.

If the Kitchen King is really defeated by them together, what they will face is Hou Jin's violent blow.

Although the Ming Dynasty defeated a Kitchen King, Yuan Chonghuan knew that the momentum of this uprising would not disappear because of the destruction of the Kitchen King.

Instead, they will bloom everywhere because of the destruction of the Kitchen King.

One whale falls and all things are born.

When one Stove King dies, thousands of Stove Kings will stand up with the remaining prestige of these two words.

Although these new Kitchen Kings may not be as difficult to deal with as the current Kitchen Kings, they will also cause great trouble to Ming Dynasty.

As for Hou Jin, he doesn't need to worry about anything at all, he just needs to find a way to continue causing harm to the Ming Dynasty.

How long can Ming Dynasty last under such internal and external troubles?

Yuan Chonghuan suddenly felt a deep powerlessness in his heart. He looked at Abatai without leaving a trace. Even if he took down the Stove King and left Abatai and his troops in the land of the Ming Dynasty forever, it would only treat the symptoms but not the root cause. .

For the current Ming Dynasty, there is only a slight chance to survive.

Natural disasters and man-made disasters have made the land of Ming Dynasty full of holes.

"Take one step and see one step," Yuan Chonghuan closed the map. The top priority was to capture the Stove King. If he failed, everything would be empty talk. "We will set off tomorrow."

(End of this chapter)