Han ride

Chapter 451 Rout
"Jiannu Hongtai." Emperor Chongzhen recognized Huang Taiji in the army at a glance. He gritted his teeth and looked at him. It was because of this person that his Ming Dynasty was in jeopardy.

"Child Chongzhen." Huang Taiji also saw Emperor Chongzhen. On the land of China, the two emperors finally met, and the distance between them was only more than a hundred steps, but even though there was only such a distance, the two wanted to distance themselves again. Looking at each other from far away, at this moment, the war seems to have stopped.Emperor Chongzhen saw pride and discrimination in Huang Taiji's eyes, which made him very angry.

"Zu Dashou, the emperor treated you well, but you betrayed the court, so what if you defeated us today? The Duke of Liao's soldiers and horses are coming soon, and even if you cut yourself off from the world, I'm afraid you will be ashamed." It's the end." In the big camp, when Lu Xiangsheng received Emperor Chongzhen leading the army to fight, he suddenly became extremely flustered, pointing at Zu Dashou and yelling.His Imperial Forest Army can now stop Zu Dashou's invasion. Although Zu Dashou's Guanning Iron Cavalry is powerful, but the number is much smaller, it is difficult to resist the attack of so many troops. Fortunately, the Jiannu army arrived in time, otherwise , Zu Dashou's soldiers and horses must not be able to withstand Lu Xiangsheng's attack.

"Father, what are you talking about to him? Huang Taiji's army is fighting in front, and now the Chongzhen boy is blocking the front. As long as we defeat Lu Xiangsheng, we will have a chance to overwhelm the Chongzhen boy from behind. This is a great achievement!" Zu Zerun said loudly.He jumped to try, he really didn't want to miss such an opportunity.

Zu Dashou's face was gloomy and uncertain, his eyes were full of struggle.He is now on the verge of riding a tiger, and Lu Xiangsheng's words are deeply imprinted in his mind. It is conceivable that even if he defeats Emperor Chongzhen in the future, he will be able to obtain a high official and rich salary, but the same, the spit of people in the world is enough to make Zu Dashou To drown.

"Zu Dashou, surrender at this moment, I will definitely speak well for you in front of the Duke of Liao, and save your life." Lu Xiangsheng felt bitter for a moment, when would he use Li Xin's name to scare his opponent.

"Father, do you think Li Xin can save our lives? Don't forget how we dealt with him at the beginning." Zu Zerun said loudly.

"Hey!" Zu Dashou let out a long sigh.Zu Zerun's words shocked him, Zu Dashou didn't know whether Li Xin would spare his life.

Seeing that Lu Xiangsheng was only a hundred steps away from here, Zu Zerun's heart moved, and he glanced at Zu Kuan who was on the side. Zu Kuan nodded. A ray of black light pierced through the air and shot straight at Lu Xiangsheng. Lu Xiangsheng was caught off guard. When he reacted, his chest felt a sharp pain, and he saw a sharp arrow hit his chest.

"Master Lu." Zu Dashou saw it clearly, and couldn't help but exclaimed.

"Lu Xiangsheng is dead, and the generals will follow me to kill the enemy." Zu Zerun was overjoyed when he saw Lu Xiangsheng's arrow fell off his horse, and quickly shouted loudly.In an instant, the morale of Guan Ning's army was greatly boosted, but looking at the imperial forest army and horses, everyone was in panic.The only reason why the imperial forest army and horses can resist until now is because of Lu Xiangsheng's command.Although Zuo Liangyu was a bit powerful, he couldn't suppress the army.

Following Lu Xiangsheng's fall, the Imperial Forest army began to collapse, and even Zuo Liangyu couldn't stop the collapse.He was so angry that he was in the chaos of the army, and he was furious, and there was nothing he could do.

"General Zuo, the supervisor told you to go over." At this moment, there was a loud cry, but I saw several soldiers of Lu Xiangsheng calling him, but Lu Xiangsheng was lying in the arms of a soldier, his face was like gold paper .He was so scared that he quickly jumped down and ran over.

"Master Lu." Zuo Liangyu looked flustered.

"Hurry up, go protect the emperor, protect the emperor to break through to the northwest, and look for Li Xin." Lu Xiangsheng knew that there was nothing he could do. He died in battle, and the Imperial Forest Army lost its command. It will definitely not be the opponent of the Guan Ning Army. However, the army commanded by Emperor Chongzhen itself was at a disadvantage against Jiannu. If the Guan Ning army was added behind him, he might be attacked from behind. If he did not withdraw at this time, it would be too late.

"Protect Master Supervisor." Zuo Liangyu's heart moved, and he was about to help Lu Xiangsheng up.

"What are you still doing here, not going to protect the emperor?" Lu Xiangsheng roared loudly, but it made his face paler and his breathing short of breath.

"Yes." Zuo Liangyu responded loudly, with tears in his tiger eyes. At this point, Lu Xiangsheng was probably doomed, and he also had the feeling of doom, and asked Zuo Liangyu to save Emperor Chongzhen. .

Sure enough, after a while, there was a burst of cheers among the rebellious army, and the soldiers shouted "Lu Xiangsheng is dead". Although they chopped off Lu Xiangsheng's head, Zuo Liangyu's heart was like a knife , Leading hundreds of soldiers and galloping towards the front camp.

In the big camp ahead, Emperor Chongzhen was commanding the soldiers to fight bloody battles. People like him who had never used a sword before shot a few arrows at this time. Of course, every arrow has a harvest.As his close confidant, Wang Chengen also led the eunuchs to guard the left and right, rushing to kill the enemy.

At this time, a burst of cheers came from behind, shaking the three armies, Emperor Chongzhen's complexion changed, as if he had lost something important in his heart, and there was a faint feeling of something bad.

At this time, there was a sound of war horses coming from behind, but it was Zuo Liangyu leading hundreds of soldiers into the army. Emperor Chongzhen suddenly thought of something, his face changed, and the sword in his hand fell to the ground.

"Your Majesty, by the order of Lord Lu, I will take the Emperor back to the camp. This place is temporarily under the command of the last general. Lord Lu has already defeated Zu Dashou, so come here immediately." Zuo Liangyu lowered his head and gritted his teeth.

"Okay, okay, it's still Lu Aiqing's bravery." Emperor Chongzhen was stunned for a while, and then he was overjoyed, and clapped his hands repeatedly: "If that's the case, I'll just wait here for him."

"The frontline bows and arrows don't have eyes, how can the emperor be here. Wang Gonggong, quickly escort the emperor to leave this place and go to the Northwest Camp." Zuo Liangyu said loudly to Wang Chengen.

"Okay, okay." Unlike Chongzhen's ignorance, Wang Chengen could see that Lu Xiangsheng might have failed, and Zuo Liangyu was asked to come here just to protect the safety of Emperor Chongzhen. It was late, so he hurriedly let someone lead Chongzhen's war horse and killed him in the northwest.

"Catch Chongzhen alive." After only a few dozen steps, the monarchs and ministers heard a roar from the mountains behind them, but they saw a large banner with the word "ancestor" flying in the wind, and they were charging towards the army.

"Bitter too!" Zuo Liangyu could see it clearly, and couldn't help but looked up to the sky and sighed.

Emperor Chongzhen, who was riding on a horse, also saw this situation. No matter how stupid he was at this time, he knew that Lu Xiangsheng had failed.Let Zuo Liangyu come here to escort him to escape.After he was dead, when he thought of this, Emperor Chongzhen felt a great pain in his heart, and couldn't help turning his horse's head, but was firmly held back by Wang Chengen.

"Your Majesty, if you leave the green hills there, don't worry about running out of firewood. Lord Lu asked General Zuo to protect you. Did he just let him die for nothing?" Wang Chengen said loudly.The python robe on his body had been cut torn by the rebellious army, and there was still a faint trace of blood.

"Yes, Your Majesty, before his death, Master Lu asked the last general to guard the Emperor to look northwest. The army of the Duke of Liao must be on his way." Zuo Liangyu said loudly after beheading two Guanning rebels who were trying to attack Chongzhen.

"Li Xin?" After Emperor Chongzhen heard this, a gleam of hope flashed in his eyes. At this time, in the whole world, except for the army guarding Nanjing, only Li Xin's army was formed and capable of fighting. .With Li Xin's help, it would not be difficult to defeat Jiannu again.But Emperor Chongzhen suddenly thought of something, and finally the look of hope in his eyes dimmed again. Only now did he know that although Li Xin was not a good thing, he would not surrender to become a slave.If I could tolerate this person back then, how could this situation happen now?
"Let's go to the northwest and look for Li Xin. I want Li Xin's help." Emperor Chongzhen took a breath and looked into the distance. There were bursts of triumphant voices from the army, there were still countless soldiers resisting bravely, and some soldiers were fleeing. The enemy was really too strong, so powerful, these soldiers could only flee in embarrassment.Emperor Chongzhen's face was gloomy, he finally turned his head and said to Zuo Liangyu.Now that the world is so big, I can only find Li Xin.

"Yes." Although Zuo Liangyu was dissatisfied with Li Xin, but at this moment, he wanted to seek Li Xin's help. Together with Wang Chengen, he protected Emperor Chongzhen and went northwest.Although the Emperor Chongzhen didn't wear the yellow umbrella cover, the golden dragon armor on his body could hardly conceal his identity. He had gathered more than a thousand people along the way. The team was growing slowly, and Chongzhen's heart gradually settled down. , if this continues, there will be more and more guards around him.

"Your Majesty, we can't go on like this. We have to be easy, otherwise, we won't be able to get away." Unlike Chongzhen's joy, Zuo Liangyu was worried.Hundreds of people are invisible in the battle of an army of 10,000+, but if there are thousands of people, or one or two thousand people, they will be easily spotted by the enemy. If this is an elite army, Zuo Liangyu can naturally rely on these people to resist it, but If there are some stragglers, they will drag themselves down and even attract the attention of the enemy.

"No, the soldiers all trust me and are willing to stay by my side, how can I just abandon them and leave like this?" Emperor Chongzhen flatly refused.At this time, he needs a large army. Of course, he himself has selfish intentions. If he is an emperor, if he goes to see Li Xin in this embarrassment, he will definitely be looked down upon by Li Xin, but if there are thousands of people around him, it will be different. Li Xin didn't dare to underestimate him so much, and he could even rely on the power of these thousands of people to re-form an army, and then deal with Li Xin and suppress Li Xin's power.

Zuo Liangyu was about to explain after hearing this, but Wang Chengen shook his head.Wang Chengen also knew that these people were gathering more and more, which was not a good thing for Chongzhen, but Chongzhen was the emperor, and since he insisted, Wang Chengen had no choice.

Sure enough, just as Zuo Liangyu said, when Huang Taiji crossed the Sanggan River with the army, he did not find Chongzhen. After the human head, but Huang Taiji was still dissatisfied. If Chongzhen was not captured, the war would not be considered a victory.Chongzhen is a banner, as long as he is there, the Ming Dynasty will not perish.The reason why Huang Taiji is still risking being cut off by Li Xin, but also to fight Chongzhen, is it because he wants to destroy Chongzhen, so that there will be no more rulers in the Ming Dynasty, and the world will be chaotic. People like Li Xin People have to proclaim themselves emperor, and the Central Plains is in chaos, but outside the pass, Jiannu can develop with peace of mind, absorb the benefits obtained this time, and wait until the Central Plains are exhausted from fighting, and then enter the Central Plains.

But now a group of people have been killed. It is estimated that at least [-] to [-] troops were killed, or surrendered, and many escaped. Many civil servants and generals of the Ming Dynasty also killed a lot, and captured a lot. Neither is what Huang Taiji wants, what he needs is Chongzhen, even the corpse of Chongzhen is good.But this most important person just disappeared.This made Huang Taiji very depressed.

"Is there any news about Chongzhen?" Huang Taiji sat in Chongzhen's imperial tent, and glanced around coldly. Fan Wencheng and other civil servants and generals stood there, their faces still showing excitement. Xiang and the others were still wearing the battle robes of the Ming army, but stood at the end with awkward expressions, only Zu Zerun was smiling and very proud.

"Returning to the emperor, some people said that among the rebellious army, a group of people and horses headed northwest, but they didn't raise any banners." After hearing Huang Taiji's question, Zu Zerun hurried out and said.

"Oh!" After hearing this, Huang Taiji's complexion changed, and he and Fan Wencheng forgot to glance at each other, and Huang Taiji's gloomy complexion became even gloomy.Finally he sighed, "Where is Li Xin's army now, is there any news?"

"Not yet. I think it's far away from here." Fan Wencheng explained: "After all, this is still the site of the Ming Dynasty, and the spies have not found out very detailed. Your Majesty, Emperor Chongzhen obviously went to Li Xin. I suggest you hurry up. In the pursuit, Emperor Chongzhen must not see Li Xin. If he is in Li Xin's army, Li Xin will definitely coerce the emperor to command the princes. , nor let Emperor Chongzhen fall into the hands of the enemy."

"That's the only way to go." Huang Taiji's complexion changed suddenly, he turned to look at the crowd and said, "Decide my will, the generals will immediately lead the army to pursue Chongzhen, and ignore any defeated soldiers along the way. Whoever captures Chongzhen, or I will not hesitate to reward Li Xin for killing him."

"Slave waits to obey the order." Dorgon and others said loudly.The excitement on everyone's faces is hard to hide. It has been more than ten years since the war with the Ming Dynasty, but only today is the happiest time. Under the leadership of Huang Taiji, they finally defeated the vital forces of the Ming Dynasty.Even Emperor Chongzhen was on the verge of falling into the hands of the court.This is a momentous event. As long as Emperor Chongzhen is captured alive, the Qing Dynasty will truly appear in the world, and Dorgon and others will follow suit.

"I don't know when I will see the Duke of Liao." On the horse, Emperor Chongzhen looked haggard. From childhood to adulthood, even when Wei Zhongxian was in power and threatened his life at all times, he was never so embarrassed and worried.Now he can't wait to see Li Xin now, so that he can get his protection.

"Your Majesty, the army of the Duke of Liao has already served the king. There is not much road from Datong to Huailai County. It will definitely arrive in five or six days." Zuo Liangyu comforted.But I was thinking in my heart, if I knew this before, why did I do it in the first place?Li Xin may have the intention of rebellion, but he will definitely not rebel at this time. If he wants to send troops south to suppress the thieves, let him go. At worst, wait until the thieves are wiped out, and then deal with Li Xin. At least not As it is now, not only are they being attacked on two sides, but they are being attacked on three sides, and even their lives are now at stake.

"Report. Your Majesty, there are pursuers coming from behind." A shrill voice came, and the whole team fell silent in an instant. They all looked at Chongzhen. Everyone was obviously prepared for the chase, but they didn't. Thinking that the pursuers would come so fast.Now these soldiers looked at Chongzhen with blank eyes, waiting for Chongzhen's decision.

Emperor Chongzhen saw these people in his eyes, and secretly regretted in his heart, why didn't heed Zuo Liangyu's words and led so many soldiers to kill them, so many troops would naturally become the targets of the Jiannu army.Unfortunately, it is too late to regret now.Most of these thousands of soldiers are infantry, and there is nowhere to escape if they want to escape, even Chongzhen is the same. Up to now, everyone is hungry and thirsty, so there is no way to escape.Emperor Chongzhen glanced around, and finally his eyes fell on the hill hundreds of steps away. The hill is not high, but only tens of feet, and there are many trees on it.It is also a position that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.Immediately he raised his whip and said: "Let's go, occupy the hill, and wait for the reinforcements from the Duke of Liao. As long as we persist for a day, the Duke of Liao will definitely come back to rescue." At this time, Emperor Chongzhen could only use such news to cheer him up. military spirit.

Sure enough, as soon as Chongzhen's words fell, the faces of those soldiers suddenly showed joy. Li Xin's reputation had long been spread in the army, and the story of hundreds of thousands of troops marching eastward to King Qin had already spread in the army. , if the Duke of Liao came, he would definitely defeat Jiannu and save the three armies.

Seeing this, Zuo Liangyu hurriedly struck while the iron was hot, and commanded the participating troops to run towards the hill, and ordered some trees to be cut down, barely forming a small position to act as a barrier.After everything was done, there was already smoke and dust in the distance, and Jiannu's pursuers came to kill them.

Banners covered the sky, and Huang Taiji knew that Emperor Chongzhen had fled, and he was in the army in front of him. Not only did Huang Taiji let the generals lead the army to kill him, but he himself followed the army and killed him. Yu Chongzhen, the remaining defeated soldiers are nothing at all.

(End of this chapter)