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Chapter 240 Lure the enemy to go deep
Just when the national hero Yuan Jixian led the army and the people to fight Jiujiang, Zhu Yousong's troops drove to the border of Pengze.

On the way, Zhu Yousong had already received the memorials from Yuan Jixian and He Tengjiao, and Zhu Yousong had heard about these famous ministers and virtuous officials for a long time. Amazed.

Zhu Yousong prayed to God to bless the virtuous ministers and generals of Ming Dynasty, and at the same time urged him to speed up his march. The [-] troops marched day and night, hurriedly and slowly, before reaching the boundary of Pengze.

Pengze is a county under the jurisdiction of Jiujiang. This thousand-year-old county is located on the south bank of the Yangtze River and has many mountains and hills.The forest swayed in the cold wind, and the hills and hills in the distance were undulating and vast.

From the memorials of Yuan Jixian and He Tengjiao, Zhu Yousong learned that Zuo Liangyu had a total of 53 soldiers and horses. This time, 40 troops marched to Jiujiang. Knowing that this is a tough battle, after finding a suitable place to set up camp, they called Zheng Hongkui, Liu Zhaoji, and Li Quan to the imperial camp to discuss countermeasures.

Zheng Hongkui and Liu Zhaoji competed for the battle, Liu Zhaoji said: "Your Majesty, a mob of people, I have been training the imperial camp for two months, today I will check the results, and I will definitely kill the rebels, throwing their helmets and armor, and defeating the army, Your Majesty." Look."

Not to be outdone, Zheng Hongkui saluted and said: "Your Majesty, since the humble minister is in command of the vanguard battalion, this first battle is naturally my humble minister's, and if it is invincible, he is willing to serve as a military order."

Zhu Yousong said with a smile: "Since ancient times, those who cannot plan the overall situation are not enough to plan a region. We have come from a long distance, our foothold is not stable, and the navy is far away from hundreds of miles away. Going deep, I can't be satisfied with the victory in front of me. I plan to give them a fatal blow and attack Pengze in one fell swoop. Tonight our troops can't sleep in the wilderness, so the two lovers don't want to fight. You can only lose but not win.”

There is no general who does not want to win a battle, so even though Zheng Hongkui knew that His Majesty was strategizing, and it was not the first time that he followed His Majesty to command a war, he still felt a little uncomfortable receiving such an order, but he dared to resist it.

Zhu Yousong said again: "Zheng Aiqing brought the enemy into the attack range of the imperial camp, and the rest is up to Liu Aiqing. At that time, Zheng Aiqing will lead the troops and go back to kill, and then take down Pengze County in one go."

"Follow the order." The two agreed to go.

An hour later, Zheng Hongkui's [-] vanguard troops met Zuo Liangyu's troops at Zhujiachong, [-] miles east of Pengze County.

It turns out that after Zuo Menggeng, Hou Fangyu and Zu Keyong led an army of [-] to Pengze, they joined the [-] Pengze defenders. After Liangyu's brigade arrived, he took the initiative to attack and captured Zhu Yousong in one fell swoop.

However, Zu Keyong disagreed. He believed that Zhu Yousong came from a long way away, and he was a tired teacher. He advocated taking the initiative to attack and kill him in one fell swoop. .

Zuo Menggeng agreed with Zu Keyong that the number of the faint king is 8 at best, and the vanguard is only 1. The main force is still dozens of miles away from the vanguard, and the [-] horses will be eaten first, so he ordered Hou Fangyu to lead people to guard Pengze , he and Zu Keyong led an army of [-] to the east of the city.

As a result, the two sides met in the hilly area of ​​Zhujiachong. The soldiers reached 11 without borders, and the soldiers reached [-] horses from both sides set up a battle in the wilderness. The two armies confronted each other. Hunting in the cold wind.

Now none of the generals felt cold. They all faced the enemy with sharp knives in their hands, and their eyes showed murderous gazes.

The rain of arrows covered the sky and covered the sun, whistling like countless poisonous snakes scurrying in the air, they penetrated everywhere, like a gust of wind piercing through the grass, crackling, crackling, and like a storm hitting the doors and windows, even though the soldiers on both sides stood erect The Teng card was played, but there were still countless people who were shot down. After the arrow rain, Zuo Menggeng, relying on his large number of people and Zu Keyong, commanded 10 horses to rush to Zheng Hongkui's camp.

One hundred thousand against ten thousand is definitely a crushing advantage, like a violent wind and waves, coming across the ground.

Although Zheng Hongkui's troops were small, their morale was high. The chief general did not give orders, and these well-trained soldiers just stood and stared at each other.At this time, Zheng Hongkui, who immediately stood on the small slope with his sword horizontally, had a face as firm as iron, and a pair of tiger eyes stared at the sword, light and sword.

When the screaming and rushing soldiers were only a few meters away from them, Zheng Hongkui's broadsword flashed across the air, and at the same time he sat down on his horse and jumped out, rushing towards the enemy line like an arrow.

The chief general took the lead, with 1 horses vying to be the first, holding high his "Zheng" flag, and rushed over like an overwhelming sea.

In the era of cold weapons, this kind of melee is still dominated by force fighting.

Don't look at how they shouted at the top of their voices when they charged, but when they were really close to each other, no one shouted, only the sound of weapons colliding and occasional shouts, screams, and neighing of war horses, all over the mountains and plains for a while, everywhere. Fighting shots.

Zheng Hongkui swung the long knife away, the light of the knife was shining, and where the wind whistled, his head and limbs flew around, blood foam splashed, the hot blood in the cavity sprayed out of the body, and fell to the ground through the air and turned into frost blood or ice blood. The soldiers spread their prestige, like a tiger joining a pack of wolves, the soldiers who killed Zuo Liangyu retreated one after another, scattered and fled in all directions, no one could stop them.

The commander Zu Keyong on the small hill not far away was furious when he saw this. He slapped the mountain axe on his horse and rushed down the hill to welcome Zheng Hongkui.There was someone rushing to stop him, Zu Keyong waved his big axe, and wherever the axe and horse passed, knives and guns flew upside down along with the corpses and broken limbs, and he rushed to Zheng Hongkui in the blink of an eye. The horse fell off.

Zheng Hongkui saw that this guy was heavy with a powerful axe, the head of the axe was not much different from a small dustpan, and the cold light was dazzling. He knew that this was a fierce general, so he didn't dare to use a long knife to force it out, but circled the horse to avoid the blow, and then raised his head The knife slashed.

Regardless of Zheng Hongkui's daring not to fight head-on, Zu Ke was brave enough to put the axe on the rack. When there was a huge metal impact, Zheng Hongkui felt the temperature of the knife rod suddenly rise by tens of degrees, which made his fingers tingle. It hurt like a tiger's mouth was being torn apart, and warm liquid flowed out. His hands couldn't help but tremble, and the long knife flew into the sky after somersaulting.

Zheng Hongkui saw how formidable this gangster was, and he was by no means an opponent. It just so happened that His Majesty let him lure the enemy deep, so when will he be undefeated!

(End of this chapter)