Emperor Ming Dynasty

Chapter 73 The Enemy
"This?" Zhang Shijiong was taken aback.

Zhu Yixi shook his head with a gloomy expression: "Tongguan is broken——"

"What? Doesn't that mean that the intruder has already entered?" Zhang Shijiong was shocked.

Zhu Yixi calmly said: "Let everyone speed up, now is not the time to dawdle."

He looked into the distance, got on his horse, and said nothing.

Before leaving, in order to monitor Tongguan, a simple beacon tower was built every fifty miles, and a cavalry was left behind.

In this way, once Tongguan is broken, he will know in less than half an hour and make preparations in advance.

Wiping the corners of his eyes, Zhu Yixi rode a horse and walked with the team.

When the news of Tongguan's breach came, the whole team speeded up a lot in an instant, but under the restraint of the army, they finally marched in an orderly manner.

Too fast for the infantry to keep up.

Zhu Yixi still made arrangements.

"Chen Zongbing, you take the 2000 people to the front and control the entire team by the way."

Zhu Yixi casually pointed to the side.

Those two thousand elite soldiers turned pale and their legs trembled when they heard the intruder's name.

Currently, it is still useless.

"Obey." Chen Yongfu's attitude was also very upright, without complaining, he complied directly.

Zhu Yixi nodded, and then led the musketeers and spearmen to form behind.

"Guerrilla, why not destroy the official way?"

Zhao Shu, who supervised the operation of the luggage, ran over. He also witnessed the beacon smoke, his eyes were slightly red, and he cupped his hands and said.

Zhu Yixi realized it instantly, and said with a smile: "This is really a good idea, it can delay for a while."

"Brothers, work."

With a wave of his hand, thousands of soldiers started their journey of destruction.

Seeing this, Zhao Shu shook his head and sighed: "In the 13th year of Chongzhen, there was a famine in Shaanxi. The supervisor used his work to shake up the famine and repaired the official road from Xi'an to Hanzhong. Even the plank road was new."

"That's why grain can be transported from Hanzhong, and Shaanxi can be stabilized."

"Ugh!"

Hearing this, Zhu Yixi also felt heavy: "I never thought that even now, I still enjoy his favor."

……

On the other side, in the city of Xi'an, after Zhu Yixi left, there were crowds of people standing guard at the city gate, waiting for the arrival of King Dashun.

Headed by Lu Zhiqi, the political secretary, Song Qijiao, who was a doctor in the Ministry of Officials, and Wang Genzi, the guard general, Zuo Guangxian, Gao Ruli, Liang Fu, etc., are also looking forward to it.

On the eighth day of October, the third day after Zhu Yixi left Xi'an, a group of dusty cavalry broke into Xi'an with the banner of Dashun.

"I'm waiting to welcome Shun Wang's army—"

A group of people were overjoyed and hurriedly bowed down to greet them.

"Huh? You guys know each other!"

Gao Yigong sneered, reined in the horse under his crotch, condescendingly looked down and said:

"Why, there are only so few people in the city? Where is Sun Chuanting's Qin army?"

Just scanning around like this, everyone shuddered, the fierceness and murderous aura in it was hard to resist.

"General, there is no Qin army in the city anymore."

The chief envoy, Lu Zhiqi, smiled wryly, stepped forward, and said humbly, "I haven't seen any troops in the past few days, only a few remnants of soldiers, with a few people, went west."

"West side?" Gao Yigong turned his head and said sharply, "They want to go to Hanzhong?"

"It should be!" Lu Zhiqi hurriedly said, "Even King Qin is inside."

"King Qin?" Gao Yigong became excited in an instant: "How can you let this fat pig run away?"

The rest of the cavalry also became excited one by one.

Everyone can see the wealth of King Xiang. As the number one fan of the Ming Dynasty, Qin Fan must be as rich as an enemy.

"Boys, let's go and catch fat pigs."

Gao Yigong waved his horsewhip, extremely excited.

In such a short while, more than a thousand cavalry skipped Xi'an City and rushed towards the distance.

"Here, with one man and three horses, it's no wonder Chuangjun can win."

Zuo Guang looked at the cavalry in the distance first, and pondered.

"Father, tell me, Zhu Yixi, can he run away?" Zuo Yan asked hastily.

"Although there are only thousands of riders, they are elites. Whether he runs away or not, this is what the chief minister said, and it's none of our business."

Zuo Guang sneered first, and then said: "However, the chances of King Chuang taking over the world are very high now, let's flatter you first."

Zuo Yan nodded.

However, Gao Yigong led the cavalry, while thinking of avenging Li Guo, while thinking of capturing King Qin, a fat pig, to squeeze out the oil and water.

One man, three horses, extremely fast.

Along the way, Xianyang, Xingping, Wugong, Mei County, and finally Baoji County, caught up with this huge team.

It took three days and three nights to catch up with the whip.

However, because of the scouts, Zhu Yixi had already known about the arrival of this cavalryman.

Therefore, he pulled the carriages into two rows in advance to form a wall, and protected the clan and other materials in the middle.

Muskets, spears, and grenadiers are located in the rear, waiting for work at leisure.

"Hoo—" Seeing that he had finally caught up, Gao Yigong heaved a sigh of relief: "I really know how to run."

"General, there are so many people, you can't make a fortune!" The lieutenant general beside him, his eyes were full of light.

"Sit and wait for us? Why are there so many carriages?"

Gao Yigong frowned, carefully observed this tortoise-like team, feeling very bad in his heart.

He is a cavalryman, I am afraid it will be difficult to chew.

Hasty, should bring more people.

"Come on, try it first—"

Saying that, he waved his hand.

According to his experience, the ordinary Ming army, regardless of the strength of the formation, would immediately panic if they were attacked by cavalry, and the army formation would be broken.

Zhu Yixi also had a serious expression on his face. It was the first time he encountered a cavalry soldier in a field battle, which was really thrilling.

"The cavalry is coming!"

Chen Yongfu said with a serious face.

"Raise the spear!"

"Musket ready!"

"The artillery is ready!"

Zhu Yixi hurriedly gave the order, which was a bit hasty compared to before.

Seeing this, Chen Yongfu couldn't help comforting him: "Guerrilla, don't be nervous, our army is so strong, it's fine."

"I'm not nervous." Zhu Yixi quickly waved his hands and looked ahead.

I saw that the cavalry, forming an arrow shape, charged forward quickly, and drew closer to the spearman in front to a hundred paces.

At this time, in the face of the cavalry charging on the shaking ground, the spears and meat shields were a little unstable, and some even started to panic.

Zhu Yixi's face tightened, the recruits were really unreliable.

Gao Yigong saw it, with a smile on the corner of his mouth: Sure enough, it was as I expected.

"A hundred paces? Turn—"

Seeing the distance getting closer, Zhu Yixi couldn't wait to speak: "Fire the cannon—"

"Boom--"

Hundreds of Franco cannons and tiger crouching cannons fired forward impatiently, raising a lot of gunpowder smoke.

But the cavalry ran to both sides halfway, leaving the bombing range.

Only a few unlucky ones died.

"Now!" After the shelling, Gao Yigong sneered and ordered the cavalry to charge again.

"Not good!" The line of sight was obstructed, and when the ground shook again, Chen Yongfu hurriedly reminded:

"Guerrilla, just now it was just bait, just to lure the artillery, he wanted to take advantage of the gap to attack."

"I understand!" With cold sweat on his palms, Zhu Yixi nodded forcefully and said, "The spearman backs up, and the musketeer moves forward!"

Immediately, the spearman couldn't wait to retreat, forming a conditioned musketeer, and moved forward.

"Launch—" Zhu Yixi roared.

"Crackling-"

Immediately, the flintlock fired a large number of iron pellets.

(End of this chapter)