The ruthless emperor in the late Ming Dynasty forced Chongzhen to abdicate at the beginning

Chapter 224 The Emperor Slips Away
"Report..."

"Your Majesty, the great general is starting to play, Jiannu still has [-] cavalry, please quickly dispatch soldiers and horses to guard the holy driver..."

Before the messenger could reach the front, he yelled loudly, and the resting soldiers got up one after another in shock. Zhu Cihong was about to speak when there was the rumble of horseshoes in the distance.

Looking around, I saw the cavalry, like billowing black clouds, pressing towards this side from the southwest.

Seeing this scene, Zhu Cihong also said badly to himself, and immediately realized that he was careless, even ignoring that the other party can capture the thief and the king.

But the hundreds of imperial guards who remained around him reacted faster, knowing that His Majesty would be extremely dangerous if he stayed here, recalling what the imperial concubine and empress had said when they left, they immediately shouted loudly, and at the same time frantically took the golden armor on Zhu Cihong's body, In an instant, he was completely naked.

"Your Majesty, the Jiannu cavalry is approaching menacingly. It is difficult to stop the Jiannu cavalry with this shallow wall and shallow ditch. Your Majesty's Eucharist must not be in danger. You should get on your horse and go back to the camp to avoid it!"

"Quickly, bring the empress' chasing cloud..."

"Fart, how can I go back to the camp to escape at this time? Isn't this a runaway?"

"What are you doing? Want to rebel?"

"Let go of me, prepare to meet the enemy!"

A group of royal guards ignored the emperor's angry roar, forcibly helped him onto Zhuiyun, and then slapped his horse's ass fiercely. Zhuiyun seemed to be human, and with a neighing sound, he rushed out like an arrow off the string.

The one-meter-high earthen wall and the two-meter-wide deep ditch, Zhuiyun just jumped over it and rushed towards the camp behind.

Zhu Cihong also had no choice but to lie on the horse's back tightly, holding the saddle tightly with both hands, for fear of falling, but his heart felt like crying without tears.

This group of guys is too turbulent, not to mention that there are nearly [-] soldiers around him, relying on the earth wall and ditches, it is not clear whether the slave cavalry can attack.

Even if he came in, he wouldn't be able to get under his command platform in a short period of time. He had time to mobilize troops and horses to help, just to encircle and annihilate the opponent's cavalry. Why did he need to run away like this?

But it didn't take long for Zhu Cihong to be dumbfounded. He realized that he had underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Jiannu cavalry, or in other words, underestimated the opponent's determination to capture the thief, capture the king, and kill him.

After Oboi led the cavalry to kill, he didn't stop at all, and rushed directly towards the middle camp where Shuai Qi was.

Although most of the cavalry were stabbed into hedgehogs by the spear commander when they jumped into the camp, but the Jiannu cavalry continued to jump in like moths to a flame.

Finding that the battalion was filled with a large number of sandbags, restricting the vertical and horizontal range of the cavalry, he immediately dismounted and drew his sword to fight with the Ming army.

Aobai took the lead, leading [-] real elites of the Eight Banners, and frantically rushed towards Zhu Cihong's command high platform, while the Ming army tried their best to block them.

"Warriors, kill me!"

"Capture Emperor Ming alive!"

Seeing the high platform so close at hand, and the little emperor wearing golden armor on the high platform, Obai and all the Eight Banners soldiers were red-eyed.

Most of the more than ten thousand remnants of the Ming army in the battalion did not know that His Majesty had already left on horseback, so all of them were equally red-eyed and desperately fought against the Eight Banners soldiers to defend their Majesty the Emperor.

As more and more Jiannu cavalry entered the camp, the casualties of the Ming army increased rapidly, but they still guarded the vicinity of the high platform, not retreating an inch.

When only three or four thousand of the more than ten thousand Ming troops were killed or injured, and it was about to be overwhelmed by the raging Qing army in a moment and a half, the two battalions sent by Huang Degong finally arrived and killed them from the outside.

At this time, the entire battlefield was a mess, Huang Degong did not continue to send troops back to aid, but launched a fierce attack from the flanks towards the last three camps of Jiannu.

The British Duke led the left army, and with the cooperation of the chariot battalion and cavalry, they also fought inextricably against [-] Jiannu in the north.

In addition to the 4 young and strong Koreans in the last three camps of Jiannu, there were more than [-] Han soldiers who had been beaten and collapsed.

"Regent, the Ming army's offensive is too fierce, let's take some cavalry to contain it, or it will really be over!"

Dorgun had already retreated to the camp in the northeast corner at this time. Seeing that the three camps in the middle were in danger, and the Ming army from the south also attacked the camp in the middle, he gritted his teeth and chose to turn a blind eye. Instead, he kept his eyes on the camp. Look at the three front camps, especially the one in the middle.

"Persist a little longer, Oboi is already under the commanding flag of the Ming army, as long as the little emperor is beheaded, even if all nine camps are lost, we will win!"

Dole clenched his fists tightly, as if he was comforting himself, but also as if he was cheering up Oboi and the people around him.

However, at this time Zhu Cihong had already returned to the camp at the rear, within fifteen miles, Zhuiyun arrived almost in a short time, which was why the imperial army dared to let the emperor flee back to the camp alone.

Because as long as the emperor got on his horse and rushed out of the camp, it was impossible for anyone to catch up. Moreover, riding alone was not only fast, but would also be mistaken for an order by the enemy. safer.

The facts are indeed true. When Zhu Cihong ran out of the camp, although the Jiannu cavalry was still four or five miles away, they still found it, but they only thought they were the messengers of the Ming army, even Oboi thought so. , so it doesn't matter at all.

However, the logistics soldiers and young military households who stayed in the camp were really shocked when they saw His Majesty returning alone.

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty..." Everyone hurried forward to rein in their horses, their faces full of panic and confusion, thinking that the army was killed and defeated.

But no matter how defeated, it is impossible for His Majesty to be the only one who escaped back. What's more, the earth-shattering shouts of killing did not stop for a moment.

"Tell the brothers to perform their duties, stay vigilant, don't think too much, I just came back to drink water!"

Zhu Cihong jumped off the horse and waved his hands with an ugly expression on his face.

It's depressing in my heart, but the matter has come to this point, if he goes back, no matter where he goes, it will only add chaos, and it won't have much effect on the victory or defeat.

Fortunately, the army has been deployed, and there are two generals commanding it, so his presence or absence is not so important.

What's more, each army, each town, each battalion has a complete command system, a large number of backbone students in the martial arts hall, and the general quality of the soldiers is also relatively high. Collapse, at least each battalion can protect itself.

What's more, after his commander-in-chief flag was cut down, the Duke of England would raise the commander-in-chief flag again as soon as possible to take over the command on the battlefield. After the Duke of England died, the general Huang Degong would still be in command.

But the situation on the battlefield was far better than Zhu Cihong had expected. His commander-in-chief flag was still standing under the guard of two thousand remnants of soldiers.

(End of this chapter)