"Taigu County was set on fire by the thieves, which is very hateful!" Zhou Yuji did not have the slightest appetite in the face of the rich breakfast of the palace, and the anger in his eyes was burning.

The thief army took Taigu County in less than half an hour, which made Chang Yu a little surprised, although the officers and soldiers in the county had already withdrawn to Taiyuan City, but when the thief army fled, there was no siege baggage, how could it be so easy?

"The thief was angry, but he also self-destroyed the Great Wall" Chang Yu sneered, put down the dishes and chopsticks and looked at Zhou Yuji: "How is General Zhou preparing?" ”

"I informed my subordinates last night, I rested all night, and now I can set off at any time, and the last general is willing to lead his troops to chase the thief." Zhou Yujidao.

"How many troops?"

"The long-distance pursuit is based on cavalry, and the thief army is fleeing, the rumors are all soldiers, and the combat power is not worth mentioning, so the pursuit force does not need to be numerous, and the last general is enough to lead more than 1,000 cavalry."

Zhou Yuji's purpose was to drive away thieves, not to suppress thieves, he only thought about driving Li Zicheng's rout across the Yellow River as soon as possible, and didn't do evil in his place, otherwise how to exterminate the thieves with more than a thousand cavalry.

With more than 1,000 horses to chase Li Zicheng, Zhou Yuji can also be regarded as a leopard gall, a hundred-legged insect is dead but not stiff, a thin camel is bigger than a horse, is Lao Zhou floating?

Naturally not, it's just provoking yourself to come out!

Seeing through it or not saying it, Chang Yu smiled slightly: "More than a thousand cavalry are too thin, although the thieves fled, but they dared to spend the night in Taigu, there should be a palace in the rear, not to be underestimated, let's do it, let's help you, draw 5,000 cavalry to go with you, and drive the thief army away."

Zhou Yuji didn't expect Chang Yu to agree to the pursuit so easily, it was really unexpected, you must know that he flatly refused before yesterday, why did he repeat it so repeatedly overnight.

It is by no means easy to pursue the enemy from a distance, although the thief army has broken and fled, it has always been good at field warfare, fighting a guerrilla, and fighting an ambush are all at their fingertips, which the officers and soldiers really can't compare.

Secondly, as soon as the soldiers and horses move, the grain and grass go first. However, at this time, it is well known that Taiyuan has insufficient grain and grass, and the pursuit of the thief army must march quickly, and the baggage is too much to pull the hind legs, and it is easy to be ambushed by the enemy.

The thief army is completely different, they are good at guerrilla warfare, and they can grab grain and grass wherever they go, they have no worries at all, and they are not afraid to wear shoes with their bare feet.

After a brief discussion, Zhou Yuji threw down the dishes and chopsticks and left, he led more than 1,000 personal soldiers to go first, and Chang Yu mobilized people to follow.

After several days of fierce fighting, the loss of troops in Taiyuan City was huge, and only more than 50,000 people could be pulled out directly on the battlefield at this time.

At this time, although it is easy to transfer 5,000 cavalry, it still makes Chang Yu difficult, who will go?

After only one night's rest, the soldiers' physical fitness and morale were not as good as before, but when the order to transfer troops was issued, several troops immediately asked for battle, among which Yang Zhenwei and He Chengxin were the most active.

After thinking about it for a while, Chang Yu finally decided!

Jin Wuwei!

This royal cavalry, this rookie on the battlefield, but the least damaged one.

As soon as the military order was issued, the four commanders of Jin Wuwei began to mobilize manpower and were busy preparing swords, arrows, bows, horses and dry food.

"Lord Factory Governor, humble and ask for battle" Cheng Ming, Tang Poshan, Tu Yuan and Jia Waixiong are unwilling.

Chang Yu was silent for a while: "Tu Yuan, Jia Waixiong is with you, and the rest of you are staying in Taiyuan."

In addition to the Fu Junwei and Teng Xiangwei, the rest of the people also included Li Tiezhu and the eunuch army led by Fan Jiaqian.

In the middle of the afternoon, Jin Wuwei was ready, and the four commanders led the team out, Chang Yu wore a helmet and armor and held a long knife in his crotch and a jujube red horse, heroic and extraordinary.

On his side, he led the archers to accompany him, and Tu Yuan and Jia Waixiong followed closely with three hundred elites in full armor.

Lockdown! After seeing Chang Yu leading his men out of the city, Niu Yong ordered all the logistics troops to withdraw to the city and close all the city gates.

At the same time, when Chang Yu was out of the city, a group of courtiers in the Forbidden City, thousands of miles away, were experiencing the two heavens of ice and fire.

On the Qianqing door, the gloomy clouds and mist stretched out his hand and couldn't see his five fingers, Emperor Chongzhen looked at His Royal Highness with a pale face, listened to them play bad news one after another, and listened to them accuse Sang and scold Huai one after another to engrave the little eunuch Chang Yu he pulled out one after another.

Chang Yu's popularity is too bad, just imagine who else in Beijing Xungui has not been offended by him, which of these Xungui is not deep-rooted, which one has no small group and no circle of friends, in a short period of time, a force began to target him and fire, all kinds of smear and impeachment are all kinds, and it is not up to him for the widow to cheat, especially Chongzhen suddenly mentioned that he sat in the position of the commander of Dongchang and supervised the army in Taiyuan, and after killing Jiang Jiu on the way, this firepower was even more fierce.

At this time, Chongzhen suddenly understood why Chang Yu volunteered to go out of Beijing to transport the silver, this kid also knew that he had offended too many people, so he hurried out of Beijing to avoid the limelight, which was really cunning.

Almost every day the impeachment of Chang Yu is a routine affair, seeing that the anger of the public is difficult to dissipate, Chongzhen has always turned a deaf ear, undeniable, deliberately avoided, and even provoked the dissatisfaction of the courtiers and nobles, and even some cabinet ministers came out to accuse Chongzhen of conniving at the eunuchs, have you forgotten the trouble of Wei Zhongxian?

It's okay not to mention Wei Zhongxian, but when he mentions Chongzhen's ruined intestines, although he wants to defend Chang Yu at this time, but in the face of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military people, he thinks about it and gives up, Chang Yu was originally used as a knife to carry the blame, explain a fart.

Compared with the anger of the courtiers, Chongzhen's Taiji, there is another person on the Qianqing Gate who seems to be light, but there is murder in his eyes, that is the crown prince Zhu Cihong, who is silently listening to the court affairs on one side and is close to Chang Yu.

Wait, wait for Chang Yu to come back and clean you up, he was just a little eunuch before you have a blue nose and swollen face, at this time, the governor of Dongchang will not let you and other bones to ashes, I heard that the little eunuch of his henchman has returned to Beijing to start the layout, hum, tremble, ignorant waste.

Trembling and Chongzhen, in the face of the snowflakes of bad news and the bullet that covered the sky and the sun Chang Yu, he has been holding back, he has hatred in his heart, hating these courtiers for forgetting their duty, not worrying about the monarch, only pulling skin every day, such as Chang Yu said that Wenchen should be killed, at this time Taiyuan was besieged for several days, the situation is unknown, but these people's minds are all on the body of a eunuch, can he not hate.

After Chang Yu left Beijing, he and Chongzhen established an SF Express line, which can be reached in one day, and what he did outside, such as borrowing money and food, such as killing Jiang Jiu, such as Taiyuan matters, almost arrived at dawn and evening, Chongzhen could learn in the fastest time, several times faster than the local minister's performance.

However, the news I got in the next few days was that Taiyuan was besieged and the city was unknown.

The courier brother who delivered the message couldn't enter the city, no matter how Chongzhen urged, the news he got was always the same: hundreds of thousands of thieves besieged Taiyuan...... Last night's fierce battle...... The thieves did not retreat......

Hundreds of thousands of troops, Chang Yu, you must hold on, whether you can change the situation and turn things around, it depends on the battle of Taiyuan! Chongzhen has been tossing and turning for the past few days, praying from time to time in his heart, Taiyuan is his too much hope, he doesn't want the situation to always go on according to the 'prince's dream', although in terms of time, the prince's 'dream' has been changed.

According to the prince's 'fairy trust', Taiyuan City was sacrificed by traitors when it was besieged by the thief army, and there was no decent resistance at all, and at this time, Chang Yu had been fighting with the thief army for several days.

"Your Majesty, report quickly"! In front of the palace, there was a Han general on duty to break the clouds in the court, Chongzhen's eyes flashed with a gloomy face, and Wang Chengen next to him had already hurriedly walked towards the palace door, and then took a secret letter and handed it to Chongzhen.

Chongzhen was short of breath, his hands began to tremble, he tore open the envelope three times and twice, glanced at it, and sat down on the dragon chair with a bang.