"Report, His Royal Highness the Prince, the thief army has been tricked, and all 10,000 thief troops have crossed the river to chase in the direction of Guangyang!"

"Your Highness really expects things like a god, the thieves are so stupid, how can they be the opponents of His Royal Highness the Prince." Wang Dequan boasted with a smile.

Zhu Cihong smiled, the thieves crossed the river and chased him to Guangyang, at least two days could buy him at least two days, and these two days were enough for him to take Gu'an County.

"Let's speed up and rest in Gu'an!"

Hearing Zhu Cihong's promise, all the East Palace guards were overjoyed, cheered up, and accelerated back to Gu'an. The nearly two days of running day and night have already made them tired, if it weren't for the followers of His Royal Highness the Prince, the future son of tomorrow, they would have been so tired that they would have fallen down.

A place only ten miles away from Gu'an.

"General Zhang, according to the plan, you send two clever and reliable guards to enter Gu'an County disguised as villagers to lure out the thief army inside, if it doesn't work, immediately change to the second plan." Zhu Cihong called Zhang Kuishan and commanded.

"The last general commands!" Zhang Kuishan commanded.

Zhu Cihong frowned and looked at the void, the two consecutive days of running away made him feel tired, his mother Queen Zhou and the two maids were even more tired, and Li Yan and Zhu Cihong arranged it in the carriage of Chen Xin's family and let Ji Niansheng take care of it. Li Yan only injured his left shoulder, plus he fell off the horse and fainted, a day has passed, Li Yan has already woken up, but Zhu Cihong has no time to pay attention to him now.

A quarter of an hour later, the Gu'an County Ya, suddenly the drum in front of the county yamen was beaten, which alarmed the county officials in the county ya. After a while, the commander of Gu'an County rushed to the Gu'an General Qian's Mansion with two men dressed as villagers.

"General Qian, two villagers came to report, saying that not long ago they found traces of the Ming army in a place ten miles outside the city, about a thousand people, all wearing armor, not like ordinary Ming troops, and asked General Qian to decide." Gu'an County Lingdao.

"What? Really? General Qian pushed away a charming woman in his arms and stared at the two villagers.

"Lord Hui, it's true, the grass people are willing to guarantee with their lives." The two villagers assured.

"Good! If that group of Ming soldiers really has armor, then it seems that that group of people must be the group of palace guards who protected the Ming prince's escape south yesterday. General Qian laughed and said: "Hahahaha, God help me, if I can capture the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty and dedicate it to His Majesty King Chuang, it must be a great achievement, and the promotion to the marquis is just around the corner!" ”

"Come on, order 4,000 soldiers and horses to go out of the city with this general, and this general will personally capture the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty and present it to His Majesty King Chuang!" General Qian shouted excitedly.

"General, slow! I'm afraid there will be fraud! "The Han commander, who was stationed at the city gate yesterday, blocked the way.

"How can there be fraud?" General Qian looked at Commander Han who blocked his way with dissatisfaction.

"General, didn't that group of Ming troops flee to Guangyang yesterday? How can it still appear here, if so, there may be fraud, please allow your subordinates to go and investigate first! Commander Han pleaded.

"Ridiculous! The military situation is urgent, and there is no room for delay! That group of Ming troops is only more than 1,000 people, and General Ben personally led 4,000 men and horses to go, are you still afraid that he will be cheating? I don't care about you----! ”

General Qian impatiently pushed away the Han commander, immediately went to gather troops and horses, and led 4,000 men and horses out of the city after a while.

On both sides of a road surrounded by mountains on both sides, Zhu Cihong is leading 1,500 East Palace guards to ambush here.

"Your Highness, the thief army stationed in Gu'an, four thousand thief troops are rushing here." An East Palace guard who had gone to inquire about the news came back to report.

"Okay, since the thief army has left the city, this prince will take Gu'an with an eighty percent chance of victory." Zhu Cihong was delighted.

"General Zhang, have you buried the thunderbolt?" Zhu Cihong looked at Zhang Kuishan.

"Go back to His Royal Highness the Prince, it's almost there, and you can bury it when you have a cup of tea." Zhang Kuishan replied.

"Let the soldiers hurry up, it is impossible for the thief army to see anything wrong." Zhu Cihong smiled gloomily, he had a large number of powerful flowering bombs buried on the road and on both sides of the road, and only the thieves in Gu'an dared to pass through it, and they would inevitably be blown to pieces.

Time passed little by little, and General Qian led 4,000 soldiers and horses to Zhu Cihong's ambush site.

"How long will it take to get to the place you two talked about?" General Qian asked the two East Palace guards disguised as villagers.

"Back to the general, it's almost there, and you will be there after a turn on the mountain road in front." The two guards of the East Palace, disguised as villagers, smiled and flattered.

General Qian was anxious to make meritorious service, and did not doubt him, so he led four thousand military horses into this mountainside road without the slightest vigilance.

On the top of a hill on both sides of the road, Zhu Cihong leaned over, watched all the four thousand soldiers and horses of the thief army enter the road, smiled, and took out the only tunnel hair short, and shot it into the sky.

Bang!

The crisp sound of the gun immediately alarmed General Qian and all the thieves.

"What's going on? Who shot the musket? There were also a few people in the thief army who had fire commands, and General Qian didn't react for a while, and shouted at the army behind him.

"General, it's none of our business, it seems to be on the mountain." One of the thieves pointed to the mountain.

General Qian looked at the surrounding hills, and sure enough, he saw white smoke coming out of a place where muskets had been activated. General Qian was immediately furious, but before he could scold, he saw that the two villagers who had been reporting not far from him suddenly threw their legs into a ravine at some point.

"Zizi -----" There was a sound of gunpowder burning, white smoke rose from both sides of the mountain road, and it rushed towards the road of 4,000 troops at a great speed.

"It's not good, the road is buried with gunpowder, retreat!" General Qian's eyes widened, and he yelled with tears in his heart.

The thief army was in chaos, but it was too late, a series of violent explosions suddenly sounded on the mountain road and on both sides of the mountain road, the rumbling explosion resounded in the sky, the four thousand troops on the mountain road were blown up, and countless surviving thief troops were terrified and fled in all directions.

"Kill ---"

At this time, there was a shout of killing from the mountains on both sides of the mountain road, and a large group of well-equipped Donggong Imperial Forest Army killed them.

"The Ming army is in ambush, run ---" A thief army shouted, only saw a large area of Ming army in his eyes, and did not know how many Ming troops there were.

The commander of General Qian was riding on a horse just now, and the broken iron in the thunderbolt exploded and flew around, especially at high altitude, especially a thunderbolt happened to be near General Qian, unlucky, General Qian was hit by several pieces of shrapnel, and the whole person suddenly became a bloody person, although he did not die immediately, but he was extremely miserable, only caring about screaming, and had no energy to command the scattered army.

Many of the escaped thieves ran to both ends of the mountain road, and some of the thieves wanted to escape back to Gu'an, but Zhu Cihong had expected it and ordered Zhang Kuishan to lead hundreds of men and horses to intercept the mountain pass in the direction of Gu'an.

"Bang, bang, bang." After the first round of gunfire, the dozens of thieves who ran in the front were suddenly miserable, more than 100 lead bullets were like the hands of death, harvesting the lives of more than 30 thieves, because the rush was too dense, some of the thieves were hit by nearly 10 lead bullets, their bodies were dented, and the minced meat flew sideways.

In the face of such a tragic situation, the rest of the thieves were terrified and stopped in place for a while, but after a while, someone shouted: "Brothers, their muskets have been spared for a round, and they have burned their sticks, so don't be afraid, rush forward, hack them to death, rush!" ”

Someone took the lead, and the thieves seemed to regain their courage and immediately rushed forward with their swords, however----

Bang bang bang!!

Another series of gunshots rang out, and the muskets of the second column of East Palace guards were activated, and more than a hundred lead bullets whistled forward again, and the dozens of thieves who rushed to the front immediately repeated the previous scene, and all of them were beaten into a sieve.

Bang bang bang!!

The third round of gunfire followed, and dozens of thieves flew flesh and blood, and suddenly the remaining thieves were frightened one by one.

"Devil!" The remaining dozens of people turned around and fled, but how could they escape from a distance of more than 100 meters.

Hundreds of East Palace guards all pressed up, and gunshots rang out one after another.

In the end, under the blow of hundreds of muskets, the thief army who wanted to escape back to the direction of Gu'an was completely annihilated.

The battle lasted almost an hour.

"Report, His Royal Highness the Prince, most of the thieves have all been ambushed, and only a few have scattered and fled, do you want to order a pursuit." Zhang Kuishan's face was full of joy, 1,500 against 4,000, another big victory, the casualties of the East Palace guards were minimal, the strategy of His Royal Highness the Prince of Laziness, Zhang Kuishan admired His Royal Highness the Prince even more, His Royal Highness the Prince of the Holy Monarch, Daming Zhongxing is hopeful!

"No need, as long as the scattered thief army does not flee back to Gu'an, it will have no effect, pass the order, immediately rush to Gu'an, take Gu'an before dark as soon as possible, and everyone will rest for one night." Zhu Cihong ordered.

"The last general obeys!"

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