"Your Majesty, the general is announcing that there are still 60,000 cavalrymen who have not arrived yet. Your Majesty, please quickly mobilize troops and horses to protect the holy cavalry..."
Before the ordering soldier could reach the front, he shouted loudly, which shocked the resting soldiers to stand up one after another. Just as Zhu Cixiang was about to speak, the rumble of horse hooves was heard in the distance.
Looking around, I saw the cavalry, like billowing black clouds, pressing towards us from the southwest.
Seeing this scene, Zhu Cixiang secretly said something bad, and immediately realized that he was careless and ignored that the other party could capture the thief and the king.
The remaining hundreds of imperial guards around him reacted faster, knowing that it would be extremely dangerous for His Majesty to stay here. Remembering the instructions given by the imperial concubine when she left, they immediately shouted loudly, and at the same time, they hurriedly removed the golden armor on Zhu Cihong's body.
He pulled out all his juices in an instant.
"Your Majesty, the Jiannu cavalry is coming fiercely. This shallow ditch with earthen walls will probably be difficult to block the Jiannu cavalry. Your Majesty's holy body cannot be put in danger. It's better to get on your horse quickly and return to the camp to take shelter!"
"Quickly, bring the queen's Zhuiyun..."
"Fart, how can I go back to camp to escape at this time? Isn't this just running away from the battlefield?"
"What are you doing? Do you want to rebel?"
"Let me go quickly and prepare to meet the enemy!"
A group of royal guards ignored the emperor's angry roar and forcibly helped him onto Zhuiyun, then slapped the horse's butt hard. Zhuiyun, like a human being, neighed and ran away like an arrow from a string.
Zhuiyun only jumped over the one-meter-high earthen wall and the two-meter-wide deep ditch, and ran straight towards the camp at the rear.
Zhu Cixi could only lie down on the horse's back, holding the saddle tightly with both hands, for fear of falling, but he felt like crying without tears in his heart.
These guys are really in a state of panic, not to mention that there are nearly 10,000 soldiers around them. Relying on the earthen walls and trenches, it’s still unclear whether the slave cavalry can attack them.
Even if they attack, they won't be able to reach his command platform in a short period of time. They have enough time to mobilize troops and horses to return reinforcements, just in time to surround and annihilate the opponent's cavalry. Why do they need to escape so directly?
But it didn't take long for Zhu Cixiang to be dumbfounded. He found that he had underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Jiannu cavalry, or that he had underestimated the opponent's determination to capture the thieves, capture the king, and kill him.
I saw that after Obai led his cavalry to kill, without any pause, he rushed directly towards the middle camp where the commander's flag was. The knights on the horses all controlled their horses and jumped over the trench wall and landed in the camp.
Although most of the cavalry were stabbed like hedgehogs by their spears when they jumped into the camp, the Jiannu cavalry were like moths flying into the flame, and they kept jumping in with their horses controlled.
Finding that the camp was filled with a large number of sandbags, which restricted the movement of the cavalry, he immediately dismounted, drew his sword and fought with the Ming army.
Ao Bai took the lead, leading 20,000 real Eight Banners elites, and charged crazily towards Zhu Cixiang's command tower. The Ming army tried their best to block it, and for a while both sides almost beat the brains out of the dogs in the camp.
"Warriors, kill me!"
"Capture Emperor Ming alive!"
Looking at the nearby high platform and the little emperor wearing golden armor on the high platform, Obai and all the Eight Banners soldiers became red-eyed.
Most of the more than 10,000 Ming army remnants in the camp did not know that His Majesty had already ridden away, so they all became red-eyed and fought desperately against the Eight Banners soldiers to protect their Emperor.
As more and more Jiannu cavalry entered the camp, the Ming army's casualties increased rapidly, but they still guarded the high platform and refused to retreat.
When only three or four thousand of the ten thousand Ming army were killed or wounded, and it seemed that they would be overwhelmed by the surging Qing army in an hour and a half, the two battalions sent by Huang Degong to come back for reinforcements finally arrived and fought from the outside.
At this time, the entire battlefield was reduced to a mess. Huang Degong did not continue to send troops and horses to return reinforcements, but launched a fierce attack from the flanks towards Jiannu's last three camps.
The British Duke led the left army, and with the cooperation of the chariot battalion and cavalry, he also fought hard against 50,000 Buddhist slaves in the north.
In addition to the 30,000 young Koreans in the last three camps of Jiannu, there were also more than 40,000 beaten and collapsed Han soldiers. These Han soldiers were already frightened and could not withstand the attack of the right army.
"Prince Regent, the Ming army's offensive is too fierce. It's better to remove some cavalry to contain it, otherwise it will really be over!"
Dorgun had already retreated to the camp in the northeast corner. 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 keeping his eyes fixed on it.
Focus on the three camps at the front, especially the one in the middle.
"Keep on holding on. Oboi has already attacked the Ming army's commanding flag. As long as we kill the little emperor, we will win even if all nine camps are lost!"
Dorgun clenched his fists tightly, as if to comfort himself, and as if to cheer up Obai and the people around him.
However, at this time, Zhu Cixiang had already returned to the camp at the rear. Fifteen miles away, Zhuiyun arrived in almost a moment. This was the reason why the Royal Forest Army dared to let the emperor escape back to the camp alone.
Because as long as the emperor gets on his horse and rushes out of the camp, no one can catch up. Moreover, riding alone is not only faster, but will also be mistaken for a messenger by the enemy cavalry. On the contrary, it is more difficult than a group of cavalry to escape with the escort.
safer.
This is indeed the case. When Zhu Cixiang ran out of the camp, although the Jiannu cavalry was still four or five miles away, they still found him, but they only thought he was the messenger of the Ming army. Even Obai thought so.
, so I didn’t pay attention to it at all.
However, the logistics soldiers and young soldiers 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, with fright and confusion on their faces. They thought the army had been killed and routed.
But even if they were defeated again, it was impossible for His Majesty to escape alone. Moreover, the earth-shattering shouts of killing in front of them did not stop for a moment. It did not look like the army was defeated at all, but it looked like the killing was fierce.
"Tell brothers to perform their duties, stay vigilant, and don't think too much. I'm just coming back for a drink of water!"
Zhu Cixi jumped off the horse and waved his hands with an ugly expression on his face.
I feel depressed in my heart, but now that the matter is over, if he goes back to fight, he will only add chaos no matter where he goes, and it will not have much effect on the outcome.
Fortunately, the army has been deployed and is under the command of two generals. His presence or absence is no longer that important.
What's more, each army, town, and battalion has a complete command system, a large number of cadres from the martial arts hall, and the general quality of the soldiers is also high. Even if the commander's flag is cut down, there will not be a direct chaos like other armies.
In case of collapse, at least each battalion can protect itself.
What's more, after his commander's flag was cut down, the British Duke would immediately raise the commander's flag again and take over the battlefield command. After the British Duke died, there was still the great general Huang Degong in command.
The situation on the battlefield was far better than Zhu Cixi expected. His flag was still standing under the guard of two thousand remaining soldiers, and the attacking Ming armies still had high morale and overwhelming momentum.