There was a sudden movement of the rebels outside the city. Zhu Cixiang received the news immediately and immediately rushed to Xizhimen in a hurry.
When we rushed to Xizhimen and climbed to the top of the city tower, we saw flames soaring into the sky outside the city, shouts of death, screams, and the sound of gold and iron rushing towards us like thunder.
"Your Majesty, an hour ago, the rebel army suddenly gathered in the North Camp, and then went straight towards the West Camp. At this time, the two sides were fully engaged. I don't know the reason."
Zhou Yuji arrived a step earlier and hurried over to meet and explain, with excitement and confusion on his face.
Obviously, he couldn't figure out why the rebel army suddenly broke out into internal strife.
"Why did they start fighting at night?"
"Isn't that right? Why is the Red Lady going to fight King Chuang?"
Zhu Cixiang muttered to himself, frowning, feeling very surprised.
Because tonight he did send two groups of people to create a divorce plan.
One of the dead soldiers went to Xiying with the imperial edict and letter, while the other person went to Beiying to inform Li Yan, the red lady.
According to his plan, after King Chuang intercepted the letter and the imperial edict, he would definitely become suspicious. Even if he saw through his alienation plan, he would call Li Yan in for questioning and verification.
And he had warned the matchmaker Li Yan in advance, and since it was so late at night, the two of them would probably not dare to go.
Even if Li Yan is loyal and goes regardless of his own safety, the red lady's character will never let him take the risk.
In this way, no matter what excuses the two of them come up with to avoid it, the mud will fall out of their pants.
King Chuang will definitely mistakenly think that the two of them have something evil in mind, so they don't dare to come. In addition, the letter states that they will take action tomorrow, and something will be done after dawn.
After Hong Niangzi and Li Yan discovered the unusual movements in Chuangjun's camp, they thought of last night's letter and King Chuang recruited them two late at night. They also wondered whether King Chuang really wanted to attack them?
As a result, the couple can only rely on him to protect themselves. After all, once there are cracks and distrust in this relationship between monarch and minister, it cannot be repaired.
Therefore, his strategy may seem crude and even a fool can see it, but it is actually a naked conspiracy.
As a person in a superior position, he knows the mentality of this kind of people best. He is very suspicious and is always on guard against rebellion by his subordinates.
If you are better, you will investigate first after you have suspicions. If you are more ruthless, you would rather kill the wrong person than let him go.
"Is it true that Li Yan was so stupid that he went to the West Camp? He was detained by King Chuang? When the red lady saw that her husband was still not coming back, she became anxious and led the army to kill him?"
After thinking for a long time, Zhu Cixiang finally came to this conclusion.
Then he said excitedly: "Zhou Aiqing, in your opinion, can the red lady beat that Li Zicheng?"
"Your Majesty, the Western Camp of the Breaking Army has drawn off a large number of soldiers and horses a while ago. Now the camp has only about 100,000 troops at most. The Red Lady's troops are quite disciplined and caught the opponent by surprise. The chance of winning is still very high.
However, the attitude of the two southeastern camps is still unclear, and I don’t know if they will come for reinforcements. If the red lady fails to defeat the invading army before the reinforcements arrive, she will probably be in danger of being attacked from both sides!"
Zhou Yuji quickly explained.
At this moment, I still don’t understand that all this is His Majesty’s fault, and I admire His Majesty’s methods in my heart.
Although he was curious, it was inconvenient for him to ask more questions unless His Majesty told him.
"Zhou Aiqing, the traitor army is in chaos at this time. Can our army take advantage of the opportunity to rush out and kill him without leaving any trace behind?"
Or block the reinforcements and buy the Red Lady time to kill the Chuang King?"
Zhu Cixi knew that King Chuang would definitely call for reinforcements, so he thought about it and tried to speak.
Zhou Yuji was frightened to death, and said hurriedly: "Your Majesty, you must not do this. At this time, the two armies have completely fallen into a melee. With the current state of our army, it will be very dangerous to rashly join the battlefield during the day, let alone at night.
As for intercepting the reinforcements, the city gate has been blocked. After our army opens the city gate and assembles outside the city, the reinforcements from King Chuang may have already reached the battlefield!"
"So, my nearly 100,000-strong army can only stay in the city and stare, missing the opportunity and watching them fight?"
Zhu Cixi said a little unwillingly.
"Your Majesty, no matter who wins or loses this time, the rebel army will definitely be severely damaged. Our army has to wait and see what happens. Otherwise, if there is a mistake, the rebel army will take advantage of the situation to attack the city, and the consequences will be disastrous!"
"Alas! What a pity!"
Zhu Cixiang punched the guardrail and sighed.
In fact, Zhou Yuji was also a little sighing and puzzled. He didn't understand why the red lady didn't launch an attack immediately after leading the army to the outside of the camp, but delayed it for a full quarter of an hour.
This was definitely a fatal mistake. It not only gave the men and horses in the camp time to prepare, but also gave time for reinforcements.
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At the same time, a group of people in the night in the north were also watching the melee from a distance.
"Good fellow, why are the intruders so crazy? Look at this posture, there are at least hundreds of thousands of troops! Tsk tsk!"
"Damn it, it would be best if all these smashing and biting dogs are dead."
"Stop being so nagging, you two go back immediately and report the situation to the commander. Each of you will ride three horses."
The captain, who stayed up all night, was sure that the bandit army was actually fighting and not just showing off, so he didn't dare to delay any longer, so he immediately ordered the two of them to go back and report the news.
"yes!"
The two Ye Buzai immediately got on their horses and disappeared into the night.
After galloping all the way, three horses were thrown down and the man was bruised and swollen before the two of them arrived at the camp sixty miles away.
"Quick! Emergency military situation, take me to see the commander immediately..."
The sentry did not dare to delay, so he immediately picked up the two of them and rushed to the commander's tent.
"What?"
"The intruders actually had internal strife tonight?"
Wu Sangui, who was only wearing underwear, almost had his jaw dropped when he looked at the two of them.
"Yes, Commander. About an hour ago, tens of thousands of rebel troops from the North Camp suddenly attacked the West Camp. Then the two sides started fighting. The battle was extremely fierce."
One of them said quickly.
"Okay! God has given me Wu Sangui a wonderful gift! Haha!"
Wu Sangui slapped his thigh and looked up to the sky laughing.
After laughing for a while, Wu Sangui calmed down and ordered: "Send the order, beat the drums to gather the generals, and the whole army is assembled and ready for action!"
"yes!"
Suddenly, the camp was evacuated with the banging of war drums and the long sound of horns, and countless people were awakened.
Two quarters of an hour later, the generals came to the commander's tent fully armed and confused.
"Second brother, what happened in the middle of the night?"
Wu Sanfu came last and complained as soon as he came in.
All the generals also looked at Wu Sangui with confusion on their faces.
After all, it was already late at night. If there was an enemy attack, we would just meet the enemy. If there was no enemy attack, we would just move out. There was no need to call everyone up for a meeting.
"I just visited the horse to report..."
Wu Sangui glared at his fourth brother, and then explained.