Summoned into the palace by the emperor, he finally gained the emperor's understanding and trust through a heart-to-heart explanation, and got the words he wanted to hear in his dreams countless times: "My beloved,
I have seen your loyalty to the imperial court. You are a good minister, useful and trustworthy!"
That's it.
Lu Xiangsheng burst into tears.
"His Majesty!"
He knelt on the ground and kowtowed heavily several times, bang bang bang, and a big bump formed on his forehead.
Zhu Youjian was startled, and he quickly ordered people to help him up, give him a seat, and comfort him, and it was a heartwarming scene of a wise king and a wise minister.
However, as for what Lu Xiangsheng proposed, he wanted to lead the Tianxiong Army to fight head-on with the Jin Tatars, to protect the people and eliminate threats around the capital.
"No!"
Zhu Youjian immediately shook his head and said: "Lu Aiqing can't take risks with a large army. There are 200,000 Tartars and Tianxiong's army is only 10,000. How can they be the opponent of Jiannu? It's better to lead Tianxiong's army into the city and strengthen the defense of the capital."
Battle in the wild."
"Your Majesty, your Majesty's Tianxiong Army is not weaker than the elite of Jiannu. Fighting in the wild, it may not be impossible to win! Your Majesty, the surrounding people are being ravaged and are in urgent need of rescue from the imperial court. Let me protect them."
Lu Xiangsheng said, he had seen the tragic situation in Jiannu Tu Village during the march. It was simply too horrible to watch. He also defeated a plundering Niulu, beheading nearly a hundred people, and suffered less than twenty casualties. The half-body plate armor had extremely strong defense.
High, the alloy Yan Ling knife has strong armor-breaking ability, thus it has a huge weapon advantage.
Therefore, Lu Xiangsheng said: "With less than 10,000 Tartars, the Tianxiong Army can easily defeat them. With around 30,000 Tartars, the Tianxiong Army can fight undefeated for a long time! Using the mobility advantages brought by bicycles, Your Majesty,
I have the confidence to repel the Tartars through raids and wars, and to protect and rescue the people of the Ming Dynasty."
"No! The millions of people in the capital need the protection of the Tianxiong Army even more!"
Zhu Youjian shook his head and said: "Lu Aiqing, just lead Tianxiong's army into the city. Don't betray my trust in you."
"But there are still countless people around the capital who are being massacred and ravaged by the Jian slaves!" Lu Xiangsheng, who was eager to fight, said.
"Lu Xiangsheng! There are hundreds of millions of people in the Ming Dynasty. Once something happens to the capital, the people all over the world will be massacred and ravaged. Don't be confused!" Zhu Youjian said sternly.
"This is Your Majesty, I obey your order."
Lu Xiangsheng had no choice but to obediently lead the Tianxiong Army into the city. Standing on the five-foot-high city wall of the capital, holding a telescope, he saw the smoke pillars rising around him, and each smoke pillar represented a slave who was built.
While villages and towns were being massacred, the Tianxiong Army could only stay within the tall city walls, and could only watch and be helpless as the people outside the city were being massacred.
He closed his eyes in pain.
I couldn't help but feel a little shaken and doubtful.
In order to gain His Majesty's trust, should he abandon the people outside the city? Can he only care about protecting His Majesty and protecting the people of the world? Is his choice really the right one?
But Lu Xiangsheng didn't dare to think deeply. He didn't want to separate the emperor from the people. He could only convince himself that the millions of people in the capital were more important. Protecting His Majesty meant protecting the people of the world. He couldn't ruin the overall situation by being petty.
…
Twenty-three days.
Tongzhou is less than forty miles away from the capital.
After twelve days of rapid march, Xujiazhuang's muscle army arrived here a day ago, and went into the city to rest and adjust for a day to restore their physical and mental strength.
In fact, when the Muscle Corps first arrived in Tongzhou yesterday, it caused a lot of commotion and repercussions. It was even misunderstood as "the Tatars are coming". This frightened the garrison in Tongzhou City and immediately closed the city gates and maintained high alert.
Many timid soldiers were scared to death, and many planned to abandon the city, escape or surrender.
Mainly because the image of the muscle army is too scary.
The average height is one meter nine.
The average weight is about two hundred pounds.
They all wore full-body plate armor that was as shiny as a can.
Each carries an alloy sword with a two-meter-long blade and handle, sharply polished.
Most of the people who sit down and ride are bicycles, and there are more than 300 people riding heavy-duty motorcycles (the reason is that the bicycles are easy to fall apart when they are overweight).
Then the bicycles buzzed and the motorcycles buzzed, heading towards Tongzhou City in a mighty manner. How could this astonishing scene not scare the people in Tongzhou City to the point of peeing.
However, after learning that the person coming was Xu Jiajun from Xujiazhuang, who asked to enter the city to rest for a night, Tongzhou City Guard Yang Yan (Yang Yufan's nephew) not only immediately ordered the city gates to be opened, but also showed ecstasy and ordered all restaurants and inns in the city to find a way.
He made room for Xu Jiajun and offered him the best hospitality. He rushed forward to entertain Xu Jiajun in front of Shi Yong, the temporary commander of the Muscle Corps, nodding and bowing, and showing great enthusiasm.
Even the merchants and common people in Tongzhou City took the initiative to contribute money and goods to greet this Xu family army, which was very popular among the people in the city.
The reason is simple.
Yang Yufan, the commander-in-chief of Tongzhou, cooperated with Xu Jiazhuang many times, and each time they cooperated, they reaped huge rewards. Tens of thousands of Tongzhou soldiers made a fortune, which meant that tens of thousands of Tongzhou families benefited from it.
Moreover, Tongzhou is the end point of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal and an important water and land transportation hub. Tongzhou merchants are also a large and influential business gang. They have cooperated with Xujiazhuang a lot and benefited a lot. They all rely heavily on their cooperation with Xujiazhuang.
It is not an exaggeration to say that Xujiazhuang is the source of food and clothing for countless people in Tongzhou.
Now that the army of food and clothing has arrived, the attitude of the people of Tongzhou is naturally much more cordial and enthusiastic than that of other imperial officers and soldiers. It feels like the military and civilians are in harmony with each other. How could they be hostile and defensive?
But the Muscle Legion only had a good rest for one day, and had just washed away the fatigue from the long journey.
The Jin Army is coming!
A cavalry army of about 5,000 men belonging to the Two Blue Banners, led by Degelei's son Deng Shiku, headed straight for Tongzhou City.
However, there were only one thousand Jianzhou Zhentar in this army, and the other four thousand were Mongolian cavalry, and they did not carry siege equipment. The main purpose was to plunder the canal surroundings and cut off water transportation.
Of course, it would be a happy event if we could capture the fortified city of Tongzhou. After all, there are huge granaries in Tongzhou City, and a large number of warehouses storing millions of stones of various materials. Once captured, more than 200,000 Jin troops would be defeated.
You can eat it for two or three years, and you don’t have to worry about logistical issues.
It's just that they obviously thought too much. Five thousand cavalrymen tried to launch a surprise attack, but the momentum was so great that it could be detected twenty miles away. Even if they quickly arrived at Tongzhou City, what they saw was the tightly closed city gate.
"Hey! Why is Mingren so alert? I have no chance to take advantage of him."
Deng Shiku sighed, but then thought again, the momentum of the five thousand cavalry running wild was indeed too great. If a small group of fifty or five hundred cavalry were used to attack the city gate, it might have a miraculous effect.
He is too young, not experienced enough in military tactics, and still has a lot to learn.
Just when he was about to order a retreat, the target turned to the docks, inns, warehouses and other targets next to the canal.
"The city gate has opened, and the Ming army has come out!"
The guard beside him suddenly said with surprise: "They dare to go out of the city to fight in the field?"
Deng Shiku immediately reined in his horse and observed for a while the army that was pouring out of the city gate, all covered in silver armor. Each of them also carried a very intimidating cleaver, and it looked like they were very well equipped.
"Their armors are good, I want them all."
Deng Shiku ordered: "Get ready for battle and annihilate the Ming army!"
"Woo~"
"Hoho~"
This cavalry army of five thousand people quickly adjusted their formation, and collectively showed a cruel and greedy smile.
…
City gate.
The Xujiazhuang Muscle Corps sent 3,000 muscular men out of the city, and then formed a formation against the city wall. There were also many people carrying pieces of wood and wire. They first nailed the wood to the ground with sledgehammers, and then
Wrap the spiked wires criss-crossly.
"Hurry up, move faster!"
"Within ten minutes, three lines of barbed wire must be deployed in front of the military formation."
"We are not cavalry. We will face their cavalry charging into battle. These barbed wire fences are a powerful weapon to stop them."
Zhang Hu patrolled in front of the formation and gave instructions in a thunderous voice.
As a close bodyguard who protects the village owner Xu Yuan all year round, Zhang Hu could not restrain his desire for war. He also signed up this time and successfully joined the Muscle Legion. He also ranked third in the overall competition in the ring.
score.
But Zhang Hu is still not satisfied. His goal is to rank first among the muscular men. You must know that he has been with the owner for many years and his food treatment has always been the best. So now he is two meters tall and weighs two meters.
He weighs one hundred and eighty pounds, his whole body is covered in muscle lumps, and his strength is unrivaled.
Moreover, he also married and started a family. Unexpectedly, his weight increased significantly after marriage, as if he had gained a second growth. Therefore, now he is a super muscular man weighing nearly 300 kilograms, like an iron tower.
There are few people in the family who can compare with him.
If it weren't for his lack of physical strength, lack of skills, and his opponent being too tenacious, he would definitely have won the first place in the ring competition.
Soon, three barbed wire fences were laid out.
The five thousand cavalry on the opposite side also began to charge, and the sound of intensive horse hooves became louder and louder. The momentum made Yang Yan and other Tongzhou people watching the battle on the city wall change their expressions, and they all turned pale, and they couldn't help but feel worried.
Two hundred meters.
One hundred meters.
The two armies were only fifty meters apart.
"Throw a grenade!" Commander Shi Yong ordered with a loudspeaker.
Thousands of muscular men in Xujiazhuang in the front row took out wooden-handled grenades weighing more than two kilograms, unscrewed the caps, pulled out the fuses, and threw them hard at the cavalry on the opposite side.
These grenades are not the previous sugar grenades, but high-explosive grenades filled with smokeless gunpowder!
Before Xujiazhuang dispatched the muscle army, he considered the situation of dealing with the cavalry impact. Barbed wire high-explosive grenades were the best response combination, which could completely restrain the impact of the ancient cavalry (Xu Yuan said that he did not use breech-loading guns and mortars).
Cannons, but I didn’t say not to bring barbed wire and grenades. There are some things that need to be brought, but you still have to bring them).
Once the cavalry loses their impact kinetic energy and faces muscular men and two-meter-long alloy sabers, there is no need to say what the outcome will be.
The distance between the two sides is less than thirty meters!
Thousands of high-explosive grenades fell into the Houjin Cavalry and exploded violently!
Boom boom boom boom!
"Grey Law~"
"Angang~"
"ah!!"
The war horses neighed and the screams of the men were heard.
In this wave of violent explosions, at least five hundred people and thousands of horses were killed.
However, because the speed of the war horses had accelerated to the maximum, it was impossible to slow down. The Houjin Cavalry could only bear this wave of casualties and continued to charge forward until they hit the three layers of seemingly very weak barbed wire.
Puff puff puff~
Unexpectedly, the strength and toughness of the barbed wire fence is extremely high. The war horse can break through the first line, but it is difficult to break through the second line. Even if it comes into contact with the third barbed wire fence, its speed is greatly reduced.
What finally appeared in front of the muscular men in Xujiazhuang was a large number of horses and cavalry whose speed had stalled.
"Raise the sword!" Shi Yong ordered.
At least a thousand alloy swords were raised high, forming a wall of swords, shining with a dazzling cold light under the sunlight.
"Heavy chop!"
The sharp alloy sword was chopped down hard almost at the same time.
"No!"
"Remove, withdraw everyone!"
Deng Shiku, who was behind the Houjin cavalry, had his eyes bulging out and couldn't help but exclaim.
Puff puff puff!
Blood splattered everywhere, people and horses were shattered, and they were cut in half! This is the scene that is described.
At least three hundred Houjin cavalry were killed by this round of horse-killing swords!
"Raise the knife!"
"Heavy chop!"
Shi Yong started again, executing this procedure repeatedly.
After only five rounds of heavy slashing with swords, the 5,000-man Houjin cavalry collapsed. The Mongols were the first to turn around and run away. The Jianzhou Zhentars could not hold on and retreated with fear on their faces.
Is it just possible that they can escape?
Although the Xujiazhuang Muscle Corps is not a cavalry force, its mobility is not weaker than any other unit.
Zhang Hu got on the back seat of a heavy-duty motorcycle (there was a rider in front who was responsible for driving), took more than 300 motorcycles, increased the accelerator, and chased after them. Once they got close, Zhang Hu waved
When the sword is slashed, a puff of blood spurts out, and the cavalry on horseback usually turns into two pieces of cavalry.
In a short time, Zhang Hu killed at least fifty Houjin cavalrymen like he was chopping melons and vegetables.
He even caught up with a young man who looked like a high official.
"Don't chase me, don't chase me!" Deng Shiku said with a look of horror when he saw the motorcycle behind him getting closer and closer.
"Don't kill me, I am the son of Derge, I am Houjin Beile (Prince), I am willing to surrender, I am willing to surrender!" Seeing that Zhang Hu had raised his saber, Deng Shiku shouted in even greater fear.
"It's so noisy!"
Zhang Hu, who couldn't understand Manchu at all, only felt the noise and slashed hard with his sword. Deng Shiku raised his sword to block, but the scimitar in his hand was broken and his arm was cut off. He slashed with no hesitation.
It cut into the waist, swept across the entire cross section, and under the action of inertia, the upper body was thrown off the horse's back and fell to the ground.
Even the seated war horse was chopped into two pieces by the sword, and fell to the ground sadly, throwing out countless internal organs.
"Demon, these people are terrible demons!"
Deng Shiku on the ground did not die immediately. He looked at the iron-tower-like strong man from the Ming Dynasty, and endless regrets surged in his heart. He shouldn't have come, he shouldn't have come to the land of the Ming Dynasty!