Chen Yucheng is a decisive person. When he saw that the road was blocked, he did not hesitate and directly chose to abandon part of the soldiers in the army and ran towards the trail on the right side of the official road. From the moment he was chased by soldiers from the Jiangbei camp until now , the number of dead soldiers he brought was no less than tens of thousands, and together with the soldiers who escaped, there were only more than ten thousand people following Chen Yucheng.
Now they are running away separately. All the soldiers are scattered and fleeing. The number of soldiers following Chen Yucheng is still decreasing. Chen Yucheng understands this, but he does not have any hesitation. If he breaks through the fortifications laid out by Li Xiucheng in front, , there will be more dead and injured soldiers, and it is unknown whether he will survive.
Therefore, Chen Yucheng chose to break out from the right side of the official road.
Li Xiucheng was stunned by this change. He didn't expect Chen Yucheng to do this.
Long Ao, Smith, Yang Banhou and Lu Shaochuan all stopped. The four of them looked at each other. You looked at me and I looked at you. They didn’t know whether to continue chasing. The roads on both sides were narrow smiley roads. , if we continue to chase, it will not be conducive to the army's march, and if we don't chase, Chen Yucheng will be let go, which is not what everyone wants to see.
Lu Shaochuan was shot by Chen Yucheng, and his shoulder still hurt. He was filled with resentment and shouted loudly: "Kill me, and I must capture the bandit general who stabbed me."
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The soldiers around Lu Shaochuan immediately responded.
"Stop, no more chasing."
Lu Shaochuan gave the order, but Li Zhen came over and stopped him.
Lu Shaochuan asked: "Commander, the boy leading the army is decisive and strategic. This person is a threat and cannot be let go casually, otherwise there will be endless troubles in the future."
Li Zhen shook his head and said: "What trouble can there be? If I defeat him this time, I can defeat him next time."
Lu Shaochuan was speechless and still quite unwilling.
Li Zhen continued: "Chen Yucheng took a small road to escape. It is impossible for our army to continue to pursue him. Besides, there are still very important things to do next, so we should ignore Chen Yucheng for the time being." In fact, Li Zhen saw Chen Yucheng's decision. , and I admire them very much. Being able to abandon most of the troops and leave decisively is not something that everyone can do.
Li Zhen made the final decision and settled the matter directly.
Li Xiucheng came over, and the soldier next to him was carrying a tall, thin middle-aged man.
This middle-aged man is none other than Xu Yuan, who is guarding the food supply.
When Xu Yuan and Chen Yucheng came back with soldiers, they killed Li Zhen with a carbine. Li Zhen's army wanted to escape, but the food was left behind. Chen Yucheng led soldiers to chase Li Zhen, while Xu Yuan took a small amount of food. The soldiers stayed to guard the grain, and at the same time counted how many kilograms of grain there were. After Xu Yuan finished counting, his heart suddenly felt cold.
After he counted it, he found that the grain was not even ten thousand catties. Such a result was definitely not what Xu Yuan needed.
At least, it must be more than 100,000 kilograms.
Now there are only a few thousand kilograms of grain, and Xu Yuan doesn't know how to go back and explain to Hong Xiuquan.
Xu Yuan was guarding the grain, hoping that Chen Yucheng could defeat Li Zhen and even come back with Li Zhen's head. In this way, with Li Zhen as a trophy, he could still deliver the goods with thousands of kilograms of grain escorted back. Xu Yuan was helpless. I waited for Chen Yucheng to come back, but what I waited for was Li Xiucheng who rushed over.
Xu Yuan murdered Yang Xiuqing. The two enemies were extremely jealous when they met. Li Xiucheng ordered the soldiers to attack fiercely, quickly caught Xu Yuan, and then dealt with Xu Yuan ruthlessly, venting his anger.
If Li Zhen hadn't wanted to interrogate him, Li Xiucheng would have killed Xu Yuan long ago.
Li Zhen asked: "Captain Li, who is this?"
Li Xiucheng respectfully replied: "Commander, this man's name is Xu Yuan. He is Hong Xiuquan's confidant. Xu Yuan knows most of Hong Xiuquan's affairs. If you have anything to ask, you can ask now."
Li Zhen nodded, his eyes falling on Xu Yuan's face.
Xu Yuan's face was already red and swollen, and there were footprints. These effects were all caused by Li Xiucheng.
Li Zhen asked: "Tell me, how many soldiers are still guarding Nanjing City."
"Huh, I don't know." Xu Yuan replied coldly.
Li Zhen was not angry, and the corners of his mouth turned up slightly, and he said calmly: "You don't need to answer, I already know that there are no more than 10,000 soldiers guarding Nanjing City, and the combat effectiveness of these 10,000 people is not strong. , not the strongest elite, Hong Xiuquan’s strongest force was led by Chen Yucheng, but now that Chen Yucheng’s army has failed, the city of Nanjing is also in danger.”
When Xu Yuan heard this, his face instantly turned extremely pale.
If Li Zhen besieged the city, the result would be...
When he thought of the horrific result, Xu Yuan looked at Li Zhen in horror. The person in front of him was too terrifying.
Li Zhen said one sentence and got the information he needed.
Compared with the goal that Li Zhen wanted to achieve, Chen Yucheng was just a small problem encountered in achieving the goal. Compared with the big problem of Nanjing, Chen Yucheng was definitely inferior, so Li Zhen ignored Chen Yucheng for the time being. Instead, he ordered the soldiers to rush in the direction of Nanjing to prepare for the attack on Nanjing.
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At night, the cold wind howled.
At midnight, Chen Yucheng had already found a village to rest.
Nearly three thousand soldiers gathered around Chen Yucheng, and most of the soldiers had separated and were difficult to gather together. Not only that, it also took a lot of effort to feed these three thousand people. Chen Yucheng sat leaning against the stove, next to him There were still middle-level generals in the army. During the battle during the day, most of the middle-level generals in the army were killed, and not many were left.
Chen Yucheng glanced across the crowd and asked: "Everyone, what would you think if you returned to Tianjing now?"
Several generals nodded immediately and thought about going back.
However, Chen Yucheng said seriously: "I must tell you that if you go back now, you will definitely be punished. If the King of Heaven is unhappy, we may also suffer disaster."
The general immediately asked: "General Chen, what do you think?"
Chen Yucheng said: "I have been thinking about a problem since I fled. We fought with Li Zhen. Li Zhen tried his best, and we also tried our best. Nanjing's power was slightly lacking, but fortunately Nanjing has a solid city. There are still soldiers in the city, so we are definitely not afraid of problems. Li Zhen left Jiangbei Camp with his army. His camp lacks troops. As long as we attack Jiangbei Camp, Li Zhen will definitely suffer a big loss, and maybe we can still Make a fortune."
"I agree with the general."
A general immediately agreed and agreed with the idea.
The other generals were unwilling to return to Nanjing and all agreed with Chen Yucheng's proposal.
Chen Yucheng looked at everyone and said in a deep voice: "We will stay for a day, continue to gather soldiers, and collect more dry food. We must prepare food. Next time, we will appear quietly outside the Jiangbei camp. We captured Jiangbei Camp in one fell swoop. At the end of September, the Dog Emperor and the emperor’s female family members came to Jiangbei Camp. If we captured Jiangbei Camp, the little emperor and the female family members would be our spoils of war. By then, we would definitely be able to return in triumph. From Tianjing.”
His words made the soldiers around him slightly excited.
The emperor was camped in Jiangbei, but Li Zhen's army was not guarding it. This was definitely a great opportunity. Chen Yucheng determined the next arrangements and ordered all the generals and soldiers to rest.
ps: Fifth update, call it a day. I want to say that the company will have to work overtime tomorrow and Sunday, but we will continue to work hard.