Please ask me to be the emperor

"Report, in more than ten miles ahead, Huaiqing Mansion will be here!" Pingdong General Hong Chengchou rode on his horse and listened to the report of the scout in front of him expressionlessly.

"Okay, how many soldiers are there in the Ming army?" He already knew about the Ming army's siege on Huaiqing Mansion, and had to quickly lead the army to come to the rescue.

Even Yang Sichang and Zhu Dadian knew the strategic significance of Huaiqing Mansion, so how could Hong Chengchou not know it?

When he heard that Zhu Dadian was leading the main force of the Ming army to sneak attack the Meng County Crossing River Rebels, he created a triangle to encircle them in the three cities of Meng County, Huaiqing Mansion and Wen County, and completely annihilated this army.

As a result, Hong Chengchou did not expect that Zhu Dadian was so cunning.

After the deputy general Mou Wenshou defeated the rebel Li Fuchen, he suddenly led his army northward, and instead joined forces with the Ming Dynasty Governor Yang Sichang to besiege Huaiqing Fucheng.

"After all, we underestimated the heroes of the world!" Hong Chengchou sighed secretly, and silently made up his mind, "We must not let them escape again this time!"

"People outside the city of Huaiqing Mansion are shouting, horses neigh, flags are flying like clouds, the camp is endless, and there are probably more than ten thousand elite soldiers!" The scout hesitated for a moment, and finally concluded.

"More than 10,000 people? More than 10,000 people dare to challenge me to fight. How brave!" Hong Chengchou snorted coldly upon hearing this, feeling increasingly unhappy.

It turns out that the five battalions of the rebel army, Zhao Guangyuan, Li You, Li Jiyu, Li Fuchen, and Luo Shangwen, have completed crossing the river, and only two battalions, Ma Jinzhong and Zuo Xing, are still crossing the river.

Therefore, in addition to the 15,000 men from the fifth battalion currently led by Hong Chengchou, there are also three battalions of Li Xin, Tuo Yangkun and Wang Ding respectively stationed in important places.

In this small Huaiqing Mansion, the rebel army has gathered 24,000 soldiers and horses, twice the strength of Yang Sichang and Zhu Dadian.

Hong Chengchou had been familiar with military literature since he was a child and was quite talented.

Since he first led the army, he has always been very handy.

Except for the previous defeat at the hands of Zhang Shun in Luoyang, he did not suffer any major setbacks, so he was somewhat arrogant.

Now that our own troops are twice as strong as the enemy's, our appetite can't help but be much greater.

"After the two battalions of Zuo Ming and Ma Jinzhong finish crossing the river tomorrow, they will go to Wen County to meet Zuo Shuai; then ask Zuo Shuai Li Xin to lead the three battalions to go north and insert them between Huaiqing Mansion and Xiuwu on February 1st, cutting off the On the way back, I will completely defeat this main force of the Ming army!"

At the same time that Hong Chengchou's army discovered the main force of the Ming army, the Ming army's scouts naturally also discovered the movements of the rebels.

"Report, we found that the main force of thieves has traveled more than ten miles from Meng County and is heading towards Huaiqing Mansion!" Scouts had also reported to Yang Sichang and Zhu Dadian.

"It seems that we won't be able to capture the city of Huaiqing this time!" Yang Sichang, Minister of War and Right Superintendent, looked at the crumbling city not far away and couldn't help but regretted.

The Ming army attacked fiercely for two days, and the city was about to fall. I don't know why, but it was just a breath away.

Zhu Dadian, the Governor of Water Transport, couldn't help but ask: "Then let's..."

"The time has dragged on for too long. The soldiers are tired and it is difficult to leave!" Yang Sichang took a deep look at Huaiqing Mansion and finally made up his mind.

"Let Li Zhongzhen block the opponent's forward and let the army retreat to Qinghua Town for the time being!"

"Not leaving?" Zhu Dadian frowned and said a little uneasily.

"If you don't leave, you can't leave!" Yang Sichang said helplessly.

"Now that the army of thieves is approaching, if we are attacked by them, you know the consequences!"

Since ancient times, it has been advantageous for troops to advance but not retreat.

Retreating before the formation is the most dangerous thing. If you are not careful, the whole army will be defeated.

Although the Ming army today cannot be called retreating before going into battle, it is actually not much different.

The two sides were only more than ten miles apart, and before the Ming army could change their formation and retreat, the rebel cavalry might roar in and disrupt their formation.

"Okay, then let's take a look at this 'thief chief' and see what he is capable of!" Zhu Dadian is also a man who knows soldiers. How come he doesn't know Yang Sichang's concerns?

But the two of them never expected that their opponent was not the famous "Shun Thief" or the ruthless bandit who stirred up the world, but Hong Chengchou, a surrender minister of the Ming Dynasty.

According to their thoughts, looking at the current organizational layout, it is obvious that there is no quick and easy change style like "Shun Thief". They must be some unknown person.

Yang Sichang and Zhu Dadian were familiar with military strategy and had been engaged in military affairs for many years. They thought they could compete with others, so if they couldn't leave, they simply stopped leaving and prepared to fight to the death with the other party.

In fact, this time Yang Sichang and Zhu Dadian were wrong. Due to the poor horse farms left by the Ming Dynasty to the rebels, although the rebels have expanded their army several times, many battalions are still mainly pure infantry.

This time, apart from Wang Ding's Yulin Battalion, there was actually no second fully-organized cavalry battalion in the Southern Route Army.

For this reason, Hong Chengchou had no choice but to borrow some cavalry from various battalions, reluctantly formed a cavalry of more than a thousand people, and temporarily entrusted the young and energetic Li Fuchen to lead it.

Although today's Li Fuchen has made many achievements, he is actually only fifteen or sixteen years old, and many cavalrymen are quite dissatisfied.

Little did Li Fuchen know that they were not dissatisfied with him, but with Hong Chengchou, the surrendered minister of the Ming Dynasty who had landed in the air.

However, everyone did not dare to disobey Zhang Shun's military orders, so they changed their ways to give him "eye medicine".

"Don't accept it? You don't accept it, right!" Li Fuchen, a gambler, couldn't help but sneered.

"If anyone can beat the spear in my hand, I will give him the vanguard position!"

"If you can't even win against a young man like me, just be my grandson and do whatever I ask you to do!"

"I'm afraid you're my grandson!" Some people couldn't hold themselves back for a long time. They got on their horses and wanted to challenge Li Fuchen.

Li Fuchen took a gun pole for himself, got on his horse and knocked the man off his horse. Everyone was in an uproar.

Then Li Fuchen defeated three more people in a row, and then he convinced everyone, organized his troops and horses, and marched all the way to Huaiqing Mansion.

Seeing that Huaiqing Fucheng was in sight, a group of cavalry suddenly shot out from the side and blocked them in front of everyone.

Li Fuchen looked up and saw that there were about 1,500 people coming with bright swords and bright armor, all of whom were elites of the Ming army.

He couldn't help but stepped forward and said with a smile: "If a good dog doesn't block the road, why would a mangy dog ​​run wild here?"

"What a thief, do you dare to compete with grandpa!" Li Chongzhen couldn't help but became furious after hearing this, and couldn't help but stepped forward to challenge.

Originally he had 3,000 Liaodong cavalry under his command. However, in the previous battle between Henan and the rebels, more than half of his cavalry were lost. This was the first humiliating incident.

Now that he saw a "baby" who didn't know the heights of the world, he couldn't help but go forward and provoke him. He was determined to kill the "thief" to dampen his spirit.

"It's not what you asked for!" Li Fuchen laughed when he heard this, took off the spear from the victory hook, pointed it diagonally at Li Chongzhen and said with a smile.

"What a big man, if you lose, don't cry!"