At this time, due to the continuous attack on two large infantry formations, Lan Zhen's cavalry formation was somewhat scattered, and the strength of the horses had dropped a bit. In addition, there were many infantry running around blocking the cavalry's charge route. The two cavalry Qianhu sent back by Lu Yuan actually blocked Lan Zhen's army.????.net
Lan Zhen had received the chapter sheet transferred to him from Zhu Jiye under Jinan City, and knew that the rebel army that had been called "Cheng Ni" was originally led by Lu Yuan. Although he did not know that Lu Yuan was leading people He committed a crime in Qingzhou, but he also knew that he had to catch Lu Yuan before he could be considered as a full-fledged success.
And since Lu Yuan is a rebel, as long as he is caught or killed, most of the remaining rebels in Shandong will collapse without a fight. So no matter what the reason, Lan Zhen must be captured. It's a long way down.
But the battlefield was too chaotic at this time, and the terrain here was not smooth. Soon after he was stopped, he didn't know where the road was. Although the road must have been towards Dezhou City, there were so many trees. , and the river. It’s hard to say exactly how to get there.
Lan Zhen led his troops and finally killed the rebel cavalry who came to stop him. After carefully questioning the cavalry who had dispersed before, he found out where Lu Yuan was escaping from and hurriedly chased him with his men. But when he After catching up with the army led by Lu Yuan, they saw something completely unexpected: the army led by Lu Yuan had collapsed, and a cavalry force of thousands of people spread out to chase and trample them.
Lan Zhen led the troops to take a closer look and saw the banners of King Qi, King Gaoyang and King Yong'an, and wondered: How did they get here?
However, Lan Zhen was more confused than anything, so she still led the people over slowly while being on guard.
After the people over there saw Lan Zhen's army, a group of people under the banner of Prince Yong'an also came here. When Lan Zhen saw Zhu Mengjiong, she immediately bowed her hands and asked: "Prince Yong'an, how could you do this?" Here? Why did His Majesty ask you to lead troops to chase us?"
Zhu Mengjiong said: "That's it,..."
It turned out that after Zhu Xianyang left with five thousand Qingqi yesterday morning, he had been traveling day and night without rest. They were one person and two horses, so they arrived here at this time.
When they arrived, the cavalry led by Lan Zhen had already bypassed the cavalry led by Luo Ren and trampled the infantry behind them. Seeing this, Zhu Xianyao immediately led his troops to charge, but was stopped by Zhu Gaoxu.
Although Zhu Gaoxu was usually domineering and arrogant, he was very careful when he actually went to the battlefield. After observing carefully for a while, he pointed at the northernmost army and said: "Now this army is the only one that has not been broken up. What we should do most is to defeat this army." An army.”
However, their current position was not suitable for charging, so Zhu Gaoxu led the army in a circle quietly to a suitable place for charging, and then suddenly began to charge.
Lu Yuan and his soldiers originally thought they had thrown off their pursuers and were running towards Dezhou City with all their strength, and their formation was completely gone. Unexpectedly, another cavalry suddenly rushed out at this time.
They were immediately in chaos, and were already in disarray when the cavalry rushed in front of them.
Zhu Xianyao was afraid that all the generals would run away, so he ordered Zhu Mengjiong to lead two thousand people to surround the perimeter, while he and Zhu Gaoxu led the remaining cavalry to trample them back and forth in the middle. Zhu Xianyao hated the rebels in Shandong, whether they were the original members of King Qi's three guards or those who later Rebellious people are extremely ruthless. But he knew that when the rebels formally surrendered, these ordinary soldiers would be exiled and would not be put to death, so he rode his horse back and forth and trampled all the ordinary soldiers to death.
However, Zhu Xianyao also ordered: "If you see the generals wearing armor, you must not trample them or execute them. Capture them all alive."
Lan Zhen didn't know what was going on in Qingzhou. When she saw that the rebels were in complete chaos, many ordinary soldiers knelt down to surrender, but they were trampled to death mercilessly by Zhu Xianqian's troops, so she said to Zhu Mengjiong: "Prince Yong'an, gather the soldiers quickly
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Zhu Mengjiong smiled bitterly and said: "I don't dare to tell Xian Yao, you can tell it yourself."
When Lan Zhen saw Zhu Mengjiong's expression, he knew something must have happened. However, he still felt that it was inappropriate to deal with these rebel soldiers in this way, so he rushed in with people to stop Zhu Xianyao's horse and said, "I have seen this before."
His Royal Highness, King Qi."
Then he said: "Your Highness, gather the soldiers quickly."
Zhu Xianyao was about to get angry, but when he saw that the person who was blocking him was Lan Zhen, he suppressed his anger and said, "No! I want to trample them all to death!" However, even though he suppressed his anger, his voice was still very aggressive.
Lan Zhen said: "Your Highness, no matter what crimes the rebels committed, they have little to do with these ordinary soldiers. Why does Your Highness insist on executing them?"
Just as the two of them were arguing over and over again, one of Zhu Xianyao's guards rode over and said, "Your Highness, I've captured Lu Yuan alive!"
"What!" Zhu Xianyao suddenly shouted. Then Zhu Xianyao didn't want to trample on these ordinary soldiers, and rode over there. Lan Zhen and Zhu Gaoxu looked at each other and began to gather the army.
Zhu Xianfu rode his horse to the other side. He didn't know who was Lu Yuan, so he asked his guard: "Which one is Lu Yuan?"
The guard pointed at a person and said, "The unconscious person lying on the ground over there is Lu Yuan."
Zhu Xianyao looked at the tied man whom he could no longer recognize and asked, "Is he alive?"
The guard said: "He's not dead, but he was about to commit suicide when we found him. We rushed forward and knocked him unconscious, and then dug out the poison from his teeth. In order to prevent him from committing suicide again after waking up, we
Let's tie him up."
Zhu Xianyao said: "Okay, good job."
Then Zhu Xianyao gritted his teeth and said to Lu Yuan: "Now that I have caught you, I will make your life worse than death."
Zhu Xianyao said to the guards again: "Since he has poison in his teeth, we must prevent him from biting his tongue to commit suicide and have all his teeth broken. Also, all his tendons and hamstrings must be cut off."
After hearing Zhu Xianyao's words, even the guards shuddered. However, they did not dare to go against Zhu Xianyao's words. One of them dismounted and knocked his teeth.
At this time, Lan Zhen ran over again and said to Zhu Xianyao: "Your Highness, although Your Highness now desperately wants to cut them into pieces, after all, there are other generals far away who are the instigators of the rebellion and prisoners of the imperial court.
Wouldn't it be more appropriate to send it back first and let His Majesty get a charter and then deal with it?"
"Besides, not all Shandong rebels come from Qingzhou, and even those who come from Qingzhou may not all be guilty of disrespect. It's better to screen them first."
Just now, Zhu Mengjiong had told Lan Zhen in a rather vague way what had happened, so Lan Zhen could understand Zhu Xianyao's mood. But if Zhu Xianyao really tortured these people to death here, he didn't think Yunxi would feel that Lan Zhen
It was right to not stop him.
Of course Yunxi will not deal with Zhu Xianyao because of this. Anyone who has such a thing happen to him will be like Zhu Xianyao; but Lan Zhen thinks that Yunxi may blame Lan Zhen for not stopping him. So Lan Zhen came forward after carefully considering his words. I persuaded Zhu Xianyang.
At this time, Zhu Gaoxu also rode over to persuade and said: "Xian Yao, what Lan Zhen said makes sense. Not all rebel generals have committed disrespect. It's better to screen them first."
"Lu Yuan doesn't need to be screened, but he is the one who rebelled against the Shandong rebels this time. I think the emperor has something to do and wants to interrogate him first, so you'd better report to the emperor and ask for his advice."
"Don't worry, the emperor will definitely hand over these people to you in the end. If the emperor doesn't hand over these people to you, I will go with you to kneel down and beg the emperor."
Although Zhu Gaoxu was also very angry, after all, the matter did not happen to him, so he was able to analyze the matter calmly.
Zhu Mengjiong also came up to persuade him. Of course Zhu Xianyao was unwilling to accept these opinions, but he couldn't stand it and the three of them took turns to persuade him. Moreover, Yunxi's previous order was to let him obey Lan Zhen's command. In the end, these people were taken away by Lan Zhen.
Lan Zhen found a literate person to write a report to Yun Xi, listing the names of all the rebel generals who had been captured alive and whose bodies had been received, and asked Yun Xi to give instructions on how to deal with them. Then Lan Zhen continued Arrange for Gu Cheng to conduct a preliminary interrogation of these generals to identify who is the general from which guard station.
Then Lan Zhen had no time to do anything else and said to Gu Cheng, Zhu Gaoxu, Zhu Xianxu and Zhu Mengjiong: "Now Dezhou City is very close, and we don't know where the Yan King's army going south has arrived. The so-called soldiers are noble gods, I will immediately So I took my cavalry and rushed to Dezhou City to prevent King Yan's army from entering the city."
"Together we have a total of 12,000 cavalry, leaving 5,000 people behind. I will rush to Texas with 7,000 people."
"Leave the affairs here to the three princes and Gu Cheng."
Zhu Mengjiong and Zhu Xianyao nodded in agreement, but Zhu Gaoxu suddenly said: "Take me with you. I am familiar with the three guards of King Yan. It will be better to face the three guards of King Yan."
Lan Zhen took a deep look at Zhu Gaoxu, and after a while, she said: "Okay."
Since Zhu Gaoxu is also going to follow, the only people left are Gu Cheng, Zhu Xianyao and Zhu Mengjiong. Lan Zhen originally wanted to keep Zhu Gaoxu. Zhu Gaoxu was brave and resourceful, and was older than Zhu Xianyao. She was able to dissuade Zhu Xianyao, but it was a pity. Not anymore.
Lan Zhen could only give Zhu Mengjiong a few words, telling him to stop Zhu Xianyao when he still wanted to deal with the captured generals. Then he gave Gu Cheng a few words, and then led the cavalry who had just rested for a while out again. Fortunately, here This time they captured a large number of rebel horses that were still strong. Although he still dared not use the surrendered cavalry, he still dared to ride the horses.
