After chasing for more than half an hour, the cavalry from the Yongwei Battalion returned to assemble one after another. At the same time, they also dragged back several prisoners. One of the big fish was Liu Zeqing's general Yao Wenchang.

Yao Wenchang was running well at first, but the armor and helmet he wore were too arrogant and stood out among the Qingzhou soldiers dressed in tatters. It was impossible for people to ignore him.

There were only a few confidants left around Yao Wenchang, and the others had long since fled. Huang Degong chased him for more than ten miles, then whipped him off his horse with an iron whip and captured him alive on the spot.

"One of our own! One of our own!" When Yao Wenchang was tied up by Wu Hua Da, he worked extremely hard to get close to him.

At this time, his body was covered with mud, and there were a few blood marks on his face. The cooked copper helmet with the peacock feathers on it had long been thrown away, and he looked as embarrassed as possible.

Huang Degong couldn't help laughing: "A coward like you still wants to rob my Yongwei camp? Didn't you read the new calendar when you went out today?"

"New calendar? Is it the one promoted by the Crown Prince? That one is so good! The Crown Prince is so wise!" Yao Wenchang said, licking his face.

Seeing Huang Degong looking at him inexplicably, Yao Wenchang struggled a few times, but when he couldn't break free, he continued: "General Huang, I have always admired you, especially your feat of burying the censor alive in the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Let me wait.

Military generals are respected as gods! Your tall image in my heart is simply unparalleled! Will you let me go?"

Huang Degong glanced at Yao Wenchang with disdain and said: "You are lucky to be a military general. If you were a civil servant, you would have ruined the officialdom. What I hate most is a talker like you! Come here,

Drag him down and chop down the sacrificial flag!"

Yao Wenchang begged with a sad face: "General Huang, I am also following orders, just treat it like a fart and let me go!"

Huang Degong said with a straight face: "Drag him down and chop him!"

Seeing that he was not getting enough food and salt, Yao Wenchang suddenly became anxious and shouted: "Huang Degong, don't be proud. I am from Liu Junmen. Let me go quickly. Otherwise, when Liu Junmen comes with his army, you will

No one can escape!"

Huang Degong came close to Yao Wenchang, sneered and said, "What the hell is Liu Ze trying to clean up? He's not here until he's gone. If he comes, I'll chop him up anyway!"

At this time, Zhou Yuji stepped forward and said: "General Huang, let me kill this Yao! I haven't killed a general yet!"

"As you wish!" Huang Degong looked very generous.

The two soldiers from the Yongwei camp pushed Yao Wenchang to the ground no matter how much he yelled. With the flash of Zhou Yuji's sword, Yao Shen dropped his head to the ground and rolled him two meters away.

Huang Degong smiled and said: "Brother Zhou, how do you feel when you kill a general and kill him?"

Zhou Yuji put away his saber and said with a smile: "It's not bad, it's just a little different from what I imagined. It doesn't feel that exciting."

The two looked at each other and smiled, and Zhou Yuji continued: "Let everyone trim themselves, maybe a commander-in-chief will come and give them away!"

Huang Degong nodded, feeling that Liu Zeqing's bastard might really come to look for trouble, so he immediately ordered the entire army to take time to rest, while Zhou Yuji rebuilt a circular defense formation using grain trucks.

As Zhou Yuji had expected, Liu Zeqing was a man who was determined to retaliate. When he learned that almost all the troops sent out were wiped out, and even his general Yao Wenchang was killed on the spot, this made him shocked and annoyed.

Liu Zeqing did not bother to think about how Yao Wenchang's men were defeated, and immediately led the army out of Dongchang City and rushed towards Zhou Yuji's location.

At this time, the Yongwei Battalion had already made preparations. The infantry stood in the ring defense holding muskets, while Huang Degong led 5,000 cavalry scattered on both wings of the ring.

Seeing Liu Zeqing charging towards him, within a hundred steps of the opponent, Zhou Yuji's more than two thousand heavy troops raised their muskets and fired a burst of ferocious fire. Liu's front line fell in pieces, causing heavy casualties and endless complaints.

Some of Liu Jun's soldiers were equipped with blunderbuss. They loaded the blunderbuss with difficulty, and fired randomly at the Yongwei camp. After the shooting, they dispersed in a crowd, and only a small amount of the blunderbuss was fired.

It was on the grain bag of the grain truck, and the others flew away to no one knows where.

Liu Jun launched three consecutive attacks on the Yongwei Camp's position. As a result, they were beaten each time and suffered numerous casualties. They retreated in defeat and it was impossible to break through the Yongwei Camp's formation.

Facing the fierce firepower of the Yongwei camp musketeers, the soldiers in front of Liu Jun were frightened and began to retreat. Their attitude also affected other Liu Jun soldiers. They all imitated the behavior of the soldiers in front and began to retreat. If it weren't for Liu Zeqing

If he personally supervised the battle, everyone would probably have fled long ago.

Seeing that the opponent was cowed, Huang Degong couldn't wait to order all the cavalry to attack, break through Liu Jun's formation, and chop Liu Zeqing into pieces!

The massive attack by the Yongwei camp cavalry was extremely fierce, and the earth-shaking roar made Liu Jun panic, and they began to run back in fear.

When Liu Zeqing saw that the situation was not good, he panicked. If he didn't run away, he would be captured alive by the Yongwei camp, and that would be the end of him.

Without thinking much, Liu Zeqing turned around and ran away under the protection of his own soldiers, defending his reputation as the "escape general" with practical actions.

It can be said that Liu Zeqing ran in time and fast and escaped this difficulty. After he escaped into Dongchang City, he closed the city gate tightly and did not dare to come out no matter how humiliated Huang Degong was.

Only now did Liu Zeqing understand that Yongwei Ying was such a difficult master to offend. But thinking about it, even the Tatars were beaten to such a moral level by Yongwei Ying, it was enough to show that Yongwei Ying was really powerful.

It's a pity that he usually doesn't take anyone seriously. He is an arrogant and spoiled person. Today, he was kicked into an iron plate. Liu Zeqing regrets it now. He has lost thousands of people. Even his own general Yao Wenchang was killed by others.

Chop...

Now I can't beat him, and I can't hide. Even if I file a lawsuit with the capital, I might be accused of attacking the imperial envoys. What should I do?

Just when Liu Zeqing was struggling, his soldiers came to report that the crown prince's guard of honor had entered Dongchang Mansion, and sent someone to summon him, the Shandong commander-in-chief.

When Liu Zeqing heard this, his face turned pale. If he went to see Jia, wouldn't it be obvious that he would be killed? He dared not go to see the crown prince at all.

Finally, Liu Zeqing sent a copy of the revised letter to Zhu Cixiang. His attitude in the letter was extremely humble. Half of the letter was about admitting his mistakes and deeply reflecting on himself. The other half was about compensation. He was willing to pay one hundred thousand silver.

Two, two thousand stones of food and grass, to settle the matter and let His Highness the Crown Prince give face.

After Zhu Cihong received the letter, he felt that Liu Zeqing was quite sensible. He did not want to waste time in Dongchang Mansion. Now the army had almost eaten enough food and grass and needed to replenish the food and grass. Therefore, Zhu Cihong decided to accept Liu Zeqing's conditions.

Zhu Cixi wrote back to him, asking for five times the original compensation, five hundred thousand taels of silver, and ten thousand shi of grain and grass. He would not give up a penny less. The deadline was one day, otherwise the Yongwei camp would enter Dongchang City the next day.

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After receiving the reply, Liu Zeqing secretly said that the Crown Prince was shameless in extorting money. At the same time, he also let go of his fear. Problems that can be solved with money are not problems.

Compared to his own life, this little wealth was nothing. Liu Zeqing immediately obeyed the request, and that night he gave away 500,000 taels of silver and 10,000 stones of food and grass.
Chapter completed!