Sometimes, luck is very important.

Just like Li Laiheng is very lucky today!

Not every ship owner would park his boat at the dock in chaos. There were dozens of ships of all sizes hidden on the shore near Zhangjiawan, and there were even many canal ships placed on the shore for winter.

When the rangers sent by Li Guo discovered these ships, Li Laiheng happened to come over with his men. When he learned that the thief Emperor Zhu had left on a boat, he immediately asked Tang Tong to lead his troops on the boat and chase him.

As everyone paddled, the boat was naturally much faster.

While Tang Tong was leading his troops on a boat to chase him, Li Laiheng himself led two thousand cavalry to chase him. It has to be said that the many horses of the bandits were not easy for the court to raise tens of thousands of cavalry, but Li Zicheng easily got 70,000 or 80,000 horses, but he still had no business, so he came quickly!

Whether it is Shaanxi, Shanxi, or even Henan, Shandong and northern Zhili, there are a large number of horses among the people. Especially in Shanxi, in the smuggling activities between Shanxi merchants and outside the pass, horses are the most important goods. Every year, tens of thousands of good and inferior horses flow into the pass through the Shanxi merchants. Perhaps there are no horses available in the government, but the people in the north... there are many horses, especially the homes of the gentry, who do not have dozens of horses, and they are embarrassed to go out to say hello.

In the past, when these gentry and wealthy families were all like iron roosters when facing the government fundraising, but Li Zicheng came, so he just pulled out nothing.

As a result, the rebel army was cheap. The rebel king did not pay the food, but he did not pay the food, but that was the people. As for the men...

Not only did the money be gone, but the horses were of course also to get money, and even the people were gone. Maybe they looked at their wife's daughter Shui Ling and took them away together.

It was through the stolen horses that armed tens of thousands of cavalry, and the mobility of the rebel army was far beyond the reach of the Ming army. Li Laiheng, who led the cavalry, came first, and the vanguard sent by him, rushed over first.

When he saw the rolling dust in the sky from a distance from the telescope, Zu Dashou's face changed color. Although he set up a fireboat to burn the beams that blocked the bridge holes, the bandits still kept putting beams there. It would be no problem if this continues!

"Brother..."

Zu Mingsan looked at the distance and Yanchen with some nervousness, and then said.

"Brother, otherwise..."

At this moment, suddenly, there were chaotic shouts and guns behind the river bank. Because I couldn't see the situation there, Zu Dashou, who was originally desperate on the ship, said in confusion.

"What's going on the shore?"

Despite his doubts, his face was filled with joy.

Reinforcements, reinforcements are coming!

...

Reinforcements are coming!

After receiving the imperial edict to support the king, Zhu Guoqiang also sent a messenger to transfer an army from Shandong to the capital to serve the king. After receiving the order from the prince, Yu Shujie made some preparations and led 15,000 township troops and 10,000 people to the capital.

Considering that the rescuers were like putting out fires, the infantry was rushing behind, and he and more than 5,000 cavalry rushed to the capital day and night. This afternoon, the whistle cavalry he sent found the bandits chasing a fleet along the river. He learned from the captives that the fleet had escaped from the capital, and even when the "Emperor" was on the ship, Yu Shujie was in a state of confusion!

As a family general of the royal family, he certainly knew what the emperor would mean to the prince if he was defeated by a thief. Even when he was in charge of the order to lead the army to serve the king, he was still thinking in his heart how to be diligent in the king, but he was not worried about how he was diligent in detail. After all, the prince's brother-in-law Li Chengqi is here, but now... he is not here!

How to be diligent?

Turn a blind eye or...

Everyone was looking at the military gate. As soldiers in Shandong, they were even more grateful to the prince than the emperor. After all, when Shandong was ravaged by Jiannu, it was the prince who raised the army to rescue them. Even though they were hungry, it was the prince who stood up.

As for the emperor, what did he do?

But... the emperor cannot help!

Otherwise, the prince will be trapped in disloyalty and unrighteousness!

Finally, Yu Shujie took a deep breath and looked at everyone and said.

"Everyone listened, the prince sent us here just to serve the king and to save the horse. We must not help but save the horse, everyone has it!"

Without any hesitation, with the order, everyone straightened their chests. They rode the tall Liaodong horse, and everyone stared quietly ahead and stared at the battlefield several miles away.

They were Shandong Township soldiers. In the past few years, when bandits emerged in the northern land, it was precisely because of their existence that Shandong became a rare place of peace. Although they had wiped out local bandits in Shandong, what they had to face this time was the elite cavalry of the bandits.

As rural soldiers, they did not have many Pinglu Army's double-barrel short spears, only cavalry and cavalry swords, but even so, they did not feel any fear. Yu Shujie looked left and right, nodded his head while holding the hilt of the cavalry sword, and their cavalry swords were like Pinglu's straight swords that were not conducive to cutting. This is because the cavalry used the swords to chop, chop, and slash tactics on the running horse's backs to kill the armored infantry. In contrast, the "T"-shaped straight sword can easily pierce the enemy's armor with the impact of the war horses.

In fact, for the Shandong Township soldiers, they did not need this kind of straight sword. After all, they were all armourless turf bandits, but they were deeply influenced by the Pinglu Army, and they still used this kind of straight sword.

The moment when his right hand passed through the belt at the end of the knife handle and held the knife handle, Yu Shujie's eyes slightly curled up, and two words burst out from his throat.

"Draw your sword!"

With the order from the military gate, there was a sound of sword drawing around. The cavalrymen who pulled out the cavalry swords held sabers and pressed the back of the sword on their right shoulders, staring quietly ahead. At the same time, they comforted the war horses with their palms, waiting for the final order.

“Go forward…go!”

After the order was issued, the cavalry were dispatched. Their speed was not fast, but the rhythm of the horse's hooves was so neat that it made people feel that the war horses were marching in a regular stance. This is exactly the biggest difference between the cavalry of the Pinglu Army. They received modern and modern cavalry training from them were completely different from the ancient cavalry. The horses they used were strictly trained and could even step out in a relatively neat manner and "step in a row" like soldiers.

After two thousand war horses advanced hundreds of meters in neat steps, as Yu Shujie issued the command to "run slowly", the cavalry began to speed up slowly.

Even as Shandong rural soldiers, their daily training is strictly carried out in accordance with the "Cabin Training Model" and is implemented in accordance with the model during combat. Some are even textbook-based. From marching to slow running, all movements are carried out based on orders. No one acts by himself, and there is no personal courage. There is only a neat group and this even a bit rigid queue.

As they rush, the sound of horse hooves became louder. When the horse hooves stepped on the earth, they even had the illusion of beating war drums. The drum sounds with a sharp rhythm echoed on the earth. The vast earth was the drum face, and the horse hooves of thousands of troops were the drum hammers...

The deafening sound of horse hooves echoed like mines, and came from far to near.

It's a cavalry!

When the sound of horse hooves came from the north, Li Guo just looked up and looked at it. At the beginning, he was a little surprised because the sound was a little wrong.

The sound of horse hooves seems to be a little wrong.

After marching and fighting for so many years, he certainly knew what the sound of horse hooves in the horse team looked like. Although it was like thunder, the sound of horse hooves was scattered. Now the sound of horse hooves in his ears seemed like a whole. Not to mention the strong sense of rhythm, it even made people feel an illusion that this sound was made by a horse.

Is this possible?

"Is it a place to be eun?"

Li Guo said in confusion,

"If it weren't Laiheng, or who?"

"Keep formation, keep formation..."

Yu Shujie, who was in the front row, rode his horse and urged loudly. His words were conveyed among the cavalry, and everyone maintained the same speed. On his left and right and back, nearly two thousand cavalry formed a stereotyped formation, like a moving fortress, roaring towards the bandits...
Chapter completed!