Zhu Cilang's face was solemn in Prince Su's Mansion. Especially after seeing the injuries on Song Xiance and Yuan Xiaoxiao, he couldn't help but burst into tears: "Mr. Song, thank you for your hard work."

Zhu Cilang rarely expressed his emotions to his subordinates, and this time Huang Taiji's southward journey almost wiped out the entire Eastern Palace Guards. He would have to take revenge on this great humiliation.

Also, the Hu Ben Army, whom he regarded as a treasure, was reimbursed more than 800 at once. This is not considered injured.

On the one hand, the Qing army was indeed too many. The Eight Banners cavalry came out in full swing, and it would have been a miracle that the Hu Ben Army would fight like this. If it weren't for the enemy being caught off guard, Sun Chuanting's timely appearance would have dragged Huang Taiji's left wing, the three thousand people of the Hu Ben Army would have ended up like the Eastern Palace Guards.

The Hu Ben Army is Zhu Cilang's heart and soul. Its function is not just to stand head-on with the enemy's battlefield.

Since its establishment, Zhu Ciyang used them as a special force.

The functions of special forces are by no means forced to take on the front battlefield with the enemy, that is what infantry and cavalry do.

The establishment of the Hu Ben Army was to carry out special combat missions, destroy the enemy's logistics, and kill the enemy's chief generals. They turned the situation around without knowing the truth. Their actions were special purpose, careful planning, unique methods, diverse means, hidden and sudden, quick battles and decisions.

The Hu Ben Army carried out special troops to attack important political, economic, military goals and perform other special tasks of the enemy. To put it bluntly, it is such an army established by Zhu Cixuan according to the modern concept of special forces.

And such an army is obviously a huge loss to bear the front-line battlefield.

If a qualified Hu Ben Army soldier is not trained, the money spent is equal to training a scholar. Raising a Hu Ben Army with 3,000 people is equal to raising an army of 30,000 people.

Even though it was so expensive, Zhu Cilang still gritted his teeth and took it. This is why Chongzhen learned that Zhu Cilang had not been willing to give military wages and food to the army when he founded this Hu Ben Army. Because Chongzhen could not afford it.

To be honest, Zhu Cilang couldn't afford to support him, so he couldn't help but do something that was unfair. He first hacked and searched Fan Yongdou's 10 million taels.

This money is a lot, but Zhu Cixuan didn't have much left. First, it took a huge amount of money to open the tea card salt channel, and then it took nearly one million taels of silver to train the Liaodong army.

Otherwise, how could the combat effectiveness of the Liaodong Army soldiers improve so quickly? This is also the reason why Huang Taiji is afraid of losing his feet in Jinzhou City. The smart Huang Taiji could see that the Liaodong Army today dare not provoke him easily.

In fact, Chongzhen had long been suspicious, but he turned a blind eye. After all, his son was for the Ming Dynasty.

But this time, in order to rescue the people of Lanzhou City and to protect Shaanxi, Zhu Cilang could only attack day and night. You should know that the distance between the Hu Ben Army from Zhangjiakou to Lanzhou was several times that of Sun Chuanting.

However, the Hu Ben Army actually arrived at Sun Chuanting. In addition to the advantage of cavalry, the Hu Ben Army rushed day and night. As long as the war horses could hold on, people could hold on.

When they arrived at the battlefield, the Hu Ben Army hurriedly entered the battlefield before they had time to rest. This was a taboo in military strategists, but if it were other troops, they would have been defeated long ago.

But the Hu Ben Army was different. This army that had devoted all the hard work of Zhu Cixuan. After raiding for thousands of miles, the Huang Taiji people who were still killed were on their backs and rushed straight to the city of Lanzhou to rescue the remnants of the Eastern Palace Guard.

In the history of the Ming Dynasty, there was no such army that could be found, with such terrifying combat power.

Huang Taiji was frightened. He thought his Eight Banners cavalry was invincible in the world. He never expected that the Tiger Ben Army of the Crown Prince of Ming was so terrifying. Fortunately, they were only a few thousand people.

If so, the little prince trained an army of tens of thousands of people, what else would there be their Eight Banners Cavalry?

In fact, Huang Taiji also overestimated Zhu Cilang. The 3,000-man Hu Ben Army was already at the limit of the Ming Dynasty's ability. It was not just national strength, but training a qualified Hu Ben Army soldier. He had to go through layers of rigorous selection. If one fails, he would be directly eliminated.

The three major camps in the capital knew that the soldiers of the Hu Ben Army were given priority and generous military salaries. Some people envied them, but no one was jealous. Because they all knew that their skills were not as good as others, it was not easy to become the Hu Ben Army.

Song Xiance swallowed even more and said, "Your Highness, you are incompetent, all the soldiers of the Eastern Palace Guards..."

Zhu Cilang said: "You did a good job and the soldiers are all good. Now that Jiannu has retired, the soldiers who know each other in the spring should be at ease."

Tears shed unconsciously. Song Xiance wiped his tears and shook his head and said, "I'm afraid the soldiers will be uneasy when they arrive in the underworld. Although Jiannu retreated, they still come and leave as soon as they want."

Yan Yishuang was seriously injured and did not come. Only Yuan Xiaoxiao and Song Xiance came. What surprised Yuan Xiaoxiao was that Song Xiance, the military advisor who was the only one, was so arrogant and decisive.

Huang Taiji's troops were at the city, and Song Xiance almost turned the tide with one person. It was his Jedi counterattack that made Huang Taiji unable to capture the city for a long time.

Moreover, Song Xiance has a tough attitude and has never shown any weakness in front of anyone.

But after seeing His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, Song Xiance seemed to be completely collapsed. He no longer had himself tense. When he saw Zhu Cilang, Song Xiance was as aggrieved as a child.

There was no way. When he retreated to Baiyin and guarded Lanzhou, Song Xiance had no support. Instead, he became the support of everyone. He was very scared that he had never led so many troops.

But he dared not let people see his fragility, so he could only hide his weakness in his heart. In addition to Yan Yishuang, Yan Yishuang had seen his collapse.

However, the moment he saw Zhu Cilang, Song Xiance's tense nerves finally broke. Because he had a support, Zhu Cilang was his own support.

After Zhu Cilang came, Song Xiance dared to reveal his heart. It was really difficult for him.

Zhu Cilang understood him, and Song Xiance was still feeling distressed for the dead Eastern Palace Guards. Although Huang Taiji retreated, he did not pay the price he deserved.

Zhu Cixuan had a cruel sneer on his lips: "You don't have to worry about this. Jiannu would not leave Shaanxi so easily. Since they are here, I will never let them go."

Song Xiance was very smart, so when he retreated from Jingtai Town to Lanzhou City, the generals who followed him trusted him very much, and he became the hope of the military and civilians in Lanzhou City.

However, Zhu Cilang is not just smart. This prince of the Ming Dynasty was simply a monster. Even Song Xiance himself could not guess the prince's idea.

But he believed that the prince said that he would make Jiannu pay the price and would definitely do it.

That's right, a revenge plan was brewing in Zhu Cilang's mind. Moreover, this was a plan with very little risk but huge benefits. Huang Taiji's trip to Shaanxi was probably going back in tears.
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