At this time, Emperor Chongzhen was still in Tongguan. He saw the information from the Class A eavesdropping seeds on Liu Yue's body and knew that the thief had arrived in Nanyang and was about to be prepared to attack the city. Since there was a long way to go from Tongguan to Nanyang, he was not going to wait any longer and issued an order to end the rest.

At the same time, he immediately sent a messenger to the elite troops on the periphery. Those under Chen Qiyu's jurisdiction, that is, more than 10,000 Yongwei camps, and the troops of Ma Xianglin from Sichuan were all heading towards Nanyang.

The Ming soldiers who were originally in Tongguan were so angry that they had never had a great victory before because they wiped out the Tumote tribe that had entered the pass. Then they swept the bandits all the way south, allowing them to see that the emperor was not only wise and martial, but also caring about the people, and taking them to fight against the locust plague. This made them feel that they would not have to worry about logistics when they could fight under the emperor's command. This felt that they would not have the feeling of being restricted before. They had long thought of fighting well and making a war!

Therefore, after hearing the emperor's will to end the rest, the whole army gathered and the morale was particularly high.

Emperor Chongzhen was also wearing military uniforms. Accompanied by the governor of the three sides, Li Ruolian, commander of the Jinyiwei and a group of Jinyiwei in flying fish uniforms, he came to the Tongguan schoolyard to promote the stage.

There were tens of thousands of people, boundless, not to mention that there were countless war horses mixed with. The soldiers were wearing various armors, holding weapons reflecting the sunlight in their hands, and the war horses sniffed beside them, and occasionally had front hooves on the ground. The scene in front of Emperor Chongzhen felt that the blood in his body began to boil.

The golden swords and iron horses are as powerful as tigers. In this life, we will take our iron cavalry to flatten the world and give the people a peaceful life to revive the Ming Dynasty!

Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen, who felt a sense of heroism, said loudly while scanning the soldiers below: "Since I left the capital, I have seen many places, which are broken walls and no traces. These places were originally lived by people, but where have they been?"

The loud voice of the Jinyiwei Captain below passed the emperor's words loudly and passed them to every soldier to hear them.

The soldiers here are basically Qin soldiers, only a small number of them are Guanning soldiers, and they are considered Liaodong people. However, no matter where they are, they are not unfamiliar with the scene described by the emperor. Whether it is Shaanxi or Liaodong, they don’t know how many originally lively places there are, but now there are only broken walls and ruins left.

When the emperor mentioned this, some people had seen the familiar scenes that they had become. At this time, they couldn't help but feel a little sad when they heard the emperor mention it; some people were already numb, and at this time, they didn't feel much when they heard the emperor mention it, but they just felt that the emperor seemed a little fussy. After all, this kind of thing was too common.

"Since I left the capital, I often saw the bones on the roadside and in the wasteland. I couldn't help but wonder, who were they in their lifetime? Where were their relatives? What was the reason why they were so trampled on them and could not be buried in peace?"

When the emperor mentioned this, the soldiers who had been numb to it couldn't help but sigh in their hearts. The reason was still unknown, either they died of war, hunger, or disease! In this world, the people's lives are not easy!

The originally high morale was slightly lowered due to these influences. This made Zheng Chongjian, who was watching from the side, feel a little surprised. Judging from his previous performance, the emperor has a talent for leading the army to fight. Don’t you know the impact of morale on the war? Why do you want to say these words to hit the morale of the soldiers?

Although he was thinking so, the emperor was talking, and he didn't have the courage to interrupt the emperor's words, so he had to frown slightly and continue listening.

"The flood in the south and drought in the north, the local governments are ineffective in disaster relief, the people are hungry and die of illness, and the locust plague adds frost to the snow, and the ravages of the camp make the government even more powerless in relief, and more people cannot survive. All of this is the reason why there is no rooster crowing thousands of miles and the white bones are exposed in the wild." Emperor Chongzhen's expression became serious and he said loudly, "I will never allow these tragic things to happen endlessly to my people. Therefore, I promote talents regardless of the rules, some are good at controlling water, and some are good at farming. I hope that these can be changed so that my people will no longer be hungry and freezing, no longer have to be exposed to wind and rain, and no longer have money to see a doctor..."

Listening to the emperor's description, most of these Ming soldiers were from poor people, and they couldn't help but imagine such days, and they were fascinated by it for a moment.

"...I won't suffer from the war. My people can live and work in peace!" Emperor Chongzhen said this and suddenly shouted vigorously, "This is my wish. Are you willing to help me?"

After yelling out these words, the soldiers of the Cavalry Camp were the first to react, because they had experienced it: "We are willing to follow us to the death!"

After hearing this, the Qin soldiers also shouted: "We are willing to follow us to the death!"

At this moment, they just thought of living the happy life that the emperor said in the future, rather than considering making military achievements in exchange for glory and wealth!

At this moment, tens of thousands of people gathered together on the school ground, an indestructible aura of unity and indestructible momentum, as if it was about to soar into the sky, which surprised Zheng Chongjian beside him.

If the morale of the army was high before, then the morale of the army at this moment could not be simply described as high.

After a little thought, he suddenly understood. What the emperor said just now was to tell these soldiers why they fought! And what the emperor described was all about each of them and their relatives and friends.

The so-called helping the emperor is actually more precisely to fight for themselves and for their relatives and friends!

After thinking this out, Zheng Chongjian turned his head and looked at the emperor's silhouette, and couldn't help but improve the emperor's ability to lead troops again in his heart. No matter what means he used to raise his morale to such a terrifying level, even a group of sheep could beat the wolf!

Generally speaking, the ancients used glory and wealth to inspire morale, that is, they clearly distinguished rewards and punishments. Those who can do this are already a very good commander.

However, Emperor Chongzhen, who came from later generations, understood that in addition to clear rewards and punishments, if the soldiers could know why they were fighting, that is, they could know that this battle was also for themselves, then the army would be more tenacious and brave.

In fact, what Emperor Chongzhen said just now was not deliberately for this purpose. But these things were indeed what he thought and what he wanted to achieve, but just said it by the way before this expedition.

Seeing the reactions of the soldiers below, Emperor Chongzhen was also pleased and said loudly: "I have used a trick to attract all the bandits to Nanyang. Now they are preparing to attack Nanyang. I want to make a contribution to annihilate the bandits at the city of Nanyang. From then on, the people of the Ming Dynasty will no longer have to worry about war. All the soldiers will follow me to fight and suppress the bandits!"

"Abide by the order!" Tens of thousands of voices roared out, shaking the whole field.

At this point, Emperor Chongzhen turned to look at Zheng Chongjian and said, "I lead the cavalry first, and you lead the infantry to follow up."

"Your Majesty, I will lead the cavalry first and set the way for you!" Zheng Chongjian said with a little concern when he heard this.

Emperor Chongzhen thought after hearing this, he thought, if there was no such eavesdropping system, it would be fine if you led the cavalry. However, now only you can understand the movements of the thief in time and make adjustments at any time on the road. Even if you want to lead the army, you will not be able to have this ability!

Thinking of this, he flatly refused and said, "Since I have led the army in person, how can I hide behind and enjoy the fruits of it! I have decided, so there is no need to say anything more!"

After saying that, he stepped down from the platform, turned his horse and set off!

Behind him, nearly 25,000 cavalrymen came out of Tongguan and stepped into Henan.

Outside the Ming encirclement arranged by the governor of the five provinces Chen Qiyu, there is a net of heaven and earth deployed by Emperor Chongzhen himself. It is time to close the net.

At this time, the thieves outside Nanyang City had no idea that due to the limitations of their exploration scope, they had no idea that such a large net of heaven and earth was closing the net. At this time, they could only detect the movements of a hundred miles around. They felt that their strength was the strongest at this time!

As for Nanyang City, this is true. At first glance, the camps of various bandits surrounded Nanyang City, boundless, as if the eyes outside the city were all trenches. However, it looked a bit shabby in the future. Among the many bandit camps, only a small number had tents, and more had no tents, just a bonfire, surrounding a large group of ragged bandits.

There is no obvious boundary between the various thieves. Unlike regular troops, there are fences separated by each battalion and trenches protected. None of these things are.

Look, the bandits belonging to the troops of Li Zicheng, the troops of Cao Cao and Luo Rucai were next door to them. There were no tents on both sides, just a fire. It was just dawn and the fire had been extinguished.

There was a weak man in Luo Rucai's army. He looked at the Li Zicheng army next to him and endured it for a long time. Finally, he couldn't help but sit there and turned around and asked, "Hey, I'm saying why are you happy? I guess you're going to attack the city today!"

When I heard someone talking, someone turned around there. He was also an equally weak man. He was a little taller and said in surprise: "Aren't you happy? The dog emperor is in the city!"

Speaking of this, he paused and said, "My name is Wei Chao, where are you?"

"Sun Hanqing."

After Sun Hanqing reported his name, he still said in confusion: "What does it have to do with you whether the emperor is in the city? At that time, will you not be afraid of death?"

"How could it be okay?" Wei Chao heard it and said in surprise, "I killed the dog emperor, the king of ​​breaking will be the world, do you know if you can equalize the fields and free grain? I will never be exploited by the government again. Don't you want to?"

When he heard this, Sun Hanqing looked at him like a fool and said, "Brother, it's not our turn to worry about whether the King of Chuang is sitting in the world or not. You really believe it. You are the one who can equalize the land and free grain. I think about it. I think about you for many days, right? You still want to do something in the future!"

When they heard them talking, the people next to them turned to listen to them, but the others did not interrupt immediately, just listened.

"Why don't you believe it?" Wei Chao said in surprise, "The King of Chuang has opened warehouses and released grain, but now there is not much food, so we eat less."

Speaking of this, he remembered something, looked up at Sun Hanqing, and did not find any leader coming, so he looked at Sun Hanqing again and said, "Tell you that King Chuang is different from others. He is a good person and the government is unrighteous. Only then can he practice the way for heaven and conquer the world for us people. If one day King Chuang wins the world, we ordinary people will have a good life."

"Haha, what's the difference?" Sun Hanqing obviously disagreed with this. He pointed his finger at the opposite side, then pointed at himself and said, "What's the difference? Don't say that you participated voluntarily, you're all being brought by them, otherwise it would be a word of death!"

Hearing this, his companions nodded, with a hint of pain and hatred on their faces.

However, many people on Wei Chao were shaking their heads. This time, they were talking in a slight manner.

"I voluntarily. The King of Chuang really has to open the warehouse and release the grain, but there is too little food!"

"Yes, I'm voluntarily too. We can't survive anymore. The King of Chuang is a good person. In the future, we can have land planting and exempt taxes. Finally, we don't have to pay taxes or pay the landlords and masters who grow the food we have! "

"Yes, as long as we kill the Dog Emperor and take over the Ming Dynasty, we will have a good life!"

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Hearing them say this, there were many people on Sun Hanqing who were obviously a little shaken. Some people even asked: "Is it true? The King of Chuang is a good person? Will he be able to get a land in the future and be exempt from taxes?"

At this moment, suddenly there were leaders on both sides with a group of people coming over, lit a bunch of people casually, and shouting that they would go and eat the buns.

Seeing this situation, Sun Hanqing suddenly whispered: "Look, look, what's the difference? We all have to be forced to die in the city by them!"

When Wei Chao heard this, he wanted to refute it, but the leader was urging him, so he could only forget it.

It can be clearly seen that there are obvious differences in morale between the people on both sides walking towards their respective camps.

It was probably also agreed that at this time, there were movements in other camps, and a siege battle was about to begin. The first to attack the city were the people who were brought in.

He gave them some food, and then they carried bags of soil, and the elite thief behind them watched, shouted, and rushed towards the moat.
Chapter completed!