Chapter 234

Countless Jin soldiers poured into the city, and they were almost frantically looking for the Yan and Qin defenders who had kept them out of Jinling for seventeen days, especially their commander, Qin Fei, the king of Linchuan, who could not wait to retaliate for the Qin soldiers' insistence on them by killing and bloodbathing Jinling.

However, they searched every house in the city, except for some seriously injured wounded soldiers and old men with pale hair, not to mention Qin Fei, the king of Linchuan, even the rest of the soldiers of the Qin army and other young and strong people in the city, they never saw half a figure again.

And when they raised their □□ sabers and rushed towards those wounded soldiers and old men with hideous faces, what they saw from the faces of these Han people and southern barbarians was not fear, but a kind of pleasure of revenge.

That afternoon, when the Jurchens, who had finally rushed into Jinling City, raised their butcher's knives in high spirits and intended to slaughter them, what awaited them was one deafening loud bang after another.

They thought that the Qin army had already run out of gunpowder, so they could only use stones, arrows, and tung oil to fight them on the top of the city. But he didn't expect that Jinling, which could be said to be an empty city at this time, was in the hands of the only old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers left in the city.

They knew that they were going to die, but they also had to take a few Tartar soldiers to accompany them to Huangquan before they died.

The Jurchens thought that they had defeated Qin Fei, the god of war of Yan Qin, but they did not expect that after they had already occupied Jinling City, what awaited them was not a carnival of victory, but the last fierce and resolute resistance of the Yan Qin people.

The loud thunder that came from Jinling City in the afternoon did not gradually stop until the sun went down.

When the Jin people thought that there was no longer a living Han in the city, and they could finally sleep peacefully, at midnight, there was another loud bang to the sky, and the raging fire caused by the explosion and burning reflected the dark night sky, and it took a long time before it gradually dimmed.

In this explosion, not only did dozens of Jin soldiers die, but also their commander, Prince Yu Haoduo, lost half of his left leg, and he will never have his own children again in this life.

At this time, Cai Wei and her remaining thousands of soldiers were already on the Yangtze River and sailed to Zhenjiang by boat.

Originally, there was a tributary of the Yangtze River that traversed the east and west of Jinling, entering the city from the east water pass, and leaving the city from the west water pass.

Cai Wei put down all the broken stones of these two stone gates as early as the day before the Jin soldiers hit Jinling, claiming that she had cut off all the back roads between herself and the soldiers and civilians in the city.

Hao Duo sent several fine works to investigate, and they all said that once the broken flow stones of the two water gates were put down, there was no possibility of opening them again, and they also learned that the king of Linchuan not only sealed the Qinhuai River with broken flow stones, but also burned all the large and small ships in the city.

"Lord Wang, I heard that the Han Emperor had issued a holy decree to Qin Fei before, ordering him and Shi Daolin, the secretary of the military department, to defend Jinling no matter what, and not to take a step back. Now that Shi Daolin has died in his duties, he thinks that he is a dignified county king, and he can't even compare to a military department book just for his own life. ”

Hao Duo also thought so at that time, thinking that Qin Fei was going to defend Jinling, and he also despised the emperor of the Han people in his heart, feeling that his action of ordering Qin Fei to defend Jinling was simply self-destroying the Great Wall.

Qin Fei is the reincarnation of Zhuge Liang, Yue Fei is resurrected, he only has so many ideas in his hands, what to compete with his 80,000 elite soldiers, don't they Han people have a saying that it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice? No matter how clever the commander is, he has no soldiers, horses, guns and cannons under his hands, so he has a hairy use? It's just looking for death by yourself, it's better to take a step back first, save your life, and then gather more Han people, and then come to fight against him after you have enough people, maybe there will be a chance of victory.

It seems that this Qin Fei is nothing more than this, the emperor Lao'er asked him to stay in Jinling to die, he really obediently guarded it, and said that he would not accept the order of the monarch outside, but he was so fateful that he never made his own decision, it seems that although he has some strategic insight, he is also a person who can't do big things.

But what he didn't expect at all was that this damn Qin Fei was actually cheating him. On the bright side, he said with great fanfare that he wanted to break the cauldron and defend Jinling with his back to the water, but in fact, he was not tired of deceit, and the two pieces he put down were indeed broken stones, but I don't know what he did again, and he could still open it again after putting it down.

On the night of the 27th, the Qin army opened the broken flow stones in two places at the same time, took a boat on the Qinhuai River from Xishui Pass out of Jinling City, sailed into the Yangtze River, and escaped.

By the time Hao Duo finally figured out how Qin Fei had disappeared from Jinling City, it was already two days later. At this time, the ship of Princess Linchuan, who had guarded Jinling City for seventeen days, had already arrived at the boundary of Changzhou and planned to go to Jiangyin.

She had made a solemn promise to the people and soldiers of Jinling that she would lead them to fight back against the invading Tartars, but she would also do her best to save everyone's lives, and would never make them make unnecessary sacrifices.

Therefore, when she knew that Jinling City was destined to fall, she did not agree to the soldiers' decision to ask for a bloody battle to the end, but advised them to preserve their strength first, and withdraw from Jinling City by water, and wait until they recovered from their injuries and made a newer □□ before they could kill more Tartars. Moreover, when the Tartars entered the city, they found that the disappointment and anger that the Qin soldiers could not find could far dampen their morale more than killing a few more of their heads, not to mention, because of the automatic petition of the people left in the city, she also made other arrangements.

Although she burned some of the ships as a cover, in fact, she secretly hid dozens of ships, and the few were dismantled and put together into a raft, and all the remaining 8,000 soldiers in the city were transported out of Jinling City overnight.

But at this time, there were only more than 3,000 people who went with her to Jiangyin, and the remaining more than 4,000 soldiers who were seriously injured, she arranged for them to go to nearby villages and towns along the way to recuperate their wounds, and the Qin army would one day fight back to recover Jinling, and then they would be a strange army here.

Cai Wei had already planned this qiē when she made the decision to defend the city for her husband, first made the appearance of a ruined cauldron and a sinking boat, and then designed half of Haoduo's Hongyi cannon, so that she could hold on for at least half a month, and then take advantage of the Tartar's defenselessness to take the water route from the Qinhuai River out of the city to the Yangtze River at night, and then go down the river to Jiangyin, enter the East China Sea from the mouth of Jiangyin, and then go south, from the sea to Quanzhou.

Even before she figured out how to defend the city, she had already thought of this way out by water. The same is true of the route she had previously arranged for Qin Fei and them to take, because this was the fastest and most time-saving route.

What's more, it's also a safer route. Qiu Wu asked her why she didn't take the straight road route from Hangzhou to Jianning to Quanzhou, but she had to take such a bend.

Because she was afraid that if she took the land route, once people's hearts changed, there would only be one or two traitorous officials and gentry who wanted to take refuge in the Tartars, which would pose a great threat to Qin Fei's safety.

Since the Tartars invaded the land of China, what made her the most heartbroken was that Yan Qin obviously still had so many civil and military generals, soldiers, horses, grain and grass, but in addition to some generals and local officials who were determined to resist Jin, more officials and gentry and generals surrendered to the Tartars without a fight, and even took the initiative to ask for surrender.

Most of the civil and military ministers, officials and gentry in the land of Jingshi turned like fluffy grass with the wind. Gao Zicheng's Dashun army occupied Yanjing City, they surrendered, and when the Tartars attacked Yanjing, they immediately knelt down to the new master and called them vassals, which was simply not the slightest bit of discipline at all.

If it weren't for the fact that the gentry of the northern land surrendered to the Tartars so simply and completely, and were loyal after surrendering, how could the hundreds of thousands of people in the Tartars be able to stabilize the north in such a short period of time, and then invade the south on a large scale.

When the Tartars first first attacked the Beijing Division, they were always the children of their Eight Banners, but now, whenever they attack cities and plunder land on the Jiangnan territory, it is often no longer the Jin people who take the lead for them, but the Han soldiers who surrendered in the past. When attacking Jinling City, the first to bear the brunt were the two shameful generals Zhang Tianlu and Yang Chengzu.

In order to show their loyalty to their new alien masters, the Han soldiers who surrendered to the past bravely killed their own siblings on the battlefield, but did the work of the enemy. It's really heart-wrenching and inexplicable.

Long before Jinling was besieged, Cai Wei had already received some news, knowing that those officials and generals who had already reduced the gold had privately written a lot of letters to persuade the generals in Jiangnan to surrender, and many officials were a little nervous about surrendering the Tartars.

Therefore, Cai Wei really didn't dare to let Qin Fei go by land through so many states and counties. This waterway was the safest route more than 20 days ago. It's just that now, under the situation that Jinling City has also fallen, I am afraid that the situation in the hearts of the people in Jiangnan will be even more turbulent, and if you go from this waterway, I am afraid that it will be a little dangerous, especially since she still has these 3,000 soldiers.

If she only took the red lady and sweet orange, and then took a few servants, pretending to be ordinary people and walking in a low-key manner, it would be safer to walk by land than by water.

But firstly, she couldn't leave these soldiers who swore to follow her to the death, and secondly, she also wanted to rush to Quanzhou to see Qin Fei.

Because she knew that Qin Fei must have recovered from her illness at this time, even if there was the letter she wrote to him, she was still afraid that he would be worried about her safety, and he couldn't hold back the anxiety in his heart, and ran to look for her regardless of it.

Therefore, she must rush to Quanzhou as much as possible and return to his side. Not only because he was thinking about her frantically at this time, but also because in her heart, she was also lovesick, and she just wanted to see his good face again as soon as possible, and be held in his arms by his strong and powerful arms.

Although she had also witnessed the cruelty of the battle between the two armies and the flying of flesh and blood before, but with him by her side at that time, as long as he was there, she was not afraid of anything. But in the seventeen days of holding Jinling, she needed to face all the cruelties on the battlefield alone, and she no longer had his warm and solid arms to rely on her.

Although she survived, she gritted her teeth and held on, not only striking a beautiful blow to the arrogance of the Tartars, but also retreating with her whole body. But at this time, she only felt tired and tired, and the whole person was extremely tired, and she just wanted to rest in his arms for a while.

Sometimes, however, creation is like this, and the more you look forward to something, the farther away it will be from you, and the more you are afraid of something, it will come to you.