Chapter Twenty-Seven: A Lie Defeats the Qing Army

Zhu Dashan took Wang Qing all the way and didn't dare to stop for a minute, Zhu Dashan knew that it was almost an hour before Liu Yingnan attacked the Minzhuang camp, although there was Cheng Deyi's rescue in the middle, but they only had a total of 1,000 people, but there were 5,000 Qing soldiers, and at the beginning, the Qing soldiers were in an ambush posture to attack. Zhu Dashan really didn't dare to think about the situation of this thousand restoration camps now.

The closer he got to the Minzhuang camp, the more worried Zhu Dashan became. But until the Minzhuang camp, no shouts of killing were heard, and Zhu Dashan suspected that Liu Yingnan and Cheng Deyi had suffered misfortune. When I got closer, I saw that it was the soldiers of the Restoration Battalion cleaning the battlefield, and many Qing soldiers were captured and imprisoned. Zhu Dashan called a soldier over in confusion and asked, "What's going on?" What about Liu Yingnan and Cheng Deyi? ”

When the soldier saw that it was Zhu Dashan, he hurriedly saluted and said: "Back to the Hou Ye, we defeated the Qing soldiers, and now we are cleaning the battlefield, General Cheng Deyi is injured and resting inside, and General Liu Yingnan seems to have gone to chase the Qing soldiers." ”

Zhu Dashan and Wang Qing were shocked to close their mouths, and only said in a half-loud voice: "You defeated the Qing soldiers?" Liu Yingnan still went to chase the Qing soldiers? Zhu Dashan and Wang Qing glanced at each other, saying that they couldn't believe that this was true. Seeing that Zhu Dashan didn't believe it, the soldier hurriedly said: "Lord Hou looks down on people, if you can defeat Mianzhou, why can't we defeat the Qing soldiers." Zhu Dashan and Wang Qingyou were shocked and said: "You all know that we have conquered Mianzhou?" Now in Mianzhou, the remnants of the enemy are still being cleared. The soldier was also taken aback and said: "No, we saw a fire in Mianzhou before the help hour, and we thought that Master Hou had taken Mianzhou." At that time, our morale was greatly boosted, and the Qing soldiers did not dare to fight. General Liu Yingnan roared loudly, saying that the marshal had captured Mianzhou, which was a signal agreed in advance, let us counterattack the Qing troops, and said that Master Hou, you will bring troops to help us. When the brothers heard this, they were like chickens, and they all launched a counterattack against the Qing soldiers with a scream, and the Qing soldiers were immediately afraid. Then the Qing soldiers began to retreat, but we chased closely, and the Qing soldiers were in chaos, and then the wounded General Cheng Deyi took us to clean up the battlefield, and General Liu Yingnan chased the enemy. Sure enough, you have rushed over now, but the Qing soldiers have already run away" The soldier said with a proud look, and felt sorry for Zhu Dashan for not catching up to help.

Zhu Dashan was not easy to fight this soldier, so he told him to clean up the battlefield first. The soldier walked away happily. But Zhu Dashan looked at Wang Qing, and he felt that he was dreaming. Zhu Dashan said: "This little soldier can't speak clearly, let's go and ask Cheng Deyi." ”

Zhu Dashan and Wang Qing found Cheng Deyi in front of a simple wooden frame. Seeing Cheng Deyi's injury, Zhu Dashan was startled. Cheng Deyi was pierced by a gun in his leg, and a knife wound on his back was impressive, almost splitting Cheng Deyi's back flesh in half, revealing Bai Sensen's bones inside, but this guy is in good spirits, and he still looks around. At this time, he was lying on the wooden bed built by Minzhuang and asked Lang Zhong to bandage it, and when he saw Zhu Dashan coming, he was busy turning over to say hello, but he grinned in pain when he moved.

Seeing this, Zhu Dashan immediately held down and said, "You are injured, don't move." Cheng Deyi also took advantage of the situation and let Lang Zhong continue. Zhu Dashan said: "I heard that you defeated the Qing soldiers, and Liu Yingnan went to chase the Qing soldiers?" ”

Cheng Deyi listened to Zhu Dashan's words, and just laughed and screamed in pain. Zhu Dashan looked at Cheng Deyi puzzled, Cheng Deyi relieved himself and said: "At that time, Liu Yingnan came to attack the Minzhuang camp, and as soon as he rushed in, he was hung into the trap of the Qing soldiers, and the Qing soldiers from all directions surrounded him. I can't see it, if the people are not in chaos, how can I take the city? So I simply brought someone to rescue Liu Yingnan, originally I planned to rescue Liu Yingnan, so I led people to rush towards Liu Yingnan, and soon I was together with Liu Yingnan. At this moment, the Qing army also saw clearly that we only had 1,000 men, so they turned over and surrounded me and Liu Yingnan together. "It may be that Lang Zhong's movements are a little big, and Cheng Deyi, who is in pain, takes a deep breath and wants to hold back desperately with his teeth.

Seeing this, Zhu Dashan said: "You bandage first, and then I will go to pick up Liu Yingnan." As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Liu Yingnan walk in from outside the camp. Seeing Zhu Dashan and Cheng Deyi together, Zhu Dashan saw Liu Yingnan coming over and asked: "How is the Qing army" Liu Yingnan said excitedly: "Happy, I haven't been happy for many years." The Qing army was driven south by me for another three miles, and another thousand prisoners were captured, and I really had no soldiers in my hands, so I had to come back. Zhu Dashan really saw that the soldiers of the Restoration Camp behind him were walking towards the camp with the prisoners, but there were obviously few soldiers in the Restoration Camp, and there were a large number of prisoners.

Zhu Dashan asked about the previous situation again, Liu Yingnan said: "As soon as I rushed into the Minzhuang camp, I was surrounded, and I thought that I was dead, and I was letting the soldiers set up a formation to hold on, and I saw Cheng Deyi brothers rushing in with people to save me, I immediately attacked outside, and the two of us joined forces. In turn, they surrounded both of us. We definitely can't sit still, we will attack the north, and at this time it is the people of the Tang Games who are blocking the north, na, the injuries on the back of the Cheng Deyi brothers are given by the Tang Games. As he spoke, he pointed to the wound on Cheng Deyi's back.

Then Liu Yingnan said: "Tang Yun saw that we were going to run, and he also led people to block it to the death, and we were surrounded in the middle, and after a while, our casualties began to be large." At this time, the Qing army camp also began to sound shouting and killing, and those Qing soldiers would have thought that their nest would be attacked, and they were a little panicked for a while. Brother Cheng Deyi and I took this opportunity to rush out. ”

Zhu Dashan said: "Since they all rushed out, how could Cheng Deyi be injured, and how did you defeat the Qing army?" Liu Yingnan took the water handed by the guards and drank it and said, "Master Hou, don't worry, I'll talk about it right away." We all rushed out at the time, but when the Tang Games saw that we were going to run, Brother Cheng Deyi happened to be next to him, so he took advantage of Brother Cheng Deyi's turn around and slashed on the back of Brother Cheng Deyi, and Brother Cheng Deyi fell to the ground at that time. Fortunately, next to the Cheng Deyi brothers, his guards helped resist the Tang Games' knives, otherwise it would be difficult for the Cheng Deyi brothers to say. Although everyone quickly went to save the Cheng Deyi brothers, he was still pierced by the Qing soldiers in his leg. ”

Saying that, Liu Yingnan poured saliva again and continued: "After this delay, we got involved with the Qing army again, and we had no choice but to fight with the Qing army again." It's just that from the previous encirclement to the current attack. We have few people, this fight is a loss, although our soldiers are also brave, but the heroes can't stand the crowd. We fought and retreated, and we all left the camp. At this time, I only had more than 700 people left, but I estimated that the Qing army would have to shout 6 or 700 people. At this time, Lang Zhong, who bandaged Cheng Deyi, pushed Liu Yingnan, it turned out that Zhu Dashan and Liu Yingnan were standing too close, blocking Lang Zhong's work, and the two hurriedly avoided to the side.

Liu Yingnan continued: "I don't think this is good, if you run now, at least half of these 700 people will have to explain that they are here, and Brother Cheng Deyi has been seriously injured again, which is a hurry to die." At this moment, we heard shouts and killings in the city of Mianzhou, and the flames were soaring into the sky. As soon as I thought about it, I simply put it together, and lied to them that Master Hou had already occupied Mianzhou City, and you would come to support us immediately, and you would steal from behind the Qing army. When the morale of the soldiers was high, we launched a counterattack. In addition, the Qing army also saw the firearms in Mianzhou, and for a while they couldn't figure out what the situation was, and as soon as we rushed the Qing army, they began to retreat. ”

Zhu Dashan almost understood what was going on at this time. Liu Yingnan also continued: "The Qing army wanted to retreat, but the two armies were fighting, and this retreat soon turned into a rout, so I left the Cheng Deyi brothers to clean up the battlefield, and I took 500 people to chase the Qing army. ”

At this time, Wang Qing said: "That is to say, because of the fire in the city of Mianzhou, and then General Liu Yingnan defeated the Qing army with a lie." Incredible. ”

Liu Yingnan laughed and said, "Don't you see this? It's not me bragging. ”

Zhu Dashan said: "Don't be happy first, there are still routs in the city that have not been cleared, and you have to go back to the city to help." After speaking, let Liu Yingnan deal with the matter here, and let the city meet with him, and let Wang Qing take a hundred people to the Qing army camp to help Kong Lingying deal with the affairs of Minzhuang.

Only then did Zhu Dashan take the remaining 100 people into the city from the east gate of Mianzhou. After entering the city, he was busy until noon, and then sent a team of 200 people to the south, led by Sun Bin to inquire about the situation. As soon as Sun Bin left, Liu Yingnan came in with a captive and said to Zhu Dashan: "Master Hou, look. I didn't pay attention to this last night, and I also arrested the Qing generals. As he spoke, he pushed the man forward, and the man knelt in front of Zhu Dashan and said, "Master Hou, I am willing to surrender, I am Li Tingming, the deputy general of the Qing army, and I am willing to surrender to the general." ”

Zhu Dashan looked at Li Tingming who was kneeling in front of him, and didn't want to accept his surrender, but after thinking about the fact that there were too many troops now, he still said: "Since you are willing to surrender to me, I agree, you go with Liu Yingnan first, and the troops are restrained." Li Tingming hurriedly thanked him. At this time, another soldier escorted the previous Mianzhou prefect in, and as soon as he saw Li Tingming's appearance, he scolded: "Li Tingming, you coward, you dare to betray the Qing Dynasty, aren't you afraid that the court will punish your nine clans?" Are you worthy of the imperial grace of the Qing Dynasty? You are a Ming general first, since you have descended to the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty still makes you a high-ranking official, you shameless villain, aren't you afraid of five thunderstorms in the sky? ”

Li Tingming was a little ashamed when he saw this, but the prefect kept scolding and said angrily: "Let your mother's stinky fart, Lao Tzu is the sword guard of the Ming Dynasty, aren't you Ren Peixian a courtier of the Ming Dynasty?" I'm just a military general, I don't read private books, you are a civil minister, full of loyalty and righteousness, and the result is not that you surrendered to the Manchus. What kind of face do you have to scold me, you are just a second minister. ”

In the past, only Ren Peixian scolded Li Tingming, how could Li Tingming still talk about it, but now this scolded Ren Peixian angrily and said: "The former Ming Dynasty was corrupt, causing the people of the world to be miserable, I was able to control Shenzhou because of my order, you don't want to serve the country, but you are here to confuse the public." ”

When Zhu Dashan heard that the surrender of Manchuria was reasonable, he said: "Who is lying to confuse the people, and the Qing Dynasty obeys the heavens, so how many people did they kill in Sichuan?" Ren Peixian raised his head and said, "Those are all rogue thieves like you." Zhu Dashan said again: "The people are always right, where are so many people in Sichuan?" Ren Peixian said again: "You wait for the thieves to kill innocents indiscriminately." Zhu Dashan smiled angrily for a while: "What about northern Sichuan and other places?" Since the second year of Shunzhi in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, under the rule of the Qing Dynasty, how can people be more desolate than us thieves and the people of the Ming Dynasty who are not happy? ”

Ren Peixian said without shame: "Tigers in northern Sichuan and other places have been plagued, and countless people have been injured. As a result, a large number of people in northern Sichuan and other places were buried in the tiger's mouth, so northern Sichuan and other places were desolate. Therefore, the imperial court called on the displaced people to return to their hometowns and hold down the landless people to come to Sichuan to resume farming, which is really my benevolent government of the Qing Dynasty and the blessing of all the people. Zhu Dashan sneered: "Yes, if I hadn't believed these lies, I wouldn't have come to Sichuan to farm, and I wouldn't have let your benevolent government force you to rebel." You say that tigers are plagued, but what about tigers? Why don't I see a tiger in Sichuan? ”

Ren Peixian said: "Since the tiger plague has become a disaster, of course the imperial court asked my Qing soldiers to clear out the tiger plague, otherwise how could you have such a stable environment for you to cultivate when you came to Sichuan, but you and the people don't know what to do, and now they are committing chaos." ”

Zhu Dashan didn't want to say anything more to him after listening to Ren Peixian, the prefect of Mianzhou, but said lightly: "Since you think your Daqing is so good, I'll let you go and explore the way for Daqing first." Ren Peixian was puzzled: "Now that I have achieved the best of the world, what other way do I need to explore?" ”

Zhu Dashan shouted: "If he can win the world, I will take his world and send him to hell. Come on, drag it out directly, hang it on the north gate of Mianzhou City and expose the body for three days, so that these people can see how his Qing Dynasty died. ”

When Ren Peixian heard that he was going to kill himself and expose his body for three days, he immediately scolded again, but at this time, Zhu Dashan didn't want to listen anymore, and looked at Liu Yingnan and Li Tingming, who were still in the lobby, and said: "You guys are not going to do things yet, what are you waiting for?" The two of them hurriedly slipped out, not daring to say anything.

Zhu Dashan was still panicked after killing Ren Peixian, why were these people afraid of death as soon as they surrendered to the Qing army? The generals are brave and abnormal in battle? When Li Guoying was in Zuo Liangyu's hands, he didn't see how powerful he was, how did he get to the Qing army and fight in Sichuan? This Mianzhou governor Ren Peixian is also, Wu Sangui surrendered as soon as he arrived, and now he has captured Mianzhou, and he was also arrested by himself, so he is not afraid of death and scolds himself, Zhu Dashan can't figure it out.

Just as Zhu Dashan was thinking, Sun Bin, who was sent to the south to inquire about the situation of the Qing army, walked in with a person.