72 Gather to the Southwest

Liu Chengyin didn't give him face until he died, and Kong Youde didn't mind, before three o'clock in the afternoon, he boarded the teahouse opposite the execution ground.

The window on the second floor was open, and all the wives and daughters standing under the window were Liu Chengyin's wife, but none of them dared to show their emotions when they witnessed Liu Chengyin's execution.

Kong Youde came to them, grabbed them from behind, and said:

"Look, look, we're actually quite a match, my brother is gone, I'm poor and only have money left, and your relatives are gone, and the thin ones are only breasts, you have to make more supplements in the future, rest assured, this king will hurt you."

Kong Youde didn't wait for an answer, only some of Liu Chengyin's concubines secretly handed over a grateful look, and behind that look, there was really more forced to please and outright fear.

"This king only has money left, you only have chests, and Liu Chengyin, he will soon only have a handful of ashes left, this king knows that you are afraid, you don't understand why things have developed to such a point, this king is also involuntarily, life is like a play, all rely on interpretation, Liu Chengyin believes in his acting skills too much, he wanders between the Qing Dynasty and the pseudo-Ming, thinking that he can walk a tightrope, this is really self-defeating, this king is really sorry, and I am very sympathetic, after all, we are good brothers......"

He didn't know how many women listened to his words, but he only knew that when Liu Chengyin was beheaded, the women didn't dare to close their eyes and don't look over.

Kong Youde was very satisfied, as for Liu Chengyin's corpse, in the end it still turned into a handful of ashes, and the Liu family was completely wiped out.

Geng Zhongming and Shang Kexi did not capture Baoqing for a while, but Li Jin took the initiative to evacuate under Gao Guiying's continuous persuasion and retreated to Quanzhou.

Gao Guiying knew Li Jin's knot, and also knew that the threat to the Qing army from this team staying in Baoqing would definitely be greater, but they had already surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, and under this premise, compared with the threat to the Qing army, it was of greater significance to hold the city of Quanzhou with the emperor, and the political risk was also low.

The internal chaos of the Ming Dynasty was too chaotic for the enemy to take advantage of, whether it was tactical differences or bitter intentions, Gao Guiying's experience believed that all this had to give way to the determination of all parties to fight a strong enemy together.

Gao Guiying, Li Jin and Liu Tichun withdrew from Baoqing City, transferred from the mountains, Geng Zhongming, Shang Kexi's heavy infantry could not continue the pursuit, leaving some men and horses to garrison Baoqing, the two moved to join Kong Youde, and then killed together to Quanzhou City, for a time the southwest land was turbulent, and the Liaodong elite of the King of Sanshun was bound to have a life-and-death battle with Zhu Tianlang of Quanzhou.

Ma Jixiang's death just made the people of Quanzhou breathe a sigh of relief, they don't have to be forced to donate, but the news of the coming rain spread quickly, and the Liaodong elite of King Sanshun is said to be less than two days away from Quanzhou.

Fear spread like ripples across the city, and it wasn't just the people who were terrified.

The weather in the afternoon is good, the sky is clear, even though the summer sun is blazing, the defenders of Quanzhou do not feel the heat, many people are shivering with cold, the Qing army is coming, it is going to war, and the main force of the Qing army going south is going to war, especially the miscellaneous soldiers in the state who were originally stationed in Quanzhou, they have no combat effectiveness, and some are just small calculations to find opportunities to escape when the big war is approaching.

Even Tianlang's heart was worried, if it weren't for the arrival of Hao Yongzhong, He Tengjiao, and Du Yinxi, relying only on Hou He and Chen Youlong, he really didn't know if he still had the confidence to defend the whole state.

After the defeat of Huguang, He Tengjiao originally had three or four relatively complete teams, but they were all remnants of the Dashun army.

When I first saw the figure of Liu Tichun, the fierce general of the Dashun Army who was not loyal to Li Jin and called Liu Erhu, Tianlang felt a little pity for this white-haired Ming Shoufu, the governor of Huguang.

It seems that He Tengjiao's prestige and his own waste emperor have a fight, no wonder he has an army of 500,000 in his hand, and he was scattered by the tens of thousands of Han troops of King Sanshun, and Lord Shoufu can't hold back the table.

If the hearts of the people are united, 10,000 soldiers and horses can defend a city, if they have their own thoughts, it is He Tengjiao's men and horses, 500,000 horses are divided into troops to defend, and they are broken one by one in the face of the concentrated attack of tens of thousands of Han troops.

The picture when He Tengjiao saw Tianlang was very sad, and the old man first admitted his guilt for the defeat of Huguang, but Tianlang did not blame him, but showed more self-blame than He Tengjiao.

In the battle of Huguang, if it weren't for the fact that the original owner was held hostage by Liu Chengyin, and then seized the door and fled, attracting all Qing and Ming armies to chase and protect one after another, Zhang Xianbi would not have died in battle, and Hao Yongzhong would not have evacuated the garrison and retreated step by step to his palace.

Like Hao Yongzhong, how can there be more than one army that evacuated the garrison and moved closer to the emperor's escape route?

The emperor and Lord Shoufu fought to bear the responsibility for the defeat of Huguang, and in the end they could only turn the public trial meeting into a review meeting, and anyone could be judged, but the emperor couldn't, but it was still necessary to learn from the experience of the defeat in this battle.

Then He Tengjiao analyzed with him why this battle was lost, and talked about examples similar to this battle in history, such as:

In the Battle of Kunyang in the New Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu's 1,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantry wiped out Wang Mang's 400,000 army with a single charge.

If the people on the battlefield are not aligned, the most worrying thing for the troops is not the question of victory or defeat, but the fear that their comrades will flee faster than themselves, which is also the main factor in the defeat of Huguang.

He Tengjiao can see these problems, but it is already hindsight.

Everyone was afraid that the people around them would run away, and they would be surrounded by themselves, so they had to flee together.

Those who retreated in the footsteps of the emperor may not all go to escort, or only He Tengjiao's thousands of soldiers and horses blocking Yinxi and Hao Yongzhong's team of the Dashun army finally arrived in Quanzhou, and even Gao Bizheng broke away from He Tengjiao and didn't know where to go, Tianlang felt that everyone was loyal to him, and he must be a little self-inflicted.

The green mountains are still the same, the white clouds are still the same, and the soft sunlight of the setting sun shines on the precarious city.

Gao Guiying met Gao Bizheng who came to meet her on the way to Quanzhou, and it seemed that she and her brother wanted to go together, and Gao Bizheng was worried that she would not be able to fall down the pursuers when she withdrew from Baoqing.

And her idea of working together to always make Hao Yongzhong, Gao Bizheng, Li Jin and Liu Tichun, the four first-class generals of the Dashun army, arrive in Quanzhou after taking the lead and gather in the southwest.