Prince Minglu Min quickly stepped forward and explained: "This is the work 'Spring Tree and Autumn Frost' painted by Tang Yin (Tang Bohu), one of the four great talents of Jiangnan, during the Zhengde period? Is Lone King's painting somewhat similar to his? ”

Ma Wei looked at it and complimented, "Hmm! It's a little bit like it, but why is it a little wet? Could it be that the ink just painted hasn't dried yet? ”

I saw Prince Minglu Min nodding and said, "That's right!" This is what the lonely king just painted, how about the technique is not bad, right? Ma Wei clapped his hands and praised: "Your Highness, good technique! It's really impressive. Wu Junzhen and the general guard of Mingtong Pass next to him were full of praise.

At this time, a soldier outside the gate of Prince Lu's mansion rode over, dismounted and stepped forward and said, "I was sent by the prefect to inform His Royal Highness Prince Lu of the news. When the guards heard this, he was also nervous, and hurriedly turned around and entered the palace to report, and the waiting soldiers also went in with him in order to ensure that His Royal Highness Prince Lu could evacuate quickly.

When he came to the lobby, he accidentally bumped into Liu Ruilin, who was passing by, and when he saw the soldiers in such a hurry, he asked, "What are you doing?" Panicked? The guard asked, "Where is His Royal Highness Prince Lu?" Liu Ruilin pointed behind him and said, "It seems to be in the backyard, right?" ”

So the guards rushed to the backyard with the soldiers who reported it, and when they came to the backyard, they saw that His Royal Highness Prince Lu was still introducing his works to everyone, and the soldiers walked up to the front and half-squatted and saluted, "The little one sees His Royal Highness Prince Lu, His Royal Highness Qiqi, the prefect asked the small one to inform you to leave here quickly, there are already a large number of rogues attacking the city, and they may be killed at any time!" Knowing that the Liukou were coming, Prince Minglu Min immediately stopped laughing, quickly beckoned and shouted: "Quick, quickly go to the Honor and Guard Division of the Lu Palace, protect the retreat of the Lone King." ”

At this moment, Wu Junzhen and Ma Wei stepped forward and said, "His Royal Highness Prince Lu, since we are a member of Prince Lu's Mansion, we have the responsibility to protect His Highness's safety. As soon as the words fell, Prince Minglu Min looked at the general guard of Mingtong Pass next to him and said: "Now that the lonely king is leaving, it is naturally indispensable to be escorted by the Honor and Guard Division, so the matter of fighting against the rogue will be handed over to the chief soldier!" ”

The general guard of Mingtong Pass, who was involved, was very helpless, he wanted to refuse, but if the rogue soldiers did not resist, it would not work, and he himself was a little timid, but the soldiers under his command had a deep hatred and blood hatred for the rogues, so he deliberately prevaricated and said, "His Royal Highness Prince Lu, since you want to go, you also need to be escorted by generals!" The last general was willing to leave 2,000 men and horses to drag the rogues in the city. Seeing this, Wu Junzhen and Ma Wei knew that Gao Jie's greedy and fearful of death character had been exposed again, but after all, they also left troops, so it was difficult to say anything.

In this way, the general guard of Mingtong Pass and the honor guard of King Lu's Mansion escorted Prince Lu Min and Prince Mingfu, Prince Chongyin of Ming, and Prince Xiao of Ming Zhou, and retreated south from Houcheng into Yucheng County, intending to escape by boat along the Yellow River from the Kaifeng Prefecture area.

Wu Junzhen in the city began to arrange the battle plan and shouted, "The whole army has changed to multiple rapid-fire firearms, we must set up an ambush near the city gate, so that we can delay the enemy for a longer time, and in addition, the underwater dragon king cannon must be buried near the river, which can be taken by surprise by the Liukou soldiers at a critical moment, so that they dare not speed up their pace, in short, they can delay for a while." After the plan was issued, the soldiers rushed to the city gate, but the main gate had been breached! The Shun army carrying the black tiger Shunzi banner was also accompanied by the Shun soldiers of the Liu Ziqi and quickly rushed into the city.

The Ming soldiers holding the guns raised their guns to shoot (bang, bang, bang) as soon as they encountered the rogue soldiers on the street, and because it was a large-scale multi-barreled firecracker, the strafing range was relatively large, and the number of rogues who were shot down was about dozens of people.

But the rogues did not show weakness and rushed forward from the front with shields, and the crossbow archers of the Shun army behind them took the opportunity to launch arrows to stab at the Ming army, and the rest of the gates were also broken one after another! Causing the plan to stop the rogues at the city gate failing! Even Wu Junzhen planned to place the underwater Dragon King Cannon to blow up the Liukou, but before it was placed, he was rushed over by a row of Liukou soldiers with spears. Then he said to Wu Junzhen behind him, "Brother Wu, are you ready?" I can't stand it anymore! ”

Wu Junzhen then asked him to retreat and let the Liukou cross the bridge, the underwater dragon king cannon placed at the bottom of the bridge was emitting fire and smoke, and when the Liukou soldiers passed by, the explosion (boom) blew a few Liukou into the water, so that the rest of the Liukou soldiers did not dare to cross the bridge easily, and could only watch the Ming soldiers escape, Ma Wei turned his head to look at them and laughed, "Hehe! Are you waiting for the rogue to come after us? Enraged, the rogues continued to rush across the bridge to chase the Ming army, and Wu Junzhen had his soldiers ambush the enemy in the alleys of the streets.

In the Ming army gunners and archers to shoot once and run away, and killed a hundred people and killed the general of the Liukou department, before retreating to the back city to evacuate, when Wu Junzhen ordered the soldiers to cross the suspension bridge and directly blow up the bridge to prevent the Liukou from coming, and when the Liukou chased over, Wu Junzhen had already run to 300 meters outside the city with the Ming army, and the angry Liukou still set up a bow and arrow to shoot over and stabbed a small number of Ming troops to death!

Then the general of the left battalion of Dashun entered the city and began to intercept and kill the Ming officers, and plundered the materials in the palace and slaughtered the families of the resisting Ming army, when the soldiers of the Shun army reported that the vassal king had fled, the general of the left battalion of the Dashun did not go to pursue, but continued to go north to Zhangde Mansion and Beizhili Daimyo Mansion, and captured and killed the Prince of Ming Zhaomu in Anyang County, Zhangde Prefecture: Zhu Changchen.

On February 23rd, the Tokugawa Shogunate Minbu Daijo took the Ming Fujian General Army and the Ryukyu envoys to the territory of the Satsuma Domain on Kyushu Island, and when he landed, the Shogunate Minbu Daijo sent someone to take the lead to spread the report in order not to embarrass the Ming envoy and the Satsuma Domain. But after all, it is not easy for them to speculate on their territory, and the general army of Fujian in the Ming Dynasty sees this in his eyes.

Tokugawa Shogunate Left Guard Lieutenant General Satsuma Domain Lord: Shimazu Hisamitsu, when he received the notification from the herald, he behaved calmly, and said with a smile on the corner of his mouth, "Yamato: I have expected this day for a long time!" It's just that I didn't expect it to come so quickly, and the envoy of the shogunate and the shogunate envoy entered the city. The herald nodded and said, "Yamato: Hi! ”

The Satsuma Domain Governor went out of the castle to welcome the envoys and shogunate envoys into the castle, and in this way, the envoys of the three roads sat together in the main hall until the lord of the Satsuma Domain changed his court clothes and walked up to the palace with a black gauze hat.

Seeing this, the Ryukyu envoy stood up directly and said, "The Satsuma clan forcibly demanded that our country change the tributary Ming to tributary your country, which is really coercive!" Now, in the presence of the envoys and envoys, I would like to ask the Satsuma clan to cancel this law. At this point, the general of Ming Fujian was also on the side, and said: "Yes, this general is also here for this matter." ”

But the lord of Satsuma easily agreed! He retorted, "Yamato: No! Although it is good that the Ryukyu Kingdom is ruled by our country, our country has also invested a lot of money, and if we want the Ryukyu Kingdom to get rid of our country, we will not talk about it unless we return all the materials! In fact, it was nonsense, and when the Tokugawa shogunate envoy saw that they were arguing, he said, "Yamato: Since you and others don't agree with each other's statements, why don't you take a step back?" The Ryukyu Kingdom can not pay tribute to the Satsuma Domain, but how about the Ryukyu Kingdom's sea area belonging to the Satsuma Domain? "On the surface, it seems that the Ryukyu Kingdom has been liberated, but in fact, the sea area is controlled by the Satsuma Domain, which is equivalent to indirectly cutting off the property!

This is still a dead end for the Ryukyu Kingdom! So as soon as the Ryukyu envoy wanted to refuse, he saw that the general army of Ming Fujian also agreed with this statement? Because the Ming Fujian General Soldiers had already seen that the Satsuma Domain Lord was ambushing a large number of samurai in the palace, and the Ming Fujian General Soldiers had to deal with a lot of affairs, he didn't want to get too involved in the Tokugawa Shogunate incident, so he had to turn a blind eye! This made the Ryukyu envoy very angry, but he didn't dare to say anything, so he had to swallow his anger and watch as the Ming Dynasty negotiated an agreement with the Satsuma Domain.

Later, the envoys of the Tokugawa shogunate and the envoys of the Satsuma clan were happy to send the Ryukyu envoys and the envoys to board the ship, and when the general army of Fujian came to the Satsuma sea, the Ming Quanquan Wei Zhenfu on the dock saw him with a gloomy face, and asked, "Big brother, what's wrong with you?" And the soldiers of the Ming Army of the Fujian Navy Division next to him were scolded and retreated by the Ming Fujian General Soldier as soon as they wanted to speak, which made Ming Quanquan Weizhen even more confused? Then he asked, "Big brother, is the shogunate too presumptuous?" You wait for me to get justice for you! ”

But the general soldier of Ming Fujian said: "Third brother, don't mess around!" The shogunate is not presumptuous, it's just that he doesn't want to get too involved in the affairs of the shogunate! After speaking, he asked the Fujian Navy Ming Army to retreat and prepare to return to Daming by boat, and the lord of the Satsuma domain and the general of the Tokugawa shogunate who stood on the watchtower of the wharf, the two didn't know what they were talking about? After that, the lord of the Satsuma domain and the Tokugawa shogunate shogun both walked away, and at this moment, a sharp arrow quickly shot towards the bow of the ship, and it was inserted right on the deck, so that the anger that Meiquan Quanwei had just put down suddenly burned again, and he immediately drew his saber and shouted, "All the army is on alert!" ”

I saw that the Fujian Ming Army sailors had raised their guns and aimed at the shore to observe the enemy's situation, but the Ming Fujian General Soldier walked towards the bow of the ship unhurriedly, he saw that the arrow was inserted with an envelope, which made the generals very panicked, only the Ming Fujian General Soldier calmly walked over, pulled out the sharp arrow and took out the envelope to open it to see, he found that there was actually a Chinese handwriting of his father at the beginning?

Immediately, I thought of the Hizen Province Hirado Domain: Tagawa Nanazaemon, and wrote in the letter (Dear father, please forgive the child for not being filial to accompany you to the old age, but my father can rest assured, although I am a member of Hizen Province Hirado of the Tokugawa Shogunate, my heart will always be towards the Ming Empire, and I ask my father to return to Japan as soon as possible, and I will greet my mother for me, son; Tagawa Nanazaemon).

After reading the letter, the general soldiers of Ming Fujian felt deeply guilty, and really regretted that they had given their seventh son to their mother's family Tian Chuan, but now it is too late to say anything! I had to hurriedly order to board the ship and return to China, and Wei Zhenfu of Ming Quanzhou shouted on the side, "Anchor, sail!" ”

Subsequently, the fleet of the Fujian Ming Army began to sail westward out of the waters of the Satsuma Domain.

At this time, the Dashun Emperor in the city of Xinzhou, Taiyuan Prefecture, in order to be able to smoothly enter the Yanmen Shouyu Thousand Households, sent the former army Dashun Pioneer Governor: Li Laiheng, led the Shun army light cavalry to rush straight to Zhenwuwei and Daizhou to attack, this branch of about 5,000 people are all cavalry wearing chain mail equipped with lancets, basically the general saber can not cut through the armor at all, but also can prevent less lethal arrows and ordinary spears.