Chapter 304: Belated Reinforcements

The new year has just begun, and spring is in full swing. On the land of China, war has begun.

Wars are raging, and it is the people who suffer the most. The ongoing fighting has displaced countless people and separated their loved ones. I don't know how many people died of starvation, but it is normal for them to eat easily.

Xing, the people are bitter. Death, the people suffer.

At present, Liu Xia has a relatively large territory, occupying most of Shaanxi, Gansu, Henan, Shanxi, and Hebei. Shandong, part of Anhui, northern part of Jiangsu. became a relatively powerful prince.

As for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which has been completely blocked in Beijing at this moment, and the Jinan Mansion in Shandong has also been breached not long ago, after pulling out the nail of the Jinan Mansion, Liu Xiahou can make the three army corps march towards Beijing without the strength of the enemy army.

After Wu Sangui lost Yunnan, his territory was still not small, although Huguang lost half, but still retained the most important Wuchang Mansion, Guizhou is also in the hands of Wu Sangui at the moment, as well as Jiangxi, Guangxi, Guangdong, Hainan. and the southern region of Anhui. The site is not small.

At this moment, Wu Sangui sent troops to Nanjing, and Zhang Xianzhong was still eating, drinking, and enjoying the service of beauties in his old nest in Chengdu, Sichuan.

This year, among these various forces, only the Ming Dynasty in Nanjing is the most sorrowful, its own strength is weak, corrupt officials are wanton, and the people have fled. This year seems to be their end.

"Why hasn't Liu Xia sent troops yet? How many days has it been? We can't hold it for three days! ”

A general commanded his remnants of the defeated army to be on top of the city tower, and picked up the rolling wood golden soup for the Chu army below.

"Whoosh"

Suddenly a sharp arrow flew up from under the tower, grazed the general's arm, and shot into the chest of a soldier behind him.

The little soldier snorted in pain and fell to the ground in a daze. The rolling log that he had just picked up in his hand smashed on his body.

The general wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and after a while, his heart trembled, it was too dangerous.

If the arrow had missed a little, it would have hit him in the chest, and the dead man would not have been the soldier behind him, but him.

I saw him curse a few words angrily, and then took a few steps back, wanting to stay away from the battlefield. But now he is the commander of this gate, and he cannot escape.

"Damn, damn Liu Xia, he hasn't even sent troops yet. Lao Tzu almost died! Hmph, damn Liu Xia. ”

The general kept scolding, but in a moment he pulled two more soldiers in front of him to prevent the sudden sharp arrow from hurting him.

Now more than a dozen city gates in Nanjing are all besieged by Wu Sangui's army, and the soldiers and generals on each city gate are as embarrassed as this general.

"Report! The Pingbei Army has already arrived in Fengyang. ”

An urgent order reached the city of Nanjing. Hearing the news, a bunch of officials immediately started scolding, Fengyang Mansion, it has been a few days before they arrived in Fengyang Mansion, Liu Xia is not well-intentioned! Everyone thought in their hearts.

But now they are helpless with Liu Xia.

After all, no matter what, Liu Xia has already sent troops, and as for whether he has come, it is a matter of long distance. Even if the city is broken, it can't be said that Liu Xia won't save them, after all, Liu Xia did send troops at this moment. As for the broken city, it belonged to their soldiers and horses, and they didn't hold out until the reinforcements arrived, no wonder Liu Xia.

Amid the insults of the officials and generals of the Ming Dynasty, the Qianniuwei of the Nakui Wolf Legion was marching slowly under the leadership of its commander Feng Yan. The march of thirty miles a day made the soldiers very comfortable. They had never marched so comfortably.

At this speed, I don't know when I will be able to get to Nanjing.

"Commander, when will we be able to reach Nanjing after this? If we go late and Nanjing falls, will the prince blame us? A Fenwei lieutenant walked up to Feng Yan and asked Feng Yan with some confusion, they have been marching like this for the past few days, which makes those soldiers who don't know the interior feel puzzled.

Finally, today, this Fenwei Lieutenant walked up to Feng Yan and asked.

Feng Yan smiled slightly, shook his head, and said, "The prince will not blame us for this matter. You don't have to worry. Go back to each of you. ”

Those people were full of confusion, and seeing that Feng Yan didn't say anything, they finally reluctantly returned to their respective camps.

After a while, a personal guard hurriedly walked over, and when he reached Feng Yan's ear, he leaned over and said a few words, and Feng Yan's face suddenly showed joy.

"Good! Command the whole army to march as soon as possible! ”

The guard said to him just now that Nanjing City had already been opened by Wu Sangui, and the Chu army had already rushed in. Many ministers have already been caught. It is estimated that soon the whole of Nanjing will be completely destroyed.

At this time, Feng Yan had to march to Nanjing as soon as possible, and then cry and shout under the city of Nanjing for a while, and then pretend to fight a small battle with the Chu army, so that his task would be completed.

Those soldiers had just heard Feng Yan say that they were not in a hurry to go, but now it was just a moment before Feng Yan gave the military order to move forward quickly, which really puzzled them. However, they were small soldiers after all, so they naturally didn't care how Feng Yan gave orders. Confusion is confusion.

When Feng Yan led the Qianniu Guard's five thousand soldiers and horses to advance quickly. Wu Sangui's general Ma Bao also learned of Feng Yan's coming, he had also received news of Feng Yan before, and after listening to the scout's report, he saw that Ma Bao sneered and said, "This Feng Yan is really good at acting!" As soon as we broke through the city of Nanjing, he came quickly. Hmph, but even if these people of the Ming Dynasty deserve it, if they offend Liu Xia, how can he really come to save you? But now you can't fight against that Liu Xia. ”

Thinking of this, Ma Bao immediately said to the guards beside him: "Pass the order, the Pingbei Army will come in a while, you just have to fight indiscriminately, and then retreat." Don't dwell on it too much. ”

After Ma Bao finished speaking, one of the guards frowned and said, "General, what if the enemy is in hot pursuit?" ”

Ma Bao sneered and said, "No, you just have to give orders." Today, General Ben will also help him Liu Xia once, which can be regarded as a favor. ”

"Shunshui favor?" A personal guard wondered in his head, after all, they were still hostile to Liu Xia.

"Did you catch Hiromitsu?" Ma Bao immediately asked, Hongguang is the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and catching him means that the Ming Dynasty has fallen. As for whether there will be other remnants of the Ming Dynasty in the future, find another person from the Zhu family to be the emperor, that is all a matter for later.

The guard's face showed joy and said, "General Hui, Hongguang Xiao'er has been caught." And those ministers, all of them surrendered, but there were still a few old immortals who would rather die than surrender. ”

Ma Bao listened, a cold light flashed in his eyes, and said, "Since you don't descend, then all-" After that, Ma Bao made a decapitation action, and his eyes were full of coldness.

The guard understood and nodded hurriedly.

"You go and escort Emperor Hongguang and those ministers to Wuchang Mansion, and take away all the beauties in the palace, gold and silver. Can't leave a son for those Pingbei troops. ”

Ma Bao said that, and those guards went down one after another to start preparing.

After a few hours, the entire Nanjing Imperial Palace was emptied, as well as the residences of those ministers and officials, all the gold, silver, calligraphy, painting and antiques were not left, and a large number of beautiful women in those palaces were also taken away, and they were already on the way back to Wuchang Mansion at this moment.

When Feng Yan led Qianniuwei to Nanjing, this place was just an empty city, except for a few distressing homeless people outside the city gate, the city was in a depression, many places in the city tower were bombarded and broken by the cannons, and the city walls in many places also collapsed to the ground.

Some of the soldiers who stayed behind were still patrolling, and when they saw the Pingbei army coming from afar, they immediately blew their horns. Soon those Chu troops gathered and prepared to start the battle.

They had already received orders from Ma Bao, and they could just make contact with these Pingbei troops and fight them indiscriminately.

When Feng Yan arrived at the city of Nanjing, he immediately sent troops to rush into the dilapidated city gate and began to attack the remaining Chu troops, but Feng Yan also restrained his troops so that they did not have to pay too much attention to the battle.

"If these enemy soldiers wave their weapons at us, we will return fire, and if they don't fight, we don't have to entangle with them" This is the order given by Feng Yan.

Those Chu troops and the northern army fought for a while, and then retreated one after another.