Of course, Yang Hongzhang can't just leave and go directly to the sea, so there is an indispensable charge of escaping. Although he is only a loose official from the fifth grade. In normal times, no one may care if he stays or not, but now is the time when the Qing army invades and Gyeonggi is chaotic. Coupled with Gao Keng's intentional or unintentional reminder last time, he can be regarded as Jane in the emperor's heart, and he has to make it clear if he wants to leave. But Wang Lenian doesn't seem to want to talk to him. He knew that even if he waited until daylight, Wang Lenian would not let these people enter Gaoyang again. But without the protection of the city walls and mines, it would be quite dangerous for these people to encounter the Qing army that came again, so they had to make a decision as soon as possible!

Just when everyone was depressed, a group of people came to the temporary camp, it was none other than Hejian prefect Xiang Siwen with his son and a few retinues, obviously these people were found or re-recruited by the refugees in Zaogaoyang, and there were actually female dependents. This is not the point, the point is the purpose of Xiang Siwen not coming here in Gaoyang late at night. Xiang Siwen's purpose, Yang Hongzhang knew from seeing him, obviously he was isolated by Wang Lenian, and he was ready to persuade himself to attack Hejian. Otherwise, he wouldn't have dragged his family out of Gaoyang. Yang Hongzhang did not directly agree to Xiang Siqing, but only told him that he would lead the team to entangle with the Qing army nearby, which had achieved the purpose of delaying and containing, which was also required by the emperor's holy decree.

Yang Hongzhang was going to wait for dawn to go to Wang Lenian for a theory, and then asked Yang Sheng and Zhang Hu to lead people to Cangzhou overnight to contact the fleet anchored in Huanghua Port. When Yang Hongzhang appeared at the north gate of Gaoyang the next morning, Wang Lenian still did not come forward, and Wang Lenian seemed to have been prepared for Yang Hongzhang to ask for the money he had deposited in Gaoyang, with 5,000 silver and 1,000 stone of grain. And it's already ready to be loaded. The rest of the money and property are considered to be captured in battle, not Yang Hongzhang's private property, and the heavy casualties of Gaoyang Minzhuang in the past few days also require a large amount of silver and two pensions.

Hearing this, Yang Hongzhang almost vomited blood, and he stored it in the grass house in Gaoyang for more than five thousand taels. and he also got it from Sun Chengzong, and the last reward from the imperial court also had to be paid from the county government. The most important thing is that he ran more than 100 miles late at night to rob the silver and grain, not to mention these? The most infuriating thing is that Wang Lenian also wrote to Yang Hongzhang, saying that the cavalry was the best way to contain the Qing army outside.

In desperation, Yang Hongzhang had no choice but to take the team to the southeast. Because of the presence of a large number of scouts in his current team, and the fact that all of them are cavalry, he is not worried about encountering the Qing army.

Forbidden City, Dongnuan Pavilion, Sun Chengzong held the music of Wang Lenian of Gaoyang Zhixian in his hand, and his brows were tightly locked. Seeing this, Zhu Youzhen asked: "Elder Sun Ge, now the imperial court troops around the capital are losing and retreating, even Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong Army and Guanning Iron Cavalry are not spared. It is rare that Gao Yang can still win, and with only 2,000 people and strong people, he successfully resisted the onslaught of 3,000 Qing troops for three consecutive days, and successfully wounded the enemy's main general. Why is Ge Lao still unhappy? ”

Sun Chengzong sighed: "Gaoyang is in danger! Wang Shouyan shouldn't be so greedy. "Seeing that the emperor didn't seem to understand, the division of labor between the two armies of the Qing army and the final possible decisive battle with the army of King Qin of the imperial court should be in the area from Baoding to Hejian. And Gaoyang must be the basic situation of the traffic artery, and how he kept Yang Hongzhang and how to let Lu Xiangsheng come forward as a lobbyist, told Zhu Youzhen about it.

After listening to this, Zhu You pondered for a long time and asked: "Then the elder of the pavilion thinks that Yang Hongzhang will leave Beizhili and go back to Zhejiang?" ”

"No, after all, the imperial court has a clear order to ask him to lead his troops to contain the Qing army. He is now an official of the imperial court, and he is no longer a people. It's just that in this way, without the backing of the city, I am afraid it is difficult to make a difference. Maybe he will go to Lu Jiandou. If he can successfully meet with Lord Lu, maybe Lu Jiandou will be able to strengthen his wings. ”

"Ge Lao, I have never doubted the center of Lu Jiandou, but this time the repeated defeats have made the army disheartened, even if all the soldiers and horses from several towns in Shanxi and Shandong arrive, how can I fight a decisive battle with the Qing army?"

"Your Majesty, in terms of strategy, you may be slightly better than Lord Lu, but in terms of generals, front-line battles and personal bravery, there are not as many as Lord Lu." Sun Chengzong understood that the emperor Zhu Youzhen wanted to bring up the old matter again, and hoped that he would replace Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of the world, and the king of Qin. Now the ministers of the cabinet are also looking forward to going out by themselves. They are not in the sense of the needs of the country, but they feel that they threaten their position. Originally, the ministers of the DPRK and China had a lot of opinions on the emperor Zhu Youzhen's reappointment of Sun Chengzong. However, the family brought more than 1,000 Qing soldiers into Beijing. Now Gao Yang has won another big victory, which can be regarded as making Sun Chengzong's position more stable.

But Sun Chengzong didn't expect that Wang Lenian, who had always been submissive to him, suddenly went against Yang Hongzhang unusually. Yang Hongzhang's arrogance Sun Chengzong is deeply understood, and Wang Lenian is sure that he will not continue to stay in Gaoyang. He didn't think that Wang Lenian would be able to hold Gaoyang. Although before this, I didn't think that Yang Hongzhang would be able to stick to Gaoyang to the end. But Wang Lenian obviously underestimated the combat effectiveness of Yang Hongzhang and others, and overestimated himself and Gao Yang Minzhuang. However, now that he is in the capital, he is powerless against the situation in Gaoyang County.

Soon, Sun Chengzong and Zhu Youzhen's ideas were once again planned by the battle report on the front line. This time it was Lu Xiangsheng and Gao Qidive. Lu Xiangsheng impeached Gao Qiqian in the recital for being cowardly and fearful, refusing to listen to the dispatch, and refusing to cooperate with the Tianxiong army in besieging Dolgon. So much so that the Tianxiong army had to face seventy or eighty thousand Qing cavalry with all its infantry. And Gao Qiqian complained bitterly that Lu Xiangsheng would not be saved when he saw death, so that the Guanning army was besieged and suffered heavy losses.

Zhu Youzhen also has experience in this kind of mutual blame-shifting of front-line generals, that is, no one can believe it, and no one should ignore it.

What gave Zhu Youzhen a headache was that those old men in the cabinet would definitely bring up the old matter again when they saw such a recital, which was nothing more than that Lu Xiangsheng was ineffective in fighting and should be dismissed on the spot, or even escorted to Beijing. As for the replacement candidate, Zhu Youzhen didn't even need to ask to know that Yang Sichang would definitely recommend Sun Chengzong, and then Xue Guoguan seconded it......

After the arrival of the next cabinet ministers, Zhu Youzhen didn't care about it at all, he was very curious about the same people of the Ming Dynasty, why Wu Aheng couldn't stop the Qing army for a few days, and why the Tianxiong army and Guan Ning Tieqi looked so vulnerable in front of the Qing army. Yang Hongzhang, who had no experience in the army, dared to pull the banner of the Fujian Navy Division with four or five hundred people, and scared the five or six thousand Japanese who were plundering in the interior into frightened birds. And thousands of people were about to take risks when they were about to leave, but they were cracked by him and others.

According to the prefect of Songjiang and the prefect of Shanghai County, Yang Hongzhang achieved a one-sided massacre with similar numbers. The Spring and Autumn penmanship of civil officials may be exaggerated, but it is always a fact that there are thousands of Japanese heads.

There is also this guy who brought people to Beizhili to pick up people, and as a result, he met the Qing army three times, and the total record of the three times was actually a thousand Qing soldiers. Hundreds of officials in the DPRK and China all said that Sun Ge was old and strategic. Sun Chengzong told him in private that it had nothing to do with him, and if Yang Hongzhang hadn't arrived just in time, Gaoyang would have already fallen, and he was afraid that he would have been martyred. So the question is, why is the gap so big?

If the combat effectiveness of the Japanese Kou may still have water, then the combat effectiveness of the cavalry of the Qing army is absolutely not waterless, and this is on land, and it will definitely be life and death if you meet. If according to the combat effectiveness of Yang Hongzhang and others, how could the Ming Dynasty be afraid of the Jurchen cavalry, and how could Dolgon be so arrogant in Gyeonggi? Zhu Youzhen was really puzzled.

In Qingxian County, Yang Hongzhang led people to temporarily stationed here, because the Qing army plundered the army several times through the county seat, so now the county is basically empty. Yang Hongzhang went door-to-door for two days in a row to collect grain, grass and gunpowder, but with little success.

However, on the evening of the third day, Xiang Siwen, who was after the Gaoyang equinox, miraculously reappeared, with three or four hundred remnants of the defeated generals behind him, and he inquired that these people were actually the defenders of Hejian Mansion who had fled at that time. I heard that the prefect was gathering people everywhere, so he came out of the villages and towns where he was hiding. Yang Hongzhang looked at this prefect in his early forties, and always felt weird. If he had worked so hard before the Qing army broke the city, Hejian Mansion would have been able to hold out for a few more days.

But then Yang Hongzhang shook his head, in the face of the absolute superiority of the Qing army, it would be futile to hold on for a few more days. No matter what the combat effectiveness is, the arrival of these people has always strengthened Yang Hongzhang's momentum. However, what really made Yang Hongzhang decide to attack Hejian Mansion was the return of Yang Sheng and others. Yang Sheng went to replenish ammunition on board. The ammunition consumption of the four hundred flintlock pistols was nearing its end. Bringing fifty people to drive four large truckloads of military supplies made Yang Hongzhang extremely distressed, this is his own private property. As a result, in addition to leather armor and ammunition, he actually brought 6 cannons.

What surprised Yang Hongzhang even more was Zhang Hu, Zhang Hu followed a group of strong men behind him, and most of them were the group of people that Yang Hongzhang rescued in Qingxian County, and after they fled to Cangzhou, they immediately went to the beach to find the Yang family's boat. Although the Yang family's ship promised to take them away, it would definitely have to wait for news from Yang Hongzhang. It was precisely because they stayed away from Cangzhou and Cangxian that they were not plundered by the Qing army again. As a result, Zhang Hu went back and said that Yang Hongzhang had become a general of the imperial court and was recruiting troops, so these people naturally came with him. There were 900 people, 200 of whom came one after another when they passed through Cangzhou. Yang Hongzhang sighed that if he was still in Gaoyang County at this time, these two groups of people might really be able to help defend Gaoyang.

But assumptions are no longer useful. Now that people have ammunition and ammunition, Yang Hongzhang is ready to gamble. He first asked Xiang Siwen to send some clever soldiers to continue to search for the fleeing officers and soldiers. Then the others rested for a day in Qingxian County and set off towards Hejian Mansion City.