Chapter 44: Galloping
Want to take a trip to the capital? This is not a big deal, the Houjin army has never been able to cut off the connection between the capital and the local area.
The Jingshi continued to send out a six-hundred-mile expeditious, and although some of the messengers were intercepted, they were basically able to keep the communication open.
Since the messenger can enter and exit the Beijing Division, Huang Han has dozens of people, as long as he is careful and vigilant, it should not be too difficult to send Zheng Guochang to the capital.
Yongping Mansion is four or five hundred miles away from Jingshi, and the official road is in relatively good condition in Daming due to frequent repairs, and it should not be a problem to gallop more than 200 miles a day in the case of horse transfer.
Huang Han agreed: "It's no problem to send the adults back to Beijing, but if the adults take the carriage, it will be more dangerous, and the speed cannot be guaranteed. ”
Zheng Guochang said: "Young people should not underestimate the old man, the old man is confident that he can stand it after riding a horse for two days." ”
This is no problem at all, Huang Han has more than 50 people, as long as the Houjin army encountered on the road is not more than a hundred people, you can fight with them, and you are not afraid of the Tartar 100 team at all, because the equipment of the Tartars is unsatisfactory, and it is much easier than fighting Jiannu.
After the Jin army in the city of Beijing intended to blackmail the Ming court, who knows that the stubborn Ming does not have an alliance with any enemy under the city, put on a posture of having the ability to attack the city, let's fight a life-and-death posture under the city.
The Houjin army came from afar, and there were no siege equipment at all, and it was a fool's dream to attack nearly one million soldiers and civilians, the world's largest city and Xiongcheng in this era.
The red gangster is in no way, he doesn't dare to attack the capital and thinks he can't beat it, and the benefits can't be blackmailed, what should I do?
Well, the Ming Emperor refuses to give the hardship fee, and our Dajin Army will take it ourselves.
As a result, the robbers left the capital to rob the surrounding state capitals and counties, and now the main force has just taken Yongping Mansion City for only a day.
Jiannu and Tartar are very busy, and they have taken such a big city, and they have gained so much, there are dozens of eunuchs in the city, and there are no less than 100 rich merchants, and there are many wealthy people, and the robbers estimate that it will take at least three days to loot.
The civil and military generals in the city of Yongping Mansion did not surrender without a fight, and the prefect Zhang Fengqi, the tuiguan Lu Chenggong, the Zhongshu Sheren Liao Ruqin, the retired deputy general Jiao Yanqing, and the garrison Zhao Guozhong and other civil and military generals all tried their best to resist the enemy and finally died in battle. There were also many scholars in the city who led their families to resist to the death, and finally died generously.
Huang Han agreed to Zheng Guochang's request without delay, and immediately began to mobilize, asking the family members to check the equipment, feed the war horses at night, and prepare for departure.
That night, two horsemen fled from the direction of Yongping Fucheng, and the knights were injured very lightly, Zheng Guochang's family knew these two people, one was the family of Lu Chenggong, the official named Lu Kaijun, and the other was Zhao Shisan, the personal soldier of Zhao Guozhong.
Zheng Guochang knew a lot about the New Year in Jiulitai Village, and there were many people in Yongping Mansion City, and some of the scattered Ming troops fled in the direction of Jiulitai Village, and Lu Kaijun and Zhao Shisan's riding skills were good, and they got rid of the pursuit of the Houjin army and successfully arrived.
Seeing the cavalry rushing out of Yongping Mansion City, Zheng Guochang naturally wanted to inquire about the situation.
After listening to the two people's returns, he confirmed that the city was lost, the soldiers and civilians in the city were killed and wounded, and the prefect, magistrate and garrison had all been killed in battle, and he couldn't help but burst into tears.
Zheng Guochang has been an official in Yongping Mansion for several years, and he is familiar with every grass and tree there, and he gets along with his colleagues and neighbors, but in the blink of an eye, it has become a hell on earth, and of course it is inevitable that the rabbit will die and the fox will die.
In the night, more than a dozen Ming soldiers touched Jiulitai one after another, all of them were injured, one by one in shock, from these people's mouths Zheng Guochang confirmed the news of the martyrdom of many civilian officials and military generals.
Zheng Guochang was even more anxious, and urged Huang Han to go on the road in the early morning of the next day.
Before leaving, Huang Han told Huang Yizhou that no matter what happened, he could not go down the mountain, and when he came back, he would send someone to contact the mountain, and found that there were scattered Ming troops to vote, as long as they could not confirm their identity, they should be disarmed and guarded first, and then slowly screened.
After Zheng Guochang left, there was no attack value on the mountain, and Jiannu should not have insanity, and he was willing to spend hundreds of men and horses to fight a small hill that he didn't know, so Huang Yizhou and the villagers should be safe.
Jiulitai Village is already very unsafe, and Huang Yizhou has taken all the fleeing Ming soldiers to the refuge to recuperate, most of these people are traumatic, and they are stitched up after alcohol disinfection, and the probability of survival is very high.
Huang Han led more than 60 horsemen and rode more than 200 miles in one day, rushing through the occupied area of the Houjin army before sleeping in a forest.
On the way, several Ming troops and small Jin troops were found and did not entangle with them, and of course, those small troops did not dare to move Huang Han and his party.
Huang Han divided the men and horses into three echelons, Song Pengfei and Yang Danian led more than a dozen soldiers to fight the front station, Huang Han personally accompanied Zheng Guochang and his four family members in the middle of the team, a total of thirty-six people and seventy-two horses, Han Zi, Yang Guowei with more than a dozen soldiers is the third echelon, responsible for the break.
The men and horses camped again for one night, and on the afternoon of the seventh day of the first lunar month, the group rushed to the gate of Guangqu in Beijing, and Huang Han was reluctant to go to Beijing at this time, because he was afraid of being sent to which general on an errand.
His current official position is too small, even if he can be promoted, he will not be the main general of the road, and it is unlikely that he will even be mixed with the garrison general, whether he is promoted to the general of the hundred or the thousand, there must always be a battalion.
In case a guerrilla general or staff general asks for someone, the imperial court is not allowed to push the boat down the river to arrange, if it is asked to go by Liaozhen, maybe it will be a member of the Daling River in the future, and if it is asked to go by Yansui Town, then it is possible to fight with the Shaanxi mob for an unknown number of years.
In the case that you can't decide your fate, you must not enter the big pit of the Beijing Division, otherwise you may be killed by the pit.
Huang Han sent Zheng Guochang to the city of Jingshi and then resigned and returned to Yongping Mansion, the reason was very sufficient, and the safety of his family was not assured.
Zheng Guochang also has children and old wives hiding in the mountains, of course he is also very worried, Huang Han refused to enter the Beijing division and chose to go back immediately, he did not stay.
At the time of parting, Zheng Guochang reassured Huang Han that with his connections in the court, the reward that the court should give to the Huang family father and son would not be delayed for too long.
When the time comes, he may ask for orders to lead the imperial army to recover Yongping Mansion.
Huang Han didn't worry about the promotion at all, and the Jin army broke through the barrier, and nearly 100 generals at or above the garrison level of the Ming army died in battle.
The historical Ming army did not get any gains before the counterattack on the four cities of Zunhua, Qian'an, Yongping, and Luanzhou, which were left as enclaves by the Later Jin, because every engagement was a great defeat for the Ming army.
Even if the Houjin army captured a certain city and did not retreat, the Ming army defending the city would not be able to get the head of Jiannu.
Zheng Guochang brought more than 40 levels to get a rare commodity, and it should be a sure thing that Huang Han and his father were able to become an official and become a knight.
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