Chapter 36 - Go and Stay
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Xiao Tianjian's reaction to this battle made Xiao Tianjian a little surprised, he was already ready to meet the Tartars' stormy revenge, and even mobilized the generals under his command, just waiting for a death battle with the Tartar army, but he didn't think that after Dolgon and Yue Tuo suffered such a big loss, they actually chose to stop the army without fighting, and camped far east of the Xiaozhang River, and did not mobilize troops and horses again to find the Xingtian army to fight to the end. ()
This kind of performance makes Xiao Tianjian a little incomprehensible, after all, now he has already jumped out of history, and he doesn't know what will happen in the future, and the future history is also hidden in a cloud of fog, and the specific history of the giant car will drive in what direction, now he is completely unclear, so the advantages he originally had, at this moment, were basically consumed by him, and he couldn't see through the performance of the Tartar for a while.
However, since the Tartar does not move, he will not just wait here, with the strength he has brought so far, it is not enough to fight the Tartar soldiers who entered the customs this time, and he will not be stupid enough to squat here and wait for the Tartars to play tricks, so no matter what the Tartars do, he will act according to his original plan.
Early the next morning after rescuing the remnants of the Xuanda army, Xiao Tianjian ordered the army to march forward, continuing to take Situ Liang's cavalry as the lead, Li Yantian's war barracks as the palace, and hundreds of Xuanda soldiers began to march in the direction of Ren County, Shunde Prefecture.
The Tartar soldiers did not immediately catch up, but only sent a large number of ranger sentry scouts to follow behind the Xingtian soldiers and horses, staring at the Xingtian army from a distance.
At this time, the local people of Shunde Mansion have already because of the Tartar soldiers to the south, those who can run are running south, the village is almost ten rooms and nine empty, there is almost no trace of cooking smoke within dozens of miles, the Xingtian army is on the way, from time to time you will see the corpses of many people who died along the way, these people did not have time to run away, were caught up by the small group of Tartar soldiers and horses that were plundering everywhere, the young and strong were taken away by them, and the old and weak were directly slaughtered, among which there were some women who were spoiled by the Tartars and resisted and killed, The situation can be described as miserable.
Looking at these sins made by the Tartars, Xiao Tianjian's first thought was the things that the devils did when they invaded China that they saw in the pictures in later generations, and they gritted their teeth with hatred, and the soldiers and generals of the Xingtian Army watched these scenes, and they all gritted their teeth with hatred, feeling that this trip to the north was the right one, and they couldn't help but scold the cruelty of the Tartars while scolding the incompetence of the imperial court, and at the same time, the hundreds of Xuanda officers and soldiers who followed the action of the Xingtian Army were all gloomy, after all, they were the officials and soldiers of the imperial court. It should be their duty to protect their home and defend the country, but they failed to do it, watching the Tartars go so deep into the interior of the Ming Dynasty and scourge the people of the Ming Dynasty into this picture.
However, the soldiers and generals of the Xingtian Army are clearly distinguished, and some people comfort these officers and soldiers, so that they don't have to think about it, this kind of thing is no wonder to them, after all, these soldiers and generals followed Lu Xiangsheng Lord Lu and did what they did, although they were unable to return to the sky, but they were all good men, so they didn't have to mind, which made these Xuanda soldiers feel a little better.
After all, it was an operation in the jurisdiction of the government, Xiao Tianjian was very cautious when he went north this time, and kept sending a large number of scout teams at any time to guard around the army, and the farthest scout team was even dozens of miles away from the army to conduct sentinels, and after the army moved, the scouts began to send the news they detected back to Xiao Tianjian.
A small group of scouts returned to the army from the south in the afternoon, and reported an important news to Xiao Tianjian, that is, the 30,000 Guan Ning army under the command of Gao Qiqian who had been lying in the Jize area for several days suddenly moved today, and the army began to pull out the camp early in the morning, and the group began to march towards the position of the Xingtian Army, and the speed was not slow, at this time, it had also marched to the area of Nanhe County in the southeast of Shunde Prefecture, only more than 30 miles away from the Xingtian Army, and it seemed that it was still coming towards the position of the Xingtian Army. But I don't know what they're trying to do.
Xiao Tianjian immediately became alert, Gao Qiqian's eunuch is not a thing, with more than 30,000 Guanning elite soldiers, after the Tartars entered the customs, they sat in Jinggi, watching the Tartar army wreak havoc in the land of Jinggi, but they were afraid to avoid the war, after the Tartars went south to Baoding and Zhending, they left the Beijing Division and went south, along the way according to the refugees in the Jingfu land who fled south, the Guanning army led by Gao Qiqian was not much different from the Tartars, and everywhere they passed, they grabbed food and money everywhere, The common people were no better than the Tartars, but after they went south, they still refused to seek a battle with the Tartar soldiers, so they carefully gathered the hedgehogs together, and ran until Ji Ze before they stopped, and watched Lu Xiangsheng fall into a crisis, but they did not help.
And now they must have also gotten the news that the Xingtian Army raided the Jiannu Army in Julu and rescued Lu Xiangsheng, and now Gao Qiqian suddenly made a move, why didn't they go to look for the Tartars, why did they come diagonally towards their Xingtian Army?
When Xiao Tianjian thought of this, he immediately felt that something seemed to be a little wrong, could it be that Gao Qiqian heard that the Xingtian Army could fight, and led his troops to come and want to join forces with the Xingtian Army to deal with the Tartars? Wrong! Gao Qiqian is the most trusted eunuch in front of the current emperor Zhu Youzhen, what is the relationship between Xingtianjun and the imperial court, Xiao Tianjian naturally knows as well as Spiegel in his heart, with Gao Qiqian's identity, he will definitely not come to join forces with him.
So what was his idea of bringing his troops over? A series of question marks flashed in Xiao Tianjian's mind.
"Revisit! Keep an eye on them! And let us know who you are and see how they react! If they are hostile to you, come back quickly and report to your boss! Xiao Tianjian commanded Lin Luo on horseback.
Lin Luo immediately saluted on horseback and received the order, turned around and went down to arrange the matter.
After Xiao Tianjian thought about it for a while, he summoned Yang Lukai, who was acting with the army, and informed Yang Lukai of the news.
Yang Lukai is the head of Lu Xiangsheng's minister, this time Lu Xiangsheng's "death" Yang Lukai is very sad and angry, last night scolded a night of high diving, crying fainting twice, at this time the spirit is very committed, learned that Xiao Tianjian summoned him, so he rushed up, to Xiao Tianjian fist salute and asked him what to do.
After listening to the news that Xiao Tianjian told him about Gao Qiqian, Yang Lukai was also a little puzzled, and couldn't figure out what Gao Qiqian thought about leading his troops over at this time.
"General Yang, although we went north this time to fight against the Tartars, but after all, our identities are different, in your eyes, I Xiao is still a thief chieftain, although I will take you out, but after all, you are still an official and military identity, I might as well say it bluntly, it is not a way to go on like this, now Gao Qiqian has led the official army over, if any of you are unwilling to follow the action of this commander, I Xiao can understand, and give it away! The Tartars haven't caught up at this point, and if any of you want to go up and down, now is the safest time to go! But if there are brothers who don't want to go back to work for the imperial court, and want to stay under Xiao to do things, I, Xiao, also raise my hands to welcome, where to go, it's up to you to choose, if someone wants to stay, and is worried about staying in Xuanda's family, this General Yang can also tell the generals below, Xiao is not talented, he still has some ability, and he will definitely ensure that your family members are worry-free, and he will send someone to take them to the jurisdiction of my Xingtian Army to be properly settled! General Yang can go and arrange it and ask those generals what they think! Xiao Tianjian didn't expect Yang Lukai to help him anything, and said to Yang Lukai.
After hearing this, Yang Lukai looked at Xiao Tianjian, the expression on his face was very entangled, after all, he was an official, Xiao Tianjian was a thief, and it was natural for him to say this, but Yang Lukai did not save them because of Gao Qiqian, and he hated them very much because of the actions of Lu Xiangsheng and General Xuan, let him go to the high dive, he would never agree, and he also knew that as soon as Lu Xiangsheng died, even if he returned to the official system in the future, there would be no good end. Now most of the officials in the court are from the city fox society, and those who are officials led by Yang Sichang will definitely not let him have a good time, Xiao Tianjian will give him a choice now, and it depends on his choice where to go.
Yang Lukai hesitated for a while, and suddenly knelt down and kowtowed to Xiao Tianjian: "Thank you Xiao Dashuai for helping us when we were in danger, this kindness is like recreating parents!" After Yang went to Lord Lu, this heart was completely cold, this court official house, Yang did not want to give them his life, the great grace is not grateful, if the handsome man does not give up, Yang from now on, he is willing to lead the stirrup for the handsome, wear a strong and persistent, and follow the left and right! Please take it in! ”
After hearing this, Xiao Tianjian immediately turned over and dismounted, helped Yang Lukai up with both hands, and said again and again that he didn't dare to be, and asked Yang Lukai if he had already thought it through, Yang Lukai nodded resolutely and said yes, pointing to the sky and swearing that he would never regret it.
Xiao Tianjian nodded and agreed, and directly left Yang Lukai in his guard, also serving as the chief minister, and made other arrangements in the future, Yang Lukai immediately knelt down again to thank him, and since then Yang Lukai has become a close minister of Xiao Tianjian.
Entrusted by Xiao Tianjian, Yang Lukai returned to the Xuanda soldiers and generals, and conveyed Xiao Tianjian's words to these Xuanda generals, after listening to Yang Lukai's words, many Xuanda soldiers began to hesitate, but some people even if they expressed their intentions and decided not to leave, they did not return to the official army, and stayed to follow the Xingtian Army, but some people finally chose to leave the Xingtian Army, went to Gao Qiqian, and turned back to wait until the war subsided, and then went home.
For those who stayed, Yang Lukai ordered them to go out and make other arrangements, and those who wanted to leave, Xiao Tianjian also ordered them to be treated well, and each of them was given ten taels of silver as their road fare, and in addition, they prepared some food for everyone to take on the road to eat, which can be regarded as their benevolence and righteousness, so these more than 300 Xuan soldiers will be separated from the ranks of the Xingtian Army under the leadership of a general general, according to the direction pointed to them by the Xingtian Army, Supporting each other towards the location of the high diving army, Xiao Tianjian also sent a team of scouts to guide them to protect their thoughtfulness, seeing that the Xingtian Army treated them so leniently, even if these officers and soldiers chose to go home, they were still grateful to the Xingtian Army, and swore to the sky when they left that no matter where they met the Xingtian Army in this life, they would never be enemies with the Xingtian Army.
(Three watches tomorrow!) Forecast it! )