Chapter Ninety-Six: The Last Moment
In Tingzhou Mansion, Su Guansheng said to Zhu Yujian, Emperor Longwu: "Your Majesty, hurry up and Mrs., the prince will change into the clothes of the common people and go out of the city with Weichen,"
Zhu Yujian's face was as gray as gray, his whole body trembled, and he said tremblingly: "Aiqing, where am I going?" ”
Su Guansheng said: "Your Majesty, for the sake of today's plan, you can only flee to Guangzhou Mansion," He Kai said on the side: "Ganzhou has been occupied by the Qing army, Zhangzhou is surrounded by the Qing army, there are Qing troops on the road to wherever they go, only in Quanzhou, the Qing army and the Zheng army are still fighting fiercely, although Zheng Hongkui is short-tempered, but he has not surrendered to the Qing army, it is better to escape from the city gate at night and go to Quanzhou, although the Zheng family is not necessarily respected by the emperor, at least the name is kept." ”
Zhu Yujian looked at them blankly, "What about the capital city of Tingzhou?" Someone has to hold back the Qing army. ”
He Kai said: "Zhu Dadian is loyal to the Lord, and he has sworn to be loyal to the emperor." ”
Su Guansheng said: "Yes, Your Majesty, Lord Zhu's loyalty can be learned, don't live up to his kindness, don't leave now, it's too late to leave when the city is broken." ”
Zhu Yujian nodded slightly, "Okay, remember to bring my book, don't leave it behind." ”
Dozens of people took advantage of the night to go out of the city, the city gate could not go, they could only use baskets to put them under the city, thousands of Ming troops launched a wave of counterattack, in the chaos, the Qing army could not distinguish, dozens of people, and finally escaped more than a dozen people, escaped into the surrounding mountains.
There were not many Qing troops besieging Tingzhou Mansion, and there were not many attackers, but there were 10,000 Qing troops, of which two or three thousand Ming troops surrendered, and the rest of the Qing troops were sent by Li Chengdong to sweep the armies of other generals of the Ming army in the surrounding area.
Zhang Qiang didn't know that Zhu Yujian had escaped from Tingzhou Mansion again, at this time, Zheng Chenggong's Haikou army was also very helpless, they were not so harmonious with the other armies of the Zheng clan, Zheng Chenggong occupied Kinmen Island, and his warships were only two main warships, and a hundred other small warships had fallen to the point of a small pirate.
His father's brothers and the rest of the Zheng clan did not listen to him, he was still in the early stage of his power, so he could only endure it, and he frequently fought wars with the surrounding pirate forces, annexed other pirate forces, and stabilized his position.
He wanted to oppose the Qing Dynasty, but he Lao Tzu became a senior official of the Qing army, and repeatedly wrote to their subordinates, and indeed rebelled against many other Zheng pirate groups to defect to the Qing army, which greatly weakened the power of those other Zheng pirate groups, although Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Cai and others did not want to surrender to the Qing army, but they did not want to be constrained by him, so the entire Zheng group was actually fragmented, unable to attack the Qing army, but was pressed and beaten by the Qing army, each taking care of its own, and had no time to counterattack the Qing army.
Of course, there is no time to find trouble with Zhang Qiang's Jinhua rebels, the small frictions are all done by the pirates under the Zheng group, Xuanyuan Longfei and Du Ge can completely deal with it, Zhang Ying's rebel army sailors and slightly defeated those little pirates and defended the stability of the Taizhou coast.
At this time, Zhang Qiang appeared on the river bank west of the state capital with his troops, and looked at the city of Chuzhou and the county seat of Lishui from a distance.
"Crossing the Oujiang River, I want to enter Lishui County at dusk." Zhang Qiang rode on his horse and descended the road.
"Hu Kui, lead the cavalry to make a detour upstream, look for a bridge to cross the Oujiang River, and go straight to Lishui County to rescue He Jin and Lin Yangcheng's rebel army."
"Yes, my lord,"
"Cavalry, follow me."
More than 1,000 cavalrymen turned on their horses, brandished their sabers, and followed Hu Kui away.
Zhang Qiang watched as the mountain people and the people, as well as the soldiers of the artillery unit, jumped off the bank of the Oujiang River and built a pontoon bridge.
In the distance, several Qing cavalry rode away.
In Lishui County, He Jin cut down a Qing soldier, touched his blood-stained face, and shouted, "Hold the east gate, and the enemy who can't be allowed to rush up." ”
Another hundred volunteer soldiers fell to the ground around the east gate, and the Qing army surged up again like a tidal wave.
He Jin shouted, rushed up, jumped up, and neatly cut off the head of a Qing soldier, but was stabbed twice by the Qing soldier's spearman, although it was not very heavy, but his steps were no longer so brisk.
One of his generals and subordinates retreated to the gate tower on the city wall, repelled the siege of the Qing soldiers, and leaned against the wall of the gate tower to pant for breath.
The five pro-soldiers around him were wounded, panting and staring at the staircase, where the corpses of the Qing soldiers were stacked together, and the remaining Qing soldiers did not dare to rush up again, only shouting and insulting at the staircase on the first floor.
The general looked carefully at the city, on the streets of the city, the Qing soldiers climbed on the roof, and fired arrows at the gate of the city, just when he skimmed, there were several Qing soldiers who had already prepared the Qing soldiers and archers to shoot the arrows neatly to the side of his head, and touched the wall bricks and splashed a burst of dust, sending out a ding dong, ding dong remaining, and then the arrow slipped down, and a personal soldier next to the general poked his head out and shot over a Qing soldier archer, the general smiled slightly, and the personal soldiers returned to him with a smile that was worth doing so.
"Grab-" The soldier turned his head, his pupils dilated, he covered half of his face in pain, let out a miserable scream, threw away the bow and arrow in his hand, and rolled on the ground, and for a while, he froze and did not move.
The general's face turned sad.
He threw away the big knife in his hand, picked up the bow and arrow of his own soldiers on the ground, pulled out three arrows, put them on the bowstring, stood up violently, and shot three arrows at the Qing soldiers on the roof outside. ”
Just as he touched the blood on the corner of his mouth and was about to bend down to pick up the big knife on the ground to deal with the Qing infantry who were about to rush up the stairs, he heard the sound of the gong of the Qing soldiers hurriedly singing gold and withdrawing troops.
He was overjoyed, and shouted, "Our reinforcements have arrived." ”
"Reinforcements have arrived." He shouted.
Several windows ran through, and finally, he saw that outside the east gate, thousands of rebel cavalry, brandishing sabers, rushed to the city gate of Yunhe and the Qing soldiers from the county seat, the Qing soldiers were in a big disorder, gave up attacking the east gate, stuck to the city wall, and ran towards the south gate.
"Open the gates and let the cavalry in." He shouted at the remnants of the rebels inside the city gate.
Five hundred cavalry followed thousands of Qing soldiers in Yunhe County, and five hundred cavalry rushed towards the city gate.
And the Qing soldiers retreated like a tide.
Fucheng and the prefect of the Qing army circled in place, and the county commander said anxiously: "There are more than 6,000 Ming troops from the north gate, our army has been fighting for a long time, and the troops are insufficient, so we can't resist the Ming army. ”
The prefect of the Qing army hesitated and said: "How is this good, lose the city and lose the land, and the above will be investigated, you and I will not escape death." ”
A Qing soldier ran in, "Report to the prefect, the five thousand Ming army crossed the Oujiang River and cut off the road for our army to go west and north, Yunhe Qing soldiers and Qingtian Qing soldiers fled from the south gate to Qingtian County, and the guerrilla general asked the villain to tell the prefect, run away." ”
The prefect was still hesitating, the county magistrate took a look, took the family back to the county office, looked at his wife and daughter, sighed, turned around and returned to the backyard, closed the door, unbuckled his belt, threw it on the beam, glanced out the window with nostalgia, put his neck in the belt trap, and kicked it to the clouds.
And after the prefect lamented a little, he did the same thing as the county order.
In less than a quarter of an hour, the two yamen servants and servants were scattered, and by the time He Jin led Hu Kui's cavalry to sweep away the chaotic soldiers and rush into the palace, there was only a mess left here.
He Jin's boots were still filled with a lot of blood, and he walked with a gurgling sound, he sat on a chair in the lobby of the mansion, and said to Hu Kui tiredly: "Thank you for your timely rescue, if your adult arrives half an hour late, I won't be able to see your adult anymore." ”
Hu Kui kicked him, "Get up, that chair is for adults to sit on, how can you sit on it first, get out of the way, send troops privately, and wait for the adults to punish you." ”
Saying that, he didn't look at He Jin's flushed face, waved his hand, and said: "Clean up this place, send someone to block the county government and the government office, block the government treasury and the county treasury, and without an order, you are not allowed to touch a straw inside." ”
"Come on, take He Jin into custody, and the other soldiers will be detained in the government prison, waiting for the adults to come and decide."