The night was spent safely.

Zhang Qiang rubbed his somewhat puffy eyes, looked at the whole team that set off, and listened to Tanma's report.

"My lord, I found a suspicious person escaping from the army last night, and I pursued him for more than 20 miles, but the terrain was familiar, and he finally jumped into the lake and escaped."

Zhang Qiang looked at Tanma, "Be careful in the future, don't let people escape again, go and check if the captives have escaped, if the facts are ascertained, behead the captives with him on the spot to deter others." ”

Tanma said: "Yes, my lord." ”

Yang Yangyang rode over on a war horse, "My lord, there are three captives who are sick late at night, and now they have a high fever that does not go away, vomiting and diarrhea, and they can't move forward, how to deal with it?" ”

Zhang Qiang waved his hand, "Tie it to a boulder and throw it like a lake." ”

Yang Yangyang didn't have any expression and continued: "But for some reason, there are also twenty soldiers who have just finished eating and are sick. ”

Zhang Qiang frowned deeply, "Put it on the pack horse or vehicle, send someone to find the doctor in the town, tie up the doctor's family, and heal it with the army." ”

Solving these problems, Zhang Qiang ordered the team to move forward.

He saw that many people had sore legs and feet, and he couldn't help but wonder, could it be that someone was making trouble in secret?

At the moment, we can't investigate it carefully, we can only urge the team to move forward.

The procession marched ten miles slowly, and then rested once, and in the afternoon, but fifteen miles forward, from time to time mules and horses were trampled on, and the carriage overturned, making the procession chaotic, and moving more and more slowly.

In a place dozens of miles away from this Zhang Qiang, a large army is getting faster and faster, Fan Shaozu sat on his horse, looked at the Qing soldiers who ran by in a hurry, and said to Ruan Jie beside him: "Chief Ruan, have you ever sent someone to find out, Zhu Yujian is really in Pinghu?" ”

Ruan Jie said: "Someone in Gutian County came to report, saying that the puppet emperor Longwu was being picked up by the Jinhua Righteous Army thousands of people in the army, the humble post heard the news, did not dare to slack off, urgently reported to the adult, accelerated the march, and only then met with the adult here, the humble duty felt that the army should start from Daqiao Town, go east, go over the mountain and intercept the Ming army at another intersection, according to the humble estimate, within one day, will be able to catch up with the puppet emperor Longwu and capture Shangjing. ”

Fan Shaozu said: "But the Jinhua Righteous Army is powerful, and our army is afraid that it will not be defeated." ”

Ruan Jie said: "My lord, the Jinhua Righteous Army is near Pingnan County, as long as we block the 1,000 Righteous Army at the northern foothills, with tens of thousands of troops and the Portuguese musket team, it should not be difficult." ”

Fan Shaozu said: "Okay, you immediately send cavalry to the east, you must stop them in the north mountain pass, wait for my army to come, I must urge the army to join you in time, and when the time comes, take the puppet emperor Longwu, send Yanjing, I will be promoted to the governor, and you will be promoted to the capital of Zhejiang and Fujian." ”

"Master Xie's cultivation, his humble position must be full of liver and brain, and he will do his best for the adults." Ruan Jie said respectfully.

He was the general of the Ming army who took the initiative to surrender to Fan Shaozu again after Ruan Wu, Ruan Shu and others.

It's just that Ruan Wu and Ruan Shu, after being captured by Zhang Qiang, returned to the camp of Lu Jianguo, and he was disappointed in the camp of Lu Jianguo, and took the initiative to surrender, he didn't want to nest on pirates, and he was afraid for a lifetime, and was finally wiped out by the Qing Dynasty, which was becoming more and more powerful and more stable.

The three thousand cavalry swept through the ranks like a hurricane, causing a curse and disappearing in Fan Shaozu's eyes.

At dusk, Zhang Qiang led the team to another Daqiao Town, and the total marching mileage was only more than 20 miles.

Zhang Qiang was dissatisfied with this speed and urged to continue the march.

Xiao Yuanwai said to Zhang Qiang: "Lord Commander, the family members are already tired, all the way, the soldiers are tired, why don't you spend the night here, and march again tomorrow?" ”

Zhang Qiang glared at him, ignored him, and shouted, "Speed up, don't stop." ”

The procession had gone five more miles, and it was already dark.

Xiao Yuanwai frowned, rode a donkey, and found Su Guansheng in the middle of the team, "Master Su, are you going to travel all night?" ”

Su Guansheng said: "Outside Xiao Yuan, you should ask General Zhang about this, everything is his arrangement." ”

Xiao Yuanwai whispered: "Can the emperor endure such fatigue? ”

Su Guansheng smiled, he didn't tell Xiao Yuanwai that when he escaped from Tingzhou Mansion, Zhu Yujian had endured things that were even more tiring than this, sleeping in the open air, being frightened, attacked by wolves, and the tigers roaring in the mountains and forests at night, more than a dozen of them were huddled together and shivering, if it weren't for the luck, if it weren't for the desperate guards around them, they would have been fed to the wolves, eaten by the tigers, or caught and beheaded by Li Chengdong.

Xiao Yuanwai said that Su Guansheng was not moved, and said in a low voice: "The villain's family is tired, and occasionally has a fever, my lord, go and talk to Mr. Zhang, let the team rest for one night before leaving." ”

Su Guansheng was timid, his heart softened, and he said: "Yes, Xiao is a meritorious minister, but I can't let your family suffer, I'll go talk to the emperor to see if I can rest for a while, it's not safe to travel at night." ”

Xiao Yuanwai nodded hurriedly, "Yes, too." The two men discussed rest.

Far away in Pingnan County, dozens of kilometers away, Tang Dianfeng and Gu Yuesheng were busy.

After a few days of testing and adjustment, Zhang Cunzhe's tens of thousands of Qing soldiers finally gathered together, blocked the retreat of Zhang Qiang's army, and launched an attack on Pingnan County, the two sides of the Tanma first fought in the field twenty miles, with Zhang Cunzhe's Tanma scouts victorious, Tang Dianfeng sent out the cavalry and Tanma were either captured, or driven back to the county, the strategic space was suppressed to the territory of Pingnan County, and then Zhang Cunzhe's infantry followed, occupied a lot of intersections, and surrounded Pingnan County from three sides.

Tang Dianfeng sent out two thousand righteous soldiers to guard the ferry, and sent two thousand young men to guard two mountain passes, at this time, these 4,000 troops fought with Zhang Cunzhe's five or six thousand green battalion Qing soldiers, and the news was constantly reported to Tang Dianfeng like flowing water.

"The Beishan Pass was lost, the Qing army occupied the ridge and blocked the exit, and Dongshan was fighting fiercely, asking for reinforcements."

Tang Dianfeng looked at Gu Yuesheng, "Brother Gu, I order you to lead a thousand infantry and two thousand captive soldiers, and you must take Beishan and take these two mountain passes back for me." ”

"Yes, Commander." Gu Yuesheng is now a garrison of a thousand households, with the same official rank as Yang Yangyang.

Tang Dianfeng watched Gu Yuesheng lead the troops away, and before he could breathe, a cavalryman ran to the city, "My lord, the ferry has been attacked by more than 8,000 Qing soldiers, and it is about to be lost, please send troops to rescue them." ”

Tang Dianfeng sighed, why now, why don't you wait for the adults to come back?

He turned to the two hundred households and said, "You lead a hundred cavalry, five hundred infantry, three hundred musketeers, and three thousand captives to reinforce the ferry, and you must not let the Qing soldiers cross the river." ”

"Yes, sir."

After a while, "Your Excellency, there is an enemy probing horse in the southern mountain pass, and according to the report of the patrolling soldiers, more than 2,000 enemy troops will arrive in an instant. ”

Tang Dianfeng held on to the battlements of the city wall, "Hold on, I will send someone to support you." ”

Turning back to a thousand households, he said: "Lead 500 young people, 300 righteous troops, and 1,000 captive soldiers to hold the southern mountain pass." ”

One of his generals, who was also from the rebel army, said: "My lord, it is better to shrink the troops, and hold on to the fortified city, the terrain here is dangerous, you can hold on until the adults come back, and let the adults decide." ”

Tang Dianfeng said angrily: "What do you know, your lord must come back from the west and south, if I retreat into the city at this moment, is it possible for him to come back?" He doesn't have many troops around him, so how can he be well if he is blocked out of the city by the enemy? ”

He slammed his fist on the battlement, "You must hold out until the adults come back, and you must not leave the adults outside the city." ”