Chapter 47: Rescue

The Gongyi battalion will attack in disguise, and the Qing army will also attack in makeup.

When Wang Kefan rescued Empress Zeng's mother and son, he happened to have a fork with another vanguard of the Qing army, which was less than 80 people, and with a few Han scouts from the green battalion, he broke directly into the city of Tingzhou.

They hid in the woods outside the city, and then sent two Eight Banner soldiers and a green battalion scout to go up to call the city gate, claiming to be the guard of the university scholar He Wusu, the green camp scout was a southern accent, and the Ming army guarding the gate did not suspect him, and was frightened by the name of the old He Wuqi Pavilion, so they opened the city gate.

The three Qing soldiers immediately turned their faces and made a move, cutting down a few Ming soldiers guarding the door, and the Qing soldiers behind rushed in, forced the Ming army prisoners with knives, and learned that Longwu went to the mansion, so they swarmed to the Tingzhou mansion to kill.

Everyone wants to kill Emperor Longwu and make a great contribution!

The Manchu Qing Dynasty saw that it was about to win the world, and the new dynasty had a new atmosphere, and various reforms were underway, one of the most important of which was the reform of the Eight Banners system, and the soldiers of the Eight Banners changed from part-time robbers who were also soldiers and peasants to professional soldiers of the state apparatus, and began to receive "hardcore crops" and fixed annual rice, except for soldiers and errands, banner people were not allowed to look for jobs in society......

Before the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the soldiers of the Eight Banners were soldiers when they went out, and they were for the people when they entered, and they lived by farming and robbery, but now they have become hereditary civil servants, and the determined flag salary and age can be passed down from generation to generation, and the children and grandchildren are endless.

Therefore, these Qing soldiers were so bold that eighty people dared to kill them in the city.

If Emperor Longwu can be captured alive, the credit will definitely be greater, but there are too few of them, and it is difficult to retreat with Emperor Longwu, so Daizi, who led the troops, instructed everyone (Daizi, a low-level officer of the Eight Banners). When he saw Emperor Longwu, he started and cut off his head directly......

In the Tingzhou Mansion, there is already a mess at the moment.

The courtyard wall of the palace is very high, and there are dozens of native soldiers inside, as well as three classes of officials and several military attachés, plus more than a dozen guards of Emperor Longwu, as long as the gate is closed, they can hold on and wait for help, but at this moment, everyone is in a mess and wants to escape quickly.

Follow basic common sense. As long as the city gate is closed, even if it is an army of thousands of people, it is not a simple matter to break through a capital city, I heard that the Qing army entered Tingzhou City, and everyone's first reaction was that the army of Tartars had arrived. was able to break through Tingzhou City so quickly, but he didn't expect that there were only eighty Qing soldiers entering the city.

The city is broken!

The Manchu army has arrived!

Run!

“bixia。 Please follow me out of the city through the south gate......"

Wu Decao is mediocre. There are many problems in the management of Tingzhou City, but he is very loyal to Emperor Longwu, with dozens of local soldiers and servants, to protect Emperor Longwu to "break through".

Emperor Longwu followed him out of the palace, thinking about something while running, and his face was very ugly.

"Someone must have surrendered the city!"

Emperor Longwu's military common sense was very poor. He had no idea about the speed of the march, and he didn't think that it would be impossible for the Manchu army to arrive so quickly, but he was the king of a country in the end, and he was much calmer than Wu Decao and others. I have already realized that there is something wrong with this matter - Tingzhou City was lost too quickly, and there must be something wrong inside.

Based on the experience of Jianning and Nanping, Emperor Longwu immediately concluded that someone had colluded with the Manchus and surrendered the city.

"The minister is willing to guarantee with his life, my Tingzhou soldiers and civilians are loyal, and they are by no means traitors......" Wu Decao was taken aback, the traitors are more terrible than the enemy, but think about it carefully, Tingzhou is thousands of miles away from Zhejiang, and the Qing army has just entered Fujian, so it is impossible for his subordinates to have any collusion with them.

"If you want to say that, it's the Jiangxi soldiers!" Emperor Longwu was nervous by the successive betrayals, looking at everyone like a traitor, the Jiangxi soldiers did not come sooner or later, but they came to Tingzhou two days ago, it did seem very strange, nine times out of ten they came to him Emperor Longwu.

"I see! Weichen was guilty, and if he didn't investigate for a while, he actually fell for the trick of the thief! Wu Decao was full of remorse, he didn't expect that Wang Kefan to be so treacherous that he became a sinner of the Ming Dynasty.

"Let's go, if the thieves close the city gate first, we won't be able to leave......"

Emperor Longwu had just said halfway through, there was a shout of killing behind him, and when he looked back, a group of Eight Banner soldiers chased after him, and Wu Decao's native soldiers and servants shouted and fled, and more than half of them dispersed in a blink of an eye.

The guards hurriedly stopped to meet the battle, they were all masters of one in a hundred, plus several military attaches from Tingzhou Mansion, barely blocked the chasing Eight Banners.

"Bixia, let's go!" The two Shangshu Guo Weijing shouted loudly, and Wu Decao pulled Emperor Longwu to leave, and there were more and more Eight Banner soldiers coming from behind, and these guards couldn't last long.

"If you can't leave, I'll sacrifice my life for the country here!" Emperor Longwu raised his sword and wanted to rush up and fight with the Eight Banners.

People definitely can't run away from the war horse, he runs for his life alone, and if he runs again, he just brings humiliation on himself, so he simply chooses to die with dignity.

"In the history books in the future, will I, Zhu Yujian, be the king of the Ming Dynasty?"

Emperor Longwu held a sword in his hand, his expression was resolute, but his heart suddenly felt a trance, mixed feelings, unwilling, helpless, and regretful...... Thinking of Empress Zeng and the newborn prince, I still feel a little guilty.

Forget it, I don't care about it, martyrdom like Emperor Chongzhenlie is one thing Zuihou can do......

"Boom! Boom! Knock ......"

Suddenly, there was a rhythmic drum sound, and Emperor Longwu was stunned, he had never heard this kind of marching drum sound.

"Wow, whoa, whoa......"

Followed by the sound of neat footsteps, Emperor Longwu looked up, and a neat phalanx of soldiers appeared in front of him, slowly moving forward, and the red flag fluttering in the wind in front of the phalanx showed that they were a Ming army.

This phalanx is lined up horizontally, vertically in columns, each soldier is like pouring out of a mold, carrying a spear obliquely on his shoulder, full of the beauty of order, and revealing a strong sense of slaughter, even people who do not understand military affairs, can see at a glance that this is an elite division.

"Governor Wu, Wu Aiqing, is this your Tingzhou soldier?!" Emperor Longwu was excited.

"No, this, this seems to be the Jiangxi soldiers!" Wu Decao was a little confused, he had seen the Jiangxi soldiers when they entered the city, although they felt that the discipline was very good, but they didn't have such a murderous aura, how could they be on the battlefield, these Jiangxi soldiers were like a different person!

"Jiangxi soldiers?!" Emperor Longwu was shocked, were they here to rescue the driver, or did they come to hijack the driver?

The Eight Banners also realized that something was wrong, leaving only seven or eight people to resist Emperor Longwu's guards, and the other Eight Banners began to line up, preparing to meet the new Ming army. No matter how high the martial arts of those guards are, they still fight in groups, and they don't care, and when they encounter this kind of real regular army, they must unify their command and fight in formation.

At this moment, the phalanx of the Ming army had already arrived in front of Emperor Longwu, and the soldiers glanced at Emperor Longwu, Guo Weijing and others, and continued to move forward expressionlessly, stopping between the Eight Banners and them.

"It's a rescue!" Emperor Longwu felt a burst of ecstasy in his heart, followed by a burst of guilt, it turned out that he had wrongly blamed the good people!

"Hey, ask someone, where is the emperor grandfather of the Ming Dynasty?" Shi Ada, who was now a sentry officer and the commander of this army, looked at Emperor Longwu, Guo Weijing, and Wu Decao, with a puzzled look on his face.

"I am the son of tomorrow today!" Emperor Longwu took a step forward and also looked at Shi Ada, seeing that he had a rough face, but with a loyal appearance, he already had some love in his heart.

"Not like! Isn't this dress a dragon robe? Shi Alianlian shook his head repeatedly, Emperor Longwu had just changed his clothes in the palace, and he didn't see anything special in his ordinary clothes.

"The dragon robe is not worn every day, hey, I'll show you this." As soon as Emperor Longwu stretched out his hand, he took out the jade seal from his arms, Shi A's eyes lit up, he had seen this thing, it was handed over to the Ming court by Li Guo.

"Oh, the emperor's grandfather is above, please forgive the last general with armor on his body, he can't pay the full salute!"

Shi Adaa hugged his fists and learned the jiashi in the play, Emperor Longwu smiled, and was about to say something, but Shi Adaa turned around and ignored him, and gave a loud order.

"Raise your gun!"

The soldiers of the Gongyi battalion put down their spears and put them in their hands, and the Dai Zi of the Qing army on the opposite side narrowed his eyes, daring to raise his guns when he was so close, firstly, to save physical strength, and secondly, to have absolute self-confidence.

This Ming army is not easy to deal with!

Although his subordinates are all elites of the Eight Banners, they rushed to Tingzhou in a long-distance raid, and they did not rest all the way in order to grab merit, and only ate two mouthfuls of dry food indiscriminately before entering the city, and their mental and physical strength were not in the best condition, and the war horses under their crotch were already tired, and it was difficult to say whether they could defeat this Ming army.

"Forward!" The spear formation of the Gongyi battalion moved forward again, and the archers and musketeers behind followed, leaving a small force to protect Emperor Longwu, and the others continued to advance.

At this time, Emperor Longwu's guards and Eight Banners soldiers had stopped fighting, and several Eight Banners soldiers hurriedly retreated to join the queue, and the guards also returned to Emperor Longwu's side and watched the battle honestly.

At this time, Emperor Longwu and the others also saw that the number of the Eight Banners was not large, but they were all riding war horses, and they still looked like they were several layers thick.

"Yunji, can our army win?" Although the number of the Ming army was obviously superior, the fame of the Eight Banners was too great, and Emperor Longwu's heart was still very nervous.

"Our army is like a rainbow, and it will win!" Guo Weijing said categorically, but he clenched his fists tightly under his hands.

On the opposite side of the Qing army, Dai Zi suddenly whistled, and eighty Eight Banner soldiers urged the horses to rush quickly, like a wall composed of war horses, pressing towards the spear array, and the sound of horses' hooves was like a dense war drum, almost suppressing the marching drums of the Gongyi battalion.

Emperor Longwu, Guo Weijing, Wu Decao, and all the guards were wide-eyed, and were suppressed by the momentum of this cavalry charge, compared with the tall cavalry, those pikemen were like children in front of adults, and they were about to be trampled under the hooves of the Qing army.

"Huh!"

The spear array suddenly stopped again, and the soldiers of the Gongyi battalion in the front row bowed down slightly, the spears in their hands were slanted on the ground, and the tips of the snowy guns were erected to the height of a person, like rows of repulsive rifles standing on the ground. (To be continued......)