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Guangdong Governor Ye Mingchen was anxious!

I don't know what happened to Shaozhou City, but I must not be captured by the long-haired thief army!

Originally, Ye Mingchen was still in a good mood. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoA few days ago, because Xu Guangjin, the former governor of Liangguang, was appointed as the minister of Qincha and the governor of Huguang, he was urgently ordered to go to Hunan to deal with the recovery of Changsha, and the governor of Liangguang was vacant, and he Ye Mingchen was promoted by the imperial court from the governor of Guangdong to the governor of Liangguang, although for the time being, he was still --- acting as an agent of the "agency", but everyone knew that as long as there was no big mess, he could remove the signature and become one of the nine highest-ranking feudal ministers of the Qing Dynasty.

But it's still a mess!

Half a month ago, the prefect of Shaozhou reported urgently that neighboring Chenzhou had been captured by long-haired thieves from Guangxi. It was a matter of a neighboring province, and he didn't pay much attention to it, but just asked the Shaozhou prefect to strengthen its defense. Unexpectedly, three days ago, the prefect of Shaozhou urgently reported that a large army of long-haired thieves had invaded the territory of Lechang, the capital of Shaozhou, and had the intention of marching south, but he was afraid that the capital of Shaozhou would be difficult to defend.

Big bandits! How much exactly? The flood defense soldiers in this place are rice buckets, could it be that Liu Kaiyu, the chief soldier of Nanshao Lian Town, has also become a rice bucket? After doing it for a long time, I couldn't even figure out the approximate number of thieves.

Angry and angry, for Shaozhou Mansion, he Ye Mingchen still has to be saved! Not to mention that he has just assumed the position of acting governor of Liangguang, just because his post as governor of Guangdong is still on his head, and the crime of losing the state capital and losing his land, with the strictness of the imperial court, it is a blessing not to say that he has been promoted.

He hurriedly organized his troops, all the way along the Beijiang River, all the way the infantry army took a boat in the Beijiang River upstream, rushed to rescue Shaozhou.

When I think of this, I can't help but sigh! In this Manchu court, no matter how high the Han people were officials, they could not be trusted. He Ye Mingchen was loyal to the imperial court, but after all, he was a Han Chinese, and he had just taken over the position of acting governor, and wanted to raise the troops of the Seven Towns, but the hateful Guangzhou general Mu Tern relied on himself to be a person with a white flag and did not take himself seriously, so he only allowed Yingde Town and the left and right battalions of the Shunde Association, the left and right battalions of the Chixi Association and the right battalion of Qingyuan to cooperate with him. However, he, the acting governor, is one level lower than the general of Guangzhou in terms of actual status, and he is also a banner man, so even if he participates in a book, it will be useless.

Fortunately, coupled with the direct troops of the superintendent and Fubiao that he can mobilize, he can also get together more than 5,000 people in total.

It should be enough. Last year, he only led 3,000 soldiers, and in less than a month, he wiped out tens of thousands of rebellious parties in the Lianzhou area. It can be seen that although the chaotic parties are numerous, they are backward in weaponry and equipment, and they have no organized training, so as long as they hold down the formation, they will naturally be defeated within a few days.

Ye Mingchen was thinking about what was on his mind, when suddenly the spies came to report, saying that it was the river ahead, and he met the Taoist of Nanshao Company, and led more than 100 soldiers down the Beijiang River by boat and escaped from Shaozhou. Could it be that Shaozhou has been lost? Ye Mingchen only felt that his heart was tight, and he hurriedly asked people to invite Xianghe to his boat to ask about the situation.

"Peacefully meet Ye Junmen!" Maybe he was frightened, Xianghe didn't care about the temperament of the Han people who usually looked down on him, and grabbed Ye Mingchen like a life-saving straw, and said: "Finally looking forward to Ye Junmen, hurry up with me to rescue Shaozhou City, if it's too late, I'm afraid the thief army will attack the city." Xianghe's brain spun fast, and he said that it was obviously an escape, but he desperately went out of the city to report the news in order to save Shaozhou City.

"Lord Xianghe, don't worry, how is the strength of the thief army? What about the situation in Shaozhou? As soon as Ye Mingchen heard that the bandits had not yet attacked the city, he relieved himself and inquired about the situation with Xianghe.

"The military gate, there are many long-haired thieves, but I am afraid of no less than tens of thousands. It's just that the long-haired thieves marched slowly, and they did not arrive at the city of Shaozhou to attack the city. By the way, I don't know how many troops the military gate has? Xianghe asked cautiously.

"Ben Du led 5,000 warriors to exterminate a gang of bandits, which should be enough."

"Only 5,000 soldiers? There are too few military gates, and more troops must be sent to come over! Xianghe said hurriedly, perhaps knowing that what he said was a bit abrupt, he explained: "Liu Kaiyu, the chief soldier of Nanshaolian Town, led more than 3,000 people in Shaozhou City to meet the bandits, but the whole army was wiped out. It can be seen that this group of long-haired thieves is fierce, and the military gate is cautious. ”

"What? The whole family of 3,000 soldiers in Nanshaolian Town was wiped out? What about Mr. Liu? Ye Mingchen realized that this army of long-haired thieves was unusual. For Liu Kaiyu, he knows that there is still a set of wars, and he led 3,000 soldiers to wipe out his whole family, so he will not be good there.

"Mr. Liu does not know his whereabouts. Most of them died in battle! Alas! Peacefully rubbed his eyes. I made up my mind at the bottom of my heart that as soon as the situation was wrong, I immediately looked for an opportunity to run away.

Something is wrong! The general army of Nanshaolian Town has fallen, and it will inevitably be reported to the imperial court, and it seems that such a major event will not be able to hide it. For today's plan, we can only defend the capital city of Shaozhou first, and then send additional troops to come bravely to repel the bandits.

With his mind set up, Ye Mingchen ordered the Qing army to speed up the march, and at the same time sent more than 30 scouts to reconnoitre.

The fleet sailed into a valley called the Nether Beach, which is a canyon on both sides of the Beijiang River, sandwiched between the Beijiang River, and the mountains are dangerous. Tanmalai reported, the canyon on both sides of the river can not be searched on horseback, after detouring the canyon, a large number of footprints were found, and on the canyon, there were no birds in the mountains and forests, and it was suspected that there were long-haired thieves ambushing soldiers in the mountains and forests on the canyon.

Ye Mingchen hurriedly ordered the Qing army to stop advancing. The mountains are difficult to travel, the Qing army has a large number of artillery and other weapons, if you give up the waterway, change the route to the mountains and forests, it is bound to be difficult, I am afraid that the thief army has broken through Shaozhou at that time. Helplessly, Ye Mingchen ordered the Qing army to set up artillery and bombarded the mountains and forests above the canyon several rounds, blowing up smoke and dust, but there was no movement of the thief army, it seems that there are no long-haired thieves on the canyon.

Ye Mingchen was still not at ease, so the concession army abandoned the ship and landed on the shore, and went to the mountains and forests on the canyon to search, but there were no thieves, so he was relieved to be sure that there was no ambush.

However, this delayed for a few more hours. Hurriedly ordered everyone to lift the artillery onto the boat and continue up the river.

When he was about to pass out of the canyon, suddenly there were two loud noises, followed by more than ten earth-shaking loud noises, and at the end of the canyon behind him, a large cliff with woods and mud was blown up and collapsed, rolling into the river channel of the canyon, which actually blocked the river channel behind him.

"Not good! There is an ambush of thieves! All sergeants, transfer the ship's artillery equipment to the shore and hold on to the enemy! Ye Mingchen hurriedly gave an order to the general soldiers of Yingde Town who followed.

But in the canyon, there are steep rock walls on both sides, where can I move things? Fortunately, there was a piece of sand ahead, so I had to continue to move forward and order everyone to carry the ship's artillery and other objects to the beach.

As soon as half of the artillery was unloaded, a large area of bamboo rafts and planks and some small fishing boats floated from the upper reaches of the Beijiang River, all of which were already on fire, and a pungent smell of sulfur was still in the air. Obviously, the planks and fishing boats on the river were mixed with tung oil and sulfur, and they were lowered from the upstream and blocked the downstream, so that the Qing army fleet in the river was burned down.

Ye Mingchen's heart was so anxious that he shouted loudly, urging the Qing soldiers to quickly unload the boat and land on the shore, and on the other hand, he asked a team of Qing soldiers to cut down trees upstream to intercept the river to block the fire boat.

The Qing army finally unloaded all the artillery, knives, guns, gunpowder and other items on the ship, and wanted to unload the rest, but it was too late. I had to watch as more and more fireships rushed down the river, leaned onto the fleet, set fire to the Qing fleet, and burned all the grain, grass, and clothing on board.

The general army of Yingde Town urged everyone to set up artillery on the river beach and wait for the long-haired thief army to attack, but there was no one.

After the two pillars of incense, there was a pungent smoke drifting along the canyon, which was actually from the bamboo rafts floating upstream, and a lot of firewood and grass were put on the ground, and the wet leaves were covered, and a lot of smoke was generated.

At first, Ye Mingchen didn't care, but his eyes were red and tearful. After a while, I felt dizzy, nauseous and wanted to vomit, and couldn't help shouting in horror: "This smoke is poisonous!" Hurriedly ordered the Qing army to wrap their faces with a wet cloth and cover their mouths and noses.

But after all, it was necessary to breathe, and after a while, hundreds of Qing soldiers fell to the ground one after another.

Maybe it shouldn't be dead. Ye Mingchen was about to wait for death, when a personal guard beside him suddenly saw a large group of soldiers rushing to the edge of a recessed cave in the cliff of the canyon, "There is wind over there." The guards bravely squeezed away the soldiers and helped Ye Mingchen to the edge of the cave.

"Ahem", Ye Mingchen took a big breath of fresh air. It's a natural cave, and unfortunately, it's too small for one person to enter.

"Let the brothers of the guards take turns taking a few breaths. Then we cleaned up, threw away all the heavy stuff, and we walked back, carrying two boats over the blocked river, and we could escape. Ye Mingchen was ruthless and decided to abandon the rest of the Qing soldiers and flee with his own guards.