Chapter Forty-Six: Saving the Phoenix
The gatekeeper ordered someone to report the news first, and then took Emperor Longwu to the Tingzhou Mansion, just arrived outside the Mansion Yamen, Tingzhou Governor Wu Decao hurriedly greeted him, and immediately knelt down and kowtowed when he saw Emperor Longwu.
"The minister is late, please forgive you!"
As soon as he knelt down, several subordinate officials who came out quickly knelt down, and after seeing the ceremony, he hurriedly let Emperor Longwu and his party into the palace, and ordered people to cook soup and prepare meals, and take clean clothes for everyone to change.
Emperor Longwu wiped his face indiscriminately and asked, "How many soldiers and horses do you have in Tingzhou Mansion?" ”
"There are less than three hundred officers and soldiers in armor, and there are hundreds of miscellaneous soldiers."
"So little?" Emperor Longwu was very disappointed, he wanted to transfer a group of men and horses to save Empress Zeng, but three hundred officers and soldiers were definitely not enough.
"There were originally 1,000 officers and soldiers in Tingzhou, and Fu Lao was ordered to rescue Ganzhou and transferred more than 600 people." The old Fu in Wu Decao's mouth was referring to Fu Guan, he thought for a while and said: "But there is still a Jiangxi soldier in the city, about six or seven hundred people. ”
"Regardless of the Jiangxi soldiers or the Fujian soldiers, call their main generals...... "Emperor Longwu is a little strange, how could a Jiangxi soldier emerge in Tingzhou, Jiangxi's combatable soldiers have been transferred to Ganzhou by 10,000 yuan, this Jiangxi soldier is estimated to be useless, but in any case, it is always a good thing to have soldiers available.
He instructed Wu Decao a few more words, telling him that the pursuers of the Qing army were behind and that he must be on guard.
Wu Decao answered, went down to arrange, Emperor Longwu also sat down to eat, and it didn't take long for Wu Decao to come back.
"Qiyu Bixia, the commander of the Jiangxi soldiers will not be here, I heard that I went out of the city......"
As soon as he was halfway through speaking, he heard a great chaos outside the mansion, and the sound of killing shook the sky!
Emperor Longwu's face changed, he stood up and walked out, and several guards hurriedly took their blades to follow, and had just arrived at Yimen. A few people rushed in from outside in a panic, led by the goalkeeper who had met once.
"Hooray! Run! The Tartars have entered the city! ”
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When the rain finally stopped, Wang Kefan stood on top of a dirt slope, holding a telescope in his hand, and searched carefully into the distance.
Nothing found!
The field of vision was empty, and Emperor Longwu had either not arrived yet, or had not taken this road.
Details, Wang Kefan doesn't know the details of history, such as this nasty heavy rain.
The history books only say that Emperor Longwu fled from Nanping to Tingzhou, which is separated by hundreds of miles. There are several big roads and small roads, and there are still waterways to walk, and no one knows which way Emperor Longwu took. The only thing Wang Kefan can be sure of is that Emperor Longwu successfully escaped to Tingzhou City, so he can only wait for the rabbit in Tingzhou.
If you arrive a few days early. With a large army to Nanping, it is unpredictable what Emperor Longwu will react to. It is unpredictable how the Qing army will react. In case of a fork with Emperor Longwu, in case of an accident, Emperor Longwu may hang up directly in Nanping.
It is the safest way to let history develop according to its original trajectory and push it at key points.
Of course, there is also Wang Kefan's selfishness here. The rescue was saved too early, and it did not show credit.
So he deliberately stuck in time and rushed to Tingzhou with the vanguard two days ago, but the main force of the Gongyi battalion was lagging behind. so as not to alarm the scouts of the Qing army. Wang Kefan's Jihua was very simple, the vanguard rescued Emperor Longwu, and the main force of the Gongyi battalion blocked Boluo's pursuers and escaped in time to return to Jiangxi.
Gongyi Battalion was not familiar with life in Fujian, and he had no intention of fighting to the death with the Qing army.
Everything was going according to Jihua, but this sudden rainstorm disrupted Wang Kefan's Jihua.
This rainstorm is not recorded in the history books, has no substantial impact on the Qing army, and has no impact on the outcome of Emperor Longwu's death in Tingzhou, and even one of the reasons for Emperor Longwu's death in Tingzhou, the only victim is Wang Kefan.
Such heavy rain will cause flash floods and muddy roads, which will delay the arrival of the main force of the Gongyi battalion!
It's a bit out of control!
The rain was too heavy, and several scouts sent did not come back for a long time, Wang Kefan couldn't wait any longer, and took his own army out of Tingzhou City, and searched in the direction of Nanping along the main road, hoping to find Emperor Longwu as soon as possible.
Nanping is in the northeast of Tingzhou, which way will Emperor Longwu take? Go Ninghua? Take the clear stream? Walking through the city? Or maybe it's a different path? Wang Kefan hesitated, chose the nearest road, and searched thirty miles outside the city, but found nothing.
A different path!
Another way!
Arrived at a small road, Wang Kefan finally discovered the situation, there was a headless corpse of the Gongyi Battalion scout on the ground, and the war horse was gone, carefully inspect the wound, this scout had just died not long ago, and should have died under the tiger tooth knife of the Eight Banners.
Look for!
Wang Kefan took out the waist tag from the scout's corpse, put it in his arms, and then ordered the pro-soldiers to search back and forth, looking for other traces, and searched all the way.
Broken blades, broken branches, and another corpse, Guandi Temple...... Suddenly, there was a sound of fighting from the front, and there was a faint cry of a baby.
Wang Kefan hurriedly urged the war horse and rushed straight over with his own army.
Eight Banners!
Wang Meng!
The two teams of cavalry were fighting, the number of the Qing army was smaller, and they were fighting and retreating, and there was a Eight Banners soldier who did not participate in the battle, leading a middle-aged woman holding a child with a rope noose, and the woman staggered, Wang Kefan only glanced at it, and guessed who she was.
Empress Zeng!
Wang Kefan immediately rushed forward, and the Eight Banners soldier found that something was wrong, pulled the rope sleeve into his arms with one hand, and raised the tiger tooth knife with the other, wanting to kill Queen Zeng's mother and son first. Wang Kefan slashed the rope with a swing, Queen Zeng was caught off guard, fell backwards, and the child in her arms immediately took off her hand and flew out......
"It's broken!" Wang Kefan was shocked, this must be the crown prince, something is going to happen!
The little baby flew into the air, his two little hands were raised high, still crying loudly, and under him was a large and small mess of rocks, how high this person fell, the consequences were unimaginable!
"Stride, stomp!"
One of his own soldiers suddenly rushed forward, let go of his sword, threw forward with all his might, and caught the crown prince, who fell from his horse with a thud, and his head hit the stone, and although he was protected by a helmet, blood immediately appeared, but he held the crown prince in his hand.
Empress Zeng had just sat up on the ground, and when she saw this scene, her body went weak and fell down.
"Li Gouzi, with you, reward you as a personal soldier captain!" Wang Kefan was surprised and delighted, and swung his horse chopping knife vigorously, cutting down the Eight Banners soldiers from his horse with one sword.
Nearly 100 pro-soldiers joined the battle group, surrounded more than a dozen Eight Banner soldiers in the middle, and killed them all in less than a quarter of an hour. (To be continued......)