Chapter 23 East Factory
Although Chen Gui's cavalry team was completely annihilated in this battle, and dozens of people in the vanguard battalion were killed or wounded, the Qi family's army itself suffered serious losses, and there were 23 soldiers killed or wounded and captured, accounting for one-third of the total number. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
And everyone who participated in the war, everyone was injured, even Guo Sheng and Wang Guoxing had a few shallow wounds on their bodies.
"Fortunately, we are out of Li Zicheng's sphere of influence, and the road after that should not be so dangerous." Li Hongfei sighed.
He didn't expect that after leaving last night, the next battle would be more intense, although Wang Guoxing only described it lightly, but it was not difficult for Li Hongfei to imagine the situation at that time, if he was not careful, he might end up with the annihilation of the whole army.
Now that he has finally entered the sphere of influence of the Ming army, as long as Chongzhen's true identity is not revealed, there should be no trouble.
"It's not that simple, we traveled all the way from Jizhou, and found that there were rout refugees everywhere, and there were even many mountain bandits who took advantage of the fire to rob, and it was not easy for our group to go south." Guo Sheng said as he stuffed food into his mouth.
In fact, it is not only the mountain bandits and the rout, but also the local garrison.
The whole north is now in a mess, and without the constraints of the central government, the garrisons in various places have begun to frantically arrest strong men to fill the army in order to protect themselves, and even the migrating refugees have not let go.
The government will set up checkpoints on the official roads to and fro, and if they find that the refugees are quite strong, they will all be pulled into the barracks.
In addition, many mountain bandits also followed the example of the official army and took people up the mountain, the men fell into the grass as cowards, and the women naturally became the ladies of the village.
Therefore, once Chongzhen's identity is concealed, it is still difficult to cross the border safely.
"We are also the Ming army, do the government dare to embarrass us?" Li Hongfei expressed disbelief.
"Don't dare to be embarrassed? When we came from Jizhou, there were more than 500 people, but what happened? These dozens of brothers still quietly slipped out of the barracks! "Guo Sheng didn't have a good air.
Last night's battle was really aggrieved, if all the Qi family's troops could be present, why should he flee in a hurry, just ignore his cavalry and infantry, and just push all the way over.
This feeling of being chased away by ducks is the first time since the Qi family army became an army.
After Guo Sheng's reminder, Li Hongfei also realized the problem, they are not many in number, and they will indeed not attract Zhu Chunchen's attention, but the king of Hades is good, the little ghosts are difficult, and the leading bosses have begun to annex the army.
In this way, it is indeed difficult to cross the border smoothly.
"Then what if we walk day and night, try to take as few official roads as possible, and avoid the local government?" Li Hongfei proposed again.
Today's China can be said to be vast and sparsely populated, Li Hongfei does not believe that the government can set up cards on all roads, as long as he puts more effort into it, he will always be able to pass the test smoothly.
"It's too late, I just received the news, in Foxiao, Li Zicheng raised troops to attack Qihuamen again, and there was also a team of 10,000 people, who went straight to Dongzhimen out of Andingmen, and it won't be long before it will become a battlefield." The eunuch Wang Chengen walked in from outside the door with a note in his hand.
Dongzhi Gate and Qihua Gate are not far away, Li Zicheng walked to Qihua Gate, and had to carry out a siege battle, but to go to Dongzhi Gate, it is equivalent to going around to the north of Zhu Chunchen's troops, directly fighting with it, if Zhu Chunchen wants to meet Li Zicheng, then Li Hongfei and others are near the broken temple, it will definitely become a battlefield, maybe Zhu Chunchen's troops at this moment have been dispatched here.
"How do you know the movements of Li Zicheng's army?" Li Hongfei said curiously.
At this time, it was only about an hour and a half before dawn, and Wang Chengen actually inquired about the situation on the side of Qihuamen, which was too godly!
"The miscellaneous family was given by the saint last night as the eunuch of the palm seal of the East Investigation Factory, and this news is a flying pigeon transmission that has just been received from a Dongchang stronghold outside the city." Wang Chengen said.
The East Investigation Factory is referred to as the East Factory, and its functions are similar to those of Jinyiwei, because it is directly appointed by the emperor, and its power is relatively greater.
Dongchang eyeline is all over the Ming Dynasty, just in the capital, there are as many as 20 strongholds, which is similar to the township police station in later generations, each stronghold is responsible for local intelligence collection, public security supervision.
In order to ensure that he could quickly receive orders from his superiors, carrier pigeons were fed in various strongholds, although Li Zicheng had already invaded Beijing, but he had not had time to clean up the eyeliner in the city, so Wang Chengen found a stronghold outside the city before dawn.
Originally, he wanted to let the Dongchang fans help arrange the crossing of the Qi family's army, but he got this important information by mistake.
"Li Zicheng sent people to Andingmen, is it because of the loss of troops last night and revenge?" Li Hongfei analyzed.
"What's the use of discussing this now, let's get out of here." Qi Hongying also walked into the broken temple and began to urge everyone to leave.
Last night fought until the early hours of the morning, Wang Guoxing and the others didn't even rest for two hours, and now they have to continue to hurry, which is really hard.
Of course, the one who is most reluctant to rush is Li Hongfei, because he has not yet learned to ride a horse, and he offended Qi Hongying not long ago, it is estimated that the man who will download him is the "biological weapon" again.
However, when Li Hongfei came to the open space outside, he found that there were two carriages parked here, and he didn't know if Qi Hongying or Wang Chengen got it.
But these are not important, the important thing is that Li Hongfei does not have to ride a horse, which is a great blessing for him.
Zhu Youzhen had already taken off his armor and put on a set of Ming officials' clothes, and at this time, with the support of Wang Chengen, he boarded one of the carriages, while Li Hongfei and Chen Yuanyuan rode in the other car.
"Xiangche, beauty, not bad, it's finally in line with the treatment of my military advisor." Li Hongfei said with satisfaction.
As the emperor's military advisor, how can he ride with a sloppy ghost? This is a serious loss of royal status, okay.
As for running, Li Hongfei, as a traverser, can be said to be not even familiar with the basic road conditions, so he can't give any effective advice at all, so he can only be led by Qi Hongying, a local snake, and run towards the front.
The whole team was cavalry, and it was daytime, so the march was quite fast.
Along the way, as Guo Sheng said, the Ming army set up cards on the official road.
However, when these officers and soldiers who set up cards heard that Li Zicheng's army was chasing after them, they ran faster than rabbits one by one, and did not stop the team investigating Qi Hongying at all, which made Guo Sheng, who originally planned to break through, call it boring.
PS: The recent update is not very stable, because the end of the year is approaching, there are more things, and I hope you will forgive me.