Chapter 599: Tai Sui's Head Breaks Ground (Third Watch)

When the Ming army was surrounded, almost everyone was asleep, unaware of the impending danger. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoNearly a month of trekking through mountains and rivers, so that the Ming army, including those Yongli officials, were extremely tired, and finally arrived at a safe place, thinking that they could rest in peace for a night, naturally everyone was lax, and they all slept soundly, and they never thought that Annan, who was a member of the Ming Dynasty, would suddenly turn his face and attack them.

When the incident abruptly began, the Ming army had no time to take precautions, and they were captured in a hurry. The soldiers of the King of Shu under Chen Jian, Guangping Bo, were directly disarmed by the Annan soldiers almost in their sleep, and the two camps that Chen Jian was in charge of were also controlled by the Annan soldiers in an instant.

Xu Yingyuan, Guo Shao, Liang Shuanghu and the scholar Fugang, Sun Shun, the secretary of the military department, and others were in the same camp as Princess Changle. After the incident, Xu Yingyuan was stunned there, and only came back to his senses after half a ring, but instead of thinking about saving the princess quickly, he took out the Yongli treasure and the forged holy decree that he had been hiding in his arms, and handed it to Princess Changle who was shocked by the movement outside and went out of the house to check in front of Fu Gang and others.

"This seal is the great treasure of the Son of Heaven, this will is the holy decree of the Son of Heaven to entitle the lord of my family as the king of Qi, the two things are very important, the ministers are afraid that they will be taken by the Annan people, and please Your Highness to collect them for the ministers! ... Your Royal Highness don't panic, Your Royal Highness is my princess of Daming, the Annan people are in turmoil, and they will not worry about the ministers, and they may be tortured and looted later, but the Annan people will never attack the princess, so as long as Your Highness doesn't say it, the Annan people will not know these two things! ”

After Xu Yingyuan finished speaking, Princess Changle was shocked: When did the Son of Heaven decree to canonize his prospective husband as the King of Qi, and how did this Son of Heaven fall into the hands of Xu Yingyuan?

Not only Princess Changle was surprised, but the scholar Fugang and others were even more shocked: how could they have never heard of such a big thing as the emperor canonizing Zhou Shixiang as the king of Qi?

Cheng Yuan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, opened his mouth and wanted to ask what was going on, but after thinking about it, he didn't speak, but stared thoughtfully at the jade seal that was in the hands of Her Royal Highness the Princess. If he remembered correctly, when he was in peace, the Son of Heaven seemed to have mentioned the loss of the great treasure.

Cheng Yuan thought of this section, how could Fu Gang, as a university scholar, not think of this section. The lost Son of Heaven Dabao reappeared, and a never-before-heard of will to canonize the prince came out, if Fugang couldn't see anything strange in this, he would be a scholar in vain. You must know that such a big matter as the canonization of the prince cannot be done by a holy decree of the Son of Heaven, but also needs to be done by the cabinet and the Ministry of Rites. Now that the cabinet assistant of Funai does not know, and Cheng Yuan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, does not know either, it is naturally not difficult to guess the authenticity of this holy decree.

Xu Yingyuan ignored the strange and puzzled eyes of the Yongli court officials around him, and only urged Her Royal Highness the princess to quickly put away these two things. Handing over things to Her Royal Highness the Princess for collection is the best way Xu Yingyuan can think of now. In his opinion, after all, Annan has been a vassal of the Ming Dynasty for more than 100 years, even if there is chaos at this moment, but at least the princess of the Ming Dynasty must be respected in courtesy, so it is impossible to offend Her Royal Highness the princess, let alone search her body. So, it's undoubtedly safe to leave things at the princess's place.

Xu Yingyuan didn't think about letting Liang Shuanghu rush out with these two things, but he was not afraid of 10,000, just in case, if Liang Shuanghu couldn't rush out, these two things would fall into the hands of the Annan people. So Xu Yingyuan chose to hand over the things to Her Royal Highness the princess, even if it could only be kept for a while.

Among the people present, only the Shang Bao Supervisor Ma Gonggong, who was taken by Xu Yingyuan's side at all times, knew the whole story of Dabao and the Holy Decree, but he didn't dare to tell Fu Gang and others the truth about this matter, and besides, Ma Gonggong's legs were already trembling with fright, so how could he care about exposing the false Holy Decree.

The mud bodhisattva crossed the river, I don't know if this life can be had, and what else is he asking.

After handing over the Great Treasure and the Holy Decree to the princess, Xu Yingyuan dragged Liang Shuanghu and asked him to immediately lead people out of the camp, no matter what method he used, he had to send the news back to Guangdong.

Liang Shuanghu wanted to take Her Royal Highness the princess with him, Xu Yingyuan was anxious, and pushed him out violently, saying that if the handsome man didn't know about this, no one would be able to save the princess. Guo Shao also knew that the matter was urgent, and urged Liang Shuanghu to leave quickly, how could he save the princess at this juncture. Since the people of Annan dare to make a move, they must rely on it, and if Liang Shuanghu leaves late, I am afraid he will not be able to leave.

Fu Gang and the others also realized that they had to pass the news out immediately, and they didn't care about asking about Dabao and the Holy Decree of King Fengqi, so they also persuaded Liang Shuanghu to leave quickly.

Liang Shuanghu was helpless, so he gritted his teeth and led his soldiers out of the camp. There were no less than 1,000 Annan soldiers surrounded outside, and Liang Shuanghu and his party fought bravely, most of them were killed and wounded, and finally escaped dozens of people in the night. After the Annan people found out that the Ming army had fled, they also immediately transferred troops to chase them.

After Liang Shuanghu and the others rushed out, although they didn't know if they could get rid of the chasing soldiers of the Annan people, Xu Yingyuan was still a little relieved, and after regaining his composure, he immediately asked Fugang to come forward and ask why the Annan people betrayed the Ming Dynasty.

Princess Changle also reacted, she was the eldest princess of Emperor Yongli, the niece of Emperor Longwu, and the daughter of Emperor Shaowu, and her status was extremely precious. But she is a woman after all, and she is in a foreign country, so it is inconvenient to come forward and make trouble.

Fu Gang and Sun Shun, the secretary of the military department, and Wan Niance, the servant of the household department, went out to the camp together to ask why the Annan people betrayed the Ming Dynasty, but the Annan people ignored it, and only an official came to ask who had fled before. Fu Gang and others naturally wouldn't tell each other, the Annan official snorted coldly and turned around, and then a large number of Annan soldiers rushed into the camp and registered all the Ming Dynasty officials in the camp, and there was no offense to Princess Changle as Xu Yingyuan thought, and there was even an official who came over with a general matter to ask the princess what she needed, and Annan tried her best to do it.

Xu was that the Annan officials had concerns, or they wanted to use these Ming troops and officials to show credit to the Qing Dynasty, so after controlling the Ming army camp, the Annan soldiers did not massacre and kill Ming officials and soldiers, but only took away weapons and armor, and did not allow the Ming army to walk around the camp, and did not interfere with others. However, the officials and soldiers of Annam were not polite to the property in the Ming military camp, and after some looting, their pockets were bulging.

After Liang Shuanghu and others rushed out of the encirclement of the Annamite people, they ran desperately all the way to the north, and finally got rid of the pursuing soldiers of the Annamite and returned to the Ming Dynasty. After resting for half a day in an unknown mountain, Liang Shuanghu led the rest of his men and began to grope their way to the east. The border between Yunnan and Guangxi is full of mountains, and most of the mountains are large and small toasts, the roads are inconvenient, the voice is not clear, and there is no guide, and they have to face the attack and killing of those toasts at any time. Liang Shuanghu and his entourage can be said to have gone through life and death, touched the mountains for more than half a month, and finally arrived in Guangxi from Yunnan. Later, it took half a month to touch Qinzhou from the junction of Guangxi and Annam. On the way, they were attacked several times by the local Tusi forces, and when they arrived in Qinzhou, there were only seven people left with Liang Shuanghu, and Liang Shuanghu was seriously injured.

The Ming army in Qinzhou discovered Liang Shuanghu and his party and took them to the governor's yamen. Although Lianchengbi was very dissatisfied with Zhou Shixiang, he heard Liang Shuanghu say that the Son of Heaven had canonized Zhou Shixiang as the king of Qi, and married the eldest princess Yu Qiwang, and now Her Royal Highness the princess and the university scholar Fugang, several Shangshu and a number of officials were detained by the Annan people, and even the city wall was taken aback, and the governor who was loyal to the Ming Dynasty wanted to go to rescue Her Royal Highness the eldest princess immediately, but he was suffering from the fact that he did not have many soldiers and horses under his command at all, and he was unable to save him, so he could only let people heal Liang Shuanghu while sending someone to send the news to the Taiping army in Leizhou.

After receiving the news from the governor's yamen, the first town of the Taiping Army stationed in Leizhou did not dare to delay for a moment and quickly sent it to Guangzhou. Song Xianggong, who was in charge of the Taiping Army's important military and political affairs in Guangdong, heard about this and hurriedly sent the news to Yuanzhou.

Tie Yi, who was participating in the military conference in Yuanzhou, slapped the table and scolded angrily: "The people of Annan are so bold, Tai Sui dares to move the ground on his head, are they impatient!" Don't worry, the last general will lead the troops to the south of Ping'an! ”

As he spoke, he got up angrily, but found that the generals and officials around him were all looking at him dumbfounded.

Tie Yi was stunned: "What? ”

Zhou Shixiang glanced at him and asked him, "Do you know where Annan is?" (To be continued.) )