Chapter Seventy-Two: Under the Collapse
"It's on fire!" A sharp-eyed general suddenly pointed to the back of the enemy formation and shouted: "There is a fire behind the Dongyu formation!" ”
The shouts were like magnets drawing everyone's attention, and everyone looked in the direction of the first man's finger, and saw pillars of smoke rising from the rear of the enemy, and in the lower part of the pillar of smoke a dark red, which was the light of the fire through the smoke. Everyone's face showed a look of ecstasy www.biquge.info the pen, and victory was already within reach.
"The left flank has been killed to the river, and the east is bound to be defeated by the enemy!" Du Guoying shouted loudly, his voice caused a chorus of approval, he turned around and said loudly to Liu Cheng on the Hu bed: "My lord, please blow the horn, and our army after the detour back to the Dongyu formation will be able to win a big victory!" ”
To everyone's surprise, Du Guoying's request was not granted. Liu Cheng, who was sitting on the Hu bed, did not make a sound, at first Du Guoying thought that Liu Cheng was planning to hold on to it, after all, the right wing had suffered a lot of losses in the previous fierce battle, and since it was already in control, it was normal to wait until the left wing and the Chinese army had achieved a decisive advantage before letting the right wing attack. But he soon found out that something was wrong, although Liu Cheng's eyes were slightly open on the Hu bed, he had no look, not like a human, but like an inanimate clay sculpture and wood sculpture. Du Guoying boldly stretched out his hand and shook it in front of Liu Cheng's eyes, and found that the other party did not react, so he immediately panicked, and hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Liu Cheng's shoulder. Du Guoying was stunned, and after a while shouted, "My lord, my lord, what's wrong with you?" Wake up! ”
"Water? Water? ”
His voice was hoarse and stiff, almost two people from his usual gentle and deep voice, but this was the first time Liu Cheng had spoken since he passed out. With a high fever, he has completely lost the concept of time, how long has it been since he fell asleep? He felt that he was too weak, and although he had screamed as best he could, it was not much louder than the sound of mosquitoes. However, Chesan, who was waiting by the felt bed, understood what the patient meant, and whispered to the maid beside him: "Quick, get the ginseng soup, the lord is awake!" ”
The maid carefully took the ginseng soup that was warm on the stove, carefully held up Liu Cheng's head, put a brocade pad on the back of his head, and then pried open his teeth with a silver spoon and fed spoonfuls of warm ginseng soup into it. After a bowl of ginseng soup, Liu Cheng finally opened his eyes, and after a while, his eyes returned to clarity, and four words came out of his mouth: "Master, it's you?" ”
"Your Excellency, you're finally alive!" Chesan finally breathed a sigh of relief: "Are you hungry now?" ”
"Hmm!" Liu Cheng felt that his stomach was empty like a broken leather bag, and Chesang hurriedly said to the maid: "Take a bowl of milk millet!" ”
A bowl of chyme was in his stomach, Liu Chengcai felt a little strength all over his body, but the feeling of hunger was even worse, but Chesang took the bowl away, and saw Liu Cheng's resentful eyes, the lama smiled bitterly: "My lord, you have been asleep for several days, you drink some mare's milk every day, you are already hungry, eating too much now will break your stomach, I will give it to you later!" ”
"So long?" Liu Cheng was stunned when he heard this, he subconsciously wanted to reach out and touch the wound on his neck, but found that it was tightly bandaged with cloth, and Chesang smiled bitterly: "My lord, you escaped death this time, the golden armor is too heavy, pressed on the shoulder, the wound is torn, bleeding too much, and when we find out, your underwear is stained with blood, hey!" ”
Liu Cheng recalled the scene at that time, gold was originally denser than iron, and in order to improve the ornamentality, the gold armor was much thicker than ordinary armor, a set added up to more than fifty catties, even a good person was not comfortable to wear, not to mention that Liu Cheng had an arrow wound on his neck, and the weight of the gold armor was pressed on his shoulders, and the wound was quickly torn. At that time, Liu Cheng's energy was used in other places, and he didn't even notice that his wounds had been torn, and when he heard that the enemy army was on fire behind the formation, and as soon as his spiritual pillar was loosened, he passed out.
"It's good to win!" Liu Cheng said with a smile: "The soldiers fighting in front of the battle will only be more dangerous than me!" Having said this, he found that the tent was full of people, all of whom were his own generals, Du Guoying, Gesang, Hao Shaoqi, A Gui, Hazar and other major generals, his face suddenly changed greatly, and asked, "What's the matter?" Why are you all here? Who's going to chase the East Captives? Did you hold Huang Taiji? ”
The generals looked at each other, Liu Cheng saw it in his eyes, he was furious, grabbed the bowl on the side and threw it at the nearest Du Guoying's head: "Huang Taiji is my mortal enemy of the Ming Dynasty, this time it took so many soldiers to defeat the Dongyu, but you didn't lead the troops to pursue and capture the thief, don't you know the truth of arranging the enemy for a lifetime and suffering for generations?" ”
Du Guoying was caught off guard and was hit on the head by the bowl, and blood immediately flowed. He didn't dare to defend himself, so he had to kowtow again and again to apologize, and the other generals also hurriedly knelt down and pleaded guilty, and Chesang hurriedly defended them: "My lord, this can't all be blamed on the generals, after you fainted, the Duoduo troops on the left flank of the enemy army seized a pontoon bridge, and then he crossed the river with most of the white flags and Huang Taiji and others, and then set fire to the pontoon bridge, because the remaining three pontoon bridges have been set on fire by General Hao, and it will be two days later until our army repairs the pontoon bridge." ”
"Then you can also chase it!" Liu Cheng said angrily: "Our army has more horses than Dongyu, even if it is pulled down for two days, it is not impossible to catch up!" ”
"Your Excellency!" Chesan lowered his voice and whispered in his ear, "You should also be considerate of the generals' intentions!" ”
Liu Cheng was such a shrewd person, and he immediately understood the meaning of Chessan's words. Unlike Huang Taiji and Chongzhen, who were already leaders of the group, Liu Cheng's military and political clique was established by him, and the composition of its members was very complex, including the border army of the Ming Dynasty, former thieves, Mongolian ministries, cult leaders, Gelug monks, and frustrated officials of the Ming Dynasty. The only bond that binds these complex and contradictory forces together is loyalty to Liu Ben himself, and Liu Cheng reciprocates his loyalty with various interests. If Liu Cheng died, even if he took Huang Taiji, who would reward him for this military exploit? It's better to stay here and get the exact news of Liu Cheng's life and death as soon as possible, it's really unreasonable to use this to accuse them.
"Get up!" Liu Cheng said to the generals in the gentlest tone possible: "I was too excited to understand your hard work. Where is the doctor, come and treat General Du's wounds! ”
"Thank you, sir!" Du Guoying lowered his head a little embarrassed.
Liu Cheng took a deep breath and calmed down his emotions: "Everyone, you have all made great achievements in defeating the Dongyu this time, and when I return to Datong, I will reward them one by one!" However, Emperor Taiji is the mortal enemy of the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia, and it is a pity to let him go this time! Speaking of this, Liu Cheng suddenly coughed, and Chesang, who was on the side, hurriedly stepped forward and helped Liu Cheng to lie down, and said loudly to the generals: "The adult's injuries are not all healed, so I will be here today!" ”
Liu Cheng was seriously injured and had not yet recovered, and after saying so many words at once, he also felt very tired, so he nodded to the generals, lay down, and fell asleep again after a while.
In this way, Liu Cheng recuperated for two days. In order to avoid bumps on the road and aggravate the injury, the army also stayed still. Liu Wei is in his prime, these years and the body is very strong, his injury is only bleeding too much, there is no harm to the organs, muscles and bones, with sufficient nutrition and good care, two days to recover a lot, in addition to easy fatigue, soft feet, has been no different from ordinary people. On this day, Liu Cheng had just woken up from a nap, and was drinking milk porridge under the waiter of the maidservant, Chesang hurriedly came in from outside, and whispered a few words in Liu Cheng's ear, Liu Cheng's eyes widened in surprise, and he turned his head to stare at Chesang: "What?" Is this serious? ”
"Ah Gui has already been identified by more than a dozen captives, and there is no doubt that it is that person!" Qiesang's tone was very affirmative, Liu Cheng lowered his head, and after a while he regained his composure and raised his head again: "Bring people in, don't let others see it!" ”
"Yes, sir!"
When Chesang left the tent, leaving Liu Cheng alone, he suddenly burst out laughing, laughing and patting the soft couch beside him: "I can't think of it, I can't think of it, I didn't die under my knife, but I died at the hands of Dolgon, it is the retribution of heaven, and I am not happy at all!" ”
Suppilon lowered his head, his hands and feet were heavily shackled, and the cold and hard steel rubbed against the wounds on his wrists and ankles, the pain was unbearable, but compared to the mental suffering he endured at this time, the physical pain was nothing at all, if it weren't for the support of his oath and sense of responsibility, I am afraid he would have committed suicide to end this pain.
"Lord Jinong, the people have been brought!"
"Bring it in!"
The sound of the guards woke him from his painful memories, and he stepped into the tent and looked cautiously at the first seat. On the left and right stood a lama and a man with a sword, the man in the middle of whom was dressed in a wide robe, with a terrible pale face, wrapped in a white cloth around his neck, half sitting and half lying on a brocade couch, looking at himself with great interest.
"It seems that Duoduo's previous claim that he shot Liu Cheng was not a lie, but it's a pity that he didn't shoot him, otherwise it would be Dajin who won this battle, and the Great Khan wouldn't die next, it's really bad luck!" Suppilon sighed to himself.
"You look up!" Liu Cheng's voice was not loud, but it was full of the majesty of the superior, and he subconsciously raised his head, and immediately felt ashamed of his submission, he gritted his teeth, and told himself that this was just to carry out the last order of the dead Great Khan.
"You claim to be the leader of Huang Taiji's protectors, but you sent Huang Taiji's head!" Liu Cheng pointed to the head on the top of the table: "But didn't you say that it was the three Dolgon brothers who killed Emperor Taiji before?" Who killed him? Why did you send the head to me? ”
"It was the one who ended the life of the Great Khan!" He hesitated for a moment, and replied word by word: "It was also the Great Khan who asked the subordinates to send the head to you!" ”
"Did you kill Huang Taiji? And he asked you to send your head to me? Liu Cheng frowned slightly: "Aren't you crazy!" ”
Realizing that his answer had caused a misunderstanding, he hurriedly explained: "The Great Khan had already been stabbed several times at that time, and he was about to die, so he asked me to come to you with my head and ask for your help!" ”
Liu Cheng frowned, he realized that the whole thing was very complicated, so he whispered to Kupilon: "You go through the whole thing carefully from beginning to end, don't miss a little detail!" ”
"Yes!"
Time goes back to two days ago, after the defeat of the Jin army camp.
"Phew! This is also called wine, so sour, it has become vinegar! Azig spat out the wine in his mouth.
"Don't drink it, don't waste it!" Duoduo grabbed the wine jug and sneered: "Don't look at what time this is, it's still sour, we are the generals of the defeated army, it's good to have horse urine to drink, and it's sour." ”
Azig's face changed, and after a while, he lowered his head in a dejected manner: "Duoduo, what do you think the Great Khan will do with us when he goes back this time?" ”
"Don't talk about dealing with us, it's you, it's you!" Duoduo sneered: "The Great Khan sent you reinforcements twice, and your right wing was broken, and one person ran to the Chinese army, if I were the Great Khan, I would cut you down immediately!" ”
"You can't blame me for that!" Azig suddenly became anxious: "Then Liu Cheng has gathered so many soldiers to my side, it is not easy for me to last so long, but your side has not defeated the right wing of Xilu?" ”
"I shot and wounded Liu Ben, and defeated the right flank of the thief army step by step, and finally saved the pontoon bridge." Duoduo sneered, "If it weren't for me, it would be the end of the entire army!" ”
"You-!" Azig was furious by Duoduo's words, and he looked like he was about to be angry, but after a while, his anger did not break out after all, but instead said dejectedly: "What you said is that if the Great Khan wants to be guilty this time, I will definitely not be able to escape!" For the sake of the brothers, you should also look at the affairs of my family when the time comes! ”
Seeing the appearance of the brother of a fellow mother, Duoduo couldn't help but feel a little sorry in his heart, he poured a glass of wine for Azig and said: "Naturally there is no need to say this, you don't have to worry too much, this time the army lost so badly, if you are guilty, the Great Khan himself is the most responsible, it is estimated that you will be fined at most some silver, and the title will be cut, it is really not okay, I will intercede for you with the old fourteen." ”
Azig was about to open his mouth to thank him, but he heard a familiar voice from outside the tent: "Duoduo, you can't protect yourself, and you still want to intercede for Azig?" ”
"Dolgon, when did you arrive?" Surprised and delighted, Dodor stood up, only to see a sturdy young man standing at the door of the tent, none other than Dorgon.