Luo Jian was anxious to take the cavalry division of 5,000 people and two horses, the horses did not stop, all the way to Yangzhou, in Fengyang ordered the fourth division to collect all the eggs, all replenished to the horses, only in Fengyang for four hours of rest, then set off to continue to Yangzhou, one night and two days actually traveled more than 200 kilometers.

Luo Jian's legs had been worn out, but he didn't feel it at all, he still kept urging the war horse to walk forward quickly, this kind of long-distance march, the cavalry did not dare to beat the horse and gallop, so that the horse would soon be ridden, as the so-called speed is not reached.

This march allowed Luo Jian to also learn to sleep on a horse, and Zhao Quan and the guards guarded both sides of Luo Jian, for fear that he would fall asleep and fall off his horse.

Not far from Liuhe, the cavalry encountered messengers sent by Shi Kefa, who did not know which route Luo Jian would come back from, and sent five groups of messengers to run in all directions along the way.

Hearing the news that the messenger reported that Yangzhou was safe and Guazhou was safe, Luo Jian's spirit was relieved, and he almost fell off the horse, but fortunately, Zhao Quan had already taken precautions and supported Luo Jian from the side, so he didn't let him fall off the horse.

Luo Jian, who was relieved, ordered the cavalry to slow down, and if they continued to go with all their strength like this, the horses would definitely not be able to stand it, Yangzhou was already safe, and Luo Jian didn't want to abolish these war horses.

Entering the official road from Liuhe to Yangzhou, Zhao Quan stopped a carriage and helped Luo Jian to the carriage, he knew that he had reached the limit of the governor of Dadu by persevering until now.

Luo Jian didn't refuse, there are still too many things to think about next, and he also needs to be quiet.

Although the carriage was very bumpy, Luo Jian, who had relaxed his spirit, soon fell asleep on the carriage, he was too tired, compared with the young cavalrymen in their eighteen or nineteenth years, Luo Jian's physical strength was still much worse.

Li Zhan and Liu Kongzhao were chopped in front of the bodies of Yangzhou soldiers and civilians, and for this reason, they also specially found executioners from Yangzhou who had been executed before, and under the watchful eyes of hundreds of thousands of Yangzhou soldiers and civilians, the two traitors were cut by a thousand knives, and finally got the end they deserved.

The news that Luo Jian led the cavalry to return to help was reported to Yangzhou by the fast horse, and Shi Kefa's heart became steady.

The collapse of the Southern Ming Dynasty in Nanjing also caused Shi Kefa to think deeply, and he also began to calculate how to go in the future.

The three of them were circling in the Wuying Hall of the Nanming Imperial Palace, and the 15,000 cavalry of Aobai were all annihilated, and Liu Kongzhao's sailors were captured alive, and the whole process was clearly seen by the people sent by the river by the people sent by the riverside.

"Withdraw! We must quickly withdraw from Nanjing City, if we wait for the Yangzhou army to retreat, we can't run even if we want to! ”

He finally made up his mind and looked up and said to Hirliang and Zhu Guobi.

Although Xi Erliang was unwilling, the fact that the 15,000 people of Aobai were wiped out by the Yangzhou army so quickly also made him deeply afraid, he did not speak, but nodded.

Zhu Guobi looked at the two of them, and the two didn't ask for his opinion, so he had to go down and make preparations.

A thousand cavalry had already escorted Zhu Youxiang and the ministers of the Southern Ming Dynasty from the Jiangbei Gate and began to withdraw from Nanjing City from the way they came.

Xi Erliang was about to order the Qing soldiers to burn down the Nanming Palace, but was stopped by Curb Pilon, who remembered what Liu Lan had said to him in the Wuying Hall last year

A large number of gold and silver treasures looted from Nanjing were also left behind, although Hill Liang was already very dissatisfied, but he knew that the next thing to greet them would be a thousand-mile escape, and he couldn't escape the pursuit of the Yangzhou army with these gold and silver treasures, so he still insisted on throwing away more than a dozen carts.

Just when Luo Jian led the cavalry division back to Yangzhou, more than 500 people of the 5,000 Qing cavalry and Zhu Guobi had already left Nanjing.

Zhu Guobi really wanted to bring all his 2,000 men and horses, but neither Suppilon nor Hiran was willing to leave the war horses to him, and he could only collect more than 500 war horses himself, and he could only bring more than 500 people.

Zhu Guobi rode on the horse and looked back at the city of Nanjing, where he grew up, and all kinds of tastes came to his heart, he didn't know that Li Zhan and Liu Kongzhao were chopped alive, if he knew, there might be a thousand tastes, including the smell of feces and urine.

Shi Kefa, Liu Lan and others received Luo Jian's army outside Yangzhou City, and looking at Luo Jian's tired face, Liu Lan was so distressed that tears flowed.

Luo Jian did not return home, and went directly to the staff headquarters with Shi Kefa and others.

Looking carefully at the route of the Qing army's thousand-mile attack on the map, Luo Jian gritted his teeth fiercely, and had already made up his mind that he must leave this Qing army in Nanming.

"Governor, let's cross the river immediately?" Liu Zhaoji, who arrived later, asked, Liu Zhaoji is also extremely hard, although he has been riding all his life, he is not as good as a young man in his early forties.

"No, let the troops have a good night's rest, let's cross the river tomorrow morning!" Luo Jian said dryly.

People are sleepy and horses are scarce, and if they don't get a good rest, many horses will be scrapped, and if there are no horses, there will be no pursuit.

After staring at the map for a long time, Luo Jian had an idea in his heart, that is, to use the battleship to go by sea and rush to the front of the Qing soldiers to stop the Qing soldiers.

After carefully comparing on the map for a long time, Luo Jian compared it with the cavalry he led desperately retreated, thinking that although the Qing soldiers had superb riding skills, they had already walked for more than 20 days when they came, and they had not really rested in Nanjing, and the battleship was driving at full strength, it was still very possible to stop them, Luo Jian made up his mind.

He immediately ordered the "Weiqing" and "Fengyang" to make preparations, and at the same time ordered five steam merchant ships to be dispatched, and when the first division arrived, they immediately set off to prepare to land in Hangzhou Bay and go ashore to intercept the Qing troops.

The evacuation of the Qing soldiers encountered a lot of trouble, and the trouble came from the Southern Ming monarchs and ministers they captured.

The ministers said that they could walk with a rope tied to a horse, but Zhu Youxiang was annoyed because he was too fat.

The current Zhu Youxiang is also two hundred and twenty pounds to Shaoli, even if he can't go far on the strongest war horse, he starts to gasp, and he can't walk anymore after a few breaths.

In desperation, Zhu Youxiang and Hill Liang kept changing horses for Zhu Youxiang, and in half a day and one night, Zhu Youxiang had abolished three war horses of the Qing soldiers.

Kubilong had the intention to find a carriage for Zhu Youxiang, but after thinking about it, the routes traveled by the Qing soldiers were rarely official roads, most of them were straight lines, and they basically walked on small roads or simply no roads, and the carriage would definitely not be able to walk.

Liu Zhaoji's 1st Division arrived in the middle of the night, and the 1st Division also marched all the way, gnawing on dry food when hungry, running to a pond on the side of the road to drink saliva when thirsty, and finding a sheltered place at night for several soldiers to deal with each other for several hours, and then getting up and then hurrying on the road.

The previous intensive training really honed the will of the officers and men of the first division, and in such a long-distance rapid march, the whole division fell behind less than 200 people.

According to Luo Jian and Liu Zhaoji's arrangement, after the arrival of the first division, the first regiment went directly to the boat to rest and hurry, and the other regiments rested first, and then crossed the river and entered Nanjing tomorrow.

Luo Jian wanted to personally lead the team to pursue the Qing soldiers, but was stopped by Shi Kefa and Liu Zhaoji, Luo Jian was already too tired, and the next affairs in Nanjing City would be extremely complicated, and Luo Jian had to sit in Nanjing.

In the end, it was determined that the generals who led the cavalry to pursue were Lou Ting and Wang Zecheng, both of whom were only in their twenties this year, and their mental and physical strength were much stronger than Luo Jian and Liu Zhaoji.

When they arrived in Yangzhou, the security was very thoughtful, the war horses were carefully fed with the best concentrate feed, and the soldiers also entered the barracks to sleep peacefully.

As soon as the day dawned, the soldiers who were sleeping soundly were woken up, and the war horses had been sent, and they were about to board a boat to cross the Yangtze River and begin a thousand-mile pursuit.

Hundreds of ships stopped in front of the Yangzhou dock, and the cavalry quickly boarded and set off.

Shi Kefa was still carefully explaining to Lou Ting and Wang Zecheng, asking them to rescue the Nanming monarchs, and the refugees who escaped from Nanjing had already told him that the Nanming monarchs were not killed, but were taken away by the Qing soldiers.

The escape journey of the Qing soldiers was even more difficult than when they came, and dozens of people from the Southern Ming Dynasty and his ministers slowed down the march of the Qing soldiers.

With these captives, the Qing Dynasty could also blackmail Yangzhou, if they were gone, and the cards in their hands were gone, the Manchus would face the bloodiest retaliation of the Yangzhou army.

Ma Yingkui led a group to board the warship, and after getting on the ship, they had a hasty dinner, and more than 2,000 people, including Ma Yingkui, soon fell asleep in the cabin with their clothes, and when they woke up, the fleet had already left the mouth of the Yangtze River.

Lou Ting and Wang Zecheng led 5,000 men and horses across the Yangtze River, but did not enter the city of Nanjing, but only inquired about the direction of the Qing soldiers' escape, and directly pursued them.

The appearance of the Yangzhou cavalry division outside the city of Nanjing completely calmed down the hearts of the people in Nanjing, and the people began to pack up their homes that had been ravaged by the Qing soldiers, but fortunately, only 5,000 Qing soldiers entered the city of Nanjing, if all 20,000 people entered the city, the city of Nanjing might be ruined into something.

Shi Kefa didn't urge Luo Jian, let him sleep well, and waited until the sun was three strokes before he sent someone to call Luo Jian, and the three regiments of the first division were ready to cross the Yangtze River immediately.

Luo Jian didn't ride a horse, he got on the boat with Shi Kefa and others at the Yangzhou dock, and most of the officers and soldiers of the first division who had rested well for most of the night had recovered, and they looked full of energy one by one.

Along the way, Shi Kefa told Luo Jian everything that happened in Nanjing, and the people of Nanjing, who kept fleeing into Yangzhou, explained everything that happened in Nanjing.

When Luo Jian's steamboat went directly to the wharf opposite Pukou in Nanjing, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon.

Outside the Zhongfu Gate, the first division led by Luo Jian unexpectedly encountered Xu Hongji and others who were rushing back to Nanjing City after receiving the news.

Xu Hongji greeted him with a smile, holding his fist towards Luo Jian in his hand.

"Wei Guogong, you have finally arrived!"

Luo Jian watched Xu Hongji and the others walk in front of him coldly, and asked coldly, "Where were you when the Qing soldiers entered Nanjing City?" ”

Xu Hongji and the others laughed and couldn't speak.

Luo Jian snorted coldly and ordered in a loud voice:

"There are all divisions, disarm them all!"

Shi Kefa wanted to say something, looked at Luo Jian's gloomy face, and stopped again.

"Wei Guogong, you listen to our explanation!" Xu Hongji shouted anxiously.

Luo Jian ignored him at all, and strode towards the city of Nanjing, he could not ride a horse now, and although the worn places on both sides of his thighs were smeared with medicine last night, they were still painful.

Facing the muzzle of thousands of black holes in the first division, Xu Hongji's more than 10,000 men and horses did not dare to make any resistance at all, and they were soon all disarmed, and Xu Hongji and several people were also escorted into Nanjing City by the first division.

Lou Ting's cavalry was still chasing the Qing soldiers, and the traces left by the five thousand men and horses could not disappear within a day, and the people along the way continued to point out to them the direction in which the Qing soldiers fled.

Although the Qing soldiers who fled from Nanjing in a hurry looted a lot of food from Nanjing City, the gap between them and Lou Ting's all-canned food guarantee was still huge, not to mention that Lou Ting and they still had dry food continuously sent by the people along the way.

In three days, Lou Ting's cavalry division shortened the distance with the Qing soldiers to a hundred miles.

When the Qing soldiers passed between Lin'an and Hangzhou, they encountered a large Ming army sent by Hangzhou to intercept it, and the Qing soldiers with only 5,000 men and horses could not pass easily this time, leaving the corpses of five or six hundred cavalrymen, which finally broke through the interception of the Ming army.

Unbeknownst to both Suppilon and Hilleran, a regiment had landed in Hangzhou Bay and was rushing in the direction of Yiwu, and they had stopped in front of the Qing troops.

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