Standing at the foot of Xianxia Pass, looking up at the pass on the narrow mountain road between the rugged mountains, Ren Siqi couldn't help but sigh for the weak combat effectiveness of the Zheng family's army, with such a strong pass in hand, even a hundred thousand troops could easily block the pass, but the two thousand Zheng troops did not hold even a day! Of course, there is the Chongming army that used powerful gunpowder shells, but the weakness of the Zheng army's combat effectiveness is also an indisputable fact, no wonder in the history of another time and space, Zheng Zhilong had hundreds of thousands of troops, but surrendered to the Manchus without a single shot. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Qing army must have invaded Fujian now, because the distance of the road Ren Siqi did not get specific information, but with the strength of the Qing army and the weakness of the Ming army, presumably Emperor Longwu was already very dangerous at this time, would he choose to flee to Tingzhou and then be chased and killed by the Qing army like another time and space? Ren Siqi didn't know, the only thing he knew was that if he wanted to rescue Emperor Longwu, he had to speed up the pace of the march.

Although many people encourage Ren Siqi to become self-reliant as soon as possible, but Ren Siqi knows that the time is far from ripe, and now half of the Ming Dynasty is still nominally in the hands of the Longwu court, from Yungui to Liangguang to Huguang, Jiangxi, Fujian, the Ming people in more than a dozen provinces recognize Emperor Longwu as the Son of Heaven. Rather than that, it is better to learn from Cao Cao in history, coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes, as long as Emperor Longwu is in his own hands, he can order other places to quickly integrate the strength of the Ming army in various provinces, so it is easy to stand side by side with the Qing army in the north and south. After two or three years of training 100,000 elite soldiers, he can carry out the Northern Expedition and drive the Manchus out of the Guanwai.

Therefore, the purpose of Ren Siqi's dispatch this time was to fight a battle with the Qing army that rushed south to Fujian, and to eliminate the living force of the Eight Banners as much as possible, and second, to rescue Emperor Longwu so that Emperor Longwu could be controlled in his own hands.

After the 4,000 Qing soldiers were eliminated in an ambush at the mountain pass, Ren Siqi did not delay any longer, but immediately led the army through Xianxia Pass and entered Fujian. Chen Mingyang, the town general, was still the vanguard, leading 5,000 soldiers to the south to Jianning Mansion.

On the official road from Yanping to Jianning, five or six hundred Ming troops escorted more than a dozen carriages in a difficult walk, the carriages were covered with yellow curtains, and the flagpole behind the carriage hung an apricot yellow dragon flag. The hundreds of people walking on the mountain road are Zhu Yujian, the son of the Ming Dynasty, and the officers and soldiers who escorted him.

In September, the Qing army captured Ganzhou, and the whole territory of Jiangxi was no longer owned by the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yujian gave a stern order, ordering Zheng Zhilong to lead troops to the west and Huguang Governor He Tengjiao to cooperate with the recovery of Ganzhou, but Zheng Zhilong lied that his hometown Anping was harassed by pirates, and actually led the army to leave Fuzhou and go south to Anping. Zhu Yujian was furious and wanted to lead the army to attack Ganzhou, but was dissuaded by the ministers, and finally the old minister Huang Daozhou went out on his behalf and went west with thousands of newly recruited people.

Zhu Yujian did not want to stay in the lifeless Fuzhou, and ordered Zheng Xuan, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, to stay in Fuzhou, and brought the queen and the kings to Yanping Mansion, almost all the troops in Fujian were controlled by the Zheng brothers, and he came to Yanping with only more than 1,000 soldiers, led by the loyal Bo Zhou and Xiong Wei.

After arriving at Yanping Mansion, the bad news came one after another, Fuzhou fell, Jianchang fell, and the Manchu Ying Prince Azige personally led the Eight Banners army to break through the nine passes and thirteen passes into Guangguang County, and killed Yanping along the Xixi River Valley.

There are only more than 2,000 Ming troops in Yanping Mansion, how to be the opponent of the Eight Banners Army, Zhu Yujian had no choice but to flee. However, Ganzhou in the south has been captured by the Qing army, and tens of thousands of green battalion soldiers are killed in the direction of Tingzhou under the leadership of Gao Jinku and others. But now it seems that it is no longer possible to go south.

It doesn't work to go south, and the Western Eight Banners have come back from the gloss, and now they can only go north, Emperor Longwu would rather go north and refuse to admit that he is Ren Siqi, rather than flee back to Fuzhou and then go to Quanzhou to find Zheng Zhilong. Even if Ren Siqi refuses to admit that he will give himself to King Lu at most, he will not be the emperor. Most of the defectors to Zheng Zhilong will be tied up by him and sent to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the rapid fall of the nine passes and thirteen passes in Guangguang County, and the Qing soldiers are like no one in Fujian, so that Emperor Longwu realized that Zheng Zhilong may have made peace with the Qing people, otherwise the Qing soldiers would not have entered the army so quickly.

Emperor Longwu carried only the crown prince with a light chariot, rode in a dozen carriages, and hurried north under the protection of five hundred soldiers.

The road was too rough for the carriage to move fast at all, and less than ten miles after the team reached the city of Jianning Prefecture, a Qing army roared and chased from the rear.

"Your Majesty will take refuge in the temple first, and the ministers will lead troops to block it." The loyal Bo Zhou Zhifan pointed to a Guandi temple in front of him and said to Emperor Longwu.

"There is Lao Aiqing." Emperor Longwu said to Zhou Zhifan, and then went to the Guandi Temple under the escort of Xiong Wei in the matter.

Zhou Zhifan led more than 300 Ming troops to line up on the road, and saw the smoke and dust billowing in the distance and quickly swept towards him, and the Ming soldiers in his department were all frightened and colorless.

"Everyone raised their weapons and fought with them!" Zhou Zhifan straddled the horse, held the steel knife high and turned back to encourage, before the words fell, countless sharp arrows flew from the smoke and dust, enveloping Zhou Zhifan in it.

Zhou Zhifan struggled to crawl out from under the fallen war horse, and then saw that he had already been hit by more than a dozen feather arrows on his body, and his body was like a hedgehog. Zhou Zhifan endured the severe pain all over his body, and staggered towards the Qing cavalry that had rushed to the front.

"The Southern Barbarians who don't think they can do anything!" Wielding a knife to cut off the head of the Ming general in front of him, the commander of the Manchu Qing Protector Durd scolded disdainfully, and then looked at the hundreds of soldiers who followed behind Zhou Zhifan, who had already drowned in the rolling torrent of iron horses.

"The puppet emperor is in the temple!" Durd raised his hand and pointed to the Guandi Temple Road not far ahead, and at the gate of the Guandi Temple, more than a dozen carriages that unloaded the wheels blocked the temple gate.

The 1,000-8 Banner cavalry tightly surrounded the Guandi Temple under the order of Durde, and arrows rained down on the temple. After the temple gate, Xiong Wei endured the fear in his heart, ordered the only two hundred soldiers to desperately defend the temple gate, and used the bows and arrows in his hands to fight back, but the bows and arrows of the Eight Banners were too sharp, and more than half of the two hundred soldiers were killed and injured in just a quarter of an hour.

Seeing that the crossbow arrows shot in the temple were sparse, Durd ordered to start a strong attack, and more than a dozen Eight Banner warriors rushed to the temple gate with a big shield, braving the rain of arrows to open a carriage blocking the road, opening a gap, and the other Eight Banners soldiers immediately swarmed in and slashed at the remnants of the Ming army.

Xiong Wei fought hard with a sword in his hand, but he was cut to the ground by a Eight Banners soldier without even taking a look. The remaining Ming army was quickly slaughtered.

"There is no Emperor Longwu!" After searching the entire temple, a Han man dressed in the costume of a Ming minister was pulled in front of Durd and bowed his head.

"I must have fled to Jianning, and I escaped quite quickly!" Durde sneered, and immediately ordered more than 100 people to change into the clothes of the dead and wounded Ming soldiers, pretending to be defeated and retreating the Ming army in the direction of Jianning Mansion, and the others slowly followed behind them, he wanted to use this method to win the city gate of Jianning Mansion and capture Emperor Longwu alive!