Chapter 11: Luo Jian enters the city
While Shi Kefa was talking, he heard someone shouting, "The god car is coming, the god car is coming!" ”
When the armored car was about to arrive at the city, Shi Kefa and Ren Minyu looked at the people and horses dragged behind the car, glanced at each other, and showed strange looks.
Luo Jian saw in the car that he was about to get to the city, turned around and asked Liu Weimin, "Is there a loudspeaker in the car?" Luo Jian was referring to the kind of hand-held speaker that could play music. Seeing that he had arrived at the city, Liu Weimin responded "Yes", stopped the car, got out of the car, opened the middle door, got in, and after a while, took a hand-held horn from a box and handed it to Luo Jian.
Luo Jian opened the car door and got out of the car, took off the helmet on his head and put it on the seat, glanced at the three captives behind the car, and saw that the three of them had been made by the dust behind the car and couldn't see their faces clearly. Luo Jian walked a few steps to the bottom of the city tower, turned on the switch of the electric horn, and shouted upstairs: "Listen to the officers and soldiers in Yangzhou City, God can't bear to let my Chinese people be slaughtered by the Qing Qing Tartars, and I have been specially ordered to save you, please open the city gate quickly and let us in!" ”
Luo Jian had been brewing in the car for a long time just now, and after thinking about it for a long time, he could only find such a name to explain. Wang Qiang in the car laughed when he heard this, but Liu Weimin turned around and roared in a low voice: "Be serious, don't laugh!" ”
There was a loudspeaker amplification, and all the people on the city tower heard Luo Jian's words, and suddenly there was a commotion, and someone could hear someone shouting, "It's an angel, it's an angel, God has sent someone to save us!" Yangzhou City is saved! In the midst of the uproar, Liu Zhaoji stepped forward and asked Shi Kefa, "Inspector, what should I do?" Shi Kefa turned around and muttered a few words to Ren Minyu, then turned back to Liu Zhaoji and said, "Open the city gate and let them in." Liu Zhaoji turned around and beckoned Yi Bang to quickly lead people to remove the sandbags that sealed the city gate. But he ran to the city and shouted downward: "Angels, the door has been sealed, I will send someone to open it later, please wait for a while." ”
Luo Jian heard the city speak like this, and muttered, "Became an 'angel'?" They don't have wings. But he was relieved. Turning around, he took out the binoculars from the car and looked behind him. Seeing that there were dozens of cavalry in the distance behind him slowly walking in the direction of Xiaoshanbao, they seemed to be extremely cautious, seeing this scene, they greeted Wang Qiang on the roof of the car, "Don't be sloppy, pay attention to vigilance!" Seeing that Wang Qiang answered, he put down his binoculars and looked towards the city gate. The city gate is not very wide, Luo Jian estimated it, and there should be no problem for the armored car to enter.
After waiting for more than ten minutes, Luo Jian saw that the city gate was squeaked open, and two groups of soldiers ran out of the city gate, all carrying spears in their hands, but the heads of the spears were facing the sky. The two teams of soldiers ran out of the city gate for more than a dozen steps, knelt on one leg towards Luo Jian and them, and did not walk anymore with their guns and fists in their hands. Raising his eyes to look towards the city gate, he saw a group of people coming out, led by a civil official, who was extremely thin and thin, and his face was very haggard, and he was afraid that he was in his early fifties, but his spirit was full; The one in the back looked less than forty, and his face was also very haggard. Behind them are a few generals in armor. Luo Jian pondered, "Wouldn't this be Shi Kefa?" ”
Several people walked quickly in front of Luo Jian, only to see one of them bending down to Luo Jian with his fists in his hands and saying: "The book of the Ming Military Department, and Shi Kefa, the governor of Huaiyang, greet the angels, and invite a few people to enter the city to talk." Luo Jian took a few steps forward, subconsciously reached out and wanted to shake hands with Shi Kefa, just halfway through, he suddenly felt that something was wrong, withdrew his hand and hugged his fist and arched his hand like Shi Kefa: "Lao Shi Pavilion personally greets him, I really dare not be!" Then he arched his hand to the people behind him and asked, "I don't know which one is Ren Minyu, Ren Futai, Liu Zhaoji, General Liu?" When Ren Minyu and Liu Zhaoji heard this, they were surprised and happy in their hearts, and they stepped forward and bent down towards Luo Jian and clenched their fists and said, "Back to the angel, the next official is Ren Minyu", "The last general is Liu Zhaoji." ”
When Shi Kefa heard this, he was secretly surprised in his heart, but he said that this angel did not seem to be a Ming person, but how did he know that there were these two people in Yangzhou City? Looking up at Luo Jian, I saw Luo Jian's eight-foot figure, in his early thirties, his skin was very white, and he wore a black vest on his colorful clothes, looking very energetic, but his hair looked like a monk who had just returned to the temple in the temple. Shi Kefa didn't know that when Luo Jian read the "History of the Southern Ming Dynasty", he was deeply impressed by the two people who died bravely in the city, and even the "History of the Ming Dynasty" compiled by Zhang Tingyu, a minister during the Kangxi period of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, was also highly respected by these two.
Luo Jian said to Liu Zhaoji, "There are a few prisoners tied to the back of the car, and they will be handed over to General Liu." Please ask General Liu to lead people to escort them into the city. Liu Zhaoji beckoned Yi Bang to bring people to the back of the car, and saw that Liu Weimin had already gotten out of the car and untied the three people from the car, Wang Qiang ran down from the car, untied the reins of the horses from the waists of the three people, and handed them to Yi Bangcai and said: "These three horses are mine, you have to help me take care of them!" Yi Bang took the reins and handed them to the soldiers beside him, and answered yes. Xiao Liu was reluctant to take off his backpack belt, untied it from the three of them, and said to Yi Bangcai: "You can find a rope to tie them again." Yi Bang beckoned the soldier to take a hemp rope and tied up the three people, so that the three of them screamed.
Seeing this, Shi Kefa arched his hand to Luo Jian and asked, "Dare to ask the angel, who are these three people?" Luo Jian laughed and said to Shi Kefa: "Shi Gebu, there is a big fish here!" "Big fish?" Shi Kefa was a little puzzled. "This is Geng Zhongming, the king of Huaishun in the Manchu Dynasty, is it a big fish?" Luo Jian pointed to Geng Zhongming, who was gray-headed and gray-faced in the middle, and couldn't see his face clearly, and said to Shi Kefa.
"Geng Zhongming?" Shi Kefa was taken aback, walked up to him and asked, "Are you Geng Zhongming, the king of Huaishun?" Geng Zhongming was afraid of Luo Jian and others, but he was not afraid of Shi Kefa, and raised his head and said to Shi Kefa: "It is this king, if you let us go, I will say good things for you before Prince Yu drives." When he spoke, he glanced up at Luo Jian, and when he saw Luo Jian looking at him coldly, he lowered his head weakly and stopped talking. Shi Kefa snorted coldly, ignored him, and said, "Take them down!" ”
Luo Jian remembered that there was a Lai Fu in the car, thought about it, and didn't say anything. Ren Minyu and Liu Zhaoji circled around the armored car a few times before coming over and said to Shi Kefa: "Supervisor, please ask a few angels to come to the city to talk again." Shi Kefa turned to Luo Jian and said, "Angels, please!" When Luo Jian heard this, he laughed again, and said to Shi Kefa and a few others: "We are not 'angels', my surname is Luo, my name is Luo Jian, I Chinese New Year's Eve am two years old today, a few older than me, please call me Xiao Luo, and those younger than me can call me Lao Luo." He called Xiao Liu and Xiao Wang over and introduced them to them: "This is called Liu Weimin, you can call him Xiao Liu; This is called Wang Qiang, and it is okay to call Xiao Wang. Xiao Liu and Xiao Wang also followed Luo Jian's example, and they hugged their fists and bowed their hands.
After Luo Jian finished speaking, he beckoned Liu Weimin and Wang Qiang to drive the car into the city carefully, and he stepped forward to hold Shi Kefa's arm and said, "Shi Gebu, let's go into the city." Then he took the lead and walked towards the city gate.