On January 29, Mojiatun, located about 20 kilometers northeast of Zunhua, this small village with only about 20 households welcomed a group of uninvited guests.

After about 800 people poured into this small village, more than 100 people in the village were frightened into hiding one by one, for fear of suffering disasters for no reason, and only a few village elders were left to stay in the village.

Fortunately, although there were many people, they did not embarrass them, and after a few people led by them threw a small bag of silver to the village elders, they lived directly in the houses in the village, and looted the villagers' own grain to cook and eat.

The villagers were heartbroken when they saw these outsiders occupy their houses, and even turned out the food they used for the winter, but the village elder who was the leader opened the silver bag and looked at it, his eyes suddenly became bright, and the bag in his hand was full of silver, and the weight was probably no less than forty or fifty taels.

The silver was enough to compensate for their losses.

In the only brick house in the village, Xianfeng's family was resting in it, and several eunuchs were hurriedly cleaning up the stove and preparing for dinner.

But after they made the meal, Emperor Xianfeng looked at the rice on the dinner table, and then looked at the pickles on the dinner table, and couldn't help frowning, but still forced a few bites.

However, in another house, Yehenala and a few other concubines could swallow these coarse rice, so there were still a few flavors of game on the table, and a soup was also sold, and most of the people drank a bowl of soup at random, and after eating two mouthfuls of game, they put down the dishes and chopsticks.

"When is this the end, when will we be able to go to Shengjing?" Concubine Mei on the side sighed!

Niu Colu next to him said: "I'm afraid it will take ten days!" ”

"My sisters are not people who can't suffer. I also know that it's not good to ask for anything now, but it's nothing for me to wait for the first tea and light rice, but I can't be bitter children! Yehenara was feeding the son in his arms, but seeing that his son, who had suffered all the wealth in the world since he was born, could only eat this first tea and light meal, because he couldn't eat too much, Zaichun had obviously lost weight over time.

Although these women spoke quietly, the house was so big. And it can't be a house like soundproofing, Xianfeng, who is separated by this room, heard these words, and felt that it was quite complicated.

At some point, he would have thought that he would end up where he is today, and even if he escaped, it would be difficult to find even three meals a day.

The army fled for many days, and although the first town carried some rations and baggage, they only brought rations for a few days in order to increase the speed of escape. Many wagons were loaded not with grain, but with gold and silver, and as to why they did not bring any grain, they had to bring gold and silver, for these were all silver deposited in the inner treasury and in the households, and most of them were gold, and they were worth at least seven or eight hundred taels of silver.

The silver was to be brought to Shengjing and then used as the foundation of the Qing court's foothold in the northeast.

And at that time, they thought that they would be able to join Du Xing'a's army after arriving in Jixian County, but they thought that Du Xing'a had been chased by the Chinese army all the way. There is simply no manpower to pick it up, and now the road to Shanhaiguan is controlled by the Chinese army. It was impossible for them to go directly to Shanhaiguan.

As a last resort, I had to make a detour to Zunhua, Chengde and other places to enter Mongolia, and then go to Jinzhou.

However, in this way, the time has been delayed a lot, and the food they carried has long been consumed, and the reason why they have been able to hold on to this day. That's because Jixian, Zunhua and other places were looted along the way.

However, after entering the hilly and mountainous areas, there is no village in front of the village and no store in the back, even if you occasionally encounter one or two small villages, it is impossible to find materials to meet the needs of the army.

Xianfeng's group was okay, when they were separated from the first town of Leshan. Leshan handed over most of the surplus grain to Mu Yin, as for Leshan himself, he was originally going to stay and cut off, and there was no difference between the extra three or five days' food and the three or five days' less.

Besides, Leshan's army is four or five thousand people, and the Xianfeng royal family led by Mu Yin is only about eight hundred people, which is enough for them to eat one day's food is enough for Xianfeng and his party to eat for five or six days.

I don't know if I can go to Shengjing smoothly? It's not the first time Xianfeng has had this kind of thought in his heart.

Just when Xianfeng was sad in his heart, in an unknown woodland about ten kilometers away from them, Le Shan looked at the less than a thousand soldiers left around him, and then looked at the figures of the Chinese soldiers looming outside the woodland, and his heart was completely desperate.

After he and Xianfeng and his party were separated yesterday, in order to cover the escape of Xianfeng and others, he personally led the remaining 4,000 people in the first town to meet the pursuing Chinese army, although after a day's preparation, some of the necessary field fortifications were constructed.

But when the Chinese army really caught up and attacked, the first town did not last for three or even more than five days as he expected, and in fact it was only half a day.

More than 4,000 people in the first town were completely defeated by the first division led by Song Xiangtang, and when it collapsed, Leshan broke through with more than 1,000 remnants.

But the Chinese army behind was in hot pursuit, and now, four or five hours later, Leshan and others are surrounded in this woodland.

Leshan looked at these soldiers around him, these soldiers were able to chase Leshan all the way instead of being deserters or simply surrendering, which was enough to prove that these people were Leshan's true loyal soldiers.

Although the combat effectiveness of the first town is not good, but Leshan has controlled the first town for two years, and there are more or less henchmen who will work hard for him, the first town fled from Beiping to the present, fled all the way and scattered all the way, and was defeated twice by the Chinese army, but there are not many soldiers in the first town who were really killed by the Chinese army, at most there are only a thousand people, and more are deserters, some of them directly throw down their guns when they collapse, take off their military uniforms and flee for their lives, and some simply flee secretly halfway.

Of the nearly 10,000 people in the first town, at least more than 7,000 people ran away on their own!

Time passed little by little, and there were more and more Chinese soldiers outside the woodland, and you could see the soldiers of the Chinese army entering the forest with rifles!

"It's an honor to fight with you!" Leshan looked at these soldiers who still followed him until the last moment. sighed deeply: "Now it's over, everyone can survive for yourself, I'll go first!" ”

After saying that, he turned over and got on the horse, then pulled down the mask from his helmet and pulled out the waist knife hanging on the horse's back. As soon as his feet clamped the horse's belly, the war horse under his crotch galloped out.

"Kill!" Leshan rushed out alone!

The horses ran faster and faster, and the snowflakes raised by the horses' hooves mixed with the mud ground flew into the sky!

After a few breaths, everyone heard a crisp snapping sound, which was the typical salvo sound of a front-loading rifle, and just listening to this sound knew that there was at least one infantry company that fired the shot.

When the gunshots rang out, Leshan on the war horse was instantly beaten into a hornet's nest, not just him. Even the war horse under his crotch was shot multiple times, and then slammed into the ground with Le Shan, stirring up a snowflake.

The snowflakes that were originally white and unstained turned red, just like a skilled painter who painted a cold plum in this snowfield.

Song Xiangtang looked at Leshan's corpse on the ground, instead of showing respect for the enemy, and then saying something like burying him, he fiercely whipped Leshan's corpse several times with the horsewhip in his hand, and scolded in his mouth: "Damn it." This bastard sent the puppet Emperor Xianfeng out! ”

Looking back at the nearly 1,000 Qing soldiers who had surrendered but still had hatred in their eyes, Song Xiangtang was even more angry. These people were able to chase Leshan all the way to the end, needless to say that they were all causes of death, and this surrender was forced to do so.

For them, Song Xiangtang only glanced at them, and then said to the staff officers beside him: "You remember today's battle briefing, just say that our army surrounded the enemy's Leshan Division." Kill Leshan and his thousands of people! ”

The staff officer next to him was slightly stunned when he heard this: "Kill a thousand people? ”

Song Xiangtang just glanced at him: "Isn't it?" ”

At this time, the staff officer behind him didn't know what Song Xiangtang wanted to do, so he immediately lowered his head and didn't dare to speak!

A few minutes later, dense gunfire rang out one after another in this woodland, waiting for Song Xiangtang to hurriedly lead his troops to continue to chase Xianfeng in the northeast. The snow in this woodland was already soaked, and the snow was covered with corpses wearing Qing army uniforms.

Among them, Le Shan is the same as when he died in battle, still lying in the snow with his war horse!

The Chinese army, who was in a hurry to pursue Xianfeng, didn't even bother to dispose of Leshan's corpse!

Another day later, a scout of the cavalry company of the first division carefully observed the footprints on the road and the traces of the carriage passing by, and after looking at the distance of more than ten meters in a row, he showed ecstasy, and then immediately turned over his horse, and then rode to a lieutenant a hundred meters later: "Deputy platoon commander, I found the traces of the brigade passing by!" ”

When the lieutenant, who was about twenty-six or seventeen years old that year, heard this, he immediately took more than 20 people from his headquarters to the headquarters, and after carefully checking the many traces on the road, the lieutenant immediately said: "Li Quan, Liao Bin, you immediately return to the division headquarters, and say that our department has found traces of enemy troops!" ”

Immediately, a charcoal-improvised military map was given to them.

After sending someone back to deliver the news, the lieutenant turned over and got on his horse again, and said with a hint of expectation and excitement on his face: "Brothers, Xianfeng Xiao'er is ahead, catch up, as long as you catch or kill him, it will be light to win three levels in a row, maybe a few brothers can still get a knighthood!" ”

I can't help Zhuo Jiechen's excitement, the division headquarters and even the military headquarters have already promised a heavy reward to the soldiers who came to pursue Xianfeng, and Shi Qingxuan, the commander of the Sixth Army, has personally promised the soldiers of the second regiment and the third regiment of the first division that once the puppet emperor Xianfeng is captured or killed alive, then he will personally ask His Majesty for the meritorious soldiers.

Even in order to motivate the morale of the pursuing troops, even gave an accurate promise, once Xianfeng was killed or captured alive, all soldiers who participated in the battle could receive three months' salary as an additional reward, and if the commander of the unit who specifically captured or killed Xianfeng was below the rank of captain, he was guaranteed to be promoted to three levels, and the school officer was promoted to one level.

And more importantly, the boss also revealed that if Xianfeng was really caught, in addition to the promotion of military rank and rank, it was very likely to get a knighthood.

Even the lowest baronial title is difficult to expect for hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the Chinese Empire.

It was also the promise of rich rewards from above, which made the first division endure the lack of food and the harsh geographical environment, and kept chasing after it in the deep mountains and snow.

Xianfeng, who fled in front, was not having a good time, and in fact, the first division that was pursuing behind was not having a good time, because the speed of the march was too fast, so it was difficult for the supplies in the rear to keep up.

In order to provide supplies to the First Division, not only did the First Division act on its own, but in fact the Sixth Army also sent special logistics troops to transport supplies for the First Division, and the governor of Zhili also forcibly recruited local officials and people from nearby prefectures and counties such as Zunhua and Jixian who had just surrendered to Chengcheng to transport supplies for the First Division at the front.

However, despite this, due to the fast marching speed of the first division, the supply team in the rear could not keep up.

It's not a good day to be hungry!

And all this is to catch up with Xianfeng, capture him alive or kill him directly!

When Zhuo Jiechen urged the war horse to gallop continuously for more than two hours, he finally saw the convoy in front of him in his sight, which was a team of about thirty carriages and about eight hundred people, and was now advancing step by step on the snow.

Seeing this scene, Zhuo Jiechen did not hesitate at all, hid and rested for more than ten minutes, and soon got on his horse again and rushed forward brandishing his saber!

Zhuo Jiechen looked at the Qing army team in front of him like hungry wolves with red eyes, and regardless of the fact that there were only about 20 cavalry under his command, he rushed directly towards the Qing army team of 800 people! (To be continued.) )