Chapter Forty-Eight: Encounter Zeng Dare Again

Now, as Lu Xiangsheng's death in history is getting closer and closer, Dolgon is entangled in Gaoyang as the commander of the Qing army, and the deputy marshal Yue Tuo is the only commander who can lead the army to annihilate Lu Xiangsheng. But if Yue Tuo were killed now, the situation would be very different. The right-wing army of the Qing army, as the vanguard, will inevitably face great chaos, and at least wait and see what happens, so as to buy a certain amount of time for Lu Xiangsheng.

Every time Li Xin read this period of history in his previous life, his chest was filled with anger and regret, angry that Yang Sichang framed Zhongliang, angry that Gao Qiqian did not save him when he saw death, and angry that Chongzhen appointed a traitor. Now he wants to save Lu Xiangsheng and change this history that he regrets over and over again.

The bumpy horseback pulled him back from his memories, and he hated the musketeers who had not brought a stone in pursuit, and if it had been a musket, he should have killed them, but then he dismissed the unrealistic idea. At this time, the musket was far from being a weapon that could be fired with a pull on the trigger, and each time it was fired, it had to repeat more than a dozen processes to fire here, and the accuracy of the musket was extremely poor.

Li Xin's crotch almost lost his strength, but he still beat it with a whip to urge the horse to speed up. Soon Kong Youde discovered Li Xin's abnormality, and shouted after him: "General Li is not chasing, if you chase again, you will go to the river!" ā€

Suning is only 50 miles away from Hejian, and now I am afraid that it is already within the boundaries of Hejian Mansion City, Li Xin immediately woke up, and if he chased them down, he would probably encounter the Qing army of Hejian Mansion City.

So he pulled the reins of the horse fiercely, and the war horse let out a sigh of "sigh and law" and stopped. Yue Tuo gradually disappeared from everyone's field of vision surrounded by more than a dozen guards.

"What now?"

Lu Jiu also recovered from the thrill of pursuit, and immediately the situation was not optimistic.

"Go back to Suning! Evacuate overnight! ā€

Although the war horses were exhausted, Li Xin did not dare to delay for a moment, Yue Tuo would definitely send a large army to pursue them after returning to Hejian Mansion City, and there were Qing troops outside Suning City, as well as people waiting to be rescued, and there were Zhang Shi and others waiting for them in the city.

At this moment, he can't kill Yue Tuo, and Lu Xiangsheng can't die for a while, but if he takes a light risk and entrusts his lives to these brothers who entrust his lives to him, they will immediately have the disaster of killing.

After a brief inventory of the people, Li Xin took people to Suning non-stop, and when he pursued Yue Tuo, he always walked idle enough, and now he went back like an arrow, for fear that Suning would have uncontrollable changes if he walked slowly.

Although he was in a hurry, Li Xin still chose to take a detour on the return trip, because the city of Hejian was in the northeast direction of Suning, so he went around to the east side of Suning before continuing to advance, so it was also a precaution, if he was facing the Qing army that Suning retreated to Hejian, wouldn't it be a dead end?

Fortunately, there was nothing wrong all the way and arrived in Suning safely. When they arrived at the city, it was already past afternoon, and the soldiers guarding the city at the east gate were frightened when they saw a group of cavalry coming from the east, but after seeing that it was the cavalry led by Li Xin who was opposed, they breathed a sigh of relief and let them enter the city.

As soon as Li Xin entered the city, Zhang Shi got the letter and hurried to meet him.

During this period of time, the fighting outside the city was inextricable, and tens of thousands of civilian troops were surrounded by the Tartar cavalry who came forward, and then they were indiscriminately slashed and shot, which was simply a one-sided massacre. Having lost its spirit, the militia gave up almost any resistance and was left to the ravages of the Tartars.

According to Zhang Shi's description, Li Xin can basically confirm that this group of people is probably the homeless people who gathered together, but they dare to hit the stone with an egg, and I have to say that their courage is commendable, but courage is not this way of fighting. When the strength is equal, it is natural to fight face-to-face, but if the attack is strong, you should use a qiē method to wait for the opportunity to move, and then attack the enemy's weak point, instead of such a blind brute force, in the end, he didn't kill a few Tartars, and killed and injured a large number of people in vain Li Xin went straight to Xicheng non-stop, he couldn't rest assured of the battle situation outside the city, and even more so the thousands of people.

"Pick up the key points, say the results!"

Zhang Shi finally stopped being verbose.

"The Qing are still entangled with the people's army, but I am afraid that they will come to attack the city later......"

"Suning can't stay any longer, I'll take the left team out to rescue the people, and you organize people. After tidying up, he immediately went out of Xicheng for reinforcements. ā€

After saying this, Li Xin and Lu Jiukong Youde arrived at the north gate. Zhang Shi waved his hand to the soldiers in the city gate: "Open the city!" ā€

After rushing out of the West City Gate, Li Xin found that in just one hour, this place had become a purgatory on earth, full of stumps and broken arms, crying, shouting of killing, and moans of pain. Despite the fighting of the Tartar soldiers, few of the people who were dressed in a string still dared to flee, and the fate of escaping would be very tragic. There were people who tried to escape, and after being caught, the men were cut off and thrown into the wild to fend for themselves, and the women were wheeled. After the rape, it is still impossible to escape the doom of death.

With this kind of deterrence, who would dare to run away, and who would dare to leave here at the risk of being humiliated to death? Although staying here will be a slave to the Tartars, at least they can still have food to eat and their lives.

The people of the Ming Dynasty are too obedient and too bloodless. Li Xin did not know the cruelty of the Tartars' method of punishing the fugitives, but he only felt that these people did not dare to escape without the guards of the Tartars, which was really a great disappointment to him. How can such a group of people who only promise and have no blood type to speak of can save the precarious Ming? The country is in danger, and the husband is responsible, which is completely nonsense here.

Of course, Li Xin knows that the Ming court is good or bad, what does it matter to these people? Their requirements are very simple, as long as they have land to plant, food to eat, mother-in-law and children, what more can they ask for. This is the lifelong pursuit of the people of the Ming Dynasty.

In the distance, the Qing army was still slaughtering to vent their anger, even if they slaughtered tens of thousands of people who had no power to fight back, it was definitely a hard work, and they were exhausted one by one. The white snow has been dyed red. Li Xin urged his horse to get off his hip, and the Qing army seemed to notice a rushing cavalry, but they didn't seem to want to fight against it, but broke away from the civilian army as quickly as possible, and then gathered and fled far away.

The movements were smooth, the withdrawal was clean and beautiful, and it was impeccable, which fully demonstrated the training level of the Qing army. Li Xin knew that he couldn't catch up, and even if he did, he might not be able to take advantage, so he stayed to check the casualties of the people's army.

Li Xin suddenly heard someone shouting:

"General Li, it was General Li who saved us, it was General Li who saved us! We are saved! ā€

Li Xin was inexplicable, and it wasn't until a young man covered in blood came to him with the support of a young man that he exclaimed: "How dare you? ā€

That's right, the person who was seriously injured in front of him was Zeng Dare!

"Didn't I ask you to take the people to Taihang Mountain to avoid the Tartar soldiers?"

Zeng Dare was very weak, but still refuted it seriously: "General Li's words are wrong, and the so-called national crisis is the responsibility of the husband." What's more, those who dared to have a reputation for themselves should be the court and share the worries of His Majesty the Emperor. ā€

When Li Xin heard this, he almost rushed up and slapped him with that big mouth. It's also for the court, for the emperor's majesty, and it's a fart. You are worried, thousands of people have buried you with you, why did you just follow a piece and not die!

Xu felt that so many people had died because of him, and he dared to even feel how pale this defense was, after all, the nearly 10,000 lives that were still alive a few hours ago were now turned into stumps and broken arms all over the ground, and finally they couldn't hold it anymore and cried loudly.

"I regret not listening to General Li's words, I dared to be sorry for the people......"

Li Xin finally resisted the urge to slap him, and his words changed from reproach to comfort.

"You can recuperate with peace of mind, this place is full of my Ming loyal souls, presumably their heavenly spirits will also bless the Ming officials and soldiers to drive the Tartars out of the Great Wall one day earlier!"

Li Xin looked at it, and there was originally tens of thousands of people, but now there was not one in ten, and the blood flowing from the corpses all over the ground stained the thick white snow red, until it was red into the soil under the snow. The eyes of the living were also full of horror and despair, and there was no trace of the joy of dying in a desperate situation on the faces of these survivors.

Li Xin turned around and ordered Lu Jiu to rescue the people who were dressed in strings, as for the livestock and goods, the disposal method was the same as last night, and all the ones that could not be taken were burned.

After a long while, Zeng Dang finally stopped crying, and told Li Xin intermittently how he came to this Suning city and how he chose to attack the army of Tartars to escort goods and goods.

It turned out that after Li Xin left, Zeng dared to flee to Taihang Mountain for refuge without willingness, and he had tens of thousands of people in his hands. Therefore, he did not listen to Li Xin's construction, but ambitiously prepared to form an army of King Qin. Zeng dared to be very open-minded, implemented the principle of voluntariness, and welcomed those who were willing to stay and join the army, and those who were unwilling to stay could let the king leave.

In the end, more than 10,000 people remained.

After daring to simply form more than 10,000 people, he discussed with a cadre of henchmen who had just been appointed where to go. In the end, someone mentioned yƬ, it was better to follow Li Xin and see where he went, and when the time came, more than 10,000 troops suddenly appeared, letting him know that everyone was not vegetarian.

However, the group was sleepy and lacking, so Zeng Dang made a decision to directly lead to today's fiasco, first send people to follow Li Xin's team, and then everyone rested on the spot in the river valley, and then went to chase Li Xin after dawn.

Until the morning, Zeng dared to organize more than 10,000 people to prepare for the pull-out, but they did not have an effective organizational structure at all, and the inefficiency of the transmission and execution of orders was terrible. Just when everyone was in a commotion, the Tartar cavalry appeared!

And the first to discover the Tartar was a playful child, pointing to the slope on the valley and innocently said: "Look at the slope, there is a big horse riding ......."