Chapter 80: Retreat to the South (Part II)
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Wounded beasts are often the most terrifying, and the big traitor Wu Sangui is exactly like this, just a few days ago, he was almost beheaded by his new master.
Here's how it happened, just after the Battle of Shanhaiguan, seeing the defeat of Dashun, countless speculators became active. More than a dozen scholars gathered together and marched north to meet the Manchu army.
Nominally, he wanted to ask for his life for the people, invited the Manchu army to deal with Li Zicheng, and avenged the Ming Dynasty, but in fact he wanted to defect to the Manchu Qing Dynasty and mix up an official and a half-job, including the gentleman Xu Youxing who Kang Lesheng wanted to apprentice to.
They went all the way north, but halfway through, they happened to meet the two Jingguan set up by Gu Zhenhua!
The heads of the people were piled up into a hill, and the hungry wild dogs and wolves kept coming and biting the heads everywhere. There are also harrier eagles flying in the sky, pecking at carrion.
The pungent stench can be smelled from miles away. Xu Youxing and the others walked in with the courage to take a look, and immediately scared these people so much that they almost peed their pants!
Fall of the Tartars, traitor!
Eight bloody characters are right in front of you.
"W-what's going on?" Xu Youxing asked in a panic.
"Wow!" Several readers around him vomited their bitterness, eager to turn out their appetites. Xu Youxing raised his head suddenly, and just saw He Luohui's corpse, and he immediately vomited.
The man was pierced, like a quail ready to be roasted on the fire, crawling with flies, and the harrier eagle in the sky was still circling, as if ready to eat this ugly corpse!
At this time, a group of wild dogs appeared in the distance, due to eating human flesh, the eyes of these wild dogs were green, and the wolf nature of their ancestors was restored.
"Run!"
Xu Youxing and the others were so frightened that they all ran away, running out of more than ten miles in a row, and everyone's heart was going to jump out of their chest!
"Which, why is it so lacking in morality, piling up people's heads together, is it trying to scare people to death?"
"Brother Xu, why don't you know yet, this is Jingguan!" A scholar with a goatee said: "I really didn't expect that someone would be able to kill so many Tartars. ”
"Mr. Zou, are you sure that it is really a Tartar?"
"That's right, those heads are all braided, I'm afraid there are thousands of people, this is an unprecedented victory, but it's a pity, it's a little late!"
Xu Youxing's face was gloomy, and he couldn't help but say: "What a big victory, we want to take refuge in the Qing Dynasty, and now the Qing army has suffered losses, which is a great disadvantage to us." ”
"I'm not going."
"Mr. Zou, what are you talking about?" Xu Youxing hasn't turned the corner yet.
"The old man said that I won't go, Daming may still have a chance to live, aren't you afraid of messing up your head and piling it up in the pile of traitors?"
When Mr. Zou asked, many of the scholars present changed their faces and color, and they couldn't help but touch their heads, wanting to ask for glory and wealth, but they couldn't ignore their lives.
"Mr. Zou, what do you say I should do?"
"Go home and wait and see!"
After Mr. Zou finished speaking, he jumped into the carriage and ran back with his family, and the other scholars also saw that the situation was not good, and followed closely and ran back together.
In the end, there were only five people left, Xu Youxing also had the heart to follow, but he gritted his teeth and said to the remaining people: "Everyone, there is no turning back when we open the bow, we should fight when we get here." ”
"That's right, when the Manchu Qing Dynasty was employing people, we went to show our skills."
These people made a detour and continued to move forward, until they ran to Shanhaiguan, they really saw Dolgon, Xu Youxing flattered his allegiance, and told the matter of Jingguan by the way, and asked Dolgon to collect the corpses of the warriors of the Qing Dynasty!
Originally, Xu Youxing was out of kindness, but he knew that he suddenly poked Dolgon's lung tube, and he was worried about Wu Sangui's fiasco and He Luohui's disappearance, but he was actually built into a Jingguan. Dolgon's anger can be imagined, he immediately sent people to investigate, and those Qing soldiers couldn't help but vomit after seeing Jingguan.
Dolgon, who was furious, was about to cut off Wu Sangui's dog's head, but Fan Wencheng, Hong Chengchou and others tried their best to persuade Dolgon to dispel his thoughts, but he was actually afraid of loss.
However, Dolgon's anger was hard to dissipate, and he imitated Gu Zhenhua's methods to deal with He Luohui, and put Xu Youxing on the flagpole, this guy who was dedicated to the tiger was actually eaten by the tiger first, which is really ridiculous!
Wu Sangui, who survived the dead, was completely desperate, and he had to prove his worth to his master, otherwise once the lackeys were useless, he would be shabu shabu.
Wu Sangui swept all the way, killed countless people, and finally killed outside the capital on May 5. And Li Zicheng was ready to retreat at this time.
Although Gu Zhenhua sent a large amount of grain, but in the face of internal and external troubles, Li Zicheng still did not have the courage to defend Beijing, so he could only lead the army to retreat to the old nest in Shaanxi, but in order to buy time for transporting grain, Li Zicheng still left Li Guo and Gao Yigong to block the Manchu Qing for a while, and he withdrew with a large team of men and horses, a million loads of grain, and 25 million taels of silver.
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"Wu Sangui, the bastard of the turtle grandson, is really hateful, he won't even let us have a good Dragon Boat Festival, and when Lao Tzu catches him, he has to wrap him in zongzi and eat it!" Yue Poyu snorted angrily and said.
Xue Biao laughed: "Old brother, don't complain, can't we still nibble on steamed buns, I promise that as long as we do a good job, the big traitor can't even eat the nest!" ”
Xue Biao's words were not nonsense, they happened to accept Gu Zhenhua's order and secretly came to Tongzhou to completely burn Tongzhou. This is the end point of the northern section of the Grand Canal, and all kinds of materials are gathered, although the quantity is not as good as Tianjin, but it is not small. Moreover, the destruction of Tongzhou is equivalent to blocking the passage of grain from the south to the north, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty will have to work hard to restore the Grand Canal.
In this way, he can buy time for An **, and what Gu Zhenhua lacks most at the moment is time!
"How's the evacuation going?"
Yue Poyu said with a smile: "It's almost, the soldiers have told them that the Manchu Qing Dynasty is coming, and those who are willing to retreat south will give grain and silver, and many people have already left, but there are still some people who have cheated the silver and food, and they don't leave!" ”
"Don't care, it's up to them to choose whether it's dead or alive, and we don't have much time."
Just as he was talking, suddenly a night did not stop running over, the war horse galloped wildly, and the four hooves were about to leave half of the ground, and they arrived in front of Xue Biao and them in an instant.
"Lord Qiyu, the capital has been lost!"
"What?" Xue Biao was taken aback and hurriedly asked, "What's the matter, didn't Li Zicheng leave people behind?" ”
"My lord, someone in the city has defected, Wu Sangui entered the city without a knife or a shot, and then Li Zicheng's men and horses were scattered!"
"Rice bucket!" Xue Biao hurriedly said: "I can't wait any longer, immediately burn Tongzhou, blow up the wharf, scuttle all the ships, and block the canal!" ”
Xue Biao gave an order, and An**'s soldiers hurriedly took action, and in an instant, Tongzhou City was full of fire, quickly devouring a qiē. In the harbor, the sound of explosions is incessant.
When Gu Zhenhua and Li Zicheng were doing business, in addition to getting craftsmen, they also made 150,000 catties of gunpowder by the way, Li Zicheng may not realize the value of gunpowder, but Gu Zhenhua has a soft spot for explosives.
120,000 catties of explosives were transported to Tianjin, and the remaining 30,000 catties were left in Tongzhou. The gunpowder exploded, and clouds of gunpowder smoke rose into the air.
The big ships of 400 and 1,000 materials were bombed one after another and sank into the middle of the canal, and the surrounding diversion channels and wharf facilities, without exception, were all blown up, and the port was shrouded in a sea of fire.
Of course, in this fire, not only the port was destroyed, but also some people who were unwilling to evacuate were also affected, and more than 300 people died in the fire!
However, for Gu Zhenhua, the sacrifice is worth it, and it will take at least three months to half a year to restore Tongzhou, and if Tianjin is added, it will take even longer.
Without the Grand Canal, not only would it be impossible to transport grain from the south to the north, but the northern soldiers would also lose a major artery when they went south, and it would be difficult for the soldiers to transport grain. Gu Zhenhua also has a roundabout time, and he can rest assured that he can boldly establish a base.
As soon as Xue Biao and Yue Poyu, the two arsonists, left Tongzhou with their men, Wu Sangui's subordinates chased and killed them, and the big traitor was not stupid, he also knew the importance of Tongzhou. But they were a step too late, and when they arrived, they saw flames flying into the sky, black smoke all over the ground, and people fleeing everywhere, helping the old and the young, and all over the mountains and fields.
"I'm mad at me!"
Yang Ming jumped like thunder, facing the firelight, he scolded: "Don't let Lao Tzu know who did it, I picked his skin!" ”
Yang Kun's face on the side was a little strange, with Li Zicheng's vision, there was absolutely no idea of burning Tongzhou, only Gu Zhenhua could do this kind of thing!
Thinking of this, Yang Kun couldn't help but be frightened, a miscellaneous fish that had nothing at the beginning, but now it has gradually grown into a biting crocodile, and it bites so hard, I really don't know where it will go.
Even if they were angry again, but in the face of the raging fire, they had no curse, so they could only go back to the capital and report to Wu Sangui.
At this time, Wu Sangui was like a vicious dog, chasing Li Zicheng tightly, biting and not letting go. But after getting the news, Wu Sangui was also scared silly.
There is no food in Beijing, and Tongzhou is also destroyed, the big traitor is not stupid, he hurriedly ordered Yang Ming, let him lead the army to seize Tianjin immediately, and Tianjin must not be ruined, otherwise they can only starve to death!
Dolgon, who got the report, was also startled, and hurriedly asked the traitor leader Kong Youde to lead the Han Eight Banners and Yang Ming to seize Tianjin together.
Their army was dispatched, and Gu Zhenhua was also deploying a retreat operation. The last batch of supplies has been put on the ship, and the families of the new soldiers are also reluctant to leave their homes where they have lived for many years.
"Seventh brother, let's just retreat, don't you leave them some gifts?" Zhou Yingjie couldn't help but ask.
Gu Zhenhua laughed: "There are so many gunpowder transported in the capital, I am going to set off a big firework in Tianjin to cheer for the Manchu Qing!" ”