"Brothers, kill me if you encounter a Tartar!"

Under the city of Tongzhou, Liu Mingchuan shouted excitedly, brandishing a big knife while running a horse, and boosted morale in front of the team.

"Divisional commander! The gates are open! A regiment leader surnamed Wu pointed to the slowly opening city gate and shouted to this Liu Mingchuan.

Liu Mingchuan grabbed the reins, turned around and scolded: "These boneless bastards, the uncle surrendered with his tail between his legs before he was happy!" Wu Guang, go and ask, what are these guys going to do? ”

"Yes!" Wu Guang was not verbose, took a horse and ran over, and asked dozens of trembling people at the city gate, "Are you surrendering?" ”

The deputy general at the front, holding a box, knelt down and said: "This general, the small one is the deputy general of Tongzhou, he is a Han person, and the general army of Tongzhou is full of people, and the small ones will kill him, so please surrender!" ”

Wu Guang kicked over the box, and sure enough, a bloody human head rolled out of the box, and said loudly: "You guys line up in two rows and follow behind the army!" ”

After speaking, Wu Guang hit the horse and went back and told Liu Ming in detail.

Liu Mingchuan laughed and said to Wu Guang: "You lead five hundred people to garrison Tongzhou and wait for the main force of our army." ”

Wu Guang was taken aback, knowing that Liu Mingchuan intended to attack Beijing City, and persuaded: "Division, Master Li only ordered us to reach Tongzhou, didn't say to attack Beijing?" ”

Liu Mingchuan glared at Wu Guang, and said sharply to the officers behind him: "Pass the order, the army will bypass Tongzhou and go straight to Beijing!" ”

In the early morning of the next day, the soldiers led by Liu Mingchuan rushed to the outside of Beijing, and encountered many fleeing civilians along the way. It is said that there was chaos in Beijing, and the Manchurian nobles only cared about robbing property. There was no intention of defending the city.

"Report, Division Commander Qiyu, there is a cavalry coming quickly fifty miles to the south, and the vanguard is already ten miles away."

Liu Mingchuan was shocked and angry, and looked back at the scattered team, on the way, he only heard that the Qing army was fleeing and did not encounter resistance, so he was careless, and there was only one battalion of troops around him. Hurriedly shouted: "Everyone is ready to fight!" ”

A battalion commander said in a panic: "Division commander." Let's withdraw first, our army is scattered a lot along the way, and the cavalry will definitely die, and there are only more than 500 people at this time. And there is no baggage. Can't keep up with the time! ”

"Bang!" Liu Mingchuan pulled out his pistol and shot the battalion commander in the head. shouted loudly: "At this time, I am invincible, and anyone who shakes the heart of the army will be shot!" Pass the order down. The follow-up troops were ordered to reorganize their troops ten miles away and not to support. ”

The surrounding officers were frightened, so they commanded the non-commissioned officers to line up, one line for every hundred people, dug a small ditch in the front, left, and rear, and ordered the grenadiers to line up all around, ready to throw grenades.

Feeling a vibration on the ground, Liu Mingchuan took the telescope, and suddenly saw a large group of strange soldiers appear three miles away in the south, thousands of Qiqi running on the ground, the momentum was mighty, and they lined up a mile before the formation, south and west. The camp is surrounded on three sides to the east.

Liu Mingchuan looked at the cavalry in front of him dressed in Qing soldiers' clothes, and felt a burst of despair in his heart, the other party also held a musket in his hand, and the generals in front of him pointed at Liu Mingchuan, and returned to the formation one after another, so after half an hour, the Qing army just didn't attack.

Liu Mingchuan turned around and said to the staff officers on the left and right: "There is no escape in this battle, the Qing army on the opposite side is well-trained, and they advance and retreat well, it seems that they want to capture us alive." ”

Staff officer Zhao Gang wanted to speak and stopped, he kept staring at the military formation in front of him, through the gap in the crowd, as if he saw the soldiers in Han army uniforms lined up, and felt that this was whimsical, he was wrong, and he couldn't help but be laughed at when he said it.

"Divisional commander! A female general came out on the left, and she ...... She ......"

Liu Ming saw a regiment commander on the left, and immediately turned his head, stunned, a female general wearing the uniform of a Han army commander, under the escort of several Qing troops, gradually contacted the main formation.

Ye Lian looked at the heavily guarded military formation, and shouted a hundred meters away: "Let your commander come out and answer!" ”

Liu Mingchuan thought for a moment, had no clue, didn't know whether the other side was friend or foe, and fifty meters forward, he shouted loudly: "Are you Qing army or Han army?" ”

Ye Lian saw that Liu Mingchuan was wearing a military uniform with three yellow bars on his shoulders, understood that he was a division commander, and said with a smile: "What part are you, are you from the First Group Army?" ”

Liu Mingchuan breathed a sigh of relief, when he was training in Anhui, he heard that there was a female general in northern Anhui who could fight, and later came to Shandong, it seemed that this was the person, and hurriedly turned around and signaled the soldiers to put the muzzle of the gun down, and stepped forward fifty meters, saluted Ye Lian, and replied: "The last general is a subordinate of the 14th Army, and the general is the commander of Ye Lian of the Second Group Army?" ”

Ye Lian replied: "Yes, I am Ye Lian, I didn't expect the 14th Army to be the latest to become an army, and it was the first to hit Beijing, where is your Commander Li?" ”

Liu Mingchuan quietly glanced at Ye Lian twice, although his complexion looked dark, but his face was beautiful and his figure was slender, he really couldn't imagine that this person was actually the commander of the cavalry opposite, with the power just now, even if he gave him 10,000 people, he didn't dare to fight with him.

Ye Lianxing was stunned, frowned, and said, "What are you doing in a daze?" If I had whipped you in our army! ”

Liu Mingchuan's face was embarrassed, and he hurriedly said: "Commander Li is in Tongzhou at this time, and the last general is the pioneer, I don't know that Commander Ye has arrived, so I am offended." ”

Ye Lian looked at the shadowy city wall in the north and asked, "Is there a Tartar left behind in Beijing City?" ”

Liu Mingchuan was ashamed and replied: "The last general also doesn't know, I just heard that there are cavalry when I first arrived here...... Only then did they line up in place and defend it, but they all heard on the road in the end that the Qing army left behind the prince could not control the situation, and the Tartars fled to the north, leaving only some old, weak, sick and disabled and some Han soldiers and horses in the city. ”

Ye Lian turned the horse's head and said, "Let's go up together and have a look, if we can persuade the Han people in the city, it will be a great achievement." ”

Liu Mingchuan saw Qianying go away, so he secretly wiped a cold sweat, turned around and returned to his own formation, and commanded his soldiers to go north.

"Division commander, General Tang is here!" Zhao Gang's eyes were sharp, and he saw the unique costume of the special forces at a glance.

Liu Mingchuan sighed, just came a Commander Ye and a Commander Tang, the first-class merit became the third-class merit, it was really unlucky! Seeing Tang Liang getting closer and closer, he reluctantly greeted him. He arched his hand and said, "I've seen General Tang!" ”

Tang Liang ignored him, picked up the binoculars and looked at the strange soldiers in front of him, and asked, "Is this group of cavalry led by a person named Ye Lian?" ”

Liu Mingchuan was not surprised, but when Tang Liang had already received the news, he replied: "It is indeed the cavalry of Commander Ye, he ordered us to gather under the city of Beijing." ”

A complicated mood surged into his heart, Tang Liang hesitated, it stands to reason that the old comrades-in-arms should be eager to come forward to say hello when they meet, but Tang Liang admires Ye Lian, and now he is undecided. In the past, Li Yunzhong offered to find him a wife several times. were all shirked by him for various reasons, just because there has always been a shadow of a prancing horse attacking the enemy in his heart, when he and Ye Lian shared weal and woe in the Northern Expeditionary Army and supported each other. Later, they went north and south under the city of Hangzhou.

Liu Ming saw Tang Liang stunned on the horse. Feeling uncomfortable. He defected to Nanjing, Tang Liang has always been by Li Yunzhong's side as a guard, and he is sure that Tang Liang is because of Li Yunzhong's trust. This is only in the position of army commander, he has always called Tang Liang a general, which is a manifestation of his dissatisfaction, now he is standing on the ground, Tang Liang is riding on a horse, making him feel that he is a herald, and he is reporting the military situation to Tang Liang.

"What else is going on with General Tang?"

Tang Liang looked at the cavalry in front of him and gradually moved away, and said without looking back: "It's okay, you go!" ”

Seeing his contemptuous appearance, Liu Mingchuan felt insulted, and said hatefully: "The last general will leave!" ”

Li Baoquan snorted at Liu Mingchuan's back, and said to Tang Liang: "This Liu Mingchuan is too blind, the general was a commander-level figure two years ago, he is only a division commander now, relying on Commander Li's powerlessness, he dares to be disrespectful to the general, the last general really wants to teach him a lesson!" ”

Tang Liang waved his hand, he was not in the mood to care about these now, and replied: "Forget it, the emperor still values him very much, don't conflict with them if there is no need, Li Hongzhang is not ordinary, go!" Let's go and see. ”

Ye Lian rushed to the city gate, and saw the city gate slowly open, hundreds of Qing soldiers rushed out, one of them greeted him, and said to Ye Lian: "The big officials in the city have fled with Xianfeng Ye, and the rest dare to be directors, and the small ones dare not be Kang Tianwei, so they open the city gate to welcome the general into the city!" ”

Ye Lian didn't expect the attack on Beijing to go so smoothly, as soon as he arrived at the city, someone surrendered, as if in a dream, bypassing the Qing army and leading all the cavalry into the city, running along the street for a mile before stopping, looking at the empty streets, the corpses scattered on the side of the road, are some ordinary people, remembering what Liu Mingchuan said about the Tartars looting the whole city, this is relieved, and commanded his subordinates to seize the city wall, and slowly advance ahead.

Along the way, there were fires everywhere, the routs were defeated, and there were robberies everywhere, this was seven or eight officers and soldiers pressing a few women to walk by, Ye Lian sent people to arrest these officers and soldiers for interrogation, and saw that they were covered in blood, and without saying a word, he ordered the seven people to be beheaded left and right, leaving only one person with the least blood on his body.

Ye Lian whipped him a few more times, until he rolled on the ground and begged for mercy.

Ye Lian leaned forward and asked, "Who are you, why are you robbing the people in broad daylight?" ”

This little soldier had already been frightened, and replied incoherently: "The general spared his life, it was the Manchurians who robbed it first, they robbed it for three days, and we only robbed it for two days." ”

Ye Lian was silent, and then asked, "Where are the Qing soldiers in the city, are they all involved in the robbery?" ”

The little soldier endured the pain and said all the rumors and rumors he heard: "When the emperor fled, there were still 30,000 soldiers and horses in the city, but Prince Gong secretly took away 23,000 people, and there were only some old, weak, sick and disabled people left in the city. ”

Ye Lian shook her silver teeth and asked, "How long have they been gone, but there are cavalry?" ”

"At that time, the villains were guarding the north gate, and they were covered with gold, silver, and jewels, and a few horsemen put their treasures on their horses and led them themselves."

Ye Lian turned around and said to a big man with a beard on his face: "You immediately lead three thousand soldiers and horses to pursue, and you must kill this group of scum." ”

"Yes!" After speaking, the bearded general beckoned his subordinates to go out of the city by the same route.

The Qing soldiers on the streets had long since fled, leaving only the people who were calling for heaven and earth, and when they saw that the Han army was disciplined, they all knelt down on both sides of the road, and no one fled.

Thinking of the purpose of this trip, Ye Lian was taken aback, and asked again: "Can there be a rout and loot the palace?" ”

Xiao Bing nodded, shook his head again, and replied: "I don't know, the little one only robbed in this area, and he hasn't been to the palace." ”

This is the officials who surrendered in Kaesong have already caught up. Hearing Ye Lian's question, she replied: "The palace has a prince in charge, and there is no rout and robbery, please go quickly to prevent the rout from causing chaos." ”

Ye Lian thought that she must not let the palace be burned down by the rout, so she immediately ordered the guards to bring a horse and said to the official: "You lead the way in front!" ”

Liu Mingchuan was a little clever, and when he saw Ye Lian entering from Yongding Gate, he led his troops into the city from Guang'an Gate in the west. Let the soldiers who are familiar with Beijing's road conditions lead the way. Regardless of the defeated soldiers and people along the way, they went straight to the Xuanwu Gate in the inner city, and arrived at the Tiananmen Gate in the imperial city in less than half an hour.

As soon as Liu Mingchuan wanted to call the defenders in the city to surrender, he felt a tremor on the ground. You don't have to think about it to know that Ye Lian's cavalry has arrived. Secretly scolding bad luck. I had to greet it first.

The defenders of the imperial city had already received orders, and when they saw the Han army, they opened the city gate and surrendered, and saw the majestic team below. Convinced, he opened the city gate with trepidation to meet the unknown judgment.

Looking at the slowly opening city gate, Liu Mingchuan's blood surged, his hands trembled, this time he made a great achievement! Catching a glimpse of a shadow in front of me was no longer an eyesore.

Ye Lian ordered the soldiers and horses to control the key points of the imperial city, all the way was deserted, which was completely inconsistent with the palace she imagined, and came to the imperial palace with Liu Mingchuan with her doubts, only to see that the place was full of heads, and at first glance she thought they were welcoming some important person.

Yi Cheng, who was kneeling at the front, kowtowed to Ye Lian and the others, and said loudly: "Sinner Yi Cheng to meet General Han!" ”

Ye Lian was not verbose, separated the Manchu officials from the Han officials, and asked the Manchu people to go home and stand by, and asked the Han officials to help maintain order in the city, repeatedly promising that they would not be killed.

After Liu Mingchuan and Ye Lian dealt with the affairs of the palace, in order to avoid suspicion, they only sent 1,000 people to patrol the palace, but the two of them did not dare to stay in it for a moment longer, and when they left the palace, the two went separately.

Ye Lian led a few guards to patrol along the unknown alley, and she didn't see the rout and robbery along the way, she was secretly relieved, and suddenly heard the sound of a fight in front of her, and hurriedly patted her horse to check.

"Catch him! Get him! "Far away, I saw more than a dozen Han soldiers, fighting around a man in his fifties, and there were several Han soldiers lying on the ground, it seemed that they were just unjointed.

Ye Lian glanced at it a few times, and knew that this person had no intention of hurting people's lives, but instead his own soldiers greeted him at the vital point, and immediately shouted: "Stop!" ”

When the Han army saw that their own army commander had arrived, they all stopped, and a leader stepped forward and said: "Commander, this person is a spy of the Qing army!" ”

The man argued: "You have to search people's houses for no reason, and when you see beautiful women, you come forward to tease, I heard that the Han army is very disciplined, and now it seems that it is nothing more than that." ”

Ye Lian turned to the leader and asked, "Who is this person?" Why do you fight? ”

The leader replied: "The last general saw several suspicious people fleeing into a house, so he came forward to search, but this person pushed back and stopped, and at the end of the year, he made disrespectful remarks, and the last general could not see him insulting the emperor, so he did it." ”

As soon as Ye Lian heard that this person insulted Li Yunzhong, she immediately frowned, and said secretly: You can't let him go at this time.

"Catch him!"

The Han army listened to the commander's order, all of them were in high spirits, and they had the intention to behave in front of the commander, and the people with foreign guns also put down their guns, picked up the big knives on the ground and swarmed them.

Yang Luchan had a tiger face, he didn't want to cause trouble just now, so he slowly dealt with them, but he didn't expect to attract a big official, and sighed secretly, he could only use Tai Chi martial arts, and threw the Han troops who rushed up one by one to grab the key points, in order to protect himself, sometimes he couldn't help but be ruthless.

Ye Lian looked at the soldiers flying all over the sky, shocked and angry, pulled out her pistol, thought about it for a while, put it back again, picked up the spear and dismounted, and stabbed Yang Luchan is stab.

Yang Luchan took a few steps back, not wanting to make a big deal about it, but who knew that Ye Lian was unforgiving, took three steps forward, and stabbed more than a dozen times in a row, making a fatal move.

"Be careful, I'll take your spear!" Yang Luchan reminded, shook his body a few times, dodged the gun, and grabbed the gun at the same time.

Ye Lian laughed secretly, her marksmanship was learned from the battlefield, the moves were all real moves, stabbing at the vital point, the middle one was killed immediately, this person dared to only dodge without attacking, watching the other party dodge another shot, Ye Lian immediately swept with a gun, and at the same time let go of the door, wielding the spear to his heart's content, forcing the other party to be in a hurry.

Yang Luchan looked at the spear that swept across his chest, and the barrel of the gun was a palm, this time he used the secret strength of the inner family, and actually broke the spear, the opportunity must not be lost, Yang Luchan wanted to be stunned in place before he bullied Ye Lian.

"Stop!"

At this time, there was an angry roar, it turned out that Tang Liang was passing by here, and when he saw Ye Lian in distress, he immediately jumped off his horse and kicked Yang Luchan in the air.

Feeling a gust of wind behind him, Yang Luchan didn't think about it, turned around and punched, fists and feet contacted, and the two of them retreated.

If he met such an opponent at another time, the two sides would definitely sympathize with each other, but Tang Liang was annoyed that he hurt Ye Lian, so he didn't speak, and immediately used his housekeeping skills to gossip, wanting to escape justice for Ye Lian.

Yang Luchan fought with Tang Liang for a few rounds, and immediately jumped out of the circle and shouted at Tang Liang: "Who are you in the gossip palm Dong Haichuan?" Why did you use his housekeeping skills! ”

When Tang Liang heard the other party mention his master, he instantly forgot what he meant, and asked excitedly, "Do you know my master?" Where is he now? ”

Yang Luchan asked, "Are you Master Dong's apprentice?" ”

Tang Liang was speechless with joy and nodded for a while.

Yang Luchan believed it and said with a smile: "It turned out to be a misunderstanding, and Master Ling was resting at this time. “

Tang Liang turned to Ye Lian and said, "Sister of the Ye family, he is a good friend of my master, can you let him go?" “

Ye Lian was already overjoyed when she saw her sweetheart being majestic just now, Tang Liang said, how could she disagree.

Several people followed Yang Luchan together, and it was inevitable that the master and apprentice would meet and tell each other. (To be continued......)

PS: I didn't review it carefully, I was too anxious.