Chapter 488: The Last Hope Vanishes
"Report! King Yan fled! β
The news came from the city of Nanjing, which made many people beat their chests, and they longed that Zhu Di was destroyed, and then their children would be able to go home safely.
How many officials also sighed, originally thought that the rebellion of King Yan was going to be pacified in the battle of Dongchang, who would have thought that this moth would come out.
Hundreds of thousands of people have already wiped out more than 50,000 of Zhu Di's people, how can they let the remaining more than 10,000 people escape?
Zhu Yunwen knew this reason, because the battle report from Yun Zichen was very clear, that is, the three princes of King Han, King Shen, and King An let Zhu Di go! And their slogan turned out to be that the emperor would not be saddled with the name of killing his uncle.
When Zhu Yunwen first saw the news, he also felt a little annoyed, why did he listen to Hu Yejian and send these three princes to the front line? Such a good opportunity to quell the rebellion was missed.
But in the last thought, now Zhu Di only has 10,000 remnants in his hands, even if he escapes, what can he do? Although Zhu Di was not eliminated this time, it was a heavy blow to Zhu Di, and the most important thing is that when they had an absolute advantage, they released Zhu Di, which was enough to make him, the emperor, stand on the side of righteousness, and it also happened to make up for the reputation he lost because of King Zhou and King Xiang.
"Pass the order down, let the army pursue, but do not hurt the life of King Yan, if King Yan flees back to Beiping, the army will besiege but not attack, and the people must not be injured!" Zhu Yunwen ordered.
This order aroused the opposition of many ministers, it was because Zhu Di could not be killed that Zhu Di would successfully escape this time, what if Zhu Di made a comeback? Will it be necessary to lose more than 100,000 soldiers in the future before Zhu Di can be captured?
But Zhu Yunwen's attitude is very resolute, what he wants to be a good emperor is, he must not be saddled with the name of killing his uncle, the king of Zhou and the king of Xiang have already made the people complain about him, if this time the army kills Zhu Di. lest the tongue of the people will not let him go.
What he meant was that he captured King Yan and sent him to Nanjing, where he was locked up with King Dai, King Min and others, which could not only complete his plan to cut the domain, but also fulfill his fame.
Hu Ye thinks that Zhu Yunwen is understandable to do this, because Zhu Yunwen in history also did this, otherwise with Zhu Di's little people, how could he become the first successful feudal king in history.
In the current view, even if he has the god machine battalion and hot air balloon that he gave him. Zhu Di is still nine deaths, if it weren't for the three princes recommended by himself to save his life this time, I'm afraid Yun Zichen would be worthy of caring about Zhu Yunwen's name for killing his uncle.
In fact, when he recommended the three kings, Hu Ye didn't expect such a result, he just wanted the three princes to go out to practice and block Zhu Yunwen's mouth.
Unexpectedly, he hit the right one, and he also relieved Zhu Di of the siege.
"Did you escape? Dongchang, Dongchang, where should it really become Zhang Yu's burial place? Hu Ye muttered, and then continued to investigate the sewers in Nanjing. Now that the whole project has started construction, he, as a general judge, naturally wants to come and take a look.
And Sanping Gorge in Enxian County is now a river of blood. There are imperial court troops, and there are Zhang Yu's troops.
Now the army of the imperial court has poured out, because they have used the corpses of soldiers to fill in the fortifications built by Zhang Yushuo, and the people led by Zhang Yu are also red-eyed. Now if someone rushes out of the mouth of the canyon in Sanping Gorge, they will fight back fiercely, although they only have a few dozen people left. But they still didn't flinch and tried to buy time for Zhu Di.
"General, we're running out of steam." A small flag from the Shenji Battalion said to Zhang Yu, because their bullets had run out, and they had now smashed the flintlock pistol, picked up the dead man's long knife and spear, and fought with the comer.
"Yes, General, we've been holding out for six hours! His Highness must have arrived in Texas. Another said.
"No! We will fight until we are one soldier, and the longer we delay, the safer Your Highness will be! "Zhang Yu immediately crossed the knife and never retreated half a step!
"General! If you don't leave, it's too late, our mission is done! More than a dozen people glanced at each other, and they didn't care about Zhang Yu's resistance, and directly put Zhang Yu on their legs and left.
If Zhang Yu hadn't been so unbearable in normal times, but in the battle just now, he had already been hit by more than a dozen knives, and his body was about to run out, and he was held by two soldiers, so he couldn't resist at all.
"You will keep it for me, and after an hour, give me all the retreat." The little flag said to the dozens of people left behind him, and then fled in the direction of Texas with Zhang Yu.
"What are you doing here!" Zhang Yu yelled, he is a general, even if he wants to die, he has to die in the killing field, and he must not escape like this.
"General, stay in the green mountains without worrying about no firewood!" The little flag ran all the way with Zhang Yu, but before he ran far, he heard the sound of a crash behind him, and knew that the dozens of people couldn't hold it anymore, so they quickened their pace.
"General, they have broken through the defense of Sanping Gorge." In the south of Enxian County, among Yun Zichen's army, there were heralds who reported to Yun Zichen.
Hearing this, Yun Zichen was even more puzzled, looking for this way of playing, those three princes are not like Zhu Di's side, why did they let Zhu Di go before?
"Pass the order down, pursue on all fronts!" But he can't care so much now, and the first task is to stop Zhu Di.
Now they have been blocked in Enxian for six hours, calculating the distance, and now Zhu Di should have fled to Texas.
Yun Zichen's estimate is not wrong, Zhu Di has now come to Texas with less than 10,000 remnants, this is Li Jinglong's territory, after being repelled by Zhu Di from Beiping last time, Li Jinglong has been entrenched here.
"General, now that Zhu Di has entered the territory of Texas, are we going to send troops to intercept it?" In the government office of Dezhou, the prefect cautiously asked Li Jinglong, although Li Jinglong was the general of the defeated army, but he was still Cao Guogong, and he was the nominal general, commanding the soldiers and horses of the entire north, and the prefect had to be careful.
"Interception? How many men do you have? You just want to intercept? Li Jinglong scolded.
"There are only 100 servants in the hands of the lower officials, and there are 5,000 guards in the hands of Commander Li." The prefect replied.
"That's the end of it! Now there are 20,000 of Zhu Di's men and horses, and with our thousands of people, it is not enough for him to stuff his teeth, what do you use to intercept it! Li Jinglong scolded with his head covered his face.
"But General Pingyan ......"
"Lao Tzu is the great general! Lao Tzu is the commander of the army! Do you listen to me or to him! Li Jinglong put a foot on the prefect's stomach, and the prefect knew that Li Jinglong was afraid of Zhu Di, even if Zhu Di only had a few hundred people now, Li Jinglong would not dare to go out of the city to intercept him.
So Zhu Di's army was able to pass through the territory of Texas safely and successfully enter Hejian Mansion, as long as it passed Hejian Mansion, it was Zhu Di's territory.
At this moment, Zhu Ying and several of them had broken through the Sanping Gorge and pursued Zhang Yu's dozen fleeing soldiers.
"You guys, take the general up the mountain and hide! We're here to buy you time. The little flag pointed to the soldiers who were holding Zhang Yu and said.
"No! Die to die together! Although Zhang Yu was seriously injured, he also heard the soldier's words clearly.
"General, there's no time!" That Xiaoqi asked those people to take Zhang Yu towards the mountain, while he led a few people to kill down the mountain to buy time for Zhang Yu and the others.
"Let me go! Let me go! Zhang Yu suddenly remembered the note in his arms, which was what Hu Ye left him a few years ago to save his life, and now he was in danger, once he was caught up by the pursuers behind, the few people around him would be useless at all.
"The general can't! We're going to get you out of here! Several soldiers said.
"I tell you to let me go! I have something to do! Zhang Yu yelled, but the soldiers still didn't let Zhang Yu down.
"Then take out that note from my bosom for me! Hurry up! Zhang Yu said helplessly.
Hearing this, a soldier took out a note from Zhang Yu's arms and opened it.
"What does it say?" Zhang Yu asked loudly.
"......"
Before the soldier could finish speaking, he was hit by an arrow in his back, and then fell to the ground, and the note in his hand went with the wind.
"Quick! Fast! Pick up that note for me! Zhang Yu roared loudly, and then the remaining soldiers went back to find the note, now it was important to escape, so they ran faster with Zhang Yu.
"Is the heavens going to kill me?"
Zhang Yu looked up to the sky and sighed, now the last hope was also lost, the pursuer was behind, he turned around, and saw that the enemy had arrived next to the soldier's body, and the note was also taken by the enemy, as if it was going to be handed over to someone behind.
"It's over, it's over." Zhang Yu muttered to himself, then pulled out a knife from the soldier beside him, and shouted loudly, "You guys let me go, let me run for my life, I'll stop them!" β
"But the general ......"
"Don't give Lao Tzu nonsense! With me, you won't be able to run at all, and sooner or later you'll be caught up! Zhang Yu yelled.
"Hurry up and let Lao Tzu go! Go back and sue His Royal Highness King SΓΉ Yan, I, Zhang Yu, didn't disgrace him! Zhang Yu yelled, and then put the knife on his neck, the meaning is obvious, if you don't leave, Lao Tzu will commit suicide.
Seeing that Zhang Yu had made up his mind, those soldiers did not hesitate, and after saluting Zhang Yu, they ran to the front.
Looking at the backs of the soldiers in front of him, Zhang Yu's heart was filled with a sourness, Rong Ma had killed countless foreigners in his life, but he didn't expect to die in the hands of his own people today.
But Zhang Yu will not be arrested, as a general, he must die with dignity, even if he dies! Also pull a few pads.
Looking at the soldiers slowly pouring up from the path, Zhang Yu spat at the knife, "Brother, today is our last battle." (To be continued......)