Chapter 215: The Young Lord Who Escaped for His Life
Celebrate the third year together, on the 17th day of the first month.
The Jingnan army led by Zeng Fan broke through the Tianbao City of the Blue Wolf Country, and the siege of Shicheng was finally formed, and Feng Quan, the lord of the Blue Wolf Country, ordered troops from all over the country to quickly rush to Shicheng for reinforcements, while Gong Changyu accompanied Xi Qitian to block the field troops of the Blue Wolf Army who went to Shicheng for reinforcements on the periphery.
In March, the Qing Dynasty dismissed Gong Changyu's alternate Qianzong, officially promoted him to a garrison, led more than 2,000 soldiers, and used the official name Gong Jichang from the beginning.
Less than a month after Gong Jichang was promoted to garrison, Qingyang Town in the south of Anping County was besieged by Li Xiucheng, the king of Han of the Blue Wolf Army, and Qingyang Town was in an emergency. Jiang Changyi, the governor of Yuexi County, led his troops to help, and Gong Jichang received Xi Qitian's military order to assist the main force in fighting with the Blue Wolf Army as a partial division.
After several battles, Qingyang changed hands many times, and Gong Jichang had completely mastered the psychology of the Blue Wolf Army at this time, and localism was rampant, and each only wanted to keep his own territory.
Gong Jichang grasped the Achilles' heel of the blue wolf army, and before the main force did not have a general attack, he marched to Shiling day and night, and when he arrived here, it was already dusk.
The energetic Gong Jichang ordered all the soldiers to rest on the spot for about 20 minutes, ate some dry food, and made a detour to the back of tens of thousands of blue wolf troops, launching a fierce attack on them, and artillery fire continued to fall on the artillery positions of the blue wolf army.
After a while, the blue wolf army that was attacked by surprise was in chaos, and then adjusted its formation, wanting to turn the muzzle of the cannon and bombard Gong Jichang's troops.
Gong Jichang didn't give them any chance, and urged the horse to lead hundreds of death squads to rush into the artillery array and hack to death the gunners of the Blue Wolf Army.
Not to be outdone, the Blue Wolf Army fought back. Gong Jichang himself was cut into an inhuman shape, drenched in blood, killing people as blood people, and horses as blood horses. The position was full of dead bodies, and Gong Jichang took care of it so much, and put the reserves into battle.
Mrs. Ran Jiufeng, who followed the reserve team to participate in the battle, was seriously wounded, and woke up after three or four days of coma, and almost died.
There were more and more follow-up troops of the Blue Wolf Army, and Gong Jichang turned the sneak attack battle into the main offensive battle, and continued to fight with the Blue Wolf Army in Shiling. The troops of the Jingyi Battalion had no choice but to launch a general attack in advance and quickly reinforce Gong Jichang in Shiling.
When Xi Qitian's army arrived, the blue wolf army that learned the news was frightened and withdrew from Shiling at night, and the siege of Qingyang was lifted.
After the battle of Shiling, Gong Jichang was so tired that he was paralyzed to the ground: "Since General Ben joined the army, although this battle has been hearty, our army has killed 1,000 enemies and lost 800 self-losses, a tragic victory, a tragic victory!" ”
Xi Qitian was very surprised when he saw Gong Jichang, who was covered in blood: "Gong Laoxue, you don't even want your life in a war, and you are a real warrior!" ”
"Brother Kaitian...... If you come half an hour late, my men and horses will be gone......" Gong Jichang replied with a miserable smile.
"How so?" Xi Qitian said, "Brother Jichang is the blessed general of our army. ”
"Brother Jichang, you can't die......" A soldier beside Xi Qitian took off his helmet and clamped it around his waist: "
Gong Changyu saw that this person's head was as big as a bucket, and he couldn't help wiping the blood on his eyelids, and exclaimed: "You are that little beggar Rong Weishan brother?!" ”
He tried to get up, but found that his leg had been slashed several times, and his bones could be seen, but he couldn't stand up at all.
"Big brother, don't move, let me help you......" Rong Weishan stepped forward and helped Gong Jichang, who was covered in blood.
"When did you join the Xi family's army?" Gong Jichang took Rong Weishan's hand and asked.
"It didn't take long." Rong Wei smiled and said, "I'm just General Xi's personal guard."
"You two know each other?" Xi Qitian was stunned.
"Yes, Lord Xi, we've known each other for several years." Rong Weishan nodded slightly.
"With the help of the two of you, someone in my seat is like a tiger." Xi Qitian was excited, "Brother Jichang, but don't be so desperate in the future." ”
"Yes. The subordinates remembered. Gong Jichang clenched his fists and said, and then fainted......
Xi Qitian wrote a letter to Gong Jichang to ask for credit, and the Qing and imperial courts quickly approved it and promoted Gong Jichang to the capital. Later, Gong Jichang, Lianke, Jinxi, Dongxiang, Yihuang, and Nanfeng Zhucheng won many battles, and was once again promoted to the rank of guerrilla and general.
At the beginning of April, the Jingnan army fiercely besieged Shicheng, and Shicheng was in an emergency. Li Shixian, the servant of the Blue Wolf Kingdom, led more than 100,000 troops to take Jiangzuo County, and supported the besieged Shicheng with the food and salary of the Jingnan army.
Xi Qitian led the "Jingyi Battalion" to meet the blue wolf army at Baisha Pass, set up an ambush and broke the crowd, and Gong Jichang's troops were also among them, which was quite successful.
Subsequently, the "Jingyi Battalion" besieged Li Shixian's troops stationed in Chongren, and besieged the city for 50 days, almost all the elites defending the city were wiped out, and the enemy who came to help from Nanfeng was also defeated, and Li Shixian was in a state of collapse from then on.
On April 19, Feng Quan, the lord of the Blue Wolf Country, died of illness in Shicheng (he committed suicide by persuasion). Li Xiucheng, the king of Han who stayed in Shicheng, helped the young lord Feng Fu to succeed to the throne in order to calm people's hearts.
At this time, there were only more than 10,000 wolf troops in the city, and only 3 or 4,000 could fight, and the food was cut off, and it seemed that Shicheng could not be saved.
The siege of the Jingnan army became more and more urgent, and they dug tunnels along the city from the east gate to the north gate to attack the city. Li Xiucheng commanded the army defending the city and broke dozens of tunnels in a row.
On May 21, the city of Dibao fell, and the Jingnan army used heavy artillery fire as a cover, approached the root of the Taipingmen city, and dug tunnels to attack the city.
At noon on the sixth day of the first month of June, the Jingnan army was found in the tunnel, and the city wall was bombarded. Li Xiucheng led the hungry troops to the gap, and burned countless Jingnan troops with ** pour, and Jingnan in the tunnel suffered thousands of casualties.
Helplessly, the Jingnan army attacked the city with 50,000 fresh troops, and the number of people was huge, and the blue wolf army could not resist the fierce offensive of the Jingnan army, and turned into a short-handed street battle.
Li Xiucheng ran back to the court gate to protect the young lord, gave his war horse to the young lord Feng Fu to ride, and rode another tired old horse.
The young lord Feng Fu rode this fast war horse to escape from the enemy's pursuit, but Li Xiucheng fought for a day because he was not riding a war horse, and the horse could not be captured.
The fall of Stone City marked the defeat of the Wolf Nation movement, but the battle was far from over.
Rumor has it that Feng Fu may well have fled west into Jiangzuo County. Gong Jichang felt that as long as he captured Feng Fu, the young lord of the Blue Wolf Country, the time would come for him to soar, and success beckoned to him.
In August, Jiang Changyi, the commander of the "Jiang Family Army", died of illness in the army, and Xi Qitian led the "Jiang Family Army" on behalf of the "Jiang Family Army" and stayed in Jiangzuo County. Gong Jichang was deeply valued by Xi Qitian, and the heavy task of searching for the young master Feng Fu and others was handed over to him and the school captain Rong Weishan and others to carry out.
Gong Jichang led the team to pursue all the way, and finally learned from the captive that the young master had been picked up by Feng Rengan, and it seemed that the heavens were about to drop the pie.
Sure enough, as soon as Feng Renji took Feng Fu, the young lord of the Blue Wolf Country, out of Guangde, he was "pursued and suppressed" by the Qinghe Army of the brigade, and Gong Jichang was the vanguard force, and he pursued Feng Rengan and others.
On October 5, Gong Jichang rode a leopard horse and carried a long knife, and after a long run for five days and nights, running 500 miles, he finally arrived at the territory of Shiping City, which is at the junction of Jiangzuo and Fujian-Vietnam.
The Jingnan army, which had followed Gong Changyu for thousands of miles, was exhausted, and the black marshal asked, "General, when can we rest?" ”
Gong Jichang replied: "Brothers, I know that you are all working very hard, and you are about to complete your work, so you can't slack off. ”
The soldiers no longer complained, and continued to follow Gong Jichang for a long distance......
Due to being pursued by the Jingnan Army Xi Qitianbu along the way, this blue wolf army of less than 10,000 people was already demoralized, and there were many internal contradictions. When spending the night in Yangjiapai in Shiping City, Feng Fu instinctively said to Feng Rengan: "Uncle Wang, the officers and soldiers will come to fight tonight, let's go." ”
Ganwang Feng Rengan disagreed, and was calm: "Don't worry, young master, the enemy army has been thrown away, your worries are superfluous." ”
So, Feng Rengan ordered all the soldiers to camp on the spot, but because of his carelessness, Gong Jichang's troops caught up, so the first battle of Yangjiapai achieved Gong Jichang's fame. At the third watch in the middle of the night, only to hear a cannon sound, the blue wolf army was suddenly panicked, and there was no time to fight back, it turned out that Gong Jichang led the army to chase and launched a sneak attack.
Dozens of leaders such as Ganwang Feng Rengan, Xianwang Feng Renzheng, and Huang Wenying were captured alive by Gong Jichang and wiped out, and the blue wolf army full of ambition to restore the country was destroyed, and Feng Fu escaped in the chaos under the desperate protection of more than ten people.
At that time, Wang Haiyang led more than 100,000 people, starting from Ruijin, preparing to meet the young lord Feng Fu halfway, in order to make a big move, and Gong Jichang's army was only a hundred miles away. When they learned that the whereabouts of Feng Fu, the spiritual leader of the Blue Wolf Army, were unknown, Wang Haiyang and the remnants of the Blue Wolf Army lost their morale, and they became scattered and had no fighting spirit, and retreated into Nanyue County.
Gong Jichang did not find the young king Feng Fu, and was unwilling, and ordered the guerrilla black marshal and others to conduct a carpet search. After Feng Fu escaped, he found that there was no soldier around him, and he hid in the mountains for more than half a month, eating wild fruits and vegetables to satisfy his hunger, and he was half starved to death in search of food.
When he arrived at a sweet potato field, dug up a few sweet potatoes, washed them a few times by the stream, and hurriedly chewed them, it was then that he realized how important it was to be self-reliant.
Later, Feng Fu broke into a farmer's house and said that he could be a husband for the farmer's child, or he could chop firewood and just give him a bite of food.
The kind-hearted farmer saw that he was pitiful and took him in for the time being. Feng Fu, who grew up in a cage since he was a child, could work, and the farmer's wife was very dissatisfied.
Three days later, the farmer gave Feng Fu a little dry food and said euphemistically: "Little brother, our family is poor, and we can't afford to invite you." You'd better go to those big families and be a gentleman. ”
Feng Fu, who was kicked out of the farmhouse, had no entourage, and his ability to distinguish geographical locations was very poor, and he unknowingly broke into Gong Jichang's pocket.
Gong Jichang with his soldiers and horses, still wandering around Shiping City, saw a fair-skinned young man stumbling on the road, without braids, his expression was hurried, and he immediately stopped him with a gun: "Feng Fu, where to escape-"