Chapter 348

Zhou Yuji found that the pursuers behind him were not chasing, so he ordered to stop advancing.

Zhou Yuji's son Zhou Ruhu took a water bladder and handed it to Zhou Yuji, Zhou Yuji reached out and took it, and found that the water bladder was actually warm.

Zhou Yuji said with red eyes: "How is the situation now?" ”

Zhou so bitterly smiled: "Very bad! ”

"How bad!"

"The Ning Navy suddenly joined the battle, and the situation of our outnumbered enemies was reversed in an instant, their Ning Navy was well-trained, fearless of death, and well-equipped, we ......"

Zhou Ruhu didn't say it, Zhou Yuji also knew that Jingying was actually a watchdog, bullying the common people, one was fiercer than the other, and if they fought more and less, they could also be as morale as rainbow, but the problem was that they couldn't fight a tough battle, and when they met an elite like Ning Haijun, they became impotent in an instant.

Zhou Jiyu said: "How many supplies are there now, how many people and horses?" ”

"After a fierce battle, we lost thousands of people, and the rations we carried with us were only two steamed buns, seven or eight pieces of bread, which was enough to eat for two days!"

Zhou Ruhu smiled bitterly: "Of the four artillery pieces, there is only one left, and there are only eleven shells left, and there are more than 130 catties of gunpowder." ”

Zhou Yuji frowned: "Now that it's cold, there will only be more to eat than usual, if you let go of your belly and eat this little thing, you will eat it all in one day!" ”

Zhou Ruhu said: "It should be enough for us to go back to Beijing!" ”

"Go back?"

Zhou Yuji shook his head and said, "We can't go back, just go back like this, we're dead!" ”

When Zhou Yuji found out that the person he was going to deal with was Gao Qiqian, he knew that this was a bureau, a bureau specially set up for him and Gao Qiqian, failed, Zhou Yuji could only surrender Zhang Fengyi, otherwise he would be a scapegoat, whether it was Cheng Shijie or Gao Qiqian, he would not let him go.

"There is no turning back when you open the bow, as long as you kill Gao Qiqian, our father and son, and these soldiers will have a way to live!"

Zhou Yuji touched the secret letter on his body, he opened it and looked at it, his face turned cold: "What a big stroke!" ”

"What?"

Zhou Ruhu looked at the words written on the secret letter: "Taiyuan Town Chief Soldier? ”

Zhou Yuji is now a fourth-grade soldier, in fact, a guerrilla general is larger than Cheng Shijie's original garrison of the Ning Navy, equivalent to a deputy division-level general, and was directly promoted to the commander-in-chief of Taiyuan Town, which is equivalent to crossing the level of a staff general and a deputy commander-in-chief, and directly becoming a commander of a large military region.

As a pure general, Zhou Yuji doesn't want to be anyone's dog, whether it is Zhang Fengyi or Wen Tiren, he is only loyal to the Ming court and the emperor. His sources are mainly public opinion, and the scholar doctor is precisely in control of public opinion, in Zhou Yuji's cognition, Cheng Shijie is not a good person, just a warlord who listens to the tune and does not listen to propaganda, and is also an arrogant and domineering warlord.

Cheng Shijie colluded with Gao Qiqian, acted in embarrassment, deceived the emperor, sold his official position, cronyism, and killed Gao Qiqian, a eunuch, for Zhou Yuji, there was no psychological burden at all.

"Go back!"

"Why did you go back?"

"If you don't go back, we attacked the Ning Navy Supervision Army, and the Son of Heaven will ask for the guilt, you and I, father and son, will be a dead end, and the family will be implicated!"

Zhou Yuji said: "They may not think of it, we will turn back!" ”

In this way, Zhou Yuji took more than a thousand remnants, one by one, and returned along the same road, and it took most of the night to finally arrive at the camp where Gao Qiqian was.

Of course, this large battalion is mainly to protect the transportation materials of the Ning Navy, mainly food, and three or four hundred Ning Navy soldiers are guarding the huge convoy, with large carts as a wall, forming a vehicle wall.

The oval-shaped car city has watchtowers built at the four corners, and the watchtowers are lit with huge whale oil lamps, which are as bright as day.

Zhou Yuji looked at this scene and knew that he had no way to get close to the temporary camp of the Ning Navy, but fortunately he still had an artillery, Zhou Yuji took the telescope and finally found the tent with high diving.

As the Ning Navy, almost all the equipment and utensils are unified, whether it is the tent of the young and strong people, or the tent of the escort army, it is a unified system, which is very eye-catching.

However, Gao Qiqian actually had a huge tent, after all, Gao Qiqian was the supervisor of the Ning Navy, and theoretically he was the second real power after Cheng Shijie, but in fact, Gao Qiqian Ning Navy only enjoyed the treatment of the supervising army, and he couldn't interfere in anything about the affairs of the Ning Navy.

This is also the tacit understanding between Gao Qiqian and Cheng Shijie.

"See the biggest tent?"

"See!"

"Aim at it and smash this tent to pieces!"

"Dad, just in case, there's no high diving here!"

"That's fate, our father and son have to admit it!"

……

Gao Qiqian is a smart person, but the problem is that smart people are easy to go to extremes, he thought about it for a long time, and thought about the people who could danger him, including Cao Huachun, Wang Chengen, Wang Zhixin, Lu Jiucheng, Han Zanzhou, Li Guofu, Xu Jinzhong and other eunuchs, but he still didn't figure out who was doing it to him.

Either there is no motive, or there is a motive, but there is no strength, in fact, in the entire inner court, there are only two people who can threaten the position of Gao Qiqian, one is Cao Huazhuo and the other is Wang Chengen.

But the problem is that he didn't receive the news, Cao Huachun stretched out his hand to the Beijing camp and the imperial horse supervisor, although Gao Qiqian was not in the capital during this time, but he had silver, and some people were willing to give him his life, his news was still quite well-informed, and he didn't figure out what was going on after thinking about it for most of the night.

Gao Qiqian decided to wait for dawn, follow the transport team of the Ning Navy and then arrive at Cheng Shijie's side under the escort of the Ning Navy.

"Godfather, it's not too early, let's rest!"

Zhang Muzhi turned the charcoal stove more vigorous and carefully checked whether the charcoal gas was leaking.

Gao Qiqian lay on the soft couch: "You can also go down and rest!" ”

As soon as Gao Qiqian's voice fell, he heard a loud noise outside.

Gao Qiqian heard the sound of cannons, and subconsciously wanted to put on shoes.

However, at this moment, he had just sat up when a cannonball knocked off an iron nail, which was high in the chest, and he didn't say anything, and a large mouthful of blood spurted out of his mouth.

If he hid on the couch and did not move, the iron nail would fly by a distance of more than a foot in front of him at most.

However, there aren't that many ifs in this world.

Gao Qi dived to death, and was killed by a nail.

This nail is more than ten meters away, the nail on a carriage, a cannonball hit the carriage, blowing the nail away, accurately hitting the high dive in this big tent.

The artillery under Zhou Yuji's command only had time to fire one shell, and before he even had time to fire the second shell, dozens of Ning Navy cavalry rushed towards the artillery position, Zhou Yuji looked at the fire dragon rising in the sky, and his first reaction was to run.

During the night attack, two soldiers of the Ning Navy were bruised by sawdust from the shells, and one young man was cut an extra hole in his buttocks by the sawdust.

The lethal effect of this shell is nothing more than that, that is to say, this shell caused four casualties in the Ning Navy, and the Ning Navy even counted the young and strong people, and injured three people, and the only death was the death of the Ning Navy Supervisor.

Zhou Yuji wasn't sure, until the guards beside Gao Qiqian cried, he still didn't believe that he would have such good luck.

Zhou Yuji saw with his own eyes that he was loaded with Gao Qiqian's corpse, so he returned to Zhang Fengyi.

With Gao Qiqian successfully killed, this made the cabinet jubilant.

However, in fact, when the news reached Cheng Shijie's ears, Cheng Shijie was just a little regretful, after all, after so many years of cooperation with Gao Qiqian, Gao Qiqian was quite sensible.

Gao Qiqian died, and the more than one million taels of silver he stored in Liaodong Bank were cheap Liaodong Bank, although it was said that Gao Qiqian's godson might get Gao Qiqian's passbook, but he didn't have a password, even if he had a password, Zhang Muzhi still needed to prove that Gao Qiqian gave him authorization.

Of course, it is impossible for a dead man to authorize.

As for the connection between Emperor Chongzhen and Cheng Shijie.

In fact, Emperor Chongzhen was more anxious than Cheng Shijie, Gao Qiqian's death had not yet been investigated, and the supervisor who replaced Gao Qiqian was also selected by Emperor Chongzhen, and Li Guofu served as the new supervisor of the Ning Navy.

This Li Guofu is the adopted son of Han Zanzhou, the eunuch of Nanjing, and has won the trust of Emperor Chongzhen.

When Cheng Shijie saw Li Guofu, he was slightly stunned.

In all fairness, Cheng Shijie has seen a lot of eunuchs, and these eunuchs all have a significant feature, they are thin and short, whether it is Cao Huachun or Gao Qiqian, including Wang Chengen, they are all less than 1.7 meters tall.

But Li Guofu is different, he is at least one meter seven or eight tall, only slightly shorter than Cheng Shijie, the key is that he is strong, very strong, at least one hundred and sixty pounds away, and he is different from ordinary eunuchs, he actually wore armor and came to meet Cheng Shijie in full armor.

"Slave Li Guofu, meet the concubine!"

Li Guofu is also a human spirit, he is not like Gao Qiqian, at least in front of Cheng Shijie, he will never call himself a slave, but call himself a slave or me, but Li Guofu is a slave when he comes up.

No matter how high the rank of the eunuch is, he is the domestic slave of the Son of Heaven, no matter how high Cheng Shijie's official position is, if he does not have the identity of the captain of the horse, he cannot become the master of the eunuch, and he has no power to call the eunuch.

But the problem is that in addition to being the crown prince Taibao, the prince of Haiguo, the governor of the nine borders, the governor of Zuodu, the general of the conquest, the chief soldier of the Ning Navy, and the governor of Liaodong, he is also the husband of Princess Chongming.

Although Princess Chongming has no real power, she is the sister of Emperor Chongzhen, she is the master of the eunuch, and it makes sense for Li Guofu to call himself a slave to Cheng Shijie.

"Grandpa Li, this can't be helped!"

Cheng Shijie did not relax his vigilance because of Li Guofu's modesty and low posture, the more arrogant and domineering the person, the easier it is to deal with, after all, the dog that can bite people does not bark, and the dog that does not bark bites people is the one who cannot be guarded against.

Cheng Shijie sighed and said: "Ben Shuai has cooperated with Gao Gonggong for many years, I never thought that Gao Gonggong is separated from heaven and man, Ben Shuai will write to His Majesty, let the three divisions strictly investigate, if the real murderer is not caught, Ben Shuai will never give up!" I don't know if Gonggong Li heard any rumors? ”

"It is said that the former cabinet assistant Lord Wu had to hang himself because he was coerced by Gao Gonggong, so Wu Liang, the son of Lord Wu, the current Shaoqing of Dali Temple, was disgruntled, recruited dead soldiers, assassinated Gao Gonggong, and now Wu Liang has surrendered himself......"

Without waiting for Li Guofu to finish speaking, Cheng Shijie understood, this is really a ring after a ring, Wu Zongda is dead, so maximize the benefits of his death and bear the charge of assassination.

Cheng Shijie said: "Father-in-law Gao is gone, and things have to be done!" ”

"The horse means ......"

"Wusongkou's Inspection Division, that's millions of taels of silver every year, Your Majesty's inner treasury, you can count on those tax silver, this is the most important thing!"

Cheng Shijie looked at Li Guofu and said: "If this thing is done badly, a thousand efforts will not be worth it!" ”

Li Guofu also knew that it was impossible to reach out to enter the Ning Navy, and Cheng Shijie threw him a large piece of fat when he came up, if he didn't eat it, it was possible that he would be the next person to die.

In fact, Li Guofu didn't believe that it was Gao Qiqian who Wu Liang sent people to kill, Gao Qiqian had three or four hundred personal guards around him, well-equipped and well-trained, and there were hundreds of officers and men of the Ning Navy guarding the camp, and some were killed by a bombardment. It's too strange, in Li Guofu's opinion, Gao Qiqian must have done something he shouldn't have done, angered Cheng Shijie, and was arranged by Cheng Shijie to do it.

Li Guofu is naturally unwilling to suffer by himself.

After Li Guofu met Cheng Shijie in Yanqing County, he immediately returned to Beijing and told Emperor Chongzhen that Jiangnan was the top priority, and he immediately left Beijing in order to prevent chaos in Jiangnan.

Wen Tiren miscalculated.

Of course, he didn't know that Emperor Chongzhen actually had no way now, he still needed Cheng Shijie, not to mention that he had a suspicion, as long as Cheng Shijie didn't directly pull the flag and rebel, Emperor Chongzhen would admit it.

……

When the main force of the Ning Navy arrived at the city of Shenyang, they encountered huge trouble, and Jiannu knew that they had no way to retreat at all, and if they fought in the field, they would only die even worse. Fortunately, the city of Shenyang has been renovated, especially the city wall has been heightened and strengthened during this time, and the city wall has been reinforced with ice walls in the same way as Cheng Shijie in the Baihe Valley.

Ning Haijun's artillery shells fell on the city wall, shattering the ice wall at most, but the problem was that as long as the ice wall on the city wall was killed, Jiannu would immediately pour hot water on it and form an ice wall again.

When the artillery could not destroy the city wall and the Ning Navy was about to take the approach blast, the rolling stones and trees on the city kept falling, and they died if they touched it, and they were crippled when they were next to each other, and the Ning Navy soldiers who were struggling to climb up did not even have a chance to dodge!

Rounds of boulders and trees continued to roll down, rumbling, and muffled screams one after another, and many of the soldiers who had been hit rolled down the hill along with the boulders, and some even turned into a mass of flesh, and three or four hundred people fell there in just one tentative attack.

Zhang Yu looked at this scene and hurriedly stopped: "Stop attacking!" ”

"General, what's wrong?"

"You can't fight like this in a war!"

(End of chapter)