Chapter 9: The King's Death and Triumphant Encounter

Seeing Xu Chao coming, Yuan Hua hurriedly turned the horse's head, flashed Li Zhong, and ran wildly with a whip. Li Zhong wanted to chase him, but when he saw Xu Chao Pegasus killed, he hurriedly parried with a gun. Xu Chao did his best to suppress Li Zhong and buy time for Yuanhua's retreat. At this time, Wen Ping also killed him from behind, shouting: "Xu Chao, take your life!" Xu Chao hurriedly pushed away Li Zhong's spear, and with a backhand shot, he parried Wen Ping's spear. Where is Li Zhong willing to stop, taking advantage of Xu Chao's panic, the spear stabbed out again, and Xu Chao hurriedly parried. The three spears were intertwined, and the three of them also fell into a scuffle. After about 100 rounds of fighting, Xu Chao was weak, shook a shot, and took advantage of the two of them to get distracted, and turned the horse away.

Besides, Wang Yu stood on the guard, watching the melee of more than 100,000 people under the pass, because of the extremely high terrain and rich combat experience, he also saw the battlefield situation clearly. Seeing that Yuanhua led the remnants to rush and kill, intending to break out of the encirclement with the weakest defense in the southeast, Wang Yu hurriedly called Pu Kuang, pointed to the pass, and said to him: "You see, Yuanhua's troops are trying their best to attack the weakest area in my southeast defense. Pu Kuang saw that because the Jin army was surrounded on all sides, he only had the heart of death and fought the trapped beasts, and had gradually broken through the encirclement, and exclaimed: "General, the Jin army is about to break through our encirclement!" Wang Yu nodded and said: "There is only one valley road leading to the fourth pass in the southeast, the road is narrow and there are steep mountain walls on both sides, you go to the ambush quickly, don't let Yuanhua get out alive!" Pu Kuang hugged his fists and said: "Oh! It's just that how many soldiers and horses do we have?" Wang Yu said: " Your Majesty said, in a hurry, you can take all of Your Majesty's Tiger Army, there are about 4,000 armor soldiers!" Pu Kuang was shocked: "This is Your Majesty's pro-army, and it is to protect Your Majesty!" Wang Yu patted him on the shoulder and said: "It's good that you know, Your Majesty has tied life and death to you, you must live up to your mission, you must annihilate the Jin army, and kill all the Jin army, leaving no one behind!" Pu Kuang immediately led the order to set up an ambush on both mountain walls.

As Wang Yu expected, the Jin army fought against the water, and finally broke through the Qing army's defense line in the southeast, running all the way, and the Qing army in the southeast defense line was mostly an infantry army, and could not catch up with the light cavalry of the Jin army at all. Yuan Hua led the Jin army all the way and rushed to the valley road, and felt that this place was gloomy, silent, and ominous. With a neighing horse, Yuanhua stopped at the horse, and the deputy general who had just broken through the encirclement hurriedly asked him: "Your Majesty, we finally broke out of the encirclement, why don't you leave?" At this moment, the Qing army on the mountain wall was lying in ambush behind the rocks, using the grass and trees as a cover, secretly observing the Jin army. Yuan Hua suddenly laughed and said: "Wang Yu fights, not a drop of water leaks, I'm afraid that there is an ambush of the Qing army here, come out, come out! I didn't expect the widow to die in this barren mountain and valley, and the widow will not be blind to death!" The soldiers beside him still felt strange, a large number of Qing troops suddenly appeared on both sides, and Pu Kuang also stood up and said: "Your Majesty, the last general will give you a ride, let's go!" After speaking, an order was given, and thousands of arrows were fired on the mountain walls on both sides. The soldiers of the Jin army were defenseless and fell from their horses one after another. Yuan Hua looked up to the sky and laughed, and said: "If the sky wants to die, why should the widow be afraid of death?" In the midst of laughter, more than 30 arrows were hit in his body, blood was spit out in his mouth, and he fell to the ground, and died instantly. A generation of emperors Jin Wu Emperor Yuanhua, reigned for six years, rectified corruption internally, and vigorously expanded externally, once making the Jin State the hegemon of the East, but because of his arrogance and arrogance, eager to expand, step by step into the quagmire of war designed for him by Wang Yu, and finally died before he could get out of the army, and died in the Fanyang Mountain Range at the age of Chinese New Year's Eve.

As soon as Yuan Hua died, the Jin army was in chaos, and the Qing army took advantage of the situation to recover the lost land in the Fanyang Mountains, and the Jin army on the south bank had no leader and could not take care of each other, so they all surrendered to the Qing army, and the Qing army on the south bank successively recovered all parts of Ningzhou, captured countless enemy troops, and greatly increased the military strength. The tug-of-war between the Qing and Jin dynasties, which lasted for several months, ended in the victory of the Qing army. After the war, the Jin State had to sign an armistice agreement with the Qing army, ceding all the Dengzhou and Xingzhou in the Lianghe region to the Qing State, and returning the land it occupied in Lianghe. Yuan Hua's eldest son, Yuan Qi, succeeded to the throne and was called Emperor Jin Cheng.

The Qing army experienced many days of hard fighting, and it can be regarded as a sigh of relief, and the whole army was full of joy. In order to comfort the soldiers, Lu Ji held a celebration banquet in Ningzhou Mansion. At the beginning of the celebration banquet, outside the main hall of Ningzhou Mansion, the sound of trumpets and drums complemented each other, shocking the earth. With the shouts of the soldiers standing outside the main hall, surrounded by the soldiers, I saw Lu Ji wearing eighteen crowns, built-in white tight robes, and black dragon robes embroidered with dragon patterns with red trim, stepping on the red carpet step by step, entering the main hall and boarding the dragon case. All the generals in the main hall and the soldiers outside the hall bowed down and bowed, shouting: "Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live!" Lu Ji raised his hand and motioned for the soldiers to be flat. After the generals sat down, the emperor Tong Duolun beside Lu Ji announced the edict: "Your Majesty has a decree: this time to resist the Jin, our army has killed more than 105,000 enemies, captured more than 100,000 enemies, and captured countless grains, grass and ordnance, except for Xu Chao's remnants of the army to withdraw to the country, the rest fell into the hands of our army, our army suffered more than 60,000 casualties, I sympathize with their families, and those who have died on the battlefield will be fed two liters of grain per household and exempt from taxes for one year." General Wang Yu commanded the troops in a good way, and his military exploits were remarkable, and he was crowned as the Marquis of Xian and the General of Zhuguo, and the thirteen counties of Dengzhou were feuded, and several generals of Wenpin, Li Zhong, Kang Chao, Pu Kuang, and Xu Ning killed the enemy bravely, bravely and skillfully fighting, and was named the general of the five doctors, Zhang Shun, although he lost the third pass defense, but since then he has atonement for his sins, and killed tens of thousands of enemies, so the merits and demerits are offset, and he is still a general. The rest of the soldiers were rewarded for their meritorious deeds, and all the soldiers and soldiers could drink fine wine for three days from today before withdrawing their troops!"

Lu Ji smiled and said to Zhang Shun: "General Zhang, although you haven't received a reward, I still want to give you a big gift! Zhang Shun was inexplicable, but saw two armor soldiers escorting an unkempt man in a Jin army uniform. Zhang Shun stepped forward to take a closer look, it was not his deputy general Fu Rong. Lu Ji stood up, walked over, and said, "This is your deputy general Fu Rong, the good brother who persuaded you to fight." According to the confession of the captured Jin army, he had already been bribed by the Jin army with a lot of money, and then became the former general of the Jin army. When Zhang Shun heard this, he was shocked and angry, pointed at Fu Rong, and scolded: "Brute! I treat you like a brother, and you actually do such a rebellious thing!" Fu Rong hurriedly said: "What they said is all false, I was wronged, I did not surrender to the enemy, they framed me!" Lu Ji smiled and said: "Now that the Jin army has worn all the uniforms on your body, do you still want to deny it? Do you still want to say that you want to surrender by fraud, and then cooperate with my Qing army?" Fu Rong knelt and crawled towards Lu Ji, grabbed his dragon robe, and said: "Yes! The last general is, it is a fraudulent surrender!" Your Majesty spares his life!" Lu Ji kicked him away and sneered: "You should be damned! Suddenly, Fu Rong jumped up violently, grabbed Lu Ji's neck with one hand, clamped him with the other, and said viciously: "Whoever of you dares to touch me! Lu Ji also scolded: "Brute, you dare to blackmail me!" Fu Rong sneered: "I know that I can't beat all the brave and warlike generals, so I can only take you! I am also helpless, and I hope Your Majesty will forgive me! You all prepare silver taels and horses for me, send me five or six miles, and I will let Your Majesty go!" Tong Duolun hurriedly laughed and said: "General Fu, calm down, we will prepare silver taels and horses, you must not hurt Your Majesty!" After speaking, Chao Wen made a look. Wen Ping was standing behind Fu Rong at this time, and he immediately understood and quietly pulled out his sword. Fu Rong, who has been fighting for many years, has a keen sense of hearing, and as soon as he heard the sound of the sword coming out of the sheath, he quickly turned around, pinched Lu Ji tighter, and said to Wen Ping: "Put the sword down, otherwise I will kill Your Majesty now!" Wen Ping had to put the sword down. At this time, Zhang Shun walked over to him and said loudly: "Fu Rong, you coward, do you dare to kill Your Majesty? You killed Your Majesty, do you think you might get out alive?" Fu Rong hurriedly took a step back, Zhang Shun took another step forward, and said loudly: "You have betrayed the country for money, done disloyal things, and still want to do things that implicate your family for your personal safety? I know, you have an old mother in your family, do you want her to be ashamed of her son's treason in her old age?!" Fu Rong's hand trembled, and he took another step back. Zhang Shun stretched out his hand and said, "Turn back to the shore, you let go of Your Majesty, we will never implicate your family, I will definitely serve my mother like my own son!" Fu Rong's heart was a little shaken, and at this moment, Xu Ning jumped up with a strong step and flew to grab Lu Ji. Fu Rong had no cover, Wang Yu shouted, "Come on, cut him into pulp!" He gave an order, and the generals drew their swords and directly slashed him to death.

Seeing that Furong was regarded as meat paste, Lu Ji's interest was swept away, and his anger did not subside, and he immediately ordered Furong to be beheaded, and only then did he give up under Zhang Shun's repeated pleas.

This is the capital of the Qing Dynasty - Puchang, here is the most prosperous place in the Qing Dynasty, the streets are full of pedestrians, yo cheers, talk and laughter are endless. The two girls were picking up ornaments from a small vendor on the side of the road, and according to the attitude between the two, it could be seen that it was a master-servant relationship. The petite girl looks like she is only thirteen or fourteen years old, with a slightly plump body, white skin, crimson face, clear eyes, long hair draped, slightly combed in a bun, with a small flower, wearing a red and white dress, very pure and lovely. The slightly longer girl, her hair is draped in a vest, a slightly coiled bun, with a golden hairpin, dressed in a white dress, as if from the sky, as if there is a fairy entanglement, the body is thin, but the posture is concave and convex, and then take a look at its beauty, the complexion is as white as jade, Emei powder, Qiong nose and red lips, delicate ears with white jade pendants, everything seems to be born perfect, must not be missing, not one more point, born is a country and a city, provoked passers-by to take a look at it more. The petite girl picked up a string of jade pendants, green and shiny, emerald dripping, silently felt, tender and delicate, and hurriedly said to the slightly longer girl: "Miss, you see this pendant is really good!" The young lady lightly opened her red lips and smiled: "Little girl, your color is too tender, we bought it for grandma's birthday, can you give a pendant? It's too thin?" The little girl quickly stuck out her tongue and said, "If you don't make a birthday gift, it's okay to wear it yourself!" The young lady nodded the tip of her nose and smiled: " I know, you want to wear it yourself, weird, sister will buy it for you!" the two were chatting when the street became noisy.

Listening to the crisp sound of horses' hooves, two teams of Qing army iron cavalry quickly passed through the Puchang city gate and galloped on the streets of Puchang. These Qing troops drove the people all the way and made way for them. They were followed by salute soldiers, some of whom blew trumpets, some beat war drums, and the sound of trumpets and drums suddenly intertwined in the streets. The maid standing on the side of the road saw this situation and hurriedly asked the young lady beside her, "Miss, what's the matter?" The young lady shook her head and said, "I don't know either." At this time, the passers-by next to him began to discuss.

"Have you heard, we have won a big victory in Fanyang Mountain!"

"But no, these should be the Qing troops who have returned triumphantly! It's amazing, they are all heroes of our Qing Dynasty!"

"I heard from the people in the palace that His Majesty seems to have also gone to the front line, and he should come back with these soldiers!"

"Yes, I haven't met His Majesty yet, so I can't miss it this time!"

The little maid listened to the comments of passers-by, and was also very curious, and said to the young lady: "Miss, have you ever seen Your Majesty? I have never seen Your Majesty, I have heard people say that emperors are all gray-haired old men, never laugh, and kill whoever they want!" The young lady shook her head and said, "Although I have not met Your Majesty, I am sure that Your Majesty is not what you said, Your Majesty is also a human being, and he also has seven emotions and six desires, and when he is young, he will naturally laugh." As for what you said about killing whoever you want, those are tyrants, not all emperors are like this. Speaking of which, she was also looking forward to what the emperor of the Great Qing Kingdom was like, and whether he would really be a gray-haired old man.

She watched the salute soldiers slowly walk over one after another, followed by the Qing army sergeants holding high the flags, the dancing flags fluttering in the wind, blocking people's vision, adding a bit of mystery to the imperial power. Not only her, but also the passers-by around were anxiously waiting, all wanting to see their emperor with their own eyes.

When thousands of Qing soldiers walked over slowly, suddenly, they heard the general Wen Ping who was walking in front shouting: "Your Majesty has arrived, everyone kneel down!" He shouted loudly, so frightened that the people on both sides knelt down one after another, where did they dare to raise their heads. Only these two girls were still stubbornly waiting for the moment to witness the emperor, completely ignoring Wen Ping's shouts.

Surrounded by all the sergeants, Lu Ji slowly rode his horse, looking down at the people kneeling down on the long street, and his heart was naturally very proud. And the two girls also saw him, and saw that he looked immature, with his hair combed in a neat bun, wearing a crown of hair inlaid with dragon patterns, wearing a white tight-fitting robe with dragon patterns, and a pair of battle armor on the outside, and white robes on his shoulders, looking at the people triumphantly. The little maid whispered to the young lady: "Is he Your Majesty? He looks as big as you, young lady! He is so majestic, he doesn't look like an old man at all!" The young lady also nodded, still staring intently at Lu Ji who was slowly riding a horse.

Lu Ji saw that the people all over the street knelt down, and only two people were still standing, and couldn't help but wonder, don't these two people fear the imperial power, he didn't feel that he took a second look, and saw that although the little maid was pure and lovely, it was just ordinary compared to the palace maids, and he looked at the young lady, but he was stunned for a moment, looking at her beauty, and sighed unconsciously: "There are still such people in the world who are captivating the country and the city!" His eyes couldn't take their eyes off the young lady.