Lord of Ming Dynasty

He only worries about himself.

"My lord, the Mongolian cavalry are catching up again." A subordinate hurried over, Lin Chengcheng looked at the few old bandits around him, stood up, mounted his horse, and continued to flee with the troops.

Not far away, He Jin was smiling wryly. Yesterday, he managed to defeat the Qing army in the capital city of Chuzhou who came out of the city to meet him in one go, and chased the fleeing Qing soldiers all the way into the capital city of Chuzhou. The Qing army was in chaos. At dusk, they hadn't taken down the Fuya and County Yamen. As a result, they were surrounded by Qing troops from Yunhe County and Qingtian County in Chuzhou Fucheng. He went down to the south gate, but was killed by the Qing army and captured the south gate. He is now surrounded by Qing soldiers from Yunhe County behind the detour near the east gate.

After a night of fighting, he still didn't get out. At noon, more than 3000 Qing soldiers surrounded his only [-] rebels and attacked him, and they might be surrounded and killed at any time.

Chapter 96 Last Minute

In Tingzhou Mansion, Su Guansheng said to Emperor Longwu Zhu Yujian: "Your Majesty, hurry up with Madam, the prince will change into common people's clothes and go out of the city with my ministers."

Zhu Yujian's face was ashen, trembling all over, he said tremblingly, "Aiqing, where am I going?"

Su Guansheng said: "Your Majesty, for the current plan, we can only flee to Guangzhou." He Kai said on the side: "Ganzhou has been occupied by the Qing army, Zhangzhou is surrounded by the Qing army, and there are Qing troops everywhere. Only in the Quanzhou area, the Qing army and the Zheng army are still fighting fiercely. Although Zheng Hongkui has a bad temper, he has not yet surrendered to the Qing army. It is better to escape from the city gate at night and go to Quanzhou. At least the name is preserved."

Zhu Yujian looked at them blankly, "What about the capital city of Tingzhou? Someone has to hold back the Qing army."

He Kai said: "Zhu Dadian is loyal to the Lord, he has sworn an oath to be loyal to the emperor."

Su Guansheng said: "Yes, Your Majesty, Mr. Zhu's loyalty can be learned from. Don't disappoint his good intentions. If you don't leave now, it will be too late when the city is destroyed."

Zhu Yujian nodded slightly, "Alright, remember to take my book with you, don't leave it behind."

Dozens of people took advantage of the night to leave the city one after another. They could not leave the city gate and had to put them under the city in baskets. Thousands of Ming troops launched a wave of counterattacks. In the chaos, the Qing army could not distinguish between dozens of people. In the end, more than a dozen people escaped and escaped into the surrounding mountains.

There are not many Qing troops besieging Tingzhou Prefecture, and there are not many attacks. There are only [-] Qing troops, of which two to three thousand Ming troops surrendered. .

Zhang Qiang didn't know that Zhu Yujian escaped from Tingzhou Mansion again. At this time, Zheng Chenggong's pirate navy was also very helpless. They were not in harmony with Zheng's other troops. Zheng Chenggong occupied Jinmen Island, and his warships were only two main warships. , a hundred other small warships, had fallen to the level of a petty pirate.

His father's brothers and other Zheng's troops didn't listen to him. He was still in the early stages of his power development, so he could only endure it. He frequently fought against the surrounding pirate forces, annexed other pirate forces, and stabilized his position.

He wanted to rebel against the Qing, but his father became a senior official of the Qing army, and wrote letters to their subordinates many times, indeed instigating many other Zheng's pirate groups to defect to the Qing army, which greatly weakened those other Zheng's pirates The power of the big figures in the group, although Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Cai and others did not want to surrender to the Qing army, they did not want to be restrained by him, so the entire Zheng group was actually torn apart, unable to attack the Qing army, but was suppressed by the Qing army. Everyone has no time to fight back against the Qing army.

Of course, there is no time to trouble Zhang Qiang’s Jinhua Rebel Army. The small frictions are all caused by the pirates under the Zheng Group. Xuanyuan Longfei and Du Ge can handle it completely. Pirates have defended the stability of the coast of Taizhou.

At this time, Zhang Qiang and his troops appeared on the river bank to the west of the Chuzhou capital, watching from a distance the Chuzhou capital, Lishui County, which was being fought.

"Crossing the Oujiang River, I will enter Lishui County at dusk." Zhang Qiang rode on his horse and said to his opponent.

"Hu Kui, lead the cavalry to detour upstream, look for a bridge across the Oujiang River, go straight to Lishui County, and rescue He Jin and Lin Chengcheng's rebel army."

"Yes, my lord,"

"Cavalry, come with me."

More than 1000 cavalry mounted their horses, waved their sabers, and followed Hu Kui away.

Zhang Qiang watched the mountain people, civilian husbands, and soldiers of the artillery unit jump off the bank of the Oujiang River to build a pontoon bridge.

In the distance, several Qing army cavalry rode away.

In Lishui County, He Jin cut down a Qing soldier, touched his blood-stained face, and shouted, "Keep the east gate, and don't let the enemy rush up."

Another hundred volunteer soldiers fell on the ground around the east gate, and the Qing army surged up again like a tide.

With a cry, He Jin rushed forward, jumped up, and cut off the head of a Qing soldier neatly, but was stabbed twice by the Qing soldier's spearman. Although it was not very heavy, it made his steps no longer so brisk. .

One of his generals and his subordinates retreated to the gate tower on the city wall, repelled the siege of the Qing soldiers, and leaned against the gate tower wall to breathe.

The five soldiers beside him were wounded all over their bodies, panting heavily and staring at the stairs, where the corpses of the Qing soldiers were piled up together, the rest of the Qing soldiers did not dare to rush up, and only shouted and insulted at the stairs on the first floor.

The general probed carefully to look inside the city. On the streets of the city, Qing soldiers climbed on the roofs and shot arrows at the gate of the city. When he swiped, there were several Qing soldiers' bows and arrows that had already been prepared. The soldier swiftly shot the arrow to the side of his head, and when it touched the wall bricks, a burst of dust was splashed, and there was a ding dong, the rest of the ding dong, and then the arrow slid down, and a soldier next to him poked his head out, After shooting down a Qing soldier archer, the general smiled slightly, and the soldiers returned him with a smile that was worth doing.

"Duo——" the soldier turned his head, his pupils dilated suddenly, he covered half of his face in pain, let out a scream, dropped the bow and arrow in his hand, rolled on the ground, and remained still for a while.

His face turned sad.

He threw away the broadsword in his hand, picked up the bow and arrows of the soldiers on the ground, drew out three arrows, put them on the bowstring, stood up abruptly, and shot three arrows neatly at the archers of the Qing soldiers on the roof outside, The arrows bit the meat, and the archers of the Qing army were so frightened that they rolled and fell off the roof. The general spat hard, "I'm messing with your mother, Xipi."

"Dangdangdang" Just when he touched the blood from the corner of his mouth and was about to bend down to pick up the big knife on the ground to deal with the Qing infantry who were about to rush up the stairs, he heard the gong of the Qing soldiers rushing to retreat.

He was overjoyed and shouted, "Our reinforcements have arrived."

"Reinforcements have arrived." He yelled.

He ran through several windows, and finally, he saw thousands of rebel cavalry outside the east gate, brandishing sabers and rushing towards the gate of the city, and Qing soldiers from the county. The Qing soldiers were in chaos and gave up attacking the east gate. Sticking to the city wall, ran to the south gate.

"Open the city gate and let the cavalry come in." He shouted at the remaining soldiers of the rebel army inside the city gate.

Five hundred cavalry chased after thousands of Qing soldiers from Yunhe County, and five hundred cavalry came towards the city gate.

And the Qing soldiers receded like a tide.

Fucheng Fuya, the prefect of the Qing soldiers circled around in place, and the county magistrate said anxiously: "There are more than 6000 Ming troops coming from the north gate. Our army has been fighting for a long time, and our troops are insufficient to resist the Ming army. My lord, make a decision early. ah."

The military magistrate of the Qing Dynasty said hesitantly: "What should I do? Lose the city and lose the land, and the higher authorities will pursue it. You and I will die."

A Qing soldier ran in and said, "Report to the magistrate that five thousand Ming troops crossed the Oujiang River and blocked our army's westward and northward routes. Yun, Qing soldiers and Qingtian Qing soldiers fled from the south gate to Qingtian County. Let the villain tell the magistrate, run away quickly."

The magistrate was still hesitating, the county magistrate took a look, took his servants back to the county office, looked at his wife and daughter, sighed, turned and went back to the backyard, closed the door, untied his belt, and threw it on the beam of nostalgia. Glancing out of the window, he put his neck in the belt snare and kicked Yundeng.

After the magistrate lamented, he did the same thing as the county magistrate.

The servants and servants of the two yamen fled away in less than a quarter of an hour. When He Jin led Hu Kui's cavalry to wipe out the rebels and rushed into the mansion, there was only a mess left.

He Jin's boots were still filled with a lot of blood, and he made a gurgling sound when he walked. He sat down on the chair in the lobby of the government office, and said to Hu Kui wearily: "Thank you for the timely rescue, sir. If you are half an hour late , I can’t see you anymore.”

Hu Kui kicked him, "Get up, that chair is for adults, how can you sit on it first, go away, send troops privately, and wait for adults to punish you."

As he spoke, he ignored He Jin's flushed face, and waved his hand: "Clean this place up, send people to seal off the county government office and the government office, the government treasury and the county treasury, without orders, you are not allowed to touch a straw inside. "

"Come here, take He Jin into custody, and the other soldiers will be taken into custody in the government prison, waiting for your lord to come and make a decision."

Chapter 97 Penalties

He Jin and his men were aggrieved and unwilling to be taken to the government prison by the cavalry and locked up.

There were only more than 120 people in total, each of them was injured, some were even seriously injured, but no one cared about them. More than 40 people who were seriously injured were found on the battlefield and were carried into the government government compound. All are cavalry, closely guarded.

At dusk, Zhang Qiang finally brought more than 5000 firecrackers and artillery to the capital city of Chuzhou, Lishui County.

As soon as he sat on the chair of the government office, Zhang Qiang said to Hu Kui: "The cavalry go down to rest, the artillery and some firecrackers take over the defense of the city, Mi Chun is in charge of the city defense, and Hu Kui, send out sentries to scout around."

After a while, Hu Kui and Mi Chun came in, and Zhang Qiang asked, "How are He Jin and Lin's cultivation department?"

Hu Kui said: "According to the instructions of the soldiers of He Jin's Department, Lin Cheng's Department went to stop a thousand Qing troops from Songyang County, but they haven't come back yet. The villain has already sent people to investigate."

Zhang Qiang turned to Mi Chun, and Mi Chun said: "My lord, more than 160 Qing soldiers were captured, more than [-] gentry and family members and civilians who helped defend the city in the city, and more than [-] people from He Jin's tribe, only [-] people remained. It can be said that the loss is heavy. .”