A huge meteor dragged a long tail flame and disappeared under the horizon where the sea and the sky meet. Jin Yuji stared at the rapidly falling meteor, her big red and swollen eyes filled with tears.
"Queen Jin, the bandits are catching up, get on the boat!" Liu Yuer held a swaddling baby in her arms and looked at Jin Yuji worriedly. In the swaddling baby, Liu Kan, who had just turned half a year old, snored deeply.
Jin Yuji has been crying since last night until early this morning. Liu Yue'er and Fujiwara Chiyoko tried to persuade her for a long time, but the queen just looked blankly in the direction of the capital. The explosion spread so widely that everyone knew that there was no way anyone in the city could survive.
Regardless, the road continues.
Since the explosion last night, soldiers have been escaping from Tianjin Guard and gathering at Zhangjiawan Port. By dawn this morning, 560 Kaiyuan soldiers had gathered around Pei Dahu, Lin Yu and others.
The soldiers who fled to Zhangjiagang brought bad news. Governor Yuan was supervising the battle in the west of the city last night. He was shocked to death when the explosion occurred. His body had been taken away by bandits and dismembered on the spot...
The Seventh Guards Corps is stationed at the Tianjin Guards. This is a nearly full establishment with a total of 5,000 soldiers. Now, only these 500 people have escaped alive. To be precise, in addition to the 6,000 people who stayed in Liaodong, the 8,000 people who were stationed in Korea and Japan, and the more than 10,000 people trapped in Shaanxi, Shandong, and Henan, the 120,000 troops that Liu Zhaosun worked so hard to manage are still alive. , there were only more than 600 people left in front of me. Of course, there is also Wu Aheng's naval fleet, which has more than a hundred warships and tens of thousands of sailors. However, the Liaodong Navy just cruised to Nanda Island (Australia) at the end of last year and will not be able to return in a short time.
The road ahead is clear. There is no other way out except returning to Liaodong. However, everyone is not sure what the situation in Liaodong is now.
Kang Yingqian watched Jin Yuji being helped onto the deck by Chiyoko, lowered his voice, and said to Pei Dahu who was standing beside him:
"Old Pei, I'm afraid Liaodong is not peaceful. I'm worried that if we go there, we will be like a sheep in a tiger's mouth."
Seeing that everyone had boarded the ship, the ship's boss Han Chao blew his whistle, and the sailors hurriedly took off the sampan, climbed onto the bare mast, and began to fiddle with the sails of the lucky ship. A few days before Yang Hao and Emperor Wu Ding died in the capital, Han Chao, Wei Zhao and others escorted Qiao Yiqi and others to Tianjin Wei. After two or three years, the ship boss returned to his old business.
Pei Dahu heard Kang Yingqian's words and asked in a low voice: "Kang Jianjun means that Burhanggu will rebel?"
Emperor Wu Ding died, more than half of the civil servants and generals were killed and wounded, almost all the soldiers in the Guan Dynasty were wiped out, and the few remaining troops were restrained in various places in Shaanxi and Henan. There were only five or six thousand troops stationed in Liaodong. Unless they were gathered in one place, they would not be built at all. state rivals.
"Not only Xicheng Baylor, but also Du Du, Lao Pei, you have to remember that people who are not of my race will have different hearts! The emperor left them behind, sooner or later they will be a disaster!"
Pei Dahu suddenly remembered that the Kaiyuan Army had upgraded to new equipment last autumn. In order to show that all ethnic groups were treated equally, Emperor Wu Ding actually ordered the Haixi Jurchens and Jianzhou Jurchens to be equipped with Type 25 flintlock rifles. I heard that Du Du was also equipped with one. More than a hundred field guns are said to be used to deal with Rakshasa ghosts in the future.
Although the Jianzhou Jurchens are all small cannons, there is no doubt that they have greatly improved their field combat capabilities.
Kang Yingqian sighed and closed his eyes in pain:
"The only strange thing is that Emperor Wu Ding was too lenient to these foreigners from Jianzhou. Apart from the two of them, there would also be chaos in North Korea. Li Hui has always had a grudge against Emperor Wu Ding, and by the way, there is also the Japanese country. Liaodong has not sent reinforcements to Handong with food and weapons for several months, and I don’t know what is happening to Magistrate Yuan and the others now.”
Yuan Chonghuan and Shiranui Demon Monk Huiran had already died together.
At this time, the Kyushu garrison was out of ammunition and food, and was constantly attacked by the Japanese. Zhao led the army to gather his troops and shrink the defense line. He retreated from the Izu Islands to northern Kyushu. He was still in danger and faced a situation of destruction. Of course, because of the mountains and seas, these situations Kang Yingqian and the others didn't know.
Pei Dahu felt a little uncomfortable when he saw Kang Yingqian blaming the emperor, and couldn't help complaining: "At that time, the strategy of converting Xia to barbarians was implemented in Liaodong, and Kang's supervisory army also supported it..."
Kang Yingqian waved his hand, shook his head and said, "Hey, that's all. The emperor has just passed away, so we won't talk about him anymore."
Pei Dahu looked towards Liaodong, looking at the sparkling sea of Zhangjiawan, and said worriedly:
"Kang Supervisor, what should we do? Why don't I go back to Liaodong before the news spreads outside the customs, and gather all the soldiers stationed in various places back to Kaiyuan, just in case."
Kang Yingqian was silent for a moment and patted Pei Dahu on the shoulder:
"It's too late. You'd better stay with me and protect the prince. When you return to Liaodong, you have to defend Shenyang. If you defend Kaiyuan again, it will be a dead end."
Pei Dahu slapped his forehead and suddenly shouted: "Ah, I forgot about it. Supervisor Qiao and the others went back a few days ago..."
According to the usual practice, if nothing unexpected happens, Qiao Jianjun will tell every old friend from Liaodong about the various things he experienced in the pass.
Kang Yingqian laughed and comforted his servant: "Fortunately, he left early, isn't it, Lao Pei?"
Pei Dahu was speechless.
The two of them were still talking, but Yang Tong hurriedly ran to the deck. The iron hook on his left arm glowed with cold light, pointing to the shore in the distance, and said with murderous intent:
"Brother Pei, Supervisor Kang, the bandits are catching up."
At this time, half of the eight Dafu ships had already raised their sails, and the remaining half were still raising their sails, and were in a dangerous situation of being unable to advance or retreat.
Pei Dahu took the telescope from Yang Tong, and saw a large group of bandits in darkness. He was staring at a large banner with a Chinese character in front of him. He couldn't see the exact number of people. There were at least a hundred horsemen, and they were pushing the captured Kaiyuan field cannon. .
"Stop them!"
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