More than seven months ago, General Yan Qing was ordered to lead the Sixth Army to besiege the Shifeng rebels. As a result, four of the six teams defected on the battlefield while encircling and suppressing the rebels.
Yan Qing had no choice but to lead his team to fight and retreat. He was outnumbered and lost consecutive battles.
After being surrounded and unable to escape, Yan Qing surrendered to the rebels. When he surrendered, he named only one person named Shi Xianfeng to surrender.
At that time, Shi Xianfeng thought that Yan Qing was a man, so he didn't treat Yan Qing lightly.
It's just that those who surrendered were unlikely to be reused immediately, so that Yan Qing didn't even go up to Geling after the siege.
However, Yan Qing is of course very satisfied.
Because the previous surrender was done intentionally after receiving the secret decree of the Supreme Saint.
Four of the six transferred teams rebelled on the spot, and the remaining two teams were actually not that loyal.
This was originally a trap dug by the Chen family, Xie family, Shi family and others for the imperial court. If there were another team sent by the imperial court to support them, then the two escaped teams would turn against each other again and trap the imperial court again.
After no troops were mobilized, Shi Xianfeng accepted Yan Qing's surrender.
From that moment on, Yan Qing was waiting for the moment the rebel camp was set on fire.
In fact, he was quite impatient. After waiting for so long, no reinforcements came from the imperial court, and the news received from the rebels was difficult to distinguish between true and false. Yan Qing was afraid that something really went wrong in Yunzhou.
As a result, he finally waited for today.
Shi Xianfeng used all his elite troops to attack Geling City, and everyone was only focused on the fight in front of the formation.
Who cares about a person who has surrendered for several months and is not being reused and doing nothing?
When Yan Qing saw the opportunity coming, he gathered his own soldiers, only a few hundred of them, and made a big splash in the rebel camp.
The rebels' already unstable military morale collapsed due to the fire. People in the front camp thought that the back camp was raided by imperial reinforcements.
The team attacking Geling City had no intention of continuing the fight. Shi Xianfeng kept sending troops to restrain them but with little effect.
At this time, Shi Xianfeng also knew that there was no way to save the situation, so he had to take the elite team he had originally trained from the Shi family to protect the little emperor and charge all the way to the southeast.
Not only did he lead his people to run that way, but many of the defeated rebels also ran that way.
As a result, the retreat route had already been blocked by Qin Jin's army, and 60,000 Jingzhou elites were standing in front like an iron wall, blocking them solidly.
On the other side, General Ning Shehai, who led his troops from Yunzhou to put down the rebellion, did not enter the city. How could he waste such a fighting opportunity.
Although Yunzhou soldiers and horses came from far away to work hard, but now they saw that the rebels were easy to bully, Yunzhou sick screamed and rushed forward, frightening the rebels and they had no intention of fighting.
The rebel army, which originally seemed to be powerful, was defeated by a fire.
The Yunzhou army was pursuing them fiercely, and Xumi Jinghong's Tiger and Ben army were pursuing them even more fiercely.
Now the Huben army has been divided into two parts. One part is the invincible armored heavy cavalry, and the other part is the light cavalry brought back by Xumi Jinghong from Loufan. When they were resting in Dongbo, Xumi Jinghong returned The size of this light cavalry was greatly expanded.
In this kind of scene, light cavalry is obviously much more effective in chasing down the rebels than heavy cavalry.
The light cavalry was still shouting, telling the brothers of the heavy cavalry to stop chasing them. It was not as fast as them anyway, so it was better to pick up the spoils behind them.
This made the heavy cavalry of the Tigers and Tigers furious. These tough men asked their servants to take off their iron armor. They didn't even wear their leather armor, so they immediately urged their horses to pursue them.
On the city wall, Lin Ye also felt a little surprised.
He originally thought that there would be a rather brutal decisive battle outside Geling City after the rebels were surrounded.
Shi Xianfeng is a talented general in the world, and the Shi family members are good at military secrets. In addition, the rebels have reached the point of a last-ditch battle. The decisive battle
Nature cannot be underestimated.
As a result, Yan Qing's fire destroyed the morale of the rebels.
Things on the battlefield are changing rapidly, and people like Lin Ye can't see everything without mistakes.
Shi Xianfeng led his elite rebel army of more than 20,000 people to break away from the large group of troops and did not dare to flee to the southeast. After discussion, he decided to break out all the way due south.
Linhai County cannot go back now, and there is no point in going back.
Before the defeat, there was news that the first thing that the feudal official who came from southern Xinjiang did after taking back Linhai County with his people was to behead the entire Linhai Xie family.
Even the process of being interrogated and requesting a decree was omitted, and he directly killed a man in Linhai County with a river of blood.
Shi Xianfeng calculated that it was impossible to break out of Dayu with his troops, so he pretended to go south, but in fact he led his team to escape to Yingdang Shanshuibo.
When he was training the rebels, he hid here. It was a place with endless water, eagles and mountains, and it was easy to defend and difficult to attack. He couldn't be an emperor or a general. At least he could keep the little emperor a place to stay.
That place was indeed very dangerous, and it would be impossible to attack it without mobilizing a team several times the size of the rebels.
After entering, the superior force cannot be used.
Shi Xianfeng regarded Yingdang Mountain as his retreat, and it was also his last retreat.
Fortunately, Qin Jin's 60,000 elite jade army thought he was going to Linhai County, so they set up an ambush in the southeast of Geling City.
The extermination of the rebels can actually come to an end at this point, but the liquidation of the rebellion has only just begun.
Shi Xianfeng ran all the way with more than 20,000 rebels, discarding a large number of weapons and armor just to run faster.
But even so, when they were approaching Yingdang Mountain, there were less than 18,000 people left in the team of more than 20,000 people.
Many people quietly ran away halfway, not daring to follow him anymore.
When Shi Xianfeng finally reached Yingdang Mountain, he realized that things were not as simple as he thought.
An elite army so large that it makes the rebels despair has been waiting here for an unknown period of time.
After the team arrived, they blocked the news and did not allow anyone in the area to leave.
So Shi Xianfeng ran all the way back without knowing that Yingdang Mountain had been raided.
This team was the cowardly army led by Feng Xiu.
Feng Xiu is still angry.
It's not just him. Who among the cowardly troops is not angry?
They wanted to go back to Geling to quell the rebellion, and fight with real swords and guns against the rebels who had made bold claims that the cowardly army was a rabble in front of them.
As a result, when they entered the customs, they were not allowed to leave Yunzhou, but were ordered to return to Dayu from the northwest.
Then it took another five months of trekking to reach Yingdang Mountain. In fact, counting the days, it took less than ten days for them to reach Yingdang Mountain. They had been on the road for the past seven months.
Feng Xiu and Lin Ye put on a play in Dongbo and deceived many people.
Afterwards, Feng Xiu led his team to leave Caoshu City in the name of wiping out the rebels in Dongbo, while Xumi Jinghong, who came from Xiantang City, briefly stationed in Caoshu City.
Afterwards, the two teams took different routes back to Dayama.
At this time, seeing the rebels coming towards Yingdang Mountain, a gentle man like Feng Xiu couldn't help but scream.
"The general still loves us. I thought we were just wiping our butts, but I didn't expect the big fish to come back!"
Following Feng Xiu's order, the cowardly troops who were waiting for work rushed out like a flood.
Shi Xianfeng was defeated again.
Out of the 18,000 rebels, 15,000 were lost during the pursuit, and most of the remaining 2,000 to 3,000 were scattered.
After finally protecting the little emperor and breaking out of the siege, Shi Xianfeng took stock and found that there were less than 600 people in the team around him.
At this time, Shi Xianfeng still wanted to protect the little emperor.
Walk.
He ordered the team to disperse, with dozens of people in groups. They threw away their weapons and armor, tried their best to put on civilian clothes, and everyone headed south separately.
He remembered that Xie Biyu once said that he used a small overseas country called Mojiu Island.
He thought that with his strength and these hundreds of loyal men, he would find a way to escort the young emperor to Mosjiu Island, then seize the power of the court and establish a country on Mosjiu Island.
It has to be said that at this time, Shi Xianfeng was still very ambitious.
They agreed to meet again somewhere in southern Xinjiang. It was about two thousand miles from here to the destination. No one had to worry about who. We would talk about it when we got there.
But at this time, if they could just find a mountain to hide in, it would be fine. If they fled all the way south, how fast would they be able to pass the news sent by the court?
One of the groups was spotted in a small county town after traveling more than a hundred miles away. The local magistrate mobilized the entire city to surround them and arrested all the dozens of gangsters.
Dozens of people from the other team discussed it and decided that instead of hiding, it would be better to take the official road openly and openly, so that the people in the government would not think that they dared to take the high road.
They were right. The people at the checkpoint really didn't expect them to dare to take the big road, so when the credit suddenly hit their heads, they all felt a little incredible.
More than ten days later, Shi Xianfeng and the little emperor fled all the way. They intercepted a caravan on the way, killed all the people, and used their identity as a caravan to carry the goods all the way south.
After walking for another seven or eight days, they arrived at a county town called Mianye. This city also had a history of hundreds of years and existed before Dayu was founded.
Although Mianye City is a county town, its population is not that large. The people live an extremely ordinary life, and everyone has no passion at all.
There are no special products here, it is not suitable for growing mulberry and raising silkworms, and there are no lakes or waterways, so even business here seems so lagging behind.
A caravan of more than a hundred people passed through Mianye County, and the people were surprised to see it.
Shi Xianfeng asked his men to be careful. Although there were no patrolling soldiers here, danger might be everywhere.
Alas, you guessed it right.
Who would have thought that the city gate would be closed as soon as they entered the city. Not only was it closed, but the gate was also lowered.
The common people who had been watching the excitement on the roadside took off their civilian clothes one by one. When they looked again, they were all officers and soldiers wearing Dali Temple costumes.
There was a recliner at the door of a small and shabby teahouse nearby. On the recliner was a middle-aged shopkeeper who was rocking a teapot and was drowsy.
It was only then that the middle-aged shopkeeper opened his eyes and looked at Shi Xianfeng and others. He seemed to be quite bored.
There was no surprise at all, no excitement at all, Shi Xianfeng and the others really jumped in, which made Xumi Pianruo feel really... no sense of accomplishment.
He originally planned a serial ambush in the city, but after entering the city, Shi Xianfeng probably felt that he was well hidden and did not divide the team into three front and rear teams, so the serial ambush was meaningless.
"Originally."
Xumi Pianruo used his inner strength to send the sound into only Shi Xianfeng's ears. This skill is basically something anyone in the Wuyue realm can do.
"The Supreme Saint has no plans to move the Xie family in Linhai County. No one has left Linhai County for many years, and their lives are like those of ordinary people."
"The Supreme Saint said that people in this lineage are honest and remind the Supreme Saint of his life when he was farming in his hometown, so he didn't plan to move."
"But......"
Xumi Pianruo said regretfully: "It just so happened that you, the loyal minister, sent the Xie family of Linhai County to hell."
His last sentence did not use the power of cultivation, but directly said loudly: "So besides committing suicide immediately to apologize in front of your little emperor, I really don't know what else you can do."
