When black smoke and fire rose in the sky over Fushun County, the Dingyuan Ping Kou General of the Qing Dynasty, Prince An Yue Le, had actually not yet completely wiped out his army!
The entire army was annihilated only when there was no one left alive, and there were thousands and hundreds of Eight Banners soldiers around Yue Le. How could this be considered the annihilation of the entire army?
However, these thousands and hundreds of Eight Banners soldiers were quite embarrassed. In order to lighten the load on their horses so that they could run faster, they had thrown away their spear helmets, cloth-covered iron armor, long swords, and other miscellaneous items. Everyone just carried a sword, bow and arrow, dry food, wore a short coat, and fled for his life on horseback naked.
It is no exaggeration to say that since Nurhaci rebelled with thirteen pieces of armor, these Eight Banners soldiers (Jianzhou Jurchens) have not been in such a mess!
When Nurhachi raised his army, he still had thirteen pieces of armor. Now Yue Le and others have no armor. It's so embarrassing that they are all running for their lives shirtless!
Yue Le, who had been fighting for his whole life, had no face to see anyone. After escaping all the way, he didn't even think about commanding his subordinates. Fei Yanggu was the one taking command. He asked everyone to throw away their armor and luggage so that they could escape lightly. It's him too.
Now this big lord is riding shirtless and following closely beside Yue Le. He has to keep an eye on this prince! He is Yue Le's subordinate and must protect the prince. As for whether Yue Le will be sent to Caishikou by the angry Kangxi after he returns to Beijing, he doesn't care.
But now he must ensure that Yue Le is not captured alive by Wu Sangui's people, and that Yue Le cannot end up being "passed to Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan" - it can be passed to other places, but Wu Sangui cannot be allowed to take Yue Le's Show off your head.
But it’s a bit difficult to keep Yue happy!
Because Wu Sangui's cavalry was chasing them very closely, more than a thousand bamboo spear cavalry kept biting Yue Le and Fei Yanggu. Fei Yanggu tried his best to get rid of them.
What's even more dangerous is that Yue Le and Fei Yanggu have been driven to the edge of the Tuojiang River by Wu soldiers. The water in the Tuojiang River is deep and fast. Fei Yanggu was confident enough to swim over, but Yue Le and his men didn't seem to have much confidence in their water skills, so they didn't dare to jump into the river to swim, so they had to continue running along the Tuojiang River. When they were exhausted, they had not yet shaken off the pursuers, but they ran outside a dilapidated town that had been abandoned for who knows how many years.
"Your Majesty, there is a small town ahead, it should be a town. Let's go in first, have a rest and take a breath!" Feiyanggu said loudly to Yue Le, who was running for his life with his head covered.
Yue Le looked up and saw that there was indeed a small city with low walls in front of it, right on the edge of the Tuojiang River. It looked quite big, but it was uninhabited and looked completely abandoned. At this time, he was also a little tired, and he could feel that the horse under his crotch was running less and less vigorously. If you don't take a break and tire your horse to death again, it's really going to be the end.
"Okay, let's go to the city and take a breather." Yue Le paused and then said, "This small city should be a town, and there should be many houses in it. I saw it when I followed Lao Su Wang (Hauge) to Sichuan. Many of these towns were massacred, what a crime!"
"Yes! It's all Zhang Xianzhong's fault!" Fei Yanggu said, "But the current situation in Sichuan is also good for us. We only need to learn from Sima Yi's method and build deep ditches and high fortresses in Shaanxi and Gansu to block Wu Sangui and prevent him from letting him go. Go north. With the current manpower and material resources in Sichuan, even if Zhuge surnamed Wu is reincarnated, he can only be blocked in Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan!"
Yue Le nodded, "As long as Prince Shuncheng can bring Fushun's army back to Baoning, then our Qing Dynasty can still survive this disaster safely." He paused, "Fei Yanggu, you turn around and send People go search to see if there is any usable wood, and we can find a way to build a few rafts so that it will be easier to cross the river."
"Don't worry, Your Majesty, I'll send someone to take care of this humble job." As he spoke, Fei Yanggu waved his arm to the Eight Banners soldiers behind him and pointed to the town in front, "Follow me. Come to the city to rest!"
"嗻!"
This group of Eight Banners soldiers who had followed Yue Le and Fei Yanggu to escape were almost exhausted. Now that I heard that I could go into the city to rest, I almost cheered when I shouted "嗻".
A large crowd soon poured into the small town.
Although the city is small, it still has city walls and gate openings that can resist pursuing soldiers.
The pursuing Wu Jun bamboo spear cavalry looked a little tired, so they did not launch an attack, but dismounted and rested outside the town.
It seems that they are not in a hurry, but I wonder if they are waiting for follow-up reinforcements?
After arranging several "shirtless Eight Banners soldiers" to guard the city gate, Yue Le and Fei Yanggu rode into the town together. As expected, there was no human habitation in the town. There were collapsed or burned-out buildings everywhere. All kinds of green plants had spread to every corner, almost engulfing the entire town. In the center of the town, there is an open space paved with bluestones that has not yet been covered by these miscellaneous plants. Yue Le and Fei Yanggu dismounted there, and a palace guard brought them some dry food and drinking water. The two were really hungry, so they ate and drank hungrily.
After filling their stomachs, Yue Le and Fei Yanggu stood up again and began to inspect the deserted town. After a while, they had passed through the town and arrived at the riverside dock in the north of the town. It turns out that this town is not surrounded by walls on all sides. There is no wall on the side near the Tuojiang River, but there is a long row of abandoned docks.
There is also a small pier on the other side of the Tuojiang River, and there are two small boats parked on the pier!
"There is a boat!" Feiyangcourt shouted in surprise.
"Where did the boat come from? Could it be..." Yue Le felt a little strange, talking to himself and looking around.
Suddenly, he seemed to see something and was stuck there, unable to say anything.
"My lord, what's wrong with you?" Fei Yanggu asked with concern.
"There, there" Prince An Yue Le raised his finger and pointed at the black smoke rising in the sky in front of him, "That is the direction of Fushun County. Something happened in Fushun County!"
"No, that's not the case, is it?" Fei Yanggu's heart skipped a beat, "Prince Shuncheng has 20,000 elite soldiers, and there are natural dangers in Rongxi and Tuojiang to rely on, so he can retreat safely no matter what. By the way, now this The black smoke must have retreated after Prince Shuncheng burned the city."
"Impossible," Prince An shook his head repeatedly, his face ashen, "Just withdraw, why burn the city? It's just a shabby empty city with few people, who cares whether it burns or not? Something must have happened in Fushun County, maybe Wu Sangui The soldiers are already"
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a sound of horse hoofbeats in his ears, followed by an angry shout: "Your Majesty, Deputy Commander, something bad has happened! The rebel reinforcements have arrived. There are one or two thousand infantry." , and also brought two cannons."
"What?" Fei Yanggu was shocked, "How did it come so fast?"
"Deputy Commander, I don't know how they came so fast." The guard shook his head, "You and the prince should come up with an idea quickly, the rebels will attack soon!"
"Boom! Boom!"
Really fast!
As soon as the guard finished speaking, the Wu soldiers outside the city were already firing!
Fei Yanggu turned around and said to Yue Le with a sad look on his face: "Your Majesty, I am humble enough to lead someone to support you for a while. You should seize the time to cross the river!"
Yue Le, on the other hand, looked ashen and looked like everything was over. He said nothing and just watched Fei Yanggu running towards the south gate of the town with a waist knife. When Fei Yanggu walked far away, he sighed, then turned around, knelt down facing the northeast, kowtowed three times, cried and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, slave Yue Le is sorry for you and the Qing Dynasty."
After saying this, Yue Le suddenly stood up, rushed towards the river outside the pier, and plunged into the Tuojiang River with a splash.
This frightened the two palace guards who were looking at him, and they shouted quickly: "Come quickly, the prince has jumped into the river!"
The two palace guards also knew how to swim. After shouting twice, they took off their coats and plopped into the water. They struggled to "paddle" (dog-paddle-style swimming) toward Yue Le who was splashing in the river. Soon, He swam to Yue Le's side and grabbed Yue Le's coat. But Yue Le really wanted to be a drowned ghost at this moment, struggling and refusing to go back with them. The two palace guards were obviously not as good at water as Yue Le, and there was no way they could get Yue Le back. As a result, the three of them floated along the current towards the center of the river.
Now the two guards who went to fish for Yue Le were completely panicked. Their water skills were not very good. They could cope with the small rivers in the north. But now they fell into the big rivers of Sichuan and they had to fish for Yue Le and drowned. , the unlucky prince has better water quality than the two of them, what should we do?
When I was anxious, a small boat suddenly came on the water, and someone on the boat shouted: "Don't panic, don't panic, grab the bamboo pole, I will fish you out!"
The two guards quickly followed the sound and found that a small boat had arrived in front of them at some time. There were three people on the boat, two people were rowing, a shirtless strong man was holding a long bamboo pole and shouting, and two people were shouting. The guards all knew that strong man, it was Wang Zhongxiao who helped the young emperor drive away Grand Master Aobai and Ao.
The two guards quickly shouted: "Wang Guards, the prince has drowned! Save the prince quickly!"
"What? Prince? Which prince?" Wang Zhongxiao was also shocked when he heard this.
He was actually waiting here to save people on purpose - he felt a little guilty now! He killed so many people in Kang Mazi in one fell swoop! Kang Mazi's thoughts were so deep that he must have thought that there was a spy inside him! Now, if you take a few people back, you can eliminate most of the suspicions.
But he never expected that the first time he acted as a good person, he would catch a prince who committed suicide by drowning? Don’t you know who this prince is? Couldn't it be Yue Le?
"It's Prince An! It's Prince An. Please save the prince, he is dying!"
Are you almost drowning?
Wang Zhongxiao was shocked. Before he could react, the man who was helping him row the boat had already opened his throat and shouted: "Wang Guard, please save the prince quickly. Prince, please hold on for a little longer, and Guard Wang will come to save you right away." Got it!"
This guy actually knows how to be a good guy!
However, Wang Zhongxiao can no longer be regarded as a villain at this time, and it is good to fish out Yue Le. With this "credit", it is impossible for Kang Mazi to suspect that he has colluded with Wu Sangui.
Thinking of this, Wang Zhongxiao dropped the bamboo pole and jumped into the Tuojiang River. His water quality is much better than those two guards! Yue Le struggled in the water for a while, but couldn't move anymore, so he was easily fished out by Wang Zhongxiao.
When Yue Le was fished out of the small wooden boat by Na Qin and Wang Zhongxiao, he had already thought about it. He didn't want to die for the time being, and he also thought of Fei Yanggu, so he coughed (choking water) and said to Wang Zhongxiao and Na Qin. He said, "Hurry up, go and save Fei Yang. There are more than a thousand Eight Banners disciples in that town on the south bank of the Tuojiang River. They will be attacked by the rebels soon!"
Wang Zhongxiao turned his head and looked towards Anxi Town. The pier where Yue Le jumped into the river just now was already crowded with shirtless men, copying guys, and a small wooden boat had already pulled up - this small wooden boat belonged to Li Tian. Yu and Lu Sanhao led the people over to pick them up! Wang Zhongxiao is not the only one who wants to cleanse himself by saving others.
These shirtless men on the dock are the Eight Banners soldiers who escaped with Yue Le and Fei Yanggu. Fei Yanggu had planned to take them to guard the city gate before, but when the news of "The Prince Jumped into the River" spread, , Feiyanggu's barely put together defense line collapsed immediately, and everyone rushed to the dock - it was important to save the prince!
When they arrived at the pier, these people discovered that two small wooden boats were approaching!
Moreover, there were two Qing civil servants on two of the wooden boats. These were life boats!
At this time, no one had the intention to fight against Wu Bing. They all wanted to squeeze into the two boats. The dock was in a mess. Li Tianyu and Lu Sanhao were frightened when they saw this scene. The small wooden boat was overturned.
To the south of the pier, a large group of heavily armed "red scarf Wu soldiers" were organizing their formation and were about to attack.
There was chaos on the pier, and suddenly there was a clear gunshot. Everyone was shocked. The noisy pier suddenly became quiet. Everyone turned around and saw an unusually tall and strong man holding a gun in one hand. Standing there with a short spear and a simple knife in one hand, with an angry look, it was Fei Yanggu.
Seeing everyone looking at him, Fei Yanggu shouted angrily: "Don't get on the boat one by one!"
Then he strode to the edge of the pier, banged his knife on the bluestone of the pier, looked at the guys with wide eyes, "If you have a horse, grab the horse's tail and cross the river. You can cross now!" The officer who has no horse will take a roll call, and those who are called will get on the boat. Who the hell dares to rush aboard? My sword will not recognize anyone!
For those whose names cannot be called, I will take you to swim across a small river together. It will not be difficult for us Eight Banners disciples! "
Not to mention, this guy is really intimidating. With just one shot, one knife, one anger, and one encouragement, no one dared to make a mistake, and order on the dock was restored immediately.
Moreover, his arrangements were very orderly. Some of the Eight Banners soldiers who had not forgotten to hold their horses when they were driven over by the Wu soldiers did not wait to get on the boat. They directly drove their horses into the Tuojiang River, and then started to ford the crossing by pulling their tails.
Others were waiting for Fei Yanggu to call their names, and the order was okay.
Wang Zhongxiao watched this scene from a distance, thinking in his heart: The current Eight Banners disciples are only partially decayed, not completely decayed. The middle and lower classes of the Eight Banners lay down flat after entering Beijing, and those who walked through the door, although not to the point of being corroded into a puddle of mud by foreign medicine, were indeed embarrassed and put to great use. But among the middle and upper classes of the Eight Banners disciples, there are still some characters! Fei Yanggu is one of them. He was a famous general in the original history, right?
At this time, Feiyanggu had already begun to call names one by one - he may not necessarily know all the people gathered on the pier. Those he knew would be called by their names, and those he did not know would be pointed out. The ones he selected were all those who looked stronger and younger. He first selected 17 or 18 people and crowded them into Li Tianyu and Lu Sanhao's boat.
After Li Tianyu and Lu Sanhao's boat left, the boat where Wang Zhongxiao was was also pulled up. Fei Yanggu ordered thirteen people to get on the boat. He also wanted to ask people to get on the boat, but Wang Zhongxiao stopped him: " There is only one seat left for Deputy Governor Fei!"
The wooden boat was as big as Lu Sanhao's boat, but Yue Le and his two guards were already on board.
Fei Yanggu said with a smile: "It's just a strip of Tuojiang River, and a good man can't swim across it?"
Wang Zhongxiao laughed when he heard this and got off the boat. He grabbed two small flagmen and threw them on board, then waved the boat to leave quickly.
Fei Yanggu smiled and raised his thumb: "Well done, let's compete together?"
"Okay!" Wang Zhongxiao nodded, "Let's see who reaches the other side first!"
"Qingtian is dead, Zhoutian must be established."
Wu Bing has already started shouting slogans and is about to kill them!
Fei Yanggu opened his throat and shouted: "All the Eight Banners disciples have listened, let's swim across it together. How can we swim through such a small ditch? Those who swam across it are heroes. When we return to Beijing, I will Invite you to drink wine in Bada Hutong!"
What he said was simple, but in fact it is the rainy season. The water surface of the Tuojiang River is very wide and the current is fast. Anyone who can swim across it is definitely a good swimmer! If two-thirds of the Eight Banners disciples gathered on the banks of the Tuojiang River could swim across, that would be considered too many.
However, these Eight Banners disciples were still inspired by Fei Yanggu.
"good!"
"Swim over!"
"It's just a small ditch!"
"Yes, we Eight Banners disciples are not afraid of swords, mountains and fire!"
The disciples of the Eight Banners started splashing into the water while shouting. Wang Zhongxiao smiled and said to Fei Yanggu: "You swim first, I will wait for you on the other side!"
"Haha, I can swim very fast!" Fei Yanggu laughed, then he also fell into the water with a plop and swam forward like a bullfrog.
Wang Zhongxiao looked back at the group of red-headed Wu soldiers. They were carrying a general flag with the word "king" and an admiral flag. They should be the team of Wu Sangui's general Wang Pingfan. Wang Zhongxiao and Wang Pingfan are very familiar with each other, but now is not the time to say hello.
So he turned his head, plunged into the water, waved his arms, and performed the "stunt" of freestyle (no one else can do this swimming style now), and swam across the Tuo River as if he was flying.
(End of chapter)
