As soon as Shang Zhijie's words came out, everyone in the main hall of Prince Pingnan's mansion panicked!
Liuxi River is a tributary of the Pearl River. Zhu Heji's army only needs to board the boat at the Nanhai Temple Pier, then go west along the Pearl River to the west of Guangzhou City, then turn into the Pearl River West Waterway, and go all the way upstream to enter. Liuxi River.
Once Zhu San Taisun's army enters the Pearl River West Waterway and Liuxi River, Guangzhou City will basically be surrounded!
At that time, everyone will have no choice but to wait in Guangzhou city to become loyal heroes!
"Your Majesty, what should we do?" Xue Zhang was also anxious. He didn't want to fall into Zhu Heji's hands. "Can Guangzhou City still be defended? Where should we go to move reinforcements?"
In the main hall, everyone's eyes turned to Shang Zhixin, waiting for him to make up his mind.
Although this guy has committed a capital crime, the only people who can be beaten in Guangzhou now are his direct subordinates and flag-bearing subordinates, a total of four to five hundred people... These people are all tied together by the monk's letter. .
Shang Zhixin had a calm face and said coldly: "What's the big deal? The Thirty-six Strategies are the best, don't you think? Going from the Nanhai Temple to the Liuxi River is against the current, and the pirate's boat can't move fast... ....It’s still too late for us to leave right away!”
"Brother, where are you going?" one of Shang Zhixin's brothers immediately asked.
Shang Zhixin said: "There are three places to go now. One is to go north to Shaozhou; the second is to go west to Zhaoqing Prefecture; the third is to go west to Sanshui County first, and then turn back and go south to Xinhui County."
"Brother, where are you going?" "Shang Zhisou" asked again.
Shang Zhixin sighed: "Where else can I go? When I get the confession, I will be punished. I only wait for the emperor's edict to come, and then go to the capital to plead for death. I should go to Caishikou, and I should go to Ning. Go to Ninggu Pagoda...I, Shang Zhixin, all deserve it! So I will go to Xinhui County to await death!"
Going to Xinhui County?
The officials and "Shang Zhi" present didn't know what to say when they heard this? Xinhui is a county under Guangzhou Prefecture, surrounded by Xiangshan, Shunde, Xinning of Guangzhou Prefecture, and Heshan of Zhaoqing Prefecture. Among them, Shunde and Xiangshan have been completely controlled by Zhu San Taisun. Xinning is the county where Wen Village resisted the Qing Dynasty. When Wen Village was conquered by the Qing Dynasty's heavenly troops, Shang Ke was happy to kill people without planning anything. Later, they moved the boundaries and banned the sea, which was fifty miles away... The people of Xinning must hate the Shang family to death, so they would join the Ming army as soon as they arrived.
As for Heshan County, it was also an area where anti-Qing and Ming elements were very active. When the Qing Dynasty invaded Guangdong, Wu Xian, a powerful man in Heshan County, donated his family wealth and recruited rural soldiers to fight against the Qing Dynasty. Emperor Yongli also appointed him Minister of War. Later, Wu Xian failed in his fight against the Qing Dynasty. Naturally, the Heavenly Soldiers of the Qing Dynasty would not let the people of Heshan go... And Heshan is full of mountains and forests, and there are many places where Wu Xian's remnants can hide. When Zhu San's army arrives, why don't they respond in large numbers?
So Xinhui will be an isolated city by then. How will Emperor Kangxi capture Shang Zhixin, behead him at Caishikou, and exile him to Ninggu Pagoda?
It seems that Kangxi could only send people to Xinhui to capture Shang Zhixin only if he sent out the Heavenly Soldiers of the Eight Banners to defeat the Third Grandson of Zhu and the Third Prince of Zhu and regain the Guangzhou Prefecture!
Is this difficulty a bit high?
Faced with everyone's suspicious looks, Shang Zhixin said to Xue Zhang plausibly: "Please tell Xue Tixue to tell the emperor that Xinhui is the only county in Guangdong that is die-hardly loyal to the Qing Dynasty. I must protect this loyal land for the Qing Dynasty no matter what." After the Heavenly Soldiers of the Eight Banners arrive in Guangdong and completely wipe out Zhu San and his son, Wu Sangui and his son, the slaves will naturally go to Beijing to receive their death."
I wonder if Emperor Kangxi would be so angry that he would vomit three liters of blood when he heard this? Xue Zhang thought to himself: "This Shang Zhixin is the master of poking a hornet's nest! He poked a huge hornet's nest himself and hid in Xinhui, leaving the emperor to be stung by Wu Sangui, Prince Zhu San, and Zhu Sansun... ..”
But Shang Zhixin doesn't care about that much at this time. He has already apologized, and he is still waiting to be caught in the Qing Dynasty. If Kangxi can't catch him, then he can't be blamed, right? As a criminal, should he help the court catch him?
Shang Zhixin looked around and found that everyone had nothing to say, so he coughed and said: "It's getting late, let's all disperse... Guangzhou can't be defended anymore, you all run for your lives." Go! If anyone wants to follow me to Xinhui, please stay and follow!"
Go to Xinhui? Isn't this courting death? Shang Zhixin committed a capital crime and went to Xinhui to avoid death. Others did not commit a capital crime, so why did they follow him to Xinhui?
So the officials and "Shang Zhi" in the main hall resigned one after another, went back to pack their things, took their families, and prepared to run out of the city.
However, there were still a few people who did not run away. Pingnan Palace Chief Shi Li Tianzhi and Commander-in-Chief Wang Guodong did not leave.
Shang Zhixin glanced at the two of them: "Li Changshi, Wang Zongrong, do you want to follow me, a man who is to blame?"
Li Tianzhi sighed and said with a wry smile: "My servant is the chief historian of the palace. Now that the old prince is gone, you are the new prince. Wherever you go, I will also go."
Wang Guodong directly called Shang Zhixin his prince, "Your Majesty, my servant has always been yours. Wherever you go, my servant will follow you!"
Shang Zhixin nodded and thought to himself: "These two people are quite smart. They both realized that the road to Zhaoqing and Shaozhou is not easy... because most people will go to those two places. Zhu San Taisun The soldiers will definitely pursue them in those two directions.
Moreover, escaping would not bring any good results. The emperor had already issued an order to let Kong Sizhen and Sun Yanling lead troops to Guangdong.
Most of the people who go to Zhaoqing and Shaozhou now will be forced by Kong Sizhen, a stinky bitch, to fight Zhu San and his son. Sooner or later, they will die on the battlefield. It is better to hide in Xinhui and live for a while. "
Thinking of this, Shang Zhixin laughed a few times: "Then go and get ready... Remember, don't bring too much luggage and money. Just run out and the money is useless!"
He paused and then said: "After you gather the people, first go to the Sifang Fort to gather, and we will set off from there.
Also, Li Changshi and Wang Zongbing, please send people to tell my brothers that there are still millions of taels of silver that the old man fished out in the palace's warehouse. I don't need it anymore, but they still need it. , tell them to come quickly and get as much as they can! "
Li Tianzhi and Wang Guodong were shocked when they heard this, and said in their hearts: "This Shang Zhixin is really cruel, he actually let his brothers run away with a heavy amount of money at this time... ..”
However, the two people still agreed and then went to arrange their escape separately.
After taking away Li Tianzhi and Wang Guodong, Shang Zhixin called his Fu Jin, his master, and his housekeeper. He first arranged for the whole family to run away, and then asked his master to draw up a confession and plead guilty to Wu Sangui. , Wu Yingxiong "bited" seven to eight points to the bone. Then he copied it again personally, and then sent someone to deliver this fatal note to the admiral Xue Zhang.
After arranging all this, he asked someone to open the door of the palace's warehouse. Without waiting for his brothers to come to get the money, he took his family and went to the Sifang Fort first, under the protection of his immediate subordinates and bannermen. ——The family members of Shang Zhixin’s subordinates and Qigu Baoyi have already packed their bags and moved into the Sifang Fort!
Shortly after Shang Zhixin arrived, Li Tianzhi and Wang Guodong came over with two to three thousand Green Camp soldiers supporting the elderly and the young.
Seeing that all these people had arrived, Shang Zhixin led them out of the Sifang Fort without any delay and disappeared into the vast fields northwest of Guangzhou City.
As soon as Shang Zhixin stepped forward, Guangzhou City fell into the biggest panic!
Most of the people in Guangzhou today are related to the word "flag" and "official"!
In other words, they are the accomplices and lackeys of Shang Kexi, a loyal slave of the Qing Dynasty who is "excessively loyal". If the Cantonese soldiers of the Third Prince Zhu capture them, what chance of survival will they have?
So you have to run quickly!
If you don't run, you'll die!
But can you survive if you run away? It's two hundred miles from Guangzhou to Zhaoqing, and nearly three hundred miles to Shaozhou... This road is not easy to walk either. There are several big rivers blocking the road, and there are many pleasant things along the way. My enemies are sharpening their knives, waiting for revenge!
But this is not the most terrifying thing, the most terrifying thing is the sky!
When the city of Guangzhou was in chaos and everyone was scrambling to escape from this desperate situation, the sky was once again covered with dark clouds, and the typhoon that had disappeared before roared up... It turned out that the previous tranquility was nothing but The eye of the storm has passed over Guangzhou, and now there are still typhoons and storms to come in the second half.
There are interceptions in front, pursuits in the back, and it's going to be windy and rainy. I really don't know how much I can survive after running all the way.
