"General, the rebels have arrived outside our fort."
Officers and soldiers guarding the fort came to Qianhuguan to report.
"This group of traitors will never stop fucking." Qianhu cursed, picked up the knife on the side, and walked towards the fortress wall.
boom! boom! boom!
As soon as he left the house, three cannon shots were fired in succession above his head.
When Qianhu heard the sound of the cannon, he collapsed to the ground in fear.
"General, are you okay?" The officers and soldiers following him hurriedly helped Qianhu up from the ground.
Qianhu scolded with a pale face: "Just use cannons on the sea, and bring all the damn cannons ashore."
When he was on the shore, he was shelled by a cannon. Not long after he escaped back, the cannon chased him.
"General, the rebels have artillery. Do you think we should avoid their sharp edges first?" the officer and soldier supporting Qianhu asked tentatively.
After hearing this, Qianhu glanced at him sideways and said: "You damn thing want me to abandon the city and run away. @ESSENTIAL\/书馆*First update~~"
"General, you have misunderstood. I think the rebels are coming in a fierce way. We might as well avoid the attack temporarily to avoid causing too many casualties." The officer and soldier explained.
Qianhu looked hesitant.
Seeing that there was something going on, the officers and soldiers nearby quickly said: "The rebels have come with thousands of people and cannons. Our Qianhu Station has only 600 people in total. We were bombarded on the coast before and suffered many casualties. Now The brothers in Hui'er Fort have low morale and insufficient troops. If you stay here and fight, you will die."
"But where can we go?" Qianhu was persuaded. To be more precise, he didn't want to stay and wait to die.
When the officers and soldiers saw that Qianhu agreed to leave Qingniwa Fort, they came up with an idea: "We can go to Lushun City. There are many garrison troops there and there are navy troops there. We will definitely not be afraid of the invading rebels."
Lushun City is the center of Jinzhou.
Before Jinzhou was lost, it was just a place for a thousand households. But when Jinzhou fell into the hands of slave thieves, Lushun's position became more and more important, so heavy troops were sent to garrison Lushun relying on the two cities in the north and south.
From a city garrisoned by thousands of households, it became garrisoned by generals, and now Chen Jisheng, the general military officer of Pingliao, is garrisoned in Lushun.
"Let me think about it, general." Although Qianhu was moved, he was worried about the responsibility for losing his land.
Although he was a military commander and his responsibility for losing the land was not as heavy as that of a civilian official, it was not impossible that the commander-in-chief of Lushun was angry and used his head to rectify military law after just abandoning Qingniwa Fort to the rebels.
Seeing that he was still hesitating, the officers and soldiers next to him couldn't help but urge: "General, the rebels have started shelling. We don't have much time left. You have to make a decision quickly."
"I just gave up Qingniwa Fort without a fight. I was afraid that it would be difficult to explain to Mr. Chen." Qianhu expressed his worries.
When the officers and soldiers on the side heard this, they immediately said: "It turns out that the general is worried about this. This matter can be easily solved. When the time comes, the general only needs to tell the boss that he heard about the rebel attack on Lushun City and specially led the troops to rescue. The boss knows. With your loyalty, General, I might be promoted in the future."
"Okay, kid, you have a lot of twists and turns in your head. You will soon catch up with those scholars." Qianhu patted the shoulders of the officers and soldiers in front of him with his hand, and the worry on his face disappeared.
The officers and soldiers received the compliment, bowed their waists and said in a flattering manner: "It's all the general who taught me well. The younger ones don't dare to bow."
"Okay, that's right. Just stay with me and be a soldier. Your benefits will be indispensable in the future." Qianhu raised his hand with satisfaction and patted the shoulder of the officer in front of him again.
"I'd like to thank you first, sir." The officers and soldiers looked happy.
Guardsmen are much better than ordinary officers and soldiers. Not only do they eat well and drink well, but any good things that happen to them usually fall on the heads of guardsmen.
After becoming a private soldier, he no longer has to suffer from hunger, and he can get an extra piece of cake for every porridge he eats.
"Go and find all the general's soldiers." Qianhu said to the officers and soldiers he had just promoted.
The officer bowed and said: "General, wait a moment, my subordinates will go and bring everyone here."
Qingniwa Fort was not big, and the residence of Qianhu's soldiers was not far away, so everyone was quickly brought to Qianhu.
There were only five soldiers and servants who came to Qianhu, including the officer and soldier he had just accepted, there were only six of them.
It's not that he doesn't want to raise a few more soldiers. (This chapter is not finished yet!)
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Ding, but he can't afford to support him. If he can support these few, he will be almost empty. @ESSENTIAL\/SHUKEG·No mistake first release~~
Qingniwa Fort is located less than a hundred miles away from the Jinzhou Guards and is on the front line of the battle between the Ming army and the slave thieves. Although there is land, even if it is planted, when it is harvested, the slave thieves will send cavalry around to snatch it.
Later, Qingniwa Fort and several military forts close to Jinzhou Guard simply stopped farming and concentrated on guarding against the slave bandit army. Basically all the supplies needed in the fort were provided by Lushun.
He still had to support five to six hundred officers and soldiers, and being able to support a few soldiers and servants was the limit of what he could do. This still cost him a lot of free money, otherwise he wouldn't be able to support these soldiers.
"Put on your weapons and escort me to Lushun City immediately." To his own soldiers, Qianhu said no nonsense and went straight to the point and stated his purpose.
The personal soldiers and servants are all the general's personal soldiers, so naturally they will not object to the general's words.
In order to dare to leave before Qingniwa Fort was breached, Qianhu didn't bring many things with him. He only brought his own people, not even horses. It wasn't too far anyway, so he went directly from the wall behind Qingniwa Fort. He escaped and took his people all the way to the west.
Qingniwa Fort was not a large fort, and the escape of the defender could not be hidden for long. Soon, officers and soldiers discovered that Qianhu in the fort and several of the soldiers around Qianhu were no longer there.
In this way, everyone knew that the guard general had escaped.
The remaining officers and soldiers in the fort were leaderless and began to flee. Some officers and soldiers simply opened the fort gate and chose to surrender.
After all, the invading tiger thieves are not slave thieves, so surrendering is acceptable.
Zhao Wu outside the fort also had people bombard Qingniwa Fort with artillery. Unexpectedly, the officers and soldiers inside the fort surrendered themselves.
It was so smooth that it was unbelievable. Even attacking a few islands had never been so easy.
In order to prevent the officers and soldiers of Qingniwa Fort from pretending to surrender, Zhao Wu did not enter the fort in person. Instead, he queued up and entered the fort to search around. After confirming that it was a real surrender and not a fake surrender, he entered Qingniwa Fort.
"Yingzheng, do you want to chase? The guard of Qingniwa Fort should not have escaped far." Wang Ju came to Zhao Wu and asked.
Zhao Wu waved his hand and said: "We must seize Nanguan Island as soon as possible and block the slave bandit's way to the west. We don't have time to waste time with a thousand households."
"When are we going to Nanguan Island?" Wang Ju asked.
Zhao Wu said: "Find two guides from the prisoners who know Nanguan Island, and find a few animals to pull up the cannons. Let's hit the road now."
He didn't dare to stay here in Qingniwa.
The news of Tiger Character Banner's attack on Lushun could not be hidden from the slaves in Jinzhou. He must dare to capture Nanguan before the slaves in Jinzhou could react. .
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