There were only more than 200 Qing troops who escaped from Xiong Yueyi.
Among them, there were eighty-three Eight Banners soldiers, and the rest were from the Han Army Banner. Xiong Yueyi's Eight Banners commander and the general from the Han Army Banner were all lucky enough to escape.
Their escape was not entirely due to good luck. The personal guards around them also put in a lot of effort. Without those personal guards, they might not have been able to escape from the siege of the Tiger Flag.
Among the more than 200 Qing troops who escaped, there were 60 or 70 cavalrymen.
It was precisely because of the existence of such a cavalry that they had the opportunity to break through the siege of the Tiger Flag and open a gap in the siege, allowing more Qing troops to escape together.
The guard general Xiong Yueyi who escaped from the siege did not dare to stay for a moment, let alone rescue the Qing army who failed to follow, and fled all the way towards Gaizhou City.
After escaping for more than twenty miles in one breath, he made sure that there were no pursuers with tiger flags behind him, and then he dared to stop and take a breath.
On the way out from Xiong Yueyi, dozens of Qing troops got separated along the way.
"Zuoling, drink some water!" The Han flag general came to the guard of Xiong Yueyi with a water bag.
General Xiong Yue Post took the water bag, pulled out the stopper, pointed it to his mouth and drank the water in a big gulp.
I drank less than half of the water bag in one breath before stopping.
"Zuo Ling, please see that there are no tiger thieves chasing behind you. Can you temporarily find a place to camp nearby tonight and rush to Gaizhou City after dawn?" said the Han flag general.
The guard of Xiong Yue Post looked at the surrounding sky that had not yet darkened, and said: "Send someone to find some food first, and then continue on the road after eating. You can't stay in this place for a long time."
"The general has arranged for people to find food. There should be a village nearby." said the Han banner general.
They came out from Xiong Yueyi and had no time to prepare dry food. Even if a few people brought some food with them, it was not enough to share with so many people.
A fire was lit nearby, and groups of Qing soldiers gathered around the fire to warm themselves up.
The Qing army who went looking for food brought back some dark wild vegetable pancakes and some unexplainable food.
The Han flag general handed a piece of baked wild vegetable pancake to General Xiong Yueyi, and he ate another piece of baked wild vegetable pancake.
The outside of the pancakes that have been baked over a fire has a burnt smell, and it tastes a little bitter and hard, but it tastes much better than that kind of food that I don't know what it is.
After eating one vegetable pancake, General Xiong Yueyi stopped eating.
"Let's hit the road and get to Gaizhou City early." General Xiong Yue Post took a few sips of water, hung the water bag on his waist, got up and walked towards the horse not far away.
When other people around heard his words, they hurriedly put the food in their mouths, put out the fire and got ready to go on their way.
It is only a few dozen miles from the resting place of the Qing army to Gaizhou City.
The Qing army hurried on their way, and finally arrived outside Gaizhou City when it was dark.
Gaizhou City has three gates, namely Shunqing, Guangen, and Ninghai. Among them, Guangen Gate faces the south. All the Qing troops from Xiong Yueyi came outside Guangen Gate.
"Open the city gate, we are coming from Xiongyueyi."
The Han flag general came to the city gate alone, raised his head and shouted to the defenders above the city gate.
The tower above the city gate was lit with torches.
Then I heard a voice coming from the city gate, "The city gate has been closed. If anything happens, please open the city gate tomorrow and then enter the city!"
"We are coming from Xiong Yueyi. We have something important to do in the city. Please let us in immediately." The Han flag general shouted to the people at the city gate with a look of displeasure on his face.
I heard the person on the city gate reply: "If I hadn't heard you say that you were coming from Xiongyueyi, I would have fired arrows to drive them away. I wanted to go into the city and wait for tomorrow morning."
"We have important matters going into the city. Can you bear the responsibility if something happens?" The Han flag general under the city gate said with an ugly expression.
I only heard the people at the city gate say: "Recently, tiger bandit soldiers and horses have appeared nearby. Who knows if you are the people sent by the tiger bandits. If you want to enter the city, just wait until tomorrow morning. If you dare to talk nonsense, I will shoot arrows directly."
The Han generals at the city gate turned pale with anger when they heard this.
But there was nothing he could do. As a Han flag general, he was only useful in Xiong Yueyi and was nothing here in Gaizhou City. His farts were tasteless.
Unable to open the city gate, he had to retreat.
"Why haven't the city gates been opened yet?"
Seeing someone coming back, General Xiong Yueyi, who was waiting outside the city, asked with an ugly expression.
The Han flag general who had just returned said helplessly: "The general has been calling the gate for a long time, but the defenders refused to open the gate. They even suspected that we were spies for tiger thieves and wanted to sneak into the city."
"What a fucking shit."
When General Xiong Yueyi heard that he, the leader of the Eight Banners, was a spy of the Tiger Flag, he immediately cursed.
"Zuo Ling, please calm down. The people at the city gate probably don't know Zuo Ling's identity. It's just because spies from the tiger bandits have been around recently that they won't let us enter the city. If that doesn't work, we can stay outside the city overnight and wait until dawn to open the city gate." Entering the city." The Han flag general on the side calmed the mood of General Xiong Yueyi.
Zuoling was not a big shot among the Eight Banners, but there were several Eight Banners generals in Gaizhou City who had a higher status than Zuoling.
The people guarding the city gate refused to let them enter the city, and they had no choice.
"Hmph, just as you said, let's stay outside the city for the night!" Zuo Ling snorted coldly in his nasal voice and gave up his plan to enter the city right now.
Although the area under the city gate next to the city wall was sheltered from the wind, they did not dare to get close. If someone on the city shot them with arrows due to a misunderstanding, they would have no place to explain themselves.
A little further away from the city gate, these Qing troops who came to Gaizhou City from Xiong Yueyi began to camp here.
They said they were setting up camp. They just collected some firewood from nearby and built a few bonfires. Everyone gathered around the bonfires to warm themselves up and wait for the city gate to open at dawn.
Perhaps because it was far away from the city gate, the guard at Guang'en Gate did not do anything to these people outside the city, but he still sent someone to the general's palace in the city to report the situation here.
Since Daishan left Gaizhou City, the one who is now stationed in Gaizhou City is First-Class Commander-in-Chief Ye Bilong.
As the youngest son of Eyidu, one of the five founding ministers of the Qing Dynasty, he stayed with Huang Taiji as a bodyguard since he ascended the throne of Khan.
After the founding of the Qing Dynasty, E Yidu was posthumously granted the title of First-Class Hongyi Gong. E Yidu's youngest son also rose to the heights, and even Obai's status was inferior to him.
Before coming to Gaizhou City, he was already a first-class bodyguard beside Huang Taiji. Later, he came to Gaizhou City with Prince Li Daishan to defend against the invading Tiger-Character Banner army.
In name, he was assisting Daishan, but at the same time, he also had the intention of monitoring Daishan for Huang Taiji.
Now that Daishan has been recalled to Shengjing, Yi Bilong, who stayed behind, has great power in Gaizhou City. He alone has the final say in everything in Gaizhou.
(End of chapter)
