Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 86 Crossing Tongguan, On Ma Ke

"General forgive me!"

The soldiers were so frightened that they quickly helped Liu Rukui up and knelt down on one knee to plead guilty.

"What's the matter? Isn't it just a somersault? If your child didn't have this ability, I wouldn't have chosen you as the servant. However, if I hadn't lost my mind for a while, your child would have no chance."

Liu Rukui smiled and talked on the phone, then patted the dust on the armor, and asked the team in charge of the report: "Is it really Li Junshi and Hong Niangzi who are here?"

Guan Dui was also an old soldier, and said with a smile, "I don't know you, it's a troop of cavalry, and the leader is indeed a beautiful woman and a good-looking scholar."

"Then it's probably Li Junshi and Hong Niangzi." Liu Rukui also laughed, and then he couldn't help talking to himself: "But why did they lead troops to pass through Tongguan?"

The management team thought they were asking him, but it happened that Li Yan had also mentioned this matter, so he said, "It is said that he was ordered by King Chuang to attack Sichuan."

Liu Rukui glared at the team, raised his beard and said, "How many times have I told you that Chuang Wang is now the emperor and sits on the dragon chair in the capital, so you have to change your name to Your Majesty.

Otherwise, someone will catch you later and punish you for a crime of disrespect, and you will not be guaranteed. "

The management team scratched his head and said, "Eh, it's easy to say for a while."

After a few more lectures to the management team, Liu Rukui brought a team of servants to the top of Tongguan City, and looked at the team of cavalry outside the gate.

Liu Rukui was nicknamed Zaoying, not only because he was dark, but also because he was a frontier soldier of the Ming Dynasty who refused to accept him at night.

Able to do this job, he not only has no night blindness, but also has excellent eyesight.

The cavalry team was not too far away from the city gate. He laughed after seeing it twice, and shouted: "Ah, Li Junjun, Hong Niangzi, why did you come to Tongguan?"

As an old man in the camp, Liu Rukui was one of the few people who had a good relationship with Li Yan, so he was very happy to see Li Yan.

But as far as he knew, King Chuang had sent Ma Ke to lead [-] troops to attack Sichuan, so he was a little suspicious about the arrival of the Hongniangzi Division.

Li Yan raised his voice and said: "The Eight Great Kings have entered Sichuan, Your Majesty is worried that Makona's descendant will not be able to defeat the Eight Great Kings, and let the Eight Great Kings occupy all of Sichuan, and it will be very troublesome for me, Dashun, to take Sichuan in the future.

Moreover, His Majesty was a little worried about Namako after all, so he asked me and Hong Niangzi to lead troops into Sichuan first, so that the Eight Great Kings should not ask the Eight Great Kings to occupy Sichuan. "

"So that's how it is. Why did His Majesty send you into Sichuan again?" Liu Rukui waved his hand as he spoke, "Open the city gate, and let Junshi Li and Hong Niangzi enter the city!"

Outside Tongguan.

Li Yan and Hong Niangzi looked at each other and smiled.

Immediately, Hong Niangzi sent someone to order the army to come to Tongguan.

Then the two came to the front of the door with the cavalry behind them, and when they saw Liu Rukui approaching, Li Yan took the initiative to take out the imperial edict.

"This is the imperial decree for His Majesty to send us to Sichuan. Let's take a look, General Liu."

As he spoke, he handed over the forged imperial decree, and paid attention to Liu Rukui's expression—this was to observe whether Liu Rukui knew that he and Hong Niangzi had separated from the army and pretended to greet him, but actually set up an ambush in the Guancheng.

Liu Rukui could read some characters, so he opened the imperial decree and read it.

He also has two copies of this imperial decree, one was originally made by Li Zicheng in Xi'an as a mighty general, and the other was sent to guard Tongguan after breaking the capital.

He saw that this imperial decree was even the same as his second copy, it was stamped with the jade seal of Emperor Dashun, and the handwriting was written by Li Zicheng himself.

The content is exactly as Li Yan said, sending the Hongniangzi department into Sichuan to support the Make department, so as to prevent Zhang Xianzhong from taking all of Sichuan before the Dashun army entered Sichuan.

Liu Rukui didn't have any doubts about Li Yan and Hong Niangzi. At this time, he hurriedly read the imperial decree and returned it to Li Yan. He laughed and said, "It will take some time for the army to pass the border, right? Let's go and have a hot meal first." The cook I found makes delicious glutinous rice noodles."

Seeing that Liu Rukui's expression didn't seem to be different, Li Yan felt relieved and said with a smile, "Okay."

The red lady said: "Master, go first, I still wait for the team to pass."

Liu Rukui said: "The red lady will definitely come later, and my mother-in-law can also talk to you."

The red lady nodded, "Medium."

In fact, the red lady did this just in case—although she didn't think that Liu Rukui would set up an ambush in the city, it was always right to be cautious.

If she and Li Yan were captured by Liu Rukui, it would be very difficult to lead a team to break through Tongguan to rescue them with Zhu Yu alone.

Facts have proved that no matter whether it is Aimee Zhu, Li Yan, or Hong Niangzi, their judgments are correct. Liu Rukui did not know that Hong Niangzi had all left the camp.

An hour later, the Hongniangzi team successfully passed through Tongguan and entered the territory of Shaanxi.

After Li Yan and Hong Niangzi had dinner, they bid farewell to Liu Rukui and rode their horses to catch up with the team that had just passed the customs first.

Hong Niangzi continued to lead the cavalry to open the way ahead, while Li Yan returned to the Chinese army.

Seeing Aimee Zhu, Li Yan greeted her first.

Then he said: "When I was having dinner with Liu Rukui, I found out that the Ma Ke Department was in the Xi'an Mansion half a month ago, and I'm afraid it has invaded the Baoning Mansion for a few days now."

Now that he knew from Li Yan that Li Zicheng sent Ma Ke to attack Sichuan, Hao Guangming naturally inquired about Ma Ke's information in advance and told Aimee Zhu.

Ma Ke followed Li Beiping in the early years of Chongzhen, and won many battles. He beheaded more than 600 people and killed the leader of the bandits, Huntian Monkey, and was promoted to a general because of his meritorious service.

In the seventh year of Chongzhen, Li Bei died of illness and took office, and Ma Ke followed Hong Chengchou to continue to fight the bandits.

In the tenth year of Chongzhen, Ma Ke, Cao Bianjiao and others participated in the famous battle of Tongguan Nanyuan.

That is to say, the battle where Sun Chuanting defeated Li Zicheng and only fled to Shangluo Mountain in Shibaqi.

In this battle, Ma Ke was promoted to the general army of Shanhaiguan because of his meritorious service, and then participated in the Songjin Battle with Hong Chengchou.

During the Songjin Battle in the 13th year of Chongzhen, he and Wu Sangui, Bai Guangen, Tang Tong, Wang Pu and others were defeated and fled.

Wang Pu, who was the first to escape, was beheaded for his crimes, and Ma Ke and others were ordered to issue a military order.

In the 15th year of Chongzhen, the Qing army invaded again, and Ma Ke led the army to occupy the enemy and failed.

At this time, the situation of the Ming Dynasty had changed drastically. Ma Ke, who was defeated in the army, was not only not convicted of crimes. On the contrary, in the 16th year of Chongzhen, he became one of the generals who were given a banquet in the Hall of Martial Arts by Chongzhen for his meritorious service in leading the army to protect the capital.

After that, Chongzhen ordered Ma Ke to follow the great scholar Wu Sheng to conquer the exiles in the south, but the trip failed due to various reasons.

In the first month of the 17th year of Chongzhen, he followed Li Jiantai to conquer Li Zicheng.

This battle is a joke, Li Jiantai is that funny person.

In this joke-like battle, Li Jiantai was defeated and captured and surrendered to Li Zicheng. Although Ma Ke did not surrender, he could only lead the remnant soldiers away from the front of the Chuang army.

When the Chuang army broke through the capital in March, Ma Ke surrendered.

In this time and space, Auntie Zhu, who had an adventure, was unable to stop Chuang's army from breaching the capital, and naturally it did not change the fact that Ma Ke surrendered to Li Chuang.

After Ma Ke surrendered, he was named Uncle Huaiyuan by Li Zicheng, and ordered Li Yutian, the former governor of Liaodong, to lead [-] troops to conquer Sichuan.

The horse department left in early April, and it took the route that went straight through Shanxi.

Even so, it took Ma Ke more than a month to reach Xi'an Mansion.

The Red Lady's Department was more than half a month late, taking the farther route in Henan, but it only took a month and a few days to cross Tongguan and enter Xi'an Mansion.

It can be seen from this that Hao Guangming and Zhu Yuxi's previous method of rewarding soldiers with material and spiritual rewards was quite effective.

Aunt Zhu frowned slightly after hearing what Li Yan said.

Based on the information provided by Hao Guangming, she said: "Ma Ke was originally a veteran general who grew up among the bandits. Although he was not good at fighting the Qing army, he was victorious in fighting the bandits 15 years ago in Chongzhen.

Sichuan has not experienced wars for a long time, and its military equipment must be desolate. With Ma Ke's ability, he may have captured Baoning Mansion by now. "

Upon hearing this, Li Yan asked, "Didn't later generations record that Ma Ke attacked Sichuan?"

Aunt Zhu said: "Of course there are records, but it is only said that he entered Sichuan from Hanzhong to capture Baoning in May, and the description is very vague.

What's more, as I said earlier, a single event in this world affects the whole body, so people and things here can't believe all the records there.

Besides, the historical materials over there are all written by people, and they may not all conform to the facts. "

Li Yan nodded slightly after hearing this, "Your Highness's words are certainly reasonable, but the events of later generations are also worthy of reference.

If it is the end of May now, it is really possible that Baoning Mansion has been captured by Mark.

But this is convenient for us to march, and we can go to Chengdu faster. "

　Available on May [-]st.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)