The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 122 The Fall
Chang Yongnian immediately said loudly: "The last general will swear to the death to protect the queen and His Royal Highness the crown prince!"

Zhu Linmei bowed her hands to him, but still felt uneasy, and pointed to Zheng Chenggong and said to Empress Zeng, "The general of the country is skilled in battle. I will leave him with the third company of Dragon Guards to protect himself."

Zhu Linming can be sure that as long as Zheng Chenggong is there, it will be no problem for him to defend the city with three companies of hussars and more than 20 of his own soldiers, let alone thousands of Ming troops. up.

Empress Zeng frowned slightly, and had some complaints about King Chen bringing back the son of a national traitor, but she couldn't agree with him because King Chen trusted him so much, so she reluctantly nodded, "Then I'll have to trouble you, General."

When Zheng Chenggong saw that King Chen helped him regain the trust of the royal family, he immediately said excitedly: "My minister, I will die!"

Empress Zeng only cared about the safety of Longwu, and urged, "There are two generals in Changting who are very safe, please send the army south quickly."

"I would like to obey Yi's order."

After leaving the back hall, Zhu Linmei immediately recalled the history of five hundred Qing soldiers who changed their costumes from the Ming army to trick them into opening the gate of Changting City, rushed in and shot Long Wu to death in the government office.At present, Li Chengdong and Nushan's two Jianlu cavalry are both about 500 people, so we must guard against them.

He hurriedly told Huang Daozhou, Chang Yongnian, Zheng Chenggong and others repeatedly, saying that Jianlu would pretend to be the defeated Ming army from Jianchang to deceive the city gate.Therefore, unless the holy car returns in the near future, no one should be released into the city, absolutely.

Although Huang Daozhou and others were surprised that King Chen could predict Jianlu's tricks, they still kept their promises.

Empress Zeng sent Zhu Linmi all the way to the gate of the government office, and kept asking him to protect Sheng Zhouquan.

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As the horse galloped wildly, the violent bumps pulled dozens of wounds on Jiang Zhengxi's body, finally waking him up from the pain.

He was strapped across the saddle, otherwise he would have fallen off the horse.The blood from the wound covered his eyes, and the whole world turned blood red, filled with endless fear and desolation.

How much he wished that all this was just a dream, but the severe pain all over his body reminded him all the time that those things had actually happened.

Just this morning, he had escorted Shengjia to the upper reaches of Tingshui, and was about to cross the river, when a soldier reported that several light cavalry were found nearby.He sent someone to investigate, but found nothing unusual, so he didn't take it seriously.

Unexpectedly, when the men and horses were crossing the river, they heard the sound of trumpets nearby, and a group of Jianlu cavalry rushed out from nowhere, screaming and rushing to attack his troops at Bandu.

Jiang Zhengxi knew that those earlier must be Jianlu scouts.But it was too late, and the hundreds of Ming troops who had not crossed the river were defeated almost instantly. He led more than forty personal soldiers to fight a bloody road, and protected the emperor's car to escape from the encirclement.

Hundreds of horsemen followed closely behind him, arrows shot like locusts, and there were fewer and fewer confidant guards around him.

When he saw being chased, he suddenly saw a small city in front of him.

After galloping to the bottom of the city, he saw the big characters "Yi Cheng" on the city gate. Jiang Zhengxi loudly ordered to open the city gate, but the city guards were afraid to accept when they saw a large group of Jianlu cavalry approaching not far away.

Jiang Zhengxi had no choice but to continue escorting and fleeing for his life, passing two more cities along the way, the gates of which were all closed by the guards.Even when he yelled that this is the holy driver, the people at the top of the city were still unmoved.

After running wildly for half a day, when Jiang Zhengxi was [-] miles away from Changting, the horse under Jiang Zhengxi's crotch was already foaming at the mouth, and he himself was seriously injured because of turning back to resist the enemy several times, almost unconscious, and the other guards had long since died. .

When the captive army chases after them next time, no one will be able to stop the enemy and buy time for the holy driver.

Seeing this, Zhu Yujian ordered Pang Tianshou to stop the car, and when he got out of the car, he saw that Jiang Zhengxi, who was already unconscious, was still holding on to the handle of the saber. He couldn't help but let out a long sigh, stepped forward to break his hand and took off the saber, and said with emotion: " The general has died for me many times, and fought to the point of exhaustion. This time, I will end the queen for the general, with the friendship of all monarchs and ministers!"

He ordered the horses pulling the cart to be unloaded—these horses were only pulling the cart and still had some energy—then he helped Jiang Zhengxi onto the horse. Seeing that he could no longer sit still, he had to tie him to the horse with a rope, and ordered a young eunuch to carry him to the horse. Jiang Zongbing went to Changting, "It's all my intention to capture the thieves. I'm here, and the thieves will not chase you."

He sent Jiang Zhengxi away, turned around and said with a wry smile: "The Great Ming prospered because of loyalty, was defeated because of traitors, and declined because of mediocrity." He looked up at the sky and said weepingly, "In the past, my great ancestor, Emperor Gao, swept away Hu Fen and unified the district. Yu, Emperor Wen of Chengzu is powerful in Huayi. And I have enshrined the Datong, and it has been ten months. The Xiaoling Mausoleum is gone, and the people are uneasy. Wen Yin follows inside, Wu disturbs outside, ZTE's great cause is without reason, and there is no face in it. Meet the ancestors and ancestors under the Nine Springs..."

He withdrew his gaze, pointed the tip of the knife directly at the bandit soldiers in front of him, and said loudly: "I am right here, the bandits come quickly!"

The horses gradually receded, and what Jiang Zhengxi saw at the last moment of losing consciousness was Long Wu standing in the wilderness with his sword horizontally, facing the oncoming rain of sharp arrows without hesitation, he was immediately hit by dozens of arrows, Fall on your back.

Then a large number of Jianlu iron hooves stepped on his body...

Jiang Zhengxi vaguely saw the gate of Changting City.Someone seemed to be calling him, but he couldn't make out a word.

After a while, more people surrounded him.He vaguely recognized a few faces among them, including Her Highness the Empress, Mr. Huang Ge...

He struggled to open his mouth, and he didn't know if he had made a sound, but he just tried his best to speak.

Empress Zeng ordered Jiang Zhengxi, who was already a man of blood, to be laid down on the ground. Seeing his lips trembling, she hurriedly silenced everyone, and only heard an extremely weak voice: "The Holy One has been... murdered by thieves... Arrows... the Holy One is located... fifty miles southeast..."

Empress Zeng stared wide-eyed, and tried her best to slowly turn her head to look at the person who came with Jiang Zhengxi, the little eunuch who gave him oranges in the ruined temple, and asked in a trembling voice: "What, what did he say?" really?"

The little eunuch was obviously frightened too, he just huddled under the horse's belly and nodded in bewilderment.

His Majesty... Empress Zeng suddenly felt dizzy and fell on her back. The eunuch next to her quickly stepped forward and dragged her, shouting, "Your Highness...wake up!"

Zhu Linming's eyes also widened, but all he felt was anger, endless anger!
why?
Long Wu, who he tried his best to save, still couldn't get rid of the bad luck of being killed?Why? !

He asked himself that he had done everything he could think of, and was once only one step away from success, but in the end he still failed to do it.

Just a little bit, yes, if Huang Daozhou hadn't suggested that Long Wunan go to Hangzhou, then he would definitely come to Changting as happened in history.

Why did the zodiac week do this?Thinking of this, Zhu Linmi was stunned. In history, when Longwu fled south, Huang Daozhou had already failed in the Northern Expedition and died in Nanjing. Naturally, no one would suggest him to go to Shanghang.

And it was Zhu Linming who stopped Huang Daozhou's Northern Expedition!
(End of this chapter)