The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 177 All Things Are Not Going Well
In early summer, the dawn was quite early, and the surrounding scenery could be seen clearly when we arrived at Mao.

In order to go south to Yanping as soon as possible, the Polu camp in charge of a feint attack at the west gate did not even enter the city, relying on only [-] Dragon Guard infantry, and with the cooperation of the people in the city, all the Qing troops stationed in Jian'an were quickly wiped out.

Zhu Linmi took a company of personal soldiers to make a symbolic inspection of the city, and hussars kept coming to report the battle situation.

"Report! Commander, the granaries in the city are intact, and a total of 75 stones of grain and rice have been seized. [-] Shouliangjian prisoners were killed."

"Report! The magistrate's yamen has been captured by Mr. Liu Ying, and now he is counting the belongings of the bandit army stored there."

"Report, a total of 310 people from the Jian'an Inspection Department abandoned their weapons and surrendered. They are identifying the hiding places for our army."

Zhu Linmei nodded slightly, and told Zhang Jiayu: "Most of the people in the inspection department in Jian'an City were forced to be captured because of the surrender of the officers. You can carefully identify them and select those who have no bad deeds to keep.

"In addition, transfer some local officials who have not surrendered from several nearby counties, and ask them to bring their own servants and regiments to temporarily manage Jian'an. We must not leave too many people to guard the city in front of our great enemy."

"Yes!"

As soon as Zhang Jiayu finished speaking, a group of people dressed as Jianlu came galloping on horseback, but no one stopped them along the way.

When he got close, the leader suddenly lifted the reins, got off the horse, knelt down on one knee and said to Zhu Lin: "The last general pays homage to His Highness!" It was Shi Lang who had been undercover in Jian'an City.

Zhu Linming got off the horse and helped him up, "Your Majesty has done a great job this time." He smiled again, "But since he joined the Dragon Guard Army, there is no need to kneel down in the future."

It was only then that Shi Lang remembered that Zhang Jiayu had taught him how to salute when he was in Shaowu last time, so he stood at attention and performed a military salute of the Dragon Guards, and said loudly: "Your Highness, the puppet prefect Cheng Yi, the puppet history Li Jian'an and others will be captured in the south of the city. There are eight false officials below. Kill 14 false officials below the false Tong Zhi Wang Ou Ning."

As he spoke, he waved his hand behind him, "Bring it here."

Then more than ten generals from his family escorted Cheng Yi and others to come forward.

Shi Lang glanced at Cheng Yi coldly, then cupped his hands at Zhu Linmi and said, "Your Highness, this is the traitor who went out to greet the Jian captives when they entered Fujian, and dedicated the entire Jianning Mansion to Boluo!"

Seeing Shi Lang chatting enthusiastically with the generals of the Ming army, Cheng Yi understood the reason, and immediately glared at Shi Lang and shouted: "The surname is Shi, I didn't expect you to betray us!"

"Shut up!" Shi Lang slapped Cheng Yi hard, causing Cheng Yi to spurt out a mouthful of blood with his molars between his molars, half of his face turned black, and he couldn't speak anymore.

"Such scum can be used to frighten the rebels who surrendered to captives." Zhu Linmi turned her head to Shi Lin and said, "Notify the whole city and nearby counties in Jian'an that three days later, they will be divided into five horses in front of the magistrate's yamen. The ashes will be distributed to the states in the south of the Yangtze River." government."

"Yes!"

When Cheng Yi heard the words "five horses divided the corpse", he was so frightened that he screamed and passed away.

"My lord!" Dozens of dragoons came on horseback at the intersection of the street. Xia Fu, the leader, saluted anxiously after being far away. The road leads directly to the edge of the moat, and the bandit may have escaped from the secret road."

Zhu Linmi frowned, "Nadahasu must have fled towards Yanping, and ordered the hussars to chase south."

"Yes!" Immediately, a messenger went to inform Zhao Shichao.

Later, another order from the Ministry of War was sent, which was the same as yesterday's decree, ordering King Chen's troops to go to Quanzhou to capture Zheng Zhilong's lair, and Ruan Qinghao was in charge of the defense of Xianxia Pass.

"We have to hurry up too." Zhu Linmi said to Zhang Jiayu, "Order the whole army to make repairs on the spot, and leave camp and go south at noon."

"Yes!"

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"General, just now the Ming army sent someone again, asking us to abandon our weapons and surrender immediately!"

"Your mother! The Ming army's head is broken?" Fan Shaozu cursed and looked at the smoke on the mountain in the distance, and couldn't help swallowing, "Did you find out how many of them there are?"

The soldier hurriedly cupped his hands and said: "Go back to the general, the horse report said that there is no detailed investigation, but there are always about 5000 people."

After Fan Shaozu surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in Wenzhou, he never had the opportunity to gain military exploits.So this time, due to the lack of food in the Qing army, General Boluo designed Azig to lead the Eight Banners and the elite Han army to attack Shanguan. His troops were regarded as "unbeatable" soldiers and stayed in Yanping to lure the enemy.

And almost all the remaining food and grass were allocated to Azig, and the soldiers who lured the enemy here in Yanping only got three taels of brown rice every day.It's just that it's the time when the summer grain is not harvested, and the army is in turmoil, and the people in the vicinity are fleeing, so even if they go out to loot, there will be little gain.

These days, Fan Shaozu's soldiers had to peel bark and dig grass roots nearby to satisfy their hunger. The surrounding hills have been dug up as bare as a monk's head.

Unexpectedly, a group of Ming troops marched to his front yesterday, claiming that they came to accept the surrender, and sent people to repeatedly urge him to lead the troops to surrender immediately.

Fan Shaozu originally thought that there were tens of thousands of main forces of the Ming army, but it turned out that there were only 5000 people, while his army under Fan Shaozu had more than [-] soldiers and horses.

"Your mother, three to five thousand people dare to come to stroke the tiger's beard..." He suddenly remembered something, his eyes flashed, "So they should have rations for thousands of people."

He immediately shouted to the deputy general next to him: "Quickly, send me someone to find where the Ming army's supplies are located."

"Follow the order!"

Three hours later, the lieutenant came back personally with people to inquire, and said to Fan Shaozu: "General, the Ming army's luggage is closely behind the brigade, guarded by seven or eight hundred rear troops, and there are about twenty vehicles."

Fan Shaozu immediately forgot about Boluo's so-called "peace talks". Since the grain and rice were delivered to his door, how could he let it go easily.

He gave an order, "Give me an order, the whole army will have enough to eat tonight, and set off at the second watch to raid the Ming army's supplies!"

Five miles east of the Qing army camp.

Cao Hongzu was also extremely depressed, why is everything not going well recently?The court clearly stated that Jiang Zhengxi had defeated the Jian captives, and Boluo's troops were panic-stricken and kept silent.But the Qing army in front of them has cleaned up their camp and defended in an orderly manner. How can they be defeated?
He first voted for Zheng Zhilong's family, but before he got any benefits, he heard that Zheng Zhilong had surrendered to captives.

He was hesitating to shave his hair, when news came that King Chen had attacked Xianxia Pass, and the food and grass of Jianlu had been cut off, and the news was precarious.

Fortunately, Wang Yinghua came to persuade him to follow Tang Wang.He mobilized his army to go to Tianxing Mansion, dreaming of becoming a dragon, but he didn't want to be blocked outside Tianxing Mansion City, squatting under the city for more than half a month without entering the city.

This time he learned that the Jianlu were defeated, and Jiang Zhengxi was leading a team to confiscate the Qing army's weapons.He thought that there would be nothing to do in Tianxing Mansion anyway, so he led his army west to Yanping, intending to get some spoils of war, and maybe gain some military exploits along the way.

As a result, when they arrived in Yanping, they didn't even see Jiang Zhengxi's shadow, and the tens of thousands of Jianlu troops had camps for four or five miles, and the camps were built high, so they didn't take him seriously at all.

"This situation is completely different from what the court said..."

Cao Hongzu was looking up at the starry sky, saddened, when he heard a group of people shouting from the rear army, and then some soldiers rushed to report, "General, build a captive attack camp!"

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