scourge the qing dynasty

Chapter 153
If it is said that among the governors and governors sent by Xiao Mazi to Yunnan and Guizhou, who is the most hated by old man Wu, then it is definitely not Zhu Guozhi, who is known as the most corrupt official in the Mazi Dynasty, nor is it Lin Tianqing, who got the position of governor of Yunnan by betraying Wu Sangui. Not Zhao Yanchen and Bian Sanyuan before, but the traitor Zhenglan Banner-Gan Wenkun.

Ever since Gan Wenkun took office, how much enmity the old traitor Wu has had with him in the open and in the dark, I'm afraid even the two parties involved don't know. Gan Wenkun excused the implementation of benevolent government and exempted the soldiers and civilians in Yunnan and Guizhou from all the duties owed to Old Traitor Wu. These two items alone caused heavy losses to Old Traitor Wu, a great loss of face, and made Old Traitor Wu’s anger and hatred towards Gan Wenkun to the extreme .

It is also because of this that after this time he decided to raise troops against the Qing Dynasty, in addition to ordering Li Benshen, Wang Yongqing, Cui Shilu and other Guizhou military generals to block the passes of Guizhou, the old traitor Wu also sent his own general Li Kaixian to lead [-] cavalry to go northward and attack. Guiyang arrested Gan Wenkun and repeatedly emphasized that he must live!

Fortunately, in the original history, Gan Wenkun escaped from Guiyang in advance because he received the news first, and fled to Zhenyuan before he was surrounded by Zhang Jijian, the prefect of Zhenyuan, and Jiang Yi, the commander-in-chief, and was forced to commit suicide. The old man's claws - that is absolutely life is worse than death, which also caused the old man Wu to be furious, and Li Kaixian, who was not doing his job well, was accused of ransacking his home and questioning him!But in the current period of history, can Gan Wenkun still be so lucky?
After sending away Xiao Erlang who tipped off the news, Gan Wenkun, father, son and brother got together again and began to discuss the next action plan.At this point in the matter, it has been confirmed that the old traitor Wu used the banner of the Qing emperor to rebel against him, and the Guizhou army has long since rebelled against the old traitor Wu. Naturally, there were only two paths left before Gan Wenkun, his father, his son, and his brother. One was to go north as soon as possible along the Zhenyuan official road, and escape from Guizhou to report to Xiao Mazi and Aobai.One is to venture south according to Fatty Lu's instructions, and use Wu Sangui's army's psychological illusion that Gan Wenkun will only go north to escape back to Qujing, and then flee from Qujing to Guangxi.

"Brother, I think Master Lu's plan is the safest." Gan Wenjiong hurriedly said, "Wu Thief expected that we would only go north, and never would have thought that we would venture south. Going south from the countryside, there is great hope of escaping back to Qujing, and then fleeing from Qujing to Guangxi."

"Father, my son also thinks that we should go to Qujing." Gan Guocheng echoed: "Although it is closer to escape from Guizhou from Zhenyuan or Zunyi, since Li Benshen and Wang Yongqing's gang of thieves have blocked Lierguan and Zhazuoguan, other The important pass must have received similar orders. Even if we bypassed a few passes near Guiyang from the trail, but we are far away from Guiyang. It's better to take a gamble and venture back to Yunnan, which is more sure."

The situation was so critical, but Gan Wenkun refused to make up his mind whether to flee or not to flee, or where to flee.Seeing his silence, Gan Wenjiong and Gan Guocheng inevitably scratched their heads and urged together: "Brother, I don't have time, make up your mind, where are you going?"

"Yeah, Commander-in-Chief, we don't have much time left. It is estimated that Cao Shenji and Li Benshen's gang of thieves are already discussing whether to let us go and leave us alone, or let us go to Wu. The old thief is doing a meeting ceremony, if you don’t make up your mind, if they start to do something, we will have no chance to leave even if we want to.”

Gan Wenkun still hesitated to speak, Gan Guocheng observed his words, and tentatively asked: "Father, are you concerned about the safety of the seven mothers? Want to take them out of Guizhou?"

Gan Wenkun was sexually promiscuous, and after coming to Guiyang, he married seven people as wives and concubines. Gan Guocheng was well aware of his father's hobbies, so he would naturally ask this question, but Gan Wenkun quickly shook his head in denial, and said categorically, "Of course it's not because of them. , the road to leave Guizhou this time is full of difficulties and dangers, how can I take them with me? In order to preserve their reputation and prevent them from falling into the hands of Wu thieves and ruining their innocence, it is a big deal to let you It’s enough for the seven mothers to die for the country!” (Note: By the way, this is what Gan Wenkun did in history.)
"Then why are you still hesitating, father?" Gan Guocheng stomped his feet and said, "Since you know that women are like clothes, father, why don't you make up your mind now? If you don't hurry up, it will be too late."

"Of course I have to go. What I'm hesitating about now is where to go." Gan Wenkun frowned and said, "Using the method Sanhao prepared for us, taking advantage of the fact that old thief Wu never expected that we would go south to return to Qujing, the best chance , but even if we return to Qujing, we have successfully arrived in Guangxi from Qujing, but after returning to the capital, how can I explain to the court? The old thief Wu rebelled, and I fled as the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou. How can I explain it?"

"Then what do you want to do, Commander-in-Chief?" Gan Guocheng said profusely, "Now the Guizhou army is all the lackeys of the old bandit Wu. Except for dozens of personal soldiers and yamen servants, there is not a single soldier in our hands, and we can still do it." what?"

"Go to Hubei!" Gan Wenkun made up his mind and said, "It's a gamble, go to Hubei from Zhenyuan official road, contact Cai Yurong when he arrives in Hubei, and join hands with him to guard the dangerous pass of Hubei, block the army of the old thief Wu in Yunnan and Guizhou, and serve the imperial court. The counter-insurgency army to buy time, so that we can have an explanation to the court!"

"But along the way, what if we are intercepted by the army of the old bandit Wu?" Gan Guocheng asked worriedly.

"Take the clothes and guides of the common people. If you can't go north, go south." Gan Wenkun replied decisively.Gan Wenjiong and Gan Guocheng saw that Gan Wenkun had made up his mind and knew that the situation was urgent, so they didn't dare to object, they just nodded in agreement.At that moment, Gan Wenkun immediately ordered, "Guocheng, you go prepare the horses to salute, Wen Jiong, go and gather the soldiers loyal to us and the officials of the Governor's Yamen, and see if anyone else is willing to go with us. I will go back to the back house to do some errands first." , we will meet in the back hall later."

Gan Wenjiong and Gan Guocheng agreed together, and each acted separately, while Gan Wenkun took off the saber on the wall and went into the inner house where his family lived alone.After about two sticks of incense, Gan Wenjiong summoned about [-] people loyal to Gan Wenkun's personal soldiers and officials from the governor's office to the back hall. My running dog announced the news that the old man Wu had rebelled, and generously expressed that he would let everyone choose. Those who are willing to go with him will immediately leave the city and go to Hubei to atone for their sins. Those who do not want to go with him can also leave on their own. Governor The property in the yamen can also be taken at will.

Not to mention, Gan Wenkun really has a few loyal lackeys. The two pen-style Yatu and Hua Shan both expressed their willingness to follow Gan Wenkun to the ends of the earth, and there are a dozen other soldiers who refused to leave the old master and expressed their willingness to follow him. Gan Wenkun went north.At that moment, Gan Wenkun hurriedly dismissed the crowd, led the dozen or so people on horseback with his brothers and sons, and rushed out of Guiyang City with a whip.

According to the original historical process, Gan Wenkun and others should have been able to escape to Zhenyuan before being surrounded by Wu Sangui's army. It was earlier than the historical process, and the anti-Qing attitude was far more resolute than in history. At the same time, Li Benshen, the admiral of Guizhou, and Cao Shenji, the governor of Guizhou, were also affected.So this time Gan Wenkun had just escaped from Guiyang City. Cao Shenji, Li Benshen and others who had been hesitant in history quickly made up their minds and sent cavalry to chase and arrest Gan Wenkun. As a result, Gan Wenkun and others had just fled to Longli County. The chasing soldiers caught up......

In the battle of Longli, Gan Wenkun's dozen or so soldiers naturally had no power to resist in front of the numerous Wu army officers and soldiers. Shi Yatu and Hua Shan had no power to restrain them, and they were quickly defeated by the Wu army. The soldiers were captured alive.Fortunately, it was already dark at this time, and Gan Wenkun, his father, his son, and his brothers fled into the dense forest under the cover of night, and finally got rid of Wu Sangui's pursuers temporarily. However, more than a dozen of Gan Wenkun's soldiers were surrounded by Wu Sangui's army. , but already dying, destined to be difficult to catch.

When it was close to the third watch, the father, son, and brother Gan Wenkun, who got into the dense forest, finally found the path in the forest. What surprised Gan Wenkun's son, Gan Guocheng, was that he had not only walked through the path, but was also very familiar with it. Gan Wenkun said: "Father, that's great. I know this road. You can bypass Li'er Pass and go directly to Xiaopingfa near Guiding, or you can turn back to the official road that goes straight to Zhenyuan."

"Then this small road, can we go back to the official road in Qujing?" Gan Wenkun asked calmly.

"Yes, you can go to Qingyan Fort first, and then turn another small road to the official road leading directly to Yunnan." Gan Guocheng replied casually, and then asked suspiciously: "Father, what are you asking now? Do you want to go to Qujing again?" ?”

"Where are you going instead of going to Qujing?" Gan Wenkun asked back: "Didn't you see that both Yatu and Huashan were captured alive by the lackeys of the old thief Wu. They knew that we were going to Hubei from Zhenyuan. If we sell it, the army of the old thief Wu will not be able to set up defenses on the upper part of the official road in Zhenyuan, chasing and intercepting, we still want to make it through?"

"Yes." Gan Guocheng finally came to his senses, and hurriedly said: "Father is handsome and wise, they may sell us, and this time we are coming to Longli, the lackeys of old thief Wu will definitely think that We must go to Zhenyuan, and we won’t prevent us from killing them all and returning to Qujing.”

"Of course, otherwise, why would I announce in public that I'm going to Hubei through the Zhenyuan official road?" Gan Wenkun replied proudly.

"Brother (Father Commander), are you trying to make a fuss on purpose?!" Gan Wenjiong and Gan Guocheng exclaimed at the same time.

Gan Wenkun smiled, neither denying nor admitting, but urged: "Hurry up, change into civilian clothes immediately, find a place to bury the original official uniform, and take the road guide Sanhao gave us to go to Qujing!"

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Gan Wenkun's smacking of the east and the west was indeed very clever. Not only the generals of the Wu army in Guizhou thought that he would go to Hubei through the official route of Zhenyuan, but even the two pen posts and more than a dozen of Gan Wenkun's subordinates thought that he was really going to Zhenyuan and Hebei. In Hubei, when the officers and men of the Wu army tortured Gan Wenkun's whereabouts to resist the punishment, they also explained Gan Wenkun's whereabouts in public one by one-going to Hubei through the official road of Zhenyuan, and then organized troops in Hubei to blockade Guizhou.

Being completely misled, Cao Shenji, Li Benshen and other Guizhou civil and military officials loyal to Wu Sangui naturally organized heavy troops to chase and intercept them. At the same time, they informed the civil and military officials along the Zhenyuan official road to block off the intersections and post bulletins and images to search for Gan Wenkun, his father and his son. three people.On the next day, Li Kaixian, who was sent by Wu Sangui to arrest Gan Wenkun and his son, arrived in Guiyang. After hearing the introductions from Guizhou civil and military officials such as Cao Shenji and Li Benshen, he immediately mobilized his troops to the north and chased them all the way along the Zhenyuan official road, searching carefully for Gan Wenkun, his father, his son and his brothers. The whereabouts of the three.

Contrary to the opposite, although Cao Shenji, Li Benshen, Li Kaixian and others carefully combed the roads leading to Zhenyuan several times like combing their hair, and searched the large and small villages along the way, looking for the hiding places of Gan Wenkun, father and son, and others. Naturally, nothing was found, and Gan Wenkun and his son disappeared without a trace, as if they were escaping from heaven.But when the news spread back to Kunming, Wu Sangui, an old traitor who hated Gan Wenkun to the bone, was naturally furious, and ordered Li Kaixian and others to find out Gan Wenkun's whereabouts.Otherwise, I will not forgive you lightly!

Let’s not talk about the traitor Wu’s furious rage, just say that after Gan Wenkun and others took two days to switch to the official road leading to Yunnan, they disguised themselves as ordinary people and went south to Qujing. The three of Gan Wenkun and his son really had unimpeded passage on this road, and all the gates and gates were unconditionally released-but it is not surprising that the blockade of the gates and gates by the old traitor Wu is an external blockade, and Xu Nan is not allowed to go north. They will come to Yunnan, so Gan Wenkun and his son, who are holding Zhenluyin in their hands, will naturally not be given special care.

There is one more thing that worries Gan Wenkun, that is, after Wu Sangui's army gathers to go north, Fatty Lu, a loyal official of the Qing Dynasty who holds the military power of the Qujing Green Camp, will inevitably lead his army to resist. It's hard.But fortunately, when it took another five days to pass the Shengjing Pass and officially enter the territory of Qujing Mansion in Yunnan Province, the situation in Qujing Mansion was relatively calm. Apart from the fact that there were more patrolling troops on the official road, there was no I heard the news that Wu Sangui's army went north and Lu Fatzi led the army to resist.

"Could it be that the old thief Wu Sangui is still gathering troops, and didn't go north immediately?" Seeing these situations, Gan Wenkun was unavoidably secretly happy, and quickly took his son and brother to the south at a faster speed, and passed the traffic smoothly by relying on the road guide opened by Lu Fatty himself. Shuiguan came to the city of Qujing.

With the flames of war imminent, the defenses of Qujing City will inevitably be much tighter. Every citizen who enters the city must be searched before entering the city, lest someone enter the city with weapons and take advantage of the fire to rob.Seeing this situation, Gan Wenkun, father and son had to bear the pain and hand over the last three self-defense waist knives, so that they were able to enter Qujing City without alarming others, and found the Qujing prefect's yamen all the way.

"My God!" Seeing the disheveled Gan Wenkun and his father and son in the lobby, Fatty Lu opened his mouth wide enough to stuff three eggs, and said happily and nervously: "Oh my God! Your Excellency, the humble ..., Beizhi thought that I would never see you again, and thought that you didn't listen to Beizhi's advice and went to Zhenyuan."

"San Hao, let's talk about other things later." Gan Wenkun said with a wry smile: "The three of us are tired, hungry and sleepy now, my brother San Hao, can you get us something to eat and drink, and we can talk about it after we finish eating?"

"Death to a humble job, death to a humble job." Fatty Lu hurriedly confessed his guilt, and then hurriedly turned his head and told Zhu Fangdan: "Master Zhu, hurry up, ask the kitchen to prepare the best meals and best drinks, and make sure to entertain the governor and the others. "Zhu Fangdan agreed, and hurried down to make arrangements.

"We don't need the best food and drink, just something hot." Gan Wenkun patted the dust on his body and said, "We ate dry food all along the way, so we didn't have a decent meal."

"Yes, yes, Governor, please rest assured, it must be fast." Fatty Lu promised repeatedly, and hurriedly led Gan Wenkun and his son into the back hall, and arranged for tea to be served, and Gan Wenkun and others drank the hot tea in two mouthfuls. Sure enough, Zhu Fangdan led his servants to bring a table of good food and wine, and Gan Wenkun and others immediately pounced on them like reincarnated hungry ghosts, picked up the food and wine and pulled them up.

"Sanhao, why hasn't the old thief Wu Sangui raised his troops to go north?" After the hunger was relieved, Gan Wenkun asked vaguely and impatiently while chewing the food: "It stands to reason that the old thief Wu Sangui has few soldiers and food, so it should be Take the Huguang grain area by surprise? Why has it been more than half a month and almost a month has passed, why is the old thief Wu Sangui still standing still in Kunming?"

"Aoboi is really powerful." Fatty Lu replied that he didn't ask the question: "After Prince Pingxi decided to raise troops, he soon received news that the important cities of Huguang, such as Wuchang, Yuanzhou and Yuezhou, had abnormally mobilized a large number of soldiers and horses. In particular, Yuanzhou, Guizhou's gateway to Huguang, increased its troops to [-] in one go! It can be seen that when Obai decided to force the prince against him, he was already ready to block the prince in Yunnan and Guizhou—Old Things, there are indeed two things in the military. Because of this reason, the prince is not in a hurry to go north, and plans to wait for Oboi's army to go south."

"How can you say that about Ao Zhongtang?" Gan Wenkun was a little displeased, and asked again: "Then what are you going to do now? Have all the Qujing green camps been transferred back to Qujing City?"

"No, I'm still training in the Sanchakou pass area." Fatty Lu replied very straightforwardly, "As for my next step, of course I will send the three of you, the governor, to Kunming to dedicate to the prince, and then swear to raise troops to follow the banner of the prince. Already!"

"What?" Gan Wenkun jumped up with a plate, and Gan Wenjiong and Gan Guocheng spewed out the food from their mouths.But before they could make their next reaction, the front and back doors of the back hall had been knocked open together. Brothers Liu Xu and Liu Zhen led a group of soldiers and charged in, pointing knives and guns at Gan Wenkun and his father and son.

"Lu Yifeng! You betrayed too?!" Gan Wenkun pointed at Fatty Lu and roared.

"Treachery? Don't put it so harshly." Fatty Lu said with a smile: "I have made up my mind from the very beginning to destroy the Manchus, kill the Mangous and you traitors. How can you say that I am a traitor?"

"I killed you!" Gan Wenkun yelled wildly, jumping up and trying to strangle Fatty Lu to death.But as soon as his body moved, brothers Liu Zhen and Liu Xu rushed up first and pushed Gan Wenkun to the ground. Gan Guocheng and Gan Wenjiong were also staggering, and they fell on the wine table together.Gan Wenkun couldn't help being even more shocked, and shouted: "There is poison in the wine and vegetables?!"

"Don't put it so harshly." Zhu Fangdan shook his head and said, "Although I, Zhu Fangdan, like beautiful women a little too much, I am also a genius doctor, so how can I poison people in the food? ——So, the food is just some The Mongolian sweat medicine I prepared myself, and the tea you drank before are also in it."

"Dog thief!" Gan Wenkun roared from the bottom of his heart before he fainted completely.

"Dog thief? If I am a dog thief, then who are you?" Fatty Lu sneered, and said, "Your father Gan Yingkui followed Mangou into customs and killed how many innocent people? What is your Gan family? Traitors!"

"Tie them up and report victory to the lord! Then post a notice. I am determined to lead the army and civilians in Qujing to follow the lord, raise troops to clear the lord, and kill the traitors of Obai! Swear to the death to resist the tyranny of the Mangou, and defend the Eight Banners drug that we pioneered in Qujing!"

(End of this chapter)