Heading from Jinan to Dezhou, a group of officers and soldiers wearing mandarin duck jackets were escorting hundreds of vehicles slowly. The increasing number of panic-looking people on the roadside attracted the attention of an official on horseback. 【】
This official is in his early thirties, tall, with dark complexion, sunken eye sockets, a high and straight nose bridge, a slightly curled beard under his chin, and a pair of slightly brown pupils, which does not seem to be of original descent.
He reined in his horse, bowed his head to a man who was supporting an old man and asked: "What happened ahead? You look so panicked. Could it be that something big happened?"
Seeing that it was an official's question, the man did not dare not answer. He stopped and said, "No, Yan's army went to Dezhou. Dezhou was not defended. Cao Guogong led the army to fight and retreat, and is heading this way. We are retreating. Run away quickly. If you are late, you will be caught by the Yan army."
When the official heard this, he couldn't help being surprised. He called a few passers-by casually, and when asked, the words were basically the same as what the man just said. His expression changed greatly, and he immediately ordered: "Turn the horse's head immediately, All military rations will be escorted to Jinan Prefecture."
After hearing this, his subordinates said: "Master Tie, we have not received military orders from Duke Cao Guo. If we just go back like this, we will not be able to bear the consequences. Why not continue to move forward? If our army is really defeated, we can meet the imperial troops before retreating." It’s not too late.”
Master Tie's face darkened and he said sternly: "That's nonsense. When people can leave by then, how can we get rid of these hundreds of carts of military rations? Wouldn't they all be supplied to the rebels in Yantai? It's not time to open the pot in Dezhou. Immediately turn around and return to Jinan. If anything goes wrong, I will be responsible for it!"
The men had no choice but to turn the car around and follow the fleeing crowd to the east.
This Lord Tie was none other than Tie Xuan, the judge of the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion who went to the East China Sea with Xia Xun and Li Jinglong to suppress the pirates. He was Li Jinglong's deputy envoy, and he had a share of the credit for his trip to the East China Sea. In the first year of the year, Zhu Yun rewarded him, promoted him, and sent him to Shandong Prefecture to participate in politics. It has been almost a year since Tie Xuan took office here. This time he was ordered to escort the grain and grass raised from Shandong to Dezhou. Faced with a huge defeat at the front, they made a decisive decision and turned back to Jinan.
Tie Xuan ordered the grain transport convoy to rush to Jinan at full speed, and ordered several small schools to continue riding forward to find out the accurate information. Soon the small school reported back and ran into the retreating army of the imperial court. Cao Guogong's 600,000-strong army was indeed defeated. , now Dezhou may have been lost, because the army is retreating towards Jinan. Upon hearing this, Tie Xuan immediately left the group and flew back to Jinan to report the news.
Tie Xuan rushed to Jinan Mansion, did not go back to the Chief Envoy's Yamen, and rushed directly to the Du Commander's Si Yamen. He got off his horse and rushed in. He met Gao Wei, the Du Commander's Si Canjun. When he saw him coming, Gao Wei Wei Qi said: "Dingshi, didn't you escort the grain and grass to Texas? Why did you come back so soon?"
Tie Xuan said breathlessly: "Brother Shankui, something bad has happened. Duke Cao Guo has been defeated and Dezhou has been lost. The defeated army is rushing towards Jinan. The Yan army is in hot pursuit. We will quickly organize our troops and deploy the city defense."
Gao Wei couldn't help being shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly grabbed him and said: "Quick, you and I will go to see Governor Sheng. If we want to mobilize troops and horses to defend the city, we need Governor Sheng's order."
At this time, the highest military leader in Jinan City was Governor Sheng Yong. After hearing the news reported by Tie Xuan, Governor Sheng could not help but be shocked. He immediately issued an order to the general and began to deploy the Jinan city defense.
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The city walls of Jinan were overcrowded, with soldiers and civilians mixed together, forming a long queue that was dozens of miles long, rushing to enter the city. All kinds of vehicles, livestock, and pedestrians crowded the roads and even all the places where people could stand on both sides of the roads.
The cart that Peng Ziqi and Xie Yufei were riding in was also crowded among the travelers, moving forward inch by inch.
"Sister Ziqi, that, that..."
Peng Ziqi followed Xie Yufei's gaze and saw a carriage squeezed into the field beside the road. The people on the carriage should be a family, dressed in rich and noble clothes. The carriage was open-top, but there were not many large and small packages on the carriage. Peng Ziqi asked
Said: "What do they do?"
Xie Yufei said: "The shoes and hats you wear as a member of the imperial family, and the clothes worn by the lady and the young master."
"Well……"
Peng Ziqi took a look and felt that something was not pleasing to the eye, but he still didn't find out what was wrong.
Xie Yufei said: "Their clothes are the clothes they wear at home, especially the fat lady, who is obviously wearing ordinary clothes, not what they should wear when going out. Also, the material of their clothes, the hat on the outer hat
The jade and the lady’s earrings are all valuables, but they actually only took an open carriage, and there were no packages on the carriage. This shows that they escaped in a hurry and had no time to bring anything with them.”
Peng Ziqi suddenly said: "Yes, that's the truth."
Xie Yufei smiled slightly and said: "Then what they are most worried about now is that after entering the city, their belongings will not be enough to survive. Moreover, they have nothing to carry on their carriage, and now they have arrived at the gate of Jinan City. What is the role of this carriage?
It is already dispensable to them. Tell me, if we pay for his carriage, will he sell it?"
Peng Ziqi was overjoyed and said to Xie Yufei: "Wait a minute, I'll discuss it with the foreigner." After saying that, he jumped over a donkey cart and a mule cart, and put one foot on the back of an ox, like a big bird.
Pian Ran fell to the outside.
Xia Xun, Xu Jiang and others reined in their horses and stood on the side of the fleeing crowd, watching the huge sea of people. They were scouting horses, and King Yan's main force passed through Dezhou without entering, leaving it to the follow-up people to take over.
, the main force of the vanguard was chasing Li Jinglong down all the time, because King Yan now understood that the gains and losses of one city and one land were of no use to him. He wanted to use this victory to severely damage the Ming army and make the Ming army collapse.
His vitality was damaged and he would never be able to organize such a large-scale offensive from now on.
Therefore, Xia Xun and others, who were in civilian clothes and familiar with the terrain of Shandong, temporarily changed from spies to acting as scouts for the army. The only people pursued by King Yan were cavalry. They had to worry about Li Jinglong escaping halfway and suddenly having an idea to set up an ambush.
or something, but the Ming army fled too fast. They chased them all the way down, and they could only send one person back at intervals to report the situation ahead. At this time, after chasing the city of Jinan, only Xia Xun and Xu were left.
There are two gingers.
"Haha, such a scene is really spectacular. Xu Jiang, hurry up and report back to our vanguard and attack with all your strength. At this scene, the Ming army in the city cannot leave the city to respond, and the Ming army outside the city cannot enter the city calmly. This area is empty and flat.
It's just right for our cavalry to charge and wipe out the enemy's main force."
"yes!"
Without saying a word, Xu Jiang picked up the horse's head and ran towards the road he came from.
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Li Jinglong led the defeated troops and fled to the gate of Jinan City. They saw a sea of people, horses neighing and cattle roaring, and various vehicles and pedestrians crowding the city gate until it was weatherproof. If it came down from the sky, the city gate would be like a gourd mouth, and the outside
The refugees and the army continued to expand and expand, just like the ink flowing out of the gourd mouth, rendering the land.
In fact, now the "ink" is not flowing out, but pouring in. However, due to the increasing number of people outside, people do not feel that they are entering, but instead have a feeling of venting.
Li Jinglong was completely stunned when he saw this scene, and shouted angrily: "How could this happen, how could this happen? Drive them away, my father-in-law is going to the city to preside over military affairs!"
After this order, the people couldn't bear it anymore, and they cursed one after another: "You are taking the royal salary and enjoying the people's wealth. It's just that you can't protect your family and the country, and you have to drive away the people and run for your life?"
The soldiers had no shame to carry out such an order, and if you wanted to rush them, how could you rush them? Unless you killed them all, they were soldiers after all, not thieves. How could you do such an unscrupulous thing?
Seeing that he could not enter the city, Li Jinglong was so anxious that he was running around in circles. At this time, Tanma Feiqi came to report: "Report, Mr. Guo, the Yan army is catching up."
Li Jinglong was so frightened when he heard this that he was about to give the order to leave Jinan and run south, but suddenly his heart moved and he asked: "How many troops are pursuing you?"
The Tanma said: "The pursuers are the vanguard of the Yan army, with no more than four thousand cavalry at most. They threw away my troops and horses, which were moving eastward one after another. They just stayed close behind the Duke and caught up immediately."
When Li Jinglong heard this, his face turned red like an angry rooster. There were at least more than 100,000 troops following him. The Yan army only had 4,000 people. How dare they chase them down?
It's too much! It's too much to bully others!
Li Jinglong sternly ordered: "Set up several formations and fight! Annihilate all the invading enemies!"
Hundreds of thousands of troops immediately took action. The people below the city already knew that the Yan army was catching up. They saw that the Ming army had set up such a large formation and was about to kill mountains of corpses and seas of blood. They were horrified and cried for a moment.
People were crying for father, calling for mother, and the howling was so loud that no one was willing to obey the order of entering the city. They swarmed forward one by one, desperately trying to get to the city gate.
If Xie Yufei's judgment was true, the wealthy gentry escaped in a panic without even bringing enough money. Peng Ziqi discussed with the foreigner, and the other party readily agreed, gave up the carriage, accepted Peng Ziqi's money, and
At this moment, the entire escape team came together and rushed forward, shouting wildly. Peng Ziqi was squeezed dozens of steps away by the sudden increase in the crowd, and the carriage was also carried forward by the crowd.
"Feifei, Feifei!"
Peng Ziqi screamed in panic, but Xie Yufei could still be found there.
Xie Yufei was also anxious. She got out of the cart, grabbed the carport and shouted into the distance: "Sister Ziqi, sister Ziqi..." After shouting countless times, the cart was hit by the swarming crowd. She couldn't stand steadily and fell head over heels.
Crashed into a large car.
Just for a moment, Xia Xun was watching. Seeing that the battle was about to start, Xia Xun was about to circle his horse and leave. Inadvertently, a familiar figure jumped into his eyes. Xia Xun was shocked and shouted out loud: "
Thanks?"
In this moment of shock, Xie Yufei had already fallen back into the car.
"Is it her? How could she be here? Could it be that I was wrong? Impossible, how could I be wrong!"
Unable to confirm his identity, Xia Xun finally refused to leave with such ease. After a slight hesitation, he rode his horse and chased the carriage that was being carried by the crowd towards the city gate...
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