On the twenty-ninth day of the first lunar month, inside the Tongzhou camp.
"Brother Liu, am I so stupid?" Jiang Cheng kept scratching his scalp, looking troubled.
"Brother Jiang, if you listen to my brother's advice and leave the camp without orders, you will commit ten major crimes. When you leave... you have to think about your family! Besides, you and Brother Chen only have four thousand, plus brother
Mine is only nine thousand. News came a few days ago that the 60,000-strong army of Governor Lu and Eunuch Gao was also wiped out. Don’t save brother Chang Jing and bring us all in. What do you think?” Liu Zeqing
exhorted.
Jiang Cheng wiped his face with his hand and said in a low voice: "Chen Youzhi won't go! I just had a falling out with him."
"Ah?" Liu Zeqing was greatly surprised, "You two have always been inseparable, how could you have a falling out? Then you only have a thousand and five dollars now! Then it will be even more dangerous to go out."
Jiang Cheng shook his head and said bitterly: "Not even Qian Wu. As soon as I said I was going to rescue General Wu, some of my men immediately rebelled and defected to Chen Guerrilla, so now only Qian Wu is willing to follow me. Liu
Brother, just say something! Are you willing to go with me? Otherwise, I will take my son out of the camp immediately."
"Why are you doing this?" Liu Zeqing was also very sad to be forced by Jiang Cheng.
"Brother Liu!" Maybe he felt that his rescue was a disaster, so Jiang Cheng talked a lot, and his words were a little confusing, "My family is also a military family, and we know that the battlefield is dangerous. But my second uncle and I are a few
He was rescued by General Wu once, and now he has come to ask for help. The Tongzhou camp is full of nearly 100,000 people, but no one is willing to go. I thought: let’s not repay the favor! We should also work together to fight the Tatars?”
"Well done to General Wu! Anyone who dares to fight with the Tatars is a good person. But why did he come to ask for help? He also knows that his prospects are not good! Let's go there once. We must rescue General Wu no matter what.
, This is not in vain for our brotherhood!" After finishing speaking, Jingcheng looked at Liu Zeqing with pleading eyes.
Liu Zeqing's heart immediately felt like heaven and man were at war. After hesitating for a long time, he said hesitantly to Jiang Cheng: "I won't hide it from you, brother. I know my own affairs. If I go with you, brother, as long as I hear that we are going to fight the Tatars, I will
I'm afraid I can't restrain my troops! I'm afraid most of them will disperse by then."
However, Jiang Cheng felt that there was a way out from Liu Zeqing's words. He hurriedly patted his chest and encouraged: "It's okay to bother Brother Liu. My son will be the vanguard. If we encounter the Tatars, we will block them first and give Brother Liu time to retreat."
.Besides, we are not going to fight the Tatars. As long as we can successfully rescue General Wu, we will have achieved our goal."
After hesitating for a while, Liu Zeqing let out a long sigh and said, "Hey——! Just do what Brother Jiang said!"
After Tongzhou Camp received Wu Shigong's request for help, several civil servants and military supervisors in charge here flatly rejected Wu Shigong's request for help. In the end, Jiang Cheng and Liu Zeqing took their weapons privately for the sake of their friendship with Wu Shigong.
There were nearly 6,000 soldiers and horses, and despite the obstruction of the leaders of the Tongzhou camp, they left the camp to aid the Runing army.
However, even Jiang Cheng and Liu Zeqing believed that the Runing Army would definitely be defeated. Their aid was only to rescue the remnants of the Runing Army and rescue Wu Shigong personally.
February 5th, in Dezhou City.
"General Qiu! General Wu of Runing is about to fight the Tartars. It's time to gather the officers and troops to attack at once. I would like to order all the soldiers and horses in the city to fight together. What do you think of General Qiu?" Shandong
Governor Yan Jizu asked Qiu Lei, the commander-in-chief of Shandong Province.
In fact, seeing Qiu Lei's depressed appearance, Yan Jizu became a little angry. When Jinan fell, Yan Jizu was shocked and quickly dispatched Qiu Lei to lead an army of 8,000 to aid Jinan.
But when Qiu Lei was leading his troops, one of the soldiers shouted: "The Tatars are coming!" Then the whole army collapsed. Qiu Lei only fled back to Dezhou with more than 500 people, and he has only collected more than 2,000 so far.
In fact, from beginning to end, this army did not even see a single Qing soldier, and it just disappeared into thin air.
Then Yan Jizu and Qiu Lei certainly did not dare to lead troops to stop the Qing army's looting in Shandong. Until the Qing army escorted the population and captured people and returned arrogantly from Dezhou City, they did not dare to lead their troops out of the city to stop them.
At that time, the captured people outside Dezhou City were crying loudly, hoping that the officers and soldiers in the city would come to rescue them from the sea of misery. However, Qiu Lei, as the highest military attache in Shandong, burned incense and worshiped Buddha every day, hoping that the Qing army would leave early.
Go, hope they never come to attack Dezhou City.
Originally, Yan Jizu had also lost his temper due to Qiu Lei's cowardly behavior, but the Runing Army's request for help rekindled his hope. If the two armies cooperated and could rescue King De, they would be able to make up for it. Even so.
Even if King Deok is not saved, at least this kind of rescue operation can be explained to the court, and his own responsibility for losing his family will be much smaller.
But when Yan Jizu saw Qiu Lei completely losing his energy, he knew that his plan was in vain. After all, Yan Jizu's governor's camp only had 3,000 troops, and the main force of the official army in Dezhou City was still Qiu Lei's troops. If
If Qiu Lei doesn't agree, he won't be able to mobilize troops to rescue Runing's army.
Sure enough, Qiu Lei refused and said: "Sir Governor! It's not that the general is unwilling, but the Tatars are too strong. All the officers and soldiers in the world are incompetent. It's not that the officers and soldiers are too incompetent, how can the Tatars go on a rampage after entering the pass? Then Commander Wu
We have a close relationship with the last general, and his military strength is limited. Although he is also full of enthusiasm, what he does is not a mantis blocking the car? Why should we die with him?" In order to enhance his persuasion, Qiu Lei put himself
All the troops were said to be incompetent.
"But the messenger who came said: Commander Wu went to the capital and Tongzhou to ask for help?" Yan Jizu still didn't give up.
"Just wait and see! None of the officers and soldiers will come to help. So let's put it this way! After all, they are all here, and there are not many of us. If they don't come, even if they are more, we can't defeat the Tatars. They don't want us.
As soon as they left the city, the Tatars took advantage of the situation and invaded Dezhou. Governor! This will make our crime even bigger!" Qiu Lei advised.
Seeing that Yan Jizu was still hesitating, Qiu Lei once again stepped up his persuasion: "Sir Governor, although we have lost our vassal and Jinan, we are indeed guilty. But if you think about it carefully, our crime is not serious.
Where to go? Our whole army is guarding Dezhou. That is the order given by Mr. Yang Ge. If there is a crime, then Mr. Yang must be punished first. Anyway, there is a tall man holding up the sky. What should we worry about? At most, he will be dismissed from office.
Dismissed from office. To be honest, I will eventually have enough of these days of fear."
Yan Jizu was indeed moved by Qiu Lei's words. He touched his chin and thought quietly. But at this moment, a soldier rushed out of the door. He knelt down and reported: "Your Majesty the Governor! Your Majesty the Chief Soldier! Come over here from the west of the city.
We have an army of more than a thousand people."
"Oh? Which general is leading it?" Yan Jizu asked quickly.
"They said they were from General Wu of Runing and were going north to fight the Tatars!"
"Are there really people who are not afraid of death?" Qiu Lei exclaimed in surprise.
Yan Jizu frowned and thought for a while, then ordered: "Throw some grain, grass, wine and meat from the top of the city, consider it a reward from me!"
The news that the Runing Army was going to fight the Qing Army spread like ripples throughout the Ming Dynasty. In public, those who talked about it pretended to praise Wu Shigong, but secretly, everyone thought
Wu Shigong's skull was damaged.
The most intuitive reaction is that on the Runing Stock Exchange, all stocks are plummeting. A few days ago, the stocks were flocked by businessmen. Now they are being sold like waste paper, but there are still no businessmen to take advantage of this.
However, at this time, Deng Qifan and other senior officials of the Runing Army did not care about the financial market that was about to collapse. On the one hand, they complained in their hearts that Wu Shigong had changed the purpose of sending troops, and on the other hand, they also began to shrink the troops and urgently recruit troops to prevent Wu Shigong from
The disastrous defeat caused a chain reaction. Xue Yongli also urgently mobilized Yang Rusong's two associates to Guide, ready to go north for reinforcements at any time to meet the main force of Wu Shigong's Runing Army.
In addition, the business of Sihai Trading Company, Sihai Bank and Jimin Reclamation Trading Company has also been greatly affected. Many trading partners have suspended transactions and are waiting for the outcome of this war. If Runing Army's previous reputation was not too great, and they
The methods of doing things have always been ruthless, and maybe the officials and gentry in some places would extend their claws into the Runing Army's property.
In Yangzhou, the salt merchants held three meetings in a short period of time. In the last meeting, they even secretly re-divided the salt sales area run by Runing Army to each company in preparation for Wu Shigong's tragic defeat.
"Dinner". Of course, the Lu family and the Guo family are not qualified to participate in this kind of gathering.
In Nanjing City, it was rumored that the guarding eunuch Lu Jiude was ready to dispatch troops. Once Wu Shigong was defeated, they would send troops to join forces with Fengyang and Huguang to seize Runing and Guide's territory.
Only Hou Fangyu, a lifelong fan of Wu Shigong, had some kind words for Runingjun, but amid the ridicule and regret, Hou Fangyu seemed so lonely.
At this time, the man of the hour in Jinling City was Qian Qianyi, who had "gloriously returned from prison". He gathered a group of Donglin Party comrades and constantly criticized the government and praised each other. It seemed that only the Donglin Party members
After coming to power, the Tatars entering the customs and the civilian thieves within the territory will melt away like white snow in spring.
As for the Wu Shigong they mentioned after dinner? He was nothing more than a lucky, courageous, vulgar and stupid soldier. At this time, they had simply forgotten that Wu Shigong was classified as a member of the Donglin Party by them.
Among them, Qian Qianyi's words are the most representative. He said: "Huh! Wu Runing? You are stupid."
Qian Qianyi had already learned that Gu Hengbo and Liu Rushi had sent letters to Wu Shigong a few days ago. He, a young old man, was already jealous, so he regarded Wu Shigong as his love rival in his heart.
Therefore, before the war, no one was optimistic about Wu Shigong. However, in this case, the Runing Army officially started a battle with the Qing Army. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation at Qidian.
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