Like a big dream, Ye Ji opened his eyes and woke up. He was in a shaky and dark carriage. The sound of ruts and horse hooves came from outside the carriage. He could understand that he was on the way to escape from the capital. He didn't know how long he had been asleep.
I don’t know what happened before the capital was abandoned, so I can only ask the pitiful Concubine Jade*(
Concubine Yu did not dare to tell him the cruel truth. The news that the Dengzhou Navy was destroyed and the Suohai defense line was torn came, causing the emperor to vomit blood and fall into a coma. She really didn't know if the battles between Jinhai and Fenghe would be a disaster.
It was so tragic that he had no choice but to tell the truth about the withdrawal from Yanjing. How would the emperor be stimulated? He only said: "It's a mess. I don't understand it very well. The emperor is sleepy. The queen mother is in charge first, and the third prince is from now on."
Jinan came here and led a group of princes and ministers to take charge of the overall situation. At this time, they are heading south. According to the wishes of the princes, if they can't go to Taiyuan, they can borrow a road from Jinnan to Guanzhong..."
Hearing that it was Ye Jiduo Dy who was presiding over the situation, Ye Jier was slightly relieved, thinking that the situation was not that bad. He wanted to ask a few more questions, but he felt short of breath and short of heart. With his physical condition just after waking up, he really couldn't.
Think about military affairs again...
Concubine Jade was afraid that the emperor would get sick again, so in addition to asking the imperial doctor to come over and check Ye Ji'er's pulse, she only asked Tan Daocheng, the commander of the forbidden camp, to get in the car to see him. Ye Ji'er was mentally and physically weak and did not ask more about Tan Daocheng.
He sent someone to summon Ye Jiduo Dy
Under the pressing pressure of the Huaidong Army, it was impossible for thirty or forty thousand people to flee southward from Yanjing City. They could only disperse into several groups and flee southward in an emergency.
The battalion has five thousand elite cavalry, which is almost one of the few elites that Yan can control in Yanji. Ye Jiduo himself led an infantry army of more than 10,000 horses to the rear to delay the pursuit of the Huaidong Army.
At around midnight, when the convoy entered Luanxian County from the north, Ye Jiduo Dy caught up from behind. The convoy here could not stop. Ye Jiduo Dy did not bother to avoid suspicion, so he got into the car directly.
Just huddled in the corner of the car
The curtain of the carriage was opened, and the light in the carriage was not bad. Concubine Yu saw that the left half of Ye Jiduo's armor was stained with blood, and his left shoulder was still wrapped with wounds. She was shocked and thought: The people behind the palace have already followed the Huaidong Army.
Is it on?
Yejier didn't understand the situation anymore, but when he saw Duo Dy coming with a shoulder injury, he also knew that the situation was unimaginably bad. Without asking anything, he felt the blood in his heart surge, and he was so short of breath that he almost suffocated...
Ye Jiduo Dy quickly asked the imperial doctor to get in the car as well. Ye Ji'er shook his head and said breathlessly: "How bad is the situation? Don't hide it from me anymore..."
Ye Jiduo was exhausted both mentally and physically. Before nightfall, the Huaidong Army's left-wing commander Zhang Gou wanted to lead his troops to cross the Wei River at Weihejin. He led his rear troops to desperately intercept the Huaidong Army's crossing from Weihejin.
Intention, but the entire rear army suffered heavy casualties. In addition, the Huaidong horse infantry had already occupied Yanjing, and a group of cavalry was chasing south along the west bank of the Wei River.
At this time, there seemed to be no movement on the road ahead, and it was very quiet. But the quieter it was, the more Ye Jiduo felt that the road ahead contained dangerous dangers that they could not predict at this time.
Before the war, the West Temple Supervisor had spied on the Huaidong faction having a large number of people sneaking into the Taihang Mountains. They should have contacted and organized the resistance forces in the Taihang Mountains. Although the Taihang Mountain Resistance Army was weak, when the Yanji situation in Dayan collapsed, they
It was impossible that there would be no movement at all. It was always extra quiet before the storm. At this time, Ye Jiduo couldn't help but wonder: Was he wrong in choosing to escape south?
Ye Jiduo told Ye Ji'er about all the things that had happened in the past month since the Dengzhou Navy was destroyed - Ye Ji'er could only feel the cunning pain in his heart, and his whole body was dripping with heat and sweat, waiting to know
It was only after the disastrous defeat in Fenghe that he abandoned the capital and fled south. Finally, Yejier couldn't bear it any longer. He kicked his feet and spat out a large mouthful of blood, dyeing a corner of the quilt a bright red...
Ye Ji'er had run out of oil, and the injections and medicines were useless. The imperial doctor ordered Ma Fengchun to save Ye Ji'er from fainting again, but he could only maintain his final consciousness. At this time, the carriage and horse stopped, and Ye Jiduo
Dy looked at the front of the car in confusion. When he saw Tan Daocheng, the commander of the forbidden camp, lifted the curtain and walked in, he asked, "Why did you stop? What happened?"
"The outpost found signs of large groups of people in the southwest wing mountain," Tan Daocheng said while standing outside the car.
Ye Jiduo knew that what he was worried about had finally come true, but he didn't expect that the Taihang Mountain Resistance Army would let the Queen Mother's carriage pass by the front team, and only waited until now to jump out...
Ye Jiduo frowned and said to Tan Daocheng: "Assemble the cavalry on the right front wing. If the Taihang bandits jump out to intercept the road and kill them..."
The five thousand forbidden cavalry on the middle road are the last elite cavalry of the Yan Dynasty in the Yan-Hebei region. They are all from the royal army in the early years. Although the Taihang bandits are not too small in number, they have been nesting in the Taihang Mountains all year round. They lack soldiers, armor, weapons, and food.
If your belly is wrapped and your clothes cannot cover your body, how powerful can you be in combat?
In Ye Jiduo's view, compared to the Taihang bandits who might jump out to block the road, the elite horse infantry of the Huaidong Army chasing after them are more deadly.
Ye Jiduo wanted Tan Daocheng to be prepared for a sudden attack, as he did not want to waste time on the road and give the Huaidong Army pursuers an opportunity to close the distance.
Tan Daocheng took the order and left, gathering the cavalry on the front wing and getting ready for the charge. The horses and horses here did not stop, but slowed down - the main elite of the Huaidong Army followed, and there was no room for them.
delay time
Yejier asked someone to lift the curtain of the carriage, and leaned weakly on the arms of Concubine Yu. He looked at the green mountains and green forests outside the carriage. Soon, the noisy sound of people and horses came from the front, and the sound of the hoofbeats of the cavalry was also very clear.
Came - as if the rainstorm was getting heavier and heavier.
Concubine Yu asked Yejier to lean into her arms, while she leaned against the wall of the carriage, listening to the power of the cavalry charge that made the earth tremble slightly. Any other woman would have been frightened by the charge of blood and fire.
In her mind, she couldn't help but think: Dayan's cavalry was so sharp, how could they be defeated so completely?
I heard a message from someone in front: "We are engaged in a battle. The Taihang bandits don't know what is good or bad. They are pulling people to the edge of the road and want to intercept us in the open field..."
Before he finished speaking, he heard a muffled thunder sound coming close to the ground - Concubine Yu didn't know what happened, but she saw Ye Jiduo Dy froze there as if he had been struck by thunder, with all the muscles and bones all over his body.
It was as if the flesh tensed up the moment it heard the thunder and never relaxed again.
"Is this the Huaidong Fuhuo Crossbow?" Ye Jier asked Ye Jiduo Dy in a voice so weak that he could hardly hear it.
Ye Jiduo Dy nodded desperately. He thought that even if the Taihang bandits robbed the road, it would not be a big concern. When he heard a loud sound of artillery shelling, he knew that he had made a big mistake.
Give him room to turn back
The Taihang bandits armed with fire-fighting crossbows were definitely not the scattered soldiers he had imagined before...
Yejier seemed to have exhausted all his energy with this question, his head tilted down, and there was no trace of residual breath left in his nose.
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The first to enter the battlefield was Luo Shoushan's troops of the 1st Brigade of the Taihang Mountain ** Town Division. They entered a shallow ditch and formed an array, forcing the road across Zhending Prefecture from the right wing. This was also the beginning of the retreat of the captive troops from Yanjing to the south.
The shallow ditch in the main channel was filled with water, but it was only three to five feet deep, which was not enough to block the impact of the Japanese cavalry, but it was better than nothing. In addition, countless interlaced wire wires were pulled out urgently on both sides of the shallow ditch to buffer the impact of the Japanese cavalry.
Later, the main force of the Huaidong Army pursued them. The captives who fled south in a hurry did not have enough time to choose a battlefield that was favorable to them. They could only bite the bullet and break through from the front.
In fact, as long as the Taihang Mountain ** town division can drag the soldiers fleeing south for a long time until the main force of the Huaidong Army catches up behind them, it will be a victory.
After the twenty light artillery pieces were dragged directly into the shallow ditch, before the muzzles were adjusted, the front wings of the cavalry began to charge. More than a thousand cavalry formed a huge cone and thrust straight towards them, spreading out nearly two miles wide.
When the horses in front of them stepped into the shallow ditch, the first cannon was ignited and fired. The sprayed lead pellets covered the faces of the horses in front of them, and their masks were completely shattered. The horses were not killed immediately, or they scattered and fled, or
Falling in a shallow ditch, splashing mud and water - the large war horse suddenly fell to the ground without losing its momentum, and the huge force immediately broke several wire wires...
The other artillery fire followed closely, and the barrage formed was like a giant stream of steel, tearing a gap made of blood and flesh out of the front wing of the cavalry. The front wing was bombarded by twenty artillery pieces at such a close distance.
Hundreds of horsemen and horses were either dead or disabled, and their front wing charge formation was immediately dispersed.
Although there were captive cavalry crossing the shallow ditch from the flanks covered by shelling, the impact was weakened to the extreme, and the number was small. The generals of the Taihang Mountain Front Guard Division showed no sign of weakness, and retaliated with swords, guns, bows and crossbows.
Protect twenty light artillery pieces on the inside
Soon, the 2nd and 3rd brigades of the Taihang Mountain Army Division, under the leadership of Wu Jingze, fought out from the mountains and forests where they were ambushed on their flanks. They crossed the ground more than ten miles deep and rushed toward the battlefield from the right wing in an attempt to capture the prisoners.
On the flanks of the soldiers, in the forest at the western foot of the Taihang Mountains slightly deeper, two other Taihang Mountain resistance forces with nearly 20,000 people rushed out of the mountains to participate in the interception battle after receiving notifications from Wei Zhonglong and Wu Jingze.
The battle lasted until the afternoon. Nearly 30,000 Taihang Mountain Resistance Army led by ** Town Division entered the battlefield north of Yi County. Although the rear troops of the southern fleeing soldiers came up from Weihejin in the afternoon,
Zhao Bao led the second cavalry and the third brigade to attack from the rear flank. Zhang Gou's 4,000 elite troops were also rushing over. The battlefield in the north of Yi County was less than thirty miles away...
Concubine Yu held Ye Ji'er's cold and stiff body, and the Huaidong Army's shouts were so close that they could already hear what they were shouting: "Capture Ye Ji'er alive, capture Concubine Mei Yu alive..."
Only then did Concubine Yu know that their whereabouts had been clearly known to the ambushing Huaidong Army, otherwise they would not have let the Queen Mother's motorcade pass easily. She opened the car curtain and saw a group of Huaidong Army generals on the left wing.
The soldiers rushed over from the diagonal, and the thin group of cavalry on the left wing couldn't stop them for long before they were torn apart and fought alone.
A gust of wind rushed in at the door of the car. Concubine Yu turned her head and saw Tan Daocheng, the commander of the forbidden camp covered in blood, getting into the car. She was so desperate that she no longer wanted to ask about the situation of the battle, so she watched Tan Daocheng carry Ye Jier's body behind her. , tied firmly with tape
"Jade Concubine" Tan Daocheng looked back and whispered, "Jade Concubine's face is so beautiful that he can't bear to be cruel..."
"Please give me permission, General Tan." Concubine Yu knew that Tan Daocheng, Ye Jiduodi and the others had broken out separately and could not take her as a burden, and they would not allow themselves to fall into the hands of the Huaidong Army and be humiliated. She straightened her clothes. Watching Tan Daocheng pull out the knife, he calmly closed his eyes and waited for him to kill him.
Maybe it was a moment, maybe it was a long time, but Yu Fei didn't see the cold blade touching her neck, but there was a burst of hot blood splashing on her face first. Yu Fei opened her eyes, and saw Tan Daocheng twisting his head in surprise. A lance was thrust into his back and out of his chest...
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Almost at the same time, a sad cry came from the palace in Jiangning City: "The emperor has passed away."
Immediately afterwards, Zhang Yan broke out of the Qiantai Hall where Emperor Yongxing stayed after his illness, and walked around outside the hall with disheveled hair. As he walked, he cried and laughed: "The Emperor has passed away." He looked like he was crazy. …
Liu Zhi, who came after hearing the news, ignored the frustrated Zhang Yan and just ordered the palace attendants to detain Zhang Yan to prevent him from causing trouble. He had no intention of embarrassing his former boss, but instead went to the palace to see Emperor Yongxing.
Soon Lin Xuwen, Lin Tingli, Hu Wenmu, Qin Chengzu, Sun Jingxuan and others came into the palace and confirmed that Emperor Yongxing had been seriously ill for so long and could not survive today's death...