Everyone was stunned when they heard the secret guard's words.
I didn't expect Zuo Liangyu and Wu Sangui to be so cunning. Li Zhi led his army to the south, but the two of them didn't even have the intention to fight. They just ran away. They fled from Yangzhou to Nanjing, and now they are fleeing from Nanjing to Jiangxi.
Zheng Kaicheng said: "Master, there is no way to pursue this. The emperor only gave us the power to conquer the south and Zhili, and Jiangxi is not within the scope of the expedition."
Li Zhi waved his hand and said, "Bring me the map!"
The two guards ran down and soon ran up with a map. This map was drawn by Li Zhi by Han Jinxin's secret guards. The southern provinces were drawn in great detail. After Li Zhi's improvement, all the major provinces were mapped.
The cities are labeled and they look clear at a glance.
This map alone is two hundred years ahead of other forces in this era.
Everyone looked at the map for a while and found that the distance from Nanjing to Jiangxi was quite far, with a straight-line distance of more than a thousand miles. If they wanted to pursue it, it would be a laborious expedition.
Li Laosi said: "My boss, even if the emperor is allowed to invade Jiangxi, we will not be able to do it. The gentry hates us so much. If we chase all the way to Jiangxi, there will be a big problem in logistics and supply. The gentry will gather some people in the rear to intercept it.
Our supplies, our army ahead are going to be hungry."
"And if we enter Jiangxi, Zuo and Wu can go to Huguang and even Sichuan. Our current 40,000 troops are more than enough to attack South Zhili, but if we want to occupy so many inland provinces to maintain order, we will not be able to do so.
Already."
Li Zhi measured the situation on the map, nodded and said, "No more chasing! Just run away."
Pointing to the location of Nanjing on the map, Li Zhi said: "However, if Jiangbei Army escapes, everyone in Nanjing City will definitely flee. We cannot let these worms who support Jiangbei Army escape. Li Laosi, you lead our ancestors
Dashou and Xue Sanku led ten thousand cavalry across the Yangtze River to surround Nanjing. Until our army reaches Nanjing, not a single gentry or civil servant can leave the city."
"Subordinates take orders!"
Li Zhi asked Han Jinxin: "Where are Qian Qianyi and Zhang Shenyan?"
Han Jinxin cupped his hands and replied: "In the Jiangyun Tower in Suzhou!"
Li Zhi snorted coldly and said: "Zhong Feng! You lead five thousand infantrymen to Suzhou via the Yangtze River waterway, and capture Qian Qianyi and Zhang Shenyan alive before the news reaches Suzhou."
"Subordinates take orders!"
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Xiao Hengshan, the minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing, is a middle-aged man with thick black hair. He is sitting in the second hall of the residence of Yu Jinshen, the minister of household affairs in Nanjing, and his face is red while arguing with the owner of the residence.
Angrily slamming the table, Xiao Hengshan shouted: "We originally had 30,000 Yingtian Mansion garrison troops in Nanjing, plus the 20,000 civilians raised in these days, there is a total of 50,000 troops. Why should we fear the 10,000 Li thieves' cavalry outside the city?
Li Thief's 10,000 cavalry have been calling for battle outside the city for two days, but Nanjing's 50,000 defenders are too frightened to fight! How ridiculous is that?"
"The minister is so afraid of the enemy that he is as fearful as a tiger. No wonder the southern Zhili army collapsed without a fight and the Jiangbei army fled in the face of the wind."
Yu Jinshen looked at Xiao Hengshan helplessly, spread his hands and said: "The 80,000 elite Jiangbei Army dare not fight against Li Zhi's Tiger and Guard Army, just because of these battalions in Nanjing? None of these battalions have ever been on the battlefield, I'm afraid they will
If you can't stand it for even a quarter of an hour, you will collapse."
Xiao Hengshan's eyes widened and he asked: "Then the minister just surrendered without any resistance and didn't even resist? You and I have contributed a lot in the preparation of the Jiangbei Army. If the Li thieves are allowed to occupy Nanjing, can we get a good deal? I'm afraid.
All of a sudden, this head is no longer my own."
Yu Jinshen looked at Xiao Hengshan, sighed, and waved his hand to all the servants waiting on him to get off.
Seeing that there was no one around, Yu Jinshen leaned into Xiao Hengshan's ear and whispered: "We have been friends for seven or eight years. Even if you don't come today, I will definitely tell you that we will send Yingtianfu camp soldiers and civilians this evening.
Zhuang goes into battle. These 50,000 people raise the flag and kill the generals. Li Zhi's 10,000 cavalry will definitely gather to fight. When the south gate is empty, our officials from the Sixth Department of Nanjing will escape from the south gate."
Xiao Hengshan was stunned when he heard this, and his eyes couldn't help but roll around.
When Yu Jinshen saw that Xiao Hengshan had stopped talking, he knew that Xiao Hengshan was moved. He patted Xiao Hengshan's shoulder and said, "Go back quickly and get ready. Take all the men in the family with you, and leave out the women.
Thief Li never kills women. When the cannons fire from the north in the afternoon, we will escape through the south gate."
Xiao Hengshan hesitated and asked: "Can this plan work?"
Yu Jinshen's eyes widened and he said, "That's it. Are you going to run away?"
Xiao Hengshan nodded: "Run away, I will run away with you!"
Xiao Hengshan left the Yu family's mansion, stopped sitting in the sedan, and hurried home with the sedan bearer. As soon as he entered the gate of his house, he took his three sons to the silver cellar to get some silver. The cellar was full of silver.
Xiao Hengshan was worried, so he finally found three two-horse carts and loaded all his silver goods on them.
Feeling that the wooden boxes containing silver in the three carts were too eye-catching, Xiao Hengshan piled some cotton groceries on the cart and dressed up like a merchant.
In the afternoon, Xiao Hengshan and his son drove the carriage to the door of Yu Jinshen's house. Sure enough, he saw that Yu Jinshen was ready to go. Yu Jinshen also loaded several carts of goods, and when he saw Xiao Hengshan went to the house without saying a word
We walked to the south gate. At this time, Nanjing City was under martial law and there were few pedestrians on the road. The Xiao and Yu families were wearing ordinary people's coarse cloth clothes, which did not attract much attention.
When I arrived at the south gate, I saw that officials from the six Nanjing ministries who had contributed to the formation of the Jiangbei Army were already waiting there. These people were all dressed as farm men, and each family brought dozens of servants, each with a car full of people.
silver.
Sure enough, after everyone waited there for an hour, they heard the rumble of cannons coming from the north gate.
Yu Jinshen shouted: "It's time, get out of the city!"
The south gate slowly opened, and hundreds of people rushed out, hurriedly escaping to the southwest.
After walking ten miles, the sky was already very dark. Everyone looked back at the city of Nanjing behind them, and everyone was very excited.
Unexpectedly, the plan was so successful. As expected, Li Thief's stupid cavalry were attracted by the Nanjing garrison who came out of the city to invite a fight, allowing everyone to escape smoothly. As long as they fled another thirty miles and left the boundaries of Nanjing, Li Thief's cavalry would pursue them.
I can't catch up either.
Xiao Hengshan handed over his hand and said to Yu Jinshen: "Master Shangshu has a good plan. As long as we escape into Jiangxi and call on the gentry from all over the world in the name of the Six Ministries of Nanjing to donate money and money to form a new army, we will definitely have a showdown with Thief Li."
"Jiangbei Army abandoned us and fled. We can no longer rely on Jiangbei Army and must form a new army!"
Yu Jinshen laughed loudly and was about to answer when he suddenly realized something didn't seem right on the road ahead.
In the darkness ahead, the sound of horses neighing could be heard from time to time. It seemed that there were hundreds of cavalry guarding there.
Yu Jinshen's heart skipped a beat and he suddenly turned his head and looked behind him.
Is there any escape route behind? On the spacious official road, hundreds of Tianjin cavalrymen holding torches slowly surrounded them, surrounding the fleeing Nanjing officials.
Yu Jinshen's legs weakened and he collapsed on the ground.
