Ma Bao pondered for a moment and then said: "Didn't the three of them flee to Beijing after the Battle of Huolu? According to rumors on the road, it seems that these three people have been killed by the Qing army."
Xu Du pretended to be mysterious and smiled: "Then please invite Marshal Bi to the city for a look."
"Um?"
Ma Bao had some doubts in his heart. After leading troops into Laizhou City with Gong Wencai, while listening to Xu Du's introduction, he saw some people dressed as Ming soldiers in the city. At first, he thought it was Xu Du's rebellion.
After the introduction, Ma Baocai said in surprise:
"I didn't expect Chen Zilong to be such a brave man!"
The defenders in Laizhou City were all prepared and the whole city was heavily guarded. When the soldiers saw Ma Bao entering the city with a supporting force, many of them showed great joy on their faces.
Xu Du then rode horseback and took Ma Bao to the front and back of the government office, and then ordered his own soldiers to bring out the three most important people.
"Li and Gao may not be recognized by Commander Bi, but General Liu and Commander Bi must have met them before."
Ma Bao not only met Liu Zeqing on the battlefield, but he also met Liu Zeqing with his old boss Gao Qian in his early years when he was still in the Ming army.
Not only him, but also the local Shandong heroes who have surrendered to the Dashun Army, such as Gong Wencai, Ma Yingxian and others, also basically know Liu Zeqing. Liu Zeqing is the commander-in-chief of Shandong Town, and he was also a big figure in the Shandong underworld in the past.
In Dongsanfu, there are too many people who recognize Liu Zeqing's appearance and even have old connections with him.
So as soon as Ma Bao saw these three people, he knew that what Xu Du said was not false at all.
He became more and more surprised and sighed: "Chen Zilong went to Yan alone to work as an internal agent for me Dashun. I thought it was not easy for him to collect some inside information. Unexpectedly, Chen Zilong was able to do this!"
These three people were rescued."
Li Jiantai, Gao Qiqian, and Liu Zeqing all escaped in front of the army during the Huolu War and wanted to rush back to Beijing to expel the Qing army. However, they lacked strength, and their plans were quickly crushed by the Qing army.
Gao Di who participated in the plan was all killed by Wu Sangui, and all his troops and horses were annexed by Wu Sangui.
Originally, as expected, the three of them had no choice but to die after their conspiracy failed.
However, at the critical moment, Chen Zilong, who was building a red team intelligence network in Beijing, came to help with his friend Zhang Jiayu. Using Zhang Jiayu's relationship, he persuaded another important minister of the Ming Dynasty to rescue and protect the three people, and managed to bring Li Jiantai to justice.
Wait for the three of them to leave the crisis-ridden Beijing.
Xu Du thought of Chen Zilong who was taking risks in the dragon's pond and tiger's den, and he still felt a little bitter and said:
"I am ashamed of myself as a scholar, who was able to do such a great thing. But he took a strange risk in the Longtan Tiger's Den, especially the rescue of Inspector Li and three other people this time, which will inevitably expose the existence of the Red Team.
I had already persuaded me to leave Beijing with Governor Li and others and come to Shandong together, but he, like Zhang Jiayu, is an extremely stubborn person. He said that the Tartars were still there and they would never give up the channels they had worked so hard to accumulate.
, and headed south."
Li Jiantai, Gao Qiqian, and Liu Zeqing were all waiting at the official office. The three of them had different personalities and temperaments. There was also a huge gap between the mood and purpose of Huolu's plan and the move south at this time. They came together purely because of the force of the times.
Li Jiantai was an incompetent and mediocre official, but he still had a certain degree of integrity and would never want Zuo Ji to work for the Qing army, so he hit it off with Zhang Jiayu and did his best to cover the Red Team's activities in Beijing.
Although Gao Qiqian was an eunuch, he was by no means a pure minister of the Ming Dynasty. Gao Qiqian only wanted his own wealth, but as a eunuch, he could only rely on others. Huang Taiji and the kings of the Qing court, Beile
Neither eunuchs were valued at all, and Gao Qiqian felt that wealth was out of reach, so he participated in the Huolu Conspiracy half-way. After the change, he had no choice but to go to the dark side with Li Jiantai.
As for Liu Zeqing, he has absolutely no morality in his heart. He is even more double-headed and shameless than Gao Qiqian. Liu Zeqing participated in the Huolu Conspiracy in order to escape from the battlefield and preserve his own troops. It's just that the Qing Dynasty was different from the Ming Dynasty.
, after Huolu was defeated, he would never let a deserter like Liu Zeqing go. In addition, his Shandong town troops had almost been lost, so he had no choice but to follow Li Jiantai and run to Shandong.
"Ma Bao...! No, Marshal Ma! I am Liu Zeqing, Liu Hezhou of Cao County!"
Ma Bao suppressed a smile in his heart, cupped his hands and said, "Liu Zhentai, I haven't seen you for many years."
When Ma Bao followed Gao Qian and met Liu Zeqing, he was just a low-level officer. But now Ma Bao is the military governor of Shandong, and his status is far above Gao Qian and Liu Zeqing. The changes in his life have changed.
At this time, Ma Bao felt extremely proud.
The Shandong heroes Gong Wencai, Ma Yingxian and others under Xu Du's command were also Liu Zeqing's old friends. However, who could have imagined that Liu Zeqing, the dignified commander-in-chief of Shandong Town, would now be reduced to the embarrassment of having no soldiers at his disposal.
Having said that, Xu Du still believes that Liu Zeqing's value is no less than that of Li Jiantai and Gao Qiqian. After all, he is an important general in the Ming army. Although the army has been annexed by Wu Sangui, his connections still exist. As long as there is a chance,
and resources, it is not difficult to rebuild an army - of course, there is no need to think too much about the quality of the army.
Ma Bao looked at Xu Du. He was still full of doubts and couldn't help but ask:
"Xu Zhaobao, even if Chen Zilong could protect General Liu, how did he send the three of them from Beijing to Shandong? I can't figure out the reason for this."
Xu Du laughed, pointed to the sea in the north and said, "These three people came from the Ming Dynasty's ship floating on the sea."
Mingren ships?
When Xu Du mentioned this, Ma Bao gradually understood, but he still couldn't believe it: "Mingren ships? Is Su Guansheng willing to surrender?"
Now on the Bohai Sea, there are three main naval forces. One is the three rebel kings led by Kong Youde, one is Huang Fei, the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Navy who is located in southern Liaoning to assist in the suppression of the Northeast, and the other is the master of
Su Guansheng of the Tianjin Navy.
Judging from the geographical distance, it seems that there is no one else but Su Guansheng who can rescue Li Jiantai, Gao Qiqi, and Liu Zeqing who were trapped near Beijing.
Li Jiantai stepped forward cautiously and said: "Su Yulin is Zhang Hanlin's hometown friend. It was Zhang Hanlin who planned the front line for this matter, and it was only then that we could escape from Hu Chen."
"Those three are all ministers of the Ming Dynasty. They fled from Yan. Are they going to join us, the Dashun Dynasty?"
Su Guansheng, like Zhang Jiayu, was both a Cantonese, and he also deeply hated the Tatars' manipulation of the Ming Dynasty in Beijing, so he was already ready to abandon his official position and return to his hometown.
Unexpectedly, before they really left, they encountered Li Jiantai and others who were plotting a rebellion to be suppressed by Wu Sangui. Chen Zilong and Zhang Jiayu risked being killed by the Tatars, not only protected Li Jiantai and others from escaping to Tianjin secretly during the military rebellion, but also
Taking advantage of the hometown relationship between Zhang Jiayu and Su Guansheng, he persuaded Su Guansheng to send Li Jiantai and three others to Shandong.
Su Guansheng was still hesitant about communicating with the Dashun Army. However, with two old friends, Chen Zilong and Zhang Jiayu, acting as guarantees, and Xu Du, the general of the Dashun Army stationed in Laizhou at this time, he was also able to communicate with Su Guansheng.
Friends who have some connections.
Therefore, Zhang Jiayu contacted Su Guansheng, Chen Zilong contacted Xu Du, and Mingchen and Shunjiang actually joined forces to finally rescue Li Jiantai from the desperate situation in Beijing.
Ma Bao thought that the three of them came to Laizhou to return home, but to his surprise, Li Jiantai blushed and said in embarrassment:
"We want to go to the south of the Yangtze River and want to borrow a passage from your army."