Kong Sizhen, Sun Yanling and others ran wildly all the way, and the Ming army was in hot pursuit. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Ma Xiong panicked, but ran to the river with the Qing army.

When the warships of the Ming army on the river saw a large group of Qing troops coming to the river, they immediately leaned up, and rows of shells fell in the crowd of Qing troops, beating the Qing army's chickens and dogs, and screaming miserably.

"Kill the Tartars!" The Ming army behind caught up.

The Qing army, which had already collapsed, was killed, and those who surrendered. Ma Xiong dismounted, and fled into a forest with more than a hundred remnants of the defeated general.

Rows of arrows burrowed into the woods, and the Qing soldiers fell one after another.

Ma Xiong took off his armor, stripped off the clothes of a Qing army corpse, put them on himself indiscriminately, and ran all the way with the remnants of the soldiers again. At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves sounded in front, cutting off the last hope of this group of Qing troops.

It was the dragoons who arrived, and the dragoons on Mongolian horses took a shortcut to intercept the Qing army. Seeing the Qing army coming out of the woods, the dragoons dismounted, picked up their muskets and pulled the trigger.

"Bang bang bang" A row of gunfire roared, and the Qing soldiers who ran in front fell to the ground one after another.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the Qing soldiers behind retreated back into the woods.

The Ming infantry burrowed into the woods and began to search for the remnants of the Qing soldiers inside. The Qing soldiers, who had long lost their fighting spirit, saw the Ming army coming, and knelt on the ground one after another to surrender. But there were still more than a dozen Qing soldiers who rushed out of the woods, jumped into the rice fields with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and ran to a small village in front of them.

"Stop! Don't run! "The Ming army caught up later.

"Whoosh" several feathered arrows were shot, and the Qing soldiers running in front of them were hit by arrows one after another and fell into the rice field.

The Ming army chased after them, and the Qing soldiers, who were not dead, no longer wanted to run, so they knelt directly in the rice fields and surrendered to the Ming army.

The searching Ming army passed along the Tiankan path, only to see a corpse in the east and west of the rice field, and many corpses of the Qing army were poured in various postures. One of the corpses was lying face down in the middle of the rice field, wearing a tattered coat, covered in blood and mud, with a feather arrow stuck in its back, and blood on its body continued to flow into the rice field, staining the surrounding area red. The corpse had gray hair and appeared to be a veteran.

Because the corpse was in the middle of the rice field, the road was very difficult to walk, and there were no soldiers who went to cut the corpse's head.

I don't know how long it took, but the searching Ming army escorted the captives away.

When it got dark, the corpse in the middle of the rice field moved slightly, and after a while, when it was sure that there was no movement on the side, the "corpse" sat up, pulled out the feather arrow he had inserted in his back, and ran out of the rice field with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and took off his coat as he ran, and then burrowed into the grove. This guy who pretended to be dead was Ma Xiong, and he still had palpitations when he remembered what happened just now. If the Ming army came to cut off his head, he would have no choice but to surrender. But fortunately, no one went to the middle of the rice field, and was confused by Ma Xiong.

Kong Sizhen and Sun Yanling were still on the run, and along the way, the number of Qing troops became smaller and smaller, and some "smart" ones drilled into the woods on both sides, and those who ran slowly fell behind, and were caught up by the Ming cavalry, and were either killed or surrendered.

Seeing that Kong Sizhen was fleeing for his life, but he was still holding on to the package in his hand, Sun Yanling couldn't help but be angry: "Gege, your life is almost gone, are you still holding on to the silver?" Life is gone, what's the use of asking for silver! ”

Kong Sizhen glared at Sun Yanling: "Lose the package, we are all dead!" ”

"Kill the Tartars!" At this time, the shouts of the Ming cavalry came from behind again.

"Gege, none of us can run away from it! Before he got off his horse, he fled in disguise. Sun Yanling proposed.

Kong Sizhen thought about it for a while, and felt that the target of riding a horse was indeed too big, so she dismounted and disguised, so that there was still a chance to escape. So the couple jumped off their horses, changed into the clothes of the soldiers, mixed in the chaos of the army, and fled all the way to the west. But in the process of escaping on foot, Kong Sizhen still clung to the package in his hand.

"It's really a matter of asking for money!" Sun Yanling muttered.

"Let's go from that side!" Kong Sizhen suddenly grabbed Sun Yanling and whispered in her ear.

Sun Yanling understood that the target of following everyone was too big, and he might be caught up by the Ming cavalry, so the couple got into a hill, climbed a few steps up the hillside, and the two climbed a big tree and hid on it. After a while, the Ming army behind chased after them, and many of the Qing soldiers in front failed to run away, and were caught up by the Ming army, and they knelt down and surrendered.

It was already dark, and Kong Sizhen and Sun Yanling hid in a tree, evading the search of the Ming army.

Early the next morning, Kong Sizhen and Sun Yanling came down from the tree.

Kong Sizhen opened the package she was carrying and took out the clothes she wore when she disguised herself as a spy on intelligence. She first changed out of her military uniform, put on the clothes taken out of the package, and became a village girl, and handed another set of clothes to Sun Yanling: "Change it!" Yesterday you asked the slave to lose the package, and if you lose the package, we will die today! ”

The two Qiao Zhuang dressed up as ordinary people and entered a small village.

Because of the chaos, the village has been emptied, the common people have been arrested, and those who have fled have fled, and only some old men and women who do not have to worry about being arrested are still left in the village.

"Bang bang bang" Kong Sizhen observed and knocked on the door of a house.

"Who?" An old voice came from inside the room.

"Auntie, we are husband and wife from Guangxi to do business, who knows that in the event of a military disaster, we have no food on our bodies, can Auntie give us a little food?" Kong Sizhen asked.

The old lady inside opened the door and saw a young couple standing in front of her, the man was tall and handsome, and the woman was very handsome, but both of them were embarrassed, the clothes on their bodies were torn, and there were blood stains, so she said distressedly: "Child, the old woman has nothing to eat here, you can come and drink saliva first!" ”

Kong Sizhen and Sun Yanling walked into the house, only to see that it was a very dilapidated thatched house, the roof was made of thatch, and the walls on all sides were made of adobe, which was the kind of adobe bricks that had been dried in the soil and had not been fired. The house was in tatters, with a few bricks on top of a broken wooden plank that was a bed, and straw piled on top of it. The room was dimly lit and smelled of wood and straw mold.

The old woman first poured a bowl of water for the two of them, and then turned around, as if she had made a lot of determination, lifted the straw pile where she was sleeping, took out a small packet of dried sweet potatoes from it and handed it over: "Child, take it." ”

In normal times, Kong Sizhen and Sun Yanling would not even look at this kind of food, but now they are hungry and have nothing to eat. Sun Yanling took the dried sweet potato, grabbed it and stuffed it into his mouth.

Kong Sizhen opened the package, took out a golden hairpin, and handed it to the old woman: "Thank you Auntie for giving us food, this is the meal money, please accept it." ”

The old woman shook her head: "The soldiers are in chaos, and the people are suffering!" The old woman's three sons have all been arrested and sent to serve as soldiers, and they haven't come back for five years, so I'm afraid they have died on the battlefield! The youngest son went out two years ago and did not come back, and it is said that he was captured by the pirates. My wife, two daughters-in-law and three grandsons were arrested by a prince of the government a few days ago, saying that they wanted to fight Xinhui! As a result, they all died in Xinhui City! The old woman has no relatives, what's the use of asking for money? ”

Saying that, the old woman was in tears.

Kong Sizhen said angrily: "It's all Haikou!" If they hadn't been disobedient to the king, the world would have been peaceful a long time ago! ”

"Child, you can't say that, how many innocent people did King Pingnan of Guangzhou City kill back then? If it weren't for King Pingnan's heavy killing, and the court's shaving hair and easy to wear, would Haikou still be able to make trouble? The old woman shook her head and said.

Kong Sizhen felt that the imperial court had done nothing wrong, suppressing the Diao people and quelling the rebellion should have been, who let Li Chengdong already return to the king's division and rebel again? It's just that now she doesn't want to say anything more. At this moment, Kong Sizhen suddenly heard a commotion outside.

"Go in and search! Don't let go of a tartar! The voice of a Ming army officer came from outside.

Kong Sizhen was very familiar with that voice, it was the voice of Shang Zhixiao's guard captain Shang Zhu! If Shang Zhu finds out, he will definitely be arrested! Thinking of this, Kong Sizhen's heart shrank suddenly. She hurriedly begged the old woman: "Auntie, it's King Pingnan's soldiers who are coming outside!" They kill without blinking, and if the little woman falls into their hands, it will be over! Please also ask the aunt to save our poor couple. ”

The old woman said, "Come with the old woman!" ”

Kong Sizhen and Sun Yanling followed the old woman to the back of the village and hid in the hollow of a dead tree. It was also because after the Pingnan Wangfu Army surrendered to the Ming Army, there were military regulations that stipulated that the people should not be harmed, and they had to search other places, so they did not search carefully, and Kong Sizhen and Sun Yanling escaped the catastrophe.

Besides, the Leerjin side was not so lucky, the goal of the cavalry was big, and they refused to give up their horses. In addition, when they came to Guangdong, they came by boat, and how to go back, they only knew how to walk along the river. Now the river is controlled by the warships of the Ming army, and the riverside can't go, and they don't even know the road, so they can only run around like a blind man in the dark.

The elite cavalry, dragoons, flying cavalry artillery and mountain soldiers of the Ming army followed closely behind the Eight Banners, especially the mountain soldiers, who marched quickly on two legs, and the daily marching speed was not under the cavalry!

Leerjin was bitten by the Ming army and could not get out at all.

Meng Baqi's mangu tactics were useless, and there were many rifled gunners among the dragoons, whose range far exceeded that of bows and arrows, and those who tried to turn around and shoot arrows were beaten into a hornet's nest by rifled guns.

What's more, there are also flying cavalry artillery that moves with the cavalry, which provokes the Ming army, and directly sets up artillery in the back, chasing the Qing army's buttocks.

The mountain soldiers of the Ming army are also very powerful, they repeatedly copied the path to appear in front of the Eight Banners, compared with the mountain soldiers running on two legs and the Eight Banners on horseback, the mountain soldiers are naturally exhausted, but they will not be stupid to intercept the Eight Banners directly, but dig traps on the official road, arrange organs, scatter horse nails in the grass, dig horse traps on the ground, and create trouble for the Qing army again and again.

"This ghost weather in the south, it's hot so early! There is also the terrain in the south, which is really difficult to walk! "The cotton armor on Le Erjin's body has long been soaked, and when he takes off the cotton armor, he can wring out the water when he twists it.

The road is not easy to walk, there is no way to walk along the river, so you can only take the official road. However, the official road in the south is not as straight as in the north, and the terrain in the south is obviously much more complicated. In some places, it is a hill again, and the official road passes through the hills, and as a result, the mountain soldiers of the Ming army are ambushed on the hills, and the rifled guns make the Qing soldiers tremble.

Running for several days in a row, even if it is one person and three horses, the horsepower is almost consumed.

The chasing Ming army's elite cavalry and dragoons were not much better, although the well-ridden Don hippopotamus had good endurance, but there was no one with two horses, and after a few days of chasing, the horsepower was also exhausted; The dragoons rode Mongolian horses, also one man and two horses, but after chasing for so many days, the horsepower of the Qing army was almost exhausted, and the horsepower of the Ming dragoons was basically exhausted.

This is when the advantages of the mountain soldiers come into play: they have good endurance and march on two legs. At night, the mountain soldiers chased after them by boat, and they could sleep on the boat without delaying the journey.

Five days later, there were only eleven white-armored soldiers, six Goshha and seventeen ordinary Eight Banner soldiers left by Leerjin's side, and the rest of the Qing soldiers were either killed or surrendered. And the Eight Banners did not dare to dismount and flee, they were not southerners, once they broke away from the team, the terrain, climate, water and soil, and the difference in appearance would kill them. Losing their horses, the lone Eight Banners were searched out by the infantry of the kings of Pingnan and Jingnan, and were either killed or captured.

The horsepower of the Eight Banners had been completely exhausted, and many horses had run to death, but Leerjin still didn't dare to stop.

At this moment, suddenly a cannon rang out in front, and a team of about fifty Ming cavalry came out, only to hear a white-clothed general in front of him shouting: "Shun Cheng Wang Leer Jin will die quickly!" ”

"Damn! How did Minggou's cavalry get ahead of us? "Le Erjin was completely desperate.

It was the king's [auxiliary] ministers and fifty horsemen who came! They came by boat, and the other Ming cavalry rode after them, but the fifty lance cavalry rushed to the front of the Qing army by boat. After resting on the ship for a few days, all the men and horses were full of strength. When the king's ministers got out of the boat, they rode straight to the official road and stopped in front of Leerjin.

Knowing that it was death, Le Erjin was not afraid, he pulled out his thick-backed broadsword and pointed forward: "There are only Manchurian warriors who died in battle, and there are no Manchurian bannermen who surrendered!" Sons, kill the barbarians with me! ”

More than 30 cavalrymen of the Eight Banners waved their whips, drove the horses that were already foaming at the mouth and were about to fall, and charged the most elite lance cavalry of the Ming army without hesitation.

"Are you looking for the dead?" Wang [Fu] Chen sneered, "Long lance forward, charge!" ”

Fifty cavalry lined up in a dense formation, the eight-foot-long horse lance was flattened, pointing forward, and the war horse slowly accelerated, rushing towards the oncoming Qing cavalry. (To be continued.) )