Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 506 Shen Yang's Recovery
At this moment, the Ming army was frantically chasing and killing Jiannu in the streets and alleys of Shengjing City.

After chasing and chasing, Xu Wuniu ran away with the little friends around him, leaving only one person.

Even so, Xu Wuniu didn't have the slightest fear in his heart. The Nine Frontier Ming Army back then was full of fear of Jiannu, almost turning pale when they heard about Jiannu, but the new army like Xu Wuniu was not afraid.

Newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, and the soldiers of the new army have not yet been hammered by Jiannu.

Turning a corner, Xu Wuniu saw two Jian slaves turning around and rushing towards him.

Ganqing, these two Jiannu were chased into a dead end by Xu Wuniu, with nowhere to escape.

Seeing this, Xu Wuniu didn't panic in the slightest. First, he calmly raised his hand and shot, killing the Jiannu vest who rushed in front, and then put on his horse stance and took a stabbing stance.

The Jiannu at the back was at most fifteen or sixteen years old, and he was quite strong, but he was obviously not as good at fighting as his father and grandfather, and his courage was also slightly inferior. Facing a single Ming army, he actually showed first-class timidity. The left hand clenched the big bow, and the right hand went to the quiver on the back of the shoulder to feel for the arrow.

However, he found nothing, and the thirteen heavy arrows he brought had long been used up.

Seeing that the Ming army was quickly loading ammunition, Jiannu's mentality collapsed. He smashed the big bow in his hand to the ground, then pulled out the saber from his waist, and rushed towards Xu Wuniu screaming.

Xu Wuniu stopped loading resolutely, first with a light pick with the bayonet, he lifted Jiannu's saber that was slashing down obliquely, and then stabbed with a spear, and the sharp bayonet pierced into Jiannu's heart in one stroke.

Jiannu was stabbed to death with a bayonet, and Xu Wuniu then finished loading the ammunition.

After reloading, Xu Wuniu bent down to pick up the steel knife left by Jiannu, and cut off the heads of two Jiannu, one old and one young, and tied them to his waist.

Because Jiannu has a rat tail on the back of his head, it is easy to tie it around his waist.

It was also when the heads were tied that Xu Wuniu realized that he had several Jiannu heads tied around his waist.

Looking at these heads with fierce eyebrows, Xu Wuniu showed a smile on his face, because these are not human heads, but white money, and one head is worth fifty!
After walking out of the alley, Xu Wuniu returned to the street.

The pursuit on the street is still going on, and the more than 5000 Jiannu routs can't be killed so quickly.

Soon, Xu Wuniu and his little partner caught another group of Jiannu and successfully drove them into an alley. However, at this moment, a group of musketeers suddenly appeared in the alley.

"Bah bah bah!" After firing a volley, the dozen or so slaves all lay down.

"Who is it?" Xu Wuniu and his friends shouted sharply with their guns in hand.

These guys are obviously not the Ming army, because the Ming army has uniform cotton armor.

And these guys use birdcups, which are shorter than flintlocks and have no bayonets.

"Put down the gun!" Xu Wuniu locked on one of the musketeers with a flintlock gun, and shouted sharply, "Put down the gun, or we will shoot, put down, put down the gun!"

"Put down the gun!" More than a dozen Ming soldiers roared in unison.

A wave of murderous intent rushed towards the North Korean army on the opposite side.

That's right, the one opposite is a group of North Korean soldiers, and the one in front is Park Dong-hee.

Looking at the ferocious Ming army, Pu Dongxi and the dozen or so Korean soldiers behind him lost their minds for a moment, especially the heads of slaves tied around the waist of the Ming army made the North Korean army tremble with fear.

Park Dong-hee quickly raised the bird gun and said, "Don't get me wrong, we are all Koreans."

"North Korean?" Xu Wuniu didn't trust Park Dongxi, and said coldly, "Take off the hat and helmet."

Pu Dongxi and the dozen or so North Korean soldiers behind him hurriedly took off their hats and helmets, revealing a head of black hair and a bun, completely different from Jiannu's money rat tail.

"It's really Korean."

Xu Wuniu breathed a sigh of relief.

Immediately, Xu Wuniu took his friends back to the street and continued to search for Jiannu.

At this time, the shouts of killing and the clashing of weapons in Shengjing City gradually became rarer, indicating that the Jiannu in the city had almost been beheaded, so Xu Wuniu sighed.

It seems that there are so many gains.

Three heads, 150 yuan.

Marrying a daughter-in-law should be more than enough.

You can also buy a few acres of land and then buy a cow.

But the eldest brother, the second brother and the third brother are also almost grown up, and they are about to marry a wife.

Thinking of this, Xu Wuniu sighed. It seems that he needs to cut off a few more Jiannu heads. Whether their family can live a good life depends on the reward for Jiannu heads.

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Outside Shengjing City.

Zhu Cijiong urged the horse to walk slowly to Xu Yingwei's side.

"Xu Gejian, why don't you kill a few Jiannu heads? One is worth 50 yuan."

"It's just a bounty of 50 yuan, and the minister's ambition is not here." Xu Yingwei waved his hand.

"What Xu Gejian likes is not money, it must be beautiful women." Zhu Cijiong said with a smile, "Then you should go to the city. There may be beautiful slave girls in the city, and you just snatch them back and become concubines."

"Beauty is not what I want." Xu Yingwei said calmly, "My ambition is to open up the border for the Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Cijiong's eyes lit up, and he said: "Xu Gejian, my father once said that there are several continents in the south and east of the ocean that are no less than the size of Ming Dynasty, why don't you and I go together to expand the territory?"

"Okay." Xu Yingwei nodded happily, and then said, "But it can't be done now."

"It's definitely not possible now, the Jiannu haven't been wiped out yet." Zhu Cijiong laughed and asked again, "Xu Gejian, Shengjing City has been restored, what should we do next?"

"The next step is to defend the city." Xu Yingwei said seriously.

"Prepare as much food and weapons as possible to deal with Jiannu's crazy counterattack."

Zhu Cijiong's expression also became serious: "Shengjing is the old capital of Jiannu, and it is also close to Horqin Mongolia, so Jiannu will probably launch a crazy counterattack. Just because you brought an infantry brigade and an artillery battalion to Shengjing, I am afraid If you can’t keep it, do you want to give you another two thousand soldiers? It should be enough to take only one thousand soldiers to Seoul.”

After recovering Shengjing, Xu Yingwei's 1 horses were divided into two parts.

Some stayed in Gaizhou. Gaizhou was the springboard and base camp of the Ming army in Liaodong, and they must not give up.

Therefore, Xu Yingwei can only transfer [-] new troops to guard Shengjing at most, which is indeed a bit weak.

But Xu Yingwei rejected Zhu Cijiong's kindness, waved his hand and said, "I appreciate King Ding's kindness. As for the three thousand new troops, let's follow you to Seoul."

"Shengjing doesn't need to worry."

"I'm not worried at all about Jiannu sending troops to retaliate."

"What I'm worried about is that Jiannu will stand still like last time."

Speaking of this meal, he said: "If this is the case, it will be a waste of work."

"Not this time." Zhu Cijiong shook his head and said, "If you lose Shengjing and don't say anything, Dorgon will have no prestige among the nobles of the Eight Banners. What else can he use to convince the public?"

"If Jiannu comes, he will be killed and his corpses will be scattered all over the field." Xu Yingwei said solemnly.

Zhu Cijiong thought for a moment and said: "How about leaving the North Korean army behind?"

"North Korean army?" Xu Yingwei was also a little moved. Although the combat effectiveness of the Korean army was not very good, it would definitely be capable of helping the Ming army carry the defense equipment during the battle of the city.

He really ignored the existence of this army before.

Zhu Cijiong said: "Xu remonstrates, that's it."

Xu Yingwei couldn't help admonishing him: "Prince Ding, even if you have already made a decision, you should at least tell Li on the surface that Li is the heir apparent of the Joseon Kingdom after all."

"Oh right, right, great wisdom from small things, and benevolence from small things."

Zhu Cijiong said with a smile: "Although Daming is the suzerain state, it should not belittle the vassal state."

"Ding Wang is wise." Seeing that Zhu Cijiong accepted his advice, Xu Yingwei felt very relieved. At least the prince and Ding Wang both have a big heart, which can at least guarantee the luck of Ming Dynasty for 50 years.

Immediately, Zhu Cijiong sent someone into Shengjing City to find Li.

"Little minister Li kowtowed to His Royal Highness Ding Wang, see Xu Jijian."

Li Yili paid homage to Zhu Cijiong first, and then bowed to Xu Yingwei.

"Pingshen." Zhu Cijiong said with a solemn hand, "Master Linping, thanks to your help this time, otherwise Shenyang would not have been taken back so easily."

"Ashamed." Li quickly said, "We didn't actually do anything."

Li's words are of course modest, and the North Korean army still played a role.

Xu Yingwei met Zhu Cijiong's eyes and said, "There is one thing that I have to tell Lord Linping, King Ding and the three thousand soldiers accompanying him may not be able to escort you back to Seoul."

"Ah?" Li Wenyan's face suddenly collapsed.

Without the support of Zhu Cijiong and the Three Thousand Ming Army, he would have no confidence at all.

After all, there are a considerable number of civil servants and generals in North Korea who are running dogs of the Qing Dynasty.

In addition, there are more civil servants and military generals who hope to support Li Zhen's youngest son.

Because the Lord is young, the power will fall into the hands of the courtiers, which is a situation that the ministers dream of.

Therefore, without the support of the Ming army, even if Li returned to Seoul, it would be very difficult for him to become the heir apparent.

At that moment, Li turned his eyes to Zhu Cijiong, and said in an almost pleading tone: "Ding Wang, didn't we have agreed before that after the Ming Dynasty soldiers took back Shengjing City, we would send troops to escort the ministers back to the country to make things right. Relying on it, I have no ability to set things right."

Zhu Cijiong said nonsense: "Isn't there something wrong? The 5000 new troops who were originally going to be transferred to Gaizhou have been transferred to Dagukou by the emperor. In this way, the [-] new troops who came to Gaizhou will not be able to come. Shengjing, so only the more than [-] new troops brought by Xu Weijian are left in Shengjing. This force is too thin, so the lonely [-] new troops can only stay in Shengjing temporarily. Give advice and keep Shengjing."

"Ah? When will we have to wait?" Li couldn't hide his disappointment.

"It's hard to tell about this orphan." Zhu Cijiong said helplessly, "Maybe three months, maybe half a year, who knows."

"Half a year?" Li's face collapsed. If he really waited for half a year, the day lily would have been cold, and his second brother Li Hao had already returned to Seoul to snatch the throne.

(End of this chapter)