The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 142 Decoy
Zheng Chenggong's eyes focused immediately, and an imperceptible smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Immediately, he walked up to Durd with his glass of wine, and said with some hesitation, "Brother, I want to ask you something."

Durd also raised his glass and said with a smile: "My brother is still so polite? Tell me quickly."

Zheng Chenggong nodded, "Thank you, brother! That's it..."

After he finished speaking, Durde smiled even more, "Haha, so brother, you still have such an affair. Congratulations first!"

"Brother, stop making fun of me."

"This is a good thing!" Dude drank the wine in his glass and waved his hand, "Since you have a precious son, you should go there." He frowned again, "Quzhou is initially settled, and the place is not peaceful, so we should go early Some are good."

Zheng Chenggong hurriedly said: "It's just that you need to go through Xianxia Pass to go north to Quzhou..."

"Hey, it's a trivial matter!" Durd said nonchalantly, "Murima and I have been friends for decades, just say hello to him."

This Murima is exactly Bo Luo's guard at Xianxia Pass.

Zheng Chenggong didn't expect it to be so smooth. He only said that he had a baby in Quzhou's ecclesiastical chamber, and he coaxed Durde to take him to Xianxia Pass. The many excuses he had prepared earlier and the money to bribe the guards were useless. .

The two drank for a while, and seeing Zheng Chenggong's impatience, Du De went to Xianxia Pass with him that afternoon.

It is only about a hundred miles from Pucheng to Xianxia Pass, and the group of people traveled by horses, and they arrived at the pass just after noon the next day.

Xianxia Pass is the largest pass in Fujian and the only passage between Zhejiang and Fujian.It can be seen from a distance that among the almost vertical cliffs, there stands a pass made of stone barriers more than four feet high. Looking down at the mountain pass from a high position, there is a precipitous pass that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

There are three to four hundred stone steps at the pass, only five or six feet wide, and very steep. If you want to squeeze into such a narrow place to attack the pass, you will definitely pay great casualties.Therefore, there has been a comment here since ancient times that "a hundred people guard the pass, but a thousand people can't pass it."

Du De was about to order his own soldiers to come forward to greet him, but he saw the gate of Xianxia Pass opened slowly, a large number of soldiers and horses poured out, cleared the way in front of them, and drove out of the pass guarding twenty carts that were more than ten feet high.

Thousands of horses and horses came out one after another, and at the end of the team were ten chariots and horses covered with tarpaulins.During this period, some oilcloths were not tied tightly, and a corner of the contents was exposed. Zheng Chenggong's eyes were like a torch, and he recognized that it was a cannon!
When all the troops in the brigade left, some soldiers immediately stepped forward and surrounded Zheng Chenggong and his party. After learning the identity of Durd, one of them hurriedly ran into the pass to report.

Zheng Chenggong turned his head and looked down the ridge again, only to see that the Qing troops who had left the customs had divided into three groups.In the middle are dozens of carts leading hundreds of people heading south.The other two teams each had no less than 2000 people, but they separated to the left and right, not knowing where they were going.

After a while, an officer in his forties greeted him with a red face, put his arms around Durd's shoulders, and said with a big smile, "Why do you have time to come to this barren mountain?"

Du De hurriedly told him the reason for his visit, looked back at Zheng Chenggong and the others, and said, "There are only thirty people here, and they brought some brocade and gold leaf items, and they will leave Guanbei tomorrow morning."

Murima also glanced at Zheng Chenggong, and said in a low voice, "It is a heavy duty to guard the gate. Is this person reliable?"

"Fateful friendship!" Dould immediately pulled Zheng Chenggong over and said with a smile, "Brother Zheng and I are inseparable."

Then he talked about Zheng Chenggong giving his life to save him, and Murima was also frightened and nodded.

After entering the pass and walking for a while, Zheng Chenggong only felt that the people who had just left the pass were a little strange, so he pretended to ask casually: "Just now I saw thousands of troops go out of the pass, is there enough manpower for this pass?" On the way, I heard Du De mentioned that there were more than [-] defenders at Xianxiaguan, but the Qing army I saw just now was far more than this number.

"Most of the soldiers from Tong Peng and the troops from Quzhou, they only took nearly a thousand people from me." Murima showed a smug expression, "By the way, Brother Zheng came at the right time. Today There will be a big battle in the evening, and when I was young, I handed in my things and came back, just take whatever you like."

What Zheng Chenggong and Chen Wang agreed was to win the pass tonight. When he heard the words "There will be a big battle tonight", his pupils shrank suddenly, and he glanced at Murima again, but he didn't look strange. It really looks like you want to make friends with yourself.

Could it be that His Royal Highness Chen leaked his whereabouts?Zheng Chenggong was extremely anxious. Dould would send him north out of Quzhou tomorrow morning. The only chance was tonight. Should he do it? !
Tong Peng raised his head to look at the sky, it should be Chen Shi, and the surrounding scenery has gradually become difficult to see clearly.

He turned to the soldiers beside him and said, "How far has it been since we left the customs?"

"Go back to my lord, ten miles up and down."

Tong Peng nodded, and ordered: "It's almost time, send an order to be careful." He looked at a slope not far in front of him, raised his hand, and said, "Lets camp there."

"Whoo!"

Tong Peng stroked the handle of the knife, stared at the twenty carts of food and supplies in front of him, gritted his teeth and whispered to himself, "Come on, they are all full of grain, rice, and military weapons. Come if you have the seeds!"

Master Tong said all the good things in front of Lord Baylor, and patted his chest as a guarantee, so he got the job of escorting grain and grass for him.I thought that the distance from Xianxiaguan to Jian'an was only three or four hundred miles, and it was a "hinterland" that had been pacified.

Unexpectedly, there are many anti-Qing rebels here, who sometimes harass his grain transport convoy, looting if they can, and burning them if they can't.

Even so, he was still ruined a lot of food, wages and supplies, and has been severely reprimanded several times by Mr. Tong.

This time, Tong Peng spent a lot of money to buy internal agents among the thieves, and when he learned that these thieves had assembled a large group of people, he planned to attack in front of Xianxia Pass.

He immediately asked his old friend stationed in Quzhou for 1000 soldiers, and borrowed less than [-] troops from Xianxiaguan, and gathered nearly [-] troops.Then use these twenty carts of supplies as bait, and set up a plan to lure the enemy into encirclement, and these disorderly troops will surely be wiped out.

When he looked behind him, the soldiers had removed the tarpaulins from the ten cannons and were taking ammunition.It was already dark at this time, so it was not unexpected to be discovered.

He said cruelly in his heart, not a single prisoner will be kept later, and they will all be slaughtered to vent my hatred!
Lin Yaotian was lying on the back of a mound, staring at the north side, patiently waiting for the large number of Jianlu baggage trucks that the informant said.

An hour ago, the subordinates who were watching before the pass had just received the signal from the internal response, and had confirmed that the car was full of real things, and there were even half a car of firecrackers.

Suddenly a tall figure approached, his voice couldn't hide his excitement, "Kuang Ming, here we come. There are only 800 people, [-] truckloads!"

"Okay!" Lin Yaotian smiled and patted the thin young man beside him, "A Lin, you have done a good job this time!"

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