The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 616
Unexpectedly, as soon as Mr. Pang's words fell, Dong Xueyi picked up his bow and set up an arrow, and shot down the driver who was driving the holy driver without hesitation.

Pang Tianshou was shocked, pushed the driver's corpse, and drove the cart by himself, but was shot by Dong Xueyi's right arm again immediately, and fell out of the cart in front of his eyes.

After Dong Xueyi's delay, Aruna's people have already caught up.She made people quickly kill all the accompanying guards, and then stepped forward to open the door of the carriage, unexpectedly a short arrow flew towards her chest from the carriage.She hurriedly dodged sideways, but it was still a bit late, her left arm went numb, and she lost consciousness immediately.

Regardless of the pain, Aruna stepped on the stirrup hard, jumped into the car, first raised her hand to stab Bai Daqi who was holding a hand crossbow, and then dragged the Queen Mother out of the car.

Immediately, someone stepped forward and dragged Zeng Hui to the horse, while the other picked up Zhu Linyuan's swaddle and tied it to his chest.

Then Aruna took out a bamboo whistle and blew three times in a row, and ran northward first.Her men also stopped fighting when they heard the sound, and retreated following her.

In the south of Nanjing City, Jin Wu led his troops to break out of the city carefully, but found that there was no "Duoduo army", but there were more than 400 mobs, but there were more than 300 banners.

He wiped out these "Qing troops" three times, five times, two times, and saw four or five riders galloping desperately, shouting continuously along the way: "The holy car was attacked!"

It turned out that the imperial soldiers who were calling for help were blocked outside the east gate, so they had no choice but to split up and run around Nanjing City, hoping to enter the city and call the police.

When Jin Wu found out the reason, he was also shocked, and immediately led his troops to rescue him in the direction of Zijin Mountain.It's just that no matter how fast the Polu camp marched, it was tens of miles away from the place where the emperor was attacked. At this time, Jianlu had robbed Zhu Linyuan and the queen mother and went to the Yangtze River.

Aruna spared no effort to run for eight or nine miles, and suddenly saw a group of people dressed as ordinary people holding weapons across the front.She turned her head and told her subordinates, "It's the one Meng Zhengfa responded to, just pass it from their formation."

Unexpectedly, after another hundred steps, there was a large pile of branches and ropes in front of her, which seemed to be "rejecting the horse".She was furious in her heart, the pursuers hadn't arrived yet, what path did these idiots block? !
She stopped the horse and shouted loudly: "Guan Zhang, I've got it, quickly move the horse away!"

As soon as she finished speaking, she heard someone shouting in the distance: "General, I am here! There are no friends but enemies ahead!"

Aruna's heart sank, and when she looked back, the Ming army was already chasing after her, and it might be too late to make a detour.

She had no choice but to grit her teeth and order her men to rush forward to intercept.Immediately, more than 200 Jian captives, led by thirty or forty dead soldiers, rushed towards the "Ming Army" in front of them with red eyes.

Gukang Village Yong led less than 200 strong people in the village, holding crude spears and watching Jianlu running up tremblingly. There were still [-] steps away before someone turned around and ran away.

At this moment, a group of cavalry in dark green uniforms rushed out from the bushes on Jianlu's right wing, firing firecrackers at once, and then slashing with steel swords, instantly breaking up the formation of Aruna's men.

These people obviously knew that it is not advisable to fight recklessly, and they succeeded in one blow, and before Jianlu counterattacked, they circled to the east, turned around and formed a formation, watching the enemy's movement from a distance.

Aruna didn't know that the people in front of her were just the "rabble" who guarded against bandits in the village, and she was afraid that the flanks would be attacked again during the fight, and the ground would sink like water.

Faintly heard the Ming army shouting to kill behind him—just kidding, the emperor is lost, and these people are desperately chasing after him.

When she was at her wit's end, the Empress Dowager Zeng who was standing next to her woke up leisurely.Zeng Hui reacted slightly, and immediately struggled and shouted loudly: "Don't hurt my son! I promise you any conditions! Please return my son to me..."

Aruna was about to let her subordinates knock her unconscious, when she heard the baby crying loudly behind her, she couldn't help being moved.

She waved to the soldier carrying the baby, told him to hand over the swaddle to her, and then drove the horse to the Empress Dowager Zeng, pretending to be panicked and said: "Mother, Empress Dowager, I, I know I was wrong, I just want to survive." , I also hope that the queen mother will let me wait for a way out."

"Let it go, let it go!" Zeng Hui immediately nodded desperately, "As long as you return Yuan'er to me, I will issue a decree to forgive you all of your innocence... And then, I will give you ten thousand taels of gold! Hurry up, give it back to me..."

Aruna winked at her subordinates, less than 200 people who were still alive gathered around, and only one person secretly hid in the crowd farthest from the Queen Mother.

Aruna handed out the baby, and the moment Zeng Hui's hand touched the baby, she whispered, "Can the queen mother get out of the way first?"

"Get out of the way. Okay." Zeng Hui turned her head and shouted to the people in Gukang Village, "I am the empress dowager, so I ask you to retreat immediately!"

"And they." Aruna gestured to Gao Wenrong again.

"You guys, stay away quickly!"

Aruna asked the Empress Dowager Zeng to leave a horse, put the baby in her hand, and said: "Please also ask the Empress Dowager to ride the horse to the southeast, don't look back, otherwise I will have to fight with you."

"Okay, okay, never look back!" The Empress Dowager Zeng glanced at the baby in her arms, immediately nodded desperately, then shook the reins, and ran to the southeast at the fastest speed, only thinking about getting away from these villains as soon as possible.

Aruna ordered a dozen dead soldiers, pointed at the Queen Mother, "Chase after her, keep shooting arrows, just don't hurt her."

"Whoo!"

Gao Wenrong saw Jianlu fleeing from Gukang Village and Xiangyong, and was about to go after him, but he heard the Queen Mother shouting loudly, "My lord is with me! Help!"

He turned his head and saw more than a dozen Jian captives chasing after the queen mother and shooting arrows, while the latter was leaning tightly on the horse, protecting the baby in her arms.

He didn't dare to hesitate any longer, and hurriedly led his team forward to meet him.These thieves were not difficult to deal with, they were all shot down by the spring wheel gun in one encounter.

The high platoon ordered people to keep the queen mother and the emperor in the middle, and join the imperial battalion coming from the south.

Empress Dowager Zeng and her son came out of desperation, they just hugged the baby tightly and kept coaxing: "Yuan'er is not afraid, not afraid, mother will not let them hurt you..."

And the little emperor seemed to be frightened, so he couldn't stop crying at the top of his voice, unable to stop at all.

After a while, the imperial battalion of the Ming army finally arrived, and all the generals knelt down in front of the Empress Dowager Zeng, and said repeatedly, "It's not good for the escort, it's a capital punishment!"

Gao Wenrong saw that the Empress Dowager Zeng was just sitting on the horse and looked at the emperor frowning in a daze, so he leaned forward and said in a low voice: "The Empress Dowager, I don't know if there are bandits here. stand up……"

Before he finished speaking, Zeng Hui suddenly trembled all over, then stared at the baby in his arms like crazy, shook his head and screamed: "No! No! This is not my source! This is fake!"

Everyone was taken aback.At this time, Jin Wu led [-] soldiers from the broken captive battalion to arrive. Just as he was about to go forward to greet him, he saw Empress Dowager Zeng desperately pointing to the north, and shouted: "Chasing! Chase me! That woman lied to me. I was taken away by her!"

(End of this chapter)