Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 430

"This is the royal court!"

Embracing the cavalry until Song Qingshu came back, in the middle army tent of the Qihuo Army, listening to Song Qingshu's description of this trip, especially the scene where Gao Qiqian finally met Song Qingshu, he couldn't help but sigh deeply.

"Mr. Lu is betting that his loyalty will arouse the loyalty of other generals. Unfortunately, some people have already regarded the peace negotiation as a life-saving straw. Guan Ning's army can't point out how to dare to fight. Gao Qiqian's words are obviously for the benefit of the left governor, so that the commander-in-chief is also watching from the sidelines, how can he be a wolf-like opponent of slavery with only Xuanda's army?"

In fact, in the final analysis, the fault is still the indecision of Emperor Chongzhen. On the one hand, he hoped to negotiate a peace, and on the other hand, he was lucky. This divided the courtiers into two factions. The last ideological imprisonment of the scholar-bureaucrats was Jun Wuguo, who blamed all the crimes on the princes.

At this time, Xiaobao suddenly rang the bell at the door, and stood outside to report: "Commander, Wang Pu, the commander-in-chief of Datong, please see me!"

When the canned food was leaving, Zhang Qiping was pushed out by Pidianpidpidian. After Song Qingshu saw Gao Qiqian, he didn't come out. He was in a hurry at the moment. As soon as Song Qingshu said he saw him, Wang Pu wandered in. , as soon as he entered the tent, he couldn't help jumping and shouting.

"Brother Song! It's really a big deal today. That Lu guy is crazy. He went to fight Jiannu, isn't he courting death?"

"Huh, under Gaoyang City, our army just slaughtered a large group of people in the field!" Sun Chuanting is an upright person. For his policies, he did not hesitate to quarrel head-on with the emperor in history. As a result, he was imprisoned for three years. Hearing Wang Pu's clamor, he couldn't help but sneered coldly, and Wang Pu's face turned green with embarrassment.

"Mr. Boya!"

Although he doesn't like this canned food in his heart, this guy is still useful. On his face, Song Qingshu reprimanded Wang Pu. With his considerations, Brother Wang is so anxious to find me, why do you want to do it?"

"Oh!"

Annoyed, he glared at Sun Chuanting's poker face, and Wang Pu smiled all over his face immediately, and took out an official document as if offering a treasure.

"He, Lu Xiangsheng, wanted to die on his own. Our old king didn't want to die with him. No, the official document issued by the governor Zhang Qiping said that the land of Jin was plundered by cavalry from the East and urgently needed support. It was bought for 5000 taels of silver! No! , Brother is leaving camp tonight! Come and ask Brother Song, do you want to go back to Shanxi together!"

Seeing Wang Pu's swearing appearance, Song Qingshu couldn't help but exchanged glances with Sun Chuanting, yes!To make matters worse, the Datong army tried to escape again, leaving only Lu Xiang Shengbiao battalion, his famous Tianxiong army and the Xuanfu's two generals with a team of just over [-] soldiers. More bad luck than good.

"Brother Song?"

Song Qingshu sighed heavily, and was interrupted by Wang Pu's eager voice after a while. Seeing his anxious appearance, Song Qingshu shook his head heavily: "Most of our troops are from the south, and they are not used to the severe cold in the north. I won’t go to Shanxi, just take care of yourself all the way, Brother Wang!”

"Oh."

Wang Pu was a little disappointed when he heard this. He also just got the news that the Qihuo army had beheaded a fifth-level real Jian slave under Gaoyang City. His combat effectiveness must be higher than that of his own team. If he can persuade Song Qingshu to go with him, maybe he can be confused The military merits followed, but Song Qingshu didn't want to, and he couldn't do anything about it, so he forced a smile and clasped his hands together.

"That's it, Mr. Wang won't say anything more! But Brother Song, listen to brother's persuasion, you should hurry up and get ready to withdraw! I don't think it will be long before the vicinity of this giant deer will become a place of death!"

"Song knows!"

After exchanging a few more pleasantries, Wang Pu really ran away in a hurry, and offered to leave without even taking a sip of hot tea, but seeing his chubby buttocks twisting outwards, Song Qingshu suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

"Brother Wang stay!"

"Oh? Brother Song, what else is there?"

After two quick steps, Song Qingshu chased him out of the tent himself, grabbed the guy's sleeve eagerly, and asked with some expectation: "I wonder how much rice is left in Brother Wang's army?"

"This……"

Regardless of the army, rations are the lifeline, and the emperor is not short of hungry soldiers!Wang Pu hesitated immediately, and Song Qingshu smiled heartily after reading it, and reached out and fumbled in his pocket.

"Our army is coming from afar, and those bastard county magistrates along the way don't give any supplies. Now it's a bit out of date. Brother Wang is going to Yunjin, and there will be new supplies in two or three days at the latest. If you have extra military rations, Brother Wang , how much, I'll buy it!"

With a slap, a thick stack of Jiaduobao banknotes was slapped on Wang Pufei's fat palm. Seeing that the banknotes were all ten thousand taels of silver, the guy's eyes straightened immediately.

…………

Wang Pu is still a conscientious businessman, so he only collected 5 taels, and almost 8000 dans of food were left behind. Although rice, millet, wheat, miscellaneous grains and rice are mixed, I don’t know how many people’s tank bottoms he picked up. Anyway, these things If you save it, it will be enough for the begging army to eat for half a month.

Seeing that the Datong Army was shivering in the cold wind again, staggering northward and fleeing the battlefield, Sun Chuanting also seemed worried, and urgently persuaded Song Qingshu: "Commander, this battle will definitely be defeated. This place is not a place to stay for a long time, let's get out of camp as soon as possible!"

"I want to stay a few more days!"

Looking at the northwest direction, facing the cold wind, Song Qingshu shook his head solemnly: "At any rate, this is a gift from Mr. Lu, and for the sake of the overall situation, I can't do it by helping him. At least I can save the corpse for him. Let’s repay his favor.”

Sun Chuanting who heard this was also silent, the hero cherishes the hero, for the first time he didn't stick to the overall situation, turned around, and soon heard his scolding again.

"The big battle is imminent, why are you standing still? Dig quickly! The deeper the trench is dug, the less one person will die!"

Looking back, I looked back at myself with sacks filled with soil, and five towering earth mountains were piled up to form a bastion like a monster, firmly wrapping the beggar army behind, and behind me, the branches of Zhangshui flowed brightly in the cold winter and the twelfth lunar month. Song Qingshu felt a little relieved after reading the sound of the glacier.

According to historical records, three or four days after the war, Lu Xiangsheng's subordinates and the messengers of the capital Yang Sichang had entered the battlefield freely, and even had time to search for Lu Xiangsheng's body. Staying here for a long time, now with these and the Hongyi cannon installed on it, it is estimated that Dorgon will not have the heart to bite himself, right?
But staring at the endlessly flowing branch of the Zhangshui River for a while, a classic passage from "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" suddenly appeared in Song Qingshu's mind, and he slapped his head suddenly, and he immediately walked into the engineer formation and shouted .

"Where's Niu Datou? Come out to me, I want you to immediately transfer 1000 people to the upper reaches of the Zhang River..."

…………

Time flew by, and the three days of intensive preparations by all parties seemed to be as fast as a few hours. On December 27, the Ming Army's middle camp in Pingxiang started to move as scheduled.

Dressed in shabby and shabby military uniforms, a large number of Ming army infantry pushed chariots and pulled artillery, walking heavily in the muddy snow, facing the snow, a sense of desolation was uncontrollable. , Only a dozen or so Tianxiong, Lu character flags fluttering against the north wind, only a little more heroic.

With a different horse and a steel broadsword weighing dozens of catties on his waist, Lu Xiangsheng is also a heavy warlord in the formation.

"Shuai Lu! Shuai Lu!"

Just as the army was marching all the way west, there was a sudden sound of messy horseshoes from behind, and then another young civil servant who seemed a bit out of tune with these generals hurried up, eagerly pulling Lu Xiangsheng's mane, and shouting anxiously road.

"That bastard Wang Pu fled to the north, and the Guan Ning army's camp is tightly closed. There is no sign of Gao Qiqian sending troops! Commander, we are going deep alone!"

"Oh? What about the Huai army?" It seemed not surprising at all. Lu Xiangsheng only frowned slightly, and then asked again, but Yang Tinglin was even more annoyed when he heard the praise, and snorted contemptuously: "That coward is so thick Blindly accepted the commander's horse, and now he is actually digging trenches and piling up mountains, and he doesn't appear to be dispatching troops at all, guarding a tortoise shell, this kind of person is also worthy of sitting in the position of chief soldier?"

"Oh? He didn't leave!"

This surprised Lu Xiangsheng. Seeing that Yang Tinglin was still indignant, Lu Xiangsheng said with a wry smile: "Boxiang, you are still too young, and what you know and learn is the righteousness of saints, but you don't know that there are not so many saints in this world. Dayi, all the armies eat the emperor's rations, and he is the only one who has received the emperor's grace. Even in this war, he did not receive a grain of food, and his army is not controlled by the imperial court. He only listens to him. The Huai army could not come if one person gave the order, but he still came and did not leave, this is loyalty!"

Seeing the snow all over the sky, Lu Xiangsheng sighed more deeply: "Stable the place, garrison the land to rule the army, resettle the refugees, there are many clean people in the world, but there is only one person who is a rebel who is doing practical things. Maybe one day in the future, Ming Dynasty You have to rely on him!"

Yang Tinglin didn't expect Lu Xiangsheng to have such a high opinion of Song Qingshu, but at this time he didn't bother to study it carefully, but persuaded him even more anxiously: "Commander! All the troops don't move, and our army goes deep alone. This is not a sheep entering the tiger's mouth. Shall we go to Julu again?"

"Of course I'm going, the military order is like a mountain! How can this commander live up to his words?"

A few sentences and two sentences sent Yang Tinglin, who was full of fear, to the rear army. He was not busy continuing to supervise the army's advance, but Lu Xiangsheng suddenly got off his horse, bowed three times to the north, and sighed desolately in his chest.

Maybe Your Majesty also needs Lu to die today?

The distance from Pingxiang to Jiazhuang is only more than 20 miles. Despite the heavy snow, Xuanfu's army arrived nearby in half a day, along the Haoshui Bridge, and quickly crossed the Zhang River, but did not enter Jiazhuang. Zhuang Wai rested for a while.

The heavy snow slapped people's eyes and they couldn't open their eyes. After pushing the cart for two hours, all the Ming soldiers were tired and sweated, and half of their thin clothes were wet. Stopping at this time, the cold wind was biting, which made people feel uncomfortable Scratching their hearts and livers, they huddled together and shrank behind the chariot.

But at this moment, a member of the Ming Army Baihu who had sneezed several times suddenly swung the snowflakes off his head in annoyance, jumped up angrily and wanted to open his mouth to curse, but immediately, he was stunned, and the car There was no one on the top, but the snow was falling down by itself. He built a canopy over his eyes and looked west, when suddenly a heart-piercing roar burst out of his throat.

"Jianu is here!"

(End of this chapter)