Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 328 Target Cangzhou
The coffin was opened.

It was a few dead bodies with black faces and no age.

The defenders wanted to stab him with a knife.

Bian Er immediately went up to block it: "Master Bing, you can't do it, you can't do it. The dead are the big ones, so don't disturb them."

Some quarrels aroused the idea of ​​an officer, so he had to give up looking at some pretty girls and walked over with a sullen face.

"It's really dead!"

The officer put his hand under the nostrils of the corpse.

Bian Er hurriedly said: "It's really dead. It's been three days, and I can't recover. It's going to be late."

The officer hurriedly asked, "How did you die?"

Bian Er said: "He probably died of starvation. He broke into the siege of Wang Yijun and there was nothing to eat. As soon as he was hungry, he fell ill and died."

The officer looked suspiciously at the dead body, died of illness?
At this time Xie Fei came up and said: "The doctor said that he was infected with the plague, but my elder brother didn't believe it, he insisted that he died of starvation."

Plague!

The officer couldn't help taking a step back, away from the coffin, no wonder his face was so ugly.

Xie Fei said again: "The doctor said that the burial should be done quickly. It would be bad if it spreads to other people."

Yu Jiye said: "That's right. Ahem!"

He coughed twice while speaking.

The officer glanced at Yu Jiye, and couldn't help but frowned. He saw that Yu Jiye's face was also a little blue, and when he looked at other people, he found that most of them were like this, and he felt more and more strange.

He was a little further away from these people, and even those women who looked quite beautiful, he felt that something was wrong with their faces.

Busily waved his hands: "Unlucky! Let them out!"

The hearse started again, and the officer couldn't wait to grab the teapots from the table next to him, dumped them all in his hands, and scrubbed them vigorously, sighing bad luck in his heart.

The princess couldn't stand the sticky paint on her face. This morning, Bian Er put on makeup for everyone, and even she didn't let her go. She used some kind of paint, diluted it with water, and applied a light layer on everyone's face. , It was very uncomfortable after drying, and the sweat from the journey made my face crawl like ants.

"Don't rub!"

When Bian Er saw the princess taking out the handkerchief, he stopped immediately.

Yu Jiye smiled and comforted him: "Princess, forgive me, this rough can't speak."

Bian Er didn't refute. He found himself scolding a princess face to face, and he was still a little timid in his heart. The concept of hierarchy is a mentality that ordinary people can't get around.

The hearse left the south gate and turned to the east.

They are going to Tongzhou.

"I wonder if Lord Yang will wait for us in Tongzhou?"

Xie Fei looked at Dongfang and hesitated.

Yu Jiye sighed: "I don't know, if there are rogues in Tongzhou, my lord may not be there."

After speaking, Yu Jiye added: "As long as you go south along the canal, you can always meet adults."

Under the city of Tongzhou.

Yang Chao sighed secretly: "I'm late!"

After passing Linqing from Shandong, I saw refugees along the way. The closer I was to Beijing, the worse the news I got.

But it is also very inaccurate. Some say that Li Zicheng has entered the capital, some say that he is attacking the city, some say that the emperor has escaped, and some say that the emperor is dead.

When he arrived in Tongzhou, Yang Chao had already confirmed that Li Zicheng had indeed occupied Beijing. The news was obtained from a group of peasant troops who had been captured by him.

"My lord, cavalry!"

There were hundreds of cavalry in front. Li Zicheng claimed that there were 70 cavalry, but in fact there were not so many. His core force was about 10, but tens of thousands of cavalry were indispensable, especially the three walls. The battle formation was no better than captive cavalry, and Yang Chao was unwilling to fight these people in the field.

"Forget it, retreat and wait in Xianghe!"

Under the city of Tongzhou, four or five battles have been fought, large and small, but there are more and more peasant armies. Yang Chao is like a torch here, attracting moths to rush over.

Withdrawing troops to the south might still be able to meet up with their own reinforcements.

"I hope Yu Jiye's small army can succeed. As long as a prince can be brought out, there will be no chaos in the south of the Yangtze River!"

Yang Chao thought to himself, Yang Chao knew that Chongzhen was probably dead, and with his character, he might only commit suicide, and he even killed his concubine, but he was very tolerant towards his son, and arranged for his son to hide, but it was a pity that he was killed by the emperor. After being betrayed by his relatives, all the princes finally fell into Li Zicheng's hands. Later, Li Zicheng retreated in defeat, and they took refuge in the Qing Dynasty, but were killed.

Yang Chao hopes that Yu Jiye and the others can bring out at least one prince. As long as a certain prince arrives in the south of the Yangtze River, it will be the situation in the Southern Song Dynasty, and there is still a chance to embrace the fire of Ming civilization. As long as the economy in the south of the Yangtze River is not destroyed by the war, Yang Chao is confident that within ten years , to put an end to the chaos in the world.

Sitting on a tank boat, he traveled southward slowly. Li Zicheng's cavalry who attacked Tongzhou did not pursue Yang Chao, but sent people to watch for a few miles, and then returned to attack Tongzhou.

Two hours later, Yang Chao camped in Xianghe, and sent a fast horse south to check the location of reinforcements.

My reinforcements have been in contact with Yang Chao all the time. The first thing was last night when a fast horse came to report that the reinforcements had arrived in Dezhou.

Calculating the distance, we will almost meet at Xianghe tonight.

However, Yang Chao did not wait for reinforcements at night, but he waited for bad news. The army had just passed Dezhou, and was attacked by bandits. Although the loss was not great, most of the tank boats accompanying the army were burned. The camp repelled the attack of the bandits.

Yang Chao couldn't help frowning, he couldn't tell which unit he met with the rogues, and he didn't know the movements of the rogues, so he really couldn't figure out the situation, all he knew was that the capital city was completely in chaos now, with rogues, routs, and looting everywhere sweep.

"Set up the camp and head south! Kuai Ma ordered all the troops to walk towards Cangzhou to meet up!"

Yang Chao immediately ordered to go south.

Now that the reinforcements were blocked, Yang Chao would not be able to fight against Li Zicheng's army, and the supplies of the tank boats for the reinforcements were all lost, so they obviously couldn't hurry on their way, so they had to go south to meet them by themselves and meet up in Cangzhou, which is closer to Dezhou. If you don't delay the two, you will lose the purpose of supporting small troops in the south, and it is unrealistic to meet up in the north. Cangzhou is one of the most suitable places.

"Going south?"

Yu Jiye managed to inquire clearly, and got a disappointing news that Yang Chao's troops to support them withdrew south.

Is this abandoning them?

"I heard that they fought a few battles and then retreated."

A subordinate who inquired about the news reported.

Yu Jiye nodded, thinking that his godfather's troops must have encountered resistance and were forced to go south. After all, Tongzhou had already been occupied, and they could only suffer from the enemy if they stayed outside the city.

"Is there a boat?"

Yu Jiye asked again.

The subordinate shook his head in disappointment: "There is no boat nearby. Either it was robbed by bandits, or it ran away and burned."

"Can't find any livestock?"

Yu Jiye asked again.

The men continued to shake their heads.

The maids along the way were better, but the three princes, the crown prince, and the princess couldn't move anymore, and now they all depended on their carts to carry them.

"Throw away all the coffins."

Yu Jiye thought for a while and made a decision. These coffins were of great help. It can be said that without these coffins, they would not have been able to come to Tongzhou smoothly. No one dared to mess with it.

Throwing down the coffin now is equivalent to being refugees fleeing. It is impossible for the princes and princesses to walk, especially the princess, whose feet are already swollen, and I have ten soldiers who can't walk now, and the injuries are very bad. , may die at any time.

Throwing away the coffin, the princess could finally wash her face, so she wiped her face casually in the canal. Although she hadn't washed it clean, she was already much more comfortable, but her face was slightly swollen. Bian Er said that none of them had to retreat in the end Pi, compared to being able to live, this is nothing, and the prince and princess dare not complain.

After that, the soldiers pushed the carts, and the wounded and princesses and princes were no longer qualified to ride in the carts.

Continue south along the canal.

When we arrived at Xianghe, we still heard that Yang Chao had gone south.

They complained that they could only rush all night.

At dawn the next day, they felt Wuqing, but they saw several piles of fire in the distance.

"Xie Fei, let's lead people up separately and kill this group of people, otherwise everyone will die!"

Yu Jiye stopped the car at a distance, and brought someone up to him, pointing to the group of thirty or so rebels and said.

Xie Fei nodded: "You go from the north, I go to the west, you saw me rushing out and hitting their flanks!"

Yu Jiye nodded. It was impossible for them to bring their weapons out of Beijing. Everyone felt uneasy without a guy in their hands. The most important thing was that everyone hadn't eaten for a day and two nights, and they couldn't hold on anymore.

Soon, I saw Xie Fei leading seven people to touch from the west. After killing a few people, the other party reacted, picked up their weapons and started chasing them. .

Killed all the enemies, ate a full meal, seized enough weapons, and clarified some situations at the same time.

These people belonged to Liu Fangliang's department on Li Zicheng's Dajun South Road.

Li Zicheng personally sat on the North Road of the town and marched eastward from Shanxi, while Liu Fangliang went out of Taihang, entered northern Henan and southern Jinan, and headed straight for Baoding.

Obviously they planned to turn around from the south. If Li Zicheng's frontal attack was unsuccessful, they would go from the north to the south. At the same time, they would cut off the connection between Beijing and the south of the Yangtze River.

Apparently Li Zicheng understood very well that Jiangnan was what he had to guard against now. The north that had been smashed to pieces had no power to threaten him.

This group was ordered to cut off the canal, but they were not familiar with the road, so they went astray, and their goal was Cangzhou.

Cangzhou has always been a battleground for military strategists. It is not far from Beijing, and it is backed by Shandong. It can be attacked and defended. The peasant army also values ​​​​this place. As long as they can cut off here, they will block the support routes from Shandong and Jiangnan to Beijing. , After they occupy Gyeonggi, they can use this as a starting point to attack south.

Yu Jiye couldn't help worrying, wondering where Yang Chao was now and whether he would meet Liu Fangliang's army.

At this time Yang Chao was indeed in Cangzhou, and was confronting Cangzhou City, but not with the Peasant Army, because Cangzhou City was still in the hands of the Ming Army, but the Ming Army refused to let Yang Chao enter the city.

It's not that the civil servants in the city are pedantic, but that the military generals want to dedicate the city to Li Zicheng. After hearing that Yang Chao is the Ming army of the Jiangnan King Qin, he can't open the door even if he is killed.

(End of this chapter)