Chapter 66 Tracking
.Ming Blood Volume 3 The Ming Dynasty Resurrection
He noticed the sneer on Jierharang's mouth. W Feng had a whisper in his heart for some reason. He thought of a word in his heart for no reason. The weasel greeted the chickens with New Year's greetings. He looked around. More than ten Manchu officials in the hall all looked cold and their eyes were indifferent. Hundreds of Han officials felt a chaotic feeling.
"Everyone. The emperor and the empress dowager leave the capital to escape the summer heat. I will be in charge of full power in the capital. You are all ministers of the Qing Dynasty. I hope that during the period before the emperor and the empress dowager return, you can help me to improve the capital."
All Han officials felt ridiculous and sarcastic. They were clearly escaping but insisted on avoiding the summer heat. Could the emperor and the empress dowager come back? Many officials thought viciously, unless they were taken back in front of prisoners.
However, everyone answered quickly: Follow the prince's lord."
"Very good. Now is an extraordinary period. In order to defend the capital well, I have several orders to announce. First, there are all senior officials in the capital. From the day on, I will move into the Forbidden City immediately. Without my king's orders, no one will leave the palace without authorization. Otherwise, it will be considered as collusion with the enemy and the whole family will be executed..."
What? Jirgalang's first order caused a stir in the palace. He moved into the Forbidden City. To put it nicely, it was house arrest. If he was placed here, what would their family do? What would their property do? When the Ming army attacked in, how would they face the Ming army?
The entire hall seemed to have suddenly become a vegetable market. There was a buzz. Jirgalang and more than a dozen Manchu officials just let these people shout loudly next to their cold eyes.
"The prince, since the Qing Dynasty entered the palace, has always been loyal to the court. Now the pseudo-Ming army is about to come to the city. It is the time when the officials serve the court. The prince is to detain us in the palace. If the prince does not trust the officials, he is willing to be determined." A censor stood up first and opposed it.
"Yes. If the prince trusts so much, the subordinates are willing to show their ambitions by death." The rest of the censors shouted fiercely after hearing the words of the censors.
"Stop. You and others always say that you are loyal to the court. You must also show your ambitions by death. But I just want you to stay in the palace for a while and then push back. How can you dare to say that you are loyal to the court? It is precisely because of your trust in you that the court allows you to live in the palace. Otherwise, how can you allow people with two intentions to live in the palace? You don't want to live in the palace. Don't really want to associate with the fake Ming Dynasty, right?" Jiergalang snorted heavily at the end.
This heavy humming made the entire hall quiet again. It is not the Ming Dynasty. Even if the emperor of the crime is at most, he can get a chance to make a name for himself. Manchus really want to kill people. The Qing Dynasty can no longer grow. It is really unreasonable to be killed and have to be a bad reputation even if he is killed.
"Go back to the prince. The officials and others do not live in the imperial city, but dare not. The emperor and the queen mother go out for summer vacation. The palace should be more strictly controlled to prevent rumors." Another official said with a tough bullet.
"What rumors? It's not that you're asking you to wait for the inner courtyard. No need to say more. The Queen Mother and the Prince Regent decided in person. No further discussion is allowed." The capital city would have long been to Dijierlang, naturally he was not afraid of any rumors.
"Dong." An official in his sixties fell on his head, his whole body twitched, and his mouth foamed in his mouth. He looked seriously ill. The officials next to him felt very regretful. Why didn't he think of this trick?
Jirgalang looked at the fallen official and said calmly: "This old man seems to be sick. The person comes. He carried him down and handed him over to the imperial doctor for treatment. Arrange him to stay immediately and let the man take good care of his illness in the palace."
Two Manchu soldiers came in. The officer who was twitching from the general was lifted down. Many officials who also wanted to pretend to be sick were immediately worried.
Seeing that no one objected, Jihalang continued to announce the following orders slowly. The following orders were nothing more than asking officials to pay for food and help defend the city. The number was different. Although it was not impossible for everyone to take it out, it was enough to make everyone feel distressed. Feng alone had to take out 50,000 taels of silver and grain, 3,000 stones of 200 servants. Judging from the list, the court had prepared for it.
This was a naked plunder. The court had no regard for his face. Thinking of Li Zicheng's stick during the Jiashen period, everyone felt a chill. However, the Qing court was not as vicious as the Dashun Army. It was not as if they wanted to squeeze all their water dry. At most, half to 10% of the property at home.
The army left by Dor to Jierha was only about 35,000. There were only more than 3,000 coalition forces. The remaining more than 32,000 were affiliated with the infantry commander's yamen. The infantry commander's yamen controlled the infantry camps of the eight banners of Manchu and Mongolia and nine officers and soldiers. At the same time, the second patrol battalion of the north and south were controlled, namely the Green Camp Horse Infantry.
At present, the Qing Dynasty was shaking. If the green camp horses and infantry soldiers were working hard, they had to give heavy rewards. Except for these ministers, Jierhalang did not let go of other wealthy families in the capital. He sent troops to persuade them to donate. In just a few days, he searched for millions of silver in the capital and organized the servants of the ministers and the strong men in the city. The soldiers and horses in the capital were blowing balloons.
It expanded and reached nearly 100,000 at once.
People die for money and birds feed. Whether it is the original Green Camp horse infantry and the newly formed army, they are already depressed and fled when the Yiming Army comes. Jiergalang gave a large amount of silver rewards and became more and more morale. However, the combat power they have. Only after fighting can you know.
The northern suburbs of the capital are undulating mountains, green grass, and green horses. Under the afternoon sun, the sound of horse hooves came. Soon, five knights appeared in sight. The five knights were all wearing green clothes. A musket was hung on their backs. There were long swords on their waists. Several black iron lumps were hung around their waists. They were completely armed.
Judging from this costume, these five people are of course the scouts of the Ming army. Only the scouts of the Ming army will dress up like this. There are so many weapons.
"Lulu." The knight in front suddenly lived on the horse. There was a lot of livestock manure on the side of his horse. The Ming army waiter seemed to be interested in the pile of manure. He jumped down from the horse's back and found a branch from it and gently fiddled it.
The four knights behind also strangled the horses. The two jumped from the horse to the previous knight. The other two rode on the horse without moving. They just looked around with their eyes.
"Well. This is horse manure. It's only one time for the past." Tree Skill left it. Hao Zhong said lightly. He was the commander of the scout team. He was ordered by Li Yuan to track the march route of Manren.
Li Yuanyin had only five people in his hands. He thought it was impossible to attack the capital. The emperor and the ministers all concluded that Manchus would not be likely to defend the capital and would definitely find a way to escape. Li Yuanyin's mission was to find out the specific route of Manchus' action so that the army could pursue it.
It has been two days since he left Tianjin. Yuan Yin did not see the Manren's escape team. However, the traces left by Manren's large-scale migration were too obvious and could not be eliminated at all. Hao Zhong and others followed easily. There were more people behind them.
"Brother, have you sent someone back to report to the army?" A scout said to Hao Zhong.
Hao Zhong shook his head: "Although this horse manure has passed for an hour, there are many ox carts in the Tartar team, which are full of goods. Maybe we can catch up with them in less than a quarter of an hour. It will not be too late to confirm the number of people and go back to report."
"Yes." The other two responded. The three of them stepped on the horse again. The fifth team rushed forward.
A quarter of an hour later, what appeared in front of Hao Zhong and the other two was a Wanyan Great Wall. They happened to see a group of big cars disappearing in a large gap on the Great Wall.
This is the Great Wall, starting from Qinhuangdao in the east and ending at Jiayu Pass in the north. Starting from the ancient grassland from the capital, if you don’t take a detour, you can only go from Juyong Pass or Zijing Pass to the exit. As long as you guard these two passes, there are two worlds inside and outside the Great Wall. After the man invaded the pass, in order to facilitate contact with the Mongolian grassland, he deliberately opened a gap on the Great Wall: Although the Great Wall is still there, it has become a sieve full of loopholes.
I don’t know if Manchu will regret it. If they did not destroy the Great Wall, when they returned from the Mongolian grassland today, they would just keep the Juguan closest to Beijing and block it for ten days and half a month, and they would no longer have to be afraid of the Ming army’s pursuit.
The people all left the Great Wall so quickly. Looking at the huge gap on the Great Wall, the five people looked at each other, but they didn't know whether they should chase after him. For Hao Zhong and the others, leaving the Great Wall was like danger everywhere.
"Chasing." Hao Zhong gritted his teeth and continued. They had just seen Manren's tail, and they could go back and report. But they didn't leave the Great Wall. Where did they know the specific situation of the Manren? The route they were following. If there was no danger, they would not have to be scouts.
Hearing what Hao Zhong said, several of his scouts nodded: "After the order."
This time, the five people were much more careful. They were divided into three rows. There was only one person in the front row. There were two people in the middle and behind. They walked in carefully. The so-called "Looking at the mountain and running to the death horse. The gap in the distance seemed close. In fact, it was more than ten miles away from them.
Along the way, the five people were always on guard against enemy attacks. They just didn't know if they were in a hurry to escape. Or they thought the Ming army did not follow up so quickly. They were not attacked until they climbed the gap.
"Look." The first person to climb the gap shouted excitedly. When the other four people saw the danger, they hurriedly accelerated, rushed up the gap and looked down at the Great Wall.
The head that came into their eyes was endless grassland. On the grassland, a huge team was slowly moving forward. The most, the convoy was only a few miles away from them. The front team was at least twenty or thirty miles away. Such a team had at least tens of thousands of people. This was a big fish.
Chapter completed!