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Chapter 300: Escape across the sea

Goshha took the order and left.

Soon, two Jiannu Goshha carried a stretcher into the lobby. A seriously injured Jiannu lying on the stretcher. The Jiannu's eyes were blind and his hands were seriously frostbite. Such serious injuries were impossible to save. Fortunately, he could still speak.

When he saw Duoduo, Jiannu seemed to want to struggle to get up and greet him, but he failed to get what he wanted.

"Lying down and not moving." Duoduo quickly stopped him, "Are you Fei Yangwu's slave?"

Jiannu on the stretcher nodded sadly and said, "Report to Master Yu, that's exactly."

Duoduo's heart was stern and asked in a deep voice: "So that's the case, Beijing has fallen?"

Jiannu nodded again and said, "Yes, my master has also died in battle."

Duoduo felt anger in his heart and asked, "Didn't Wu Sangui send troops to rescue him?"

"No." Jiannu said, "I didn't even see the shadow of Guanning Army."

"Wu Sangui!" Duoduo gritted his teeth, "This damn repetitive villain, one day I will peel him and get cramps!"

"Master Yu." Jiannu said again, "The slave has something to report."

Duoduo asked, "What's the matter?"

Na Jiannu said: "When the slave fled to Xianghe area, he encountered a team of muskets from the Central Ming Army of the Ming Dynasty. Their marching speed was very fast, and the direction of their marching should be heading towards Shanhaiguan."

"What did you say?" Duoduo was shocked when he heard this, "The Central Army of the Ming Dynasty, went to Shanhaiguan?"

Jiannu nodded and said, "Yes."

Duoduo asked again: "When did this happen?"

Jiannu said: "Yesterday."

“How many people are there?”

"One or two thousand people."

"Oh no!" Duoduo whispered hard, saying to himself, "Since the Ming Central Army has crossed Xianghe, it means it has already been ahead of us. If we head towards Shanhaiguan at this time, we will inevitably encounter it on the way... Now that our Qing army is depressed and we are trapped, how can we be the opponent of the Ming Central Army?"

Suna, who was on the side, shouted: "Master Yu, there is no other way to go, let's fight!"

"Yes." Suksaha also said, "Master Yu, let's fight with the Nanming barbarians."

Duoduo looked cold and ignored the clamor of Suna and Suksaha. Duoduo was carrying Dorgon's instructions and even cared about the fate and hope of the Jurchens. Even if he had the opportunity to annihilate this group of Ming army's partial army with less than 2,000 people, Duoduo did not want to take this risk. He must not take the risk of the fate of the Jurchens.

"No." Duoduo pondered, "I have to find a way, I have to think of a perfect solution..."

"What else can we do?" Suna said, "If Shanhaiguan is lost, even if we can return to Shengjing, we will probably starve to death on the road and freeze to death!"

"No, no." Duoduo waved his hand and suddenly said, "Even if Shanhaiguan is lost, we still have a way to go, and it is a shortcut!"

"Shortcut?" Suna, Suksaha and other Jiannu generals looked at each other, "What shortcut?"

Shandong, Zhangqiu Town.

The clouds were closed and the rain stopped. The Hongniang curled up comfortably in Wang Pu's arms, enjoying the warmth after the passion. Wang Pu's big hands were still gently rubbing the Hongniang's milk-like skin.

Wang Pu bowed his head and kissed the Mao Niangzi's forehead, and asked softly: "Madame, are you blaming me?"

"I won't blame you." The Hongniang shook her head gently and said, "I just miss you. I really miss you. I miss you during the day and at night. I miss you in my dreams. I'm almost crazy if I miss you..."

"I miss you too." Wang Pu said softly, "I wish you could be by my side every day."

The Hong Madam nodded lightly, but her jade arms tightly hugged Wang Pu's neck.

"Matchmaker." Wang Pu reached out and patted the red lady's snow-white buttocks and said softly, "I want to recruit your Henan army. When the situation in Shandong and Northern Zhili stabilizes, I will take 40,000 cavalry with you to fight against Wu Sangui, a big traitor, and then restore Shaanxi and kill Li Zicheng to avenge Li Yan. OK?"

The beautiful lady's eyes suddenly lit up, and she looked at Wang Pu burningly, and couldn't help but say happily: "Mr. Marquis, are you serious?"

The Hongniang cannot be unhappy, not only because Wang Pu wants to incorporate her Henan army, but also because Wang Pu said he would fight Wu Sangui and Li Zicheng with her. If this is the case, wouldn’t it mean that for a long time from now on, she will stay with Wang Pu and nourish Wang Pu’s rain and dew every night?

Wang Pu nodded with a smile and responded affirmatively: "Really."

The Hongmao couldn't help but present her lips and kissed Wang Pu's black-haired chest, and she was so happy that she almost burst into tears: "Mr. Marquis, I am so happy, I am so happy..."

Wang Pu reached out to cover the pretty nose of Kuohong's wife and said, "But the most urgent task now is to eliminate the scattered soldiers and scattered soldiers of the Jiannu and the Tartars. If the large number of defeated soldiers cannot be wiped out, refugees from various provinces may not dare to migrate to Shandong and Beizhili. Also, you have to discuss with your generals to recruit Henan troops."

The Hongniang volunteered: "Marty, let me leave the task of clearing out the defeated soldiers to my family?"

"No." Wang Pu said solemnly, "The main force of Jiannu and the Tartars has basically been destroyed. The interception mission of 40,000 Henan cavalry has been completed. Tomorrow you will set off with 40,000 cavalry to return to Kaifeng. You must never stay in Shandong anymore. If you get infected with horse plague, it will not be a joke."

"Yes." The Hong Madam nodded lightly and said affectionately, "I will listen to you."

Wang Pu said again: "Is there anything unusual about Li Hu you suspect recently?"

"No." Hongniang shook her head, "There has not been any news with the outside world recently, but he always tried every means to monitor the whereabouts of my slave family and even bribed the slave's personal captain."

"That's it." Wang Pu said solemnly, "He monitored your whereabouts and bribed your personal captain because he was afraid that you would have something to do with other men. This shows that he likes you, cares about you, and has a strong possessiveness towards you. All signs show that this guy is the inner demon of the Henan Army, and the death of brother Li Yan is definitely unrelated to him!"

The beautiful lady's eyes narrowed and said coldly: "It's really him?"

"It must be him!" Wang Pu said, "After you lead the army back to Kaifeng, you will reveal the news of the incorporation of the imperial court to the generals in the army. Then you will know who opposes the most fiercely and resolutely. This person is the real murderer who murders the Li Yan brothers. If I was not wrong, this person must be Li Hu."

"Why?" Hong Niangzi said inexplicably, "Why is the real murderer who opposes the most intensely?"

Wang Pu said: "The reason why the real murderer murdered the Li Yan brothers was to gain the supreme leadership of the Henan army. Since he wanted to obtain the supreme leadership of the Henan army, he certainly could not tolerate the Henan army being incorporated by the court! On the contrary, if they were just ordinary generals in the Henan army, they had no ambitions for the supreme leadership, they would not have murdered the Li Yan brothers, nor would they have opposed the Henan army being incorporated by the court, because for them, being incorporated by the court was only beneficial but not harmful."

The Hongniang nodded and said in a narrow voice: "I understand. If the real murderer is Li Hu, I will never spare him easily."

Dongpingzhou, Jingwai.

A large number of horse corpses outside the city were finally collected and piled up into a mountain of corpses. Two brigades of Central Army soldiers piled up a large amount of dry firewood and poured it with tinder oil. Dad Li put the fire in his hand and threw it into the pile of firewood. The raging fire started to burn. Soon, the piles of war horse corpses were completely swallowed by the flames.

Dad Li turned around and said to Zheng Chenggong very seriously: "General Zheng, please take people to the wilderness and search again. Never miss any horse corpse! I have issued a military order in front of the Marquis, so I will never let the horse plague spread to provinces outside Shandong."

Zheng Chenggong said solemnly: "Mr. Li, please rest assured. Beizhi has sent four brigades of baggage troops to conduct a carpet-style search on the wilderness around Dongping Prefecture. If there were Jiannu and the abandoned horse corpse of the Tartars on the wasteland, they would never miss the eyes of the soldiers."

Dad Li nodded gently and said, "Then I will feel relieved."

After four days and nights, Tang Sheng finally rushed to Shanhaiguan with a whistle musket team!

Looking at the Guancheng far ahead, Tang Sheng breathed a long sigh. Shanhai Pass looked very calm, and the snow in front of the pass was also neat and there were no signs of pedestrians or cars. This was enough to show that no large group of people had passed through Shanhai Pass in recent days. In other words, the Jiannu who had more than 10,000 people mentioned by Zhao Datuo had not had time to escape from the pass.

An officer ran to Tang Sheng and asked breathlessly: "General, will you attack the city now?"

Tang Shengdao: "If you want to say that the brothers have been marching for four consecutive days, they have not been able to close their eyes all these four days, and they have never slept for a long time. They are so tired that time is tight. The army of more than 10,000 Jiannu may arrive at any time. We must seize Shanhaiguan before they arrive!"

The officer said: "But we don't have a ladder, how can we attack the city?"

Tang Sheng looked at the sky and said, "It's already dark. When it's dark, then quietly approach Guancheng. First, block the city with muskets and prevent the closed Jiannu from raising torches. Then, use the cluster Dragon King cannon to explode the city gate while the night is dark. As long as the city gate is blown up, the Jiannu in Guancheng will not be worrying!"

The sky soon became dark, and Tang Sheng and a thousand Central Army soldiers quietly approached Shanhaiguan City.

When there were about two hundred steps away from Guancheng, the Jiannu who was Guan finally found something abnormal. The whistle sounded suddenly across the city. The originally silent Guancheng began to stir up in an instant, and flashing flames continued to rush up the city. In the shaking flames, the figures of Jiannu were running back and forth on the city, shouting, scolding, and shouting.

At this moment, a row of dense bullets roared to the top of the city. Dozens of Jiannu fell down immediately, and the remaining Jiannu also started to riot like a blowout. The torches that illuminated the city in chaos were extinguished one after another. The city that was originally as bright as daylight immediately fell into darkness.

Tang Sheng didn't know that it was not Jiannu who guarded Shanhaiguan, but two thousand Koreans.

The quality of the Eight Banners of Korea is not as good as that of the Eight Banners of the Han army, and it is even more incomparable to the Eight Banners of the Jiannu. These cowardly Koreans have never been to the battlefield, let alone experienced such a terrible intensive shooting array. After two rounds of gunfire, the Koreans on the city were completely infuriated and rushed to the city to escape.

"Boom boom!"

A Central Army officer brought ten soldiers to the city gate without any effort and threw two bundles of Dragon King cannons to the edge of the city gate. With two deafening loud noises, the strong Shanhaiguanguan City began to tremble, and the solid closed door was blown into pieces in an instant.

The success of the war was far beyond Tang Sheng's expectations.

You should know that Shanhaiguan is the most powerful pass in the world. Tang Sheng originally thought that there would be a fierce battle, but he never expected that he only fired two rounds of guns and spent 40 Dragon King Cannons to capture Shanhaiguan! Is the Central Army's combat power too strong, or is Jiannu suddenly becoming vulnerable?

At this moment, Tang Sheng was puzzled. He even doubted whether this could be a conspiracy of Jiannu? But soon, Tang Sheng gave up this idea because a large group of Central Army had rushed into Guancheng and raised the sun and moon flag of the Ming Empire on the top of the city. Two years later, the sun and moon flag of the Ming Empire finally floated at Shanhai Pass again.

Zhigu, Dongxie.

Duoduo was directing Jiannu to take sleds. Speaking of which, Wang Pu "teached" to Jiannu.

Three years ago, in order to raise funds, Wang Pu led the three thousand elite cavalry from Datong Town to attack Sanbulachuan for thousands of miles. Finally, he fled back to Datong with a sled. Later, the people of Korqin found several broken sleds from the grassland and presented them to Dorgon. After seeing it, Dorgon praised it and admired Wang Pu's innovation.

Duoduo was also impressed by the sleds and remembered the structure firmly. Unexpectedly, it came in handy today.

Suna and other Jiannu's confidants did not know the intention of Duoduo's move. They only knew that more than 10,000 troops had been in Gugu for a full five days. According to the horse search, the Ming Dynasty's detective cavalry searching north had appeared two hundred miles south of Zhigu. At most, one or two days, the Ming Dynasty's detective cavalry would appear outside Zhigu City, and then... the brigade of Ming army would flock to it.

"Master Yu." Suksaha said anxiously, "The Ming army pursued soldiers to Zhigu City."

Suna also said: "Yes, hurry up and turn to Shanhaiguan or Xifengkou. It will be too late."

"Are the Ming army's pursuit soldiers chasing Zhigu soon?" Duoduo said calmly, "It's coming quite fast, but we're about to leave Zhigu soon and leave tonight! And I promise you that the Ming army's pursuit soldiers will never find where our army is going. They just want to chase them but don't know where to chase them, hehe."

"Let's leave tonight?" Su Na said in surprise, "Go to Shanhaiguan? Or Xifengkou? Or Modaoyu?"
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