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Chapter 289: Get out, don’t go!

Of course, King Yang didn't know that a great scholar who was originally going to be a monk had already completed his enlightenment in Longchang...

A thinker!

This is how they were born.

Fang Yizhi was a man of many different learnings, who could even describe the earth as a walnut. However, after he was nearly killed by Li Zicheng in the capital, fled all the way south, became a guerrilla leader, and did underground work for more than a year, he really had no interest in Confucianism anymore.

After all, in terms of Confucianism alone, the Fang family has actually reached the top.

Whether it is knowledge or fame.

His great-grandfather Fang Xuejian was a top scholar who could lecture in Donglin Academy. His grandfather and father were both at the level of Nine Ministers. Not to mention the men, even the women in his family were famous talents for several generations. They had really climbed to the top of the pyramid of traditional gentry.

As he was already at the top, it would be easy for him to jump over this high wall.

After deceiving the Qing army by pretending to be crazy, he continued to hide in Hefei City, waiting for the Qing army to withdraw, and then went straight to Luzhou government office, revealing his identity. The officials and servants who were originally at a loss, of course, turned into welcoming the army. Then Fang Yizhi put on the official robe of the governor and sent people out to recruit the nearest guerrillas, while organizing young and strong people in the city to restore order, mainly to clean up the dead bodies in the homes of the gentry. Gong Dingzi's dead body was also found in his home. It should be that the Qing army found that Niulu was killed and went back to vent their anger on him. He died miserably, basically dismembered. Most of his family members were killed, and only his wife hanged herself.

At this point, the Gong family was considered wiped out.

Having said that, he was still killed because of his status as the Minister of Justice of the Qing Dynasty, so even if his entire family was killed, it was still a rebellion.

The other gentry also suffered heavy losses, and most of them lost their families. Zhang Guowei can probably laugh now, because these guys had worked very hard when they followed the Qing army to resist him.

After Fang Yizhi restored order, he reported to Nanjing that he had recovered Hefei. Of course, Nanjing itself was in danger at this time, because the Jinsheng Cabinet refused to recognize Li Zicheng's identity as the emperor of the Ming Dynasty and still insisted that the empress was the legitimate one...

If you, a person of a different surname, can inherit the throne of the Ming Dynasty, why can't a princess do the same?
What he said still makes sense.

After all, in theory, it is very strange for both sides to succeed to the throne.

But no matter what, the princess is the daughter of Chongzhen after all, and she is a member of the Zhu family. At least she was a member of the Zhu family before she got married. She is more qualified than you, who has the surname Li, right?
If you say that you stole the throne, we have nothing to say about that, but since you are the heir, we have to have a good debate.

In short, Li Zicheng was furious and ordered the siege of Nanjing.

However, although he ordered the siege of Nanjing, he actually only built a temporary palace at Dashengguan Pass, and then sent troops into the outer city of Nanjing, and set up military camps on both sides of Yuhuatai. In fact, people in Nanjing can still enter and exit the city freely through the northern gates. Let alone attacking. Li Zicheng's cavalry had bypassed Nanjing and began to attack Lishui, Jurong and other places, but encountered resistance in both places. After all, it is difficult for cavalry to capture a well-defended city. I proved this in Shandong early in the morning. Another strange thing is that although Jin Sheng had shouted to attack Li Zicheng, the traitor, both Puzikou City and Shizishan Fort turned a blind eye to Li Zicheng's warships passing through.

Of course, the battleship's passage was of no use.

After all, there is Gao Jie in Zhenjiang, and the latter has already occupied Danyang, so if Li Zicheng wants to go to Suzhou and Songjiang, he has to fight with Gao Jie first. At least he has to capture Zhenjiang, otherwise he will not be able to rely on cavalry to fight his way there.

This is not the past.

The city defenses in various parts of Jiangnan have been well-developed. Cities like Suzhou have already moved hundreds of cannons of various types onto the city walls. In addition, Jiangnan is covered with water networks, and cavalry can easily get stuck if they penetrate deep into them.

This situation made Su Songchang breathe a sigh of relief. The gentry from all over the three prefectures were doing their best to put together an army and establish a defense line in Benniu.

As for the battlefield in Zhejiang, Shaoxing City eventually fell. First, the people were rioting, and second, Zheng Chenggong sent a large number of refugees from Zhoushan. However, the guards of Shaoxing, including Sun Jiaji and others who escaped from Yuyao, did put up a fierce resistance, so that more than a dozen of the Confucian Knights died. You have to know that there are only a little over a thousand Confucian Knights in total, and they are all the core young and strong faction of Shandong gentry. Each of them is the future of the family, and the death of one is a huge loss.

But I can't care about it when it comes to interests.

Otherwise, the loss of gold and silver will be equally huge!

Now gold, silver and jewelry are being shipped to Shandong in batches. If you don't work hard, how can you be qualified to share the spoils?

The rules of the Shandong Group are very simple. If you want to eat meat, you can, but you cannot hide behind. If you want to eat meat, you must rush to the front. The harder you rush, the more you eat. It is a honor for those who hide behind to have a sip of soup. This rule requires that no matter what the status of the Confucian Knights is, as long as they want to get more, they must take the lead.

After all, the distribution presided over by Yang Feng can be fully trusted in terms of fairness and credibility.

As long as you really rush to the front, he will give you the biggest piece.

In short, King Yang's sinister plan of bleeding the northern and southern gentry from each other was progressing smoothly.

As for King Yang himself, he was currently pursuing Dorgon...

GunGun was the first to run away.

Yang Feng was caught off guard when he ran away. King Yang really didn't expect him to run so decisively. After all, because the militia and Gao Jie were doing important things these days, the original attack was not only stopped, but many places were even abandoned. In theory, the Qing Dynasty was still pursuing the victory. Although in reality, the Qing army did not dare to move, after all, those who left were at best wolves, but there was another Tyrannosaurus Rex on their heads.

But except for Fengyang, the Qing troops in other directions were indeed safe.

Then Dorgon suddenly ran away.

If Yang Feng hadn't already had the habit of using a paramotor to spy on Fengyang on a daily basis, he would have almost been deceived by Gun Gun.

The latter even ordered Suksaha, who was left behind at Linhuai Pass, to launch a surprise attack on the Ming army, indicating that the battle had to continue. Then Dorgon, Zhu Cilang and 50,000 troops in Fengyang City abandoned the city at night and headed straight for Shouzhou. The next morning, King Yang was in a good mood again. He wanted to go to Fengyang to see if Gungun had a good breakfast. He flew over Fengyang in the morning light on his paramotor, circling and playing Sister Dayuer's call, while enjoying the reactions below.

He does this a lot these days.

It was a rare pleasure for him to enjoy the chaotic scene of the Qing army below.

But this time...

There's no one down there.

Suddenly no one cooperated with him.

All that was left to him was the devastation of Fengyang and the remaining supplies that a few Green Flag soldiers were fighting for.

"Damn, he runs really fast!"

King Yang, who was driving a large tractor, looked at the small group of fleeing soldiers not far away...

It's a green flag at first glance.

In fact, the Green Flag Army is now abandoned. Although Dorgon is with them, he basically doesn't care if they want to run away. After all, it is troublesome to control them, and this is also a kind of screening. Those who don't run away are definitely willing to follow our Qing Dynasty. Such people are good slaves. Taking them back will just be a good opportunity to raise their flags and join the Han Army.

But most of them actually followed him. After all, Yang Feng had killed many people there. Unless they were really conscripted men, most of the rest who changed masters throughout the year chose to follow Dorgon.

However, they could not escape either. The cavalry that came with Yang Feng had already divided into parts to encircle them. In order to catch up quickly, Yang Feng brought 5,000 cavalry, his own 3,000 followers, and 2,000 retainers of the generals of various troops. As for the main force, they were still attacking Linhuai. Suksaha, as a death soldier, was still defending there with some of the Eight Banners Army.

He wasn't going to leave.

If he stayed, he would hold out as long as he could, and the regent would remember his contribution. However, Dorgon was really desperate to let his own generals serve as his death warriors.

It should be that no one else does it.

Fengyang is not important, Linhuai is important. Linhuai was originally the ancient Haozhou, the Zhongli in the Battle of Zhongli. It’s just that when Zhu Yuanzhang built Zhongdu, he cut out part of Linhuai as Fengyang County and then moved the government seat originally in Linhuai there.

He also changed Zhongli to neutral and then to Linhuai.

Then King Yang stepped on the brakes, and the big tractor he had just driven stopped.

This thing is not an ordinary tractor, but a tractor used to transport logs in the Siberian forest. The wheels are taller than people, so even in the thawed Huainan, it can still move smoothly. After all, the humidity in Huainan is still not comparable to the Siberian forest in the thaw period. The trailer at the back was also hastily modified. Simply put, a breastwork made of logs was added, and there were more than a hundred followers inside, but they were not ordinary ones, but hunters, or those who used rifles.

This thing is not difficult.

Although the cost of regular rifling is too high, it is not a problem to imitate the early rifled guns and make a few grooves.

Minié bullets are not possible for the time being, but it is easy to use lead bullets struck by a wooden hammer.

The tractor stopped, and then gunshots rang out from behind, accompanied by plumes of smoke rising from the breastwork. People from the fleeing Green Flag Army kept falling off their horses.

The remaining dozen or so were finally frightened out of their wits.

They stopped in a hurry, dismounted, knelt on the ground and kowtowed for mercy.

The pursuing cavalry arrived immediately and dragged them over.

"Where is Dorgon?"

King Yang in the tractor shouted.

A brave Green Flag soldier quickly crawled forward.

"My Lord, Dorgon was the first to run away. He is probably already in Shouzhou. He fled at night to avoid being discovered by Your Majesty, and rested during the day. That means he rested in Shouzhou during the day and set off again in the evening. Now that the Huai River has thawed, he doesn't have that many boats to cross the river. He is also afraid that Your Majesty will catch up with him, and the wild cannot stop Your Majesty, so he has to go to Xinyang and cross the Huai River in shallow water in Xinyang. At that time, the troops withdrawn from Hefei and other places also arrived, and they were not afraid of Your Majesty when they joined together. We are all from Huainan, and we don't want to follow them to the north, so we ran away halfway. Your Majesty, we were forced to be soldiers and eat for a living. We have never fought against the government troops!"

He kowtowed and begged.

"keep going!"

King Yang ignored him and just waved forward and said.

Then he stepped on the accelerator, and black smoke from incomplete combustion of diesel came out of the chimney of the large tractor. The huge wheels turned, and it passed in front of the Green Flag Army like a monster riding on a demonic wind, splashing mud all over them, while teams of cavalry followed behind, sweeping through the seemingly wild Huainan.

At this time in Shouzhou City, Dorgon had already set out to continue his escape...

Turn in.

Strategic shift.

Fighting with Yang Feng to death is the most irrational thing.

After all, the success rate of my Qing Dynasty in fighting him over the years has been zero. We have never won a single battle with him. Even in the heyday, we only managed to break even in Texas.

Of course, this is just our Qing Dynasty bragging, but in reality we still lost.

Under such circumstances, the Eight Banners warriors were extremely afraid of Yang and had reached the point of despair. Dorgon also knew that there were not many Eight Banners Manchus that he could waste. Even if the newly grown ones were included, there were only about 40,000 Eight Banners Manchus who could take up arms in the north and south, including those outside the Great Wall.

Of course, this standard is already very low, and in fact even some women are incorporated into the regular army.

However, this is not done inside the Great Wall. After all, such a battlefield inside the Great Wall is purely funny. But it is okay to garrison a few castles outside the Great Wall. After all, no one can tell if you are wearing armor. It is still okay to intimidate North Korea and Mongolian herdsmen.

Anyway, keep some blood!

We can't regard the Eight Banner Han Army or even the Green Banner Army as the pillars of the Qing Dynasty in the future!
Wild Boar Skin would die with regrets if that happened!

So even if he was unwilling, he still made the painful decision to retreat, give up this paradise, go back to the north, give up this fertile land, go back to the north and continue to tighten his belt! It is better to suffer a little than to stay here and be fertilizer, so before leaving, he robbed all the gold, silver and jewelry he could rob. Besides, a large part of these gold, silver and jewelry were originally earned from him by the Huaixi gentry using grain.

He just took it back.

When we let them earn the money happily, we had already planned to get it back in one lump sum.

"Regent, let's go!"

Tunqi, who had just arrived here to meet him, also said with a gloomy expression.

He was at Qingliu Pass before, and after Gao Jie gave up the attack and turned to Jingnan, he took the opportunity to withdraw with his men, and before he reached Fengyang, he received Dorgon's order to withdraw, so he did not go to Fengyang, but went straight here to join him. They did not get much along the way, after all, Chuzhou had been robbed many times, and there were only poor places along the way with nothing to rob, and they still failed and withdrew, so everyone was like this.

Dorgon looked at the setting sun and finally let out a long sigh.

Then he mounted his horse in a dashing manner.

"Let's go back to the capital!"

He said.

But at this moment, he suddenly looked up at the sky in confusion.

There was a strange buzzing sound.

He and Tunqi looked at each other, but neither of them noticed anything in the sky, so they didn't care and continued their escape. In the sky above their heads, a small drone was hovering. It was inconspicuous to begin with, and it was even harder to spot against the dim sky background.

In a field of reeds outside Shouzhou City, an attendant was holding the remote control carefully, as if he were holding a sacred object, and looking at Dorgon on the screen.

Then he skillfully controlled the drone to fly back, and after landing, he packed it into a box. Then he took out the walkie-talkie from the box and turned it on...

"Red 2 calling, Dorgon has been found in Shouzhou, heading for Zhengyang Pass, and is expected to arrive at Zhengyang Pass at midnight."

He said.

(End of this chapter)