Saving the Ming Dynasty: I can exchange bodies with Chongzhen

Chapter 117 King Xiang: You ask me, who should I ask?
It was not until the evening that Zhu Changgan returned to his body again and found that he was still mixed with Hongniangzi and the others. He could not help but curse, "Why haven't you left yet?"

I packed up and prepared to find an opportunity to leave.

At this moment, he and King Xiang Zhu Yiming were in a valley. There were lights in the distance, which meant they were not far from the city or town. There was also a road under their feet, which meant they were not far from the official road.

"Huh?" Zhu Yiming was quietly awakened by Zhu Changgan. He was stunned for a moment, "You..."

"Shh!"

Zhu Changgan put his finger to his mouth and said, "Keep your voice down. We have to leave as soon as possible."

"Didn't you say today that you would leave after a few days?" Although Zhu Yiming was a little surprised, he couldn't help but jump up when he saw that his son had finally come to his senses.

"Have you figured out the escape route?"

"Look, there is a small woods behind the hill over there, guarded by only two people. If we can enter that small woods, our chances of escape will be great." King Xiang Zhu Yiming said in a low voice.

Zhu Changgan listened to Zhu Yiming's arrangements and nodded continuously.

Compared with these refugees, Prince Xiang and Zhu Yiming had only eaten beef or mutton before and did not suffer from night blindness. That was why they decided to escape at night.

The two pretended to sleep and waited until four o'clock in the morning.

The first watch is for people, the second watch is for gongs, the third watch is for ghosts, the fourth watch is for thieves, and the fifth watch is for roosters. The fourth watch is the darkest time before dawn, and it is also the sleepiest time for everyone.

The lights of the village in the distance had long disappeared. Two figures got up cautiously and walked quietly outside. Suddenly, they were stunned.

As soon as they turned the corner, they were stunned.

"you……"

"Brother Zhu? Where are you guys going?"

"Oh, going to the toilet." Zhu Changgan replied hurriedly, looking at Li Yan and the person behind him with burning eyes.

If he was alone, he would choose to kill the other person directly, but there was someone behind him. If he suddenly took action and could not kill the other person directly, it would definitely alarm the people in the village.

"You're so grown up, but you still need your father to follow you to the toilet. It's a good thing that Mr. Li is here, you two can go together." Prince Xiang Zhu Yiming immediately took over the conversation and turned around to lie down.

Zhu Changgan knew who the man in front of him was. "Brother Li, what are you doing?"

Wasn't he seriously injured? How could he walk so soon?

Li Yan pulled Zhu Changgan aside and said in a low voice, "My injury is actually not serious, I just caught a cold. I feel much better now. The boss insisted that I rest."

"What do you think about the matter I discussed with you?"

"whats the matter?"

Li Yan frowned, "It's just the matchmaking for you, you can't deny it... Listen, I've already knocked her out, you go over now."

"..."The night wind was a little cold, making Zhu Changgan's head buzz.

what's the situation?
Chongzhen actually hooked up with Hongniangzi? You should tell me about this key matter.

"No, I haven't thought it through yet..."

But before Zhu Changgan could finish his words, the giant behind Li Yan put the knife against his back.

"At this point, I'm not discussing this with you." Li Yan whispered, his tone extremely urgent, "Today, the Third Master came to discuss the wedding date with me, which means they are ready to take action against my family."

"There's really no other way, Brother Zhu, I can only rely on you."

Zhu Changgan wanted to say something, but he felt a sharp pain in his back. He realized that Li Yan was more determined than he had imagined. If he disagreed with him or shouted loudly, angering the other party, he might be stabbed in with a white knife and come out with a red knife.

What kind of trouble did this bastard Chongzhen get into?
Zhu Changgan was escorted by two people all the way to a small tent.

"Get in!"

Zhu Changgan was pushed inside with a stumble, and then the curtain closed again.

Although it is called a tent, it is actually very small. The oil lamp inside is still lit. The floor is very clean. There is some straw underneath, some cloth and clothes on top, and a young woman.

Under the orange oil lamp.

She has a unique beauty all over her body, and her delicate facial features are full of heroic three-dimensionality, yet she retains the softness and grace of an oriental beauty. She is impeccably beautiful.

The woman fell asleep, her feet were as smooth as milk, white jade, and like freshly peeled eggs.

It is slender and upturned, with wrists and ankles of moderate thickness, a natural beauty.

Zhu Changgan couldn't help swallowing. He understood what Li Yan meant, but he couldn't do that.

Of course, even if he didn't do it, Li Yan's goal had been achieved.

The Ming Dynasty was almost obsessed with the idea of ​​sex not being intimate, and the official history book "Biographies of Heroic Women" added some unprecedented content. "Ming History·Biographies of Heroic Women" records: "Hu, a native of Kuaiji, with the courtesy name of Tongli Shen, was about to get married when Shen got into trouble with his father. Shen returned home to help with his father's funeral, and they got married before the mourning period was over. Hu was already 27 years old. After six months, Shen died, and Hu cried in grief. She took out all her makeup and prepared for the funeral..."

It tells the story of a woman named Hu who was listed in the "Biography of Virtuous Women". She remained chaste for her deceased husband and strictly observed the rule of physical contact between men and women. At the age of 51, she refused to see a doctor when she was seriously ill because the doctor was a man. In the end, she died without treatment, but the story was widely praised.

Another example is recorded in the "Ming History·Biography of Heroic Women": "Chen Jiefu was from Anlu. She married a woman named Li and became a widow at an early age. She was alone. She returned to her father's house and sat and slept in a small building, never leaving the building for 30 years. Before her death, she said to her maid: 'When I die, please do not let any man carry me!'

The extreme discrimination between men and women was so crazy that not only did she not meet any men during her lifetime, but she also did not allow men to go upstairs and carry her body after her death.

What's more, they were two single men and women in the same room.

Therefore, no matter what he did or not, Li Yan's goal had been achieved.

Unable to go out, someone was guarding him with a knife, so he could only sit on the ground, his upper eyelid and lower eyelid fighting... He didn't know how long it had been, when a gust of wind suddenly hit him, and his eyes suddenly opened.

"Who?"

But he saw the tent suddenly split in the middle, and a man fell in front of him, with blood splattering everywhere.

Zhu Changgan recognized this person as the one who followed Li Yan last night.

A woman in military uniform, holding a silver spear, suddenly attacked. The tip of the spear was like an angry wave that broke through the wind and hit the man's chest again.

In an instant, the man's chest was beaten to pieces like tofu, and his whole body died with it. Broken bones, flesh, and skin were splattered everywhere.

The woman was still furious, and she swept the silver spear across again, like a roaring thunder, hitting the man's side, and the corpse was blown away like a pile of rags.

He fell on a piece of hard bluestone, and his head hit it with a dull thud. His head and body were twisted at an indescribable angle, and he slid down the rock again, deader than dead.

Everything happened in a flash, and by the time Zhu Changgan reacted, the sharp blade of the gun had already landed on his neck.

"Gulp!" Zhu Changgan swallowed, "It's none of my business..."

The woman stared at him with eyes as cold as ice, and her whole body was like a ferocious female leopard.

Hula~
The commotion here still alarmed the people nearby, and figures rushed over one after another.

"The boss!"

"The boss!"

"..."

After the sudden outburst, a large group of people gathered around with weapons in their hands, but were stunned when they saw the situation in front of them.

Lady Hong ignored everyone coldly, and stared at Li Yan fiercely like a beast, "Only this time, otherwise you will be treated like this!"

Then turned around and left.

"Huh~" Zhu Changgan took a deep breath, feeling the joy of surviving a calamity.

Li Yan also sat on the ground with Zhu Changgan. He thought Hong Niangzi would be angry, but he didn't expect her to be so fierce. After a long time, he stood up and looked at the dead man, "Old Qi..."

This man used to be his servant, then learned martial arts and stayed by his side, and now he died for him.

"My son, how are you?" Prince Xiang Zhu Yiming also arrived at this moment. He pulled Zhu Changgan up and looked him up and down to see if he was injured. "I wanted to come to look for you, but was stopped by the Third Master's people."

Zhu Changgan, however, stared fixedly at Hong Niangzi's receding back.

How could a woman be like this?
How quiet it is, the pines grow in the empty valley.

What is the text like? It is like a dragon swimming in a winding pond.

How beautiful it is, the clouds reflect the clear pond.

Prince Xiang Zhu Yiming waved his hand in front of him a few times, "What are you looking at? Are you attracted to this female rebel?"

"Hmm...how come?" Zhu Changgan paused before he finished speaking. After a while, a voice replied, "Dad, what are we doing here?"

Zhu Yiming looked at Chongzhen in confusion, "You ask me?"

"Who should I ask?"

At this moment, the magnificent morning sun rises slowly in the east, and the colorful clouds float across the sky like golden threads.

The two exchanged again.

……

After working for a day and a night, the Qing army captured less than 100,000 people and livestock, as well as some food and fodder, which slowed down the Qing army's progress.

"Where is Dorgon?" Hauge asked his bondservant.

Although Dorgon was Hauge's fourteenth uncle, he was actually three years younger than Hauge. In addition, the two did not get along well, so that except in front of Huang Taiji, he would never call Dorgon "imperial uncle".

"My Lord, Prince Rui packed up early and set out for the north." The servant's eyes flickered a few times, "Prince Rui said that we should march 80 miles a day."

"Huh! Eighty miles? Was he frightened like this by the Ming army?" Haoge couldn't help but sarcastically said, "Is this still the invincible Prince Rui in my impression?"

"Where's Yuetuo?"

"Luckily, we followed Prince Rui to break camp."

It was less than two hundred miles away from Qingshan Pass. The Ming army had poor mobility and could not catch up even if they wanted to. He didn't understand what Dorgon was afraid of.
"To the west is Changping City, which Chao Pichang once guarded, right?" Hauge suddenly remembered this and asked.

"My Lord, Changping City is sixty miles to the west."

"It's a pity that Chao Pichang was not brought into the city this time." Haoge said with a smile, "Since he didn't come, let's plunder Changping City again."

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the general was the highest-ranking military officer guarding the local area for the Ming Dynasty. He was also the core military commander at the forefront of the confrontation between the Ming army and the peasant uprising army and the Qing army.

Generals at this level were also the focus of the enemy's surrender and attack. No matter whether these generals were mediocre or capable, as long as one could be surrendered or killed, it would be a huge blow to the Ming Dynasty.

However, the Ming Dynasty was like a lean camel that was bigger than a horse. No matter how weak the Ming Dynasty was, before its demise, there were still very few generals at the level of generals who were willing to abandon the Ming Dynasty.

Li Yongfang, the first general in the Ming army to surrender to the Later Jin Dynasty and a general with great political influence, was just a guerrilla general before his surrender.

Later, Huang Taiji placed high hopes on him and rewarded him generously. Among the generals at the general level, the first to surrender to the Qing Dynasty was this Changping general.

Chao Pichang.

In the ninth year of Chongzhen, which was last year, Chao Pichang surrendered to the Qing Dynasty after the city was broken and was assigned to work under Haoge, but Haoge always felt that this person had limited ability, so he did not take him too seriously.

Ten miles northeast,
"Don't stop, let them continue on their way!" Dorgon told his men to rob as much as they could along the way, not to be greedy, and the marching speed must be guaranteed to be eighty miles per day.

He calculated the marching speed of the Ming army. The Ming army was not just cavalry and infantry, but also had so many artillery pieces. The maximum marching speed in one day was no more than this.

It was enough to leave the Ming army behind. Dorgon even asked someone to tell Hauge that he marched 80 miles a day.

But he knew that with Hauge's arrogance, he would definitely not listen to him.

This fell into his own trap, causing Hauge's Zhenglan Banner to fall behind and serve as his rear guard.

……

at the same time,

Cao Huachun led the Ming army in pursuit without stopping and continued to receive intelligence from the Embroidered Uniform Guard.

"A unit of the Later Jin army landed in Yutian, Jizhou, and Changping and looted?"

"It's less than forty miles away from us. Should we go east to chase the main force or this one?" Li Banghua unfolded the map and couldn't help asking.

"Zhenglan Banner? Hauge's troops." Lu Xiangsheng narrowed his eyes suddenly, "Commander Cao, I suggest pursuing the Zhenglan Banner."

"Okay, let's go after the Zhenglan Banner led by Hauge." Generals including Cao Huachun, Li Banghua, Lu Xiangsheng, and Qin Liangyu made a quick decision.

"Huang Degong, Sun Yingyuan, Ma Xianglin, you take the cavalry and set off first, and try your best to block this Qing army in the Miyun and Jizhou areas."

"The musketeers can ride horses, so follow them."

Seven thousand war horses were captured on the battlefield and came in handy at this time.

Thirty-five thousand cavalrymen, plus three thousand musketeers, set out like this.

Although the Ming army had fought for so many days in a row and was physically and mentally exhausted after yesterday's mud, each of them felt an indescribable motivation in their hearts when they thought about defeating the Tartars and gaining military merit.

The artillery and infantry could only fall behind, but because they had artillery carts and horses pulling them, and because the ground suddenly became dry sixty miles north of Tianjin, their speed was very impressive even if they traveled at full speed.

"kill!"

……

Inside the palace, at noon, a Jinyiwei reported that Wang Chengen had gone out and brought back a letter.

"What's the matter?"

"Your Majesty, the Qing captive Huang Taiji has sent another letter."

"Oh?" Zhu Changgan took the handwritten letter from Huang Taiji, "I saw that the people of the Ming Dynasty were suffering, and I often advised myself to live in harmony and break the rules. I hope to share peace with your country. I wrote letters many times, but I didn't receive a reply."

"I wonder if the ministers below were so deceitful that they didn't report it to the Ming court, or if the Ming court just watched the people suffer and die without doing anything? They don't want peace?"

"Several days ago, I sent ministers to discuss peace with your country, but it has not progressed. I wonder why?"

Zhu Changgan couldn't help laughing when he saw Huang Taiji's arrogant tone in the letter.

At this point, Zhu Changgan naturally would not pay attention to Huang Taiji's so-called peace talks.

He wrote two letters to himself in two consecutive days, which seemed full of sincerity, but Zhu Changgan understood that the other party was just suddenly confused and wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to stabilize the Ming Dynasty.

Just to find out the reason for this failure.

Everything is done to raise a sharper axe and chop down the big tree of the Ming Dynasty.

"At this time, you still speak in this tone. It seems that you are used to being proud and still can't recognize the situation!"

……

　I have something to do today, so this is the only chapter I'll write. I'll continue with two chapters tomorrow.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)