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Chapter 892 Besieging the city and fighting for aid (1) (two more)

The Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang also knew that there must be a brave man under a heavy reward. Sure enough, after her decree was passed on, Feng Quan, Gang Lin, Wu Keshan, and Manzhu were baptized. If you add the hundreds of thousands of civilians in the city to the army and the Green Battalion, there are many people who are not afraid of death, and there are many officials who are not afraid of death.

After several layers of screening, two targets were selected: one named Zu Zerun, he was the eldest son of Zu Dashou, and the elder brother of Zu Zeyuan, of course he was from the ancestor family in Liaodong. When Zu Dashou, the proud man of the Ning Iron Cavalry Army, surrendered to Huang Taiji, he and his brother Zu Zeyuan also surrendered to the Manchu Tartars with their father Zu Dashou.

Later, Zu Dashou and Zu Zeyuan brought a Guanning iron cavalry with Dorgon to enter the customs. Zu Zerun stayed in Jinzhou as the deputy general of Jinzhou. Dorgon was defeated, and the entire Guanning iron cavalry was wiped out. Yuan died in battle, because Zu Zerun survived in the army, and now Zu Zerun joined the Zhenghuang Banner of the Qing army, and his official position was Gushan Ezhen.

This general has a bloody feud with the Ming army, and this general is the champion of the three armies, dismounting from his horse, with a sawtooth and wolf-fanged machete in his palm, he is invincible.

The other is Yeluqing, the king of Mongolia, who holds the three legs in the sky. Among the generals of the Mongolian army, he is a famous general. Niu Lu.

Yeluqing was originally Ning Yuan's defender, but now he wants to win the round.

The Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang was very satisfied with the qualifications and abilities of these two people, and felt that they were the most suitable candidates.

He personally summoned the two generals, and personally put them on the jade belt and brocade robes awarded to them, and rewarded them with three cups of royal wine, wishing them two generals a successful start and immediate success.

The two generals were grateful, and felt that it was worth it for the Queen Mother to love her so much.

The Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang handed them two letters with similar content. These two letters were written in blood with three feet of white silk by her broken middle finger.One was written to Xi Han, who was fighting against the Lee dynasty of North Korea on the banks of the Yalu River, asking him to return to King Jingqin immediately after seeing the blood letter.

The second letter was written to Aole, the chief of the Horqin tribe. This is the brother of Sanghe. Sanghe is the biological father of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, and Aole is the uncle of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang.Mangus, the chief of the Horqin tribe, gave birth to two sons, Sanghe and Aole. Now that Mangus and Sanghe are gone, the power of the Horqin tribe has fallen into the hands of Aole. He is not only the chief of the Horqin tribe, but also It's still Zarut, the Khan king of several tribes such as Abagai.

Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang now thinks of her natal family.These two generals said that even if they were heartbroken, they would break through the encirclement, deliver the letter, and bring in reinforcements.

After everything was ready, Xiao Zhuang ordered the two generals to sleep during the day so that they could recharge their energy so that they could enter the camp at night.In order to increase their chances of successfully breaking into the camp, the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang made a move to attack the west and organized a death squad of 3000 people to open the city gate to the east in the middle of the night to kill. , they killed from the west gate.

It was the third watch of the night, and 3000 Death Squadrons of the Qing Army opened the east gate, screaming and killing them.

Half an hour after the battle in the east, I felt that the attention of the Ming army was drawn to the battlefield in the east. This is when the gate of the west city was quietly opened, and 1000 Eight Banners elites protected Zu Zerun and Yeluqing and went out. .

This tactic was really effective. Of the 4000 troops, after more than half of the casualties in the two battlefields, two or three hundred people including Zu Zerun and Yeluqing really broke out of the encirclement.

The second general ran for more than 50 miles in one breath, and checked that the Ming army behind him was not chasing them. The two stopped, panting in the forest, and waited for the soldiers behind to catch up.

It was dawn at this time, and when we rested for about half a stick of incense, there were no more than 260 people who followed.

The two of them secretly rejoiced in the mountains and forests, and felt a little strange.

The last time the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang personally led a team to cheer, that was when all 11 troops were mobilized, and two groups of people opened two city gates, but they failed. Not a single soldier can kill it.

But today they have only 4000 people in the two groups, but they succeeded in breaking through and brought out hundreds of soldiers, which is simply a miracle.

Feeling that the blood book on his body was still there, the two generals did not dare to delay any longer, and each led more than 100 horses to part ways, one headed east, the other headed west, and disappeared into the mountains and forests in the blink of an eye.

After they left, several Jinyiwei of the Ming Army jumped out of the forest. They were all dressed in black, with pointed straw hats on their heads, and all embroidered spring knives hanging from their waists. They met together.

One of them was Jinyiwei Baihu, who ordered a few of his subordinates: "Tell the brothers to stop following, so as not to be discovered by these Tartars, go back and give orders."

"Master Baihu, it's really cheap for them. Why let them go out to send letters and move troops to hundreds of people? Wouldn't it be enough for them to rush out and ride two people?"

"That's right, Lord Baihu, these hundreds of fish that slipped through the net don't need an expeditionary force. Our Jinyiwei can completely wipe them out. Hundreds of people took their lives for nothing. He won't be grateful to us, and thinks he is extremely brave. It is really able to break through the tight encirclement, I have no idea that this is His Majesty's strategy."

"Hush! Say a few words less, close the team!" Jin Yiwei Baihu stared blankly, no one dared to speak...

In the big tent of the imperial camp of the Ming army, Li Quan was reporting the incident to Zhu Yousong.

Zhu Yousong smiled: "Good job, reinforcements from the Qing army will come soon, so I can besiege the city and fight for reinforcements."

A few days later, by the bank of the Yalu River, Zu Zeyuan appeared in front of Xihan with a group of riders, explained what happened, and took out the blood letter of Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang.

While Xihan was shocked, he burst into tears after reading the blood book.Xihan is the confidant minister of Dorgon and the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang. He never expected that in just a few months of his expedition to Yalu, the Qing Dynasty would experience a catastrophe. Shanhaiguan was defeated and the regent Dorgon was killed. Ningyuan and Jinzhou were all lost, and Emperor Shunzhi was also captured by Zhu Yousong.Now the capital Shengjingjing is trapped by more than 20 expeditionary troops of the Ming Dynasty, and is in danger.

Xihan immediately rectified his troops, joined Zu Zerun's army, left the Yalu River front, and ignored the troops of the Lee Dynasty in North Korea. Thirty thousand elite soldiers with white flags hurriedly headed for King Qin of the capital.

At about the same time, a yurt in the Horqin tribe of Mobei Mongolia welcomed a group of special guests, including more than 100 people like Yeluqing.

Yeluqing was also a Mongolian, and when he saw Aole, he hurriedly saluted, explaining that after passing by, he took out the blood letter of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang.

When Aole saw it, he was furious, and immediately gathered [-] Mongolian cavalry to go straight to Shengjing.

　Today I can only make two changes for everyone, and the poverty alleviation will continue tomorrow.Departing on time at 7 o'clock in the morning, it is estimated that it will be another day.I'm going crazy……

　　
　
(End of this chapter)