Guide to traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty

Under the morning sun, Li Bao was standing on the bow of the boat, shirtless and holding a gun. Moreover, the boat was still very small.

He looked less like a general and more like a water bandit leader.

The entire battlefield was in chaos, with countless ships ramming across the river. The soldiers wanted to capture Tong Guan to receive the reward. There were also many soldiers who did not trust the Ming court and took the opportunity to drive their boats to the shore and escape, disappearing into the mountains without a trace.

Being blocked by the rebel ships, Li Bao simply led his troops ashore to intercept and collect the escapees.

The seven hundred soldiers of the Ming Dynasty quickly gathered thousands of defeated troops.

Li Bao ordered these broken soldiers to form a team of a hundred men, and elected officers by himself. If the soldiers made trouble, he would hold the officers responsible.

But it was said that Tong Guan was surrounded by his soldiers in boats. When he was frightened, his general Xin Daozong also rebelled and scolded: "You eunuch, why don't you just tie up your hands!"

Tong Guan was furious: "It's true that I am one of the six thieves, how much better are you? In the past few years, you brothers have robbed so many battle exploits from friendly forces with the help of me, and they would like to skin you alive. Many of you have already Take refuge with Emperor Zhu, it is too late for you to betray the emperor now, even if you go to the new dynasty, you will not die well!"

This statement made Xin Daozong stunned, and then he yelled: "It will be a great achievement if I catch you, but I won't care if there is any trouble in the future! Listen to my order and rush over to catch Tong Guan!"

"Shoot arrows, shoot arrows, shoot whoever dares to come over to death!" Tong Guan hissed at the top of his lungs, as if he was crazy.

The soldiers around him were selected from the victorious army.

The soldiers looked at the approaching ships, and then exchanged glances with each other. The leader of the soldiers directly pushed Tong Guan down, and then shouted: "I have captured Tong Guan, please get out of the boat quickly!"

Another soldier rushed into the cabin, but they wanted to capture the puppet emperor and the queen mother.

"Wealth and wealth" are right in front of us. How can the soldiers on the surrounding ships be willing to retreat?

Tong Guan's soldiers were usually arrogant and domineering, but now they dared to snatch great achievements, which immediately made other soldiers even more angry.

New and old grudges were avenged together. They rushed over in their boats and fought bravely.

Even if the soldiers were frightened and ran away, many soldiers would not let them go easily. They rushed over and stabbed them randomly with swords and guns.

"There is treasure on the ship. Go and grab the treasure. I'm not worth the money!" Tong Guan shouted in horror.

A soldier rushed forward, pressed hard on Tong Guan, and shouted: "Don't come here again, I caught Tong Guan!"

Another soldier hugged Tong Guan's right leg: "I caught it too."

Several more soldiers came forward, grabbed Tong Guan's arms and left leg, and immediately declared his ownership of the limbs.

"Step aside!"

The soldiers further behind were anxious and wanted to drag the soldiers away from Tong Guan.

It was like a human-meat version of being quartered by five horses. The soldiers in front were dragging the boy's limbs, and the soldiers behind were dragging the soldiers in front.

Tong Guan screamed in pain: "If you are a man, please give me a hard time and kill me quickly!"

Xin Daozong was eager to avenge his crime and cut down a soldier with his sword, and angrily shouted: "Get out of my way, don't argue anymore!"

Xin Daozong killed two people in a row, frightening the other soldiers to retreat. The soldiers quickly realized - why am I still afraid of you now?

Immediately, a soldier stood behind Xin Daozong, fired a shot without warning, and then shouted: "This guy is also a traitor, and he will definitely get credit for killing him!"

The scene became more chaotic, and the soldiers fought for credit, and even went to the point of fighting with guns and knives.

Tong Guan was lying on the ground, being stepped on by the insurgents, unable to get up at all. Blood spilled from the corner of his mouth. He must have injured his internal organs. If he continued like this, he would be trampled to death.

From time to time, a corpse of a soldier would fall down, and he would go crazy trying to get the credit.

Li Bao asked his generals to collect the rebels who had landed on the shore. He stood on the shore and observed with a telescope, clearly seeing the spectacular scene on the ship.

This fellow had no intention of stopping him at all, and even gloated: "The dog thief Tong Guan is so lucky that he was treated like the overlord of Chu back then."

Because the competition for credit was too intense, a clever kid took advantage of the gap and slashed at Tong Guan's arm with a knife.

The knife failed to cut off the arm, so he quickly made two more cuts, then picked up the broken arm and jumped into the river.

"Ah... kill me quickly, kill me quickly, give us a good time!"

Tong Guan was so painful that he burst into tears, but he could not faint directly.

Someone made a demonstration, and others immediately followed suit, waving their knives at Tong Guan. In the blink of an eye, Tong Guan was cut into a human stick, and finally fell into a coma from the pain. In the end, even his head was cut off by the insurgents.

After dividing Tong Guan's body, these soldiers ran to divide Xin Daozong's body.

After all the corpses were removed, a melee broke out again, which frightened the soldiers who had "goods" in their hands and jumped into the river to escape.

"Little Emperor!"

Someone finally remembered that there was a puppet emperor in the cabin, so he ran to search the cabin, and soon started a fight with Tong Guan's soldiers hiding in the cabin.

Xie Ruyi, Mao Kui and other Fujian officials were escorted by soldiers one after another to Li Bao's side. They deceived the soldiers, saying that they would be meritorious if they were sent ashore, but they were very proficient in how to save their lives.

"The guilty minister xxx comes to see the general!"

A bunch of officials knelt down directly. Now they just wanted to survive and no longer cared about dignity.

Before these people could stand up, a soldier swam ashore, holding half of his arm in his arms, and rushed towards Li Bao crazily.

After being stopped by Li Bao's soldiers, the soldier knelt down, raised his arms and shouted: "General, this is the traitor Tong Guan. I only grabbed a piece, and I don't dare to ask for a big credit. Please give me a small credit, General!"

The civil servants turned pale with fear and hid behind Li Bao, fearing that some soldiers would come to divide their bodies.

The chaos lasted for nearly an hour, and the battlefield finally calmed down. Li Bao asked the civilian officials to take the surrendered soldiers to clean up the loot.

Not only were the puppet emperor and the queen mother captured, but also many treasures that Tong Guan had stolen from maritime merchants.

One of the three-foot-tall red corals made Li Bao's eyes grow hot. He smacked his lips and said to himself: "Take this treasure back and offer it to the prince. My mistake of sending troops privately can be deceived."

"Dangdangdangdang~~~"

At this moment, the soldiers on guard at the top of the mountain sounded a warning gong, and Li Bao quickly went over to ask what was going on.

The sentry also ran frantically down the mountain, panting and saying: "There are several boats coming in front, and there are many soldiers standing on the boats!"

"Form up a formation to defend against the enemy!"

More than 700 Kuizhou soldiers brought by Li Bao quickly formed a defensive formation on the shore.

The captured soldiers who had not yet completed their recruitment were also ordered to board the boats. Many boats blocked the Minjiang River to prevent the enemy from rushing over by boat.

However, I saw a few ships coming upstream. They landed early and stood there stupidly. A general came up alone and knelt down: "Mingzhou Defense Envoy Shen E, please pay homage to your Excellency, General Ming Dynasty!"

"Mingzhou? Are you soldiers from eastern Zhejiang?" Li Bao frowned.

The general named Shen E said: "At the beginning of the year, we followed Tong Guan to Fujian to suppress bandits. Because he wanted to return to his hometown, Tong Guan no longer trusted us. There were many brothers who were left behind by Tong Guan in Tingzhou and Jianzhou. Ning. A few days ago, we went with Xin Xingzong to Jianzhou to suppress the bandits. We were blocked by Nanjianzhou City halfway, so Xin Xingzong ordered the troops to withdraw back to Fuzhou."

Li Bao asked: "Where is Xin Xingzong?"

Shen E replied: "Last night he led his troops to land and station in Baisha Town. He also sent troops to plunder Baisha Town. Two ships were killed by the general and escaped. They met Xin Xingzong in Baisha Town. Xin Xingzong took them with him. The Shengjie army ran away, and all of us Jiangsu and Zhejiang soldiers were left behind by him."

Shen E was actually very guilty because Zhejiang soldiers like them were also involved in the looting of Minqing County and Baisha Town.

One by one, both hands are covered in blood.

It's just that everyone is looking forward to returning to Zhejiang, and their way is blocked by Jianzhou and Nanjianzhou, so they can only take the risk and surrender to Li Bao.

Li Bao asked about the situation carefully, and Xie Ruyi said: "If someone in Nanjianzhou blocks it, Xin Xingzong can only flee to Youxi. Then he goes over the mountains and ridges, collects ships at Qingyang Iron Station, and goes straight down Xixi to Quanzhou. , when you get to Quanzhou, you can escape to Guangzhou by sea ship."

"What states and counties are there along the way, and what is the specific terrain?" Li Bao asked.

Xie Ruyi said: "They are all connected by mountains, and they will pass through the three counties of Minqing, Youxi, and Qingxi (Anxi) along the way. It is best for the general not to pursue him. Xin Xingzong can find a place to disembark, and if he gets into the mountains, he will have to send a large army to search for him." Mountains are the best. I suggest you not to force him into the mountains. The general can take a sea ship to Quanzhou in advance and wait for Xin Xingzong to lead his troops into a trap."

Li Bao asked: "Can he only escape to Quanzhou?"

Xie Ruyi said: "Fujian is full of mountains, and there are only a few roads that are easy to walk. Xin Xingzong may not go to Quanzhou, but the march is extremely difficult, and it is likely to cause a mutiny in the victorious army. In order to appease the soldiers and escape as soon as possible, Xin Xingzong mostly Will run to Quanzhou."

Li Bao felt that Xie Ruyi was a talented person and asked, "What is your name?"

Xie Ruyi replied: "I am Xie Ruyi. He was originally a general judge of Jianzhou. He was promoted to a judge of Fujian for his merits in suppressing bandits."

"Have you ever led troops to fight?" Li Bao said with a smile.

Xie Ruyi said: "We are just annihilating a group of bandits in Jianzhou. We would never dare to do anything in front of the general."

Li Bao said: "Fuzhou is temporarily in your charge. You will be in charge of the civil affairs, and Yang Yingcheng will be in charge of the surrendered troops. Waiting for the imperial court to send someone to take over."

Zhao Qi also wanted to show off: "There are Fan rebels in Jianzhou and the governor of Nanjianzhou also supports military autonomy. The general can write to these two states to ask them to submit to the Ming Dynasty immediately to prevent the chaos from continuing to expand. Tingzhou and The two Zhejiang soldiers in Jianning can ask General Shen E to persuade them to surrender, and they can return home if they promise to submit to the Ming Dynasty."

"Very good. You are also a talented person. Please bring forward any strategies you have." Li Bao didn't know much about the situation in Fujian and was eager to use local officials to do things.

Cao Zai took the opportunity and said: "The governor of Zhangzhou is in the same year as me. I can write a letter to persuade him to surrender."

Mao Kui also said: "There is the Zhongliao gold farm in Shanghang. We must guard against the two Zhejiang soldiers looting the treasury, and we must guard against the officials there filling their own pockets. The general can send hundreds of elites to take over."

Cao Zai was enlightened and continued: "There are Longmen Silver Center, Meiying Silver Center, Longquan Silver Center, Shicheng Silver Center, Dayan Silver Center, and Shipai Silver Center in Nanjian Prefecture. The magistrate of Nanjian Prefecture must keep an eye on it. Well, it’s easy to embezzle a large amount of silver at this time!”

"So many banks?" Li Bao asked in surprise.

In order to please the new dynasty, these officials racked their brains to give Li Bao advice. They were not so active when serving as officials in the Song Dynasty.