Nanming Engineer

Chapter 476

On the way, they were besieged by several groups of Ming troops. This group of Qing soldiers had men and horses, which attracted the Shanxi rebels who were hunting around. Under the high price of a real Tatar's head worth five taels of silver, the entire Luliang army The men who can hold swords in Shandong are all on the move. Tigers are bullied by dogs in Pingyang. The invincible Eight Banners soldiers have become golden dolls in everyone's eyes. The natives who come and go freely are frantically searching in the mountains and fields. Soldiers became the best targets, and there was even a fight for the heads of a dozen Eight Banners soldiers. The two groups of rebels fought first, and ignored the Eight Banners soldiers who still held weapons as if they were clay statues of Bodhisattvas.

I got entangled with these rebels who wanted to make a fortune, lost some people, lost their way on the mountain, and lost some people after going around. After such a toss, there are less than 500 people following Dorgon at this time. .

When retreating on the battlefield, it is impossible to have the opportunity to bring supplies. In the past few days, I have eaten and slept in the open, hoping to go out of the mountains and get some food, drink and clothes in the county in front of me, but I didn’t expect it to be a land. The rammed city wall was soaked in water and a large piece collapsed, so there was really no need to get a raft in.

"My lord, there is still half a rabbit that was killed yesterday, you eat some first, there is still a long way to go." Rosh took out a piece of rabbit meat from his bosom and handed it to Dorgon.

Dorgon took it, and even though the golden meat was roasted overnight, it still exudes a tempting aroma, especially for people who have been hungry all night, it is extremely tempting.

Dorgon sniffed, reached out and tore off a piece, and threw the rest back to Rosh: "Give it to everyone, eat some."

Luo Shi nodded, and gave two fist-sized pieces of rabbit meat to a Bashiku, and asked him to divide it up. This amount of meat was not enough to fit between the teeth of these fighters rolling on the tip of their knives.

"Take a break." Dorgon sat down on a big rock wearily. This place is close to the official road, and there is a piece of heavily weathered rock to block the wind. It is hidden and unknown, so you can beware of the pursuers behind: "They all ran away. It's been a night, and the dog will not chase here, so let's rest for a while before leaving, and fetch water to drink."

Luo Shi hurriedly gave orders, and the soldiers of the Eight Banners chose places to rest one after another. Some people went to fetch water from the river. The flood was so dirty that they had to be filled with water bags, or boiled to drink.

Dorgon closed his eyes and meditated. Rosh looked around, turned back, and sat nearby. Dorgon seemed to know his arrival, and asked with his eyes closed, "Is there any news from the direction of Datong?"

Luo Shi shook his head dejectedly: "No, the scouts sent out don't know if they can make it to Datong alive."

Someone came over and respectfully handed water bags to the two of them. Rosh took it and gave it to Dorgon first.

Dorgon took a sip of water, then slowly opened his eyes, returned the water bag to Luo Shi, and said in a deep voice: "It doesn't matter, Azig acts calmly. When he gets the news of our army's defeat, he will have a countermeasure. Hong The Prime Minister should be near Datong at this time and will tell him the strategy we have agreed on. Although it is a bit hasty, we have already transported the people and property in our hands northward. If we retreat, we will be too busy and there will be no big losses. .”

Luo Shi lowered his eyes and said with regret: "In this way, I, the Qing Dynasty, will return this beautiful country to the Ming Dynasty."

Dorgon smiled, and said disdainfully: "What's the pity? Taizu started his family in Liaodong, and lived a life of hunting and herding horses. If we lack anything, we can enter the customs and plunder it. How comfortable! Besides, we will leave the customs, and we will also go out of the customs." It’s not that they won’t come back. Now the population and property from all over the country have been transported to the outside of the customs. The outside of the customs has become a small south of the Yangtze River. Shengjing is comparable to Nanjing City. Life is not necessarily bad. Leave a mess to the Ming Dynasty and wait for them to build it again. , wouldn’t it be great if we call back again?”

Luo Shi's face lit up and he laughed loudly: "The Regent is still smart. Our Qing Dynasty is based outside the customs. It has nothing to do with us what happens inside the customs. If we can get it, we will get it. If we can't get it, we will rob it to pieces. We will come again next time! Hahaha !"

"The Han people say it well, you can bend and stretch, you are a real man." Dorgon took another sip of water, smacking his tongue and said: "Wang Huan is proud at the moment, but he has offended many Ming bureaucrats in secret. One item cut off a lot of people's money, but he made a fortune, but he made a lot of big clans in the Ming Kingdom lose their money. Once we leave, not only will there be a mess in the customs, but also many internal conflicts in the Ming Kingdom will emerge. It's easy to hide a gun, but hard to defend against an arrow in the dark, these bad things are enough to wear down Wang Huan."

Luo Shi laughed and said: "I listened to the lectures of Han officials, saying that in the past, Han people liked fighting in the nest the most, so why did the emperor kill the most powerful general in the Song Dynasty? After a while, let's cultivate our health and rest outside the pass, and when we have enough energy, we will come back and kill him without leaving a single piece of him!"

"Although internal strife is good, it has to be fanned to make it look good." Dorgon narrowed his eyes to resist the scorching sun above his head: "Prime Minister Hong has made arrangements and sent an envoy to the Ming Dynasty court in the south to slander him. , I don't believe that Wang Huan won't fall!"

After hearing this, Rosh became even more excited. He came closer and was about to say something, but he heard someone rushing towards him from a distance, shouting urgently: "There are traces of a Ming dog behind, hurry up!"

Startled, the two got up quickly, turned over and left.

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Datong.

As usual, Jiang Yu got up on time every morning when the sun was just emerging, drank a bowl of porridge that was getting thinner, and stepped onto the city wall with a knife in his hand.

For such a long time, every wall at the top of Datong City has scars left by the war, and some places that saw fiercely, even collapsed and repaired and collapsed, pitted and dilapidated, but miraculously still firmly controlled by the Jiang family. hands.

The soldiers guarding the city have long been numb, as if the fighting of that day has not ended. Day after day, when they go to bed at night, they have to express their gratitude to the gods and put their palms together to pray that they can still survive tomorrow.

Although the siege of the Qing army was slack, the long wooden fence and trench outside the city, which looked like another city wall, was a boulder weighing on the hearts of the people in the city. The people in the city seemed to be in a huge prison, like mice. To stay alive, waiting for the cat outside the city to have enough fun, launch a thunder strike, and kill him.

Jiang Yan was very conflicted in his heart. He regretted not breaking out of the Qing army's siege a few days ago and stayed in the city with luck. On the other hand, he also speculated with great hope on what happened outside the city. What kind of great changes happened to make the Qing soldiers besiege but not attack.

He inspected the city wall every day, and at sunset, he would secretly climb up the high, er, arrow tower, and look into the distance in the shadows that the Qing army gunners could not see.

In the Qing army camp, there are still layers of tents that can't be seen at a glance, with flags like clouds and soldiers like seas.

This made his hopes sink to the lowest point, and he went down depressed, curled up in the cold cave and fell asleep.

This was his life, and it had been like this for several months, so much so that when the Qing soldiers were attacking the city and bombarding them with artillery fire, he had to remind himself all the time and cheer up his soldiers in this way, so that he could keep the determination to persevere in his chest. inside.

"Brothers, hold on!" He shouted loudly, running back and forth on the city wall: "The army of the imperial court is on the way outside, and we will soon arrive in Datong. As long as we persevere, we will be heroes of the imperial court, and we will be rich and prosperous, just around the corner!"

The pancakes were flying in the air, but they didn't know when they would hit the ground.

This morning, when he was still drinking porridge with a porcelain bowl, a personal guard stumbled in and whimpered in a voice that didn't seem like a human being, Jiang Yu's heart almost jumped out.

He dropped the bowl, let it break into pieces on the ground, and rushed to the top of the city without even taking the knife.

All the soldiers looked outside the city, pointing and pointing, half-believing, half-happy, half-concerned.

Jiang Yu jumped on one side of the crenel, saw outside the long trench, the camp of the Qing army, which was dotted like a wheat field, and began to move slowly.

Teams of neat soldiers and horses are lining up, the iron cannons are dragged onto the gun mounts, and the carts are loaded with luggage.

Jiang Guan rubbed his eyes, affirming all this, his tears were about to flow out.

The pie fell to the ground.

(End of this chapter)