Nanming Engineer

Chapter 233
Wang Zhaolin's personal guards and entourage are all Lianjiazi, and they are fast and accurate. Of course, they will not naively want to kill a bloody road to protect Wang Zhaolin from escaping. In that case, hundreds of crossbows around them can shoot them instantly. into a sieve.

All they wanted was to hijack Li Yan, as long as they held the leading general in their hands, they wouldn't be afraid that the gang of Ming soldiers in strange white robes would obediently let go of a way.So although they didn't have any weapons or knives in their hands, they used the capture technique and rushed forward.

Although several people jumped up at the same time, there was a little bit of sequence. The one who jumped the fastest was a short and thin man.He jumped up, his hands were bent like eagle claws, his nails were deliberately polished and sharp, and he grabbed Li Yan's neck with a strong wind. As long as he caught, Li Yan's throat would be firmly locked. With a little force, Li Yan's Adam's apple can be crushed.

When Li Yan turned his head, the pair of eagle claws were already in front of his eyes, and the surrounding white-robed soldiers were attracted by Yan Ximing's cry, and they didn't even turn their heads. React to human outbursts.

The corner of the thin man's mouth twitched slightly, and a grin appeared.

But it was empty.

His eagle claws passed over Li Yan's chin without pinching anything. Because of the excessive force, the thin man had to draw his arms in a semicircle in the air before regaining his momentum.

At that moment just now, Li Yan fully revealed the true nature of a veteran who walked back and forth between life and death. It was too late for him to draw a knife to block or dodge. Like paper, he fell backwards, avoiding the blow.

Then he took advantage of the situation and fell to the ground, rolled over, and staggered several positions, causing several people who rushed after him to fall into the air at the same time.

The thin man got anxious, turned over and went up again, his position was forward, the closest to Li Yan who was rolling on the ground, he jumped over with one foot, and stepped on Li Yan's head directly with an eagle pedal.

Li Yan's long knife cannot be used in this situation, the blade is too long.He rolled around a few times, and just as he was about to stand up, he saw a leg fall from the air, and the sole of his foot stepped straight on his face. The ground hit the skinny man's sole, with a crisp "snap", the skinny man let out a scream, as if his ankle had been hit and he fell to the ground.

All this happened in just one or two breaths, and at this moment, the surrounding white-robed soldiers realized that as soon as a dozen spears were stretched out, several followers immediately lost their chance and were forced to dodge and avoid the spears.

With this skill, Li Yan jumped up, dodged into the spears, and shouted: "Fire the arrows, don't let anyone go!"

The white-robed soldier holding the mountain-destroying crossbow never put it down at all. When he heard Li Yan's order, the arrow shot out like a locust. Died under the arrows.

Li Yan had a straight face, and without unsheathing the long sword in his hand, he raised his arms and threw it directly like a javelin. He accurately hit an old man with a white beard on the awning boat who was about to jump into the river. The old man bent his knees. "Ouch" he screamed and fell back on the boat, unable to move.

It turned out that when Li Yan dodged the thin man's first attack, Wang Zhaolin realized that something was going to go wrong, took advantage of the chaos and climbed into the boat, trying to jump into the river to survive, but was caught by the sharp-eyed Li Yan.

A few white-robed soldiers rushed forward, and dragged Wang Zhaolin down like a chicken.

Wang Zhaolin was ashamed, unable to stand upright, moaning incessantly, it seemed that Li Yan's blow probably broke his leg bone.

At this time, the white-robed soldiers who searched on the other ships came ashore and reported to Li Yan happily: "My lord, the ship is full of iron boxes, and the mouths are extremely heavy. Brothers pry open a few mouths, and there are gold boxes inside." There are countless ingots of silver ingots! I don’t know how many treasures are on board!”

"Oh?" Li Yan's eyes widened, he opened his mouth happily, and said with a laugh: "It's a coincidence, I didn't expect that I would stop a windfall for Mr. Wang today."

He looked at Wang Zhaolin with a smile, and said: "It turns out that Prime Minister Wang was going to leave with so much gold and silver. Now that I, Li, are here, you can't leave."

Wang Zhaolin's face was ashen and he said nothing, as if he was about to live or die casually. He knew that he could not survive, so he simply didn't speak.But the fate of Yan Xi in the distance is different. This fat man is greedy for life and afraid of death. He only wants to save his life. It was Zhang Xianzhong, the demon king, who had been accumulating for several years, and was taken out of the palace by Wang Zhaolin, wanting to go to the Tartars. Although there were a lot of property on board, it was far more than that. Woolen cloth!"

"Huh?" Li Yan's eyes widened. Grandma's, there are more than a dozen large ships here, and they haven't been loaded yet. Wang Zhaolin has others hidden. Has the thief been saving money all these years?
His expression changed, and he looked at Wang Zhaolin with a half-smile, as if he was looking at a living God of Wealth. He stretched out his hand and pinched Wang Zhaolin's chin to remove his mandible, so as to prevent the old man from biting his tongue and committing suicide. Its five flowers were tied up, and when it was dawn, they were taken to see Wang Huan, and of course, there were more than a dozen boats of gold and silver.

Li Yan was in a very happy mood, even the water pass was not so important, compared to running away with a few thieves, the harvest here was huge.He raised his head and looked at the half of the sky that was reddened by the fire in the city. The morning star twinkling in the sky before dawn was already very bright. If Mr. Zhao were here, he must have knocked on his clapper and shouted, "Five watch, go to bed early and get up early." "Are.

It was almost dawn, and the city of Chengdu was about to change hands.

When the first ray of sunlight illuminated the gloomy peaks of Dajian Mountain, Ma Xintian, who was sleeping on the gate of Jianmen, opened his eyes.

He had already slept in this Guanlou, which was no more than ten feet long and five feet wide, for more than ten days. He was accompanied by [-] soldiers under his command.

Over the past few days, news has come one after another from the direction of Guangyuan. At first, Zhang Xianzhong heard that his retreat was cut off. Lei Lei was furious and wanted to lead his troops back to reorganize his troops in Guangyuan. Later, Hauge pursued him and Zhang Xianzhong left. No more, in a great battle, the Great Western Army was defeated again, but the Qing soldiers also suffered heavy casualties, because this time the battlefield was no longer the Hanzhong Plain, but the Sichuan Mountains. The Mongolian cavalry could not exert its maximum power without cavalry interspersion. After breaking the formation, although the Qing infantry was strong, the soldiers brought by Li Dingguo were also not afraid of death. After the two collided, the Daxi Army withdrew to Xichong. After paying the price, he pursued him.

Later, the news of Zhang Xianzhong's death came.

Although Liu Jinzhong died at the hands of Wang Huan, there were still many generals of the Daxi Army who took refuge in the Tartars. On the Fenghuang Mountain in Xichong, the Daxi Army formed a formation and fought against the Qing army for several days. The Qing army was false and false, and climbed the mountain to observe the enemy in person, and was recognized by the traitors who took refuge in the Qing army. The Qing army hurriedly mobilized the Eight Banners soldiers to besiege. Zhang Xianzhong, a generation of heroes, was shot by a cold arrow and died on the mountain.

Once Zhang Xianzhong died, the Great Western Army was leaderless and formed a mess. The Qing army took the opportunity to attack, and the Great Western Army was defeated again. In order to get back Zhang Xianzhong's body, Sun Kewang led the army with wounds and fell into battle. He was surrounded heavily and died under random arrows. Weeping to the north, weeping endlessly, the corpse was out of breath, like a god of war, and the Qing soldiers looked sideways at him.

Under the leadership of Li Dingguo, the rest of the Great Western Army retreated westward and entered the vast mountains. Hauge got Zhang Xianzhong's head and initially achieved his goal, so he stopped chasing and withdrew to Guangyuan.

As a result, the situation became as Wang Huan expected, and Ma Xintian, who was in the Jiange, directly faced Hauge's army.

Guarding Jianmen alone, Ma Xintian showed no fear. In the past few days, he had only done one thing, digging roads.

He burned everything that could be burned on the plank road from Jianmenguan to the north. For the stone road that could not be burned, he lifted the stone slabs and dug the roadbed so that monkeys could not walk. No matter how completely destroyed, he kept digging For dozens of miles, this main road in and out of Sichuan has become a dead end.

The reason for this, of course, is to buy time to settle the Chengdu area for Wang Huan in exchange for enough free time.After all, roads can be rebuilt, and when Shuzhong is sure, we need to find more folks and build plank roads.

He has already made up his mind to defend the Jiange even if he dies.

Ma Xintian's strong walls and clear fields made Hauge, who led troops from Guangyuan and intends to enter Sichuan, very unhappy.

The mountain breeze blows, the scenery is picturesque, the beautiful mountains in northern Sichuan and the great victory of Zhang Xianzhong did not make Hauge happy for long, because Dorgon, the hateful uncle, gave him the task of not only getting Zhang Xianzhong's head , and also captured the entire Sichuan.

If he fails to achieve his goal and capture Chengdu and returns to Beijing, Dorgon will definitely make a big fuss, waiting for Hauge, demotion and imprisonment are all light, maybe beheading and ransacking his home is possible, this vicious regent can do it.

Therefore, when Hauge led Aobai, Su Le, Wu Sangui and others to stand on the hillside, looking at the demolished plank road, his veins throbbed with anger.

"Bold! Minggou is so vile, destroying roads and bridges, why doesn't he dare to fight me dignifiedly?!" Hauge's roar could be heard from miles away, and everyone standing beside him was so angry. Everyone feels like a storm is blowing on the face.

Su Le stood quietly behind him and said softly: "Your Majesty, Ming Gou's style has always been like this, cowardly and timid, but in this way, we can also see that they fear us like tigers, because of the might of the Qing army. It’s evident.”

Aobai glanced at Su Le, and said with disdain: "So what? The Eight Banners Army is well known for its bravery, so you don't need to be impatient."

Su Le smiled lightly, as if he didn't hear it, and continued: "I'm afraid that the problem at hand will be delayed for some days. Only after the road is rebuilt can we proceed to Chengdu. The road repair and bridge building must be carried out as soon as possible."

"This king knows." Hauge said impatiently, turned his head and shouted: "Where is King Pingxi?"

Wu Sangui was standing in the back row, and his face turned dark when he heard the sound. Knowing that Hauge was going to assign the dirty work of road construction to the Han army again, he snorted dissatisfiedly, but then his face changed, and he was as usual He stepped forward and said in a vibrating voice: "The end is here!"

"I order you to order the Han troops and horses to repair the damaged plank road within ten days and prepare for the army to move south. If the road is blocked within the time limit, you will be punished for violating military orders!" Hauge said solemnly with a stern face.

Wu Sangui was itching with hatred in his heart, but he didn't dare to reveal anything on his face, he bowed down and promised loudly: "The last general is in charge, please rest assured, my lord!"

(End of this chapter)