Daming: Stealing Chen Yuanyuan at the beginning

Chapter 43
Yan Yingyuan jumped into the water, and for a moment, he could still see the brilliant sunset in the sky through the clear water waves, as if the kingdom of heaven was within reach.

Farewell, I am a splendid country of the Ming Dynasty!
Farewell, I am the Ming Dynasty Stars and Seas!
Farewell, Your Majesty; Farewell, Homeland; Farewell, Chen Mingyu, Farewell, Feng Houdun, my two good brothers!
Yan Yingyuan closed his eyes, feeling oppressed in his chest.Just when he was about to drown, he suddenly felt his body float up, and he seemed to see someone hugging him in a hazy state.

When Yan Yingyuan woke up, he didn't know where he was, and he didn't know what night it was.

He was lying on a wooden plank covered with straw, and the space he was in was narrow and cramped, like a cave, and it was so quiet that there was no sound, more like a tomb.

"Am I dead or alive?" Yan Yingyuan was in a daze.

A voice sounded: "Sir, you finally woke up!"

Yan Yingyuan tried his best to open his eyes wide and looked over, and saw a man with messy beard and hair, holding an oil lamp, bending over to look at him with a smile on his face.

"Who are you? Where am I?" Yan Yingyuan asked hurriedly.

"In the next seventh day, this is the elm forest outside Liaocheng. You have been lying in the tunnel for half a month. Goodness, you finally woke up!"

"Elm Forest...Ren Qi..." Yan Yingyuan just woke up, his mind was a little dull, and after a long while, he suddenly called out, "You are Ren Qi?"

But it involved the knife wound on his chest, the pain made him gasp and almost passed out.

"Sir, don't get excited, it's important to take care of your health." Ren Qi put down the oil lamp, poured Yan Yingyuan a bowl of water, and said with a smile, "Why, sir know me?"

Yan Yingyuan drank the water and felt much more comfortable. He breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Thank you for saving your life! When I was in Xuzhou, the emperor mentioned you to me, and told me about the bet with you in Yulin, Liaocheng."

"Chongzhen really holds grudges!" Ren Qi spat.

"Your Excellency misunderstood. The reason why the emperor mentioned you is to let me find an opportunity to get acquainted with you. The emperor said that in the future, people in Yulin will become a force against the Manchu Tartars. I hope that you and I will cooperate. It is a pity that I After arriving in Liaocheng, I was so busy that I forgot about it, and I owed the emperor's great trust!"

In history, Ren Qi, a group of bandits hiding in Yulin, saw the brutality of the Tartars and raised the banner of anti-Qing righteousness.They relied on the dense Yulin and the excavated tunnels extending in all directions, which once caused the Qing soldiers a headache.

These people were called the "Yuyuan Army". Later, the Manchu Qing sent a large group of troops to kill them. They set fire to Yulin and flooded the tunnels due to the bursting of embankments. Finally, the Yuyuan Army was killed.

When Li Cunming watched Ren Qi leave without stopping it, it was because he had read history books and knew the name of the Yuyuan Army, so he didn't make a fuss with Ren Qi.

"I, Ren Qi, will never cooperate with Chongzhen!" Ren Qi said firmly.

Seeing that Ren Qi was full of resentment towards the emperor, Yan Yingyuan smiled wryly, and then changed the subject: "How is Liaocheng now?"

Ren Qi was suddenly furious, and said with red eyes: "Damn Tartars, after the city was broken, they slaughtered for ten days! In ten days, more than [-] people in Liaocheng were all killed by the butcher's knife. There are many bones and blood. Drifting oars, the city was burnt to nothing... Liaocheng is wiped out!"

At the end, Ren Qi covered his eyes, and there was the sound of crying in his voice.

"Ah..." Yan Yingyuan felt dizzy and suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood.

Ren Qi hastily persuaded: "Sir, don't be so angry that you will not burn your body. If you keep the green hills, you will not have to worry about no firewood. Only if you are alive, can you fight with the Tartars and avenge the people of Liaocheng!"

"Sir, you have been in Liaocheng for more than a month. I admire what you have done. Otherwise, I would not have rescued you when you drowned yourself. Don't worry, with my Ren Qi here, sir will never be in any danger !"

"Brother Ren, I...I want to visit Liaocheng..." Yan Yingyuan begged.

In the middle of the night, Ren Qi and several of his subordinates drove Yan Yingyuan to the east gate of Liaocheng in a wheelbarrow.

Liaocheng was dilapidated, with broken walls and ruins everywhere, and the four city gates had been demolished.

After the Qing soldiers slaughtered the city, not a single soldier remained, and Liaocheng was completely dead, with no value to be used.

The night is dim, like hell on earth.The sound of the wind is whistling, like ten thousand ghosts crying together.

A few jackals wandered around the ruins, pulling out a corpse from time to time, gnawing on it.

Yan Yingyuan's face was pale, and he cried bitterly with trembling lips: "I'm sorry for the people of Liaocheng, I'm sorry for the common people of Ming Dynasty... The Qing soldiers originally only wanted to massacre the city for three days, and they blamed me for killing Boluo, so they started massacring the city for ten days...I'm guilty, I am guilty!"

Ren Qidao: "Sir, you are so confused. Is there any difference between massacring the city for three days or ten days? The ones who are guilty are the Tartars, these inhuman beasts!"

Then he took Yan Yingyuan's hand, half to comfort him, half to plead with him: "Mr. has led a thousand soldiers to stand firm for a month. He is a talented soldier. I really admire him! I also have thousands of people in my hand. If you don't If you don't like it, let us kill the Tartars, okay?"

A few people next to him knelt down and said, "Sir, please lead me to kill the Tartars!"

Yan Yingyuan held back his tears, looked up to the sky and sighed, and looked at Ren Qidao: "I have a mortal enmity with the Tartars in this life, so naturally I will fight to the end. But can you promise me one condition first?"

"Sir, please speak!"

"We can no longer hide in Yulin. Yulin is actually not dangerous. If the enemy sets fire and floods you, ask yourself, can those tunnels stop the fire and flood? Brother Ren, the emperor asked me to tell you, go to Yimeng Mountain Go fight guerrilla warfare!"

Ren Qi paced back and forth with his hands behind his back, and asked hesitantly: "In the Yulin, you can eat grass roots and bark to survive. How can you live in the mountains?"

"There are also grass roots and bark in the mountains, but don't worry brother Ren, I will immediately write to the emperor to report this matter when we settle down in Yimeng Mountain. The emperor also told me that he will find a way to bring us food. "

"Chongzhen really said that?"

"Brother Ren, why do you have such a big prejudice against the emperor? You should really go to Xuzhou and Ningling to take a look. They are full of vigor and vitality. Given time, it must be a thriving scene!"

"I don't care how Chongzhen is doing, I just care about killing a few more Tartars, without dragging ugly rat tails behind their heads. Forget it, let's go to Yimeng Mountain now."

Yan Yingyuan smiled gratifiedly, struggled to get off the wheelbarrow, lit three sticks of incense and knelt down, kowtowed many times, and burst into tears in an instant.

"Brother Chen, Brother Feng, it's not that I, Yan Yingyuan, wanted to live by chance. It's just a coincidence that I survived. Now I have more important things to do, so I won't be able to meet you under the Nine Springs for the time being."

"I, Yan Yingyuan, swear to the heavens that Yu Sheng and the Jiannu Tartars will never stand together. Even if I die, I will die on the road of fighting to kill the Tartars!"

"The soul has returned to protect my Ming Dynasty; the soul has returned to protect my family and country..."

The night was dark, and the sound of Yan Yingyuan's soul-calling wafted far away, people were saddened by it, and the world was saddened by it.

(End of this chapter)