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Chapter 718: Disaster Victims on the Road (1)

Luo Hu was ambushing the club halfway through Chongzhen's convoy to Tianjin, but his ambush plan failed.

Because Li Guodong's Huai Army had already captured Tianjin Wei, captured Tianjin Governor Feng Yuanyang, general Cao Youyi and deputy general Jin Bin. However, Tianjin Army Preparation Deputy Envoy Yuan Yuzong, general Lou Guangxian and Fubiao commander Yang Weihan escaped and took three thousand remaining soldiers to surrender to Li Zicheng.

In fact, Yuan Yuzong, deputy envoy of Tianjin's military preparatory road, and Yang Weihan, commander of Fubiao, had long colluded with the trespasses, intending to take the governor Feng Yuanyang hostage to surrender. However, Li Guodong's cavalry arrived, and the governor Feng Yuanyang was a stubborn old and stubborn person who did not know how to adapt. The rebel army surrounded the capital, and the capital was in danger. He also regarded Li Guodong as a rebel and blocked Li Guodong's army of support. Yuan Yuzong and Yang Weihan, who happened to surrender to the enemy, used this stubborn old man to send troops to attack Li Guodong's support army, but were defeated.

Cao Bianjiao and He Xing, who were left by Li Guodong to command the dragon cavalry, took advantage of the situation to attack Tianjin Guards. There were originally 5,500 defenders in Tianjin City. Cao Youyi led 3,000 people out of the city to fight Cao Bianjiao, but was defeated by Cao Bianjiao. He Xing ordered 500 nights not to accept the defensive soldiers, disguised as defeated soldiers, and smuggled into the city among the retreating Tianjin Guards, opened the city gate at night and placed 2,500 dragon cavalry into the city.

Although there were more than 4,000 defenders in the city, they were no match for the Huai Army at all and were defeated. Tianjin Governor Feng Yuanyang, general Cao Youyi and deputy general Jin Bin were captured. Yuan Yuzong, deputy envoy of the army who had long wanted to surrender to the thief, general Lou Guangxian and commander Yang Weihan, commander of Fubiao, fled to the enemy with the remaining soldiers.

After seizing the Tianjin Guard, Cao Bianjiao ordered 2,500 dragon cavalrymen to stay in the city and organized 5,000 civilians to help defend the city. Because Su Guansheng's Tianjin Navy received the news, he was preparing to retake Tianjin. Su Guansheng had more than 100 large-scale ships and more than 5,000 soldiers and horses under his command, and his strength should not be underestimated. Su Guansheng's personality was as stubborn as Feng Yuanyang. Before he met Chongzhen, he would definitely regard Li Guodong as a rebel and attack Tianjin fiercely, so He Xing could only defend Tianjin to the death and persevere until Chongzhen arrived.

Why didn’t Li Guodong go to Beijing to serve the king? Not only because it was very dangerous to go to the sea, but there was also another reason, considering Shen Tingyang’s Dengzhou Navy and Su Guansheng’s Tianjin Navy.

After capturing Tianjin, He Xing released all five hundred Yebuying. More than one hundred Yebuying arrived first and met with Li Guodong. Cao Bianjiao led four hundred Yebuben and then rushed there. On the way, they met Luo Hu, the general of the rebel army who was trying to ambush the Chongzhen convoy. As a result, a surprise attack, Cao Bianjiao easily defeated Luo Hu with four hundred elite soldiers.

"Your Majesty, I will be late to save you, and I will be punished for death!" Cao Bianjiao knelt on the ground with tears in his face when he saw Chongzhen.

Chongzhen looked for a long time before he recognized the Ming general in front of him as Cao Bianjiao. He was shocked and said, "Cao Aiqing, I didn't expect you to be alive!"

"Your Majesty, thanks to Wu Wei Bo who saved the Mo General. If it weren't for the brothers under Wu Wei Bo's command to save him, Mo General would not have seen His Majesty today."

"Cao Aiqing knows that the old thief Hong Chengchou has surrendered Jiannu?"

"I know, if General Mo had known that this thief would surrender to the enemy and rebel, General Mo would have cut him with one knife!"

After Cao Bianjiao joined the 400-night party, the strength of the Ming army escorted the convoy increased by 50%. More than 100,000 victims followed Li Guodong's team, which in fact invisibly played the role of protecting the Chongzhen convoy.

"Brother, 20,000 thieves are following us. Can these victims stop us?" Cao Bianjiao still decided not to feel relieved. After all, more than 100,000 victims have no combat power. If the rebel army forcibly rushed past, it would be useless to double the number of victims.

Li Guodong smiled slightly: "Because the leader of the rebel army is Li Yan, Li knows this person, Li Yan is kind-hearted and will definitely not wave a butcher knife at the victims. For so many victims, the first thing he thought of was to take out food to help the victims, rather than disperse and massacre the victims. If Li Zicheng comes in person, it would be a bad thing."

More than 100,000 victims followed the team slowly. Wu Weibo's reputation can be said to be very well-known among the people. Since Wu Weibo said that he had arrived in Tianjin, there would be food to rescue them. The people all believed what Wu Weibo said and followed them all the way to survive.

"Mom, I'm hungry." A little boy who was dying of hunger cried.

"Children, if you persist, you will have food to eat when you arrive in Tianjin." The mother comforted the child.

At this moment, someone in the team shouted: "Dear friends and fellow villagers, they all say that they eat and wear damn. When the King of Rebellion comes, they will not pay food. There will be a rebellion army behind them. We might as well join the rebellion army!"

But someone immediately refuted: "Traveling to the thief? If you want to die in a war, follow Wuweibo, they will not let us die, and they will also give us land!"

"Oh, I really can't walk anymore. The rebel army is coming soon. If we continue, we may die halfway before we reach Tianjin! It's better not to leave and wait for the rebel army to come!"

"No, the rebels are coming up, we will all be dragged to death."

The victims were divided into two types of people with different opinions. Some sat there and stopped leaving, while others still followed Li Guodong's team without hesitation, stepping away from each other, following the convoy toward Tianjin Guard.

"Military advisor, there are a large number of refugees in front of us! They blocked our way!" The scouts of the rebel army came back to report.

Tang Tong stood up: "Military advisor, this is Li Laoer's trick! He uses refugees to stop our army! Let the general go to the front. General is willing to lead the troops of the headquarters to disperse the refugees and capture the foolish emperor alive! If anyone doesn't have eyes and dares to stop my Dashun Tian soldiers, cut off a few heads!"

Before Li Yan could speak, Hongniang was furious and scolded: "General Tang, everyone in front of him is innocent people, but you are killing them. How can you bear it? Even if you can't catch the foolish monarch, you can't hurt the innocent people! Otherwise, we are better than the foolish monarch!"

"Madam, those who have become great people cannot be merciful. If our army does not disperse the refugees, they will probably be run away by the foolish lord!" Tang Tong wanted to cut Chongzhen with a knife as soon as possible. After all, the matter of his resignation to the enemy was very disgraceful. If Chongzhen really turned over, wouldn't they all lose their heads?

Li Yan retorted: "General Tang, Madam is right. The reason why I, Dashun, was able to invade the capital is not because of the common people?"

After saying that, Li Yan sent an order to go down and bury the stove on the spot to cook, asking the crusade to take out the food and cook porridge to help the victims.

Seeing Li Yan's order to stop moving forward, Tang Tong was so anxious that he stamped his feet: "Mr. Li is resourceful, but he is not cruel enough. How could such a person become a great man? If he runs away for the foolish monarch, we will chase him all day and have all his efforts to waste!"

Bai Guangen said: "I don't know when the army of the King of Chuang will arrive? It will be easier to handle it."

It was getting darker, and Li Guodong's night was not taken back and reported an important news: "As soon as possible, the rebel army stopped pursuing, buried the stove and cooked, and helped the victims."

Li Guodong ordered: "We have been walking for a day, and the brothers are exhausted and camped on the spot. By the way, General Cao, do you bring food?"

"Take it, and I will bring some out, but not many."

"It's good to have food. Let the brothers bury the stove and cook more porridge. There are more than 60,000 people following us. The porridge may be a little thin, but it can make them live. Otherwise, when we arrive at Tianjin Wei, I don't know how many people will die."

More than 3,000 Huai Army officers and soldiers, more than 1,000 agents, two hundred armed eunuchs and two hundred Wu Xiang family members, and more than 1,000 young and strong men who came to the road began to get busy and used an abandoned village to set up camp. Li Guodong asked someone to arrange Chongzhen's convoy in the middle, with two hundred armed eunuchs on the outside, and outside were two hundred personal guards and Wu Xiang family members. Further outside were three thousand cavalrymen and more than 1,000 young and strong men, and the outermost were sixty thousand victims.

Cao Bianjiao brought more than 400 nights and brought some fried rice noodles, noodles, steamed buns and other dry foods, which were all put into the pot. Even the bean cakes, black beans and the like used by the war horses were taken out, ground and put into the pot.
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