Chapter 118: Safeguard your official promotion
In the Qing Dynasty, what other good things can the Han people do besides being bullied?
If you are beaten by a bannerman, you cannot complain, or resist, and you cannot show anger. Otherwise, if you are beaten to death, you will die in vain. At most, they will pay a little money and receive some punishment without any pain.
If the Han people dare to fight back when they are beaten, then the ones waiting for will not be death or the family will be destroyed.
Therefore, Qiu Yun believed that if he was a bannerman, he could shout to the Han people: I am a bannerman. This is a matter of face.
I don’t know if it was Li Laojiu’s words. Qiu Yun found that the soldiers passing by did not cause any harm to them, and did not even say a harsh word.
They all smiled and asked them to stay here, so that they would not move around and be fine.
Some people kept surrendering on the battlefield, and some even were cavalrymen.
Seeing the scene on the battlefield, Li Shiyao wanted to rush over and kill the surrendered Qing soldiers one by one, so as not to lose face of the Qing court.
"General, leave here quickly! Otherwise, it would be difficult for the defeated soldiers to escape here..."
"Yes, General. Stay with the green mountains here, and you won't be afraid of burning firewood. We still have more than 20,000 troops, and after rushing out, we can organize people to fight again..."
………
At this time, the gang leader beside Li Shiyao and his personal staff kept persuading him to escape from the battlefield quickly.
Seeing that his own situation was over in the battlefield, although Li Shiyao was unwilling to accept it, the situation of the battle was no longer something he could control.
"They are right. There are more than 20,000 soldiers outside. I have left the green mountains and are not afraid of burning firewood." Li Shiyao thought about this, so he no longer hesitated.
"Okay, everyone, evacuate with me." Li Shiyao turned his horse's head and shouted loudly to the people around him.
"yes…"
After hearing this, everyone answered, they all got on their horses and followed Li Shiyao out.
………
A mountain wind blew, bringing the smell of gunpowder smoke on the battlefield in the distance.
Yang Yingju and Sitku looked at the battlefield in the distance under a large pine tree on the hillside, with a stunned look on their faces.
The result of this war was completely beyond their imagination and did not follow the script they designed.
Everything came too suddenly, and it was over before the show even started.
I originally thought that even if I couldn't defeat them, I could at least hold them back and wait for the soldiers outside to join in and wipe them out.
But
"What's going on? This rebel is so strong? General Xi, did we raise a tiger for the priest?" Yang Yingju had already regretted the previous agreement with Zhang Rui.
On the other hand, Sitku heard that Yang Yingju was so shocked by the result of the war, he quickly corrected him loudly and said:
"What did Governor Yang say? How could we condone this rebel? We have been sieging him all the time, but we failed because we were underestimated before. Now General Li has called 8,000 troops and was defeated by him. It is normal for a few people to be defeated."
After hearing Sitku's words, Yang Yingju also came back to his senses. He knew that what he had just said was indeed inappropriate. He felt grateful to Sitku in his heart and quickly agreed with Sitku's statement.
"Yes, Xi Dutong is right. It's not that we don't work hard to encircle him, it's that the enemy is really strong. The situation of General Li now just proves this. It seems that to encircle Zhang Ruide, more warriors from our Qing Dynasty, can be enough to encircle Zhang Ruide. .”
"Well, that's right. How could we do anything that would harm the emperor when we receive the emperor's favor? As long as General Li needs me to serve, we will do our best to help him." Sitku
He said passionately.
In fact, Sitku didn't know why he said this. Logically, no one present dared to go out and talk nonsense. But he has always been used to being an official, but he still felt that it would be safer to say a few more words like this. Otherwise, the guy around him would be silly.
If you are not strict and go out to spread a few words, it will be uncomfortable for you.
"The Xitu Tong is right, I'm not that right." Yang Yingju was very satisfied with Sitku's performance at this time. At the same time, the sad expression on his face inadvertently said to Sitku:
"Xi Dutong, now that the war is like this, I think it will be useless for me to wait here again. Why don't we leave first and then join General Li and his men?"
"Governor Yang's words are reasonable, and I think so too. As he is anxious here, it's better to find General Li who rushed out before making plans." Sitku had no other objection to Yang Yingju's words.
Although this place is still a distance from the battlefield, as the battlefield war is over, Zhang Rui's men will definitely recruit here.
If I was still stupid here, I might not say that I would be captured again. With the experience of the last time, Sitku didn't want to do it again.
So, when Yang Yingju said he would leave, Sitku was willing to leave. Anyway, he was going to take office in Xinjiang. If he really couldn't do it, he would just leave with some stains.
If Sitku is still captured this time, then all this would be a loss for him.
"Okay, let's go!" Yang Yingju replied, then led his personal soldiers around him, Li Kaifu and others who were protecting him not far away, and Sitku to the bottom of the road.
At this time, the scout team members who were walking around behind the battlefield in advance as Zhang Rui wanted was coming to the foot of the mountain behind the battlefield.
Zhang Rui never questioned his ideas about the troops who defeated Li Shiyao. So he asked the scouts' team to detour behind the battlefield early on, so as to capture prisoners.
"Report to the captain, there is a group of people over there, looking like officials." The scout team of the bandit suppression team wanted to salute Li Dali and said, "
"Haha, good thing, it seems we are going to catch big fish again." Li Dali, who heard this, immediately laughed and said, "Brothers, follow me to catch big fish."
"Yes, captain..."
The whole team answered in unison, and then ran with Li Dali's footsteps.
"Governor General, we are stared by the enemy. I will take people to block them now, so run away quickly." Kai-Fu Lee felt something was wrong and hurriedly said to Yang Yingju.
"What's going on? Isn't this far from the battlefield? Why did Zhang Rui's people come here so quickly?" Yang Yingju asked in panic when he heard Li Kaifu's words.
Like Sitku, he was also afraid to become Zhang Rui's prisoner again. And if he became Zhang Rui's prisoner this time, it would be really unfair.
Chapter completed!