"Your Highness, there have been defeated soldiers along the coast!" Lin Shaozong's eyes were sharp-eyed. In the early morning, he immediately discovered a large number of defeated soldiers running along the coast.

There is no doubt that this could not be the soldiers who fled from Ningyuan, but they can only be said to be the defeated soldiers trapped on the Yushui side.

But ships from further directions reported that there were more than a thousand Donghu cavalrymen, not far behind these defeated soldiers, and the nearest was no more than twenty miles away.

Everyone's eyes were focused on Xu Zixian. How to make a decision can only be seen by the Prince of Kaifu.

This time, Xu Zixian was not following him. Qin Dongyang took the First Army to Fuzhou. Liu Yi was in Luzon, and the Ge brothers led their troops to Qianzhou. Zhang Huchen's troops stationed in Fuzhou, defending the rear, and at the same time received war horses and marshalling the cavalry.

Lin Cunxin, Jin Baoyi, Wu Weisan and other important generals may lead their troops to Jianzhou and Tingzhou, or prepare to enter Jiangxi, and pursue and annihilate Li Kaiming's troops under the command of Qin Dongyang and Ge Cunzhong. The next step for the Ge brothers is to go to Hongdu. Qin Dongyang and Jin Baoyi and others will enter Jingnan and Jingbei before summer.

Before the end of the year, the government army will establish more than a dozen wing capitals, with a number of more than 300,000 people, and the navy officers and soldiers will be expanded to 100,000. The total number of the navy and land divisions will exceed 400,000. Among them, the cavalry will become one wing capital, five to six armies, and the expansion from one cavalry battalion is quite fast.

There are not many generals going north and there are not enough elites. If you decide, I am afraid that His Highness, the King of Qin, will feel quite embarrassed?

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On the other side of the sea, Yue Zhi and others also saw a large number of ships on the sea almost at about the time.

Many people can't believe it, and even rub their eyes repeatedly to make sure.

The fleet has more than a thousand ships, a large number of various sailing ships, small fishing boats, merchant ships, warships used by the sea, no matter what kind of ship it is, no matter what kind of ship it is, more than a thousand ships have been recruited.

Strictly speaking, this action was completely spontaneous acts of the people. Xu Zixian led the way and Wang Zhi cooperated, but he did not pass the imperial court at all. Of course, the soldiers of the trapped Northern Expedition Imperial Army would not know that there was such a fleet waiting for them.

In the Battle of Songjin in history, Wu Sangui and other generals fled first, and the Qing army then covered and killed them. The bodies were along the Songshan Tashan and other forts to the western Liaoning Sea. More than 60,000 people were killed along these places. Decades later, during the Kangxi period, some people could find piles of white bones when passing by the western Liaoning Sea.

If there were ships to respond at that time, the situation would certainly be very different. There would not be so many Ming troops killed by the Qing army or drowned by themselves.

When they saw the ship, everyone, including Yue Zhi, opened their eyes wide open and their faces showed an incredible expression.

Those who were originally crying and cried up from the ground. They were originally simple and tough men, but they would have such a collapse when they were too desperate. When hope appeared again, they immediately calmed down.

Yue Zhi immediately said, "Everyone sent me a commandment. All those who still have weapons, whether they are bows, arrows, long swords, horizontal swords, even ritual swords, even daggers and small swords. As long as there are weapons, they will gather together and form an army. Those who have no weapons can flee to the beach in all directions and rescue them by the ships on the sea first."

First there were more than a dozen people, then dozens, hundreds, and more than a thousand people began to shout. The weapons of the imperial guards did not discard the weapons, but showed a tough expression on their faces, and they began to gather.

Then he saw the Taiwei Yue Zhi holding a horizontal knife and strode towards the imperial guards holding weapons.

"I won't leave." Yue Zhi shouted as he walked: "I know that everyone is so tired that it's hard to stand, but since there are ships coming to save us on the sea, one brother can live, and we can't die is worthless. We are killed in the wasteland like wild dogs. It would be fine if we don't have the chance. Now that we have the chance, everyone will straighten their backs. Even if we die, they will still be a good man standing upright and die!"

Yue Zhi has been in the army for more than 30 years and has been the commander for many years. At this time, he has spoken to the hearts of the soldiers. Even if he has no strength or even difficulty standing, many imperial guards holding weapons have slowly gathered together, turned their faces away, no longer looked at the sea, and faced the places where the Donghu people rushed over.

They were ragged and had no armor, only the last weapon, long sword, horizontal sword, and even only a dagger and short sword. But no one retreated or complained that they were originally quite tough and courageous men. They have always fought on the front line of the Hu cavalry. Braveness and tenacity are the most basic things, and they can even be said to be instinct.

Yue Zhi gathered more than a thousand people in a short time, forming a defense line of about a long mile. It was thin and fragile. People with a little battlefield experience also knew that it could not withstand the Hu cavalry of about a thousand people. As long as the Donghu cavalry penetrated the edge at one time, the fragile defense line would be directly rushed. However, all the weapons-held ones gathered together without hesitation, and no one hesitated. Even the imperial guards who had just beaten the ground and cried loudly, were also standing in the defense line with their own weapons.

Some of the imperial guards with bare hands wanted to join, but they were driven away by Yue Zhi.

Many imperial guards and soldiers rushed to the beach, and some people had already wade through the water, and many small boats came up. At most, thousands of people would be rescued from one to two quarters of an hour.

Yue Zhi looked calm and comforted.

More than 100,000 people buried their bones in a foreign land. Even if more than 10,000 people in front of them escaped, they could not make up for the losses and could not change anything. But as the commander of the army, Yue Zhi could see so many brothers escaping in desperate situations, but at this moment, his heart was filled with calmness and joy. The only problem was the chasing Donghu cavalry gradually emerging on the horizon.

"Come on, puppies." Yue Zhi held a horizontal sword in his hand, calm inside, feeling that his ambition to practice martial arts when he was young had returned to him. With his skills, even if someone took the head of the neck, he could kill at least ten or eight. Before he died, he must kill enough.

At this time, a guard suddenly said, "Taiwei, there is a ship near the sea in front of us, and soldiers are coming down from the ship."

About a few miles away, there were indeed more than a hundred sea boats docked one after another in front of them. Under the command of the big flag, countless soldiers wearing armor, holding long scepters, bows and arrows, and divine arm bows jumped down from the boat, waded through the sea water, quickly got ashore, and then began to form a formation on the shore.

Judging from Yue Zhi's experience, this army was decisive, brave and quick. Judging from the movements of forming the formation, there was no doubt that it had experienced arduous training, and from the perspective of armor and weapons, it was undoubtedly an elite force, and at least it seemed that it was not under the imperial guards.

But with Yue Zhi's experience in leading troops for more than ten years, this army is still a bit immature and has a little unfamiliar and difficult movements. It can be seen that this is an army that has experienced arduous training but not too long and has not experienced many actual combat. If it is time to go by, it is very good

It may be a team of elite troops, but for now, it may be too early for this army to come ashore.

But more and more troops were coming ashore, and soon more than three thousand people were exceeded, and there were complete equipment such as weapons, armor, shields, and divine arm bows. In less than two quarters of an hour, the army had assembled and began to move forward with the sound of drums to cover the flanks of the defeated imperial guards.

One front and one back, one left and one right, more than three thousand people and more than one thousand troops were less than three miles apart, forming two military formations that covered each other. Just by the command of the other generals, they were quite skillful and experienced.

Yue Zhi nodded slightly, feeling that the military officers of the army in front of him were quite mature and sophisticated. He did not feel the difficulty when commanding an army of 3,000 people at least, nor did he see that he was too nervous on such a battlefield, and his command movements were deformed.

At this time, many imperial guards were looking at the flags in front of them, not far apart, and on the unblocked beach. Everyone quickly confirmed that the flag in front of them was not a unit of the imperial guards in the north, nor a southern guards, nor a wing army, but a Qin Wangfu army from Fuzhou.

The military flags, imperial guards, wing troops, and Lang Guards of the Great Wei have their own characteristics. The Prince of Kaifu can use his title to be the sign of the flag of the government army. The banner that flutters in front of the defeated and fleeing imperial guards is a very conspicuous word "Qin" in the middle of the banner. Except for the Prince of Kaifu, the rest of the princes can only control their own hundreds of guards, and are not qualified to name the guards after the title of the prince. Ordinary prince guards are not actually the private soldiers of the generals, and they can also be regarded as being among the sequence of imperial guards.

At this moment, everyone, including Yue Zhi, felt shocked.

Yue Zhi could vaguely think that the imperial court must have been out of order in the north, and it was impossible to arrange so many ships to the beach for rescue. He originally thought that it was just Wang Zhi who dispatched the ships, but now he understood that Wang Zhi's prestige and real power were not enough to mobilize such a huge scene in front of him. His vision and wherever he saw, there were at least hundreds of ships on the coastline of more than ten miles, and there were still constant ships ahead, which means that there must be more than a thousand ships on the sea and mobilized them.

With thousands of sea ships and tens of thousands of people, Wang Zhi, the governor who surrendered, could not do such a big deal. If he had such ability, the court would have more guard against Wang Zhi and would not give him a chance to mobilize. Even if he gave up all the imperial guards in the Northern Expedition, the court would not allow the pirates who surrendered to cause such a big scene. This threat would be more uneasy than the attack of the Donghu people a year or two later.

It is now certain that His Highness the King of Qin led the navy from the south to the north, and only this Prince Kaifu. At this time, he could ignore suspicion and make such a determination. With this strength and prestige, the emperor and the two palaces would only agree. If the rescue was successful, the King of Qin would be more famous, and from then on, the emperor and the two palaces would be difficult to suppress again.

It is reasonable for His Highness King Qin to take this trip, but Yue Zhi did not expect that His Highness King Qin would send his troops to the ashore and take such risks!
Chapter completed!