Chapter 39 The King of Pursuit
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"Emperor, just Wu Sangui. As long as you give me an imperial edict, I will immediately transfer Liu Zongmin's 20,000 cavalry, flatten Wu Sangui's camp within five hours, and raise Wu Sangui's head to see the emperor." Li Zicheng said confidently and powerfully.
"Barricks? Why attack Wu Sangui's barracks? Isn't Wu Sangui in the capital?" Li Zicheng's words made Wu Fan feel very surprised. Wu Sangui, the big traitor, had just taken the life of Wu Sangui, so why did all the elite soldiers under his command kill all the Liaodong soldiers?
Wu Fan's reaction shocked Fan Jingwen and Li Jiantai at the same time: "Your Majesty, didn't you issue an order to let Wu Sangui leave the capital and return to the military camp? Could it be that Wu Sangui dares to falsely pass the imperial edict and lead the troops?"
Wang Chengen hurriedly explained to Wu Fan that it turned out that on the second day after Wu Fan was injured and unconscious, Wu Sangui suddenly led his guard camp out of the capital and returned to the military camp outside the city. When Li Jiantai, the Minister of War, sent someone to ask, Wu Sangui responded indifferently that he had returned to the camp to train troops in accordance with the imperial edict. Since Wu Fan was in a coma at that time, Wang Chengen blocked the news in the palace, Li Jiantai could not come to Wu Fan to confirm. He did not expect that Wu Sangui was so brave that he dared to falsely pass the imperial edict, so he allowed Wu Sangui to return to the camp.
Wang Chengen explained this, Fan Jingwen, Li Jiantai and Li Zicheng realized that Wu Fan had been injured and fell into a coma. Fan Jingwen immediately raised his beard and stared at Wang Chengen and asked, "Mr. Wang, what's going on? How could the emperor be injured in the inner world? Could anyone have entered the palace to assassinate the emperor?"
Wu Fan waved his hand, stopped Fan Li and others' excitement, and said with a wry smile: "No wonder this is for the kindness. I occasionally learned a lot of kung fu. I was curious and left the palace privately, but accidentally transferred to Wu Sangui's home. I happened to hear Wu Sangui conspiring with his subordinates. They mentioned that Wu Sangui had defected to a "private son" and that "private son" was carrying out a conspiracy against my Ming Dynasty.
It was because I was too arrogant. At that time, I just wanted to take down Wu Sangui with my martial arts and force me to ask the truth about the matter. Unexpectedly, Wu Sangui is very skilled. I am not his opponent, but he was injured on the spot. He struggled to return to the palace and fell into a coma. As soon as I woke up, wouldn’t I call you over and discuss dealing with Wu Sangui?”
As soon as Wu Fan's voice came to the ground, Li Jiantai stood up and said excitedly: "There was rumors that Wu Sangui had privately contacted Huang Taiji, the deceased leader of the Tartars. However, later, Wu Sangui fought the Qing Tartars in Shanhaiguan very fiercely, so no one believed this rumors, and they all believed that it was a counter-espionage strategy implemented by the Tartars. Now that the emperor heard Wu Sangui's words with his own ears, it proved that the rumors were certain. Wu Sangui forgot his ancestors and was willing to follow the thief."
Li Zicheng also stood up with a sigh, and said with his hands: "Please give an imperial edict. I will lead the troops to capture Wu Sangui, a vest thief who is arrogant and shameless, who is in front of the emperor."
Wu Fan still liked Li Zicheng's character of doing what he said. He was overjoyed and stood up from the couch and said to Li Zicheng: "Okay, as I say, I will now authorize you to dispatch troops at will and surround Wu Sangui's men and horses. I don't want you to capture Wu Sangui alive. As long as you can defeat Wu Sangui's men, Wu Sangui's life or death, but he just wants to see people and corpses. Can you do it?"
Li Zicheng grinned: "You little Wu Sangui is not worth mentioning. Your Majesty, please wait for good news. Before dark, you must bring Wu Sangui's head to the emperor."
After saying that, Li Zicheng made great strides and left Wu Fan's bedroom and went to raise troops to attack Wu Sangui.
Li Jiantai frowned and thought for a while, and spoke to Wu Fan: "Your Majesty, although Lord Li is known as a 500,000 army, in fact, the most combat-ready soldiers are only more than 70,000. Although Liu Zongmin is a powerful general, he is good at fighting and strategy. The elite soldiers of Liaodong have always been in the world. Wu Sangui is also known as both civil and military, and has never been defeated on the battlefield.
I am afraid that Lord Li is eager to make contributions, but he will easily fall into Wu Sangui's plan. Once Wu Sangui cannot be killed outside the capital, if Wu Sangui escapes back to Liaodong, the situation will become uncontrollable. After all, Wu Sangui and his son have been in Liaodong for decades, and their relatives and friends are spread all over Liaodong. If Wu Sangui really leads the Qing army into the pass and causes wars to last for decades, it will greatly damage our Ming Dynasty and the consequences will be unpredictable."
Li Jiantai's words stunned Wu Fan, but soon Wu Fan felt relieved. In history, Wu Sangui led his troops to fight against Li Zicheng's army, both ended in failure. In the end, Dorgon suddenly led his troops out, which defeated Li Zicheng's army. Now there are only some of Wu Sangui's elite soldiers outside the capital, and it is impossible for Qing soldiers to help him. Li Zicheng could not fail at all.
Thinking of this, Wu Fan shook his head and was about to speak, but was interrupted by Fan Jingwen in advance: "Your Majesty, what Li Shangshu said is very true. Lord Li goes to the world and is good at rushing battles. In addition, Wu Sangui is extremely courageous and has extremely strategic strategies. The old minister did not increase Wu Sangui's morale and destroy his own prestige. He was really worried that Lord Li would be too arrogant and would not be able to match things." Because Li Jiantai and Li Zichengdu surnamed Li, Fan Jingwen simply called Li Jiantai's official title directly to prevent confusion.
Wu Fan thought about it and knew that Fan Jingwen and Li Jiantai were not too much of a consideration, so he simply issued an order to start mobilizing troops and siege together to siege Wu Sangui. Moreover, due to the advice of Fan and Li, Wu Fan suddenly thought of Wu Sangui's earth-shaking martial arts, and hurriedly asked Wang Chengen to call Li Letong and ordered Li Letong to temporarily return to Li Zicheng's side, and Li Letong would restrain Wu Sangui when necessary, so as not to let Wu Sangui really escape.
After making everything right, Wu Fan felt that Wu Sangui's life had entered a countdown state and had steadily taken the fifteen-year life. He was happy in his heart, and even his body felt much better. He could walk around the house slowly for two rounds without Wang Chengen's support.
Wu Fan was happy not long after, Wang Chengen came to report to Fan Jingwen for a visit. Wu Fan's eyes lit up. Could it be that he had killed Wu Sangui so quickly? He took out his cell phone and saw that the countdown of completing the task was still beating every second. Obviously, the task had not been completed, and Wu Sangui is at least still alive now.
Wu Fan was unwilling to continue guessing and directly ordered Fan Jingwen to meet him directly. After a while, Fan Jingwen trotted to Wu Fan in sweat. When Wu Fan saw Fan Jingwen's anxious expression, his heart suddenly sank. It seemed that the matter of surrounding Wu Sangui had changed, but he didn't know what was going on.
What Fan Jingwen came to report was indeed bad news. Just this morning, Wu Sangui actually led the elite Liaodong soldiers led by him in the name of Shi La Lian. At this time, he had left the ground of Shuntian Prefecture and quickly marched towards Shanhaiguan.
Fortunately, Li Zicheng was not a person who followed the rules and distances. While reporting to the capital, he lit up his horse and quickly pursued Wu Sangui's team. Li Jiantai did not follow the pursuit, but immediately sent someone to order the troops near Shanhaiguan in the name of the Ministry of War, requiring them to prepare to intercept Wu Sangui while keeping it confidential.
When Wu Fan heard the news, he couldn't help but stomp on the ground hard. As expected, the devil could not be kind. Since the reward lifespan of this mission has reached fifteen years, it would be very difficult for Wu Sangui to wipe out. I don't know if Li Zicheng can catch up with Wu Sangui. If the mission fails, Wu Fan thought of the devil's spoof punishment, and couldn't help but fight a cold war. He didn't know what would happen after this mission. Don't do another punishment of the dynasty.
In a state of anxiety and panic, Wu Fan spent two days of not knowing the taste. During these two days, Wu Fan felt a sense of spicy food even when he drank water. A large area of mouth sores appeared on the corners of his mouth and tongue. The sleeping process continued to wake up from his dream. It was really painful.
On this day, when Wu Fan was barely drinking porridge by himself, Wang Chengen ran over without hesitation.
The emperor was anxious about Wu Sangui's affairs. Wang Chengen saw it and felt ache in his heart. After waiting privately, he didn't know how many times he had cursed Wu Sangui in secret. This thousand-sword Wu Sangui was really a big deal, and he actually made the emperor unable to sleep for his sake.
Today, good news came from Li Zicheng's side, and Wang Chengen couldn't wait to come and report to Wu Fan.
"The emperor is very happy, the emperor is very happy!" Wang Chengen ran to Wu Fan, not caring about breathing and reporting to Wu Fan urgently: "Master Li has sent back a hundred thousand urgent good news. General Liu Zongmin has already caught up with Wu Sangui's rebels in Fengrun. The two sides have fought. General Liu won the first battle. Wu Sangui's rebels have been forced into a small valley. General Li's central army is less than half a day away from the rebels. Perhaps at this time, General Li has surrounded Wu Sangui and Wu Sangui can't fly."
When Wu Fan heard the good news, he immediately bit his tongue, but at this time Wu Fan had no idea that it hurt. He jumped up happily and knocked the bowls and chopsticks in front of him and fell all over the floor. Wu Fan excitedly kept circling in the spot, saying, "Okay, okay, okay, it's worthy of being Li Zicheng who swept the world. Fan Jingwen said it well. Li Zicheng was indeed unparalleled in the pursuit battle. Wu Sangui can never escape again. Cheng En, pass the order. No matter who it is, as long as he catches Wu Sangui, life and death, he will immediately reward a thousand taels of gold. You can do whatever you can reward. You must tell Li Zicheng that you must not run away!"
Within three days after Wu Sangui's troops were surrounded, the battle report ahead was delivered almost once every two hours. Li Zicheng also knew that the emperor valued Wu Sangui very much. In order to show his merits, Li Zicheng wrote almost every attack into a military report and sent back to the capital. Wu Fan looked at it with a look of flew, clearly knowing that Wu Sangui's breakthroughs were repelled by Li Zicheng. Looking at the military newspapers, he seemed to see arrows flying across the battlefield.
When the last army reported back to the capital, it was reported that Liu Zongmin led his men to cross mountains and ridges and suddenly launched an attack from the rear of Wu Sangui's camp. Wu Sangui had been defeated by the entire army and Li Zicheng had already started to lead his men to clean the battlefield... Wu Fan excitedly snatched the battle report from Wang Chengen and put it in front of him to see it himself...
Chapter completed!