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Chapter 201 The slow way home

Back in his camp, Zhao Peng stood on a large cart and opened his voice and shouted: "Brothers, the pseudo slaves in Yanzhou and Jining have lost their combat effectiveness and can no longer attack me on a large scale, but they have to worry about their harassment of the people. March tomorrow morning, and all nights are not collected and they must be energetic and protect the people behind them!"

At present, Zhao Peng has forty-six war horses in his hands. In addition to the three injured and slaughtered horses, plus the thirty-seven war horses used by Ye Buhui, six more war horses were added. Zhao Peng himself did not ride a horse, and all of these six horses were spare war horses that Ye Buhui.

The Qing army no longer had the strength to stop Zhao Peng and his team from going south. Now the main defense is the Qing army to harass their own people. The army of this era has no bottom line for the people to do evil. Even the officers and soldiers of the Ming court, such as the general of the thief, Zuo Liangyu, were called the general of the thief by the people, which shows that this person's army is almost the same as the thief.

Bandits were like combs, and soldiers were like washing. Back then, officers and soldiers plundered the people more than bandits. The Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers not only plundered the people, but also killed good people and made achievements. What bad things could not be done? The Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers were like this, let alone those green camp soldiers who were dogs for foreign races.

Love the people as if they were sons. In this era, only Zhao Peng's army could do. Even the royal army claimed by Li Zicheng was just that. The Shun Army was not much cleaner than the Ming army and the Qing army.

Even Zhang Xianzhong's Daxi Army, except for Li Dingguo's good military discipline, the other troops were not very good. However, Zhang Xianzhong's massacre of Sichuan people was completely a slander of the Daxi Army by the Qing government. In fact, the Tuchuan army was mainly done by the Qing army.

The next morning, the Jinyiwei and the people set up camp and pulled the camp, and pushed and pulled the cart again on the journey. Wang Quan and his thirty-six Yebucheng dispersed and closely watched the movements of the Qing army.

The Yanzhou Green Camp and Jining Caoding were divided into two Qing troops, and there were only more than 300 people left. The remaining Qing troops could not stop more than 1,000 Jinyiwei, and they only needed to prevent them from attacking the people in the team.

Thirty-seven Yebushou dispersed, guarding within ten miles of the team, paying close attention to the movements of the Qing army. When they met a small group of Qing troops, Yebushou immediately gathered and dispersed them. The Qing army in the brigade just followed Zhao Peng and his team from afar, and did not dare to approach them rashly, nor could they find a chance to attack the people.

Zhao Peng's marching team took as short distance as possible. There were front and rear cars connected to the rear of the car. Thousands of large cars walked, and the team was less than two miles away. Someone could not walk anymore, so Zhao Peng immediately ordered the team to stop moving forward and let the people who pushed the cart replace them. People who were dragging their families and children and women could not walk anymore, so Zhao Peng asked them to sit in the car to ensure that no ordinary people were left behind.

But in this way, the speed of the march became very slow. Yesterday, due to the battle with the Yanzhou Green Camp, the trip had been delayed for half a day. According to the original plan, it took a whole day to walk to the lake today. However, the march speed was so slow that it seemed that it could not reach the lake until this evening.

"The boss, this is too slow to walk. I could have arrived by the lake today to meet with the navy. Judging from this posture, we can't even arrive until noon tomorrow." Yumei said worriedly.

Zhao Peng thought about it and said, "It's okay, change the plan and just arrive tomorrow evening. Jiannu's speed is not that fast. We defeated the Yanzhou Green Camp at noon yesterday. Even if the Jinan Eight Banners soldiers set off this morning, they would never arrive tomorrow evening."

In fact, Zhao Peng did not know that the Qing army's Eight Banners soldiers had already set out from the capital two days ago. At this time, the Eight Banners soldiers had arrived in Dezhou. However, they would never have arrived in Jining tomorrow evening. The two thousand Eight Banners soldiers from Jinan had also been dispatched. At this time, the Eight Banners soldiers from Jinan were about to arrive in Yanzhou. If the Eight Banners of Jinan were marching quickly, they would have really been to Jining tomorrow evening.

Grey

At this time, Zhao Peng and his team were only about twenty-five miles away from the Jining Lake. If there were no people following them, the Jinyiwei would march by themselves and arrive in half a day. However, the speed of moving with the people was extremely slow and could only travel more than ten miles a day.

When Liu Bei evacuated Xinye (Zhuge Liang burned Xinye was fabricated by Luo Guanzhong), the people followed Liu Jun, but the actions were slow, which led to Liu Bei's two wives, son A Dou and two daughters falling into the hands of Cao Jun. Fortunately, Zhao Yun brought people to rescue Mrs. Gan and A Dou. Of course, the so-called Changbanpo seven in and seven out was also fabricated by Luo Guanzhong. Zhao Yun did not rescue A Dou alone, but brought dozens of elite cavalry around him. After rescued A Dou, he avoided the main force of Cao's army, killed the small Cao army he encountered, and returned to his own camp. It was not as magical as mentioned in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms novel.

It is said that the Eight Banners soldiers have a copy of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and they read "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" as a military book.

One day, when the march came down, Zhao Peng and his team walked about fifteen miles in the evening. Zhao Peng was quite satisfied with this. If he continued to march at this speed tomorrow morning, he would not have to reach the lakeside until the evening tomorrow. As long as he arrived at the lakeside, everyone would be safe. Although the Ming Navy in Weishan Lake only had small boats, it was not something that the Qing army could deal with.

If the Qing army chased to the lake, the artillery on the warship would be enough for them to drink a pot of fire.

"So the night is not collected, so after dinner is used up, hurry up and rest! Tomorrow morning, brothers will have to shoulder the responsibility of protecting the safety of the team. Once you get on the boat, brothers will have a good sleep." Zhao Peng gathered Wang Quan and the others and gave the order loudly.

The night-blocked men went to rest early. Zhao Peng personally led the Jinyiwei infantry and the people to dig trenches and build camps. He was busy for more than an hour and was finished at Xu. After that, Zhao Peng asked the people to rest. He personally took more than 30 Jinyiwei to patrol at night to prevent the Qing army's sneak attack.

There were trenches around the camp and wooden fences to protect them. There were bonfires in the camp, and bonfires were also lit within fifty steps outside the camp. As long as someone tried to get close to the camp, they could be discovered by the Ming army before they could get close to the camp. That night, the Jinyiwei who was patrolling him changed two times. They took turns to rest, but he himself did not rest. He commanded the squad, secret squad and patrol team overnight. After all, it was the last night, and he didn't want to waste all his efforts on the eve of victory.

The closer you get to victory, the more you need to be careful. This was what his instructor taught him in his previous life.

There was nothing wrong all night. The next morning, Zhao Peng, who had stayed up all night, was still energetic and organized people to make fires. After breakfast, he set up camp and set up people to arrange people to evacuate the camp in an orderly manner and marched to the Weishan Lake ten miles away.

Although he stayed up all night, Zhao Peng, who had undergone special training in his previous life, was not tired at all. After using breakfast, he took the team to the last bit of distance with his team. The distance was about ten miles. If nothing unexpected happened, he could reach the lake at Shenshi this afternoon.

Wang Quan and Yebushang strengthened patrols and surveillance of the Qing army. It was obvious that the Qing army seemed to have discovered the intentions of these "bandits". Less than ten miles away from the lakeside, and the remaining Qing army was also anxious, especially the two Qing army generals. Once the "bandits" boarded the ship and escaped, the black hats on their heads (wearing flower feathers) could not be saved.

The remaining 300 Qing troops began to follow and harass the tails of the marching team. Although these green camp infantry could not compete with Wang Quan's elite cavalry at night, it was still easy for them to catch up with the people behind.
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