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Chapter 271: Pursue the Two Kings

At the 1st of the morning, Wang Quan, who was ready, took two hundred men and two horses at night and began to chase King Gui and King Lu.

Wang Quan and his others chased for more than thirty miles and caught up with Wei Bao and his twenty-eight servants. A small-scale battle broke out between the two sides, killing twelve of the other side, and capturing the rest alive.

Wei Bao, tied like a rice dumpling, was taken to Zhao Peng. Seeing that he refused to kneel down, two Jinyiwei kicked him on the bend of his legs and shouted: "Don't kneel down when you see the Marquis!"

Wei Bao was kicked to kneel on the ground. He tried to struggle to stand up. Two Jinyiwei pressed his shoulders, making him unable to move. But this guy was still stubborn: "Loyal and brave wait? Hahaha! It's just a fake marquis enthroned by the pseudo-emperor!"

"I kill you, like killing a local dog, and my treasure knife is dirty!" Zhao Peng snorted coldly, "You are not afraid to beg for mercy!"

"Dog thief! A loyal minister will not serve the second master! Don't waste your time!" Wei Bao still shouted and scolded.

Zhao Peng was not patient with such a stubborn guy, and there was no need to leave such a person as a coolie. He was not at ease to stay such a person, so he ordered: "Come on, push this thief out and kill!"

Two Jinyiwei dragged Wei Bao out and went outside. The sword and axe hand fell and cut off Wei Bao's head. This kind of small fish and shrimp were not worth sending him to Nanjing for trial, nor was it interested in sending him to the Jinyiwei Prison to torture him slowly, so Zhao Peng ordered to be executed on the spot and cut the guy with one knife.

After all, Zhao Peng is not the pervert who tortures people for fun. He is the most enjoyable to kill such useless guys. The various tortures in the Jinyiwei Zhao Prison were prepared for traitors like Hou Fangyu and Huang Shu, and people like Wei Bao are not traitors, but they have different ideas and are their own masters. There is no need to torture to torture, but they still cut him off with one knife to fulfill his wishes.

It’s like Zhao Peng liked to play the Three Kingdoms game when he was young in his previous life. When he met his opponent’s good generals, he would try every means to surrender them. However, for those garbage generals, they usually do not surrender and directly cut them down.

Next, Zhao Peng led his army to continue pursuing the two kings Zhu Youlang and Zhu Changqing.

Due to Zhu Youlang's plan to escape from the shell, the troops who left behind were delayed for two days, and it was not so fast that they wanted to catch up with the two kings for a while. With the pursuit of the cavalry, the distance between Zhao Peng and Zhu Youlang and the others gradually shortened, but the information sent through the nearby Jinyiwei Intelligence Station showed that Jinyiwei could no longer catch up with Zhu Youlang and the others before they passed Liucheng.

Although he would be unable to catch up with Zhu Youlang and the others for a while, the Jinyiwei still chased after him without stopping the whistle at night, without giving Zhu Youlang and the others a chance to breathe.

After escaping all the way, Zhu Youlang and Zhu Changqing were not only unable to recruit soldiers on the road, but also had no choice but to gather the lost defeated soldiers. They could only escape to Nanning as soon as possible. Once they entered Nanning City, they still had some troops in Nanning.

Now the former governor of Huguang is He Tengjiao, who was stationed in Wuchang. However, he had known that Zuo Menggeng was ill-behaved and was unwilling to join forces, so he fled to Guangxi. After arriving in Guangxi, because the provincial capital Guilin was occupied by Zhu Youlang and Zhu Changqing, He Tengjiao didn't like it and had no weight to speak in Guilin, so he simply ran to Nanning.

Zhao Peng received information and learned that the former governor of Huguang He Tengjiao is now stationed in Nanning.

"Kuiyu (Ma Jinzhong's name), how about He Yuncong (Tengjiao)?" Zhao Peng asked Ma Jinzhong, "After all, you were under this person at the beginning, and even your old master Zuo Liangyu was under this person."

Zhao Peng, a historical novices, really don’t know what kind of person He Tengjiao is. The information sent back by the Jinyiwei all said that He Tengjiao was loyal to the court and was a loyal minister with noble character.

Ma Jinzhong sneered: "Peasy! I have never looked down on our soldiers! I especially looked down on me, thinking that I am just a bandit who recruited peace, and it is better to be a soldier. This guy is simply a nerd. However, this guy is still loyal to the court, but he just doesn't know whether he is willing to listen to your Jinyiwei. This guy seems to have a prejudice against the Jinyiwei."

After hearing Ma Jinzhong's comment on He Tengjiao, Zhao Peng had a very bad impression of this person.

In fact, in the original time and space, He Tengjiao was a national hero who would rather die than surrender to the Qing Dynasty and finally died heroically. It is true that he was a national hero like Shi Kefa, but his personality and human weaknesses were also pedantic and stubborn. In the original time and space, the Southern Ming Dynasty incorporated the remnants of Li Guo's rebels of the army and organized them into the Zhongzhen Camp, and the anti-Qing situation was very good for a while, and it was entirely possible that a situation in the Southern and Northern Dynasties or the Southern Song Dynasty would be formed again, and the Ming Dynasty would be in trouble for more than a hundred years.

As long as the Ming Dynasty survived for more than a hundred years, the West would have entered the industrial age. At that time, the British Empire that came from afar would not have cooperated with the barbarians in the north, right? It is even more likely to cooperate with the Ming Dynasty in the south. As long as the industrial age enters the Qing Dynasty in the north, the Qing Dynasty in the north has long been rotten, and the Southern Ming Dynasty will be able to succeed with the new Western weapon of the North.

However, the good situation of the anti-Qing Dynasty was destroyed by He Tengjiao. This man was arrogant and always believed that Li Guo and the others were thieves, and he could not join the thieves. As a result, when the situation was in great shape, he started an internal strife, causing the good situation to be lost, and he also fell into the hands of the Qing Dynasty and was killed.

So, He Tengjiao is a teammate like Shi Kefa, who will cheat anyone on him.

Zhao Peng and Ma Jinzhong, Wang Yuncheng followed closely with a thousand cavalry. Zhu Youlang and Zhu Changqing, who were running for life ahead, were running away all the way, and did not even dare to stop and just ran away desperately.

Zhu Youlang and Zhu Changqing passed by Liucheng. Originally, Zhu Changqing planned to lead troops into the city to rest for a few days, take a breath, and then recruit Minzhuang in the city to fight against the imperial court to quell the rebellion.

But Zhu Youlang raised an objection: "Your Highness Lu, no! Our number of soldiers is too small, the city of Liucheng is dilapidated, and the people in the city are not familiar with us at all. When we enter the city, we still want to recruit people and brave people? I am afraid that these troublemakers will sell us."

Zhu Changqing followed Zhu Youlang's advice, so he did not enter Liucheng to rest. Instead, he took more than a thousand guards of the royal palace and surrounded the outside of Liucheng. He arrived at the edge of Liujiang River and found several boats and crossed the river with a thousand people.

After Zhu Youlang crossed the river, he ordered the ship to be burned down, and then, with Zhu Changqing, he led more than a thousand cavalry all the way south and headed straight for Nanning.

After crossing Liujiang, I went to Nanning and it was almost flat all the way.

Wang Quan's cavalry did not stop the mail at more than 200 nights and chased to Liucheng. He went to the city to ask about the local Baimao. He learned that Zhu Youlang and the others did not enter the city, but went around outside the city, arrived at the border of Liujiang, and crossed the river southward.

The Jinyiwei cavalry chased the riverside without stopping at night, but saw the shadow of a boat on the huge river surface.

Wang Quan asked the fisherman on the riverside to ask. When an old white-haired fisherman came over, Wang Quan stepped forward to salute and asked politely: "Old man, have you ever seen a team of people under the banner of King Gui and King Lu?"

When he heard it was King Gui and King Lu, he looked at Wang Quan and the others' outfits and thought it was a rebel army, so the old fisherman said angrily: "Those who killed thousands of swords! After crossing the river, they burned all our ships! Several soldiers, you have to make the decision for our people."

Wang Quan said: "Don't worry, old man! We are the Jinyiwei of the court. King Gui and King Lu are plotting against rebellion. My brothers came to arrest them under the orders of the court."

After hearing Wang Quan's words, the old fisherman began to criticize the various crimes of King Gui and King Lu in Guangxi: forcibly occupying fertile land, forcing people to buy, raising a group of thugs to do things for them, colluding with the bandits, and harming the people.
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