On September 12, Ma Chaoran and his son finally fled to Yixing with the emperor.

From the south here is Huzhou, Taihu Lake to the east, and Suzhou to the east of Taihu Lake.

Ma Chaoran and his son decided to first divide a part of their troops and ambush them in the mountains south of Yixing, disguised as bandits, and killed Ying Sijie in the team.

The plan was done, and five hundred elite soldiers quietly left the team that night and rushed to Longchi Mountain. Corresponding Sijie explained that the generals escaped 500 people.

In this way, everything is ready, and in the eyes of Ma Chaoran and his son, Ying Sijie is almost a dead person.

On September 14th, the team arrived near Longxing Mountain.

Ma Shumu stood on the shaft of the chariot and looked forward for a while. He was not sure when the ambush he had set up would come out, but suddenly he heard the sound of horse hooves from afar.

He raised his eyebrows, lowered the curtain of the car and said, "Listen to my father, I'm here."

Ma Chaoran listened for a while, was a little surprised and confused, saying, "This sound seems to be coming from the west. Could it be that the soldiers of the Northern Chu army are catching up with him?"

"No, the soldiers and horses in the North Chu will never be so fast." Ma Shumu said: "Maybe it's more serious to come from the west, so our people are lying there. Today we will get rid of Ying Sijie and his followers."

Ma Chaoran was worried, so he lifted the curtain and looked out.

After a while, soldiers came from afar, under the banner of Nanchu.

“Huh?”

Ma Shumu was also a little surprised and cursed: "Damn it, which local official sent troops to pick me up, which will cause me a big deal..."

At this time, the father and son still looked arrogant and calm.

However, when the team of Nan Chu soldiers got closer and closer and finally shouted a few words, Ma Chaoran's face completely changed.

Even though his whole life was ups and downs, he still showed surprise, unbelievable, and even a hint of a piss of laughter.

"What did they just say?" Ma Chaoran murmured.

Ma Shumu was also a little confused and replied in a daze: "You are not hearing it wrong, did you?"

After saying this, Ma Chaoran knew that he had heard it right.

"Are they going to get food from us? A group of officers and soldiers... robbed the two prime ministers and the emperor?"

“It seems to be so.”

With a "bang", Ma Chaoran then slapped the short case and shouted angrily: "The military discipline is so corrupt! Where is the king's law?!"

"Come here, reveal your identity and let these arrogant soldiers know who they want to rob!"

After giving this order, Ma Chaoran was still angry and sat in the carriage and cursed.

"The dictatorship of the military man, the country is no longer a country! Look at these arrogant soldiers! They just steal the people and are self-profitable, brave in private fighting, afraid of public wars, and are crazy! Crazy..."

Before the words were finished, a scream suddenly came from the other side.

At the same time, there was a very arrogant and stupid voice sounding, and there was a laugh.

"Don't you mom's fart! I don't recognize your bullshit cards... Brothers, grab it! grab it!"

Some people cheered and some screamed. The local officers and soldiers of Nanchu really began to rob the chariots and horses in a noble way...

Ma Chaoran widened his eyes, and still couldn't believe that this was true.

Ma Shumu quickly stood up, got out of the carriage and greeted Taiping Simon behind him to fight against the enemy.

Although they are not many, they are all elite soldiers from Nanjing. If they really fight, they may not lose to this local officers and soldiers.

But unexpectedly, in the chaos, Ying Sijie's men did not stop the enemy, but instead snatched the emperor's carriage, turned quickly, and ran towards the fork in the road...

"Protect your car! Protect your car! Hurry up, protect Lord Ying and His Majesty..."

"Repel them!" Ma Shumu was still in command. When he turned around, he was shocked and angry. While commanding people to block local officers and soldiers, he also sent people to stop Ying Sijie.

"Stop them!"

"Give it! Grab it... Big fat sheep! Lots of money, women, brothers, kill it!"

"Stop them..."

Arrows were flying, and the sound of bird guns was mixed with the sounds.

Ma Shumu looked around and found that the escort behind him had not even come out. Perhaps the people thought it was the soldiers from Northern Chu who were fighting, so they dared not come forward to rescue him.

This made him surprisingly angry.

——The situation has come to this point, what are these people doing?

The officers and soldiers from all over the country only knew how to harvest food, and fought unscrupulously, which was shocking. At critical moments, Ying Sijie did not send people to meet the enemy, but instead took the opportunity to seize the emperor, only knew how to fight for power and power; and these guards were all timid and timid fighting...

"Quick! Get your Majesty back..."

"Go away! Let's go!" Ma Chaoran suddenly rushed down from the carriage, grabbed Ma Shumu, and shouted: "Why don't you escape quickly?! Let's run away..."

With his voice, the guards were as if they were amnesty and fled with the Ma family's father and son.

Running all the way like a dog in a panic, Ma Shumu finally lost his usual handsome young man. When there were no pursuers behind him, he stopped the team and complained to Ma Chaoran: "Father, why did you order escape? The emperor is lost..."

Before he finished speaking, Ma Chaoran slapped him.

With a "bang", Ma Shumu swollen half of his face.

"Idiot!" Ma Chaoran cursed: "Why did you lose the emperor?! It's not you yet, why should you organize defense first? Why don't you control the Holy Driving as soon as possible?!"

Uncle Ma was stunned.

Ma Chaoran pointed at him again and cursed with regret: "Even if you are two fathers and Ying Sijie walking on the road and encountering thieves, you have to stab Ying Sijie first to deal with the thieves. Do you understand?"

Without further ado, Ma Shumu had already reacted.

This is just like guarding Nanjing. Whoever puts the "big situation first" first will lose. This world cannot tolerate a little public intention.

Nothing can be found at all.

"Yes, this time it was the child who was wrong. The child is too concerned about the overall situation. If he should be in Nanjing, he will kill Ying Sijie. Do not matter whether his situation is chaotic..."

~~

A few days later, Nanjing City.

Wang Xiao received the news that Qinshanhu did not catch up with him before the pseudo-Emperor Zhou Yu arrived in Hangzhou.

This news surprised Wang Xiao more or less.

Qin Shanhu said that he seemed to be an expert in using troops in the pseudo-emperor team. After passing Yixing, the troops were divided into two groups. He also had a premonition that there were pursuers, so he left behind a large group of troops and supplies, and only led the light cavalry to flee to Hangzhou...

After thinking about it, Wang Xiao thought that which general in Nanchu could have such a keen intuition, and could also find out the news behind him while running away, and make a decision quickly and decisively. It seems that he is really a general.

But why haven’t Nan Chu heard of such a general before?

Half a day later, Qinshanhu sent someone to hand over another message.

"Report to King Jin, this matter... General Qin made a mistake. The pseudo-emperor encountered the robbery of the Nanchu army on the road and was separated in chaos..."

Wang Xiao was speechless and sent someone to question Qin Shanhu and ordered him to take down Hangzhou as soon as possible and capture the fake emperor Zhou Yu.

For Wang Xiao, Zhou Yu, the puppet emperor, is very important...

Now that the Northern Chu campaigns in the south are invading, the situation is obviously much more decent than the Qing army's going south.

As long as Zhou Yu, the legitimate grandson of Emperor Yanguang, the orthodox world will naturally be Emperor Jianwu of Northern Chu. No one can support any vassal king to compete with Northern Chu.

And this war can be defined as "fighting the rebellion".

If Wang Xiao made an analogy by himself, he felt that he was more like Zhu Di in history, looking for his good nephew after Jingnan.

Of course, Wang Xiao didn't care much about Zhou Yu either.

He was not in a hurry to catch the other party immediately. By pursuing the other party, he sent troops to various parts of Jiangnan to clear some garrison insects first.

Unlike the Central Plains, Jiangnan was not like the Central Plains. In the past few years, wars and chaos occurred frequently. Whether it was a rebel army like the Tang Zhongyuan, it killed many vassal kings and divided the wealth of the royal palaces. However, there were many nobles in Jiangnan. This time, they could copy their homes in the name of "You support the pseudo-emperor".

It can naturally be dealt with in the future, but now we can deal with it first, be more straightforward, and we can also add some military expenses.

Despite this, this battle is generally very gentle, and for officials from all over the Southern Chu, there is no need to worry about the issue of "conformity".

Although there are still differences between legitimate and illegitimate emperors, there are still not many people who sacrificed their lives for Emperor Longchang. There are only a few guards, and they are a little too loyal.

Most people can only admit that Emperor Jianwu suppressed the rebellion and continued, and was a virtuous lord and the orthodox world.

After all, Nanjing has been defeated, so if you don’t want to admit it, you can only admit it.

Under such circumstances, the surrendered officials of the Nanchu actually had nothing to blame.

Wang Xiao also had to praise them for taking the overall situation into consideration, protecting innocent people, and protecting their family and country from many undesirable disasters.

Among these people, there must be many who surrendered to the people sincerely. But there are also some who only change their minds and seek benefits and avoid harm.

But now it is difficult to identify. Well... there is no need to identify it.

Since the Qing army did not go south, the situation is indeed impossible to investigate whether it is integrity or not.

There was only one person who made Wang Xiao feel a little strange...

When he saw Qian Qianyi leading all Nanjing officials to surrender to him that day, he silently greeted him.

"What a coincidence, the water is too cold. I met you in parallel time and space..."
To be continued...