"Have you seen the Governor?"
"Has anyone seen the Governor?"
"Governor, we are here to rescue you!"
Countless urgent shouts appeared in every corner of the battlefield.
"The central army flag is here!" said a cavalryman, raising his arm and pointing to a place not far ahead.
Upon hearing this, Li Dingguo immediately led his men to rush over.
It was the main battlefield of Wu Sangui's rebellion, and one can imagine how brutal it was.
When he got there, the first thing that caught his eye was the mess.
There were corpses everywhere, and bloodstained armor and weapons were scattered all over the ground.
The central military flag, symbolizing the commander-in-chief of an army, fell alone on the ground, soaked in mud and blood.
Everyone searched for a long time but couldn't find Wang Yongji.
Huang Degong and Prince Ding Zhu Cijiong also arrived at the scene.
Zhu Cixiong said, "Keep looking. I want to find the person alive or dead!"
After searching for a while, a scout came to report: "A group of Jiannu cavalrymen are coming from the direction of the Guanning Army Camp."
Huang Degong thought quickly and said to Li Dingguo: "You take the cavalry to resist for a while, and I will split the troops into two groups. One group will stay here to continue looking for the governor, and the rest will follow later."
"Okay!" Li Dingguo jumped on his horse and left with the cavalry.
Huang Degong left two thousand soldiers to Zhu Cijiong, and took the rest of the soldiers and followed Li Dingguo away.
Zhu Cijiong was very happy. After all, this was his first time to be in charge of more than 2,000 soldiers.
While he was happy, he did not forget his business and continued to look for Wang Yongji's trace on the battlefield.
As they were searching, a soldier's voice suddenly came from a distance: "Found it, it's here."
Zhu Cijiong was cheered up and immediately rode over on his horse.
Before he got there, the pungent smell of blood came over.
With just one glance, Zhu Cijiong's heartbeat began to accelerate.
It was a small hill.
Ordinary mountains are made of earth and rocks, but this mountain is made of corpses.
Wu Sangui's Guanning Army failed to kill Wang Yongji in battle.
However, when the Guanning Army was defeated, they trampled on each other.
They fled desperately, dragging Wang Yongji and his personal soldiers into the escape.
Wang Yongji could only run with the fleeing soldiers.
The fleeing soldiers in front lost their balance and fell to the ground.
The fleeing soldiers behind ignored everything and stepped on the bodies of the fallen soldiers and tried to continue fleeing.
But they also stumbled and fell to the ground.
The soldiers behind repeated the actions of the soldiers in front.
The situation of people crowding, stepping on and pressing each other is becoming more and more serious.
Wang Yongji encountered the same situation when he ran to the stampede site.
Before he could react, he was submerged by the crowd.
As time passed, the crowded people gradually lost their body temperature and turned into corpses.
At the bottom of the mountain of corpses, Zhu Cijiong saw Wang Yongji's body.
He sighed deeply and knelt down to Wang Yongji.
(Kneel on one knee, or half-bend.)
Seeing this, the surrounding soldiers also knelt down to show respect.
There were six main types of etiquette for soldiers in the ancient Central Plains dynasties, namely the halberd salute, the gun salute, the bow salute, the fist salute, the kneeling salute, and the kneeling salute without wearing armor.
The military salutes of the grassland nomadic tribes mainly include the bow salute and the gun/bow salute.
After the ceremony, Zhu Cijiong said to the soldiers around him: "Come here, dig out Governor Wang's body intact and transport it back to Fushun for burial!"
"Yes, sir." The soldiers climbed up the pile of corpses and moved the bodies away one by one.
After all the bodies were moved away, the soldier reported: "Governor Wang seems to be holding something in his arms."
Zhu Cijiong came to Wang Yongji's body and personally took out the things in his arms.
He had two things in his arms.
A sword, and a very nice box.
The sword is an imperial sword.
The box was found to contain the official seal of the Governor-General of Pingliao.
The former was bestowed by Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty.
The latter was issued by the imperial court.
Zhu Cijiong's eyes instantly became moist.
Although Wang Yongji was the governor-general of Pingliao, he insisted on staying outside the city to appease Wu Sangui.
Faced with Wu Sangui's sudden rebellion, he neither surrendered nor fled.
But fighting for life.
Even in death, he did not throw away the imperial sword and official seal.
Wang Yongji did not let the court down.
But Wu Sangui let Wang Yongji down.
Zhu Cijiong carefully put away the two things and led people to escort Wang Yongji's body back to the city.
On the way back.
Zhu Cixiong looked at the corpses scattered all over the ground and felt a sense of sadness.
Without waiting for him to shed tears of sorrow.
The sadness turned into loneliness and took root in his heart.
With Zhu Cixiong's departure, the battlefield finally returned to calm.
The battle on Li Dingguo's side had just begun.
He met face to face with Man Dahai, who was ordered to rescue Wu Sangui.
After a brief exchange, the scouts from both sides returned to their camps.
The Ming army scout said to Li Dingguo: "The enemy's main general is Man Dahai. The exact number of troops is unknown, but according to my observation, there are about 10,000 of them."
"Man Dahai..." Li Dingguo frowned.
Man Dahai is his old rival.
It was precisely because Man Dahai had led his troops alone and deep into the siege of Dalingh River that he was able to successfully march to the city of Shenyang.
If we talk about merit, Man Dahai deserves credit.
Although he encountered a defeated opponent today, Li Dingguo did not dare to be careless.
He repeated, "Does Mandahai really have tens of thousands of troops?"
"Almost the same," the scout said, "With more than a thousand soldiers, there is no end; with more than ten thousand soldiers, there is no edge!"
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