Red Mansion: Seizing Jiangdong, starting with pirates

Chapter 179, Family Chaos

The Huaiyin bandits came to attack, and the entire southward migration team fell into chaos.

All the officials were busy with their own affairs and fled frantically.

The Cheng and Cui families fled separately.

The nobles were frightened out of their wits.

In order to escape, King Zhongshun drove madly with his gold, and even knocked over the carriage of a third-rank minister, crushing the minister's family to death.

Jia Zheng's carriage was blocked, so he had to get off and take Aunt Zhao and Jia Huan with him to escape, and he also picked up Li Wan on the way.

In fact, Mrs. Wang was not far away from Jia Zheng's carriage, but the matter was too urgent and Jia Zheng forgot about Mrs. Wang in his panic.

It was because he basically spent the nights in Aunt Zhao's room over the years. Although he and Lady Wang were nominally husband and wife, they were just guests of respect and had little affection for each other, which led to his forgetfulness in times of crisis.

Jia Mu, who was behind, was luckier. There was a gap around her so she could turn her carriage around, so she ordered the driver to turn the horses around quickly and escape.

Baoyu, who came later, had bad luck.

Somehow a Huaiyin soldier and an Imperial Guard soldier ended up fighting here, and Baoyu watched helplessly as the Huaiyin soldier bit off the Imperial Guard soldier's throat. The Imperial Guard soldier was still gasping for breath, with hot air coming out of his neck, splattering blood, which was very noticeable in the winter.

Baoyu was so frightened that he couldn't move. At this time, the coachman drove the carriage around, and Baoyu's body was pulled by inertia and he accidentally fell down.

Upon hearing the sound, the Huaiyin soldier glanced towards Baoyu's position. The bloody face on his face frightened Baoyu so much that he shrank back repeatedly.

Fortunately, the Huaiyin army did not care about Baoyu, because at this time more imperial guards rushed up, and the Huaiyin army fought with the enemy outnumbered.

"Second Master!"

Xiren shouted anxiously in the car.

But Baoyu was so frightened that he was paralyzed and could not move at all.

Yuanyang and Jia Mu's carriage happened to pass by at this time. Seeing this, Yuanyang hurriedly got off the carriage and pulled Baoyu up with the coachman.

At this moment, many arrows were suddenly shot from a distance. It turned out that other Huaiyin troops had arrived and shot all the imperial guards to death.

Unfortunately, some of these arrows happened to stray and killed the horses in Xiren's carriage.

Seeing this, Xiren had no choice but to take the other maids out of the carriage and get on Jia's mother's carriage. However, she fell down and sprained her foot due to nervousness.

At this time, new Imperial Guards arrived and fought with the Huaiyin Army. The battle between the two sides was very fierce, and many stray arrows were shot, which was very dangerous.

The other maids were so frightened that they only cared about running for their own lives and no one went to help Xiren.

Xiren was terrified and shouted:

"Second Master, save me."

Seeing this, Baoyu hurriedly asked Yuanyang to go down and rescue Xiren.

The mandarin duck hesitated, not knowing whether to leave.
At this time, more stray arrows were shot, which was extremely dangerous, and the fighting position of the two groups gradually tended to move towards this side.

Seeing this, Jia's mother said in panic:
"Yuanyang, hurry up, don't want her anymore, go away!"

Yuanyang took the order and immediately ordered the coachman to drive.

Seeing this, Baoyu hurriedly stopped the driver and shouted:
"No, we can't leave Xiren behind."

At this time, during the battle between the Huaiyin Army and the Imperial Guards, an arrow suddenly flew over the head of the coachman and stuck into the carriage curtain.

Baoyu was right beside him. He was so frightened by the sharp arrow that he collapsed to the ground.
The coachman was also extremely frightened, and the arrow flew directly over his head, almost piercing his brain.

At this moment, he no longer cared about the Jia family. He jumped out of the car and ran away crawling.

Yuanyang was even more at a loss when she saw this. It was definitely too late to ask others to drive the carriage now. She could only sit in the front of the carriage and drive the horses and mules by herself.

Baoyu looked at the arrow with lingering fear and dared not speak out to stop it.

He could only watch himself and his beloved Xiren drifting further and further apart.

Even Lady Jia is in such a mess, let alone the other girls in the Jia family.

Yingchun and Xichun hid in the car and dared not move. From time to time, they could hear the sound of fighting outside, which frightened them so much that they trembled with fear.

Jia She and Jia Zhen led people to guard in front of the carriage and ordered all their family members to stop running away and not to move.

Wang Xifeng wanted to escape, but was stopped by Jia She.

Wang Xifeng really couldn't understand her father-in-law's thoughts. If he didn't run away, would he wait to die here?
Jia She had no intention of explaining to Wang Xifeng.

He was too lazy to waste his breath on a woman.

the other side.

Emperor Longqing ran for some distance before he realized that the prince had not caught up with him.

So he quickly ordered his men to stop the car and shouted:
"Quick, the prince is not here, take people to find the prince!"

Dai Quan said quickly:

"Your Majesty, please go first. I will go find the prince!"

Emperor Longqing said:

"No, I can't leave without the prince!"

Dai Quan was extremely anxious and shouted, "Your Majesty, you are the master of Daxi's country. If something happens to you, everything will be ruined. Please leave quickly. I will find the prince!"

Emperor Longqing hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said:
"We must find the prince!"

Dai Quan nodded solemnly, and then said to the surrounding soldiers:
"Quick, take His Majesty away!"

Dai Quan left most of the soldiers around him to protect Emperor Longqing, and he took a small number of soldiers back to look for the prince.

When Dai Quan returned to the southward migration team, the entire team was in chaos.

From time to time, the Huaiyin Army and the Imperial Guards rushed into the team and fought, blood splattered, causing the officials' families to scream in fear.

Dai Quan went to look for the prince according to his memory, but he encountered two groups of Huaiyin troops one after another, and the soldiers around him suffered heavy casualties.

After finally getting rid of these two groups of people, he was still lost in the crowd and couldn't find the prince.

"Go find Shi Nai first!"

Dai Quan said.

Shi Nai should have more manpower on his side who can find the prince.

The perspective returns to Shi Nai.

At the beginning of the battle, Shi Nai commanded the soldiers to form a formation to resist.

However, the combat quality of the Imperial Guards and the Huaiyin Army was very different. In less than ten minutes of fighting, the Imperial Guards were dispersed by the Huaiyin Army.

In fact, Shi Nai was not very loyal to Emperor Longqing. When Shi Ding was killed by the Jin bandits in Shanxi, the responsibility should have been on the side of Emperor Longqing who changed the commander in the middle of the battle. However, Emperor Longqing put the blame on Shi Ding's poor command, which resulted in Shi Ding's death in vain and he did not receive any posthumous honor.

Therefore, Shi Nai had no intention of being loyal to Emperor Longqing this time. He did the best he could as a subject, and when he saw that things were going wrong, he immediately gathered his soldiers and chose to protect his family and leave.

"Go find the Jia family!"

Shi Nai ordered.

The battle was going on fiercely, and suddenly dust flew up in the distance and the sound of a large number of horse hooves was heard.

One person shouted, his voice like thunder.

"I am Fang Yong, Duke of Yonghuai. I am here to serve the king and protect him. Those who put down resistance will not be killed. Those who resist are all traitors!"

After that, a large number of Huaiyin troops rushed over and completely surrounded the southward migrating team!

The Royal Guards had no power to resist and knelt down in surrender.

However, there was a countercurrent in the battle.

But then he saw a young man riding a white horse, leading a team of imperial guards, moving back and forth in the crowd, using a longbow to shoot and kill several Huaiyin soldiers.

The Huaiyin army tried to surround and kill the young man many times, but he escaped every time.

Once again, the Huaiyin army surrounded the young man. The white horse under the young man jumped on the spot and jumped onto the roof of a carriage. Then, with another jump, he escaped from the encirclement of the Huaiyin army.

"Good horse!"

Fang Yong praised.

"Bring me my bow."

(End of this chapter)