After Wu Yiding slashed Cheng Dequn in the back, he looked at the menacing Ming army, and the frightened Wu Yiding sat directly on the corner of the house. At this time, the Ming army was busy fleeing for their lives, and the Qing army was busy chasing and killing the Ming army, purging the remnants of the Ming army in the city, and no one had time to pay attention to Wu Yiding for a while. Now seeing that the Ming army has withdrawn from the southern city, the Qing army is about to start a large-scale search for the Ming army. Wu Yiding immediately got up to find Lu Guangzu, and now this situation is the safest only by staying by Lu Guangzu's side. Wu Yiding evaded several waves of Qing army patrols along the way, saw Lu Guangzu at the gate of the county office, and saw that Lu Guangzu was about to enter the county office. Huang Boyuan, the southern county magistrate appointed by Zhu Dashan, has been hacked to death at the gate of the county ya.

Wu Yiding knew that once Lu Guangzu entered the county office, it would be difficult to see Lu Guangzu again, so he hurriedly rushed out and shouted: "Don't shoot arrows, don't shoot arrows, it's me, I'm looking for your Lord Lu Guangzu, the chief soldier, I am my own person." When Lu Guangzu's personal soldiers saw a person suddenly rushing out, they were all very nervous to draw their swords, and the archers had already raised their bows and arrows, ready to shoot Wu Yiding to death.

But good people don't live long, and the scourge lasts for a thousand years. Before the archer could shoot an arrow, he was stopped by Lu Guangzu and said, "Don't be nervous, he is his own person." Although Lu Guangzu was eager to kill this untrustworthy Wu Yiding, what he said was that he opened the city gate and let the Qing army in, but the result was almost a direct sneak attack by the Qing army. caused a lot of casualties to the Qing army in Lu Guangzu's hands, so Lu Guangzu itched Wu Yiding's teeth with hatred. If it weren't for the fact that Wu Yiding was still going to attack Baoning, and seeing that he finally opened the city gate and attacked Cheng Dequn, Lu Guangzu still didn't want to pay attention to this person.

Wu Yiding didn't seem to see the disgust on Lu Guangzu's face, and said with a flattering smile on his face: "Congratulations to the general soldier for capturing the south, and the Lord Baoning will definitely be on the rise in the future." Lu Guangzu waved his hand to let his subordinates retreat, and then said: "It's just a south, no credit." Wu Yiding immediately said: "The general soldier is modest, the previous time the governor led an army of 30,000 but failed to take the southern city, and now the general can easily take the southern city with only 7,000 troops." ”

Hearing Wu Yiding say this, Lu Guangzu suddenly smiled. At this time, a mother and daughter suddenly ran out of the street, their clothes had been torn, and they were now holding their clothes tightly with their hands. The girl tripped under her feet and fell to the ground. Her mother immediately stepped forward to pull it. I saw a few Qing soldiers running behind me, and approached the mother and daughter with a smile. The girl was too frightened to speak, and her mother was still pleading, "Please spare my daughter, she is only twelve years old, as long as you let her go, I can do whatever I want, please." ”

Listening to their mother's words, the Qing soldiers smiled even more presumptuously, and said, "There are so many of us, are you here alone?" Why don't you let your daughter help you share the burden? The other soldiers laughed too. When these soldiers reached out and touched the girl's body, the girl just kept retreating on the ground. Then the Qing soldier tore off the girl's clothes, and there was no longer a strand of cover on the girl's body. Seeing that her daughter was about to be defiled, her mother didn't know where the strength came from, so she directly pounced on the Qing soldiers beside her daughter and looked up to see Lu Guangzu and Wu Yiding in the yamen.

The mother hugged her daughter, kept kowtowing to Lu Guangzu and Wu Yiding, and begged in her mouth: "My lord, please let my daughter go, I will incense you every day and ask you to live a long life and have many children." I have set up an immortal plaque for you at home, and I beg you. ”

Wu Yiding saw that this mother asked for help from him, so he withdrew directly, stood in front of the yamen and scolded loudly: "You poor woman doesn't know what to do, now my Qing Dynasty master has rescued you from the hands of the brutal thief against the Ming Dynasty, and let your mother and daughter serve the Qing Dynasty Heavenly Soldiers, which is your blessing, and you are still messing around here." If you don't make it a sin for the Qing Heavenly Soldiers to serve comfortably, and dare to ask me to excuse you, it's just a fool's dream. Wu Yiding's words even the Qing soldiers present were stunned, it turned out that everyone robbed money and defiled women There was such a reason, and the Qing soldiers present instantly had a good impression of Wu Yiding.

Lu Guangzu was also accustomed to these things, and immediately asked those soldiers to drag the mother and daughter a little farther away. A few Qing soldiers were still a little scared, after all, they were in front of Shangguan, but now they were even more presumptuous when they got permission. stepped forward and dragged the mother and daughter to the next room.

The mother didn't expect Wu Yiding to say such a thing, so she stayed there until the Qing soldiers came over and dragged the mother and daughter to react, and immediately scolded Wu Yiding and Lu Guangzu, several Qing soldiers were afraid that she would anger Lu Guangzu, so they hurriedly hit their mother's mouth with a scabbard, and suddenly the blood flowed for a long time and they couldn't scold anymore, only the sound of whining and the girl's cry remained.

Such a scene has been staged everywhere in the southern county, Lu Guangzu and Wu Yiding entered the county office, and after a while, they used soldiers to send Lu Guangzu a few good-looking women, Lu Guangzu saw Wu Yiding's eager eyes, divided Wu Yiding into a woman, and then found a room to go in.

After Zhou Linyuan withdrew from the north gate and the south with more than a hundred people, he looked at the more than 100 remnants of his men. Thinking that there were still more than 2,000 defenders in the south during the day, I don't know how many people will survive. But now there is no army in hand, so I have to retreat to Hexi Pass. Walking less than five miles to the north, I suddenly heard the sound of a large number of people walking in front of me, and it seemed that I was still in a hurry. Zhou Linyuan's face changed and said: "The Qing soldiers are going to wipe us out, and they actually ambushed the army here." The general flag of the peer Cheng Bald said ruthlessly: "Since there is no way out, then fight, killing one is enough, killing two will earn one." ”

The two were about to let everyone strike first, when they heard someone on the other side shouting, "Who is it? Where did it come from? Zhou Linyuan was stunned for a moment, and secretly thought: "If the Qing army is ambushed here, where will they ask who it is first, isn't it just to fight?" Although Zhou Linyuan thought so in his heart, he asked: "Who are you, you are still in the wilderness so late, aren't you afraid of thieves?" ”

It was Gou Xingwang and others who came on the opposite side, and they met Cheng Dequn's personal soldiers in Lao Yao. Then he was in a hurry to go to the south to avenge Cheng Dequn. In order to have the effect of a sneak attack, Gou Xingwang let the whole army extinguish the torches. As a result, Zhou Linyuan fled from the south in a hurry and did not use torches, and the two sides were at a stalemate for a while. Now as soon as Zhou Linyuan spoke, Gou Xingwang heard that it was Zhou Linyuan, and said with great joy: "It's Zhou Linyuan who broke the Weijia character Thousand Households from the opposite side?" ”

When Gou Xingwang said this, Zhou Linyuan also heard it, and hurriedly said: "Yes, it's me, and the one who came in front was General Gou, the chief soldier of the Broken Guard." Gou Xingwang led the guards forward and said, "It's me, how are you doing now?" Zhou Linyuan looked at Gou Xingwang who was approaching, and suddenly felt sad, and said: "General, I can't afford to lose the south, and now General Cheng Dequn doesn't know where he went, and General Ma Tengyun and Yao Zizhou are nowhere to be seen." Now there are more than 2,000 defenders in the south, and I have more than 100 left, and the rest have either fled or are trapped in the city. "Zhou Linyuan was only a small banner before, because the Restoration Army expanded too quickly, and had to be promoted to officer. Zhu Dashan wanted to imitate the position and function of the political commissar of later generations, so he arranged the position of deputy Qianhu. But these deputy Qianhu who were promoted did not have training, and even Zhu Dashan did not have time, so he explained and arranged the role of the position, and hurried to Kuidong.

Now that Zhou Linyuan suddenly suffered such a big battle loss, thinking of the joint sitting in the military law, he cried out in a hurry for a while. And the others didn't know why Zhou Linyuan was crying, and when they saw him crying sadly, their morale was suddenly a little low. Gou Xingwang frowned when he saw it and said: "Manly man, if you lose, you will lose, and you will cry for a ball." If you have that time to cry, you might as well kill and go back to take revenge, and shut up for me. ”

With Gou Xingwang's reprimand, Zhou Linyuan didn't dare to cry anymore. Gou Xingwang then asked, "How many Qing soldiers are there in the southern city now?" Zhou Linyuan thought for a while and said: "There should be about 4,000 left, and our Restoration Army is not vegetarian, we have killed and injured at least more than 2,000 of them,"

Gou Xingwang said sharply: "Okay, go back with us now, and then find revenge for Lu Guangzu's dog day, and then find out Wu Yiding's dog thief and cut off his head." ”

Zhou Linyuan and Gou Xingwang joined forces and returned to the south, and on the way, they met Jiang Shangying, a regimental garrison of Kuidong, who fled from the city with 200 men. Zhou Linyuan was still asking Cheng Dequn around while hurrying, and Gou Xingwang saw that he was upset about asking everywhere, so he pulled Zhou Linyuan over and shouted: "What are you asking about?" Cheng Dequn is almost dead. Zhou Linyuan was stunned for a moment, thinking that Gou Xingwang was angry at himself, and said: "This is impossible, I obviously saw General Cheng's personal soldiers rescue him." But then he saw Cheng Dequn's guards, standing behind the army with his head down, and he was suddenly shocked, only to realize that what Gou Xingwang said was true.

The Lord will be killed, and there is no doubt that the military flag will be taken away, and suddenly Zhou Linyuan's heart is also angry, and his eyes are red and he looks at those pro-soldiers and says, "How was General Cheng killed?" Cheng Dequn's personal soldiers talked about the process of Cheng Dequn's murder, and then said hatefully: "If it weren't for Wu Yiding's sneak attack, we wouldn't have lost the south, and General Cheng wouldn't have died." ”

Zhou Linyuan gritted his teeth and said: "When I catch Wu Yiding's dog thief, I will break him into ten thousand pieces." Zhou Linyuan was ruthless in the team, but Gou Xingwang didn't say a word in front, just led the team to the south.

Since everyone was discrediting and advancing, the five-mile journey took about an hour. Gou Xingwang took Dong Erchang, Jiang Bochong, and Zhou Linyuan to ambush outside the north gate of the southern city, and there were very few people patrolling the city wall. Zhou Linyuan said to Gou Xingwang: "General Gou, shall we attack now?" Now they don't have many people to defend, and this is the best time to attack the city. Gou Xingwang said: "No, they are unprepared now, but if we can't capture the south in one go, let them be prepared, it will be difficult for us to take the south again." ”

Gou Xingwang looked at his army, then looked at the city wall, and then said to Jiang Bochong and Dong Erchang: "You take people to cut some trees in the forest and make some simple ladders." Be quiet, and don't alarm the defenders of the city. The two of them hurriedly agreed, and then led the people into the woods.

Gou Xingwang and the others were still waiting anxiously, but at this time, a large number of screams came from the southern city, and from time to time there were women's screams. Jiang Shangying, who had experienced the slaughter of the city by the Qing soldiers before, said to Gou Xingwang: "General Gou, why don't we attack the city now, the Qing soldiers of the dog day are slaughtering the city in the city." ”

Gou Xingwang was taken aback and said, "What? Now that the Qing soldiers have taken control of the south, how can they still slaughter the city? Jiang Shangying said: "Those brutes promised to slaughter the city because they suffered too many casualties during the siege, and in order to motivate the soldiers to attack the city." In order to be able to slaughter the people at will after the city was broken, the Qing soldiers robbed the people of their money. And also.... He can also insult women at will, and he is generally extremely ferocious when he fights. ”

Gou Xingwang said: "Aren't they inferior to beasts doing this?" It's just a brute. Jiang Shangying said: "Only in this way will the Qing soldiers sacrifice their lives to attack the city, and this is also a matter of cutting off the back road, and the soldiers who have slaughtered the city will no longer think about surrendering." After the Qing soldiers entered the city, the city could only be described as hell on earth. ”

Gou Xingwang heard this, and heard the screams and women's screams from the city, and couldn't hold back any longer. Turned around and looked at Dong Erchang and Jiang Bochong, who were still cutting down trees, and said to the soldiers: "Call them back immediately, organize a siege immediately, and tell the soldiers to take the city gate as soon as possible and let the army enter the city, otherwise more people will die." ”

In less than a quarter of an hour, Dong Erchang and Jiang Bochong came back with people and said, "General, why did you suddenly attack the city ahead of schedule." Gou Xingwang said: "Don't wait, Lu Guangzu is simply inferior to a beast, he let the Qing soldiers slaughter the city in the city." Dong Erchang and Jiang Bochong were startled and said, "What? Slaughter the city. ”

Gou Xingwang said: "Yes, so we can't wait, we must attack the city immediately." "Jiang Bochong is a native of the south, and he heard Lu Guangzu slaughtering the city in the south. Immediately anxious, he said: "General Gou, don't worry, I will personally lead the team to seize the city gate." Gou Xingwang also knew that Jiang Bochong was a native of the south and didn't say much, so he let Jiang Bochong go to attack the city.

Jiang Bochong asked the soldiers to take the dozen or so trees they had just cut down, and secretly ran towards the city wall.