In Liantan Town, the air is a little dull, and dark clouds are faintly gathering, and it seems that a rainstorm is about to usher in, washing away the dirt in the world.

The Qing army sat or walked in the camp tent, many people took off their heavy cotton armor and roasted around a fire, but the atmosphere was extremely quiet, everyone didn't seem to want to say anything, just waited quietly, but someone took out half a piece of some moldy sweet potatoes and roasted them on the fire, wafting an attractive fragrance.

The Green Battalion soldiers are not as good as the Eight Banners, they are not taken seriously in the first place, and they are all in danger of fighting on the road to death, and their food on weekdays can be short, and they are lacking. Especially in the past few days, the supplies in the army have gradually decreased, and the green battalion soldiers have been hungry for a few more days.

Old Chen limped with a shotgun, stepped over the sludge in the camp, splashed mud all over his body, and didn't care. His leg had been wounded in the previous days against the Fu Han army, and he had not been treated, but had simply bandaged it with a strip of cloth, and saw that the wound had begun to gradually decay, mixed with blood stains and emitting a foul smell.

When Er Niu attacked Liantan Town on the first day, he died directly under the artillery fire of the Fu Han army, and a solid bullet directly blew up half of his body, and he died on the spot.

Lao Chen Tou looked at this little fellow who came out with him, he died on the battlefield like this, and he didn't have any sadness, but there was a little relief on his face, after all, only the living suffered in these years, and he didn't have to suffer anymore when he died.

In the attack of more than ten days later, Lao Chen Tou has always been in the lead, but the lucky stars are shining, and the guns and cannons on this battlefield are all bent, so that he has been unscathed, and he has only injured his leg in the attack three days ago, but his life is recovered.

Lao Chen limped and slowly moved to the place where everyone was making a fire, but he chose a place to sit, looking at the sweet potatoes that were being roasted, revealing a somewhat coveted look.

"Old Chen, what are you doing here today? Isn't it going to cheat again? A Qing soldier leaning on the side bit a grass branch, and his childish little face revealed a bit of unruliness, and everyone laughed when they heard this, making this dull atmosphere seem a little lively.

Old Chen smiled, but he put his hand on the fire and muttered: "Boy, your Uncle Chen can live to this day, it depends on all his skills, you can see those who don't know things, they are buried in the ground." ”

When everyone heard it, they came to the spirit, many of them knew Lao Chen, most of them did not live in vain, at least everyone else died, but he was still alive and well, which was already quite amazing.

Lao Chen Tou smiled proudly, "Now the battlefield is not as good as in the past, the cannon of Chu Rebellion is far, accurate and ruthless, and the musket is also amazing, if you are stunned, you will die in the hands of Chu Rebellion sooner or later, but if you want to run, the coolie camp is not a good place to stay, sooner or later you have to die inside!" ”

These words are in the mind of the big guy, and now the big guy can be regarded as understanding, this so-called Chu Rebellion is not an ordinary mountain bandit and chaotic people, just the weapons and equipment are much better than the Qing army, and in this case, he still fights with a hard neck, isn't that looking for death?

"If you want to survive, you have to learn to read words and colors, and you have to observe the situation secretly!" Lao Chen Tou saw that everyone's attention had been concentrated, and he quickly took off the sweet potato on the fire, and he didn't care about it at the moment, so he stuffed it into his mouth.

When everyone saw that this old Chen Tou had done such a thing, they were furious at the moment, and they all gathered around to hug the old fist, and some people insisted on snatching this half of the moldy sweet potato from the mouth of the old Chen Tou.

Lao Chen didn't care about being beaten, and tried his best to bite the sweet potato and swallow it, but the freshly roasted sweet potato was scalding hard just by eating it slowly, but now it was swallowed directly into his stomach, so hot that he curled up on the ground.

"This old thing, phew!"

The faces of everyone on the side were a little unpleasant, but now that this sweet potato has been swallowed by Lao Chen, it is not easy to entangle it anymore, but they each kicked Lao Chen's body a few times.

It took a long time for Lao Chen to come to his senses, and he smiled proudly, "I've told you, you have to observe the situation secretly, it's not like I'm hiding my secrets..."

At present, the situation of the Qing army is gradually deteriorating, and it is a signal to reduce the food of the green battalion soldiers. But at this time, the top of the Qing army camp had fallen into real chaos.

When the messenger from Tongcheng rolled into the Kangxi camp with a body of blood and mud, everyone's hearts groaned, something was wrong!

Sure enough, when Kangxi trembled and read the urgent letter sent by Tongcheng, a blush appeared on his face, and then a large mouthful of blood spit directly on the letterhead, and the whole person fell crookedly.

Everyone exclaimed, but they didn't know what to do. Ma Qi, as the chief Manchurian scholar, has always been close to Kangxi's side, acting decisively, and immediately ordered that everyone in the account should not go out, and then summoned the imperial doctor on duty and began to treat Kangxi urgently.

Ma Qi's prestige among the ministers is still quite sufficient, so he took all the ministers and generals to check Tongcheng's distress letter together, although this move is a little disobedient, but after all, the situation is urgent, so I can't care so much.

Tongcheng has been besieged by the 30,000 troops of the Fu Han army! It can be lost at any time!

This news shocked everyone's heels a little unsteadily, and everyone finally understood why Kangxi vomited blood directly when he saw this news, which is really too bad!

What is Tongcheng? That is now the seventy or eighty thousand Qing army, together with the life and death line of more than 10,000 Qing troops in Anqing City, if Tongcheng is lost, it means that their back road has been completely cut off, and the logistics of the army are also arranged in Tongcheng, without the logistics supply of Tongcheng, I am afraid that in less than half a month, the big guys will have to become soft-footed crabs.

The ministers were in an uproar, and now the news is still blocked in this tent, and logically speaking, it will not affect the morale of the army, but the problem is that Kangxi is unconscious at the moment, and if he waits here for a long time, he is afraid that it will be too late to withdraw the army.

The Manchu and Han ministers in the tent were a little panicked, and even Ma Qi was a little dizzy after getting the news, he really didn't expect that the Han army was not going south to Jiangning? How did you get to Tongcheng in a short period of time? What about the Qing army along the way? It's just that no one can answer these questions at this time.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the emperor is in a coma at the moment, and I must make a decision at this time..... Otherwise, if we wait for the Han army to completely surround us, and our army lacks food and grass, I am afraid that something unbearable will happen at that time. ”

What can't you bear to say? Naturally, Kangxi was captured alive or killed, neither of which the Qing court could afford, especially being captured alive, the dignified king of the Qing Dynasty, fell into the hands of traitors like this? How to explain to the ancestors of the Qing Dynasty?

When everyone thought of this, they began to talk about it, some people thought that the army should be withdrawn immediately, and some people thought that it was necessary to wait for the emperor to wake up.... Neither side could convince the other, but the sound was getting louder and louder, and the whole scene became noisy.

"The subordinates think that the top priority at this time is to withdraw the troops."

A cold voice sounded, it was Zhang Tingyu, the left attendant of the court officials, he raised his head and looked at the ministers, his voice was a little cold.