"Surrender or kill!" Guo Zhiqi shouted loudly in the chaos.

"Whoever dares to surrender Lao Tzu will kill him first!" Seeing that many people were shaken, the garrison hurriedly spoke out to stabilize the morale of the army, and one of the soldiers next to him almost put down his weapon, he raised his knife and cut off the latter's head.

"Kill, scatter them!" Guo Zhiqi commanded the battle in an orderly manner, and a company rushed into the enemy line with shields and spears in hand, and with each stab, dozens or hundreds of enemies were pierced, which was unstoppable, and directly hit nearly a thousand enemy troops.

The rest of the self-strengthening army immediately stepped forward to complete the division and encirclement of the enemy army.

"Give you one last chance, lay down your arms, surrender and not kill." The overall situation has been decided, Guo Zhiqi saw that there were still people who wanted to fight the trapped beasts, and persuaded him to surrender again.

A soldier of the Zheng family army saw the tip of the gun coming, hurriedly dropped the knife in his hand in a panic, closed his eyes in fright, and shouted loudly: "I surrender!" ”

Cold sweat dripped down, and the soldier opened his eyes, and when he looked down, the tip of the spear was against his throat, exuding a chill that pierced his bones.

Seeing that there was only a dead end to resist, the garrison refused to take his life to buy time for Zheng Hongkui, and ordered surrender after scolding Zheng Hongkui in his heart. As everyone knows, even if Zheng Hongkui's main force is still there, I am afraid that he will not be able to defeat a regiment of the self-strengthening army.

Guo Zhiqi left a company of guards and guards, and he led people to pursue in the direction of Wuping City. At this time, there was about a cup of tea before Zheng Hongkui escaped, even with the foot strength of the soldiers of the Self-Strengthening Army, it was very difficult to catch up with Zheng Hongkui before he hid in Wuping City.

"Hurry, hurry!" Zheng Hongkui shouted to Zheng Jiajun behind him.

The soldiers who were advancing on two legs dared not say anything: You are good, you are not tired at all on horseback, we are all running so much that our legs are cramping. But they didn't dare to slow down at all, after all, their lives were their own.

At this time, Zheng Hongkui had already walked to a relatively narrow road, the road was lined with barren forests, and the evening wind blew, and the sound of salsa sounded in the forest.

Deep in the woods, two thousand self-improvement troops were lying in ambush motionlessly.

"Chen Qianhu, don't let me down later." Huang Gongfu whispered to Jian Chen beside him.

Jian Chen didn't answer, they rushed all the way from Beizhai, half of their lives were gone, the soldiers of Huang Gongfu's troops were still alive, and now the discipline of the latter was also incomparable to his own subordinates, so their own people were ambushed behind other people's butts.

Zheng Hongkui looked left and right, staring at the woods for a long time, and when the vision in front of him gradually widened, and when he was about to walk to the flat ground, he finally breathed a sigh of relief and said to himself: "It seems that I am ...... Yes! ”

Zheng Hongkui screamed, and the whole person fell off the horse.

"General!" Several lieutenants and staff generals behind him were shocked, and hurriedly stepped forward to help Zheng Hongkui, only to see that the latter had a feather arrow stuck in his right chest, and half of his body was stained red with blood. If it weren't for Zheng Hongkui's timely reaction, this arrow would have hit him in the heart, killing him with one blow.

"Prepare to meet the enemy! Get ready to meet the enemy! A lieutenant general calmed down, seeing that Zheng Hongkui was seriously injured, blood flowing, and whether he could survive was a question, and hurriedly commanded the army to fight.

However, unfortunately, the four thousand Zheng family troops were lined up in a long line of several hundred meters at the moment, and they couldn't care about each other at all.

Countless cannonballs and arrows were sent out of the forest and fell into the dense middle of the Zheng army, and large swaths of soldiers were mercilessly harvested, and they went to meet the king of Hades before they could even see the shadow of the enemy.

"Kill!"

The artillery bombardment and the rain of arrows ended, and the shouting and killing sound of the sky hit the heart of the Zheng family, and more than a thousand self-improvement troops killed from both sides, like a tiger descending from the mountain, choosing people to eat, and everyone in the Zheng family army could only fight on their own.

"Zheng Hongkui is dead! Zheng Hongkui is dead! Huang Gongfu ordered people to shout loudly around the battlefield.

"Don't listen to their rumors, the general is still here. Follow me out of here! Staying where he was and waiting for death, a brave general helped the unconscious Zheng Hongkui onto his horse, pulled out his saber and pierced a sword to a nearby soldier of the Self-Strengthening Army, Bai Huahua's intestines fell to the ground, and then kicked the corpse and rushed forward.

But he had only advanced for a while, and he was saddened to find in front of him a wall of shields made up of long cards nearly a man high, blocking his path.

He looked around, and the soldiers on his side were dying quickly and retreating, so he stabbed his sword into the horse's buttocks. The horse carrying Zheng Hongkui neighed in pain, rushed towards the shield wall in a frenzy, and actually jumped up and crossed the shield wall violently, but unfortunately finally fell heavily to the ground, broke the horse's leg, and caused Zheng Hongkui to step into the ghost gate with one foot.

The general didn't even look at Zheng Hongkui's side, a person took advantage of the chaos to get into the woods, and one rolled to the back of a soldier of the Self-Strengthening Army, and wiped the latter's neck with a sword, and just as he was about to turn around and slip away, something hit the back of his head.

"Lay down your arms and spare you from death."

"Okay, okay, don't do it." The general bent down and made the appearance of putting the sword on the ground, and the next moment, he directly changed his posture and wanted to turn around and pick up the sword body to counterattack.

"Bang!" It's a pity that the person behind him didn't give him a chance, and instantly pulled the trigger and burst his head.

Huang Gongfu looked at the general and opened his mouth, and sneered: "When you make any other moves, you are destined to die in my hands." ”

In Wuping City, the huge cannon sound from a few miles away made the people in the entire city panic, and in the Wuping Governor County, the Governor was walking around anxiously.

The county man who rushed over wiped the sweat on his forehead and asked, "My lord, I'm afraid that the Zheng army's army is fighting with someone outside the city, should we send someone out to see ......?"

"What are you looking for, looking for death?" The magistrate scolded.

"What about us?"

"Wait, wait for them to come to a result, it's best if you don't come to our Wuping City, and you can't do anything to us if you come." The magistrate chose Mingzhe to protect himself, and there was no standing army in the city at all, only some catchers, jailers and the like.

On the battlefield outside the city, Guo Zhiqi's troops also caught up, and the Zheng family's army was even more defeated. After a stick of incense, the battle gradually subsided, and the troops were driven to a corner, Huang Gongfu walked up to Zheng Hongkui and asked, "Is he still alive?" ”

A military doctor next to him replied: "I still breathe a sigh of relief, if there are good conditions for healing and survival, it should be no problem." ”

Huang Gongfu nodded: "He will hand it over to you." ”

"I really don't know why the military commander told us not to kill the important people of the Zheng family." Guo Zhiqi complained.

"Maybe it's to use him as a bargaining chip in dealing with Zheng Zhilong in the future." Huang Gongfu could only think of this, and he couldn't think of it even if he wanted to break his head, Han Lin was leaving room between himself and Zheng Chenggong, the son of Zheng Zhilong.

Soon, the post-war statistics were reported to Huang Gongfu and Guo Zhiqi.

In this battle, the Ziqiang army killed 270 people and seriously wounded more than 500 people. More than 1,600 enemies were killed, nearly 2,000 were captured, and a few hundred escaped with good luck.

"Bury the corpses of the soldiers of the Zheng family army on the spot, collect our own brothers who died in battle, and bring them all back to be buried in their homeland after the battle." Huang Gongfu commanded the aftermath.

Chen Jian, who followed behind, was deeply shocked by the Ziqiang army, and Zheng Jiajun also knew that the strength was not weak, and it could even be regarded as an elite army under the rule of the Hongguang Dynasty, which was only stronger than the team he had worked hard to train.

"Chen Qianhu, how is it, are you interested in really joining us?" Huang Gongfu asked.

"Really joined?" Jian Chen was stunned.

"It is to integrate your team into the Ziqiang Army, as a battalion, with an official number, several divisions, several brigades, several regiments and several battalions, like me is the deputy brigade commander of the fifth brigade of the second division, our brigade commander is Li Wo, and the division commander is Han Duan."

"Of course I am." Chen Jian replied affirmatively that his family is well-off, and he has invested a lot of energy and family wealth in the job of a thousand households, because he has a pure heart to gallop on the battlefield and serve the country, and now the self-improvement army has made him see new possibilities, maybe it will create a new world, which Hongguang Dynasty can't do!

Later, Huang Gongfu asked Guo Zhiqi to discuss his next move.

"Lao Huang, you take someone to take over Wuping, and then go north to join the big army, the elephant cave in the west, the Zheng family army in Yongding will be handed over to me, don't rob me." Guo Zhiqi said.

"Are you okay?" Huang Gongfu glanced at him and smiled, "There are a lot more people in these two places than Wupingsuo combined. ”

"Hey, I'm a violent temper, I actually said that I can't do it, there are only two or three thousand people in the nearest elephant cave, and it's not easy to deal with them, as for Yongding, I can let the brothers of the third brigade cooperate, and I'll go and let people send a message to Brigade Commander Liang Chaozhong." Guo Zhiqi said that he would do it, and immediately went to the communications soldier.

Guo Zhiqi led his men and horses to the west, and Huang Gongfu and Chen Jian led people to Wuping City.

The magistrate was already waiting on the city tower, and asked downward, "Who is under the city?" ”

"Guangdong self-strengthening army, according to His Majesty's decree, declare all places, quickly open the city gates, otherwise our army will attack the city!"

"Open the gates." Zhixian hurriedly ordered to go down, for fear of upsetting the army below, and opened a killing ring, and at the same time he also solved the doubts in his heart, it turned out that the army in Guangdong in the south fought with the Zheng family army and won it.

"Jian Chen, take your hundreds of people in."

"What?" Chen Jian asked with some uncertainty, "You don't go in?" ”

"No need, Guo Zhiqi and they brought supplies to us, what we have to do now is to capture Yongping Village not far away, and quickly go north to occupy the entire Tingzhou Mansion, you didn't play a role in the previous war, now taking Wuping City in charge is the first test for you, Zheng Hongkui will also be taken into the city by our military doctor, do it well."

"Good!"

Zhixian came down from the city, only then did he see Jian Chen in front of him, and asked in surprise: "You are not the one... Come on. ”

"Chen Jian, a thousand households in Beizhai, the county magistrate, I can't imagine that you still remember the villain, it's really an honor!" The corners of Jian Chen's mouth rose and he looked at Wuping Zhixian.

"Don't dare, don't dare." Wu Pingzhi forced a smile on his face, he did remember it, but what happened between the two was not pleasant at all.