"We took more than 600 people with us on this trip, and the rest were ambushed outside the city." Wang Fuzhi replied.

Before Zhu Youlang could speak, the commander of the guards beside him sneered: "There are not a few more people than us, and I'm afraid it's not as good as us in the fight, what's the use?" ”

Wang Fuzhi didn't look at the commander of the guards, and said with a smile: "If the king of the county believes in us, we will escort you to the south safely, if you don't believe it, life and death are only An Tian's destiny." ”

"Good!" Zhu Youlang struggled again and again, but still pressed the treasure on Wang Fuzhi and others.

Everyone rushed to the south city gate, and there were not many soldiers of the Great Western Army here, just to block the way to evacuate, and pretended to attack the city. Zhu Youlang ordered some of the defenders here to take cover on the tower, and some of them rushed out with him.

"Wait." A dragon took out a signal flare and lit it under the gaze of everyone, and the brilliant fireworks bloomed in the night sky, which was particularly eye-catching.

"Open the gates!" Zhu Youlang ordered with a slight trembling.

Outside the city, more than 8,000 people of the Great Western Army were led by Liu Wenxiu, who was originally depressed because there was no battle, and suddenly found that the defenders of Hengzhou in the city took the initiative to attack, and shells and arrows kept shooting into his own army, causing casualties.

Liu Wenxiu couldn't figure out the situation for a while, but when he saw the city gate open, he instantly understood, and shouted excitedly to his subordinates: "It's all for Lao Tzu, King Guiduan is coming out, capture King Guiduan alive and reward 500 taels of silver, and take his head 300 taels of silver!" ”

Liu Wenxiu's subordinates were originally caught off guard by the defenders on the city tower, and before they could adjust to it, they were stimulated by him again, and they suddenly rushed up, without order, and although they were brave, their overall combat strength was reduced.

The defenders of the city also had three or four thousand people to open the way for the palace, followed by the palace guards and Yilong and others. As soon as the defenders rushed out of the city, they met the Great Western Army in short arms, and the two sides were blocked not far from the city, holding each other.

"A bunch of rubbish!" Liu Wenxiu scolded angrily, and he was eager to make a contribution, and he took a spear and killed it himself.

"Poof!" Liu Wenxiu stabbed through the two officers and soldiers with one shot, and kept stirring, as if it was the King of Guiduan in front of him.

Rumble! Rumble!

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!

The huge sound of artillery bombardment broke Liu Wenxiu's illusion, at this time, the old artillery on the city tower had already been muted, and this sound was louder, more shocking, and naturally more powerful.

Under the condition that the Great Western Army was so dense, dozens or even hundreds of people were killed and wounded, and severed limbs and stumps flew sideways.

Liu Wenxiu's ears buzzed non-stop, he turned around with difficulty, and saw that the cannonballs were constantly flying behind his army, and the dust was flying all over the sky, "Annihilate the Kou army!" Voices came from all directions.

"Death!"

Liu Wenxiu turned his head suddenly, subconsciously raised his spear to block but to no avail, he could only watch in horror as the blade cut off the handle of the spear and slashed on his head, whimpering with his life.

The person who came was Yilong, I saw that he was covered in blood, cut off Liu Wenxiu's head with a knife and raised it high, looking up to the sky and shouting: "Liu Wenxiu is dead, you will surrender immediately!" ”

The surrounding Great Western Army looked at Yilong in fear, as if they were looking at a killing god, and they all lost their fighting spirit.

At this time, a general as tall as Yilong in the Great Western Army stood up and shouted: "Brothers, the reinforcements of the officers and soldiers have arrived, General Liu is dead, everyone break out with me!" With that, he took the lead and fled to the east.

The main force of the Great Western Army under Liu Wenxiu was still there, and the loss was only 2,000 people, but it was not able to form an army, and some people wanted to prevent the rout, but it was too late.

Except for Wang Fuzhi, no one noticed that the general who took the lead in escaping from Onishi secretly exchanged a look with Yilong, who was the same tiger who had joined the Onishi Army a few years ago.

"Rush out with me!" The opportunity must not be missed, one dragon and one horse took the lead, cut the knife in his hand to the edge, picked up the knife dropped by the Great Western Army, and continued to open the way.

In the previous dust, many figures appeared in the rear of the Great Western Army, bending their bows and arrows from a hundred paces away, and arrows rained down, with continuous artillery bombardment, completely destroying the will of the Great Western Army to resist.

The officers and soldiers who defended the people in the palace had heard that the Great Western Army had attacked cities and conquered cities everywhere and repeatedly defeated the defenders, and they were originally very afraid of the Great Western Army, but now when they saw the latter defeated and fled, they immediately inflated themselves and chased after them to beat the water dogs.

Wang Fuzhi followed Zhu Youlang's side, and when he saw that the situation was not good, he immediately said to Zhu Youlang: "The king of the county, poor Kou Mo chases, we didn't bring many people out this time, and we wasted the time to evacuate, and when the time comes, Kou Jun will react, and he can't leave if he wants to!" ”

Zhu Youlang also reacted, immediately passed down the order, and evacuated at full speed.

When the men of the Guards Battalion saw a dragon rushing out, they immediately stepped forward to answer it. After Zhu Youlang and the others came over, Yilong said: "King Jun, you follow Wang Fuzhi first, and leave a part of the Hengzhou army to break off with us." ”

"Good!" Zhu Youlang was also unambiguous, and ordered one person beside him: "Zhu Gui, you stay to command the Hengzhou army that comes out, and the rest of the people, follow me." ”

"Zhao Hu, what do you mean, how to explain to the king when you escape!" Zhao Hu is the pseudonym of Yihu, and a general coldly questioned him.

"Wu Tong, don't you see that there are officers and soldiers everywhere?" Zhao Hu showed no weakness.

"We have never received news of reinforcements from the Ming army, and now we have run away without even seeing the other party's people, and the king asked, can you be responsible?"

"How could there be time to hesitate in the situation at that time, General Liu is dead, and if the whole army is destroyed, can you bear the responsibility? Oh, you've been hacked to death by then, don't be responsible," Yihu mocked, "Besides, now that you're running with me, I'm going to go to the north gate to join the main force now, what do you think." ”

Wu Tong was speechless, so he could only follow a tiger with his head borrowed.

At the north gate, Zhang Xianzhong was waiting to break through Hengzhou City, when he suddenly saw a team of his own running in the distance.

"What's the matter, isn't that Liu Wenxiu's subordinate?" Zhang Xianzhong felt a little bad.

When Yihu and the others were recruited, Zhang Xianzhong asked anxiously: "What about Liu Wenxiu?" ”

Yihu didn't say a word, knelt on his knees, and cried slightly: "King, King Guiduan fled from the south gate, General Liu led the army to block, but I didn't expect the rear to be surrounded by reinforcements from the government, General Liu unfortunately died, I waited desperately to escape." ”

"Reinforcements, where are the reinforcements!" Zhang Xianzhong roared, kicking a tiger over, "King Guiduan ran away like this!" ”

Yihu fell to the ground and did not get up immediately, but covered his chest and secretly glanced at Wu Tong, who hurriedly said: "Please calm the king's anger, there were official and military figures everywhere at that time, and the opponent's artillery was too powerful, we had no choice but to let King Guiduan escape." ”

"Humph!" Zhang Xianzhong's face was gloomy, "Pass my military order, let Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang's troops withdraw from the siege, and immediately pursue Zhu Changying, the king of Guiduan." ”

On the tower of the city, Liu Xizuo, who was hit by an arrow in his left arm, learned that King Guiduan and others had broken through the siege safely, and before he had time to be happy, he saw that the Great Western Army began to move, and he thought twice and decided to abandon Hengzhou City and intercept the pursuing troops of the Great Western Army.

On the other side, Zhu Youlang and the others had already run five or six miles away, Zhu Youlang breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Mr. Wang, how many cannons have you brought, I think the power is very huge." ”

"Back to the county king, we brought ten relatively light tiger squat cannons on this trip, and their power has been greatly increased after improvement." Wang Fuzhi said that he couldn't help but be a little proud here.

Zhu Youlang looked behind him and said worriedly: "I hope Zhang Xianzhong won't bring someone to chase after him." ”

"The chase will definitely be chased, but there is also General Liu Xizuo, he is a good official and a good general, he will definitely succeed in breaking the back, we are basically safe," Wang Fuzhi said with a smile, "But it's better to go to Guangzhou as soon as possible, General Liu can block it for a while, but it can't last long after all." ”

Zhu Youlang looked at Wang Fuzhi, then turned to look at Yilong and the others, and nodded stiffly: "What Mr. Wang said is true." ”

More than 2,000 people from the official army, the guard battalion, and the palace belonged to the palace day and night, and finally arrived at the foot of Huayin Mountain on the border of Guangzhou Prefecture.

"Stop!" Zhu Youlang looked into the distance, an army stopped quietly in the distance, there were not many people, but a killing aura came to his face, making people shudder.

"Mr. Wang, that's, your own people, right?" Zhu Youlang asked, not even realizing that his hands were trembling slightly.

"That's right!" Wang Fuzhi said, "Our army commander personally led a team to greet him. ”

"Commander?" Zhu Youlang was stunned.

"Let's get over there."

Han Lin had already received the news from the intelligence battalion, so he waited at the foot of Huayin Mountain with a battalion of the Guards Regiment and an ordinary regiment, and saw a carriage approaching first, and a young man dressed in a gorgeous costume with a haggard face got down from the carriage, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute: "Han Lin, the commander of the Ziqiang Army, has seen ......."

"Yongming County King Zhu Youlang." Zhu Youlang was weak, "Han... The commander of the army does not need to be polite, and the father and brother need to be placed for medical treatment as soon as possible. ”

"Understood." Han Lin said, "It has already been arranged, and the resettlement place is not far away." ”

Han Lin looked Zhu Youlang up and down, this is the Yongli Emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty in history, at first glance it does have some merits, in this case, he can still maintain his demeanor, and it is remarkable for King Guiduan to deal with various things after he fell ill.

Zhu Youlang was annoyed and Han Lin stared at him unceremoniously, but he could only swallow his anger and didn't dare to attack.

After Zhu Changying and Zhu Youying recovered, everyone set off for Guangzhou City.

Han Lin had already ordered people to build a palace in Guangzhou City, covering an area of more than 20 acres, although it was far less than the Guiduan Palace in Hengzhou City, but it was already the largest mansion in Guangzhou.

Han Lin informed Han Duan, the commander of the capital, as well as the governor Yuan Yang, the governor Wang Zhengli, the general soldier Zhou Hong, the left and right political envoys Zeng Fan and Tang Yimu, and the envoy Wei Wuyi and other Guangdong officialdom Guiduan Wang's family would come to Guangzhou and let them decide for themselves how to prepare, but this group of guys invariably chose to go out of the city to greet them.

At this time, it has just entered summer, but Guangzhou is located on the southern coast, and the weather is already hot. Near noon, these party members stood in the sun and waited, and the scene was really good.

Zeng Fan, the political envoy of Zuobu, was a middle-aged fat man, and when he was exposed to the sun, beads of sweat the size of beans kept dripping, and he had to hold a handkerchief to wipe his sweat all the time.