As the white light flashed, there was a loud sound in his ears, and the small forest outside the village was almost completely blown into the sky, and Gou Youxin, who had just fled to the edge of the woods, flew into the air with people and horses with the explosion wave, and did not know where he fell.

The dazzling flash of light instantly swallowed Kong Youde's vision, and Kong Youde was knocked over by a wall at the entrance of the village by the air wave, his eyes were blind, his ears were buzzing, and then the world was silent.

After a while, Kong Youde stumbled to his feet, holding his long knife and gasping for breath, his mind blank...... No one came to the rescue, he opened his mouth to scream but couldn't make a sound except for the sweetness of his throat, and he only grabbed a handful of hot air when he reached out and grabbed it, as if the world had ruthlessly abandoned him like this...... Time passes quietly in the midst of helplessness.

After a long time, fragments of his wife and concubines kept appearing in his mind, and the voices and smiles of his son Kong Tingxun and daughter Kong Sizhen kept appearing and disappearing......

Whether it is a loyal minister or a traitor, whether it is a good person or a bad person, in everyone's heart, there have been those who are worth remembering, and when all thoughts are lost, that nostalgia is more urgent and more desolate.

The desperate Kong Youde knew that his death had come, and at this moment he did not recall his unbearable life that he did not know whether it was sadness or joy, favor or humiliation; did not recall the benefactor Mao Wenlong, who trained him from an illiterate Tieling miner to a leading general; did not recall the former Ming officials who forced him to rebel step by step; He also did not recall the Emperor Taiji, who was very kind to him; I didn't expect that he had slaughtered countless loyal ministers and generals of the Ming Dynasty and thousands of innocent Li people over the years...... The only thing he was a little reluctant to give up was those lovely children!

However, whether it is loyalty or treachery, whether it is a favor or a grudge, decades of struggle, a busy job!

Even the sons and daughters who are close to Guilin will no longer be able to take care of them in the future......

"One general is incompetent and exhausts the three armies! …… That's it! ”

Kong Youde sighed, closed his eyes and raised the long knife, gritting his teeth and strangling his neck......

Kong Youde, who was supposed to be defeated and killed himself two years later, ended his shameful and tragic life ahead of schedule.

Every time I read the history of the late Ming Dynasty, I always sigh for Shi Kefa, Zhang Huangyan, Xia Wanchun, Qu Shiyun, He Tengjiao, Li Dingguo, etc., the loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty, and often because of Ruan Dacheng, Ma Jixiang, Sun Kewang, Liu Chengyin, Chen Bangchuan and other traitors and thieves and hate, as for Hong Chengchou, Wu Sangui, Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, Shang Kexi and other "second ministers" who have been eating the Ming Dynasty and finally repeated because of personal selfishness, whether they are alive or dead, they are despised.

Kong Youde claimed to be a descendant of Confucius, but he didn't know a single big character.

However, such an illiterate general who was born as a miner and only knew righteousness but did not know loyalty, even if Yuan Chonghuan killed his lifelong benevolence Mao Wenlong innocently, although he had resentment but still had no intention of rebellion, what finally forced him onto the road of disloyalty and injustice? It is the privileged class who live in the temple full of benevolence, righteousness, morality, poetry and songs, but have a belly of male thieves and female prostitutes, flies and dogs, right?

In the late Ming Dynasty, an era when the commodity economy was highly developed, but the politics were dirty, materialistic desires were rampant, and the discipline was corrupted, the literati and doctors who were ups and downs became very sophisticated, and under the appearance of being clear and scattered, they were snobbish and impetuous, and the habit of indulging in pleasures in the middle of the Ming Dynasty made the original clear sense of morality and the righteousness of the monarch and ministers pale and even ridiculous in the face of life and death, and the vulgarity and cunning at the critical moment were jaw-dropping, and even the peddlers and pawns were much more noble than them.

In the face of the test of life and death and the interests of power, the usual nobility and solemnity of the absolute majority of literati and doctors have become shameless, arrogance has become the attitude of concubines, pathos and arrogance have become servile and servile, and the feelings of strong men have become the face of eagles and dogs.

The year is cold, but after knowing the pine and cypress, wither!

At this critical moment of flesh and blood flying and the survival of the nation, although there is no lack of scholars who throw their heads for a smile, they see more of the intrigue of the Ming Dynasty scholars and the treacherous treachery of the chaotic era.

"Every time you slaughter more dogs, you are more likely to be a reader!" The ancients were honest and did not deceive me!

……

Kong Youde had just died, and Lin Xiao rushed to the edge of the village with Yu Chengcheng.

It turned out that seeing that the Qing army was defeated and scattered in all directions, it was impossible to organize effective resistance at all, and it was completely a rabble without a command, especially after the explosion in the woods, the souls of the Qing soldiers had been completely frightened, except for a few who were still running around in the blood, most of them had already knelt on the ground, Lin Xiao ordered each team to charge and capture the prisoners, and he took the lead with Yu Cheng and Ah Huang to rush to Kong Youde's command position.

"My lord, the hole thief is here! It's a pity it's dead! Yu Cheng's eyes were sharp, and he quickly found Kong Youde's body, stripped off his silver helmet, and grabbed the rattail braid.

"That's it! Don't cut off his head for the time being, or send it to Xingdu and hand it over to the imperial court for disposal. It's still a step too late, Lin Xiao said with some confusion.

"Cheap him!" Yu Cheng shook off Kong Youde's braid and said hatefully.

Lin Xiao looked at the corpses and flesh and blood on the ground in a daze, and sighed lightly: "In troubled times, people's lives are as cheap as dogs!" ”

Fortunately, Lu Hua and the others were rushed to Ding Shuai's headquarters in Gantang Town with the medical team before the war, otherwise she would not have been able to eat.

……

As soon as the captives were captured, and the battlefield had not yet been cleared, they saw Zhang Chenfeng and Li Yuanyin leading the cavalry into the valley with the captives leisurely and leisurely, followed by a large number of people driving carts.

It turned out that when Kong Youde's brigade went away, Li Yuanyin's cavalry rushed out of the valley and charged in formation, and the Qing artillery immediately hurriedly prepared to fire and bombard, and the shells of the two mortars had already fallen from the sky.

At the same time, Zhang Chenfeng ordered two machine guns to focus on artillery, and the other few opened fire on the Qing infantry, and the ten cannons could not be solved with a few shells.

When Zhang Chenfeng's reconnaissance company all got on their horses and began to charge, Liu Chengzu saw that the situation was not good, and turned around and ran away with a group of cavalry, but Zhang Chenfeng's cavalry had already picked up speed, and the carbine in his hand could fire without dismounting.

After chasing for a few miles, Liu Chengzu saw that there were few men left around him, and the panicked horse jumped into a small river to cross the river and escape, but the cold river water stimulated the war horse to neigh and kick his legs in the river, not only lifting Liu Chengzu off the horse, but also hitting him in the head with a hoof, kicking him to death.

The Qing army's more than 1,000 infantry troops were even more miserable, and they were chased by Li Yuanyin's cavalry before they even had time to escape, either hacked to death by sabers or trampled to death by horses' hooves, and the rest dropped their swords and guns, knelt on the ground with their heads and begged for mercy.

After the first battle, nearly 1,000 Qing infantry and cavalry were captured alive, and nearly 1,000 good military horses were captured.