"Jiang Ningjun is already here?" Liu Zongmin was startled at first when he heard this, and then his face sank, he pushed away the two women who were dressing himself, grabbed the robe on the side and put it on his body indiscriminately, and said in a deep voice: "Go, go with me to see King Chuang." ”

Two quarters of an hour later

Li Zicheng, who was disturbed from his good dream, sat on the edge of the bed, yawning while listening to Liu Zongmin's report, his face was very ugly, he looked at Liu Zongliang standing in front of him and said: "Brother Zongliang, according to your estimate, how long will it take for the Jiangning Army to arrive in Jiading County?" ”

Liu Zongliang said without thinking: "Back to the king's words, what I see today is only the vanguard of the Jiangning army, these people are all cavalry, as for their foot soldiers, I didn't see it, but according to my experience, the Jiangning army is very particular about the coordination of foot and cavalry, generally speaking, the distance between the foot and the cavalry will not exceed fifty miles, according to this calculation, the army of the Jiangning army will arrive in Jiading County as soon as tomorrow evening, and the day after tomorrow at the latest." ”

"Speaking of which, we only have a day or two to prepare." Li Zicheng pondered for a moment, and a trace of history flashed in his eyes: "Brother Zongmin, since Jiang Ningjun is here, then we should also go." In this way, two hours later, I will lead the infantry and horses to set off first, you lead your headquarters to set off this evening, and we will make peace with Li Laiheng in Wu County tomorrow, and then send troops to Suzhou. ”

Hearing that Li Zicheng asked him to leave again in the evening, Liu Zongmin was stunned, and his face immediately looked a little difficult: "King Chuang, don't we go together?" ”

Seeing Liu Zongmin's unhappy expression, Li Zicheng knew that Liu Zongmin wanted to be bad, and hurriedly explained: "Brother Zongmin, don't get me wrong, I didn't want you and Brother Zongliang to help me do something, it's not too late to wait until this matter is last night." ”

"Oh, isn't there anything else King Chuang hasn't done?" Liu Zongliang was also confused.

"Of course." Li Zicheng's face became hideous: "Although the rich families in Jiading County have been almost copied by us, but the people in those cities must still have a lot of gold, silver and grain at home, what you have to do is to find out all the people's food before tonight and take it away, and not a single grain of rice is allowed to be left for the Jiang Ning Army." ”

"This ......"

The two brothers, Liu Zongmin and Liu Zongliang, glanced at each other: "King Chuang...... It's almost noon now, and it's probably too much to empty out all the food and treasures in the people's homes at such a time, right? ”

"In a hurry? I don't think so. Li Zicheng cracked his mouth and showed a mouthful of yellow teeth and sneered: "I have a way here that allows you to quickly achieve your goal......

I have to say that the battlefield is the best teacher, after fighting with the Jiang Ning Army so many times, although the Liukou have never won, their understanding of the Jiang Ning Army has also risen to a new level, at least not as ignorant as before.

Li Zongliang's guess was right, at a distance of eighty miles from Jiading County, Li Yanzheng led a cavalry battalion of 5,000 infantry and Cao Yingmao to advance towards Jiading County.

As the first time he led the troops to fight after joining the Jiangning Army, Li Yan knew very well that this operation was not only Yang Feng's trust in himself, but also a test, if he could successfully complete the task this time, then his future in the Jiangning Army would be bright, but if he smashed the mission, although he would not push himself to the end, he estimated that he would stay in the position of Zanhua for a long time.

Although it's not bad to be a praise painting, whether it is a status or a good fortune, and you can often meet Yang Feng, but for a person with great ambitions, he will never be willing to waste his youth in this position.

Today's Li Yan wore a set of stainless steel armor like an ordinary Jiangning army sergeant, wore a green steel helmet on his head, and hung a saber and a three-eyed firearm from his waist.

Once upon a time, his ideal was to be admitted to the Jinshi and be called a glorious Ming civil servant, but in the end, not only did he fail the Jinshi examination, but he became a rogue, and followed Li Zicheng as a thief.

But God seems to have played a joke with him, after being a rogue for a few days, fate turned a corner again, he actually became a seven-grade official of the Ming Dynasty, and now he is taking officers and soldiers to encircle and suppress the original old club, and the wonder of the world is nothing more than this.

"General, the front does not collect reports at night, the outposts of the thieves have been dispatched extremely frequently in the past two days, and there have been many conflicts with our night collection, and there have been casualties on both sides, but in general, our injuries are relatively slight."

"Oh......"

Li Yan thought for a while, his eyes gradually brightened, and he called the herald, "You immediately tell General Cao Yingmao that the thieves are going to run." Let him immediately speed up and go straight to Suzhou Mansion, if he encounters a thief in the middle of the road, he doesn't have to be polite to beat me to death, and he must not show mercy to his subordinates. ”

"Whoa!"

The herald answered, and immediately pulled the reins of the horse, and the horse neighed and ran forward.

Looking at the direction in which the herald disappeared, Li Yan muttered: "King Chuang, King Chuang, you probably want to go straight to Suzhou, if it weren't for our Jiangning Army, maybe you would still be able to succeed, but now you will never be able to take Suzhou."

Come on, pass on the official's order, the team will speed up and move quickly towards Jiading County......"

Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin thought that they were already very alert, but they never expected that the person who led the troops of the Jiangning Army this time was actually their old acquaintance, and this old acquaintance also knew them quite well, so just when Liu Zongmin, who had completed Li Zi's errand, calmly evacuated towards Wu County with his headquarters, they were caught up by the cavalry led by Cao Yingmao at noon the next day.

"Kill ......"

The first to catch up with Liu Zongmin's department was the front of a group of hundreds of people under Cao Yingmao, and when they saw the thief in charge of the palace, they didn't say a word and killed the guy.

With the sound of firecrackers, more than 300 thieves in charge of the back of the hall fell down in a large number of firecrackers, and the rest of the people let out a panicked cry and scattered and retreated forward.

"Catch up and scatter them......"

The head of the thousand general shouted and chased forward with hundreds of cavalry......

At the same time, Li Yan, who had just entered the county seat of Jiading, couldn't believe his eyes when he looked at the scene in front of him.

The four gates of Jiading County were opened, and the Jiangning army easily entered the city, but when Li Yan led the army into the city, he was stunned by the scene he saw.

The city of Jiading is silent, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as dead silence, and the originally wide streets are full of corpses, whether they are old people, women, or children, these corpses have frightened faces and wide eyes, and it is obvious that they have been greatly panicked before they die.

Seeing this, a word surged in Li Yan's heart.

"Slaughter of the City"