Someone promised to give a herald and went.

At this time, Li Zicheng gave another order, and all the dozens of soldiers who ran back from Lin Yi's camp to deliver him a letter were beheaded.

These people shouted that they were wronged, they could swear to the heavens that they had absolutely not betrayed King Chuang, did not reveal the slightest news about King Chuang to Lin Yi, and wanted King Chuang to spare his life, but without a few cuts, his head fell to the ground and blood was splattered on the spot.

These people felt remorse when they were dying, and they didn't expect it to be such a result, loyal to King Chuang, but they were still killed by King Chuang, you must know that they said that they would not come back, how good it is to stay in Lin Yi's camp like everyone else, there is food and drink, there is money to take, and they can also make meritorious contributions, even if they die in battle, they can still let their families get pensions, and now it's good, where can they cry out if they are killed like this? Why didn't you listen to persuasion in the first place? What a bastard plus three levels himself!

Now Li Zicheng's face has returned to normal, but his face is a little sad and depressed, it seems that he can't fight this Lin Yi no matter what, and he must take the opportunity to break through, so he cheered up again and ordered people to immediately call the generals.

Gao Guiying and the others saw that Li Zicheng was fine, and their worries slowly eased. secretly complained that God was too unfair, and the blow to Li Zicheng was too great. Why is it always Li Zicheng who loses, so that he is defeated again and again?

But in my heart, I admire Li Zicheng's indomitable spirit of repeated defeats and battles, who can compare?

Soon Liu Zongmin, Li Guo, Li Laiheng, Liu Fangliang, Yuan Zongdi, Tian Jianxiu, Lan Yingcheng, Bai Minghe, Liu Tichun, Dang Shousu, etc., all arrived.

These generals were originally preparing to break through with their own men and horses. As long as the people they sent have a reaction, that is, the camp of the Ming army is in chaos, and they can break through at any time according to Li Zicheng's deployment.

Now that I have received Li Zicheng's order, I don't know what is going on, when I come here to take a look, I see that Li Zicheng's face is not quite right, and the joy and self-confidence of being confident and strategizing are all gone, replaced by a kind of eclipsed frustration.

I don't know what's going on yet, and no one dares to ask.

Li Zicheng immediately issued an order to break through the siege on the third watch tonight, change the original deployment of the front army, the middle army and the rear army, and divide 7,000 men and horses into two battalions to break through. Let Liu Zongmin take Dang Shousu, Bai Minghe, Lan Yingcheng and Liu Tichun, etc., and lead an army of 3,000 out of the city to break through to the northeast.

Li Zicheng commanded the remaining 4,000 men and horses, including Gao Guiying's female battalion and children's soldiers, and broke through to the northwest after leaving the city.

After the two people broke through, they went to Wanluodian in the south of Funiu Mountain (later in the area of Nanzhao County, Nanyang City).

When the generals heard this, they were a little puzzled by Li Zicheng's sudden change of attention, especially Liu Zongmin, just waiting for Li Zicheng's plan to succeed, Lin Yi's camp was in chaos, he rushed over to kill for a while, if he was lucky, he also planned to catch or behead Lin Yi, after all, his knife is not easy to use now, and now if he is singled out Lin Yi, he is absolutely sure to win.

But I didn't expect Li Zicheng to suddenly change his hexagram, and couldn't help but say: "King Chuang, aren't we planning to break through to the south?" Why did you suddenly go north? ”

Li Zicheng's face turned red, and then his face was gloomy and he lowered his head like rain, but he couldn't prevaricate with Liu Zongmin, and he couldn't pass it away in a few words, so he had to explain things clearly.

I had to explain to him patiently: "Jiexuan, we were originally going to break through to the south, but something happened, and all the men and horses we sent to Lin Yi's camp were wiped out, and this mutation had to be like this."

But after Li Zicheng said this, not only Liu Zongmin, but also Li Guo, Li Laiheng, Liu Fangliang and other generals were all full of astonishment, looking at each other with an incredible look.

I was confident and foolproof just now, why did such a change suddenly occur?

Liu Zongmin was a little unwilling, "King Chuang, now the Ming army is definitely gathering here, of course, the north is the most, the south is only Lin Yi's men and horses, and now his knife can only be seen as a painting, although the people we sent failed, it doesn't matter, we break through from here, I will take the lead, make a mess of Lin Yi's camp at him, and slaughter this kid!" ”

Li Zicheng knew that Liu Zongmin was angry with Lin Yi, why didn't he want to clean up Lin Yi? In front of everyone's eyes, his plan failed, forcing him to temporarily change the battle plan, making him lose face as the king.

But Li Zicheng was calmer than Liu Zongmin after all, so after listening to Liu Zongmin's words, he shook his head and said: "Jiexuan, now is not the time to be rash, it is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, let's remember this account for the surnamed Lin first." Now that our people have been exposed, the surname Lin must have been prepared, Nanyang is surrounded by mountains on three sides, the southeast and west are all Lin Yi's men and horses, only the north is Zhu Dadian and Hu David's people, this is the only place we can break through, in addition, after we break out, but a hundred miles is a mountain, as long as we can enter the mountain, it is our world. ”

"Alright then, just follow the king." Liu Zongmin listened to Li Zicheng's reasonableness.

According to Li Zicheng's orders, the generals quickly went down to prepare.

It was the third watch of the night, and Li Zicheng's 7,000 men and horses were all ready in two ways, regardless of men, women, and children, all holding handy weapons.

In order to minimize the movement in the city, Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin ordered that no fire should be started. In the darkness of the night, thousands of people did not have a single torch.

After the north gate was opened, the drawbridge was lowered, and Liu Zongmin suddenly killed with 3,000 people and went to the northeast to kill, with the horse team in front and the foot soldiers behind.

After this road came out, it was followed by Li Zicheng's people, Li Zicheng's 4,000 men and horses were still very hierarchical, so that the generals Liu Fangliang and Yuan Zongdi took 1,000 cavalry to open the road in front, and the 2,000 men and horses in the middle were Li Zicheng's guard battalion, and it was also his old battalion.

Followed by hundreds of female battalions and children's soldiers, this team was of course led by Gao Guiying himself, and Huiying and Huimei each had a sword to follow their wife.

In the end, Gao Yigong and Tian Jianxiu took 500 people to break off.

After the team left the city, they went northwest to kill.

In the middle of the night, these two teams suddenly came out. Soon encountered the ranks of the officers and soldiers. To the northeast is Hu Dawei's camp, and to the northwest is Zhu Dadian's camp. The joint camp of these two chief officers is basically connected together, and there is no gap in the middle. Lin Yi ordered the two of them to hold the north of Nanyang City, and Lin Yi's soldiers and horses were on the east, west and south.

Now Zhu Dadian and Tiger David, there are more than 10,000 people and horses together.

Two months ago, when I met with Lin Yi in Baishuihe, there were more than 10,000 Nanjing soldiers under Zhu Dadian alone, and seven or eight thousand Baoding soldiers under Hu David, and nearly 30,000 horses from the two armies.

Recently, Yang Sisichang took them to fight a few battles with Li Zicheng, suffered several defeats, wounded soldiers and lost generals, and both teams were reduced by several thousand people, despite this, now the two teams are added together, with a total strength of more than 13,000, compared to Li Zicheng's seven or eight thousand men, the strength is still strong.

Soon the two bandits encountered these officers and soldiers, and the shouts of killing were earth-shattering. Li Zicheng and the others did not take torches, but the officers and soldiers took torches, and the arrows flowed like rain, and the guns and cannons rang out in unison, and the flames soared into the sky, and they became a pot of porridge.

At this time, the battlefield was dozens of miles away from Lin Yi's camp tent, the battlefield was in the north, Lin Yi's camp was in the south, and there was a Nanyang City in the middle.

A tanma had already reported to Lin Yi, Lin Yi and Xiaoying, and after Zhezhe was dressed, Zhang Hua and the guard battalion had already assembled outside.

Lin Yi took his sword and ordered the battalions to attack Nanyang City overnight, intending to cut off Li Zicheng's retreat. At this time, Nanyang City has become an empty city except for the common people, Li Zicheng's men and horses are gone, he is fighting against the water this time, and he has taken away all the grain and grass women's camp and family, and he has no intention of coming back after leaving.

Therefore, Lin Yi's more than 20,000 men and horses quickly captured Nanyang City without bloodshed, strictly enforcing military discipline and not disturbing the people.

At this time, the sky was almost dawn, and the northwest and northeast were still with torches rushing into the sky, shouting and killing.

"Do you want to support Zhu Dadian and Tiger David?" A general under his command asked.

Lin Yi smiled, "No need. Didn't the two of them want to attack the city a long time ago, give them a chance to make meritorious contributions, so that they will always be red when they watch us win the battle. ”

At dawn, Lin Yi received a report that Li Zicheng and his men and horses had successfully broken through and ran into the mountains overnight. Zhu Dadian and Hu Dawei were trampled into the company camp by Li Zicheng's two teams of men and horses, and their troops were lost.