Outside the city of Changyi.

Since Kong Youde landed, he passed by more than 30 prefectures and counties, all of which looked like empty cities, until he pursued to Changyi, only to learn that the people of Denglai Erfu had been relocated, he hurriedly led the army to pursue, but he did not want to be blocked outside the city of Changyi.

He organized several attacks in succession, but they were all beaten back by the defenders of Changyi, and seeing that the new round of attacks was in vain and suffered heavy losses, he asked angrily: "Have you found out?" Who is the one who guards Chang-eup? ”

"Lord Wang, the little one has made it clear, the one who guards this Changyi is the Jinyi Guard Governor Tongzhi next to Chongzhen, named Cui Dazhuang."

"Cui Dazhuang? How is it that this king has never heard of this man. ”

"Lord Wang, this person is only in his twenties, he is a master of the realm of stars, and he has only been here for dozens of days, and he has exterminated all the thieves in Denglai Second Mansion, and his strength cannot be underestimated!"

"Hmph, a little brocade guard also dares to block the way of this king, and this king will let him die without a place to be buried! Go, drag up the king's red-coated cannon! ”

Kong Youde gave an order, and Changyi City suddenly burst into smoke and cannons.

Under the continuous bombardment of the red-coated cannons, the tower in the north of the city collapsed, and then, the north gate, which was already in disrepair, could not withstand the fierce bombardment of the artillery fire, and was half blown down, and a big gap appeared.

Seeing that Changyi City was about to be breached, a brocade guard said anxiously: "Master Cui, hurry up and retreat, it will be too late if you don't withdraw." ”

Cui Dazhuang stood on the city tower, looked at the sky, and said in his heart: "Confucius and Meng have only been gone for three days, if I retreat at this time, I am afraid that they will soon be caught up." ”

On that day, he learned the news of Kong Youde's crossing of the sea from the fishermen, and on the one hand sent people to ask Wang Jian for help, and on the other hand, he asked Confucius Shimeng to evacuate quickly with 600,000 people, and he led 3,000 people to break the rear.

Sure enough, in the morning two days later, Kong Youde chased after him, and Cui Dazhuang hurriedly ordered the army to enter the city, wanting to entangle Kong Youde by relying on Changyi City.

But Cui Dazhuang didn't expect that the enemy was numerous, and there were red-clothed cannons, which were sharp weapons for attacking the city, and he had only been defending it for a day, and he was about to be unable to defend it.

Cui Dazhuang thought: It would be nice if I could block Kong Youde for another day, with this day's time, I believe that Confucius and Meng will be able to cross the white waves safely, even if they die in battle, they will not be disappointed by the emperor.

The situation was urgent, and he was not allowed to think about it, so he took out the embroidered spring knife he carried with him and said: "Hmph, behind this official are hundreds of thousands of people, and this official is entrusted by the emperor, how can he withdraw!" ”

After Cui Dazhuang finished speaking, he took more than 300 brocade guards to the north gate to support.

Seeing that the commander Cui Dazhuang did not evacuate and abandon them, but personally led troops to support, the Jinyi guards guarding the north gate immediately boosted their morale and regained control of the north gate.

Changyi City was full of artillery fire, and there were bursts of killing, and dozens of kilometers away from Changyi City, there was also a group of people who were moving in the direction of Changyi City.

Headed by the masked girl in Tsing Yi who was called "Lord of Liutang" by Liang Si in Jinan City that day, she heard that Chongzhen was driving in person and went to Changyi, she felt that it was a good opportunity to capture Chongzhen alive, so she hurriedly took more than 1,000 people to catch up.

Don't look at the masked girl who brought not many people, they are all serious soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, and they are from a small guard called Fushan. Palm Print Qianhu is a burly bald head, named Su Daqiang, influenced by his daughter-in-law Caigenhua, who also secretly joined the religion in the early years, and is now the incense master of the Qingdao branch of the Holy Sect.

Su Daqiang led the team to march in a hurry, and he was not without worry: "Master Liutang, I heard that Changyi City is two feet high, and Chongzhen has thousands of guards day and night, and if you want to capture him alive, I'm afraid it will be as difficult as climbing to the sky." ”

The masked girl sat comfortably on the shoulders of a two-headed, two-arms conjoined giant, she snapped her fingers excitedly, and said confidently: "Yes, that's why the master of this hall flew the pigeon to pass the book to let you lead the troops north, in order to surprise, haha!" ”

Su Daqiang looked at the arrogant masked girl, and was speechless in his heart at the moment: I don't know where her confidence comes from, how can the guards leave the station without authorization and appear a hundred miles away? Are you all fools when you are the guards around Chongzhen?

But he never dared to say this, because the masked girl in front of him was not as innocent as she looked, there were rumors in the Holy Sect that she loved her very much since she was a child, and the senior brother who grew up with her offended her because of a little mistake, and was imprisoned by her on a small island that no one knows, and it is better to live than to die!

So since it was a secret order from the masked girl herself, Su Daqiang knew that he couldn't do it, so he still had to come.

At this moment, Wang Jian was also leading Li Yan's musket battalion, and after a day and a night, he finally arrived at a small town called Gudidian and met countless refugees.

Wang Jian ordered someone to catch a refugee and asked, "Do you know where General Cui is?" ”

When the refugee saw that it was an officer and soldier who had come, he thought that he had been saved, and replied: "Yesterday there was another group of thieves, and the military advisor and the people are still behind." ”

Wang Jian felt a little relieved, if something happened to Cui Dazhuang, he really couldn't explain it to Cui Jian.

He left two hundred men to help the people cross the white waves, and he himself led the people eastward.

After walking for more than ten miles, he heard the sound of fighting in front of him, and the scout said: "Your Majesty, it seems that it is our Jinyi Guard, and it seems that it is being besieged by a small group of rebels. ”

Wang Jian hurried over, and soon the two sides of the fight were surrounded by the firearms battalion.

Wang Jian rolled up a loudspeaker and shouted with all his strength: "The great tomorrow is here!" You are already surrounded, put down your weapons and lie on the ground, or you will be killed! ”

As soon as Confucius Meng heard that the emperor was coming, he quickly ordered his own people to stop attacking, and obediently lay on the ground.

When many rebels saw this, they heard that Emperor Chongzhen personally led the troops, how could Tianwei commit it? Seeing that he was surrounded, he also followed the example of Jinyiwei and obediently lay on the ground.

However, dozens of rebels still wanted to resist, Li Yan gave an order, only heard a few bangs, and they all fell, and this time the rebels were even more honest.

"Confucius Master Meng, why are you, Cui Dazhuang?!" Wang Jian thought that the general Cui in the mouth of the refugees was Cui Dazhuang, and when he saw that it was Confucius Shimeng, he hurriedly asked.

"Your Majesty, Governor Cui is still in Changyi City, two days ago, he ordered Weichen to escort the people and leave first."

Wang Jian said secretly: "Not good! Counting the days, Cui Dazhuang has been surrounded for three days, I'm afraid that it will be more auspicious!

He instructed Confucius and Meng to lead people to escort the more than 500 people who surrendered on the ground and retreat first.

Wang Jian led Li Yan and them, rode fast horses, and galloped towards Changyi City.