Hou Yu and the others hid in the shadows, calmly staring at the battlefield where the Ming army and the Jurchen cavalry were fighting in front of them, without the slightest intention of interfering, nor did they leave.

Fortunately, the scale of Hou Yu and the others was not huge, and no one could detect it at night when they hid in the ruins of the house, which reduced Hou Yu and them a lot of trouble.

It's just that until now, Hou Yu and the others have not found the target, which makes Hou Yu and his party, who were full of confidence from the beginning, begin to feel uneasy.

Before the city was broken, Hou Yu and they had too many opportunities to assassinate Wu Sangui, but if they assassinated Wu Sangui like this, they invisibly did a great favor to the Jurchen barbarians outside the city, making the soldiers defending the city more and more flustered, which was also the most difficult point of this assassination, and the military department required them to carry out the assassination only after the city was broken, or after confirming that Wu Sangui would surrender to the Qing army.

Therefore, now when they are in chaos, the difference between them and Wu Sangui is highlighted, before the city was broken, Wu Sangui did not enter and leave the mansion with many personal guards, when the Ming and Qing armies fought, they rarely used assassination to deal with the enemy, not to mention that Wu Sangui himself was only one of the dozen general soldiers in the Beijing Division, even if the Qing people assassinated the night, they should assassinate Xu Zhi Xu Shilang who presided over the overall situation of defending the city at this time.

Of course, now Xu Zhi doesn't need others to assassinate him, even Wu Sangui and other generals have begun to prepare for the way to escape, so presumably this Ming Dynasty soldier and city guard Lord Xu Zhi either sacrificed his life for the country, or was dragged away by his family and personal guards.

"Kill!!"

Suddenly, another Ming army came out from behind the Jurchen cavalry, and after joining up with the Ming army guarding the side gate of the eastern city, in the dim light of the fire, Hou Houyu and the others finally discovered the target of their trip, the Ming general Wu Sangui.

"Your Excellency!!"

"Let's go, kill out!!"

As soon as the Ming armies of the two sides converged, there was no longer any need to stay in the siege at this time, and after defeating this Jurchen army in a hurry, there was no too much greeting, Wu Sangui led a team of people to open the side door and kill into the dark night.

As Wu Sangui and their departure from the city, Hou Yu and the others did not hesitate, and poured out of the city gate one after another with the traces of the other party, and before leaving, they did not forget to pile up a pile of wood at the city gate, pour fire oil on it, and try to buy some time for their own evacuation.

On the fifth day of the fourth month of the eighteenth year of Chongzhen, the capital division of Shuntianfu in the Ming Dynasty fell, and Xu Zhi, the servant of the main officer and soldier department of the city guard, was martyred.

Along the way, they followed the footsteps of Wu Sangui and others, marching for dozens of miles, until they entered the mountains south of the Beijing Division, and the whereabouts of Wu Sangui and others slowed down.

Fighting with the Jurchens and others one after another, so that there are only more than 300 people left in Wu Sangui's own army so far, and in this wilderness where there is still some snow, there is no need to worry about being discovered by the Jurchen army.

But as far as Hou Yu and his party who followed behind them were concerned, it was quite troublesome, because it was really not easy for their group of thirty-six people to assassinate Wu Sangui in front of more than three hundred elite soldiers.

Along the way, Wu Sangui and the others went out day and night, because they were worried that they would be pursued by the Jurchen army, so they were also very cautious, but this invisibly brought great pressure to Hou Yu and the others to track, and they were almost discovered by the other party several times.

"It's time to change plans!"

Hou Yu and they tracked Wu Sangui for more than half a month, from the Beijing division to the Shandong border, they did not find a suitable assassination, seeing that the other party had more and more troops along the way, Hou Yu had no choice but to change the plan.

Not long after, on the route of Wu Sangui's retreat, a group of deserters dressed in dirty clothes and acting in a panic collided with Wu Sangui and them.

"Stop!"

"General Wu, the chief soldier of Xuancheng in the Ming Dynasty, is here, which general are you under the command of?"

For the rout that suddenly appeared behind them, they had seen too many Wu Sangui along the way, and now their team has exceeded a thousand ranks, and most of the soldiers are the routs they recruited on the road.

"If you go back to your lordship, your subordinates and others were originally soldiers of Lord Li, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, but they were separated from the chief soldier in the city and fled here."

A slag-like Shanhaiguan dialect came out of the mouth of the sergeant who answered, and when he looked up carefully, he looked up and looked carefully behind this black face, but it turned out to be Hou Yu and the others who had been following Wu Sangui and them here.

"Okay, okay, from now on, you will be soldiers under the command of our General Wu, report your name and official position, and I will register it for you!!"

Xia Guoxiang, as Wu Sangu and other deputies, this kind of containment of the rout is naturally his job, but after briefly asking Hou Yu about their identities and the generals they originally belonged to, he incorporated them, but he was not worried that they would be spies of the Qing army.

Since then, Wu Sangui and their southward journeys have rarely encountered traces of Qing soldiers, and the soldiers who have caught up from behind have reported that the Qing soldiers are cleaning up the Forbidden City of the Beijing Division at this time and consolidating the Ming Dynasty land they have occupied in winter.

Therefore, Wu Sangui and they were relatively idle on the way, although they passed through a lot of prefectures and counties that were still under the control of the Ming Dynasty, they did not delay, and they marched towards the south bank of the Yellow River.

After settling down, Hou Yu and the others did not experience much suspicion, so they settled down in Wu Sangui's army, and the distance between them and Wu Sangui was also very close, and they had a better chance of assassinating Wu Sangui.

"Who is the old man who followed Wu Sangui during the day? You find a way to inquire. ”

After seeing Wu Sangui in a trance during the day, Hou Yu found that there were officials in this team who were higher than Wu Sangui and other officials, and Wu Sangui actually followed an old man to talk and talk during the day, which was enough to arouse his interest.

After staying in Wu Sangui's army for two or three days, the soldiers of the special operations battalion got a clear picture of Wu Sangui's mixed team, and at the same time asked at night what the gray-haired old man beside Wu Sangui was.

He said that he was an old man, but in fact, he was only in his early fifties, but perhaps because he was overused by his brain because he was worried too much, his hair was gray, and he looked like an old man.

But he was imprisoned in the prison by Jinyiwei, and was ordered by Chongzhen to be martyred by the former governor of Liao, Hong Chengchou, who was martyred by Jingshi, when Jingshi fell, Xia Guoxiang took Wu Sangui's belongings to meet with him but did not see him, it was Wu Sangui who took people to the prison to rescue Hong Chengchou.

(End of chapter)