Before the battle started, there were so many officers in the Zhejiang Green Battalion to surrender, and the undercover agents who had been operating in the Zhejiang Green Battalion for many years now had considerable power, and the battle was doomed before it began.

Below, Lin Xixu and others listened to those who were still die-hard loyalists of the Qing Dynasty, and Li Kexiu cooperated above, and through continuous troop mobilization, these loyal ministers of the Qing Dynasty were stuffed to the forefront, and the rest of the people were hiding behind and ready to sit back and watch these people be completely wiped out by the Red Flower Society, and some of them were thinking about whether to wait for them to take advantage of the defeat.

Three days later, the weather was clear, cloudless, and a slight northerly wind blew, and the army of the Red Flower Society changed its posture of standing still, and a large number of soldiers rushed out of the barracks to open the formation; In the middle of the camp, several huge and incomparable red hot air balloons slowly rose into the air, and the soldiers on it pointed a strange instrument at the Qing army camp while observing and loudly reported the numbers, and the soldiers next to him immediately wrote the numbers he reported on the paper, and then put them into the bamboo tube, buckled the buckle and slid to the ground along the rope that held the hanging basket, and the soldiers on the ground who had been waiting for a long time immediately caught the bamboo tube and took out the note, and rushed to the staff headquarters.

The staff officers reintegrated the data on several slips of paper and quickly sent them to the various artillery positions, and after a while, a loud bang sounded on each artillery position at the same time, and one shell after another screamed towards the camp of the Qing army!

The officers and soldiers on the Qing army's position were already trembling with fear when they saw the hot air balloon, and if it weren't for the desperate efforts of the officials to threaten them, they would probably have bowed down to these monsters. At present, countless shells are flying, and I hate why I am so unlucky that I was sent to the front line.

"The opportunity to serve the court has arrived!" , an officer dressed as a thousand generals waved the waist knife in his hand and shouted, "Aren't we soldiers eating food just to get promoted and get rich!" At the moment, as long as the safflower thief is repulsed, the imperial court will definitely not."

Before he could finish speaking, a bullet that flew out of nowhere exploded his head like a watermelon. Zhang Jin, who was ambushed in the camp of the Red Flower Society, sneered, "Shame pen, you dare to stand so high on the battlefield, and you are dressed so fancy, you look like an officer, who will you fight if you don't beat you?" After speaking, he quickly engraved a horizontal bar on the butt of the gun.

Then he squinted his right eye again and began to look for the next target. However, this time his luck was not so good, he had just aimed his crosshair at a guerrilla, and was about to shoot when he saw a blood flower emerge from the guerrilla's chest and collapsed to the ground. Looking at the trajectory of the bullet, and seeing Yang Chengxie smiling at him proudly, Zhang Jin shook his head and took a sip, and immediately shifted the muzzle.

Shells continued to fall from the sky, and the officers under command were constantly named, and the Qing army's front did not last long before the first deserter appeared, and someone led the other soldiers to immediately follow suit. Countless soldiers immediately threw down their weapons and rushed backwards with their heads in their hands, and the Qing army's front quickly collapsed.

"The time has come!" , Li Kexiu lifted his cloak and walked out with Zeng Nantu's personal guard battalion, the most important thing now is to speed up the collapse of the Qing army. Not long after leaving the gate, he met Lin Xixu who was rushing in a hurry, he was now the contact person of the Red Flower Society and Li Kexiu, and as soon as he saw him, Li Kexiu immediately ordered Zeng Nantu to let him in.

"Your Excellency." , Lin Xixu couldn't salute. leaned into Li Kexiu's ear and whispered, "Xiao has contacted a lot of brothers who are preparing anyway these days. The remaining stubborn things are also targeted by us, except for those on the front line, there are a few in the rear, and the small ones will take the adults to clean them up! ”

"Well, lead the way!" , Li Kexiu's heart was surging for a while, with his background in the Qing Dynasty, he sat in the position of the governor of Zhejiang land and water. However, joining the Red Flower Society, with his daughter being the main room of the chief helmsman of the Red Flower Society, his future prospects are limitless!

There is a large army pressing the border, and there are undercover agents fighting inside, and even the supreme commander of this battle has become the other party's person. How can the Qing army still fight? In less than a day, the Zhejiang Green Battalion was all defeated, and the Red Flower Society captured countless prisoners.

All the prisoners were taken into the camp, leaving a part of the troops to be guarded on the spot, and the rest of the troops quickly attacked Hangzhou under the guidance of Li Kexiu; This time, Li Kexiu almost evacuated the troops in Zhejiang, except for the few men and horses left in Hangzhou City, there were only a few officials with water and fire sticks left in the prefectures and counties along the way, and before the army approached, the prefectures and counties along the way sent people to ask for surrender; Even if there were one or two who were stupid and ready to defend the city, they were stopped by their officials and the gentry in the city, and they had to scold these traitors who had no king and no father, and then hanged themselves.

The news of the defeat of the Qing army and Li Kexiu's surrender to thieves came back to Hangzhou, Zhejiang Governor Zhuang Yougong was shocked, sat on the chair in a daze for a long time and did not speak, the master looked anxious and hurriedly persuaded, "My lord, we have to plan early!" ”

"Please also ask the master to teach me!" , Zhuang Yougong hurriedly asked like a drowning man grasping a straw.

"I don't know if the adults want to defend the city or want to surrender, if you want to defend the city, there is a way to defend the city, and if you want to surrender, there is a way to surrender!" , The master touched his beard and replied, he had already made up his mind in his heart, if he said that he would surrender, he could still go with him all the way, and if he defended it, he would run away with the property he had accumulated for many years.

Zhuang Yougong sighed and said after being entangled for a long time, "I am a saint disciple after all, this thing of devoting myself to being a thief is absolutely impossible, and it will be a big deal to die in the city when the time comes!" ”

In the past, when I was corrupt and bribed, I didn't see that you were a loyal minister, and the master complained in his heart and said, "Since this is the case, the adults must immediately start arranging the city defense affairs, and at the same time send people to arrest Li Kexiu's family, with these people in hand, Li Kexiu may be afraid when he attacks the city in the future." ”

After giving Zhuang Yougong an idea in a few words, after the master retreated, he immediately called his cronies and asked him to go to Li Kexiu's mansion to report the news, and let them run away quickly.

It didn't take long for the little servant to run back panting and report that Li Kexiu's house had long been empty, and even the cooks who cooked and the gardeners who pruned the branches and leaves had run away.

Zhuang Yougong drove the countless troops in the city to the top of the city wall, and prayed to the gods and Buddhas in his heart, hoping that these soldiers could buy more strength and hold out until Aligon's army came to help.

However, Aligon's army has not yet seen a shadow, but the men and horses of the Red Flower Society have already arrived outside Hangzhou City, and immediately set up a front around Hangzhou City, as if they are about to prepare for a large-scale siege! (To be continued......)

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