With the sound of firecrackers, soon a group of soldiers ran over to reinforce them, about fifty people.

"What happened?" A general flag asked sharply.

"I found the fleeing Jinyi Guard, who was killed and wounded three, and two brothers have already chased down."

A soldier with a relatively minor injury covered his wound and shouted, at this moment, the captain who was wounded in the abdomen had bled too much and passed out.

"Leave a few people to treat them, and the others will chase after me!" The general flag gave an order and took the lead in chasing down.

"Qianhu, someone is running over!" Shen Lian, a hundred subordinates, woke up Liu Neng, who was resting against the wall.

Liu Neng opened his eyes and saw a black shadow running towards the small mansion not far away, it was too dark to see whether it was Lu Zonghan or not.

"You take two people to jump over the wall and enter the courtyard, and if it is Lu Zonghan who enters, you will control him." Liu Neng thought for a while and said. In Lu Zonghan's outer house, Shen Lian met Lu Zonghan.

Afraid of being surrounded by soldiers, Liu Neng didn't dare to enter the house, so he stayed in an alley outside the house.

"Yes!" Shen Lian agreed, and led two of his subordinates to quietly go around the wall and enter the house.

Looking up and looking hard, I saw that the black shadow quickly approached the courtyard, and then knocked on the courtyard door. Soon, the courtyard door opened, and the black shadow flashed into the courtyard. It seems that the person who came should be Lu Zonghan, he escaped, and Liu Neng's heart suddenly calmed down a lot.

"Qianhu, it's not good, there is a large team of people following behind." Xu Qingtian pointed to the street and exclaimed. Liu Neng hurriedly looked over and saw more than a dozen torches approaching, and the shadows under the torches were all human figures.

Did Lu Zonghan surrender to the enemy, or was he pursued by the enemy? At this moment, Liu Neng was also confused.

"Qianhu, what should we do?" Xu Qingtian asked in a low voice.

"What to do, let's take a look first, if there are more people, we will retreat, and if there are fewer people, we will fuck it!" Liu Neng gritted his teeth and said with a cruel smile. Ever since he knew that the matter had been leaked, he had been on fire in his heart, and he didn't have a chance to vent.

Xu Qingtian nodded, and whispered an order to a subordinate beside him, and the subordinate passed on his order. In the dark alley, more than thirty dark shadows gathered, each winding a crossbow in his hand.

"There are not a lot of people, at most fifty or sixty." Xu Qingtian looked forward hard, distinguishing the torch shining on the head of the shadow shadow, and whispered to Liu Neng.

Seeing that the other party was approaching the small house, he was about to hit the door of the house.

"Fuck it!" Liu Neng waved his hand heavily.

After receiving the order, more than 30 brocade guards raised their crossbows and pulled the trigger at the soldiers under the torches.

"Zheng", "Zheng", "Zheng" With a string sound, more than 30 short arrows without feathers pierced the night sky and flew towards the soldiers more than 20 paces away.

Screams rang out one after another, and more than a dozen torches fell to the ground one after another, and the front of the small house suddenly darkened.

At such a close distance, the target of the soldiers under the torches was not too obvious, and it was aimed in advance, and almost no arrows missed, just one round of shooting, and half of the soldiers on the opposite side fell. The rest were also frightened, looking around in panic, and couldn't figure out where the arrow of death was coming from.

"There is an ambush, run away!" One of the soldiers screamed, turned and fled, not even picking up the torches that had fallen to the ground, and fled into the darkness. The other surviving soldiers reacted and ran after him, ignoring even their wounded accomplices. So many of their companions were shot down at once, and I don't know how many enemy troops there were in the night, and these soldiers were already frightened.

Almost instantly, there were more than a dozen torches that fell to the ground in front of the small house, as well as more than a dozen corpses under the torches and more than a dozen wounded soldiers who were not killed by arrows.

"All the guns that are not dead are replenished, no one is left alive, take Lu Zonghan with you, and retreat!" Liu Neng commanded in a deep voice. Maybe it won't be long before more soldiers come here, and they won't be able to stay long.

......

At the time of the killing in the outer city, a house in Taipingfang in the inner city was the residence of Qian Qianyi, the second assistant of the cabinet, and Qian Qianyi was talking to a young man in the study.

"Chao Zongxian's nephew, what did Shi Daolin say?" Qian Qianyi asked Hou Fangyu on the other side.

Hou Fangyu is 27 years old this year and is the son of Hou Sui, the former head of the household department. Hou Sui is a member of the Donglin Party, and he is kind to Qian Qianyi, so Hou Fangyu took advantage of his father's opportunity to run under Qian Qianyi.

Hou Fangyu is one of the four sons of the Fushe, he is famous in Nanjing, and a large number of young scribes are gathered around him, Qian Qianyi is naturally willing to use such a person.

Chongzhen had already arrived in Zhenjiang under the escort of the Pingnan Army, and the Pingnan Army was about to march under the city of Nanjing, Qian Qianyi panicked. At the beginning, for the sake of power, he actively supported King Fu's ascension to the throne, thinking that with the support of the army, Chongzhen would be helpless even if he lived.

But who would have thought that Chen Yue's Pingnan army was too powerful, and thousands of people actually defeated the army of the three towns that supported King Fu, and the situation changed in an instant.

Others don't know, Qian Qianyi naturally knows, don't look at the current civil and military officials in Nanjing City all support King Fu, but once the Pingnan Army comes to Nanjing City, it is likely that many people will surrender anyway.

King Fu is not the orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty in the end, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty have their own thoughts. Qian Qianyi also had to plan for his future, so he sent Hou Fangyu to see Shi Kefa. After King Fu ascended the throne, because Shi Kefa was too famous, King Fu didn't dare to kill him casually, but just put him in Yingtianfu Prison.

"Uncle Huishi, the little nephew saw Master Shi and told him what you meant. But no matter what the little nephew said, Master Shi just didn't say a word. ”

Hou Fangyu said with a bitter face.

"Alas, Shi Daolin is angry with me." Qian Qianyi sighed, when King Fu ascended the throne, he put Shi Kefa together, presumably Shi Kefa was still jealous.

"That's it, let's figure it out by ourselves, without him Shi Daolin, the old man will do things like him!"

"Uncle Shi, the little nephew has something to understand, since you think that King Fu is no match for the emperor, why did you give Nama Shiying an idea today, and let the imperial court issue an edict to allow the nobles to recruit troops? Doesn't this increase the difficulty of the siege of the Pingnan army? If the emperor enters Nanjing in the future, he will definitely ask you for this. Hou Fangyu asked puzzled.

"Haha, Chao Zongxian's nephew, you are still young," Qian Qianyi laughed, "The nobles can recruit soldiers, of course we can." When the Pingnan army is attacking the city, let's take the army to defend the city, and then open the city gate to welcome the emperor into the city, wouldn't it be a great achievement? In this way, it is enough to offset my mistake of supporting King Fu! ”

"Uncle Shi is really resourceful, and the little nephew admires it!" Hou Fangyu suddenly realized and praised with a thumbs up.

"Alas, for the sake of the future of our Donglin Party, for the sake of you young and handsome people, I have to do this." Qian Qianyi sighed compassionately.