Chapter 442: Assassination
According to the detailed report, as early as a month ago, Xu Dingguo secretly wrote a letter to the Manchu general Duoduo to lose his sincerity, and a few days ago he even sent his son to the Qing army as a hostage.
However, because Liu Neng has been operating in Guide for a short time, it is only a matter of half a month to enter Xu Dingguo's army, and Xu Dingguo's previous behavior has not been detected. In the past two days, he spent a lot of money to make friends with Xu Dingguo's personal soldiers, and only then did he know about Xu Dingguo's surrender.
Since Xu Dingguo wanted to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, why didn't he lead the army to surrender directly? Do you have to come from Suizhou to Guide? Liu Neng was suspicious, and soon understood that this Xu Dingguo was harboring evil intentions, he wanted to dedicate Guide to the Qing army so that he could be a ladder to advance!
"Traitor! Traitor! Liu Neng scolded angrily, he must not tolerate such a traitorous person.
"Kill Xu Dingguo, think that the latecomer will quit!" Liu Neng said murderously.
"Yes, sir!" Everyone else was excited. The Enemy Intelligence Department is engaged in investigating the enemy's situation and assassinating people, but these days, he has always been hiding in the shadows and doing things, and he has never tried to assassinate the enemy, and he feels excited to think about it.
"Fifth son, you go back to the barracks now, find out Xu Dingguo's movements, if you find him out of the camp, report immediately!"
"Dog leftover, you pretend to be a commoner, pick up the five sons outside the barracks, and deliver the news in time."
"The others make all the preparations, gather all the brothers in Guide, once they find out about Xu Dingguo, they will immediately attack, and they will definitely kill Xu Dingguo on the spot!"
Liu Neng ordered murderously.
Xu Dingguo is the commander of a battalion, surrounded by soldiers at all times, it is not so easy to kill him, it is not possible at all in the barracks, and he must be done while he is out of the camp.
"Yes!" Everyone agreed in unison, and they prepared to go.
There are more than 20 people in the Enemy Intelligence Division in Guide, all of whom are elite soldiers selected from the army, and their combat strength is extraordinary, and they also carry more than 10 strong crossbows. As long as the timing is right, it is not impossible to kill Xu Dingguo.
However, even if he can kill Xu Dingguo, it is also a problem to retreat safely, and Liu Neng doesn't want to trap all his subordinates in this Guide City for a Xu Dingguo.
Therefore, it is necessary to prepare a way out in advance.
And Liu Neng still has a deep worry, that is, after killing Xu Dingguo, will it make a big mess in Guide, so as to speed up the fall?
With such worries, Liu Neng decided to go to see Governor Yue Qijie again and inform him of Xu Dingguo's surrender. After all, Yue Qijie is the highest official in Guide and is from a Jinshi, maybe he will have a good way.
However, when he came to the governor's yamen to ask for a meeting, a servant walked out of the palace and told Liu Neng that the governor had no time to see him.
"Lord Yue, let me tell you, if you return to Germany and not stay for a long time, you should go back to Yangzhou as soon as possible." After the official finished speaking, he turned around and went back to the house.
Looking at the closed door of the mansion and the soldiers standing in front of the gate, Liu Neng's face changed, and he gritted his teeth and stomped his feet and turned back to his residence.
Since Yue Qijie is not worried about being the chief officer of Guide, what kind of heart does he have as a spy officer of the Enemy Intelligence Department, just do his duty!
In the early morning of the second day, the enemy intelligence department sent to Ningling County rushed back to Guide and reported to Liu Neng that Suizhou had fallen and that the Manchu vanguard cavalry had arrived outside Ningling County.
Ningling is just a small county, and it will never be able to block the way of the Eight Banners Army, maybe today or tomorrow, the Eight Banners will reach the city of Guide. At this moment, Liu Neng was extremely anxious.
Near noon, the five sons who had infiltrated Xu Dingguo's army finally sent the news that Xu Dingguo would go out of the city in the afternoon to investigate the enemy's situation.
Spy on the enemy? I'm afraid it's to discuss with the Qing soldiers the details of the surrender of Guide! Liu Neng decided that he couldn't wait any longer.
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In less than three moments, under the escort of more than 20 cavalry soldiers, Xu Dingguo went out of the camp gate and galloped towards the Gongyang Gate in the city.
Now there are more than 10,000 troops in the entire Guide City, more than half of them are Xu Dingguo's subordinates, and a small half are the people of Li Jiyu, the general of Guide. The west gate and the south gate were guarded by Xu Dingguo's army, and he had no worries about safety, let alone that anyone would be secretly watching him.
In the Ming Dynasty, although Xu Dingguo was in the position of the general soldier and could be regarded as a high and powerful position, he did not have much sense of security. Because he knew that with the army under his command, he couldn't compete with the fierce Eight Banners at all.
I didn't see the thieves who occupied half of the north, and they were destroyed by the Eight Banners and fled from Beijing to Xi'an, and then fled south from Xi'an.
If the thieves are still like this, the army of the Ming Dynasty is naturally even worse! For example, although the total strength of his subordinates is six or seven thousand, there are only more than 500 personal soldiers who can fight.
Prince Yu of the Manchu Qing Dynasty commanded tens of thousands of Eight Banner soldiers to attack, and with his own troops, Xu Dingguo didn't even have a little luck in his heart.
Maybe it won't be long before the Eight Banners will reach Nanjing and destroy the Ming court. This is the end of the Ming Dynasty!
Since Daming is finishing, he has to find a place for himself. Naturally, he wanted to take refuge in the new dynasty, but Xu Dingguo did not have the intention of being loyal to the Ming Dynasty.
Of course, the sooner you take refuge in the new dynasty, the better, and you don't see Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and others, because those who took refuge were awarded the throne early. But it's not too late, there are still most of the Ming to conquer, as long as you can make a contribution to the extinction of the Ming, the future will be bright!
Therefore, before the Duoduo army left Tongguan, Xu Dingguo secretly sent people to contact Haoge, the prince of Manchu Qingsu on the north bank of the Yellow River, to discuss the matter of surrendering.
After hearing that Duoduo's army had left Tongguan, he hurriedly sent his son to the Qing camp as a hostage, in order to gain the trust of the Manchu master.
Don't think about it, after all, it was too late for him to join the Manchu Dynasty, and he took refuge when the soldiers were at their peak. But at least I can be a viscount and baron, after all, I have dedicated the intact Guide Mansion, so that the Eight Banners have saved a lot of things, and it would be better if I could let myself join the Eight Banners Han Army.
After several years of military disasters, most of Henan is extremely dilapidated, and Guidefu, which is located at the junction of the east and the south, is a rare prosperous place, although it has also been captured by thieves, but it is not like Kaifeng, and the damage is not too serious. The materials are quite abundant, and the population is quite dense. The completion of the dedication to virtue can be regarded as a great contribution, and it should be appreciated by Prince Yu Duoduo.
Riding on the horse, Xu Dingguo was thinking wildly, and then thinking about what to say when he saw the forward general of the Eight Banners Army for a while.
Who knew that when he was less than half a mile away from Gongyang Gate, a strong light suddenly flashed into his eyes, which was obviously the light reflected by the weapon, which made Xu Dingguo squint.
There are assassins! This thought suddenly surged in Xu Dingguo's heart.
However, before he could react, "chirp", accompanied by the sound of piercing the air, countless cold spots rushed towards him.