At this time, in Chaozhou Mansion, which is hundreds of miles away, Li Chengdong, a slave surnamed four surnames, is happy and happy in the lobby of the Chaozhou prefect. Li Chengdong was sitting in his arms a young and beautiful woman, about seventeen or eighteen years old, which was a good age. However, the woman sitting in Li Chengdong's arms was not happy, and she was in tears, but she didn't dare to cry loudly.

Li Chengdong, a slave surnamed four, was putting his hand into the woman's shirt at this time, pinching and grabbing it wantonly, and the woman didn't dare to dodge, so she could only let Li Chengdong be light.

This woman is the daughter of the prefect of Chaozhou, Zhao, after the city was broken, the prefect of Zhao had the backbone to commit suicide with Emperor Shaowu, and it was a hundred. Governor Zhao was relieved, but he suffered from his family. Governor Zhao's wife was too old and was killed by Li Chengdong, who rushed into the mansion. Several of the sons of Zhao Zhifu were all powerless scholars, and they were naturally hacked to death by Li Chengdong one by one. When he arrived at this woman, Li Chengdong found that this woman was really good-looking, especially like his dream lover when he was a child.

Li Chengdong was originally a military household in Shaanxi Mizhi, and he really didn't eat a meal in that poor place, Li Chengdong was called Li Huzi when he was a child, his parents died early, and he was raised by his father's old brother Yang Datou in the army. Yang Datou was originally a small banner of Mizhiwei, and he was considered a low-level officer, and he was a world friend with Li Chengdong's family. After Li Chengdong's parents died, Yang Datou looked at the child pitifully, so he adopted him at home and regarded him as his godson. Yang Datou has a daughter named Cui'er, who is a childhood sweetheart with Li Chengdong, if it weren't for the troubled times, Li Chengdong would probably join the Yang family when he grows up and become a son-in-law, and when Yang Datou dies, he will replace him as a small banner, and then eat and wait for death.

However, at that time, Shaanxi was already full of fires, officials and soldiers were fighting fires everywhere, and Yang Datou was also killed by the rebels in a counterinsurgency. The Yang family was immediately targeted by the surrounding jackals, tigers and leopards, and a thousand households of Mizhiwei fell in love with Yang Cui'er, and casually got a name and brought Cui'er into the house to humiliate her. After Li Chengdong got the news, he took a kitchen knife and sneaked into the Qianhu Mansion late at night and killed him with 13 people, but Cui'er was already humiliated and hanged. Li Chengdong saw that he had broken into a big disaster, and he didn't stop doing it, so he went out of the city and voted for Li Zicheng, who was also a fellow villager of Mizhi.

The next thing is simple, Li Chengdong followed Gao Jie to rebel against the rebels and became an official soldier. After Gao Jie's death, he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and became a slave with four surnames.

Seeing that the woman in front of him was very similar to Cui'er, Li Chengdong couldn't help but feel a move in his heart, although he had been fighting horses for more than 20 years, but the good days when he was a child were still in his mind, and he didn't kill her when he saw that Zhao looked like this, and stayed as a concubine.

Li Chengdong has countless women in his life, but none of them gave birth to offspring for him, and sometimes he secretly thinks that he has done too many bad things, and God punishes himself. However, Li Chengdong adopted a righteous son when he was a rogue, the son of a scholar in Henan, and Li Chengdong named him Li Yuanyin, which can be regarded as his successor.

Li Chengdong was moving his hands and feet against Zhao, and someone outside came in to report that the young marshal was coming.

You have to pay attention to what you say in front of your son, Li Chengdong let go of Zhao, and Zhao hurriedly packed his clothes and fled into the back room.

Li Yuanyin strode in outside and said goodbye.

"Father, since the Chaozhou Mansion has been taken, why do you still order the slaughter of the city!"

Li Chengdong took 5,000 people to march for fifteen days, caught the Shaowu regime off guard, and took Chaozhou at no cost.

Most of Li Chengdong's subordinates are rogues, and when they heard the big marshal's words, they were naturally happy, and the entire Chaozhou Mansion had become a hell in the past few days, and there were fires everywhere.

Seeing his son like this, Li Chengdong scolded: "Uncle Yuan, you haven't been with me for a day or two, the brothers and our masters were born and died, and now relax and don't make them happy, who can still give our masters their lives at a critical time?" ”

"But my father, it's been three days now, and there are still some people outside who rape and kill people everywhere, and some of them have passed!"

Li Chengdong touched his beard, and when he thought about it, he had occupied Chaozhou for seven or eight days, and these guys under him were not happy, and it seemed that they had to be disciplined.

"That's it, Uncle Yuan, you take someone to arrest the guy who doesn't obey the order and beat ten boards!"

Li Yuanyin got his father's general, and was just about to get up and go out, but who knew that Li Chengdong called Li Yuanyin back again.

"Uncle Yuan, after you finish cleaning up, you go find a few guides!"

"What is my father going to do?"

"Uncle Yuan, I think that the interior of Guangdong is empty now, so it is better for us to take advantage of the weakness and go south to Guangzhou to catch the king of Chu!"

Li Yuanyin thought for a while and said: "Father, Guangzhou is the lair of the King of Chu, and the Ming army we met in Jiading heard that it is the subordinate of the King of Chu. ”

Li Chengdong shook his head and said, "Didn't you notice Yuanbo, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army here in Chaozhou Mansion is not very good, maybe the people we met in Jiading are not the subordinates of the King of Chu." Coupled with the few horses in the south, our 5,000 people are all cavalry, one person and two horses, if not, we can escape, and the Ming army will not be able to catch up with us. If we can catch Zhu Hongsan, the king of Chu, then we can speak in front of the general of Zhengnan, and maybe let your father and me be the governor of Liangguang. ”

Seeing that Li Chengdong had made up his mind, Li Yuanyin had no choice but to go out and find a guide according to the order.

Li Yuanyin quickly found a shopkeeper in the city and asked his soldiers to send it to Li Chengdong.

Li Chengdong looked at the fat shopkeeper in front of him who was trembling with fright, and asked, "What is the road from Chaozhou Mansion to Guangzhou?" How to go? ”

"Lord Man, go out of the city along the official road, pass through Jieyang, Jinning, then pass through Haifeng, go to Huizhou Mansion, and then go to Guangzhou Mansion after Zengcheng, about more than 500 miles, and it will take ten days."

"Don't fucking call Lord Man, grandpa is Han!"

The fat shopkeeper didn't even dare to say it, he was totaling in his heart, he was obviously combing that ugly mouse braid, and he was not an adult?

Li Chengdong thought about it, this road should be very easy to walk, but this kind of road is complicated, and it is easy to expose the target, and his more than 5,000 people are really nothing. Thinking of this, Li Chengdong remembered the earth-shattering sound of artillery outside Jiading City, at that time, the other party had so many artillery pieces of more than 3,000 people, and now he went deep into Guangdong, and it is difficult to say whether he can leave alive if he does not pay attention to concealment.

"Is there any other road besides the main road?"

The fat shopkeeper thought for a while and said: "There is a small road, but the road is rugged, it was built during the Song Dynasty, and not many people have walked in the past few hundred years, so I don't know if it can be used." ”

"How do you know if no one is leaving?"

"When the villain was young, he was a merchant who walked through the village and town, and he walked through it a few times."

"Tell me how to get there!"

"From Jieyang, go northwest, pass through Jieling, then go to Changle, Heyuan, Changning, and finally reach Conghua in the north of Guangzhou. I don't know how this road is now, and it used to take 20 days to get to Guangzhou when I could walk it. ”

Li Chengdong nodded when he heard this, and asked the soldiers to take care of the fat shopkeeper, and figure out what to do to change it.

At this time, Li Yuanyin, who had cleaned up the chaos in the city, came back.

Seeing his son enter the house, Li Chengdong asked, "It's over!" ”

"Yes, father, I caught a dozen disobedient guys and beat ten boards, and now the city is much more stable."

Li Chengdong didn't pay attention to this matter at all, and now he wants to discuss with his son how to go to Guangzhou.

"Uncle Yuan, you see, there are two ways to go to Guangzhou now, one is close and easy to walk. It's a long way, the path is not easy to walk, and the road will be delayed for twenty days, what can you do? ”

Li Yuanyin pondered for a while and said: "Father, I suggest taking a small road, you don't need to bring all the people and horses, two thousand elite soldiers are enough, so that the number of people is reduced, and the speed can be accelerated." ”

"Well, you and I think the same, in this way, now you go and prepare, tomorrow I will take two thousand men and horses to go first, you bring other men and horses to follow behind, and if you fall to Guangzhou, if the war goes well, it is better to say, if not, you will come to meet me immediately, and we will return to Fujian."

The next day, Li Chengdong selected his soldiers, took his horses, left the Chaozhou Mansion at midnight, and ran to Jieyang as the fat guide said. The next day, Li Yuanyin took the remaining 3,000 men and horses and also left Chaozhou Mansion to kill and go to Guangzhou.

Li Chengdong's 2,000 vanguard troops began to release a large number of scouts from Jieyang, bypassing large villages when they encountered them, and killing all small villages, hiding their whereabouts and replenishing them by the way. Several large county towns along the way are far away, and quietly pass ten miles away from the town. Li Chengdong's soldiers were all rogues, and this way of fighting was very familiar, so he quietly came to Mude Town, ten miles north of Guangzhou.

After killing all the thousands of people in the town, Li Chengdong ordered the soldiers to rest and prepare to start a raid on Guangzhou tonight.

The soldiers came to Li Chengdong and said that they had caught a merchant from Guangzhou in the town, Li Chengdong nodded, just to learn about the situation in the city.

Where has that merchant seen these fierce and vicious guys, the new army in Guangzhou City is all fair trade, and the military discipline is very good, but these guys in front of them are all dressed in strange costumes, wearing hats on their heads, and they don't seem to have any hair, and they are all shaved bald. The bandits around Guangzhou have long been wiped out, when did so many bandits appear?

While the merchant was thinking wildly, a strong man walked in outside the door, wearing a cotton armor of the Ming Army, but his clothes were full of blood, and it seemed that the blood was still fresh. He wears an iron helmet on his head, with a beam on the front and back of the helmet, and a piece of covering his eyebrows protruding in the middle of his forehead.

This strong man is Li Chengdong, after entering the house, Li Chengdong took off his helmet, exposed the money rattail on the back of his head, and scolded: "Guangdong in February is so hot, it's really fucking not human!" ”

The merchant with the money rattail still knows it, and this kind of outfit has spread all over Nanzhili. The merchant immediately knew who these people were in front of him, and cried out in a lost voice: "You are Manchu Tartars? ”