Just as Li Chengdong was about to educate his son, his horse team was almost at the gate of Dongcheng, when suddenly a black thing flew out of the shop next to him, fell in front of the horse team and exploded, making a loud noise.

Li Chengdong's personal soldiers are all people who have been in battle for a long time and have rich combat experience, and when they encounter emergencies, they immediately form a circle in front of Li Chengdong and his son to protect Li Chengdong and his son inside.

Li Chengdong found out what was happening in front of him and hurriedly asked, "What's the matter?" ”

The commander of the pro-soldiers arched his hand and said: "Great Marshal, just now a thing flew out of the shop in front of the store, and landed ten feet in front of the horse team, and there was an explosion, look at the power is earth-shattering thunder!" ”

Shocking thunder? This kind of big killing weapon is only used when defending the city, and it takes two people to carry it before it can be used, and who can throw it out with such great strength.

Just when Li Chengdong was thinking about who it was, a large number of Qing troops suddenly came out of the city gate twenty zhang away, shouting and killing Li Chengdong.

Li Chengdong knew that the big thing was not good as soon as he saw that it was the Qing army, and the earth-shaking thunder just now must have been thrown by Tong Guonai, a bastard, I don't know why he didn't blow himself up, so now he has to do it.

Li Chengdong has incomparably rich experience in actual combat, and when he saw that there were 3,000 people on the opposite side, there were only 500 people on his side, and he was no opponent at all on the empty street.

"Come on, protect me and return to the house!"

When the pro-soldiers heard what the marshal said, they hurriedly protected the marshal and Li Yuanyin to retreat.

On the way, Li Chengdong called his son and said: "Boyu, you take ten people, don't go to the east gate, go around to the south gate, you must go out of the city to find our people, let them enter the city to save their father!" Li Chengdong has been fighting all his life, and he knows that if Tong Guonai wants to kill him, he will definitely call the Eight Banners of the Han Army in the city. Although these guys are not as perverted as the Manchurian Eight Banners, they are not much worse, their own soldiers are elite, but they are a little worse than them, if the army outside their city does not enter the city, then they will not survive for half a day.

Although Li Yuanyin has a long love for children, he is not an incompetent person, otherwise Li Chengdong would not have chosen him as his successor.

After hearing Li Chengdong's order, Li Yuanyin nodded and said, "Father, don't worry, the child will definitely bring people into the city!" After speaking, Li Yuanyin left the team with ten people and rushed to the south gate by taking a small road.

Tong Guonai originally wanted to wait until Li Chengdong entered the urn city before making a move, so that Li Chengdong couldn't run away if he wanted to. Therefore, Tong Guonai was set up with secret agents at the east gate to the door of Li Chengdong's mansion, and Tong Guonai received the news from Li Chengdong's exit.

Tong Guonai stood on the arrow tower and watched Li Chengdong's horse team in the distance getting closer and closer, and he was very happy in his heart, so far things are going well. But Tong Tuchang on the side was depressed, didn't Zhao Da notify him yesterday? Why is Li Chengdong still swaggering out of the city today?

Just when Li Chengdong's horse team was still more than 20 zhang away from entering the city gate, something suddenly happened. There was a silk village on the side of the street, which was crowded with passers-by who were hiding from the horse caravans. Suddenly, a black object flew out of the crowd and landed in front of the horse team and exploded.

The explosion surprised both Li Chengdong and Tong Guonai. Tong Guonai saw that Li Chengdong's horse team was not advancing, but surrounded by a defensive formation, and knew that there was suspicion on the other side.

Tong Guonai stood on the arrow tower and scolded: "That bastard threw the earth-shattering thunder!" ”

Tong Tuchang was happy when he saw the change, "My lord, it should be those remnants of Hongmen, only they don't want to see Li Chengdong die!" ”

Tong Guonai nodded, seeing that things were like this, Tong Guonai hated it in his heart, and he almost wanted Li Chengdong to enter the city, and now there is no way to make it like this, only to fight hard, anyway, there are few of them, as long as the army outside the city enters the city, it will not be too late to kill Li Chengdong.

"Come on, order everyone to attack and kill Li Chengdong! The one who kills Li Chengdong first will be crowned deputy general, and a reward of 100 gold! ”

The Qing army in ambush in the urn city received the governor's order and immediately went out of the city gate, preparing to hack to death Li Chengdong, a slave surnamed four surnames.

Looking at the angry Tong Guonai, Tong Tuchang was overjoyed, the earth-shattering thunder just now must have been released by Wang Xian, it seems that they received their news.

Tong Tuchang guessed correctly, the grenade * bomb just now was really made by Wang Xian and other Jinyi guards. It turned out that after Zhao Da transmitted the news of Tong Tuchang to Houguan Town last night, Wang Xian immediately knew that there was a change in the city.

"Zhao Da, what did Master Tong say?"

Zhao Da arched his hand and said: "Lord Wang, Lord Tong didn't meet with us, but just asked the guards in the governor's yamen to pass the message on his behalf. Master Tong said that he would not go home tonight, and asked the shopkeeper Hou to wait for him to come back tomorrow afternoon and then take stock! ”

What does that mean? Wang Xian thought for a long time and asked, "What do you mean by Lord Tong?" ”

The hundreds of households in Jinyiwei were staring wide-eyed, there was no code word in this sentence, I really don't know what Tong Tuchang wants to convey?

Everyone in Jinyiwei doesn't read, and many of them can't read, so they are good at fighting, but it's not their job to analyze intelligence at all. Intelligence analysis is the business of the six institutes of Jinyi Wei, and they are the ones of the eight outer institutes.

Seeing the big boss Wang Xian looking at him, hundreds of households bowed their heads one after another. Seeing that these guys had no idea, Wang Xian scolded: "You bunch of waste! Don't have an idea? ”

Everyone bowed their heads and didn't know anything, and said in their hearts: You don't know if you can't read, you have the brains to take the Xiucai test, who will be a brocade guard?

Hou Zhen of Fujian Qianhu on the side spoke, he is in Fujian all the year round, and his cover identity is the shopkeeper, so his mind is quite clear.

Hou Zhen lowered his head and thought about it and asked Zhao Dadao: "Zhao Da, what are you doing with Master Tong this day?" ”

"That's right, I went to meet with the gang of Hongmen in the morning, and I was scheduled to go to the governor's yamen in the afternoon. However, Lord Tong temporarily decided to go to the governor's yamen immediately, and within half an hour of arriving there, Lord Tong took a hundred governors' guards to find me and go to the old nest of Hongmen. Then Lord Tong returned to the governor's yamen, and it was almost dark before the word came out. That's all it takes for a day! ”

Hearing that Zhao General Tong Tuchang led people to destroy the Hongmen stronghold, Hou Zhen asked: "You tell me in detail about the extermination of Hongmen!" ”

Zhao Da said how he bragged in the tea shop at that time, Lord Tong took people out to find him, and then he took Lord Tong to the saltwater lane in Nancheng, and led the escort commander to shoot a Hongmen dark pile with one click. Then the Qing army went in to clean up, and in the end, Tong Tuchang found that Hongmen had a yellow cloth bag on his body. Zhao Da explained in detail what happened in Hongmen.

As soon as Wang Xian heard that the yellow cloth bag was found on the people of Hongmen, he knew that the big thing was not good, what that cloth bag was, others didn't know him, but Wang Xian knew that it was the emperor's canonization edict to Li Chengdong. Wang Xian remembered that Tong Tuchang said at that time that if Li Chengdong did not agree, he would hand over the canonization edict to the Manchu governor anyway, forcing Li Chengdong to do it anyway. Could it be that Lord Tong is ready to start working?

Thinking of this, Wang Xian couldn't help but complain to Tong Tuchang in his heart, why didn't he discuss it with himself, he was so anxious that his side was really passive, and now he didn't prepare anything, and the five hundred people were still distributed in Fuzhou City and outside the city.

Only Hou Zhen is a thousand households in the Jinyi guards present, and the others didn't dare to ask when they saw Wang Xian falling into deep thought, only Hou Zhen asked in a low voice: "My lord, did you think of something?" ”

Wang Xian nodded and said: "That cloth bag is the edict of His Majesty the Emperor to canonize Li Chengdong, and Lord Tong has also said before that if Li Chengdong does not agree, he will hand over the edict to the Manchu governor anyway, and now it seems that Lord Tong is ready to act!" ”

Xue Yue stood up and said: "This is too urgent, the brothers are all in various places, even if it takes a day to gather people!" ”

Ding Wei also said: "My lord, we don't have any information, how can we help Lord Tong?" ”

Wang Xian looked at the hundreds of households under his command and said, "No way, I have to do it urgently!" Everyone knows the importance of Fujian to His Majesty the Emperor, and everyone has to figure out a way to do it! ”

"My lord, but now we don't know when the Manchus want to do it, what if the Manchus want to do it tonight?"

Hou Zhen said on the side: "Actually, Master Tong has already explained in the news that he said that he will come back tomorrow afternoon to take stock, that is, it will be over tomorrow afternoon, so that the hands-on time is from tonight to tomorrow morning." It's almost midnight, there's no movement in the city, and I guess it's tomorrow morning. And Lord Tong said that he came back to inventory the goods, and the place of action should be at the city gate! ”

Wang Xian nodded again and again when he heard Hou Zhen say this, and asked, "Hou Qianhu, do you know when Li Chengdong will leave the city?" ”

"This naturally knows, Li Chengdong goes out of the city on time every morning to go to the military camp outside the East City, and I estimate that the Manchu Qing Dynasty is ready to do it at the East City Gate!"

"Okay, in that case, everyone obeys my orders!"

Hearing that Wang Xian's order was issued, all the hundreds of households in the house and Hou Zhen stood up one after another.

"Hou Zhen, tonight, you take people to various hiding points outside the city, and order our brothers to enter the city tomorrow when they open the city gate, and concentrate around the east gate! Ding Wei, as soon as the city gate opens tomorrow, you will enter the city to contact the brothers in the city, let them gather outside the Li Mansion, and if you really want to start fighting, you will immediately enter the Li Mansion to protect Princess Yuyang! The others are resting now and will join me in town tomorrow morning! ”

Everyone took the order and began to divide up.

Wang Xian had no choice but to let people protect Zhu Yu, and his main order was to bring back Princess Yuyang safely. Now anyway, the matter has been made into such a ghost by Tong Tuchang, there will be a bloody battle in the city tomorrow, Wang Xian can only pray that Princess Yuyang will not lose half a hair, or His Majesty the Emperor will not spare himself.

Before dawn the next day, Wang Xian led people to the east city gate, and brothers from various other places outside the city also came to the outside of the city, with a total of more than 300 people. There are more than 500,000 people in Fuzhou City, and a large number of fresh vegetables are needed every day, and the land in the city is tight, how can there be idle land to grow vegetables, so there are a large number of vegetable farmers pulling carts into the city every day to sell vegetables. Wang Xian's 300 people mixed in here, and they were completely inconspicuous.