Li Qingyuan took a deep breath and began to command the soldiers to put on the clothes of the Qing army, while he himself put on the clothes of the generals, this time Li Qingyuan planned to come himself.

Because there are many times when you want to convince your subordinates, you have to take the credit for it, and after they are all dressed up, everyone begins to move along the streets and alleys near the main street towards the city gate.

As soon as the hour came, Li Qingyuan saw that the rebels around him had more than doubled, and he had more courage to wave his hand, and more than 100 volunteers began to run towards the city gate in a panic, followed by more than 200 Qing troops led by Li Qingyuan, and the two teams were less than 50 meters apart.

While running, Li Qingyuan shouted: "Catch these thieves for me, there will be a reward!" ”

When they arrived near the city gate, the guards at the city gate were a little stunned, how could someone drive the thieves here, but they shouldered the responsibility of guarding the city gate, and they did not dare to move, but when they saw that the rebels wanted to rush the door, they immediately set up muskets.

Seeing the situation, these rebels hurriedly ran towards the alleys on both sides, and Li Qingyuan scolded: "Are you dead people!" Chase after the master, run one and let you all eat the whip! Why are you still stunned! Send half of the men to chase and half to defend the city! ”

The co-commander defending the city only saw that the opponent's armor was brighter than his own, and he didn't see the opponent's banner, and he didn't know who it was for a while, but it was true that the opponent's official was bigger than himself and his anger was thicker than his own.

There are a lot of adults in the capital who came this time, a co-ordinator and a deputy general, who is a fart, didn't you see that the only one who was killed a few days ago was beheaded because of his ineffective suppression of bandits.

What else can I do? Immediately sent five hundred soldiers to chase the rebels, Li Qingyuan pretended to be tired and dismounted and shouted: "Come and answer the master with a pant!" ”

The general immediately nodded and came up: "Give the lord a salute!" The master is auspicious, the little one is sorry for you, forgive the little one, I don't see which master you are? ”

This master is not called casually, in the Qing Dynasty, only the Manchu clothed slaves were called so, but later the Han military banner in order to close the relationship with the Manchus, it appeared superior, and called all the Manchu Shangguan masters.

Li Qingyuan pretended to rest, and his soldiers also stopped, and slowly walked towards the city gate, Li Qingyuan silently counted in his heart, eighty steps, seventy ...... Sixty.

The words on his lips did not stop and continued to ask: "Shouting, or is it from the Han Army Banner?" What year did you raise the flag? ”

"Back to the master's words, when Taizong was in power, the head of the family raised the flag because of the official business, and it was all the grace of the master. The small Han name is Zu Zhongqing, and the full name is Adefu. Although this general can't see people clearly, he sees the yellow coat on the other party's body, where can he dare to be disrespectful.

Li Qingyuan silently counted, fifty ...... Forty...... ...... thirty, he asked, "How many guards are there at the gate of this city?" How do you look so little. ”

Zu Zhongqing immediately sweated and said nervously: "If you go back to your master, I have a thousand people here, didn't they all go to chase the bandits just now." ”

Li Qingyuan pretended to know for a long time, and he smiled and leaned closer and said, "The young bully doesn't understand, it's to find benefits, right?" Look at you, there are more than 200 left, and if a thief comes, it will be dangerous. ”

Saying that, Li Qingyuan beckoned his subordinates and said, "People help us chase the bandits, you help them look at the city gate for a while, do you have wine when you are thirsty?" ”

Li Qingyuan's subordinates came over with a smile, Zu Zhongqing hurriedly went to beckon his subordinates to find wine for Li Qingyuan, and when the two sides converged, the people who suddenly ran away were driven back, followed by a large number of rebels.

Li Qingyuan pretended to be frightened and said, "You, Adefu quickly organize defense!" I'm going to call someone for you! My brothers came to protect me. ”

Zu Zhongqing didn't dare to slack off and immediately shouted: "Prepare the musket!" ”

"Ahh …… Yes! ......" A series of screams, Li Qingyuan and others stabbed him in the back of the heart behind him, and others also started one after another!

Li Qingyuan scolded while killing: "Phew! Damn, Zu Zhongqing, why don't you call Zu Zongqing! I'll keep you in loyalty! ”

This adjutant who guarded the city gate originally had a thousand soldiers, but he only recruited 700, and only made up more than 100 before the expedition, barely looking like a thousand people, this time the chasing rebels sent out 500, and he wanted to reap the benefits and sent out more than 100 people, and there were less than 200 people left in the city gate.

Under the joint attack of Li Qingyuan's group of Qing troops and the righteous army, the city gate was broken in one fell swoop, looking at the Qing troops who were scattered and fled, Li Qingyuan shouted: "Line up!" Go out of the city in turn, and those who dare to run around will be killed! ”

The rebels marched out of the north gate, and Li Qingyuan kept it at the city gate until the people ran out, and then he took a team of soldiers to put a cart of gunpowder at the city gate, pulled the lead outside the city, and ordered a bold man to point the lead when the Qing army went out of the city to pursue.

Chasing the troops to the north, the troops walked all the way north for five miles before they heard a rumble in the direction of the city gate, Li Qingyuan was happy that the plan was going well, and on the other hand, he was worried about the pursuit of the Qing army. There was a fork in the road exactly five miles away.

Li Qingyuan thought for a moment and said: "Send a team of people to throw things east along this road, and let's go west!" Fast! The soldiers were puzzled, but they did as they could.

Li Qingyuan quickly walked ten miles west to the south of the canal, and passed by Linqing City smoothly, but the enemy army did not catch up, and walked ten miles to the southeast, and came to a reed swinging in the reeds and walked ten miles, which was another crossroads.

Li Qingyuan touched his chin, and then Wu Sanniang came over on a stretcher and asked, "Why don't you leave?" ”

"We are all on foot and old and weak, and the enemy is afraid that we will soon be overtaken. Do you know how big this reed swing is? Li Qingyuan scratched his head helplessly.

"This was originally a lake, and later the people drained the water and planned to reclaim it, but I heard that Qianlong passed by this reed dang in the south of the Yangtze River and improvised a poem, and the magistrate was afraid of angering the emperor, so he was not allowed to reclaim it, and now it has become like this, about dozens of miles." Wu Sanniang is still very familiar with the neighborhood.

Li Qingyuan looked at the reeds and then at the intersection and said, "I have a way!" Send two teams of men to drop things along the south side! ”

Wu Sanniang looked at Li Qingyuan and asked: "You use a strategy twice, I'm afraid that the officials and soldiers won't be fooled this time, so let's go south directly, we can't run away and fight with them." ”

Li Qingyuan shook his head and smiled: "I won't leave this time, and I told everyone to hide in the reeds and rest, and not make a sound." ”

Ten minutes or so after Li Qingyuan was ready, the Qing army's forward troops really chased to the intersection, and it happened that the enemy's general was only a few dozen meters away from Li Qingyuan's hiding place.

Qing soldiers came over to report: "Qi Su Shaobao, the bandits have abandoned a large amount of property at the intersection again, please decide." ”

Shu Hede touched his beard and said, "Which side did you throw it on this time?" ”

Qing Bing replied: "Lord Hui is on the South Road this time!" ”

Shu Hede sneered: "The little trick still wants to deceive the old man again and again, this time chasing east!" ”

Qingbing was just about to get up, Shu Hede thought about it and said, "No! The enemy knows that the same scheme has been used twice, this must be a deception, not to chase me south, the enemy must want to escape back to Shouzhang County! Give me chase! ”

Seeing the Qing army in the brigade heading south, Wu Sanniang asked, "Why don't they divide their troops?" ”

"Their large forces are still behind and have not followed." Sure enough, after chasing for half an hour, a large number of Qing troops passed by here again and headed all the way south.