Lin Mingrui, the chief soldier of Susong Town, who was riding on horseback, looked at the darkness in front of him, but what he thought about was not fear, but a burst of anticipation. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Changzhou County Ling Ge Qingqi followed behind, looked at the high-spirited Lin Mingrui in front of him through a little moonlight, and said, "Lord Lin, there are still more than thirty miles, you have to hurry up." ”

"Hmmm! This official will give the order! If the bandit is successful this time, you and the prisoner surnamed Xu will be a great achievement. Lin Mingrui seems to have seen the reward of the imperial court after the victory.

"I have to rely on Lord Lin and the soldiers to try their best to kill the enemy!" After Ge Qingqi finished speaking, he shouted softly backwards: "The regimental warriors of Changzhou, hurry up, after crossing this mountain pass, you can go ahead!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the horse of Lin Mingrui, the chief soldier of Susong Town, suddenly neighing, and at this moment, a dense burst of gunfire rang out.

"Bang, bang, bang..." was followed by an even more violent burst of gunfire and the cries of murder in the surrounding valley.

"It's broken! Hit the trick! Lin Mingrui shouted, turned over and dismounted, and rushed towards Ge Qingqi behind him with a roar, he wanted to ask where he got the information, he fucked it like this.

And Ge Qingqi, who was riding on the horse, was stunned at the moment!

He was completely confused!

Xu Shaoyu of Yonggu Township, he knows it very well. This person is obsessed with power, and he hates the long-haired thief, and he will never take refuge in the Cantonese thief, how can it be? He couldn't figure it out, but everything in front of him made him feel like he was falling into an ice cellar. Originally, I was going to ambush others, but I didn't expect that I would be ambushed by the thief army in turn!

He was still in a daze, when he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his back, and a huge impact knocked him to the ground, and a darkness enveloped him.

Lin Mingrui didn't expect that he had just asked Ge Qingqi clearly, but he didn't expect that Ge Qingqi would be hit by a stray bullet from the thief army just like that.

Now he understood that Ge Qingqi must not be in contact with the Cantonese thief, it must be the one surnamed Xu who is expensive.

But now is not the time to think about that. He came back to his senses and immediately ordered the Qing army to dodge and return fire.

It's just that the order is given, where is the return shot? I don't know where the enemy is at all, and besides, there are less than 2,000 Qing soldiers equipped with bird guns, and the rest are all swords and spears, and even the brave men are armed with iron forks and other things, so they can only put a few shots indiscriminately into the darkness, and compare and compare.

At this time, in the mountains and forests, hundreds of rockets were fired, and a ball of oilcloth was tied to the rockets, obviously, this rocket was not for hurting people, but for lighting.

In fact, there is no need for lighting, there are few trees on the official road, and the semicircular crescent moon in the sky pours the dim moonlight on the official road, casting black shadows one by one. The muskets in the mountains and forests, as long as they shoot at the official road, can always hit several people.

Lin Mingrui saw that this was not the way, so he hurriedly ordered someone to step on the rocket, and ordered to retreat.

However, the next thing that made him desperate happened: the retreat behind had been blocked by rows of black shadows, and nearly a thousand Qing soldiers who retreated were shot intensively by a burst of earth-shattering and angry guns, and fell like stubble of wheat.

The back road was blocked, and the road ahead, not to mention, was blocked by a large army.

Lin Mingrui was a little flustered at this time, but after a long time on the battlefield, he took a deep breath, quickly corrected his anxious mentality, and ordered in a deep voice: "All back, prepare to rush into battle." In any case, rush out of the interception! ”

After speaking, he let several of his guards ride horses, lead a total of less than 300 cavalry in the army, and order nearly 2,000 spearmen to rush forward and kill.

Gunfire rang out, and smoke filled the valley.

The Qing troops who rushed through fell in rows. The cavalry was the first to fall to the ground. However, after losing all the cavalry and hundreds of foot soldiers, with the corpses as an obstacle, although the road is difficult to pass, it is difficult to hurt the opponent's bullets.

However, the cunning Cantonese thief retreated a few dozen steps along the official road.

"My lord, I can't go on like this. Let's retreat to both sides! A general next to him came over and suggested.

Lin Mingrui shook his head, he knew that this was a night battle, once the troops were divided on both sides and drilled into the dark woods, how many ambushes would the thieves have, but this dispersion was the result of the collapse of the whole army.

"Rush to Lao Tzu! If you are dead, you have to rush out! Lin Mingrui viciously ordered.

In desperation, the general had to lead a group of Qing soldiers and pounce forward.

After the two pillars of incense, the Qing army and the regimental training have killed and wounded more than 2,000 people in total.

At this time, there was a killing cry in the distance, and listening to the momentum, there were thousands of people and horses. Lin Mingrui's face changed.

In the mountains and forests, the soldiers of the ambushed begging army took the opportunity to shout: "Surrender or kill!" Surrender or kill! Those who surrendered ran into the woods. ”

Suddenly, hundreds of regiments bravely drilled into the woods, and many others followed.

Lin Mingrui hurriedly ordered the guards to cut several people with knives, but it didn't make any sense at all, and the Qing soldiers fled even faster.

Lin Mingrui closed his eyes weakly.......

The next day, Wu Qitai, the chief inspector of Jiangsu, and other officials in Suzhou heard an astonishing news: Lin Mingrui, the chief soldier of Susong Town, led 9,000 troops to Yongchang, Changzhou to ambush the Cantonese thieves and thieves, but it was a trap set by the Cantonese thieves and the Changzhou Yongchang regiment, and the officers and soldiers were defeated, and less than 200 people fled back to Suzhou City, and even Lin Mingrui, the chief soldier of Susong Town, was also killed by the rebels.

At this moment, Suzhou officialdom is in chaos.

No one said that he took the initiative to attack out of the city, and Zhao Dezhe, the governor of Jiangsu who originally said that he went out of the city to attack, also closed his door and did not dare to appear.

Jiangsu's envoy Wu Qitai is thinking about it differently!

The news of Lin Mingrui's defeat, he actually knew early this morning: the Cantonese thief sent someone to deliver the letter, and after he saw the letter, he was in a state of confusion.

He never expected that the meticulous work of the Yue thief was pervasive and would actually target him!

Wu Qitai is a native of Gushi, Henan, and because he is an honest official, his wife and children are in Gushi's hometown. And the letter sent to him by the Cantonese thief was a letter of persuasion written by his eldest son Wu Qilong.

In the letter, the eldest son mentioned that the family was taken to Nanchang by the Holy Kingdom and lived well, but Wu Qitai was not clear, this was a huge threat. surrendered, his wife and children were safe, but his reputation was completely ruined; If you don't surrender, your reputation will be saved, but your wife and children and other families will probably die tragically.

Wu Qitai didn't think much about it, so he naturally knew how to choose.

At the same time, Pinghan, the prefect of Suzhou, also received a letter from his hometown, which was written by the son of his hometown in Shaoxing more than half a month ago.

Family letters are no different from any other family letters.

The son just gossiped about his hometown in a letter to his family, and the parents told him one thing, and the whole family lived happily. At the end, the son mentioned one thing, his hometown was officially occupied by the captives of the Holy Kingdom more than half a month ago. The dozens of acres of fertile land at home were not confiscated by the captive army. Now that the township office has been established in his hometown, his son is the deputy mayor of the township, and he is very busy. The daughter-in-law's belly is big again, when will the father go back to his hometown to see.

Ping Han folded the letter and sighed: "It's not that Ping is disloyal to the king, it's really a Cantonese thief, it's too powerful!" ”

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On 28 May, three regiments of the 8th and 10th Divisions, plus 7,000 regiments, with a total of 20,000 troops, arrived at the city of Suzhou. The defenders in the city of Suzhou, under the leadership of Wu Qitai, the governor of Suzhou, Pinghan, the prefect of Suzhou, the county commander of Wu County, the county commander of Yuanhe, and the deputy general guerrilla in the city, opened the city gate and offered the city.

Chen Tianshi led the captive army, took Suzhou City lightly, killed more than 2,000 Qing troops who resisted in the city, killed Zhao Dezhe, the governor of Jiangsu, Bo Chengsheng, the chief soldier of Langshan Town, and many thousands of generals, and collected more than 20,000 Qing troops and regimental braves.

Suzhou, known as the super city, suffered almost no war, and surrendered to the Holy Kingdom.

What no one noticed was that on the same day that Suzhou City changed hands, in the Xu Mansion in Yongchang Township, Changzhou, outside Suzhou, the position of the head of the Xu family was also changed from Xu Shaoyu to Xu Peiyun.