"Inspector Qi, Chief Cao is back!"

There were already war clouds in Songshan Fort, and a pacesetter suddenly trotted over, but before anyone arrived, the words came first.

Hearing this, several generals of the general army, including Hong Chengchou, immediately looked over, and sure enough, they saw a general wearing an old iron armor coming with a tiger's step.

"Damn, the Tartar precautions are too strict, and a certain person with a personal guard rushed to the death several times and was beaten back, and when a certain person is ready to prepare, he will take someone to rush again!"

Cao Bianjiao's face was engraved with the blood that had just been scratched, and the clothes and armor of the family members behind him were also covered with various knife marks, and he was a little shaky when he walked, but his face was still full of unwillingness when he spoke.

In fact, it was not that the soldiers and horses led by Cao Bianjiao were afraid of death, this time it was really that the Qing army on the opposite side was too numerous, and the Mongolian tribes, the Han Eight Banners and the Korean soldiers were still gathering in a steady stream to Songshan, and the number of people had almost doubled that of the Ming army trapped in the city.

"Alas!"

The hope that had just risen on Hong Chengchou's face was shattered in an instant, and the other three general soldiers around him also sighed, the siege of the Tartars was so tight, it seemed that there was no hope of breaking through.

At this moment, a shout suddenly came from under the city:

"General Hong, come down! Our soldiers and horses of the Qing Dynasty are already surrounded on all sides, and it will be difficult for you to fly out of this pine mountain even if you put on your wings, Your Majesty of my family ......"

Without waiting for the other party to finish shouting, Hong Chengchou took a few steps onto the female wall, and was about to scold angrily, but suddenly saw that the person who shouted was very familiar, and said in a cold voice:

"Oh? Who is this governor, isn't this General Wang Xixian Wang, colleagues around you think that you sacrificed your life for the country, and you have died in Xingshan, but I didn't expect to be a prisoner to be that kind of lackey! ”

Wang Xixian was already changing into a pair of armor of the Qing Army's Han Eight Banner generals at this moment, and when he heard Hong Chengchou's words, his face was obviously stiff, and he glanced behind him, and there were two white-armored Tartar soldiers looking at him coldly.

As if he had made up his mind, Wang Xixian pretended to be stubborn and shouted:

"My Majesty said that if the superintendent surrenders, he is willing to treat you like the king of Sanshun, glory and wealth, a bright future, and a beautiful woman, don't you want anything?"

Hong Chengchou was too lazy to talk to a villain like Wang Xixian, so he just snorted coldly and hung him aside, and ordered the deputy general Xia Chengde to guard the city gate, which was to return to the big tent with Cao Bianjiao and others.

What he didn't know was that after listening to Wang Xixian's words, Xia Chengde, the deputy general of Songshan Fort, suddenly turned red on his face, and his hand holding the handle of the knife trembled a little.

......

Although the words were spoken, Hong Chengchou was all pretended, and in the face of the current situation, he was already at a loss in his heart, and he didn't know how to deal with it.

The army has been surrounded in Songshan Fort for more than ten days, and it is getting more and more difficult day by day, and Wang Tingchen, the general soldier of Liaodong, and Cao Bianjiao, the general soldier of Yutian, have led their troops to break through the siege several times in vain, and there is no way except to leave hundreds of corpses.

can only watch the Qing army digging heavy trenches outside the city, leisurely building walls to besiege it, Hong Chengchou knows that if he doesn't think about a way, this Songshan Fort will really be like a bucket in and out.

The only way to do this is to break through in advance when the Qing army did not build a wall and dig a trench, and the opinions of the remaining people after most of the soldiers and horses in the city are lost are also very rare to be united, because everyone knows that looking at the world, I am afraid that there is only one of their own soldiers and horses.

Even his own troops and horses are in debt everywhere in the imperial court, and they are scraped together, so they don't need to expect any reinforcements within ten years, and the rest is nothing more than Shandong soldiers, the kind of tofu scum army of the left army, which is not of great use at all.

Fleeing at night that night, the generals rushed to gallop, except for Wang Pu and Wu Sangui, who were unlucky enough to meet the main force of the Qing army, and the rest of the people did not get any benefits, and it is said that the pursuit did not end until the last few days.

Not to mention the generals of each town, only the four commanders of the general army who escaped, except for Wu Sangui and Wang Pu who escaped into the pass, the remaining Shanhaiguan general soldier Ma Ke and Shanxi general soldier Li Fuming are all running back, and they are now lingering in Tashan, and their subordinates are also falling apart.

These commanders of the generals in the towns of the nine sides all have soldiers and generals who have ended up like this, and those lowly generals are even more famous, but it is Zhang Ruoqi, the prison army, don't look at his usual appearance of pinching the holy decree and speaking loudly, at such a life-saving juncture, that brain can really come up with something unusual.

However, this idea is ridiculous to say, the dignified supervising army, in the military meeting and the governor Hong Chengchou, who commanded more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, competed for power, did not take a step back, like a winning rooster, and finally shrank in the board of the fishing boat to escape.

If you listen to the ears of Wang Zheng, the general soldier of Shandong, I am afraid that it is no different from the prefect who drilled the dog hole in Dengzhou Mansion at the beginning.

The attitude of the generals is particularly unified now, what kind of bullshit supervising the army, it is simply a random command, or the strategy of Inspector Hong is feasible.

But at this point, Hong Chengchou is obviously powerless.

Most of the soldiers and horses are gone, and the number of lost armor and equipment can't even be counted, such a fiasco, even if he breaks through and successfully escapes back to Beijing, he is afraid that he will be executed in public.

The way Yuan Chonghuan, the previous superintendent, died in a way that makes people shudder when they think about it.

Somehow, a scene appeared in Hong Chengchou's mind, he knelt tremblingly on the Imperial Palace, and all the ministers of the ministries and ministers and the imperial history of the Yanguan were all condemning and scolding him, and finally Chongzhen said what he said to Yuan Chonghuan back then, and said it to himself again.

Thinking of this, Hong Chengchou had a cold war in public, which made Wang Tingchen, the chief soldier of Liaodong, and Qiu Minyang, another chief soldier, a little surprised in their hearts, but Cao Bianjiao didn't notice it when he was sorting out his armor.

How could this overseer, who had suppressed countless thieves back then, show such a look?

"Ahem" a few times, Hong Chengchou said:

"Everyone, the only way to do this is to break through again, keep breaking through, if you wait for the Qing captives to surround the fort, then there is only one way to be killed!"

"The overseer is right, the last general is willing to take the lead!"

Hearing this, Hong Chengchou looked at the Yutian general soldier who was full of scars on his body, but still stood up without hesitation, and asked worriedly:

"Mr. Cao, can you do the injuries on your body?"

"Hahaha, whether it can be done or not, it depends on how many Tartars we kill to know, how can the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty be afraid of the Tartars? Inspector, you're too worried! ”

Cao Bianjiao laughed heartily, waved his hand sideways and went out with his family, apparently preparing to break through the city at night.

Wang Tingchen, the general soldier of Liaodong, raised his hand and was about to say something, but when he saw that Cao Bianjiao had already led the troops to leave, he was stunned for a long time and then his face rose with admiration, and he muttered:

"(Jin) Guofeng is good at guarding, (Cao) is good at fighting, all of them are worthy of the talent of good generals, but it is a pity that they were born at the wrong time!"

Hearing Wang Tingchen's words, Hong Chengchou also nodded thoughtfully, sighed heavily, and then waved his hand and asked everyone to go back and prepare.