When Li Benshen heard this, his heart suddenly cooled.

Liu Zhaoji, the defender of Xuyi City, he is familiar with it, and he has fought the Dashun army together before, this person is scheming, and has extremely rich combat experience, and his troops have been trained in Yangzhou for the longest time, and the equipment is also the best, and there are so many repeating guns and earth-shaking thunder, going to the ant annex to attack the city is simply to send him to death.

Looking at Duoduo's gloomy face, Li Benshen didn't dare to speak out, but he thought in his heart that Li Chengdong, who was also in Gao Jie's army, has now become an important general in the Yangzhou army.

The discussion was decided, and Duoduo ordered the generals to hurry down and prepare, and it was getting late today, and the siege would begin early tomorrow morning.

Li Benshen walked out of Duoduo's handsome tent in a dejected manner.

Li Benshen, who walked outside the tent, met another Han army general, Jin Shenghuan, the former chief soldier of Zuo Liangyu's department, Li Benshen was still indignant, and quietly said to Jin Shenghuan, "Damn, this man really treats our Han army as a person!" ”

Jin Shenghuan glanced around cautiously and said softly, "Isn't it." After speaking, he lowered his head and hurried away.

The two of them spoke quietly, but one person listened to the truth on the side of the big tent, this person was the squad leader Lai Fu in Kong Youde's personal soldiers, and he was leading more than a dozen personal soldiers to wait for Kong Youde to come out.

Li Benshen returned to his tent and said to his generals, "Hurry up and prepare, attack the city early tomorrow morning!" With that, he ran to the bed and lay down, staring at the roof of the tent, not knowing what to think.

Liu Zhaoji was also discussing with the officers at this time, and just now the city reported that the Qing soldiers had returned more than 10,000 horses.

Hearing this news, everyone was very excited, which clearly showed that the Metropolitan Governor had defeated them in Tianchang, and only 70,000 horses had escaped and returned.

"The Qing soldiers have not returned yet, so it is estimated that they will arrive tomorrow afternoon, right?" Zhuang Zigu asked.

"It's not clear what if they travel overnight." Lou Ting said next to him.

"Don't talk about these useless things, the Grand Governor will definitely rescue us in the fastest time, there is not much time left for Duoduo, will they force the siege tomorrow?" Liu Zhaoji interrupted their conversation.

"Attack and attack, without the red-coated cannon, we will still be afraid that they will not succeed?" Ma Yingkui said nonchalantly.

"We can't be careless, if the Qing soldiers are desperate, we will be choked enough, after all, there are too many of them." Liu Zhaoji said.

"Division commander, I don't think there's anything to discuss, the Qing troops are coming, let's defend, it's all planned in advance." Zhuang Zigu said with a smile.

"That's right, beckon the soldiers to have a good rest at night, tomorrow there may be a bad battle, and the people on night duty at the head of the city must be arranged!" After Liu Zhaoji said hello, everyone dispersed and went back to check carefully, so as not to miss any link.

Night is gradually falling, Xuyi City looms in the night, and there are also lights in the camp of the Qing soldiers, and there are many soldiers patrolling with torches circling around the camp.

Li Benshen had eaten dinner with a stomach full of anger, and was sitting in the tent thinking about what to do tomorrow, when a personal soldier came in and told him that someone had come to see him.

Li Benshen beckoned his own soldiers in, Lai Fu entered the tent, gave Li Benshen a military salute, and said, "Little Lai Fu has seen the chief soldier." ”

Li Benshen looked at Lai Fu suspiciously, he couldn't see clearly in the dim light, he seemed to be a little familiar, but it was a little strange for him to call himself the chief soldier, the Qing soldiers were not called the chief soldiers here, they were called all the commanders.

"Who are you? What is the matter with coming to me? Li Ben said with a deep face.

"The little one is Lai Fu, the captain of the personal soldiers in front of the king's tent." Lai Fu said unhurriedly.

"Did King Gongshun ask you to come?" Li Benshen is a little strange, this obedient Wang Kong Youde can't pee in the same pot with the generals of the Han army on weekdays, so what's the matter with sending someone to find him today?

"The villain was not sent by the king of obedience, but the small one was sent by the governor." Lai Fu said softly.

"The Grand Duke? Which Grand Governor? When Li Benshen heard this, he was stunned, and suddenly reacted, stood up, took out the waist knife hanging on the tent, and put it on Lai Fu's neck.

"Master General Soldier, please be calm and don't be impatient, the little one has no malice." Lai Fu still said softly, as if he didn't see the waist knife hanging brightly around his neck.

"General Li Chengdong and General Li also asked me to come, the chief soldier will not forget General Li, right?" Lai Fu saw that Li Benshen's hand holding the knife trembled a little, but he still said unhurriedly.

Li Benshen hesitated and put down the waist knife, still holding it in his hand, but his eyes were fixed on the outside of the tent, lest someone come in.

"Don't worry about the chief soldier, the pro-soldiers outside are all their own people." Lai Fu's words surprised Li Benshen and looked at Lai Fu with his eyes.

"Don't be surprised, Master Commander, they are all people who don't want to be slaves." After listening to Lai Fu's words, Li Benshen picked up the waist knife and inserted it back into the scabbard.

"Why should I trust you?" Li Benshen stared at Lai Fu and said.

"I'll go and contact the city in person, so that the chief soldier can believe it, right?" Lai Fu said.

"What did the Metropolitan Governor of Yangzhou say?" Li Benshen asked in a deep voice.

"The Metropolitan Governor said that those who are defeated and surrendered on the battlefield are considered prisoners, and prisoners are treated as prisoners, that is, to go to labor reform, that is, to go to mining; But if the battlefield is uprising, it is their own people. What do you say, Master Commander? Lai Fu said slowly.

"This—" Li Ben groaned deeply for a long time without saying a word.

"The chief soldier is worried that he will be cut off in the past?" Lai Fu saw that there was a door, so he hurriedly struck while the iron was hot.

"The Metropolitan Governor said that if you want to continue to lead the troops in the past, of course you can, but the troops must also be reorganized and trained like General Li Chengdong's troops, I don't know what the chief soldier thinks?"

"Please sit down for a while." Li Benshen didn't answer, but just said to Lai Fu.

"Tell the generals to come over and discuss how to attack the city tomorrow!" Li Benshen shouted at the pro-soldiers at the door.

After a while, more than a dozen generals came to Li Benshen's big tent, and some of the generals were still complaining, saying that the Manchurians treated the Han army as inappropriate people, and knew that their own soldiers had become someone else's people, and Li Benshen did not call for people to stare outside the tent.

"Do you think you can capture Xuyi tomorrow?" Li Benshen stared at the dozen or so former deputy generals, partial generals, and deputy generals in front of him.

"Back to the capital, I think we can't beat Xuyi, we only have 15,000 people, and the defenders of Xuyi City are about the same as us, how can we attack it?" A partial general stared at Li Benshen's face, and hesitated for a while before speaking.

"The 70,000 horses led by Turai were beaten by the Yangzhou army in just a few days, and only more than 10,000 people came back, I heard that the artillery fire of the Yangzhou army is particularly powerful, so don't blow up on our heads at that time." Another general said, glancing back at the other generals.

"It's definitely impossible to fight, but Prince Yu has issued a strict order to attack us to the death, what else can we do?" Said a lieutenant general.

"What does it mean to attack to the death? Clearly let us go to death! The deputy chief soldier said hatefully.

"Is there any other way?" Li Benshen squinted at the generals.

"If you want me to say, let's just surrender the Yangzhou army, I heard that Li Chengdong and General Li are beautiful over there, and now they are all the commanders of the second division, although there are only more than 10,000 people under their hands, but they are all strong soldiers!" The deputy chief soldier stared at Li Benshen and said through gritted teeth.

The words of the deputy chief soldier suddenly set off an uproar among the generals, and there was a lot of discussion for a while, but Li Benshen just listened and did not stop it.

"What if you don't surrender?" Li Benshen stopped everyone's discussion and said loudly.

"Dutong is going to die, and I have to accompany him." The deputy chief soldier was obviously dissatisfied with Li Benshen's words.

"In the past, surrender was called a prisoner, and I heard that there was a method in the past called a battlefield uprising, do you know?" Li Benshen stared at everyone.

When all the generals heard Li Benshen's words, their eyes showed a glint of hope.

"Brother Laifu, come in."

When the generals saw Lai Fu walk in, someone had obviously recognized him as Kong Youde's personal soldier, and he was about to draw his knife when he stood up, but Li Benshen raised his hand to stop him.

"When it's a little late, Deputy General Yang will personally accompany Brother Lai Fu to contact the city, what do you think?" Li Benshen said to Deputy General Yang Bing.

Li Benshen's camp tent was originally located closest to the city wall, and it was extremely convenient to contact him.

Liu Zhaoji didn't sleep well at night, always thinking that the Qing soldiers might desperately attack the city tomorrow, and he was still thinking carefully about every link, and when he just fell asleep in a daze, the guards at the door came in and woke him up.

Liu Zhaoji sat up from the bed and opened his mouth to ask, "The Qing soldiers are attacking the city?" ”

The guard walked up to him and whispered a few words, and Liu Zhaoji quickly got up from the bed.

He asked the guards to call Wang Qiang up, and after a while, the guards came in with two men dressed in black.

"Lai Fu, why are you?" Wang Qiang asked in surprise.

"The little one has seen Wang Angel, I have seen Division Commander Liu, this is Li Benshen and Deputy General Yang of General Soldier Li." Lai Fu saw that he knelt on one leg and gave Wang Qiang and Liu Zhaoji a courtesy in the Ming army.

"Are your legs okay?" Wang Qiang stepped forward and patted Lai Fu's leg.

Little Xie Angel remembered that his leg had already healed. Mr. Li has the heart to abandon the darkness and turn to the light, so let the little one bring Deputy General Yang over to discuss with you in detail. Lai Fu saw that Wang Qiang didn't ask about things first, but asked his legs first, and he was very moved in his heart.

When Liu Zhaoji heard this, he was a little suspicious, he didn't know about Lai Fu.

Wang Qiang was overjoyed when he heard this, stepped forward and took Deputy General Yang's hand and said, "Welcome!" Welcome to join the Yangzhou Army! ”

After several major battles, Wang Qiang is much more mature than before, and he no longer has the strength of the previous two-pole, and he can consider the problem from the overall situation.

Seeing Wang Qiang like this, Liu Zhaoji estimated that there must be something he didn't know, so he immediately pulled Deputy General Yang to discuss how to revolt on the battlefield.

The four of them discussed for more than an hour, and then they were put down from the city wall in a hanging basket.

"Is this trustworthy?" Liu Zhaoji asked.

"Lai Fu was specially arranged by me and the chief, and a lot of information about the Qing soldiers was sent by him." Wang Qiang didn't hide it from Liu Zhaoji and confessed to him.

Liu Zhaoji asked several regiment commanders to shout again, Lai Fu had to go back and continue to follow Kong Youde, for the safety of Lai Fu, neither of them mentioned Lai Fu's matter to everyone, but just said that Li Benshen had a deep heart to take refuge and had arranged for someone to go into the city to discuss.

Everything has to be prepared with both hands, Lai Fu is certainly credible, in case Li Benshen surrenders, the city must also make corresponding preparations.

The next day, it was just dawn, and the Qing soldiers outside the city were still cooking, and the city of Xuyi was already moving.