Zheng Sen was shocked, and Qiang stepped forward, but he cut out two knives and went straight to the belts in the hands of the two women.

Zheng Sen's personal soldiers are all characters who have followed the Zheng family's father and son at sea for many years, and some of them even worked hard for the Zheng family for two generations.

At this time, only the woman who tightly locked Zheng Zhilong's hands and arms was left, and when she saw her companion being killed, the woman hurriedly retreated, but fell directly on the big bed behind her.

Zheng Sen ignored her and hurriedly stepped forward to check on his father's condition. Zheng Zhilong finally retained a trace of breath at this time, but his face was pale and gray, and the corners of his mouth were all saliva left by the struggle, and he had fallen into a coma. The chief steward came in on his hind feet, and when he saw this situation, his legs went limp, but he immediately got up and rushed to find the medical officer of the palace.

Zheng Sen handed his father over to the care of his confidants, and looked at the Mongolian woman with his knife, whose clothes had already been torn, and saw a group of wolf-like men approaching. The woman barely covered her chest with her clothes, and there was a look of despair in her eyes.

Before Zheng Sen could open his mouth to ask, the woman had already pulled out a golden hairpin from her sideburns like lightning and stabbed it into her throat.

Zheng Sen was taken aback and flew forward, but the woman was already convulsed all over her body, and she only had air out but no air in.

There was an exclamation at the door, and when I looked back, it was Zheng Hongkui, Chen Ding, and Shi Fu who hurried over when they heard the news, "Big official." What's ...... this? When the three of them saw the situation in the temple, they were dumbfounded.

Zheng Sen clenched his fists slightly, "Uncle, Mr. Chen, General Shi." Our army marched to Junxian and took over the area after the withdrawal of the Eastern Army. When you reach Sheepskin Beach. When the army was halfway crossing, it was suddenly surrounded by the heavy troops of the Eastern Army, and our troops suffered heavy casualties, so they had to retreat to Gucheng. Hearing the news along the way, all the men and horses of our army were besieged by a large number of Eastern Army, and there were so many troops. Far beyond what we have at our disposal. Now, Liang Li, Huang Ting and other generals are fighting day by day, but the Eastern Army is coming fiercely beyond imagination. Therefore, I galloped back to Xiangyang and wanted to ask my father to decide! But I didn't expect that when I first entered the city, I encountered such a thing! ”

Zheng Hongkui and the three of them were shocked, "How can this be." We have been advising Hou Ye to beware of many of the Eastern Army, although Hou Ye disagreed, but also sent a large number of sentries to listen to the actions of the Eastern Army, since the Eastern Army has so many soldiers and horses into Huguang, why don't we have a little information coming? ”

Zheng Sen shook his head gloomily, he was also confused about such changes and situations, and he didn't know.

"How many soldiers and horses does the Eastern Army have? How many ways are the soldiers divided? Who is the commander in chief? "Shi Fu is a military general. So ask the question right away.

Zheng Sen shook his head, "I don't know." Our army was suddenly attacked, the Qing army was under heavy artillery fire, and then the infantry attacked, but there were not many cavalry. The flags are mixed, but most of them are green dragon pattern battle flags, and there are no such battle flags in the Eight Banners and Han military camps. The little nephew was also surprised. There are at least 30,000 enemy troops facing the head of the little nephew's department alone, and listening to what Liang Li and other generals said, the eastern army they encountered is about this number, and the enemy will be at least 100,000 head-on! ”

Everyone couldn't help but gasp. No one thought that the Qing army would use such a scale to raid Huguang. Now it seems that the so-called envoy to seek peace, divide the river and rule, and jointly attack Zhu Ping'an is just Dolgon's suspicious strategy, and his real target is actually Huguang and Jiangnan!

The most headache is that the surprise attack of the Qing army has disrupted the previous deployment of the Zheng army, and the front-line departments have now fallen into a certain amount of chaos under the onslaught of the Qing army.

The medical officer hurriedly came and helped Zheng Zhilong for treatment, Zheng Hongkui couldn't wait to ask, "How is Master Hou's injury?" ”

The medical officer breathed a sigh of relief, "Master Hou, please rest assured, the general master does not have any serious injuries, the main injuries are still the strangulation and bruises on the neck, the suffocation time is too long, and the general lord needs a long time to recuperate." is currently in a coma, when he will be able to wake up, this subordinate is not sure! ”

Shi Fu jumped up suddenly, "In the current situation, the general can't be in charge, how can our hundreds of thousands of troops be deployed?" Find a way to wake up the Lord, or watch your head! ”

"The lower officials should do their best!" The medical officer hurried to prescribe medicine in a cold sweat.

Everyone thought for a moment, and unanimously turned their eyes to Zheng Sen. Zheng Hongkui coughed twice, "Official, now the situation is urgent, it is the time of life and death of our army and my Zheng family, the lord has become like this again, there can be no one in charge of the army for a moment, you are the son of the general, and you have been in charge of the army for many years, and you have won the trust of the generals of all departments, so it is better for you to temporarily take charge of the army!" ”

Zheng Sen frowned, and just wanted to excuse himself.

But the sound of stumbling footsteps interrupted his words. A pro-soldier leader ran in panting, and before he could reply, Shi Fu shouted, "Didn't you go and arrest the envoy of the Eastern Army?" Why did you run back again? ”

"My lords, I marked the messenger who was ordered to go to arrest the Eastern Captives, but when I arrived at the post house, I found that they were already empty. Listening to the post guard, only the messenger Yang Shicong was in the room, so he broke into the room to check, but Yang Shicong had already died of anger. ”

"Grandma's! The golden cicada is out of its shell! Shi Fu immediately shouted, "The city gate has been closed, and none of these Tartars can get out, so I will send people to claim the whole city, and I will catch these Tartars with a thousand knives!" ”

Chen Ding's brows tightened, and he said a sentence leisurely, "I'm afraid it's not that simple, and these Tartars don't plan to go out of the city at all?" ”

Zheng Sen and the others were startled, and before Chen Ding could say what he thought, the ground under his feet suddenly trembled slightly, and some dust on the pavilions and pavilions fell down, making everyone dizzy for a while. When they raised their heads, everyone's faces changed, and Chen Ding's words and these unusual shocks had already made everyone think of one thing.

Zheng Sen didn't speak, he raised his legs and ran to the backyard of the palace, and everyone followed closely. In the past, King Xiang liked to study astronomical mathematics, and built a stargazing platform as high as more than ten zhang, which was the highest place in the entire Xiangyang City, but now it has become the best place to observe the situation in Xiangyang City.

Everyone panted and climbed to the top of the observatory and looked to the northeast in unison. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Deng Yue, a general under Zhu Yuanzhang, was ordered to expand Xiangyang, and couldn't help but rebuild the Yanyi City, which was built in the Southern Song Dynasty, which was an attached city to Xiangyang, and built a new corner city connected to it, named Xinchengwan. During the Hongwu period in the early Ming Dynasty, the area and scale of Xinchengwan were expanded from the Great North Gate of Xiangyang to the Changmen in the east. Because Xincheng Bay is close to the Han River, it has become a gathering place for grain ships. Xinchengwan City has also become the grain storage place of Xiangyang.

After the Zheng family's army occupied Xiangyang, the military food supplies were concentrated in Xinchengwan City, which was transported from Xiangyang to all departments on the front line, which was the most critical area in Xiangyang City.

But now, the direction of Xincheng Bay is burning with a raging fire, and the flames are soaring into the sky, illuminating the entire eastern city of Xiangyang as bright as day. Seeing this firelight, everyone's hearts sank suddenly. This was the ultimate goal of the Tartar mission.

"It's over, it's over", Chen Ding, as the most important strategist around Zheng Zhilong, naturally knows the importance of Xinchengwan to the Zheng family's army. When I looked back, everyone's faces were bloodless.

"The eldest son!" Zheng Hongkui's voice became hoarse, "At the last moment, you have to get an idea!" ”

Zheng Sen is only in his early twenties now, and although he has been in battle for a long time, he has never been able to coordinate and command the affairs of the whole army, coupled with the sudden changes, he has no idea for a while.

Shi Fu is finally the old minister next to Zheng Zhilong, and he has not completely messed up, and he doesn't care about his status at this time, so he immediately shouted loudly, "What else is there to hesitate!" At this time, I should go all out to arrest the Tartars in Xiangyang City, put out fires at any cost, and keep as much stock as we can, and urgently order the rear army and the household department and the military department of Nanjing to go all out to transport military food supplies to Huguang. It is also necessary to order the front departments, the rear team to do the front team, and the forward departments to move closer to the Xiangyang area. Besides, it is to order someone to notify He Tengjiao, Yuan Jixian, Wan Yuan Ji and other departments to send reinforcements to the Xiangyang area! ”

Zheng Sen suddenly realized, "What General Shi said is extremely true, quickly pass on the order and implement it according to the plan!" ”

Everyone went to give the order anxiously, Zheng Sen stabilized his mind, and quickly came to Zheng Zhilong's study to keep the talismans, arrows and other things. He also sent his confidants to the area of Yuezhou Mansion to inform Zheng Zhibao's department to move closer to Xiangyang, at this time, it is still the Zheng family's descendants to stay by his side to make people feel at ease.

But then, the city of Xiangyang became chaotic. The spies of the Qing army have infiltrated into various markets, constantly preventing fires and killing people, and several generals under the Zheng family have been attacked within an hour, and even the camp of the Zheng army's water division has been lit up with a raging fire. Although it failed to spread into a big fire, it caused chaos among the sailors, trampling on themselves, and the ships dodged in panic, and the entire sailors outside Xiangyang City could not be cleaned up for a while.

However, at this time, Erden led more than 100 dead soldiers under his command to take advantage of the chaos to launch an attack on the Xiangyang Palace. At the same time as the fire was lit around, the dead soldiers climbed over the wall and entered, killing people when they saw them, and they almost killed in the backyard of the palace, and fortunately Zheng Sen was in charge of the palace, which gradually stabilized the situation.

By the time the day dawned, Erden and more than a hundred dead soldiers were slaughtered, but the entire palace was already full of corpses, and even the transmission of news and orders was greatly reduced. (To be continued......)