"His Royal Highness King Su's life and death are unknown, according to Akzia, he has been kidnapped by the thief Li Xin!"

Ao Bai briefly recounted Akzia's experience, and after listening in silence, Dolgon instructed with a tired voice: "This matter must be kept secret and must not be divulged to anyone." Then he waved his hand again, signaling that Ao Bai could retreat.

Bai Yintu and the others were left behind by him in the river, preparing to carry out a southern invasion offensive, taking the opportunity to annihilate Lu Xiangsheng's soldiers and horses. However, the impact of Li Xin's camp was too strict, and the morale of the army was dispersed overnight, and both the Manchu and Han soldiers were panicked.

At this time, the vanguard of the right army of Yue Tuo and Du Du had approached the front line of Wuyi, Hengshui and Jizhou, while most of the left army was distributed in the northwest of Baoding Mansion and Zhending Mansion. Just yesterday evening, he had given Turg full authority over the march across the river.

As a white-flaged Gushan Ezhen, Turg is one of Dorgon's cronies, and the reason why he transferred back to Turg and left Baiyintu in the river is because he doesn't want these generals with two yellow flags to come back and cause trouble for him.

Dolgon judged that since Li Xin successfully disrupted the Qing military camp by deception and kidnapped Prince Su Haoge, he would inevitably return to Gaoyang to receive the reward. Therefore, the top priority is to conquer Gaoyang and grab Haoge, and it is inevitable that things will change after a long delay.

In a few moments, the messenger left the camp with the arrows of Dolgon's order, and rode straight to the river to the east.

After sending away the envoys, Dolgon sent several military orders one after another, and last night the battalion Xiao Han army, regardless of officers and non-commissioned officers, was exempted from the past and was not guilty of the past, and within an hour they lined up to attack the city, and Duoduo commanded a large-scale attack on the northern city. All the soldiers of the Eight Banners who were originally left behind in the camp were unified under the command of Gong Adai and stormed Xicheng. Gong Adai was Nurhachi's nephew and Baiyintu's younger brother, but he had the opposite attitude to Nai's brother Zheng zhì and wholeheartedly supported Dorgon. Dorgon himself personally commanded the Chinese army to attack the southern city.

After the camp roared, all the Han soldiers were worried about was to be asked what the crime was, and Dolgon issued an exoneration order, and the hearts that were originally hanging in the air fell to the ground one after another. After receiving the order to immediately attack the city, they also took it in stride, and lined up one after another to wait for further orders. In any case, it is an indisputable fact that the Manchu and Han soldiers were demoralized after a night of chaos, and Ao Bai tried to dissuade Dolgon from forcibly attacking the city, but Dolgon did not give him a chance to get close at all.

A military order came down, and Ao Bai was deprived of a qiē and sent to stay in office to be effective. He did not have his share in the siege, and his task was still to stay in the barracks, clean up the mess, and prevent riots.

An hour later, the Qing army marched to the battlefield. More than 10,000 Han troops rushed directly to the north of Gaoyang City, 7,000 soldiers with eight banners under the leadership of Gong Adai attacked Gaoyang West City, and 5,000 Chinese troops escorted Dolgon to attack Gaoyang South City.

The momentum of the siege of Sanque Yi began, the horns whined and roared, the war drums sounded, and the ladder of the building car that survived the camp roar was pushed out, followed by the team, and slowly advanced towards Gaoyang City.

Suddenly, the storm changed suddenly, and the bean-like raindrops poured down with the sudden north wind, and the dirt roads immediately became muddy as soon as the rain came, and the march became difficult. The minion held up a large umbrella for Dolgon, and Dolgon pushed it away, wiping the rain from his face in an attempt to make his vision clearer, but as soon as he moved his hand, the rain trickled down his forehead again.

"When has it been, and it's raining so heavily!"

In the 11th month of the lunar calendar, there have been several heavy snowfalls in previous years, and the river should have been frozen a long time ago. This year is good, not to mention the delay in snowing, and it has rained one after another. While thinking about it, a soldier came to report the news.

"Lord Yu, the fifteenth Belle and Lord Gong Adai sent someone to ask, the sky is going to rain heavily, are you still attacking the city as planned?"

Dolgon laughed and said, "You go and tell their people, this heavy rain is a timely rain for God to help me capture Gaoyang in the Qing Dynasty, don't make noise, continue to attack the city!" ”

The soldier was stunned, wasn't the prince stimulated and his mind was abnormal? How can it be said that it was a timely rain when the rain was pouring down, the battle was slow, and it was clearly not suitable for attacking the city? But he still got up and told the people sent by Duoduo and Gong Adai.

Of course, Dolgon was not stimulated and lost his mind, the Gaoyang army was able to hold Gaoyang, all because of the strength of firearms, and his army really suffered a lot of losses in firearms. But today's heavy rain, firearms will inevitably fail, although morale and efficiency will be affected, but those Gaoyang defenders who were trained by the people in a short period of time are mostly trained in firearms, and neglect the regular training of defending the city, so under the growth and decline, it is the Qing army that takes advantage, as long as he is allowed to attack the city head of the Eight Banners Elite Armor, it is not like chopping melons and vegetables to deal with the Gaoyang army composed of those people.

The wind and clouds under Gaoyang City suddenly changed, the heavy rain poured, and the area of Boye Lixian County more than 100 miles to the south was sunny and shining. Li Xin with 600 cavalry rushed to this point was exhausted, out of Gaoyang Li Xin and the horse thieves were extremely unfamiliar with the terrain, Lu Jiujian yì, everyone went west to Taihang Mountain, but Li Xin sternly refused.

"Even if you and I are not for the Ming Dynasty, can people look at Tartar cholera and my China? I, Li Xin, have a word in advance, and if I don't want to fight the Tartars with me, I will never stop it, and I will find another way to distribute the expenses. If you want to stay, I hope you will work together! ”

Lu Jiu sneered: "Brother Thirteen is joking, Brother Thirteen will follow Lu Jiu wherever he goes!" ”

Li Xin has no memory of the original "Li Xin", and it is not clear why Lu Jiu followed him so unconditionally. But according to Lu Jiu's own words, he can still find a trace, this Lu Jiu was still young, his parents and relatives died of the plague, so he had to wander the countryside all day, if it wasn't for Li Xinyang begging his parents to take him in, I am afraid that he would have become a white bone under the dust.

Lu Jiu is grateful, after gathering the crowd to rob the ringing horse, he was also the front and back of the saddle, but he was loyal and righteous.

"Teaching, the right way through the county seat of Lixian, the head of the city is floating is the Tartar flag, according to the view of the stone, we should continue to the south, not far in front of the iron lamp inspection department, the inspection department will generally store some materials for the government to arrest thieves, we might as well go there to find."

Zhang Shi is a local and knows everything about Gaoyang and Linxian County.

A sentence pulled Li Xin back to reality from his contemplation, he looked at the straightforward man in front of him, but in more than a month, he had grown from an idle man to a quite qualified army commander, and he couldn't help but sigh.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the inspection department was a functional department below the county level and parallel to the Lijia system, in addition to being located in Guanjin, it was also set up in places such as private mining sites, places where merchants converged, and ethnic groups to control the flow of population, assist local public security, and more often supplement the area where the system of health centers is difficult to reach. At first, it only had the power to govern the army, but later it was gradually given the power of administration.

The Iron Lantern Inspection Division is located in the southeast of Lixian County, at the junction of Baoding, Hejian and Zhending, which is an important Guanjin, and is a must-go place in both north and south or east and west. Since the Tartars occupy Lixian County, I am afraid that this rather important inspection department will not be spared.

But after all, the iron lantern is not a county pass, and even if the Tartars capture it, it is still unclear how many people can be left to defend.

Li Xin divided the 600 cavalry under his command into two teams, one was the left team, which was composed of the original horse thieves, and Lu Jiuren was the captain. The other is the right team, composed of the backbone of the old battalion of the Gaoyang Army, with Zhang Shi as the captain. Now these two people seem to be his right-hand men. This stone in particular has made amazing progress, but the fly in the ointment is that it has more insight and less flexibility. For example, how to go to this iron lamp, he and Lu Jiu argued with each other.

He believed that if the Iron Lantern was guarded by more than 100 Tartars, he should abandon this place and look elsewhere for supplies, because if the Tartar army was alarmed to pursue him, the gains would outweigh the losses.

The angry Lu Jiu scolded Zhang Shi for being a cowardly ghost.

Li Xin waved his hand to signal the two to be quiet, and told them about his plans and intentions.

"We don't go to Gaoyang City to escape the Qing army's blows and flee everywhere, we burned tens of thousands of loads of military rations of the Qing army last night, and the Qing army outside Gaoyang City will soon run out of food. Dolgon suffered such a big loss, naturally he would not withdraw in disgrace, and would inevitably mobilize military rations from elsewhere, reorganize the army, and storm Gaoyang at any cost. In this way, Gao Yang's situation can be described as nine deaths. Therefore, we should strike at the Qing army on the periphery to reduce the pressure on the defenders of Gaoyang. ”

Lu Jiuyi spread his hands: "We only have 600 people, or are we made up of a patchwork, how can we fight against the elite army of Tartars?" At this point he paused suddenly, and his eyes lit up suddenly. Could it be a sneak attack on the Tartar grain road? ”

Li Xin praised: "Exactly, the Tartars will not take these 600 people in their eyes, so we can take advantage of their psychology of underestimating the enemy to turn this Zhili Tartar army upside down." ”

Suddenly, there was a loud noise, interrupting the train of thought of the three people.

"I want to see your leader, you escaped from my Kong Youde is also meritorious, why restrict my movements?"

The soldiers of the left team did not leave Kong Youde an inch, but they were polite to him.

"General Kong, we are doing this for your safety."

Kong Youde was dressed in shining bright light armor, and if someone who didn't know the truth saw it, he would think that this person was the commander of this team. Looking at the fierce and vicious horse thief, the hero didn't want to suffer the loss in front of him, so he had to sit on the ground with a sneer. The burlap bag around him kept shaking, which made him upset for a while, and he raised his foot and dragged it viciously twice, and a miserable snort like killing a pig sounded. Kong Youde suddenly seemed to remember something, his face suddenly turned pale, and he jumped up from the ground.

These two kicks were none other than Haoge, the prince of the Great Qing Dynasty.

After Kong Youde got up, he immediately thought of the current situation, he had rebelled out of the Qing army camp, and he was no longer controlled by them, and he was still afraid of a bird! This Prince Hauge of Su is usually high-spirited and commanding, but he didn't expect to have today. He was born a bandit who was not afraid of heaven and earth, once he lost his original moderation, even the emperor would dare to pull off the horse, let alone a fallen Prince Su! So he kicked the burlap bag twice!

The sound of killing pigs sounded again.