"Marshal, the rebels have entered the city, quickly find a place to take refuge."

Zheng Zhilong did not take this man-made fire to heart at first, thinking that as long as he sent someone over, he could calm the situation and extinguish the fire that had not yet become a climate. Who knew that within half an hour, there were soldiers who came to report in a panic, not only the fire was uncontrollable, but even the city was already in chaos.

"Bastard, it's just a thief, why can't you stand it? Gather people and horses, and Lao Tzu will go to ...... in person"

Soon, Zheng Zhilong found that the defeated soldiers fled back from the burning northwest like lost dogs. Zheng Zhilong tried to rein in and stop the retreat of the defeated army, but to no avail. In a hurry, he took out the Yanling knife on his waist and slashed several words to him in a row, ignoring the soldiers, and roared fiercely with blood on his face: "All soldiers must not retreat, and those who violate the order will be killed!" ”

The flow of defeated people only stagnated for a while, and then moved again, and Zheng Zhilong's words were ignored by the vast majority of people. No matter how fast Zheng Zhilong's Yanling knife is, it can't complete the rout of hundreds of soldiers. Seeing this situation, Zheng Zhilong couldn't help but feel a burst of despair in his heart, he couldn't figure out how the situation had suddenly deteriorated to such an irreparable place.

But after all, Zheng Zhilong still had hundreds of his own soldiers around him, and a pro-army adjutant general saw that the words of the marshal were ignored by the soldiers, and in a fit of rage, he also took his own soldiers to cut down those routs who did not obey orders, trying to deter the situation.

Who knew that it was okay not to kill, but this killing aroused the resistance of the fleeing soldiers, and even raised their knives against each other.

Seeing this scene, Zheng Zhilong stopped the slashing of the deputy general of the pro-army, and he understood that the soldiers would rather flee and swing their swords at him than turn back to kill those unknown thieves, which showed that they had completely lost the will to fight, or that they had completely lost confidence in him Zheng Zhilong himself.

So, who is the one who is causing this disturbance tonight? The desperate Zheng Zhilong couldn't help but be curious again. He wanted to see what kind of divine power could be his own defeat overnight.

Zheng Zhilong turned over and dismounted and personally stopped a few fleeing soldiers, and asked who the thieves in the northwest were, but some of the soldiers shook their heads ignorantly, saying that they didn't know who the other party was, but the surrender of the main general surrendered, and the killed were killed.

This answer made Zheng Zhilong's seven points of anger smoke, and they were all defeated, and he didn't know who his opponent was, were the generals under his command all stupid pigs? Zheng Zhilong, who could no longer suppress his anger, drew his knife again and slashed those ignorant soldiers to death.

But not everyone was ignorant, as Zheng Zhilong gradually met the center of the incident with his pro-army, he also gathered a group of defeated soldiers who still had the spirit of fighting and morale, and finally learned some inside information from the mouths of several defeated officers.

"Dashuai, it was the giant businessmen in the city who colluded with Zheng Hongkui to make trouble, they attacked and killed the city gate, opened the northwest city gate, and let the rebels enter the city......" The officer's voice was a little whimpering, and he even spoke at the end of the day because of this, "The two brothers under the mark were also killed in the sneak attack, Zheng Hongkui doesn't know where to move the soldiers from, our brothers are not opponents, those soldiers are not people, it's just, it's the devil ......"

After hearing this, Zheng Hongkui was struck by lightning, he never expected that the initiator of the chaos tonight turned out to be his fourth brother Zheng Hongkui, didn't he already abscond in fear of crime, so where did the people gather and kill them back?

There are also those giant businessmen in the city, who actually dare to collude with Zheng Hongkui, don't they know that Zheng Hongkui is not a person who has achieved great things? Zheng Zhilong couldn't accept for a while that the place of death, which had been suppressed by himself, turned against him, and he actually succeeded in a sneak attack. Zheng Zhilong couldn't wait to capture him alive now, Ling Chi was to deter the lawless Xiaoxiao, and the merchants in the city who were grassy on the wall should also be killed one by one.

At this time, on the contrary, the deputy general of the pro-army beside Zheng Zhilong was relatively calm, "Commander, the thieves are powerful, and now the enemy situation is unknown, it is better to retreat for half a day for the time being, gather the troops, and ......wait for the situation to be clear."

In fact, the deputy general of the pro-army has said very politely, now where the situation is unclear, the current situation has been clear, it is obvious that the collusion between the giant businessmen in the city and Zheng Hongkui has been initially successful, and the soldiers defending the city are already panicking after the successive bad news, and now they have no morale, let alone resist the sneak attack of internal and external collusion.

If you continue to stay in the city, once Zheng Hongkui and the private soldiers of those giant businessmen completely control the situation, even if you want to leave, you may not be able to leave calmly.

Zheng Zhilong had lost his mind, and was furious when he heard this, "What kind of thing is Zheng Hongkui?" He only deserves to shake his head and tail like a dog, how can I defeat him? ”

In fact, Zheng Zhilong was just hard-mouthed, and after his anger, he also realized that it was the previous torture and killing of the merchants in the city that made the giant businessmen panic, and then he colluded with Zheng Hongkui, the lost dog. But if you think about it carefully, isn't it Zheng Hongkui's son Zheng Cai who suggested that he kill people to deter rumors?

Looking back now, it seems that this is the full set that Zheng Hongkui has set up a long time ago, waiting for him to drill it? Thinking of this, Zheng Zhilong trembled all over, trembling like chaff, and he suddenly thought, so did the water master he brought out with hard work also deliberately corrupted by Zheng Lian?

This idea made Zheng Hongkui's heart like thousands of ants gnawing at it, he only hated himself for being too serious about the kinship relationship, and he did not take enough precautions against Zheng Hongkui's two sons, which eventually led to the disaster coming out of the elbow, and finally turned into an irreparable mistake.

If he had been able to be ruthless and get rid of Zheng Hongkui's father and son one by one, how could there be today's disaster now? It's just that in this world, regret can't be repeated, Zheng Zhilong can only silently accept this cruel reality.

"Capture Zheng Zhilong alive, don't let him escape, avenge his brothers!"

"Capturing Zheng Zhilong alive......"

Soon, the whistling sound of capturing Zheng Zhilong alive sounded one after another, and it was getting closer and closer. The deputy general of the pro-army finally couldn't help it, and urged: "Dashuai, stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of no firewood!" As long as the eldest prince comes back with his troops and recaptures Anping, isn't it easy to kill all the rebels? ”

The pro-army deputy general mentioned Zheng Sen, which lifted Zheng Zhilong's spirits, and he immediately grabbed this life-saving straw, yes, the 60,000 army in Zheng Sen's hands is the elite of the Fujian infantry soldiers, only with the rabble that Zheng Hongkui temporarily gathered, how could he resist a thunderous blow?

"Well, it makes sense, let's withdraw!"

Zheng Zhilong finally agreed to temporarily withdraw An Pingcheng, who had become a mess, and the deputy general of the pro-army breathed a long sigh of relief.

Half an hour later, they finally escaped from Anping, Zheng Zhilong immediately looked back at Anping, but saw that the city was lit with fire, and it seemed that the chaos was still continuing. This situation made this powerful veteran cry, thinking that the once-prosperous Zheng Jiajun was so corrupted in this night, what else could he say?

Thinking of the pride and ambition of a month ago, and even faintly thinking of entering Nanjing to win the Central Plains, now these scenes are all out of place, as if they are satirizing and humiliating Zheng Zhilong's heart.

"The eldest prince, the handsome urgent!"

This has been three days, and Zheng Sen has received Zheng Zhilong's urgent order to withdraw his troops three times. But Zheng Sen only silently held down all the urgent orders.

"Yu Li, if the thieves of the Three Guards entrenched in Shaowu are not eliminated, our army will have trouble sleeping in Fujian."

Chief Officer Yu Li was deeply impressed by Zheng Sen's words, but he couldn't help but be a little discouraged.

"It's hateful that these thieves can't slip like loaches, and they can't catch these people several times, so they can slip out of their hands. When will I be able to fight happily. ”

Zheng Sen shook his head and said: "Don't underestimate them, these people seem to have suffered from the epidemic, so their combat effectiveness has dropped sharply, otherwise we may not be able to have such an advantage." ”

The mountains of Fujian could be a barrier for the Zheng family to shield the southwest in normal times, but now they have also become a stumbling block to prevent them from completely killing the remnants of the enemy. Zheng Sen couldn't say whether he should be happy or resentful. However, his father's three successive urgent orders to transfer troops cast a shadow on his heart, and the ominous premonition always followed.

However, Zheng Sen is also suffering at the moment, and it is not easy to withdraw his troops. He had a feeling that the remnants of the Three Guards were gradually regaining their combat effectiveness, and after several encounters, he had lost a lot of men and horses, although he still had the advantage on the whole.

But once the order to withdraw the troops was issued, Zheng Sen did not dare to guarantee how much of a threat these remnants of the Three Guards would pose to them if they followed and pursued. After all, a withdrawal would be a serious blow to morale and worsen already low morale. One carelessness may even turn a withdrawal into a rout.

Therefore, although Zheng Sen was very anxious in his heart, he also made up his mind that he must achieve a decisive victory and beat the other party hard and fear, so that he could calmly withdraw his troops and return to Anping.

Zhang Shi spent more than half a month with Zheng Sen in the mountains, torturing him for dozens of days, and the intermittent diarrhea was finally cured, but the whole person was already tortured dark and thin. However, a pair of eyes are shining, and they seem to be more brilliant than before.

"Marshal, the Marquis said that everything has been arranged, as long as we can hold back Zheng Sen's little child in Shao Wu, we will be credited with a great achievement!"

"Is that all there is to it? When will our Three Guards Grenadier Battalion only be able to fight with others? ”

Zheng Laiyong had returned to Shaowu from Hangzhou a few days earlier, bringing with him the latest military orders from the Marquis of Zhenyu. And the grenadier battalion under Zhang Shi's command also completely walked out of the nightmare of diarrhea and dysentery, and the reason why he was still dealing with Zheng Sen in the mountains was only to wait for the sergeant to recover his strength on the one hand, and on the other hand, to wait for an opportunity to beat this difficult enemy.

And soon, this opportunity came unexpectedly.