In the first battle during the day, the Three Guards were almost exhausted, and left the Beijing division to camp ten miles north. There was a battle outside the tent, and outside the lonely and dark camp gate, a small commotion suddenly broke out in the grass, and it was actually the secret sentry in ambush who caught the spies of the thieves.

"I'm not a spy, I'm the messenger of Prince Kong, I'm the messenger of King Kong!"

The captured thief shouted loudly, for fear that the officials and soldiers would slaughter him without asking questions and delay the prince's major event!

The ordinary soldiers of the Three Guards did not know who Prince Kong was, but they did not execute him on the spot, but found a rag out of nowhere and stuffed it into the mouth of the spy, so as to save him from shouting and causing trouble, and at the same time tied him with a hemp rope and tied it firmly and carried it to the battalion officer on duty at night.

This spy is Zhang Wu sent by Kong Youde to connect with Li Xin, and after several turns, he finally met the legendary cannibal general, Li Xin!

Zhang Wu's reflection was generally the same as that of those who first saw Li Xin, they were all surprised in apprehension, and then there was a sense that it was nothing more than that.

Li Xin has long been accustomed to people's reputation for false rumors, and he is no longer surprised by this strange gaze, and he is strange that Kong Youde has changed his mind before he has spent the night, and he actually took the initiative to surrender.

How credible is this, he stared at the messenger for a long time and didn't see the slightest hint of inappropriateness, and then he also understood how could he, a messenger, know Kong Youde's core secrets, as for whether Kong Youde's acceptance of Zhao'an is true or false, you might as well go to the meeting in person to know what the idea of this thing is.

Half an hour later, a team of more than 200 horsemen galloped out of the neat and strict camp of the Three Guards and headed straight for a woodland in the west. The whole process was unexpectedly smooth, there was neither an ambush nor a complicated joint code, and after seeing that Zhang Wu made a series of strange sounds, Kong Youde appeared quietly, and he didn't even ride a horse.

"Brother Kong is so decisive, he already has an idea before he stays overnight!"

Kong Youde did not hide it, told the truth, and then only said one thing, that is, the two armies jointly attacked the central army of the kingdom emblem, and there was no need to finalize the details, only the general conditions such as the direction and time of the attack.

"At three o'clock, Kong sent troops to attack his flank, raising fire as a signal, General Li can take advantage of the situation to cover up from the north, and it will be difficult for the kingdom emblem to fly out of the palm of your brother's hand with wings!"

Li Xin felt a little numb about Kong Youde's abrupt change of attitude and closeness, but he nodded in agreement with his opinion, and just as he parted ways, he suddenly remembered something.

"I heard that Wu Sangui is in the army of thieves, what is the whereabouts of this person?"

Kong Youde was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly said: "What General Li said is that Wu Shan?" This person is cold, although he voted for Liu Guoneng with us, but he has a withdrawn temperament and has always been alone, but his cavalry is really terrifying, if you guess correctly, it must be Guanning Iron Cavalry! ”

Li Xin interrupted when he heard what he said, and asked, "Is this person in the thief camp?" ”

This section is crucial, this man's thousands of cavalry are enough to determine the outcome of the battle, and although Li Xin's Three Guards have been in battle for a long time, it is still unknown whether they can cope with the powerful and flexible cavalry.

"After besieging the Jingshi, he led his troops to the north, and there has been no news so far, and I don't know where he went!"

"True?"

"It's true!"

Li Xin stared at Kong Youde, and he also didn't see any suspicious clues, but he didn't have time to care about why he went north.

Zhang Wu stood behind Kong Youde and watched the officials, soldiers and horses disappear into the night, and suddenly asked, "Does the prince really want to accept Zhao'an?" "He is an orthodox thief, and like most people, he has a natural distrust of officials and soldiers.

How do you know that Kong Youde snorted and smiled: "How can the master do a stupid thing to take advantage of the fire for others, when the time comes, we will only set the fire, and do not make any efforts, let the surnamed Li and Wang Guohui fight to death!" ”

After speaking, he couldn't help but laugh three times proudly.

"Then, then, after the officers and soldiers succeed, how can they spare us?"

Kong Youde raised his hand and swept it on Zhang Wu's head, and said with a smile: "You are still too sincere, when they fight, let's take advantage of the chaos, and then he will clean up who will go!" He had already seen through the shape in front of him, don't look at the army surrounding the Ming Jingshi, it was a matter of time before he was defeated, and he knew that there was no way out and went with the flow, which was also a helpless move.

Zhang Wu suddenly felt relieved, and said with great joy: "The prince is wise!" Then he asked again, "Lord Wang, the villain is still a little confused, I don't know where we are slipping away?" ”

Kong Youde also stayed for a while, yes, where to flee, this place is the closest to the outside of the pass, dozens of miles to the north, a break through the pass everywhere, you can jump at will, but he has already offended the Manchu Qing to death, and outside the gate is the world of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, going is equivalent to looking for death. It seems that there is only one path he can choose, that is, to go south and find Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong.

Thinking of this, he resented Li Xinlai, if it weren't for him, he would still be the king of the Qing Dynasty, but now it's good, reduced to the point of being in the company of thieves. It is said that people go to high places, water flows to low places, they have been killed and lived for 20 years, and they have just mixed up with their appearance, and once they are beaten back to their original shape, it is really sighing!

I don't know what the beast screamed in the forest, which startled Kong Youde to restrain his mind, so he took Zhang Wu back to the camp, and after walking for a while, he found that the fire was soaring in front of him, shouting and killing......

After Li Xin returned to the camp, he began to prepare for a sneak attack on the Chinese army of the Kingdom Emblem at three o'clock, but at this time there was an unexpected incident, the artillery battalion officer Heisenberg did not know whether he had eaten a bad stomach, or he was not accustomed to the water and soil when he first arrived in the Ming Dynasty, and he vomited and diarrhea. This made Li Xin embarrassed for a long time, Heisenberg's position was indispensable, and no one in the Three Guards could command the entire artillery battalion as well as him. If the superior firepower of the artillery was missing, the Three Guards, which was already not superior in numbers, would inevitably have to increase casualties in the battle.

It's just that the Germanic people are extremely determined, and they still insist on participating in the battle, even though they are physically weak.

Cheng Mingjiu, the battalion officer of the first step battalion, was full of doubts.

"The last general always felt that this matter was strange, and the attitude of the surnamed Kong was so different in one day, it was very suspicious! Think twice! ”

Li Xin didn't think about the possibility of Kong Youde designing him, but no matter what, this was an opportunity, although the two armies were set to attack together, but Li Xin decided that no matter whether Kong Youde recruited an army or not, he could give it a try, so he compared it on the Jingshi city defense map on the table.

"The Chinese army of the Kingdom Emblem is located outside the Xizhi Gate, separated from the corner of the city by Kong Youde outside the Desheng Gate, and further south, there is still a thief soldier in Fuchengmen, this thief soldier has been killed and wounded in the daytime battle, and is exhausted. Regardless of whether Kong Youde is true or not, you can start from here first, even if you can't finish the battle, you need to cut off the thief's finger! ”

Cheng Mingjiu frowned, he still had some doubts about Li Xin's plan.

"If Kong Youde really goes to attack the camp of the Kingdom Emblem, let's go to attack Fuchengmen, wouldn't it be ......?"

Li Xin laughed: "If this product can be so sincere, he is not Kong Youde, and he will not live today!" Another point, don't underestimate this thing, if he really fights hard, then the kingdom emblem may not be an opponent, so if you can destroy two thieves at the same time, this victory is a certainty! ”

Cheng Mingjiu couldn't keep up with Li Xin's rhythm for a while, and his eyes were a little strange, when did his own general become cunning......

After the whole army was completed, in order to facilitate concealment, the army went around the long road in the dark to explore the direction of Fuchengmen, who knew that halfway to the road, but there was a ranger return, and there was a military camp fire between Desheng Gate and Xizhi Gate.

Li Xin was shocked, when he was a child, there was still more than an hour before the third quarter of Yin, could it be that Kong Youde launched a surprise attack in advance? But intuition told him that this was certainly not the case.

"Probe, report!"

Then he ordered the army to advance as originally planned and attack the camp of thieves outside the target Fuchengmen.

"Is Heisenberg's artillery in place?"

Li Xin turned around and confirmed to the battalion officer beside him that artillery had a very high status in the Three Guards Army and was the backbone of the whole army. Unbeknownst to him, the reward was that the entire artillery battalion followed closely in the marching formation.

After nearly half an hour of marching, the three guards marched from north to south, and then from west to east, the little wind lanterns on the Fucheng Gate were in sight in the distance, and the city was pitch black, and occasionally one or two flickering places could be seen, as if it was lifeless. But through the reconnaissance before sunset, Li Xin knew that there was a military camp of tens of thousands of people hidden in the darkness, like a beast licking its wounds in the dark.

A few miles away, the north was faintly lit by fire, a stark contrast to the silence in front of them. Gradually, there were more and more flashes of light in the camp of the thieves in front of him, obviously sensing the abnormal movement in the north.

Time is running out, Li Xin immediately ordered!

"All of them! Array! ”

Since it was a night raid, the horn that mastered the rhythm of the march could not be used, and it was completely dependent on the repeated chanting of one, two, three, and four in unison among the soldiers. At the time when the infantry battalion was assembled into a phalanx by columns, Heisenberg actually dragged the sick body, commanded his gunners to push cannons, divided into two formations, and rushed forward first.

The veterans of the Three Guards have become accustomed to this kind of scene, and the artillery of the Three Guards has always rushed to the front line, and is known for its mobile and flexible mobile shooting to strike at the enemy's vital forces.

Boom Boom!

Just as the infantry battalion was finished, the artillery fired the first round of solid shells into the flickering darkness. Immediately after that, the gunners, after a series of step-by-step maneuvers, fired a second salvo.

After the shells were hit round after round, I saw a cluster of flames rising in the barracks in front of me, which was caused by the falling shells. The three guards marched forward in the darkness, the musketeers and pikemen clenched their weapons and looked firmly ahead, but unfortunately the thieves did not know where the officers and soldiers came from at this time.

Suddenly, the sound of cannons rang out in the camp of the thieves, followed by the whistling sound of projectiles breaking through the air, and then smashed on the ground and tumbled and bounced.