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The Ming army has been following the Qing army as if it was about to leave, because of the last ambush, they advanced very cautiously, probing horses scouts in all directions, for fear of the Qing army fighting back again.

Peng Jingrong carried a radio receiver to act with Yuan Chonghuan's Chinese army, and Yuan Dashuai was very interested in this novelty, admiring that the hot air balloon was clairvoyant and the radio was a tailwind, and planned to order more than a dozen sets of hot air balloons.

When Addison's telegram came, Peng Jingrong was dozing off with headphones in the carriage, and the bumpy carriage made people drowsy, and the sudden radio signal pulled her out of her sleep at once, and copied the rapid long and short ticks on the paper, and then corresponded to the telegram code book, and now this group of signals conveys the meaning of "100,000 rush to march, Liu Ziguang".

Peng Jingrong immediately became nervous, handed over the cracked telegram to Yuan Dashuai, and listened to the headphones tightly for a long time, but there was no follow-up information, I don't know if there was an accident on the airship or a radio failure? The eldest lady took off the headphones and went to Yuan Chonghuan in a hurry.

Yuan Chonghuan was watching the army advance on the hill on the side of the official road, a thick rope was tied to the top of a carriage next to him, and the other end of the rope was connected to a hot air balloon in the sky, and the flag officer on the balloon told the officers below what he saw with a loudspeaker, and then passed the orders of the Chinese army to the front and rear and left and right armies with the order flag, and the armies were also equipped with hot air balloons dragged by horse-drawn carriages, and used the order flag and clairvoyant mirror as a communication tool with each other, and the transmission of information was much faster than the previous use of gongs and drums and heralds.

Yuan Chonghuan held the telegram with only two words in his hand and read it several times, and 100,000 rushed to march? What does it have to do with the missing Liu Ziguang troops, could it be that Liu Ziguang's troops are now present? Or a telegram signed by Liu Ziguang? Whatever the reason, it is better to order the front army to speed up first.

Just as the flag officer on the hot air balloon passed the order to the former army troops in the flag language, Peng Jingrong came to Yuan Chonghuan and expressed concern about the loss of the radio signal, and it happened that the front army also sent a signal, saying that it was based on the confession of the captured Qing army: Jinan City seemed to be no longer under the control of the Qing army. Combined with the analysis of the above information, it is very likely that it is Liu Ziguang's troops who disappeared from the battlefield who occupy Jinan City.

"General Liu's department has less than 3,000 people, and this point of manpower to defend Jinan is inevitably inadequate." General Zhao Shujiao said worriedly.

"The Iron Guards are all elite soldiers, and they should be able to support them for a while." Yuan Chonghuan stroked his beard and said. I didn't expect that this emperor's favorite person was not only strong in martial arts, but also a genius in marching and fighting, and he quietly copied the back road of the Tartars, and I have a successor in the Ming military circle.

This is an excellent opportunity, Yuan Chonghuan, who was still a little unhappy with Liu Ziguang's disobedience to the dispatch and random action, immediately ordered the cavalry troops of the front army to march quickly, and be sure to rush to Jinan as quickly as possible, and the entire front army should also throw away all its baggage and go straight to Jinan, and the troops marching on the left and right sides should also send cavalry to cooperate with the action, and strive to arrive before the city of Jinan was breached, and the living force of the Qing army should be annihilated by the encirclement and external encirclement.

At this time, the front army troops have marched in the Changqing area, after receiving the order conveyed by the hot air balloon, Zu Dashou led the cavalry of the headquarters to go straight to Jinan at any cost, and the large troops behind also dropped all kinds of equipment, ran forward, and threw the bedding tent grain and grass all over the ground, and when the team behind drove over, it would naturally be contained.

"The things of the Han people are really evil, they can fly and they can be fried, if we can make tens of thousands of them in the Qing Dynasty, the flower world in the south of the Yangtze River is not easy to capture. It's a pity that it blew it up. "Seeing the airship crash and explode

, Sukh Saha couldn't help but sigh.

"What's so hard about that? It's not enough to catch that birdman, as soon as the punishment is on, all the spells have to be summoned. Ao Bai pointed to Addison, who was piloting the paramotor parafoil in the distance, and his brain, which was completely immune to scientific knowledge, thought that the airship flew by magic spells.

Addison really lacked experience in piloting paramotors, flying crookedly, the horizontal height kept falling, and he was about to miss the city wall of Jinan, so anxious that he pulled the joystick, the more he pulled, the more chaotic, the parachute and the city wall passed by, and fell towards the fields east of the city.

"Boys, take down that birdman, remember to live!" At the sound of Sukh Saha's order, a group of cavalry roared out, chasing the birdmen in the sky, as excited as the hounds galloping after the frisbee.

Liu Ziguang appeared from the clairvoyant mirror that the person on the airship was Addison, so anxious that he was sweating profusely, this kid is a genius who is worth more than three thousand troops, how can he rush into battle, in case there is a flash of so many blind creations, who else can be counted on, everyone also feels that the person who flew over is their own person, when Addison and the city wall missed, everyone was so anxious that they screamed, if they fell outside the city, it would be more than lucky.

"Li Yan, you command, I'll save people." Liu Ziguang grabbed a bow and a half-pot of arrows, and ran along the city wall towards the east gate. He had already seen the Qing army send cavalry to rush to Addison, and now he was going to rob people. Of course, the city gate could not be opened, he jumped directly from the city wall, and reached the ground with his hand on the jagged wall bricks three times and two times, the Qing army that had feinted in front of the east gate had turned to the north gate, and now there was no one outside the city, and he saw Addison swaying into a field of crops from a distance, and he didn't know what it looked like.

Liu Ziguang ran violently, and the cavalry team running from the south saw him a lone infantryman, and shot him with arrows, Liu Ziguang drew arrows while running and fired back, each arrow must hit, and the two shots were shot at each other in this way, and when Liu Ziguang finished shooting half a pot of arrows, half of the cavalry had fallen off their horses.

Or Liu Ziguang's degree is faster, and he found Addison first, the birdman made an emergency landing in the wheat field, the power wing fell all over the place, and the person also had a blue nose and swollen face, and at such a life-and-death juncture, he also knew that he was protecting the radio station on his back, and he would rather use his body as a human flesh cushion to protect this valuable high-tech product.

As soon as Liu Ziguang ran to Addison, the fast horses of the Qing army arrived, and the only dozen or so Qing soldiers no longer released arrows, they wanted to split Liu Ziguang alive and capture Addison alive.

But when a dozen or so people came up, there was something unexpected for Eddie's business, these fierce guys showed a strange expression when they saw Liu Ziguang's face, and they froze in unison, and then their faces spasmed, their muscles were tense, and the hand holding the knife also trembled violently, one by one as if they had a heart attack, and then one of them suddenly turned his horse and fled, shouting "Drive!" The voices seemed to be a little crying, and the others also scattered and fled. Leaving Addison and Liu Zi looking at each other with a glossy face.

"Why did they run?" Addison asked.

"I don't know, maybe you know me." Liu Ziguang inserted the white rainbow knife back into the scabbard, shrugged his shoulders and said.

The fleeing Qing soldiers spoke to each other in trembling voices.

"Isn't that person the first fierce general of the Southern Dynasty who chased after Prince Rui and lost his armor?"

"That's right, I'll see clearly, it's absolutely right, a man as fierce as our Mangniu Belle Lord was beheaded by him."

"No wonder he shot half of our brothers so far away, it turned out to be him, fortunately he recognized it, otherwise a few of us would not be enough for him to cut."

More than a dozen Qing soldiers were immediately glad that they had picked up a life, and they didn't dare to look back, but just beat their horses, hoping to get as far away from the devil as possible.

At the south gate, the Qing army's four thousand people held the ladder and waited for the order to attack the city, and the three thousand people in front were frantically shooting arrows at the city wall, each shooting four, a total of 12,000 arrows flew to the city wall under black pressure, which was the fire suppression before the general attack, and I wanted to throw some poisonous smoke balls again, but the kind of expensive things were originally made less, and the last wave had already thrown away the family foundation.

More than 10,000 arrows pierced the south gate tower of Jinan like a hedgehog, fortunately the defenders hid in time to cause no major casualties, looking at the thousands of cloud ladder soldiers waiting below, Li Yan, who has always been calm and composed, couldn't help wiping a cold sweat, it seems that the city is only broken in an instant, two thousand five hundred people are now only more than 1,000 people can insist on fighting, and they have to be assigned to defend at the four gates, even if some people have been deployed just now, the defenders of the south gate are still only five hundred.

I couldn't stand it and had to fight in the streets, Li Yan sighed, although that person was righteous, but his heart was too soft, it seemed that he was not a person who could do great things.

The iron men of the death camp looked indifferently at the Qing army advancing with the beat of the drum, and also understood that this city could not be defended, and if they couldn't hold the city wall, they would fight street battles, even if they died, they should have died under the city of Liguo, but now they have lived for a few more months, and they have killed so many people, it's worth it!

The guards also look indifferent, they are all Han people, as Han people and Tartars fight is a matter of course, anyway, a thousand green battalion soldiers fought side by side with them, and now the losses are almost gone, and the volunteers composed of citizens are basically dead, and there are less than 100 people left, and now everyone is standing together regardless of each other, all of them are covered in blood, their faces are hideous, and they can't see which battalion they are.

"Man, you said that we are dead, can we be buried in that cemetery on the shore of Daming Lake?" A death battalion soldier asked the Iron Guard.

"Surely, we will still be called the 2,500 martyrs of Jinan, and in the future, the storytellers in the teahouse will have to tell our jokes." The Iron Guard who answered was a soldier of the Tiger Wing Battalion, who had been a little separated from the Death Battalion, but now it had vanished as they fought side by side.

"Fellow, our Jinan is really a good place, it's not bad to die here, but it's a pity that I haven't married a daughter-in-law yet." An iron guard said to the volunteers beside him.

"Why don't you die, didn't Liu Dashuai say it, the reinforcements will arrive soon, and when the Tartars are repulsed, brother, I will help you say a daughter-in-law in Jinan." This volunteer is a dart master, not only has good martial arts, but also has a standard Shandong-style boldness.

Just when everyone was talking and laughing, seeing death as home, there was an uproar in the city, a large number of people went to the city to support under the leadership of 6 Chengfeng, the strong men of Jinan City had little left after experiencing several forced conscriptions of the Qing army, and now the people who appeared at the head of the city were some half-grown children and sturdy big-footed women, and some old men with neat legs and feet.

"Didn't you come up and die? How tall do you think this kid is? Li Yan frowned and asked, comparing the height of a seven or eight-year-old child holding a brick.

"The Qing army will inevitably massacre when it breaks the city, and it is better to die in battle than to be slaughtered on its knees! Tartars don't care how tall they are, even if they're babies. 6 Chengfeng said impassionedly.

The common people silently picked up the weapons on the corpses and stood with the soldiers, these people are only the peddlers and pawns at the bottom of the society on weekdays, craftsmen and farmers, but when facing death, they are as calm and heroic as the battle-hardened soldiers, which is the previous massacres and the oppression and bullying of the Manchurians in peacetime have tempered their hearts.

Li Yan didn't speak, and the soldiers didn't speak, they just straightened their clothes and armor, wiped their knives and guns, and let those women and children fill the vacant battle positions, Jinan ten years ago may have staged the same scene, can be buried in the same cemetery as a great hero like Inspector Sun, can leave a name in history like the 800 martyrs in Jinan, so why die!

Seeing the countless heads that suddenly appeared at the head of Jinan City, the leaders of the first wave of Qing army cloud ladder soldiers were slightly surprised, and then grinned, the Han people pulled women and children up the city wall, and the troops were exhausted to the extreme, it seems that this attack will definitely be able to break through the south gate.

When the first batch of ladders were erected on the city wall, there was a thunderous sound of horses' hooves and earth-shattering killing sounds in the distance, and the rolling smoke and dust rose in the south, and the bright battle flags of the Ming army danced in the smoke.

The real Ming court army arrived in time.