Li Dingguo thought quickly, calculating the consequences of the two choices.

The attacking thief army has been defeated by himself, if he leads his troops to rush into the camp, then Yuan Chonghuan must not have time to mobilize more troops to intercept him, and he should be able to rush into the camp and kill him.

However, after all, it is a large battalion of nearly 200,000 people, and if you rush in, it will be cool, but it will also bring large casualties, and I don't know how many of my two thousand subordinates will survive in the end.

And if you face this army, it is estimated that you will waste a lot of time. This army didn't even light torches, they came in the dark, and they couldn't figure out how many people there were. I can't see it clearly, how to fight, will it fall into chaos?

For a while, Li Dingguo was a little hesitant.

"General Li, let's storm the camp."

"That's right, attack the camp and capture Yuan Chonghuan alive!"

"If you fight, if you don't succeed, you will become a benevolent!"

The men shouted.

"Okay, fight!" For a while, Li Dingguo's blood was also boiling, and he finally made up his mind.

Fight, as long as Yuan Chonghuan can be dealt a heavy blow, even if all his 2,000 people are explained here, it is cost-effective. As long as there is enough time, Hong Chengchou will definitely be able to integrate the defense of Nanjing City, and with the tall walls of Nanjing City, it is enough to block Yuan Chonghuan's 200,000 army, and then the big thing can be decided!

"Wenxiu, you take five hundred people to nail here, block this attacking army for me, and defend my back!" Li Dingguo said in a deep voice.

"Don't worry, general, I'll leave it to you!" Adjutant General Liu Wenxiu replied angrily.

"You put out the torches and wait quietly for them to touch them. These cannons can protect the stool, but they really can't, you can choose to evacuate by yourself and go to meet Luo Feng. Li Dingguo instructed.

Liu Wenxiu nodded: "Don't worry!" ”

"Brothers, follow me in and capture Yuan Chonghuan alive!" Li Dingguo shouted and took the lead in rushing towards the camp.

"Capture Yuan Chonghuan alive!" Fifteen hundred Praetorian Guards shouted, each carrying a weapon, and rushed into the camp immediately after Li Dingguo.

"Block them, block them!" In the battalion, Lou Fu shouted loudly, commanding his subordinates to try to block Li Dingguo's attack. Yuan Chonghuan gave him 3,000 men, and hundreds of them were killed by tiger cannons and grenades in the battle just now, and the others fled back to the camp.

In terms of numbers, Lou Fu's subordinates are still more than Li Dingguo's army in the camp, but the problem is that they have just experienced a rout and their morale is very low. Many of them had just fled back, and before they could breathe, the Praetorian Guards followed and entered the camp, and there was no time to organize a defense.

At Lou Fu's command, the soldiers cowered and raised their weapons, trying to meet them. However, before the two sides could make contact with each other, several grenades were thrown and exploded, and the anti-thieves in front were blown to pieces, and the anti-thieves in the back fled.

"Bastard, don't run away, stop them for Lao Tzu!" Lou scolded angrily, swung his knife at the fleeing thief, and cut down several soldiers in the blink of an eye. The other thieves bypassed him and continued to flee.

"Don't run away, where else can you run away?" Lou shouted in despair. He made a military order, even if he escaped now, he could not escape Yuan Chonghuan's punishment, even if he could escape, but if the camp was really broken by the Praetorian Guard, the 200,000 army would be defeated, and what was waiting for him would be the endless pursuit of the imperial court.

Just when Lou Fu desperately brandished his steel knife and slashed at the defeated anti-thief soldiers, a thief soldier saw that he couldn't dodge, so he simply stabbed Lou Fu with a shot, stabbing him in the waist and abdomen. Lou Fu swung his knife to cut off the barrel of the gun, and then slashed the thief to death, and then felt that the strength in his body was rapidly disappearing, and the knife in his hand was thrust into the ground to support the crumbling body.

Another group of thieves escaped, and Lou Fu was knocked to the ground by the fleeing crowd, and then countless feet trampled over his body......

Breaking through the blockage of the thieves at the gate of the camp, Li Dingguo led the team to rush towards the camp, and there were thieves running in panic everywhere in his sight.

Torches were thrown out and tents were lit one after another, and soon many fires were burning in the camp, and the camp became even more chaotic.

"Cabinet Headquarters, the Praetorian Guards are coming, let's avoid it." Looking at the fire dragon that was getting closer and closer, Huang Li said nervously.

"Avoid, where to avoid?" Yuan Chonghuan said coldly, if this 200,000 army is defeated, I am afraid that there will be no place to hide in the world!

"Cabinet Department, you retreat for the time being, I'll take my brothers to block them!" Chinese officer Wei Qi said angrily.

"Hard blocking can't be stopped, Wei Qi, you lead people to hide behind the tent where they must pass first, and when they pass by, they will kill and attack their flanks! As long as you can stop them, it will be the first achievement, and everyone will be rewarded! The Cabinet will quickly gather military support. Yuan Chonghuan ordered.

"The last general respects his life!" Wei Qi agreed, and left with the hundreds of standard battalions that had just been assembled.

"Let's go, let's avoid it first!" Yuan Chonghuan said to Huang Li and the staff.

Although the camp was in chaos, Yuan Chonghuan knew the camp well and knew how to dodge the attacking Praetorian Guards, after all, the other party only had more than 1,000 people, and he did not dare to divide the troops, so he could only create chaos in the camp, and it was almost impossible to occupy the entire camp with this little force.

Li Dingguo led his subordinates to quickly kill Yuan Chonghuan's army, and the huge camp could already be seen from a distance. At this moment, a gong sounded, and suddenly hundreds of thieves appeared in the darkness on the right side, killing the Praetorian Guard.

It started in a hurry, and if it was an ordinary army, it would have to collapse by this rush. However, the Praetorian Guard was well trained, and the soldiers did not wait for the officer's order, and turned their spearheads to meet them.

"Boom, boom, boom" several grenades were thrown over and exploded with a bang. More than a dozen thieves were blown up by grenades, but the other thieves did not flee, but crossed the corpses and quickly rushed into the ranks of the Praetorian Guard, and the two sides were entangled and killed together.

That Wei Qi was originally a death row prisoner, he was about to be beheaded and was secretly rescued by Yuan Chonghuan, and became an officer in the standard camp, so he was grateful to Yuan Chonghuan, he can be described as a dead soldier, and he has always been around Yuan Chonghuan, if it is not an emergency, Yuan Chonghuan is not willing to send him.

"Kill!" Li Dingguo shouted, raised his gun and killed a thief, and stabbed the thief in the abdomen. The other Janissaries followed, carrying spear-loaded muskets and besieging the attacking thieves.

Many tents were burning, and the flames were flickering, but they could barely make out the enemy in front of them, and they couldn't see anything further away. In this case, the battle is basically a chaotic battle, and there is no coordination anymore, and the competition is about individual combat skills and the soldier's will to fight.

Among the 200,000 thieves, the combat effectiveness of the standard battalion is undoubtedly the strongest, and Wei Qi was deeply favored by Yuan Chonghuan, and was determined to repay each other with death, and his will to fight was very strong. Ordinary Ming troops, in this case, will most likely be defeated by the fierce Wei Qi and his troops. However, in front of them now is the Praetorian Guard, the Praetorian Guard created by the Emperor, the Praetorian Guard who has been fighting pirates at sea for several years!

In sea operations, artillery comes first, but because of the extremely low hit rate of artillery, it is more of a broadside battle, and the two sides fight on the ship, which is really a test of the will to fight. can exterminate Li Kuiqi, Liu Xiang and other giants in the southeast sea in a few years, and the fighting will of this Praetorian Guard is naturally not weak, far surpassing Yuan Chonghuan's standard battalion!

And Li Dingguo and other officers who led the troops, half of them were born in the Xiyuan Boys' Battalion, and the rest also grew up in the war, and they made meritorious contributions to become officers, whether it was combat skills or will, they were not comparable to Yuan Chonghuan's standard battalion.

The battle was short and fierce, and in less than a stick of incense, the winner was decided. More than 100 of the attacking standard battalion soldiers were besieged and killed, and Wei Qi, the leading general, was also stabbed to death by Li Dingguo, and the rest of the people fled. And the Praetorian Guard soldiers also suffered dozens of casualties, and the specific number is too late to count.

Repelling the attacking thieves, Li Dingguo rushed to Yuan Chonghuan's army with his subordinates, but when he attacked the tent, he found that the house was empty, and Yuan Chonghuan could not be found at all.

The torches lit the curtains in the tent, the thieves burned the flames in the tent, and a strong soldier waved his steel knife and cut off the banner set up in front of the tent with a few blows, and the thick flagpole smashed heavily on the ground.

Li Dingguo looked around, only to see that the entire camp was in chaos, and this kind of night can't see too far, it is impossible to find where Yuan Chonghuan ran to, so he pointed in a random direction: "Keep rushing!" ”

It doesn't matter if Yuan Chonghuan can't be killed, as long as he can completely disrupt Yuan Chonghuan's camp and force the thieves to flee from the camp, even if Yuan Chonghuan can escape, it will not be able to collect the army in a short time.

"Cabinet Department, General Wei died in battle!" In an open space in the camp, Yuan Chonghuan was lecturing the hundreds of soldiers who had gathered, when someone suddenly came to report.

Yuan Chonghuan was silent for a moment: "I know, General Wei is good, the cabinet will raise his children as their own children, and will provide for his parents to the end of their lives." ”

"Cabinet benevolence!" Huang Li hurriedly said.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this pavilion has ascertained that there are only a thousand Praetorian Guards who have attacked the camp, and hundreds of them have been killed by General Wei's troops, and now there are only a few hundred left. Pass my order, as long as you kill a Praetorian Guard, you will be promoted to a higher rank and rewarded with a hundred taels of silver! If you can behead the Praetorian Guard generals led by you, the officers will be promoted to three levels, and the ordinary soldiers will be promoted to hereditary hundreds, and the reward will be a thousand taels of silver! Yuan Chonghuan said loudly.

The thieves present suddenly became short of breath, and the official was promoted to the third level, and a huge reward of one thousand taels of silver was enough to make people forget any danger!

"Kill, kill the damned Praetorian Guard!" One of the anti-thief generals suddenly shouted loudly, holding his weapon aloof and leading the charge towards the lamplight.

"Kill!" The other thieves shouted and followed.

"Let's go, go to other camps, gather more troops!" Yuan Chonghuan said coldly, and walked towards the depths of the camp with a group of staff and civil officials. The staff held torches, stopped the panicked soldiers, and brought them to Yuan Chonghuan, who lectured them, and made the soldiers recover from their fear with a few casual words, and then encouraged and promised heavy rewards, and the staff wrote down the names of the soldiers, and then the soldiers took up their arms again under the temptation of the heavy reward and chased after the Praetorian Guard.

"Something is wrong, why haven't the thieves been defeated?" Defeating a group of attacking thieves again, Li Dingguo took a breath with his spear and said in surprise.

He led his troops to rush into the opponent's camp, killed people everywhere and set fires, even Yuan Chonghuan's military camp tent was burned, and his general flag was cut off.

"Maybe the light is too dim to extinguish the fire, and the thieves don't know what's going on?" Some subordinates speculated.

"Ignore them, let's continue to kill people and set fires!" Li Dingguo shook his head. At this point, I can only continue to rush and kill. It's just that after several fierce battles, the casualties of his soldiers have exceeded 100, and the grenades they carry have been used up.

"General Li, when you get to the riverside in front, it's a thief's water village!" Suddenly, a soldier came to report, but he had already killed the thief army camp and had already killed the river.

Li Dingguo looked at it fixedly, and saw that the fire in the river was lit, and it was a warship that had been awakened.

If you can capture a few ships, you can go down the river and evacuate here! This thought flashed in Li Dingguo's mind for a moment, and then it was erased by him. Liu Wenxiu also took hundreds of people to guard the gate of the thief camp, and Luo Fengcai also led hundreds of people to attack the southwest camp of the thief army, but the result of the attack on the camp is still unknown, how can he abandon his subordinates and evacuate?

"Let's go, kill back!" Li Dingguo raised the spear in his hand and took the lead to kill back!

In the water village, looking at the Praetorian Guards who suddenly came out of the river, and watching the Praetorian Guards leave the riverside, the chief soldier Fang Guoan breathed a sigh, fortunately, the Praetorian Guards did not attack their own water village.

"General Soldier Fang, the cabinet department orders you to quickly lead the water battalion soldiers ashore to meet the Praetorian Guards attacking the camp!" At this moment, a war horse rushed to the river, and Yuan Chonghuan's order came.

"Go back and tell the cabinet department, and I'll gather my troops and horses." Fang Guoan said casually. Facing the Praetorian Guard? What are you kidding, the battalion of more than 100,000 people has been defeated, what do you use to fight others?

Besides, the battalion has been defeated, and the hope of attacking Nanjing is estimated to be dashed, in this case, it is better to preserve your strength.

It wasn't until he saw the Praetorian Guards carrying torches far away that Fang Guoan took people off the warship and boarded the camp on the riverbank. He wanted to see what was going on in the camp, if there was any hope, and if it was, he would return to the ship and lead his men out of here.

It was another way to kill people and set fires, and once again defeated several small bands of thieves who attacked, and Li Dingguo led his troops to kill through the thief camp again and join Liu Wenxiu's army. At this time, less than 1,500 of the 2,000 troops led by the attack were killed, and more than 500 were killed in the camp.

"Dingguo, you're back!" Seeing Li Dingguo lead people back, Liu Wenxiu said excitedly.

"How's that thief coming in?" Seeing that Liu Wenxiu still had four or five hundred subordinates, and the number had not decreased too much, Li Dingguo asked casually.

"A group of rats, who only know how to sneak and hide in the dark, were killed by me and others, and then fled one by one." Liu Wenxiu pursed his lips and said disdainfully.

Li Dingguo nodded and didn't ask any more.

"Let's go, get out of here!"

A round of rushing killing, killing back and forth in the thief's camp, and Li Dingguo's men also suffered heavy casualties, the problem is exhaustion, and it will not be long before dawn, and they must be evacuated.