The shadows on the city wall of Liu Lizhuang Town show that the Han army of Zhengbai Banner has been awakened again.

Li Xingzhi immediately ordered the artillery to stop shooting, and then said to Li Rui and Zhang Shaoqian: "The art of war is cloudy, real and virtual, virtual and real, let's fire artillery at the east gate, obviously the main force of the Dongyu has gathered at the east gate, how about the owner of this village intend for us to go to the south city to continue harassing?" ”

Zhang Shaoqian agreed with Li Xingzhi's suggestion and immediately said: "What the big boss said is reasonable, since the Dongyu entered the Kou, he regarded me as nothing, broke the city and urged the village as if he had entered a no-man's land, arrogant, according to my estimate, they will inevitably go out of the city to search." ”

Li Rui and Chen Wu also nodded in agreement, and Li Xingzhi saw that everyone agreed to evacuate the dense forest immediately, and resolutely ordered: "Without further ado, let's withdraw now." ”

"Hurry up, the owner of the village has an order, go to the south of the town and continue to harass the Tartars!" The mandarin duck soldiers who were reclining together to rest and sleep were called out one after another.

The advantage of having fewer people and fewer people is that the transfer speed is fast, and the tiger squat cannon is not heavy, so the rebel army in Lijiazhai quickly organized the queue, and then retreated to the depths of the woods.

Soon.

The east gate of Liu Lizhuang Town was wide open, and Sun Youguang and Lang Shaozhen walked out of the city gate with six hundred cavalry with torches, and then quickly formed two torrents and rushed towards the direction from which the cannon sound came.

Hundreds of war horses galloped at the same time, the sound shook the earth, and the undulating torches seemed to rush into the dense forest where the cannons rang out.

In the depths of the dense forest, Li Xingzhi and the others listened to the sound of rolling iron hooves, and they were also secretly glad that they had foreseen it and retreated in time, otherwise once they were discovered by the cavalry of the Eastern Captives, the consequences would be unpredictable.

"Hurry back, let the brothers hurry up, let's go to the south of the city, harass them for another round, and then the whole army will retreat to Mapengdian!" Li Xingzhi waved his knife while chopping at the messy branches in front of him, and shouted quietly.

Everyone also knew that they could not be the opponents of the Tartar cavalry, and they also cautiously took advantage of the moonlight to advance to the southeast.

Because the rebels had already prepared, Sun Youguang and Lang Shaozhen naturally pounced into the air, looking at the messy woods in front of them, and the smell of gunpowder smoke in the air, Sun Youguang ordered angrily: "The thieves must be hiding in the forest, and they will go into the forest to search with the general, and today they will have to wipe out this group of thieves." ”

Lang Shaozhen hesitated for a moment, and said: "Young General, there are clouds in the military book, every time the forest is not entered, we are all cavalry, and it is late at night, if we abandon our horses and enter the forest to search, and the thieves sneak attack our war horses, it will be worth the loss." ”

"Shoot rockets into the woods for Lao Tzu."

Sun Youguang is also a family of generals, he has been familiar with military books since he was a child, and he knew that what Lang Shaoqing said was true, so he had to reluctantly drink the Han army vest under his command and shoot.

One by one, the arrows with pine resin smeared on their tails were ignited, and then with the sound of the bowstring, they shot into the woods, and suddenly illuminated a dense forest in front of Sun Youguang.

"Collect the troops and return to the town, and when we loot a few more towns tomorrow and gather the food and straw of the army, the general will attack Xin'an again, and I have to cut off the head of Lu Liangzhi's dog officer as a night pot."

Sun Youguang, who had nothing to do, had to issue a military order to collect the troops, and the cavalry of the Qing army came and went quickly, and returned to Liu Lizhuang Town like a whirlwind.

After tossing in the middle of the night, Sun Degong's Zhengbai Banner Han Army was already tired, and after the cavalry entered the town, they also rolled the saddle and dismounted, lying on the ground and falling asleep.

When the morning star rose, the pigtailed soldiers fell asleep again, and only the cheerful cries of the early birds were heard from time to time, and the night seemed to return to its former tranquility.

Outside the southern city of Liu Lizhuang Town, Li Xingzhi looked at the surrounding terrain hesitantly and said: "Although Liu Lizhuang Town only has two city gates, east and west, but the terrain here is open, if we open artillery harassment again, although this cannon is only a few hundred catties, it is also a little troublesome to run, I am afraid that I will be caught up by the Tartar cavalry." ”

Li Rui said with a smile: "Don't worry, when the three masters prepare the ship for us, they also prepared a few horns for us, we might as well retreat to the horse shed first, let the soldiers carry artillery on board, as long as we leave a few brothers to sound the horn to create a momentum, we can also disturb the Tartars not be peaceful." ”

Li Xingzhi said happily: "In this way, it will be troublesome for Brother Li to preside over here, and I will allocate ten more archers to you, and after two quarters of an hour after our army brigade has withdrawn, Brother Li can make a momentum, and then retreat immediately." ”

Li Rui naturally has no objections, there is a cover of night, there are only more than ten people, and it is not easy to escape.

The two of them had decided on a plan, and Li Xingzhi immediately led the brigade to set off, and Li Rui ordered a few soldiers to prepare the horns, and as soon as the time came, they would be launched.

Time passed minute by minute, and seeing that the appointed hour was approaching, Li Rui ordered the soldiers to sound the horn immediately.

Soon!

Outside the southern city of Liu Lizhuang, a desolate bull's horn sounded.

"It's not good, the thief is coming, wake up quickly, and prepare to defend the city."

Lu Guozhi, the assistant leader of the Han army guarding the southern city, shouted nervously, and the Han soldiers struggled to get up one by one with sleepy eyes, and picked up the equipment in their hands in a daze and walked towards the wall.

Sun Degong, who was camping in Dongcheng, was completely depressed, and he wanted to order his soldiers to ignore the attack of the Ming thieves and continue to sleep, but if this group of Ming troops really launched an attack, it would be impossible to block their attack with the walls of this town.

"Father, according to the child's opinion, let the brothers take turns to sleep, and when the day comes, the child will personally lead the foot riding to pursue this group of hateful thieves." Sun Youguang also asked Sun Degong for his life with an angry face.

Lang Shaozhen also said: "Lord Zhang Jing, the young general's words are very appropriate, although we robbed the money and grain in Tongli, but it is only seventy or eighty stones, and it can't be consumed for a few days, if we don't suppress this group of Ming troops, they come to harass every day, where do we still have the strength to enter Gaoyang and collect money and food." ”

Sun Degong has no better way at this moment, after all, the army has not had a good rest for nearly twenty hours, if it is delayed for two more days, is there still a need to fight this battle, if he does not have any money and food, how can Prince Rui explain.

Then he ordered: "In this way, my son and Lang Shenling can go to rest and sleep first, and the city defense will be handed over to Wang Jin and Lu Guozhi, and they will pursue this gang of thieves tomorrow. ”

"The child obeys!"

"The last general obeys!"

Sun Youguang and Lang Shaozhen suddenly received the order, and they were secretly ruthless in their hearts, after dinner tomorrow, they will go on the expedition, and they will never give up if they don't kill these bright dogs.