After midnight, the city of Kunming in the night fell into a silence, only the continuous bonfires outside the city and the smoke that has not yet dissipated are reminiscent of the tragic situation of the city bombarded by the day, the wind is light and the clouds are clear, and the moon hangs in the air with a pale yellow soft light. (->

Outside the city, except for the soldiers on duty on patrol at night, most of the Ming army has gone to sleep, the lights in the camp tent have been extinguished, the snoring sound is like contagion, from east to west, from south to north has never been interrupted, the only bright is the faint candlelight from the Chinese army camp has not been extinguished.

Mu Tianbo's expression is not very good, these days of long-distance marching, coupled with not getting enough sleep, at this time he has become a lot older, only the flashing eyes on the bags of his eyes are still bright, he is slightly excited to sit on both sides of the camp with Li Dingguo, his fingers tapped the pole of the bench, and Mu Tianbo was silent for a long time before he spoke: "Your Highness, will the Qing army really break through tonight?" ”

Li Dingguo said in a deep voice: "How can we be completely sure of marching and fighting, but the Qing army has seen the divine power of our artillery, and most of them will take the means of breaking through the siege under internal and external difficulties, we just need to be well prepared and ensure that nothing goes wrong." ”

Mu Tianbo nodded and said with a smile: "Then according to His Highness, where should the Qing army break through?" ”

Li Dingguo said: "Sichuan is the territory of the Manchus, if Zhao Fu breaks through there, it is inevitable that he is afraid of being controlled by others, although the Wu army is the eagle dog of the Manchu Dynasty, but it is quite a big **, if the king is not bad, Zhao Fu should break through in the direction of Guizhou, this is the jurisdiction of the Wu army." This king sent a team of men and horses to ambush near Dongcheng, as long as Zhao Fu broke through to Dongcheng, he would definitely be able to intercept them. ”

"Lord Ben came all the way to Kunming with the army, and he has seen His Highness's ability to command Ruo Ding and calculate the last resort. If it is said that the army and people in Yunnan are appeased, the official is still quite a little virtuous and respectful, and if he talks about marching and fighting. I also want to favor His Highness. ”

"Ahem...... Li Dingguo coughed lightly with a little embarrassment: "Grandpa Mu is serious." ”

At this time, a personal soldier rushed into the camp tent and said, "The Qing soldiers have come out and are breaking through in the direction of the north gate." ”

Mu Tianbo and Li Dingguo stood up together, and Li Dingguo muttered with an uncertain face, "North Gate? Are they going to Sichuan? No, go. Go out and have a look. ”

When I got out of the camp tent and looked at the past from a distance, I only saw a burst of fire coming from the north gate of Kunming, and the sound of shouting and killing came faintly, a moment later. A knight Pegasus came over and said, "Lord Mu, Li Dashuai, the Qing army has broken through from the north gate, and Lord Zuo Qianhu can't resist it, so he asks for reinforcements." ”

Li Dingguo preemptively asked: "How many people are there in the Qing army?" ”

"There are Qing soldiers everywhere. I'm afraid they're coming out of the city. The knight replied.

Li Dingguo was confused. It stands to reason that the Qing army should break through the east gate in the direction of Guizhou. Why did the main force of the Qing army go to the north gate?

"Your Highness. Do you want to go to the east gate to intercept it? Mu Tianbo saw Li Dingguo hesitate. Anxiously asked.

"Herald. Except for some of the gates that remained. All reinforcements to the North Gate. Not a single soldier must be let go. Li Dingguo's eyes must be. Shouted.

The shouting of killing at the north gate became more and more intense. With the arrival of reinforcements. The Qing army was gradually surrounded by the Ming army. Eat it bite by bite. This time. Suddenly, there was a shout of killing from the east gate. A team came out of the east gate. Quickly broke through the few defending Ming troops in front of the east gate. Fleeing frantically to the east.

"Hit the mark! What a ruthless plan to divert the tiger from the mountain. After getting the return, Li Dingguo couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly, he couldn't have imagined that Zhao Fu in order to break through, actually dared to use 20,000 Qing troops as bait to break through to the north gate, and Zhao Fu himself stayed in the city with 10,000 people, waiting for the dead ghost to break through the north gate After attracting most of the main force of the Ming army, he suddenly fled to the east gate, Li Dingguo will definitely show the conspiracy of the Qing army, only when it is dark to let 20,000 Qing soldiers out of the city, the Ming army may mistakenly think that the main force of the Qing army has gone out of the city, but it is not unexpected, Zhao Fu actually left a back move.

After collecting the corpses and counting the prisoners, the Ming army began to enter the city, posted notices to the people, and counted the treasury of the Yunnan Prefecture, while Li Xiao and Mu Jianming went to the Pingxi Wangfu with a group of personal soldiers side by side to raid the house.

The predecessor of Pingxi Wangfu is the Mu family's Mu Mansion, after Wu Sangui occupied Yunnan, the Mu Mansion was taken as his own, on the basis of the Mu Mansion, a lot of courtyard pavilions were added, the front door is the Zhumen stone lion, the door face is open, the back garden is carved and painted delicately and exquisitely, the floor water pavilion is fine and chic, it shows the style of the palace, and it is unique, both with the rough land of the north, but also adds a lot of small Jiangnan Forest Garden.

"Come on, the house is tightly enclosed, and not a single fly is allowed to go out." Mu Jianming has the courage of Hu Hansan to come back again, he grew up in this house in his childhood, and he did not experience the bitterness of leaving his hometown when he entered Myanmar, but there are still some memories and breath of his childhood in this house, and now he has finally brought the team back, and the things have returned to their original owners, and finally feel a trace of the pleasure of revenge and the memories of his childhood.

"Lao Li, you see, this front hall was originally called Mufeng Hall, the place where my Mu family has been discussing affairs for three hundred years, damn it, Wu Sangui's dog thief actually changed the face of my house, Qingfeng Hall? What kind of bullshit temple name is this, come, go and take off that plaque and burn it as firewood. The two young generals entered the mansion side by side, and Mu Jianming introduced Li Xiao like a male host.

This palace is still the property of the Mu family, but the grain, gold and silver in the treasury still need to be copied out and transported back to the treasury, therefore, all the Wu family members are detained in the back garden, many Ming soldiers have rushed in, and there are a few clerks with account books to register their property at all times, the palace is full of people, and the people are very noisy, Mu Jianming pulled Li Xiao to find a secluded pavilion to sit down.

Mu Jianming was about to say a few words in front of Li Xiao in an old-fashioned manner, when he squinted and saw a man in Ming soldier costume slipping into the back garden, he couldn't help but look at it a few more times, his face changed, and said, "Who is that person?" But the mountain camp? ”

Li Xiao only saw the man's back at the entrance of the Moon Cave and turned around and disappeared, shook his head and said, "What are you fuss about, how do I know where he is, I haven't even taken a face." ”

Mu Jianming dragged his chin and said: "No, I just saw that he seems to have a braid in the back of his head, are there any soldiers in the army who have removed their braids?" ”

Li Xiao had already pressed the handle of the knife on his waist and said, "Could it be a spy?" Let's see. ”

Mu Jianming nodded, and the two hurriedly chased into the back garden, but they were no longer the figure of the Ming soldier dragging his braids, and several Ming soldiers guarding the back garden saw Shangguan and hurriedly came over to greet him with a smile.

"I've seen two commanders."

"Oh, it's Lao Yang." Mu Jianming looked fixedly, it was the hundred household officials of his Shenji Battalion, and he couldn't help but smile and said, "Did you see a stranger enter the garden?" is about as tall as Lao Li, slightly carrying his back, and wearing our military uniform. Mu Jianming said while comparing Li Xiao's figure, Li Xiao was very cooperative, deliberately carrying his back slightly, and took two steps to learn from the back of the Ming soldier.

"I saw it, I also asked him what he was doing, and he said that he was ordered by Master Mu to go in and do something, and I let him go." The hundred-household official replied.

Mu Jianming and Li Xiao glanced at each other, and felt even more strange, and the two of them had already decided in their hearts that this person was a spy.

Mu Jianming said: "Where did that person go?" ”

Seeing that his boss suddenly became serious, the Baihu official immediately felt that the situation seemed to be a little serious, and hurriedly pointed to the rockery in the direction of his left hand and said, "Turn over there, my lord, do they have a problem?" Do you want to gather the brothers together to hunt down? ”

Li Xiao shook his head: "There is no need to make a big deal for the time being, you must guard the back garden, don't let anyone out, Lao Mu and I will go over and take a look." ”

The officials of the hundred households responded and ordered their subordinates to strengthen their vigilance.

Li Xiao and Mu Jianming both held down the handle of the knife, raised their feet and walked in the direction of the rockery on the left, and when they arrived at the rockery, the heads of the two people were already sweating, and when they turned the back of the rockery, it was now empty, and in the distance was a wall that divided several buildings of the palace into several pieces, which was a dead end at all.

"What about people?" The suspicion on Mu Jianming's face became even stronger, a person with braids from an unknown source mixed into the palace, and entered the back garden wearing the costume of the Ming army, panicking that he was ordered by his father, but when he arrived here, he disappeared, could it be that this person is a ghost?

"There seems to be something strange about this rockery, you stay here, I'll call someone to dig it up." Li Xiao looked at the big rockery in the corner of the wall, it stands to reason that the rockery is always in the garden with lush flowers and plants, but this rockery is very strange, it is located on the root of the wall, it is simply a rare thing.

"Choke!" A sound of gold and iron sounded, Mu Jianming had already pulled out his waist knife and nodded: "Go, call more people, with my old Mu here, Bao Zhun can't get rid of him." ”

Li Xiao responded and hurried away.

After Li Xiao left, Mu Jianming looked at this abrupt rockery, in his memory, there was no rockery in the past, that is to say, this rockery was built after Wu Sangui came, the rockery is very large, several zhang long and wide, two people are high, there are open spaces around the side, many weeds have not been cleaned up, obviously few people have come, in this case, why build a rockery here?

"Could it be that there is a hidden mechanism under this rockery?" Mu Jianming was taken aback by his thoughts.