"The whole army marches quickly, go!"

Under Zhang Mingzhen's order, the soldiers of Zhoushan Town, who had abandoned their baggage, artillery and personal belongings, began to march rapidly with five days' rations with their confusion about the future.

After the rapid march began, to the surprise of Zhang Mingzhen and the generals, the soldiers were able to maintain their formation in the rapid march without falling into chaos, and each of them buried their heads and hurried forward, and after two days of continuous marching, no one in the whole army was left behind.

The performance of the soldiers gave Zhang Mingzhen and the generals great confidence, and they realized how amazing the training results of the soldiers were by the guards infantry sent by Su Yan, and they also had a deep admiration and yearning for Su Yan and the soldiers and horses under his command.

"If all the soldiers of my Ming army can do this, why worry about the Tartar captivity?"

Zhang Mingzhen said with emotion in his heart.

On 25 September, the Ming army arrived at the outskirts of Anqing as scheduled before the rations ran out.

However, they did not attack immediately, and the price of the rapid march was that the baggage and artillery were left behind, and if the Ming army wanted to attack the city, they had to spend time cutting down trees outside the city to build siege equipment.

Zhang Mingzhen couldn't accept it, after they built siege equipment, the vanguard of the Qing army had already killed them, and now it has been six days since the Qing army left Luzhou, if nothing else, the Qing army should have arrived near Tongcheng County.

Looking at the city in the distance, where the gates were still wide open, the merchants and the people were casual, and the city was prosperous, Zhang Mingzhen suddenly had an idea in his heart.

In the afternoon of the same day, the town of Anqing Mansion Xianmen.

"Have you heard, the fighting in Yangzhou is still hot, *** several sieges have been repulsed, and it seems that a Manchurian official was killed by artillery."

"Who did you listen to? I heard the version is the one who, Nikan? Yes, Nikan, the prince of ***, was killed."

"You guys are getting more and more outrageous, talk about it quietly, don't be caught by President Qian, who patrols the city, if he hears you call Lord Man ***, maybe there will be your good fruit to eat."

The general on duty reprimanded his soldiers.

Hearing the general's words, the two gatekeepers who were still discussing it just now hurriedly closed their mouths, but the pair of small eyes embedded in their faces did not dare to be lonely, and the thieves turned around, looking at the people and caravans coming in and out, their eyes were mainly on those women and merchants, but they did not dare to come forward to harass.

They're afraid.

They were afraid that after the Ming army attacked, these people would report them to the Ming army and arrest them and kill them.

This is not what they imagined, during the Ming army's attack on Jiangnan, they heard relevant rumors from time to time, all the cities that were taken down by the Ming army, including female cadres and criminals, endangering the people from the county to the officials, were arrested and beheaded.

Although the Ming army has not yet come over, but the opposite side is the territory of the Ming court, in their opinion, the Ming army will come at any time - after the fight, the fool will resist, whose dog is not a dog, rather than let the Manchu people be powerful on the head, it is better to continue to let the Han people manage.

At this moment, a caravan suddenly drove not far away, to be precise, it was not a caravan, because on the left and right of the carriage walked a row of women dressed in colorful colors, although they could not see their appearance clearly, but their hair was slender, and they could still faintly see the graceful posture under the robes.

Seeing this scene, the soldiers guarding the door gathered around one after another, staring at these women who appeared out of nowhere.

The caravan soon came to the gate of Zhenxian, and those soldiers stepped forward to stop them as if they had just woken up from a dream, and a middle-aged man on a horse turned over and dismounted and walked to the front of the leader with a smile, took out a heavy bag of silver taels from his sleeve, and said with a smile: "This soldier, we fled from Luzhou, the villain was the owner of Luzhou Flower Workshop before, these girls are all fireworks women of Lotus Flower Workshop, and they moved to Anqing to prepare to settle down in the city and reopen."

"It turns out that you are the owner of the Flower Workshop, and I will be fortunate to meet you." He accepted the silver taels handed by the man without a trace, and said enthusiastically on his face, although he had never heard of this, but in order to pretend to be forced in front of his subordinates, he still forcibly boasted, "I

I've been there before, and your girls are so enthusiastic and mesmerized."

Hearing him say this, Zhang Mingzhen, who was dressed in disguise, was slightly stunned for a moment, what's the matter, little brother, this flower shop was made up by me, you went in your dream?

However, he didn't demolish the other party, and still said with a smile: "Since the soldier is an old customer, after the reopening, the villain will definitely invite the soldier and the brothers to have a good time for a few days."

When he heard this, his attitude became more enthusiastic, and he beckoned his soldiers to remove the barricades and let the convoy enter the city, but those soldiers were unmoved, they surrounded the "women" who wore veils and could not see their faces clearly, sniffing the rich fragrance of rouge on "them", one of them moved his hand directly, he stepped forward and forcibly hugged one of the slender people, and put his hand on the other's waist, but in the next moment, the expression on his face froze.

Because of the hand he placed on his waist, he could clearly feel that he was touching a cold, hard object.

"You ......"

He withdrew his hand and just wanted to speak, but in the next second, the "cute" "Smoke and Dust Woman" in front of him suddenly burst out, and kicked the man's crotch with a trick, and then, he shouted in a thick man's voice: "Do it!"

The next moment, the "women" standing next to the carriage took out their weapons from the carriage one after another, rushed to the Qing soldiers who were still stunned and did not react and brandished their weapons and slashed down, Zhang Mingzhen also pulled out his dagger, grabbed his shoulder and stabbed him into his throat before the general in front of him reacted.

"Uh-"

The sword was always pointed at Zhang Mingzhen with an incredulous face, his mouth opened wide, blood kept gushing out from the wound in his throat and mouth, Zhang Mingzhen did not pull out the dagger, took the waist knife thrown by a soldier disguised as a woman, and shouted, "Seize the door!"

The sudden attack made the Zhenxian Gate that was still lively just now a mess in an instant, and the Qing soldiers guarding here also followed the chaos, the Ming army led by Zhang Mingzhen quickly seized the first gate of the urn city, and they immediately rushed towards the inner city gate, one of the soldiers took a bow and arrow, and shot and killed a Qing soldier who tried to close the city gate, the Qing soldier was accurately shot in the head, and the rest of the people saw this, and immediately panicked, and they didn't care about closing the city gate, and dispersed directly.

At the same time, the soldiers outside pulled out a small tube from their stuffed arms, pulled the lead, and heard a bang, accompanied by a sharp and slender scream, and a firework exploded in the air of Anqing Mansion.

This is the signal to attack!

"The gates of the city have been taken, and the whole army is attacking!"

Outside the city, the Ming army ambushed in the forest shouted and rushed out, they waved the military flag, like a tide to the Zhenxian Gate, the Qing army on the Zhenxian Gate saw this, and thought that the main force of the Ming army came over, and also dispersed in a hurry, and gave the entire Zhenxian Gate to the Ming army.

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