In the early morning of the third day, on the wall to the west of Lujiazhai, several lanterns hanging on the top of wooden poles kept shaking in the howling of the cold wind, and one of them had been blown out.

In the darkness outside the wall, there were sounds from time to time, but they were all muffled by the howling wind.

It was already the second half of the night, and most of the dozens of Lujia Zhaiding on duty on the wall were dozing off in the corner.

After all, this is just a group of village warriors, and there are many years of armed fighting, fighting bravely and fiercely cultivated fierce ruffianism, on weekdays it is extremely casual, although there are border army deserters to join, but if you want to use military discipline to restrain them, it is also absolutely impossible, and even if you manage too much, you will be counterattacked.

In fact, even those deserters from the border army, regardless of military discipline, they just rely on the battlefield experience they have learned from many years of warfare, and they have the capital to beat others in this troubled era, and now they are also showing off their might in the village.

If it weren't for this wall, Zhou Shixian was worried about delaying time and being entangled, these people would not have been worthy of being so careful with the elite of the two thousand Ming army.

Wu Xingye followed behind Zhou Shixian and appeared in front of the gate of Lujiazhai, more than three hundred steps away in the darkness.

They set out from Dacheng County early yesterday morning, stopped about 30 miles away from Qingxian and Lujiazhai, and waited until it was dark before they started to move.

The escort army was also there, and according to the plan, it was divided into three divisions.

Zhou Shixian led Wu Xingye, Weng Dajie, and Kong Tao, a total of more than 1,000 people, to attack Lujiazhai.

Wang Chaodong led the Jinyi Guard of the headquarters, and the "Wu/Wei Battalion" under Zhang Hong's command was responsible for guarding the gold and silver of the holy car and the twenty carriages.

If the situation changes, this army will also change to the land route and meet Zhou Shixian south of Qingxian. Even if there is only a slight possibility, Zhou Shixian must give it a try.

As long as it is not until the last moment, he will not admit defeat and will never give up. Even if Emperor Chongzhen died halfway, he would inevitably continue to go south and persist in resisting the Qing Dynasty.

It's just that without the name and support of Emperor Chongzhen, on his own, the difficulty of resisting the Qing Dynasty will be much higher than the current one, and the hope of victory will be even more slim.

And Xue Lao Er and Sun Hu stayed on the road from Qingxian to Lujiazhai, on the one hand, to intercept the people sent by Lujiazhai to report the news, and on the other hand, to block the Shun army in Qingxian.

As for the more than 100 Shun troops and Zhaiding on the canal wharf in Qingxian County between Lujiazhai and Wangjiazhai, Sun Hu will also lead his troops and horses to launch a surprise attack and annihilate them in one fell swoop while Zhou Shixian attacked the village.

There is a time difference in the middle, and if you make good use of this time difference, the Shun army and the Cao Gang Zhaiding who belong to the Shun army will be broken by Zhou Shixian with superior forces.

After Zhou Shixian heard the "da-da-da" sound from a distance in the carriage that Wu Linzheng was riding, he immediately made a gesture towards Wu Xingye to start acting.

Wu Xingye comprehended, and immediately took a dozen elite armor soldiers to the side and disappeared into the darkness.

These Ming troops who climbed the wall and attacked were all dressed in double armor and fully armed, while the soldiers under Weng Dajie and Kong Tao who were not in good armor were deployed to the rear, and after the sneak attack was successful, they followed the front army with complete armor to cover up.

This set of tactics is not unfamiliar to these military leaders, and it can even be said to be very familiar, this is the way of fighting of heavily armed elite soldiers with a group of broken military households!

Of course, those soldiers who lack armor now are not broken soldiers, and once they are fully equipped, they can even fight with the Qing army.

More than 100 Ming soldiers appeared under the wall of Lujia Village, more than a dozen ladders wrapped in cotton cloth were gently leaned against the wall, the soldiers bit the knife in their mouths, escalated with both hands, and quickly climbed up, and the slight squeak made in the middle of the climb was completely covered by the whirring wind.

Wu Xingye, as an officer, naturally took the lead, although he looked treacherous on weekdays, but he was not ambiguous in the battle, and his firm back gave the nervous armor soldiers behind him a lot of courage.

Soon, a pair of sharp eyes flashed out of the battlements of the western wall, and then quickly retracted, and then a dozen heads poked out of the battlements almost simultaneously.

The watchtower in the direction of the walled gate, the arrow tower, all emitted a pale yellow firelight, there was only the sound of the whirring wind around, and the snoring sound mixed with the wind, and the eight Zhaiding were huddled under the wall to sleep.

Wu Xingye gently flipped over the battlement, barely making any sound, and soon another armored soldier poked his head out of the battlement behind him.

After gently removing the knife in his mouth with his right hand, Wu Xingye quietly came to the body of a sleeping Zhaiding of Lujiazhai, he looked left and right, and the armor soldiers of more than a dozen long ladders were also in place.

Wu Xingye waved his left hand, and the eight armor soldiers moved at the same time, they used their left hands to slam the necks of these enemies, and the swords of their right hands stabbed them in the heart, and then twisted violently, and those Zhai Ding who were still in their dreams were killed before they even had time to react.

None of them had any armor on their bodies, and the few thin coarse cloth clothes were vulnerable to the sharp knives, and the sharp pain from the tearing of the muscles caused them to struggle desperately as the blades twisted, and their eyes bulged out, but they could not make a sound.

Wu Xingye's big hand like iron pincers directly crushed the neck of the villager in front of him, looking at the horror in the other party's eyes, and the blood foam oozing from the corner of his mouth, he did not touch it in the slightest, but used another force, and pulled out the red knife that pierced the opponent's body, and the blood immediately sprayed out from the wound, staining the armor on Wu Xingye's chest red.

After the villagers on the west wall of Lujiazhai were quietly killed by the Ming army, more than 30 Ming soldiers quickly climbed up the long ladder.

The Ming army that climbed the wall and attacked was divided into two parts, Wu Xing personally took these more than 50 people to attack the wall, and Weng Dajie took the remaining half of the people to clear the other villagers on the wall.

At this time, Wu Linzheng was pretending to be a wealthy businessman in front of the village gate and negotiating with the leading Xiangyong, and the other party looked at the twenty "family members" who were riding on horses, and they were obviously suspicious.

Zhou Shixian didn't expect Wu Xingye and Weng Dajie to go so smoothly, this reserve army that took advantage of the chaos to seize the Zhaimen in case of accidents can really only speed up the opening of the Zhaimen now.

However, Wu Linzheng's noble master was full of aura, and he suppressed the other party in a few words, and deliberately revealed the gold he was carrying in the car.

Although the leader of the small leader of the village is not high-level, he is not stupid, this is the fat meat sent to his mouth, if he doesn't eat it for nothing, even if he can't do business, he can rob money.

Don't think that the four words "people and bandits" are just talking, now that they have taken refuge in the Shun army, where is the reason not to rob when they meet the officials of the Ming court?

When you encounter someone who can't afford to offend, you will naturally escort the dart to deliver it, act as a thug guard, and earn a hard-earned money. When encountering this kind of person who has lost his power, it is naturally a robber who eats and wipes it up.

The little leader stepped forward to inspect these families, and after confirming that these people had no armor on them, he turned his head and shouted a code to his accomplices in the walled gate, and then commanded the six villagers behind him to move away and refuse the horse, and the walled door was quickly opened from the inside.