With Xu Hongji's angry reprimand, immediately afterward, he ordered his generals to start assembling the elite.

Although there were a total of 80,000 sergeants in the Southern Army, most of the 80,000 sergeants came from the Nanjing Jingying and Jiangnan guards.

The configuration between Nanjing and Beijing has basically achieved a one-to-one, and Nanjing naturally has all the official positions in Beijing...... It's just that the difference is that the Son of Heaven still has a slight scruple about eating empty salaries, embezzlement and bribery, at most half of the greed, but here in Nanjing, there are not so many scruples.

As for the guards...... This is the Chongzhen Dynasty, not the Hongwu Dynasty, and everyone who can only say understands it.

Can he fight in Nanjing's Beijing camp and guards? No, the soldiers who can really fight are still the private soldiers and family members raised by the noble family!

These 5,000 elites are from every noble family.

Just standing here and looking at the well-equipped and energetic soldiers, you can see that these elites are completely different from those guards and Nanjing battalion soldiers.

However, the guards and the Nanjing battalion soldiers were not given up by the nobles, and the nobles endured the pain and threw 200,000 taels of silver to raise the army, and under the layers of dividends, probably every soldier could get a reward of five dollars of silver, so they raised some spirit and were willing to fight a good battle when they were fighting.

However, since he was going out of the city to meet the enemy, Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei, gathered a large army again, and took out 100,000 taels of silver from his more than 30 million taels of family property to commend him, totaling 5,000 elites, and gathered a total of 20,000 people, intending to attack at night and kill the enemy outside the city by surprise.

Thinking of boxes of silver taels, Xu Hongji's heart was dripping blood, which was a full 100,000 taels, which was one-third of his total family property!

But when life and death are at stake, it is worth paying so much money!

As soon as he thought of this, Xu Hongji gradually calmed down, looking at the sunset that was about to set, he exhaled heavily, and then raised his sword and said: "Generals, now that the country is in trouble, Your Majesty is deceived by villains, it is the time for us to serve the country!" Righteousness is in the Southern Army, this battle will be won! ”

"Victory!"

……

Since ancient times, night battles have especially tested the ability of commanders.

A famous general may not be able to command a night battle, but those who can command a night battle are all famous generals!

After all, the lights are blind at night, and the soldiers don't know if they are left behind or lost, and they often get dizzy when they fight, they don't know where they are, and they haven't completed their strategic goals, and they are already dizzy.

Xu Hongji is very confident in himself.

Who is he? He is the famous general of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the descendant of Xu Da, the king of Zhongshan, although he has never led troops to fight, but he has also trained soldiers on weekdays and is familiar with military books.

And the most important thing is that after he is a famous general, he has a different nobility from others in his blood!

The time had passed, and the sky was dark, and I couldn't see my fingers, only the light of the fire on the city wall barely illuminated the direction of progress.

But fortunately, the starlight is quite good tonight, and under the bright moon, it illuminates the way forward of Xu Hongji's night attack, so after secretly opening the gap in the city gate, Xu Hongji led more than 100 elite cavalry out of the south gate and galloped around to the side.

When the five thousand elites took the lead and took the lead out of the city, Xu Hongji couldn't help but feel a little surprised, and at the same time, he became more and more contemptuous of the opponent who hung the banner of Wei Guogong.

The enemy general doesn't know the soldiers, it seems that I have made this great contribution and become the Han Bai of the world!

And just when Xu Hongji was full of pride, he was about to laugh loudly, but suddenly heard a heavy voice: "Wei Guogong, I am waiting to go out of the city There is a lot of movement, and the enemy army has not reacted, I am afraid that there will be an ambush!" ”

"So what?"

Xu Hongji didn't care, and then laughed and said: "Even if there is an ambush, the athletes in our army can still kill him and turn his horse on his back, and make immortal achievements!" ”

After that, Xu Hongji raised his whip without hesitation, pointed to the direction of the military camp selected by Xu Da, and opened his mouth to say: "March!" ”

Hearing Xu Hongji's voice, Zhao Zhilong, who said this, couldn't help but look like ashes, and the whole person was like falling into an ice cave, and his mood suddenly fell to the bottom.

I saw the wrong person, this Xu Hongji is a waste!

But now, Zhao Zhilong can only go one way to the black, harden his head, ride a horse to follow Xu Hongji, and march towards the north.

Although Xu Hongji was complacent, he was still a little nervous.

The troops around him were getting smaller and smaller, and he didn't notice it at all, but swaggered towards climbing over the hills.

"Kill! Kill! Kill! ”

At this moment, the earth-shattering shouting of killing suddenly exploded, and it rose to the sky in an instant, sweeping in all directions!

After hearing such shouts and killing, Xu Hongji couldn't help but be stunned, and then he saw the 'sea of fire' charging towards him!

"What's the situation?!"

Xu Hongji was stunned, and before he could come to his senses, the sound of the fire bolt firing crackled in his ears!

"Ahh

With the sound of fire, not only did the soldiers around Xu Hongji fall, but under the blessing of the night, the soldiers who had not fallen behind around him could basically only see the people beside him.

Listening to the heart-rending screams of his comrades in front of him, for a while, the soldiers, who were already feeling a little confused by the night attack, became extremely frightened.

Especially the little light that appeared in front of them, like the cavalry of the demon seed in the sky moving quickly under the light of torches, charging towards them!

"Kill! The general has an order to conquer Xuzhou, and each person will be rewarded with one or two silver! Kill, brethren! ”

"Daming Wansheng! Your Majesty wins! ”

"Those who kneel and beg will not die!"

"Kill! Kill! ”

“……”

At the same time, there were all kinds of shouts and killings from all directions, which made people dizzy for a while, and they didn't know where the sound came from, only that it seemed that there were enemy troops everywhere!

"Don't panic, array, array! According to the formation that Ben will practice in Fuchu, line up! ”

Although Xu Hongji was also panicked, he still shouted loudly according to the understanding of the military formation in his brain, wanting to integrate the soldiers: "Uncle Xincheng, ...... quickly"

Before Xu Hongji finished speaking, he was stunned to find that Zhao Zhilong, the Bo of Xincheng, who was expected by him, retreated without a fight, abandoned his headquarters soldiers and horses, and ran away with dozens of cronies!

And just when Xu Hongji was stunned, the cavalry charging with the 'Sea of Fire' was already close at hand!

Through the firelight, Xu Hongji could even see the face of the charge!

To tell the truth, the number of cavalry charging was not much, only one or two hundred horsemen, but because of the unclear situation at night, coupled with the shocking visual effect of the 'sea of fire', the surrounding shouts of killing were all over the place, which caused Xu Hongji's army to fall into chaos for a while, and the army of 10,000 people was overwhelmed by 200 cavalry!

"Kill!"

Under the cavalry charge, Xu Hongji's army easily fell into collapse, Xu Hongji was also panicked, drew his sword and looked around at a loss, so he had to break through in the direction of Xuzhou under the protection of a few loyal soldiers.

But at this moment, a large number of soldiers surrounded him, and among the soldiers, a general who looked quite elegant and Xu Hongji seemed to feel a little familiar was silently looking at Xu Hongji.

"I'm Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei, take me to see your chief general quickly!"

Although surrounded by a group, Xu Hongji was not worried, but spoke proudly.

He believes that with the identity of Wei Guogong, he will be pushed to the end at most and demoted to a concubine, and he will definitely not die because of this.

Who is he? He is the Duke of Wei, the first wealthy family in the Ming Dynasty!

And after hearing Xu Hongji's words, the veteran, who looked a little familiar, did not hesitate, directly raised the horsewhip, whipped Xu Hongji fiercely, and scolded angrily: "Who do you say?!" ”

Xu Hongji suddenly felt a pain, and he was furious, and immediately scolded the veteran: "It's really blind to your dog's eyes, this father is the Duke of Wei, the first hero of the Ming Dynasty, the blood of the Xu family, and the nobles of Tianhuang!" ”

And the veteran, that is, Xu Da, the head of the six kings of the Ming Dynasty, just looked at Xu Hongji coldly, and he was angry for the first time since he came to the Chongzhen Dynasty.

"Heavenly nobles? I, Xu Da, was born in a farmer's household, and I threw food in the soil, and I never remembered what kind of noble background I was! ”

Xu Da raised his whip and directly pulled out a blood mark on Xu Hongji's face: "I, Xu Darong, have been riding horses all my life, but I didn't expect that the last heroic name would be defeated by you unscrupulous descendants!" ”

Xu Hongji was stunned when he was in pain.

Along with Xu Da's words, he also remembered where he had seen this face that made him feel familiar.

In the ancestral hall of the clan, the portrait of the first Wei Guogong enshrined.

In other words, the person in front of him is his ancestor, Xu Da, the king of Zhongshan!

"How is this possible?!"