Although the battle under the city was extremely fierce, because every qiē was shrouded in gunsmoke, Zhu Youzhen in the city could not feel the slightest thrill, but just stared at the city anxiously, as if he wanted to see through the thick gunsmoke.

Zhu Youzhen is admittedly an emperor, but he rarely climbs the city wall of the Ming Dynasty, and it is even more unique to watch the battle like this. He also noticed that the dilapidated dwellings outside the city gates, apparently abandoned for many days, gave him a sense of desolation. In his memory, the prosperity of the capital division even the customs outside the city had to reach the level of people in the daytime, but now only the ruins and broken walls are left hanging from each other, how sad it is.

After all, the emperor's state of mind was different from that of his courtiers, and he personally felt an indescribable pain. Just when Zhu Youzhen was saddened, the battle situation under the city seemed to have changed, bursts of artillery roared, and soon ant-like thieves could be seen scattered from the white thick gunsmoke.

"Look, look, the thief seems to have been defeated!"

I don't know which minister took the lead in shouting, and the ministers seemed to have forgotten about the danger in the city at this moment, and they stepped forward one after another to put on the female wall and stretched their necks to look out.

The thieves outside the Anding Gate were really defeated, and there was thunder in the city, and soon a green-robed official knelt on the ground excitedly and crawled in front of Zhu Youzhen.

"Holy Heaven is mighty, bless my Ming general to victory!"

I saw the blue-robed official knocking on the ground with his head, making a bang, and when he raised his head, he was already in tears.

Zhu Youzhen saw that his subordinates were so excited, but he thought in his heart, when I wanted to come to watch the battle, I didn't see you standing up and agreeing, and now that Li Xin's army is victorious, he jumped out to sell this cheap and obedient, which is really hateful.

Suddenly, Zhu Youzhen only felt a burst under his feet, followed by a loud bang, and suddenly the gravel flew on the head of the city, and two cannonballs flew from nowhere. Zhu Youzhen is worthy of being the emperor, even at such a critical juncture, he still supports the dignity of the emperor, and still stands tall against the female wall.

On the other hand, the civil and military officials were lying all over the ground, and some even fled to the city even more frantically, as for the green-robed officials who were excited to knock on the ground with their heads just now, they had long been nowhere to be found. Only Fang Zhenghua, the commander of the Beijing camp, ignored himself and rushed to Zhu Youzhen and protected him with his body.

"Long live, hurry up and go down to the city with the old slave, the thieves have Hongyi cannons!"

This is in stark contrast to the ministers who are lying all over the ground, Zhu Youzhen sneered, these ministers who have been familiar with Confucius and Mencius since childhood, and boast of being loyal and unparalleled in the world, are not as good as a eunuch when it comes to life and death.

Zhu Youzhen did not follow Fang Zhenghua to the city, he was the emperor, how could he flee in panic because the thieves fired a shot. Calming down, he began to look for several of his ministers among the ministers of Mandi.

He first discovered Zhang Sizhi, when the old man was wolf at the moment, Liang Guan also fell, and the purple robe didn't know when he pulled a few holes, and he was huddled in the corner of the enemy building trembling, and he couldn't help but feel a burst of pity in his heart.

Just three steps away from Zhang Sizhi, Xue Guoguan was also trying to maintain his majesty as a cabinet scholar, but he was afraid of being hit by cannonballs and rubble, and the image of the wolf squatting on the ground was always much stronger than those who pouted and lay on the city wall.

Just three miles northwest of Andingmen, a burly man with a scruffy beard rubbed his hands together and was full of excitement.

"Damn, it's shitty luck, two shots in a row and the cannon hits!"

A pro-soldier immediately asked with a flattering face:

"King, did you hit the Dog Emperor?"

The burly man glared at the soldier, felt puzzled and kicked him again.

"Let you call the king again, kick you brainless, when you are the king of the mountain?"

The soldier was kicked and scurried, Kong Youde didn't chase it, and looked at the dragon flag floating on the city in the distance unwillingly, he recognized that this was a banner only the emperor had. Unfortunately, in the end, all this gunpowder was gone, and it seems that we have to find a way to get some more gunpowder.

Kong Youde dragged another personal soldier over, "Inquire, inquire, whose men and horses are that Ming army?" ”

The pro-soldier replied tremblingly: "I have inquired clearly, it is the men and horses of Li Xin, the chief soldier of Shanxi Town!" ”

As soon as he heard that it was Li Xin, his whole person trembled, and secretly scolded, this surnamed Li is really his nemesis, as long as he meets this person, it will be fine, it seems that the decision to stop the army just now is too wise.

If you can't stand it, just run, a fool is fighting with him here! Of course, Kong Youde couldn't say this, he just turned in his heart! He also strictly ordered his subordinates to pay attention to monitoring the movements of the Ming army.

Suddenly, a thief came to report the news.

"Report! The officers and soldiers came and said that they were invited by the general army, big, big...... See you all over the world! ”

The thief soldier was almost called the king again, Kong Youde was most tired of the title in this cottage, but he was also the obedient king of the Tartars, and he was called the king, what kind of thing is it?

And Kong Youde is also very different from the vast majority of thieves in the name of the Ming army, Kong Youde when he mentions the Ming army, he calls the Ming army, and the thieves are all called the official army according to custom, which is a typical expression of his disagreement with his identity as a thief in his heart.

"What, what, what? Who to meet? ”

The thief thought his leader didn't understand, and repeated it again.

"The general soldiers of the official army want to see the prince!"

Kong Youde gasped, and just wanted to say no, but he changed his mind again, and he was afraid of tens of thousands of soldiers?

"Let's go, the Chinese army will open the way, and the escort master will meet the one surnamed Li!"

There are many people who are so courageous, Kong Youde came to the vicinity of the battlefield just now surrounded by the mighty thieves, and the Ming army was tricky about the insertion angle of this battlefield, which was diagonally inserted from the northeast direction of Andingmen, and the attack was just the right flank of the thieves outside Andingmen. It was seven or eight miles away from where Kong Youde's Chinese army was, and when Kong Youde was about three miles away from the battlefield, he said that he would not move forward again.

And the distance of three miles is the limit range of the Hongyi cannon, Kong Youde is afraid that the Ming army will lure him to come, and then kill him with artillery!

But obviously he was overthinking, and after a while, he saw Li Xin leading dozens of horsemen to the front of the formation, fifty steps away from Kong Youde before he could stop.

"It's Brother Kong in front, don't come unharmed?"

Kong Youde listened to Li Xin and greeted him, for no reason it was a chill, his heart was originally very good, but it was not good to meet you, but he still had to say it beautifully.

"Thanks to General Lee, it's good, it's good! I don't know what General Lee's instructions were? ”

Li Xin's ranger captured a thief soldier to inquire about the news, and learned that the guard outside the Desheng Gate was Kong Youde, so he suddenly had an idea, why not recruit him again, so that he could be taken by surprise and completely defeated the thief soldier.

"Ben Shuai misses the days when he lived and died with Brother Confucius last year, I wonder if Brother Kong still remembers?"

Hearing Li Xin say this, Kong Youde was stunned, he really had a happy cooperation period with Li Xin, but then he was angry, if it wasn't for this guy kidnapping him from Dolgon's camp, he was still obedient to the king, why did he get to this step of the field now, and mixed with a gang of thieves all day long.

"Ye is forgetful, I don't remember anything!"

He didn't speak very politely, but he was not stupid, and immediately understood that Li Xin had something to say, and maybe he had the meaning of Zhao'an, and he had to hang this guy's appetite and play a trick on this surnamed Li.

Which Cheng thought of Li Xin but only laughed, and then said goodbye and left, leaving Kong Youde in place, and the bunch of rhetoric he had thought of was useless.

Of course, Li Xin would not talk about such a secret thing in public, and his invitation to meet Kong Youde was just a signal to him, telling him that if you want to recruit An, come to him Li Xin, and you should do it as soon as possible.

Although the battle outside Andingmen was only a partial victory, it also showed that all the thieves had their own ghosts, otherwise they would not sit back and watch the defeat of the thief army confronting the Three Guards and ignore it. It seems that what Hong Chengchou said is true, is it really out of kindness that he specially suggested that he was reminded to act? Li Xin still has a big question mark in his heart!

It's just that he won this battle easily, and he always felt that he had overlooked something, and where was it ignored......

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Calm had been restored to the Anding Gate, and the courtiers, seeing that the cannonballs were no longer falling, all climbed up from the ground of the city wall and persuaded the emperor to go down to the city to avoid the thieves' cannons. Zhu Youzhen scoffed at this, just stood on the ground and faced the outside of the city, watching intently as the white gunpowder smoke in front of him dissipated little by little.

Gradually, the corpses all over the ground were revealed, which was shocking. It is conceivable that there was a fierce battle of defeat and death in the thick smoke of gunpowder before. At this moment, in order to prevent a sneak attack by thieves, the Three Guards have also retreated to ten miles north of the city under the cover of gunsmoke. It is on the whole battlefield, except for the dead and the dead.

Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but be a little worried, I don't know how the casualties of Li Xin's department were! It is said that 1,000 enemies were killed and 800 were self-damaged, and a cursory look at the corpses under the city should be thousands, so wouldn't Li Xin's Three Guards be damaged by more than half?

Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but hold a grudge against Hong Chengchou again, and at the same time that Li Xin was fighting fiercely with the thieves, Hong Chengchou's 10,000 reinforcements didn't know where they went?

"Come on!"

"The old slave is here!"

Fang Zhenghua, who was standing behind him, hurriedly stepped forward.

"Send someone to Xuanfu with the sword of the Son of Heaven to transfer Hong Chengchou's army south!"

Zhu Youzhen was already full of emotion when he said the last word, and Fang Zhenghua promised to leave and arrange this matter.

"General Li has made great contributions again, his loyalty and courage are commendable, and he must be rewarded after this battle!"

Under the excitement, Zhu Youzhen seemed to be talking to himself, and Zhang Sizhi, a cabinet scholar who was already standing beside him, changed his face, and hurriedly dragged the wolf bèi's robe forward in small steps, and whispered dissuasion:

"The saint must not be lightly rewarded, this son is only thirty years old and has already been sealed to worship the general, the world wars are frequent, and the war is endless, if he makes new contributions, how should he be rewarded, and the title of the prince can also, what about the future? When there is no reward, is it possible to be crowned a king with a different surname? ”

Zhu Youzhen stood on the spot and was silent!