"It's late at night, go back and rest, Lord Governor.

At the head of Yangzhou City, the guards of the Governor of Caoyun persuaded. Their top boss was standing on the top of the Beicheng Tower, looking in the direction of Gaoyou Lake, letting the cold wind howl and his body stand still. It is a pity that this scene was not seen by the loyal and patriotic people, otherwise they would definitely be moved to tears by the governor of Caoyun, who cared for the holy monarch.

"Got it." Lin Qilong replied softly. This year's Cao Yun has already been transported to Beijing along the way, and he himself did not go north with the Cao boat because of the driving matter. The imperial court saw that Lin Qilong was still urging Cao Yunshun to complete it in such a crisis situation, and Lord Aobai, who stayed behind, also wrote to praise him, saying that if there were no major problems with the driver, it was already a sure thing for him to stay in office.

Before the imperial camp entered the south of the Yangtze River, Lin Qilong inquired about the strength of the imperial camp clearly. After repeatedly discussing with Deng Ming, Lin Qilong set up camp for the imperial camp according to the deployment map given by Deng Ming, and Deng Ming handed him the last one the day before yesterday...... After many field exercises, the camp built yesterday is absolutely perfect, with all the ditches and camp walls, as well as the lookouts and towers that protect the camp gates and camp walls.

Although he had tried his best to do what he could, Lin Qilong was still very worried, although Deng Ming's army was elite, the other party was the world-famous Eight Banners after all. And it's not the garrison of the Eight Banners, it's not the ordinary Gyeonggi Eight Banners, and it's not even the ordinary Emperor of the Three Banners, but the Son of Heaven Guard of the Imperial Camp.

Thinking of the great martial arts of the Eight Banners in the past thirty years, Lin Qilong felt even more worried about the prospects, if it wasn't for the fact that there was no way out, Lin Qilong would definitely not put the treasure on the side where Deng Ming could defeat the Eight Banners of the Imperial Camp.

Although he was looking forward to it, Lin Qilong actually understood that he probably couldn't see the war on the other side of Gaoyou Lake. The reason why he refused to return to the yamen for a long time was also because he was so nervous that he couldn't sleep, so he could only stand on the head of the city and look north, so that the sorrow in his heart relaxed a little. Now Lin Qilong had a dagger in his boots, and if a group of imperial soldiers and horses suddenly arrived and shouted Lin Qilong's order under the city, Lin Qilong would pull out the dagger and stab himself in the chest while jumping out of the city—he would never suffer the pain of a thousand knives.

"My lord, it's too late." After a few more moments, the guard urged again.

"Hmm." Although it was night, there were still soldiers patrolling the city at night, if Lin Qilong stayed all the time, maybe the soldiers would feel very strange, and when the news came, they would remember the strange behavior of Lin Qilong they saw tonight, and vaguely have some associations.

Lin Qilong walked down the city and returned to his yamen, where he lowered the latch and examined it carefully, then carefully pulled the dagger out of his boot and hid it under his pillow. After lying on the bed, Lin Qilong touched the dagger with his hand again, convinced that if someone wanted to break in, he would definitely be able to complete the self-determination before anyone rushed in.

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"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! A terrible alarm sounded over the camp, a camp with eight banners, located northwest of the emperor's camp. Someone heard screams from the south just now, and then there was an even louder commotion. In the darkness of the night, the sentries on the camp wall did not know what was happening at first, but soon they noticed that a large group of men and horses were approaching their camp under the cover of night, and those who went to inquire received only a sharp answer.

Many of the officers in the camp had combat experience, and it was common sense that if the enemy was coming from the south, they should not quickly approach the camp in the northwest corner. But the enemy moved faster than they could have imagined. When the general heard the commotion and hurried up to the camp wall to inquire, the enemy had already approached the camp wall. Seeing the firelight and swaying figures everywhere around the camp, the general said that he did not believe that the enemy was coming from the south. Because the generals knew very well that in such a dark night, the enemy who came to rob the camp would definitely have different confusion, and it would take a long time to find out the disposition of the Qing army's camp, and only the most reckless enemy would rush forward without knowing the distribution of the defenders - now the chaos had only been heard for a short time, and the enemy had killed under the camp wall, which obviously could not have come from the south, and under normal circumstances, the enemy soldiers who came from the dark should be testing the strength and fortification of the southernmost camp.

"Full speed ahead!" Jiang Nan urged his subordinates loudly. The Ming army has been divided into several roads, and the road to which he belongs is the Mengbaqi in the northwest corner. All the officers of the Ming army were very clear about the number and position of the enemy troops they were responsible for, and the Ming army had been repeatedly trained in the past month, and although they were marching at night, they were able to approach their targets as quickly as possible, and the marches of all directions did not conflict with each other or interfere with each other. The archers rushed to the front, followed by armoured men in small groups, carrying ladders just large enough to climb over the camp walls.

"Prepare for battle!" The Qing army general yelled, he had no idea who the enemy on the other side was, nor did he know the number of opponents, and he could not understand why the other party was able to organize a threatening multi-pronged attack against his camp so quickly in the dark of night, and he had no time to observe and distinguish between the main attack and the feint attack of the other side.

Now there is a great chaos in the camp, and the soldiers are not ready for battle at all, but the Qing army general is not in chaos, he knows that he must fight every minute and every second, and buy time for his subordinates to wear armor and participate in the battle. A large number of torches were thrown off the camp walls, illuminating the front of the trenches.

The Qing general clearly saw a group of enemy crossbowmen rushing to the front of the trench, and at this distance they already posed a heavy threat to the defenders on the lookout. But the experienced defender was not at all worried, and he had no intention of going down to dodge, because he knew that the enemy was now in the light, and he was in the dark, and the enemy crossbowmen in the firelight could not see the position of the watchtower in the darkness.

"Archer!" The Qing general snorted calmly. The soldiers around him drew their bows and arrows, ready to attack the enemy. In addition to the close range of enemy crossbowmen, the generals were also on the lookout for enemy soldiers who wanted to fill trenches with dirt sacs or carry ladders, which were equally dangerous targets for crossbowmen.

At this moment, the Qing general saw that the enemy soldiers in front of the trench had raised their crossbows and bows and arrows, aiming in their own direction.

"They ......" the commander was stunned, how could the enemy soldiers in front of the torches stop and see the position and height of the tower?

Dense flying locusts fired, and the opponent was obviously carrying out covering shots, most of which did not hit the Qing soldiers, but passed by the side of the tower or between people. But because of the large number of arrows, the Qing general was hit by six arrows in an instant, and fell down with several other soldiers upstairs. Before falling to the ground, the commander still couldn't figure out how the opponent could make such an accurate covering shot.

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By the light of the fire, after making sure that he had reached the position he should have reached every time in the exercise, Zheng Yaojun and his companions fired a salvo towards the approximate position of the tower in the darkness, and the continuous screams from the opposite side let him know that he had hit the other side's night sentinel.

Not only Zheng Yaojun, but also other places heard the sound of sharp arrows breaking through the air and the howls of enemies.

A batch of earth bags were pushed into the trench, and a large number of Ming soldiers rushed through the trench, put the ladder up the camp wall, and held the lower end of the ladder tightly.

Zheng Yaojun flew up. The first group to climb the camp wall were all soldiers of the Sichuan Standing Army. When he climbed the camp wall, although Zheng Yaojun was still nervous in his heart, he did not have the horror of the unknown at all. During the exercise, he repeated this movement again and again, and the movement just now showed that the archers on the left and right sides had completed their tasks smoothly. When several watchtowers are suppressed, this section of the camp wall is completely unthreatened by the defenders.

After climbing the camp wall, Zheng Yaojun quickly found a position and leaned down to prepare for shooting. The Ming army, who had boarded behind him, threw torches into the camp to illuminate the vision in front of the archers.

Zheng Yaojun did not look left and right for other targets, but aimed motionlessly ahead, he knew that the task of his team was very clear, that is, to guard the passage under the camp wall in front of him - on the left was the stable of the Mengbaqi military camp, if the enemy wanted to go to the stable from their camp, the open space in front of him was the enemy's only way.

On the other side of the camp, Wu Baoping also led his subordinates to climb the camp wall. He relieved the threat of the watchtower on the lot he was in charge of, and sent his own men up. A large number of Ming soldiers quickly rushed into the camp under the cover of their comrades, and their task was to attack the opponent's forage house at the first opportunity, igniting it to form a fire that could spread into the camp. It was not the first time Wu Baoping had come to this barracks, when Lin Qilong built it, Wu Baoping was one of the leading officers who came to supervise it.

Rumble!

On Wu Baoping's flank, a loud bang was heard, and another group of Ming troops attacked and smoothly detonated their powder magazines before the enemy in the camp could put up effective resistance.

Compared to the defenders, the attacking side is more familiar with and understands the camp, and while the defenders are still mostly in disarray, scattered throughout the camp and passively waiting for the attack, the attackers have been agile and control the most critical points. Deng Ming handed over the last deployment map to Lin Qilong a few days ago, and the Qing army's imperial camp stayed in it this evening, while the Ming army lived in the camp with the same layout for dozens of days and engaged in hundreds of offensive and defensive drills.

In just half an hour, the sound of fighting spread throughout the entire imperial camp camping area, and the flames rose into the sky everywhere, and continued to extend towards the core of the camp.

"What the hell is going on? Who is the thief? How many thieves are there? Is there a rebellion? What is the current situation of the armies on the periphery? Shunzhi, who had risen in a hurry, shouted hysterically, until this time he still knew nothing about the surrounding shapes, and none of the imperial guards surrounding the emperor could answer their master's questions.

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