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Chapter 54 Ming Xiu Plank Road

More than ten miles north of Suzhou City, iron hooves rolling, and 14,000 elite cavalrymen galloped over.

Kong Youde rode his horse in front, and there was no scout, so he rushed directly to Suzhou.

It’s not his rampantness. No one in Jiangnan can eat two Han military flags in one bite. Li Chengdong is a relatively capable army among the Green Camp soldiers, but in Kong Youde’s eyes, he is not worthy of taking on the Eight Banners soldiers.

Kong Youde was not afraid of being ambushed at all. If the rebels dared to ambush, it would save him the effort he had searched everywhere and solve the problem once and for all.

At this time, the cavalry was running. As they were about to arrive in Suzhou, a group of soldiers suddenly emerged from the woods, with more than a thousand troops.

The sudden change shocked Kong Youde and hurriedly tightened the reins of the horse, almost making a fool of himself.

The people who came out came to see the flag soldiers, and did not shoot arrows or fire guns. Instead, they greeted them happily like they saw their father.

Soon, Wu Zhaosheng was taken to Kong Youde and cried, "Prince, you are here! Li Chengdong rebelled and seized Suzhou, and Master Beile was also captured."

Kong Youde was furious and whipped it directly with a whip, "Suzhou was occupied and Beile was captured. What are you doing here?"

Wu Zhaosheng covered his face with a grievance, "Prince, Li Chengdong colluded with the water bandits, and the humble power was alone and alone. After risking his life to break through, he returned to save Beile, but was defeated by Zhao Ming. There were many thieves and were very brave. Huye could only wait for reinforcements to inform the Suzhou rebels!"

Kong Youde's expression calmed down a little, "What's the situation in Suzhou now? How many rebels are there?"

Wu Zhaosheng said: "Prince, the rebels are not in Suzhou, so they are running to Wujiang!"

"Where is the food?" Shen Zhixiang said anxiously from the side.

Kong Youde also stared at Wu Zhaosheng with a happy expression on his face, "I didn't see the thick smoke, is the food still in the city?"

Wu Zhaosheng said: "Prince, all the food was transported away by the water bandits!"

"How is that possible?" Kong Youde was unbelievable, "How could hundreds of thousands of stones of grain be transported away so quickly, and he even rushed to Wujiang with the grain?"

Jiangyin and Suzhou were not far away. When the news reached Jiangyin, Boluo immediately sent troops. With only two and a half days apart, Kong Youde killed outside Suzhou City. How could hundreds of thousands of stones of grain be transported?

Boro was anxious to send troops. In addition to rushing to extinguish Li Chengdong, the main reason was to take back the food and grass in the city while the rebels had no time to transfer.

Wu Zhaosheng said: "Prince, it is usually impossible to be transported, but Zhao Ming asked the people in Suzhou City to carry a bag each. More than 100,000 residents in the city to carry hand-pushing. After half a day, they loaded the grain on the ship and transported it directly into Taihu Lake."

Kong Youde was stunned and suddenly became furious again. Another whip hit Wu Zhaosheng's face, "Just watch the rioters transport the food away!"

After speaking, he no longer paid attention to Wu Zhaosheng, and waved his whip and galloped towards Suzhou.

Behind him, the flag soldiers who stopped immediately clamped the horse's belly and flocked to him.

The soldiers of the Wu army stood on both sides of the road, watching the cavalry running by, and waited for the Qing army of the two Han flags to walk away. General Li Kui said worriedly: "Master, what should I do?"

Wu Zhaosheng was very angry, "What else can I do? Follow me!"

After saying that, he followed the cavalry and rushed towards Suzhou.

Kong Youde and Shen Zhixiang rushed to Suzhou. The residents in the city were worried that the Qing soldiers would massacre the city and escape most of them, and Suzhou was already an empty city.

At that moment, the two led the cavalry and rushed to Wujiang without stopping. Halfway through, they met thousands of defeated troops, but when they asked, they were the people who were the governor of Jiangning.

It turned out that it was Li Chengdong's rebels. After occupying Suzhou, they rushed to Wujiang without stopping, attacked the Taihu Rebel Army from behind, attacking Tu Guobao's army, causing the Qing army to be defeated and the various troops evacuated Wujiang in a hurry.

As a result, the main forces of the Qing army around Taihu Lake were defeated.

Kong Youde was a little surprised. Unexpectedly, Li Chengdong was still very good at fighting. He immediately ordered to gather the defeated army and rushed to Wujiang without stopping.

Wu Zhaosheng, who followed, heard that Tu Guobao was defeated, but he breathed a sigh of relief and led his troops to follow him.

On the tenth day of August, outside the Wujiang Water Village, a large group of rebels, under the command of Wu Yi and others, busy digging trenches, building up earth walls, and strengthening the water village.

The rebel army did not enter Wujiang County, but waited for the arrival of the Qing army in Wujiang Water Village.

Wu Yi was wearing a Taoist robe and a cloak, standing on the wall of the village. The rebel soldiers were sweating profusely. In front of the village gate, Nikan was tied to a cart to show the public, and was already dying.

The soldiers of the Li army did not participate in the construction of fortifications, but seized time to rest. Zhao Ming jumped onto the cart, pulled up Nikan's braid, and temporarily became a political commissar to promote the soldiers of the Li army and the rebels.

"Brothers!" Zhao Ming waved his arm and shouted, attracting everyone's attention. He was very knowledgeable young people from later generations standing on the streets and promoting the style of overthrowing the Japanese invaders and defending their country.

Many soldiers from Li looked up at him and went to talk to him. However, the rebels stood up straight and stared at Zhao Ming solemnly.

"This is Jiannu's Beile, and the grandson of old Nu Nurhaci Nikan! It is said that Jiannu is powerful and invincible, as if they can all block a hundred, but you see that Jiannu is just like this. The tail of a wretched rat behind his head is not three heads and six arms. We can catch him and kill him. Today we can catch their Beile, and kill other Jiannu and drive them out of the Ming Dynasty is not a problem!" Zhao Ming said loudly, Nikan, who felt extremely shameful, had red eyes and struggled constantly, but his limbs were tied, and he could only hit the wood behind him with the back of his head. I don't know if he was so ashamed and angry that he wanted to kill himself or vent his anger.

Zhao Ming said for a while, and the central idea was that the Tartars were not scary. He suddenly said, "Wang Deshun, you go out!"

Wang Deshun stood up with his proud little breasts, stood up, bowed his hands proudly, attracting everyone's attention, and preparing to accept praise.

Zhao Ming pointed at him and said, "You all know this guy. It's my guard. He caught Nikan. Look at him, he can catch the Tartar Bell in such an ordinary way. Then you can kill a Tartar soldier, isn't it okay?"

Wang Deshun's smile froze on his face, and black lines on his forehead...

Wu Yi was listening to Zhao Ming's words when he suddenly heard a noise in the west. He turned his head to look, his face darkened, and he saw several black smoke columns rising from the distance, and the atmosphere suddenly became suppressed.

At this time, in the wilderness in front of the smoke pillar, the Li family's whistle cavalry began to run back and galloped into the water camp. Then, the first Eight Banners cavalry appeared in everyone's sight, and then the rolling cavalry came overwhelmed...

Outside the water village, the rebels who built fortifications put down their work, stood up straight, looked into the distance, and looked nervous.
Chapter completed!
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