Seeing Sun Zhixian running in, Kong Youde cried even harder. He was wronged! He had made such a great contribution to the Qing Dynasty. He brought so many red barbarian cannons and muskets to the enemy, and taught the Tatar soldiers step by step how to fire cannons.

Now he is left in a dead place like Liaocheng with the same treatment as Sun Zhixian, who is doing a job like that. It is a loss even if he thinks about it. Moreover, if he is doing a job like Jiang, there may be no way to survive. He is only the second minister, no, he is not even the second minister.

He was "fired" by Emperor Chongzhen. When he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, he had no official status and was just a commoner.

"Your Majesty, if you don't cry, if you don't cry, Your Majesty, I have a solution!"

Not knowing if there was really a solution or just explaining it casually, Sun Zhixian took it out in his sleeve pocket while talking.

Is this a clever plan? Kong Youde really stopped crying and just sat on the futon and looked at Sun Zhixian blankly.

Sun Zhixian searched for a long time, but there was no kit, but there was a small porcelain vase.

"Your Majesty, look at this!" Sun Zhixian held the porcelain vase in both hands and handed it to Kong Youde as if offering a treasure. "This is the last time I went to Zhengzhou to see Huang Ama. Huang Ama asked me to bring it here. In an emergency,

Entrusted to you."

"Is this just a bottle?" Kong Youde thought to himself: Could it be that Doama stuffed the note with the clever idea into the bottle and gave it to Sun Zhixian?

"There is something good in the bottle!" Sun Zhixian said, "It is the best arsenic! Mix it with wine and drink it. If you drink one bottle, your orifices will bleed, and you will definitely die, so you don't have to worry about anything!"

"You, you, you" Kong Youde raised his hand and pointed at Sun Zhixian, he was so angry that he could not speak.

If all the seven orifices bleed to death, don’t you need to be afraid?

"My lord, you don't need this?" Sun Zhixian frowned, "Have you prepared another way to die? Is it hanging or wiping your neck?"

"Why hang yourself and wipe your neck?" Kong Youde was almost furious. If it weren't for the poison given by Dorgon, he would have strangled Sun Zhixian to death now.

"Your Majesty, Huang Ama has good intentions!" Sun Zhixian shook his head, "Everyone in Liaocheng can surrender. It's just that two ministers become three ministers, and three ministers become four ministers. Only you, the prince, cannot surrender.

It’s clear!”

"I, I" Kong Youde couldn't stop crying again.

He is different from Zukefa. Zukefa surrendered over and over again as a last resort. After surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, it was not of much use. Moreover, his cousin was the Empress of the Ming Dynasty. She had a backing, but what about him? He

How many good things and talents did he bring to the Qing Dynasty? What other good way could he die if he fell into Zhu Cihong's hands?

Cutting into pieces with a thousand cuts is light

"Your Highness, keep it," Sun Zhixian said warmly, "just in case you need it in case of emergencies!"

Kong Youde thought about it in case of emergencies! If Liaocheng was really abandoned, having a bottle of arsenic mixed with wine would be better than being sliced ​​open with a knife!

After collecting the arsenic that Huang Ama rewarded, Kong Youde asked the servants in the palace to get a gourd of good wine and took it with him, and then he was protected by a group of Zhengluqi guards in green helmets and green flags.

Go down and go up to the top of Liaocheng.

What greeted him at the top of the Liaocheng city was the earth-shattering shouts of the Qufu training army!

"Sage Kong bless you with invulnerability!"

Kong Youde held on to the crenels made of sandbags and looked down. He saw countless Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers, about thirty or forty people forming a square, carrying ladders and pushing shield carts (that is, moving shields on side carriages).

To the front), holding various weapons and shouting slogans, they came up like a tide.

What is the value of Kong Youde's eyesight? He has been a veteran for many years, and he can tell that something is wrong just by looking at him from a distance.

The shield chariot is strong and the weapons are new, and the sun shines on it with a cold light! Moreover, all the Qufu regiment trainees are wearing armor. Those at the front are all wearing long armor, which is really a strong and powerful weapon.

ah!

What makes Kong Youde even more troublesome is that this group of Qufu soldiers did not play a pure team, but formed a flower team.

The so-called pure team is a team of dozens or hundreds of people, all using one kind of weapon, such as firecrackers, knives, or spears. This configuration is suitable for fighting in formation, easy to command, and easy to train!

The flower team is a mixed team of soldiers who use different weapons, allowing them to cooperate with each other to kill the enemy. This method of formation is not very easy to use when fighting in formation, and it is easy to cause confusion. It is okay in the mountains of the south, but in the north

In Pingyuan, you have to cooperate with sidecars.

But now it's time to siege the city. Both sides are not in formation, so the flower team has the advantage.

"Your Majesty, Fire Gun"

Just when Kong Youde was so anxious that he was sweating profusely, a military guard next to him suddenly shouted and pulled him hard several times.

Kong Youde finally came to his senses from his thoughts and took a closer look. It turned out that groups of fire-gun soldiers holding turtle-dove-foot blunderbuss and wearing "plate armor" (actually lath armor) had come up and crossed the main push.

Qufu Lianjun, who was advancing in a shield chariot, stepped onto the frozen lake, rushed to a place dozens of steps away from the city wall, set up a blunderbuss, and was about to open fire.

It turned out that the fire gun soldiers belonging to two new army model divisions came up to conduct cover shooting!

King Dingnan hurriedly took his head back and ordered loudly: "Damn it, what are you doing? Fire! Fire blunderbuss! Archers are also prepared for me."

As soon as he finished speaking, the crackling sound of firecrackers started to sound one after another. The intensive sound of cannonballs was occasionally mixed with a few cannon shots.

The Liaocheng offensive and defensive battle has finally entered the stage of close combat!

"Your Majesty, this is too far forward. How about you move back?"

Li Yan's voice of persuasion sounded again, disturbing Zhu Cixiang who was concentrating on watching the siege with a telescope.

The Green Flag Soldiers under Kong Youde still have some combat effectiveness. Although they are not large in number, their combat effectiveness is not weak, and they are also forced to a dead end. They actually repelled several waves of Ming army attacking troops, mainly composed of Qufu regiment training troops.

Impact!

However, the situation gradually became favorable to the Ming army, because the iron soldiers trained by the Qufu regiment had rushed to the top of the Liaocheng city for the first time and were fighting with Kong Youde's Zhengluqi soldiers.

Zhu Cixiang looked anxious and couldn't help but gallop forward. Now he was at the front less than a mile and a half away from the city wall of the southern city of Liaocheng.

"Is there any news from Dorgon?" Zhu Cixi put down the telescope and turned around to ask Li Yan.

"Not yet." Li Yan shook his head, "Your Majesty, now we only know that Dorgon is convening all the armies in Zhengzhou, but I don't know where they will send troops? Donglu's cavalry is too powerful. Once they are sent out in large numbers, we will be in trouble all night.

We can only take it back, and we can only rely on the fireworks of the pier soldiers to know the enemy's movements."

Dun soldiers are the soldiers who guard the beacon towers. In order to keep track of the movements of the Qing cavalry groups, the Ming army built many beacon towers in Huaibei, Xuzhou, Shandong, Runing, Nanyang and other places.

But so far, not a single beacon tower has been lit.

Did Dorgon really not move, or were several beacon towers attacked by Manchurian white-armored soldiers?

Just when Emperor Zhu was a little worried, the earth-shaking cheers rang out again.

"The Ming Dynasty will be victorious! The Ming Dynasty will be victorious"

Zhu Cihong and Li Yan both raised their telescopes and looked at the top of the Liaocheng city. They saw a flag of "The Most Holy Master Confucius" that had been firmly planted on the wall of the southern city of Liaocheng.

A large section of the city wall is obviously under the control of the Qufu Iron Man Training Team.

At this time, a larger number of Qufu troops had gathered under this section of the city wall, scrambling to climb up.

Liaocheng has been broken!

Kong Youde had already retreated from the city wall, and returned to his palace holding a gourd filled with poisoned wine.

The arsenic given by Huang Ama has already been poured in. All you have to do is hold your nose and drink it down, then you don't have to worry about anything.

But the problem is that Kong Youde doesn’t want to drink it. After he retreated from the top of Liaocheng City, Sun Zhixian whispered in his ear: "Prince, drink it quickly! Such a good poisonous wine will be destroyed once you drink it. What else can you do?"

Why are you hesitating? If you really want to be captured, why not be cut into pieces by a thousand swords?"

But Kong Youde just shook his head. His godson Kong Sixi strode over at this time. When he came to Kong Youde, he bowed to Kong Youde and said: "Father, the south gate tower is lost. There are too many soldiers from the south. We really can't bear it anymore."

, the brothers are retreating to the palace, and I don’t know how long they can hold it? Please make an idea quickly!"

"I, I, I," Kong Youde stammered, unable to speak.

Sun Zhixian on the side yelled: "The prince is no longer alive. The prince said that he is no longer alive. Kong Zhangjing, please send your father to the West!"

Kong Youde was shocked. When did he say he could no longer live?

"Father, go away!" Kong Sixi had already pounced on him, snatched the wine gourd held by Kong Youde, pulled out the stopper, and poured it into Kong Youde's mouth.

How could Kong Youde be willing to "drink without restraint"? He pushed Kong Sixi away with all his strength and cursed: "You are a traitor!"

As soon as he cursed, he was hit by something hard on the back of his head. Stars flashed in his eyes, and his whole body collapsed. Then came the cold poisonous wine, which was poured from his mouth. Just like that, Kong Youde, the king of Dingnan, finally became the king of Dingnan.

Great loyalty to the Qing Dynasty!
Chapter completed!