Soon, Ma Keqing shouted and asked the Tatar again, and after being silent for a while, the Tatar also muttered to Ma Keqing.

Immediately afterwards, Ma Keqing reported to Yang Zhen: "Sir! This is a Niu Lu! He said that Zhang Kushan brought this group of Alihachaoha here because there have been pirates in this area, and they want to be here

Assemble a new Niulu and prepare to wipe out the pirates in this area!

"As for how many armored aha are new here, he said he didn't know. He only said that the aha accompanying him were all brought back from Guanli by the armored men this year. They are men, women and children. In short, they are all young and strong.

There are many of them, and if we attack the city, there is no way we can defeat them!"

Yang Zhen was not angry after hearing this, but he had some idea in his mind. Then he asked Ma Keqing to ask the Tatar several questions in succession.

For example, how many garrisons there are in Niulu under the two white flags in southern Liaoning, who is guarding Haizhou, Gaizhou, Fuzhou and Jinzhou respectively, and whether Prince Duduo of Yu, the owner of the white flag, is currently in Shengjing or Gaizhou.

state.

But for these questions, the Tatar could not answer them anyway.

Maybe he didn't want to say it, or maybe he, a lowly status official with a white flag, was not qualified to know such news. In short, he simply didn't know the next question Yang Zhen asked.

So if this is the case, the consequences will naturally be more serious.

After being unable to answer several questions in a row, the Tatar became a little panicked. He looked at Yang Zhen and others with a slightly panicked expression, and kept saying something.

Ma Keqing looked at Yang Zhen, waiting for Yang Zhen's decision, while several others also looked at Yang Zhen, to see whether Yang Zhen would let this man go as promised or do what he did to him.

Donglu fell into the hands of Yang Zhen. Unless he had the value to continue to use it, how could Yang Zhen let it go?!

Looking at the Tatar, a smile gradually appeared on Yang Zhen's originally expressionless face. Li Lu and Pan, who already knew Yang Zhen's temperament, were delighted to see Yang Zhen behave like this and they also laughed.

At this time, Ma Keqing also knew what Yang Zhen meant, and then handed Yang Zhen's ax that he had kept towards Yang Zhen.

When Yang Zhen saw this, he did not reach out to take the axe, but pouted at Ma Keqing, signaling for him to take action.

When Yang Zhen did this, everyone else present looked at Ma Keqing to see what he would do.

Ma Keqing's identity is very embarrassing. Although he was born as a Han Chinese in Liaodong, he had been a Tatar in the Qing Dynasty for many years.

After he was captured by Yang Zhen, he cut off the pigtails on his head and became a Han again. Although Yang Zhen also trusted him and treated him equally, in the advance camp and in Songshan City, no one knew his previous identity.

Others were always full of doubts about him.

This made him both helpless and unwilling.

Now, when he saw Yang Zhen doing this, he immediately knew what Yang Zhen meant, which was to make him gain many Tatars in order to gain everyone's trust and integrate into the advance camp as soon as possible.

Thinking of this, Ma Keqing no longer hesitated, immediately retracted and handed out the ax, holding the wooden handle with both hands, and slashed at the frightened Tatar.

Only a scream was heard, and the ax in Ma Keqing's hand hit the head of the stocky Tatar whose face was swollen into a pig's head and whose lower body could not move.

The ax got stuck in his skull, and the red and white stuff splashed out. The Tartar's screams stopped abruptly, and he was killed instantly.

"Ouch——! Brother Ma, you've really lost this good Tatar's head in such a short time!"

Pan Xi, who was on the side, saw Ma Keqingma hacking the Tatar to death in one swift move, and teased him with a playful smile. He drew his sword and stepped forward, cut off the head in two or two strokes, and threw it to his men.

Yang Zhen had just finished his work and was about to ask everyone to return to where they came from to continue waiting for news from the south gate. Li Lu, who had been staring at the south gate, suddenly said:

"Sir! Look! Li Shouzhong is back!"

Yang Zhen quickly turned his head to look and saw Li Shouzhong's thin monkey-like figure running quickly towards the original joint.

When Yang Zhen saw this, he did not hesitate. He immediately greeted everyone and hurried westward along the trench. When he arrived, he saw Li Shouzhong already waiting in the trench.

"Sir! The Tatars have sent people out of the city! There are two horses in total, crossing the bridge and going south! Zhang Shoubei took us to hide in the ditch, and we can see clearly! Zhang Shoubei asked the younger ones to come and ask for your instructions, sir, what are we doing?

At that time, we captured Shiqiaozi and headed south to set up an ambush?!"

Li Shouzhong saw Yang Zhen and quickly stepped forward to salute. While saluting, he quickly said what he needed to say.

"Great! You go back and deliver the order now! Tell Zhang Chen that you don't have to wait any longer! It's now! Let Hu Dabao's Turushima troops go south immediately and capture Shiqiaozi! At the same time, tell them that General Yuan Shen and I

, General Lu Shen will be here soon!"

After hearing this, Li Shouzhong knew that time was tight and did not dare to delay. He immediately accepted the order with clasped fists and turned around to deliver the order.

Yang Zhenze ordered Li Lu and Pan Xi to order all the grenadier troops, as well as the small artillery team led by Dunn, to go to the place where Yuan Jin's fleet had previously docked, and met Yuan Jin.

He and Lu Pinqi's men and horses explained the situation, and quickly used oars and sails to drive along the Xiangshui River in the direction of Shiqiaozi.

At this time, the water level on the Xiangshui River had already dropped due to the tide in the river mouth area beginning to recede.

Fortunately, it was still early in the morning, and the place was not too far from Haikou. Although the water level on the river had dropped, it was still enough for the fleet's ships to sail near Shiqiaozi.

When Yang Zhen, Yuan Jin, Lu Pinqi and others arrived at the pier on the north side of Shiqiaozi, Zhang Chen and Zhang Guogan, leading their musketeers, had already occupied Shiqiao and were waiting on the pier.

The two Tatars who were guarding the Shiqiaozi Customs House were very few in number, with only a team of one or twenty people. Since early in the morning, they had heard the sound of gunfire from the north of Xiongyue City, and before that they had heard the sound of gunfire from the west.

There was a loud and earth-shattering noise outside the wall, and all the trees and grass had already been dispersed, like frightened birds.

They were even more frightened when the south gate of Xiongyue City suddenly opened and two messengers rushed out, quickly crossed the bridge and headed south.

When Hu Dabao's team of hundreds of people suddenly burst out of the previously hidden trench and rushed across the stone bridge to kill the general, the Tianzhu soldiers guarding Shiqiaozi immediately dispersed and headed south, towards the foot of Shipeng Mountain.

He fled in the direction of Xu Guanbao.

Hu Dabao also remembered Yang Zhen's military order. He just shouted and rushed to the bridge, fired a few shots, wasted a few projectiles, and captured Shiqiaozi with zero casualties on both sides, and called a halt at the right time.

pace of pursuit.

Zhang Chen caught Yang Zhen on the pier and immediately reported the situation to him. At the same time, he said: "Sir! The Tatar messengers have been marching south for a while, and the two Tatars stationed in Shiqiaozi have also given up.

They ran back to the direction of Xu Guanbao. Next, should we quickly go south and set up an ambush as planned?!"

Even if Zhang Chen didn't stand up to remind him, Yang Zhen was already secretly anxious, praying in his heart that Xu Erxian or other generals from Xu Guanbao would not come too soon.

After Yang Zhen got off the dock, he immediately summoned Yuan Jin, Lu Pinqi, Li Lu, Zhang Chen, Hu Dabao and others to arrange the stay at the bridge and the ambush south.

"Brother Yuan! In order to prevent the fleet from being stranded at low tide, you must urge all members of the fleet to unload the horses, supplies, military supplies, and equipment as soon as possible, and then leave a group of boatmen and oarsmen as backup, and leave all the boats to be stationed at the dock here.

!At the same time, we need to dismantle a few Folang machines for backup! You will lead all the other big ships and temporarily retreat to the mouth of the river to wait for orders!

"Brother Lu! You lead your troops to disembark from the ship as soon as possible, go ashore to assemble, pack up, and prepare to go south!"

"Zhang Chen, Li Lu, you two each took your brothers, prepared enough gunpowder, guns and bullets to fly to the general, led Hu Dabao's troops to go south immediately, along the post road to find a suitable ambush site, dug trenches to hide, and built fortifications to block the enemy.

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"The first army will be headed by Zhang Chen, with Li Lu as his deputy. All difficult matters will be decided by Zhang Chen! Okay, you go and get ready now! When you are ready, go ahead. There is no need to come back to ask me for instructions.

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Zhang Chen was just a defender, several levels lower than Li Lu, a guerrilla. However, Zhang Chen had rich battlefield experience and deep military qualifications. Yang Zhen believed that Li Lu could understand and accept his arrangement.

When Yang Zhen said this, he looked at the generals in front of him with an extremely solemn expression, his eyes swept across their faces one by one, and finally said:

"Since last night, we have been sleeping in the open and working hard. For what? Just for this moment! As long as we kill the reinforcements sent by Xu Guanbao to rescue Xiong Yue this time, we can attack behind enemy lines this time.

It's a victory!

"Not only will the Xiongyue City in front of us become ours, but even the Xuguan Fort thirty miles away will definitely fall into the hands of our troops!

"Brother Yuan! Brother Lu! Brothers! Think about the results of this battle. As long as we can cleanly kill the two Tatars sent by Xu Guanbao, a great victory comparable to Mao Shuai's defeat of Zhenjiang will be right in front of us.

Come on! Go fuck yourself, brothers, what are you waiting for?!"

When Yang Zhen said this, he held his right hand deep in front of everyone. His original solemn expression had completely turned into a kind of excitement that was difficult to conceal. His tired and pale face was rosy, and his dark eyes were full of rosiness.

Shining with light, full of firm confidence in victory and ardent desire for a great victory.

"That's right! Go fuck yourself! If you win, you'll be promoted and make a fortune. If you lose, you'll have to start over!"

This time, Lu Pinqi understood Yang Zhen's meaning first. After shouting these words, he immediately stretched out his right hand and held it in Yang Zhen's hand.

Immediately afterwards, Yuan Jin, Zhang Chen, Li Lu, and Hu Dabao stretched out their hands with excitement one after another, stacking their hands with those of Yang Zhen and Lu Pinqi, and soon the twelve hands of the six people were firmly held together.
Chapter completed!