The team officers and commanders in the musketeers around Yang Zhen had similar reactions to Zhang Guogan. They also talked about it and couldn't help sighing.

At this moment, Zhang Chen, who had extremely sharp ears, suddenly said to Yang Zhen: "Someone is coming!"

When Zhang Chen said this, everyone around Yang Zhen immediately fell silent.

At this time, I heard someone shouting in the darkness in the distance: "Captain, Commander, but is the Commander here?"

When Yang Zhen heard this, he was overjoyed and immediately recognized that it was Li Lu's voice, so he immediately replied: "Yes, it's me!"

It was quiet all around, and Yang Zhen's excited voice could be heard far away.

Immediately, there was a burst of cheers in the darkness, and soon, there was a dense sound of footsteps.

After a while, several black figures jumped down from the ditch where Yang Zhen and the others were. Zhang Chen stepped forward to support them, and the first person took off his hood, and it turned out to be Li Lu.

"Captain, it is indeed General Li Shen who has returned in triumph!"

At this time, Li Lu stepped forward, knelt down on one knee, clasped his fists at Yang Zhen and said: "Captain, I am so lucky to have lived up to my command! No one of the brothers who were accompanying me was lost!"

The tone was sonorous and full of excitement.

However, Li Lu, who was full of excitement, did not expect the cheers he thought he would have.

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Guogan sighed and said: "Oh, I said, you bombed the wrong person. The person who lives in the Empress Palace is not Huang Taiji, but that old guy Daishan! You bombed the wrong person!"

Zhang Guogan's words caused a burst of exclamations from Li Lu and everyone accompanying Li Lu. Li Lu himself was also surprised. He stood up and was about to ask Zhang Guogan why he knew it, but he heard Yang Zhen suddenly scolded Zhang Guogan:

"You bastard, shut the fuck up!"

Yang Zhen scolded Zhang Guogan, then turned to Li Lu and said to him: "What's wrong with the bombing? What we bombed was the Empress' Palace? Whoever is there will be bombed? There is no right or wrong!"

"Being able to blow up the Manchu Tatars and Prince Shuosu Daishan is already a worthwhile trip! Your trip? It's very satisfactory? It's very successful. Now come back to the city with me!"

Yang Zhen said this? Head Li Lu understood that it was Prince Li Daishan who was staying in the Queen's Palace tonight. He felt quite disappointed at the moment. But after hearing what Yang Zhen said, he replied:

"That's it. I was wondering how this operation could go so smoothly, but I didn't expect that the person living there is actually Prince Li of Mantatar!"

After saying this, Li Lu seemed a little annoyed and fell into silence.

At this time, Yang Zhen took over and said: "That's right, you didn't lose anyone, but you bombed the Empress' Palace? Prince Manta, the Prince of Li, would have been seriously injured even if he didn't die. Can this be like this? It's already very good, don't worry.

"What's more, we took advantage of this opportunity to lure the tiger away from the mountain and successfully rob the camp? No matter how you go to blow up the Empress' Palace tonight? It's a great achievement!"

When Yang Zhen said this, he heard the sound of horse hooves coming from the distant wilderness. Apparently, when they attacked the camp and evacuated, the fire that ignited alerted Du Lei who went to rescue the Queen's Palace.

"Let's go, retreat quickly, we'll wait until we get back to the city!"

After Yang Zhen gave the order, he took Li Lu and turned around to leave. Although the grenadiers who had returned from blowing up the Empress' Palace were in mixed moods, from being full of joy before to full of regret, the matter had come to this point and they could only

Let’s go back to the city first.

The way back was the same as when we came, but the mood was different, and we were not worried about being discovered by the enemy's patrolmen, so we went very quickly.

Just after the ugly hour that night, the group of people successfully returned to Songshan City through the east gate. At this time, the faint sound of explosions from outside the south gate of Songshan was still ringing.

The violent explosion coming from the direction of the Empress' Palace naturally alarmed the Manchu Tatar camps in the west and south of Songshan City, but they didn't know the reason and didn't dare to act rashly.

Dorgon and Huang Taiji only sent a team of men and horses out of the camp with torches and ran towards the Empress' Palace to find out the news.

The men and horses sent by Dorgon were intercepted by Lu Pinqi's ambush team on the way. After being blown up and knocked upside down, they could not figure out the situation and returned to the camp.

When the civil war broke out in the Mantazi camp east of Songshan City, Dorgon once again sent troops to support, but they were stopped by Lu Pinqi's team and the battle broke out. In the dark night, the two sides were locked in an inextricable fight.

When Yang Zhen returned to the city, he heard that the explosions of the flying generals outside the south gate were still coming one after another. He immediately sent Ma Keqing to convey the order, telling them that the containment mission had been completed and asking them to quickly withdraw to the south gate to defend the city.

But he himself worked hard and summoned the generals in the city to discuss how Songshan's troops would defend the city after dawn, and what would happen to Songshan's officers and soldiers once Songshan City was breached again.

It was confirmed from Wu Shoujin that it was Daishan, not Huang Taiji, who was staying at the Queen's Palace tonight. Of course Yang Zhen was disappointed, but disappointment alone was not enough, he had to quickly discuss countermeasures.

Along the way, he asked Li Lu and his party in detail about the situation, and learned that the entire Empress Palace had been razed to the ground by the massive explosion that had been planted with tens of thousands of enemies. No matter who lived there, they would be seriously injured even if they did not die.

However, even if Daishan is killed, will Huang Taiji retreat because of this?

I'm afraid not, and not only will it not happen, it may even lead to crazy revenge from the Manchu Tatars. The Manchu Tatar siege may be even more violent in the future.

Yang Zhen summoned all the generals in the city overnight, including Yang Chaojin, the supervisor of the army. He first explained the situation to everyone, and then solicited everyone's opinions on where Songshan City should go next.

Yang Zhen did not express his opinion. In fact, he himself has not made up his mind yet.

If the Manchu Tatars continue to gather heavy artillery and bombard Songshan City, there will only be one result for Songshan City, and that is to be captured and destroyed.

Songshan officers and soldiers faced only two choices, one was to continue fighting to the end, and the other was to break through the siege and enter the sea as soon as possible.

Apart from this, there is no other way to go.

Surrender is impossible. They have already refused to surrender, and if Dai Shan is really killed this time, they will not be able to surrender. Yang Zhen knows this, and Xia Chengde, Lu Pinqi and others are even more clear about this.

So should we live and die with the city, or should we evacuate Songshan and break out into the sea?

Yang Zhen himself was undecided, and as for others, he was even more undecided.

When Yang Zhen brought up the topic of Songshan City being defeated and where everyone should go, some insisted on fighting to the end, while others advocated breaking out to the coast as soon as possible, boarding a ship into the sea, and temporarily avoiding the enemy. The two sides argued and argued endlessly.

Yang Zhen said that he wanted to live and die with Songshan City, and almost all his generals had said this. But when Songshan City really faced a critical moment of life and death, it was hard to say how many people could do it.

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This is also true for Yang Zhen.

If Songshan City is destroyed by Manchu Tatar heavy artillery, and there is a high probability that it will be captured by the Manchu Tatar army, then Yang Zhen will not sit here and wait to die.

At that time, running eastward into the sea is the only way to survive.

Fortunately, this night, Yang Zhen had already raided the Manchu Tatar camp in the east of the city, wiping out part of their effective forces, and losing the command of Prince Li Daishan. By then, Yang Zhen would be able to break through from the east gate with fewer obstacles.

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So, in the end, seeing everyone arguing, Yang Zhen had to order to be prepared.

On the one hand, Guo Xiaowu was sent out of the city again, took the trench secret road, and ventured to the coast to find Yuan Jin, Qiu Zhenhai and others to pass on the order, asking them to prepare a warship and dock on the coast closest to Songshan to wait for orders.

At the same time, he sent orders to the generals to hold on to Songshan City for another day. Once Songshan City was defeated, all the troops in the city would break out through the east gate and go straight to the nearest coast to board ships.

Yang Zhen's compromise decision was finally recognized by everyone, so on the night before dawn, Songshan City mobilized again. Except for the east gate, all other city gates were blocked with earth, rocks and logs.

All ammunition that could be found from ammunition factories and ironworks was collected and distributed to various ministries in preparation for the final battle.

Just as the various officers and soldiers in Songshan City were making final preparations to deal with the worst situation, in the western suburbs of Songshan City, deep in the Mantatar company camp, the Mantatar puppet emperor Huang Taiji finally arrived. He was sent out to investigate.

The message of Zhenghuang Banner Baya Lahu Zhang Jinggual Jia Tulai.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, something happened in the Empress' Palace, something happened to Prince Li!"

As soon as Mantatar Zhenghuang Banner Baya Lahu Zhangjing Tulai entered Huang Taiji's tent, he cried and knelt on the ground with a frightened expression, kowtowed to Huang Taiji and said:

"Your Majesty, the Songshan Ming army divided into three groups at night and went out of the city to rob the camp. Prince Rui guarded the camp outside the south gate of Songshan. The night attack on the Ming army failed. However, the Zhenghongqi camp outside the east gate of Songshan was - broken.

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When Tu Lai said this, he raised his head and glanced at Huang Taiji. Seeing that Huang Taiji frowned, closed his eyes, and looked unhappy, he quickly added:

"At that time, the Empress's Palace was bombed. Heshuo Du Lei was anxious to rescue him and led the main force to leave the camp. However, the Ming army in the city saw the opportunity and broke into the camp, robbed the gunpowder, and burned the tents, food and grass. It is said that the people who stayed in the camp were

The Han army under the red banner, Maile, Zhang, Jing and Wu defended the territory and surrendered the enemy——"

"Shut up!"

Tu Lai was about to continue speaking, but was interrupted by Huang Taiji who suddenly opened his eyes with an angry look on his face.

Tu Lai kowtowed to the ground when he heard the sound, and Huang Taiji gritted his teeth and said word for word: "I just want to ask you, how is the situation in the Queen's Palace, and how is the situation of Prince Li?!"

What Tu Lai was most afraid of was that Huang Taiji would ask him this question.

As one of the young men of the Manchu Qing Dynasty who was most admired by Huang Taiji, Tu Lai was well aware of Huang Taiji's yang syndrome. He was most taboo about great joy and sorrow, and he was least able to let his emotions change drastically. Therefore, he did not dare to speak out about Huang Taiji's most concerned issues.

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But now Huang Taiji had to ask this question, which made Tu Lai very hesitant and didn't know how to answer.

He didn't dare to lie, and he wasn't sure what the consequences would be if he told the truth.

"Are you mute?! Say it quickly!"

Huang Taiji yelled like this, and Tu Lai suddenly kowtowed again and burst into tears.

"You damn slave dog, what's going on?! Tell me now!"
Chapter completed!