Princess Kunxing picked up the child, turned to Chongzhen and said, "Father, I'm still a little girl, let's raise her."

Before Chongzhen could speak, Zhang Shiwen said first: "Your Highness, Mo Jiang has killed so many people and is very guilty. Let this child be raised in the future."

"Zhang Qing, you also know that killing innocent people is very guilty." Chongzhen snorted coldly.

"Your Majesty, of course, the last general knows that he is a young man to commit murder, but the rebels are taking over the people to attack the city, so the last general must fight. If the rebels attack the city, not only will His Majesty and His Highness the Princess be killed, but the position of emperor falls into the hands of the incompetent Fu King, and the country and the country of Ming Dynasty will be over!" Zhang Shiwen replied quickly.

"Zhang Qing, I wish you loyalty can be seen, I forgive you for not guilty!" Chongzhen turned his head and pointed at the child in Princess Kunxing's arms, "But this child cannot be given to you. I want to accept her as my adopted daughter, give her a princess, and raise her to adulthood."

"Thank you, Father!" Princess Kunxing quickly knelt down and thanked.

Zhang Shiwen called his personal soldiers and pointed at the body of the soldier: "Although this soldier violated military discipline, he also wanted to save people and buried him with great poverty after he defeated the thief."

Outside the city, the rebels who suffered heavy losses retreated like a tide of ebbing.

In this battle, the rebels suffered heavy losses, and the Huai Army lost only a soldier who went down to the city to save people without authorization. If this soldier did not save people, then the Huai Army would have zero casualties.

Ma Degong, who had failed continuously, shouted: "Push our cannons up and bombard the castle."

"No!" Tian Xiong stopped him loudly, "Our cannon range is not as long as Li Zhe's cannon."

"Li Zhe's castle is too vicious!" Tian Xiong, who had lost nearly a thousand people, roared angrily, "For such a castle, how many people attack, it will be useless! Unless we have cannons that exceed their range, we can collapse the castle."

"Dig the tunnel and dig it in from the ground." Ma Degong came up with a plan.

The next morning, the rebels continued to attack and pulled more than 20,000 captured people to dig tunnels. However, after they dug three feet, they found that the tunnel could not be dug at all. The groundwater level here was very high, and nearby were Tawau and Hongze Lake. After digging three feet underground, there was a pool of mud. There was no way to dig an authentic tunnel to the castle.

"I really can't fight anymore, so I'd better just surround me and not fight." Tian Xiong came up with a solution.

Anyway, it is to implement Liu Liangzuo's plan to surround Wei and save Zhao, just surround him. If Li Guodong returns to rescue him, he will be ambushed by Liu Liangzuo. If Li Guodong's main force can be wiped out, it doesn't matter whether he or she will take Chongzhen or not. King Fu ascended the throne in Nanjing. Even if Chongzhen does not die and loses Li Guodong's support, Chongzhen, who has no soldiers, will not be able to make a comeback.

Outside Gaoyou City, Li Guodong's central army camp.

"Report!" One person did not accept the report at night, "Liu Liangzuo's rebels are attacking the Douhu Military House!"

Li Guodong smiled and said, "It would be strange if they can attack. Let's ignore him and destroy Liu Zeqing first!"

After the Huai Army broke through the outer city of Gaoyou, they set up cannons on the city wall and launched continuous artillery bombardments on the inner city that Liu Zeqing temporarily built. After a whole day of artillery bombardment, three gaps were broken open in the temporarily piled up inner city.

The three powerful generals Wang Fuchen, Cao Bianjiao and Hao Yaoqi led a group of troops to attack from the gap.

Butterfly Garden, beside the lotus pond in midsummer, and in the colorful gardens, groups of flying butterflies form a picturesque garden scenery.

This is a private garden with an area of ​​384 acres, with exquisite buildings and spectacular. The original main building is Juxing Hall, a foyer with brackets, a tall hall, and a unique flower wall, which looks even more quaint and magnificent against the backdrop of Kuixing Pavilion. The ancient trees outside the walls are towering, weeping willows, bamboo fences and thatched cottages, and small bridges and flowing water.

Butterfly Garden is Wang Yongji's private garden. As a heavyweight figure protecting the Wang family gentry, Liu Zeqing was invited by the Wang family gentry to live in Butterfly Garden for temporary residence.

"Master, brothers can't stop it anymore. Li Thief is about to come soon! Master, let's just run away with it." The personal soldiers beside Liu Zeqing persuaded each other.

"No, I won't leave if the king succeeds and loses the enemy! We can't leave either! Instead of waiting for death, it's better to fight with them! Taking advantage of the narrow alleys in the city, the Li thief cavalry cannot run. Although there are many infantrymen, they can't carry out their operations. We can fight to the death, maybe there is still a way out!" Liu Zeqing said loudly with determination.

During the Battle of Gaoyou, Liu Zeqing's servants did not suffer much damage, only a dozen people were lost, and the main force of 500 servants was still alive. This is because in the offensive and defensive battle at the city, most of the people used to defend the city were civilians and ordinary soldiers. The servants generally did not show their heads to attack. Only when the opponent climbed up to the city and the soldiers could not stop the war, would the servants go up to block the enemy.

"Yes, fight with them!" a servant shouted.

"Fight with Li Zhe!"

Before the counterattack team was about to set off, Liu Zeqing suddenly thought of something: "Come on, let me light a fire in this Butterfly Garden!"

After all, this Butterfly Garden belongs to the master, Wang Yongji, not Liu Zeqing, so Liu Zeqing doesn't care whether he burned the garden.

"Mr. Jun, I can't do it! I can't do it!" A housekeeper of the Gao family in the Butterfly Garden begged, begging Liu Zeqing not to set fire.

But can someone like Liu Zeqing listen to him? Of course it is impossible.

Liu Zeqing kicked Wang Yongji's housekeeper away and sneered: "The cheap slave, Wang Yongji can't come back! I'm almost gone for you gentry! If this garden is not destroyed, will it be left to Li Thief?"

The servants lit torches and set fires everywhere in the Butterfly Garden. When the fire in the Butterfly Garden was soaring into the sky, Liu Zeqing took his people away.

Liu Zeqing brought 485 servants with him and rushed out of the Butterfly Garden, and launched a counterattack in the direction of the Huai Army.

These servants were also very brave. When they met a Huai army with about a thousand people in front of them, they shouted and rushed towards the Huai army.

Most of the Huai Army soldiers rushing in front were adapted from the original Liu Zeqing army's prisoners. Unpredictably, five hundred clans rushed out of the front. These Huai Army, composed of Liu Zeqing's prisoners, faced Liu Zeqing's most elite veterans, and of course they were not opponents, and were killed in a blink of an eye.

"The Huai Army is just like this, hahaha!" Liu Zeqing laughed, "Li Zhe is nothing more than a firearm. If there is no firearm, they are nothing!"

At this moment, I heard a loud shout from the entrance of the alley outside: "Hao Yaoqi is here, Liu Zeqing's dog thief, how dare you fight with me to the death?"

"Hao Yaoqi? Who is it?" Liu Zeqing had never heard of Hao Yaoqi's name. After all, Hao Yaoqi was not famous in the rebel army. He became a famous general later in the Southern Ming Dynasty.

In real history, Hao Yaoqi became famous after Li Zicheng's death and became He Tengjiao's person. After he defected to He Tengjiao, Hao Yaoqi joined forces with Li Guo's Zhongzhen Camp at first, and defeated the Qing army repeatedly. But later He Tengjiao instigated Hao Yongzhong to sneak attack Chen Youlong's troops who had returned, provoking the Ming army to kill each other to give the Qing army a chance to breathe. He also transferred the Zhongzhen Camp besieged Changsha, which destroyed the overall strategic situation of restoring Hunan and aiding Jiangxi.

"My boys, kill them all with me!" Liu Zeqing didn't know how powerful Hao Yaoqi was, so he rushed out with his servants, and a group of people rushed to Hao Yaoqi and others.

Hao Yaoqi hung the axe on the hook beside the saddle, took out three javelins from the javelin bag at his waist, and rushed towards Liu Zeqing. Before the person arrived, he raised his hands repeatedly, and the two javelins flew out with a strong wind.

Liu Zeqing still avoided the javelin shot in two shots, but Pan Hui, the general beside him, was stabbed through two layers of armor with a gun, and was dismissed and killed with a muffled groan.

Hao Yaoqi rushed to Liu Zeqing in a blink of an eye, and the last javelin in his hand flew out. Liu Zeqing waved his spear and knocked down the javelin, but Hao Yaoqi rushed to him. The axe was slashed down with a strong wind. Liu Zeqing had no time to resist, and the big axe passed through his neck and a huge head fell to the ground.
Chapter completed!