With the help of someone like Zhao Changshou who was familiar with the enemy's internal situation, the raid by Yang Zhen's troops on the Manchu Tatar Xipingshan camp went extremely smoothly that afternoon.

Li Shouzhong and several of his men had already figured out the path to Xiping Mountain over and over again.

It was Shen hour that afternoon and the sun was setting in the west. Yang Zhen just ordered the entire Musket Battalion to set off, with Li Shouzhong's troops as the vanguard and take a detour to the east.

Accompanying them were a group of grenadiers led by the agile and courageous Zhang Tianbao.

Before Yang Zhen led his troops to set off, he also ordered the strong men selected by Yuan Jin and Hu Changhai to board Luotuo Mountain and temporarily accept Pan Xi's command. At the same time, they also temporarily took over the battlefield trenches of Pan Xi and other troops on Luotuo Mountain.

As for Pan Xi and Wang Yuyou, they were ordered to wait for the weather to get a little later, then go down the mountain and go around to the back of the Manta camp at the foot of Luotuo Mountain to choose a place to ambush.

On February 22, the 13th year of Chongzhen's reign, Yang Zhen followed Zhang Chen, with Zhang Guogan's two musketeers at the back, Li Shouzhong's sentry as the forward, and Zhang Tianbao's grenadier sentry in the middle, along the thorns and rocks. The coast of Luotuoshan is quietly advancing towards Xiping Mountain.

And the rumbling cannons outside Fuzhou City were still ringing one after another.

At this time, the sun, which was already in the west, was shining from west to east, and its afterglow was so strong that it made the sea to the west of Luotuo Mountain shine with golden light.

This is beneficial to the troops advancing from west to east led by Yang Zhen, but extremely disadvantageous to Aha, who is guarding the camp on Xiping Mountain and looking westward.

But even so, in order to avoid exposing their whereabouts early, Yang Zhen and his party of more than 1,200 people still spent a lot of time on their eastward march.

It was not until the golden light of the setting sun was blocked by Camel Mountain and the sky began to darken that Yang Zhen followed Zhang Chen and Zhang Guogan's rear group of musketeers and arrived at a pine forest at the foot of the west mountain of Xiping Mountain.

The top of Xiping Mountain is flat, and the soil layer on it is very thin. Below the thin soil layer are rocks. It is difficult for trees to grow, and only some shrubs and weeds grow there.

However, from the top of Xiping Mountain to the foot of the mountain, there are circles of sparse or dense pine forests growing around it.

Li Shouzhong killed Aha, a small group of soldiers led by Zhao Changshou, just outside the pine forest at the foot of Xiping Mountain, at a patrol point at the intersection of the mountain.

Now that they were here again, Li Shouzhong wanted to wait for Yang Zhen's arrangements, so he whispered the order for the team to stay and hide.

"Commander, is it time for Zhao Changshou to take action?"

As soon as Li Shouzhong waited for Yang Zhen's arrival, he immediately stepped forward to ask for instructions on the next arrangements.

At this time, Zhao Changshou had also retrieved his helmet from the place where he was previously captured by Li Shouzhong, and was following Yang Zhen, waiting for instructions.

"Li Shouzhong, how many Han Tatars from the Zhenglan Banner have you killed here?"

"Eight! Eight in total!"

"Where's the body?"

"The body is hidden! Oh, I understand!"

Soon, Li Shouzhong led several people into the forest and found the body they had hidden in a ditch covered by a thick layer of dead branches and leaves.

Then, he quickly took off the dirty Zhenglan Banner clothes and armor from the corpses, and found the corresponding helmets from under the dead branches and leaves.

"Li Shouzhong, Zhang Tianbao, each of you choose three more people, put on your armor together, and follow Zhao Changshou to deceive the camp gate! The camp gate has been opened, occupy it immediately!"

"Got the order!"

Everyone already knows about Yang Zhen's plan.

Mantatars like to repeat their old tricks, and Yang Zhen certainly likes them too.

Li Shouzhong and Zhang Tianbao felt very relaxed when they thought that they did not have to attack Xiping Mountain, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack. They were particularly happy when they accepted the order.

Next, the two of them quickly selected the strong soldiers they were preparing to train and promote, and changed their armor under the cover of the pine forest.

In fact, there is no need to change it, because Yang Zhen's troops don't have any decent armor at all.

Except for each of them wearing a large felt hat, a round-collared narrow-sleeved blouse in the red color of the Ming army, and a black hooded cloak that doubled as a blanket, they had no other uniform clothing.

While they were wearing the uniforms of the Tatar Zhenglan Banner soldiers, Yang Zhen asked Zhao Changshou some more questions and learned that there were separate gates in the east and west of Xipingshan Camp.

The east gate is the main gate, which is the entrance and exit gate for soldiers and horses. The west gate is the entrance and exit gate for cutting wood and collecting fodder in the camp.

"So, you were captured by Li Shouzhong and his men this afternoon, and the others were killed. Could it have alerted the soldiers guarding the camp on the mountain?!"

When Yang Zhen heard what Zhao Changshou said, he was immediately alert to the danger of being discovered.

But Zhao Changshou's answer made Yang Zhen completely relieved.

"The Governor is overly worried. That Gushanbeizi Yue Le is just a 16-year-old kid who has too high an eye! Li Shutai asked him to seal the west gate and leave only the east gate for entry and exit, but he didn't care.

"Li Shutai asked him to send more troops to guard the west, but he turned a deaf ear and only sent some more patrols at night. When Xiao Xiao brought people to guard here during the day, it was Li Shutai's personal assignment, not an order from Yue Le.

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"I see! Haha, this Li Shutai is actually a good and devoted slave!"

While they were talking, Li Shouzhong, Zhang Tianbao and their respective subordinates, a total of eight people, all put on the armor of the Han army of the Zhenglan Banner of the Manchu Tatars.

Upon seeing this, Yang Zhen waved his hand towards Zhao Changshou, who bowed and saluted, then turned and left.

Li Shouzhong and Zhang Tianbao, one on the left and the other on the right, followed closely, while the remaining few people also brought their own equipment and followed.

At this time, the sun had set and the sky was dim. In the pine forest that blocked the sky, the light was even dimmer than outside.

Several people accompanying Zhang Tianbao simply took the opportunity to light torches before walking out of the forest.

And the torches they lit were discovered by the camp guards on Xiping Mountain as soon as they walked out of the forest.

Because the inner edge of the pine forest is just below the outer edge of the flat top of Xiping Mountain.

"Who?! Who is there?"

"It's me, Zhao Changshou, the eldest follower of Li Jia La Zhangjing's family in Fushun, Fushun!"

Yang Zhen and his troops are now halfway up Xiping Mountain, passing through a large dark pine forest in front of them, above which is the destination of their trip, the Xiping Mountain Camp where Yue Le is located.

At this time, their disguise and concealment method, once seen through by the camp guards above, they can only resort to outsmarting and attacking by force.

Listening to the faint conversation in the distance, Yang Zhen and others had their hearts in their throats.

"Commander, we are all here, let's just launch a hard attack! Rush up, use the new explosive tube made by the ammunition factory, blow up the fence, and then rush in. There are some old, weak, sick and disabled inside anyway. We

I am fair and aboveboard, what can they do to me?"

Zhang Guogan was obviously very impatient with Yang Zhen's cautious so-called outsmarting.

"Shut up!"

Yang Zhen shouted and stopped Zhang Guogan's complaints.

At this moment, I heard a reply from the soldiers guarding the camp on the top of Pingshan Mountain from a distance.

"Hey, it's Brother Changshou! Why did you come up here? Is there anything going on over at Camel Mountain?"

"Brother, that's why you're here! There's a new situation over at Luotuo Mountain, and my master specially asked me to come and report it to Master Beizi!"

"If you have any situation, please tell me and we will convey it to you! It's getting late now, and Mr. Bei Zi has already issued a military order. No one is allowed to approach the village gate after sunset!"

"Brother, it's me, Zhao Changshou, not an outsider! If my master asked me to report it to Master Bei, I can only tell it to Master Bei face to face. If you don't let me in, what should I say?! It has delayed my master's important event.

Who of you can take the responsibility?!"

After Zhao Changshou finished speaking, the guards on the top of the mountain fell silent.

At this moment, Yang Zhen led three sentry musketeers and one sentry grenadiers through the dark woods and gradually arrived at the edge of the woods.

The conversation between Zhao Changshou and the guards at the stronghold on the top of Pingshan Mountain clearly fell on his ears.

Looking at Zhao Changshou and his group more than ten steps outside the forest, and then raising his head to look at the cliff several feet high not far away, Yang Zhen once again resisted the urge to launch a strong attack immediately.

The place where Zhao Changshou stood under it and talked with the guards above was the only slope formed by the collapse of the cliff on the southwest edge of Xiping Mountain.

The wooden fence erected by the Tatars on the flat roof of Xiping Mountain could not stand here. It was moved to the middle of the mountain and was stuck at the only entrance to the slope. It can be said that one man can block it and ten thousand people cannot open it.

"What should we do, Governor? If the gunfire outside Fuzhou City stops and a fight breaks out here, Dorgon, Abatai, Jierhalang, and Kong Youde will definitely hear it. Once they send

People rushed over to rescue us, but things will not go well tonight!"

Zhang Chen and others, who followed Yang Zhen to attack the Xipingshan camp, had already learned from Zhao Changshou who the princes of the Manchu Tatar banners, Baylor, were who were going south to conquer Jinhai Town.

Usually, if one of these people led an army to attack Liaoxi or Xuandajibei, it would be difficult for the Ming Dynasty's various border troops to deal with.

Now, these people have gathered under Dorgon's command and arrived outside Fuzhou City together. How can they not make people worried?

Even a figure like Zhang Chen couldn't help but sweat after learning from Zhao Changshou that the Manchu Tatars had come to conquer their banner prince Beile, and secretly felt lucky to have persuaded Yang Zhen to leave Fuzhou City.

Otherwise, the consequences will be unpredictable.

It was getting dark at this time. If the bombardment outside Fuzhou City stopped after nightfall, then their attack on Xiping Mountain would attract the Manchu Tatars outside Fuzhou City, and the consequences would be unpredictable.

"Wait and see!"

As soon as Yang Zhen finished speaking, he heard the guard on the top of the mountain who had been silent or discussing for a long time not far away reply again.

"Okay, okay, brother Changshou, remember, you owe brother a favor today. When brother asks you for help in the future, don't say you don't know me!"

"Haha, it's easy to talk, easy to talk about. If you have the chance, let's invite some of you to drink and eat meat!"
Chapter completed!