The order was quickly passed on, and everyone quickly left the village and returned to the military camp along the original route.
Wang Ke was speechless when he saw this, but you rode away on horseback, while you were running back and forth on two legs.
"Quick, return to the military camp as quickly as possible!"
But there is no way. He has to listen to military orders like mountains.
On a hillside outside the camp of Shenji Camp.
"Your Majesty, it's almost time."
"How's the reconnaissance going around? Are there any ambushes around?"
Since the rebel army was made up of farmers, few of them knew how to ride horses, and they didn't know how to raise horses, so they always used two legs wherever they went.
"I've looked around and found no ambush. There are very few guards tonight."
"Hmph, is this minister of the Ministry of War nothing more than that? Today I will teach him a lesson. Don't show any mercy to the enemy!"
Li Zicheng looked at the firelight of the military camp in the distance, imagining how he would sit inside later.
"Everyone come in and follow me!"
Li Zicheng stood up directly, lit a torch and ordered to his men.
After seeing Li Zicheng's torch, the rebels in the distance took weapons and rushed into the military camp.
Thousands of people rushed into a military camp. When Li Zicheng led people in, he found that there were only a few soldiers at the entrance of the entire military camp.
Moreover, these few soldiers even ran away after seeing him.
"Oh no, we may have missed the point. There is no one here at all."
After carefully searching the entire military camp, it was found that there was no enemy in the camp.
"Something's wrong! Are you sure there are no ambushes around?"
"I looked carefully and there is no trace of anyone ambushing me."
This made Li Zicheng confused. There were no imperial troops in the military camp at such a late hour. So where can they go.
"No matter, let everyone take a rest for a while. After we have rested, we will return to the base camp."
It sounds like there's no problem, Li Zicheng doesn't want to waste his brains on this kind of thing.
"Your Majesty, is it possible that when we attacked their military camp, they had already gone to our lair?"
One of the leaders gave his guess.
After he finished speaking, the other leaders also thought it was possible and looked at Li Zicheng, wanting what the latter had to say.
"No, he must have expected it, we fell into the trap!"
Li Zicheng also reacted at this time, quickly stood up from the chair and said.
"Kill! Kill! Kill!"
Everyone heard the noise outside and came outside from the tent. They saw that the surrounding mountains were filled with people, and everyone was holding a torch.
There were also many cavalry standing in front of the military camp, led by Hu Yunqing and Yuan Chonghuan.
"Li Zicheng, I, Xu Weijing, are a man. As long as you put down your weapons and surrender, I can keep you alive!"
Xu Wei rode out and looked at Li Zicheng inside the military camp and said.
"Hahaha, I'm in your military camp now, and you've trimmed it so well. If you attack, a lot of people will die. You might as well let us all go!"
Li Zicheng would never consider surrender. When he touched the defense built by Xu Wei, he was amazed and proudly said to Xu Wei.
"Sir, what should we do? These guys won't come out at all. If we storm in, we will definitely suffer heavy casualties."
Looking at the fortifications he had built before, he didn't expect that they would become roadblocks that hindered him. If he attacked by force, he would also capture the military camp. He really couldn't bear to let his brothers die, so he could only come to Hu Yunqing's side. I wanted to ask if there is any solution.
"Don't worry, my lord has already prepared a backup plan."
Seeing Xu Wei's anxious look, Yuan Chonghuan said to him with a smile.
"What back-up plan?"
Seeing Yuan Chonghuan's confident look, Xu Wei didn't understand and asked Yuan Chonghuan doubtfully.
"Go, send the code to Wang Ke!"
Hu Yunqing did not say anything, but ordered Yuan Chonghuan to do things.
Yuan Chonghuan waved the torch. Wang Ke and the soldiers standing on the surrounding hillsides understood the meaning of this gesture and threw the torches into the military camp.
Then the people behind quickly brought up new torches. The person who threw the torch first raised his crossbow. After wrapping the arrow clusters on it and lighting it, he fired it towards the military camp down the mountain.
"It's so trivial that you think you can burn down the military camp like this? How ridiculous!"
Li Zicheng didn't panic at all about these torches and arrow clusters. He was just scratching his itch for such a solid fortification.
"No, there's a fire in the west!"
"Your Majesty, the south is also on fire."
"Most of the tents in the north have been set on fire and are spreading to this side."
Just when Li Zicheng was watching what trick Hu Yunqing was going to play, a series of sounds shocked Li Zicheng.
"Can you say that again!"
Li Zicheng didn't want to believe it at all, so he grabbed the leader who was reporting and shouted.
"Now we are surrounded by fire and it is spreading here. Many soldiers fled towards the surrounding hillsides and were shot to death by random arrows before they took a few steps."
"Your Majesty, we have been surrounded!"
The leader had no choice but to kneel on the ground and said.
"How many more of us are there now?"
Li Zicheng saw fires breaking out all over the military camp. If this continued, they would all be burned to death here sooner or later.
Seeing that there were fewer and fewer people around, he anxiously asked the leader.
"After a simple calculation, we only have more than a thousand people who can move now."
The leader also did a rough count before he came.
"A rough estimate is that there must be at least four to five thousand people directly in front of us."
"Yes, the other three sides are blocked by fire. Now we can only rush out from the front."
Several leaders under his command had no choice but to wait for Li Zicheng to make a decision.
"Let's surrender."
Originally waiting for the order to kill, when they heard that Li Zicheng was going to surrender, all the leaders and soldiers were stunned.
Is this still Li Zicheng who led them to overthrow the rule? Why would you say such a thing.
Li Zicheng was also struggling in his heart. There were still more than a thousand people, but the opponent was an elite of more than 5,000 people. There was no suspense at all.
What Hu Yunqing said before came to mind. In order to save the lives of so many people, he had only one way to surrender.
After a while, everyone came to a conclusion. Li Zicheng rode out of the military camp alone.
"Don't even shoot arrows!"
Seeing Li Zicheng riding towards him on horseback, the archer behind him was about to raise his hand and shoot him, but Hu Yunqing stopped him.
