Hearing Li Yan say this, everyone was stunned.

"What do you mean?" Huang Degong frowned and asked.

"The people plundered by the Tartars along the way were at least nearly 20,000, but there were only more than 8,000 left after several battles to fill the cannon fodder and the escapees, which is also what the Tartars themselves said, but we don't know how much property they plundered, but looking at the hundreds of carts of baggage, it should not be a small amount."

"At present, the Tartars have to hand over what they have plundered, and for them they are busy working in vain, they are unwilling, for example, it is better to hand over the grain and grass than to hand it over, and it is possible to release the people in advance to save grain and grass," Li Yan deduced.

Huang Degong couldn't help but scolded: "Originally, the Tartar only ate three meals a day and only half full, but now I have to eat five meals at a time, and I would rather waste it than return it."

Li Yan nodded: "Maybe."

"Then why don't they return the baggage in advance, it's too much trouble to pull and drag down the process," Tu Yuan asked.

This Li Muxian can answer: "The baggage is all-encompassing, there are gold, silver, jewelry, gestures and trivialities, and the tartar is kept and not thrown away, firstly, as a talisman, and secondly, it is not excluded that it will carefully select those gold, silver, and western soft and valuable ones to hide on the body...... When they leave the customs, we won't have to search them one by one."

"Fucking it's hateful, the dog Tartar has so many eyes, no less than the little eunuch," Huang Degong said hatefully.

"These are all speculations, it is not ruled out that they play other tricks, we must deal with them carefully" Li Yan pondered for a while, and ordered Tu Yuan and Hao Shaoqi to lead 3,000 troops to immediately reinforce Cheng Ming's men and horses to strictly control the movements of the Qing army, and at the same time ordered someone to send the news to Chang Yu.

The ancient town, a big village between Haifeng County and Binzhou, was burned down by the Qing army when it went south, and the villagers were also taken captive, maybe they were still in captivity at this time, maybe they were already being charged with cannon fodder and died, who knows, anyway, the Qing army doesn't care about these.

After the peace talks, the morale of the Qing army was low and the house leak happened to rain overnight, so Dolgon had to order to camp in the ancient town to rest and recuperate, to be honest, the Qing army was really too tired.

From the capital all the way to be surrounded and blocked by the Ming army did not stop for a while, and finally ran thousands of miles to the city of Qingzhou, several battles in vain, this half a month was almost not idle, in addition to the high mental tension in the preparation for the battle is to siege the city, the iron fight can not stand.

Originally, they could survive for a while by relying on morale, but since the news of the peace talks spread to the whole army, the soldiers knew that this trip was in vain, and they immediately wilted listlessly.

It was rainy, and at the door of the handsome tent outside the village, Dolgon looked at the dilapidated ruins in front of him, and he was quite emotional, he had never thought of being so embarrassed when he came.

Man Dahai came over and said in a low voice: "Lord Wang, the Ming army is staring at the reinforcement five miles away."

The corners of Dolgon's mouth smiled slightly: "Let them go, as long as you don't go within five miles, don't clash with them" As he spoke, he turned around and walked into the tent to meet Duoduo's eyes, and the little eunuch's reaction was very sensitive and fast!

"That means he's unhappy, so I'm happy!" Duoduo snorted.

Li Yan and Li Muxian speculated about the same, Dolgon's original intention of suddenly releasing more than a thousand people ahead of schedule was to make a bad eye, and this bad heart was proposed by Duoduo.

Releasing the hostages can not only reduce the burden but also save food, and more importantly, it can bring a lot of trouble to the Ming army and increase a very big burden!

Just imagine, there are thousands of mouths to eat all of a sudden, can the little eunuch be relaxed, he can't ignore these people and let them starve to death! Even a porridge shed is a big price.

"What you see is only his unhappiness, and what I see is his caution" Dolgon sat down with a dark face: "Yesterday, there were only more than a thousand dog's tails behind him and still dangling ten miles away, and it was only an hour since we released the hostages, and he increased his troops by nearly five thousand and approached five miles, which shows that even if he talks about peace, he is still extremely cautious."

"Brother Fourteen's worry is actually just seeing that the dog eunuch is so cautious and has no way to start" Duoduo smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Fourteenth brother, I know that you are unwilling, but the situation is forcing people to save your strength from the peace and stability at the moment is the best plan, just put it down for the time being, you have also seen that the dog eunuch is so careful, if one accidentally talks and breaks, the consequences will be unbearable!" ”

Dolgon didn't speak with a dark face, and let out a long breath: "Even if you put away your thoughts, who dares to guarantee that the dog eunuch will not make a trick, just rely on his golden sign?" ”

Duoduo sighed: "No one dares to guarantee that his words are true, but our brothers can see that the gelding dog doesn't want to fight until he is forced to do so, and he can't afford to lose both sides if he really fights, not to mention that we still have hostage materials in our hands, and he doesn't dare to drop anything if he can't let him go until the pass."

Dolgon snorted, "But my heart is always unsteady."

"Brother Fourteen has been overworked recently, and he will relax after resting" Duoduo said, stood up and walked out of the tent and beckoned, and a few Qing soldiers escorted a frightened and beautiful woman into the tent.

In the wilderness twenty miles southeast of Boxing County, Qingzhou Prefecture, hundreds of cavalry walked slowly in the mud, and it was Chang Yu and his party who got up early in the morning and set up camp to go north after resting overnight on the bank of the Beiyang River.

Passing through the village, ten rooms and nine empty are mostly ruins, and the corpses can always be found in the wilderness, most of them are civilians, and the cause of death is unknown, but it is absolutely impossible to escape the hands of the Qing army.

How many lives have been destroyed in this war, how many people have lost their homes, and the most injured people are forever in the war!

Chang Yu can especially understand the sentence at this time, prosperity, the people suffer, death, the people suffer.

Jia Waixiong and Lao Jiu chatted side by side in front of them, but they didn't have as much sentimentality as the little eunuchs, for them, life and death were downplayed, and they enjoyed the moment.

"Before leaving, I gave Wang Erhua fifty taels, so that he could find someone to marry from a good family, even if she didn't marry, the silver would be enough for her to spend the rest of her life." Jia Waixiong was a little sad.

Lao Jiu sighed: "You are really willing!" "Fifty taels of silver is a huge amount of money in this year, enough for a family of three to live for ten years.

"Hey, isn't this a long-term love, Lao Tzu received a lot of rewards this time and gave her more, the silver is something outside the body to do our business, I don't know when I will burp fart, I'm afraid that I will take the lifeless flower again, so I will be happy as soon as Huo Huo finishes!" Jia Waixiong shrugged his shoulders and looked indifferent.

Lao Jiu smiled obscenely again: "I have been in love for a long time, I didn't sleep all night before" caused everyone next to him to laugh.

Chang Yu also came over when he heard the voice: "I heard that you call Fei Wang Erhua every day not to marry, why don't people want to marry you, it's just a matter of being ruthless."

"Hey, it's really not" Jia Waixiong said seriously: "If the world is stable and the lowly duties are really taken away, but ......" said and sighed: "In this world, there is no tomorrow and the lowly position is a soldier, so I don't want to burden her, it may be better to live in Qingzhou safely."

"It's true, it's not that Wang Erhua doesn't like you at all, and doesn't want to go with you" Chen Suole provoked Jia Waixiong.

"And, I'm really not bragging, that Wang Erhua likes me, and when I leave, I cry a handful of snot and tears, and I have to go with me." Jia Waixiong patted his chest: "But buddy refused to say a word to her, so she didn't entangle."

What did you say, everyone asked curiously.

"Don't love me, no results!"

Damn, everyone suddenly turned on their backs, retching, more than ten horse whips were drawn towards Jia Waixiong, you are disgusting or not disgusting,

Jia Waixiong fled in the wilderness: "It's really dripping, I'm not lying!" Buddies have been crisscrossing the flowers for more than ten years, and countless little ladies have devoted themselves to ...... with me"

Everyone scolded and chased angrily, Chang Yu laughed behind him, and the tears of laughter came out, because he believed it was true, it seemed ridiculous, but in fact, wasn't it a small microcosm of this troubled world?

How many innocent people were forced to become prostitutes by the war, and how many soldiers did not know what would happen tomorrow today, suppressed their emotions, pinned their affection on wine, and lived day by day.

A fast horse drove in front, and it was Li Yan's herald who reported the matter to Chang Yu when he heard it, and everyone couldn't help cheering: The Tartar was scared, and he actually released him in advance.

"It's disgusting!" Chang Yu exhaled: "Dolgon, this is unwilling, doing something disgusting and disgusting."

Everyone was puzzled, Chang Yu analyzed with them, and then he came to his senses: "The Tartars of the dog day have sinister intentions, we don't have much food for the soldiers, where can there be surplus food to help the people."

"This is his cleverness, it seems to show generosity, but in fact it is to make the governor disgusting and disgusting, he left the food, but the people let it go, these thousands of mouths, hey, they can't starve to death."

"Since TMD is so dishonest, why don't you beat them up! Lao Jiu hated and scolded."

"Beat, it's easy to get off the gun, but it's okay to knock it" Chang Yu sneered