After dinner and washing, Zhu Youxiao took Li Dingguo and Hao Shaoqi out of the big farm.

Walking to a small earthen bag not far before Shanhaiguan, Zhu Youxiao raised his eyes and looked in the direction of Shanhaiguan.

The majestic and incomparably magnificent Shanhaiguan, at night, stands between the mountains and mountains like a creeping giant beast.

The first pass in the world, at this time, the head of Shanhaiguan City, is very quiet, and there is a lantern every short distance.

Outside the city, looking from a distance, the imperial army is still arriving continuously, the vanguard troops began to stay in various large farms, the main gate of Shanhaiguan is particularly tense, and the lanterns on the city are also hanging relatively densely.

In the city, there is still a panic, even if Zu Dashou and Wang Zhichen tried their best to appease, and even sent troops to suppress it, ordinary soldiers and low-level officers, as well as the people, everyone was still at a loss, and their hearts were panicked.

Is this a rebellion?

Most of the officers and men were panicked when they saw such a huge tense confrontation inside and outside Shanhaiguan.

To tell the truth, ordinary officers and soldiers in Liaodong never thought that they would rebel one day.

But how can we explain the situation today?

There were many fires outside the city, and the sky was reflected in a purple red, and from far west, where the super official road was, there was from time to time the rumbling sound of carriages and horses and footsteps, like the muffled thunder of winter, rolling in the sky.

Zu Dashou rode a tall fiery red war horse, and walked on the central street in the city with a heavy heart, and behind him were the large and small officers of the ancestral family and more than a thousand family members.

The family system of the Ming Empire has a long history.

For various reasons, the imperial court did not object to the generals supporting their families.

So far, the family of military generals is often synonymous with elite troops.

They are well-fed, well-dressed, well-fed, well-trained, well-equipped, and have strong combat effectiveness, and they are the killer weapons of all military generals.

What's more, they and their owners have a relationship of both prosperity and loss.

Therefore, when the family fights, they are quite desperate.

Due to the high cost of supporting the family, even the general army could not afford to support too many familymen, so until the last moment of the war, the military generals were reluctant to use the family.

However, once the family is put into use, it means that the decisive moment has come.

Whether it is a military general or a family member, they will definitely fight desperately and get out.

During the Wanli period, the 8,000 families of Li Chengliang, the general soldier of Liaodong, were typical special cases, and they were truly invincible at that time.

It was getting late and the night was deep.

Martial law has begun in the city, and night walks are prohibited, and soldiers and horses patrol the streets from time to time.

But Zu Dashou and his entourage heard from time to time the slightest sound of glamour coming from the deep mansion courtyard on both sides of the street, obviously those wealthy officials and gentry living in the luxurious mansion are still living a life of spending time and drinking.

In those mansions that were closer to Guancheng Street, the nobles were afraid that if they were heard by the people and patrol soldiers on the street, it would cause all kinds of bad influences.

They instructed the singing and dancing to drink without gongs and drums, or even silk and bamboo, but to let the beautiful courtesans use red sandalwood or ivory to clapp, gently point the board eyes, and sing in a low voice.

Sometimes the song is as thin as a warm spring breeze, lingering, sultry, and seemingly absent, hovering over the richly painted roof beams, and then flying towards the dark sky.

Zu Dashou was riding on horseback, his face was pale, and he was thinking about things expressionlessly, but Zu Dale, Wu Sangui and the others behind him were all angry.

Zu Dale said angrily: "These bastards, we are here to fight to the death with the imperial army, but these people are still spending all day and drinking here, do they really have to wait until the imperial army outside the gate will enter the city before they will wake up?" ”

Wu Sangui, who was young and old, said lightly with a cold look in his eyes: "Okay, they don't have to worry!" If the imperial army breaks through the barrier, they only need to show loyalty, and they still spend all their days drinking and living? ”

"Think beautifully!"

Zu Dale pursed his lips, "According to the reports of those spies, the current emperor is very different from the original, and the huge capital has been completely cleaned up by him regardless of it!" ”

"Today's entire Shuntian Mansion and Yongping Mansion, a few days ago, most of those high-ranking officials and landlords, large and small, were raided, and some were even wiped out!"

"If the imperial army breaks through, they won't be able to escape!"

"Shut up!" Zu Dashou shouted in a low voice: "Can you also say these things nonsense? If you are heard by others and tell those big and small families, you will all have to walk around without eating! ”

"These rich gentry who have various connections with Jiangnan are not something we can afford to provoke."

Zu Dashou educated his own children, "Our ancestral family, although it is a Liaoxi Wang clan, also controls most of the officers and soldiers in Liaodong, in the eyes of which big families, it is just an upstart." ”

"Humph!" Zu Dale snorted coldly, but he didn't dare to refute Zu Dashou, so he was silent.

As they spoke, everyone had arrived at the gate of the inner city, and when they left the gate of the inner city, the number of beggars and homeless people on both sides of the street increased in vain.

These days are getting colder and colder, snowflakes are falling sporadically from time to time, and coupled with the war, nearly 100,000 people have fled into Shanhaiguan City from all over the Liaoning West Corridor.

However, there was no place to contain them in the city, so many people had to sleep under the eaves on both sides of the streets, and people crowded into piles for fear of freezing to death.

They shivered, groaned, whined, and sighed in the biting wind......

The women whispered to God, mourning and weeping, and the children shrunk in their mother's arms, crying and crying out for hunger, and the immature cries tore the desperate hearts of their parents.

As soon as Zu Dashou walked closer, they were patient for the time being, so as not to be driven back to the Liaoxi Corridor as rioters, and most likely, they would be hacked to death by these fierce officers and soldiers!

As for the west of Shanhaiguan, these displaced people want to go, but these Liaodong generals will not let them go.

They were afraid that the various situations in the pass would be known to the imperial army, and in that case, it would be over.

Since the Shanhaiguan began to close the city gates, nearly 100 refugees have died every day, and on one day, the number of dead reached 2 or 300.

Although some of the well-meaning and wealthy families in the Kannai have set up porridge factories to provide donations, the mortality rate is getting higher and higher, especially the elderly and children.

Tonight is blowing a northeast wind, and the cold is terrible, I wonder how many large and small corpses will be carried to the mass graveyard outside the city in the east tomorrow morning?

Looking at these homeless people shivering in the cold wind, the children of the ancestral family and Wu Sangui and other young people all showed a trace of unbearable expression on their faces, but at this time, they were also too busy to take care of themselves, and they couldn't help it, so they had to forcibly turn their heads away and stop watching.

This is like the chaos in the first level today, where people are panicked.