As the sun sets, the afterglow of the sunset is not only dyed red, but also the glacier on the top of the mountain in the distance is also dyed a red gold color. The glow of the sun illuminates everything in the heavens and the earth red.

At this moment, Shi Huashan, who was standing on the head of Andijan City, looked at the burning clouds in the sky, and the clouds in the sky burned from the west to the east, fiery and red, as if they were on fire.

Staring at the flame-like red at the end of the sky, an inexplicable anxiety arose in the bottom of my heart.

Daming is Huode!

This fire burning clouds is like this, isn't it exactly the fire virtue of the Ming Dynasty?

Perhaps, when people are faced with a desperate situation, they will always have all kinds of thoughts, for Shi Huashan, who has experienced decades of ups and downs, he has seen too many ups and downs over the years.

His father, Shi Tingzhu, was a hero of the Qing Dynasty, and behind him, Shi Huashan inherited the third-class earl. As the banner man of the Han army, he took the third female county lord of Prince Yu Duoduo as his wife, what an honor it is.

Although now, the whereabouts of his wife have long been unknown, maybe more than 20 years ago, she was sold to the Han family's house as a slave, or in the Mongolian family's cattle and horses, compared to the latter, he hopes the former, after all, those Mongolian people will never treat her as a human being, in the Han family, with her shrewdness, maybe she will not suffer.

But despite this, the emperor's trust in him has not changed, of course, this is also because although the Shi family is a Han military banner, it is also a Jurchen, and the Shi family's original surname is Guerjia, so although he is a Han military banner, he has always been regarded as his own by the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

But at this time, as a loyal minister of the Great Qing Kingdom, Shi Huashan's expression was solemn, and his heart was very anxious. The current Qing Kingdom is in a precarious situation, the army ordered by the emperor has been defeated, and he is staying in Andijan, even if he sticks here, what's the use?

How could it not be useful?

Once the Ming army crossed Andijan, from Andijan to the south, it was almost a flat river along the way, which was the granary of the Great Qing Kingdom!

But with Andijan's 5,000 defenders, how could he hold on here?

Looking at the dilapidated earthen city of Andijan, it is said to be a city, but compared with the city of the Central Plains, it can only be regarded as an earthen city built with bricks.

Regardless of this city, if you want to stop the Ming army, there is almost no possibility, and even with his eyes closed, Shi Huashan can think of what Andijan will look like once the Ming army kills him.

Thousands of people will die.

They will slaughter the entire city inside and outside the city, just like they did when the Qing Kingdom entered the customs. At that time, even this earthen city will probably be razed to the ground.

"Hey, the Celestial Cycle......"

After such a long sigh, Shi Huashan naturally thought of the Shi family, and thought of his father's past when he was favored after surrendering to Taizong, and then he sighed again.

Now, the Shi family may be the same as the Great Qing Kingdom, just like this sunset, and it is close to the end. Although it is the loyalty of the Great Qing Kingdom, every time I think of the Shi family, I will go to the end with the Great Qing Kingdom in the future. A wave of unwillingness rose in his heart. He was unwilling to let the Shi family perish with the Great Qing Kingdom like this.

How did his father preserve the wealth of the Shi family at any cost, and why did he do this? Taste is not just a way to live, but for the future of the Shi family.

But for now, it seems. The Shi family doesn't seem to have a future. Like the Great Qing Kingdom, there is no future.

"Those Ming people, why did we flee so far and they still didn't want to let us go? Unwilling to let us survive in a foreign land? ”

"Hey, how about retribution?"

"It's not retribution. Alas, if you want to blame us, it's so not a thing. Killed so many people. Can people not retaliate? ”

The soldiers on the side talked about each other, they were in their forties, and they were all bannermen who had enjoyed happiness in the capital, suffered hardships on the road, and made meritorious contributions to the Qing Dynasty, and they were the only ones who dared to speak like this.

"Retribution, when we were in Yunnan, we chased Yongli to fight, and if we didn't cut down the grass and eradicate the roots, we wouldn't be able to sleep well on our side, but now it's okay, and now it's people's turn to sleep unsteadily."

"Hey, you say, why don't we have a Zhu Mingzhong in the Great Qing Kingdom?"

"Zhu Mingzhong? That's the prince of the Ming Dynasty, even if we have, we have to call Aixin Jueluo Qingzhong, right? ”

"Qingzhong? Don't talk nonsense, the Ming Dynasty is the country's fortunes are unfinished, let's Qing Dynasty...... Hmph,"

The man smiled coldly, then took the firearm in front of him and said.

"What do you see here?"

"What's wrong?"

"What's wrong? What are the five elements of our Qing Dynasty? It is Shuide, when the country name was changed, it was said that it was necessary to use the fire virtue of the Ming Dynasty to use the water Deke, and it seemed that he had fulfilled his wish at that time, but when Emperor Zhu got up again, he used firearms all the way. Water, the same color of water, this firearm is naturally useless when it comes to water, why have we never suffered a loss in fighting with the natives here? ”

As soon as he said this, the people around him all looked at him, looking deeply appreciative, and when they heard him ask, they poked their heads and asked urgently.

"Why?"

Everyone didn't even dare to blink their eyes, they looked at this person, lest they miss a word.

"Because the natives here use swords, and there are very few firearms, we can barely suppress the formation, otherwise, hehe......"

When this sneered, the people on the side agreed.

"Oh, isn't that the truth, you see, fire fuels fire, water extinguishes fire, and firearms are used, Da Ming is naturally like a tiger, as for our ...... Grandma's, water overcomes fire. Just put out the fire, this is a fart! ”

In an instant, it seemed that all the unexplained questions were clearly explained, and they were there again.

"It's been a long time, it's not that we can't do it, it's that we can't do it in the Qing Dynasty?"

"It's not that the Qing Dynasty can't do it, it's that there is no virtue! These five elements are gone, and the qi of the Great Qing Dynasty is naturally gone......"

In the setting sun, although their words were not loud, they spread far and wide, reaching Shi Huashan's ears, making his brows tightly knit and his face showing some unhappiness.

Could it be that the qi of the Great Qing Kingdom is really gone?

"A bunch of damn things, how dare they talk such nonsense, uncle, the little ones are going to clean them up!"

Boerjin on the side just wanted to go over and clean up people, but was stopped by Shi Huashan over there.

"That's it, I can control my mouth, I can't control my heart, this person's heart is scattered......"

People's hearts are scattered!

From the day the Ming Dynasty crossed the Ili River, people's hearts were scattered!

There's nothing more desperate than a broken heart. Why do people's hearts scatter? Because the big guy is afraid of the Ming army, he is scared to the core.

Not only are these bannermen afraid of the Ming army, but even those young people who are clamoring to fight the Ming army, they are also afraid of the Ming army in their hearts, after all, their parents will always inadvertently reveal their fear of the Ming people.

Man......

It's only going to get more and more scared. The more afraid you are, the more you lose, and in the end, you will definitely not even have the courage to face the other party, just like when the Great Qing Kingdom first entered the customs, it attacked the city and plundered the land all the way, and it was unstoppable.

That's it!

It's all in the past!

The current Qing Kingdom is like the sunset on the horizon. There is no longer the momentum of the past. Maybe the Qi of the Great Qing Kingdom has really come to an end.

With a long sigh, Shi Huashan shook his head, and just as he was about to go down to the city, someone suddenly pointed in another direction and said.

"Look, we're coming from the south!"

Coming from the south?

Hurriedly rushed to the head of the city, and looked into the distance, Shi Huashan's face changed slightly, even if he didn't have a telescope, he knew who was coming.

"It's the eldest young master's centaurs!"

As soon as he saw Shi Wenbing, Shi Huashan asked urgently.

"Wen Bing, what's going on?"

He sent his son to guard the valley, it was his selfishness, originally according to his idea, the Ming army attacked the city, Shi Wenbing was not in the city, so he could naturally leave calmly, but he never thought that now it was actually reversed, and the Ming army attacked the valley behind Andijan first.

"Ama, don't mention it, a team of Ming troops killed the past, and the children didn't stop them desperately, if it weren't for the terrain, I'm afraid that so many people wouldn't be able to retreat."

Thinking that among the people who withdrew, there were only a few women, Shi Huashan asked.

"What about the others?"

"Dead, there are still some girls, as soon as they saw the Ming army, they ran over by themselves, and when they looked at that one by one, they couldn't wait to immediately lift their skirts and lie directly on their beds......"

This was not unexpected by Shi Huashan, after all, those women were all robbed, and it was normal for them to rush to surrender to the Ming army.

In some places, the women would even secretly open the gates, even after such a long time. There are still many women who are not willing to be the slaves of the flag man.

They used to be docile because they were afraid of the knife in the hands of the bannermen. Now they have a new choice. Naturally, it is no longer possible to serve the master willingly as in the past. In fact, they were not willing to do so at all.

"It's just some women, it's not a big deal, go back and grab some more."

It's just some women, and now they don't. In the future, we can grab some more from other places. There's nothing to be sorry about.

"Well, Amma......"

Looking left and right, Shi Wenbing said again.

"In my opinion, this Andijan must not be able to hold it, it's better to withdraw!"

There was some temptation in his words, and after saying this, he looked cautiously to the left and right.

"Withdraw? Where to retreat? Without the emperor's will, we can't go! ”

"But no, eldest prince, this is not to say that it will be withdrawn, in case the emperor investigates it......"

"Pursue?"

With a sneer, Shi Wenbing said.

"Accountability, how long can it be pursued? This Ming army is killing with great momentum, how long can we last? A year? Two years? I don't think even this winter will be able to hold on, and I want to retreat from the enemy with winter? Older ones, is it possible? How many snows have you seen here? Unless you hide in the mountains, otherwise, you won't even see anything in the snow, this battle can't go on, and we can't stop people, even if you stay here, it's a dead end. ”

"Eldest prince, you are increasing the momentum of others and destroying your own prestige."

Aldai's voice fell, and someone on the side said in a weird way.

"Does our Great Qing Kingdom still have the prestige to be destroyed?"

The casual sarcasm made everyone dumbfounded, they look at me, I look at you. Everyone knows that this sentence is the truth, and the Qing Dynasty has long lost any prestige. Since there has been no prestige for a long time, there is naturally no talk of raising the enemy's morale and destroying his own prestige.

"Wen Bing, you should say this as a minion,"

"Amma, the Great Qing Kingdom is definitely not going to work!"

In this case, it is here, he dares to say this, if it is a different place, Shi Wenbing really does not necessarily have the courage, after all, here, there is Ama here to support, and no one dares to say anything.

Besides, now the big guy's mind. He also understands that they are more eager to live than to be loyal to the Qing Dynasty.

After all, in the past so many years, it is the idea of living that has supported them to persist until now.

"Eldest prince, what are you talking about, we as slaves must do our best for our masters, you say this, isn't it taking advantage of the will of the Ming people."

"Ouch, you Boerjin is a loyal minister of the Great Qing Kingdom, but don't forget, there are 5,000 brothers in this city, and the families of 20,000 younger brothers, and their lives are difficult to accomplish."

As he spoke, he turned his head to look at the crowd and said.

"Everyone in the current situation knows that we haven't won a single battle since the Ming army fought, and it can even be said that we can't stop people at all, what about the emperor's personal expedition? Didn't you still let the family fight gray and withdraw, 100,000 troops, the most alive is 50,000 or 60,000 people, we are small enemies, it is a problem in itself, if it wasn't for Li Zicheng who seized the capital, Dolgon deceived Wu Sangui, we stole the capital, and there were those things later, the cycle of heavenly reason, retribution is not happy, and people's hearts are not enough to swallow elephants. ”

Looking around at the thoughtful crowd, Shi Wenbing said again.

"How many of us are there? How many people are there in the Ming Kingdom? How many centaurs? If we continue to fight like this, sooner or later we will all be dead, and we will have to die. ”

"The eldest prince, even if we don't fight, how can we live, but I heard that the Ming army came over this time, but he didn't leave a living mouth."

Many things even don't have to think about it to know the result, the relationship between the Qing Kingdom and the Ming Kingdom has long been a life-and-death situation, when the Great Qing Kingdom entered the customs, how many Han people were killed? Now the Ming people want to retaliate, that's a normal thing, if you want to live, that's something you don't want to think about, it's impossible for the Ming Dynasty to leave them alive, some people who escaped from the front by luck said, after the battle, the Ming army should have counted them.

Counted with a bayonet!

"Yes, there are some hatreds that can't be resolved!"

"It's not, if you want to blame it, it's to blame us for being too ruthless and poisonous, hey......"

After a long sigh, everyone looked like frosted eggplants, and all of them lost their energy, after all, it had only been a few decades. They clearly know what the Great Qing Dynasty did after entering the customs. I also know how the Ming army will treat them after they fight.

And Shi Huashan, who was still worried about the future of the Great Qing Kingdom, looked at his son's gaze and changed, and his understanding of his son made him know that his son must have something to say.

"Actually, it's not impossible to survive!"

Sure enough, just as Shi Huashan guessed, Shi Wenbing looked at everyone and said.

"If you want to live, it's not impossible!"

His voice fell. The people around him turned their eyes to him and stared at him. People want to live more than die.

"Oh? What is the best plan for the eldest prince? ”

"If you just want to live, you can just throw away the city, and then take your family, livestock, food or something to the mountains, those natives can live in the mountains for thousands of years, we can do it, we can't stay here, let's go to Afghanistan, Afghanistan can't work, let's go to Persia, or India, anyway, just wander around."

Before Shi Wenbing finished speaking, someone next to him said.

"Oh, eldest prince, that's not what I said, how many people have we killed over the years, those people don't seem to have relatives, and the credible teachings are the same, if we are left alone, maybe we will all be cleaned up, we will win a few lucky battles, but we can bleed to death slowly."

"But no, eldest prince, we are not Mongolians, Mongolians can graze, we are just planting fields."

"Hey, Le Laosan, I'll teach you to herd when the time comes."

"Don't fool around, you kid, if our 5,000 people escape to the south, it is estimated that it will not be enough to stuff people's teeth. Don't forget, those guys, all of them are not afraid of death. If we escape there, we may have to be swallowed alive by adults and children. ”

After coming here for so many years, they are naturally very clear about the character of the local natives, and it is precisely because of this that they are so cautious, in fact, it is not so much cautious as fearful.

A sea of blood feud.

The Han people can't forget it, and those natives won't forget it either. No matter which side it is, in the end it is all about wanting their heads.

"What then?"

In the panic of everyone, Shi Huashan stared at his son and asked.

"Wen Bing, the idea you came up with, isn't it this, this method, I'm afraid everyone has already thought about it!"

Faced with his father's inquiry, Shi Wenbing did not answer immediately, he just looked at the people around him. From the answers of these people, he has reached the answer he wants.

Everyone wants to live. In fact, he himself is the same, he also wants to live. That's why he made another choice.

"Live."

Looking at these people around him, he continued.

"If we want to live, someone must be willing to give us a way to live, but where is this way of life? Have you thought about it? Why can't we find a way to survive until now? It's not that I can't find it, but no one wants to give it, and now what I want to say is to earn a way for us to live. ”