"Amitabha, the king has won the prize." Tao Min stood up and replied, "After King Chuang conquered Yanchang County, the poor monk has already told King Chuang, King Chuang only needs to do what the poor monk wants, and the world will be at his fingertips." The poor monk has other things to do, and tomorrow the poor monk will say goodbye to King Chuang. ”

"Monk, are you going to leave so soon?" Li Guo didn't know what Tao Min had said to Li Zicheng, "It's better for the monk to stay with us, and the great cause of the king still needs the assistance of the monk." ”

"Amitabha, General Lee." Tao Min now knows Li Guo, "What the poor monk wants to do is also to assist King Chuang, and the general will understand it in a few days." ”

Li Zicheng didn't keep Tao Min anymore: "The monk has something to do, and King Benchuang is not forced to stay." Today, I will wait for a drunk party to rest and see off the monks. ”

These days, while waiting for firearms, Tao Min and Li Zicheng had a long talk for a few days. Tao Min's suggestion to Li Zicheng was to completely copy Li Yan's idea later. After Li Zicheng conquered Yanchang County, he wanted to take Yan'an Mansion when the Ming Army and the Yulin Army did not react, after all, Yanchang County was still too small, and only by taking Yan'an Mansion could he say that he had a preliminary foothold. And Tao Min suggested to Li Zicheng that the peasant army should play a banner and give free grain to the land. Respect the virtuous and meritorious, eliminate the mob and compassionate the people. Falsely practice benevolence and righteousness, forbid soldiers to commit adultery and killing, and win people's hearts in order to achieve great things.

Tao Min knew very well in his heart that in the original history, Zhang Fengyi committed suicide. In March of the next year, Yang Sichang took office as the secretary of the Ministry of War, and proposed the policy of "four squares and six corners, ten sides of the net" to suppress the peasant army, and at the same time advocated peace with the Qing Dynasty. Although history has changed now, Zhang Fengyi did not commit suicide, but it is not very clear whether Yang Sichang can be reused by Chongzhen Tao Min. Tao Min's heart is extremely hopeful that Chongzhen can make peace with Huang Taiji, so that the Ming Dynasty will free up his hands to deal with Yulin Bay. And if you want the Ming Dynasty to take the initiative to make peace with the Qing Dynasty, Li Zicheng must not fall, not only can not fall, but must also grow stronger, so as to drag the Ming Dynasty and the Yulin Army.

The surprise attack on Yanchang County was a great success, but Tao Min also knew in his heart that although this move was ruthless, it could not hurt Yulinwan's muscles and bones, and his combination punch would continue. Creating a riot in Yulin Bay during the Spring Festival will be his second punch, and the third punch will be the breakthrough of the Qing Dynasty and the attack of Westerners next year. Three heavy punches, I don't believe that Yulin Bay can still hold up.

Tao Min's statement to Li Zicheng was that he was going to Macau in the south to contact the Portuguese, hoping to buy more powerful firearms from the Portuguese. Li Zicheng didn't know anything about Portugal, but he was very interested in firearms, so he agreed to Tao Min to leave Yanchang County.

Lin Zhaolong took the troops withdrawn from Yanchang County and met Wang Qianxiang's reinforcements on the way, and the two sides simply exchanged information and withdrew to Datong Town, and Zhou Lei also rushed to Datong Town with half a regiment.

"Li Zicheng has too many soldiers and horses, and the firearms are very fierce, and Yanchang County is completely gone." At the meeting of several traversers, Lin Zhaolong said a word and then stopped talking.

"Did you tell your family the news that Yanchang County was attacked by Li Zicheng?" Gu Yunkun asked.

"We have sent someone to inform the family and Jiang Beiming." Zhou Lei replied, "But we don't know the specific situation, let alone Yanchang County, which has fallen, and we haven't told our families." ”

"Send someone to deliver another letter to the family immediately." Lin Zhaolong said, "It is impossible for our three regiments to recover Yanchang County, so I suggest that we step up our defense here and wait for the orders from our families." ”

On the twenty-seventh day of the lunar month, there are only three days before the New Year, and there is a singing and dancing in Yulin Bay. Although the committee and the Military Commission received a report from Zhou Lei that Yanchang County had been attacked by Li Zicheng, the news that Yanchang County had fallen was not returned. In accordance with the general procedure, the Military Commission issued a directive to Datong, Xuanfu, and Yanchang counties, urging the three localities to step up their defenses and reinforce each other at any time.

In addition to the staff on duty and some factories that cannot stop production, the rest of the people in Yulin Bay have a collective holiday on the 25th day of the lunar month. Now, with the newly recruited displaced people, the population of the entire Yulin Bay has reached 1340,000, completely catching up with the scale of a small city in later generations.

The commercial area outside the earthen wall is noisy with people, buying New Year's goods, listening to operas and books, calling friends for a few drinks, and all kinds of people crowding the streets.

Cao Lin walked slowly down the street with a few patrols.

"Head, we've been patrolling for almost two hours, why don't we find a place to rest and have some tea." A patrol suggested to Cao Lin.

"Okay, let's go to the front one." Cao Lin said, "Hurry up and eat and drink, according to the regulations, there is only a quarter of an hour of rest." ”

Four or five patrolmen walked into a restaurant on the side of the road: "Man, let's have some tea and snacks, be quick, we only have a quarter of an hour to rest." ”

"I know, I'm coming right away, I can't delay your patrol." The guy replied.

"Head, sit here." A patrol beckoned Cao Lin to sit down, and Cao Lin casually glanced at the lobby of the restaurant.

Cao Lin's heart suddenly had some doubts, there were four or five tea guests sitting in a corner of the hall, and they were also like himself, they did not ask for wine and food, but were drinking tea and eating snacks.

But Cao Lin felt a little strange, it was the last few days of the year, and the other guests in the hall were discussing the New Year's goods in twos and threes, but these people were silent, just bowing their heads and eating.

Cao Lin stared at these people quietly for a while, one of them probably noticed that Cao Lin was looking at them, raised his head and looked at Cao Lin for a while, and then lowered his head and continued to eat.

Cao Lin knocked lightly on the table a few times, stood up and walked in front of those people: "Several, I am the inspector of the Yulin Bay patrol house, may I ask if you are from Yulin Bay, or are you from other places?" ”

The person who was looking at Cao Lin just now stood up and replied, "We are not from Yulin Bay, we are from Annan. ”

"Yes, may I ask what you are doing in Yulin Bay?"

"We're here to do business."

"What kind of business?"

"Rice, we do the rice business."

"Then when did you arrive in Yulin Bay and which firm did you do rice business with?"

"Well, we got here yesterday, yesterday."

Cao Lin is getting more and more strange, the Chinese New Year is coming soon, and all the businesses that can close their doors are closed, especially the rice shop, who will not have rice at home during the New Year. How could they have come to Yulin Bay yesterday to do the rice business, and now that it is past the meal, they are here to drink tea leisurely.

Cao Lin looked up and down, and suddenly asked, "What is behind you, can I take a look?" ”

"It's nothing, sir, some change of clothes."

"Open." Cao Lin pointed to a package on the ground and said, his right hand unconsciously pressed on the handcuff on his waist. How can clothes be placed on the ground.

Annan slowly lifted the package to the table, and just about to open it, Cao Lin held it down: "You all stand back." ”

Cao Lin could clearly see that the package was definitely not clothes, and the weight of a bag of clothes could not be so heavy. Several patrols in the back surrounded them, and some of the patrols had already drawn their handcuffs: "Stand back, stand back." ”

"Do it." The Annanite suddenly shouted in Annanite, slammed Cao Lin headlong, and pulled out a machete from the package.

A gunshot rang out, and the handcuff in the patrolman behind Cao Lin fired, but Cao Lin was also hit by this Annan man.

"Huhu", several benches flew out of the hands of these Annan people and smashed into Cao Lin and others.

Cao Lin and the other patrols hurriedly dodged sideways, and by the time they drew their handcuffs and stood firm, the Annan people on the opposite side had already taken out machetes from the package and pounced.

"Fire." Cao Lin shouted, and the handcuff fired at one of the Annan people at the front. The remaining Annan people did not rush towards Cao Lin and them, but ran separately towards the diners in the hall.

The knife flashed everywhere, flesh and blood flew sideways, and in an instant, two or three diners were cut to the ground.

The hall was suddenly chaotic, and more than a dozen diners cried and shouted and ran out in a panic.

Cao Lin smashed the finished handcuff in his hand at an Annan man, and before he had time to draw out his baton, he picked up a bench and rushed up.

The Annanite stood to dodge the handcuff thrown at him, and slashed with his backhand at a diner hiding under the table.

Cao Lin smashed a bench on the back of the Annan man, and the Annan man staggered two steps forward, but turned around and swept towards Cao Lin with a horizontal knife. Cao Lin lifted the bench, and the machete slashed deep into the bench. As soon as Annan's hands were loosened, he jumped over directly and knocked Cao Lin down, and the two scuffled together.

"Toot, toot, toot." A loud copper whistle sounded, and after a short time, the surrounding patrols rushed to this restaurant.

After a struggle, a total of 5 Annam people were controlled. Three were shot, and the other two were pressed to the ground. The two rangers were also wounded, lying on the ground groaning in pain.

"What the fuck." Cao Lin touched the injured face, "Send the injured people to the hospital for treatment, and take these people back to the patrol room." ”

Liu Guannan also rushed to the restaurant with a few patrols: "Cao Lin, what's the situation?" ”

"Report to the chief inspector, they are from Annam, a total of five people, armed with a knife. Four civilians were injured, and we patrolled and injured two, and they were all sent to the hospital. ”

"Why did they do it?"

"Report to the chief inspector, the subordinates don't know, and they haven't had time to interrogate yet."

A large number of people had gathered outside the restaurant at this time, and no one knew what was going on.

"Take the person back to the patrol room and interrogate him immediately." Liu Guannan waved his hand at the onlookers, "It's all scattered, it's all scattered, it's nothing, the patrol room will find out." ”

Liu Guannan had just finished speaking, and a bad thought suddenly welled up in his heart, but before he could figure out what was wrong, there was a "boom", and a gunpowder bag in the crowd of onlookers exploded, and the broken iron pieces and steel balls in the gunpowder bag flew in all directions, and the door of the restaurant suddenly wailed.

"Bang, bang." Two fireworks bombs shot into the air from the southwest.

"Bang, bang." Two more fireworks rang out in the southeast direction.

The whole Yulin Bay was in chaos, and I don't know where a group of people came out, five or six in groups, holding machetes and cutting people when they saw them, and throwing a few gunpowder bags directly when they encountered a large number of people. The brass whistles and handcuffs of patrolling sounded in all directions.

Liu Guannan's eyes were dark, 911, 911 in Yulin Bay!