Just after Zhang Qiang proposed to evacuate Wuyi County, You Haibo stood up and strongly opposed Zhang Qiang's approach.

"My lord, in this case, if we abandon the people of Wuyi County and give them to the enemy, will they still believe us in the future?"

"Besides, there are so many grains, grass, weapons, and silver taels in our city, it is difficult to transfer them out in time, and the enemy has approached Yongkang County, and leaving at this time is tantamount to leaving our backs to the enemy, and we will be defeated without a fight."

"My lord, the land of the Ming Dynasty, the people of the Ming Dynasty, should not give up easily, only stick to and wait for help, Lord Zhu will not give up on us, if not, we can also send someone to ask the court for help, I believe the court will not ignore us."

Zhang Qiang glanced at the other subordinates, but they didn't react, Du Ge looked concerned, and seemed to care about his answer to You Haibo.

Zhang Qiang shook his head, he was still someone else's person, he ignored You Haibo.

He said in a deep voice: "We can transport the grain and grass out of the city in batches, hide in the mountains, and the troops will deal with the enemy, and when the enemy feels that Wuyi County is stable, they will naturally retreat, and we will fight back, and when the time comes, there will not be too many enemy troops guarding the county, and we will come back." ”

You Haibo immediately said, "What if the enemy returns?" ”

Zhang Qiang smiled: "Let's retreat." When the enemy army is gone, we will come back. ”

You Haibo said angrily: "It's just child's play, so hard work and loss of money, the army and the people are tired, if the heavy rain and cold wave comes, the army is in the field, there is nowhere to hide, the military spirit and morale are lost, our team will be scattered without a fight, the strength will be damaged, the enemy will strengthen the defense after two times, and at the same time send a large army to encircle and suppress, at that time, there is no people's heart, no food and grass, the strength of the army is weakened, what should we do?" ”

Zhang Qiang spread his hands, "So what do you think of the county magistrate?" ”

You Haibo said: "If the adults feel that the enemy is too strong, it is better to take the army and civilians to Fuzhou, the emperor is in Fuzhou, the soldiers are strong and strong, there are 100,000 troops of the Zheng family, the enemy army will not be able to reach for a while and a half, where can we rest and recuperate." ”

"Lord Zhixian, will the Zheng clan accept us and will not annex us? We are all subordinates of adults, and with the grace of adults, if the Zheng family scatters and annexes us, how can we deal with ourselves under the fence? Zhou Congee stood up and asked.

The lobby was in a battle of words for more than half an hour.

You Haibo saw that the others also looked loyal to Zhang Qiang, and couldn't help but say dejectedly: "That's it, the old man took the You family and went overseas to avoid the disaster." Take care, my lord. After speaking, he walked down the county hall.

Although Zhang Qiang tried his best to keep him, You Haibo still felt that things could not be done and insisted on leaving.

Zhang Qiang could only bid him farewell.

Zhang Qiang's subordinates are just looking forward to Zhang Qiang, Zhang Qiang is what he says, but You Haibo, Zhang Qiang can't force it, the next day You Haibo mobilized for half a day, with his own family, and some people in the city who are willing to follow him, about 2,000 people, towards Fuzhou.

At the same time, Du Ge's brigade of people and horses left, those people and horses used to be You Haibo's family, Zhang Qiang can't say that he can't let people take them away, You Haibo's evacuation drove other people, and overnight, another 2,000 people left.

Originally, with the arrival of displaced people and refugees during this time, Wuyi County already had more than 10,000 people, and at this moment there were more than 5,000 people left.

The whole county was in chaos, and I saw that many people had fled, and the refugees who had poured in also left, leaving only some displaced people and people who did not want to go far, about 3,000 people.

The people who left also took away the young people in Zhang Qiang's army, those were the family members of the people, and Zhang Qiang couldn't help but let them go, so Zhang Qiang just pulled up a force of 2,000 people and shrank it to 1,300 people.

However, these 1,300 people are the elite strength of Zhang Qiang's entire army.

Zhang Qiang has cultivated a total of three waves of soldiers who have been blessed by systematic training skills, and more than half of the waves have been lost in the previous battles, and now there are still 420 elite troops left.

Among them, there were 80 musketeers, 230 musketeers, and 100 pro-army infantrymen.

These have been assigned to the subordinate troops, and they are currently taking 150 Qing and Han soldiers to surrender to the army for training.

While training, you have to take care of other things.

A sentry came from afar, "My lord, we have detected that the enemy's sentry has approached the border of Wuyi County, and many villages in the county have been slaughtered by the enemy. ”

Zhang Qiang had no choice but to urge his subordinates to quickly transfer the materials in the city.

Mi Chun was appointed as the captain of the baggage team, and gave him 300 young men from Xinqiang Latin, plus 100 of his original Liukou subordinates, a total of 400 people, and asked him to find a place as soon as possible, transport the grain, grass, and weapons in the city out of the city, and scatter and bury them in the mountains.

Of course, Mi Chun is a rogue after all, and he can't be fully trusted, and Xuanyuan Longfei is involved in this matter.

On the third day, the people and refugees in the city fled, and only a few stubborn 1,000 people left the city who did not want to leave in the daytime.

More than 100 strong men brought in by Zhang Qiangqiang also fled, and some soldiers also fled, and the pressure on Zhang Qiang's troops from the Qing army became more and more intense.

The enemy, according to reconnaissance, led by Chen Jia, Liu Guangbi as the vanguard, Lin Yangcheng followed, a total of 10,000 people, has arrived at Quanxi Town, for a time the wind is roaring, the grass and trees are soldiers, more than a dozen times a day sentry cavalry report the situation.

At night, even the people who did not want to leave their hometowns left 200 people.

Zhang Qiang's material transfer work was still not completed, and at this time, Zhu Dadian's messenger for help also came, and Zhu Dadian hoped that he could lead his troops to support Jinhua Mansion City.

But Zhang Qiang did not want to be besieged in Jinhua Mansion City again, this time, he felt that it would be difficult to escape, the enemy went on the road to attack, according to the information leaked by the envoy, this time the people of Jinhua Mansion City and the fleeing soldiers and civilians reached more than 63,000 people, and the gathered troops reached 18,000 people, and many new county officials and Ming troops in other counties were transferred to Jinhua Mansion City by Zhu Dadian.

It looks strong, but in fact it is fragile, the troops are disorganized, there is no unified command, there is a lack of training, the city has been reluctantly repaired since Zhang Qiang left, and then it is no longer repaired, because there is no money, and the squires and officials do not want to pay for it.

On the fourth day, the enemy had reached Shuxi, and at night, Zhang Qiang withdrew from the county seat with his troops and headed all the way to Bailuxi.

On this day, he finally completed the training of the fourth batch of 150 pro-soldiers, because these pro-soldiers were soldiers of the Han army, they themselves had combat effectiveness, and after training, they had reached the standard of skilled soldiers of the righteous army.

This time, Zhang Qiang disrupted them and enriched them into the troops of Zhou Congee, Xuanyuan Longfei, and Wei Wuji.

Due to Du Ge's departure, he lost some of his elite and some trained rebel soldiers, but Du Ge also left behind the troops that were originally rebels, which were also added to the troops of the other three.

This time, Zhang Qiang enriched all the cold weapon troops into other people's troops, and transferred all the musketeers in their troops back.

The three hundred firecrackers were all mastered by Zhang Qiang.

Hu Kui's cavalry unit was increased to one hundred cavalry after replenishing some of the cavalry selected from the Han army's banner captives.

The rest of the people each had 300 soldiers, half of them were skilled soldiers of the Righteous Army who had been trained by Zhang Qiang, some were senior soldiers of the Righteous Army, and the rest were soldiers who had previous combat experience.

With a total of 1,300 troops, these forces are more than just a step up from the strength of Zhang Qiang and Liu Liangzuo when they fought before.

In addition, there were two new subordinates, Mi Chun and Mi Lin, who led the twenty pro-army sent to them by Zhang Qiang, as well as the 100 Liukou soldiers who originally belonged to them, plus the 300 young and strong soldiers of the righteous army who were willing to follow Zhang Qiang's troops, a total of 420 baggage troops.

They were holding prisoners and grain and grass, the Mongols captured by Zhang Qiang, the Qing army Tartars, and those Han army banner enemy soldiers who were left to work, these people were about 600 people, and a large part of them wanted to be converted, but Zhang Qiang felt that their loyalty was not enough, so he could only take them and let them serve as coolies in the baggage team and transport supplies.

At night, the sentinel came to report that they had fled overnight, and the enemy troops in Shuxi sped up their pace and pounced, and finally stopped at Wuyi County.