After Hong Chengchou got the news of Shuo Zhan, he also led the army to rush overnight, and finally arrived in Jinan City at the ugly time that night, Jinan City was already empty, with a dead and silent color, Hong Chengchou had a lot of contact with Cao Bianjiao, Cao Bianjiao was able to become the general of Nanming, which he was not surprised, after all, Cao Bianjiao had great achievements, and in the Ming Dynasty, he was already the only general, but Cao Bianjiao had always been brave, but there was no means, at this moment, I saw Cao Bianjiao implement the tactics of strengthening the wall and clearing the wilderness against them, Hong Chengchou was also impressed.

"Ma Jixiang, you said that Cao Bianjiao personally led the army and horses to cover the retreat of the people to Tai'an, yes or no?" After Hong Chengchou arrived in Jinan, he couldn't care about being tired, and immediately interrogated Ma Jixiang, the general.

Ma Jixiang was very happy to see that it was Hong Chengchou, after all, he was once a minister of the Ming Dynasty, and he should not be treated badly, and he said at the moment: "Hong Butang, that's right, Cao Bianjiao only has 30,000 horses in his hands, and the rest are assigned to Qingzhou and Denglai, he expects that he will be difficult to resist with the ruined Jinan City, so he wants to retreat to Tai'an, and rely on the terrain to resist the attack of the Qing Dynasty......"

"Good! The Governor understands that it is a good thing that you can keep up with the current affairs, and the Governor will recommend you to the Imperial Court, so you can stay here for the time being and wait for the arrangement of the Imperial Court! Hong Chengchou didn't really think so, he was worried about Ma Jixiang's deception, so he imprisoned him by his side, so that he was a little bit in his heart, for Ma Jixiang, he only knew a little about one person, I heard that this person is very good at welcoming people, and there is nothing to do, he surrendered, Hong Chengchou was not surprised, but there was no big mistake in being careful.

"General Shuo Zhan, have you thoroughly explored this place, is it really an empty city, the enemy army has not set any traps, we can't be careless." After Ma Jixiang left, Hong Chengchou still asked Ta Zhan about it.

"Exactly! Ben will personally take someone to investigate, the whole Jinan city is investigated, to be honest, in the city to walk around, I also feel a little weird, the whole city is too deserted, too quiet, quiet creepy, the people will be able to eat all the takeaway, the rest did not move, I think they want to wait for us to retreat and then come back, but we will not give them this opportunity, unless they submit to my Qing Dynasty, to be my Qing people. ”

"Alright! I know, I've worked hard and waited for the soldiers, let's rest for the night, tomorrow the whole army will set off, go straight to Tai'an, and take advantage of Cao Bianjiao's unstable foothold to give him a surprise. Hong Chengchou immediately gave an order, he didn't want to go out overnight, the terrain was restricted, if Cao Bianjiao set up an ambush on the middle of the road, then they would be in danger, Hong Chengchou knew very well that he couldn't afford to lose, and the Manchurian generals could come again if they were defeated, but he didn't have this opportunity, he had to be cautious.

In the city of Jinan, in a narrow secret passage, Gao Yigong is looking at the hourglass in front of him, it is almost leaked, behind him, is eight hundred strong men, eight hundred old Shun army, their task is to lurk in the city of Jinan, the secret road they are staying in is a Jinan gentry built to save their lives, when the Qing army went south, the gentry were plundered, and then in order to be precautionary, he secretly built this tunnel, which can go directly to the outside of the city, in order to prevent one day when there is another war in Jinan, they can also escape to save their lives. Now it has become a hiding place for them, and this place is extremely hidden, and people who don't know can't find it at all, even if they dig three feet into the ground, they can't find them.

Seeing that the last small piece of sand in the hourglass flowed out, Gao Yigong also Huo Ran got up, looked at the people behind him with a resolute face, and said: "Brothers, the time has come to avenge King Chuang, everyone came voluntarily, and they didn't want to live, I asked one last time, if anyone is afraid and doesn't want to go, I don't force it, you can leave immediately." ”

No one answered, silence was the best answer, Gao Yigong also nodded with satisfaction, and said: "Okay, since everyone has made up their minds to die, then follow me and bring your things!" ”

The exit of the secret passage is in a dry well, the dry well is hidden in the grass, Gao Yigong they climbed up step by step, climbed from the wall of the well to the mouth of the well, and then poked their heads out, only to see that the surroundings were pitch black, and no one sounded, this is the peace of mind, Gao Yigong led the way to turn over and crawl out of the well, and then the rest of the eight hundred dead soldiers also came out one after another, all quietly, did not make the slightest movement, did not need Gao Yigong's orders, they were divided into ten teams according to the pre-deployment, under the leadership of their respective captains, they went to their respective places, Gao Yigong walked lightly along a high wall, the streets were empty, and there was a dead silence, almost the same as when they left, but they knew that the Qing army had entered the city, and they heard movement during the secret passage, which could be judged, and the Qing army did not leave after entering the city.

Gao Yigong took eighty people to disperse to the south of the city, with the help of black cover, they touched the place of preparation, only to see Gao Yigong take out a fire fold from his arms, and rub it hard, "Zi" sound, the fire fold suddenly lit up, he threw the fire fold on a pile of hay, and watched the hay ignite and spread rapidly. At about the same time, such a situation occurred in many places in Jinan City, when the hay was ignited, with the help of the howling wind, the fire exploded.

The wind helps the fire, the fire borrows the wind might, the entire Jinan city is almost covered in a sea of fire, some of the Qing soldiers who sleep in the house are awakened, when they rush to the door, they find that the door has been blocked by the fire, many people accidentally set fire to their clothes, but also wrapped up by the fire, turned into a fire man, the mournful wail one after another, many people look at the doors and windows sealed by the fire, and can't help but show a look of despair......

At the same time, there was the sound of explosions that shook the ground and shook the mountains, yes, it was the explosion made by these people who dared to die and rushed into the Qing army, * After the explosion, many Qing troops were also tragically affected, or killed or wounded, innumerable, even the road in Jinan City was blocked.

Eight hundred people, even if each one killed and injured ten people, that is, the price of eight thousand people, this is still a conservative estimate, and there are people who were affected by the fire, and how many, this is a poisonous plan made by Song Xiance to Cao Bianjiao, burning Jinan City, the Qing army would definitely not have thought that they would be so ruthless, Jinan is an ancient city, thousands of years of history, but Song Xiance doesn't care, the way of war, only lies in the way of winning, don't care about anything else, let alone Jinan City, as long as he can win, even Beijing City He dares to start, although Cao Bianjiao can't bear it, But he still agreed, and let Gao Yigong be responsible for secretly assembling the dead soldiers of the 800 Great Shun Army to do this thing. In Cao Bianjiao's view, human life is more important than anything else, as long as there are fewer losses to win, burn Jinan, it's much stronger than the dead!

When Hong Chengchou woke up from his sleep, he reacted very quickly, when he rushed to the courtyard, the fires shining everywhere seemed to be laughing at him, he did not organize people to put out the fire, the fire had been completely burned, the entire Jinan City was full of fire, it was already surrounded by fire, the flames were soaring, what was the use of saving it.

Hong Chengchou yelled around: "Quick, get out of the city, go out of the city, avoid the fire......"