The torrential rain was broken by the wind whipped up by the horses. As if knowing the arrival of Li Guanghang, on the city wall of Suzhou, a series of vermilion flags were hung, and hunting sounded.

It was the soldiers defending the city announcing the possible flood to visitors inside and outside the city.

Suzhou in May is a little cold.

A guard soldier wearing a mandarin duck robe, looking at the straight official road that was filled with rain and mist, yawned a little tiredly.

Suddenly, two horses galloped towards Suzhou City.

The little soldier immediately grabbed the spear in his hand, and at once he cheered up, until he was about one hundred and twenty paces and saw the person who was coming.

An eight-foot warrior in cotton armor, and a white-faced scholar in ragged clothes.

A few small soldiers on duty under the city gate also woke up from their sleep, stood in a column, set up rows of cold and awe-inspiring spears, formed a front formation, and blocked the city gate.

"Who is under the city! Get off the horse and report your name!" One of the school officers on the upper floor of the city had already beckoned several archers, pulled the bowstring, and aimed it at the two people below.

When Li Ling saw this scene, he frowned slightly. In his experience, it is almost impossible for any soldier in the Ming Dynasty to remain so alert except for the three battalions of the border army and the Beijing division, unless ......

"Father, who is under the command of this soldier who defends the city, and he reacted so quickly."

Li Ling shook his head, "I'm afraid things aren't that simple. ”

"Who is under the city, report the name quickly, don't blame the sword without eyes!" Seeing that there was no response, the officer on the arrow tower raised his voice.

"Master Jun, it's Li Ling in the east of the city!"

Li Ling in the east of the city? The school officer didn't think about it for a while, and was a little puzzled. A soldier next to him pointed to the silver in his pocket, and then to the leftover rice bowl. The officer understood something immediately.

"Master Jun, when did you become so vigilant? Could it be that there is a military emergency? Li Ling withstood the torrential rain and arched his hand.

"It turned out to be the son of the Li family," the officer motioned for the archers to put down their bows and arrows, and the pikemen moved out of the way. "Don't hide it, the military report said that there are thieves who have entered the territory of my Nanzhili, and the adults of a thousand households have an order to strictly prevent thieves from doing it, please Haihan!"

"Don't dare to be, there is an elite army to defend Suzhou, and the thief will not return......"

Li Ling talked and laughed with the school officer as he spoke, the first moment was tense, and the next second was full of laughter.

"Business blows each other." Li Guanghang muttered quietly, but he was a little uneasy in his heart.

In May 1640, since Zhang Xianzhong was defeated by Zuo Liangyu at Jiping Pass in the first month, he led his troops to break into Sichuan. On the way into Sichuan, he was attacked by Zheng Chongjian and Zuo Liangyu in Agate Mountain in Taiping County, and suffered heavy casualties. Then it was pursued and intercepted by the Huguang Army, the Sichuan Army and the Shaanxi Army, and the peasant army company was heavily damaged, retreated to the mountains of Xing'an and Guizhou, and was surrounded by Zuo Liangyu and other troops, and the peasant army fell into an unprecedented predicament.

The thieves in the mouth of this school official are a unit that Zhang Xianzhong is scattered from time to time. The elite of a unit drawn from the encirclement and interception of hundreds of thousands of troops is unknown. The style of the peasant army has always been to burn, kill, and plunder, and when a strong city is besieged but not attacked, it can be used in detail.

Jiangnan is rich, if you don't exterminate this group of thieves, the injured people don't know what will happen.

Li Ling and Li Guanghang approached the city gate under the guidance of the soldiers. originally thought that the soldiers defending the city were elite divisions, but the next scene made Li Guanghang once again refresh his understanding of the erosion of the guards army.

The armory rack, which was originally used to hang weapons, was full of clothes taken off by soldiers, and a bowl was placed on the burlap bag where the grain was stored, and three or two dice were placed in the bowl, and a few silver beans were thrown at random.

It's gambling!

It is hard for Li Guanghang to imagine that such a team of people can compete with thieves who lick blood at the tip of a knife?

The thieves are afraid that as soon as they charge and roar, this team of seemingly realistic little soldiers will be frightened.

The more Li Guanghang looked at it, the more disappointed he became, but more angry.

He saw the broken crossbow arrows, the rusty iron spears, the cracked bird guns, the three-eyed guns filled with a hole, and although there was also an electric gun, it seemed that Li Guanghang only caught a glimpse of two self-guns.

This kind of firearm can only be used to kill oneself on the battlefield.

"Why are these sergeants' firearms so rudimentary, and how can they fight thieves?"

"Hahahaha," Li Ling was also a little disappointed, but he knew the reason.

"If you have a boss who swallows the land and is in charge of silver, and he is connected with the people of the Military Affairs Department, you won't feel strange."

Li Guanghang lowered his head, watched the horse's hooves splashing at the wanton exchange of horses under his feet, and was silent.

……

"Grandma, I'll go back first, since the son is not here, I won't bother." As soon as Zhang Yichen, who was smiling, stepped out of the threshold, his face instantly turned black.

"Little... Miss ......" Ye Xiaotang lowered his head, kept up with Zhang Yichen's pace, and held up an oil-paper umbrella for Zhang Yichen.

"Xiaotang, let's go!" Zhang Yichen's beautiful eyes were a little red.

"Who told me to come to this bastard yesterday!"

"Miss... Inside, you said you were here yesterday. ”

"Dead girl, don't I know? You still need to say it. ”

"Yes...... It's Miss, Xiaotang knows it's wrong. ”

"Knowing that mistakes can be corrected, then what can be taught, bah, bah, let's go home."

Greeting the coachman Fu Boss, he put down some expensive gifts, and slowly walked towards the main entrance of the Li family's compound.

With a beautiful face and a little maid like jade, Zhang Yichen and his party who were walking in the Li family's compound were all looked at sideways by the servants of the Li family.

Cluck! Sigh~

The two horses stopped in front of the vermilion door, and a middle-aged man and a scholar turned over and dismounted, and walked quickly forward.

Step by step, slowly approaching the Zhu Gate, which was decorated with copper dings.

The servant opened the vermilion main door for Zhang Yichen.

What catches your eye is the torrential rain and the horse-drawn carriages that have been parked in the rain.

Zhang Yichen's eyes looked a little lonely, thinking that the sound of horses' hooves just now would be that person.

No longer in the south of the Yangtze River, lonely and difficult to remember at that time, Tsinghua was speechless.

……

Li Guanghang pushed open the door, and a servant was standing in the backyard, carrying an oil-paper umbrella, and when he saw Li Ling and Li Guanghang, he hurriedly ran over, and after saluting, he greeted:

"The old lady is waiting for you in the back garden Xu Feng Pavilion."

"Hmm." Somehow, on a whim, Li Guanghang chose to enter through the back door of the Li family's compound.

Sometimes, it's a lot of fun.

Maybe just a few into the length of the yard.

Red shoes step out, soap boots step in.

A flower blooming under the eaves of the house, in the dance of the breeze, was gently torn off by the rain along the rows of tiles, and covered the body of a bed bug.

It is also a lonely way, and my heart is clear.