I'm really sorry everyone, I didn't have time to update it yesterday. This time it was really a natural disaster, the 17-level tornado was too powerful, the severely affected village was more than ten miles away from my house, on the side of the 204 National Highway, many people were killed and injured, it was really a lot of death, the brick houses could not hold it at all, and the whole village was lifted, and many of them were stoned to death in their own houses. Seeing those grandmothers crying with the corpses of their grandsons (daughters), the bones were very unpleasant, and they were really crying. (For details, you can see the news)

The electricity arrived at eleven o'clock in the evening, and the bones were turned on as soon as possible, just to be able to update in time, and to mourn for the dead hometown people (and can only mourn silently, can not do anything else, but I hope the seriously injured can survive.) ）

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The flight of a large number of people made Kunming City at night like a dead city, and the streets and alleys were in disarray. The empty houses stood in the darkness of the night, and only the house dogs in the yard chained in the yard barked from time to time, but they did not know whether they were hungry or found that their owners were missing.

The tall Kunming city wall surrounds the city in the night, the soldiers who used to patrol the fire on it are no longer seen, and the letter flag hanging on the city gate tower is only a bare flagpole, and the city gate that is closed every night will also be open, and it seems that Kunming City does not mind changing its owner at all. On the streets on both sides of the city gate, there are countless pots and pans, broken to the ground, which are all done by the people of Kunming who fled and were reluctant to abandon their belongings. They didn't mean to throw the belongings down, but were pushed around by the crowd as they left the city, and eventually the pot fell to pieces.

Looking at Kunming City from the night sky, it is a dead city, and there are no lights at all, but when you are inside, you can find that this is not a real dead city, because there are still people in the city. I can vaguely see people rushing to the city gate from their dwellings in the city, and then looking at the dark outside of the city, hesitating again and again, and finally gritting their teeth and taking their parents, wives and children on a road to survive. They didn't know if they would be able to come back, but like their neighbors who went out of town during the day, they carefully packed up the inside and outside of the house when they left the house, and even carried the firewood piled up in the yard into the kitchen.

Most of the people obeyed the edict of the king of Jin and fled out of the city, and some did not obey the edict of the king of Jin and insisted on staying in the city. In addition to the lonely old people who really couldn't walk, the rest of the people who stayed in the city were those who had no knowledge of the military discipline of the Qing soldiers. They just thought that even if it was really a change of dynasty, it had nothing to do with them, they were just ordinary people, and they didn't get in the way of anyone, so the Qing soldiers would not kill them, because the Qing Dynasty's yamen also needed them to pay grain and taxes.

Indeed, the Qing soldiers can't harm them now, because the recent Qing soldiers are still more than 120 miles away from Kunming City, but the withdrawal of the imperial court and the government not only makes Kunming an empty city and a lonely city, but also makes Kunming a chaotic city.

The chaos is caused by those ruffians who take advantage of the chaos to rob, have no humanity, and only know how to make a fortune. The rich people have all run away, but there are more people who can't stand it. Without the officers and soldiers and the officials to stop them, the ruffians and hooligans would never let go of any opportunity to make a fortune. Even if they robbed poor people who didn't have much oil and water, everyone knew the truth that gathering less makes more.

From the moment the Holy Driver left the Gonggong Mansion, the robbery in Kunming City began, and it never stopped. There were robberies in the fleeing team, and there were also robberies in the city of Kunming, and there were even murders, which was outrageous. Rape, wheel. Rape cases.

Even the worst government is better than no government at all.

Without the existence of the government, the worst side of human nature is brought into full play. I don't know how many tragic things happened in Kunming City at night, but sadly no one stopped it.

In order to protect themselves, those people who stayed behind could only lock the courtyard doors and house doors, and use big logs behind the doors to resist them, burning incense and begging the Buddha to bless those bad people who were doing evil outside not to rush to their homes.

In a bungalow with a courtyard in Xicheng, a middle-aged man hid his wife and children in the house, and guarded the back of the house with a kitchen knife, carefully listening to the movements around him. If he had a torch in his hand now, it would have been clear that his face was so white that there was no blood at all. He heard the sound of approaching footsteps and the chilling laughter.

"Check it out!"

A dozen ruffians with short knives, daggers, hammers and other murder weapons in their hands rushed to the courtyard of the man's house, the man was very afraid, very afraid, he couldn't beat so many people, he had already thought about what would happen to his wife and daughter after these bad people rushed into his house.

The man's throat was moving up and down, and his legs were shaking violently, but instead of backing down, he stood behind the door with his knife in his grip. There was only one thought in his mind, and that was that no matter how many people there were, he would hack to death the first one who rushed in.

Suddenly, there was a cry of pain outside, followed by a man's angry scolding: "He's a damn thing, he has eaten the courage of an ambitious leopard, and he dares to come here to do evil!" ”

Subsequently, there were more and more screams outside, and they became louder and louder, and after dozens of breaths, there was no screaming outside, but there were footsteps. Listening to the footsteps, there seemed to be a lot of people outside.

The man didn't dare to open the door to see who was outside, he only knew that they must be murderers. His heart trembled even more, for he did not know if the murderers would rush into his house like the bad guys.

To the man's reassurance, the murderer outside did not rush into his house, but walked farther and farther away, and then he heard the sound of horses' hooves coming from the other side of the alley.

The sound of horses' hooves made the man subconsciously think that the soldiers of the King of Jin were back, he didn't dare to open the door to see, so he found a stool and climbed to the courtyard wall to see, there were really officers and soldiers on the other side of the alley, with torches, wearing red military uniforms, standing there densely, afraid that there were hundreds of people. One of the leading generals said something to the two men in official uniforms, too far away to hear clearly, but the men felt as if they were arguing about something.

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Liang Shuanghu was really anxious, and the surnamed Xu said that he was going to rob the handsome wife, so as not to humiliate the reputation of the princess in the hands of the Tartars. That's right, although the big handsome didn't know that the emperor promised him a wife, but the will had been issued, and the whole world knew that the eldest princess was the wife of his handsome family, and if it really fell into the hands of the Tartars, the big handsome had no face, and those of them who were subordinates had face? The emperor is now unable to protect himself, so with his virtue of throwing away his two sons, can he believe that he has always protected the princess? So I really have to listen to the surname Xu in this matter, and go out to snatch people back, so as not to follow the emperor in a precarious situation.

The problem is that the surnamed Xu said that he would coax the people to the west to chase after the holy driver, so that the holy driver's side would be chaotic, and it would be easy for them to rob people. This is also right, Liang Shuanghu also listened, he led his men to shout in the city for a long time, his voice was hoarse, and finally coaxed most of the people of Kunming to the west to drive the holy car, and the emperor's convoy was in a mess, which was the best time to grab people. But when it came to the end, the surnamed Xu was not in a hurry, saying that he would not rob the princess first, but to do something big in Kunming City, what the hell is going on, no matter how big a thing is, it can be more important than robbing a wife to a handsome man!

Guo Shao is also very dissatisfied with Xu Yingyuan's change of mind, Kunming City is really stunned now, God knows when the Qing soldiers will come, it will really be delayed for a long time and something happens, who is responsible for this?

"Brother Xu, this is all burning eyebrows, it's been half a day since the holy car drove out of the city, let's not chase it anymore, the daylily is cold!" Guo Shao was in a hurry.

"What else is there to do in this city?" Liang Shuanghu sulked.

Xu Yingyuan looked at the two anxious eyes and said, "When I came from Dongcheng just now, I found that the grain storage in the city's grain depot was all there, so we have to do this." ”

Guo Shao was stunned: "Brother Xu means that we are going to rob the grain?" ”

Xu Yingyuan shook his head and said: "So much grain, we can't finish moving, I heard Scholar Guo say that the grain storage in Kunming City was raised by King Jin for more than a year, enough for more than 100,000 troops to eat for more than half a year, and it was originally used to defend the city when preparing Sun Kewang to attack the city, and I didn't want Sun Kewang to lose so quickly, so this grain was not used and has been left in Kunming." ”

"So much food?" Guo Shao was very surprised: "With so much food here, why did the King of Jin abandon Kunming?" ”

Xu Yingyuan said: "The King of Jin is newly defeated, and the Qin soldiers do not listen to the order, what is the use of more food, the problem is that there are no soldiers to defend." The Qing army marched in several ways, and all roads were tight, and the king of Jin was really not sure to hold Kunming, so he had to abandon the city, otherwise you would think that the king of Jin would agree to the emperor's retreat to western Yunnan. ”

Guo Shao frowned after hearing this: "The King of Jin is really right, since he decided to abandon the city, why did he still leave the grain in Kunming, why didn't he send troops to move away?" Could it be that so much grain should be left for the Qing army? ”

"I can't take care of it." Xu Yingyuan sighed, he couldn't guess why the King of Jin wanted to leave so much grain in the city, but he didn't know that the King of Jin had already ordered the Kunming defenders to burn the grain, but he was stopped by the emperor without thinking about it. (Yongli did not allow the burning of Kunming grain as a historical fact, which caused the Qing army to enter Yunnan without worrying about grain and grass, and accelerated the process of Yongli's demise)

"What does Brother Xu mean?" Guo Shao asked.

Liang Shuanghu thought of something, and hurriedly said: "Lord Xu means to transport these grains back to our Guangdong?" ”

Xu Yingyuan chuckled: "With so much food, when are we going to move to these two or three hundred?" The Qing army is approaching Kunming, and it will definitely arrive in a few days, and we won't even have a granary by then. ”

"Since we can't move out, why are we still here?"

Liang Shuanghu became more and more dissatisfied, and Guo Shao was also confused. Xu Yingyuan said with a clear face: "Before I came, the marshal had a secret order, if the Son of Heaven abandoned the city and fled, the whole city of Kunming would be burned, leaving not a grain of grain, not a single house, and not a single well for the Qing army!" "So we're going to burn the city now!" ”

"Burn the city!"

Liang Shuanghu and Guo Shao gasped, Kunming City is very big, not to mention food, there are tens of thousands of people's houses alone, and I am afraid that there are at least tens of thousands of people in the city who have not left, if the city is burned, what will the people do?

"If you don't burn the city and don't burn the grain, there will be more dead than there are people in the city now!"

Xu Yingyuan said and took out a secret letter from his arms and handed it to Guo Shao: "This is the warrant that the marshal gave me to act cheaply, you see." ”

Liang Shuanghu is illiterate, so he can't understand what is written in the warrant, but Guo Shao can see it clearly, the commander of the warrant handed over to all personnel in Kunming is under the command of Xu Yingyuan, in other words, Xu Yingyuan is now their head, what he says, Guo Shao and they have to listen.

After handing over the warrant to Xu Yingyuan, Guo Shao expressed his willingness to listen to Xu Yingyuan's orders, but before burning the city, he must first send someone to notify the people who had not left the city to evacuate, so as to minimize unnecessary casualties among the people. Xu Yingyuan agreed, burning the city is important, but if you really want to burn tens of thousands of people alive in the city of Kunming, it is also a sin, and it is unbearable.

At the moment, Guo Shao and Liang Shuanghu and others acted separately, and soon the people hiding at home knew that the soldiers of the King of Jin wanted to burn the city in order to prevent Kunming from falling into the hands of the Qing army.

Liang Shuanghu and others spread the hay and dead branches prepared in advance to the ground, and then poured fire oil on them and ignited them with flints. Millions of stone military rations were burned by the fire. (To be continued.) )