Luoding City is already in chaos at the moment, the fire woke everyone up from sleep, everywhere are the people who are fighting the fire, but also everywhere are panicked people, and the Qing soldiers who are eager to flee for their lives are running everywhere in the city, startling women and children screaming again and again.

The fire had spread to the houses, as the bald man feared, and the cries and cries of the people whose houses had been engulfed in flames and whose loved ones had died were heartbreaking.

Kong Guoliang led his own soldiers to rush out and found that the street was no longer passable, and the nerves of Luoding residents were tense after years of war, and after hearing the shouts of the Ming army entering the city, some big families who were close to the Qing army on weekdays began to run outside the city with their families, so as not to be liquidated by the Ming army. As a result, their run suddenly drove more people to run.

No matter which dynasty, the Chinese people are conformist, even if they know that they are not in danger, but when they see someone running, they will run blindly, not to mention that those who run are all gentry and big families, these people are all knowledgeable and knowledgeable people in the eyes of the people, even they have to run away, what are they doing with their own bitterness.

The residents of Luoding, who were anxious to leave the city, rushed to the street in a swarm of bags and small bags to help the young without any organization, and suddenly crowded the small streets.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way!"

The Qing soldiers who were eager to escape from the city showed their fierce colors in order to survive, and they began to slaughter the crowd in front, when a woman fell under the Qing soldier's knife, the crowd blew up the nest, and you ran and I fled, making the street even more chaotic, and also making the Qing soldiers who originally wanted to kill a way out of the way more unable to act.

The drums outside the city were beating louder and louder, and the shouts of the Ming army were getting closer and closer. In an instant, the crowd was knocked open a gap, and dozens of people and several Qing soldiers were knocked to the ground by their horses, and there were wails under the trampling.

Although Luoding is a state city, there are only two city gates in the east and west, the east gate is obviously the main attack direction of the Ming army, and most of the shouts and killings come from that direction, but the west gate is quiet, Kong Guoliang chose to run to the west gate without thinking.

Seeing that Master Qian led his own soldiers to ride to the west gate, some Qing soldiers who escaped from the camp also began to run towards the west gate. Most of them were wearing only a pair of trousers, and some of them didn't even have weapons in their hands, and in the panic, many of the Qing soldiers' shoes were stepped on, and they ran barefoot on the stone pavement to worry about their hearts.

The terrible thing is not the chaos, but the lack of backbone, now seeing the figure of Mr. Qian, the Qing army suddenly had a goal, and desperately followed Mr. Qian to flee for his life. On the way to the West Gate, hundreds of innocent people were either trampled by war horses or died tragically under the swords of the Qing army

The fire in the city also surprised Zhou Shixiang outside the city, and in the howling of the wind, his brows were tightly locked, he knew that after this fire, the people in the city would definitely be killed and injured, and the houses in the city would probably be burned down in half. But now, he has no way to save it, and when he decided to set it on fire, he knew that there must be many more innocent people who died under the fire than the Qing soldiers.

But this is something that has no choice, and it is also something that cannot be controlled, no one wants such a thing to happen, but if he gives up seizing Luoding City in order to avoid casualties among the people, Zhou Shixiang will never agree.

If you succeed in ten thousand bones, how can those ten thousand bones be the bones of soldiers, and I am afraid that civilians will die even more. Even hundreds of years later, in the twenty-first century, war cannot avoid civilian casualties, let alone this era.

Zhou Shixiang comforted himself as much as possible, let himself let go of the morality of the future, picked up the drum hammer and knocked it hard dozens of times, he threw down the drum hammer and said to Song Xiang, who had been standing beside him: "Mr. Song, let's go into the city." ”

"Into the city?"

Song Xianggong hesitated, he was afraid that it would not be safe to enter the city, he was still more willing to die, otherwise he would not have changed the court one after another. But thinking that Boss Hu and they have already captured the city gate and entered the city, this will make the Qing army afraid that it will be chaotic a long time ago, and there is no danger when entering the city, so why let Zhou Shixiang look down on it, so he nodded and agreed.

At that moment, Zhou Shixiang picked up the saber of Yunlong, led the big green horse and Song Xianggong to the city gate, and when he arrived at the city gate, he saw Ge Liu leading a few people to guard there, and he didn't see the figure of Boss Hu, Song Xianggong couldn't help but ask Ge Liudao: "Where is Boss Hu?" ”

Ge Liu grinned and said with a dissatisfied expression: "The eldest brother led the brothers to kill the Tartar Qianzong, but asked a few of us to do this drudgery of guarding the door, so unjust!" ”

Hearing Ge Liu say this, Zhou Shixiang shook his head, the Qing army in the city was actually not Manchurian Tartars, but Han like them, so it seemed inappropriate to call these Jiangxi soldiers who were also Han "Tartars". But now was not the time to correct their views, nor to prepare for future divisions, so he didn't say anything, and looked up at the city.

Not far away, a group of people were looking at this side in horror, looking at them as if they wanted to get out of the city, but they were afraid that Ge Liu, who was guarding the city gate, would kill them, so they hesitated there.

Zhou Shixiang thought about it and said a few words to Song Xianggong, Song Xianggong agreed after hearing it, Zhou Shixiang led his horse to the front of the people and shouted: "Fathers and elders, we are the subordinates of General Luo Ding Hu of the Ming Dynasty, this attack on the state city, only kill the Qing army, do not hurt the people, so you don't have to panic, you don't have to be afraid, you don't need to go out of the city, although the city is chaotic at the moment, but our army has controlled the situation, so you can rest assured to go home, you don't have to gather here." ”

Seeing that Zhou Shixiang was dressed in a Confucian shirt, looking like a scholar, not as fierce as a few on the other side of the city gate, a bold descendant in the crowd suddenly shouted: "Our home has been burned down, where is there a home back." ”

Zhou Shixiang said: "Those who have no home to return to stay here for the time being, and those who have a home to return to can go home." He added, "Our army who remains here will not be disturbed, and the fire in the city is raging at the moment, if you wish, you can also organize your own firefighting, and after dawn, our army can compensate you as appropriate, and you will not be left without food and clothing." ”

"Are you telling the truth?"

The latter was a little unconvinced, and the others were also skeptical, because they found that the group of people they saw in front of them did not look like the Ming army that had been shouting in the city for a long time, otherwise why would they not even have a military banner. Look at the few at the gate of the city, they look more like bandits than the Ming army.

Zhou Shixiang also knew that it was difficult to convince these people for a while, but it was too troublesome to explain, and when he was muttering how to have a good wording, Zhao Sihai hurriedly ran over, saw Zhou Shixiang and Song Xianggong, and hurriedly shouted: "Xiucai, Mr. Song!" ”

Song Xianggong couldn't wait to pull him over and asked, "Brother Sihai, how is the situation, what about Boss Hu?" ”

Zhao Sihai didn't catch his breath, so he pointed to the west and said: "That Tartar Qianzong took a gang to the west gate and fled, Brother Hu was afraid that they would find out that something was wrong, so he took the brothers to chase him, for fear that you would be worried, so he asked me to come back and report a message!" ”

Zhou Shixiang was stunned and hurriedly asked him: "How many people did Mr. Qian take to the West Gate?" ”

Zhao Sihai said: "There are always one hundred and ten people!" ”

After hearing this, Zhou Shi turned his head and said to Song Xianggong, "Mr. Song, these people will be handed over to you for resettlement, and I will help Brother Hu!" Without waiting for Song Xianggong to agree, he had already turned over and got on the big green horse, and galloped towards the west gate with a "driving".

"Brother Zhou (Xiucai), you can't go!"

Song Xianggong and Zhao Sihai couldn't stop it, and they were so anxious that they jumped to their feet.