Shen Yuheng paid the price for his contempt for the exile army, and after the 2,000 Shun army was overwhelmed by countless exiles, he turned around and ran, and under the protection of the elite of the 300 original army, he fought his way out of the siege and returned to the city of Jiaozhou. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, what made him desperate was that the city of Jiaozhou had changed its flag. While the Shun army was out of the city to fight, the squires in the city rebelled and attacked the hundreds of Shun troops left behind.

More than half of the hundreds of Shun troops were newly recruited, all of whom were locals in Jiaozhou, and they did not dare to go against the local squires at all, so they surrendered one after another.

Jiaozhou City couldn't enter, Shen Yuheng howled, and had to flee back to Qingzhou, but he didn't know that Qingzhou at this time had also been recovered by the Ming army, and the defense of Qingzhou made Wang Daocheng killed, and he had nowhere to go.

When Li Shiyuan led the crowd to the city of Qingzhou, Qingzhou had been recovered, but the city gate was tightly closed, and the exiled army was not allowed to enter the city.

For the gentry who had just recaptured Qingzhou, the tens of thousands of rogue troops outside the city were far more terrible than the Shun army. Because the official warehouse in the city has long run out of food, it is impossible to solve the stomachs of the displaced people. Of course, the gentry did not want to feed the displaced people outside the city with their own food, so it was better to let them stay outside the city and fend for themselves.

He came down from Laoshan Mountain far away, ran dozens of miles, defeated two thousand Shun troops, and thought that he could enter the city to rest, and from then on he had a full meal. But the unforgiving reality shattered all their hopes at once.

The entire army was in chaos all of a sudden, and Li Shiyuan could no longer suppress it. The angry exiles rushed towards the walls, only to be broken and bleeding on the hard walls.

Having just eaten two full meals, the accumulated strength had long been exhausted on the road from Laoshan to Jiaozhou, and the hungry homeless people were completely helpless in the face of the city wall. Many people lay on the ground weakly, looking at the sky in a daze. Many people wept quietly in despair. Many people were unwilling and shouted angrily.

Li Shiyuan looked at the chaos in front of him, and he was completely helpless. He was a native of Qingzhou, and he didn't know the gentry of Jiaozhou at all. When he came forward to call the door, they didn't pay attention to him at all. When he made a loud threat, the bow and crossbow at the head of the city shot down, and Li Shiyuan had to retreat in a hurry.

In order to be able to fight the Shun army, Li Shiyuan distributed 1,000 stone of grain, so that all the displaced people had two full meals. Tens of thousands of rogue people's troops, as well as their families, a thousand stone of grain is a drop in the bucket.

Li Shiyuan is holding the idea of breaking the cauldron and sinking the boat, thinking that if he does not succeed, he will become benevolent, as long as he can defeat the Shun army and occupy Jiaozhou City, then he can think of feeding these tens of thousands of people's army. It's a pity that the Shun army was defeated, but Jiaozhou City fell into the hands of the local gentry.

"General, let's go!" A subordinate whispered in his ear, and Li Shiyuan looked up in horror and saw countless pairs of angry eyes staring at him. It was he who deceived the displaced people from the mountains and left their families behind. Now, they followed him to defeat the Shun army, and he was unable to fulfill his promise.

No! I can't leave like this, if I leave like this, these tens of thousands of people will definitely become bandits, and the entire land of Jiaodong will be ruined!

"Listen to me, everybody!" Li Shiyuan raised his hands and shouted loudly.

"All quiet, listen to the general!" Dozens of his cronies pretended to be bold and shouted in unison.

The nearby homeless people quieted down, silently looking at Li Shiyuan, looking at the general who had deceived them. If it weren't for his status as a general, many homeless people would come over and beat him up.

"Fellows, listen to me! I brought everyone together to fight the thieves! ”

"But I didn't expect the gentry in the city to take the opportunity to take the city, it's my fault, I'm sorry for you. But I will never sit idly by and ignore everyone, I will definitely think of ways to fill everyone's stomachs and strive not to starve to death! ”

Li Shiyuan shouted hoarsely and made his own promise.

"General Li, don't lie to us anymore! We can't afford to toss anymore. ”

"That's right, it's good to stay in the mountains, I have to go down the mountain with you to fight, so many people died and won the battle, and we couldn't even enter the city!"

"Don't listen to him, he's a liar!"

Li Shiyuan's voice was suddenly drowned out in the crowd.

In the crowd of tens of thousands, Li Shiyuan's voice couldn't travel far at all, the nearby homeless people could hear him, and the distant ones didn't know what was going on.

Fortunately, everyone has no strength, and no one wants to toss. yes, what if you kill him? It's better to take a break and save some strength to go back to the mountain, the family is still waiting on the mountain.

"Grain, grain!" Li Shiyuan yelled again, and when he heard the word food, the nearby homeless people suddenly quieted down.

"I'm sorry for you, but I didn't lie to you. Didn't I take out a thousand stone of grain before, and don't you want to know where it came from? ”

The reason why the homeless people hated Li Shiyuan for deceiving them, but did not step forward to make a move, was that Li Shiyuan had just let them eat two full meals. Now that they heard Li Shiyuan mention food again, they couldn't help but have hope.

"Everyone knows that there is a fleet on the beach, it is a fleet led by General Ren, a coastal defense guerrilla in Jiangnan, who came to check the situation in the north on the orders of the imperial court. The food we ate in the past two days was brought by General Ren's fleet. ”

"General Ren said that when he returns to Jiangnan, he will recruit some homeless people to join the army. I will also beg General Ren again to help us with more food. ”

Many homeless people heard that a fleet of imperial courts had come to the seashore, and some homeless people who went to the beach to collect fish and shellfish also saw this fleet with their own eyes, and there were more than 20 large boats. But this fleet has been stuck in the sea and refused to dock, and after a long time, everyone lost interest.

I didn't expect them to come to recruit soldiers. Of course, being a soldier is a good way out, and in these years, in addition to large families, soldiers can barely fill their stomachs.

But to go to a place so far away from the south of the Yangtze River to serve as a soldier, this made many people hesitate all of a sudden. It is difficult to leave the homeland, and now that the thieves have been beaten away, I heard that Li Zicheng was driven out of Beijing, so the order in Shandong will be restored soon, and there will be no war, and he can return to his hometown.

There are also some people who want to be soldiers, but it is their families who worry about them. I left with the fleet, what should the family do?

"Let's go back to the mountain and wait, I'll go to the beach to negotiate with General Ren and see what kind of charter he is!" Li Shiyuan ordered his cronies to organize everyone to return to Laoshan, and he himself rushed to the beach.

Although they were skeptical of Li Shiyuan's words, the displaced people still chose to believe him, supported each other, and walked towards Laoshan Mountain.

Now, that young guerrilla general is the last hope for everyone. (To be continued.) )