024 Fiction and reality

As the people from the city got closer and closer, Wang Lanping saw clearly, this kid was still trustworthy, and he really came.

Li Laixiang under the city took two personal soldiers and looked high.

"General Wang, why do you want to move the army so much, can you go out of the city for a while!" Li Laixiang shouted towards the head of the city, looking at the Ming army at the head of the city, a little surprised, really responded to the old saying, a soldier is a bear, a nest of heroes, the Ming army is left with this little person, and can still maintain such morale, rare, it is really rare, but this person can not be used by my Dashun Dynasty, otherwise he can really drink and talk about the general trend of the world.

Wang Lanping looked at the movement outside the city, everything was very quiet, there was no sound of night birds flying suddenly, the other party was the three people below and the black pressure behind them, the two armies were facing each other, and they couldn't easily trust anyone, and it was not a bad thing to have a long heart.

Sure that there was no danger, Wang Lanping took Zheng Sen and several entourages out of the city, and the two sides met.

"Where's the horse?" Wang Lanping gets straight to the point.

"In such a hurry? Don't talk? Li Laixiang said.

"There's nothing to talk about, on the public, the only way to chat between us is to meet each other with swords and soldiers, and on personal relations, then we have to wait until the world is peaceful, if you are still alive, we can have a long talk" Wang Lanping is always vigilant about the changes around him, this is not a mistake at all, if the other party takes the opportunity to attack the city, it is not a joke, and the tone must not be half a sign of weakness.

Li Laixiang raised his head and smiled, "Hahaha, the general said this thoroughly, and I am looking forward to this day."

Wang Lanping didn't want to stay outside the city for a while, the darker the day, the greater the danger, for the city defenders, the night was death, and if they couldn't carry the other party, they touched it from there, and they couldn't prevent it.

Wang Lanping said, "The horses are left, you can go, tomorrow morning, this city will be yours, remember your words, don't kill and rob one household or one person."

Li Laixiang nodded, "I said, what I want is Huaining City, and I am not a butcher who kills innocents indiscriminately" After that, he turned his horse's head and left, and then turned back to Wang Lanping and said, "By the way, I still want to say that six hundred horses are not enough to worry about, as long as you go with me to see Emperor Dashun, you really come to vote, don't say six hundred, it is six thousand, sixty thousand, you can also have it, as long as you nod your head"

Wang Lanping said, "Don't worry, let Li Zicheng help me save it first, and I will get it sooner or later" This remark was very challenging, as if Li Zicheng, the emperor of the Great Shun Dynasty, was not a matter at all in his eyes.

Li Laixiang knew that he would say this, smiled slightly, arched his hand and said, "Hmph, there will be a period later."

"Wait," Wang Lanping remembered.

"What?"

Wang Lanping took a few steps forward on his horse, and the soldiers around Li Laixiang hurriedly reached out and touched the knife on his chest, for fear that the person who came would be unfavorable to the main general.

Li Laixiang folded his horse, waved his hand to his subordinates, and came to Wang Lanping's side.

Wang Lanping thought for a while, and said in a suppressed voice, "I have a reluctant request, there is a big family surnamed Du in the city, and I have some connections, can you ask the general to be as thoughtful as possible for the sake of you and me."

Li Laixiang was a little surprised, "Oh, I'm very interested in what you say, what kind of origin is it?" But I guess it's a big deal, and you can think of it at this moment."

"You don't have to guess, this family has nothing to do with me, it's just that the Du family is a big family in the city, and many people follow him to beg for a living, and if he is going to be in trouble, these people will have no livelihood."

"That's it?"

"That's it"

"Forget it, I won't ask, I said, don't rob a household, don't kill a person, including the Du family you said"

"Okay, thank you, I'll leave tomorrow at dawn"

Six hundred horses are tied together with a long rope, whether it is really enough to count, and there is no need to order it.

When all the horses entered the city, Wang Lanping suddenly ordered that no one should be allowed to leave the city from now on, and gave an order,

"Song Qianhu, Zheng Qianhu, these horses, your battalion is divided into half, Zheng Qianhu, you take the wooden character camp, after an hour, go out of the east gate to the south, open the road first, Song Qianhu, you take half of the brothers of the Fengzi camp, gather the people who are willing to go with us to the east gate, tell them, this is a refuge, not a move, you are not allowed to take anything that you can't take away, or don't follow, wait for Zheng Qianhu to leave for half an hour, you will follow"

Zheng Song's two thousand households were puzzled, and Qi asked, "Now go?" Didn't you say wait until dawn? ”

Wang Lanping snorted and laughed, "Li Laixiang dared to use war horses as bargaining chips, which shows that he didn't want to let us leave alive at all, he can take these horses back sooner or later, he did this just to paralyze us and let us relax our vigilance."

Zheng Sen said, "Do you suspect that he will sneak up in the middle of the night? ”

Wang Lanping nodded, "It's not a doubt, it's a certainty, hurry, get ready to go, leave in an hour"

"Then we're all gone, what about you, General?" Zheng Sen asked.

"I'll take the other half of the brothers of the Wind Word Camp to break off, and then I'll chase you"

Since General Wang had arranged it, the two of them didn't have any other ideas, so everyone went their separate ways.

In fact, for Wang Zhuangyuan's sudden withdrawal, the people in the city talked a lot, and those who didn't want to leave said, didn't they say that they had won the battle? Why do you have to go, how do you go, my ancestors have lived here for generations, where are they going? Poor families are bullied wherever they go, so why bother to suffer from this bump.

People who want to leave say to look at the refugees from outside, along the way, which is not robbed by the Dashun army and the Ming army, if it were not for the desperate resistance of General Wang, Huaining City would have suffered a military disaster, and now it can leave so safely, it is already burning high incense, and if you don't leave, it will be too late to regret it, who is the emperor in the imperial court, our people can't care, but as long as you follow Wang Zhuangyuan, you can save your life.

One afternoon, Song Dali was so anxious to quell the people's discourse that in the end only more than 2,000 people were willing to follow, most of them refugees who had fled into the city, as long as they really experienced what the Shun army was really like.

By the time Song Dali finally gathered everyone at the east gate, Zheng Sen had already led people to go forward in the dark to be the pioneer.

Looking at so many people who were about to leave the city in front of him, Song Dali couldn't cry or laugh, where is this to flee, dragging families with mouths, old and young, mule carts, ox carts, chicken carts, stuffing Dongcheng is full, chickens flying and dogs jumping, children crying and daughters-in-law making trouble, these people almost didn't bring their broken houses.

If you want to say this, you can't blame them, if you leave your hometown, there are things that shouldn't be taken away, but if you really want to go like this, no one can go.

Song Dali stood on a high platform, shouting with a red face and a thick neck, "Everyone listens, except for food and clothes, the rest of the things are not allowed to be brought, out of the city, no one is allowed to make a sound, you, unload all the things on the ox cart, pull the old people and children up, everyone helps each other, help, don't quarrel, General Wang said, cross the river, you have relatives can go to relatives, you can also support yourself, you will be safe over there, when you go out of the city for a while, the strong men look for something to defend themselves, Walk on the very edge, if you encounter bandits or thieves, don't panic, don't run around, you can hear clearly."

To get the people to throw away the broken foot basin that has been used for half their lives, it is more difficult than asking for his life, and he is reluctant, and it is boiling for a while.

Song Dali saw that it had no effect, and came down from the stage with a scolding, this errand is really not easy to do, so he simply doesn't care so much, he waved his hand, "If you don't want to leave, you can stay, if you don't obey, no one can go, Fengziying listens to orders"

"Drink!" With a bang, one hundred and ten soldiers showed up the guy in their hands and took a step around the crowd, meaning that if they were disobedient, they would use force.

This trick still worked, looking at the bright knives and guns, everyone was silent.

Song Dali sneered, it is much more difficult to manage the people than to manage the soldiers, and Bai is afraid of this thing, "Come on, open the city gate, go out of the city"

Finally gone, a group of people, help the old and the young, lightly on the road, walking is not slow, Song Qianhu divided the soldiers he brought into two teams, sandwiched the people in the middle, because they did not dare to light the fire, had to move forward in the dark, fortunately, it was the beauty of the heavens, by the hazy moonlight, not to go to the ditch, everyone looked at the night sky in the south, the mighty gone, many people looked back at Huaining in the dark from time to time, the homeland could not bear to leave, bursts of slight crying in the team one after another, but they did not know from this moment on, General, their life will be a thousand times better than it is now.

When he received the news that Zheng and Song had two thousand households out of the city, it was almost midnight (10 o'clock in the evening), and when Zheng and Song arranged for people to go out of the city, he had already asked people to erect a large number of straw men on the head of the city, standing in rows, it was so dark, from the city down, it was no different from a real person.

If you want to leave, Wang Lanping arranged it early in the morning, so many things have been secretly prepared in advance, and if you want to leave now, there will not be too much trouble, the eldest husband can afford to take it and put it down, there is nothing that must not be lost.

Out of the city, the moon hangs high overhead, and the surroundings are quiet, only a line of night travel when the wild geese return to the south fly from high in the sky from time to time.

Wang Lanping grew up in Huaining since he was a child, and he also knows a lot about the terrain outside the city, in the dark, there is no possibility of going wrong just by memory, the two groups of people in front of him should go first, everything is peaceful, which shows that Shunjun does not know about this at all, this is good news.

At the beginning of the day (zero o'clock), Wang Lanping and others had walked out of more than 20 miles in one breath, and then they felt that the torches were lit, Zheng Sen and Song Dali also waited in front according to the plan, after the three soldiers were united, a count, the two battalions of men and horses (in fact, less than 500 people) were not less than one person and one horse, and the people continued to move forward under the escort of several soldiers.

Wang Lanping was glad that everything was in danger, but now was not the time to be happy, and sooner or later he would be caught up by the cavalry of the Shun army, so he changed his plan and only asked Song Dali to take some people to escort the people, while he and Zheng Sen followed the road to find a place more suitable for ambush and hidden.

At this time, the Dashun military camp was also quiet, but behind this quietness was a burst of murderous aura, and the three thousand Shun troops were fully armed, gathered behind the fence, waiting for military orders at any time.