"What, what? Lost the flat type off? ”

First, Lao County defected, and then Pingxingguan was lost, and the bad news came one after another, and several capable generals under Li Xin's command were fried at this time. Master Guo is always the most active, and his body movements are extremely exaggerated to make a wish in front of Li Xin.

"Daizhou City cannot afford to be lost, only if Daizhou is in the hands of our Three Guards, can the thieves be contained in this Taihang Eight Mountains. The villain is willing to follow the commander to the death and defend this generation of state cities. ”

With the lead of this goods, the big guys have expressed their willingness to follow the big marshal and the thieves in a decisive battle.

Seeing that the military heart was available, Li Xin nodded secretly, but the next order made everyone stunned, and they didn't know what to do.

"Ben Shuai has decided that from now on, all officials and civilians in Daizhou will withdraw from Beiloukou and go to Hunyuan Prefecture for the time being!"

"This, this, why?"

Master Guo's originally firm eyes suddenly became confused, didn't he want to live and die with the city? Isn't it to be loyal to the country and die for yourself? How can the great enemy be at present, and the handsome man should rub oil on the soles of his feet and slip away?

Tian Fuzhen, who has been a life-and-death partner with Master Guo, is different from his frivolity, although he does not agree with Li Xin's decision, he is waiting for him to give a reasonable explanation with his ears sideways. This person used to be the minister of the imperial court, a jinshi who was born in the imperial examination, and the official went to Nanjing to participate in the general political department.

If others would definitely accept such a big gap in life, this Tian Fuzhen seems to be extraordinary, not only accepting the mercy of fate, but also doing every job in his hands with extreme care. So far, he has only one thought, that is, to be loyal and dedicated to the Ming court in this catastrophe, but he wants to be worthy of his heart and leave a name in history.

Because of this, if Li Xin had selfish intentions and different intentions, he Tian Fuzhen decided to be the first to jump out and oppose it.

Unexpectedly, Li Xin only asked two questions lightly.

"Do you think the imperial court will send troops to aid Daizhou? Do you think it's appropriate to die meaninglessly in Daizhou, or is it appropriate to preserve your strength in an attempt to defeat the enemy? ”

Yes, will the imperial court send reinforcements? Yang Sichang's strategy of "spreading the net on all sides and blossoming in the center" has just been conveyed by His Majesty the Emperor in the Forbidden City, and he once said that Li Xin must cooperate with the Three Guards. According to this strategy, the only combat intention of the army outside was to encircle and hold the Taihang Bacheng. And the only task of the Three Guards, including the Three Guards, is to be responsible for the flowering of the center, deal with the thieves, and fight to the end.

Where will there be any reinforcements?

After Li Xin's reminder, Tian Fuzhen felt a chill in the back of his head, and analyzed that sticking to Daizhou had lost its strategic significance, even if they died in battle, I am afraid that it would be meaningless except to get the court's pension.

But if there is no battle, the enemy will run away with his tail between his legs, and Tian Fuzhen always feels that something is wrong, but he can't say it for a while.

Until this time, Li Xin did not talk to everyone in a consultative tone, but ordered in an unquestioning posture that everyone must carry out unconditionally, and those who do not comply with military law will be involved.

The news that the Three Guards had abandoned Daizhou and was preparing to move the city to Hunyuan Prefecture spread throughout the city in just half an hour. After learning the news of the abandonment of the city, the first person to jump out to oppose it was Huang Sheng, the eldest son of Huang Yongfa, the largest businessman in Daizhou.

secretly ordered the housekeeper to encourage the rich squires to stay in Daizhou and fight the thieves to the death, after all, the previous battle was won, and everyone was very confident.

The Huang family has established irreplaceable prestige in Daizhou City after this battle, and Huang Sheng's words, the fathers and elders in the city have responded. This brought a lot of resistance to Li Xin's retreat plan, and Tian Fuzhen and Master Guo, who were in charge of relocation, were at a loss.

The foundation of the Huang family is in Daizhou, which is one of the reasons why when the thieves pressed the border, Huang Yongfa was the first to jump out and organize the people to swear to defend the city. Therefore, Huang Sheng spared no effort to preserve the foundation of the Huang family, which is understandable.

The helmsman of the Huang family had entrusted a pair of children with all matters because of his serious illness, but at this moment, this big businessman had reached the point of being terminally ill and almost running out of oil. The old man called his eldest son to the sickbed, and opened his eyelids with great effort, and there was a bit of hatred in his dry old eyes.

"What doesn't make ......"

Before he could say a word, he coughed fiercely, out of breath, his face was red, and the green tendons on his neck were abrupt. Huang Sheng is a filial son, I don't know why his father is so excited, and hurriedly soothes him.

"Father don't be excited, what do you think of is that the son dares to disobey!"

The old man coughed for a long time and finally calmed down, his eyes were closed, and he slowed down for a while before he slowly spoke, but his voice was much weaker than before.

"If you are asked to read more, you just don't listen, back then, the Lu family was a businessman, how could he be a marquis and worship the prime minister?"

Huang Sheng was impatient, when it was time to burn his eyebrows, was his father old and confused, and he was still in the mood to tell a story, but he had to answer, so he had to hesitate and said: "Father is talking about the allusion of strange goods?" ”

The old man's nostrils squeezed out an almost imperceptible cold snort, his eyelids suddenly opened, and the old hand, which was as dry as a twig, suddenly stood up, his fingers scratched.

"Don't you hear that the Lu family poured out all their wealth in exchange for Zichu's teaching, my son is doing this to ...... Cough...... Cough...... Odd Goods...... Give it away? With that, like a final cry, exhausted what little strength he had left, and the old branch-like hand fell to the bed again.

Huang Sheng was neither stupid nor stupid, the old man's meaning couldn't be more obvious, he suddenly understood his father's good intentions, and suddenly sweated like rain of shame. 's father is not old and confused, he is burning his last life to guide the future fate of the Huang family.

A sense of mission arose spontaneously in Huang Sheng's heart, his nose suddenly became sour, his eyes were blurry, his hand was on the old hand that was rapidly losing heat, and he silently thought in his heart that Huang Sheng would not let his father down.

At the moment when Tian Fuzhen and Master Guo were at a loss, the attitude of the wealthy squires in the city suddenly took a 180-degree turn, not only agreeing to go north with the Three Guards, but also unconditionally agreeing to Li Xin's plan to burn the city and destroy the city.

This made the two of them inexplicable, but the shape was imminent, and it was no longer the time to delve into the reason, as long as the people in the city agreed to go north with the army, it would be considered the completion of the task. At the same time, Li Xin was not idle, 3,000 soldiers and 5,000 auxiliary soldiers had been assembled, and flammable materials such as fire oil were also prepared.

At this critical moment, Li Xin suddenly got the news that Huang Yongfa, the helmsman of the Huang family, had died. This can give Li Xin a big problem, the dead are great, the ancients attached the most importance to filial piety, if Huang Sheng insists on not leaving, I am afraid that this retreat plan will have to be complicated.

Previously, Huang Sheng had made some small moves in secret, and Li Xin didn't know it, but for some reason he suddenly made a 180-degree turn, and he fully cooperated. Even if he takes 10,000 steps back, the helmsman of the Huang family is still Huang Yu's father, once he doesn't handle it well, how can he be worthy of Huang Yu, who has always been in love with him?

Li Xin suddenly felt that his head was as big as a fight, and he couldn't say that he wanted to do the ideological work of Huang Sheng's son, so he was in a hurry to follow the power, so he had to carry the old man's body to the north first.

Who knew that Huang Sheng took the initiative to see Li Xin, and he was holding a black coffin beside him.

"Dashuai, my Huang family can't hold back, my father said before his death, a qiē focus on the overall situation!"

Li Xin was surprised, this eldest son of the Huang family has a straightforward personality, and he has always been quite critical of the Three Guards, and he has never pretended to be the commander of his town. Today's change of sex, I'm afraid it's all the credit of the old man in the coffin. So, the whole bundle of clothes came to the old man's coffin, and solemnly shook it to the ground. The right-hand men behind Li Xin also stepped forward one by one to salute.

At this point, the retreat was a foregone conclusion. Under Huang Sheng's guarantee, the people in the city gave up most of their family wealth and left the city in a hurry. By dawn on the second day, Daizhou City had become an empty city, and Li Xin also withdrew with the Three Guards after igniting flammable materials such as fire oil and gunpowder.

The mighty team that stretched for more than ten miles walked out of the ten miles, and the smoke rose into the sky in the distance behind him, Li Xin looked back and sighed in his heart. But the soldiers who were left with the thieves were in ruins, they got nothing, no population, no supplies.

Sure enough, when the thief army arrived in Daizhou, he was completely stunned by the scene in front of him, the thief general was angry, and there was no food supply from Daizhou City, what supply army did he use to attack the Bauhinia Pass? After learning that the Three Guards were fleeing north with the people of the city, the army of thieves decided to follow the pursuit, and the thieves decided that they had the rations they urgently needed in the ranks.

The people of Daizhou dragged their families and mouths, and the marching speed was extremely slow, just after Huyukou Li Xin already had a bad instinct, through the reconnaissance of the guò rangers, he had already learned the movement of the thief army, after all, it was too close to the thief army, it was difficult to say that the thief was not angry and retaliated in pursuit of revenge.

So he asked Huang Sheng and Tian Fuzhen to urge the people to do their best, and on the one hand, they sent out Lu Jiu's cavalry battalion, and on the other hand, they ordered the soldiers to slow down their march, changing from two marching columns to multiple columns, so that when the enemy suddenly attacked, they could quickly change into battle formations and form a phalanx.

Zhang Shi took the initiative to stay at the end of the team with the grenadier battalion, although the grenadier battalion was nominally the elite selected from the Three Guards, but it had never experienced the test of actual combat. Therefore, he volunteered to stay at the end in order to fight for the grenadier battalion.

But how could Li Xin be willing to let the elite of the Three Guards be cannon fodder? After a while, I saw the dust behind me, and the sound of horses' hooves stomping on the ground was rapid and loud, all the way north!