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Luzhou Mansion.

The weather gradually gets colder, and the surface of the open-air pool is covered with a layer of muddy ice.

The night before was windy, Jin Xiaoding thought that he would be able to see the snow covering the city the next day, but when he got up in the morning, he saw that there was no change outside.

"It's going to snow," he muttered as he looked up at the sky in the distance. A gust of northern blowing came, and his thin body was like a fallen leaf floating in the air, looking lonely and helpless.

Luzhou City held on for three or four months, and not only those soldiers, but even he himself gradually lost patience

When he reached the top of the city, the artillery of the Qing soldiers seven or eight miles away had not yet sounded, and according to the old rules, it should have sounded

"How long will this city be defended?" Since the rebels were besieged in the city of Lu'an, news outside the city was cut off. However, since the besieging Wu Sangui Department has not made any major moves, presumably Datong City and Xiangyang City are still the same.

Luzhou City is not as strong as Xiangyang and Datong, and the rebel army in Luzhou City is not as brave as Jiang Jian and Luck Dehun's subordinates.

"Isn't it time for me to break through," Jin Xiaoding looked up at the gray sky. After the snow, he will no longer have a choice. When a snow falls, the path of the rebels to break through and escape is even more difficult, and they will leave traces along the way.

"Jin Shuai" Hao Yangyou quietly walked behind Jin Xiaoding, his gray beard shaking in the wind, "It's about to snow."

"Hmm," Jin Xiaoding nodded.

"The food in the city can't support the spring"

Jin Xiaoding hid the surprise in his heart, and snorted reluctantly: "Hmm"

The winter in the north is very long, and Luzhou will not thaw until almost March. After Jin Xiaoding captured Luzhou Mansion, time was urgent, and there was no time to collect more food back. The food in the city can last for two months at most, and it should be around the Lantern Festival.

The rebel army is mixed, and it is indeed impossible for him to keep a secret, but only a few rebel commanders can estimate how much food there is in the city, and Hao Yangyou is one of them. He could have known it, but the news should never be told in public, and once the soldiers knew the exact amount of grain and grass in the city, they would wait for the day when the food would run out, as if they were waiting for the end of the world.

Hao Yangyou obviously didn't notice Jin Xiaoding's displeasure, and continued to ask: "If it snows, can we just stay in this city and wait for death?" His eyes were red, and it seemed that he had had a sleepless night last night.

Hao Yangyou's words are a little overstepping, his qualifications are very old. Whether it was age, or status in the Zhai family, or the prestige of the Hao family in the rebel army, he thought he was qualified to say this.

The soldiers around the city saw that three months had passed, and the prestige established by Jin Xiaoding in capturing Luzhou City had been eroded a lot, but he still had undisputed prestige in this city.

Jin Xiaoding's face was covered with a layer of gloom, and he asked: "From the moment I defended the city, I made up my mind to die, didn't you?" ”

An iron ball slashed through the air in a bow-shaped arc and smashed into the half of the city wall at his feet, and the sudden bombardment sound covered half of Jin Xiaoding's words. The soldiers surrounded them, and at the same time escorted the two of them down the city

"If the city is broken, more than 100,000 people in the city will die here. Yes, I really don't want to die, but I don't think we should just accompany Luzhou City to perish, this is the last bloody man in Jindi."

Hao Yangyou shouted in Jin Xiaoding's ear, and the Qing soldiers roared with artillery, and he tried to shout louder to make Jin Xiaoding understand what he meant.

Jin Xiaoding's face was pale, he knew that Hao Yangyou would never come to him for no reason, this must be the meaning of the Hao family's righteous army.

There are people who don't want to hold on to the city anymore, and that's a very dangerous sign. The reason why Jin Xiaoding was able to guarantee the command of these hundreds of thousands of loose rebels was not how strong he was, on the contrary, it was he who was good at grasping the common ideas of the rebels of all factions.

No matter which family the rebels were, they now prefer to be on the barren Taihang Mountain. A few months ago, they wanted to fight in the Taihang Mountains, and a few months later, they wanted to escape. This is the rebel army, the rebel army that has been growing, like the original thief.

"Winter is coming, and the war everywhere should enter a period of silence, and once the snow falls, the siege will inevitably end. In the past five or six days, Wu Sangui no longer commanded his soldiers to climb the head of Luzhou City, and Datong City and Xiangyang City will inevitably do the same. If we definitely don't make it until next spring, maybe it's a good choice to give up on the Luzhou breakout. Jin Xiaoding convinced himself in his heart. In fact, he himself had already had the same idea, and he could drag the rebel army in Shanxi into the winter, which had already met the requirements of the general.

To the east of Luzhou is the Taihang Mountains, and if the rebels flee into the mountains, they will need to fight against the bitter cold for a winter, and the Qing soldiers will not enter the mountains to pursue them in the cold winter.

Before dark, several more leaders of the rebel army came to the Marshal's Mansion to talk to Jin Xiaoding about their worries about the future, and it seems that Hao Yangyou has already moved a lot of people.

It was another sleepless night, the north wind blew outside Jin Xiaoding's window for a whole night, and he began to worry that the heavy snow would not fall so quickly.

"Breakout"

Jin Xiaoding can only make the decision that best suits everyone's ideas, because he is not only the general's personal soldiers, but also the generalissimo of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in the city.

In the gloomy weather, the rebels in the city sharpened their sharp knives, wrapped their cotton clothes, and each of them shared a bag of grain.

Noon.

"There are still five days left before the winter moon," Jin Xiaoding stood in the courtyard, and spit out a white puff of white from his mouth as he spoke

In front of him stood more than thirty rebel leaders. This time, he didn't play tricks anymore, everyone would only care about running for their lives when he broke out, and any of his tricks were not good.

"We have three directions to break through, Taihang Mountain, Gyeonggi South and Jinnan. The southern part of Gyeonggi was heavily guarded by Qing captives, and it was all plains, and we fled there with nowhere to hide. So we can only divide our troops into two ways. ”

Hao Yangyou objected: "Why do you want to go to Jinnan, now it is safe to enter the Taihang Mountain." ”

Jin Xiaoding was not happy to be interrupted to speak, and said in an accentuated tone: "We are breaking through, and we can only confuse Qingyu by choosing two directions, in order to ensure that more people live, we can't make a desperate bet." Do you think Wu Sangui will obediently let us escape? ”

"I want to enter Taihang Mountain" Hao Yangyou was very polite, this is not the time to be humble. Listening to Jin Xiaoding's meaning, the reason for breaking through to the south of Jin is to attract the attention of the Qing soldiers, and no one wants to become an army to lure the enemy

Jin Xiaoding was unmoved, and continued to ask: "If you have any ideas, you can say them."

After a short silence, someone finally stood up one after another and echoed Hao Yangyou's statement: "We all want to retreat to Taihang Mountain."

Jin Xiaoding carefully estimated that it accounted for more than thirty percent of the people in the righteous army. These people are all groups in the rebel army that have been reunited around Hao Yangyou.

"Is there anyone else?"

There was silence.

After waiting for a while, seeing that no one came out to speak again, Jin Xiaoding nodded heavily and said, "Okay, I plan to go to Jinnan and Taihang Mountain, since you want to enter Taihang Mountain, I respect your wishes." ”

He beckoned his soldiers to bring a tray from the back, on which was a stack of sealed envelopes.

"We waited for the army to rebel against the Qing Dynasty, and in the name of advocating righteousness in Shuntian, although we died without any regrets. Since life and death belong to the destiny of heaven, please draw lots for the rest of the people, and those who go to Taihang Mountain will go with Hao, and those who will go to Jinnan will go with me. ”

As soon as his voice fell, there was a commotion at the scene, and the commanders of the rebel army did not expect that Jin Xiaoding would choose to go to Jinnan.

"Jin Shuai, why do you want to go to Jinnan?" Some people questioned it, it was because of Jin Xiaoding's concern and confusion about his future.

Jin Xiaoding didn't explain again, and waved his hand: "Taihang Mountain or Jinnan, there is no difference"

The soldiers passed in front of the commanders with wooden plates, and each of them reached out and took out an envelope from the wooden plate and carefully opened it.

To Jinnan or Taihang Mountain, they will part ways here, and from then on, their fate will be different. This method of pretending to go to heaven to draw lots is the least controversial, and Jin Xiaoding is very smart.

The mystery was revealed one by one, before that, there was already a thin despair in Luzhou City, and it was really about to break through to this moment, to separate from friends who had been fighting side by side for nearly a year, and the commanders of the battalions had a kind of unpredictable future.

Jin Xiaoding waved his hand and ordered: "Tonight, the army will break through"

The cannon fire of the captives outside the city is non-stop, and it is idle anyway.

Wu Sangui wasn't sure how long the grain and grass in the city would last, but based on the behavior of the rebels after capturing Luzhou City, he guessed that the days of holding out in the city would not be too long. In this case, why should he compromise the Wu family's military expenses to capture Luzhou City. He could also guess with his toes that if he captured Luzhou in a hurry, he would inevitably be sent to Xiangyang City without stopping.

In this cold winter, warming a pot of bamboo leaves in the big tent outside Luzhou City, watching the iron cannon bombarding those ragged rebels, wouldn't it be much happier than going to Xiangyang City and fighting the Ming army in Jiangnan with thick soldiers and armor.

If Zhai Zhe's victory in Jiangnan was somewhat accidental, then this year, starting in March, the Ming army swept through Anqing, Jiangxi and Huguang for most of the year, and now there is only a lonely city left, and he never wants to touch such an opponent again.

"Zhai Zhe" he whispered to that person, he had a relationship with him outside Beijing. At that time, Zhai Zhe led the cavalry to break out of the Qing captives and besieged him, asking him for food and grass supplies. Later, because Lu Xiang ascended to the giant deer, one of them was in the south of the Yangtze River and the other was in the north of the Yangtze River, and there was no intersection. He can't remember Zhai Zhe's appearance, and he must be an extraordinary character.

"Zhai Zhe, you are better than my life," sighed in the big tent.

There are military leaders like Fang Guoan and Zheng Zhilong in the Ming Dynasty, and there are also thoughtful generals like Wu Sangui in the Qing court.