When Li Yuntian was looking at Luo Tong and Da Zhong, Luo Tong and Da Zhong were also observing him, and the two of them were surprised when they heard that Jiaozhi Dusi had sent someone, so they came to investigate together.

"Cousin!" Just as Luo Tong was secretly guessing Li Yuntian's identity, a native soldier standing behind Li Yuntian suddenly walked over to him, speaking not Jiaozhi dialect, but Jiangxi dialect.

"Why did you come to Cochin?" Luo Tong felt that this voice was a little familiar, and couldn't help but be taken aback when he looked at it, and looked at the young native soldier who came over with a surprised expression, and he recognized that this native soldier turned out to be his cousin Zhao Lin from his hometown in Jiangxi.

"Cousin, this is not the place to talk." Zhao Lin walked up to Luo Tong and whispered to him.

"Go to the back hall!" Seeing the mystery on Zhao Lin's face, Luo Tong groaned for a while and led him to the back hall of the mansion, puzzled by Zhao Lin's sudden appearance in Qinghua City.

"Cousin, Lord Dazhong, this is the new Jiaozhi General Soldier of the Emperor's Imperial Seal, General Dingnan, and Master Li Yuntian of Zhenwubo." When he arrived at the back hall of Qinghua Mansion, Zhao Lin asked Luo Tongping to retire from the others except Li Yuntian and Da Zhong, and then solemnly introduced Li Yuntian to Luo Tong and Da Zhong.

"In this way, is it true that An Yuanhou died in battle?" Hearing this, Luo Tong and Da Zhong couldn't help but be taken aback, Luo informed Zhao Lin that he would not deceive himself, and couldn't help muttering to himself.

After Liu Sheng was killed in battle, the rebels besieging Thanh Hoa City came to the city with some captured prisoners to persuade them to surrender, telling them that the rebels of the defenders of Thanh Hoa City, such as Luo Tong and Da Zhong, had annihilated the reinforcements sent to them by Emperor Xuande and killed the chief soldier Liu Sheng.

Luo Tong and Da Zhong naturally did not believe the propaganda of the rebels, thinking that they were disturbing the morale of the army, and they were disdainful of it, and now it seems that Liu Sheng really died in battle, otherwise Emperor Xuande would not have sent Li Yuntian to come.

"Uncle Zhenwu?" Then, Luo Tong came back to his senses and looked at Li Yuntian with a puzzled expression, in his impression, Da Ming didn't seem to have the title of Zhenwu Earl.

Li Yuntian's title was sealed by Emperor Xuande at the beginning of last year, when the rebels did not besiege Thanh Hoa City, but in fact Thanh Hoa City had been cut off from the outside world, because the rest of Thanh Hoa Province had become the world of the rebels, so Luo Tong and Da Zhong did not know what was happening in the outside world at all.

"Cousin, Uncle Zhen Wubo made great contributions to quelling the rebellion of King Han the year before last, and was made an earl by the emperor after last year." Zhao Lin knew that Luo Tong didn't know about Li Yuntian, so he hurriedly explained to him.

"The King of Han is defeated?" Luo Tong was taken aback again when he heard this, the last thing he heard before losing contact with the outside world was the rebellion of the King of Han, originally thought that the King of Han would be evenly matched with Emperor Xuande, but he never expected that the King of Han would not even hold out for half a year and would be defeated.

Thinking about it, Luo Tong couldn't help but look at Li Yuntian again, with a shocked look on his face:

If Li Yuntian was made an earl because of quelling the rebellion of the King of Han, then the King of Han, who had been experienced in a hundred battles and was brave and good at fighting, was very likely to be defeated in the hands of the young chief soldier in front of him, which is simply incredible, there are very few people in the Ming Dynasty who are qualified to be the opponents of the King of Han, let alone a hairy boy who has not dried up, how can he defeat the King of Han?

"Governor Luo, Dazhong Commander, this official has decided to abandon Thanh Hoa City, you arrange the relevant retreat matters, two days later, the soldiers and civilians in the city will go to Thanh Hoa Port and evacuate to Xin'an Mansion by boat."

Li Yuntian knew that Luo Tong didn't know him, so he took out the sealed official document with a stern expression, and said in a deep voice, "This is the official document of retreat, and it will be executed immediately after seeing this official document." ”

"Lord Commander, you must not retreat, now the rebels are eyeing the outside of the city, and our army will definitely be attacked if it goes out of the city."

Luo Tong was taken aback when he heard this, no matter what, he couldn't imagine that Li Yuntian would let him retreat, and hurriedly said, "Lord General Soldier doesn't know, there are more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians in Qinghua City, who have migrated from the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty, plus those Jiaozhi people who are loyal to the Ming Dynasty, the rebels are brutal, if anything happens to our army, they will definitely be killed by the rebels." ”

"This officer knows that there are many soldiers and civilians in Thanh Hoa City, so he has sent people to the Nanjing Water Diverter to come, and they will leave by boat from Thanh Hoa Port with our army."

Li Yuntian saw that Luo Tong's face had changed greatly, so he looked at him quietly, "Luo Zhifu, you count the number of people in the past two days to see how many people are willing to evacuate with our army, this official has already found a place for them to settle, and they will settle in Xin'an Mansion, Xuanhua Mansion, Langshan Mansion, Langjiang Mansion and Taiyuan Mansion at that time." ”

"Lord Commander, if we bring the people with us, once we leave the city, we will inevitably invite a bloody massacre by the rebels, please think twice." Luo Tong was stunned, he didn't expect Li Yuntian to organize such a large-scale migration, and then bowed his hand at him and persuaded him respectfully.

"Governor Luo, do you think that this official came to Qinghua City to push the soldiers and civilians in the city to a dead end?" Li Yuntian's face suddenly sank when he heard this, and he looked at Luo Tong coldly, he was the highest military and political commander in Jiaozhi, and of course he had to use a dismount to deter them and establish his prestige against such arrogant generals as Luo Tong and Dazhong.

"The chief soldier has misunderstood, the subordinate has no such intention, the subordinate is just worried about those soldiers and civilians in the city, and if he offends, he hopes that the chief soldier will forgive me."

Seeing Li Yuntian staring at him sharply, Luo Tong was slightly stunned at first, and then realized that he was too reckless just now, so he hurriedly bowed down and saluted Li Yuntian, and small beads of sweat involuntarily oozed from his forehead, Li Yuntian invisibly gave him an irresistible huge pressure.

"Lord General Soldier, Governor Luo is also concerned about the people, please forgive me." Seeing that Luo Tong looked a little restrained under Li Yuntian's domineering momentum, Da Zhong hurriedly stepped forward and bowed his hand at Li Yuntian, bowed down and pleaded.

"Luo Zhifu, Dazhong Commander, this official knows that the two of you have been working hard to defend the city these days, but the shape is stronger than people, and now the area south of Jiaozhi Jiaozhou Mansion is all under the control of the rebels, Qinghua City can be described as a dead land, if you don't evacuate, you will be trapped by the rebels sooner or later."

Li Yuntian's face softened, looked at Luo Tong and Da Zhong and said in a deep voice, "This official is not afraid to sue you, this official came to Jiaozhi to quell the rebellion this time, and only brought a total of 3,000 Xiaowu troops, not to mention exterminating the rebels, even if it is in Jiaozhi to protect himself!" ”

"Three thousand?"

"Did Cheng Shanbo really give Jiaozhou City to the rebels?"

Hearing this, Da Zhong and Luo Tong's faces changed greatly, and they all looked at Li Yuntian, no one thought that Li Yuntian only brought 3,000 people, let alone that Wang Tong would give the incomparably strong Jiaozhou City to the rebels.

When Wang Tong left Jiaozhou City, he sent someone to inform Luo Tong and Da Zhong, and asked the two to lead the army north to return to Guangxi through Xuanhua Mansion, but the two refused, because Wang Tong had been removed from his military post by Emperor Xuande, and he could not give orders to the two, so how could the two leave their posts without permission.

Moreover, once the two of them lead their troops out of the city, they will definitely be attacked and harassed by the rebels outside the city, and the rebels will definitely not swallow this breath in order to capture Thanh Hoa City.

"This is the situation that our army is facing in Jiaozhi, as the saying goes, stay in the green mountains without worrying about running out of firewood, the most important thing for us now is to preserve our strength and secretly accumulate strength."

Li Yuntian nodded solemnly, and said in a deep voice, "Remember the words of this official, the purpose of the war is to achieve the ultimate victory, so for this goal, don't care about the gains and losses of one city and one place, take a step back, the sea, the sky and the sky, and endure the calm for a while!" ”

When he heard that "take a step back from the sea, sky and sky, endure the calm for a while", Luo Tong's eyes couldn't help but light up, and then nodded thoughtfully, and couldn't help but look at Li Yuntian in his heart, in his opinion, those nobles in the court were just some vulgar martial artists, and he never thought that Li Yuntian would have such a good literary talent.

At this moment, Luo Tong would never have thought that Li Yuntian was not born in the army like other nobles, but was an orthodox two-rank jinshi like him, and he was even higher than him, and had become a Hanlin attendant of the Hanlin Academy.

Luo Tong is the second rank of the Yongle Ten Years Renchen Branch, once served as the inspector of the Imperial History, and was ordered to patrol Sichuan.

Originally, Luo Tong's career was smooth, but in the early summer of the nineteenth year of Yongle, when Emperor Yongle had just moved the capital to Beijing for a few months, the Fengtian Palace, the Huagai Hall and the Jinshen Hall of the Forbidden City were struck by lightning and caught fire, so some civil officials began to talk about moving the capital in vain, hoping that Emperor Yongle would move back to Nanjing, but was rejected by Emperor Yongle.

Among them, Xiao Yi, the director of the Ministry of Rites, was negligent during the court meeting, thinking that everything was inconvenient after moving the capital, and abandoning the imperial line and filial piety was against the will of heaven, which made Emperor Yongle furious, and ordered Xiao Yi to be executed in court.

Luo Tong was more unlucky, at that time, he and He Zhong, the superintendent of the Imperial Inspectorate, took the opportunity to deal with the disadvantages of the times, and angered Emperor Yongle, who was originally troubled by the fire in the three halls, and was sent by Emperor Yongle to Qinghua Mansion to serve as the prefect of Qinghua Mansion, and seven years have passed in a blink of an eye.

And He Zhong's situation was worse than Luo Tong, and he was assigned to Xinping Mansion in the south of Jiaozhi to serve as the governor of Zhengping Prefecture, but in the first year of Xuande, Li Li broke through Zhengping City, and died unyielding after being captured, and when the Jiaozhi War was over, Emperor Xuande gave him "Zhongjie".

"Lord Commander, the rebels are cruel and cunning, and they hate the soldiers and people of Qinghua City to the core, and the lower officials are worried that they will take the opportunity to attack and disturb them on the road."

After pondering for a while, Luo Tong looked up at Li Yuntian and said worriedly, this is what he is most worried about, but he has witnessed the tragic scene when the rebels kill those prisoners under the city.

"This time the rebels don't dare to mess around, even if someone harasses them, then it's a small group of stragglers." Li Yuntian sneered when he heard this, "Since they are here to find death, then fulfill them." ”

"Loyal commanders, you are solely responsible for the safety of the way, and if the rebels or mobs come to disturb you, you will be killed!"

Saying that, Li Yuntian looked at Da Zhong and gave an order coldly, he believed that Li Ge did not dare to act rashly, if someone attacked, it would also be a rebel or mob who wanted to take advantage of the opportunity, so naturally let them have no return.

"Obedience." Da Zhong was still worried about whether Li Yuntian, who looked polite and polite, would be able to calm the current chaotic scene of Jiaozhi, but when he saw the strong murderous aura revealed in Li Yuntian's words, he immediately felt an invisible pressure coming, and hurriedly bowed down and replied.

He found that he seemed to underestimate this young chief soldier, if he hadn't experienced a life-and-death battle, Li Yuntian would definitely not have such a suffocating murderous aura.