Li Xin sneezed a few times in a row, causing Liu Quan to come forward with a letter of concern.

"The envoy suffers from the cold? Why don't you camp on the spot first, rest for a day, and then leave? ”

He also wanted to rest, but the shape shì did not allow it, the Qing army swept very thoroughly this time, with Gaoyang as the center of the radius of fifty miles without the slightest population, the rapid march for several days and nights, the dry food he carried with him had been almost eaten, and he was about to run out of food, and he had to find a place where he could be supplied, in addition to the supply problem, what worried him more was where the tartars went, and what happened to Sun Chengzong, Liu Yuliang, and Lu Zhifan?

"According to what my subordinates have seen, it is better for us to go north than to east."

Liu Quan tentatively put forward his opinion, and when he saw that Li Xin did not object, he continued: "The Baoding Mansion and Zhending Mansion to the west have been completely destroyed by the Tartar sweep, and the eastern Tartar soldiers seem to have reached very little, so the people and the county town must also be well preserved, and it will not be a problem for the canal to be replenished on the side. ”

In fact, there is another potential factor that Liu Quan did not say, that is, there are fewer Tartars in the east, and the chance of encountering Tartars is greatly reduced, so that there is no need to fight desperately.

Li Xin felt that there was some truth in what Liu Quan said, no matter what, it was the key to solve the stomach problems of more than 1,000 ** soldiers first. But he felt that it was necessary to discuss this matter with Lu Jiu, and Lu Jiu also felt that this method was feasible, since there was no war for the time being, the first problem was to solve the problem of eating and drinking the army.

"Li Xin, you can't treat the imperial court officials like this, this official has to go to the pavilion elder to sue you!"

Just by listening to the voice, you can tell that this is Zhou Jin's voice, and Lu Jiu laughed at Li Xin after hearing it.

Li Xin read a hint of cunning in his gaze.

Sure enough, I saw that a rope was tied to the body of the dignified Sect Master, and the other end was tied to the side of Lu Jiu's saddle.

"Brother Thirteen, you leave this noisy guy in the care of your brother, but he is really dishonest, even more difficult than that Hauge, and he has no choice but to tie him to the back of a horse."

Lu Jiu explained in a wordy manner, Li Xinyan didn't know what he was thinking, but he didn't break it, but just said lightly: "After all, he is a civil official, and he can't stand it, so it's better to persuade him, as long as he agrees to cooperate, let him ride a horse." Lu Jiu nodded helplessly.

Li Xin's voice was not small, Zhou Jin listened to it word for word, and when he came closer, he nodded continuously.

"Zhou is cooperative, but he can't walk on this foot!"

Li Xin followed the torch to look at Zhou Jin's feet, a pair of cloth shoes had already worn off the bottom, and a pair of big feet with fine skin and tender flesh had long been ground into a blur of flesh and blood. I really couldn't bear it in my heart, so I asked my soldiers to take out their extra straw sandals with him.

The pro-soldier was full of unhappiness, "This is the thirteenth brother's, it's better to be cheap than a cheap dog......"

Li Xin's eyes widened, and the pro-soldier suddenly lost his words, and obediently threw the straw sandals in front of Zhou Jin. Zhou Jin's hands were trapped by ropes, and his movement was really inconvenient. Li Xin drew his knife again and cut the rope.

People's hearts are flesh and blood, not to mention Zhou Jin, who is not bad in nature, whether it is Lu Jiu or ordinary soldiers along the way, he has been tossed to the point of intolerability. Fortunately, Li Xin will always stop it in time after discovering it, and now that Li Xin is giving shoes and interceding, Zhou Jin's eyes can't help but be a little moist. He even wondered if what he had done to this person before had gone too far.

He didn't think about it, if Li Xin didn't acquiesce in this team, who would dare to torture him? But in this extreme environment, even the smartest person may have a change in mentality and ambiguity about right and wrong because of the change of identity, not to mention Zhou Jin, who has this tendon.

Zhou Jin's opinion of Li Xin has changed greatly, and even as long as he sees Li Xin, he will immediately feel at ease, and when he is left alone with Lu Jiu, he will always be afraid of what kind of perverted method this person will use to torture him. Sometimes, he didn't even have the status of that Hauge, no matter what, no one gave him a look, and no one took the initiative to embarrass him, allowing him to go crazy and talk nonsense.

It was already dark, and the men stopped marching and set up camp on the spot. Although he already had the goal of marching, Li Xin still felt that something was wrong. When all the qiē were settled, Lu Jiu came to look for Li Xin.

"There is one thing, Lu Jiu has been worrying about."

Li Xin wondered, Lu Jiu would never feel entangled because of one thing in his heart, what's wrong today? I only heard Lu Jiu pause and said:

"It's about the ...... surnamed Kong"

"But Kong Youde?"

"Exactly!"

Kong Youde took the initiative to ask Ying to follow Zhang Shi to escort Liu Yuliang into the city before Li Xin went to Shandong, and then never returned to the team.

"Lu Jiu is worried that Gao Yang Chengpo has something to do with this person......

Li Xin was silent for a while, Kong Youde judged the situation, and was fickle in self-preservation, if there was enough temptation, it might not be impossible for this person to rebel. But this man offended Dolgon so badly, did he dare to risk being reckoned with by the Queen of Autumn and become the obedient king again?

Seeing that Li Xin was silent again, Lu Jiu said in a low voice: "If it is really that Kong Youde who sold Gaoyang City, wouldn't you and my brother be accomplices?" The dead and wounded soldiers and civilians ...... "He couldn't say it anymore, Li Xin didn't expect such a bold man to have such a delicate side."

"Gaoyang City has fallen, it's useless to think about it, if you learn that the fall of Gaoyang City is related to this person in the future, even the ends of the earth will have to take its head, and revenge for the miserable creatures is far better than being suspicious here."

Gaoyang City was not only razed to the ground, but there were countless charred corpses in the city, obviously all of them were soldiers and civilians who had not had time to escape, although Lu Jiu was a horse thief and killed people, but he was also shocked by this kind of human tragedy. Coupled with Kong Youde, he would be awakened by nightmares for a few days in the future, and it would even become a burden in his heart for a long time.

Li Xin's words made him suddenly enlightened. Indeed, the dead are gone. If this matter is really related to that Kong Youde, then it is far better to kill him than to feel sorry for himself.

After marching for two days and one night, before dark, Li Xin and others left the boundary of Baoding Mansion and came to the Desheng Lake and Triangle Lake at the junction of Shuntian Mansion and Hejian Mansion, and then twenty or thirty miles ahead is the Wei River. Along the way, there were not many people, but in the houses and warehouses abandoned by the people in panic, a lot of food was found, and the problem of eating and drinking for the army was finally alleviated.

Zhou Jin has become quite cooperative since the last time he was courteous to Li Xin, so he is also different from the beginning, and has been given quite a bit of freedom. What is more strange is that instead of reciprocating and resenting, he has become very happy with this regained freedom.

Li Xin once privately analyzed the psychological dynamics of Zhou Jin's behavior, and came to only two conclusions, either this person is very deep in the city, hiding his true thoughts, just to deceive everyone and wait for an opportunity to escape, but this is completely different from the Zhou Jin he is familiar with. Another point is that after this person was really stimulated, his mentality changed in an unknown way, and it is unknown what kind of change and why it started.

In short, Zhou Jin's tendon has also begun to become more pandering. He came to Li Xin's side and looked at the open water in front of him, because this winter came so late that it had not yet frozen.

"This is the triangle lake, after this triangle lake, there is Tianjin Sanwei in front of it......"

Zhou Jin described this geographical shape in detail, but Li Xin only heard the word Tianjin, and he didn't hear anything else at all, he suddenly thought of a key question, and this question was also the key point where he always felt that something was wrong.

Where exactly did the Tartars go? Until Zhou Jin mentioned Tianjin, Li Xin subconsciously thought of Beijing, he slapped his thigh, how could he forget the capital of the first city of the Ming Dynasty? The Tartar walked so cleanly, maybe he was in a hurry to get out, right? Dolgon lost face this time, and if he didn't move back to the situation, he would definitely be punished and questioned by Huang Taiji when he returned. And this Da Ming Jingshi is the best tool to use!

"Not good!"

While thinking that Dolgon's target might be Jingshi, Li Xin thought of a key question, in the history of his previous life, Emperor Chongzhen transferred Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting's Shaanxi army into Beijing because of the erosion of the situation in Zhili, and later simply obeyed Yang Sichang's Jianyi to leave it in the north to defend against the Tartars. In this way, Li Zicheng, who was trapped in the mountains of southern Shaanxi, was relieved, and Zhang Xianzhong, who was appeased by Xiong Wencan, also pulled up the banner of rebellion here.

At this point, south of the Yellow River, there is no army in the Central Plains that can compete with the thieves who are getting braver and braver. The shape shì finally eroded out of control, and after that, even Sun Chuanting came out of the mountain here, and was forced to commit suicide by thieves.

Originally, Li Xin pinned his hopes on Gaoyang City to hold the Tartars, and after the armies from all walks of life entered Zhili one after another, they confronted it, causing it to drag on for a long time and retreat on its own. But it backfired, first the Guanning army was wiped out, and then Lu Xiangsheng and Hu Dawei were also wiped out, although Lu Hu and the two were not dead, it didn't help the overall situation. The Shandong army struggled for power and profit, and had almost no strength to fight. The shape shì became almost worse than in the previous life, at least in the original history, the Guanning army still existed until the death of the Ming Dynasty, and played an indispensable role as an important military force to defend against the Tartar iron cavalry.

The only thing that Li Xin was pleased with was that Shandong avoided the plundering and destruction of the Qing army, and more or less preserved a trace of vitality for the Ming Dynasty.

"What?"

Zhou Jin had never seen Li Xin have such a remorseful expression.

"Jingshi is in danger!"

Li Xin hurriedly called Lu Jiu, and ordered the detectives to go out into the Shuntian Mansion to see if the Tartar had really gone to the capital.

"Enemy attack, enemy attack!"

Suddenly, there was a noise and chaos in front, and the cavalry resting on the spot got on their horses and lined up, while Liu Quan flew straight to Li Xin's place.