At the south gate of Suning, the iron cannon rumbled, and the firelight stretched for several miles, which frightened the two Tartars who defended the city, and hurriedly rushed to the city to report to the leader Akzia. Before the soldiers who reported the news arrived, Akzia had already put on his helmet and armor, dressed up, packed up, and got on his horse and walked out of the gate of the government office.

Since the death of Ao Bai Zhangjing, Akzia has put away the idea of despising the Ming army, especially Li Xin. All of them are cautious and cautious. On the day of Aobai's tragic death, he was locked up outside the city just one step away, watching as this brother and elder brother, who took good care of him, was shot to death.

Hearing that the army was coming from the south gate, Akzia was quite surprised. As the messenger hurriedly ascended the enemy tower at the south gate, but when he saw the firelight that stretched for several miles, his heart jumped suddenly. Seeing that the scale is more than tens of thousands of people, where did so many Ming troops come, fortunately, when he came to Suning, the general allocated an extra thousand men and horses with himself.

If the previous Akzia would not have taken the Ming army in his eyes, it would have been okay to go out of the city to attack the Ming army at this time. But the number of losses is too much, and he should always have a longer memory, so he hesitated, and the first thing that came to mind was not to go out of the city to attack the Ming army, but to think about whether 3,000 people were enough to defend the city. And someone should be sent immediately to report to the general that there is a large-scale Ming army in Suning.

Just when Akzia was nervously arranging the defense of the city, the soldiers dared to ask Li Xin a question without worry.

"General, what if the Tartars attack the city?"

Li Xin arranged for people to be planted with torches everywhere, making their 4,000-odd people look like they have the size of tens of thousands. But if the Tartars go out of the city to meet the enemy, then everything will be exposed. Although the people were numerous, they were not well-trained soldiers, and they could not fight the Tartars at all.

Zeng dared to be unbelievable to Li Xin's audacity. Who knew that Li Xin sneered a few times.

"As soon as Ao Bai Mazik dies, my Gaoyang army puts on such a formation, who else dares to go out of the city to fight?"

Zeng dared to stick out his tongue, feeling that you knew that people would not dare to come out, so you set up a car to play such a big battle, but then again, in the end, it can only be to scare and scare people, is it really necessary to drive the people to fill in the siege of the city?

"But what's the point of us doing that?"

"What if, I mean, what if the Tartar does come out......"

Li Xin was impatient with Zeng Da's question, so he untied a linen package from his horse and threw it in front of him.

"Inside is buckshot, leather paper, and gunpowder jars, roll out 200 according to the method you were taught before!"

"Can you be blind in the black light and roll a little less......"

"No matter how noisy it is, it will roll up to 400"

Zeng Dare has a strong desire for knowledge, how to use the musket, how to prepare ammunition, all the same has been learned, and he always pesters Li Xin to ask questions. It annoyed Li Xin.

But Li Xin was still quite sympathetic to him, and after being stimulated by the beating, he was determined to kill 10,000 Tartars with his own hands to atone for his sins, so he put aside the reserve of a scholar and was willing to be with the warriors. It's just that this thing has four books and five classics all day long, and everyone is about to read stupidly. Originally, I thought he was still a little bloody, but after he came into contact with his own soldiers, he found that it was not what he thought before, and this thing was completely a tendon secondary school boy. In the past, those actions were basically done under his blood, but someone cooperated with him, and in the end, tens of thousands of people lost their lives.

Fortunately, he met Li Xin, otherwise he might have killed himself.

The torches were lit, the iron cannons were released, and the shouts resounded in the night sky, Li Xin was very satisfied with the effect of tonight's operation, and estimated that the generals defending the city should be bluffed. After tossing for about an hour, Li Xin felt that the time was almost up, and waved his hand.

"Withdraw!"

The torches outside the city were extinguished, and the chaos took more than half an hour to be cleared.

The actions of the Ming army under the city confused Akzia, the movement of the hula in the middle of the night is not small, will it be withdrawn after the toss? Isn't it better to storm the city?

Withdraw, withdraw, it's better if the Ming army doesn't attack the city, as long as you ensure that this Suning city is not lost, you will be worthy of worshipping Zhangjing's spirit in the sky. Although the Ming army withdrew, Akzia still did not dare to relax in the slightest, in case this was a delaying tactic of the Ming army, and then kill the horse pistol.

In this way, they stayed until dawn and the Ming army never returned. So he sent out scouts and scouts, but there was no trace of the Ming army within a radius of more than ten miles, which was strange. Originally, he planned to send someone to report to Yue Tuo of Hejian Mansion for help after dawn, but something was wrong, and he decided to slow it down first.

Who knew that in the middle of the night, fire was raised again for miles outside the city, and iron cannons rumbled, and this time it was a real cannonball, and shells bombarded the enemy tower, and most of the wooden eaves collapsed.

Akzia stared at the "tens of thousands of troops" outside the city and began to fight between heaven and man, when the Qing Dynasty iron cavalry was surrounded by the southern barbarian slaves in the city and did not dare to go out of the city, it has always been the Qing Dynasty Eight Banners iron cavalry surrounded the southern barbarian slaves for a while. If in normal times, you should fight for this face alone.

But just as Akzia made up his mind to leave the city, another voice in his head was laughing at him, forgetting the losses he had suffered and the injuries he had suffered before. As soon as I thought of this, the wound in my abdomen was faintly painful again, and although it was not as painful as it had been at first, it still hadn't healed, and some pus was still oozing from time to time.

There was a rooster crowing in the city, and the day was about to break.

That's it! Akzia seemed to have made up his mind.

……

Jingshi, the residence of Liu Yuliang, the first assistant of the cabinet, the small sedan chair carried by two people stopped outside the side door, the sedan curtain was lifted, and a middle-aged man with a big belly walked out. The side door creaked open, and a servant flashed out of it, and said to the fat man, "Why did you come?" Elder Ge has been waiting for you for a long time. ”

The fat man immediately accompanied the smiling face: "The sedan chair man walks slowly, you take care of it!" ”

Then he stretched out his sleeve and gave him a dime of silver, and put it into the servant's hand. When the servant saw the silver, he immediately changed his attitude and said casually, "Come with me, the will came from the palace last night." Let the elder of the pavilion resign early this morning......"

When the fat man heard this, his mind was already confused, didn't Liu Ge Lao say that he didn't leave until the first month, how could he leave today, wouldn't 20,000 taels of silver be wasted? It was borrowed money, how this was good, how good was this, his heart was full of this silent thought over and over again. If you want the money back, you can't do it, otherwise if you spread it, how can you mix in the officialdom, but if you don't come back, this thing has not been done, and what will you do to pay it back?

With apprehension all the way, the fat man came to the living room of Liu Yuliang's house, and all he saw along the way was the servants of the Liu family, busy packing things, but in the eyes of the fat man, there was a different taste of depression.

Liu Yuliang was already dressed neatly in the purple robe at this time, and when he saw the fat man entering the house, he got straight to the point.

"Xuannian, last night the emperor decreed that the old man would resign today, and the things discussed yesterday may be a little difficult."

The fat man's name is Xuannian, his surname is Xiong, and his name is Kaiyuan. He was once a clerk in the matter, because he was implicated in Zhou Ruibao's election incident, he was demoted to Shanxi according to the judge, and he took the path of Zhou Yanru in the hope of being transferred back to the capital, but he was humiliated by Zhou on the spot, and since then he has formed a feud with Zhou, and he has been in Shanxi for several years.

Xiong Kaiyuan and Liu Yuliang had a lot of intersections before, and since Liu Yuliang became the first assistant, he has moved his mind to transfer back to the capital. After coming to the capital privately, he scraped together 20,000 taels of silver and came to Liu's door.

When he came to Liu's Mansion that day, Liu Yuliang was so gracious that he was grateful, thinking that this Liu Ge was very old and missed the old love, so he ordered someone to unload the silver at his house on the spot.

Who knows, after leaving Liu's house, he learned a news that was like five thunders, Liu Yuliang asked the emperor for permission to go out of Beijing to inspect the military situation as early as the morning court meeting. The angry Xiong Kaiyuan jumped to his feet and scolded secretly, Liu Yuliang is really not a thing, knowing that he is going to leave, he will also hack him with 20,000 taels of silver. So he went to Liu Yuliang to theorize that day, and Liu Yuliang said kind words to comfort him, please rest assured that there is no reason not to do things after receiving the money.

Xiong Kaiyuan had no choice but to believe Liu Yuliang, who knew that it was only a day later, and Liu Yuliang was about to leave Beijing......

"Hmm......"

Xiong Kaiyuan didn't have a good seizure, and he really couldn't swallow this breath, and he didn't make a stubble, he just sighed, he wanted to see how this Liu Yuliang explained to him.

"It's hard to say, it's easy to do, and now there's a great opportunity, it just depends on whether you have the guts."

Listening to Liu Yuliang's tone, it turned out that there was a turning point in this matter, and Xiong Kaiyuan was overjoyed.

"Don't sell Guanzi, as long as Kaiyuan can be transferred back to the capital, he will go to Daoshan and be willing to go to the oil pot."

Liu Yuliang: Hey, hey, a pleasure.

"The emperor commissioned the old man to supervise the affairs of the world, and he is about to go south, and now there is still a lack of a Chinese army Sima under the account, I don't know if Xuan Nian intends to do so? In the future, it may not be impossible to return to Beijing, not to mention a waiter who is in the middle of a thing. ”

Sima of the Chinese army is an errand in charge of the money and food of the Chinese army, if it was before the Apocalypse Dynasty, this is definitely a beautiful and unspeakable beauty difference, but now today's troops are in trouble, and the governor and governor must not die a few times a year, not to mention a small money and food officer. If you dare to do it, you have to have a life to do it! The more Xiong Kaiyuan thought about it, the more angry he became, and he scolded Liu Yuliang's ancestors for the eighteenth generation in his heart, but he was helpless.

Now there are only two ways in front of him, one is to accept his fate, Liu Yuliang swallowed him 20,000 taels of silver, and he honestly went back to Shanxi to be his judge. The second is to gamble and follow him to be this money and grain official, and if he doesn't succeed, he will become a benevolent.

That's it!

Xiong Kaiyuan slapped his thigh hard, and the decision was made!

……

In the sound of bells and drums, Emperor Zhu Youzhen of the Ming Dynasty sent a battle report from the south last night, bringing excellent news.

It is said that the Tartar puppet king Dolgon suffered a big loss under Gaoyang City, good guy, a small Gaoyang held back tens of thousands of Tartar troops. It is also said that several Tartar generals were killed. Although this information is not true, as long as it is true, it is also the most exciting and encouraging news since the Tartars entered the prison.

A lot of information came together, which made Zhu Youzhen think of a person, a person closely related to Gao Yang, that is, Sun Chengzong, an old minister of the Three Dynasties.

An idea jumped out of Zhu Youzhen's mind.

Note: According to the judge's note, the translation is equivalent to a unit-level cadre in charge of archives in the provincial procuratorate.