Abbatedon troops outside the city, but did not launch an offensive against Gaoyang, but constantly sent military horses out of the camp to collect food, such a deployment, even a fool can see that this is waiting for reinforcements from the eastern captives, naturally can not hide Li Xingzhi in the city.

Evacuating Gaoyang, Li Xingzhi naturally did not consider it, Abatai still has 4,000 military horses in his hands, but there are nearly 2,000 cavalry in it, and there are no deep mountains and dense forests around Gaoyang, Li Xingzhi does not think that he can get rid of the pursuit of the pigtail soldiers.

Can't retreat, then there is only to defend the city, but Li Xingzhi is not without a backhand, Yang Biao and Song Guangkun They began to dig tunnels in the southeast corner of Gaoyang yesterday, but because Abatai's camp is about three miles away from the city, this tunnel cannot be completed overnight.

According to Song Guangkun's suggestion, Yang Biao excavated from Lei Zhixian's mansion in Nancheng, because his yard was large enough and the excavated earthwork was easy to handle.

After a day of excavation, but just dug out of the city wall, this tunnel, about four feet wide, no more than one person high, the top is only three feet from the ground, in order to avoid collapse, in the excavation at the same time, Yang Biao is to let people spread wooden planks on the top of the tunnel, and then on both sides of the wooden stakes fixed.

Gaoyang is located in the North China Plain, almost every family digs cellars, there are naturally many people who know how to dig, Yang Biao organized a total of three groups of people, take turns to replace, excavate the excavation, transport the soil, lift the soil, it is not too difficult.

It's just that as the distance of excavation gets farther and farther, the number of people in the tunnel increases, and it is naturally more and more difficult to breathe, so the progress of the excavation is not fast, according to Song Guangkun and Li Youcai, it is estimated that it will take at least five or six days to dig the tunnel to the Qing army camp.

It takes time to dig tunnels, and Li Xingzhi naturally can't keep an eye on it every day, since yesterday he repelled the large-scale offensive of the Qing army, Li Xingzhi is ready to integrate the young men in the city into the army.

Because through these two days of defending the city, the courage of these young people has been greatly improved, and what is lacking is only systematic training.

Therefore, Li Xingzhi instructed Qian Anning, the acting magistrate, to be responsible for recruitment.

Qian Anning didn't dare to slack off, and immediately ordered the county government to fill in the list in the name of the Gaoyang County Order, preparing to recruit young people in the city to join the army.

Early in the morning of the second day, Gaoyang City was plastered with recruitment notices, and a team of Jingbei soldiers held gongs and shouted gongs in the city.

"Folks in Gaoyang County, the Jingbei Army has recruited people, and anyone who is above 16 and below 40, who has no problems and can endure hardships, can join our Jingbei Army."

"Join the Jingbei Army, fight away the dogs and Tartars, follow the Jingbei Army, have clothes to wear, and meat to eat."

"If you want to sign up, hurry up and sign up at the West Gate, only recruit for three days, and you won't accept it if it's outdated."

Gaoyang County is not big, and Qian Anning deliberately publicized it, and the news of the recruitment soon spread throughout the city.

After the men in the city learned the news of the recruitment of the Jingbei Army, they were terrified, although the Jingbei Army entered the city to resist the Manchurians, but they were thieves in the end, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, those thieves were not just coercing ordinary people into the army? But after waiting for a long time, no soldiers from the Jingbei Army came to arrest Ding.

Many bloody young people, but their blood is boiling, they can't think of so much, they only know that in times of crisis, it was Li Xingzhi who led people into the city to resist the Dongyu, as for Li Xingzhi, whether they are military horses of the imperial court, they don't care, whoever can protect their family is Gaoyang's benefactor.

If you join the Jingbei Army, it is really as they advertised, you have clothes to wear, meat to eat, it is not bad, and there is Sun Ge Lao here, just with Li Xingzhi's acquisition this time, it will definitely not be difficult to get an official body, if there is a big chaos today, Li Xingzhi's ability to resist the capture of the East, as long as he follows him well, maybe he can get a background in the future.

However, these young men just moved their minds, and they were dragged home by their parents and wives with their ears twisted, joking, guarding Gaoyang is to save themselves, if you join the army, you can't help yourself, you are a soldier, but what about the family at home? .

The Jingbei Army in the city shouted for a whole morning and came to the registration point, but there were very few young people who signed up, and in half a day, only dozens of young people who had no worries at home took the initiative to ask to join the army.

When the news reached Qian Anning, who was in charge of the recruitment, he couldn't help sighing: "The general really wants to come out one by one, these years the army is in chaos, there are rogues everywhere, Gaoyang's young and strong people are dragged down by a small family, and our Jingbei Army is not a military horse of the imperial court, who wants to be a thief with you." ”

However, Li Xing had a military order, and he had no choice but to order Lu Zhong to continue to wait at the West Gate, and send someone to report to Li Xingzhi urgently.

After Li Xingzhi received the news, he was also puzzled, he had not committed any crimes against Gao Yang but Qiu in the past few days, and he was countless times stronger than the official army, and his own ability to resist the Dongyu was not without a way out.

Li Youcai, who was informing Li Xingzhi of the progress of the tunnel excavation, saw that Li Xingzhi was a little puzzled, but said with a smile: "General, according to the students' opinion, they are unwilling to join our Jingbei Army, first, our army is originally a thief, and second, there is a wife and a small drag in the family. ”

Li Xingzhi was originally a lonely person, a character who fed the whole family without hunger, he thought that he had already saved people, where did he think of the key here, and when he heard Li Youcai's words, he suddenly realized.

Immediately gave Qian Anning an order, and immediately revised the list text, and everyone who was willing to join the Jingbei Army was rewarded with eight taels of silver as the silver for settling down.

As soon as this news came out, Ximen suddenly boiled, and the reward was eight taels of silver, which is equivalent to the income of ordinary people for several years, how can this not make Gao Yang's young and strong heart.

At the same time, Li Xingzhi also promised that as long as they joined the Jingbei Army, their families would be protected by the Jingbei Army, and even if the Jingbei Army left Gaoyang, their families would definitely accompany the army.

With the silver and the premise of ensuring the safety of the family, nearly 1,000 young and strong people in Gaoyang signed up for the Jingbei Army that day.

On the second day, the West Gate was even more blocked by onlookers, Qian Anning, Li Youcai, Lu Zhong, Song Guangkun and other civilian officials of the Jingbei Army were very busy, and before the end of the day, the Jingbei Army actually recruited more than 1,700 young people.

Later, the number of young people who signed up began to decrease gradually, and three or four hundred young people signed up for the Jingbei Army one after another.

Qian Anning and the others were busy for two days in a row, and just filling in the roster made their arms hurt, but they didn't cry out tired, after all, the larger the scale and the greater the number of people in the Jingbei Army, the more secure their safety would be.

Moreover, in the process of recruitment, Li Xingzhi also recruited several practitioners, one of whom was named Qin Ying, who was extremely good at marksmanship.

According to him, his father was a hundred households under the command of the white pole soldier Qin Bangping, when the white pole soldier entered Liaodong, his father stayed in Xin'an due to illness due to water and soil adaptation, and later the white pole soldier died in the Hunhe army, he Lao Tzu did not have the face to return to the stone pai alone, and became a home in Xin'an, and then there was him, and his marksmanship was taught by his father.

It's just that in the ninth year of Chongzhen, his father was killed by the bow and arrow of the Donglu when he was defending the city in Xin'an due to old age and decrepitude, and this time he joined the Jingbei Army to avenge his hatred.