"Bell, bell..."

In front of the south gate of Gaoyang City, there was a rapid sound of gongs, and the curious people looked at the sound and found that several clerks with more than a dozen officials in the county government were posting notices there.

The officials were posting the list, and the clerks were shouting at the top of their voices: "General Jingbei has an order, and the fathers and villagers of Gaoyang come and see it quickly!" ”

The surrounding people were attracted to the south gate by the sound of gongs and the shouts of the secretary's office, and for a short time they were unable to pass through the place where the list was posted, and they looked at the list and couldn't say why, because they didn't have a few literate people.

The people in the back can't see what is written in front, even if some scholars are attracted to it, they are also blocked far behind, and at a glance, the front is full of black heads, and they can't see what is written at all.

Gaoyang City is not big, and the bookstore and the people in this city are generally acquainted, and the people who are anxious just ask: "Lu Xiucai, what does the list mean, can you read it to everyone." ”

Lu Xiucai is a young bookkeeper, his real name is Lu Qinghou, a Xiucai in Chongzhen's seven years, but due to the chaos in the world, the imperial court did not open the imperial examination again, and even the Shuntianfu township test was stopped, but Lu Xiucai was not able to go further, fortunately, the county Cheng Lu Zhong appreciated him and let him fill a book office in the county government, while learning the criminal name, while waiting for the imperial court to open the imperial examination.

The Jingbei Army wants to evacuate Gaoyang, and there is nothing to hide, and besides, this list has been posted, and everyone is a neighbor.

Lu Xiucai cleared his throat and said loudly to the people: "Everyone be quiet, General Jingbei has an order, because he captured the pseudo-prince alive, so Dongyu is likely to come to Gaoyang again, and now the equipment and medicine used by my Jingbei army have been consumed nearly seventy percent, and it is impossible to block the Dongyu army, so General Jingbei intends to evacuate Gaoyang, and please prepare for it as soon as the Dongbei army arrives, I am afraid that life and death will be unpredictable." ”

"General Jingbei wants to evacuate ......?"

After listening to Lu Xiucai's words, the crowd was in a commotion, some understood, some didn't understand, and those who didn't understand asked: "What does General Jingbei want to say to us?" ”

"Say what?"

The people who understood it smiled bitterly: "General Jingbei is asking us to escape from the county seat, if we don't leave now, I'm afraid that the Tartars are coming, and we will have to be buried with Gaoyang City." ”

"Ah...... Didn't General Jingbei just win a big victory over the Tartars? Why are we running away? ”

The people were clamoring one after another.

Lu Xiucai laughed miserably: "Do you know how many people are in Baoding? It is said that there are tens of thousands, and General Jingbei is not the imperial court, and he can help us resist for so long, which is already considered benevolent and righteous, let's hurry back and pack up our things and escape! ”

After informing the people, Lu Xiucai hurried home with a few bookstores to pack up their things, they also have families, parents, wives and children, and they also have to run away.

Let these people evacuate on their own, Li Xingzhi is also helpless, he has more than 5,000 horses and horses on hand plus prisoners, but their small family and back camp, add up to seven or eight thousand people, if you bring the people again, where to run through the cavalry of the Eastern Captives, that's it, Li Xingzhi can't guarantee that he can get rid of Dolgon's pursuers.

As soon as the order to evacuate Gaoyang came out, the people in the city were in chaos, but fortunately, Cheng Luzhong in Gaoyang County was still a good official who served the people, and arranged for the officials in the city to maintain order, and it did not cause any major chaos.

People left their hometowns, the crying in Gaoyang City shook the sky, and countless people helped the old and the young, followed Lu Zhong and the officials out of the south gate, and went in the direction of the Daimyo's Mansion.

Of course, there are also those who refuse to leave, and there are about a thousand old and weak people who are reluctant to leave, saying that they are so old and have lived enough, even if they die, they will die in their own homes.

Sun Chengzong, an auxiliary minister of the cabinet, also refused to go, and when Li Xingzhi was reorganizing the army, he said to Lu Liangzhi, Huang Wenchang, Xu Zhijian and other court officials: "The old man has resisted the captives for more than ten years, but he has no merit in the imperial court, and now he can live and die with Gaoyang, which can be regarded as loyal to the country. ”

Lu Liangzhi, Huang Wenchang and others were all moved, whether it was hypocrisy or falsehood, they would cry and worship on the ground one by one.

After explaining to Lu Liangzhi and others, Sun Chengzong walked in front of Li Xingzhi with the support of Sun Zhijie, and before Li Xingzhi could speak, Sun Chengzong wanted to salute.

Li Xingzhi was willing to accept his salute, stepped forward to support Sun Chengzong, and said: "Why is this the elder pavilion, why don't you go to Shandong with the general, I can't say that in a few years, the general will be able to rebuild Dongjiang Town, and then the rear of the Dongyu will be restless, how can I dare to enter my Central Plains." ”

Sun Chengzong smiled bitterly: "The old man is nearly eighty years old, how many days can he live?" The old man and Dongyu have been fighting for more than ten years, if it weren't for you this time, the old man probably wouldn't have had the opportunity to see what the Tartar prince looked like, and now his wish has been fulfilled, and he should be the national death festival, even if he throws a stone at the head of the city and kills a Tartar, the old man is also willing. ”

"Pavilion Elder !"

To tell the truth, Sun Chengzong's strategy of building fortresses in Liaodong did not have the effect of curbing the construction of slaves, but exhausted the national strength of the Ming Dynasty, but this loyalty and bearing moved Li Xingzhi.

Sun Chengzong trembled and took out a drawing from his sleeve pocket and said slowly: "Li Xingzhi, this pavilion knows that you went to Lyden to rebuild the Dongjiang Army, but Phi Island is only a few tens of miles away, Aneng garrisons the army, there is a place between Gaizhou and Lushun, the famous Yingkou, the general control of southern Liaoning, if you build a fort here, you can attack it, and you can defend it. ”

Li Xingzhi took the drawings, opened them and looked at them, and was suddenly shocked in his heart, this fort was actually the fortress he knew in his previous life, but it was very different from the European fortress, it was a square formation, and there were more than ten horse faces on each city wall.

Seeing Li Xingzhi's surprise, Sun Chengzong smiled again: "This picture was made by Xu Guangqi, and his apprentice Sun Yuanhua gave it to the old man, and the old man was dying, and it was useless to keep this picture, so I simply gave it to you." ”

Li Xingzhi knew the topography of Yingkou, and if a fortress was built and there were ships to transport supplies, it would not be at all risky to besiege the city.

At that moment, he put the drawings close to his body, and bowed down and said: In this way, Xingzhi is grateful to the elder Ge. ”

Sun Chengzong sighed: "The old man has nothing else to ask for, if you can sweep away the Dongyu, General Li can go to the old man's grave and put a pillar of incense, the old man also has a few grandchildren, this time I asked General Li to bring them." ”

"Grandpa!"

Sun Zhijie, who was standing aside, shouted silently.

"Rest assured, as long as Li is in one day, he will ensure that Sun Zhouquan is ordered."

The so-called dying of a person is also good in his words, not to mention that a seventy-six-year-old man entrusted himself with the aftermath, Li Xingzhi was also a little choked at the moment.

"Between General Li's thousands of horses and thousands of troops, when the arrows and stones were attacking, he captured the Tartar chieftain and his color remained unchanged, why bother to make such a little child gesture, the old man has already folded the son of heaven, please Feng General as the general of Leiden, and invite my protégé Qu Shiyun and Lu Daqi to be the prefects of the two prefectures, I think they will not embarrass you.

Li Xingzhi was stunned, these two are diehards of the Ming court, wouldn't it be a disservice to get these two to go to Leiden, to be honest, he would rather use a villain like Li Youcai than a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty.