Ling Jingyang respects Li Daoli very much, Li Daoli is thirty-nine years old, in the prime of life, he is stationed in Zhuozhou City, the city is in good order, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and they are not panicked and out of control because of the arrival of the Dashun army.

The defenders and officials of the Ming army in the city opened the door to surrender under the Dashun army, Li Daoli properly disposed of these surrendered soldiers, and the soldiers who were willing to stay, what level in the army before, it was still the same in the Dashun army, and the soldiers who were unwilling to stay left their weapons and each were given one or two pieces of silver as a coil to go home.

Li Daoli obtained 300 Ming troops in Zhuozhou, with more than 1,000 troops under his command, and was a large stronghold between the capital and Baoding Prefecture.

He asked Ling Jingyang and the others to rest for one night and set off for Baoding Mansion tomorrow. Ling Jingyang suddenly thought of something, and talked to him about the encounter with a unit of the Zuo Battalion that was besieging Baoding City on the way.

Li Daoli thought that this was normal, maybe this unit was going to perform other tasks, but Ling Jingyang continued to tell him that there were more than 5,000 people in this left battalion unit, and the first thing they did when they went to Baoding Mansion was to go to the left camp to report.

And the unit that the vanguard is going to report on is the one it met yesterday, and this unit is gone, who will report it?

After Li Daoli heard this, he was confused for a while, there were so many soldiers and horses in the left battalion, although he was the general of Zhuozhou City, he had no authority to know these things.

"Maybe this army is only part of the soldiers and horses of the left battalion, you go to the city to rest, I have prepared better horses for you, so that you can arrive in Baoding City as soon as possible."

Li Daoli then semi-forced Ling Jingyang and the others to go into the city to rest, and it was inconvenient for Ling Jingyang to continue to ask about the movements of Liu Rukui's troops in the left camp.

After entering the city, Ling Jingyang looked at the city of Zhuozhou, which was still peaceful, as if the change of dynasty of the Ming Dynasty had nothing to do with them, there were all kinds of people in the city, and there were officials and officials who were still wearing the clothes of Ming officials to maintain order in the city.

Ling Jingyang and the old steamed bun said: "Brother steamed bun, is there a curfew every time our army captures a place?" ”

The old steamed bun thought for a while, shook his head and replied to him, it depends on the situation, if there are still remnants of the enemy, sometimes a curfew will be imposed, if all enemies are eliminated, there will basically be no curfew.

Ling Jingyang looked at the endless crowd at the gate of the city, and always felt weird, but he couldn't tell what was strange, so he had to follow Li Daoli's footsteps and come to an inn in the city to rest here.

Li Daoli took all the third floor of the inn and let the vanguard troops rest, because he had a lot of military affairs, and asked his subordinates to take care of Ling Jingyang and the others, so he went to do other things.

Ling Jingyang repeatedly thanked him for his warm hospitality when he left, and after Li Daoli left, everyone stayed at the inn.

After a while, Li Daoli's subordinates brought dinner to Ling Jingyang and others, and the dinner was very rich, not only with steamed buns and other noodles, but also some meat dishes

Ling Jingyang was really hungry, eating dry food and drinking cold water along the way, and his stomach had long protested against this vegan treatment.

Everyone hurriedly had dinner, Ling Jingyang ordered everyone not to go out, and to recuperate in the inn, at the same time, Dong Daqi found that there were many people in the inn.

Ling Jingyang thought that most of the people were people from nearby prefectures and counties, and that there were battles between the Ming army and the Dashun army, fearing that innocent people would be affected, and he heard that Zhuozhou City was very stable, so many people dragged their children and daughters to live in Zhuozhou City for a period of time.

Ling Jingyang obviously also saw that the inn was overcrowded, and during dinner time, at least more than 20 families came to ask the inn, is there a room?

The innkeeper is shrewd, and temporarily transforms the firewood room, stable room, grocery room and other rooms into habitable guest rooms, in fact, he spreads a quilt in it, which is the so-called floor bunk, and can sleep people.

The inn was bustling, Ling Jingyang and Dong Daqi and other six people stood guard on the third floor of the vanguard army's accommodation, they stood guard in the first half of the night, and in the second half of the night, Li Rufeng and his people were on duty.

After dark, three more men came to stay in the house, and these three men were not tall but stocky, but they were to the three crop men.

Ling Jingyang looked at the three of them, all three of them had a package on their backs, looking like a futon or something, he had no interest in these three people, and continued to stand guard.

The three of them didn't open to the room, because the shopkeeper really didn't have any extra room, let the three of them go to other inns in the city to see, the three of them were furious, this is already the tenth inn in the city, and there is still no guest room to live in, if there is no foothold, how to find cover tonight to sneak attack the Zhuozhou City guard?

One of the three was a bearded man, and he threw ten taels of silver to the shopkeeper, and the shopkeeper's eyes lit up, and ten taels of silver could be opened to twenty houses.

At this time, he couldn't wait to blow away all the Dashun troops on the third floor and let these three people live, but Dashun Jun was the master of Zhuozhou City, and the guest room on the third floor was still contracted by Li Daoli himself, how could he have the courage to let Ling Jingyang and the others get out?

"Three masters, most of the guest rooms in our inn tonight have been chartered by the Dashun army in the city, and there is really no room for the three masters to rest!"

The shopkeeper dared to be angry and didn't dare to speak, his eyes were full of ten taels of silver, and he seemed to have forgotten that Li Daoli used twenty taels of silver to wrap the entire third-floor guest room, as if Da Shunjun had a natural hatred with him.

One of them asked him, "Where do you live?" ”

The shopkeeper was stunned, could it be that these three people wanted to live in his room, and his room had secrets.

After the Dashun army entered the city, he repeatedly ordered that women and children should not be robbed, but he turned a blind eye, occupied a passing woman, hid the woman in the room, and played with it day and night.

One of the three gave him another hundred taels of silver, and the shopkeeper could no longer resist the temptation of silver, gritted his teeth, and said: "I live in a small place, if the three masters squeeze it, they can still barely stay, but it can be said that it will only stay for one day, and you will leave tomorrow morning." ”

"Okay, take us to rest."

The shopkeeper took the three of them to the room, and the poor woman in the room was still lying on the bed, and the shopkeeper said embarrassedly: "This is a cheap person, I contracted typhoid fever not long ago, and I will be fine if I lie down for a few days." ”

The three of them were also experienced, and at a glance, it was clear that the woman had been subjected to inhuman torture not long ago, and she was also in a state of death in bed.

"We'll stay here tonight, and ask the shopkeeper to turn off the lights."

The shopkeeper wished that he would go to bed now, let the three of them go out tomorrow, and blow out the oil lamp on the table, but he lit a candle in front of his sleeping window, for fear that the three men would be killed in the middle of the night.

The room was lit only in front of the window, and the rest of the room was darkly lit, and the shopkeeper had just laid down, feeling a chill in his throat, and then a large amount of blood was spurting from the wound on his neck.

It was a strong man, threw out a sharp dagger, and nailed the shopkeeper to death, and then strode forward, pulled out the dagger, and brought out more blood, after doing this, three strong men began to carry out sabotage actions, one was even more brutal, and another knife wiped the poor woman's neck.

The three of them closed the door of the house, and then took the torches to the stable, the firewood room and other places, and used the lighted torches to ignite the place where the inn was crowded, and after a while, the inn was surrounded by fire, and the people of the stables and firewood houses were screaming by the fire.

Ling Jingyang was standing guard on the third floor, his attention was on the staircase on the third floor, and he didn't see anyone setting fire, when the fire ignited the firewood room in the stable, Li Rufeng took his subordinates to say hello to him, and asked him to go back to rest, and he and his people served as the night guard tonight.

Ling Jingyang returned to the room, just put the bow and arrow on the table, and heard someone shouting that it was on fire, everyone come and put out the fire.

He hurriedly put the bow and arrow in his hand, rushed out of the door, and woke up his subordinates, the fire was mainly in the backyard, the inn building was not ignited by the fire for the time being, Ling Jingyang could calmly withdraw from the inn with his subordinates, and there were dozens of tenants who withdrew with him.

When he came to the outside of the inn, he ordered his subordinates to extinguish the fire, but he was surprised to find that the entire Zhuozhou City was surrounded by fires, and the sound of firefighting sounded one after another in the city.