"Uncle Xiao Lei!"

In a compound in Xin'an County, Li Dewei came to the courtyard in armor and saw Shi Xiaolei basking in the sun.

Now the whole of Xin'an County is in a tense atmosphere, only here is that it is incompatible with the outside, as if it is a paradise, isolated from the outside world, and not infected.

When Shi Xiaolei heard this, he opened his eyes from the recliner and saw Li Dewei, and a smile suddenly appeared on his face: "Dewei, sit." ”

"Drink tea."

Shi Xiaolei sat up, poured a cup of tea for Li Dewei and said: "This Xin'an County is not good there, but only this wild tea has a different flavor." ”

Li Dewei took the tea and drank it all in one gulp, Shi Xiaolei saw this and said: "Hey, don't drink it, this tea should be tasted slowly." ”

"My Uncle Xiaolei, how can I have the heart to drink tea now, you can get an idea."

Shi Xiaolei looked at Li Dewei and said, "What is the burning eyebrows, isn't it that Sun Chuanting dismissed the Qin army?" Didn't I tell you all? You gather all the Qin army, let's pack them all up and bring them back to Lantian, you have endured hardships over the years, and when you return to Lantian, good days will come. ”

"It's not Uncle Xiao Lei, if it's just these seven or eight thousand Qin troops, I can take them myself, but now there are about 80,000 people in the city who want to go back to Lantian with us."

"What??"

Shi Xiaolei was stunned: "Eighty thousand people, how can there be people?" ”

Hearing this, Li Dewei said: "How do I know, I originally gathered all the people and horses, but there were people outside blocking the camp, kowtowing to us, begging us to take them out of Xin'an together, saying that the thieves would die without a place to bury when they entered the city, and the thieves would rob their food, burn down the house, rob their mothers-in-law, occupy their daughters, and then drive them to be cannon fodder, just like the rogues who attacked the city these times, those rogues were just ordinary people in Henan before, and they were all coerced by Li Zicheng, Thus became a homeless and unemployed outcast. ”

"They don't want to live like this, so they are willing to flee to Lantian with us, even if it's just a bite to eat in Lantian."

Shi Xiaolei frowned slightly when he heard this: "No one is agitated, these people will not do this, who are they leading?" ”

"It's two scholars, one is called Zhang Dong and the other is called Wang En."

"Zhang Dong Wang En?"

Shi Xiaolei said: "Bring the two of them to see me, I want to see what medicine they sell in their gourds." ”

"Yes."

Wang Dewei answered, and soon took the two scholars into the small courtyard, and the two saw Shi Xiaolei at this time and hurriedly said: "Student Zhang Dong (Wang En) has seen Mr. ”

Shi Xiaolei was stunned and looked at the two of them: "You are students here?" ”

Hearing this, the two of them arched their hands and said: "The two of us are students of SMX, and we came to Xin'an this time to visit relatives. ”

Shi Xiaolei said: "SMX, I remember Lantian's pioneering team in Henan, and the forefront has reached SMX?" ”

The two of them nodded in unison and said, "That's right, both of us are disciples of Zhou Bin, the chief of SMX." ”

"Zhou Bin?"

Shi Xiaolei thought for a while and said: "The fifth disciple of Lantian Academy, this son has the ability, but there is a big problem, he is a good teacher, he has been in the academy for a few years, mixed with the identity of a lecturer, and was later recommended by the academy to join the office, just in time for Lantian to develop the land of Henan around Shaanxi, so he was sent to SMX to act as a lieutenant. ”

Shi Xiaolei thought about it and looked at the two students in front of him and said, "Then Zhou Bin is also a good teacher in SMX?" ”

Hearing this, the two said: "Well, in addition to managing county affairs, the tutor carried out the education of Xinxue in SMX, and the two of us were originally local talents, and they began to be a little disdainful of Xinxue, but after listening to the tutor's lectures a few times and communicating with the tutor a few times, I deeply thought that Lantian Xinxue was the hope of the Ming Dynasty." ”

"Lantian Xinxue?"

Shi Xiaolei was stunned when he heard this, he didn't expect Lantian Theory to have such a name, and the two said: "Actually, I waited here to come to Xin'an, one is to visit relatives, and the other is to spread new learning in Xin'an, so that people here can also learn new learning." ”

Shi Xiaolei asked, "How is the success?" ”

The two of them bowed their heads and said: "It has been slightly effective, although the big households disdain it and even resist it, but the people of Xin'an are very receptive." ”

Shi Xiaolei nodded, looked at the two of them: "Okay, let's talk about it here, let's talk about the people, I heard that you are also going back to Lantian with us?" ”

Hearing this, the two of them bowed their heads and said: "Just now it was rumored in the city that the Qin army was leaving, and the Qin army was gone, and Xin'an would carry the thief's gain, and the gentry in the city did not want to leave their hometown and abandon their family business, so they prepared treasures to welcome the thieves, but the people were innocent." ”

"The thieves went against the grain, forced the good peasants into rogues, and used them as cannon fodder for the siege, the whole Henan was made by him to make the people unhappy, I couldn't bear it, so I told the people about it, and the people decided to leave Xin'an and go to Lantian when they heard the words, they didn't want to be harmed by the thieves, so please have mercy on Mr. and take me in!"

Shi Xiaolei frowned when he heard this: "The thieves are not far from here, if you drag your family away on a large scale, I'm afraid you will soon be caught up by the thieves?" ”

Hearing this, Zhang Dong, Wang En said: "Sir, I know this is very difficult, but the people in the city are innocent, and we are all interested in Lantian, and please save the people of Xin'an." ”

Shi Xiaolei looked at Zhang Dong and Wang En, his brows furrowed into Sichuan characters, if it was only seven or eight thousand Qin troops, it would be easy to do, the Qin army would prohibit it, and the speed of action would be fast, and he could quickly abandon the city, even if Li Zicheng wanted to chase it, it would be difficult.

But with 80,000 people, and all of them are old and weak, women and children, this is slow, and it is easy for Li Zicheng's pursuers to catch up.

But you let him watch 80,000 people become rogues, even if Shi Xiaolei is used to seeing life and death, he can't be hard-hearted.

Shi Xiaolei lost the determination just now, walked around the yard a few times, and Li Dewei, who was anxious, said: "Uncle Xiaolei, you give me a happy word." ”

Shi Xiaolei heard this and said, "Don't worry, I want to think about it." ”

After walking two more laps, Shi Xiaolei looked at Zhang Dong, and Wang En said: "Can the people leave the city immediately without any delay?" ”

Zhang Dongdao: "Sir, rest assured, the people have brought rations, gold and silver, and they don't want any houses, so they can go out of the city immediately." ”

Shi Xiaolei heard the words and said: "Okay, then I will hand over a task to you, you immediately return to the people, organize the people to evacuate from the north gate of Xin'an City, the south is the battlefield, after leaving the north gate, don't have any delay, immediately rush to Mianchi, go directly to SMX, you will be safe when you arrive at SMX, as for the rest of the matter, I will arrange it, do you understand?" ”

"Yes, I'll understand."

The two of them should be, at this time Shi Xiaolei said: "I borrow the men and horses of the three hundred old Qin camp of the two of you as a guard, don't hesitate on this way, go all out, if there is anyone on the road who comes out to stir up trouble and delay the trip, there will be no forgiveness, remember, you are now running for your life, every second of delay these 80,000 people are in danger of life, you must not be merciful, understand?" ”

"Yes, I'll understand."

"Okay, you go back, and organize the men and horses out of the city immediately."

"Yes."

When the two left, Shi Xiaolei looked at Li Dewei and said: "Dewei, you send a henchman with three hundred people to escort the people with the two, if these two can succeed, they will do their best to assist the left, if they can't succeed, they can replace them." ”

"Yes, I understand Uncle Xiao Lei."

"In addition, inform the whole army that the city is on alert, for the sake of these 80,000 people, maybe we will have to stay here all night, and we will withdraw early tomorrow morning, so that everyone is ready for battle."

"Yes, rest assured, our old Qin camp will definitely not go wrong."

Li Dewei patted his chest and promised, Shi Xiaolei said: "You go out and go to the city wall to be on guard." ”

"Yes."

Li Dewei should be, followed by turned around and left the small courtyard, Shi Xiaolei ran to the house at this time, took out a telegraph, and directly sent a telegram to the Lantian County Ya to report the situation, and it turned out that the situation was that the county zun was not in Lantian County, but ran to Tongguan, Lantian's latest large-caliber rifled gun was officially completed today in Li Chaolong's Tongguan regiment, and Li Chaolong formed the latest rifled artillery regiment to invite the county zun to come to Tongguan to watch the ceremony.

Li Chaosheng also wanted to know how powerful this rifled gun was, so he went to Tongguan early in the morning, and he should have arrived at Tongguan at this time.

When Shi Xiaolei heard this, he directly rummaged through the code book, and quickly found the secret code for Li Chaolongjun, and then sent a piece of information to Li Chaolongjun.

At this time, Li Chaosheng was visiting the Tongguan Legion, the Tongguan Legion, as the Lantian Defense Legion, has the aura of the pro-guard battalion, and its identity is similar to the three major battalions in the capital of the Ming Dynasty, the Han Dynasty Imperial Forest Army, etc., which have special missions.

Therefore, Li Chaosheng should always pay attention to the situation here, Li Chaosheng came to Tongguan by train this time, and the train from Lantian to Tongguan was repaired for three whole years, and it was completed.

You must know that after this train line is opened, it is of great significance to Lantian, at least from Tongguan to Lantian to transfer troops, it may take a day to walk, but now it can be completed in ten hours, and the goods transported are dozens of times, hundreds of times, thousands of times that of horse-drawn carriages.

Although this railway cost Lantian nearly 20 million taels of silver, the military significance and economic benefits of Lantian are unparalleled, and with this railway line, the distance between Lantian and Tongguan has been shortened too much.

The development of Lantian has been raised by several steps.

Li Chaosheng took a special train to Tongguan at five o'clock in the morning, and arrived at three o'clock in the afternoon.

Li Chaolong accompanied Li Chaosheng to the left and right and said, "Why are you so flustered? ”

Li Chaosheng also looked at the intelligence soldier curiously, and the intelligence soldier said: "The commander is not looking for you, he is looking for the county honor." ”

Li Chaosheng was stunned, he came to Tongguan from Lantian and this information has been chased here, what is the big deal?

"Show me it."

"It's the county."

The intelligence soldier immediately handed over the information, and Li Chaosheng looked at it and saw that the information was written: "The county is respectful, the situation is urgent, and the county respects are requested to provide support quickly, everything is already in place, and I don't want to change suddenly,......

Shi Xiaolei explained the situation again, and after Li Chaosheng read it, his brows furrowed slightly: "Eighty thousand people!" ”

"Cousin."

"County Honor!"

Li Chaolong saw Li Chaosheng call himself and hurriedly surrendered his hand, and followed him closely to wait for the next step.

Li Chaosheng said: "Leave the second division to guard Tongguan, gather all the people of the first division and the third division, and rush to Mianchi County in the starry night, there are 80,000 people in Xin'an waiting for us to rescue." ”

Li Chaosheng handed the note in his hand to Li Chaolong, Li Chaolong looked at it when he saw this, and immediately shouted when he knew that the situation was urgent: "Herald!" ”

"In!"

"Notify the first division, the third division, assemble immediately, set off in half an hour, the target is Mianchi County, you must arrive early tomorrow morning, there must be no mistake!"

"Yes."

Hearing this, the herald immediately went down to inform him, Li Chaolong's eyes were very bright at this time, and he said that his first army was a good soldier who had not fought a tough battle, so today he would let the world see if the first division could fight a tough battle!

Li Chaolong arched his hand to Li Chaosheng at this time and said: "The county respects you and goes back to Lantian County to rest, I will definitely bring these 80,000 people back safely." ”

Li Chaosheng waved his hand when he heard this: "No need, I will go there in person this time, and I am the only one who is the best in the world, and Li Zicheng is the only one, so I can take this opportunity to see what kind of person Li Zicheng is." ”

Li Chaolong heard this: "County Zun, the gentleman does not stand under the dangerous wall, why should the county take the risk?" ”

Li Chaosheng glanced at Li Chaolong and said, "Dangerous wall? ”

"If under the protection of my two main divisions in Lantian, I can still be injured by the thieves, then what do I want your main divisions to do? Could it be that I, the so-called overlord of the world, only dare to curl up in the blue field? ”

"The so-called overlord, is it just our Lantian boasting? The so-called overlord, that is, Kou can go, and I can go too! ”

"By the way, this time, bring me the rifled artillery regiment and shoot a live target, which is more convincing than a dead target."

Li Chaosheng commanded domineeringly, he didn't believe it, Li Zicheng dared to fight with his two regular divisions that he had been tempered with hundreds of thousands of people, and he could still hurt himself? Wouldn't it be in vain to throw millions of silver dollars on these two divisions every year?

Besides, take 10,000 steps back, even if these two divisions can't do it, Li Chaosheng doesn't have to worry about safety, it's really not good, Li Chaosheng can open the space door and run at any time.

Besides, with the firepower of these two main divisions, he really couldn't think of how Li Zicheng could win, unless Li Zicheng was also a great demon master and could summon meteorites from the sky, he couldn't win.

But now it is a competition with Li Zicheng for time, if he rushes to Mianchi first, then these 80,000 people can live, if Li Zicheng arrives first, I am afraid that the consequences will be unpredictable.

And Li Chaosheng has two purposes for going here, to meet Li Zicheng and Sun Chuanting, Li Zicheng He has not seen it once, and he has come to the end of the Ming Dynasty, and he always feels a little regretful when he doesn't see this most bullish courier in the Ming Dynasty.

As for Sun Chuanting, it is because Shi Xiaolei gave him information that this benevolent brother has already had the will to die, and he is afraid that he has already had the idea of martyrdom, Li Chaosheng still feels a little sorry for this, this benevolent brother is capable and a great talent, and Li Chaosheng has always loved talent, and he wants to save him.