The city gate was wide open, and the veterans of the Dashun army rushed out and ran to the south, leaving about fifty people to guard the city gate.

"Here's the opportunity, let's go north a little further and put the rope!"

Yang Xin hurriedly said.

Taking advantage of the fact that the veterans of the Dashun Army were catching deserters in the south, the rope was quietly lowered on the city wall in the north, and Fan Yuxuan and several people hung down the rope and soon disappeared into the dark night outside the city.

The next day, Li Shanyi, the general of the first battalion, gathered all the soldiers of the first battalion at the east city gate, a large area of 10,000 horses, and there were forty or fifty deserters who were arrested last night kneeling in front of the city gate, and Yang Xin and others saw that Tan Rui was also among them.

"Everyone! Raise soldiers for a thousand days with soldiers, Dashun will rescue you from the homeless, give you food and military salary, not to starve to death, now, the Qing army into the customs, the war is imminent, it is the time for you to repay Dashun, make meritorious contributions! ”

said, paused, and said sternly: "However, these people don't want to serve the court, don't want to resist foreign insults, and actually became deserters in shame on the eve of the war, and regard me as what is the military law of Dashun?" Where do you put my Han people? ”

I can't help but say that what he said was very inflammatory, and even Yang Xin was enthusiastic when he heard it, and he had the urge to stay and defend the city desperately. Many of the recruits had a look of shame in their eyes, while others had a look of shame in their eyes, and their eyes became firm.

Li Shanyi was very satisfied with this effect, and said loudly: "All the relatives and soldiers listen to the order!" The Law of March! ”

At this time, a group of pro-soldiers cut down with big knives, people's heads rolling, and blood flowed like a river, this scene obviously shocked many people, and Kong Dali, who was crowded near Yang Xin, was even more frightened and covered with cold sweat, secretly glad that he did not follow Tan Rui's plan, otherwise he might have lost his head at this time.

Yang Xin analyzed from the deserters who were caught, there should still be many people who successfully escaped last night, because there were not only people from their first outpost among the deserters, but also other sentinels, Tan Rui was among them, but three of the hundred households with him did not come to watch today, but they were not at the execution ground, they should have run away, and there were only three people in the first hundred households who were beheaded, and all three of them participated in their own banquet that day.

The veterans are short of manpower, and the more than 500 veterans on the east gate cannot all be guarded day and night, so they can only take shifts, and there are only 100 veterans guarding the city gate each time, and they can't catch all the deserters.

After watching, come back and continue to guard the city, the first post is guarding the city today, and the hundreds of households guarding the city today are all sullen. On the city wall, Kong Dali was so frightened that his feet trembled, and said, "General Yang, how is this good?" ”

Du Datou came to instigate again, and said: "I don't think there are many of them, there are only a few hundred people at the east gate, if we raid, it is not without a chance of success." ”

Yang Xin will be a little moved, he has forty elite cavalry, and a hundred musketeers, plus these hundred households with weapons in their hands, and some strong, match them with weapons, and get together two hundred, if it is a night raid, there is still a great chance to kill more than 100 veterans guarding the door.

However, he didn't want to kill or injure too many people, and secondly, he admired Li Yan a lot in his heart, and he couldn't bear to destroy the Great Wall by himself, killed the veterans of the Dashun army, so that the Qing army could easily break the city, and after thinking about it, he decided to sneak away.

"Don't worry, you two, I have a plan to deal with it, so wait for the opportunity!"

Yang Xin is confident.

The two hurriedly asked, Yang Xin smiled and said nothing, just said that when the time came, he would explain it to the two of them.

Today's killing of chickens and monkeys has scared a lot of hundreds of households, and Yang Xin is more certain, Yang Xin is actually most worried about the safety of the people he stayed, the reason why he has to delay until the last moment is that he is afraid that he will lead the team to escape will harm them, and his henchmen and all their property will remain in the capital, so it will be a big trouble, and now it seems that this Li Yan woman's kindness, only killing deserters but not harming their families, they are easier to do.

At this moment, a pro-soldier came to report, quietly walked up to Yang Xin, whispered a few words, and Yang Xin suddenly changed color.

"What's going on?"

Several hundred households asked at the same time.

"Liu Zongmin's army will escape tomorrow!"

When everyone heard this, their expressions changed greatly, Liu Zongmin must be better informed than them, and even he was about to run away, indicating that the Qing army was about to arrive, and Sun Shixiong sent someone to inform him just now.

"Is the general's news reliable?"

Kong Dali panicked and asked.

"Absolutely reliable, I have friends in his army."

Yang Xin said firmly.

"Boss, we're going to start preparing!"

Du Datou looked at the veteran at the city gate and said coldly, obviously thinking about how to kill them, the battle clouds were thick, the situation became more and more tense, and everyone was worried.

Yang Xin was in a hurry at the head of the city, and cold sweat flowed on his back.

"We can't wait any longer, call a few of them to come to the city tower, and we'll discuss!"

Yang Xin made up his mind.

After a while, several hundred households scattered at the head of the city arrived, and there were originally 11 people in their batch of 100 households on duty, but today one was cut down, two escaped, and the remaining eight all gathered in the city tower.

Yang Xin asked Daniel Zhang to guard with a few personal guards, and said to the nervous hundred households with a solemn face: "Everyone, tomorrow Liu Zongmin's army will leave the city!" ”

The next few people didn't know about it, and they immediately started talking about it.

Yang Xin waved his hand and said, "I'm going to send some people to blend into Liu Zongmin's army first, and go out of the city with them, and you can also send the soldiers and family members who want to be sent out of the city with my people first." ”

As soon as these words came out, the pot exploded, and everyone immediately began to discuss.

"General Yang, I want to go with you too!"

Kong Dali was the most afraid, now that he followed Liu Zongmin's army out of the city, there was almost no risk, he was naturally the fastest to grab, and several other people were not far behind, and they asked to withdraw in advance.

Yang Xin thought for a while and said, "No, you all have too big a goal, they are all hundred, Li Yan will definitely block it, at most...... At most, you can only choose three people to go first, and no more! ”

The result is clear: no one wants to be trapped in a lonely city.

"Then let's draw lots......"

Yang Xin had no choice, he could only use this ancient and cruel method, life and death, wealth and fortune in the sky.

Everyone looked at the thin branch that Yang Xin was holding in his hand, and their nervous hearts jumped to their throats, especially Kong Dali, whose foreheads were full of sweat.

However, the sky did not taste people's wishes, Kong Dali did not draw, but Du Datou was drawn, and he was so happy that he shouted out happily.

Kong Dali was about to cry, and said: "General Yang, can you add another one, smoke again, the little brother really can't stay here, you don't know, I can't sleep every night now, and as soon as I open my eyes, it's a bloody long knife full of Tartar army!" ”

Du Datou said: "Cowardice! This is determined by God, if General Yang changes, how will he serve the public in the future. ”

He was right, Yang Xin didn't say a word at all, just watched the play quietly, thinking, Lao Tzu didn't smoke it himself, let you go first, and there was so much nonsense.

Kong Dali saw that it was hopeless to beg Yang Xin, and said to Du Datou: "Du is in charge, why don't you give me the opportunity, I ...... I'll buy it with money! ”

Du Datou smiled and said, "Silver? How much money do you give? ”

Kong Dali hesitated for a moment, stretched out five fingers, gritted his teeth and said, "I'll give five hundred taels!" ”

Everyone was shocked, they didn't expect him to be willing to spend so much money in order to leave first, five hundred taels is a huge amount of money, and staying is not a life of nine deaths, Yang Xin himself didn't leave.