It's not that Nguyen Phuc Nguyen hasn't thought about such a question.

But as Xu Zhi'an expected, he had no choice other than that.

He also knew that even if all the troops were gathered, this Hue would not be able to hold it.

But if he wants to be caught without doing anything, he can't do it.

After two nights of insomnia, he secretly called Nguyen Phuc Lan.

"Ah Lan, are you still angry with your father?" Ruan Phuc Yuan asked half-lying on the bed and a little weakly.

"Don't dare."

Ruan Fuyuan smiled.

If you don't dare, you are dissatisfied.

"The Ming army is strong, and it seems that this time it is inevitable to win Hue, and most of us will not be able to hold it. You take some people, let's go first."

"What?"

Ruan Fulan looked at his father in a daze, as if he was a little incredulous.

"There is an old saying in the Ming people, so that you don't have to worry about the lack of firewood, your eldest brother is dead, you are the eldest son of our Ruan family, and it is your responsibility to keep a bloodline for the Ruan family. Hue will be broken, you can take someone to leave first."

"And you, father?"

"I'm an old bone, I'm afraid it's not going to be a few days. You don't have to worry. If there is a chance to restore the glory of the Nguyen clan in the future, it will be the best, if not, then ask for peace and live well!"

"Father!"

Ruan Fulan, who originally had a grudge against Ruan Fuyuan, burst into tears.

Unexpectedly, in the end, his father cared about him the most.

"Go ahead, I've got everything arranged."

Ruan Phuc Yuan waved his hand, then turned his back.

Nguyen Phuc Lan stood stunned for a moment, suddenly knelt on the ground and kowtowed to his father a few times, stood up and left Nguyen Phuc Yuan's residence without looking back, and left Hue overnight under the cover of night.

Nguyen Phuc Nguyen arranged everything, and soldiers from all over the country also rushed to Hue one after another.

And in the north of Jiaozhi near the border of the Ming Dynasty, there is a small city called Muzhou. In one of the most luxurious mansions in the city, Sha Yuan was sitting and drinking with Pu Mingming.

It is located in the northwest of Shanxi Province, not close to Thang Long.

Originally, they occupied three cities, but later learned that the Ming army had broken through Thang Long, and fearing that their forces would be scattered, they retreated one of them.

Pu Mingming looked worried today, and unconsciously drank more.

"Lao Sha, I haven't recruited many people here. It's only three or four thousand, I think we'd better run, and by the time the Ming army frees up their hands to clean up us, it's too late!"

"Why do you keep thinking about running?" Sha Yuan looked disdainful.

"That's better than dead."

"How do you know you're going to die? Do you know how many troops Dingzhou has gathered these days?"

"How much?"

"Nearly thirty thousand!"

"So many!?"

Pu Ming's eyes widened.

A few days ago, when Thang Long fell, the two of them had been trembling, feeling that their end was coming. I took refuge on someone's chassis, and the owner of the chassis was killed by the enemy, and I still have a way to live?

When Kepu Mingsheng proposed to escape, Sha Yuan said to wait.

Sha Dingzhou came up with a plan.

It is said that he took the opportunity to cooperate with the righteous men of Jiaozhi who wanted to resist the Ming Dynasty, under the banner of driving away the Ming Dynasty, strengthening his own strength, and laying a territory of his own in Jiaozhi.

But after nearly a month of busyness, I found three or four thousand people, and half of them were old and weak.

I didn't expect Sha Dingzhou to be so fierce and recruit so many people!

In this way, they have a total of nearly 50,000 soldiers and horses.

"Lao Sha, you really gave birth to a good son." Pu Mingming said sourly.

"Hey~Isn't the service far from maturing slowly~"

"That's just as well."

Pu Mingsheng thought of his son, and felt better.

Two sides

Eat and talk until late at night.

But Pu Ming didn't know that in Anzhou City, where he was stationed, there was an uninvited guest.

"Brother Dinghai, it's so late, why did you come to me?" Pu Fuyuan smiled and welcomed Sha Dinghai into the house. "Yo, you brought food and wine?"

"Have a drink?" Sha Dinghai said with a smile.

"Drink some."

The two of them were also familiar with each other, and as soon as they sat down at the table, they began to drink two side dishes.

"Isn't Brother Dinghai in Muzhou, why did he come to Anzhou at night?" After drinking two glasses, Pu Fuyuan put down the wine glass in his hand and asked.

"What do you think of this person in Dingzhou?" Sha Dinghai didn't answer, but asked him another question.

"Why do you ask?"

"Don't you think he comes here more often?"

"What do you mean?" Pu Fuyuan frowned.

He felt that Sha Dinghai seemed to have something to say.

"Haha, it's nothing, come and drink. Brother, you can pay more attention, there are many things in Dingzhou that we can learn from!"

After speaking, he picked up the wine glass and touched Pu Fuyuan's cup, and drank it all.

The next two ate and drank, chatted until the second half of the night, and then went to sleep.

By the time Pu Fuyuan got up early the next morning, Sha Dinghai had already left Anzhou, as if he had come specifically to find him for a drink.

Pu Fuyuan remembered what Sha Dinghai said yesterday and frowned.

Sha Ding Chau?

What do you mean?

After thinking about it for a long time, he didn't come up with a reason, so he shook his head and did what to do.

Two days later, in the evening, Sha Dingzhou came to Anzhou again.

"Why does Brother Dingzhou have time to come over today?"

"Uncle and my father are recruiting soldiers in Muzhou, so I'm thinking about coming over to see if there is anything I need help with here in Anzhou."

"There aren't many people in Anzhou, so it's not too busy. It's just evening, let's have a drink."

"I'll see it."

The two walked into the courtyard shoulder to shoulder.

In the evening, the two of them drank until a long time, and the general service was far from being able to drink, so they went back to the house by themselves.

Sha Dingzhou has always lived in the Puming Mansion, and this time is no exception.

After drinking some wine, his interest naturally rose, and he went back to the room and waited for a while, making sure that Pu Fuyuan had fallen asleep, so he got up boldly. Quietly under the leadership of Wan's maid, he came to the inner courtyard.

And this scene just made the general clothes who got up to pee look at it from afar.

Remembering what Sha Dinghai said to him two days ago, Pu Fuyuan's wine woke up suddenly.

He stood there and thought for a while, then went back to the house and pulled out a steel knife and quietly followed.

Avoided the guards in the house all the way and came to the gate of the inner courtyard.

The maid at the door was frightened when she saw him, and was about to speak, when Pu Fuyuan's knife was already on her neck.

"If you dare to speak out, I will kill you immediately."

The maid nodded again and again in fright, and Pu Fuyuan slowly put down the knife, hit the back of the maid's head with one palm, knocked her unconscious, and slowly fell to the ground.

Then, Pu Fuyuan tiptoed to Wan's door and stood quietly at the door.

"How did you get free today?"

"If I'm not free, aren't you empty?"

"Dead Ghost~"

"Come up and do it yourself."

Listening to the foul language coming from the room, Pu Fuyuan felt dizzy for a while, and almost fell to the ground.

He grabbed the steel knife in his hand and left the inner courtyard.