It has been almost nine months since the fall of Guangning City, but after Gao Jie and others entered the city, they found that there were almost no people in the entire city except for the soldiers who came and went, and there were ruins everywhere, and there were very few inns and restaurants that opened their doors to welcome guests. It seems that after the Dajin Kingdom occupied this city, there was no sign of reconstruction and recovery.

Finally found a lit inn, the boss and Xiao Er are Han, seeing that there are guests to the door, they don't have a smile at all, just listlessly casually introduced the situation of the inn, and then took Gao Jie and others to see the untidy guest rooms, quoted a ridiculously high price, and then left them, and went back to the counter to chat.

Gao Jie had seen a lot of this kind of service attitude in the state-run hostels in the seventies and eighties in his previous life, but in the Ming Dynasty, it was very rare, and he felt strange and angry in his heart, and almost threw his sleeves away.

Seeing Gao Jie's displeasure, Wang Rui couldn't help but chuckle and said: "Actually, there is nothing strange about this! It is said that most of the people in Guangning City were driven to Liaodong, leaving only a few Han people to maintain the operation of some inns and restaurants, carry supplies for the Dajin army, clean the streets, and so on. These people left behind are naturally forced, they absolutely have to pay this rent, except for being able to eat every day, they don't have any freedom at all, so, Xiaojie, don't expect them to have any good faces! Moreover, it is estimated that there are not many inns in the city that have opened their doors, even if they change to other houses, they are very similar!"

Gao Jie nodded and said, "I see! It's just that I don't understand one thing, Nurhachi took the effort of his old nose to take Quang Ninh City, why don't he manage and build it well?"

Wang Rui shook his head and said: "I don't know about this, but thinking about what happened to Fushun City before, I'm afraid Nurhachi has the same plan!"

In the forty-sixth year of Wanli (1618), Dajin officially declared war on the Ming. Nurhachi's first shot against the Ming was to attack Fushun Pass. During most of the peaceful period, Fushun Pass and Fushun City were the main passes for the Ming Dynasty to open the horse market trade to the Jianzhou Jurchens. Through Fushun Mashi, a large number of iron farm tools and ploughing cattle were imported to the Jianzhou Jurchens, as well as the advanced production technology of the Han people, which laid a strong material foundation for the rise, development and eventual unification of the Jurchen people. Of course, Fushun Guanma City was established from the beginning to serve the political needs of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, "opening the market" and "closing the market" naturally became a means for the Ming Dynasty to control and hold the Jianzhou Jurchens hostage, especially after Nurhachi established the Dajin regime, in order to restrict the development of the Jurchen people, the Ming court simply closed the market for a long time, resulting in great social and economic damage to the Jurchen people.

According to historical records, on the first day of the Jurchen attack on Fushun Pass, Nurhachi sent a letter to deliver a letter, saying that 3,000 Jurchens had come here the next day to trade and lure the merchants and soldiers and civilians in the city out of the pass, and then sent heavy troops to capture Fushun Pass in one fell swoop. After Li Yongfang, the defender of Fushun City, heard that the Jurchens had attacked Fushun Pass and surrounded Fushun City, he hurriedly convened hundreds of civil and military officials to discuss countermeasures, and finally decided to surrender to Nurhachi, so that the Jurchen soldiers took this important town in Liaodong without much effort. Nurhachi left for three days in Fushun City, plundered more than 300,000 people and animals, and set fire to Fushun City before leaving. Since then, until the twenty-first year of the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, Fushun City was still a scene of ruins, with only a dozen families scattered. Later, it was not until the 43rd year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty (1778 AD) that the Qing Dynasty rebuilt Fushun City in order to commemorate the great cause of Nurhachi's founding of the country.

Gao Jie felt that what Wang Rui said was reasonable, perhaps Nurhachi was not ready to occupy Guangning for a long time, but was ready to retreat to Liaodong.

Everyone is a person in the rivers and lakes, and they don't have high requirements for accommodation, so Gao Jie swallowed his anger, paid the rent, led everyone into the room to put down his luggage, and then went out to find food.

Sure enough, as Wang Rui said, Gao Jie and the others walked far and finally found a restaurant, and the owner of the store was the same as the one in the inn, looking like someone else owed them hundreds of taels of silver, and ignored it, which made Gao Jie and others smile bitterly. Before they could finish eating, the boss spoke: "It's curfew soon, please leave!"

Bao'er has been waiting with Luo Junjie for the past few days, and she hasn't eaten a full meal, and she is working hard at the moment, and she screamed when she heard the words: "What are you doing...... I haven't even eaten a few bites!" Ji Longfeng didn't have enough to eat, so he got up and shouted: "Lao Tzu will kill you if you eat! Believe it or not, I smashed your shop!"

The boss was frightened, but then he muttered in a low voice: "If you smash it, you will smash it, it's not my shop anyway! I don't want to do it yet!"

When Ji Longfeng heard this, he almost fainted. Gao Jie stopped him with a smile, and it was not difficult for the store to beckon everyone to pack the food and take it back to the inn to eat again.

Back at the inn, Luo Sigong, Venerable Zong Qing, and Ji Longfeng came to Gao Jie's room.

This inn not only has poor sanitary conditions, but also has no tea, so Luo Sigong had to take out the water bladder he brought with him and drank a few sips, and said in a low voice: "The Jurchens do not plan to stay in Guangning, this information is very important, we have to think of sending it back to Shanhaiguan and the capital first!"

"Is there a way?" asked Gao Jie.

Luo Sigong smiled slightly: "My Jinyi Guard's people have also entered the city, just now when I was looking for the restaurant, I found the mark they left, and after the third watch, I will go to them to arrange this matter!"

Gao Jie was very relieved about Jinyiwei's ability, so he said: "Then early tomorrow morning, will we still leave Guangning as planned?"

Luo Sigong said: "You can't stay here for a long time, if there is no accident, let's leave early in the morning!" However, Luo Junjie's gang seems to be unconvinced, and they also follow up the city, hoping that they won't spoil our business!"

Gao Jie was surprised: "They also entered the city?! Damn, aren't they looking for death?!"

Venerable Zong Qing smiled and said, "You are not the shopkeeper yet, you have him off!"

Gao Jie shouted and said wrongly: "I said Lin Da, don't talk nonsense! Obviously, he is pestering, right, this kid can be regarded as a person who has fought and seen the world, why is he so impertinent? Then the black cloud crane won't stop him?"

Ji Longfeng gave him a blank look and said, "Who told you to rob his woman?"

Gao Jie said frantically: "What do you mean I robbed his woman, that Bao'er is just a girl who hasn't grown up, and she's as thin as a monkey, who is rare!

Luo Sigong laughed in a low voice: "Although you have no intention, people may have a heart! Okay, no kidding, this Bao'er doesn't seem to be simple!"

Gao Jie quieted down and frowned: "Yes, although she pretended to be pitiful all the way, she turned over and got on the horse before, and her movements were dexterous and light; ”

As soon as the words fell, Wukong pushed open their door, pointed at Gao Jie, and said anxiously, "That...... Girl...... It's gone!"

When everyone heard this, they were immediately shocked, Gao Jie was so anxious that he forgot to communicate with his telekinesis, and asked loudly: "The whole inn has been found?"

Wukong understood this simple sentence and nodded again and again.

Gao Jie looked back at Luo Sigong and Venerable Zong Qing, and saw that the second elder frowned and pondered, and did not say a word, so he had to sit on the chair and be anxious.

Ji Longfeng hurriedly pulled Wukong out of the door, and went to all corners of the inn to search carefully.

After a long time, Luo Sigong raised his head and said: "It seems that this girl is really right by us, but I'm afraid it's not simple!"

Venerable Zong Qing recited the Buddha, and said with a smile: "It's a blessing or a curse, it's a disaster that can't be avoided!

Because of Bao'er's strange disappearance, Gao Jie and his party didn't sleep well at night.

At dawn the next day, Gao Jie and the others got up, packed their luggage, and were preparing to leave Guangning City as soon as possible. Before they could get out of the door, they saw the innkeeper staggering in from outside the door, shouting, "The Jurchens are here!

Luo Yangxing grabbed the shopkeeper's neck and asked coldly, "You make it clear!"

The shopkeeper pointed to the door with a trembling hand and stammered, "It's a lot...... There are so many Jurchens rushing here!"

When everyone heard this, their hearts tightened, and their eyes couldn't help but look at Luo Sigong. Luo Sigong frowned slightly, and said in a deep voice: "Don't act rashly yet, just get ready!"

Everyone is a martial arts master, although they are in the Dajin territory, they are not afraid, they just secretly hold the weapon and follow Luo Sigong out of the inn.

As soon as they got out of the gate, they saw a group of Jurchen cavalry of about 100 people galloping on the street, and soon blocked them at the gate. After the Jurchen cavalry stopped, they all turned over and dismounted, and quickly lined up in formation. At first, more than 40 soldiers were dressed in heavy armor, each holding spears, axes, halberds, armor-piercing cones and other weapons, and pointed directly at Gao Jie and his party in a uniform manner. The other more than 60 soldiers are wearing light armor, holding bows and arrows, throwing guns, equipped with waist knives, long swords, and round cards, after the heavy armor soldiers in front, all the soldiers are murderous, tiger-eyed, it can be imagined that as long as an order is given, the heavy armor soldiers will attack, and the light armor soldiers behind will also fire arrows and throw guns, the scene is extremely dangerous for a while.

Gao Jie This is the first time to see such a capable and well-organized army, although they only have about a hundred people, but they are well-disciplined and orderly, especially everyone contains an awe-inspiring fighting spirit, just with an indomitable momentum, it is enough to destroy the ordinary stragglers.

Although Gao Jie is a good martial artist, he can't help but get nervous in the face of the Jurchen army that is ten times his own and is ready to fight, any of them can never be ambiguous when they fight alone, but it is not so easy to defeat such a team of well-trained soldiers.

Luo Sigong commanded in a low voice: "If the situation is not good, listen to my orders, everyone will retreat into the inn, lead the enemy into the door, and then break through each one! Then wait for the opportunity to break through, walk high from the house, rush out of the city, and gather again ten miles outside the city!"

Everyone was preoccupied and on full alert, waiting for the worst to happen.

At this moment, a leisurely sound of horses' hooves came, a big man in black armor rode a red war horse, slowly walked to the front of the formation through the military formation, he was tall, thick bones, about thirty to forty years old, fair skin, short beard on the cheeks, slightly longer face, single eyelids, slender eyes, it looked quite deep, a waist knife on the waist, did not pull out, he held the reins in both hands, looked at Gao Jie and his party expressionlessly, and said lightly: "You are the caravan of the Pang Ji firm from Shanxi?"