Kong Youde's speculation was plausible, but Li Xin's knowledge from his previous life did not help him, and he vaguely realized that this strange behavior was related to what he had done outside of Gaoyang City. It doesn't matter who the mysterious person who is hiding in the team outside the city is transporting goods, but how to get out of the way.

Li Xin thought about it again, if he had a mental calculation and no intention, could he further expand the results of the battle? If another big man is killed, is it possible that the Qing army will collapse? Including Hauge in his hand, if he uses it well, it is by no means as simple as being a captive. Gongshun Wang Kong Youde's defection is typical, but Haoge is a Manchu after all, and he is the eldest son of Huang Taiji, so it will definitely not work for him to turn his back on the Eight Banners.

But things often unexpectedly unexpected, and Mazik sent a message into the city, asking him to select dozens of good horses from the city and send them to the camp, and the army was ready to march.

Kong Youde Kong Youde wanted to go out of the city again to find out, but was stopped by Li Xin. After all, he intuitively felt that the big man behind Mazik was not simple, at least not inferior to Dorgon, first not entering the city, and then suddenly changing his plans and continuing to march, all of which showed that he was an extremely cautious and cunning man. If it is too much in front of him, it may be self-defeating.

It is believed that it will not be long before they learn that Kong Youde has disappeared in Gaoyang, and Suning is not a place to stay.

After noon, when Li Xin was looking for the city, he found that the vast team of goods was still outside the city, and he did not leave Suning as mentioned before, and he intuitively felt that this matter was not simple. So he ordered Kong Youde to go out to investigate in the name of the labor army.

When Kong Youde arrived at the caravan of goods, he learned that the people who had walked were only a few dozen horsemen, and that the men and animals of the brigade had reached their limit due to the fatigue of many days, and they had to rest for another night to recover some vitality before they could continue on the road.

Then he went back to the nitty-gritty. The officers in charge of receiving him were always full, but they were very friendly to Kong Youde, the obedient king.

"The specific details are unknown, but it is said that a large number of the corpses of my Eight Banners of the Great Qing Dynasty were found in the valley on the other side of the Pigpen River." Speaking of this, the officer with his hand on his lips lowered his voice and said: "There is another thing to keep quiet, it is said that a group of people, animals and goods that left before us were robbed by the Ming army. The generals judged that there must be a Ming army that was not weak between Hejian and Baoding. ”

Hearing this, Kong Youde completely understood, it turned out that the non-stop departure of Mazik and that character was related to the battle in the Pigpen River Valley yesterday afternoon.

Kong Youde returned to the city and told Li Xin the news 1510 that he had inquired about. Li Xin patted his leg and applauded.

"What a godsend, how can we miss it!"

"I can't!"

Kong Youde echoed with a smile.

"In this way, I have to work Brother Confucius to go outside the city, and in the name of the labor army, invite all the heads and brains of the Tartars into the city, especially those real Tartars, it is best to bring them all closer to the city."

"General Mingjian, we just need to prepare the wine and food, and wait for them to join the Weng!"

Kong Youde casually took what Li Xin wanted to say, and he was really thoughtful.

Looking at Kong Youde's distant back, Lu Jiu didn't know when he entered the hall, and said worriedly: "Thirteenth brother, this person may not be of the same mind as us, we must guard against it!" ”

Li Xin is not worried that Kong Youde will do a stupid thing at this time, although this person is disloyal and capricious, but he is not without rules to follow, his only criterion is to protect himself and wait for opportunities to develop. Therefore, as long as we have a clear grasp of the context of Kong Youde's actions, we can predict how he will act.

So far, Kong Youde has no second better way than to develop with himself. First of all, it may not be impossible to betray yourself to ask for merit from the Tartars, but there is a prerequisite, that is, to kill Hauge and extinguish the mouth. Haoge knew that he had taken a detailed action after betraying the Qing Dynasty, and mastering Haoge was equivalent to choking Kong Youde's seven inches, so that he would not dare to act rashly.

Secondly, Kong Youde can also take the opportunity to escape, leave Suning, and leave Li Xin's Gaoyang army. This possibility is also extremely low, first, Kong Youde does not have a single soldier around him, he is a traitor of the Ming Dynasty, how can he have good fruits to eat if he is left alone on the territory of the Ming Dynasty?

Lu Jiu came to Li Xinnai to discuss urgent matters, and there were really a lot of military supplies in this Suning City that they urgently needed, such as war horses, such as arrows and gunpowder. The cavalry left team, which was originally composed of horse thieves, had not been systematically trained in muskets, so they naturally preferred their usual bows and arrows in the choice of long-range weapons. However, he is not worried about how to allocate these materials, but has other important matters.

Here's the thing, after the soldiers of the left battalion entered the city, many people took the opportunity to loot property in the empty houses of the city without owners, among them one of the soldiers, I don't know whether he was lucky or unlucky, he found a woman hidden in a house, this goods have also been in prison for a long time, and they have not approached the woman for many days, and when they saw that there was no one on the left and right, they ruined it. Afterwards, he lifted his pants and left, leaving the woman crying incessantly.

Originally, people didn't know about this matter, and ordinary women encountered this situation, and even if they broke their teeth, they had to swallow it in their stomachs. But the bad luck of the goods, this woman is an unusually strong person.

When he first entered the city, Li Xin had several chapters of the law, and set the bottom line of several beheadings in a row, including this yin man's wife and daughter. And on the main streets, they put up a list to reassure the people, so that the surviving people in the city would not be hostile to the Gaoyang army that had just entered the city.

It just so happened that there was a post outside the courtyard where the woman was, and she could read again. So he went to the officer in charge of the city to avenge himself, but it happened that the officer he found was a stone, which had long been unable to see the horse thieves' private looting of people's property, but because they were all old subordinates who taught Li Xin, it was because he had been forbearing. Who knew that he had done such a hurtful thing, looking at the woman with pear blossoms and rain, he felt that he couldn't sit idly by. The reason why he was so sure was that the 300 men in the right battalion had been guarding the city all morning, and half of them had never left.

According to the original plan, the right battalion was to be on guard in the upper part of the city and the other half in the city. But out of the fork outside the city, Lu Jiu's left team didn't need to rest, and they happened to be on guard in the city, so Zhang Shi's right team went to the city.

Zhang Shi asked the woman if she could still recognize the thief who raped her if she was allowed to identify her. The woman responded through gritted teeth, and the person would recognize it if he turned to ashes.

So, Zhang Shi led the woman to recognize people one by one, first of all, his own musket right team, and naturally he had to rely on empirical evidence to do things, even if he had a certain number in his heart, he had to let the woman recognize it first, and the three hundred in a circle were really not among them.

Then Zhang Shi led the woman to the street one by one to find Lu Jiu's patrol soldiers on the left team to recognize people, but it was also a coincidence, just less than 100 steps on the main street, the woman pointed to a bearded man riding on a horse, tears were falling, crying silently.

Zhang Shi immediately had the man arrested and sent to a private house under the city that was temporarily used as a confinement room to detain him. Zhang Shi's musket right team inherited a lot of the discipline and habits formulated by Li Xin when he was a Minzhuang.

Since entering Suning City, this confinement chamber for indisciplined soldiers has been opened. Zhang Shi did not have the power to dispose of the soldiers without authorization, and this matter had to be decided by Li Xin in the end.

When his subordinates reported the matter to Lu Jiu, he was furious, and Zhang Shi dared to touch his own people without saying hello, but then calmed down again. In his impression, Zhang Shi is by no means the kind of person who dares to act lightly without being sure, he dares to arrest his own people, which proves that he has enough evidence, in fact, Lu Jiu also acquiesced in his heart, this kind of thing is done by his subordinates. And the article of yin's wife and daughter touched one of the several killings set by Li Xin. At first, he thought that Li Xin was just playing on the spot, but looking at the current situation, Zhang Shi seemed to want to play the real thing, and he had to kill his subordinates. He couldn't make up his mind himself, so he came to Li Xin to intercede.

Li Xin listened to Lu Jiu's general story, and at first he couldn't laugh or cry, but then he realized the severity of the problem. If this kind of thing happens, no matter what he Li Xin does, it will not be perfect. Or to put it another way, no matter what he does, he will lose a part of the hearts and minds of the people. But this is not important, the most important thing is that an army must have his faith, because only this mind is the most powerful weapon to support them in overcoming difficulties and enemies.

What his Gaoyang army lacked the most was the word faith, and everyone didn't know what they were fighting for. But this statement is not entirely true, they still have a goal to fight for, and most of these 600 people are gathered together for him. And this simple subordination is extremely fragile. To put it mildly, when he Li Xin did not reciprocate this loyalty sufficiently, the support for which they fought would crack and even collapse.

Now Li Xin is facing this embarrassing situation. Should he sacrifice his subordinates for the sake of the so-called principles and laws, and vent this evil breath for that strange woman?

Li Xin couldn't help but secretly hate, the more chaotic things were, the more chaotic they became.

"It's not easy for the brothers to be in prison for so long, Brother Thirteen, let him go this time."

Lu Jiu's eyes were earnest, and he opened his mouth to plead. Li Xin felt that he should listen to what Zhang Shi had to say first, so he sent someone to the city to invite Zhang Shi.

At this vacancy, Kong Youde hurriedly roared and drove the county office.

"It's back, it's back!"

Lu Jiu teased him and said: "Brother Kong is so interesting, I have seen it with the thirteenth brother, why bother to inform my own family." ”

Kong Youde gasped for breath before saying, "I'm talking about Mazik, it's Mazik's horse team that is back, and they haven't left at all!" ”

Li Xin and Lu Jiu were stunned, in this way, wouldn't the plan they had set before be in vain? In a daze, Zhang Shi strode into the county office, followed by a woman with a graceful figure.