After Li Shuangcai shouted heartbreakingly, even the other members of the security team in the city noticed the strangeness of the city, and this time the thieves drove the people to fill the city, including the relatives and friends of the people in the city. For a while, the people were panicked, and many people no longer had the intention of defending the city, and even excitedly wanted to stop the soldiers of the Three Guards who carried out the military order to shoot crossbows and crossbows.

Li Xin's head sank, he withstood the huge pressure, and ordered to shoot a person who threatened the safety of Dongchang City, but in the end, he still missed the thief Yicheng, and the other party finally used a killer weapon to drive the local people in the city, which immediately shook the hearts of the soldiers in the city.

The torrential rain gradually subsided, then turned to moderate rain, and it seems that it is still gaining momentum. Li Xin wiped the rain from his face, trying to see the situation outside the city more clearly. However, the rain curtain is hazy, and everywhere he looks, in addition to the heavy rain all over the field, there are thieves and homeless people, and under the gray and yellow main color of the sky, the difference between the two, Li Xin suddenly felt that it was really difficult to distinguish.

In order to appease the feelings of the people in the city, Li Xin had to order to stop shooting crossbows and crossbows, and sit back and watch the people outside the city carry soil to fill the city, but under the heavy rain, the speed of rising was much slower than before. Many people died of hunger and cold without waiting for their bows and crossbows to be shot, and as time went on, more and more people died. Eventually, before dark, all efforts to reclaim the city ceased. What remained between this piece of heaven and earth, in addition to the broken rammed earth wall, was the corpse of Lala outside the city, which was allowed to rain heavily.

Seeing that the sky was dark, the rain still did not mean to get smaller. The soldiers in the city began to rotate under the instruction of Li Xin. A series of sheds have long been erected under the city to shelter from the wind and rain, and in the shed is a large cauldron, under which the firewood is flourishing, and the pot is steaming, full of boiled ginger water. After the soldiers who braved the rain and took turns to get down to the city, they poured a bowl one by one to ward off the dampness and cold.

The ginger soup brought by the soldiers had already cooled, Li Xinchao didn't care, and his eyes were cast into the dark void outside. Zhang Fangyan suffered from the wind and cold, and he already had a low-grade fever, how could the old man be able to resist such a toss after all? In fact, he is more worried that it is now past October, which is the eve of the heavy snowfall, and the temperature tonight can be clearly felt to drop sharply, and if the heavy rain continues, it may turn into heavy snow. When it snows, it means that many more displaced people will face death, and the worst consequence of this test is to push them into the thieves.

Another point is that once the snow freezes, the Grand Canal will no longer be able to sail, whether Zhang Fangyan can withstand the bumpy fatigue of the land route, and the wind and cold, I am afraid that he will have to hang on the road before he arrives in Nanjing. As for whether Zhou Yanru in the south can arrive in Beijing as scheduled, Li Xincai doesn't bother to pay attention to it, and he will never fall. It's just that he still has a big question in his heart, that is, what is the Ming court headed by Zhu Youzhen doing at the moment, Shandong is so corrupt, it can be imagined that Henan is even worse, so is it because the local officials are hiding and not reporting, or is the court and the central government already slow to react?

It rained heavily for two days and two nights, and Li Xin insisted on not going down the city wall and lived in the enemy tower. In the early morning of the third day, Li Xin woke up and felt that the room was extremely cold, until he pushed open the two wooden doors, and his intuition was shaken by the strong and dazzling sunlight. It took a long time to get used to the strong light outside, and it was a white expanse of the wilderness.

"General......" The voice of the soldier suddenly sounded, and he was actually trembling with excitement. The thieves, the thieves withdrew, and the thieves withdrew, and they withdrew..."

Li Xin was shocked and sent scouts to scout, and the reward was that the thieves had withdrawn, and there was no half of the thieves within a radius of fifty miles. It's just that after they withdrew, they left a large number of helpless people outside Dongchang City, and with the arrival of winter, what awaits them will be the cruel reality of severe cold. However, the food and materials in the city of Dongchang are simply not enough, so we can provide relief and shelter to these tens of thousands of refugees. Li Xin didn't have time to think about the reason for the sudden withdrawal of the thieves, and he was entangled by the disaster.

In fact, there are no more than two possibilities for the thieves to withdraw their troops when they have the advantage, one is civil strife, that is, there are problems within them and they have to leave. The second is that the imperial court sent reinforcements, and they stayed in their own belly and felt that they were suffering from the enemy, so they withdrew in a hurry.

After thinking about it, Li Xin suddenly woke up, he had always been interested in running the northern border, and the south of the Yellow River had almost no infiltration, and now he suddenly went south, and the intelligence was not smooth, which led to an embarrassing situation with a black eye. It seems that after a little stability, the intelligence work must pay equal attention to the north and the south, and as for who to transfer over, it is natural that Huang Sheng must be.

"I saw the Marquis of Zhenyu in Xia Miyan..."The person who came was Mi Yan, Li Xin was very strange, this person went south with the ship and was seriously injured and did not recover, how could he struggle to go to the city today? There must be something important. Sure enough, Mi Yan got straight to the point as soon as they met.

"Mi Yan dares to ask, does the Marquis of Zhenyu plan to operate the small land of Dongchang Mansion City for a long time?"

Li Xin was surprised and denied: "Dongchang, the land of the four wars, is short of materials and sparsely populated, so it is definitely not suitable for long-term operation..."

"In this case, the Dongchang people and thieves have gone, why is the town still here? Looking at the world, although Taiyuan is good, I am afraid that the imperial court will not allow the general to go back, but this southeast Jinling is a good atmosphere..."

After Mi Yan's reminder, Li Xin suddenly realized that he had indeed been in Dongchang Mansion for a long time, and once he was trapped, he was afraid that it would be even more difficult to get out again. It's just that this Mi Yan's remarks are not like what a loyal and filial son should say. Li Xin secretly said that this person's thinking has always been extreme, and since he was injured, it seems that he is even worse than before.

Mi Yan was seriously injured and coughed after saying a few words, and Li Xin hurriedly asked him to escort him back to the city to recuperate. Before leaving, he didn't forget to remind: "The marquis of Zhenyu should make a decision early...... Although the thief can be meritorious, and it is possible to be promoted to the prince of the country one step closer, but after all, it is a tree without roots, and it can be won with a word......"

In Li Xin's view, Mi Yan's remarks are almost red. Naked incitement, he also understands the original meaning of the tree without roots, that is, if there is no place to stand, it can only be taken by others forever.

Zhang Fangyan's fever actually subsided last night, and early in the morning, the whole person seemed to be refreshed. He came to Li Xin worriedly to discuss what to do with these many displaced people. Li Xin is also a two-handed trader about this, and it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, unless he can conjure up food.

At this moment, after temporarily and properly relocating tens of thousands of surviving people, Li Xin proposed two points to Zhang Fangyan, the first was to immediately send a letter to the emperor, asking for money and grain to help the affected people, otherwise the Shandong people's rebellion would have the potential to burn the prairies. Second, ask Zhang Fangyan to transfer He Tengjiao, the magistrate of Yanggu County, to dispose of Dongchang Mansion City with the qualifications of his ministers. Because Dongchang Mansion had killed almost all the officials when Cao Zhaoji colluded with the Fifth Battalion of Ge Zuo to enter the city, they could meet the temporary urgency at the moment, but it was not a long-term solution after all. After being reminded by Mi Yan, Li Xin decided to do his best to escort Zhang Fangyan on the road to the south, and strive to dare to rush to Jiangnan before the Grand Canal froze.

Zhang Fangyan agreed to Li Xin's construction, and immediately did not care whether it was in line with the system, and sent a handwritten letter to He Tengjiao to come to Dongchang Mansion to take care of the victims. This person's ability is obvious to all, and Zhang Fangyan also believes that as long as he comes, he will be able to make proper arrangements as much as possible.

After He Tengjiao arrived at Dongchang Mansion, Li Xin began to prepare to continue southward. At this time, news of civil unrest came from several prefectures and counties west of Dongchang Province. Among them, Puzhou, Guancheng and other prefectures bordering the Zhili Daimyo Mansion are particularly strict, and it is said that it is likely to collude with Henan thieves, and there are even rumors that Li Zicheng's army is about to reach Shandong.

In this regard, Li Xin and Zhang Fangyan and others scoffed, and Yang Sichang, who was in charge of the cabinet of the court, led the troops in Henan, and the most unfortunate could also fight against Li Zicheng, Li Zicheng was simply lacking in skills, and it was impossible to come to Shandong, plus Shandong was not in danger to defend, and there was the Grand Canal running through the north and south, even if the imperial court tried its best, it would be recaptured. Of course, there are exceptions, unless he's crazy.

Li Xin didn't know how Zhang Fangyan described the beginning of the south, from the beginning of the Linqing Dynasty to the Dongchang Mansion, he directly expressed his worries about the situation in the Central Plains, hoping to arouse Zhu Youzhen's attention, don't wait until the situation is out of control, and then try to save it, maybe it's too late.

After Mi Yan talked deeply with him, Li Xin suddenly realized that the current historical trend has deviated greatly from the history he is familiar with, although he always subconsciously thought that Li Zicheng's re-enlargement was a matter of Chongzhen's fourteen years later, but since it has been changed beyond recognition, who can guarantee that it will not be these two years? As far as the truth is concerned, he doesn't want Li Zicheng to become bigger, the thieves are extremely strict about the destruction of the people's livelihood in the Ming Dynasty, and they will not be able to recover it in the short term.

It was in this anxiety that Li Xin and his 3,000 soldiers returned to the road, along the Grand Canal, all the way south to Nanjing. Their next stop is Jining Province, which will arrive in two days. But not long after setting off by boat from Dongchang, I learned a news from the gradually increasing number of victims who went north to the north, which shocked everyone.

Li Zicheng had already broken the Guide Mansion five days ago, and the governor Xiong Wencan was captured and died... For a while, the rumor that the thieves were going to pass through Shandong seemed to be about to be confirmed.

After receiving this news, Zhang Fangyan actually reversed his attitude of being anxious to return to Beijing when he was in the Qing Dynasty, and instead urged Li Xin to go south as soon as possible. After Li Xin informed him that the speed of the ship reaching 3 days and 100 miles was already the limit, he actually took the initiative to ask if he could stop the boat and go ashore to avoid Li Zicheng's thieves as soon as possible by land, and go to Nanjing, after all, there was a chair for the military affairs of the governor of Zhejiang and Zhejiang provinces waiting for him.

It's just that because Zhang Fangyan is already over the age of old, this old bone will definitely not be able to withstand the bumps of the carriage and horse, so Li Xin categorically rejected his request.

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