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Volume Eight, Minmin, Chapter 30, End of the Road

Gao Qiang hurried to his yard, and Xu Su sent a team of knights to escort him. Gao Qiang did not refuse. This was the elephant of his identity, not to show off, but to make others notice him, saving the trouble of walking alone and constantly passing the level and interrogating.

Gao Qiang rode his horse and took his people all the way through Haozhou City, but he saw tents everywhere, which were exactly the same as those of the Mongolians, making them durable and easy to load and unload.

In the orderly tent, there were messy crowds scattered everywhere. Inside and outside the tent, there were faces that were either smirking, numb, or sad, angry and painful. These faces all had their common features - they had a strong sallow color on them, which were the result of not eating enough food for a long time and eating other things to fill their stomachs.

These are all ordinary people coming from outside the city. The Mongolian army drove the people into the city and dragged down the supply of food and grass from the rebels. It was Zhao Min who made such a decision. Thinking of those who fell on the way to escape, Gao Qiang always felt sad in his heart, and sad for the cruel Zhao Min. Outside the tent group, teams of rebels walked by. In comparison, they were much better than the ordinary people. Most of them held their heads and chests and held their weapons tightly, but under this "standard" appearance, they could not hide the heavy tiredness on their faces. Many people were wearing purple cloth strips, which were the color of the blood after they had dried up. Gao Qiang glanced a few times and was no longer willing to look.

He knew that it was not easy for these ordinary people, and it was not easy for his subordinates to join the army.

The outer city was broken the day before, and the elite soldiers went out were defeated and the generals were defeated. There were also the food and supplies supplied in the city, so this information could not be hidden from anyone. Although they did not know exactly how many days their belly could be left to eat, this did not hinder them from worrying.

The five scattered people tried their best to take care of 800,000 refugees and coordinated arrangements. This is a very complicated and huge problem. Gao Qiang closed his eyes and sighed. Zhao Min's attitude was so firm and his wrist was so vicious. He thought about kidnapped her and left yesterday, but she broke it with one sentence. "The strategy is a chain of plans. I have four deputy generals under me, three of them are the emperor's people. If you kill me, this city will eventually be broken!"

Gao Qiang kicked the horse's belly hard, as if this could tramplify all his worries under the horse's hooves and throw them behind the horse's butt. With the sound of horse's hooves, he stepped on pieces of earth flowers and finally arrived at the gate of his own courtyard.

Gao Qiang raised his leg quickly and jumped off the horse. A soldier rushed out, grabbed the rope tightly, pulled the horse closer, and led it to the horse-tethered pillar on the side.

He stepped into his yard with great strides, and Gao Qiang's sensitive ears listened to the laughter and sounds of his three heartless children. The noises were noisy and harsh and upset. He knew that a stranger must have come to his home. His three children were all "human" and the more strangers came, the more crazy they became.

When he turned to the screen wall, he watched Gao Jin's little feet move and run out, but his chubby body swayed left and right, and he looked dizzy several times. Behind him, Xiao Zhao lifted the corner of his skirt, blushing in anger. "Ouch!" Gao Jin shouted. After all, the one-year-old child had no hair on his lips and was not firmly lowered. He stumbled forward. Gao Qiang moved his body and picked up Gao Jin, yelling, "Dad, kiss."

He handed it to Xiao Zhao all at once, and Gao Qiang's face was gloomy: "Who is Madam and inside?"

He stood here, relying on his deep internal strength and ear strength, he knew that there was indeed a woman in Yang Xueyi's house crying softly. The voice was as thin as silent, or as fast as possible, but he couldn't hear it very clearly. "I don't know," Xiao Zhao lowered her voice. Yang Xueyi ran away from home yesterday frightened her. Although the responsibility was not on her, the little girl was still very scared. Now when Gao Qiang asked, the little girl answered pitifully, and finally added: "I heard my wife call her, Ah Xiao."

Gao Qiang stepped on his left foot in the air and couldn't land anymore. He looked strange and his body was fixed there. "Ah Xiao!"

Gao Qiang immediately remembered that when he was young, he was the first to see the enthusiastic girl in white clothes and always had a bright smile on her face. More than ten years have passed, and A Xiao is still in his mind, smiling. Her face that longs for the outside world has made Gao Qiang remember it very clearly.

Next, Gao Qiang's heart sank and thought of another person, Chen Youliang!

Chen Youliang died at Gao Qiang's hands. After A Xiao was "abducted" by Chen Youliang, Gao Qiang met him many times, but there was no clue. Chen Youliang has been dead for more than two years, and A Xiao is now thrusting his stomach?

Gao Qiang felt cold in his heart, always feeling that this matter was strange. Also, why was A Xiao in the Mongolian camp? How did he meet Yang Xueyi? Thinking of this, Gao Qiang immediately lifted his arms into the inner room.

At the sight of her eyes, she saw Yang Xueyi sitting there, wearing a black dress, which was slightly dissatisfied. Gao Qiang suddenly felt funny. This night-walking clothes were her equipment for walking in the world. She touched her. The woman opposite her was sitting with her back facing Gao Qiang.

The woman's back was slightly hunched, and her shoulders were slightly drooping. From the back, it looked like the burden of life was pressing on her. Her hair lost its luster and was even slightly white on her temples. Gao Qiang was shocked. A Xiao was no more than six or seven years older than her, and now she was less than thirty years old. How could she look like this from her back? She was twitching her shoulders and was sobbing softly.

Yang Xueyi was talking to Axiao softly. When she saw Gao Qiang coming in, a blush suddenly rose on her face. She glanced at Axiao, looking slightly shy. "Sister Axiao, is it you?" Gao Qiang stood behind her and asked softly.

The woman turned her head and Gao Qiang first saw a clear eye. Although it was not very beautiful, it was very pure. Gao Qiang recognized it at a glance. This was the girl who smiled, cheerful and optimistic when encountering anything in the past, and had hope for the future. Over the years, that eye was still pure!

But looking deeper, A Xiao's eyes were filled with deep sorrow, and there were deep crow's feet around the corners of his eyes, pale face, but he looked like he was forty years old.

Gao Qiang looked at A Xiao, then looked at Yang Xueyi. A Xiao's face was old, Yang Xueyi's skin was tender and white, one looked forty years old, and the other looked sixteen or seventeen years old, but Yang's age was actually bigger than A Xiao. "Brother," A Xiao forced a smile, his mouth and teeth were as white as before. He looked at Yang Xueyi and smiled, "Bad brother, how did you marry our lady?"

Gao Qiang and Yang Xueyi were embarrassed, but they didn't know how to answer. A Xiao looked at the embarrassing look and laughed louder and louder the more they laughed, but finally shed two lines of sad tears. "Sister, where are you in so many years?" Gao Qiang moved a chair and sat down, stared at Yang Xueyi "hardly". Yang Xueyi blushed and lowered her head.

A Xiao just kept sobbing, but never answered. Gao Qiang waited for a while, and saw A Xiao crying non-stop, sighed and left the inner room.

The next three days, the Mongolian army was in a hurry to attack outside the city. On the third day, there was a rumbling sound, the mountains shaking and the earth shaking, and the outside shouted and killed the sky. The city in Haozhou was broken, and Hu Renhai led the remaining soldiers and defeated generals to cut off the rear, retreating into the inner city in a mess. Everyone in the city of Haozhou was in danger. The army was strictly managed, and there was no leak yet. Among the common people, some people had already rioted and crazily, and had to kill a hundred people in a row. Only then did they suppress the chaos in the people.

Since the siege of the city, the Mongolian army relied on the sharp cannons and did not fear the thick walls of the city. On the fifth day, the outer city and the middle city were down, the morale was greatly boosted.

Next, the Meng people attacked the inner city. The Meng people knew that this was a key struggle. The Han people in the city also knew that this was a battle of life and death. Every section of the city wall, tragic things kept happening. I don’t know how much blood was pouring out. I was so busy that I couldn’t care about A Xiao’s head and feet every day, and I had no time to care about A Xiao’s affairs.

The battle for the inner city was extremely fierce, but the Mongolian army did not take it after 20 days of attack. Although it was not taken, the inner city was in danger. Many sections of the city walls collapsed and all depended on people to fill it. Everyone inside and outside the city understood that it would only take one or two days to break the city.

Food and grass were cut off in the city, and living things all over the city were filled with people's stomachs. There were even rumors of eating human flesh in the people's camp.

On that night, the generals of Haozhou City gathered in the big room. "Surrender!" Gao Qiang said viciously: "Surrender first, then wait for an opportunity to rebel! People are losing their temper when they see the Mongolian Tartars, and they can't jump for a few days. It's meaningless to die now, and they are unwilling to give up!"

The generals were in a state of recession, and everyone under Gao Qiang looked ugly. The generals brought by Yin Tianzheng immediately jumped and cursed. Yin Tianzheng and Yang Xiao sat there, smoking coldly.

Everyone quarreled together overnight, but Gao Qiang couldn't help but stop the situation. When the army was established, they took ideological work as the focus. The advantage of this is that the army is very united and combative... But now it seems that it is impossible to surrender such a team, unless you arrange your next plan of surrender, such as surrendering at the last moment, and counterattack immediately the next moment - but this is almost impossible, unless you cooperate with the inside and outside.

The door was pushed open all of a sudden. The young general who was working outside came in with an umbrella and a kite, and shouted: "There are floating in outside the city wall! A lot of them fell in the city!"

There was a book hanging on the kite, with a long list of numbers written in it. Gao Qiang took it over and copied it one by one. This was actually a very popular method in later generations. It was actually a very popular method to hide the information to be sent in the text in the book. Of course, it was only necessary to discuss it in advance. Gao Qiang once contacted Xu Shouhui, Zhu Yuanzhang, Yin Tianzheng and Zhang Shicheng.

A group of people surrounded him, and everyone looked at Gao Qiang. Gao Qiang wrote one word at a time, and the expressions on everyone's faces also changed little by little. "Haha! I'm saved!" Yin Tianzheng laughed, and some of the others also showed a relaxed look, but there were still people with heavy eyebrows, especially Gao Qiang, who creaked the paper. "What exactly is Zhang Shicheng going to do? When did he arrive outside Haozhou City?

What kind of cooperation inside and outside?"
Chapter completed!
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