Huang Degong walked on the city wall in a heavy mood, both saddened by the casualties of his subordinates and worried about future defense. Although there were tens of thousands of Qing troops outside the city, due to the canal, the Qing army could not completely cut off the connection between the inside and outside the city. The messenger who asked the court for help had already been sent, but Huang Degong's mentality was very conflicted. He hoped that the rescuers would arrive immediately, and he also hoped that the court would not send reinforcements.

In Huang Degong's view, in addition to his subordinates, as long as Gao Jie's subordinates can fight, as for the Jingying, Chuying, and the emperor's newly recruited Yulin Guard, although there are a large number of people, with a total of 160,000 or 170,000, Huang Degong could not feel at ease with their combat power.

If the court wanted to send reinforcements, only Gao Jie's original more than 30,000 people could be sent, which was still a huge difference compared with the Qing army outside the city. Reason told him that perhaps breaking through the siege is the best choice. At present, tens of thousands of Qing troops gathered at the city were just an accident. The Qing army could not be dispersed. As long as the Qing army was dispersed, with the more than 20,000 people left now, he had a great chance of winning against the scattered Qing army. However, hundreds of thousands of people in the city, how could Huang Degong be willing to give up?

"Master, Duke."

Most of the soldiers were called soldiers, while those called Duke were civil servants in the city. Seeing Huang Degong coming, the Ming army and civil servants who were repairing the city walls stopped and saluted Huang Degong. Huang Degong had to patrol the city wall several times every day, and even civil servants were familiar with him.

"No need to be too polite." Huang Degong made a false support action.

"Master, can we keep it?" asked an old man about fifty years old and a little gray-haired. When the old man asked, the others immediately looked at Huang Degong with hope, hoping to get a positive answer from Huang Degong.

Today, the Qing army's surrender to the city has spread. The general tore the Tartars' letter of surrender to pieces and shot a Qing army messenger. Most people also know that according to the Tatars' past rules of conduct, if the city of Jinan was broken, it would be inevitable that the fate of massacre would be massacred.

Shandong was not only ravaged by the Tartars several times, but also suffered the military robbery of Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and others. At that time, the rebellion of Kong and Geng and others almost poisoned most of Shandong. Now, it is only more than ten years before, and many people have not forgotten the ferocity of Kong and Geng and others poisoned Shandong. Now these few people are outside the city. Of course, no one would think of surrendering them, but they just thought that if the city was broken, the Tartars would slaughter the city, and it was as heavy as a mountain in everyone's hearts.

"Bold, you dare to disturb the morale of the army." A personal soldier of Huang Degong was furious when he heard the old man's question. He pressed his hand on the hilt of the sword and glared at the old man with his eyes.

The old man was obviously powerless. Facing the intimidation of his personal soldiers, he had no fear on his face: "I am not willing to die, but I feel sorry for two underage grandsons. If they fall into the hands of the Tartars, I don't know what will happen?"

The old man's words resonated with others. Huang Degong's subordinates went to the world, and their families were already in Nanjing, but the civilians were all locals. Whoever of them had no relatives in the city was worried about themselves and their relatives.

"You..." The personal soldier was so angry that he couldn't speak. He just didn't say anything when he saw the coach, but he didn't dare to take it seriously.

Looking at everyone's hopeful gaze, although Huang Degong knew that if there was no accident, Jinan City would be difficult to hold on, but he just couldn't bear to let everyone down: "Don't worry, as long as I am here, Jinan City will never be broken!"

"Okay, thank you, Duke. If you say this, we will feel relieved." The old man sighed.

"Yes, thank you, Duke, we kowtowed to Duke."

Huang Degong's words are not without loopholes. If Huang Degong is not there, wouldn't Jinan want to destroy the city? Everyone wouldn't think so. In their opinion, it was equivalent to Huang Degong's promise that Jinan City would not be destroyed. Huang Degong had a high position and a powerful position. Naturally, he could believe his words, and a large area of ​​kneeling down from the city.

"Everyone please get up, please get up." Huang Degong couldn't help but persuade him, but wherever he went, there was a large area of ​​kneeling down. Huang Degong had to finish the inspection and get down from the city.

Due to the large number of people, the repair of the city wall was very fast. When it was completely dark that day, the gaps in the day had been repaired. A torch was lit every few meters on the top of the city, illuminating the city as bright as daytime. The civilians had already returned home, and the rest of the soldiers went down to eat and rest, leaving only some sentries loomingly on the top of the city.

At midnight, the whole city of Jinan became quiet, and a figure sneaked up onto the wall from the base of the wall. He leaned his head and took out an object from his arms, and was about to shoot it out with a bow and arrow when a loud shout came from his mouth: "Who is it?"

The man was shocked, and the object in his hand fell to the ground with a bang. He didn't care about the things and ran down to the city.

But since the sentry was discovered, how could the man survive? After a while, the two sentrymen twisted their hands.

"Grandpa Soldiers, please spare me. As long as you let me go, I am willing to pay a thousand taels of silver." The arrested man begged.

One thousand taels of silver, a big deal, but several sentries ignored him and were still twisted tightly. One sentry picked up the thing that fell on the city wall. He looked at it with the light of the torch and found that it was a bamboo tube. The sentry pulled it into the bamboo tube and pulled out a thin piece of silk, which was full of dense fonts.

Although the sentry did not know how to read, someone posted a letter outside the city late at night, which was a big deal: "Hurry up, take this person down and report it to the general immediately."

When he heard that he wanted to report to Huang Degong, the man's legs suddenly became weak and he collapsed to the ground.

A sound of horse hooves sounded outside the Duke of Jingguo Mansion. A man jumped off the horse and slapped heavily at the gate. The banging sound immediately alarmed the entire Duke of Guo Mansion. The gate creaked open. A personal soldier asked angrily, "What's the matter?"

"Quickly, report to the general and catch the spy."

Hearing the words of the visiting people, the personal soldiers did not dare to neglect: "You wait a moment, I will report to the commander immediately."

Huang Degong slept very lightly. He woke up when someone knocked on the door. He had been lying in his clothes and no longer had to dress. Just as the personal soldiers were about to report, Huang Degong had already come out and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Master, we caught this person on the city wall and wanted to submit a letter to the outside of the city. The stolen person was captured." The officer who escorted the spy came back.

"Oh." Huang Degong looked at the spy who was tied up. He was a young man in his early twenties. His face was fair and his clothes were dirty. He could tell that it was the best material. His face was pale and his legs were shaking.

"I have seen you, by the way, I remembered that you are the son of the family."

"All the palaces?"

Everyone around him was shocked. In Jinan, no one did not know the reputation of the country's mansions. The families were aristocratic families in Shandong for hundreds of years. The modern leaders of Zhu Guangxuan have four brothers. In addition to Zhu Guangxuan, the three were Zhu Guangquan, Zhu Guangling, and Zhu Guangchong.

The father of these four people, Chu Depei, was a doctoral student at the age of 20 and was a Jinshi. During the Chongzhen period, he served as the censor of the Censorate. He was known as the emperor for his courage to speak out. He was deeply trusted by the emperor. Because of Chongzhen's defeat, he even issued an order to commend Zhu Debei many times.

In the sixth year of Chongzhen, Zhu Depei did another major thing, almost half of the people of Shandong. He wrote a letter to the emperor, saying that Shandong was unable to pay taxes due to the military disasters of Kong, Geng and others, and asked the emperor to reduce money and grain for one year. The emperor actually agreed. When the news came, the whole Shandong cheered. In fact, Shandong's money and grain reduction and exemption, and the families also benefited a lot. Only Zhu Depei himself knew whether it was for personal gain or for public purposes.

Whether in terms of wealth or fame, although the families cannot be called the first in Shandong, the first in Jinan is worthy of their reputation. After Huang Degong entered Jinan, the governments also took out a lot of money and grain to support the army and met the heads of the families many times, so Huang Degong had a good impression of the children of the families.

Huang Degong did not care about the trembling son of Zhu family anymore. He took the piece of silk paper seized by the sentry and opened it to see it. After a while, Huang Degong had already looked at it, his face turned pale: "Okay, good families, come here, you will immediately surround the families and take them all, and no one is allowed to miss the net."

"Abide by the order!"

All families have been deeply favored by the country. The current heads of various families and three brothers have all been fame and fortune, and many of them have served as local officials. Unexpectedly, they have no loyalty and righteousness. On this silk paper, the heads of various families are extremely servile to the Tartars. In order to ensure the safety of the families, they not only are willing to surrender to the Tartars, but they even want to use their financial resources to bribe the Ming army's guards' officers and put the Tartars into the city. After Huang Degong saw how he was not furious.

Not only are the families rich and powerful, but there are also seven or eight hundred servants alone. Even if they cannot win over the generals defending the city, if they are armed and suddenly attacked in the city, the consequences will be unimaginable.

After Huang Degong's order, the entire Duke's Mansion immediately took action. Hundreds of Ming soldiers were wearing torches, like a fire dragon, galloping from the Duke's Mansion to the east city courtyard. The crisp sound of horse hooves broke the silence in the mansion. Many people woke up from their dreams, and were shocked and puzzled. What a sound of horse hooves. What happened? Could it be that the Tartars fought in?

This thought scared everyone. Many people quietly got up, lay down in the crack of the door and looked out, and found that it seemed that their own people were riding on the street, but they felt relieved, but they were also inseparable from barking along the way.

The courtyards cover a vast area, with hundreds of acres of land. At this moment, the entire courtyard is like a giant beast hidden in the darkness. Only the main hall has a faint light. The heads of the family and several brothers are sitting together in neat clothes, and a tense atmosphere is filled with the hall.

"Brother, is it too dangerous to submit a letter this time?" Zhu Guangchong couldn't help asking.
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