The fire in the prison flickered and dark, and Sun Zhongde was both happy and angry.

"Gao... Gao Yan... are you here to save me? Gao Yan... You can save me quickly, I will ask the Regent to give you the title..."

Gao Yan slowly squatted down.

Sun Zhongde was stunned.

He saw that Gao Yan's braid had been cut off and there was a short stubble on his head.

Although this stubble is short, it will still be long sooner or later.

"You...you...you betrayed the Tianyou Army? It was you who spread the news that you brought them to this dead place!" Sun Zhongde was surprisingly angry.

"It's me."

"Why? Why do you do this?! I did not treat you badly..."

Gao Yan said: "You didn't treat me badly, but I miss home."

“What…what?”

Sun Zhongde thought it was ridiculous.

"Are you crazy?"

"I missed home." Gao Yan said: "Do you still remember my home? Do you still remember Fushun? My home is in Qianwo Village, your home is in Houwo Village. At that time, my father farmed, my mother weaved cloth, and my younger brothers and sisters also worked in the fields. The fields we planted at our house were not enough to eat, so we went to work as miners.

Later, Nurhaci said he wanted to move Ding Limin, and told him to let the Jurchens and Nikan live together. So the Jurchens moved into the homes of our Nikan, and my mother and my sister were killed by them...

My father died, and only my brother was left to look for me at the mine... Who do you think I will seek justice? Is that our own court? Do we have a court that seeks justice for us?"

Sun Zhongde wanted to say something, Gao Yan raised his hand and continued to speak on his own.

"My home was burned and the fields were occupied. Then Nurhaci said that everyone with six dou of food was the 'people with grain', and those who didn't even have six dou of food were lazy and untouchables.

He wanted to kill all these grainless people, so I gave all the copper coins and grains to my younger brother, and he knelt in front of those people with six dou of grain.

Then, the people smiled and took away his six dou of grain, held his head with a rope, dragged him behind the horse, and dragged him into mud...

After my brother died, those people were still saying that he was a grainless person and a lazy man, saying that we Han people are all unproductive people, haha..."

Gao Yan smiled sinisterly and asked, "General, do you think we are lazy people?"

"Gao Yan... I took you to escape from Liaodong, I took you to escape..."

"You would have answered me before, are we lazy people?"

Sun Zhongde cried and begged in a low voice: "These things have passed, they have passed..."

"It's past for you, but I returned to Liaodong and didn't find my home."

"What else do you want me? I've tried my best... I've tried my best! It's not us who betrayed the Chu Dynasty, it's the Chu Dynasty who betrayed us!" Sun Zhongde yelled: "It's you who made me rebel against the Chu Dynasty!"

"I asked you to resist, but I didn't let you surrender!"

"What did I do wrong? I was forced to do it too... The Later Jin Dynasty was like that, and the Chu Dynasty was like that. What else can I do?!"

"It's not like that now." Gao Yan said.

Sun Zhongde spoke to his mouth, his tone stopped and said, "But I can't go back. You can't go back. I can't go back. There is no way to go back..."

Gao Yan silently took out a bottle from his sleeve and placed it in the fence.

"This is poison. When you took me out of Liaodong, I also served you for more than ten years. This is the last kindness I have given you."

Sun Zhongde stared at the bottle on the ground and said, "I don't want to die... save me... I beg you, find a way to let me go..."

"I said, this bottle of poison is my kindness to repay you. From now on, the general and I will not owe each other."

After Gao Yan finished speaking, he stood up and walked out neatly.

Sun Zhongde was still murmuring.

"I don't want to die...I don't want to die...Save me..."

He knew that if he could return to the Qing Dynasty, he would still have wealth and glory...

What he didn't know was that there were three people in Minfeng Village, one of whom was a guerrilla general; and in Dengzhou, Laizhou and Weizhou, where the Tianyou Army transited, there were nearly a thousand soldiers, including dozens of generals and officials.

Two days later, the army arrived in Weizhou.

Sun Zhongde was dragged into Weizhou City, and the bottle in his hand had already been snatched by his soldiers.

Someone patted his head and said, "We have pleased for you."

"Thanks……"

"No need to thank you." The young general spoke, raised his hand and pointed, "If you can walk from the north of the city to the south of the city, we will let you go."

Sun Zhongde was stunned and turned to see that there were dense crowds of people on the street.

A terrible chill rose from the soles of the feet to the scalp.

"I...my bottle...my bottle is returned to me..."

I clearly know what the consequences will be if I become a traitor and fall back to these Chu soldiers...

"General Qin, you have violated the military law by lynching prisoners of war..."

"I have violated the military law again?" Qin Xiaozhu was surprised, but said carelessly: "What's the matter? Let King Jing'an punish me."

"This... will still be recorded truthfully..."

"Just remember it, am I afraid of you?"

Qin Xiaozhu was too lazy to care about these things.

She was busy leading her troops to the southern battlefield to deal with Fang Mingfu's 100,000 troops...

"Even if Fang Mingfu has a 100,000 army, he is just a piece of shit in my eyes."

Qin Xuance cursed.

But in fact, he had been forced to retreat for two hundred miles and was stationed in a place called "Menglianggu".

How can I describe this battle?

According to Qin Xuance, he could wipe off a large piece of shit that was covered by splashing on the edges and corners, but if the whole shit was covered by it, he could only retreat a little.

In short, two thousand people can't beat 100,000 people, so they can only restrain them.

Qin Xuance just wanted to speak out loud.

"It's been more than twenty days, and he has only entered less than two hundred miles. I can run this little road in one day. I don't know what he is afraid of, and he has the ability to do it with me."

Xia Xiangwei, who was in charge of the army, sneered: "You didn't see Fang Mingfu's soldiers carrying our people's responsibilities one by one. It's so fast that they can march for two hundred miles."

Qin Xuance's eyes were filled with murderous intent.

Although Fang Mingfu's Changsheng army failed to capture several cities, many villages were burned down along the way, and Qin Xuance also tolerated him to the extreme.

"I hate the little soldiers in my hands, otherwise I would chop this dog into eighteen pieces."

"It's almost..."

At this point, there were shouts outside the camp.

Qin Xuance and Xia Xiangwei drove them out and saw that several nearby villagers were pulling and raising soldiers.

Qin Xuance was furious and shouted, "What's wrong?! Do you dare to bully the villagers?"

"General Qin, Military Advisor Xia, we are not waiting..."

"General, no, no... I don't want to take refuge in the county, I want to join the army." A young man shouted.

Qin Xuance asked, "Do you have land at home?"

"I have land, I have divided it into forty acres of land."

"Then you join the army, who will plant the fields?"

The young man scratched his head, so anxious that he could not do it.

Qin Xuance glanced up and down at him, his tone faded, and he asked again: "How old is it? Is it six feet or eight inches long?"

The young man looked even more bitter, and he didn't answer, shouting: "I'm begging the general, I just want to join the army and kill the enemy. I heard that the bandits robbed food and killed people everywhere, and I also want to defend my country..."

"You can do whatever you want? You don't plant it after you have allocated the land. How do you pay your tax next year? What should I eat in war next year? Don't make trouble here for me, hurry up and enter the county town!"

Qin Xuance didn't have time to argue with these villagers, so he cursed and then turned back to the camp.

The villagers were so anxious that they were not afraid of the soldiers around them, and they shouted again.

Xia Xiangwei was more patient, walked up to him and greeted them to sit outside the camp, and smiled and said, "Did you hear that there are 100,000 enemy troops and only 2,000 of our troops, and I am worried?"

"Yes, General. This always lets us enter the city. We are so anxious that the seedlings in this field have just grown. What should we do if those people step on it?"

"I only cooked two large jars at home this year, and there is still half a can of rice in it... If you want to grab these, I might as well fight with them..."

After listening to them, Xia Xiangwei sighed, "Don't worry, the court will provide relief to you when this war is over."

"We are not worried about money, we also want to do our best."

Xia Xiangwei said: "Last year, King Jing'an captured Xuzhou and Huai'an and captured more than 100,000 soldiers and horses from Jiangbei. In the end, they were asked to release their armor and return home. Do you know why? This year, every state prefecture first counts the population, and then recruits soldiers according to the quota. There are also various rules, such as 'pipa legs, axle body, and how much force is used'. Do you know why?"
To be continued...