Sun Shi brought not only personnel and supplies, but more confidence and morale.

Logically speaking, the court should be very vigilant and resistant to so many foreign soldiers entering the country, let alone the capital. However, the entire north of the Ming Dynasty is overwhelmed by the Tartars. If there are troops willing to come to the north to fight against the Tartar slaves, it is too late to welcome them. Therefore, Sun Shi's troops can enter Tianjin unimpeded and arrive at Lijiazhuang along the canal.

Lu Xiangsheng brought all the important generals to the dock to greet him personally. He watched the soldiers and equipment and supplies disembarking, and his eyes were so happy that they almost laughed.

At the same time, they had a deeper understanding of the strength of the Xinghan Army. Just the tip of the iceberg I saw in front of me was so terrifying, and their overall strength was really unfathomable.

Because he had just arrived and there were too many things, Lu Xiangsheng knew that this was not the time to discuss in detail, so he just came forward to welcome him, so he ordered Huang Ji to settle Sun Shi and his party, and then welcome Sun Shi and others.

"Old Sun, I really didn't expect you to come." Huang Ji said excitedly, holding Sun Shi's hand.

In fact, Huang Ji has been under great pressure recently. Dorgon’s 100,000 army is not a joke. And unlike Du Du, Dorgon has a large number of captured Ming army artillery, so even for defense, Huang Ji and others have been prepared for a large amount of sacrifice.

Especially when the weather is getting colder and the canal shows signs of freezing, which puts everyone's retreat at risk of being cut off. Once the canal is frozen, even if there are ships in Tianjin, it will not be able to pass. At that time, it will be really trapped in the lonely city.

"Old Huang, the Tartars in southern Liaoning were really unstoppable and had already run to Gaizhou. It was really unsatisfactory. The Grand Governor saw that there would be no war in southern Liaoning before the beginning of spring and was worried about the situation on your side, so he arranged for me to bring my men over. If it weren't for the fact that the ships were not enough, our division commander would have thought about it. I heard that we were going to have a fight with Dorgon's army this time?" Sun Shi was also a war madman. When he heard that there was a war, his eyes revealed a sense of excitement and fanaticism.

"It's about to start. Dorgon has an army of 100,000. This battle is not that easy to fight." Huang Ji nodded.

"We are not bad either. Who is better? Only after trying it will you know." Sun Shi was full of confidence. His confidence came from his own equipment and training. He believed in the strength of his troops.

"By the way, how is it going on in southern Liaoning?" Huang Ji has been fighting in the heart of the Ming Dynasty and is not very clear about the situation in southern Liaoning.

"The Tartars in Lushun and Jinzhou were completely wiped out, and none of them ran away. Fuzhou was also taken down, but everyone ran to Gaizhou. Now the army has retreated to the Nanguan side, and it is time for Nanguan to be repaired. The weather is cold now, and there is probably no war before the beginning of next spring. At least it will be difficult for Dorgon to fight before he returns." Sun Shi briefly introduced the situation in southern Liaoning.

"It's good to go smoothly. By the way, where did you get so many river boats?" Huang Ji felt relieved when he heard that Liaonan was going smoothly and asked the ship's questions.

Most of the ships of the Xinghan Army were sea boats, and there were very few inland river boats. Moreover, the ships were tall and deep, so they could not run away in the canal. Except for big rivers, they generally did not go deep into the inland.

"Isn't this the Tartars coming here, and the canal transportation has been cut off? There are many ships stranded in Tianjin, so I negotiated with them in a friendly manner and asked them to send us here." Sun Shi said it easily, but Huang Ji knew that things were definitely not that simple. However, he was too lazy to ask about such things, as long as the result was good.

"The weather will soon become colder, and the canal may freeze. These boats cannot stay here for a long time and must return immediately, otherwise they may be surrounded by Tartars and fire will burn." Huang Ji also wanted to keep the boat, but the canal was frozen for one reason. The canal was too narrow and the boats on the river were very vulnerable to attacks on the shore. It is also an important factor.

"I promised them when I came and let them go back when I arrived. Let the Tartars leave quickly before they arrived." Sun Shi also knew that it would be best for these boats to leave as soon as possible, otherwise it would be very likely that they would not be able to save them.

"It just so happened that there were many rescued people in the village, and they were taken away by boat. They were shipped to Tianjin and then shipped to Jeju Island. Lijiazhuang is too small and we have too many people, so we can't stay there anymore." Huang Ji certainly would not let these ships run back empty-handed. Trying to take the people away can also reduce their burden.

"This should be fine. Anyway, it's empty. But these people don't have to send them to Jeju Island, but they just need to send them to southern Liaoning. There is also a need for manpower there to avoid running back and forth. In the future, refugees from the northern Ming Dynasty will send them to southern Liaoning." Sun Shi nodded and said.

"Take all the extra supplies that can be taken away, and the wounded are taken to Tianjin. I'll tell Mr. Lu that there should be no problem." Huang Ji thought to take advantage of the canal to take the crew and supplies as much as possible to reduce the pressure on Lijiazhuang.

"Whatever you do, anyway, those ships are from Tianjin, and your words are better than me." Sun Shi didn't care. He came here mainly for war and could not get involved in other things.

"Then let's go to see Lord Lu together, and try to load the boat to avoid the nights and dreams." Huang Ji said, then Rasunshi went to find Lu Xiangsheng.

Lu Xiangsheng had no objection to Huang Ji's proposal. After all, Lijiazhuang really couldn't accommodate so many people, and many supplies that were not available for the time being could be transferred to a safe place.

To be honest, Huang Ji's usual local style makes everyone feel very at ease about his money. Thinking about the armor and weapons that Huang Ji gave him were confiscated at the beginning, just with this grandeur, everyone can also hand over the money to him with confidence.

As for Huang Ji's attempt to transport the people away, no one has any objection.

Now the fortifications in Lijiazhuang are almost completed, and the people can still make room for the soldiers after they are transported away. Moreover, there are too many people gathered in Lijiazhuang, and the rice and flour are consumed. The food seized is definitely enough. However, the daily fire, cooking and heating are used, and the wood consumed is huge. Although Lu Xiangsheng has organized people to cut down a large amount of wood, the trees around Lijiazhuang have long been cut off, and if they want to cut down trees, they have to go far away. It is neither convenient nor safe. If people send the people away, they can also reduce their logistical pressure.

Huang Ji only said that he wanted to send the people to Tianjin, but he didn't say that he wanted to send them to southern Liaoning, otherwise he wouldn't know what Lu Xiangsheng would think. Anyway, as long as he arrived in Tianjin, some people there would be able to send them to southern Liaoning. The Xinghan Army was very skilled in immigration work.

"The commander, the Tatars wanted to exchange King De in Lijiazhuang, but they didn't have any good intentions. They were afraid that they would be the trick of catching Cao." Huang Ji knew that the Tatars were also ghost spirits, and they were giving King De to Lu Xiangsheng on the surface, but if Lijiazhuang could not defend, King De would still return to them.

"How can I not know Dorgon's little trick? If Lijiazhuang cannot be defended, we will have to die. We will not be able to control King De's life and death. If we win, it will naturally be unrelated to where King De is." In fact, Lu Xiangsheng is also aware. If he is still alive, King De's affairs can naturally give him a great bonus for Chongzhen. If he dies in battle, he will still care about King De.

"After the boat leaves this time, I am afraid that the canal will freeze and the boat will be very sad. At that time, we have to defend one road to the death. Moreover, Dorgon's army is about to arrive, so we don't care. We are going to have a fight with the Tartars, but if the father-in-law who sent the order does not leave at this time, he will probably have no chance to leave." Huang Ji felt that the eunuch should be let go, after all, he was a person around the emperor. He could still say something good to Lu Xiangsheng when he goes back, but it would be useless to stay here.

"I'll tell him, it's up to him to decide whether to leave or stay." Lu Xiangsheng thought for a while, and still felt that it would be better to explain it clearly to that father-in-law.

Eunuch Wang was also very confused at this time. Lu Xiangsheng said it very clearly. If you want to leave, leave now. If you don’t leave, wait for the boat to leave. The Tatar army has arrived and can’t leave even if you want to.

Seeing that King De was about to be replaced, this was a great achievement, and Chongzhen would look at him differently. But he also knew whether King De could return to the capital in the end and whether Lu Xiangsheng could defend Lijiazhuang was the most important thing.

Although Lu Xiangsheng's troops looked very combative, the Tartars were even more famous. What's more, I heard that this time it was a 100,000 army led by the pseudo-king Dorgon, which was the King De who captured alive in Jinan City he captured. He was very fierce.

But he was really reluctant to give up this opportunity, so he ran back to the capital like this. It was a bit hard work, so he didn't have to think about the credit, and he was unwilling to accept it.

The Jinyiwei who followed Eunuch Wang all looked at him eagerly and waited for him to say something to go back. For them, it was too dangerous to stay here, and it was safer to return to the capital.

"Father-in-law, this battle is extremely dangerous and it is hard to say what the result is. Why don't we go back to the capital? Anyway, our mission has been completed." The Jinyiwei Baihu, who led the team, persuaded carefully.

Their mission this time was just to pass the order, and the matter of welcoming the King of De was not within their mission.

"What? Are you all afraid?" Eunuch Wang's face was not very good-looking.

"How can this be? You have to rush back to hand over the job for the emperor. I'm afraid the emperor is waiting for your news." Baihu quickly denied it and found a legitimate excuse.

Eunuch Wang didn't want to say much, and sat there weighed the pros and cons.

Speaking of which, Eunuch Wang is very powerful outside, but in fact he is a small character in the palace, with much bigger people than him. For eunuchs like them, winning the favor of the emperor is the most important thing. As long as the saints come, promotion is like riding a rocket. He doesn't want the officials of the court to have many other conditions. But there are so many people serving in the palace, how many of them can be favored?

As long as you do something beautiful this time, I think you can definitely be the eyes of the priest. Thinking of this, Eunuch Wang makes up his mind and seeks wealth and danger. It is too difficult to make a breakthrough without taking a fight.

"Our family has decided to stay in Lijiazhuang to pick up King De back to Beijing. Lord Yao, you arrange for someone to go back to the capital with the boat and tell the emperor the news here. Our family will not return to Beijing if they don't get the oath of King De, and they will die in Lijiazhuang if they die." The king gave the order directly, regardless of Yao Baihu's face as dark as carbon.

Yao Baihu did not dare to refute, so he had to accept the order and arrange it. All his subordinates looked at him eagerly, hoping that he could choose.

"Hook, you are single, and you have my mother and sister to raise at home, so you can go back and deliver the letter." Yao Baihu ordered a young Jinyiwei, and there was nothing to say about the reasons he gave.

"Sir, Bei Zhi wants to follow you to kill the Tartars." Jinyiwei said with a hurried head.

"This is an order! Since the prince decided to stay here, we can only obey. We are all good men. When it is really critical, we can't ruin the reputation of the Jinyiwei. It's too big to die. Write down everything you want to say and hand it over to Gouzi. If you have any bad things, gouzi will hand it over to your family. Don't be too discouraged. Supervisor Lu's elite soldiers and strong generals may be more difficult to destroy the Tartars, but it is still very hopeful to defend Lijiazhuang. Maybe we can get a lot of credit at that time." Yao Baihu made the worst plan and had the best hope.

"Yes, sir." Now that things have come to this, everyone can only stay.

When Lu Xiangsheng and the others learned that Eunuch Wang decided to stay, they were still a little impressed. No matter what purpose he was for, he was at least somewhat brave to stay in such a crisis.

The ship is limited to the limit. Apart from loading some money and goods that can be taken away, the people of Lijiazhuang can only take away 15,000 people. If there are more, they will really not be able to hold it.

Huang Ji tried his best to keep all the people who were strong and strong in the boat according to the principle that the elderly, weak, women and children got on the boat first. These young and strong people could also play some role when the war situation was urgent.

Even though these people wanted to leave, there was no room for negotiation in front of the military order, and 5,000 young and strong men were forcibly stayed.

While the Tartars had not arrived yet, Huang Ji arranged for people to conduct emergency training for them. It was much better to strengthen a little bit than to do nothing.

In addition to bringing troops, Sun Shi also brought a batch of swords and armor, bringing almost all the weapons and equipment in Tianjin, which was a rhythm that he didn't want to pass. It was really too much pressure brought by Dorgon's army, and he had to survive this time if he had to spend all his money.

Huang Ji's troops did not lack equipment, but Lu Xiangsheng and Yang Guozhu were very in need of these powerful tools made by Jeju Island.

With the old rules, Huang Ji gave it to Lu Xiangsheng without saying a word, and exchanged it for a batch of eliminated weapons, which just happened to arm those young and strong people.

After thousands of steel knives and armor pieces were released, the morale of Lijiazhuang rose again. Only those who were in the army knew how important it was to have good weapons and armor. With the steel knives and armor pieces made in Jeju Island, everyone directly had 5 defense power, 5 combat power, and their confidence was expanded.

Just as Lu Xiangsheng and his friends were busy working in Lijiazhuang, a cavalry rushed into the village and brought back the expected news: Dorgon's army was coming.
Chapter completed!