Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

Gu'an County Government.

From the sound of the first grenade explosion, the magistrate Xiong Qucai pushed away the concubine Xina who was wrapped around him like an octopus, put on his clothes, went out and shouted:

"Come on, come on, come on!"

The doorman ran over in a panic:

"Sir, it's bad, the army has entered the city!"

Xiong Qucai slapped the door to the ground and said, "I know, why don't you hurry up and close the front and rear doors tightly."

The doorman rushed over excitedly, but received a slap in the face, and hurriedly ran to close the door while crawling.

But Xiong Qucai turned back.

As a county magistrate during the turbulent years, and in the land of Zhili that was repeatedly robbed by Manchus, he knew how to protect himself.

He returned only after seeing Xiong Qu. Xiao Cuihua, who had been admitted to the house for just three days, was already dressed.

With a look of fear on her face, she held Xiong Qucai's waist with both hands.

The mouth is even more glutinous:

"Master, master, I'm afraid~"

This look looked pitiful to me, but it didn't move Xiong Qucai.

He snorted coldly: "Get under the bed, the thief can't get in!"

"Master, are you afraid?" Xiao Cuihua's voice was soft and her voice was protracted.

"Humph!"

Xiong Zhixian snorted coldly and pointed to the bottom of the bed, his face covered with frost.

Seeing that the master was not joking, Xiao Cuihua had no choice but to wrap herself in a quilt and crawl under the bed.

Xiong Qucai packed a drawer of snacks, brought a pot of herbal tea, and thoughtfully locked Xiao Cuihua in the bedroom, then turned and ran towards the back garden.

He takes no one!

Everyone knows the story of empress Chen who called Shubao.

woman……

It will only affect the concealment of men's hiding!

Think about Empress Chen, if the fragrance of the concubines in the harem was not too strong, and she was hiding in a dry well and chirping, how could she have been discovered by the Sui army?

……

Ever since he was appointed magistrate of Gu'an the year before last, he had been preparing for this day.

Each yamen was built according to the imperial palace model, after being reduced and simplified.

In the front is the government office area, in the back is the residential area for officials, and at the back is a small back garden.

Xiong Qucai had already asked someone to dig a cellar in the garden.

Even, in order to prevent starvation and thirst, two bags of rice were stored inside, a stove and other items were purchased, and a small well was even dug!

In order to avoid being lonely hiding inside, there are even some books to relieve boredom...

This cellar was secretly dug by Xiong Qucai by a prison convict.

As for those people——

Died in prison long ago...

Secrets that only the dead would not reveal!

Xiong Qucai laboriously moved a large flowerpot planted with cliff pine trees, revealing a vertical hole.

There is a wooden ladder fixed at the entrance that leads directly to the bottom of the cellar.

He climbed in, then moved the flower pot little by little, and sat on the entrance of the hole.

Xiong Qucai took a closer look and found that the flower pot had completely covered the entrance of the hole, and no light came through, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

He went down to the cellar, took out a fire stick, blew it, and lit the oil lamp on the table. The dark cellar suddenly became bright.

"Don't hold yourself back!"

Xiong Qucai muttered to himself, picked up a small stick, climbed up the wooden ladder, and poked at the air inlet located in the rockery.

After finding that the vents were clear, I felt relieved.

Lying on the bed that had been prepared, looking at the shelter he had prepared for a rainy day, Xiong Qucai raised a sneer at the corner of his mouth:

"Let me beat you until the sky is shattered, and I can watch the show in peace!"

"Fight, fight!" Xiong Qucai covered himself with a quilt and muttered:

"You guys fight back and forth, but in the end I am not the county magistrate?"

"What's the use of your stupid brains?"

"We, the literati, are the ones who control this world!"

"No matter who wins or loses, I can't be an official anymore?"

"They are all idiots. It doesn't matter who wins or loses. If it doesn't stop you, I will still make money as an official!"

……

At five o'clock in the morning, the sky had already turned dark.

The yamen had finished their work long ago, and except for the dozen or so yamen servants on duty, everyone else had gone home.

Xiong Qucai, the leader, just hid like this, but it made the government officials who were already panic-stricken and had no fighting spirit to disperse in a rush.

Zhang Luofu searched around and asked many people, but no one saw where the magistrate had gone.

Even the housekeeper Xiong Qucai brought from his hometown didn’t know where Xiong Qucai had gone!

Worri, the county magistrate is gone?

Zhang Luofu scratched his head:

Finished!

How can we fulfill His Majesty's plan now?

The dog officer is missing!

How can this be done?

He can't really occupy Gu'an City, right?

No, Gu'an is too close to the capital, and Li Guo is not far away. If he occupies this place, he is seeking death!

……

Xiong Qucai didn't know that Zhang Luofu had no intention of killing him.

His hiding created a problem for Zhang Luofu.

Zhang Luofu, who couldn't think of a solution, pulled out a lot of hair.

Zhang Luofu hammered his head:

It seems that next time I go on an expedition alone, I must bring my second brother with me. My brain is all about muscles, and I am really not suitable for doing such tricks.

His Majesty the Emperor made a plan with him, but he did not even consider that he could not find the county magistrate...

Who would have thought that these wallflowers could actually have the ability to hide and seek!

Zhang Luofu thought about it again and again, and his Majesty told him:

The purpose of this battle is not to kill the enemy, but to constantly mobilize Li Guo, paralyze the Chuang army, make him think that we are going to attack the capital, and then get rid of him, feint a shot, and then...

Mobilize Li Guo...

Zhang Luofu scratched his head:

What the hell!

It seems like this is possible!

Zhang Luofu had an idea and hurriedly found a few soldiers with loud voices and gave them quiet instructions.

……

The people of Gu'an City were frightened all night.

A group of soldiers who didn't know where they came from took advantage of the short time in front of the city gate to rob the city.

As soon as these people entered the city, they set fires everywhere and brought many cannons. There were explosions everywhere...

The people were so frightened that they hid in their homes and did not dare to go out to find out anything.

When it finally became quiet in the latter half of the night, I heard someone yelling something loudly again.

If you listen carefully, you can hear someone talking about the Ming army, the capital, and what cannot be kept.

……

Those who could live near the Yamen were all gentry.

In the past, this was the most enviable place for the people in the city. However, today, these wealthy families were in fear all night, fearing that they would be killed and silenced by the Ming army.

In the first half of the night, the Ming army rushed into the house and set it on fire. They finally put out the fire, but they heard the Ming army saying that they wanted to attack the capital directly and capture Li Zicheng alive... He couldn't stay here. They wanted to burn down the Yamen, and then take advantage of Li Zicheng's lack of access. Before the news, I directly penetrated the capital and so on...

The gentry who overheard the "secrets" of the Ming army and were afraid that they would be silenced by the Ming army did not even dare to rescue the government office when it was on fire!