I'm really sorry for everyone. I didn't have time to update yesterday. This time it was a natural disaster. The level 17 tornado was too severe. The severely affected village was more than ten miles away from my home. On the side of National Highway 204, there were many people killed and injured. Many people died and died. The brick and tile houses couldn't hold on. The whole village was blown away, and many were killed in their own houses. Seeing the grandmother crying with the corpses of the grandson (daughter), the bones were very uncomfortable, and I really burst into tears. (For details, you can see the news)

The electricity arrived at 11 o'clock in the evening, and the bones turned on the computer to code the words as soon as possible, just to update it in time, and to pay silence for the dead hometown people (I can only pay silence in silence, I can't do anything else, I hope the seriously injured can survive.)

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The escape of a large number of people made Kunming City in the night like a dead city, with the streets and alleys in a mess. An empty house stood in the dark in the night, and a dog locked in the yard shouted from time to time, but he didn't know if he was hungry or found that his master was missing.

The tall Kunming city wall surrounded the city in the night. The soldiers who used to be patrolling the fire on it were no longer seen. The only flag hanging on the city gate tower was left with bare flagpoles. The gate that was closed at night was also open at this time, and it seemed that I didn't mind that Kunming City would change its owner. On the streets on both sides of the city gate, there were countless pots and pans, broken all over the ground. These were done by the Kunming people who escaped and were reluctant to abandon their belongings. They did not deliberately throw these belongings down, but were pushed around by crowded people when they left the city, and finally the pot and bowl were broken.

Looking at Kunming City from the night sky, it was a dead city. There was no light at all. But when you were inside, you could find that it was not a real dead city, because there were still people in the city. You could still see people rushing to the city gate from their residences in the city in the dark, then looking out of the dark city, hesitating for a while, and finally gritted their teeth and took their parents, wife and children on a road to seek survival. They didn't know if they could come back, but like their neighbors who left the city during the day, they carefully cleaned up the inside and outside of the house when they left home, and even carried the firewood piled in the yard into the kitchen. Then they hung an iron lock on the door and walked towards the unknown.

Most people followed the instructions of King Jin to escape from the city, and did they still insist on staying in the city. In addition to the lonely and widowed old men who were really unable to walk, the rest were those people who had no hearing of the military discipline of the Qing soldiers. They simply thought that even if the dynasty changed, it had nothing to do with them. They were just ordinary people and they did not hinder anyone. Therefore, the Qing soldiers would not kill them because the Qing yamen also needed them to pay the food and pay taxes.

Indeed, the Qing soldiers could not harm them now, because the nearest Qing soldiers were more than 120 miles away from Kunming City. However, the evacuation of the court and the government not only made Kunming an empty city or an isolated city, but also made Kunming a chaotic city.

Chaos is caused by those gangsters who take advantage of the chaos to rob, have no human nature, and only know how to make money from the national crisis. The rich people have run away, but they cannot resist the number of people left behind. Without officers and soldiers and yamen to stop them, the gangsters will never miss any chance to get rich. Even if the poor people who are robbed by them are not much wealth, the truth that the number of people gathers is small, everyone knows.

From the moment the Holy Lord went abroad to the Duke's Mansion, the robbery in Kunming City began and never stopped. There were robberies in the fleeing team, and there were also robberies in Kunming City, and there were even murder cases, which were outrageously raped, gang-raped, and raped cases.

Even the worst government is better than no government.

Without the existence of an official, the most evil side of human nature will be fully demonstrated. I don’t know how many tragic things happened in Kunming City in the night, but sadly no one stops them.

In order to protect yourself, the people who stayed behind could only lock the gate of the courtyard and the house, and use big trees to hold them tightly behind the door, burning incense and begging Buddha to bless those bad people who do evil outside to not rush to their own homes.

In a bungalow with a yard in Xicheng, a middle-aged man hid his wife and children in the house, holding a kitchen knife behind the house, listening carefully to the movements around him. If he was holding a torch in his hand, he could clearly see that his face was so white that it was not even bloody. He heard the sound of footsteps getting closer and closer and cold laughter.

“Come here!”

A dozen gangsters holding short knives, daggers, hammers and other weapons rushed to the yard of the man's house. The man was very scared and very scared. He could not beat so many people. He had already thought about what would happen to his wife and daughter after these bad guys rushed into his house.

The man's throat was whimpering, his legs were shaking violently, but he did not retreat, but stood behind the door with the knife tightly. He had only one thought in his mind, that no matter how many people there were outside, he would kill the first one to rush in.

Suddenly, a painful scream came from outside, followed by a man's angry curse: "Damn it, he's brave, he's brave enough to come here to do evil!"

Then, there were more and more screams outside, and it became louder and louder. After dozens of breaths, there were no screams outside, but there were footsteps. Listening to the footsteps, there seemed to be many people outside.

The man dared not open the door to see who was outside. He only knew that those were definitely fierce people. His heart was even more trembling because he didn't know if those fierce people would rush into his house like those bad people.

What reassured the man was that the murderer outside did not rush into his house, but went further and further away. Then he heard the sound of horse hooves coming from the entrance of the alley.

The sound of horse hooves made the man subconsciously think that the King of Jin's soldiers had returned. He didn't dare to open the door to see, so he found a stool and climbed onto the courtyard wall to see. There were really officers and soldiers on the other side of the alley, wearing torches and wearing red military uniforms, standing there densely, probably hundreds of people. A leading general said something to two men in official uniforms. They were too far away to hear clearly, but the man felt that they were arguing something.

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Liang Shuanghu was really anxious. The man surnamed Xu said he wanted to steal his wife for the Grandmaster to avoid the princess being humiliated by the Tartars' reputation. This is right. Although the Grandmaster didn't know that the emperor had promised him a wife, the decree had been issued. Everyone in the world knew that the eldest princess was the wife of his Grandmaster. He really had no shame in the hands of the Tatars. Those who were subordinates would be respectful? The emperor was unable to protect himself now, so based on his virtue of throwing away both of his sons, he could trust him to protect the princess. So this matter really had to be listened to the Xu and take it back to rob the people back so as not to follow the emperor.

The problem is that the person surnamed Xu said that he would coax the people to the west to chase the Saint Chariot, so that the Saint Chariot would be in chaos, and they would be more likely to steal people. This was right, and Liang Shuanghu also heard this. He and his subordinates shouted in the city for a long time, and his voice was hoarse. Finally, most of the people in Kunming were coaxing the people to the west to chase the Saint Chariot, which was the best time to steal people. But when things were about to come, the person surnamed Xu was not anxious and said that he would not go to steal the princess first, but to do a big thing in Kunming City. What the hell is that? No matter how big the matter is, it is more important than stealing the wife of the Grandmaster!

Guo Shao was also very dissatisfied with Xu Yingyuan's change of mind. Kunming City is really too late now. God knows when the Qing soldiers will come. If it is really delayed for a long time, there will be a change. Who will bear the responsibility?

"Brother Xu, this is so angry that the Emperor has been out of the city for a long time. If we don't chase it, the daylily will be cold!" Guo Shao was anxious.

"What other shit in this city is going to do?" Liang Shuanghu was furious.

Xu Yingyuan looked at the two of them anxiously and said, "When I came from Dongcheng just now, I found that the grain storage in the city's COFCO warehouse was there, so we have to do this."

Guo Shao was stunned: "Brother Xu means we will snatch the food?"

Xu Yingyuan shook his head and said, "We can't move so much food. I heard from Grand Secretary Guo that the grain storage in Kunming City was raised by King Jin for more than a year, enough for more than 100,000 troops to eat for more than half a year. It was originally planned to use Sun Kewang to defend the city when he sieges the city. I didn't expect Sun Kewang to be defeated so quickly, so the grain was useless and kept in Kunming."

"So much food?" Guo Shao was very surprised: "With so much food here, why did the King of Jin abandon Kunming?"

Xu Yingyuan said: "The King of Jin was defeated and the Qin soldiers did not obey the order. What's the use of more food? The problem is that there is no soldier to defend. The Qing army marched several times, and all the routes were tight. The King of Jin was really not sure to defend Kunming, so he wanted to abandon the city. Otherwise, you would think the King of Jin would agree to the emperor retreat to western Yunnan."

After hearing this, Guo Shao frowned: "The King of Jin is really. Since he decided to abandon the city, why did he still leave the food in Kunming? Why didn't he send troops to move it away? Could it be that so much food should be left to the Qing army?"

"I can't take care of it." Xu Yingyuan sighed. He had no way to guess why King Jin left so much food in the city, but he didn't know that King Jin had ordered the Kunming defenders to burn the food, but he never thought that he was stopped by the emperor. (Yongli refused to burn Kunming food as a historical fact. This move caused the Qing army in Yunnan to have no worries about food and grass, and accelerated the process of Yongli's demise)

"What does Brother Xu mean?" Guo Shao asked.

Liang Shuanghu thought of something and hurriedly said, "Mr. Xu means to transport this grain back to our Guangdong?"

Xu Yingyuan chuckled: "When will we move so much food by our two or three hundred people? The Qing army is approaching Kunming. We will definitely arrive in a few days. By then, we will not even move a granary."

"Since we can't move away, why are we still here?"

Liang Shuanghu became more and more dissatisfied, and Guo Shao was also confused. Xu Yingyuan suddenly said seriously: "Before I came, the general had a secret order. If the emperor abandoned the city and fled, he would burn the entire city of Kunming, leaving no grain, no house, and no well for the Qing army!" He said this, "So we have to burn the city now!"

"Create the city!"

Liang Shuanghu and Guo Shao took a breath of air conditioning. Kunming City is very big. Not to mention food, there are tens of thousands of houses in the city. I am afraid that there are at least tens of thousands of people in the city that have not left. What if the city is burned, what should the people do?

"Don't be a woman's kindness. If the city is not burned and the food is not burned, there will be more people who die than in the city now!"

Xu Yingyuan said as he took out a secret letter from his arms and handed it to Guo Shao: "This is the warrant for the cheap act given to me by the Grand Marshal. You can see."

Liang Shuanghu was illiterate and could not understand what was written in the warrant, but Guo Shao understood that the command of the warrant was told by the Grand Marshal to be dispatched and commanded by Xu Yingyuan. In other words, Xu Yingyuan is their head now, and Guo Shao and the others will listen to whatever he said.

After returning the warrant to Xu Yingyuan, Guo Shao expressed his willingness to listen to Xu Yingyuan's orders, but before burning the city, people must be sent to inform the people who have not left to evacuate, so as to minimize unnecessary casualties and injuries in the people. Xu Yingyuan agreed that burning the city is important, but if you really want to burn tens of thousands of people to death in Kunming City, that is also a sin, and you can't bear it.

At this moment, Guo Shao, Liang Shuanghu and others acted separately. Soon the people hiding at home learned that the King of Jin soldiers wanted to burn the city to prevent Kunming from falling into the Qing army. Some people believed it, and some people did not. Whether they believed it or not, before dawn, fire was everywhere in Kunming.
Chapter completed!