I, Sun Chuanting, beg to die

Author: Taofu

Sun Chuanting was questioned by Li Dewei without saying a word, with a look of loneliness on his face. The guard on the side saw the master like this and shouted angrily: "Li Dewei..."

Li Dewei looked at him coldly, glared at the guard and shouted: "Do you want to die here with Ming Dynasty!"

The guards were so stared at by Li Dewei that they couldn't say a word. It was true that they were Sun Chuanting's personal guards, and they had different statuses in the Qin army. However, no matter how arrogant they were, the most powerful among the Qin army was still Lao Qinying.

Even Sun Chuanting had to look up to and be courteous to Li Dewei, the old guard of the Qin camp, and seek his opinion before doing anything.

This is all related to Lantian who stood behind the old Qin camp. The Qin army has today's elite, and it is inseparable from Lantian. As Li Dewei said, they eat the county's honor, drink the county's honor, and spend other people's counties.

Your Majesty, it would be unreasonable for you to scold the county magistrate when the time comes, and it would be like being shameless.

The guards were scolded and retreated. Sun Chuanting sighed and looked at Li Dewei and said, "Come for a walk with me."

Li Dewei did not reply, but just followed Sun Chuanting. At this time, Sun Chuanting passed through the corridor of Xin'an County and saw wounded soldiers coming off the battlefield on both sides of the street. Every one of them was exhausted, and their bodies were riddled with holes.

Some even had broken arms and legs, which made them look extremely miserable.

At this time, everyone was holding hot porridge with thin soup and water in their hands, sipping it in small sips. Seeing Sun Chuanting coming, the wounded soldiers struggled to stand up: "Supervisor!"

Sun Chuanting looked at every soldier present, with a hint of shame on his face. They were all heroes of the Ming Dynasty. They had shed blood for the Ming Dynasty and made contributions to the Ming Dynasty, but today they can only defend the isolated city without reinforcements or rescue.

, there is only a cold city, and although there is still food, it cannot last long.

Moreover, the intruders have obviously made up their minds to break the Qin army. Each attack is more intense and more terrifying. This is the eighth time. All the gunpowder in the city is used up, and the ammunition and food are exhausted. What can they do!

Do we really want this city full of soldiers to be buried with this lonely city?

In the past, he felt that dying for the Ming Dynasty was worth it, but now Sun Chuanting was shaken. He was dedicated to serving the country, but Henan's 230,000 soldiers and horses were all watching from the sidelines. Who really cared about his own life and death.

The Ming Dynasty is rotten to the core. There is no need to save such a Ming Dynasty.

However, he had been living off the emperor's salary for more than twenty years, but he could not let go of the Ming Dynasty. Thinking about it, Sun Chuanting sighed and said: "The soldiers are lucky, they should not have their bones buried under this lonely city."

Li Dewei said from the side: "The Qin army is good, and those Hubei soldiers are also good."

After hearing this, Sun Chuanting sighed and said: "I have never asked you about your personal life for so long. Can you tell me the truth today? Who are you, Li Chaosheng?"

After hearing this, Li Dewei thought for a while and said: "According to seniority, the county elder is my clan uncle, and my grandfather and the county elder uncle Li Jinli are cousins."

After hearing this, Sun Chuanting smiled bitterly and said: "I should have known a long time ago. The word "chao" in your old Li family's layout is "de". Li Chaosheng is willing to send his nephew to me as my deputy. It's rare that he thinks highly of me."

Li Dewei heard this and said: "The county magistrate is still very optimistic about you, so sir, if you can't do something, don't insist on going your own way. If the Ming Dynasty is not good, can Lantian open the door to welcome you?"

Sun Chuanting waved his hands after hearing this and said: "How can we live up to the emperor's favor after eating the emperor's salary for twenty years? Moreover, after two hundred years of raising scholars in the Ming Dynasty, not a single person died for the country. Wouldn't it be sad if that were the case?"

"grown ups."

Sun Chuanting raised his hand to stop Li Dewei's next words, came to the front of the small courtyard where he lived and said: "Just wait in front of the door, I need to be quiet."

As Sun Chuanting spoke, he pushed open the door of the small courtyard. Inside, there was an old servant chopping firewood. When he saw Sun Chuanting coming back, he quickly went up to greet him and said, "Master, you are back."

Sun Chuanting looked at the old servant and nodded, "Bring me my new cloak. This old one is rotten."

"Ah, do you want to meet the enemy personally?"

Sun Chuanting smiled and said: "As a great Ming official, I naturally have to meet the enemy in person. You can get it."

"yes."

After the old servant left, Sun Chuanting returned to his study and saw five neatly arranged imperial edicts on the table.

He smiled bitterly and said: "Your Majesty, the Ming Dynasty has been corrupted to this point, and I have no way to save it. My grandson Chuanting can die for the country, but the Qin army in the city should not. They have fought for the Ming Dynasty for half their lives, and they should not die under this Xin'an City. The Ming Dynasty is

The Ming Dynasty with tens of thousands of people is not the Ming Dynasty with only one of our Qin army. The intruders surrounded me, trapped me, and attacked me. I appealed to the 230,000 Ming Dynasty troops around me for help, but no one responded. No one came from me. They all protected themselves wisely.

They all want to sit back and watch."

"Although I was appointed as the governor of Henan, I cannot mobilize any soldiers except the Qin Army under my command. The world cannot be supported by my Qin Army alone, nor can it be harmed by my Qin Army alone. Our Qin Army is now

We have suffered more than half the casualties, we have run out of ammunition and food, and there is nothing we can do to save ourselves. It is futile to continue."

"My heart is dead, but the Qin army cannot all die in Xin'an City. It's not fair, it's not fair. I have been living in the army for twenty-three years, stationed for the country for eight years, and experienced no less than a hundred battles, big and small.

It doesn’t count as meritorious service, but I have a clear conscience. But if I let the Qin army die under Xin’an City today, I would feel guilty and I couldn’t bear it!”

"So, Your Majesty, Sun Chuanting can die, but the Qin army cannot die. I want to keep this fire. They are all heroes. As for me, I will let the intruder cut his body apart."

As he spoke, Sun Chuanting kowtowed to the imperial edict. He raised his head and Sun Chuanting said sharply: "I, Sun Chuanting, are not afraid of battle, but only afraid of people's hearts. Your Majesty asked me to fight the intruders decisively. I dare not disobey. I will die on the battlefield."

Thank you Emperor!"

After saying this, Sun Chuanting stood up. Unlike Yang Sichang, he had nothing to say to Chongzhen. He didn't. All he wanted in his life was to have a clear conscience, and now he did it.

Sun Chuanting opened the door, and the old servant had already brought his newly made red cloak. He said it was new, but in fact it was not much new. This cloak was made by Sun Chuanting on his way from Shandong to Datong to take up his post. Unfortunately, Sun Chuanting had not been

He didn't want to change it, so he kept using his old one, saying that the old one had feelings. But now the tattered old cloak couldn't be used anymore, so he changed it to this new one.

"Put it on for me."

"yes."

The old servant responded and put on a new cloak for Sun Chuanting. Sun Chuanting was in high spirits. At this time, Sun Chuanting said: "Call Li Dewei."

"yes."

The old servant went out, and soon Li Dewei came in. He was stunned when he saw Sun Chuanting, because he found that Sun Chuanting's spirit was different from the first. Li Dewei looked at Sun Chuanting in surprise, and Sun Chuanting said with a smile: "Li Dewei,

This message is passed to my general, and the Qin Army will follow it as one unit. From now on, the gates of Xin'an City will be opened, and the Qin Army officers and soldiers can leave at will. I will not ask where they are going, and my grandson Chuan Ting will have nothing to do with it from now on..."

"Ah, Mr. Sun!"

"Go for it!"

Sun Chuanting sighed and waved his hand. Li Dewei wanted to say something else, but Sun Chuanting didn't want to speak anymore. Li Dewei looked at Sun Chuanting deeply, then clasped his fists and said: "I thank you for your life on behalf of the Qin army.

"

"You were able to live, but I have been blocking your way to live. If that's the case, I'm sorry for you. Okay, don't say this anymore, you can go on your own."

After hearing this, Li Dewei sighed and just turned around to the door. Sun Chuanting shouted: "Wait a minute!"

Li Dewei stood on the steps and turned around to look at Sun Chuanting. Sun Chuanting sighed and said: "Tell your county officials to be kind to the Qin army. They are all good men of the Ming Dynasty. Don't underestimate them."

Li Dewei frowned, opened his mouth, and finally sighed, turned around, cupped his hands and saluted, "Don't you dare disobey me?"

After saying that, he went out. Soon Sun Chuanting's order was spread to the army. In an instant, the whole army was boiling. Countless people were happy for Sun Chuanting's order, especially the soldiers who were extremely war-weary.

The normal mentality is to be war-weary. Xin'an County is now an isolated city, and they have blocked the intruders' eight attacks here, with more than half of the casualties, and the ordnance has been basically consumed. If they continue, they will have to use knives.

They can already imagine the tragedy that will follow. They don't want this. They want to live and don't want to hand over their lives to Xin'an County. In fact, they are not afraid of death. Death has been commonplace for them, but their fear of death is meaningless.

Meaning, out of the entire Henan army of 230,000, the Qin army was the only one serving the country.

The intruders had besieged the city for seven days and fought eight times. During this time, Sun Chuanting sent three letters asking for help. In the first two letters, this group of people even knew that they wanted to show their face. They said that their situation was not optimistic, and their military pay was insufficient.

Anyway, he pushed three, six, five, but did not send troops, and watched the intruders destroy himself and others.

How desperate it is to be alone and helpless. You can only watch your comrades around you fall down one by one and never stand up again. Moreover, one of them is dead and one is missing. How many people can understand that kind of despair?

What’s even more frightening is that you never know whether you will be the next one to fall. And the most frightening thing is that as long as you fall, no one will care about you. What does it mean that no one cares about you?

That means that after you die, there won’t even be anyone to pick up your tombstone. What’s even more frightening is that the court for which you worked so hard won’t recognize you, won’t pursue you, and maybe you won’t even appear in this life.

According to the imperial newspaper, he was as dead as an ant and was worthless.

Everyone is destined to die, and it may be heavier than Mount Tai or lighter than a feather. Dying for the country should be heavier than Mount Tai, but in the Ming Dynasty, he was lighter than a feather!

What's the point of dying like this? Is it to protect the rich food and clothing of the princes and ministers, or to solve the problem of not having enough food for my own family?

Our lives in the fight to kill Han people are worthless, but no matter how worthless they are, they are still lives, and they are not used as stepping stones for you princes and ministers.

No one is a fool. When someone finds that their life is worthless, they will resolutely become war-weary.

The reason why he didn't run away now is entirely because Sun Chuanting's prestige is supported here. If it weren't for Supervisor Sun's personal charm, who would be willing to leave his life under Xin'an City.

But now they couldn't sit still. They felt that their death was not worth it. They had been suppressing their emotions. But when Sun Chuanting issued the military order, all the soldiers' tight fists broke free.

At this moment all the suppressed emotions were released.

The soldiers cheered, and the gentry and common people in the city were secretly rejoicing. In fact, they had been frightened for a long time. When Li Chuang attacked the city, he shouted outside the city, saying that surrendering voluntarily would ensure the safety of the city. If the army breaks the city, no armor will be left.

If you are wise, you should quickly ask Sun Chuanting to surrender.

The gentry had all the courage to go, but when they saw Sun Chuanting covered in blood and with a black face, they were all frightened and fled back. At this time, when they heard that the soldiers in the city had given up resistance, they all couldn't help but burst into tears.

Well, finally, Sun Guanjia finally thought about it.

Okay, that's a great thing. Let's go down quickly and get all the treasures at home. Prepare to present them to King Chuang to ask for King Chuang's grace not to kill him.

For a time, the gentry rushed to tell each other that as for the ordinary people, it didn't matter. They were just playthings of power. They only needed to know how to cooperate. Acceptance was the fate of ordinary people. Those who could change their fate against the will of heaven were called protagonists.

Sun Chuanting listened carefully to the cheers in the city. When he heard the suppressed laughter, Sun Chuanting's face became even more bitter. It seemed that he had really harmed them!

I think these people will have a good place to go.

Sun Chuanting was thinking, then the old servant came over and said: "Master, please have a drink of tea."

Sun Chuanting looked at the old servant and said, "Sun Zhong, how long have you been with me?"

The old servant smiled and said: "Master, you have forgotten that I am a son of the Sun family. How old are you this year? I have known the master for that many years."
To be continued...