Ten miles out of Jinzhou, there was no more cavalry or soldiers of the Ming army on the official road, and there were not even any civilians. There was only Shi Dayong's cobbled-together rescue team.
Behind them, there were more than a dozen cavalry following them from a distance. Judging from their armor, they were cavalry from the Liaodong Army.
Guo Yi asked Shi Dayong strangely: "General, why are those people always following us?"
Shi Dayong glanced back, turned around and smiled: "It's okay, they are going back to report the funeral for us." [
"Announce a funeral?" Guo Yi sighed with a look of dismay on his face: "Damn it, the devil wants them to announce a funeral!"
"Why are you scolding others?"
Shi Dayong said solemnly: "When a person dies, there must be someone to report the funeral. Otherwise, no one knows whether we are dead or alive. People leave a name when they are alive, and they also have to listen to the news when they die, right? There is no need to curse.
Family, they have good intentions, it’s better than being dead and no one knows about it. Let’s be more open-minded, who told us that we had a narrow escape this time.”
Hearing this, Guo Yi curled his lips and said no more.
………
After a few more miles, the atmosphere began to become more and more tense, and the speed of the team also slowed down significantly.
Liu Zeyi and Wang An are both guards. There are old and weak in the team. The oldest ones are in their fifties. The calluses on their hands look like they were ground with a hoe, not a knife or a gun.
The younger one was probably only thirteen or fourteen years old, and his body was very thin. He was carrying a rusty musket and followed behind the adult tremblingly. There was vaguely visible fear in his eyes.
Xia Desheng was concerned about the safety of his old boss. Seeing that the guards were walking too slowly, he couldn't help but be a little anxious. He galloped up behind Shi Dayong, clasped his fists and said, "General, those guards are walking too slowly. At this speed, when will they arrive at the big army?"
Linghe! I will go and hurry them up!"
"Need not."
Shi Dayong waved his hand, indicating that Xia Desheng did not need to rush him. He turned around and gave a few instructions to Guo Yi. After hearing this, Guo Yi hurriedly hit his horse and ran back.
Not long after, Liu Zeyi, Wang An, Ge Qing, Zheng Guo and other military commanders rushed to the front one after another. The more than two hundred guest soldiers came from Yulin, Shaanxi Province. They were led by a pair of brothers. The two brothers belong to a hundred households.
A general flag.
The two brothers' surname is Wu. According to the custom in their hometown, the eldest brother is called Da Lang, and the second brother is called Erlang. Because they have the same name as the characters in the Water Margin story, the two brothers are often laughed at.
The Wu brothers, like the more than two hundred fellow villagers they brought with them, have been forgotten. No one remembers where they came from and why they stayed in this foreign land.
It has been ten years since the first year of the Apocalypse in Liaodong. In the past ten years, many things have happened. At that time, more than 10,000 people came to Liaodong, but now there are only more than two hundred people left, and the others have been turned into bones and buried
In this black soil. We came together but returned differently. You can imagine the pain in the hearts of the Wu brothers.
In Liaodong, the guest soldiers are basically Genzhiping, let alone the more than two hundred remnant soldiers.
It has been ten years. I was in my early twenties back then, but now I am in my thirties.
Watching other people get married and have children, get promoted and make a fortune, but you are living a cowardly life, with no one caring about you, no one asking you, just living in a small house, and now you have to be dragged out to die, this is so heartbreaking.
Even more uncomfortable.
However, these ten years are considered a lot of life. Thinking of those brothers who died in the war, the Wu brothers couldn't help but feel that they should have died long ago.
………[
"After Jiannu laid siege to the city, he sent scout cavalry to drive away our army's scouting horses. They didn't know what was going on there. The people from Jimingyi had already withdrawn. They must have been occupied by Jiannu now. Let's move forward.
Within a few miles, we might run into Jiannu, so everyone should be prepared."
The person who spoke was Qiu Hejia's personal guard captain Zheng Guo. This man was a bodyguard in his early years. Later Qiu Hejia was brought to the court by the local people. Because he was under guard, someone introduced him to Qiu Hejia. Since then, he has been following Qiu Hejia.
During the war, he once climbed the city together with the officers and soldiers and made great achievements.
After listening to his words, Shi Dayong nodded and said: "We have not seen a single soldier from the Ming Dynasty along the way, which means that the front has long been occupied by Jiannu. If nothing else, we will probably fight against Jiannu at Jimingyi. Can we fight against Jiannu?
If you can't go back alive, it depends on whether you have the courage."
Ge Qinghu, the guard of the regiment, said: "General, I heard from the people in the governor's office that the slave chief Hong Tai personally led the troops this time. There are tens of thousands of people. With our small number of people, can we really save Dalinghe?"
When he asked, everyone else immediately looked at Shi Dayong.
Shi Dayong smiled, looked at the middle-aged man, and asked, "Why, are you afraid?"
Ge Qing was sincere and said without any secret: "Come back to General, I am afraid of you." He pointed at the team behind him and said, "More than 2,000 people are going to fight against tens of thousands of cavalry. General, aren't you afraid?"
Shi Dayong did not answer him, but turned his attention to Liu Zeyi, Wang An and the others, and asked: "Are you also as afraid of Jian Nu as Ge Shou Bei?"
"this…"
Wang An hesitated for a while, then gritted his teeth and said: "If the general really asks the general, the general will not be afraid of the general's jokes. The general's heart will be beating so hard at this moment that he can't wait to turn around and go back."
"What about you?" Shi Dayong turned to Liu Zeyi.
Liu Zeyi's head drooped involuntarily, and he whispered: "The general is also afraid."
"Um."
Shi Dayong did not ask the Wu brothers again, but said directly to them: "Then you two are afraid, right?"
Hearing this, Wu Dalang moved his mouth and was about to speak, but heard Shi Dayong say again: "Actually, I am just as scared as you are! There are tens of thousands of Eight Banners soldiers in front of us, and we only have so few people. If we really want to rush forward,
I’m just afraid that I’ll die without even a scum!”
Hearing this, Li Yizhong couldn't help but ask: "Since the general is also afraid, why did he take the order to send help?"
Shi Dayong sighed and spread his hands helplessly: "In this world, there are many things that we cannot decide on." After a pause, he suddenly laughed again and said loudly: "But since we are here, we are all here.
We are on the same boat, you might as well be more open-minded and accompany me to this dragon's nest and tiger's den! If we can't live together, we can die together, right?"
Liu Zeyi smiled bitterly: "The general is not afraid of death, and we are naturally not afraid of death. The general is afraid of death, and we are also afraid of death. But if the general advances, we will not retreat. If the general retreats, we will naturally not advance.
"
Before he finished speaking, he saw the cavalry in front of him commotion. He looked up and saw rows of golden cavalry suddenly appeared three miles away. Judging from the color of the flags, they seemed to be the blue and red flags of Jiannu.
"General, Jiannu is indeed waiting for us here. General, this will open a bloody path for the entire army!"
Xia Desheng devoted himself to rescuing his old boss, so he drew his sword and wanted to lead his troops into the battle.
I didn't want to but was stopped by Shi Dayong: "Mr. Xia Qian, please wait a moment!"[
"General?"
Xia Desheng was puzzled on his horse. This time, he and Li Yizhong, the 500 cavalrymen, were the only ones who could take the lead and open a bloody path for the entire army. The Jiannu defense line had not yet been fully assembled. Zhenglan and Xianghong were
There is a gap in the flag. If you don’t rush it now, when will you wait?
Shi Dayong ignored Xia Desheng's puzzled gaze and suddenly said to Wu Dalang: "Wu Baihu, I heard that you are from Shaanxi?"
Wu Dalang was startled for a moment and replied: "General, I am from Shaanxi in my humble position and in my subordinates."
Shi Dayong said "hmm" and nodded: "I heard that people in Shaanxi have a sound called Xintianyou, and the roar is so heart-wrenching. My sergeant is feeling depressed right now, but I don't know if Wu Baihu can call Xintianyou.
Can you also sing a song for our soldiers to boost their morale?"
"Since you are from Shaanxi, how can you not know the songs from your hometown!" Wu Dalang said loudly, "The general does not think that the humble position is rough, how can he give up on the humble position!" He twisted and shouted to his brother Erlang: "Second brother, it is rare that the general can look up to the songs of our Shaanxi people.
We brothers are going all out today and roaring for a while in front of the two military formations!"
"Hey, hit!"
Wu Erlang nodded solemnly, opened his voice and sang. His voice was extremely vicissitudes of life, and it was loud and clear. The sound wandered in the sky, flowed in the ditches and streams, echoed in the mountains, and floated in people's ears.
……………
Just as they were preparing to welcome the Ming army on the opposite side, they suddenly stopped and did not set up a formation. Instead, someone suddenly sang a song. Azig couldn't help but be puzzled, and turned to ask Mang Gurtai beside him:
"Third brother, what the hell is the Ming army doing? What kind of song is this?"
Mang Gurtai had already understood clearly and said with a smile: "Ming is timid and wants to cheer people up with this song. It seems that Ming general also understands people's hearts. It's just that he only has two thousand people who dare to go out of the city to rescue. This
It’s too courageous.”
After listening to a few more words, he waved his hand impatiently and said to Azig: "Old Twelve, this battle will be left to you to put up the red flag. Brother, I will go to the Khan King."
"Third brother, don't worry. With just this Ming army, I can devour them all with just one Niu Lu!"
Azig was full of confidence. After Mang Gurtai led his men to the Khan King's tent, he began to arrange his troops. He must annihilate all the Ming reinforcements so that Jinzhou City would not dare to send reinforcements again.
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"It's a big mountain, the lamp is missing... The hero on the battlefield is sweating, but the corpse is still wrapped in horse leather"
After singing the song "Xin Tian You", the Wu brothers still had more to say. After listening to this heroic Qin Yin, the Ming army's previous fear of war gradually faded away.
Xia Desheng was eager to fight. Seeing that the Marquis of Fire was almost there, he asked for orders again: "General, it's time, go ahead!"
Ge Qing, Liu Zeyi, and Zheng Guo were also ready to charge into the battle. As soon as Shi Dayong gave the order, they led their troops to break into Jiannu's defense line, following closely behind the cavalry.
Unexpectedly, Shi Dayong slowly raised his hand, stared at the Jin army in the distance for a moment, and then spat out a few words from his mouth unhurriedly: "Send the order, the entire army retreats, let's go back!"