In the woods on the mountainside a few miles west of Qingzhou City, Chang Yu was as hot as an Erha with his tongue hanging out and sweating profusely. He only knew that the late Ming Dynasty was in the Little Ice Age and the winter was extremely cold and freezing to death, but he did not expect that it would be like this in summer as well. It's hot. Although there are trees in the forest to provide shade, there is no wind and it's still extremely hot.
It was too hot. Chang Yu took off his clothes and leaned on a rock with his bare arms. There was a bucket of mountain spring water next to him. The feeling of heat had subsided a little. Li Muchian followed suit and took off almost all his clothes. He still had a good figure. Chang Yu looked a little surprised: "Master Fang, why do you have the body and muscles of a twenty-year-old but a face of a fifty-year-old?"
Poof, Li Muchian almost spat out a mouthful of old blood: "The factory boss said this, does Pindao look so young?" As he said this, he looked at Kuang Ren and other personal guards.
Everyone nodded vigorously: "Everyone is in their 60s."
Li Muxian rolled his eyes: "How is it possible that Pindao looks like he is only in his early thirties at most? To be honest, Pindao is only eighty-eight years old this year..." Before he finished speaking, everyone made a gagging gesture.
"I guess the Taoist priest did this on purpose, so that he would look like a child with white hair and a fair face, so that he could deceive the common people." Chen Suole grinned beside him and said. The few of them were influenced by Chang Yu and were not interested in Li Muxian's various pretense.
Chang Yu clapped his hands: "It makes sense, it makes sense... If you can't do things with a hairless mouth, you will be as young as Chunfeng. Who would believe that his power is boundless?"
Everyone laughed, and Li Muxian looked a little embarrassed. He raised his hand and pointed in the direction of Qingzhou City to change the topic: "Look at the many Tatars outside the west gate. Are they staring at us?"
Sure enough, it attracted everyone's attention and eyes. Dozens of Qing troops were loitering on both sides of the Nanyang River in the city. Some were enjoying the shade under the trees by the river, while others were wandering outside the mountain pass, obviously to keep an eye on the mountain. Horse thieves.
However, these Qing troops just wandered outside the mountain pass and did not dare to take a step into the mountain. After all, there were several horse thieves' whistles on the hills from time to time, showing their faces or raising their chins to stare or swearing and provoking a few words. This also made the Qing troops It made clear the warning given by the horse thieves to them: draw the land as a boundary, and the water in the well will not invade the water in the river.
Although the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty were not afraid of these horse thieves and thought they were so abominable that they wanted to kill them, they really couldn't agree with their general understanding. Firstly, it was more important to attack the city than to do more and to do less. Secondly, the horse thieves were entrenched in the mountains and it was difficult to suppress them, so why bother? Ming Ting's efforts are thankless.
So just keep an eye on him. As long as he doesn't cause trouble, we can still be friends.
"Mr. Factory, why don't we do it again!" Chen Suole was about to make a move. He was sleeping during the last shift. Chang Yu went out to assassinate the Qing army spies without taking him with him. He has always been brooding about it. He always felt that there was one less exciting thing in his life.
Chang Yu shook his head in denial. The Tatars were well prepared. Although a few dozen people could really defeat Yuan Wentian's hundreds of men, it would be easy to reveal their identities if they transferred the personal guards. There is no need to fight for dozens of people at this juncture. Tatar adventure.
"This may be the last peace before the Tatars attack the city." Li Muxian raised his head and looked at the scorching sun between the branches and leaves, his expression slightly solemn.
Chang Yu nodded slightly and hummed softly: "Quiet summer, the sky is full of stars...eh, it doesn't suit the occasion."
Li Muxian and others were stunned: "The factory owner can actually sing, and he sings beautifully. Who composed this tune with such a catchy melody?"
Um... Chang Yu scratched his head: "We have forgotten who composed the music, but we know that the original singer was Liang Jingru?"
Everyone was confused. They didn't know who Liang Jingru was. They even thought she was an oiran from a brothel or a famous actor from a certain opera troupe.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t know each other, Chang Yu joked: “As long as the song is good, come on, let’s sing a song to everyone about her courage...” He opened up his voice and started singing, which shocked everyone around him.
Su, the eunuch of Dongchang who has always been cruel and ruthless in killing people is still a literary and artistic person.
The "folk song" on the mountainside was so loud that the guards were dumbfounded and fascinated when they heard it. Three thousand Ming troops in the mountain col were enjoying the cool air in the mountain stream under the shade of trees to escape the summer heat. Yong Yong, a villager in the city of Qingzhou, stared thoughtfully at the Qing army camp outside the city.
In a daze, Zhu Youdi stared at the few green leaves in the teacup in Prince Heng's palace, motionless as if he had lost his soul.
In the Qing army camp in the north of the city, Dorgon stood under the tree outside the tent and looked at Qingzhou City under the scorching sun. He stroked his sweaty forehead and cursed in a low voice that the damn weather was much hotter than outside the customs.
In the village at the foot of Mingzu Mountain, Li Yan drank a bowl of cold water. Huang Degong and Zhou Yuji helped him change his medicine and checked his injuries. They joked: "If General Li can capture another Tatar general under Qingzhou City, it would be best to capture more of them."
If Ergon is captured, then the injury is worth it."
Li Yan laughed heartily: "Thanks to your good wishes, Dorgon will stay with you, so I won't have any more dreams. As for Duo Duo, I can catch the three brothers and let them get together in the capital."
Everyone burst out laughing.
The two armies were ready to move but were very restrained in enjoying this short and peaceful summer afternoon. They knew very clearly in their hearts that they would never be able to calm down again after today.
Happy times are always short-lived. In the woods halfway up the mountain, Chen Suole and other guards were gambling and chatting. Under an old locust tree not far away, Chang Yu and Li Muchian played chess and fought several times.
It was getting late, and the sky was getting late, seeing the sunset in the west and the glow filling the sky, and everyone's hearts were in high spirits. A scout came to report hurriedly, and the Tatars began to siege the city!
Chang Yu was slightly alarmed and asked his bodyguards to quickly go to the mountain col to order the soldiers to gather for battle. After a brief pause, he led Kuang Ren and other ten bodyguards to lurk from the woods along the hillside towards the northwest foot of the mountain. He wanted to do some reconnaissance nearby.
Zhou Yuji's expectation was still a little off. Although the speed of the soldiers was of little significance to the Qing army, they did not dare to wait to avoid long nights and dreams. After all, the Ming army still had tens of thousands of infantry who didn't know where they were, or were ambushing around them.
We are still on the way, but no matter what the possibility is, it is not good for us, so we must make a quick decision when we are fully prepared.
After finding out the details inside and outside the city, the Qing army rested for a long time. At this time, all kinds of equipment were almost ready. Dorgon ordered the siege of the city to prepare for the attack. Ten thousand troops marched from Beiyang River to block the Ming army reinforcements, and three thousand defenders
After the main camp, the rest were divided into four gates of Qingzhou and drove out thousands of cannon fodder.
The whole body was affected by a single move, and the Qing army camp in the north of the city moved. The first thing to notice was the guards in the north city. Jia Waixiong frowned, he finally came, so he sounded the alarm, and there was chaos in the city. The people were panicked, and the countryside was in panic.
Yong hurriedly rushed to the city. Even Song Luoyu, who was recovering from his injuries in the palace, ignored Zhu Yan's persuasion and ran toward the city: "I am the guard of the East City, and I should be with the city gate!"
"I hate that I'm not a man," Zhu Yan looked at Song Luoyu's back and whispered leisurely.
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The fight has begun, the fight has begun! In the next chapter, the siege of the city and the supply of military supplies begin!