Daming: From the end of Hongwu

Chapter 291 289-There are always people shining in this world
In May, the Yan army began to storm Dezhou City. Zhen Wu, Zhang Yu, Zhu Neng and other generals took turns to fight, and all kinds of siege equipment also greeted Dezhou City.

The fierceness of the offensive made the defenders of Dezhou city even more frightened.

After Li Jinglong defended tenaciously for a few days, seeing that the soldiers did not break their hearts with the city, he knew that Dezhou City would not be able to hold it. Naturally, Li Jinglong was not polite.

But at this moment, Jinan City seems a little out of place in the entire situation of the great defeat. Not only did the city gather [-] to [-] defeated troops, but the fighting spirit of the soldiers was also stimulated. Yan Jun actually put on an appearance of putting his life on the line.

All these changes, all because of one person.

Shandong participates in politics Tie Xuan!

Tie Xuan is a scholar, a pure scholar. Not only does he not know how to fight, he has never even fought fiercely with others. People like him are the front line of the battlefield in the eyes of others, because he Seeing the scene of bloody massacre on the battlefield, not only will you be timid, but you will also involuntarily feel the unique compassion of a scholar.

But these factors are not enough to prevent him from becoming a capable official.

When Li Jinglong's army confronted Zhu Di in the Baigou River before, he was responsible for supervising the transportation of grain and grass for the army. Never worry about food and grass.

But these excellent logistical work cannot change the outcome of the war.

The 60 army led by Li Jinglong was still defeated.

The defeat was extremely thorough, as if a building collapsed suddenly.

When the overwhelming defeated army fled for their lives in panic all day long, when Zhu Di was invincible all the way with a great victory, when the castles he knew were disintegrated and surrendered one by one, when countless generals in the army had already accepted the defeat.

He decided to stand up.

Tie Xuan began to collect and integrate the defeated army all the way, and patiently comforted the defeated army's emotions, helping them raise their fighting spirit to fight again.

He said: "If you go to Jinan, you must go to Jinan."

Because Jinan cannot be lost!
Once Jinan is lost, it will be difficult for the imperial court to eliminate the Yan army, and if Zhu Di occupies Jinan, he can draw the river to rule if he retreats, and threaten Huai'an if he advances.

Huai'an is no less important to Nanjing than Zhuozhou is to Beiping, and its importance is self-evident.

Tie Xuan took the defeated army collected all the way and headed towards Jinan.

On the way, he was lucky enough to meet Gao Wei who was expelled from Beiping City. The two of them had known each other before, and now they met again in the midst of the chaos of war. Naturally, he was overjoyed. The two of them had a long talk that day. , chatting until night, when they talked about the current situation, they couldn't help crying.

But after crying, the two told each other their loyalty, cheered each other up, and cheered up again.

When the country is in turmoil, someone always needs to come out to turn the tide, even if in the end he is unable to do so, he will serve the country with his own body.

In the middle of the night, they whispered something in unison.

"If you can't bring yourself back to heaven, then serve the country with your own body."

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When they returned to Jinan City with these remnants of defeated soldiers, they immediately began to prepare for the next defense. They first calmed down the panicked people in the city, and then contacted Sheng Yong, the military general stationed in Jinan City. .

Sheng Yong originally intended to stick to Jinan City, and he was overjoyed when he heard that the two scholars decided to defend the city with him.

Afterwards, the three hit it off, and each performed their duties to create a different atmosphere for Jinan City.

That is at this time.

I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing for them.

Jinan City, your general is back.

After Li Jinglong gave up Dezhou, he ran all the way to Jinan City.

When he saw the weather in Jinan City, he was overjoyed at first, and then frowned. When he saw Tie Xuan and Sheng Yong, he heard that the three were enthusiastically planning to gather another [-] troops for Li Jinglong , Let him fight Zhu Di again, Li Jinglong was stunned on the spot.

No, no, no.

Still fighting?
More than 8 people are honestly not difficult to gather. Li Jinglong came all the way from Dezhou, and many generals came with remnants of the army. He already has [-] to [-] people, plus the soldiers and horses of Dezhou City, and more than [-] people. Come out, no problem.

Li Jinglong looked at the excited expressions of the three people in front of him, he couldn't bear to let them down, and he didn't want to admit that he was afraid of Zhu Di. After thinking about it, he said, "Then fight again?"

Sheng Yong said firmly: "Fight, we must fight, Yan's army is only less than 20, why can't we fight?"

His voice was unusually loud.

It's just that he hasn't realized that their dazzling brilliance is covered by Li Jinglong's rag. Only when this rag is lifted can they shine with a light that amazes the world.

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Texas city.

Zhu Di looked at the city that had repeatedly garrisoned and attacked him with heavy troops, and now he stepped on it. He was very ambitious for a while, which made him proud. After Zhu Di was proud for a while, his eyes suddenly caught sight of "Leading the horse for him" Ji Gang.

He thought, now that he has occupied Texas, why can't he accept scholars? !Besides, with Ji Gang, will the second one be far behind? !

After all, his subordinates cannot always be a bunch of stinky mounds.

It's time for him to learn from his father and gather some brains.

Thinking of this, Zhu Di asked Ji Gang, "Is there any great Confucianism with great intelligence or reputation near Dezhou City?"

Ji Gang was originally a person from the neighborhood, and he was a scholar who naturally knew this, so he bent down and replied: "His Royal Highness, as far as I know from my humble position, the great Confucianist near Dezhou City must belong to the Jiyang Jiaoyu King Province. Good, it is reported that the Taizu personally took the exam in the early years, and he was full of praise, but this person was a little arrogant, and he didn't want the ups and downs of the official career, but only wanted to go back to his hometown to teach, and the Taizu let him be his teacher. Wang Xing already has peaches and plums in the world."

Almost all the scholars in Shandong know about these things, and they can be found out by just checking.

Ji Gang naturally did not dare to hide anything.

Zhu Di became interested: "Sounds really good, so, you go to lead a team, go to Jiyang and invite this person to me, I want to meet this person in person."

Ji Gang was taken aback for a moment, he didn't expect the opportunity to lead the army to do business so quickly, he quickly knelt down and thanked En to accept the order.

Zhu Di waved his hand to send Ji Gang away, and then he called Zhen Wu and others to discuss how to march next.

All the generals were a little excited when they gathered together, chattering loudly that they wanted to attack Jinan City.

indeed.

For the sake of the war, Jinan City must fight if it does not fight.

The victory of Jinan City is too important. As long as Jinan City is taken down, they can rely on the Yellow River to occupy the entire Hebei region. However, if there is no Jinan City, like the Dezhou City they occupy now, they will have to spit it out sooner or later, and they may even have to retreat in the end. Go back to Beiping Mansion.

Without the Yellow River, how can we stop the imperial court's heavy troops!

It's not that they have many soldiers, enough to occupy every captured city.

So at this moment, all the generals are eyeing Jinan City.

It's just that Zhen Wu's heart is not so relaxed at this moment.

Jinan City is not easy to fight.

Moreover, Zhen Wu remembered the history. If the history didn't change, they would eventually return without success. Zhen Wu didn't want to bear this kind of result, but what exactly should they do to change the history and capture Jinan City? !
Zhen Wu thought about it seriously.

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On the other side, after Ji Gang led the people, he headed towards Jiyang County in a majestic manner. It was the first time he felt this way. With an order, more than 30 soldiers behind him responded to Yun Cong. He is extraordinarily obsessed.

Even this power only depends on Zhu Di's promise.

A group of them rushed to Jiyang County. At this moment, Jiyang County has been patronized by Zhu Neng's vanguard. The person in charge of the county has either surrendered Zhu Di, or has fled to the south. No one dares to stop Ji Gang and his party. Yan Jun.

Ji Gang found Wang Sheng's house, waved his hand, and let the soldiers rush into Wang Sheng's house, and tried to tie him up neatly to see Zhu Di, but he didn't expect that not long after, all the soldiers were scolded out in despair.

A soldier cupped his fists and said bitterly to Ji Gang: "That old guy scolded people so hard, and he made it clear that he didn't cooperate. Although we wanted to be rough, we were afraid of hurting that old guy. When the time comes, we will be scolded in front of His Highness. Brother Ji What do you think we should do now?"

What this soldier said actually wanted Ji Gang to promise that he would bear all the consequences.

But Ji Gang is not stupid, he probably knows Zhu Di's purpose of meeting Wang Sheng, and he is not willing to take a good job, so the last point is not lost.

He thought for a while and said: "Well, you guys follow me in, and I'll persuade him."

Afterwards, Ji Gang dismounted from his horse, and led his soldiers into Wang Sheng's house again aggressively.

The only few servants in Wang Xing's family held sticks in their own hands and glared at Ji Gang and the others, but Ji Gang and the others didn't care, and even pressed the servants back again and again.

But when Ji Gang saw Wang Xing who was sitting firmly like a mountain in the middle hall, his aura stagnated inexplicably.

Although Wang Xing has a gray beard, he can sit on the high chair without swaying, his eyes are piercing, like bright and clear stars, which makes the aura emanating from him no less than that of Ji Gang and others. Not only that, the aura Zhong seems to have a sense of integrity that is invulnerable to all evil than Ji Gang and others.

It's not surprising that such a righteous appearance can make the soldiers look miserable.

Ji Gang looked at the person in front of him who could be a high-ranking official but didn't want to be a high-ranking official. He only wanted to teach people to read and persuade them to read. A touch of shame also rose in his heart. Forgot about it, and then gave a junior salute to Wang Xing.

"Student Ji Gang met Wang Jiaoyu."

Wang Sheng's expression showed a trace of surprise: "Scholar?"

Ji Gang didn't answer, but his expression also expressed that he was a scholar.

The corners of Wang Sheng's mouth twitched. Being a good teacher, he wanted to speak a few words of preaching, but he thought of his current situation, and thought that Ji Gang in front of him was not his student either. He opened his mouth a few times, and finally held back the preaching words. , turned into a sentence: "What happened?"

"His Royal Highness King Yan wants to see Wang Jiaoyu, so please invite Wang Jiaoyu and his party." Ji Gang said.

Wang Xing looked at Ji Gang twice, he didn't disdain, but the disappointment in his eyes became more and more intense, which made Ji Gang feel an inexplicable anger in his heart, he had seen this kind of disappointed eyes too much since childhood, Relatively speaking, he would rather Wang Sheng yell at him.

But Wang Xing didn't say any bad words, he just said lightly: "Your teacher has neglected his duty."

These words made Ji Gang secretly clenched his fists.

From childhood to adulthood, how could any of his teachers blame themselves? !On the contrary, he wished that everyone in the world would know that his Ji Gang was indestructible, lest his Ji Gang affect their teaching standards.

But it doesn't matter.

Even if Ji Gang is a weed, it will spread wildly and grow bright flowers.

Ji Gang took a deep breath, and said with some admiration: "In the past, I heard Gao Xianning said that his teacher is high-minded and upright, and he has always set an example. Seeing it now, Wang Jiaoyu's rumors are indeed true."

"You know Gao Xianning?" Wang Sheng was a little surprised again.

Gao Xianning is one of his few favorite students.

Ji Gang nodded: "I was fortunate enough to be a classmate with Brother Xianning in Jinan. Although I was expelled from the school later, I still have correspondence with Brother Xianning. He is one of the few friends of Ji Gang. I also read it. Neutralizing his friendship is even higher than my life."

Speaking of this, Ji Gang paused for a while and persuaded: "So, please Wang Jiaoyu, for the sake of Xianning, come with me, and after meeting His Royal Highness King Yan, no matter what the outcome is, I, Ji Gang, swear to the heavens that I will risk my life to guarantee it." I won't let Xianning's teacher have an accident, and I ask Wang Jiaoyu not to embarrass the students."

He wanted to achieve his goal through Gao Xianning, a person both of them were familiar with.

And in his consciousness, there would be no danger for Wang Xing to meet Zhu Di, and Zhu Di was not small enough to care about a scholar.

Zhu Di, who provoked the most, just gave him an angry reprimand.

So, what is there not to do in Wang Xing?

But he didn't know that for Wang Xing, even if he just went to see Zhu Di, it would still be an unbearable stain on his life under this current situation.

Wang Xing let out a sigh, and looked at Ji Gang. He has taught all his life, and he thinks his eyes are vicious, so he can see the firmness in Ji Gang's expression. If there is no accident, Ji Gang will definitely take him to see Zhu Di today.

Afterwards, Wang Xing looked at the soldiers behind him who were still smelling of blood, and then he raised his head and closed his eyes, thinking about something for a while. After a long time, he finally opened his eyes and said lightly : "I have taught all my life, and I have never made it difficult for a student, and I don't want to make it difficult for you today. How about you let me call the students and let me teach the students another class. How about we talk about other things?"

Ji Gang was overjoyed, he didn't expect Wang Xing to be so easy, and he nodded in agreement.

The place where Wang Sheng teaches is called Minglun Hall. He personally beat the drums in front of the school. After hearing this, his students in Jiyang County ran towards Minglun Hall without fear of danger.

After all the students gathered, Wang Xing drove the soldiers out of the door, his eyes swept over the students, and finally landed on Ji Gang.

He said with a smile: "Under such circumstances, the old students have heard the drums, which is enough to make the old proud."

Ji Gang was also quite moved when he saw this scene, and leaned over to express his admiration.

But at this moment, Wang Xing didn't pay attention to Ji Gang any more, he had already stood facing the students, and when he spoke, he asked with some sadness in his tone, "Do you know why this place is called Minglun Hall?"

The students answered in a hurry.

"Because sir wants us to understand the principles of ethics."

Wang Xing nodded: "That's right, the heaven and the earth are orderly, everything has an order, and only when you understand the principles of ethics can you act in a normal way. But now the king of Yan is raising troops to cause disasters, ignoring the flesh and blood of the monarch and his ministers, regardless of the disasters of the people all over Hebei, and the current emperor is also Don't talk about the feelings of uncles and nephews, a large-scale crusade against nephews, and even Dezhou, and the officials of the cities and ponds in Hejian are looking forward to the swallows and surrendering. Where did you go?"

While talking, Wang Xing's eyes shed sad tears, as if he was completely disappointed in the people in this world.

Some of the students were still young, although they didn't quite understand why Wang Xing was sad, but seeing the teacher crying so pitifully, they all burst into tears for a while.

Wang Xing tried his best to suppress his tears, looked around at the students again, and continued: "The teacher called you here today because he is afraid that you will be affected by this world, and the teacher is afraid that you will become people who disregard ethics in the future, so, The teacher is using his life today to help you erect the spirit of loyalty in the scholar's heart."

As soon as these words fell, Ji Gang felt bad in his heart.

But he didn't have time to stop him, Wang Xing had exhausted all his strength, and bumped his head against the pillar in the school.

Blood spilled out from Wang Sheng's forehead, congealing his high hopes for the future.

Ji Gang's heart was shaken, but the next moment he suddenly yelled in his heart that it's not good, Wang Xing died like this, what about his errands?What should Zhu Di think of him? !
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At the same time, Wang Jing, the wife of Zhou Qifeng, the head secretary of Jimo County, suddenly sat up from the hospital bed, and Zhou Qifeng hurried over to care for her.

"What's wrong? Are you having nightmares again? Don't worry too much. Although the Yan army broke through Dezhou, Yue Zhang may not have any accidents. You see, you are so frightened that you lie down on the hospital bed Come on, why are you still unwilling to be a little relieved, besides, Yue Zhang is always a great Confucian of the generation, and if he declares it outside, the King of Yan will definitely not take Yue Zhang's life."

Wang Jing shook her head and covered her mouth, the tears in her eyes had already flowed out, covering her entire palm in a short while.

As a daughter, how could she not know her father's temperament.

She choked up and said, "Husband, let's send a few more people to Jiyang to investigate. I'm afraid that something bad happened to my father, and I want to send some more people there."

"Okay, okay, don't worry, I'll send some people there right now, and then invite father-in-law back and stay with us for a while longer."

Wang Jing was like a helpless person, tightly holding on to her husband's sleeve and refusing to let go.

a few days later.

When Wang Jing waited for the men and horses who came back from Jiyang, apart from the original team, there was only one more corpse in the car.

Wang Sheng's body.

As a daughter, Wang Jing suddenly burst into tears.

She had already guessed the ending.

For her, the most painful thing in the world is knowing the ending but not being able to change anything.

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