Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 35 Entering the Xuan Mansion

"A few weird Ming troops? What's so weird?" Hou Shilu turned around, looked at the messenger, and asked in doubt.

The messenger said: "My lord, there are three Ming soldiers and a woman with them. They are also pulling a cart."

"Three Ming soldiers, a woman, and a big cart? This is quite weird, but why bother me with such a trivial matter? Find out their identities, and if they are correct, just throw them away. Just send him away. If the identity is incorrect, just kill him. Don't bother me with such trivial matters in the future." Hou Shilu frowned.

Hearing Hou Shilu's words, the messenger did not leave directly, but remained there with hesitation on his face.

"Are you still leaving?" Hou Shilu said impatiently.

"My lord, the cart they are pulling is full of heads, and they are all the heads of Tartars." The orderly said hesitantly.

"What's the matter with all the heads of Tartars? Hurry up and let them..."

"What? It's all the heads of Tartars? Can you see clearly?" Hou Shilu was shocked, and suddenly thought of the news he had received from the captives.

The captives said that they were defeated by the three Ming soldiers.But now, three Ming soldiers suddenly came from outside the city of Xuanfu, and they were also pulling a cart full of Tartar heads.How can this not shock Hou Shilu?

"Where are they now?" Hou Shilu took a deep breath and said in a deep voice.

"My lord, they're still outside the city. They couldn't match the password, so we didn't let them in."

"Okay, stop talking, take me with you." Hou Shilu said.

Half a quarter of an hour later, Hou Shilu came to the city wall.

He looked outside the city wall and saw three Ming soldiers wearing red mandarin duck battle jackets pulling a large cart and parked outside the moat.Behind them followed a woman holding a jar.

Hou Shilu squinted his eyes and looked at the cart carefully.

Hou Shilu was startled, and said to himself: "Sure enough, the cart is full of tartar heads."

Hou Shilu pointed at those Zhao Wen and others, frowned and said, "But them?"

"My lord, it's them."

"Speak to them and ask who they are," Hou Shilu said.

The messenger standing behind him cleared his throat, took a deep breath, and said, "Where are you from? Which department are you from? What are you going to do in Xuanfu Town?"

Hearing the voice coming from the Xuanfu city wall, Zhao Wen turned his head and said to Zhao Daniu, "Tell them that we are the soldiers of the beacon tower outside the Dushikou Pass, and that we are here to reward Xuanfu."

"Obey!" Zhao Daniu walked to the front, his dantian sank, and he said loudly: "We are the beacon soldiers outside the Dushikou pass, who came to Xuanfu to receive the reward. You open the city gate quickly, we want to go in."

Hou Shilu looked at Zhao Wen and the others below, and said in a low voice: "Dushikou? This Dushikou is more than 200 miles away from Xuanfu Town. What are they doing here? Besides, you should go to Dushikou North Road to receive the reward. I went to Dushi Maying, why did I come here? Is it possible that these three people are really the three people that the Tartars said?"

"Ask again, ask them what their names are, and why they went to the Xuan Mansion to receive the reward." Hou Shilu said in a deep voice.

"Master Zongbing asks you, what are your names, why did you go to the Xuanfu to receive the reward, why don't you go to Dushimaying on the North Road?"

Zhao Wen looked at Hou Shilu at the top of the city, and thought to himself: "There are so many things here, why don't you let us enter the city quickly and block us at the gate of the city? What do you want to do? Are we still thieves?"

"My lord, what should I say now?" Zhao Daniu looked at Zhao Wen.

Zhao Wen squeezed his chin, thought for a while, and said, "Just explain to them why we are here."

"Yes!"

Zhao Daniu pointed at the city wall again, and said loudly: "My name is Zhao Daniu, this is Zhao Wen, and his name is Song Hu. We came to Xuan Mansion to receive a reward, and we also came to pass on urgent military information."

"Zhao Daniu? Song Hu? Is there such a person in Dushikou?" Hou Shilu frowned.

"Master Hui Zongbing, there are indeed these two people in Dushikou." A personal guard behind Hou Shilu approached Hou Shilu's ear and whispered.

Hou Shilu turned his head, looked at the guard, and asked, "How do you know?"

"These two people participated in the Battle of Salhu with Beizhi before, and Beizhi had a relationship with them once."

"Then let's see if they are the two you mentioned." Hou Shilu pointed at Zhao Daniu and said.

The guard walked to the edge of the city wall, rubbed his eyes, and looked at Zhao Daniu, "Master Hui, it's them."

"Can you see clearly?"

"Hizhi guarantees with his head that they are the two I mentioned."

"Okay, then let them in. Pay attention, if there is anything wrong with them, just shoot me arrows immediately." Hou Shilu said coldly.

Although the few Ming soldiers wearing mandarin duck battle jackets in front of them were probably the three men mentioned by the Tartar captives, Hou Shilu didn't dare to gamble.

What if these three are spies of the Tartars?What if their purpose is to fraudulently open the city gate?
As the commander-in-chief of a town, Hou Shilu had to guard against it.

"crunch~"

The city gate opened slowly, and the suspension bridge over the moat was slowly lowered.

Zhao Wen looked at the open gate, waved his hand, and said, "Enter the city!"

Zhao Daniu hurried to the front of the cart, grabbed the shaft with both hands, groaned, and pulled the cart forward.

Song Hu ran to the back of the cart, exerted all his strength, and pushed behind.

Li Xiaoying looked nervous, and followed Zhao Wen closely, for fear that Zhao Wen would leave her and run away alone.

……

"Close the gate!"

Just after Zhao Wen and others walked into the city gate of Xuanfu, Hou Shilu stood on the top of the city and shouted.

"crunch~"

With a tooth-piercing sound, the gate of Xuanfu Town was slammed shut again.

Zhao Wen and others were blocked in Wengcheng.

"What do you mean?" Zhao Wen looked coldly at Hou Shilu on the top of the wall, and put his hands on his waist.

Standing on the top of the city, Hou Shilu looked at Zhao Wen and others in Wengcheng, and suddenly a bold idea came to his mind.

If you kill all these people in front of you, grab all the heads of the Tartars in their hands.Then I used the Spring and Autumn brushwork to write a memorial to ask for credit from the court, saying that I wiped out all the Tartars who had entered the territory of the Xuanfu.
Hou Shilu looked at the heads of the tartars on the cart, and his heart almost jumped out of his throat.

There are so many Tartar heads piled on such a large car, it is estimated that there are hundreds of them.

With so many heads, this is an unprecedented victory.

You must know that since the middle period of Wanli, the Ming army has rarely captured so many Tartar heads.Even Li Chengliang, who raised Nurhachi as a slave back then, could not have captured so many Tartar heads in one battle.

Normally, even beheading a dozen heads of Tartars would be considered a great victory.Not to mention the hundreds of heads now.There are hundreds of Tartar heads in front of his eyes, as long as he moves his hands, they are all his own.

This is hundreds of heads, maybe they can be sealed directly with so many heads.

When Hou Shilu thought of this, a fiery light burst out of his eyes.He looked greedily at the head on the cart.

(End of this chapter)