Chapter 568 Heroes Return
Apocalypse seven years, late November.

After the winter in Liaodong, it snowed heavily for several days, and thousands of miles of mountains and rivers were covered with snow.

On the wall of Yingzhou Weicheng, the guards of the Ming army in winter clothes and cloaks stared at the vast snow scene outside the city, their eyes were very alert and serious.

Inside the Arrow Tower, a few soldiers of the Ming army who had just come off from the city's shift gathered around the fire. The foreman's general banner handed over his wine bag to the brothers beside him, put his hands close to the campfire to keep warm, and said: A few days ago, Zizheng retreated strangely, I am afraid it is a fraud, everyone should cheer up when defending the city and patrolling on weekdays, so as not to lose one's life due to negligence."

"Understood, Boss Yan." Ming soldiers responded.

"Hey, you said that the Jurchen's calculations are good, as long as you wait for half a day, you can take away our luggage, why did you suddenly retreat?" someone said.

"It's not good to retreat. Are you happy that the Jurchen really snatched our supplies and made us hungry in winter?"

"That's not what I mean, I just think it's unreasonable."

"Maybe God opened his eyes to help us? The new emperor ascended the throne last month. Didn't everyone say that the fire dragon fell from the sky that day, and his luck was added to him? Is the new emperor the sage of Huode who revitalized Daming? He has been bullied by the Jurchens for so many years. , it's our turn to live a happy life!"

"Do you believe this too? It's just a trick to deceive a three-year-old child!" Someone said with disdain.

"I'm looking forward to the good or not to the bad, what do you know!"

Everyone warmed up by the fire while drinking, chatting and talking to each other, relaxing their tired bodies.

Suddenly, an exclamation sounded from the top of the city!
"There are cavalry in front, all the officers and men should immediately return to their posts at the top of the city to guard!"

Everyone in the Arrow Tower looked at each other in blank dismay.

The next moment, everyone jumped up, put on their helmets, took up their weapons, and walked towards the cold wind howling city, cursing.

Yan Zongqi came to the front of the female wall at the top of the city, and asked while looking towards the plain outside the city: "Where is the enemy?"

"Here, see for yourself." The guard pointed to the front.

In fact, needless to say, Yan Zongqi also saw the vague figures at the end of the snow-covered plain.Heavy snow fell, and his vision was severely obscured, making him unable to distinguish the specific identity of the visitor for a while.

Whether it is an enemy or a friend is unknown.

But under the current situation, the Ming army is basically defending the city, and most of the Jurchens who appear in the wild in the snowy day!
The soldiers in the Weicheng of Yingzhou all thought the same as him, so the news of the enemy's traces at the east gate was quickly spread throughout the city. A battle that could come at any time.

At the east gate, hundreds of heavily guarded soldiers of the Ming army watched the figures of the unknown cavalry slowly approaching in the heavy snow.

After a period of silent and tormented waiting, the cavalry had already entered the land of an arrow and stopped slowly.

"There are not many people, about a hundred or so." Yan Zongqi squinted his eyes and counted.

"Could this guy be the Jurchen's vanguard scout?" A hundred households next to him wondered.

"Look, there is a horse galloping towards us." A Ming soldier exclaimed.

"Crossbowmen pay attention!" Baihu shouted without turning his head.

The soldiers of the Ming army on the top of the city immediately stepped forward, aiming their arrows at the figure of the cavalryman.

Not long after, the cavalryman had arrived at the base of the city, and without the cover of the heavy snow, the Ming army at the head of the city finally saw the general appearance of the opponent clearly.He wears black armor on a black background, carrying a horse spear upside down, and the armor and cloak are all in the style of the Ming army.

"Who is coming, please report your name!" Before the general arrived, it was natural for Baihu to ask.

Zhang Jin took out a token from his waist, held it up, and replied loudly: "Zhang Jin, a hundred households of Jinyiwei! There is a token to prove it!"

Whoosh!One thing was thrown up, and it fell right in front of Baihu, but when Baihu picked it up, it was exactly as the other party said, but why did Jin Yiwei appear on the Liaoxi defense line?

"Zhang Baihu, who is behind you? Are they all from Jinyiwei?"

"No, like you, they are also soldiers of the Ming army guarding the Guan Ning Jin line of defense. I was ordered to leave the customs and now that the matter has been completed, I came back to report. After days of running and fleeing, the brothers are exhausted. Sir, please open the door and let us go in and rest, and drink some hot soup to warm our bodies."

"Do you have proof?" Baihu asked again, not daring to be careless.

"No!" Zhang Jin was a little helpless. He planned to send himself to death. Before he left the customs, he never considered that someone would come back alive. He didn't expect things to go so smoothly.

"Then we can't let you enter the city." Baihu flatly refused.

Who knows if these people are the spies of the Jurchens, even a Jinyiwei badge can't prove anything.Besides, even if the person below is really Jin Yiwei, Jin Yiwei's hand can't reach so far outside the pass.

"What's going on? Who's the person below?" Wei Ziji, the guard general of Yingzhou who hurried over, asked.

Baihu hurriedly reported the situation one by one.

After listening to the report, Wei Ziji looked at the Jinyiwei waist card in his hand, hesitated for a moment, and then raised his head and said loudly to Zhang Jin below: "Zhang Baihu can come in, but the other brothers have no certificates and no certificates, so they can only be wronged. The important task of defending the city is I'm still looking at Haihan!"

Of course Zhang Jin would not agree, so he replied: "For the sake of fighting for the imperial court against the Jurchen, I just want a mouthful of hot soup and warm food, and heal the wounds, so that I don't freeze to death in the wild, I hope the general is pitiful! "

His posture was very low, after all, the hundreds of brothers who escaped from the death behind him really couldn't hold on anymore.

"You dismount your horses and abandon your troops, and let me send people to be tied up in the city for custody. This is the only way to ensure safety! Are you willing?" Wei Ziji said after pondering for a long time.

Zhang Jin frowned, startled and angry in his heart, just about to refuse, but thinking of the brothers behind him, he could only hold back his anger, and replied: "I will go back to discuss with them, and I will reply to the general when I have a result."

After finishing speaking, he turned around and patted his horse back.

Back in the remnant cavalry team of the Ming army, Zhang Jin told everyone about the situation.

"My lord, in the past, I would never have been insulted like this! But today I endured it, and the injury on Li Wa'er's body won't last."

"Everyone fought desperately to enter Shengjing and slaughtered Jurchen Khan. With this credit, we must be rich and wealthy when we go back! So we must save our lives, and we can't just close our eyes without enjoying anything."

"That's right, Datou Wu is right!"

It is very humiliating to enter the city in this way, but as long as they can survive, there will be all kinds of glory waiting for them in the future.

Zhang Jin's gaze swept over the faces of this group of people one by one, showing tiredness, tenacity, optimism and a hint of longing for a better future.

He nodded: "Okay, then let's be wronged this time! When we return to the capital, I guarantee that all the brothers here will be rewarded generously!"

"With adults here, brothers all believe that this humiliation will not be in vain!"

"Let's go, go back and enjoy yourself!"

"Let's go, I was chased and killed by the Jurchen for three days and three nights in the freezing cold, and I finally got rid of it. My son, I will go to the city this time and I will have a good fucking sleep. I can tell you, I won't wake you up Don't call me anyone!"

"I'm afraid that you'll be woken up by fumes..."

"You motherfucker..."

"Ha ha!"

A group of ragged soldiers of the Ming army rode exhausted horses, giggling and walking slowly towards the gate of Yingzhouwei City.

The snow fell more and more, and it seemed that there was only a vast white scene left between the sky and the earth.

(End of this chapter)

Tap the screen to use advanced tools Tip: You can use left and right keyboard keys to browse between chapters.

You'll Also Like