The smoke of gunpowder filled the sky, and the routed soldiers on the city head fell like fallen leaves, and the surging killing intent rolled in the city head.

"The emperor has given us a meaningful offensive target!" Li Jin said lightly, and several lieutenants beside him listened to him silently.

"Maybe his intention is to let our Dashun army and the military households in Tongguan reconcile for the great cause of restoring vision, right?"

"General, why do you think the emperor thinks so?"

Li Jin smiled, "Hehe, the emperor is so good at military strategy, how can he not know the importance of Tongguan and the Tongguan military households in our battle to recover Shaanxi?"

Sun Chuanting's second and third battles with our Dashun army in the Tongguan battle, the reason why he was able to quickly organize a team from scratch and fight us again and again was because of the Ming military households who had lived in this Tongguan city for more than 200 years.

The importance of Datong is mainly relative to the Gyeonggi region, and whoever finally obtains Tongguan between our army and Dolgon will be able to gain the initiative in the northwest. What's more, if we take Tongguan, we will add at least one or two thousand well-trained elite soldiers to the army. ”

Yuan Zongdi, the deputy general next to him, listened to Li Jin's words and said with emotion, "Yes, the general's words are very reasonable, the military households in Tongguan have always been the biggest enemies of our Dashun army, when Sun Chuanting fought with our Dashun army in Tongguan for the third time, in the case that Sun Chuanting has disappeared, our army has broken through the Nanshui Pass, the South Gate and the East Gate in turn, it can be said that Tongguan has been declared broken, but the Tongguan military households are still spontaneously engaged in street battles with our army, making desperate resistance. ”

The lieutenant's eyes were a little confused, and his gaze drifted through the city to the distant memory.

"That battle, the tragedy is no less than the battle of Ningwuguan, the streets and alleys, the city and the city, everywhere are corpses and mountains of blood, our army has suffered countless casualties due to the desperate resistance of the soldiers and civilians in Tongguan, but the last general still still doesn't understand why they didn't even want their lives back then, and they didn't fight to the death with us to the end?"

The adjutant general frowned, and a wry smile hung on the corner of Li Jin's mouth, "Because they are loyal and brave, they would rather die than surrender, they are for their duty as a military household and a soldier for generations."

It is also because we must admit that the military discipline of the Dashun Army was corrupt, and the military families needed to use their lives to protect the land under their feet and the wives and daughters behind them. ”

Several people remembered the bloody battle of that year, after Sun Chuanting died in battle, the Tongguan military households were leaderless, and many military households died in battle, and they did not even leave a name. The old records of Tongguan and the inscriptions commemorating this battle only engrave the memory of the following people:

The commander of the Tongguan East City Guard, Li Jizu, fought with the rebels until dusk, and died under the sword, and his helmet was torn.

Zhang Eryou, the commander of Sun Chuanting's dismissal, led his family to guard the south gate, but was besieged by the rebels, was shot dozens of times, and fell from his horse and died.

The prison guards who were also in Nancheng were besieged in the street battle and finally killed themselves.

Yuan Hualong, a thousand households, died fighting for the West Gate.

Hundred households Yin Junji died in battle......

The lives of more ordinary military families who died in Tongguan may only exist in the residual memories of their children, and the shadow of their lives may only exist in front of their homes and in the eternal waiting of their mothers at the mouth of the alley, and no one will commemorate and mourn them again.

"Our Dashun army is really going the wrong way." Li Jin said abruptly, "We have killed too many people, and in the end we don't take human life seriously, and after the power bursts, we wantonly abuse our power and the knife in our hands, rob money, and rob women, and when we still think that we are the embodiment of justice, the people of the Central Plains, Northwest China, and Gyeonggi Region have long regarded us as devils." ”

Li Jin sighed, and said slowly: "But Chongzhen is also at fault, he is mean and unkind, he doesn't care about the life or death of the people, and he doesn't treat loyal ministers and righteous people as people." Do you know that after the loss of Tongguan, there is also a saying that Sun Chuanting, who was surrounded by our army at that time, was afraid of death and escaped in the battle of Tongguan.

Then because his body was not found after the war, the descendants of Inspector Sun did not receive Chongzhen's reward. I don't want to talk about whether Sun Chuanting died in battle, I want to talk about the reward he deserved. Perhaps as his nemesis, I would be redundant, but I still have to say it. ”

Saying these words, even Li Jin himself laughed self-deprecatingly, "Hehe, no matter whether Sun Chuanting's final defeat needs to be forgiven by Chongzhen, those who have meritorious deeds should be rewarded, shouldn't they?"

If it weren't for Chongzhen's repeated urging, it would be impossible for Chuanting to defeat Tongguan, to be honest, our Dashun army couldn't beat him at all, and couldn't beat the Qin soldiers under his command! But Chongzhen, who was extremely stupid, did not realize his mistake at this time, and he did not blame himself for the defeat of the court.

And for this Sun Inspector who killed King Gao Yingxiang, he didn't even give an explanation in the end, and not having a reward is equivalent to not acknowledging any past merits of the court, which is Chongzhen. ”

"General Zheng is right! In addition to Sun Chuanting, there was also Lu Xiangsheng who killed King Gao Yingxiang, but Lu Xiangsheng was defeated and died in the battle of Julu, and he also had such an experience.

It's just that Lu Xiangsheng and his Tianxiong army we can't beat even more, he was surrounded by several times the Manchurian cavalry, and died bravely, even my Yuan Zongdi has to say that he is heroic, although we were once the Great Shun Army, but after all, we are all Han people, Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting are indeed Han heroes.

And Lu Xiangsheng's death in battle was because of his conflict with Yang Sichang, so he couldn't get a single reinforcement. After his death, due to Yang Sichang's obstruction, it was not until Yang Sichang himself committed suicide in fear of defeat that Chongzhen gave Lu Xiangsheng the posthumous title of 'loyal martyr'.

Chongzhen, this person, it's really interesting, whether Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting are really wrong, but the dead are great, not to mention that they have all fought loyally for you and for the Ming Dynasty? And they are all martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the country, why should you deprive them of everything because of your likes and dislikes? Are you really qualified to be deprived? ”

Several people watched the scuffle in the city, and while waiting for the fighter plane, they chatted about the past.

Let's call him Li Jin instead of Li Guo, after all, Li Guo has never committed a mistake, and the name is just a symbol.

Li Jin participated in the first three battles of Tongguan, and he was one of the eighteen horsemen who fled to Shangluo Mountain after the defeat of Nanyuan in the first time.

Li Jin at the time of the Third Battle of Tongguan was the commander of the main attack force in this battle, and the east gate of Tongguan was broken by filling the moat at that time.

And the guard general of the Ming army's Dongcheng, the commander Li Jizu, was killed by Li Guo, who was called 'a tiger'.

(End of chapter)