He followed the memory of ten years ago to find this proof, and during the short time of the army's repair, he came to a temple in Huazhou City, and a few years ago, Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, also came to this temple.

Pushing open the temple door, a temple blessing came up inside.

Li Jin took a closer look, the temple wished that he didn't know him anymore, it was not an old man, looking around, the ancient trees in the temple were forested, and the martial saints in the hall were unable to release the scroll, holding the "Spring and Autumn Period" in one hand, and holding the Qinglong Yanyue Knife in the other.

He Miaozhu said a few words briefly, telling him that he was here to worship the martial saint, and Miaozhu saw that Li Jin was a general, and there were many soldiers standing outside the door, so he didn't dare to ask more.

Li Jin paced slowly, the people and scenes around him were ignored by him, but the face of the person he remembered all the time in his heart became clearer and clearer, and before Li Jin entered the hall, he was already in tears.

He stood in front of the hall and said to the martial saint in front of him in his heart: "Second Master Guan, I wanted to ask you this sentence a long time ago, my Li family rebelled for the sake of the people of the world, regardless of their lives, and destroyed the corrupt Ming Dynasty, I thought we were right, but why did I become like this in the end, but I became a courtier of the Ming Dynasty again?" ”

The martial saint didn't give him an answer, just silently looked at the volume of "Spring and Autumn" in his hand.

Li Jin asked the martial saint Guan Yu again: "Why does Second Master Guan keep reading books and not looking at me, is it because he doesn't want to pay attention to me?" ”

The martial saint's beard seemed to flutter, but his eyes were still looking at the volume of "Spring and Autumn".

Li Jin seems to understand something, after all, he has also read "Spring and Autumn", although the prevalence of the Spring and Autumn Period is domineering, but the soul figures such as Qi Huan Gong and Jin Wen Gong are all promoting the respect for the king, everything is based on morality, respecting the diligent king, and reprimanding the foreigners.

Li Jin felt that the martial saint seemed to be telling him that because of the reason, he had now become a courtier of the Ming Dynasty, which was the arrangement of fate, and it was fate that asked him to complete the word 'morality' that he had not yet completed, and give himself a satisfactory explanation of his life.

Although the way of heaven once handed over the important weapon of the country to Li Chuang's hands, but it was to make the world peaceful and the people of Li to be saved, but once King Chuang and the generals of the Great Shun Army were consumed by the desire for profit, the way of heaven would no longer be owned by him, and the way of the unrighteous would be helpless, which is the truth.

Li Jin silently came to the feet of the Martial Saint, and a knife in front of the shrine was placed horizontally in front of the Martial Saint.

That was when King Chuang in order to reverse the defeat, in front of the gods sacrificed to the martial saint of his own blade, the magic is that after sacrificing the portable sword, the Dashun army really turned the danger into safety, and turned defeat into victory.

Since then, this knife has been left here, except for Li Jin and Liu Zongmin, few people know that King Chuang's treasure knife is in this silent temple.

Looking at this knife that had been lying quietly for ten years for a long time, Li Jin suddenly raised his hand and pulled out the knife and turned around, and the sword light reflected a shocking rainbow in the hall.

Cang Langlang's golden and iron voice echoed, Han Mang was shining, Li Jin looked at the light and shadow of his face reflected by this old thing that had been reunited for a long time, and his blood-red eyes rarely showed a trace of warmth, "Old man, do you want to set foot on the battlefield again with me?" ”

Chuang Wang Dao didn't answer, it seemed to be a tacit acquiescence, Li Jin left with Chuang Wang Dao, the knife in his hand made him feel cold, and it also made him feel the heat, making his heartbeat intensify, and he felt that the knife was heavy.

Walking on the road, Li Jin couldn't help humming:

A fishing boat in his sea career, occasionally drowning in fame and fortune. Whoever sees the guest in Tutu has blue eyes, and there are several people in the country who are white-headed. The glow of the river is full of bright water stations, and the sound of cicadas hides the sunset in the city tower. How to not do this service, go east to Tongguan Yunmuqiu.

On the evening of April 12 in the fourth year of Yongli, Li Jin led a loyal battalion of 27,000 men and 120 artillery pieces to 15 places away from the west gate of Tongguan.

It's just that when the army just stopped and prepared to make a meal, it couldn't find its own commander, and there were still 2,000 elite soldiers in the army.

However, these horses were still led by Li Jin's righteous son Li Laiheng, who sent guerrilla sentries everywhere and gathered the people of various villages to block the news of the arrival of the army.

Because at this time, Pingyang Mansion in Shanxi, north of Tongguan, has been occupied by the righteous army, and the two ways to Zhuyang Pass and Lingbao to the east of Tongguan are in the hands of Wang Jincai of the Ming army, so as soon as Li Jin arrives to the west of Tongguan, Tongguan will be surrounded by the righteous army in the north, Wang Jincai in the east and south and Li Jin in the west, and Tongguan has become a Jedi.

After the loyal battalion arrived to the west of Tongguan, Li Jin sent his son Li Laiheng to set up secret posts in various places to intercept the Tanma in Xi'an and Tongguan.

As for the Qing army, long before the loss of Zhuyang Pass, the defenders there had already asked for help from the defenders of Tongguan, and the defenders of Tongguan only had 3,000 troops, and because they were worried that the Ming army or the righteous army in the Pingyang area of Shanxi would attack Tongguan through the Fengling crossing of the Yellow River north of Tongguan, so they did not send any reinforcements to the direction of Zhuyang Pass.

But the Qing army only had some regimental training in Zhuyang Pass, and even they themselves understood that Zhuyang Pass would definitely not be able to hold it.

Once Zhuyang Pass is lost, the Ming army will definitely kill from the mountain road of Zhuyang Pass to the south of Tongguan.

As long as the attacker is in the direction of Lingbao, Henan, east of Tongguan, it has always been a frontal attack from the east of Tongguan, and then launched a sneak attack to the south of Tongguan through the mountain road.

Even Little Japan once followed this offensive method to fight a Lingbao battle with the national army, but because of the different generations of apprentices and masters, they were defeated by strength, and the defeat was quite miserable, and they never set foot in Tongguan again.

After Wang Jincai occupied Zhuyang Pass, he had begun to advance to Tongguan, and the Ming army was pressed on all sides, how would the defenders of Tongguan deal with themselves?

Wang Jincai's appearance in Zhuyang Pass made the Tongguan defenders sincerely afraid, and the Qing army's Tongguan guard Tong Tou also made such adjustments and deployments specifically for the enemy situation east of Tongguan, and he shrank all the main forces into the Tongguan city, leaving only a small number of villagers on the periphery.

He also had 800 men to defend the eastern city, 600 to the northern city, 800 to the southern city, and only 300 to the western city, and 500 in reserve. and sent several times to Xi'an to ask for help. This plea for help was naturally unheard, because all the messengers he sent were intercepted and killed by Li Laiheng and Li Jin.

That night, many of the defenders on the head of the city of Tongguan West City were still asleep, and there were only six patrols in the city to patrol back and forth, and there was one person every 10 steps at the night guard of the battlements.

The east and south of Tongguan are mountainous, and the sun there naturally rises later than the sun elsewhere. The torches in the city were all extinguished, and it was already time for the rooster to crow, so some of the soldiers did not want to replace them.

(End of chapter)