On the sixth day of the seventh month, on this day, the atmosphere in Jiangyin City seemed a little solemn, and the soldiers standing outside the gate with spears in their hands at the city gate were all dressed in filial piety clothes without exception.

"What's going on?"

As soon as he entered Jiangyin with his front foot, Li Yuchun felt the solemnity in the air, and there were few pedestrians on the street, and most of the shops on both sides of the street had door panels.

Where have all the people gone?

Just when this thought popped up in Li Yuchun's heart, he saw that some people were heading towards a place, and some were wearing white filial piety clothes.

"Where are they going?"

Following their footsteps, they passed a street corner, and Li Yuchun saw that the street was full of people, and many of them were wearing linen and filial piety.

Is this the Temple of Literature?

Although Jiangyin is not Li Yuchun's hometown, he is no stranger to Jiangyin, after all, many of his friends are Jiangyin people, but most of them died in the city more than ten years ago.

"Old man, why are you here?"

Walking up to an old man, Li Yuchun asked softly.

"Don't talk!"

The old man turned his head and glared at Li Yuchun, as if to blame him, standing beside the stone bar on the side of the road, Li Yuchun finally saw that the street and the open space in front of the street were crowded with people, and in front of the Temple of Literature, thousands of soldiers with spears stood among them.

Although he couldn't see what was going on there, Li Yuchun could still feel the solemnity in the air, perhaps due to the influence of the environment, his expression became solemn and solemn.

In front of Minglun Hall, Zhu Mingzhong, who was wearing a military general's official uniform, tied a white cloth on his head, held cigarette incense, and placed three animals and melons and fruits on the altar in front of him, and on the altar in addition to the tablets of Yan Yingyuan, Chen Mingyu, and Feng Houdun, there was also a huge tablet in the rear - "Jiangyin Yimin Chief Divine Seat".

After silently offering incense to worship the three princes of the Qing Dynasty and the chief god of the righteous people, Zhu Mingzhong took the sacrificial text written by Wu Youliang and read it aloud.

"Yi You, in the first year of Hongguang in the Ming Dynasty, Yan Yingyuan, the general of Jiangyin, 100,000 people in Jiangyin, rejected the Qing army of 240,000, and guarded the lonely city for 81 days. The city was broken, the captives were slaughtered, the old and the young all fought to the death, and no one surrendered. Woohoo, alas, fierce! ……”

The sound of the sacrifice reverberated in the air, at this time the Jiangyin Confucian Temple, no, it should be said that it is in front of the Jiangyin Martyrs' Shrine, the atmosphere is very solemn, originally this is the Confucian Temple, and now, here is the Martyrs' Temple.

In that struggle, Minglun Hall was chosen as the command post of the rebels, and all the facilities of the temple school were subordinated to the needs of the military battle; After the city was broken, the Qing army slaughtered the city for three days, only 53 people survived in the city, except for the building of the temple hall and the remnants of the Minglun Hall, the rest were all a pile of rubble.

Although seven years ago, the Temple of Literature was renovated, but in the previous fire, it was also damaged, after Wu Youliang was invited by Zhu Mingzhong to belong to the county of Jiangyin, he did not rebuild the Temple of Literature, but set up the "Martyrs' Shrine" here, but according to his original idea, it was to set up the "Jiangyin Righteous Ancestral Hall" here.

This is what he called a "bad idea", which is used to attract the hearts of the people, and it is used to attract the hearts of the people in Jiangyin. On that day, Wu Youliang's suggestion was naturally adopted by Zhu Mingzhong, and he knew very well that after 131 years of defending the city in Yiyou, the Manchu Qing Dynasty acted with Huairou and gave the three princes of Jiangyin to resist the Qing Dynasty - Yan Yingyuan, Chen Mingyu, and Feng Houdun respectively "Loyalty", "Martyrdom", and "Temperance", so as to win the hearts of the people of Jiangyin, and even make the people of Jiangyin grateful to Qianlong.

And now compared with them, Zhu Mingzhong has raised Jiangyin to an unparalleled position, in addition to changing the Confucian Temple to "Loyal Martyrs' Shrine" and enshrined in the ancestral hall of Jiangyin Yimin General Shrine and the Three Princes of the Qing Dynasty, Zhu Mingzhong praised Jiangyin as "the state of loyalty and righteousness", and Wu Liangyou asked someone to engrave the four characters of "the state of loyalty and righteousness" written by Zhu Mingzhong in the stone, each word is two feet square, embedded in the south gate city wall. The people of Jiangyin who entered and exited the south gate saw these four powerful words, and they all felt a little proud. For a time, the hearts of the people of Jiangyin were all received by Zhu Mingzhong.

And today is the day when everyone worships the three princes of the Qing Dynasty and the righteous people of Jiangyin at the Martyrs' Shrine, and for this day, Zhu Mingzhong has spent a few days preparing for this matter. Looking back at the 8,000 soldiers standing in front of him with guns, they were wearing red military uniforms.

The red military uniforms on their bodies are not the military uniforms of this era, but Zhu Mingzhong borrowed the military uniforms of the "lobster soldiers" in the late 19th century, with red tops and black military pants. It looks very powerful.

Today is not only to worship the righteous people of Jiangyin, but also the day when this army is formed. Looking at the 8,000 soldiers who had been training for more than ten days, Zhu Mingzhong shouted in a solemn voice.

"I'm a Ming Loyal Battalion of 8,000 soldiers, and I swear to stop!"

When his words fell, the 8,000 soldiers who were now accustomed to the neat orders in the later army immediately swore in unison.

Daming Loyalty!

It was at this time that they knew their identity, they were a member of the "Ming Loyalty Battalion", and when Yiyou defended the city, Jiangyin Yimin also had this identity.

"I'm a Ming Loyal Battalion of 8,000 soldiers, and I swear to stop!"

Suddenly, a deafening roar came from the front of the Temple of Literature, which only made Li Yuchun's heart tremble suddenly, and then he heard the oath that continued to come from there, and the oath issued by thousands of people at the same time almost reached the point of shaking the earth.

"After this formation of the army, the soldiers of my loyal battalion will fight to the end and will never swerving...... Win the battle and return triumphantly; If you can't win the battle, you are determined to wrap your body to return the ......"

The thunderous oath kept colliding with Li Yuchun, only to shake his heart, so that he couldn't calm down for a long time, Li Yuchun, who was standing on the side of the street, didn't even know when the people dispersed, and after the people dispersed, he was in a trance and saw a red tong in the middle of the clearing, only to see the eight thousand loyal battalion seats, standing in line in the open space facing the martyrs' shrine. Most of them had only a spear in their hands, and they wore no armor, except for a strange red garment. But they all raised their heads and chests, and their bodies were as straight as javelins!

Just when Li Yuchun looked at this team as tall as a pine and cypress in surprise, a loud cheer suddenly sounded.

"Backwards...... Turn! ”

With the sound of the password, in an instant, with a sound of "tom ......", the eight thousand people turned to the rear in an instant, and the team did not see the slightest mess, it was still a neat square team, and the scene in front of him completely subverted his understanding, so that he kept muttering.

"This, how can this be ......"

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