Chapter 272: True Heroes
In front of the governor's yamen.
"The Great Khan Soldiers are here!"
In the continuous shouting from behind, Gao Hongzhong looked at the door of the dead corpse pillow with regret, and Zhang Shenwu, who was covered in blood, was still fighting bravely......
But it also looks exhausted.
Because of the absolute disadvantage in numbers, in the face of the continuous attacks from outside, this martial champion and his more than 200 men have fought to the end, and now many prisoners have climbed to the roof with ladders, and even climbed directly into it. And Zhang Shenwu and the last less than fifty remaining family members are guarding the gate, guarding this last line of defense with their lives, but for the city, the meaning of their battle is only to symbolize that it has not completely fallen.
Fighting has ceased in most parts of the city.
Liang Zhongshan broke through at the West Gate, Zhu Wanliang did not know where to go, other officials either fled from the city or committed suicide, and a small number chose to kneel to greet him.
This is still gratifying.
Because the wild boar skin market is not good, and the local officials are basically in the Guannei, so they would rather die to report to the king, after all, there is no need to involve their families, only a few local health officials because they don't have to worry about this problem, so they simply choose to surrender.
But in any case, with the shouting of the guy who shouted the news of the entry of the Sibeile army into the city, everyone in the city made their own choice, all the streets were full of gentry who came out to greet them, and the Ming army and officials who did not escape also chose to hide, and only Zhang Shenwu and these people were still resisting, but it was not Jiannu who fought with them, but a group of traitors and their henchmen.
But Gao Hongzhong's wish was also disappointed.
The reason why he fought so hard to attack this place was simply because there was a large amount of military pay in it.
Otherwise, he wouldn't be so desperate if he was idle, there were 500,000 taels of silver hoarded in the warehouse of this official office, and the little emperor originally allocated it to Xiong Tingbi, and after winning the Jiannu battle, he came back to reward the armies, because Yang Xin gave more and more silver, and the little emperor was still very generous in this regard. Gao Hongzhong just wanted to open this place and grab a wave first, anyway, he didn't know how many wild boar skins there were, he grabbed 300,000 here, and finally left 200,000 for the wild boar skins was enough.
But now......
"Quick, get down on your knees and greet you!"
He shouted as he looked back at the surging cavalry behind him.
Wu Shoujin and those cronies next to him immediately knelt down and greeted their imaginary Great Khan Heavenly Soldiers, who had fought until now, and finally cheapened the Great Khan.
Fortunately, the Great Khan could see their loyalty.
"Gao Hongzhong, a student member of Liaoyang Mansion, Wu Shoujin greeted the four beylers, greeted the Great Khan Heavenly Soldiers, and Yuan Yingtai, the governor of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty, did not know the Mandate of Heaven, resisted the Heavenly Soldiers, and asked the Heavenly Soldiers to punish him."
Gao Hongzhong lay there and shouted.
Then the torrent of cavalry arrived with the thunderous sound of horses' hooves, and then they reined in their horses, and in their bowing the two horsemen came forward from behind......
"Well, there's a big knife!"
A voice exploded above Gao Hongzhong's head like a thunderbolt from the sky.
He had heard this voice two years ago, and he had always remembered it because its owner was so special.
But he shouldn't be here!
Gao Hongzhong's cold sweat broke out instantly.
Then he looked up in disbelief and looked at a familiar face above his head.
"Back to Yang Yanshi, this is Wu Zhuangyuan Zhang Shenwu."
The face finally said the nightmarish name, and looked down at him with a smirk.
"You know him?"
Nightmare said.
Gao Hongzhong screamed like crazy, suddenly got up and jumped to the side.
Suddenly, there was a sound of breaking the air, and almost at the same time there was an extra arrow on his knee, Gao Hongzhong fell down with a scream, and then looked at the Great Khan Heavenly Soldier on the opposite side in amazement, a young rat tail looked at him with a smile, and almost at the same time the second arrow in this guy's hand shot out, accurately hitting his other knee. At this moment, Gao Hongzhong couldn't get up at all, he screamed in pain, crawling on the ground and still trying to hide in the darkness in front of him, although this was meaningless, but for him who had completely collapsed at this time, a little darkness seemed to be able to give him a little comfort.
Above him, however, the neighing of a war horse sounded.
Then a horse's hoof stomped heavily on his waist, and his lower body suddenly lost feeling.
And Wu Shoujin behind him was already paralyzed with fright, Wu Shoujin, who also knew Yang Xin and Qin Minping, collapsed on the ground like a worm, squirming and letting out a weird howl, and snot and tears flowed together, shouting that Gao Hongzhong forced him. As for the cronies of the two families and the few gentry who had come to join the attack, they all fled screaming and fleeing like a pack of ducks scattered by wild dogs, and the arrows in the hands of the Great Khan's soldiers who greeted them kept firing arrows.
These people are also constantly falling.
There are also Great Khan Heavenly Soldiers who directly dismounted, carrying a small garlic hammer and knocking on their knees.
"He was the original Sichuan Metropolitan Division, and he was a little reckless when dealing with the affairs of the luxury family, and finally provoked the luxury family to make trouble and was removed from office by the imperial court, and Governor Yuan asked him to serve to atone for his crimes."
Qin Minping said with a smile.
There was screaming all around them.
The captives who had originally attacked the governor's yamen were also scattered in terror, and then they were constantly shot down in the pursuit of the cavalry, while Zhang Shenwu, who was exhausted, stood in the middle of the gate with a knife and looked at them blankly.
"If the luxury family makes trouble, he will beat the luxury family, and punish him, won't he encourage the luxury family to make trouble whenever something happens?"
Yang Xin said speechlessly.
It is estimated that the rebellion of Extravagant Chongming showed the weakness of the imperial court from this incident.
While speaking, the two dismounted and walked over.
As for the chaos around them, they don't need to take care of it, Yang Xin has already ordered that these traitors and rebels who are making trouble in the city will be killed, even if they surrender, they will first break their knees, and then throw them aside to wait for him to deal with, these people will all have to be executed in the end, and Yang Xin is ready to kill them here. And he will faithfully carry out his orders, although it is indeed a bit strange to use the Jurchens to kill traitors, but it works, and he also gave these people strict orders not to rob the people, and he will have a reward alone when he returns.
With his prestige in Yehbe, that would be enough.
In fact, Yehebu was even more in awe of him than he was for Jin Taiji, after all, Yehebu had seen his combat effectiveness.
And there is also that Buddha to promote him.
Because of his temple building and offerings, the latter is repaying the favor for mythologizing him.
So now the legend that he is an Arhat has been widely spread in the grassland and Yehebu, because of seeing his combat effectiveness, Yehebu and Neikharkha are basically convinced, I have to say that these guys are too ignorant and backward, and Yang Yanshi resolutely refuses to admit this. However, he can't stop these rumors, and then he is ready to continue to build the temple, thinking that his Arhat golden body will continue to be solid, and the rumors that the Ming Emperor has the blessing of the Buddha will also become known in the grasslands and mountains and forests.
This is good for the stability of grasslands and mountain forests.
In front of the gate of the governor's yamen where the corpses were piled up, Zhang Shenwu looked at them staggeringly, it seemed that it was a little difficult to even stand firmly, although he was indeed brave, but after all, it was different from Yang Xin's open-mindedness, but even so he was still blocked in front of the door, ready to fight to defend this gate at any time.
He didn't know Yang Xin.
But he knew Qin Minping.
Before, he was the Sichuan Dusi, and he inevitably dealt with Shizhu Tusi.
This was also the reason why the soldiers behind him did not attack, but the weapons in the latter's hands were still pointed at Yang Xin and the others.
In the silence, Yang Xin walked up to him.
"Wu Zhuangyuan?"
Yang Xin walked up to him and said.
The latter looked at him vigilantly, staggering with his broadsword, while the forty or so bloodied men behind him staggered equally exhausted.
"Give me your knife?"
Yang Xin said.
As he spoke, he held up a tooth tag.
"I am the governor of the Houjun Governor's Mansion, and I am also in charge of Yang Xin, the Fusi of Beizhen!"
He said.
Zhang Shenwu's body trembled, and he slowly handed the knife to him.
"I also use a big knife, but it's much heavier than yours, you can rest, there are no Jiannu here, only the white pole soldiers of me and General Qin, as for the back, these are Yehe cavalry."
Yang Xin said.
Zhang Shenwu looked at him, raised his hand and pointed at him to say something, but suddenly fell backwards......
"Quick, help them all aside, they are all true heroes of the Ming Dynasty!"
Yang Xin watched him fall among the dead bodies, and then beckoned to the white pole soldiers who followed behind.
These are real heroes, originally in history they fell before they arrived in Liaoyang, and then Zhang Shenwu took more than 200 people to resolutely face the fleeing Ming army and continued to move forward, trying to gather the rout and turn back to fight to the death with Jiannu, but unfortunately those rout soldiers ignored them at all. In the end, this small team of only more than 200 people crossed the Liao River alone, and launched a decisive charge against the pursuing Jiannu army, and then all but 14 people were wounded and all were killed.
Those white-pole soldiers immediately stepped forward and lifted Zhang Shenwu aside.
The latter was just exhausted, after all, they had been fighting until now, and it was easy to suddenly know that they didn't have to fight anymore. Of course, it is also possible to be stimulated, but Yang Xin does not think so.
The remnants of the soldiers were also pushed aside.
They sat blankly on the ground, holding the jugs and dried meat handed to them by the white-pole soldiers, looking at the people in front of them who they didn't understand.
Yang Xin stepped into the blood-stained door, and then entered the second gate.
There are also dead bodies everywhere within the second gate, and the rebels who came in over the wall and Zhang Shenwu's subordinates also fought here, and even Yang Xin was still fighting when he entered, and they already had an advantage, but the accompanying white pole soldiers immediately stepped forward and stabbed those rebels to death.
And Yang Xin and Qin Minping didn't care about this, they walked straight to the lobby with dead bodies everywhere.
"Anyway, why didn't I see Governor Yuan show up!"
Yang Xin said suspiciously.
As he spoke, he pushed open the closed lobby door......
"Huh?"
He looked at the figure in front of him in amazement.