At the time of Shen, the sky was still covered with clouds, and on the mountain road in the wilderness of Liaodong, the Ming soldiers of the brigade were marching south. I'll go

Many of them looked a little frightened, their armor still stained with blood, and their expressions were tired and nervous. Hours had passed since the terrible battle, and they were out of the fight, but no one could forget the terrible sight of having just escaped from the evil sorcery.

Most of them didn't know what was going on, and the officials were not obligated to tell them. All they know is that they came to the mouth of an unknown barren valley, and fought with a group of pigtailed soldiers who suddenly appeared, and then countless ghosts and wild ghosts that emerged from the ground attacked them.

Now they just want to stay away from that hellish place and never go back.

Li Guangrong and Wang Xuan also walked in the ranks, and the flag-bearers next to them helped them carry two tattered military flags, showing the position of the commander-in-chief of the troops. They had to go back on their feet like everyone else, because they had lost all their horses. Of course, the Jurchen Tartars are similar.

The two of them still have palpitations in their hearts, and it is really God's blessing to be able to pick up a life this time.

The combined force of the two men originally numbered more than 1,500 people, but now it is less than a third. More than 300 people were killed and wounded in the battle with the pigtails, and none of them were seriously wounded, and they were all thrown on the battlefield. They didn't have the strength to take these people back, because they didn't have horses, they couldn't pull carts, and they were left to fend for themselves. The lightly wounded and their companions barely marched with each other's arms, and the bulky chariots and artillery were abandoned, which only affected the speed.

Now that the Jurchens are in a big way, they may encounter the second battle in the first battle, and if the speed cannot be guaranteed, if someone catches them after them, it will be too late to run.

Of course, in addition to these people, there are about a hundred people who have become unconscious living dead. It was as if their souls had really been sucked out, and although they were still breathing, their body functions were still there, but they wanted to sleep to death, no matter how much they screamed and shouted, nothing happened, and even a knife in their legs didn't hurt them.

They are like they have lost all their spiritual sensory functions, Wang Xuan and Li Guangrong don't know how to describe it, it is really like a person has lost his soul, and what lies on the ground is only a living shell.

From time to time, they turned their heads to look at the man who followed them, who was also said to be a colleague in the army, but he was on an errand at Qinghe Fort. He carried with him a woman, covered in blood, with a cloak that looked like a madwoman. And that Gonggong Li was inseparable from him, and the other two Jinyi guards sent by Lord Jinglu were also following him, and this person seemed to be an important person. But no one knows what the important Fa is, and they are not qualified to know.

At this time, they just want to hurry up and end this inexplicable military operation and return to Huiyuan Fort immediately.

In this battle, they discarded almost all of their heavy weapons, which would undoubtedly greatly weaken the city defenses of Hoi An Fort. They had to go back immediately to adjust the arrangement, and Wang Xuan's remaining 300 people didn't have to go back to Puhesuo, anyway, it was useless for these men and horses to go back, and it would be worse if they were robbed and killed along the way.

Of course, there were still some gains in this battle, and they brought back the heads of the more than 200 Jurchen soldiers who were the Red Banner by the way. There are also some black-clothed Jurchen soldiers whose heads are also used for combat exploits. The losses in this battle were so heavy that it was impossible to say anything that was weighty and returned to the business.

What is the origin of this kid named Yue Xiang? Li Guangrong cursed in his heart, and glared back at him angrily.

Of course, Yue Xiang felt that unfriendly gaze, in fact, this gaze was constantly exerting pressure on him from all directions, no one was a fool, and many people noticed the particularity of his identity. Keep in mind that many people were talking to each other, and the soldiers who were limping with blood on their faces were watching him from time to time.

That's it...... We are here to fight to get this man out......

So many people died for him alone......

Although Yue Xiang was not a psychic or could not read minds, he could clearly hear the dissatisfaction in the hearts of these people. In fact, he will also complain a little if he is replaced, although the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty now shout that they are loyal to the monarch and defend the country, but in fact they have not even seen what the emperor looks like, and they don't even know where Beijing is, the emperor's court is just a distant and strange symbol with only symbolic meaning, so of course it can't be a stubborn person who is loyal to the monarch.

As far as Yue Xiang observed, about 60 percent of the people in the army came for that ration, to put it bluntly, just to feed their stomachs, and it would be in vain to expect them to understand some so-called loyalty.

Since they are soldiers for food, you can imagine how difficult it is to expect them to do something extraordinary. Especially in a place like Liaodong, where there are families of military bandits, both generals and soldiers are full of banditry, and it is even more difficult to do. Of course, the officials can be suppressed by orders, and they dare not have any open disobedience, but secretly dissatisfied is absolutely indispensable.

This is normal, and Yue Xiang will also complain if he changes his position. Everyone's lives are given by their parents, they all grew up eating salty salt, and no one's life is blown by the wind. Why send people to death for the sake of irrelevant people? What is the meaning of such an inexplicable battle? It's just a few more deaths. If someone else's life is worth something, isn't your own life worth anything?

Yue Xiang completely understood the thoughts of these people, and even he himself didn't expect that these thousands of people were here for himself. Of course, he also knew why, the husband was not guilty, he was guilty, and Lord Yang Hao of the Ming Dynasty Liaodong Jingluo wanted to see him.

But that's not what he's thinking about now, and after this series of battles, he has brought out a lot of situations that he couldn't have imagined before. The evil art of the Smelling Fragrance Sect is so powerful and weird that it is simply not a human method. Although most of the people returned to normal, in the end, more than 200 Jurchens and Ming soldiers were turned into vegetative people, and although they did not lose their lives, they were not much worse.

What would be the effect of this sorcery if it were to be performed in a highly populated place like the one in the city of Beijing? Yue Xiang couldn't think about it. The Wenxiang Sect, a famous cult that ignited the flames of civil strife in the late Ming Dynasty in history, is indeed extraordinary. I didn't expect that in addition to Xu Hongru, there would be such a powerful character.

I used to know the history of the suppression of the Wenxiang Sect after the uprising. However, what is recorded in the history books is very simple, giving people the illusion that the turmoil of the Wenxiang Sect was not on a large scale, at least compared with the later Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, and Zhang Xianzhong. But now that I see this actual situation, I realize that it is not like that at all.

Which one of the people in Chinese history who dared to rise up was stupid? Moreover, there are many talents in the Wenxiang Sect, and they have been arranging it since more than 20 years ago, which shows that they have far-sightedness. If such an organization does not move, it will inevitably shake the earth. Besides, there are terrible evil arts to help, the Ming army's fire cannons can deal with humans, but can they also exert their combat effectiveness against these evil arts? Yue Xiang was skeptical.

Later, when Wenxiang raised the army, did he also use such power? Yue Xiang felt that the answer was yes, there was no reason why they should not use such a powerful force. But it is also true that the Ming army suppressed them. What did they rely on to suppress them? What did they rely on to fight this magic?

The answer is no.

Maybe I could have gotten some information from the mouths of Li Guoyong and Wang Haoxian, but unexpectedly, the two fled. Xiao Wan's knife did not kill Li Guoyong, but only seriously injured him, after all, he is not a person who practices martial arts, and his level is limited. Wang Haoxian, on the other hand, dragged his half-dead junior brother, snatched a horse, and fled before everyone was completely freed from the influence of evil magic.

By the time everyone had recovered from their original state, the shadows of the two had already run away. No one bothered to chase them, because there was still the enemy in front of them. The Jurchens also recovered, but after two incidents, most of them had no desire to continue fighting, and they all wanted to leave the place cursed by the ghosts as soon as possible.

Moreover, most of the war horses were also finished just now, and the Jurchens who lost their war horses were even more weakened by three points, and their leader Mang Ergutai was also in a bad state. So when the two sides confronted each other for a while, the Jurchens took the lead in simply cleaning up the battlefield and turned around and left, and the Ming army also had a tacit understanding that they did not chase after them.

No one wants to continue to fight the dead. So a headless encounter ended dramatically, leaving only hundreds of corpses, of course, this wilderness battlefield does not know how long it will be discovered, maybe by the time people find here, the corpses have already been gnawed by the beasts everywhere and only bones remain.

In addition, Yue Xiang cared about Xiao Wan, no one expected that she would save thousands of lives present. He felt sorry for her knife, if he had changed himself, Li Guoyong's little white face would have been halved long ago. What he saw in his eyes from this small character was the arrogance and cold-bloodedness of treating human life like a mustard, he could kill thousands of people with evil magic without blinking, this kid was definitely a dangerous person, if he didn't die, he would definitely seek revenge on himself in the future.

But why Xiao Wan was not affected by that evil art, Yue Xiang thought that it had something to do with her strange-shaped jade pendant that opened the door to the treasure. He had long suspected that this thing was not extraordinary, because he could feel that indescribable extraordinary feeling, especially the moment he opened the mechanism, he felt something hidden in it.

Maybe it's this kind of thing that protects Xiaowan...... Yue Xiang didn't know much about this matter, but the brocade guard known as the Dark Dragon said that Xiao Wan's jade pendant was a rare Yin jade, and it was estimated that there were hundreds of thousands of years of antiquities buried in the tomb, which had the effect of channeling and avoiding evil, so he protected Xiao Wan's safety.

Maybe it's true, but I don't understand it, and I can't hear it even if it's fake. Xiaowan said that she didn't know what was going on, what else could she do, she could only believe her. It's not a big deal anyway.

And then there is this eunuch surnamed Li, who knows that he is a eunuch at a glance. It's really unpleasant to speak with this male duck's soft voice, but his martial arts are really high. I heard that he was an envoy sent by the prison army, and if you think about it, the Ming Dynasty had the habit of sending eunuchs to supervise the army, and the eunuch's boss was naturally also a eunuch. It's just that history only knows that Yang Hao is the commander, but the superintendent doesn't say who it is, maybe it's a role that is not important to the war.

However, this person's skills show that he is by no means an ordinary idle person, and his superior martial arts are even comparable to these two brocade guards. Moreover, he heard it clearly during the war, he was called a member of Hongyang, indicating that this person's identity was also a member of the Hongyang Sect, and he may still be a high-level.

And the two brocade guards obviously didn't bite the strings with this father-in-law, and both sides stared at him relaxedly. And although Gonggong Li has the edict of the prison army in his hand, there is Yang Hao's general order in the hand of the dark dragon. Yang Ho is a strategy, and his general orders are much heavier than the edicts of the prison army, so they will go directly back to Qinghe City instead of going to Shenyang.

Yue Xiang was puzzled by this, since Yang Hao wanted him and was willing, why did he let him go back to Qinghe? Don't...... Yang Ho has already arrived in Qinghe City waiting for him? Is this possible? Isn't he in Shanhaiguan? Now that Liaodong is in such chaos and there are not enough troops to escort him, he dares to run to Qinghe Fort, the nearest Ming army stronghold to Hetuala, the old nest of the Jianzhou Jurchens?

It was the front line of the war in the true sense of the word, and it would be attacked by the Jianzhou soldiers all the time. Will Yang Ho have the guts? Once Nurhachi learned that his opponent had recklessly run right under his nose, it would take only one day to reach Qinghe City.

Capture the thief and capture the king first, this art of war is not only understood by Han people.

However, it is better than falling into the hands of this eunuch. Yue Xiang has an instinctive dislike for these people, and always feels that they are a group of perverts. If Yang Hao really has this kind of courage, it means that this person may not want to be as unbearable as he imagined, and maybe he has a preconceived prejudice against him. Perhaps you are too attached to the known history and neglect to observe with your own eyes, but if you look closely, you will find some differences.

For example, the combat effectiveness of officers and soldiers, it seems that the Ming army in Liaodong is not as vulnerable as recorded in history, and some people are still very capable of fighting. For example, today's team dared to face to face with the Jurchen cavalry, this kind of thing he had never thought of before, and this was just an ordinary Ming army.

Maybe it's not as bad as it has been historically.

"General Yue, I heard that you are still a lifter. It's amazing, both civil and military. A talent like General Yue is actually condescended to a small boss. I really don't know who made this appointment. Well, how many officials is this one? The eunuch surnamed Li began to nag again, and since his request to go to Shenyang was denied, he began to keep getting close to Yue Xiangtao.

How do I know what kind of official it is? Yue Xiang was very annoying to him, but it was not good not to answer, because he didn't have a good impression of the other two, and now that his fate was in the hands of others, it was better not to be so strong.

"The lower officials don't know, the lower officials are following the will of the imperial court, and they have organized their own family to help the king's ......" Yue Xiang briefly told his experience, and the eunuch immediately climbed up the pole.

"Oh, it turned out to be a loyal and righteous person. When I went back and saw the Lord of the Prison Army, I was sure to promote the general to the top. In the border area of eastern Liaodong, there must be loyal ministers like General Yue to guard it, so as to ensure peace in the interior. Although the eunuch's words were rude, Yue Xiang still listened to them, after all, he could understand them better.

"Then Yue Mou will thank my father-in-law for his kind words in front of the prison army." Yue Xiang didn't care at all that the two Yang Hao's subordinates were next to him, whatever they thought. He casually politely said, "I don't know what my father-in-law is called?" ”

"Li Jinzhong, the Sprinkler family, has received the emperor's grace, and now he ......"

"Li Jinzhong?!" Yue Xiang suddenly felt that this name was a little familiar, but Li Jinzhong looked at him with a surprised expression, "General Yue, what are you...... Have you heard the name of the Sprinkle family? ”

"Is my father-in-law working in the East Palace now?"

"Ah, exactly...... This ......" Li Jinzhong saw Yue Xiang's strange expression, as if he was quite familiar with him, but he had never seen him before, so he was really a little confused.

"Ah, it's okay, it's okay, the name of my father-in-law is good, Jin Zhong, specially for the emperor to serve the loyalty." Yue Xiang hid and covered up the matter, but his heart turned upside down.

Li Jinzhong, if he remembers correctly, there was indeed a eunuch named Li Jinzhong in the history of the late Ming Dynasty. But this name was far less widely known to later generations than his other later name: Wei Zhongxian.