Chapter 38: New Year's Day

On the city wall of the Fucai Gate (South Gate), a group of armored soldiers stood solemnly, with bright armor and bright swords and guns, and those officials and people who were usually responsible for guarding the city were scattered on both sides of the sergeant ranks.

This time, Houjin sent envoys, although no large army was found to follow, but the wartime mechanism had been activated, Liu Bixian and Ding Yousan canceled the New Year's Day vacation of the sergeants, and all of them were ready for war.

Yang Ming stood behind the arrow stack, holding a telescope and looking into the distance. In the lens, dust was raised at the end of the official road, and then, the ironclad cavalry lined up in an array appeared from the dust, and the picture became larger and larger, and it could be seen that this was an array of hundreds of cavalry advancing, and the sun shone on the armor of men and horses, and the scales were shining layer upon layer.

Houjin's cavalry array reached four miles away from the city, slowly stopped, the cavalry in the front row separated to the sides, and the middle three cavalry rushed out of the formation, led by a horse wearing fine iron armor, wearing a yellow robe outside, and his figure looked a little fat. Behind him, two iron-clad Bayara cavalrymen followed closely with spears, sabers and quivers, and long horned bows on their shoulders.

The three horsemen rushed to a distance of two miles from the wall, took hold of the reins, and slowly stopped, looking at the wall from afar, and the horses that sat down were spewing hot air, pacing back and forth from side to side.

Huang Taiji is here as promised!

There is a record of Huang Taiji riding alone in front of the two armies in front of the two armies to talk to the enemy, and it seems that this person is indeed very courageous.

In the urn city, 80 cavalry and 200 infantry led by Ding Yousan were ready to attack and rescue at any time.

These eighty cavalry are almost all the cavalry strength of Ding Yousan, they are basically composed of old soldiers in the Ming army, many of them are not real cavalry, they just can ride horses. Except for a few officers and a few backbones of the Ming army, most of the rest of the infantry were sturdy men recruited from the captives, and they had not experienced a few trainings, let alone went into battle to meet the enemy.

Since these people became soldiers, they have been eating and drinking spicy food for more than ten days, and they are so unhappy, and now it is finally time to sell their lives, and they all have heavy faces, cold sweat is profuse, and even many people are shaking all over their bodies.

Yang Ming was draped in the urn city, he took off his hakama robe and handed it to Yu Dai, stretched out his arms, Yu Dai quickly put the Kevlar body armor on top of his cashmere sweatshirt, and then put on a crimson hakama pleated robe, and then handed the Kevlar helmet to Yang Ming to wear.

A reddish horse in leather armor led the way. Yang Ming took the reins, separated the reins with his left hand and hung it over the horse's neck, inserted his ring finger into the middle of the two reins and grabbed the hair of the bun with the whip, raised his left leg and stepped into the horse's pedal, grabbed the right side of the back saddle bridge with his right hand, jumped up lightly with his right foot, straightened his left leg and stood up, supported his right hand in front of the saddle, straightened his right leg and lifted it quickly across the horse's body, supported his weight with both hands, and sat gently on the saddle.

"Good!" Ding Yousan on the side cheered softly. Yang Ming's horseback action is very standard, and Ding Yousan admires it very much.

Yang Ming on horseback held the reins in both hands, straightened up, and his palms were full of cold sweat.

In the United States, the tuition fee for an equestrian course is $5,000, and an entry-level racehorse costs more than $100,000, Yang Ming never considered learning this aristocratic sport, he only rode a horse for a few hours in the ranch of a fellow Texas student, and fell many times before he learned this posture.

Xu Ying pulled out the marching bag in her hand, raised the HK416 rifle and handed it to Yang Ming on horseback. Yang Ming took the rifle and hung the three-point strap around his neck, and the rifle hung diagonally on the left front of his body. The advantage of the three-point harness over the two-point harness is that it is possible to quickly switch to the firing state without removing the rifle by simply unbuttoning it.

After wrapping up, Xu Ying handed a package to Yang Ming, which was a return gift carefully prepared by Yang Ming for Huang Taiji.

The hanging door of the urn city was lowered, Yang Ming smiled at Xu Ying, made a grimace, clamped his legs, and rode out.

The gate of the urn city of Fucai Gate (South Gate) was open to the east, and Yang Ming rode out of the urn city, and then turned right and ran to the official road. The horse under the seat began to accelerate, Yang Ming carefully controlled the balance of the body, fortunately, the military horse of the Ming Dynasty was the Mongolian horse, the strength and speed of this horse are much worse than the modern European and American horses, Yang Ming, who had ridden a foreign horse, could barely control the war horse under the seat.

Huang Taiji stood up on his horse and looked indifferently at the urn city in front of him. Today, on the first day of the first lunar month, after the Houjin army was stationed in the Tongzhou River for two days, the whole army moved eastward, and Huang Taiji stayed behind the army and wanted to meet Yang Ming for a while. He is familiar with the Three Kingdoms, and has an almost paranoid hobby of recruiting enemy officials, in history, he has spent ten years to recruit Zu Dashou twice, and once sent his side concubine Borzigit to Nanchu of Yehebu, and even did not hesitate to send his own queen to recruit Hong Chengchou.

A red war horse came out of the drawbridge, the horse's head turned right and ran straight in his direction, the tall body of the young man in the hakama robe on the horse's back clumsily controlled the balance, and the short gun hanging in front of him swayed with the rise and fall of the horse's hooves.

Huang Taiji's indifferent gaze showed a hint of joy, he subconsciously looked at the ground in front of him, the northern land in winter was dry and solid, and clumps of withered yellow weeds were lying on the ground.

Yang Ming rode his horse forward, getting closer and closer, the face of the middle-aged man in the yellow robe on the horseback gradually became clear, the calm and graceful posture and sharp and indifferent gaze showed his silent majesty, making Yang Ming can't help but have a feeling of chill in his back.

The reins slowed down, Yang Ming leaned forward and backwards on the horse's back to control his body balance, and finally held the horse.

With the sound of slow hooves, Yang Ming stabilized his body, slowly approached forward, and stopped at a distance of four or five steps away from the other party, and he saw a smile on the face of Huang Taiji on the opposite horse.

"You are Yang Ming?" After a short silence, Huang Taiji asked first, not loud, but full of majesty.

"It's down there!" Yang Ming arched his hand to Huang Taiji.

"Your cannon is very powerful, I admire it." Huang Taiji said lightly, it seemed that those Houjin soldiers who died under Yang Ming's cannon could not affect his mood at all.

Still just arching his hand, Yang Ming didn't speak.

"You are not an official of the Ming Kingdom, but you are loyal to the country, and I admire you very much." Huang Taiji continued, "Yuan Chonghuan traveled thousands of miles to help, and he was also loyal to the country, and I also admired him. ”

Yang Ming knew that Huang Taiji was taking Yuan Chonghuan's past experience to separate himself, and he said in his heart that Yuan Chonghuan didn't know what kind of collusion he had with you, and if there was a collusion, it would be fine, and you would set up a counter-plot to trap him......

"The Great Khan's counter-tactics are also very powerful, and Yang admires them." Yang Ming said with a smile.

"The ancients were not tired of deceit." Huang Taiji was not annoyed when he heard this, but smiled slightly, "The ancients are cloudy, and good birds choose trees and perch ......."

Huang Taiji's meaning is to implicitly put all the responsibility for Yuan Chonghuan's imprisonment on Chongzhen's head, and once again hinted at Yang Ming.

Yang Ming had an impulse, he wanted to ask Huang Taiji what was going on with Yuan Chonghuan's eternal mystery case. But he finally held back, he knew that if he asked the past now, not only would he not get an answer, but on the contrary, he would be calculated by the other party.

"I have always been ......eager to seek talents," Huang Taiji said this, his eyes stared at Yang Ming tightly, and his originally sharp and indifferent gaze became full of enthusiasm.

Yang Ming smiled bitterly, taking refuge in Huang Taiji was obviously not something he was considering.

"With Yang Ming's ability, it will not be difficult to break the soil and seal the territory in the future......" Huang Taiji is very patient, otherwise he would not be able to recruit Zu Dashou twice in ten years.

"Ripping the ground? The Great Khan, in the next will is not here. Yang Ming replied calmly.

"You like beautiful women?" Huang Taiji looked at Yang Ming with blazing eyes, "I can choose the women of the world at your ......"

Thinking of the four stunning women sent to the door by Huang Taiji today, Yang Ming couldn't help but blush.

"Great Khan, a gentleman loves sex, and he takes it in a good way." Yang Ming arched his hand, "The beauty of this world, Yang is not blessed." ”

"And what do you want?" Huang Taiji smiled, "I heard that you once said to your sergeants that you want everyone in the world to live a good life?" ”

Yang Ming was taken aback, how could these words reach Huang Taiji's ears?

"Yang Ming, calm the world, benefit the common people, you can't do it, neither can Chongzhen, only me, how many can you do!" Huang Taiji's faint tone couldn't hide the strong self-confidence in his heart.

Yang Ming was silent for a while.

In the history of the last world, the bloody and bloody chaotic times at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs and pacified the world, which is indeed the least bad choice given by history.

Li Zicheng's party army was brutal, uprooting urban buildings everywhere he went, and coercing the people who had lost their homes to use them as cannon fodder in front of the battle. Zhang Xianzhong is like a beast. In the current situation of the great enemy, Nanming fought and slashed each other. With such mountains and rivers shattered and lives in misery, who will clean up the mess?

After the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, it quickly pacified the world and established a multi-ethnic unified country with an area of 13 million square kilometers bordering the Sea of Okhotsk in the east, the dark sand of Zengmu in the South Pole, the Himalayas in the southwest, the Green Mountains in the west, Lake Balkhash in the northwest, the desert in the north, and the Khingan Mountains in the northeast until Sakhalin Island.

The Qing Dynasty resisted Tsarist Russia, eliminated Dzungaria, conquered Mongolia, Vietnam, and Nepal, pacified Xinjiang and Tibet, and the border troubles of thousands of years in Chinese history were completely resolved in their hands.

In terms of internal affairs, the Qing Dynasty implemented the reform of the land and the return of the land, the apportionment of the land into the mu, the return of fire consumption to the public, and the gentry paid grain in one, which solved the national financial problems that the Ming Dynasty had not been able to solve.

Culturally, the Manchu Qing Dynasty fully embraced and carried forward Han culture. Manchu poets E-Maungtu, Yueduan, Bordu, Selhe, Wenzhao, Duncheng, Yongzhong, Tiebao, lyricists Nalan Xingde, Gu Taiqing, writers Cao Xueqin, Wenkang, Pu Songling, and Bang'e, essayist Linqing, calligraphers Yongzhen, Tiebao, Tunzhu, Tuqingge, Yinghe, Rushan, painters Yunxi, Yongrong, Heyi, Heishou, Manghuli, Ximiyanga, Arbarn, Qingbao, Qiling, Wenxiang, Tang Dai...... What they have learned, used, served, and carried forward is Han culture!

The sun darkened in the sky, a dark cloud drifted overhead, and suddenly it began to rain. The cold raindrops swept down, the war horse under Yang Ming's seat raised its head and neighed, and the two horsemen who followed behind Huang Taiji were about to ride their horses forward, but Huang Taiji raised his hand to stop them.

Huang Taiji in the rain stood still, he was waiting for Yang Ming's answer.

On the city wall, Xu Ying, Liu Bixian, Zhao Zhixian, Fan Tongzhou and others looked nervously at Yang Ming and Huang Taiji in the distance under the city.

Xu Ying looked at Yang Ming tightly with a pair of apricot eyes, her eyes were full of affection and worry, and at this time, she had a faint sense of danger in her heart.

When the rain fell, the people on the city wall were in a commotion, some people were looking for a place to shelter from the rain, and the entourage took umbrellas and held them up for Liu Bixian, Zhao Zhixian and others, and Yu Dai also took an umbrella for Xu Ying to hold up.

"Yu Dai, you go to the barracks quickly......" Xu Ying whispered to Yu Dai.

The rain came quickly, went quickly, in less than a moment, the rain stopped, the sun re-emerged, the sun sprinkled in the air after the rain, a fresh and bright feeling, raised his eyes to look at the sky, the remaining veins of Yanshan in the distance faintly appeared.

"Actually, if you don't engage in literary prison and forced shaving, it's still good......" Yang Ming sighed and said helplessly.

"Shaved your hair? …… Expedient, now that the two countries are fighting each other, they think that the distinction between Jing and Wei is just ......" Huang Taiji said with a smile, "As for the literary prison, what is it?" ”

Huang Taiji himself practiced shaving, but he was not as persistent as Dorgon. In the first year of Shunzhi (1644 AD), Dolgon led the Qing army into the customs, and along the way he was busy issuing edicts, requiring all the soldiers and civilians of the Ming Dynasty to shave their hair. After entering Beijing, he officially issued a decree on shaving his hair and changing his clothes, requiring "all officials, soldiers, and civilians to shave their hair and dress in accordance with the system of the dynasty."

This order immediately aroused fierce opposition, and not only were there very few officials in the court and China shaving their hair, but a large number of former Ming officials closed their doors simply because of this system, refused to serve the Qing Dynasty, or fled south to the capital. Seeing that his rule was uncertain and fearing a major change, Dorgon had to stop shaving his hair after only a month.

Originally, this matter could be regarded as over, but a traitor Sun Zhiqi took the initiative to ask for hair shaving, which ignited the fuse again.

This Sun Zhiqi is a native of Zichuan, Shandong, and a jinshi during the Ming Dynasty's Apocalypse. After the Qing army entered the customs, he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and became a waiter in the Ministry of Rites. The man shaved his bald head, wore a pigtail of a rat's tail, and dressed in a man's costume. As a result, above the court, he was despised by other Han officials and ridiculed by the Manchurians. Annoyed and angry, Sun Zhiqi wrote a piece of music and suggested to the imperial court that the Han people should be shaved nationwide.

In the compromise, he had a few words that hit the nail on the head: "Your Majesty has pacified the Central Plains, everything is new, and the system of clothes and hair is the only one that survives the old Han Dynasty, this is Your Majesty from China, not from China!" ”

As a result, this shaving order was pushed away again, and for this one, there were rivers of blood flowing everywhere in the south of the Yangtze River. Jiangyin City had already been cleared, but when I heard that I was going to shave my hair, the whole city was against it. In the Kunshan area, the people were originally calm, but as soon as the hair was shaved, the people fought against each other, first killing the magistrates of the Qing army, and then burning the government office.

The end result was a brutal crackdown, with thousands of people dying for the senseless shaving order.

Huang Taiji died of a violent illness a year before the Qing army entered the customs, and if he had not died, it was he, not Dolgon, who led the Qing army into the customs, and this shaving order would probably not be enforced nationwide.

"Literal hell? It's just picking some words in other people's books, thinking that the person who wrote the book has committed a taboo and killed his head......" Yang Ming reluctantly explained, "And this is not allowed to write, that is not allowed to be written......"

"It's strange. The sage erected words, originally to expound the avenue and express his temperament, what is not allowed to write? Huang Taiji didn't seem to understand it for a while.

In this regard, Yang Ming could only smile bitterly. In the first few years of the Qing army's entry into the customs, there was no literary prison, and it is estimated that the Manchu people did not understand the power of this writing, so during the early Qing Dynasty, any book could be written and published, and there were no restrictions at all.

The beginning of the Qing Dynasty's literary prison began in the fourth year of Shunzhi - the Guangdong monk Han Ke carried a historical manuscript "Change Record" that recorded the tragic deeds of the anti-Qing fighters, and was seized by the Qing soldiers at the city gate of Nanjing, and after a year of severe punishment, he was exiled to Shenyang. This punishment could not have been lighter than later.

During the Kangxi period, there was a wealthy family named Zhuang Tingyan in Huzhou, Zhejiang, because the published "History of the Ming Dynasty" in the narrative of the history of the Southern Ming Dynasty, respected the name of the Ming Dynasty, did not recognize the orthodoxy of the Qing Dynasty, directly wrote the name of Nurhachi, wrote that Li Chengliang killed Nurhachi's father, scolded Shang Kexi, Geng Zhongming who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty as "Shang thief" and "Geng thief", wrote that the Qing army used "Yikou" and so on, the Qing army committed more than 70 people in the "History of the Ming Dynasty" case, including those who wrote the preface for the "History of the Ming Dynasty", proofreading, and even sold books and bought books. The lettering and printing and the local officials were killed at the same time in the Bijiao Workshop, or Ling Chi, or cane, or hanged, and the "main culprit" Zhuang Tingyan dissected the coffin and killed the corpse according to the great law, and hundreds of others were implicated and distributed to the army.

Dai Mingshi, the editor of the Hanlin Academy, wrote a book to record the history of the late Ming Dynasty by interviewing the widows of the Ming Dynasty and referring to the textual materials, and the book was printed ten years later and was denounced and beheaded, and all men over the age of 16 in the Dai family were immediately beheaded, and women and men under the age of 15 were sent to the families of the Qing Dynasty heroes as slaves. Fellow villager Fang Xiaobiao once provided reference materials, and also punished the same crime as Dai Mingshi, although Fang Xiaobiao was dead, he was still sent to a coffin and killed.

In the later Qianlong Dynasty, this literary prison became even more severe, Qianlong reigned for 60 years, and there were more than 130 literary prisons, and all of them were punished very severely.

Since Huang Taiji couldn't understand the mystery of this text prison for a while, Yang Ming didn't want to remind him.

"Thanks to the Great Khan for giving me a generous gift, Yang reciprocated the favor, and there was also a small gift for the Great Khan." Yang Ming took out the gift box prepared in the package and took a few steps forward.

The two horses met, and the two people on the horse were close at hand, and Yang Ming handed over the gift box.

Huang Taiji lightly stretched out his hand to take it, but it was a small jewelry box. He smiled slightly, opened the gift box, and saw a Timmis mechanical watch with a leather strap placed on top of the brocade.

"Oh? This little clock is very delicate...... "Huang Taiji picked up his watch and looked at it, quite surprised.

In fact, it is a large road goods worth more than 100 dollars, but in the Ming Dynasty, it was unimaginable cutting-edge technology.

"How can I use it?" Huang Taiji looked at Yang Ming with blazing eyes, obviously, he was very interested in this gift.

"It's very simple, it's just that you need to wind up and time it once in a while......" Yang Ming knew that Huang Taiji would ask this, and took out a book with a blue cover from his arms, "I will use the method book on the paper, and the sweat will know it at a glance." ”

He turned the pages of the book, took out a piece of A4 paper he was holding, and handed it to Huang Taiji. A4 is a drawing on the paper with a short text explaining how to wind it (automatic watches, which generally do not need to be wound by hand) and how to check the time against a sundial.

Huang Taiji took it, and after a glance, he understood that his gaze fell on the blue book in Yang Ming's hand.

"Farmland water conservancy cheats? What is this book? Huang Taiji asked.

"Oh, it's just a book about farming." Yang Ming said as he put the book in his arms.

"I'll take a look at this book." There was an irresistible majesty in Huang Taiji's calm voice.

Yang Ming smiled and handed the book over.

Huang Taiji took the book, habitually flipped it from left to right, then was stunned, frowned, turned the book upside down, and flipped it from right to left.

After reading a few pages very intently, and turning back and forth, Huang Taiji raised his head.

"This book is wonderful...... Huang Taiji stared at Yang Ming with complicated eyes, "How long is one meter?" ”

Yang Ming's heart sank. Obviously, he has read this book, and the specific affairs of farmland and water conservancy mentioned in the book can be solved according to the gourd painting scoop exploration experiment, but there is no way to know this measurement accurately.

"At present, one zhang is three meters two."

"How much does a kilogram weigh?" Huang Taiji asked again.

"One meter is 10 decimeters, and the water weighs one kilogram in a square pot with a length, width and height of 1 decimeter."

"This method is very wonderful and accurate." Huang Taiji heard this measurement definition method for the first time, and felt quite reasonable.

"The ancients bought and returned the pearls, and I am following suit today...... Huang Taiji said with a smile, "This book is for me, and it is just right for this year's spring ploughing." ”

Historically, the grain self-sufficiency rate of Houjin has been low, and there was even large-scale starvation in the late Nurhachi period, if it were not for Yuan Chonghuan selling rice to them, Houjin would have almost collapsed. However, after Huang Taiji ascended the throne, he actively developed agricultural production, and by the time the Qing army entered the customs, the problem of self-sufficiency in grain had basically been solved.

"As for the little bell, I will return it to you......" Huang Taiji seemed to want to hand over the watch, but he held it in his hand and played with it, which was quite cherishing.

"Since the Great Khan likes it, then take it all." Yang Ming said lightly.

Huang Taiji laughed a few times, and his face suddenly sank, "Yang Ming, you are testing me!" ”

Yang Ming smiled and arched his hand without speaking.

"This meeting is very comforting." Huang Taiji said slowly, "You should think about my words, I will wait for your news at any time......"

"The Great Khan led his army west this time, is he going to attack Yongping?" Yang Ming saw that Huang Taiji was ready to leave, and he began to talk about the main purpose of this meeting.

In the history of the last world, on the first day and night of the first month of the third year of Chongzhen, the Qing army arrived in Songzhuang, five miles away from Yongping City. Then Huang Taiji spent three days recruiting Yang Chun, the defender of Yongping, and attacked Yongping on the fourth day of the first month. After the occupation of Yongping, Huang Taiji vigorously appeased the soldiers and civilians of Yongping to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, and behaved very approachable, he set up a banquet to entertain the general Meng Qiaofang and others, and gave wine with a golden cup and said: "I am not like the Lord of Erming, all my ministers, all ordered to sit, vomit heartfelt songs, and eat and drink."

"Exactly." Huang Taiji admitted that he did not intend to hide Yang Ming.

"If that's the case, then I'm not going to let the Great Khan out of here." Yang Ming said calmly, "It's not as the Great Khan wishes, Yongping will kill many people......"

After capturing Yongping, Huang Taiji appointed Bai Yangcui, a Ming official, as the governor of Yongping, leaving Belezir Harang to lead 10,000 troops to garrison Yongping, and he led the army eastward. Zilharang was brutal, and the puppet governor Bai Yangcui, in order to please him, dressed his daughter carefully and dedicated it to Zilharang.

In April 1630, Huang Taiji returned to Shenyang and ordered Erbeile Amin to supervise Yongping. Faced with the attack of the Ming army to regain the lost territory, Amin had no intention of garrisoning Yongping, and he ordered the slaughter of Yongping and then retreated. The puppet governor Bai Yangcui was taken to the cold and killed when the Qing army retreated, and this person lost his daughter and failed to save his life.

Amin was hated by Huang Taiji because of Yongping's massacre. When Amin led his army back to Shenyang, Huang Taiji ordered Amin to stay outside the city, allowing only the army to enter the city, and then arrested Amin and imprisoned him until death.

"You want to kill me?" Huang Taiji was neither surprised nor angry by Yang Ming's attitude, he just asked lightly.

Yang Ming was silent.

"Yang Ming, if you can kill me, I can kill you!" Huang Taiji said coldly, and then shouted loudly in full words.

The floating grass ground around was suddenly lifted, and dozens of Houjin troops rushed out of the exposed trenches, forming a three-sided encirclement behind Yang Ming and on the left and right sides. Half of these Houjin soldiers held spears in their hands, and half of them held bows and arrows in their hands, making a gesture of preparing to attack Yang Ming. Yang Ming saw that these Houjin soldiers had a common characteristic, that is, all of them did not wear armor!

Obviously, these dozens of people are all dead soldiers, and their task is to kill Yang Ming's life with part or even all of their own lives when they need it.

Armor, in addition to affecting their own physical strength and speed, has no protective effect in front of Yang Ming's rifle, and they have understood this. Now these Houjin soldiers, who are less than 20 steps away from Yang Ming, are like the Zero fighters that removed all their armor in World War II, and they only plan to do a one-time attack. At a distance of 20 paces, Yang Ming couldn't kill all the enemies before the spears stabbed from all sides pierced his body.

A cold sweat broke out on Yang Ming's vest, he didn't know when Huang Taiji ambushed these Houjin soldiers, but obviously, this meeting place where Huang Taiji was stationed was the place where he carefully chose to set up the formation.

Now Yang Ming can only hope that Huang Taiji will not make a move that will end up in the same fate - if Huang Taiji orders an attack, then all Yang Ming can do is kill him, and let the dozens of spears and arrows behind him pierce his body to pieces.

There was the sound of footsteps and horses' hooves from the direction of Wengcheng, and Ding Yousan rushed out with eighty cavalry and two hundred infantry!

The Houjin Iron Armor Cavalry Formation two miles away behind Huang Taiji also began to activate!

"The mountains are high and the waters are long, and there will be a period after the meeting." Huang Taiji said to Yang Ming lightly, "I am still waiting for your news. ”

He then turned his horse's head and, supported by the two horsemen, rode away.

Yang Ming is now in a prisoner's dilemma!

If he didn't shoot Huang Taiji, then, once Huang Taiji was out of range of the rifle, the dozens of soldiers around him might launch a decisive attack and kill him.

If he shoots, then these dozens of Houjin soldiers will definitely kill him immediately.

Between 100 percent and 90 percent, Yang Ming can only choose the latter.

Huang Taiji gradually moved away, and the infantry cavalry led by Ding Yousan was approaching, and the dozens of Houjin soldiers surrounding Yang Ming remained motionless, still maintaining an offensive posture at all times.

Yang Ming felt cold sweat all over his body and forehead.

Finally, Huang Taiji's three horsemen walked away, and Ding Yousan's eighty cavalry rushed to a distance of less than a hundred paces from him.

The dozens of soldiers surrounding Yang Ming put down their bows, put away their spears, and retreated south in a neat formation.

When the Houjin soldiers retreated to a distance of fifty paces, Yang Ming breathed a sigh of relief, now, if he fired, he was sure to kill most of the Houjin soldiers, and the few Houjin soldiers who escaped under the guns would also be killed by Ding Yousan's cavalry who rushed up.

But Yang Ming didn't do it either.

"Don't chase!" Yang Ming loudly ordered Ding Yousan, who led the team to rush to him.

The cavalrymen stopped their horses. They didn't dare to chase - these eighty cavalry plus the two hundred infantry behind them, even if they caught up, and fought with the dozens of Houjin soldiers who retreated in a neat formation, most of them would be given heads.

"General!" Ding Yousan, who was riding on horseback, had a flushed face, and shouted loudly to Yang Ming with his fists clenched.

Yang Ming nodded slightly to Ding Yousan in approval.

Now the performance of Ding Yousan's team has improved dramatically compared to the performance when he met two Houjin Sentinel Horsemen on the way to Shunyi City. This progress was mainly psychological and morale, and in combat skills, in fact, their improvement was limited - the school grounds were inhabited by refugees, and they had very little training during the ten or so days.

Two hundred and eighty infantry cavalry hugged Yang Ming back into the city, now, Yang Ming is their backbone, if the person who was talking to Huang Taiji outside the city was not Yang Ming, they would not dare to rush up so bravely.

Entering the urn city, Yang Ming had just gotten off the horse, still trying to calm the palpitations in his heart, Xu Ying, whose face was pale, rushed up and hugged Yang Ming, tears flowed down.

"It's okay, it's okay......" Yang Ming patted Xu Ying's shoulder and comforted her.

The group crowded from the urn city into the inner city, but heard a burst of thunderous footsteps on the street, hundreds of soldiers with weapons rushed along the north and south streets, the street vendors, pedestrians dodged one after another, carts, burdens, all kinds of items fell to the ground, a chaos.

"Mr. Ye, what's going on?!" Ding Yousan rushed forward and asked an officer who was leading the team.

The officer, who was in his thirties, looked capable, and said, "Master Ding, the last general has been ordered to lead the whole battalion to help!" ”

"Ordered? By whose orders? Ding Yousan asked.

The officer groaned slightly, as if he was pondering how to answer.

"Ye Shuxiong, did you bring the whole battalion here?" Yang Ming was a little shocked, "What if the enemy suddenly attacks the city from the north gate?" ”

"General......" Xu Ying quietly pulled Yang Ming aside, "It was the slave family who was worried about your safety and asked Yu Dai to take the talisman and go to the barracks to find Master Ye to transfer troops......"

"This ......" Yang Ming was angry, but he was speechless for a while.

Liu Bixian walked up to Ye Shuxiong and whispered with a calm face: "Master Ye, the transfer of troops can only be done with the order, talisman, and seal letter...... Master Ye, you are too reckless......"

"Yes." Ye Shuxiong lowered his head and clenched his fists and replied.

"Master Ding, please lead the sergeants back to the building as soon as possible." Liu Bixian turned back to Ding Yousan and said, "If something is damaged on the street, I will arrange for someone to take care of the compensation." ”