On the fourth day of the eleventh month of the lunar calendar in 2017, when he saw snowflakes floating outside the window in the office, Huang Han cursed in his mouth: "Ghost weather!" ”

Huang Han is a cheerful person who never complains about society with his own back, but in fact, what is there to complain about? Who made himself superstitious that the iron and steel enterprises would be prosperous, and chose the metallurgical major.

Now the medium-sized rolling mill that has been working for nearly ten years has been shut down the year before last due to national energy conservation and emission reduction, and Huang Han, a middle-level cadre and head of the quality inspection section, has been reduced to grasping the quality of a private factory, and can only earn four or five thousand yuan a month.

Fortunately, in this factory, the professional forging flange is relatively easy, and it is easier to inspect the products according to the mature national standard, and Huang Han's work is relatively easy.

He is obsessed with online novels, and he is particularly interested in historical time-traveling novels.

Many travelers came to ancient times, and they would open gold fingers to create unique new products. Too many comments have questioned the feasibility, and Huang Han also looks at the problem with a skeptical lens.

But he doesn't like to squirt around with his eyes closed, he looks up information and even experiments to verify it, and over time he really has mastered a lot of technology to make modern products with ancient technology.

In recent months, Huang Han has been a little busy, because he rides a motorcycle every day to and from work, and he can be late and leave early at work, so he found a part-time job.

The private boss of the workshop-style factory did not pay much attention to it, and since he hired Huang Han to master the quality inspection, the boss thought that he had picked up the treasure and treated Huang Han very politely.

After Huang Han arrived, there were often returns due to quality problems, resulting in heavy losses for the factory.

Not only that, in the past, he did not dare to accept orders for high-neck flanges with high added value but difficult to grasp the quality, but now he is completely able to let go of his hands and feet to produce, so Huang Han is a titan existence in this small factory of dozens of people is the absolute technical authority, as long as Huang Han does his job, no one will take care of him at all.

Huang Han's part-time job is a Meituan delivery rider who has just flourished in the city where he lives, most of the riders ride battery cars to deliver takeaways, and Huang Han rides a straddle motorcycle with five gears to deliver food much faster than battery cars, of course, with competitiveness, his income naturally increases a lot.

My wife, who earned more than 20,000 yuan in a few months and always felt that life was tight, finally felt relaxed, and began to take her fifth-grade son to this class and that class on Sundays.

Huang Han always can't help but think of a lyric when he looks at his wife and children: "If the heart is in a dream, there is still true love between heaven and earth...... for the sake of my beloved relatives, no matter how hard it is, I must be strong and ......." ”

The snow is small, the road is slippery, very cold, due to the bad weather, Huang Han received a lot of orders today, he was very tired and cold on the road, he sang loudly: "...... Looking at success or failure, life is heroic, but starting from scratch. ”

Suddenly, "Bang! With a loud bang, Huang Han felt that he was flying, and saw his beloved motorcycle falling to the ground and sliding quickly......

As everyone knows, God did what he wanted, and really let him start all over again.

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On October 27, the second year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, the Houjin army, which had made a detour through the Mongolian steppe, attacked the Great Wall Pass of the Ming Dynasty in three ways.

The barbarians who came with great momentum attacked all the way into Da'ankou, and the general Zhou Zhen died in battle. All the way into Longjing Pass, the Ming army general Zhang Ande and others were defeated and fled, all the way to attack Hongshan Pass, and the Ming army defender Zhang Wanchun surrendered.

Zhao Shujiao, the general of Pingliao, the governor of the left capital, was a rare brave general and wise general in the late Ming Dynasty, he got the report that after the Jin army bypassed the Guanning defense line and went south from Da'ankou, as if entering a no-man's land, the enemy army actually attacked the city in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty and was unstoppable.

Zhao Dudu was furious, and immediately led more than 4,000 Guanning iron horsemen under his command to gallop back to help.

He rode his horse westward, and more than 4,000 good sons and daughters under his command were majestic and high-spirited, although the north wind was howling and the sky was cold, these Ming soldiers learned that Jiannu had entered the land of Kou Gyeonggi or traveled long distances without hesitation.

There is a soldier surnamed Huang Minghan in the advancing cavalry team, this person is tall and big, and belongs to another kind in the Ming Dynasty, the average height of men in the Ming Dynasty is shorter than that of modern people, and this Huang Han is burly and full of one meter, seven or eight, with big shoulders and a round waist, and he is definitely a mighty man in this era.

Huang Han is eighteen years old this year, is a veteran, has been a soldier for three or four years, skilled in arching horses, his father Huang Yizhou is a skilled archer and horses in the Ming army does not accept at night, a trip to visit the newspaper was injured and left a disabled honorable retirement.

Huang Han's martial arts and bow horses were not practiced in the military camp, but improved his combat skills through actual combat in the military march.

After Huang Yizhou retreated, he returned to his hometown in Jiulitai, Yongping Prefecture, to farm, he saw that his eldest son Huang Han was strong and strong, and he was a good seedling for practicing martial arts, and he trained him in basic skills since he was a child, and took him to practice riding and archery when Huang Han was seven years old.

The Huang family is not a military household, Huang Yizhou is a battalion soldier recruited by the Ming Dynasty to get military salaries, he was selected for the night because of his good martial arts, and the night is not collected at night is a high-risk soldier and the treatment of the family is comparable, and the time of service in Huangyi Prefecture is before the battle of Salhu in the Wanli Dynasty.

At that time, the national strength of the Ming Dynasty was still there, and it had always taken the initiative to attack, and Huangyi Prefecture not only had a high military salary, but also often was able to share the reward for the decapitation.

Huang Yizhou's seven-year career has had countless adventures and accumulated a lot of belongings, but unfortunately the sequelae left after the leg injury healed, and since then the two legs are not the same length, and he limps when walking.

When Mr. Bai persuaded Huang Yizhou to retire from the army, he felt very uncomfortable, because Huang Yizhou had fallen in love with such a day after serving in the army for seven years, and everything that happened later made him feel happy.

Because half a year after the retirement of Huangyizhou, an important turning point in the history of the war between the Ming Dynasty and the Houjin Dynasty, the Battle of Sarhu broke out, and the battalion of Huangyizhou was led by the chief military officer Du Song.

The Houjin chieftain Nurhachi was a military genius, and he didn't care about the Ming army's several ways and went straight to the strongest.

The Later Jin army took advantage of the fog to decisively fight with the Ming army of the Juniper Department, and the white fog was still cloudy after noon, and it was difficult to distinguish at hand.

After a dark and vicious battle, nearly 20,000 brave Ming troops under the chief military officer Du Song, the staff general Chai Guodong, and the guerrilla generals Wang Hao, Zhang Daji, Yang Qin, and Wang Hailong were killed.

The former comrades-in-arms of Huangyi Prefecture were able to escape without even reaching Yicheng, and after the victory of the Houjin army in the Battle of Sarhu, the situation in eastern Liaodong deteriorated, the wanton plundering of Jiannu intensified, and millions of Liao people were displaced.

Huang Yizhou trained his son without the idea of letting his son also serve the army to serve the court, he just thought that bandits were rampant in the world, and men always had to have some force to be able to stand up to the sky.

It is also because after retiring from the army, he returned to his hometown to guard the acres left by his ancestors and lived a miserable life, and his son was a good seedling who practiced martial arts.

Huang Yizhou is not illiterate, roughly literate some words, he taught his son to read and write while training Huang Han to ride and shoot, Huang Han is good at martial arts and hates the text and does not remember much, but the riding and archery skills are better than the blue.

Huang Han Kong Wuli has been a child since he was a child, and he is also a troublemaker, plus there is a man who is one year older than him by his side, who does things recklessly, and finally broke into a catastrophe in the sixth year of the Apocalypse, and a splash in the neighboring village - Laizi Wu San was actually killed by Huang Han and Hanzi.

In fact, it was the fool who killed people, but Huang Han was righteous and refused to betray him, and since he was a child, he was like a fart following him in a fight, and he tried his best to bear the responsibility.

Hanzi is equivalent to the adopted son of Huangyizhou, his surname Yang did not have a serious name, everyone called him Yang Dalang or Hanzi, the only son of Yang Fengnian, a comrade-in-arms in Huangyizhou.

At that time, Yang Fengnian never gave up, found the wounded Huang Yizhou from the pile of dead, led the only war horse, risked being discovered by the Tartars and Jiannu, and walked more than 100 miles in one day and one night to return to the camp.

Later, Yang Danian, who was promoted to a small flag officer, died in the Battle of Salhu, and Huang Yizhou was obliged to help his daughter-in-law and his son who was not very good-brained, Hanzi, basically making sure that there was a bite to eat in his own house, and the Yang family was indispensable.

This fool is not a fool, but he has fewer roots than normal people, Huang Han belongs to the different Bing in the Ming Dynasty, and his strength is far greater than that of ordinary people, if he really fights with Huang Han, he will definitely be able to beat two Huang Han by one person.

It's no wonder that there are several children in Huangyizhou, and in addition to the eldest son, there are also a son from the eldest son and two sons from the concubine, which are very common, and they are not even conspicuous.

In the north in those years, there were more than a dozen plots of land in the family that could not be regarded as a big landlord, not even a small landlord, but at most a rich peasant.

Because the yield per mu in this era is extremely low, most of the land in the north can only produce one season of grain, and the yield is calculated by wheat, and it can be considered a bumper harvest of more than 200 catties per mu.

Therefore, it is unrealistic to think that a family with five acres of land can live a safe life without worrying about food and clothing, and it is just that modern people do not understand the yield per mu and the cost of farming in ancient times, but in fact, the output of three or five acres of land in the north can meet the food and clothing of an adult.

In ancient times, the vast majority of families were not a family of three, but there were too many families of seven or eight or even a dozen people.

The Huang family has more than 200 acres of land, and if taxes and costs are discarded, it can only make this family of more than a dozen people barely able to eat and wear.

This is also due to the fact that Huangyi Prefecture belongs to a good man with military merits and military value, and after returning to his hometown, he instructed the younger students in the four towns and eight soils to practice guns and sticks, and the county officials and the village chiefs are all masters who bully the weak and are afraid of the hard, and of course they will not be easily bullied by people like Huangyi Prefecture who have some prestige in the township.

Of course, because the head of the family loves bow horses, the Huang family has been raising a good horse in addition to having two cows and a donkey, and the cost of raising a horse is more than feeding three or five people, so even if there are more than a dozen land, the family has no money to spare.

The Huang family has Huang Han and Hanzi, the two troublemakers, almost a day of peace, and there are often people who come to complain in the Huang family crying, in fact, these two boys are not bad, but they like to roar when they see injustice on the road, and they love to fight and hug when they are young and vigorous.

Wu San, a scoundrel from the neighboring village, is a man who steals chickens and dogs, and blames him for not knowing each other, and he dared to be tough when he was beaten in the mouth by Huang Han, shouting: "If there is a kind, I will kill Lao Tzu." ”

Hanzi made a mistake, and when he jumped forward, it was just a punch, and Wu San's face was full of peach blossoms.

The disaster was provoked, Huang Yizhou asked Hanzi to pretend to be stupid, let his son take the bar, and then asked his former comrades-in-arms to send his son to the Liaodong military camp to join the army, and put some silver up and down, which stopped the murder.

This kind of treatment is harmless, killing a scoundrel will not be sentenced to death, it is possible to sentence the army, Huang Han took the initiative to go to Liaodong, where the tiger color has changed, to join the army, and naturally blocked the mouth of Youyou.

Who knew that since the eldest son went to serve as a soldier, the Huang family has been blessed by misfortune.

It turns out that Huang Han was born to be a good material for being a soldier, and he went to the barracks like a fish in water, because he was burly and energetic, good in equestrianism, good archery, and innocent in his family background.

There is no doubt about the quality of the military attache team in the Ming Dynasty, these people are all relied on by the military attaché, and there is no soldier who does not know the root and the bottom of the matter without being able to get such a beautiful difference.

Within a few months of Huang Han's work as a family member, he became the captain of the family team, with a lot of military salaries, and he could earn as much as two or three taels of silver a month.

Because he is the eldest son in the family, Huang Han is a little precocious, he is very filial and takes care of his family, he does not spend money indiscriminately in the military camp, and he asks someone to bring the silver home every once in a while.

In the spring of the first year of Chongzhen, Huang Yizhou gritted his teeth and sent his eight-year-old son-in-law, who was the third elder of the Huang family, Huang Yi, to go to Mengxue.

Huang Yong, the second son of the concubine, is two years younger than Huang Han, and he can only stay at home to help take care of the farm work after the age of enlightenment.

Huang Han is a warrior, and he is a good soldier with outstanding combat skills and a few words, but his temper is too bad and he is brave and ruthless, he can't rub sand in his eyes, and he is nosy, so he has been a soldier for three or four years and has made many meritorious contributions but because of repeated violations of military discipline, he is only a captain so far, which means that there are only four cavalrymen under his hands.

The tragic hero Zhao Shujiao led more than 4,000 cavalry to gallop in the north wind, and the rapid march of three days and three nights made even the strong Huang Han feel tired.

The men and horses finally arrived at the Santun camp where the general military mansion of Jizhen was located, but unfortunately the chief military officer Zhu Guoyan refused to let the guest soldiers enter the city, and Zhao Shujiao had no choice but to lead the men and horses to continue west to Zunhua.

The more than 4,000 Ming troops were all inexplicably sad and indignant, and the westward march was lifeless, and the depressing atmosphere was spreading.

This army was already one of the few soldiers in the Ming Dynasty who dared to fight, and now it has not only become a lone army abandoned and unable to be fed, but they have also been targeted by the strategist Houjin Nu Chief Hongshi (Note 1).

The Red Gang was rewarded with a horse and learned that Zhao Shujiao, who had made himself deflated in Jinzhou, only brought more than 4,000 cavalry to Zunhua and was inexplicably excited.

Later, the Jin army did not advance, and they temporarily gave up seizing Zunhua City, and instead concentrated their superior forces to fight for the total annihilation of more than 4,000 Guanning iron cavalry led by Zhao.

The military aristocrats of Jiannu carried out an emergency mobilization, and gathered more than 30,000 cavalry at the fastest speed to spread a net in the fifteenth mile east of Zunhua, waiting for Zhao to throw himself into the net.

In order to complete the strategic purpose of annihilating more than 4,000 Guanning iron cavalry led by Zhao, the Red Gangsters arranged the tactics of encirclement with cavalry movements, and the elites of the Eight Banners participated in the operation, and the Mongolian left and right wings of the joint operation also received a death order not to let a single Ming army escape.

On November 4, Zhao led this cavalry team to a place called Sanlitun outside Zunhua and was intercepted head-on, and it was one of the three banners of the Houjin army, with a yellow flag and 5,000 men and horses to launch an attack.

The war horse neighed, the feather arrows broke through the air, and the shouting of killing was earth-shattering, the tenacious Zhao led the Ministry of Education to withstand the impact of the yellow flag, Huang Han was covered in blood and kept moving forward bravely, and after the first confrontation, the four robes under his command had already broken two people.

Huang Sheng's commander, Ding Ruzhong, was now a guerrilla general, and he received an order from Zhao Shujiao to lead his headquarters to attack the enemy's right flank, and it was necessary to penetrate here to ensure that the main force could reach the east gate of Zunhua.

There was no room for bargaining, everyone knew that they were faced with a life-and-death choice, and Ding Ruzhong led less than 500 surviving cavalry under his command to launch an attack.

Huang Han didn't think at all at this time, he just wanted to kill people with red eyes, because he saw his robe fall from his horse with an arrow and die trampled by the horse's hooves.

Huang Han belongs to the strength of the heavy cavalry, in his hand is a high-quality Fujian iron made of one-handed can be wielded and can be slashed with both hands, the knife is seven feet long, the blade is three feet long, the handle is four feet long, weighs eighteen catties, can be chopped, can also be stabbed.

At this time, he could only wield the saber to meet the enemy, because when resisting the impact of the yellow flag, Huang Han had already shot all the feather arrows he carried. Facing the battlefield where arrows were like flying locusts, Huang Han leaned short on his horse and only protected his face, allowing light arrows to shoot his body with cotton armor and iron armor from time to time.

The two armies collided again, and the face-to-face slashing naturally splashed blood, Huang Han almost saw blood, he tried his best to wield the horse chopping knife, but unfortunately the dense Houjin cavalry in front of him did not decrease at all......

Suddenly, he felt a blow to his back: "Wow! A stream of blood spurted out of his mouth, and the groggy Huang Han saw the Jiannu Bayala who had hit him with a mace, and he threw the saber in his hand with the last of his strength......

The battle outside Zunhua City came to an end, and the red gang rode his horse and stopped on a hill to overlook, and his heart was extremely proud. I thought that Jinzhou City, which was blocked by Zhao Shujiao's insistence in Liaodong outside the Guan, returned to the city, and I didn't expect that such a fierce general would be killed by himself in the land of Jinggi in the Ming Dynasty.

The red guy looked at Azig beside him and said: "Twelfth brother, pass on the order of the army to leave a whole corpse for Zhao Rate's education department, and my Dajin army can only collect iron armor and weapons." ”

Azig saluted: "Your Majesty, my brother obeys. The cavalry under the command of Zhao of the Ming Kingdom had some combat effectiveness, and no one flinched when fighting with our Dajin army, giving these men a decent deservedness. ”

Hongxiao said with a smile: "It's a pity that there are not many generals like Zhao Shujiao in the Ming Kingdom, and there are not many teams in the Ming Kingdom that dare to fight, otherwise I wouldn't dare to take the Eight Banners disciples all the way to come here." ”

Since entering the customs, the Houjin robbers are like chicken blood, they are like frogs at the bottom of the well in the place where they are fighting endlessly in Liaodong, this time they finally saw the wealth of the land of Jinggi in the Ming Dynasty, and they grabbed it one by one.

Azig, who had already robbed a lot of good things, admired the red guy so much, he said sincerely: "Your Majesty Shengming, I am fortunate to have such a bold and courageous hero as Your Majesty." ”

In fact, whether to launch the battle of entering the customs is under great pressure, Houjin is a slave owner regime formed by military aristocrats, and the power of the red gangster is not enough to do as he wants, and his decision must be discussed with the other three Baylors.

Just a few days ago, there was a disagreement, not that the red gangsters insisted on their own opinions, and it was really uncertain whether the army would be able to successfully seize the pass.

The battle to enter the pass was the result of the Red Gangster's single-minded disobedience, and if he suffered a defeat, he would shake his position as the Great Khan of the Later Jin, and if he succeeded, he was naturally a British lord no less than the old Khan, and the Khan's position was solid.

The wild boar Pinurhachi only dominated Liaodong and Mongolia, and he never led the iron cavalry to cross the Great Wall and burn the flames of war into the Daming Pass.

And now, the Red Gangster led the children of the Eight Banners to burn and loot in the land of Jinggi in the Ming Dynasty, and surrounded and annihilated more than 4,000 elites under Zhao Shujiao, who were full of spirit, and couldn't help but look up to the sky and laugh when they heard Azig's compliments.

As everyone knows, the Houjin slave owner committed an unforgivable sin, because after the bannermen at the foot of the mountain got the military order to leave all the corpses for the Ming army and only collect armor and weapons, they just hastily cleaned up the battlefield and returned to the camp.

During this time, the Houjin army, which was originally poor enough to see what to rob, had begun to pick fat and thin, without him, there were too many good things, their transportation capacity was limited, and they needed a reasonable match to maximize the efficiency of robbery.

These cavalry of the Ming army who came to fight were worth their horses, armor, and weapons, and the Jin army was no longer eye-catching after other things.

The iron armor on the body of Huang Han, who died in battle, was gone, and only the cotton armor contaminated with blood and brown remained. The hot-blooded earth slowly froze in the cold wind, and Huang Han lay on his back half-leaning on his robe, his face calm as if he was asleep.

It is fate for a hot-blooded man to die on the battlefield, and it seems that he may not have too many regrets left in his heart.

The sky was overcast, and gradually snowflakes fell, and the snow fell heavier and heavier, and it didn't take long for the sky and the earth to be vast, and the bloodstains on the battlefield slowly disappeared, as if there had been no bloody battle of tens of thousands of cavalry here.

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[Note 1] During this period, the Nu chieftain was translated as "Red Gang Is" in the official documents of the Ming Dynasty, and the name "Huang Taiji" was also transliterated from the name of the Jurchens into Chinese characters, and it was not the original translation. Other transliterations are: "Huang Taiji", "Hong Taizhu", "Red Gang", listen to these names, is it in line with the characteristics of the Tunguska savages? The title "Huang Taiji" was used by Qianlong, the gray grandson of the red gangster, and then it has continued to this day. In order to respect history, this book calls the eight small families of the slave chieftain and wild boar skin "red gangsters".