After all, Sun Chengzong is old, and his ability to resist wind and cold is getting lower and lower, and he would have recovered if he had recuperated well for a period of time when he was in Zhenhe Zhenwei, but he was worried about the attack on Manjingwei, and he was worried about Yang Zhong's safety, regardless of his old age and physical weakness, he galloped in the ice and snow for two or three days, and this cough was even worse.

His cough startled Yang Zhong, and Cao Wenzhao's face changed even more frightened, and he hurriedly stepped forward to support him and gently patted him on the back.

After coughing for a while, he stopped, and this time, he did not refuse Cao Wenzhao's support, because he was already coughing and couldn't stand steadily.

After gasping for breath for a while, he laughed at himself: "Old, old, a little wind and cold cough like this, let you see and laugh." “

Cao Wenzhao hurriedly persuaded: "Taifu, you should go to the barracks and rest for a while." “

Sun Chengzong shook his head and said, "Don't worry, help me up first." “

Cao Wenzhao couldn't twist him, so he had to carefully help him to walk towards the city wall.

Yang Zhong is embarrassed, he is covered in blood, so naturally he can't go up to help Sun Chengzong, so he can only follow carefully behind, always paying attention to keeping a distance, for fear of staining the clothes of the two big guys.

Sun Chengzong climbed the city wall, looked at the soldiers of the Ming army who were wounded and defended, and then looked at the dense corpses of the enemy below, and couldn't help but be moved: "The soldiers have worked hard, and they can withstand such a crazy attack of 100,000 enemy troops with 10,000 people, you are all good, and I will ask for credit for you when the enemy army is repelled." “

Yang Zhong hurriedly said: "It's too good to be too famous, it is our duty to protect the family and defend the country, and these are what we should do." “

Sun Chengzong nodded, and suddenly stretched out his hand and said, "Telescope." “

A guard behind him immediately quickly took out the telescope in his arms and handed it to him.

He raised his binoculars and carefully observed the situation of the enemy army, and then, with a cold snort, said angrily: "Only 100,000 horses, dare to violate my Ming border, Cao Wenzhao, go, lead 60,000 elite horsemen out of the city to line up, and beat them back to the other side of the river first." “

When Cao Wenzhao heard this, he hurriedly glanced at the guards behind, and immediately two guards stepped forward to support Sun Chengzong, and then he arched his hand and said: "Taifu, or the general will chase them directly and destroy them all." “

Sun Chengzong shook his head and said: "The ice in the river has also begun to melt, I don't know if it can withstand a large-scale cavalry charge, and the mountains are not conducive to cavalry combat, the other side of the river is full of mountains, it is useless to chase them, just repel them and occupy their camps." As for how to clean them up later, let's talk about it first. “

When Cao Wenzhao heard this, he hurriedly arched his hand and said, "The last general understands." “

With that, he turned around and ran down the city wall, and soon, 60,000 elite horsemen swarmed out of the West Gate, directly lining up in a long charging formation.

At the front of the big array, under the dragon flag, Cao Wenzhao slowly raised the spear in his hand and shouted: "Where the dragon flag goes, the great powers surrender and kill." “

With his roar, the Ming army stabbed at the enemy's infantry phalanx like sharp swords.

This year, I still play cavalry charge!

Golovin pursed his lips disdainfully, and directly ordered to respond with a three-stage shot.

In fact, the cavalry is not vulnerable in front of the musket, in the absence of artillery cooperation, the musketeer has to be deflated when encountering the cavalry, because the killing distance of the musket in this era is more than 100 steps, more than 100 steps for the cavalry, that is a few seconds of effort, a few seconds of the current single shot of the musket can fire a few shots.

Besides, according to the current penetrating power of the musket, if it touches someone wearing armor, it won't be able to hit it at all, and even if it touches someone wearing chain mail, it won't cause much damage.

Cao Wenzhao naturally knew this truth, so the generals in the front row were all wearing armor or chain mail, and it was useless to fire a round of guns.

The cavalry of the Ming army is not an ordinary cavalry, a round of guns does not knock them down, but the trouble is big, they have revolver rifles in their hands, and they also have grenades.

Therefore, Golovin was surprised to see that the Ming cavalry almost nothing happened when the rounds of guns were fired, and then the bullets poured like rain, and then the grenades fell like hailstones, and the phalanx in front of him collapsed like an avalanche like crazy, and he was so frightened that he hurriedly ordered the whole army to retreat.

Cao Wenzhao led the army to chase for a while, and all the enemy soldiers chased them lost their armor and fled to the other side in panic, and then they gave up.

In this battle, the Ming army can be said to have won a complete victory, 100,000 enemy troops attacked, but less than 60,000 fled back, and their camp tents, grain and grass, and baggage were all taken, and they could only rush back to the Yakuts Castle hundreds of miles away, and I don't know how many of them froze to death and frostbitten in the middle.

The number of Ming troops killed was less than 5,000, and a large amount of grain, grass and baggage were captured, and 60,000 lightly armed cavalry cavalry came to support almost equivalent to bringing all the grain, grass and baggage, which I don't know how much transportation cost was saved.

It stands to reason that with such a big victory, Manjingwei should be jubilant, but after the big victory, Manjingwei had no celebratory atmosphere at all, and there was even a trace of gloom.

Because, Taifu Sun Chengzong's condition is getting more and more serious, on the first day, he can barely let people walk, but on the second day, he is directly bedridden, and he coughs non-stop, and even coughs up blood!

At this time, Cao Wenzhao and Yang Zhong were frightened, they could only desperately add charcoal fire in the ward, and sent elite horsemen to Zhenzhen Hewei day and night to pick up the imperial doctor.

In fact, it is useless to add charcoal fire at this time, and it is even a bit counterproductive, because Sun Chengzong is no longer simply infected with wind and cold, and his internal fire is also quite serious, in the words of later generations, that is, he coughed directly into pneumonia.

Under the backward medical conditions at that time, such a condition was already quite serious, coupled with Sun Chengzong's advanced age and deterioration of various body functions, the speed of deterioration of his condition was simply terrifying.

On the third day, he was already coughing and couldn't figure it out, and on the fourth day, he coughed directly and was dying, and he was about to die!

Cao Wenzhao had to send a fine cavalry again and rushed to Zhenzhen Hewei, but this time he didn't urge the imperial doctor to come quickly, but to send an urgent report to the emperor: "Taifu is critically ill!" “

Sun Chengzong knew that he couldn't stand it anymore, and when he was dying, he summoned Cao Wenzhao and Yang Zhong to the bed and confessed his last words.

In fact, he has nothing to explain, for his family, he doesn't have to worry too much, he has the emperor's care, glory and wealth, and he enjoys inexhaustible.

He was more to comfort Cao Wenzhao, not to be too sad, to encourage Yang Zhong, to make persistent efforts, and strive to become the mainstay of the Ming Dynasty.

For his own posterity, he has only one request, that is, to ask the emperor to bury his bones in Manjingwei, he wants to be the frontier of Yongzhen in the Ming Dynasty!

On the fifth day, Taifu Sun Chengzong passed away with a smile, he had been muttering a sentence before he died, Cao Wenzhao thought that he still had something to explain, so he hurriedly put his ear directly to his mouth, and then he heard clearly, what he was talking was:

The emperor, Weichen lives up to his trust, the prince has grown up, and the Ming Dynasty is getting stronger and stronger under his governance!