Xuanfu City is still the same, but the people in the city are different. [Full text reading]

Among the guards standing at the head of the city, there are many gray-haired old men, and even women are not uncommon, which shows that the strength of the city is overstretched.

Such a defender obviously can't make people feel at ease, so the people in the city have always been panicked, no one knows what happened, everyone only knows that the Tartars are coming, but their own soldiers and horses have been defeated, and even the battle of civil engineering is as stable as Mount Tai's Xuanfu City, which is now in danger.

There are still some soldiers and horses in the fortresses everywhere, and if they can be gathered, it is also a considerable force, but it is a pity that Mr. Zhang's troops were defeated too quickly and quickly, and there was no time for others to react.

By the time the news of the defeat came, there were already Tartar rangers raiding all over Xuanzhen, not only to plunder, but also to eliminate the scattered small Ming army, so it had become an impossible task to leave the fortress and assemble.

As a result, the defenders of Xuanfu City can only rely on themselves, and the reinforcements of the imperial court? There may be, but it will certainly not be seen in a month, or even a year. After all, the enemy situation is not clear, and the situation in Xuanfu has been eroded, with the consistent style of the imperial court, it is always necessary to find out the situation before sending troops to rescue, and by that time, the Tartars have almost grabbed enough and retreated on their own.

Of course, when today's son is a saint, he will not ignore the Xuanfu people. However, thinking of the unverifiable rumor from the General Military Office, people became apprehensive again.

Zhang Zongbing is a cautious person, and the defeat of the enemy in the eighteenth year of Hongzhi was urged by the governor Li, so he would venture into the ambush. This time, the Tartars came quickly and quickly, and the momentum was unprecedented, with the surname of Zhang Zongbing, he would have to wait and see for a while before he made a decision.

The reason for his dispatch was a letter from the capital. According to the subordinates of the General Military Office, since last winter, there have been frequent letters from the capital and Liaodong. Although no one knew the contents, after receiving the letter, General Zhang began to reorganize his troops and horses, inspect various fortresses, and after spring, he gathered the main force of Xuanfu in Xuanfu City.

From this series of actions, a conclusion can be drawn that Zhang Zongbing attacked because of the order from above. The most reliable evidence is that the day before he left the army, he received the last letter, the content of which was still unknown to anyone, but the person who sent the letter saw the signature on the envelope, and it was the Yamen of the Ministry of War.

In this way, people can't help but be suspicious, after all, they haven't seen the emperor for a long time, and they haven't seen the magical young man of Xuanfu, who knows if they have become the same people as those big officials in the court?

You know, whether it is the governor or the patrol, those adults in the past have also had a brilliant resume, take Governor Zhang who accompanied him back to Beijing, it is said that when he served in Henan, the local people also set up a shrine for him!

The exhausted Xuanfu people began to despair, they no longer dared to count on foreign aid, they could only pin their hopes on the weapons in their hands, and the self-retreat of the Tartars, these barbarians were not good at attacking cities after all, and the walls of Xuanfu were still majestic.

So, they endured the hatred and fear of the Tartars, and tried their best to suppress it, so that they could not pay attention to those unfortunate compatriots outside the city walls, they knew very well that killing them would not only not save people, but also send themselves and the entire city of Xuanfu into it.

People who have been in the border towns for a long time know that killing civilians and captives to shake the morale of the army is the Tartars' forte, and while they are tormented and killed by small groups of men and horses, a large number of people and horses lurk around, they are like wolves on the steppe, but they are more ferocious and cunning than wolves.

On the last day of early October, the stalemate was broken as the clouds cleared and a long-lost ray of sunlight fell into the sky. Tao Jie, the deputy commander-in-chief, went up to the city wall in disheveled clothes, looking at the large puffs of smoke and dust rising from the west noodles, his heart was cold, are the Tartars going to attack the city with all their might? Can Xuanfu City withstand it?

"Quick, let people go to the city and put themselves in place, prepare the rolling wood and stones, and tear down the houses under the city wall, if the Tartars enter the city, who still wants to stay in the name of their lives, how can they still be reluctant to give up anything outside their bodies, quickly, go quickly!" After all, he is a general, although Tao Jie is not shocked, one order after another is sent out in an orderly manner.

It's just that he himself has no faith at all. Although the Tartars are not good at attacking cities, they eventually have 100,000 troops, and if they really want to attack, they will gnaw down hard. He didn't attack the city before, he only thought that the other party was afraid of casualties, so he didn't move, just tortured and killed civilians, trying to defraud the city.

But looking at this smoke and dust now, the other party is clearly from the whole division, is it because they are impatient? Looking at the old, weak, sick and disabled people who were running towards the city, Tao Jie was not sure at all.

"Brother Tao, otherwise we ......"

General Yang Yu's eyes flickered a little, and his voice was very low, although he didn't say the word down, but his meaning was still obvious, "Mr. Zhang has been martyred, and it has been almost a month since the emergency document was issued, and there has been no movement at all in the court. ”

"Yang Yu, what nonsense are you talking about? How can the emperor and the marquis be the kind of mediocre and ruthless people, and the reinforcements from the imperial court will arrive soon! It was the guerrilla Jin Ying who retorted, and now there are only three of them left among the generals of Xuanfu, and the rest of them all went to Shunshengchuan with Zhang Jun.

"Soon?"

Yang Yu hooked the corners of his mouth, and sneered: "Don't say that the Tartars are strong now, the imperial court may not dare to come if they are afraid of the enemy, even if they come, how can reinforcements arrive within a month?" It wasn't three or five hundred soldiers and horses who came, but tens of thousands of soldiers and horses from assembly to march, how could they arrive within a month? And the army of Tartars is just around the corner, how many days can we withstand it? ”

Jin Ying shouted angrily: "Don't say that you can't descend, even if you do, the Tartars are as cruel as ghosts, what do you use to guarantee the lives of the people in the city?" ”

"Anyway, it's a must-lose situation, let's keep a few of them." Yang Yuyin said testimoniously.

"You brute, you only care about your own life, but you want to betray the father and elders of the city, it is simply a loss of conscience."

"It's not me who has lost all my conscience, it's the court!" Yang Yu pointed to the east with red eyes, "General Zhang's attack is an order from the imperial court, it is the imperial court that has caused the lives of Xuanfu to be ruined, and it is the imperial court that does not send reinforcements, it is ......"

Halfway through the roar, he suddenly noticed that the eyes of his two colleagues were wrong. Since the beginning of the quarrel, Tao Jie has been listening expressionlessly, and he can't see what he is thinking; And Jin Ying's dead eyes were even more angry, his hands were already on the hilt of the knife, and Yang Yu was already on guard against the other party drawing a knife to cut people.

But at this moment, the expressions of the two were quite consistent, and they both looked at the east in a daze, as if there were reinforcements from the sky. Otherwise, at this juncture, even if it is a mountain of gold, it cannot be more important than reinforcements, what are they looking at?

Before he could turn his next thought, there were already sporadic exclamations in the city, and they had a tendency to expand, and the voices were full of surprise, as if they were ...... Are there really reinforcements? Yang Yu turned his head in surprise, in fact, there was no need to look at it, the rising smoke and dust certainly showed the number of reinforcements, which could also be seen from the low, but clearly audible singing.

"With a long sword, the Qin bow is carried away, and the first body is not punished......"

"It's the national mourning, it's our Ming army!" There are still a lot of scholars in Xuanfu, and at the juncture of the city's survival, there are also many scholars who have gone to the city and are ready to participate in the battle to defend the city. These people originally just wanted to do their best, and they didn't think they could help much, but what they didn't expect was that they helped witness such a scene.

Dr. Qu's national mourning, not only mourning the tens of thousands of unjust souls of Shunshengchuan, but also for the soldiers and civilians of Xuanfu who have been slaughtered since the Tatars entered the Kou, singing such a song at such a time, is there anything doubtful about the identity of the other party?

"It's the emperor who is here, it's the emperor who came to save us, look, look, that's the emperor's Yellow Dragon Banner!" In the ecstatic cry, everyone was suddenly like a dream, only to see that at the forefront of the fiery red ocean, a bright yellow flag fluttered in the wind, and a nine-clawed golden dragon scale claw flew on it, as if it wanted to break the picture, what is it if it is not the yellow dragon flag?

In the spring of three years ago, the people of Xuanfu sent away the holy driver, and many people thought that they would never see this banner again in this life.

But what no one expected was that at the most critical moment of the Xuanfu, this banner appeared again, with endless kindness and anger, and it came mightily!

“…… Cheng is both brave and martial, and he is strong and invincible. The body is dead, the spirit is the spirit, and the soul is resolute. The song was long, and the smoke and dust raised by the Tartar army had been seen from afar, but the imperial flag did not stop, and drove straight in, with high fighting spirit.

"Tartars, Tartars have retreated!" There was a sudden exclamation from the western wall, and the soldiers and civilians who were shocked by the momentum of the royal car turned their heads to look, only to see that the smoke and dust were the same, but the direction of travel was diametrically opposite, yes, the Tartars were indeed retreating.

"Hooray!"

"The emperor is mighty!"

Whether it's a dream or what, in short, the crisis has passed, and the emperor has appeared in Xuanfu again in the most incredible way, appearing in front of everyone, except cheering, what else can the people of Xuanfu ask for?

Several generals were a little dazed, and they escaped death, although their hearts were full of joy, but reason told them that the Tartars could not be frightened away so easily. Not to mention that the little prince may not know the identity of the commander of the reinforcements, even if he does, his response will definitely not be like this, but should be accelerated to kill.

In front of them is the great tomorrow, the most important strategic goal of the Ming Dynasty, it should be the most oily piece of fat in the eyes of the jackal, why would they give up? It's weird.

(To be continued)