After passing through the wide river, I heard Shi Lu say that the front is the right guard of Dongsheng, after passing through the right guard of Dongsheng is the Shimen River, the Shimen River is only a few miles away from Zunhua City, the Shimen River flows down from the upstream Shimenyu, and flows into the Pear River through the tributaries here. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info Xiao Yi and a few people rode their horses to stop, looking at this huge guard from a distance, in Xiao Yi's eyes, this is already a behemoth.

Dongsheng right guard was built in the Hongwu period, one of the sixteen guards of Hongwu. In the 37th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, the South Pass was rebuilt and added. I saw that the castle is diamond-shaped, covers an area of wide and soft, east and west are about a thousand meters long, the north and south are also nearly a thousand meters wide, the south and north two gates, the south is the Ying'en gate, and the north is the Dongsheng gate. The city wall is covered with rammed bricks, the base of the wall is made of stone, about eight meters high, about three meters wide at the bottom, and about one meter wide at the top. All kinds of buildings in the city are in good order.

If the previous Daankou was just a strong pass on the outside and empty on the inside, this Dongsheng right guard was a real city in the late Ming Dynasty. Dongsheng Right Guard was originally supposed to garrison 5,600 Ming officers and soldiers, but due to years of land annexation and insufficient military salaries, there are now less than 2,000 people left, and there are about 3,000 household registrations, and the commander is Li Yu. The commander of the Ming Wei is a three-rank military position. From the command of Sanpin, the two of them are brothers, and they are hereditary military households, so this Dongsheng right guard seems to be the only one of them.

Now that Houjin is raging, the two of them are closed every day and let the commander of the Houjin army drive the persecution of the people, because they are afraid of punishment, they don't even report it, they just keep the city behind closed doors all day long, and they don't want to fight here after Jin, and the officers and soldiers in the city are panicked all day.

"Xiao Yi, this is Dongsheng's right guard." Shi Lu also looked at this dangerous city road. Xiao Yi nodded, the shock in his heart was still difficult to subside, is there such a city still afraid of the Tartars attacking? My Han family has made such remarkable achievements in construction, and has built such a strong city, I am afraid that there are still many such strong cities.

"Hey, it's just that the commander here only knows that he can't go out, and even the people at the door don't dare to open the door to rescue them and let them be slaughtered by the Tartars." Shi Lu's words were also extremely disappointed. Xiao Yi asked, "Who is the commander here?" ”

Shi Lu replied: "The commander Li Yu and the commander Li Zhengran, the two of them have long regarded the city as their own place. Xiao Yi nodded, indeed, this environment is indeed enough for them to be an earth overlord here, after having some understanding of the situation here. Xiao Yidao: "Let's go straight to Zunhua!" ”

Shi Gang asked, "Aren't you going to defect to the official army?" Why don't you just defect to the officers and soldiers here? Xiao Yi shook his head and said: "Then it depends on what kind of people are worthy of our service, such people are like ants, and they are really not worthy of our brothers." Shi Gang smiled: "Well, listening to Brother Shilu's words, you know that these two people are not good things, and their courage is smaller than Liu Tong, haha." ”

Liu Tong was also embarrassed for a while after hearing this, pretending not to hear, Wang Dayong patted Liu Tong's shoulder while laughing.

Xiao Yi and the others did not stop, and galloped through the north gate and Dongsheng Gate.

Several officers and soldiers at the head of the city heard the sound of horses' hooves below, and thought that it was a Tartar attack, because the officers and soldiers rarely matched horses except for the generals. One of them immediately exclaimed, "Look! Is it a Tartar?! The officers and soldiers at the head of the city looked down one after another, but they didn't seem to be Tartars, only two people were not wearing the tattered clothes worn by the people, and only two were wearing mandarin duck battle jackets. If you look closely, the people below are actually one person and two horses.

"It's not a Tartar, it seems to be one of our own, and look at two of them in our clothes."

"There's a big army of Tartars ahead, and they're looking for death?"

The other sneered, "You don't care what you do, let's just guard our gates, and what else it does." ”

"That's right! No matter who is fighting fiercely, it must not be able to beat the Tartars, as long as we don't go out, it will be fine, but it's a pity that these dozen strong horses. The meaning of the words is that the lives of Xiao Yi and the others are not as good as horses.

Xiao Yicai didn't know what the officers and soldiers on the city wall thought, his thoughts had already flown to the battlefield where the fierce battle was raging ten miles away.

"Kill the Bright Dog!" An ugly Tartar with a pigtail tied to the back raised the steel knife in his hand and roared, and tens of thousands of Tartars in the back rushed up in a hurry, and the Tao was also quite powerful. At this time, tens of thousands of cavalry had already surrounded the 4,000 cavalry taught by Zhao Rate, and tens of thousands of people were fighting fiercely in the middle, but there was still a cavalry of tens of thousands of people in the rear who did not move at all.

The first person, dressed in a full body armor inlaid with yellow flags, like Huang Taiji, only showed a pair of big eyes with sharp eyes, and was guarded by more than 200 Baya soldiers like the moon in the middle, this person was Houjin Bel Azig. The later Qing Dynasty and Prince Shuoying.

Azig is the twelfth son of Nurhachi, brave and good at fighting, and in the eleventh year of the Later Jin Mandate, he conquered the Khalkha, Bahrain, and Zarut tribes of Har Mongolia, and was awarded Baylor for his merits.

Azig rode on his horse, revealing a playful look from his eyes that was only exposed, and watching the desperate fight of the Ming army in the middle, his mood was always the happiest. With his eyes tightened, Azig saw Zhao Shujiao, who was wearing the iron armor of the Ming Dynasty in the center of the battle group. A wave of hatred hit his heart, it was this person, who killed his relatives in Jinzhou City in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, and Azig had always wanted to kill this person.

In May of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the Houjin soldiers besieged Jinzhou, led the Jiao to defend the city, and fired artillery bombardments, the Houjin soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and the Azig department suffered heavy casualties. After holding out for 24 days, the Houjin soldiers were defeated and retreated.

Although Zhao Shujiao is sixty years old, he is old and strong, compared to some young and strong young men in their twenties. At this time, Zhao Shujiao was already covered in blood, the original shining iron armor was also covered with bloodstains, and the steel knife in his hand was also red.

Zhao Shujiao slashed to death a Tartar with teeth and claws, and turned back to the deputy general Du Ruhua and shouted: "Ruhua, this general orders you to immediately lead my personal guard battalion to break through to the right guard of Dongsheng!" Du Ruhua didn't look back and slashed with the Tartars, it seemed that he didn't hear Zhao Shujiao's words at all. Zhao Shujiao was not surprised, dodged the sneak attack of a Tartar, carried Du Ruhua into the protective circle of the guards, and yelled at him: "I order you to break through immediately!" If it's too late, you, my brother, will all die here. ”

Du Ruhua was also not to be outdone, and shouted: "General! The last general has accompanied you from the first year of the apocalypse to the present, hundreds of battles, large and small, for more than 30 years, and there has not been a single escape, so let the last general accompany you to fight this last time! Zhao Shujiao was a little choked up when he heard this, "Could it be that I, Zhao Shujiao, am going to die here?!" No, I will never die until I kill all the Tartars! ”

Zhao Shujiao took off his iron helmet, helped Du Ruhua up, and said: "Okay, let you and my old brother fight together for this last time, kill the captive!" The two shouted and rushed into the sea of Tartars. The surrounding officers and soldiers seemed to be infected by the courage of the two old generals, Zhao Shujiao and Du Ruhua, and they all became extremely brave, and they all rushed to kill without hesitation.

An officer and soldier rushed over to face four or five Tartars and was not afraid, flew up and knocked down a Tartar, because of the large number of Tartars, the knocked down Tartars instead brought down two Tartars behind him, the soldier raised a steel knife and pierced through the chest of the fierce Tartar, turned to look for the next target, suddenly his chest was also pierced by a spear, unwilling to fall on the body of the Tartar who had just been killed by himself.

Another officer and soldier immediately rushed up and kicked a Tartar, pounced on it with both hands and mouths, and actually bit off half of the face of a Tartar, and the Tartar screamed in pain, but was cut into pulp by two Tartars in the back. Under the leadership of Zhao and the two people, only more than 2,000 officers and soldiers were left to beat the eight or nine thousand Tartars in the war group and retreat one after another, and there was already a bit of a collapse momentum.

Azig looked at the battlefield unhurriedly from behind, obviously a little surprised when he looked at the changes in the battle group, but said lightly: "Hmph, these Mongols are really not forbidden, eight or nine thousand people can't beat two thousand." ”

Baya Lazhangjing behind him opened his big mouth and said, "Baylor." Let's go up, I can kill this Ming army with only 200 men! Azig glanced at the two hundred eager Baya soldiers, and laughed: "No, no, no, the Ming army still doesn't need you to go out of the horse, worship!" ”

Then came a tall Tartar, and I saw that this man had a fierce face, and a long scar that ran through half of his face. Ao Bai stepped forward and bowed: "Baylor, Ao Bai is here." ”

Azig asked a little playfully, "Aobai, have you seen that person, he is Zhao Shujiao." If I ask you to kill that Zhao Shujiao, how many people can you use? ”

Ao Bai didn't look at the battle group, but said, "A hundred people are enough!" Behind Azig, Baya Lazhangjing glanced at Aobai, and when he saw Aobai, he immediately shifted his gaze to the battlefield.

After hearing this, Azig laughed and said, "It deserves to be the first Baturu!" Go ahead and bring me the head of Zhao Shujiao! I dedicate it to the emperor! ”

Ao Bai nodded, and only a hundred people from the tens of thousands of Houjin cavalry around him rushed towards the battle group that was in full swing.