Chenzhou, the place where soldiers must fight since ancient times, is said to be the capital of Fuxi and Shennong, and it is also the place where the Huangchao soldiers were defeated and sunk in the sand. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

During the Northern Song Dynasty, Chenzhou, as the capital of the heart of the Central Plains, was not outstanding, but with the Song Dynasty crossing to the south, as an important town in Huaibei, Chenzhou became the place where the Jin and Mongolia garrisoned heavy troops and coveted Huainan.

At the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Wen Tianxiang restrained the northern expedition of the troops and horses, and Boyan's southern expeditionary army and Shi Tianze's cowardly Xue army went south from Chenzhou and Xuzhou, trying to contain it, but was repelled by Ye Yingwu and the town navy after several bloody battles, and finally Boyan and Shi Tianze's troops retreated into Chenzhou one after another, and constantly strengthened the city defense of Chenzhou, making it a nail from Mongolia to Huaishui, and it was also considered that the Mongolian Southern Expeditionary Army and the Cowardly Xue Army were quite tricky, plus Yingchang Mansion and Caizhou were all messes, so Ye Yingwu did not order to attack Chenzhou, He even ordered the Tianwu Army, which had already entered the territory of Chenzhou at that time, to withdraw and not act rashly.

Ming and Mongolia peace, for the two countries tired of the long war in exchange for a respite, although Mongolia seems to suffer, but in fact, at the time of peace, Chenzhou and even the entire Heluo defense is not perfect, if the Ming army gritted its teeth and rushed forward, recklessly, Mongolia is really likely to lose the land of Henan, but the Ming will also be dragged down by the many state capitals in Henan.

It was during these months that the Mongols were actively consolidating the city of Chenzhou while drawing troops from the north. The original Chenzhou was destroyed because of the defeat of the Jin army many years ago and the Southern Song Dynasty Duanping into Luo, not to mention that the city walls collapsed, and even some places were overgrown with weeds, but now Chenzhou has taken on a new look, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the whole city is "impregnable".

And Chenzhou is one of the seven trade towns opened to the Ming Dynasty in Mongolia, so when repairing this important town, Shi Tianze, who already belonged to the old fox, did not spend much effort, and finally finalized the plan with Boyan, the whole Chenzhou is divided into the inner city and the outer city according to the original situation, of which the inner city is based on the old city of Chenzhou, and the city wall is heightened and thickened, and in order to minimize the effect of the flying thunder cannon, the inside and outside of the city wall are all paved with heavy blue bricks, and the inside is hard soil tamping.

As for the outer city, because of the water diversion of the moat, there are many rivers, which is already relatively chaotic, and the wharf and the place where the merchants and shops are concentrated are here, so Shi Tianze and the others simply gave up the outer city, so that even if the merchants of the Ming Dynasty come and go to find out the bottom of the outer city, it is not a big deal.

Because Chenzhou is the Huaibei salient, which directly threatens the flank of Yingchang Mansion, and is the place where the two Mongolian elites of the Southern Expeditionary Army and the Cowardly Xue Army are stationed, so the Ming Dynasty has always been cautious about it, Mongolia has adopted this way to isolate the merchants of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty has not reacted excessively to this, but it does not mean that for this Chenzhou, the Ming Jinyi Guard is helpless.

At the south gate of Chenzhou, the autumn sun sprinkled on his body, with the last trace of warmth, the Han family soldier leaning on the city gate stretched his waist and couldn't help complaining: "Zhang Zi, did you say that our general has a brain in the water, in the past two days, I have to catch some Southern Barbarian spies in the city, not to mention the chickens and dogs, we have to double the guard at the city gate." ”

"Who wouldn't say that!" Zhang Zi, who was in the shadow next to him, carefully looked around, and punched the soldier who had just spoken. "Stinky mouth, just say a few words, usually your mouth always doesn't say good things, and you don't want to think about what time it is!"

Picking at the outside of the city gate, Zhang Zi drooped his face and said: "Look at those Mongolians standing there without moving, it's been an afternoon, if they hear your words, it's enough for your kid to drink a pot!" ”

The stinky mouth shuddered, although he loved to complain, but he still knew that his life was the most important.

"You two, what are you muttering from there, come and see the city gates!" Shi Chang strode over, his face was pale, and he glared at the two people fiercely, "This city gate is divided into three gates, and the middle gate is the responsibility of the Mongolian lords, so let you take care of the small doors on both sides, if you dare to be lazy, see if you don't clean you up!" ”

The two soldiers hurriedly straightened their waists, and waited until Shi Chang left, Zhang Zifang exhaled softly: "Damn, if Shi Chang comes a little earlier, you kid will suffer!" ”

The stinky mouth was obviously frightened as well, and just as he was about to speak, a figure appeared in front of him.

The beggar came trembling and stinking, and he didn't know how long this person hadn't taken a bath, and he was wearing not so much clothes as a tangled rag, and the shoes under his feet had already opened up in front and back, so that the first people who saw it couldn't help but be glad that the shoes hadn't fallen off.

The beggar walked up to the stinky mouth with a cane in one hand and a broken bowl in the other, and flies and unknown insects swirled around in his hair like a bird's nest, and if he was not paying attention to it, these insects would pounce directly on the stinky mouth and Zhang Zi's face.

"Where did you come from, stinky beggar!" Zhang Zi couldn't help frowning, and several Shili soldiers behind him were hiding far away with their noses covered, "It's even more stinky than a stinky mouth!" ”

The stinky mouth snorted, obviously used to being ridiculed, and was too lazy to bother with him, but just looked the beggar up and down, covered his nose and wanted to come forward to search his body. The beggar looked at him a little puzzled, the bowl in his hand was raised, and there was a sound in his mouth.

"Fucking bad luck, it turned out to be a mute!" The stinky mouth couldn't help but snort.

The beggar didn't seem to understand what he was saying, but only made a monotonous ahhh

Finally found a step for himself, and waved his hand: "Get out, get out of the way, this kind of person can't speak, if it's a spy of the Southern Barbarians, hell be alive." ”

Zhang Zi also has the same mentality, in the past few days, the city has been hunting for spies, causing them to be afraid of guarding the city gate all day long, after all, those bold southern barbarians have no ability to fight the Mongolian cavalry on the street, but they definitely have the courage to show their knives with them. However, I heard that it seems that a lot of spies have been caught, and there have been no fish that have slipped through the net, so in order to calm the people, the city gate was finally opened today, but it was still heavily guarded at the city gate, and both men and women had to be searched.

But the rules of the body search are the rules, if it is a yellow flower girl, these people must all come up and touch them one by one, but in exchange for this deaf and dumb beggar covered in black mud and smelly, it is too late to hide far away, so it is better to hurry up and let him go.

The beggar was a little helpless, and when he saw these people standing at the gate of the city with their noses covered and urging him to leave, he immediately shook his head in disappointment and staggered away with his cane.

And when the figure of the beggar disappeared around the corner of the street outside the city, the stinky mouth couldn't help but snort: "What a fucking stinky ······"

The sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded, and the stinky mouth that was still complaining was grabbed by Zhang Zi, and the soldiers at the city gate ran quickly to assemble. Hundreds of Mongol cavalry came quickly, and the centurion in front of him grabbed the reins of his horse, carried his whip and shouted: "Have any of you seen a beggar out of the city?!" ”

"Beggars?" The three leaders of the team looked at each other.

And Zhang Zi and Stinky Mouth looked at each other in surprise, and they couldn't help but chuckle in their hearts.

Beggar? Wasn't the one who walked over just now a beggar?!

secretly screamed bad luck in his heart, and Zhang Zi and the others could only stand up: "General Qiyu, there was indeed a beggar who came to the city gate just now. ”

The centurion's face showed a hint of joy, and he stepped forward: "What does it look like?" ”

Stinky Mouth hurriedly leaned over: "It's dirty and smelly, and it's a deaf and dumb ······"

"What about people?!" Centurion Huo Ran held down the hilt of his sword, and the cavalry behind him also looked around cautiously.

Suddenly realizing something, the stinky mouth trembled and stretched out his hand to the city gate behind: "Out······ Go out of the gates······ went. ”

"Rubbish!" The centurion "snapped" a horsewhip and slapped it hard in the stinky face, "You let go of the biggest fish in the city, what a fucking shit!" ”

Before the words fell, the centurion had already taken the lead in rushing through the city gate, and hundreds of cavalrymen followed with billowing smoke and dust. And the stinky mouth covered his hot face, and slowly knelt on the ground, I don't know when, his crotch was already soaked.

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Picking up the teacup on the table and gulping down the tea, Yang Zheng breathed a long sigh of relief, and just wanted to wipe the water droplets under his chapped lips with his dirty and smelly sleeves, Chen Zhi had already handed over the clean handkerchief: "Commander Yang, please use it." ”

Although he didn't know what Chen Zhi said, looking at the young man's sincere eyes, Yang Zheng still nodded, hesitated for a moment and then took it, wiped it and folded it carefully, and then made a few gestures at Chen Zheng.

The brocade-clothed guard standing beside Chen Jiong was specially recruited to understand sign language, and hurriedly whispered: "Commander Yang thanks General Chen, but this time the situation is urgent, and there is no time to greet General Chen. ”

Chen Zhi was stunned for a moment, and then frowned: "In the past few days, the inner city has closed the city gates, and it is rumored that the people of Jinyi Wei have been arrested on a large scale, is this matter true?" ”

The brocade-clothed guard quickly gestured out, Yang Zheng nodded, slowly knelt on the ground, covered his face with his hands, tears flowed down his cheeks, and fell to the ground with a "snap", making a crisp sound. Chen Zheng was stunned, but he had already realized that things were not good, and he shivered in his heart, the man did not flick when he had tears, not to mention that he had also understood Yang Zheng's character before, he was an iron-clad man, and he restrained his personality on weekdays and rarely showed his mood, but at this time he was sad and cried, indicating that it could only be the worst plan.

Before Chen Jiong could come back to his senses, a soldier ran into the lobby quickly and said in a panic: "Qi Yu Hou, outside······ There are a lot of Mongolian Tatars coming outside, and they are calling for the door! ”

Chen Zhi instructed a few soldiers to help Yang Zheng go down, waved his sleeves, and said with a sneer: "The soldiers in the palace are assembled, and another signal is sent to tell the dock to be careful, so that they can act when they see the opportunity!" ”

"No!" A group of waiting soldiers in the lobby hurriedly answered.

"I want to see what this Mongolian Tatar wants to do!" Chen Zhihuo Ran walked towards the outside of the hall, "Crossbowman, come up to a certain top!" ”

There was a knock on the door, and several soldiers standing under the steps behind the door looked at Chen Bing in panic. Chen Bing waved his hand to tell them to retreat, and the crossbowmen of the brigade behind him had already come quickly, and ladders were set up on the high wall at the same time.

"Open the door!" Chen Zhi ordered in a deep voice.

The closed gate opened suddenly, and the bright light of the blade made everyone in the courtyard squint subconsciously. Hundreds of Mongolian cavalry, together with dense Han family foot soldiers, blocked the entire mansion, and rows of spears and sabers were already displayed.

Chen Jiong exhaled lightly, stood there motionless, and said in a cold voice: "I don't know what your country's soldiers are besieging the mansion, what are you doing?" ”

The Mongolian centurion who led the team pointed forward with a saber in his hand: "Someone watched your spies flee into the mansion, hand them over, and today you can avoid the two countries from fighting each other!" Otherwise, don't blame me for being polite and going into the house to get someone! ”

"Swords against each other?" Chen Wei frowned and waved his hand violently.

On the wall, rows of crossbowmen probe, the crossbowmen in their hands were neatly aligned with the Mongolian soldiers outside the wall, and the spearmen standing behind Chen Zhi also took a step forward, and the bright spears were raised at an angle to those Mongolian cavalry.

Without hesitation, one of the guards pulled out the signal fireworks in his hand, and the fireworks exploded in the sky.

A moment later, a firework exploded on the other side of the pier, and on the river directly opposite the mansion, several clippers arrived at a gallop, and at the bow of the ships stood soldiers with crossbows in their arms.

The Mongolian centurion was obviously a little jealous, but he just looked at each other angrily, not daring to move forward, after all, if he really moved, these divine arm crossbows in front and behind were enough to nail most of them directly to the ground. However, the matter has come to this point, and it can't lose its own prestige, not to mention that this is still in Chenzhou, which is on the territory of Mongolia:

"The two countries negotiated peace in order to be able to make peace for generations, and now you Ming people are often sending spies to spy on the reality of our Great Mongolia, Mongolia arrests these spies, what is wrong! General, you have to weigh it yourself, if you really do it, do you have the ability to get out of Chenzhou unharmed! ”

Chen Ji chuckled, stretched out his hand and pointed upward: "Have you seen this plaque, this place is sent by His Royal Highness the King of the Ming Dynasty to be in charge of trade between the two countries in Chenzhou, and it is also the land of the Great Khan of your country that is allowed to be assigned to my Ming Dynasty, in other words, this mansion is the land of my Ming Dynasty, without the permission of His Royal Highness the King or a certain person, if the soldiers of your country want to step into this mansion, they are declaring war on the Ming Dynasty!" ”

The Mongolian centurion took a breath of cool air, he naturally knew what kind of existence this mansion was, and looking at the Han people in this mansion, he was afraid that there were hundreds of people, and there were sharp weapons such as divine arms and crossbows in hand, with only a few hundred people under his command, it was not so easy to kill them.

What's more important is that once you enter the mansion, it is really equivalent to Mongolia not declaring war on the Ming Dynasty, and a small centurion who is guilty of this crime cannot afford it, and even Boyan and Shi Tianze in the city, how can they afford it?

But if you just don't move or even collect the troops in a gray way, not to mention the loss of your own morale, it is equivalent to giving the reality of Chenzhou City to others, after all, in the past few days, Chenzhou has been searching and arresting behind closed doors, and finally improved, but there are twenty or thirty Ming spies who have been caught, but according to the interrogation, the most important leader has slipped through the net, and then Mr. You Xuanfu You personally led people to search and arrest, and finally determined the identity of that person, who knew that the person actually felt the wind and grass, and fled before the Mongols pounced, So that Mongolia only caught a few small fish and shrimp around him.

If this person can't be caught, Mongolia will be busy in vain, because no one knows whether the cunning Ming people have set up two sets of teams in Chenzhou, and if they lose one set, they can use the second set, and when the city wall repair and soldier deployment in Chenzhou are repaired, they will still be explored clearly.

Looking at Chen Jiong, who was standing in front of him, the Mongolian centurion felt a headache, although this young man was a weak scholar, he was like an insurmountable barrier in front of him. It is no wonder that the Southern Barbarians would send such a person to sit in the most important Chenzhou Trade City, and he did have a bit of courage and was a man.

"Bring it up!" Suddenly, a cold cry was heard, breaking the deadlock.

The sound of horses' hooves was very crisp, and hundreds of cavalry were guarding a silver-armored general, and behind them were a string of ragged men, each of whom was covered with whip marks.

"It's the Jinyi Guard!" Chen Jiong's pupils shrank suddenly. (To be continued.) )