The news of the death of the captive chieftain Taiji was transmitted like a storm throughout the Ming Dynasty, from Guanwai to Beijing, and from Beijing to all parts of the Ming Dynasty.

Everywhere they passed, hundreds of people spontaneously set off firecrackers.

In the places with the loudest firecrackers, Beijing is the first, Nanjing is the second, but the third, but it is not a big city, but a small sea city by the sea.

The sound of firecrackers in Haizhou City has been set off for more than ten days in a row, and the siege of the city in the past few months has caused too deep an impression on the city, and even now many people will wake up in their dreams.

As a result, when I heard the news of the death of the Great Chieftain, how could I not be happy.

In the Qunying Temple of Qishan, there are rich pig and sheep offerings.

Xie Fei, an officer of the Xinjiangkou Water Battalion, who had been promoted to the flag chief, was also in the temple at this time.

Looking at the iron armor in the temple that was propped up with wooden frames, and there were still blood stains on them that were slightly blackened after drying, Xie Fei was very familiar with these iron armors, because these iron armors were worn by his brothers in the past.

After the Haizhou War, the Haizhou gentry, under the leadership of Song Lian, built this Qunying Temple on the halfway of the mountain, which was used to worship the hundred heroes who died in Haizhou.

Xie Fei came to Haizhou to recruit troops on Yang Chao's orders this time, because Xie Fei had trained and led a hundred Haizhou Minzhuang in the past, so he hoped to use his connections to recruit enough soldiers in Haizhou.

As soon as Xie Fei came, he heard about this Qunying Temple, and Xie Fei began to wonder why it was not built in the city, but on the mountain outside the city, and he only knew until the last question.

It turned out that when the Haizhou War had just ended, some people who went out of the city said that they often heard some strange sounds on the Qu Mountain, and at this time some people who had participated in the war thought of it. At that time, General Yang bombarded Qishan with an artillery, where were the thousands of captives buried, it should be the ghosts of the captives crying.

All right. Yang Chao shelled the camp of the captives, causing a landslide. has changed from the anger of the mountain god to the legend of Yang Chao cannoning the mountain and burying the captives.

As a result, it was deduced that there were powerful ghosts on the mountain, and this news was constantly confirmed by the people of Dachai, so for a while it was spread in Haizhou City, and no one dared to go up the mountain to fetch firewood for a while.

At this time, the gentry in the city were discussing the construction of a temple dedicated to the martyrs, so someone suddenly proposed that it should be different on the mountainside of Qishan. The location where the captives were buried, build this martyr's temple, and use the evil spirit of these martyrs to continue to suppress the fierce ghosts of the captives.

This proposal was approved by everyone, so they built the Martyrs' Temple on the middle of the mountain, which enshrined a hundred blood-stained iron armor, and at the same time there were tablets of these martyrs, and set up a temple to celebrate the day and sweep the worship, because the tablets dedicated to these 100 people, so it was called the Qunying Temple.

Xie Fei has come to this temple for the second time. The first time he came, it was when he had just arrived in Haizhou in early September, and he heard that there was this temple. Immediately came to worship the brothers who died in battle, this is the second time, because the Haizhou gentry jointly came here to worship, burning yellow paper to inform the martyr chief Taiji of the news of the death.

Huang Taiji died on the ninth day of August, and more than a month has passed since the news reached Haizhou.

Xie Fei set off from Nanjing on the first day of August and arrived in Haizhou on the third day of September, which also took more than a month.

It's September 28th, and it's been almost two months. But Xie Fei's recruitment did not go well.

In a few days, Xie Fei will set off. Yang Chao gave them a family for a month, and recruited soldiers in Haizhou for a month. Then, no matter how many people you recruit, you have to go back immediately.

Seeing that there were four or five days left, they would have to go back, but Xie Fei had only recruited about twenty people by himself, and the officers they came this time had only recruited four or five hundred in total.

"Hey, they're all heroes!"

Xie Fei was worshipping incense, when he suddenly heard the two people next to him sighing.

These two people are quite burly, and their every move is quite regular, Xie Fei immediately gave birth to a familiar feeling, this is a soldier who has received military training, and it must have received military training in the way of Yang Chao, and soldiers who have received military training from Yang Chao have certain rules for sitting, lying and walking.

But these two people obviously can't be Shuiying soldiers from Nanjing, so there is only one possibility, they are the people in Haizhou City during the Haizhou War.

"It's a pity that I died early, and I didn't hear the news of the death of the captive chief."

Another Minzhuang said.

After the two of them finished the incense, they were still on the futon below, and after kowtowing to the high shelf with a pair of iron armor, they shook their heads and withdrew from the Qunying Temple.

Xie Fei also finished burning the incense and quietly followed.

"The two brothers stay in the table!"

The two of them walked out of the temple gate, turned to the right, and arrived at the mountain road down the mountain, at this time Xie Fei stopped them.

The two stopped and looked at Xie Fei in surprise.

"The two brothers were once in Haizhou City, and they fought side by side with General Yang to defend against the enemy?"

Xie Fei said, arching his hand.

The two Minzhuang saw that Xie Fei was wearing muslin clothes, not an ordinary person, and there was a hint of heroism in his gestures, and they also arched their hands.

"Brother Tai has won the award, my two brothers just stayed in the city with General Yang for more than ten days, and I dare not say that they are side by side with General Yang."

When these two people talked about Yang Chao, their faces couldn't help but show admiration.

Xie Fei said with a smile: "The two brothers are laughing. Since he has fought against the enemy with Lord Yang, he is a hero. ”

The two of them were surprised at this time: "How can this brother recognize us?" ”

Xie Fei said: "But all the brothers who fought against the enemy with General Yang, I, Xie Fei, know it!" ”

The two people arched their hands and smiled awkwardly, which can be regarded as recognizing the title of this hero.

In fact, they did have a few days of heroic addiction, they are tenants in a nearby village, two brothers, their parents died early, fortunately, the two brothers have the strength to beg for food, but they just want to build a house and marry a daughter-in-law, that is a luxury, so they are over twenty years old, but both of them are single.

After the captives came to Haizhou, the two of them fled to Haizhou City with their landlord to hide, but the landlord had silver by his side, but the two of them were poor, and the prices in Haizhou rose day by day.

Therefore, the offensive and defensive battles and counterattacks that occurred in Haizhou later were all involved in the whole process, and because of this kind of deeds, after the two returned to the village after the war, they were flattered by a group of young people in the same village for a few days, but the days still had to be lived, and the landlord was afraid that the two of them would have too much prestige, so they desperately belittled them, saying that if it weren't for General Yang from Nanjing, they wouldn't be fart.

To say that they just followed General Yang to stand in the city for more than ten days is nothing at all.

In the era when foreign monks chanted scriptures, the villagers quickly believed what the only literate landlord said, and also decided that the two brothers had no great ability, otherwise why hadn't they seen it before, so their hero brother addiction didn't take long to finish, still facing the loess with his back to the sky in the ground to work for the landlord's family, otherwise there would be no food.

Xie Fei went down the mountain with the two of them, chatted together at the bottom of the mountain, and basically inquired about the situation of the two brothers and knew that they were not doing well.

So when they were about to separate at the bottom of the mountain, Xie Fei revealed his identity.

"Forgive me, the younger brother Xie Fei, the chief officer of the Nanjing Xinjiang Estuary Shuiying Banner, this time I was ordered by General Yang to come to Haizhou to recruit brothers who were born and died together in the past, and I hope that the two brothers will not give up, join our water camp, and go to Nanjing to join General Yang in the next place!"

As a result, as soon as Xie Fei revealed his identity, the two brothers were immediately dumbfounded, and the two of them showed off their attack in Haizhou for a long time, and the feeling was that Li Ghost met Li Kui, and the one standing in front of him was the real hero, and he was the warrior who really followed General Yang to kill.

The two couldn't help but be embarrassed: "It turned out to be Lord Xie, my brother has eyes and doesn't know Mount Tai, and Guan Gong has played a big knife in front of him." ”

After saying that, he was about to kneel down and salute, Xie Fei immediately helped them up: "You are right, and you are not bragging." General Yang said that it was his brothers who had shed blood with him, so he asked him to come down to find these brothers. ”

Hearing that Yang Chao actually sent someone to Haizhou to find these bloody people, the two brothers couldn't help but be moved: "Is that what Lord Yang really said?" ”

Xie Fei nodded.

This point is not made up by him, but by Yang Chao, the purpose is naturally to coax those people to Nanjing, anyway, the soldiers of the water camp, Yang Chao has always called them brothers.

The two brothers glanced at each other, and suddenly ignored Xie Fei's support and knelt on the ground.

"General Yang is benevolent and righteous, my brothers dare not disobey, and this life will be handed over to General Yang!"

To be honest, after being a hero, they returned to the village and they were a little uncomfortable to continue to live facing the loess with their backs to the sky, and at first they refused Yang Chao's solicitation, because after the war, they were suddenly full of a sense of happiness for the rest of their lives after the catastrophe, but after they really returned to the previous hard days, they were somewhat troubled in their hearts.

At least the two brothers chatted a lot, saying that if they had chosen to go to Nanjing with General Yang, would they have received a large amount of military salary now, and would they be able to get married at the end of the year, and said that if the military salary was not enough, they would marry the eldest first.

"Very good, very good! You should have been like this a long time ago, how can there be a reason for heroes to be coolies! ”

Xie Fei, who has always been unsuccessful in recruiting people, saw the attitude of these two people, and couldn't help but praise the information.

Yes, how can there be a reason for heroes to be coolies, before the two brothers arrived in Nanjing, they already had some feelings of being taken seriously, and they couldn't help but be very excited.

The so-called death of a confidant is precisely because of this feeling of being respected, which is too touching for those humble and ordinary little people.

"It was originally for General Yang to die!"

The two brothers said loudly, their voices were powerful, and they were like gold and iron.

Xie Fei helped them up, and then asked, "I don't know if you know any other people who used to kick the city?" (To be continued...... ）。