At the beginning of the first month of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Jingnan Bo Cao Bianjiao and Ning Nan Bo Wang Tingchen set off to Liaodong to take office, at this time the two only had a total of 3,500 cavalry in the barracks, and 500 people in the new army, or the two towns combined. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

After returning to Yutian and Zunhua, the people of the two towns did not blame them, but said that if they recruited new troops again, they would also let the children of their families sign up enthusiastically to repay the kindness of the second marshal, so that Cao Bianjiao and Wang Tingchen would be grateful and ashamed.

At this time, the two were no longer able to recruit new troops, but only properly arranged the compensation of the casualties and the aftermath. They distributed all the pension silver given by the imperial court to the soldiers, as well as the 500,000 silver yuan sent by the Marquis of Yongning, which also helped them a lot.

This time, the new army under the command of the two was almost completely wiped out, with more than 5,000 casualties and missing soldiers. Fortunately, after they returned to the station, Li Jinpei, the chief comforter of Wang Dou's dispatch, sent 500,000 taels of silver, at least each family member could live without worry for a long time.

At that time, Wang Dou also asked Li Jinpei to bring a handwritten letter, in which he said that the new army was bloody for the country to kill thieves, and the front-line soldiers should not shed blood, but the rear was hungry and cold, and the family members had no food and clothing, so he sent 500,000 silver yuan to express his meager heart.

After reading the letter, Cao and Wang were very grateful, they owed Wang Dou a lot, but it was difficult to repay them, and these silver yuan were a charcoal in the snow for them.

Li Jinpei is a very kind middle-aged man, who used to be in the Korean army with Huang Shibian, and now he has been promoted to the position of chief consolation officer step by step. Huang Shibian's official luck is also good, after Chi Dacheng was transferred to the Ministry of Supervision. He was promoted to the rank of chief governor.

When he saw Cao and the queen, he privately persuaded the two to go to Monan, saying that if the second uncle was willing to go to Monan, the general would definitely write to the court, and the court would definitely agree to his recital.

The two also seriously considered Li Jinpei's persuasion, and if they went to Monan, they could indeed live in peace and live a leisurely life in the future. But his ideal is to go to the front line of killing slaves, so he politely rejected Li Jinpei's kindness, thinking about it, he felt even more guilty about Yongninghou. But I don't regret my choice.

In early spring, the northland was extremely cold. The army of the two towns parted, and the local people saw each other off, they wore robes and braved the wind and snow. A lot of people are reluctant to give up. Wept bitterly.

They were also at a loss. I don't know what changes will happen to Yutian Town and Zunhua Town after the two marshals leave. After all, not long ago, the second town almost mutiny due to the encroachment of the land, and in the incident, the new governor of Jiliao, Fan Zhiwan, was protecting the local gentry, and after the marshal went, they may have no support.

For this matter, Cao Bianjiao and Wang Tingchen were also the only ones who couldn't worry about it when they parted, the fields of the new army were promised to the soldiers, and they didn't want them to be occupied by others after they left, if so, how could they explain to the casualties?

Moreover, they had obtained permission from the imperial court, promising their families not to pay food for several years, and they did not want to leave by themselves, and the local government would do things that made them untrustworthy under various banners.

"Brother Cao and Brother Wang just rest assured, with Yang in Jizhen for a day, no one will dare to touch an inch of the new army's fields."

It was the Marquis of Jibei who spoke, Yang Guozhu, the chief soldier of Jizhen, Cao and Wang set off for Liaodong, and he personally brought Guo Yingxian, a general of the Chinese army, and some personal guards to see him off.

The daily hard work has made this veteran's wind and frost color stronger, and the hair color of his temples is even grayer, but he is still burly and stands as thick as a mountain.

At this time, Yang Guozhu was in a bad mood, Cao and Wang's subordinates were an important force in his Ji Town, the two of them were defeated, and now they went to Liaodong, and there were protective loopholes in the side wall that needed to be rearranged, but he also respected the choice of the two.

After he served as the chief soldier of Jizhen Town, he was busy training soldiers and horses all day long, repairing the side walls, and even more willing to follow his own style in Xuanfu Town at that time, and then train a batch of new troops to come out. It's just that the time has passed, and according to the current food and salary given by the imperial court, he can only barely maintain his 15,000 army unchanged, and with more soldiers and horses, he will be powerless.

He also wanted to emulate Wang Dou's practice of setting up a loyal battalion, but first, the generals of each battalion resisted and were unwilling, and second, how to settle the soldiers who had been laid off? Tuntian farming and arranging livelihood require a large number of food and salary posts, and these conditions are not available in Jizhen, so things will be delayed again and again.

Yang Guozhu knew that the reason why the new army under his command could be stationed in Jizhen with peace of mind was largely because Wang Dou took good care of his new army's fields. Comparing his heart to his heart, he also understood the anxiety in Cao and Wang's hearts, and he solemnly assured the two.

In the previous change in the two towns, Yang Guozhu stood on the side of Cao Bianjiao and Wang Tingchen, and even squeezed out 30,000 taels of silver from his own food and salary to compensate the families of the new army who received the casualties in Yutian and Zunhua two towns, which caused Fan Zhiwan and others to be displeased.

In addition to Wang Dou's support, he personally commented on the matter in the newspaper, and the matter became even bigger, Emperor Chongzhen dismissed many officials in Jizhen in order to appease Cao and Wang, and because of this turmoil, Emperor Chongzhen finally transferred the two to Liaodong at the request of the second uncle, which is considered to be the end of the matter.

This also caused more people to be dissatisfied, and afterwards there was a remark in Jizhen that "the new army is really a scourge of the Ming Dynasty", and I don't know who is secretly fanning the flames.

"Thank you Yang Shuai!"

With Yang Guozhu's assurance, Cao Bianjiao put his mind at ease, and the new army was almost wiped out, which was an eternal pain in his heart, and it also made him and Wang Tingchen feel that they couldn't live with the Xiangzi elders in Yutian and Erzhen.

Yang Guozhu assured that at least the families of these soldiers who fought for the country's blood can live in the local area with peace of mind, and they will have no regrets after they leave.

The army of the second town walked in the direction of Fengrun, and the dense people braved the wind and snow to see each other off, many of them cried silently, especially the hundreds of new troops who went to Liaodong with the second marshal, and their families even took their children by the hand and said goodbye.

When will I see my family?

Li Jinpei also rode a horse with Yang Guozhu, silently all the way, and walked to the edge of a sparse forest full of snow, the second marshal said goodbye to Yang Guozhu and Li Jinpei, Li Jinpei arched his hand wordlessly, with regret and admiration in his eyes.

Guo Yingxian muttered: "There are fewer people who can drink together......"

Yang Guozhu instructed like a brother: "When you go to Yizhou, Liaodong, you two must be careful......

Cao Bianjiao smiled and said, "Kill slaves, I want to." ”

Wang Tingchen also smiled heartily: "General Xiao Cao said it." It's something to say. ”

"Cherish all the way!"

Everyone said goodbye solemnly, and at this time, among the people who saw them off, more people wept, and their faces were blue from the cold, and their lips were purple, but they shouted: "Son, follow the handsome man and go to Liaodong to fight Tartar." ”

"Son, don't remember your mother's side, listen to the words of the handsome."

The wind was cold. Snowflakes swirled and fell. The soldiers in the ranks, covered in snowflakes, kept turning their heads, waving to their loved ones, and then disappeared into the snow. They resolutely headed east. The figure is lonely. Firmness!

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The fifteenth day of the first month of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen is the Lantern Festival.

Every year from the eighth to the eighteenth day of the first month, the Jingshi lights more than once, and the nine doors are not closed. The golden drum shook the sky, and there were thousands of people entering each gate from outside the city every day, all in the name of making Lantern Festival, and they did not come out.

There is a small town not far from Chaoyangmen in the east, because the Jinggi soldiers are not prosperous after Chongzhen 11 years, some towns near Jingshi are prosperous again, the town is also a resident has been making Lantern Festival, people come and go on the street, it is very lively, many children are holding lanterns and jumping around.

Near noon, a carriage suddenly galloped from the west road of the town, the vehicle was simple, it seemed to be seen everywhere, the front curtains and curtains of the special carriage were hung with extremely thick cloth barriers, and several capable attendants were guarding the car, and their eyes seemed to be quite vigilant to strafe the surroundings.

There were many people on the street, and all kinds of sedan chairs, horses' hooves, and singing were noisy, so after the carriage entered the town, it was extremely slow, Bao Cheng first picked up the corner of the curtain, looked outside the carriage, sighed, and lowered the curtain again.

He thought about his own affairs, and he came to the Southern Dynasty on the order of the emperor, and in addition to discussing peace, he also shouldered a series of important tasks. However, almost a year has passed, but there has been no progress in things, except for some conspiracies and intrigues, and fanning the flames, their own group seems to have no effect.

The emperor lost patience with him and summoned him back to China.

He calculates his gains and losses, and he doesn't know whether he will return to China this time and wait for him to be evil or lucky. Alas, he has no way out, and since the surrender of Jin in the Apocalypse year, he knows that he must go all the way to the end.

And recently, he still faintly felt that something was wrong, especially after he spread the rumor that "the new army is the scourge of the Ming Dynasty" because of the incident in Jizhen, he always felt that someone around him was secretly spying on him. has been doing meticulous spy work all year round, which makes Bao Chengxian's ominous premonition extremely effective, and he knows that he is being targeted by the Intelligence Department of Xuanfu Town.

They are more ferocious than Jinyiwei, but whether you are a messenger of a country or not, you dare to do it, maybe in the capital, they still have to take care of the face of the Ming Dynasty, out of the city, it doesn't matter if you are the king of heaven or Lao Tzu.

Therefore, in order to return to China safely, Bao Cheng first made a few preparations, a bait cart and horse set off from Dongzhimen with great fanfare, attracting the attention of people with intentions, and he quietly took Chaoyangmen, intending to go to Tianjin, and then cross the sea back to Liaodong.

However, for some reason, the feeling of uneasiness in his heart became even stronger, and then he laughed at himself that he was old, and there was no problem with his arrangement.

All the way he thought about his own thoughts, there was a fine stove in the carriage, which made the carriage extremely warm, but as soon as he lifted the curtain, the cold wind that penetrated deep into the bone marrow immediately came in, so that he quickly lowered the curtain, and was even more sad about his aging, and the saddle horse was not so afraid of the cold in the past.

The town is full of shops, full of lights, there are many pedestrians on the street, the horse-drawn carriage walks on the street, like a turtle, fortunately it will soon go on a stone bridge, the pedestrians on the bridge are quite scarce, and the horse-drawn carriage will be faster.

At this time, a middle-aged couple was talking and laughing and walked over from the bridge, the man was slightly fat, dressed like a member, and the woman was also a rich wife, holding a lantern in her hand, talking to her husband excitedly.

They came all the way, getting closer to the carriage, but looking at them, the guards next to the carriage didn't care, that is, ordinary Nanban rich merchants and their entourage. However, at this moment, Bao Chengxian couldn't help but open the curtains, and then when he saw this person, his eyes shrank.

Decades of meticulous work made Bao Chengxian instinctively feel that something was wrong, especially that woman, who was middle-aged, how could she still carry a lantern like a girl and a child? And he also keenly noticed that the woman seemed to make a move, and then there seemed to be a lead behind the lantern, and it sparked.

"It's ...... enemy of 10,000 people"

Bao Chengxian was so frightened that he wanted to scream, just to alert the guards next to the carriage.

It was at this moment that a mutation suddenly occurred. Seeing those elders approaching, they lifted their coats, pulled out of their waists, and all of them were handcuffs, and then rushed to the Bao Chengxian guards around the carriage and pulled the board machine.

"Bang bang" thick firelight and white smoke erupted, and in the continuous bang, screams, those guards were caught off guard, and clumps of blood came out of their bodies, and they screamed and fell backwards. Someone was even shot at the same time. He was also hit by the bullet and bled from his mouth and nose.

This time the rabbit rose and fell, and the panic changed so quickly that these people didn't react at all, that is, someone pulled out a hidden short blade. They can't match the speed of the bullets. In the blink of an eye, one by one. was knocked out in a pool of blood.

And the woman also rushed up quickly, lifted the curtain in front of Bao Chengxian's carriage, and threw the lantern-shaped ten thousand enemies in her hand into it. Then they all lay down together.

At this time, Bao Chengxian had just grabbed a handgun next to him, and when he saw something thrown in, he screamed loudly, and there was a loud bang, and the pedestrians on both sides of the stone bridge were all startled, all of them were afraid to ask what happened, and some people ran in panic, calling for their children and daughters.

And on this side, a retinue looked like a big man quickly got up, he grabbed a step and opened the broken carriage, and pulled the bloody and dizzy Bao Chengxian from the inside, seeing that he was bleeding from his mouth and nose, but he didn't seem to be out of breath, and he said to the man dressed outside: "He Ye, these two Tartars are not dead yet." ”

The person dressed outside the staff was He Jian of the rescue team in the past, this big Han people, etc., but it was Cui Qi people of the traitor removal team, He Jian shouted in a low voice: "It's just right that he is not dead, take him away......"

Immediately, the group cleaned up neatly, someone was responsible for carrying Bao Chengxian into a carriage under the bridge, and someone was responsible for stabbing these Tartar guards in the heart again, preventing them from dying completely, it seemed that within a few breaths, they disappeared, and when someone in the town was brave enough to walk to the stone bridge, what they saw ......

Dizzy and in severe pain, Bao Chengxian finally woke up and found that he was tied up, but in an unknown house, looking at this deserted appearance, it seemed to be a deserted village, Bao Chengxian's heart sank, and what he was most worried about finally happened.

The whole body was hot, the ten thousand enemies made him hurt a lot, he shook his dizzy head, trying to see the surrounding scenery clearly, a large guillotine knife was placed in front of him, shocking, and then the people he saw on the bridge, all of them looked at each other, which made Bao Chengxian creepy.

An incomparable chill swelled in his heart, as if he saw the fate he was about to face, he hated why he didn't die at that time, but the instinct to survive made him anxious about what to do.

He whined for a while, and finally his voice became clearer: "This official is a scholar of the National Secretariat Academy of the Qing Dynasty...... The right senator of the Ministry of Officials of the Great Qing Dynasty was sent to the Southern Dynasty by the order of the emperor of the Northern Dynasty...... The two countries exchanged troops, and they did not cut them off...... You wait, you wait......"

"Scholar of the National Secretariat Academy of the Great Qing Dynasty?"

Someone laughed, but it was Cui Qi who stepped forward, slapped Bao Chengxian's right cheek, and slapped it heavily on Bao Chengxian's right cheek, with an extremely loud snap, which made Bao Chengxian's body turn over, and then rolled to the ground, his mouth and nose were bleeding and stained with dust, and his face was gray, and even a few teeth were loose and fell out.

"What kind of secretary is a university scholar, a member of the right senator of the Ministry of Officials, and he is not a Tartar dog? …… A dog dares to put on a shelf in front of Lao Tzu and others? ”

Bao Chengxian whimpered on the ground and struggled, He Jian looked at him coldly, without the slightest pity in his eyes.

He slowly took out a roll from his arms, took out a piece of paper from it and read: "Today, there is a national thief Bao Chengxian, who was originally from Yingzhou, Shanxi, and was the deputy general of the Xinyong Battalion on the original road, and ignored the national favor in the second year of the Apocalypse, and sent slaves and thieves to the army, and then aided and abused him, and committed all kinds of ......crimes."

He read unhurriedly, despair surged in Bao Chengxian's heart, he knew what was waiting for him, he wanted to bite his tongue and kill himself, but Cui Qi saw his thoughts, came up, and lifted his chin, so that Bao Chengxian could only watch.

“…… Bao thief's crime is extremely heinous, the crime is unforgivable, by the emperor Ming Yongning Hou Dou, the order of the general, now Bao Cheng will be punished first, and the punishment of beheading will be corrected, in order to correct the prestige of our country! ”

Bao Chengxian's face was fierce and frightened, he struggled frantically, but any struggle was useless, he had to watch himself being dragged under the guillotine, lying on the cold chopping board, and his jaw was removed, and he could only let out a silent scream.

Then when He Jianyi waved his hand, Xue Liang's guillotine knife cut him in two, and at that moment, Bao Chengxian's soul seemed to be screaming and howling in pain.

Moments after he was cut in half, Trikey straightened his chin again, and then everyone listened to Bao Chengxian's earth-shattering howl, which was terrible and indescribable, as if he was experiencing the most unbearable pain in the world.

And this kind of pain, Bao Chengxian has been enjoying it for an hour, as for what he thinks about this process, whether he regrets it or not, it doesn't matter.

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Old White Cow: I was a little irritable yesterday, and I will continue to update it today, how should I still be it, and write my own seriously. (To be continued.) )