The north wind blew the lanterns on the city, and the old soldiers guarding the city covered their ears and squatted in front of the stove to keep warm. The firelight distorted by the cold wind did not bring much heat, and there was still some warmth on the chest and face, but it was already cold on the back. The old soldier shrugged his shoulders, moved the frozen shoulder blades on his back, and muttered a little song in his mouth, for fear that he would never be able to open them again as soon as he closed his eyes.

These days, several old soldiers defending the city have frozen to death.

"Is there anyone on the castle tower? Come out one! "At some point in front of the city, three or five carriages came with lanterns made of Korean paper.

The old soldier faintly heard someone shouting, popped up, glanced down, and shouted: "It's still early to open the city!" Don't wait here! Let's go to the city and find a place to live! "As cities get bigger, so do the populations. As a strategic defensive facility, the walls could not be expanded at any time as the population grew. So there was a castle outside the city walls.

Some of these castles are also protected by low walls, and there are castle gates. Some are exposed, but the houses are in good order, and they are by no means a swarm of bees built haphazardly. In the late Ming Dynasty, there was no big difference between the city and the city, but it was slightly inferior in terms of security.

But the man under the city refused to leave, and shouted loudly: "We are the family of General Bai!" Open the door! ”

"Mr. Bai?" The old army muttered in his mouth and said to himself: "Even if the emperor Lao Tzu comes, he can't just say it." This is the city gate, should it be your guest house? He turned around, ignoring the babbling of the people in the city, and continued to warm himself by the fire.

"What's the matter?" The armor-clad general walked out of the castle tower and took a breath of wind.

"General Wang!" The old soldier hurriedly got up: "It's a few outsiders, who say it's Bai Zongbing's family, shouting to get out of the city gate." ”

General Wang didn't say much, walked to the female wall, and pressed down with his hand on the brick. Before he could see the figure below. His hand was already frozen by the wall tiles, so he quickly pulled it back.

"We are the family of General Bai General Guangen! Open the door! The housekeeper under the city gate shouted unrelentingly.

General Wang glanced at it, retracted his head, and casually ordered: "Come on, go and fetch the hanging basket and put one up." ”

Opening the gates without permission is a felony punishable by beheading. Even this General Wang did not dare to do such a reckless thing. Thinking about it, this is common sense, how can the family of the chief soldier not know? There must be a demon when things go wrong, and catching a demon for a long night is also an interesting thing.

The family member who claimed to be Bai Guangen's family was quickly hanged up, and when he saw General Wang's armor, he fell to his knees with a pop: "General! Have mercy and open the doors. ”

General Wang stabbed him with his saber and asked calmly, "Your general can't open this door in person, understand?" Tell me what's going on. What kind of road in the middle of the night? ”

The family shook from side to side, and when they saw that they were surrounded by officers and soldiers armed with spears, they suddenly cried loudly: "General, just let us go!" Li Thief has already hit Tongguan! ”

General Wang's heart was shocked, but his face seemed to be frozen by the wind and frost, and he squeezed out a voice from between his teeth and said, "When did the Li thief attack the city?" Where is it now? ”

"When we came out, Li Thief hadn't attacked the city yet, but later a family member caught up and said that Ma Shiyao, the general of Li Thief, attacked Tongguan early yesterday morning!" The family cried: "I don't know what happened to Tongguan now." My lord has been resolute and brave all his life, and he will definitely charge forward. Maybe now...... Woo, sir! ”

General Wang turned around and walked straight into the tower. He threw out a sentence lightly: "Don't howl, if I don't say open the door, the door of Xi'an City won't be opened." ”

"Please be gracious to the general!" As soon as the family Ding shouted, his voice was already swallowed up by the north wind.

General Wang returned to the castle tower. The guards behind him followed in one after another, and immediately occupied this small area. The hot breath exhaled by many generals also made this cold shijie a little hotter.

"Tongguan ...... fought yesterday," General Wang sat down on his general's seat, "who is going to find out where the thief is now." ”

"The last will go!" Under the mark, a capable man stood out. Vibrating sounds.

General Wang nodded and said, "Go and return quickly, don't delay on the way!" ”

"Yes!"

The door opened, and the north wind rushed in. The soldiers behind the door closed the door hard, cutting off the retreat of the cold wind.

General Wang sat in the seat, closed his eyes and recuperated, as if an old monk had settled down. His heart was churning: Li Zicheng finally knocked on the gate of Tongguan.

A year ago, he expected Li Zicheng's army to come earlier, in order to go into battle to kill thieves and fight for the merit of sealing his wife and son. And now, he no longer believes in the myth of the virtuous and virtuous emperor. His deployment made people die of starvation every day, and the King of Qin in Zhumen was unexpectedly unexpectedly unexpected! Who in the whole of Shaanxi doesn't know that his family is rich! But he could just bear to watch the sergeants freeze to death and starve to death! What else is there to work for this group of people surnamed Zhu!

……

"Pull me up! Military Emergency! Under the south gate of Xi'an, someone came on horseback and shouted loudly.

The defenders of the city had not yet slept, and when they heard the call, they hurriedly put down the hanging basket and pulled the man in the costume of the Ming soldier below. When the man was exposed to the lights, the defenders at the head of the city were surprised. For no other reason, this man was strong and clean, and his fat jacket was neat and tidy, which was in stark contrast to the beggar-like defenders of the city.

"I'm from the East Palace Guard Battalion!" The man took out his seal letter: "The left military headquarters does not accept it at night. ”

A literate general came out of the building, and after a careful inspection, it was indeed correct, so he said with a smile: "This brother is hard, why don't you sit inside for a while and warm up?" "He wants to find out about the military, so it's convenient to be prepared. Ordinary Tanma will not refuse for the sake of the furnace spirits, but this East Palace guard is extremely unkind.

"The military situation is here, can it be delayed? Find a horse, I'm leaving! "I don't rush at night.

"Listen to the accent, the eldest brother is from Yulin, right?" Some people use Yulin accents to set up nostalgia.

It was the Qin soldiers who followed Sun Chuanting out of the customs this night that they did their old jobs again after retraining. For a person like him, who has been out of the army and hasn't heard from his hometown for too long, as long as he meets a fellow countryman, he can't help but ask a few questions. However, at this moment, the military discipline in the East Palace Drill Ceremony echoed in his mind.

"Prepare the horses! Less nonsense! He straightened his face and ran downstairs with a scolding.

This emergency military information was finally sent to the Qin Wangfu without delay.

The secretary of the East Palace, who was on duty, finally waited for the opportunity to wake up the crown prince, and entered the prince's bedroom accompanied by the guards. Zhu Cihong sat on the bed and took the military emergency report, which was written in black and white: "At noon on the third day of December, the thief broke through the Tong Pass. ”

"I didn't accept the military report from Tongguan at night, and I hurriedly brought it back." The staff member on duty explained.

Zhu Cihong nodded and sighed: "Li Zicheng chased really hard this time, the Tongguan that broke at noon yesterday should be in Weinan now." ”

Weinan is between Tongguan and Xi'an, and it is almost a two-day itinerary between the two sides. Li Zicheng's Zhongquan guards mostly had horsemen, and the marching speed would be higher. However, it is precisely because of the horses that night attacks are unlikely. Because of the poor road conditions and shili, horses can easily break their legs at night.

"Since Li Zicheng is here, let's go!" Zhu Cihong put on his clothes and stood up: "Convene the East Palace Guard Battalion to discuss the military meeting of the officers above the general level!" ”

"Your Highness, the matter of worshipping Zhang Zi tomorrow ......"

"As usual!" Zhu Cihong said in a loud voice.

……

On the 4th day of December, in the morning, there was fog.

A large banner was unfurled in the thick fog, and it seemed that there was no end in sight.

Yang Xuan, the county governor of Weinan, a native of Wanquanwei, a native of Shanxi Wanquanwei, was a member of Gengchen Kejin in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, and this was his Zuihou year in Weinan. As long as this year passes, or is promoted to Beijing, or transferred to the local level, he will not continue to stay here. However, at this moment, Yang Xuan could only stand at the head of the city and let the cold wind blow away all his thoughts.

Li Zicheng is about to attack the city.

Yesterday, news came from Tongguan, saying that he was trapped in a thief. That night, there were routs coming towards Weinan, and God knows how they could run so fast. Maybe he took an unknown path, or maybe he fled without waiting for the thieves to attack the city.

As the magistrate of the county, Yang Xuan has the responsibility to guard the land, so naturally he will not open the city and let him go. The routs plundered and slaughtered outside the city and fled to Xi'an. Yang Xuan summoned the children in the city and personally went to the city wall to supervise the battle and prepare to defend against the enemy. With the sword that hangs in the study all the year round to ward off evil spirits, he struggles to stand up straight in the wind, his lips are chapped, and he looks at this liliang that can raze the whole of Weinan to the ground.

Bang!

The sound of cannons rang out, followed by the thunderous sound of drums.

The thieves have attacked the city.

"Kill thieves and serve the country, right now!" Yang Xuan drew his sword, pointed diagonally to the sky, and shouted loudly: "May those who go with me to the dead are all my brothers, and the emperor and the queen of heaven will learn from it!" ”

"Kill thieves to repay the country!" The disciples were impassioned and shouted loudly with Yang Xuan.

All of a sudden......

The thieves were divided into two groups, one of which headed for the west gate.

Yang Xuan had never been in the battle array, and he was a little surprised, not knowing what medicine was sold in the thief's gourd.

"The king has opened the door and dedicated the city! The king raised people to open the door and dedicate the city! ”

The shouts of the county officials were heard in the distance.

The county seat of Weinan was like a leaky boat, filled with the blue-gray soldiers in the camp when it landed.

It was only a moment's effort, and there was no one standing next to Yang Xuan. Because he was wearing an official uniform, he was recognized by the thieves as a county order, and he tied his hands behind his back and escorted him to Li Zicheng.

Yang Xuan saw the one-eyed Li Zicheng, and thousands of thoughts flashed through him, but in the end, he fell on the words "kill and become benevolent". He wanted to study hard in the cold window, but he only did one term as a county order and never had a chance to show it, and he was even more sad, and scolded angrily: "The king's fate! You thief who eats inside and out! You are not a son of man! Li Zicheng! You thief! You have caused the destruction of your ancestral graves, and your ancestors have suffered forever because you have been cut and burned in the ground! You damn thief ......"

"Killed." Li Zicheng gently pressed the newly made black cotton blindfold, and said secretly in his heart: It's a pity that he is still a non-commissioned officer. (To be continued......)

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