In Wei Changming's life, he had hundreds of confrontations with the Jin people, and the most famous of them were seven times.

On the last occasion, he forced the gold thieves all the way to the north bank of the Lur River, and even captured the leaders of four tribes alive.

However, at the last moment of the encirclement and suppression of Yu Kou, the veteran who was over 70 years old died suddenly in the camp.

Let this veteran die on the way to crusade against the Jinren, perhaps it is God's mercy on him and Jingzhou Wei. Such a brilliant feat, it is inevitable that the merit is too high. At that time, there were already Wenchen in Pingjing, asking for his military power to be cut off, and some people linked Wei Changming's Northern Expedition with the disobedience of the Wei clan in Jingzhou, and demanded a thorough investigation.

At that time, the gold thief was almost withering, and it was the time when the cunning rabbit died and the lackeys were cooking, and Pingjing was also in a dilemma, not only wary of a possible mutiny in the north, but also unwilling to do things to the end, leaving a reputation in history.

After Wei Changming's death, the imperial court was really relieved, and they immediately posthumously sealed the general with a state funeral; At the same time, all the garrisons north of the northern border were recalled, and a group of generals were replaced with a thunderous force, and people were boiling at the time.

Later, the imperial court ordered that all matters in the north should not be reported to Anjiang, and those who violated it would subvert the social opinion.

In the decades when Wei Changming was in charge of the northern army, there were many famous generals in the four northern states, and the vitality of the Jin people was greatly damaged, and the northern frontier of the Great Zhou Dynasty was exchanged for nearly forty years of peace.

More than 140 years have passed since this period of turmoil, and the dispute between Zhou and Jin began again almost a hundred years ago.

Time has passed, and the events of the year have gradually calmed down, but the subjects south of the Great Zhou River have really forgotten this legend that once chased the Jin people to the point of losing their armor.

But not in the North.

Compared with the posthumous title given to Wei Changming by the imperial court later, the people here still like to call him "Lord Wei", because he was originally illustrious, and he was already famous in Jing and Fu before joining the army.

Bai Ling read it in front of the stone tablet. When leaving, he folded his hands, bowed deeply in front of Wei Changming's stone stele, and then returned to the horse and caught up with Wang Meng and his party.

"Songqing is coming to the north for the first time, right?" Wang Meng asked immediately.

"yes, yes." Bai Ling nodded.

"Although there are ancestral halls of Lord Wei everywhere in the north, the place where Lord Wei was buried during his lifetime." Wang Meng said, "Do you know why? ”

Bai Ling shook his head.

"Looking at this place from both ends, it was selected and built by Lord Wei back then, and it was used as a camp for soldiers at that time, and then there was no war, and some people moved to this place." Wang Meng said softly, "The terrain here is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it can support Zhuo and Yanzhou; Retreat can be stored alone, waiting for the opportunity to move. ”

"I see...... Bai Ling looked back, and the city gate on both sides had long since disappeared from the mountains.

"I originally thought that four years after the ascension of the Ming Dynasty, the arrogance of the Jin people should be extinguished." She said in a low voice, "I didn't expect to be so arrogant in the past few years." ”

"You mean firearms?"

"Hmm." Bai Ling replied, "No matter how fast their horses run and how accurate their archers are, they can win the guns and firearms?" ”

Before the words fell, Xue Zi'an laughed on the side, "Who told you that only we have firearms...... There are also Jin people. ”

“…… Jin people also have? ”

"In the turnaround battle in the fourth year of Shengming, we fought beautifully, and a group of old thieves screamed...... But after two years, they had everything. Xue Zi'an smiled, "But our equipment doesn't have to be said, it's still much better than the earthen guns and earth cannons they made, at least the boreholes are not so frequent." ”

"This ...... How so? Bai Ling was still a little surprised.

She clearly remembered that the improvement of firearms by the imperial court was a matter in the last years of Jianxi, could it be that when the Zhou people refined firearms, the Jin people happened to be doing the same thing?

"Either they have capable people in their team, or there are ghosts in our team." Xue Zi'an half-opened his eyes and said softly, "I see—"

"Don't talk nonsense." Xue Ziping stepped forward with his eyebrows and walked on the other side of Bai Ling, "General Chang also investigated this matter a few years ago, but there is no conclusion. ”

"The inconclusive conclusion is that both situations may exist," Xue Zi'an muttered quietly, "I didn't say which one is true......

"The most suspicious thing in the army, have you forgotten General Chang's words?" Xue Ziping frowned and said, "We just need to be careful ourselves, being suspicious like this will only increase internal friction." ”

Xue Zi'an was silent, and silently followed behind his brother.

Bai Ling didn't ask any more questions.

After leaving Lord Wei's tomb, the speed of the march gradually increased, and the sky was overcast, and it looked like it might snow tonight. Wang Meng ordered to postpone the camp tonight, and make more travel while there was no snow and the ground was still good to walk.

On this section of the road, Wang Meng had an extra eye on the front line, and sent out scouts one more way - in addition to finding out what was going on on the main road ahead, Wang Meng also sent a special team to follow up the firearms transport team that was about four or five miles away from them.

From Tunlongpi to Zhuozhou is still in the territory of the Great Zhou, but the road from Zhuozhou to Yanzhou is equivalent to walking on the border of the Great Zhou.

Wang Meng's army was on the outside, and the ice road of the firearms transport team was on the inside, so it stands to reason that if they encountered an invasion, their side would react first, but in order to avoid accidents - even if it was like the previous situation that "the ice road is not yet frozen", Wang Meng still decided not to bow his head and hurry, and always be cautious.

However, it was about late evening that Wang Meng heard the faint sound of cannonballs coming from the south.

The first few sounds had not yet attracted everyone's attention, thinking that it was a winter thunderstorm, probably a sign of snow, but the cannon was rolling, and four or five times in a row rang out, and everyone realized that something was wrong.

However, the scout did not reply, and Wang Meng ordered the team to stop moving forward and personally ordered the team to lead the support.

Bai Ling stayed in the brigade, listening to the sound of artillery fire in the distance, and his heart was anxious for a while.

After about an hour, the fire from the south finally stopped, the sky was completely dark, the cold wind in the north was rising, and the silver-white snowflakes swirled in the hills.

Each of the soldiers received a thick felt cloak from the logistics, and everyone stood on the spot without lighting a fire.

No one spoke, and apart from the sound of the wind, only the neighing of horses sounded from time to time remained in heaven and earth.

After another half an hour, a hurried horse's hoofs came from the southern mountain road, and one of the soldiers called out, "Your Excellency is back!" ”

Bai Ling looked around and saw Wang Meng leading the team back, leading dozens of empty horses with a long rope behind him.

When they got closer, it became clear to him that they were not empty horses, but that each horse had a golden man tied to its saddle.

"Herald!" As soon as Wang Meng returned to the ranks, he immediately ordered, "The whole army retreats, be sure to rush back to the two sides tonight!" ”

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