By this time of the battle, Dingbian City had been completely unrecognizable.

As far as the eye can see, there are ruins and broken walls, and there are almost no intact city walls. If it weren't for the Han people's own mason skills and constant tinkering, this place would have become a ruin long ago.

In fact, it looks like a ruin now. Unkempt and black, the soldiers who were no different from beggars sat on the rubble-strewn women's wall, all with numb expressions and straight eyes.

This long and brutal battle has completely drained their physical strength, energy, and even their feelings, and even when they saw the Lord coming to inspect, few of them stood up.

"All ......" The hundred households on duty were about to give an order, but Hu Quan waved his hand and said in a hoarse voice:

"No need, when is it, save some effort for everyone."

"Hey." The hundred households nodded, and also sat on the ground.

Hu Quan pointed to the dirty bandage on his leg and asked, "How are you feeling today?" ”

"Much better." The hundred households wanted to laugh, but they didn't quite obey the call, and in the end they just bared their teeth. "Thanks to the miracle medicine of the military hospital, in the past, I couldn't save an injury like this."

"Yes, without His Royal Highness King Zhou, we might all be dead." Hu Quan nodded approvingly. Since the beginning of the war, who in the whole army has not been injured? Even he, the main general, has been wounded several times, and the heaviest one is in the left shoulder, and the bones are deep in the bones.

Fortunately, the Military Medical Department of the Imperial Medical Temple has developed a variety of wound drugs over the years, among which a yellow injection is the most magical, the wound is cleaned, and a needle can basically avoid infection.

"Uncle, I heard from the doctor at the first-aid station that the medicine has run out?" A soldier suddenly asked.

"Yes." At this time, Hu Quan didn't hide it, nodded and said, "The commonly used medicines have been exhausted." ”

"We've been eating horse meat for days, and we've run out of food, right?" Someone else asked.

"Three more days." Hu Quan smiled bitterly and said, "After three days, don't throw it back if you kill the enemy." ”

The "......" soldiers were terrified, and they had only heard from their fathers that they had been short of food to the point of eating people. But now it is the eighteenth year of Hongwu, and this generation of Ming troops has no such terrifying experience.

"Uncle, have you ever eaten someone?" Another sergeant asked Hu Quan.

"......" Hu Quan was stunned for a moment and shook his head: "No, Hongdu was a big city back then, and you can always find something to eat." ”

After a pause, he diverted the topic and said, "Don't worry, I'll be the first to come when the situation really comes." ”

"......" But such an answer did not comfort the soldiers, and some sergeants couldn't help but ask: "Uncle, how long are we going to keep it?" ”

"It's coming." Hu Quan looked back and saw the Lancang River behind Dingbian City. The river is surging, and there is not a single boat in sight......

"It's almost time again, how many times have you said it? Why didn't I even see the shadow of a reinforcement. And the soldiers complained. The numbness brought on by war is all-encompassing, including the disregard for superiority and inferiority.

"Trust me, I'll take you alive." Hu Quan still spared no effort to cheer for the soldiers:

"The lesson I learned from the Battle of Hongdu is that in fact, the more desperate you are, the greater the hope."

"What does that mean?" The soldiers asked, puzzled.

"Because there will be a turnaround, and every day you hold on to it, you will be one day closer to the turnaround!" Hu Quan said in a deep voice:

"So even in the most desperate moments, you can't give up. Because if you give up, you will die, and if you don't give up, there may be a turnaround at any time! Therefore, only by dying in battle can we stop holding on! Not for anything else, just to live and see our loved ones again! ”

"......" The soldiers listened silently, although no one responded, but in their eyes, there was finally a trace of brilliance.

"Uncle, read the letter to us again...... someone made a request, and immediately got everyone's echo: "Yes, uncle, we have relied on this letter for a while." ”

"Okay, I'll read it to you." Hu Quan took out a wallet-shaped boot page from the boot tube. After opening it, he took out a letter that had been rubbed dirty and stained with blood, cleared his throat, and read it to the soldiers for the first time:

"All the brave and fearless soldiers of the defenders of Dingyuan City, see the words as they are:

It is the king's intention to teach you to hold on to the distance. Although the soldiers regard obedience to orders as their duty, but because of the king's order, the brothers are in danger and die for life, and Zhen is deeply ashamed and uneasy, and he can't sleep at night, so he wrote a book, stating his scheming, and asked Wu Changbo to read it with you——

"Ladies and gentlemen, since Hongwu entered Yunnan in the fifteenth year, it will be three years. Over the past three years, we have sent troops deep into the country to regain our homeland. Capture the chieftain in the west of Qujing, and defeat the barbarian in the north of Kedu! Swept the long drive, swept the golden horse and the chicken and stroked the golden sand. Set a hundred barbarians, open up thousands of miles! Great achievements, brilliant in the annals of history! ”

"Then we waited, overcoming thorns and thorns, building bridges and paving the way; The road is blue, and the wasteland is cultivated. Today, Yunnan roads extend in all directions, reaching three provinces. Liqiantun is all over the column, and thousands of acres of wasteland are opened! He also took over the family, married a wife, built a house, and settled down. Then you will see that the hardships are coming, and the day of living and working in peace and contentment is close at hand and within reach! ”

"However, there are thieves in the Luchuan Department, taking advantage of the chaos in the world at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and frequently invade internally. King Liang was weak and could not be controlled, and beyond the three rivers was eventually owned by the barbarians. In the past 40 years, the Luchuan Department has expanded the land for 8,000 miles, with a population of millions and hundreds of thousands of troops. ”

"Its thief leader Si Lun has the ambition of a wolf son, and regards the grace of the court as nothing. first restrained me Yongchang for no reason, and then provoked me to take away Jingdong. Killing our soldiers and civilians and destroying our city, its ferocity and greed are incomparable, and it has become the number one enemy of our Yunnan! If we don't destroy this anti-thief and destroy the ugliness, then Yunnan will never have peace, and the good situation that we have worked hard to open up may be buried at any time! ”

"Therefore, at this time, I have two paths to follow with you: the first is to save your life. As soon as the enemy came, we put up a perfunctory resistance, so we hurried up to 36 strategies and took it as the best policy. ”

This kind of practice, which seems to be smart, is actually the stupidest; It seems to steal life, but in fact seeks death; It seems that picking up cheap, in fact, is more expensive. Because if you don't fight today, you will still fight tomorrow; If you don't fight here, you still have to fight when you retreat to Dali and Kunming. In the end, the pacification will be the same, but the sacrifice will be tenfold and hundredfold. ”

"Therefore, the result of saving our lives must be the worst, not only Yunnan will be ruined by our hands, but even our own lives will be cut off by us. This is tantamount to suicide, so this road is a dead end, a road of ruin. I will wait for the Ming Dynasty boy to follow my father and emperor to open peace for all generations, and I will never take this road! ”

"Undoubtedly, we have to take another path, that is, fight! Since we have decided to destroy Silunfa, we will fight him to the end. Instead of retreating to the back or fighting, we should fight with him in this Dingyuan City to the end!

As long as we fight to the end and keep the sword and Lang Ministry, Si Lunfa will definitely come to the rescue of the whole country. At that time, the Marquis of Xiping will personally lead the army to a decisive battle with him, and he will finish his work in one battle, and he will definitely destroy the country in one battle and never suffer in the future! ”

If this is the case, then you will be the greatest contributors to this war, and you will surely enjoy supreme glory. This king has asked his father to ask all the officers and soldiers who guard Dingbian, whether they are alive or dead, to be promoted to three levels in a row! Whether you live or die, you will be rewarded tenfold! For those who die in battle, the king supports his parents and raises his wife and children; The same is true for the disabled. If this king does not believe in his words, people and gods are angry!

The paper is short and long, and I can't do it in any case, so I put aside my pen and finally express my highest respect to you. Good luck!

Zhu Zhen, the king of Chu Haidian in the Ming Dynasty, bowed his head to him. ”

ps. After reading it, you will know that this chapter is not easy to write, and it is time-consuming and troublesome. The next two chapters are still before 12 o'clock.

(End of chapter)