"Military Gate! Military Gate! The captives have rushed up! A sergeant with a spear crawled to the door and shouted.

All the generals looked at Zhang Wen's face, and Zhang Wen didn't have anything to do except be a little sad, he stood up from his seat with his sword and said calmly: "Generals, in the last battle, it is my honor to be able to kill the enemy side by side with you. ”

Everyone picked up their weapons one after another, followed behind Zhang Wen, Zhang Wen tried to make his eyes look fearless and firm, reviewed on everyone's faces, and finally stretched out his hand to Zhang Ying, Zhang Ying smiled sweetly, put his hand in Zhang Wen's hand, they didn't seem to be fighting, like they were going to go out. Everyone walked out of the door and gathered all the remaining people upstairs, Zhang Wen's close attendants, plus some generals and sergeants, a total of more than 100 people.

All of them were blocked at the top of the staircase, and in front of them were three rows of soldiers with firearms. "Knock knock......" There was a murmur of footsteps under the stairs, and the enemy soldiers were getting closer and closer. Everyone almost held their breath and stared nervously at the corner of the stairs. The figure flickered, and a group of enemy soldiers in iron armor appeared around the corner, and suddenly the "bang, bang, bang......" musket rang out loudly, and there was a scream from below, and the smell of gunpowder smoke was very choking.

The enemy soldiers stepped on the corpses of their own men and poured up again. At this time, the sergeant in the front row upstairs turned back against the smoking firecracker, and the sergeant in the back row picked up the long firearm with loaded guns and ammunition, aimed at the captives, less than 20 paces away, "crackling" to resist and hit.

By the time the third row had been fired, a steady stream of enemy soldiers had rushed to less than ten paces! The sergeant who was reloading the gunpowder in the back was still in a hurry, and the interval between the three quick shots was too short to be too short to reload.

At this moment, Zhang Wen raised Shang Fang's sword and shouted, "Kill!" The generals carried the generals and rushed forward, and suddenly the swords and swords appeared, and the flesh and blood flew sideways. The sergeant with the firearm also dropped the firearm, drew his sword, and pounced on it to fight.

Zhang Wen, who was wearing heavy armor, also followed from behind, and stood next to the stairs, where he saw an enemy soldier who had just rushed up, and stabbed him with a sword. The enemy soldier had just rushed upstairs, and the surrounding fight was fierce and chaotic, and before he had time to observe, he saw a gorgeous sword stabbing at him, and he couldn't dodge, and Zhang Wen's sword had already stabbed him in the stomach with a "nail". Zhang Wen's tiger mouth was numb, but he didn't poke it in! Although this Shang Fang sword is sharp, it is still a little worse than the iron thing, and the weight is not enough.

Zhang Wen took a step, grabbed the hilt of the sword with both hands and pushed it forward, still did not penetrate the armor, pushed the enemy soldier back a few steps, and slammed into the wall with a "bang", and at the same time took the spear to try to fight back against Zhang Wen, but the gun was too long, and the two were too close to stab, so he hit Zhang Wen's armor with a "bang". At this time, only a "flutter" sound was heard, Zhang Wen used inertia, plus the back of the enemy soldier was already against the wall, and finally inserted the sword? into the guy's belly.

"Ahh The eyes of the captives who were pierced through their stomachs by Zhang Wen were full of fear.

At this moment, Zhang Wen suddenly heard a "bang", and his whole brain was making a loud noise, and he was almost stunned. A machete slashed at Zhang Wen's head, and the cast iron helmet did not break, blocking the knife, but it had already been shaken to the ground.

The enemy soldier was about to cut Zhang Wen's head for the second time, Zhang Wen's helmet had fallen to the ground, of course his head was not as hard as the knife, he hurriedly pulled out his long sword to block, "boring" sound, Zhang Wen felt that his hand sank, the Shang Fang sword in his hand belonged to a light weapon, and he couldn't resist the strength of the heavy knife at all. Zhang Wen's right leg hurriedly took a step back, and with a turn of his body, the blade seemed to be cut down as if it was close to his nose. said that it was too late, Zhang Wen didn't care about being afraid, and immediately turned around, and had already bullied the enemy's side, and the two were so close that they almost hugged each other.

Zhang Wen was about to stab him with a sword, but now this guy is still covered in iron, so close to him there is no inertial force at all, he can't stab in, he suddenly saw that there is no iron on the face of the enemy soldier, so he stretched out his hand and grabbed it, I don't know what happened, his fingers caught the eye sockets of the enemy soldiers, Zhang Wen immediately used his fingers to force, and he pulled into the man's eye sockets, and an eyeball was immediately abolished, and the enemy soldier screamed. Zhang Wen's fingers were inserted into his eye sockets, grabbed a piece of flesh and blood, and tore it down, and suddenly there was another scream of tearing and tearing lungs, and a piece of skin on the soldier's face was torn off hard, and blood flowed everywhere, and Zhang Wen's hands and face were also full of blood. The enemy soldiers wailed incessantly with their weeping voices.

"Ah......" Another captive stabbed Zhang Wen from downstairs with a spear, at this moment Zhang Ying appeared beside Zhang Wen at some point, grabbed the enemy's weapon, and took advantage of the force to take a belt back, the enemy soldier fell forward without paying attention, Zhang Ying's short knife had been accurately slashed at his neck, and a stream of blood rushed out.

Zhang Wen's helmet was gone, his long head was scattered on his shoulders, and his face was covered with blood, which was indescribably terrifying. In the first few rounds, he didn't use all the strength to feed, and after the fierce fight, he kept panting, his throat and eyes were salty, and his brain was buzzing.

He looked around in a drowsy manner, and saw the narrow staircase, because it could not be used, the sergeants on both sides were wearing heavy helmets, and many of them were wounded and did not die, but hugged each other and wrestled and scratched.

"Ah......h

"Flutter flutter!" Not far away, several enemy soldiers were holding spears and swords at a Ming general who had fallen to the ground, and flesh and blood were all over the ground like mud. There were more and more enemy soldiers rushing up, and the soldiers around Zhang Wen were attrition very quickly, as if in the blink of an eye, most of them had been cut into pulp. When he looked left and right, his eyes found Qin Liangyu, who was busy slashing with a long sword in her hand. There were many enemy soldiers around, and Qin Liangyu still couldn't support it under the hard work, and was surrounded more and more tightly, and he was about to die under the knife.

Zhang Wen yelled: "Save General Qin!" Then he rushed forward with his sword, and his head floated as he ran, and the blood on it was thrown into the air, and it rained a little red.

"Boring!" Zhang Wen was the first to rush up, a sword slashed on the shoulder of an enemy soldier, and at the same time, the body wearing heavy armor also hit the body of the enemy soldier, the enemy soldier was knocked to the ground, and the rest of the people around Zhang Wen also rushed over, hacking some enemy soldiers to death, and Qin Liangyu, who was surrounded, jumped over and joined Zhang Wen and others. After a fight, Zhang Wen still had a dozen people left, forming a circle to make a final struggle with their backs.

Just when everyone was about to die, suddenly there was a chaos among the enemy soldiers, only to hear a violent roar, a tall man rushed out, only to see that the big man was wearing the armor of the Ming army, eight feet long, his face was like a knife, the big eyes like a lantern shot fiercely, and he was holding a machete, which was unstoppable, and he cut people like cutting melons. His knife belongs to the short handle of the long knife, the blade is wide and thick, the shape is like a wood knife, and it is a few sizes larger than the wood knife, the handle of the knife is tied to the right hand of the big man with a strip of cloth, he uses both hands to wield, he cuts when he sees people, the heavy machete is cut on the enemy soldier, the lethality is great, and the bones must be broken if he does not die.

Reinforcements are coming! A thought immediately flashed into Zhang Wen's mind, and he was so excited that he almost cried out, shouting, "Zhang Wen is here!" ”

The general heard Zhang Wen's shout and shouted: "The last general's battalion is attacking Zhou Yuji, and by the emperor's holy order, reinforce Lord Zhang." ”

The guerrilla Zhou Yuji in Beijing, Zhang Wen had heard of it, but he had never met and did not know him. The reason why I have heard of Zhou Yuji is because this general has a different background from other Beijing generals, almost all the generals in Beijing are hereditary or generals who do it by virtue of their relationships, and Zhou Yuji is a guerrilla general who was promoted from a non-commissioned soldier to a low-level non-commissioned soldier by virtue of his military exploits.

Zhou Yuji was very brave, and his soldiers were all fierce, killing the enemy soldiers upstairs crying and shouting for their mothers, and the battle situation on the city tower was immediately reversed, and the Ming army became the party with absolute and absolute superiority. In less than two incense sticks, Zhou Yuji's reinforcements surrounded the captives who rushed upstairs with an absolute superiority of troops and annihilated them all.

At this time, Zhou Yuji walked in front of Zhang Wen, glanced at the bloody long sword in Zhang Wen's hand, Shang Fang's sword, and immediately held the big sword and saluted: "The last general, Zhou Yuji, meet Master Zhang." Because the handle of the knife was tied to his right hand, Zhou Yuji couldn't put the knife away for a while.

Zhang Wen put the sword into the scabbard, hurriedly helped Zhou Yuji up, and said in a hoarse voice: "If it weren't for General Zhou's rescue, this official would have been retired." How is the battle going under the city? ”

Everyone walked to the city platform together, only to see that the Ming army camp under Zuo'anmen was still not broken, and the enemy soldiers in the city were still attacking the camp; The defense system on the city wall had originally been destroyed by Jianyu, and it was only then that the city tower was killed, but after Zhou Yuji killed the city wall from the wall ladder, he had recaptured the city tower and controlled the east and west wall ladders, and the enemy soldiers on the city wall were compressed to the west side near Yongding Gate, and the two sides were still fighting.

Zhang Wen looked at it for a while, then breathed a sigh of relief and said, "General Zhou came in time, otherwise Zuo'anmen would have fallen into the hands of Jianyu!" ”

Zhou Yuji's eyes are really big, like a cow's eyes, and his mouth is also very big, and his thick lips completely affect his appearance, originally a square face, because of the incompatibility between the eyes and the mouth, it has become a little ugly. Zhou Yuji said: "When Jianyu besieged Zuo'anmen, the emperor got the news, and heard that Lord Zhang did not hesitate to seize Yongding Gate at any cost, leaving only a few thousand people to defend the Chinese army, and suffered several times the siege of enemy soldiers, the emperor was worried about the safety of Lord Zhang, so he personally ordered that the end of the general will take a part of the Beijing camp out of Xuanwumen to reinforce Lord Zhang. Everything is a wise decision of the emperor, and the last general is just acting according to orders. ”

When Zhang Wen heard this, he said in his heart: The emperor's heart is like a mirror, he basically doesn't come out when he stays in the palace, but he can see the people below, otherwise the emperor would not have named Zhou Yuji to come.

If the Jingying army that came out to reinforce was some other unit, Zhang Wen didn't think they would be able to storm the city wall, I am afraid that he would have returned to Jiuquan now...... In the entire Beijing camp, only Zhou Yuji's team can be beaten, and the other troops are not very useful, and now they are all cowering in the inner city, responsible for city defense.

From the tower of the city, I saw that the enemy soldiers on the west wall were outnumbered, and gradually lost their support, and were retreating to the Yongding Gate. After a while, the soldiers rushed back again. Zhang Wen looked far away, and saw that the dense crowd of people and horses on the city wall on the side of Yongding Gate rushed over to this side, looking at the armor and flags, it turned out to be the Ming army!

The Ming army appeared on the west wall, so Yongding Gate has been taken!? Zhang Wen suddenly laughed, standing on this high city tower, laughing heartily, feeling quite good, and a domineering aura could not be stopped, echoing in Zhang Wen's chest.

The captives on the city were attacked on both sides of the city wall, and there was nowhere to go, and they now also experienced the despair of being unable to fly, and under the squeeze, many captives fell from the city wall, and the tall city wall was several times higher than the attic in the capital division, and they could only become meat pies when they fell.

At this moment, I suddenly saw a Ming sergeant carrying a bloody head and shouting loudly: "Lao Tzu is going to be promoted, Lao Tzu is going to be rich!" "When the remnants of the defeated army saw the head, many fell to their knees and threw away their weapons.

Zhang Wen was stunned and said, "Go and ask, whose head was chopped off, wouldn't it be Dai Shan?" ”

After a while, a sergeant shouted upstairs: "Military gate, cut off a Baylor's head!" Only a teenager and a son of Nurhachi! ”

"It's not Dai Shan...... Zhang Wen was a little disappointed in his heart, but Dai Shan was so easy to be caught, it was not a small skill to be able to kill a Baylor, so he smiled and said: "The brother who took the rank is really going to be promoted!" ”

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On 25 August, a second group of about 30,000 Qinwang reinforcements arrived at the Beijing Division and stationed outside the Desheng Gate. Jianyu was in danger of being divided and annihilated, so he withdrew from the Beijing division and retreated in the direction of Jizhou. The whole city of Jingshi rushed to celebrate, although Jianyu was still in the pass, but the danger of Jingshi had been basically lifted.

Zhang Wen coordinated the men and horses of various departments in the camp of the Chinese army, and divided his troops to attack Changping, Shunyi, Tongzhou, Xianghe and other surrounding cities. Because of the battle of Yongdingmen, his reputation rose and he was recognized by generals from all over the country, and it was easier to mobilize soldiers and horses. He was in the tent discussing with the generals about the enemy's strategy, when he heard shouting outside the tent: "The decree has arrived!" ”

Zhang Wen hurriedly led the generals out of the big tent, only to see two teams of people coming, a team of eunuchs, a team of brocade guards, and the eunuch standing in the middle was Liu Chao (the confidant eunuch of the Holy Lady Hak). Jinyiwei and the eunuchs stood on both sides, Zhang Wen and the others exchanged places with Liu Chao, letting Liu Chao stand at the door of the big tent in the north, and the generals stood below.

Everyone knelt on the ground to listen to the order, Liu Chaoang slowly unfolded the auspicious clouds and yellow silk with his chest straight, and read: "The system said: The great disaster of the Jianyu invaded the country, and the left deputy capital Yushi Zhang Wen was ordered to be in danger, and concurrently led the governor of King Qin, and beat the captives...... The purpose is to allocate two pieces of silver and silver, reward the army, and Xuan Zhang asked to enter the palace immediately. Chin this. ”

After the crowd shouted long live, they got up from the ground. Liu Chao stepped forward and said with a smile on his face: "Our family really congratulates Lord Zhang, this time I am afraid that your holy favor will not be able to look up to in the world......"

Zhang Wen hurriedly said: "As a courtier of the Ming Dynasty, Xia Guan eats the fortune of the Ming Dynasty, and is loyal to the monarch to serve the country, so he does not dare to invite credit." ”

Liu Chao shook his head, ignored Zhang Wen's high-sounding official tone, and only said: "My lord, let's go into the palace with our family, the emperor can't wait to see you." ”

Zhang Wen glanced down at the armor on his body and said, "Can you allow the official to go home and change his clothes?" ”

Liu Chao sighed and said, "Just wear this armor, what kind of clothes do you change, didn't our family say just now, the emperor wants to see you as soon as possible, let's go." ”

Zhang Wen said goodbye to the generals, greeted everyone's congratulations, and then rode a horse to follow Liu Chao and the others into the city. Walking to the door of Zuo'an Gate, Zhang Wen got off the horse and was about to untie the sword, when a eunuch walked to the door and said, "Tell Zhang Wen." ”

Zhang Wen hurriedly knelt on the ground, and the eunuch said: "Zhang Wen's loyalty can be seen by the sun and the moon, and I am very relieved. As the minister of my humerus, he was allowed to travel in the palace. ”

"Minister...... Can't! There is no precedent for a minister in my dynasty to dare to face the saint with a sword, and the minister is not a chaotic minister and a thief, how can he dare to approach the Son of Heaven with a weapon? Zhang Wen said movingly, and hurriedly untied the saber on his waist.

The eunuch said again: "Zhang asked, this is a holy decree. The emperor said that Zhang Wen's sword was given to him by me, and I asked you to carry it because I wanted you to understand the emperor's heart. Do you understand? ”

Zhang Wen was a little panicked in his heart, as he just said, in the more than 200 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, no minister has a precedent for bringing a sword into the palace, and it is very likely that he will be impeached and rebelled. But this is a holy decree, the emperor asked him to do this, for the time being, the ministers have no choice but to take Zhang Wen, at most they will scold the emperor, and Zhang Wen will not dare to resist the decree.

He suddenly had an ominous premonition, what would happen to him if Zhu Youxiao died......

No one can predict what will happen after his death, Zhang Wen can't think much about it, resisting the will is a real crime, he has no choice but to act according to the order, and ride a horse into the Forbidden City with a sword. And Liu Chao and the others only walked, and they walked beside Zhang Wen, who was riding a horse, and naturally felt very unhappy, just like a squire groom.

The eunuchs brought Zhang Wen into Jingyun Gate, behind Jingyun Gate was the harem, Zhang Wen couldn't help but ask: "Where did the emperor summon Weichen?" ”

Liu Chao wiped his sweat with a handkerchief, gasped and said, "Nourishing Heart Palace." ”

Zhang Wen had to ride a horse and walk slowly in the harem, there were many palace maids in the harem, and when they saw a man wearing armor and weapons walking on a horse in the harem, they were surprised, and they all bowed their heads and lowered their hands to the side of the road, and peeked at Zhang Wen from time to time. Zhang Wen has a line of beard on his mouth, obviously not a eunuch, the palace maids whispered, and a well-informed whisper: "He is the queen's brother-in-law Zhang Wen, who just won a big battle and drove Jianyu out of the capital, and the emperor allowed him to ride a ......horse in the palace."