Liaodong in March, still covered with ice and snow, the north wind howling, after a whole year of siege by the Qing army, Jinzhou City has lost its original appearance. The reinforcements of the Ming Dynasty have not appeared for a long time, and the city has long been cut off from food and grass, and there is nothing to be done, so that the soldiers eat the flesh and blood, and its tragic situation is difficult to describe.

"The reason why I love generals is because I come from the east and only know about the military, but as for the way to raise the people and garrison the army, I really don't know. The topography of the mountains and rivers is also unknown. If the general can follow me, I will take care of the war, and if the general directs me to win the battle. Cultivate relatives and share wealth and wealth. This is my wish." Zu Dashou, the general defending the city, sat slowly at the desk, took out the letter of persuasion given to him by Huang Taiji again, and was silent. The burly soldier standing in front of him knew that the time had come to make a final decision.

"General, did you really descend Jiannu like this? General, you are a hero, and in the end you will be scolded by the people of the world, and you will be called a traitor ****, and the last general is really unwilling!" The military man broke the silence and said excitedly to Zu Dashou.

This person was Wu Zilang, Zu Dashou's personal soldier, so thick that his cheeks trembled uncontrollably, and a pair of thick eyebrows wrinkled together. Wu Zilang suddenly drank away Zu Dashou's confused expression, and his sharp and capable eyes returned to the face of this battlefield veteran.

He stared at Wu Zilang and said in a deep voice: "Since I was twenty-five years old, I have followed Inspector Yuan to fight on the battlefield, protect the territory and the people, and kill countless Jiannu. Ten years ago, the situation was critical, and he had no choice but to deceive his Emperor Taiji, but that was just a deception. How I willingly bent the knees of the foreigners? You have also seen the current situation, there is a Shura hell in Jinzhou City, and after eating the war horses and eating the people, what can I do if I don't surrender? Or leave a way for the people in the city to live, Huang Taiji has promised me to treat these people well. I have already decided on this matter, and I don't need to say it again, presumably all the generals in Jinzhou City, except for you, General Wu, who has a tiger head and thirteen swords, no one wants to fight. This battle is too miserable. As you know, earlier Hong's commander Songshan was defeated and captured, and tens of thousands of troops collapsed, and Liaodong was left without a fight. “

"But......" Wu Zilang was about to speak when he was interrupted by Zu Dashou.

"I came to you to ask you, this time I have to surrender again, Huang Taiji may punish my whole family, my other sons are also older, I don't regret sacrificing my life for the country, but I can't let go of my five sons who are just nine months old, his mother gave birth to him not long ago, he died of hunger, I owe him too much. Saying that, Zu Dashou got up and kowtowed to Wu Zilang and knelt: "My ancestor Dashou begged General Wu to take my child away from Jinzhou overnight, find a reliable family, and preserve the bloodline of my ancestral family." “

Seeing this scene, Wu Zilang hurriedly stepped forward to support him: "Why is the general like this." "Looking at Zu Dashou's body in battle armor at the moment, which is not strong, and his gray hair, he really has the end of a hero, and he feels sad. So Wu Zilang said: "Entrusted by the general, the last general will definitely obey it, and even if he sacrifices his life, he will also keep the fifth prince safe." Zu Dashou sighed when he heard this: "After you leave, I will find a person from the city who looks similar to you, and behead him in front of the army, in the name of your loyalty that you would rather die than surrender, and it will be regarded as my little reward for you." “

"A general can't be like this, how can he hurt a person's life in vain for my name. “

Zu Dashou nodded gratefully, and called out to hold the family of the fifth son. It was a thin baby with a beast-shaped jade pendant around its neck, and the red shroud contrasted with the sallow face. Zu Dashou slowly sent the baby into Wu Zilang's hands and said: "This jade pendant is my ancestral family seal, a broken tail leopard, and my son's name is engraved on the back, Zexuan." “

Wu Zilang took the wrapping, looked at Zu Dashou, and said solemnly: "After this farewell, the last general and the general may never see each other again, but please rest assured, the fifth prince will never have any mistakes, I plan to take him to the five old peaks in Shanxi, to find the senior brother and Guangdao people of my Wufeng faction, and pass on this tiger head knife with him, and the fifth prince will definitely be a good man who killed Jiannu and protected his family and country in twenty years!"

"That's very good, thank you General Wu. While it's dark now, you can take Zexuan with you. Tomorrow I will open the city and surrender. Zu Dashou bowed his hands.

Wu Zilang sighed softly, then raised his hand, shook suddenly, took off his armor, and kowtowed to his ancestral general. When he jumped onto the roof of the General's Mansion with Zu Zexuan in his arms, he looked at the military camp not far away, and said helplessly: "It's really a mourning soldier." “

After a year of siege and siege, Bai Sensen's human bones can be seen everywhere in Jinzhou City, and Wu Zilang also knows that the battle of Songjin is irreparable, and his heart is extremely heavy. As if to vent the grief and indignation in his chest, his feet kept jumping, and he ran wildly on the roofs of the city, and in less than half a pillar of incense he reached the foot of the southern city wall. I saw him on tiptoe, kicking against the wall, in a zigzag footprint, floating up the city wall. Before Wu Zilang joined the army in Liaodong, the people in the rivers and lakes called the tiger head thirteen knives, born in the Wufeng faction of the five old peaks, he learned the martial arts of Taoism since he was a child, so he also has a solid Taoist light skill.

The moonlight was shining, and a lonely figure fell silently down the city wall, rushing into the boundless night.

The next day, at noon, outside Jinzhou. Huang Taiji took the majestic Qing Dynasty Iron Cavalry to accept the surrender of the soldiers and civilians in the city. At this time, Huang Taiji's body was a little weak, and his favorite concubine Chen died of illness not long ago, so he made a special trip back to Shengjing from the Songjin front, hoping to see her for the last time. Concubine Chen's death made Huang Taiji so sad that he even fell into a coma several times.

At this time, he was on a horse, and no one could tell what the slightly aged and heroic emperor was thinking. The pale and sickly face was expressionless, and a pair of eyes like Hai Dongqing stared directly at Zu Dashou who was kneeling in front of him. No matter how tragic the fight, no matter how sharp his eyes, Zu Dashou has experienced it, and he has never knelt at the feet of Huang Taiji at this time. In terms of defending the city and leading the troops, Zu Dashou is rarely matched among the generals in the world. In terms of martial arts, Zu Dashou can also run rampant in Kyushu with the Tiangang Fulong stick and the Earth Demon Suppression Knife in one hand. However, in this way, the world-recognized hero, under the gaze of Huang Taiji, cold sweat oozed from his forehead. Fortunately, Huang Taiji didn't stare at Zu Dashou for a long time. After a while, I heard only a "haha" laugh. Huang Taiji turned over and dismounted, bent down to help Zu Dashou, who was kneeling, with a smile on his face, like a kind old Confucian student. "It has been nearly ten years since I parted with the general. For ten years, there has not been a single day when I have not wanted to see the general again. The last time you turned your back on me, it was because you didn't want to turn your back on the Ming Emperor, which made me respect you even more. Today, I will not hinder you from going or staying. But I very much hope that the general will play for me. “

Hearing Huang Taiji's words, Zu Dashou's heart moved, but then he thought about it: If I leave, you can save my life, and you can release my wife and children and soldiers under his command. Then he knelt down again, bowed and said: "To serve the country for the loyalty of the generals, to protect the lives of his wife and children, and to keep the people safe, is for righteousness." Today, I can no longer be loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and I should also do my best for my wife and children and the people of Jinzhou. Today, my ancestor surrendered, and he had no two hearts, only hoping that the emperor could spare the people of the city. “

After hearing this, Huang Taiji raised his hand to help Zu Dashou: "General, please get up quickly, since you serve me with loyalty, I will treat you with wealth and wealth." Let the past pass away, and you will do your best to do it from now on. “

"It is difficult for the ministers to report one after the liver and brain, and the ministers are willing to follow the emperor and listen to the emperor's dispatch. Zu Dashou looked grateful, and a little tear flowed from the corners of his eyes, I don't know if it was because of joy or sadness.

At this moment, behind Zu Dashou, a figure rushed out like lightning, and in the blink of an eye, it was attached to Huang Taiji's side, holding the leather whip that had just been drawn from his waist. "Dog thief, your uncle is here to kill you!" the figure shouted, whipping it away. Fortunately, Huang Taiji has also been in the killing array for a long time, and his perception of murderous aura is very keen, so he took a step ahead of him, twisted his body to the ground, and rushed towards his Qing guards. Even so, the whip hit his waist, leaving his skin open and bleeding all over his chest. The guards were stunned, because they didn't expect that someone would assassinate them on such an occasion, and it would be a surrender. However, it was only a moment, the Qing guards scattered with a hula, some of them protected Huang Taiji, and some of them surrounded the figure and fought with it. The assassin is a good martial artist, one whip and one person, and more than 30 Manchurian warriors can't take him. Huang Taiji was beaten by his whip, and before he could slow down, he lay on the ground, unable to breathe. The people around him had never seen their master so embarrassed. Zu Dashou was frightened when he saw this, and his face was bloodless. From the figure rushing out to being surrounded by guards, it took almost ten seconds to time, and there was no reaction, as if he had lost his courage. Zu Dashou still reacted, and jumped into the battle formation in two steps: "He Kegang, do you want to kill everyone?" After all, a master is a master, and Zu Dashou's voice urged out with internal force made people dizzy, and his eyes were full of gold stars. He Kegang's whip flew around, and he couldn't see the direction of the whip swing at all. In an instant, six of the guards had already died under his whip, which was right in the throat. But after Zu Dashou joined, the situation immediately changed. Because it was a surrender, Zu Dashou did not have any weapons on his body, and he only wore thin cloth clothes. But with just one move, Zu Dashou responded to He Kegang's whip, clamped the tip of the whip between the two fingers of his left hand, and gently pushed out his right palm and hit He Kegang's chest. He Kegang flew out with a "whoosh" and fell ten meters away, spitting blood from his mouth. He Kegang is a native of Guanning, Chongzhen has been in the army for eight years, nicknamed Guanning Throat Whip, there is a scar on his face, from the forehead to the earlobe, it is said that he practiced whipping when he was a child, and accidentally injured himself. Make the whip out, shadowless and invisible, whip out to seal the throat, on the whip method is also the number one master in today's row.

He Kegang was treated by Zu Dashou with one move, knowing that the assassination was a complete failure, his hideous face was matched with scars, it was very scary, and after coughing up a mouthful of blood with a gurgling throat, he yelled at Zu Dashou angrily: "Zu Dashou, you don't deserve to have this kung fu, you are willing to work for **** Jiannu, with your martial arts, if you want to kill Huang Taiji just now, there is no reason to fail." Zu Dashou didn't look at him, but just bowed his head and said: "You will only kill the people of the whole city and the lives of all the soldiers' families." “

While speaking, the guards surrounding them suddenly got out of the way, and Huang Taiji's eldest son rode in from the army, scolding in his mouth: "I know that you Han dogs don't have a good thing, and you rely on deception to assassinate me Ama and kill you!" A punch hit Zu Dashou, knocking him to the ground, and at the same time rode to He Kegang's side, and the horse whip was whipped on him: "Are you a powerful whip, Lao Tzu will fucking whip you to death." He Kegang stared at him, gritted his teeth, and didn't say a word.

"Hauge. Huang Taiji relieved himself and was helped up. Zu Dashou knelt on the ground and said nothing. "Amma, I will slaughter this Jinzhou City, kill all the Han dogs, and avenge this whip for you. “

Huang Taiji waved his hand to stop Haoge's words, and looked at Zu Dashou: "General Zu, I believe this is not arranged by you, as the thief said, if you kill me, I will die just now." But regardless of the Manchu and Han people, they must be punished for doing things that should not be done. “

Zu Dashou knelt on the ground and made a slightly trembling voice: "The slave only hopes that the emperor can spare the people of Jinzhou, and Your Majesty will be gracious." “

"Hahaha, Fuyu (Zu Dashou), you think too much, how can I kill a talent like you indiscriminately. But if I don't slaughter the city, you can kill this thief and his family with your own hands. Huang Taiji smiled.

At this point, Zu Dashou had to agree, so he reluctantly replied: "The slave respectfully obeys His Majesty's holy decree." “

Fu Long stick was held in his hand by Zu Dashou, he was full of guilt, and stood in front of He Kegang: "Since ancient times, it is the greatest unfilial piety for white-haired people to send black-haired people, I start with your old mother, and this is the only thing I can do." He Kegang just glanced at him, then looked away and laughed loudly. Zu Dashou wanted to bow to He Kegang, but under the gaze of Huang Taiji, he didn't dare to make any superfluous movements. "Bang, bang, bang. After the three sticks went down, He Kegang's old mother and He Kegang and his wife fell, and there were no scars on their appearance. Then he swung the stick towards He Kegang's concubine. Every time the stick goes down, Zu Dashou's heart is heavy. When he killed one of He Kegang's daughters, he looked at the last boy. This child is He Kegang's youngest child, only six years old. When his eyes collided with the child's resentful eyes, the guilt reached the extreme. Zu Dashou's eyes closed, and he went down with a stick, and his heart suddenly relaxed. The people who made him guilty were dead.

Huang Taiji nodded at him with satisfaction, and gave an order: "Enter the city." Haoge took the lead, led the Manchurian iron cavalry, trampled the corpse of He Kegang's family into pulp, and then galloped into the Jinzhou city gate.

On the eighth day of March in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the city of Jinzhou was broken, and the ancestor was cleared. Since then, Zu Dashou has been loyal and good, and the news of Manchuria has spread all over the world.

At the same time when Zu Dashou was in his hand. Wu Zilang was holding his fifth son thirty miles outside Songshan Fort, running to Shanhaiguan without stopping