Chapter 110 This Ming Dynasty! It seems there is still hope!
There is a village ahead, and we can see the Ming people fleeing in panic.
Sha Yi calmly ordered his men to encircle the enemy.
A cruel look flashed in his eyes, and he said to the accompanying civil servants: "The Ming people have long lost their original courage. We should use killing to intimidate them."
The civil servant laughed and said, "Back then, our ancestors fought their way into the Central Plains and killed nine out of ten people, which made them bow their heads. When the Khan's army marches south one day, we will repeat that scene."
Sha Yibu pointed at the fertile fields and said, "The Ming people are the best slaves. They can farm, weave, and make exquisite tools. Slaves like these are born to belong to us."
"Attack!"
Amid cheers, the enemy troops surrounded them.
Several riders came galloping.
"But good news?" the civil servant laughed.
The scout approached, his face pale, "Wan Hu, we're defeated, we're defeated!"
Choking!
Sha Yibu drew his sword and killed the man with one strike.
Then he said to everyone, "This man is talking nonsense."
Everyone was startled. Another soldier lowered his voice and said, "Wan Hu, Captain Tabu led his army to fight the Ming army. Captain Dadehu led his army to rescue them, but was ambushed by the Ming army and suffered a miserable defeat. Then the Ming army attacked Captain Tabu from both sides... Captain Tabu was defeated!"
Sha Yibu's body shook a little.
"Zhang Da! I underestimated him!"
The civil servant's face was livid. "Wan Hu, you must gather all your troops immediately and return to Datong. Otherwise, if we are defeated one by one by the highly motivated Ming army... it will be dangerous!"
Sha Yibu gnashed his teeth and said, "Return, return immediately!"
The horn blew long and the enemy troops who were about to surround and kill the villagers were stunned.
But military orders were as firm as mountains, so they turned their horses around and evacuated the village.
At first, the villagers who were waiting to die thought that the enemy was playing some tricks.
After the enemy troops had gone far away and the smoke and dust had cleared, the old man in the village slapped his thigh and said, "I'm afraid our army has attacked."
The villagers who had escaped death sat slumped on the ground, and a woman yelled, "Uncle San, what do you mean by our army? In all these years, I have never heard of a large army attacking.
Didn't General Zhang send out troops last time? He was chased and killed. What attack? I see! God is watching over us! "
"Yes!"
"Let's go and thank the gods!"
The old man stood up and cursed: "What gods are we praying for? It's the ancestors who are protecting us. Let someone go get some information. As for the rest, all the families who are still alive should come to the ancestral hall and worship their ancestors."
Later in the evening, the sky above the village ancestral hall was filled with smoke.
The elderly, women, and babbling children...
Everyone knelt outside the ancestral hall.
"Thank you for your ancestors' protection!"
Just across the wall is the deity worshipped by the village, but no one cares about it.
This nation seems to have countless beliefs, but in the final analysis, it is still their own ancestors that they believe in.
When the good news reached the village, the old man called the villagers together again.
"It is said that the Changwei Lord from the capital led his army to defeat the Mongols." The old man coughed dryly and spat, "The villagers in our village all depend on this Lord to survive."
Everyone nodded.
The old man said, "We are not the kind of people who are ungrateful. That uncle is called Jiang Qingzhi. The carpenters in the village should quickly carve a tablet. We will burn three sticks of incense every morning and evening, and offer pig heads on festivals... Pray for this uncle Changwei!"
He stood up and said, "Damn it! This Ming Dynasty! It seems that there is still hope!"
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"In the Nine Borders, everything is peaceful and prosperous, but if you go deep into the Nine Borders, you will find that the army has no fighting spirit and the people have no confidence. The people say that the Ming Dynasty may be finished. This great victory comes at the right time and will greatly help boost the morale of the army and people in Datong."
Hu Zongxian had been inspecting the nine borders for several years and was familiar with all of this, so he said that this great victory had a huge impact.
Jiang Qingzhi listened patiently and said, "Go and have a rest."
"I'm not tired!" said Hu Zongxian.
"I am tired!"
Hu Zongxian felt ashamed and then he remembered that his boss was in poor health.
After he left, Jiang Qingzhi shouted, "Shitou, watch the gate."
"Good Le!"
Sun Chonglou, who had just finished taking a shower, squatted outside the door holding a long sword.
Making faces at Dou Jialan, "The young master doesn't want you."
Dou Jialan glared at him and then stood there.
——Why did I behave like a child?
She glanced at the study and suddenly felt that the gap between her and the young man in the study seemed to be getting smaller and smaller.
More like... a family.
In Jiang Qingzhi's brain, the big cauldron accelerated.
how long?
A month?
Two months
Uncle Ding, be more generous!
Jiang Qingzhi watched the big cauldron slow down.
stop.
The numbers keep turning.
1, 2, 3...
"besides?"
The sign is still flipping.
"4, 5, 6."
Six months!
This was beyond Jiang Qingzhi's expectations.
"Master Ding is mighty and domineering!"
Jiang Qingzhi was overjoyed.
A great victory actually increased the Ming Dynasty's wealth by half a year!
If we were to conquer Japan, how many battles would we have to fight along the way?
Once for half a year, ten times, a hundred times...
"I'm overthinking it."
Jiang Qingzhi wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth, but he couldn't help but smile foolishly when he just estimated the reward for destroying a country.
Five hundred years is just around the corner!
The number finally stopped at: years.
What about rewards?
Jiang Qingzhi looked at the big tripod eagerly.
"Uncle Ding, please be more powerful!"
Jiang Qingzhi thought of the peppers he planted last time, and thought that it was time to harvest them!
Before leaving, he had instructed that if the 'flowers' they planted bore fruit, they should all be harvested and dried.
Hotpot!
It's been a long time.
Jiang Qingzhi sucked his saliva.
In the void, something suddenly condensed.
What the hell!
It turned out to be a mobile phone.
"Uncle Ding! This thing is like a brick if it has no signal!"
Jiang Qingzhi was dumbfounded.
But the big tripod remains the same, and under the mottled copper rust, the numbers seem to carry a desolate taste.
The phone fell into Jiang Qingzhi's hands and he tried to turn it on.
This is still an unmarked assembled machine.
Jiang Qingzhi's speculation came from Huaqiangbei.
The operating system is still a common one on the street.
I looked at the functions and found that it had all the necessary ones, and the battery was full.
Jiang Qingzhi tried the recording function and it was very easy to use and the sound was very loud.
"Master, you have such a loud voice." The loyal servant outside the door was very curious.
Jiang Qingzhi suddenly thought of a sinister method and couldn't help laughing.
Turn off and put away your cell phone.
Jiang Qingzhi admired the changed figures of the country's life span again, and a sense of accomplishment arose spontaneously.
Xu Li returned to the duty room with a gloomy face and remained silent for a long time.
Zhang Qian smiled bitterly, "Jiang Qingzhi forced you to bow your head, and his target was the Prime Minister who was far away in the capital. You should write a letter immediately to explain..."
"You write it and I'll sign it."
"After this battle, those generals revered Jiang Qingzhi as if he were a god. Now the only chance is that the enemy's main force has been gathered. If Jiang Qingzhi goes into battle again..."
Zhang Qian's eyes flashed fiercely, "Pass the message to Altan's subordinates."
Xu Li raised his head suddenly, "Absolutely not!"
Zhang Qian sneered, "If we don't do this, once Jiang Qingzhi returns with power, the Prime Minister will definitely blame the Deputy General."
Xu Li had a complicated expression, and Zhang Qian's voice was like a poisonous snake echoing in his ears.
"What is the purpose of living in this world? It is said that all phenomena are like dreams, illusions, bubbles, and shadows, like dew and lightning. Everything is illusory. Why do you care about reputation? The best way is to get what you want."
"If a man is not ruthless, he cannot stand firm!"
Seeing that he was interested, Zhang Qian smiled and left.
After returning to his room, Zhang Qian wrote a letter, then found a jar of wine and some dried meat and drank by himself.
The enemy's biggest trouble at the moment is not the setback, but the fact that they don't know the strength of Datong's defenders and that their opponent has changed.
"Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will win every battle!"
Zhang Qian picked up a piece of dried meat, held the wine glass in his left hand, and whispered: "What is the purpose of life? If you don't live for yourself, you will be punished by heaven and earth!"
He suddenly sneered and laughed so hard that he fell backwards.
"Why did you study for ten years? The teacher said that you should do something for the world. But who has done it? Everyone is busy chasing fame and fortune, busy flattering others. Does this world have anything to do with us scholars?"
There were footsteps outside the door.
Zhang Qian frowned, "Who?"
The door opens.
Xu Li came in.
"It's the deputy general!"
Zhang Qian stood up.
"Would you like a drink?"
Xu Li came in and closed the door.
He glanced at the letters on the table.
"It hasn't been sent out yet." Zhang Qian said.
"Look what that is?" Xu Li pointed behind him.
Zhang Qian turned around and his neck suddenly tightened.
Two big hands grabbed his neck and exerted force suddenly.
Zhang Qian tried hard to squeeze out a voice, "Why?"
The owner of the big hand said coldly: "I want Jiang Qingzhi to return home in defeat, but this is Ming Dynasty. I can do anything, but I will not let my children and grandchildren serve a foreign race."
You are crazy!
Zhang Qian looked at his host in disbelief.
Xu Li exerted force on his hands, "I don't want to be ashamed to see my ancestors after I die!"
Those eyes lost their luster.
Xu Li let go and said in a deep voice, "Come in."
Two big men came in.
"Zhang Qian died of a sudden illness. I took him out of the city quietly later and found a place to throw him away."
There were animals outside Datong City, but after one night, there was basically nothing left after a carcass was found.
"Yes."
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Scouts brought news that the enemy troops were gathering and moving towards Datong.
"The enemy has about 7,000 troops."
Jiang Qingzhi said to the generals: "The captives said that the enemy general is called Sha Yibu, and he is also a brave general. He has been on the battlefield for a long time. He gathered his troops and came here to suppress our Datong Town in terms of momentum and recover the impact of the defeat."
Zhang Da smiled and said, "Our army will just defend the city and make him return empty-handed."
Everyone nodded.
"Now that you have achieved success, you are no longer motivated to make further progress?" Jiang Qingzhi said coldly, "From now on, you will continue to hide behind the city wall, watching the enemy army show off their might, watching the enemy army plunder the countryside, watching them take away countless people and cattle and sheep?"
"Where's the face?!"
Jiang Qingzhi roared, "As a soldier, it is your duty to be happy when you hear about war. You are complacent when you have achieved a little success and think you are content. The Ming Dynasty wastes a lot of money and food in the nine borders every year, but in return, it gets a bunch of fools who don't want to make progress. If I were a civil servant, I would also regard soldiers as pigs and dogs!"
The generals stood there with their hands folded.
Zhang Daqiang laughed, "Long Wilbur..."
"I said before, I came to Datong to pay blood debt with blood!"
Jiang Qingzhi looked at everyone, "Who objects?"
Someone looked up and Zhang Da gave him a cold look.
Although Zhang Da also disagreed with going to war, he had already been tied to Jiang Qingzhi's chariot.
Whoever opposes Jiang Qingzhi is against him.
This is forming a clique.
"If you keep silent, it means you agree." Jiang Qingzhi's arrogance made Hu Zongxian roll his eyes. He thought to himself that it turned out that I was wrong in the past. I should be unreasonable when dealing with these warriors.
The enemy forces are gathering.
Show off your strength under the city.
More than ten riders were galloping, dragging some humanoid objects. Amid the screams, someone on the top of the city wall shouted, "It's our scouts."
Everyone was filled with grief and indignation, but there was nothing they could do.
Jiang Qingzhi looked at the sun, "Jia Lan."
Dou Jialan come here.
Jiang Qingzhi said, "Bring over ten captives."
More than ten prisoners were brought to the top of the city wall.
Below the city, the howlings of the dozen or so Ming scouts gradually faded.
The enemy was laughing wildly, mocking the Ming army on the city walls for watching their comrades being slaughtered and not daring to fight.
Suddenly, more than ten people fell from the top of the city wall.
They had ropes around their necks and their bodies were swinging along the ropes.
"He's one of ours!"
The enemy was furious.
"Anti-tooth for tooth? Zhang Da's courage has improved a lot." Sha Yibu sneered, "Swearing."
He needed to overwhelm the Datong defenders with momentum and minimize the impact of the setback.
"Open the city gate."
Jiang Qingzhi said in a deep voice.
Everyone on the city wall looked at him.
"I will take you with me and let the world know about our great victories one after another." Jiang Qingzhi pointed at the enemies under the city, "That bloody Ming Dynasty is back again!"
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