Chapter 100: No Surrender (Thanks to 'Lao Ju!' for becoming the leader of this book)
The so-called Nine Frontiers are the nine important towns on the Ming Dynasty’s defense line facing foreign races.
It starts from the Yalu River in the east and reaches Jiayuguan in the west, stretching for thousands of miles.
Some people say that the nine border towns protected the Ming Dynasty for a hundred years. Datong Town is one of the nine border towns, and it is also a core town. Sometimes when the court ordered generals or famous ministers to be stationed in the nine borders, they would often stay in Datong.
It was not until the remnants of the Mongols and Yuan Dynasty declined and the Qing Dynasty rose in Liaodong that the Ming Dynasty's defense focus shifted.
"Protection is bullshit! Ever since we got the Nine Sides, we have all become cowards."
Jumen Fort is one of the many fortresses in Datong Town.
The weather was hot and dry, and several soldiers huddled behind a simple earth wall to avoid the scorching sun.
Wang Erhu is 43 years old this year. He has been stationed in Jumen Fort for five years and has experienced seven life-and-death crises, but he managed to survive every time.
He hid behind the earth wall and said to the young soldier Han Yin: "Boy, listen to my advice. Don't charge if you can hide."
Han Yin was seventeen years old. He had just arrived at Jumenbao and was curious about everything. He even looked at the grassland when he had nothing to do, mumbling something about making meritorious deeds and killing enemies...
"Old Wang, you are old." Han Yin stood with a knife in his hand, looking towards the grassland, and said loudly: "I will fight bravely and fight for my own success."
"Rising straight to the top? I've seen a lot of young people like you, full of bragging, but when you see the enemy, you're so scared that you pee your pants and can't even hold a knife."
Wang Erhu sighed, "Listen to me, hide if you can, otherwise you will go to the underworld before you can even get a title for your wife and children."
"Haha!" Han Yin turned around and said to Wang Erhu with disdain: "The Ming Dynasty has too many cowards like you, so it is bullied by Altan."
"Okay, okay! I'm a coward." Wang Erhu lowered his head, with a desolate look in his eyes. "It's hard to persuade with kind words, so I'll just ignore it!"
"Look, what's that?" Han Yin suddenly shouted, pointing into the distance.
Wang Erhu took a look and saw smoke and dust in the distance.
He shouted at the top of his voice: "Enemy attack!"
General Liao Yi was taking a nap. Hearing the noise, he cursed, "Everyone, get up! Everyone, get up! Archers..."
Wang Erhu stared into the distance with wide eyes, his face changed drastically, and he ran to Liao Yi and said, "General, it's not good, there are at least 500 cavalrymen."
But there were only more than 200 soldiers in Jumen Fort.
Moreover, many of them are old, weak, sick and disabled.
Liao Yi narrowed his eyes and held the hilt of the knife with his right hand. "Oh my god! This is such a disaster today. I am so sad."
"General, do you want to light the beacon?" Wang Erhu asked.
Liao Yi said: "Let's wait and see."
Once the beacon fire is lit, the signal will be transmitted along the beacon towers to Datong Town, and General Zhang Da will then prepare to send troops.
It's too outrageous for the general of Datong to take action with only hundreds of cavalry.
"Go ask for help!" Liao Yi didn't dare to take the risk.
Wang Erhu said, "I will arrange it?"
Liao Yi glanced at him and realized that the old man wanted to save someone he liked, so he nodded.
Wang Erhu rushed to Han Yin and slapped the excited boy, "Hurry up, ride on horseback to ask for help."
"I won't go!" Han Yin said confidently, "Today I will be famous in Datong."
"Fuck!" Wang Erhu's chance to survive was trampled upon by Han Yin without hesitation. His face turned pale, and he immediately assigned a young man, "Go, remember, say there are more than a thousand riders coming."
"Yes." The young man's face was pale at first, but when he saw Wang Erhu asking him to go for help, he knelt down without hesitation and kowtowed vigorously. Then he stood up and looked at Wang Erhu gratefully, "Thank you very much. If you are not dead, I will burn three incense sticks in the morning and evening!"
The gate of the fort opened and a rider rode away.
Alas!
The enemy approached with a whistling sound.
The leading enemy general looked at Jumen Fort and said to a man, "This is Jumen Fort. Do you want to fight or sign up according to the rules?"
The man was Chen Pin, a chief under Altan Khan. He said in a deep voice, "Over the years, the Khan has sent many envoys. At first, they were able to reach Beijing, but were later executed. Later, they were intercepted in the Nine Borders and executed on the spot. Jumen Fort..."
The enemy general sighed, "I have always admired those who can face death calmly. There is not much I can do. So, how about sending you off with a funeral?"
Chen Pin shook his head. "A funeral is not necessary. However, it is a pre-planned plan to let the people of Ming know the majesty of the Khan and to deter the nine borders. So..."
He raised his hand, "Erase this so-called gate-rejecting fort!"
The enemy general nodded, "Blow the horn!"
Oh oh oh!
Amid the sound of the horn, a response came from afar.
Several horns were approaching.
Smoke and dust billowed.
Liao Yi shouted with a sullen face: "Old Wang, how many troops are there?"
Wang Erhu narrowed his eyes and looked at the smoke, his expression relaxed. "Not much, about five or six thousand."
Liao Yi laughed and relaxed.
Han Yin was still excited. "I once heard a storyteller in my hometown say that three hundred warriors can resist thousands of powerful enemies."
Wang Erhu took out his dry food and ate it slowly, and took out his water bag to take a few sips from time to time.
Han Yin sniffed his nose, "You actually drank?"
He glanced at Liao Yi and found that the general was also drinking.
Most of those who secretly hid the wine were old soldiers. At this moment, they were eating dry food and drinking wine silently with calm expressions.
"What does this mean?" Seeing that Wang Erhu ignored him, Han Yin went to ask an old soldier.
The old soldier raised his eyes, his expression indifferent, "I won't starve to death."
"What do you mean?" Han Yin was puzzled.
"Ha ha ha!" The old soldier laughed, "This might be our last meal in this world. If we don't eat well, how can we justify our trip to this world?"
Another old soldier said, "God knows what kind of suffering we will endure in the underground. There is nothing good to eat."
"Drink a sip?" The old soldier handed over the wine bag. Han Yin shook his head, "I want to kill the enemy."
"hehe!"
Several old soldiers laughed, and one cursed, "In my next life, I will never come back to the human world again."
Thousands of enemy troops gathered outside the city.
"Light the beacon!" Liao Yi ordered.
The beacon was lit. There was little wind today, and the smoke column rose straight into the sky.
Soon a column of smoke rose in the distance.
The column of smoke extended all the way...
"Tear down the Jumen Fort!"
The enemy general said coldly.
"kill!"
The battle began. The enemy repeatedly attacked a section of the wall, and the defenders tried their best, but they were still in danger.
Han Yin was placed in the reserve team.
"Reserve!"
Liao Yi turned around, wiped the blood off his face and shouted.
"Go!" The flag officer rushed forward with the reserve troops.
Han Yin only felt the soles of his feet go weak, and so did the hand holding the long sword, which was as soft as the reaction after having sex with three women at night as the old soldiers had said.
He trembled as dozens of enemy soldiers rushed up the earth wall and expanded their territory. When they saw the reserve troops, several brave soldiers immediately rushed over with their men.
"kill!"
The flag officer was the first to rush forward.
Next came Han Yin and others.
"Kill!" Han Yin's mind was blank and he just swung his sword around randomly.
But nothing was hit.
When an enemy soldier rushed over with a grin and was about to be killed with a single blow, an arrow pierced his neck.
Han Yin slowly turned around and saw Wang Erhu holding a longbow, shooting arrows continuously.
When the last arrow was shot, Wang Erhu picked up his long knife and rushed forward.
"Boy, watch how I kill the enemy!"
Wang Erhu was completely different from his usual cowardly and fearful self at this moment. He roared and charged into the enemy army, waving his long sword and killing three people in succession.
However, when two fierce soldiers surrounded him, the old soldier also reached the final stage of his life.
He was stabbed and fell down, lying on the ground gasping for breath, looking at Han Yin who was in a daze behind him with a smile.
This wave of enemy attacks was blocked by the defenders with difficulty.
Watching the enemy retreat, Han Yin knelt beside Wang Erhu and cried, "Old Wang."
Wang Erhu shook his head, "My son is about the same age as you, little...boy."
"Yes." Han Yin regretted, "I should have listened to you."
"Man!" Wang Erhu struggled hard and patted his shoulder, "If you can escape, then escape. But if you can't, remember to hold your chest high... ah!
You are a man, hold your chest high, let them know that a man of the Ming Dynasty... Hey! "
The hand dropped.
Outside the city, the enemy general said, "The defenders are stubborn, so surrender."
Chen Pin said: "Well, after surrendering, hang him on the ruins."
The enemy general nodded, "It's just right to intimidate the Datong defenders."
"Will you lower it or not?"
The enemy shouted.
On the top of the city wall, Liao Yi smiled, wiped his face, looked at the remaining soldiers, and then shouted to the outside of the city: "Let your mother come and sleep with me for one night, and I will agree."
"Hahahaha!"
Everyone on the wall laughed wildly.
"Kill them all!" The enemy general waved his hand.
"Capture two prisoners," said the enemy general, "and ask them how Datong is doing lately."
When a section of the wall collapsed, the battle was like a massacre.
The enemy cavalry rushed in directly from the gap. For cavalry against infantry, it was really a dimensionality reduction attack.
Finally, there were two sergeants left, both young.
Han Yin is one of them.
The enemy general rode up on his horse and pointed at Han Yin, "Put down your sword and kneel down. I won't kill you."
Han Yin looked around in confusion. The enemy had surrounded them.
The sergeant beside him trembled all over, "What should we do? What should we do?"
"Don't be afraid." Han Yin sniffed.
The enemy general exclaimed, "What are you waiting for?"
Han Yin's hand holding the knife handle was shaking.
"I surrender!" The soldier beside him dropped his sword and knelt on the ground.
The enemy general smiled at Chen Pin and said, "Look, these are the Ming people. We enslaved them in the past, and from now on, we will become their masters again."
"The Khan is a man of great talent and strategy, this day will definitely come." Chen Pin also smiled.
There was a flash of knife, and the kneeling soldier fell down after being stabbed.
The young soldier killed his comrade and rushed forward.
He even killed one man until he was stabbed in the stomach and fell to his knees.
"Capture him alive." The enemy general became more interested.
Han Yin stood up with difficulty, holding the long sword.
"You are a warrior, surrender!" said the enemy general.
Han Yin looked around and said with a wry smile, "Old Wang, I should have listened to you."
He raised the knife.
He shouted at the enemy general, "Ming army sergeant Han Yin, will not surrender!"
The long knife was pulled across the neck.
As blood spurted out, the light in Han Yin's eyes gradually faded.
But the body remained standing.
Just like the smoke rising straight up...
"There are also brave men among the Ming people."
The enemy general sighed and nodded slightly to the soldier who stood firm.
Subsequently.
"Tear down the gate-rejecting fort!"
……
The third update is sent.
(End of this chapter)
