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A heavy rain poured down, and the whole sky seemed to have broken a big hole, and the rain poured down, and the whole land became a Zeguo. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

It was noon, but the world was dark and gloomy, and the thick dark clouds obscured the view, as if it was still late at night.

The wind was blowing, and there was a rustling sound in the trees. Thunder exploded in the sky, occasionally lighting up the twilight scene.

Under such a violent storm, it seems that there are no living beings who can move freely here.

The black bear that dominates the mountains and forests hides in the cave, the falcon that soars in the sky hides in the nest, and even the tiger, which rarely comes and goes, lies at the mouth of the cave in such bad weather, languishing.

It seems that there should be no living activities, and even if there is, it should be in a city not far from here. There were towering walls, strong gates, renovated houses, and roaring bonfires that lit indoors in cold and wet weather.

There are also delicious prey that can be rotated on the barbecue, with a little cumin on one side and a little salt on the other, and then it will give off a rich meaty aroma.

That's the world where normal humans are supposed to be active.

And at this moment, the lightning and thunder in the sky suddenly appeared more and more frequently.

It's like a lamp that turns on and off from time to time.

The lightning and thunder frequently seemed to be connected into a line, but it finally illuminated the crowd on the muddy road in the depths of the dense forest.

That's right, in such extremely bad weather, there are still human activities.

And they're not traveling lightly.

These men were clad in armor, with bags hanging from their bags, clutching the reins, and carrying scimitars and three-eyed guns sealed with oiled paper cloth.

This is a heavily armed army.

Under the trampling of the war horses, the muddy water splashed, turning the original neat military appearance of these soldiers into a very dirty one. Everyone's face was as if they had rolled around in a muddy pool, dirty.

Boom Boom Boom......

In the constant roar of thunder, the iron horses galloped, and the bad weather in front of them did not stop them from moving forward.

And the first one is wearing a silver helmet and a gold star on his shoulder.

This person is Liu Zhen, the head of the Independent Cavalry Regiment of the Janissaries of the Ming Royal Army.

Liu Zhen's body was also covered in sludge, as if he was an old beggar. Only that murderous momentum is visible, and there is no doubt that this fierce man can kill him in the battle array.

They broke out of the dense forest in the muddy official road.

In the difficult mountain road, the cavalry, which had been marching unchanged, had already lost a lot of troops as soon as they attacked, but Liu Zhen only glanced at it, counted the men and horses, and gathered a little on the grass outside the forest.

The officers tapped the number of people and then reported them one by one. The soldiers took advantage of the rare respite to pull out dry rations from their arms.

This is not only a gap in the queue, but also a rare time for them to replenish their strength.

Everyone devoured the dry food and poured water into it.

Soon, Liu Zhen got the final number.

"A total of 1,637 people...... Liu Zhen muttered and repeated the number, and his heart trembled slightly. Their cavalry regiment was a large regiment of 3,000 men.

"It's not time for me...... Brothers, I won't say much nonsense. We didn't encounter the battle of Monan, and we didn't encounter the battle of the recovery of southern Liaoning. This time, the Holy Emperor drove the expedition himself, and we finally played. Chance, only this once! Can you be ashamed of it, just today! "Liu Zhensheng is like gold and iron.

When everyone heard this, they all agreed.

Immediately, more than 1,000 people were like the wind, and horses were like dragons, going north and straight into the gloomy sky.

……

Six miles north of the jungle is an old city.

Old, really old. It hasn't been repaired for at least 20 years, and it's been completely renovated. Although the walls are still strong, there are many signs of temporary repairs. Some of the city walls are broken, or even simply filled with mats wrapped in a layer of loess, which looks unusually simple.

Supposedly, in this day and age, there should be no dense jungle so close to the city.

But Liaodong was clearly an accident.

Because, the population here is so small.

Or rather, there are too few people who can work hard. For most of the Manchu nobles, their lifelong task was either to lead troops to fight or to serve as officials. As rentiers, they are completely out of production.

Then, these things of agriculture and industry can obviously only be done by the Han people, or by a small number of low-level Manchurians. There is no doubt that with the brutal massacres that preceded the founding of the state, the population of the Han people dropped significantly, and the Manchus who could work were always in the minority.

The lack of population means that they are unable to develop vast areas of land. Naturally, there are numerous dense forests in the vicinity of the city.

For the forest, the warriors of the Eight Banners are more enthusiastic than seeing the cultivated land. Because, in the dense deep forest, they can hunt enough prey.

They certainly don't use prey for their daily use.

What's more, it's a social, a kind of casual play.

Today, the torrential rain is pouring, and it is obviously impossible to go out hunting.

Zarqi, who was guarding Quang Ninh City, was very depressed.

He watched the water dripping in front of his house, and he was bored. However, except for his family, he is not good at going out.

Because, the entire Quang Ninh City is flooded on the road here.

This rain was too heavy.

It was so big that it collapsed a sewer system that had not been repaired for more than 20 years. That's right, when the Ming Dynasty established Guangningwei, there were sewers.

But even in the Ming Dynasty, things like sewers were a time-consuming and laborious labor, and the most important thing was that the imperial court rarely had silver to repair. In the hands of Chaerqi, he was even more reluctant to spend energy on this.

There are so many more important things than that.

Like what...... A while ago, Sheng Jing sent a message asking for grain from all over the country and repairing the city defense.

This kept Zarqi, who was stationed in Quang Ninh, busy. It's actually not tiring to take people to the next place to ask for food. I have time, and I even have time to play with a few village girls.

The trouble is to repair the city defenses.

Without him, no one would work.

On the one hand, the order from above asked Zarqi to requisition all the grain in various places. This kind of requisition, to put it mildly, is to mobilize military rations, to put it mildly, what is it if it is not robbery?

So, not only did Zarqi walk in his mansion, but he saw many faces along the way.

These are all Han Chinese who were sold into slavery.

The people ran out of food, so naturally they couldn't survive, and selling themselves to large families became the best choice.

So, on the other hand, they have all reached the point of selling themselves into slavery, and where will anyone go to serve in forced labor?

The so-called conscription, which is free work for the government, is something that accompanies the imperial grain and state tax from birth to death. Many scholars rush to take the imperial examination, not only because they can be officials, but also because they do not need to serve as long as they are registered in Xiucai.

In many cases, of course, the imperial court would give food to the people who were forced into labor.

But most of the time......

Instead, they need the people to bring their own dry food. Even if the imperial court did arrange this amount, who would think that they could be so lucky to meet an incorruptible Shangguan, a capable Shangguan, who could make them have enough to eat?

At all costs...... If you can't survive yourself, naturally there will be no one to serve for free.

As a result, even the life-threatening city defense Zarqi was just confused, regardless of the quality, let alone the details of these sewers.

The sewers are different, and when a rainstorm comes down, the entire Quang Ninh City becomes a flooded country.

The General's Mansion in the center of the whole city is relatively good, at least the terrain is high enough, although walking in the corridor is very panicked to look at the rain that has been flooded, but at least there is no need to worry about a foot of mud when you enter the door.

It's just that on days like this, going out becomes extremely difficult.

"It should ...... It's okay if you don't go out. With this thought, Zarqi went back to his room, intending to squint for a while.

Lying on the bed, I couldn't help but shake my head slightly as I thought about the faces of the newly purchased maids.

In these years, as long as the skin is not destroyed and the facial features are correct, any woman can be regarded as a beauty in this era. is not more picky than later generations, for most women in these years, whether it is hard work or poor security, or even dangerous families, there are enough possibilities for them to be disfigured, or inadvertently have more scars.

This is especially true in times of war.

Therefore, although Zarqi has picked and picked, what can be seen in the end is still not very popular. And, most importantly, ...... The one that tickled his heart the most, he didn't dare to touch.

"I have to send that woman to Shengjing as soon as possible to do activities, this is a place, but enough stay...... Moreover, it's too close to Mingren, too close......" Charqi thought in his heart, and fell asleep leisurely: "However, there shouldn't be anything going on today, such heavy rain, such bad weather, an ordinary cold can die, let alone march and fight......"

Thinking like this, Zarqi fell asleep leisurely. In a daze, in his dream, he seemed to see a scene that he would never believe.

He saw a pack of wolves emerge from the dense forest in the midst of the rainstorm.

But he was alone, with a thin shield in his hand and a rusty iron knife, waving and retreating towards his cabin.

He knew that if he returned to his sturdy wooden house, he would have a chance of escaping.

But just as he managed to escape back to the cabin, all of a sudden, a basin of ice water poured down from the sky, pierced through the roof, and poured into the door of the cabin.

Subsequently, the foundation was soft and the wooden house collapsed.

rumble

……

Suddenly, there was a violent noise.

At this moment, in Zarqi's sleep, he also happened to see the wooden house collapse and the wolves rushed in.

Zarqi suddenly saw the scene, sweating profusely and rushing out of the door.

Outside the door, I don't know when the heavy rain turned into light rain.

Surprisingly, the water level began to fall.

"No......" Zarqi had a premonition.

He slammed to the ground, looking around with bricks, his earlobes trembling slightly. It's a sign of his extreme nervousness.

At this time, his staff, Weng Yingqing, a former Ming Dynasty leader, came over and complained: "General, the rain in our Guangning City is too heavy, so I went to see it and found that the foundations of many places are about to collapse." It's your general's mansion, just now I also asked the old housekeeper to open the four doors, and let the water out first, so it's better. Otherwise, after a long time, something will definitely happen. ”

"...... something happened?" Charqi's eyes widened, looking at Weng Yingqing, and his tone suddenly became a little unkind: "What can happen?" ”

"Out of ...... Out of the ......" Weng Yingqing was a little frightened, and he didn't know where to heat this master, and said in a trembling voice: "Out of ...... Go out...... It's not a big deal. Even if the foundation is soft, it will inevitably need to be repaired...... Either or not, or else...... The house will fall and the wall will collapse......"

"Prepare the horses! Prepare a horse for me immediately, Beicheng, who remembers what to paste in that gap in Beicheng? The bad premonition in Zarqi's heart deepened.

He quickly gathered the people in the palace, and hurriedly called more than 300 elite soldiers in the barracks, a total of more than 1,000 people, and quickly rushed to the north city.

There, the originally indistinct rumbling sound kept ringing out, louder and clearer.

Charqi's eyes widened, and he saw that the gap in the northern city had been filled into a pool of yellow water. This is a section of the city wall that has been aging before, and after it collapsed, it was simply a mound of earth and paste.

But at the moment......

The flood flooded, and it was easy to make a hole and reach the outside of the city!

Outside the city, an iron cavalry stepped into the city and roared.

"Daming Liu Zhen, there is no nameless ghost left under the knife, report your name!" Liu Zhen was wearing silver armor, holding a golden gourd, and smashed away according to the head of Chaerqi's pocket.

"Save me......" Zarqi's sharp and high-pitched voice surrounded the sky above Quang Ninh City for a long time.

But his death and lack instantly defeated the Qing army in Guangning City.

……

"Report! The 3rd Division of the Jinwu Army has crossed the Daling River and stationed in the exclusive tun, and the troops have plundered Xiping Fort. ”

"Report! General Zhu Di of the Liaodong Independent Division of the Praetorian Guard Army has been ordered to leave Phoenix City on the north road, enter Lianshan Pass, and Lushun on the south road, and engage the enemy in Gaizhou! ”

"Report! The Dengzhou Navy Division has been assembled and is on standby, and is ordered to go to the mouth of the Liao River, please give instructions! ”

……

Located in the front-line camp in Jinzhou City.

The atmosphere was tense, and in the high-speed marching Privy Council, Ni Yuanlu, who was sitting in the town, summarized the military information everywhere, listening to the military intelligence divisions moving the sand table one by one, frowning and pondering.

At this time, a snapping salute sounded beside him, breaking Ni Yuanlu's contemplation. He looked over and found that it was indeed Zhu Cihong who came.

Before Zhu Cihong could speak, suddenly a military intelligence officer from outside stumbled in, and laughed finely: "Good news, good news!" I just received a letter that Liu Zhensuo's unit of the Independent Cavalry Regiment of the Praetorian Guard Army braved the rain to attack and conquered Guangning City! ”

In the sand table, countless people surrounded them, and Zhu Cihong and Ni Yuanlu also came over.

Zhu Cihong hit the sand table model of Guangning City in a circle, and said with a smile: "Come on, erase the mark of Jiannu here for me." From now on, I will plant the banner of my Ming Dynasty here! ”

Several military advisors responded with a bang. They certainly understand what that means.

That means that there is a city that has been recovered!

Not only that, but it's also a military town. (To be continued.) )