Chapter 6 Chapter 2 Gule City
The ruthless gust of wind screamed and came with hail, and the bone-piercing cold enveloped the world. The entire ice field seemed to be a chopping block, allowing the cruel cold to cut everything like a butcher's knife.
A war is going on fiercely, and the bright red blood is splashed on the silver-white snow in pools, and it immediately freezes; when people fall down, they freeze into blocks in an instant; It was blown away by the wind and snow without a trace; only the sad neighing of war horses, the sound of gold and iron, the thunder of war drums, and the thunderous killing sound that lingered for a long time...
This is Shaji City in Sukesuhu River, Jurchen. The city has been surrounded by Li Chengliang's army, and the city lord Ah Hai Zhangjing is leading his soldiers to fight bloody battles.
The troops in Shaji City were not strong in the first place. When they heard that the Ming army came to attack, they fled for nearly half of the time. Therefore, the soldiers and horses who stayed in the city for defense could not withstand the attack of the Ming army at all. The city was about to fall, and it was only a matter of time before the Ming army entered the city.
Li Chengliang himself did not personally supervise the battle in this Ming army. He gave a soldier talisman to Nikan Wailan who started the war, and ordered him to lead troops from Liaoyang and Guangning to besiege Shaji City, and ordered Liaoyang Lieutenant General The supervising army agreed on a battle plan, and he personally led another army to attack Gule City—in his eyes, Shaji City, which was not strong, was not even qualified to be his opponent. Nikan Wailan is more than enough to deal with it; when it comes to the thorn in the side that everyone deliberately wants to get rid of, Gule City is the right one.
Gule City is on the south side of Suke Suhu River. This city is much stronger than Shaji City in terms of scale and combat power; the city lord Atai Zhangjing is not an idler. But it is superior to others. Under his leadership, Gule City has made obvious progress and development in just a few years. , has already occupied the position of the chief in seclusion among the various cities on the banks of the Suhu River in Suke.
This time, after learning the news that Ming Ning Yuan Bo Li Chengliang led the crowd to attack the city, he immediately made emergency deployments. First of all, he carefully estimated the soldiers, horses, food, grass and combat power in the city, and also calculated Li Chengliang's plan. Then, he sent several confidant soldiers to ask for help from the neighboring city, which has always been friendly;
The first person to receive Atai Zhangjing’s request for help was Jue Chang’an, the commander of the left guard in Jianzhou—the two families were originally in-laws, and Atai Zhangjing married the daughter of Jue Chang’an’s eldest son, Lidun Batulu— ——Jue Changan couldn't help worrying about his grandson-in-law, he frowned quietly, sighed several times in a low voice, and said to his fourth son Tu Keshi who was standing beside him: "Sha Ji is in danger Seeing is not safe—Gule's situation may not be much better! Alas! I'm really worried for Madam!"
Tu Ke Shidao: "Ama, Ah Tai is not a weak person. Besides, Gule City is surrounded by dangerous mountains and is easy to defend but difficult to attack. Li Chengliang may not have taken advantage of it!"
Jue Changan sighed and said, "You only know one thing, but not the other! Although Mrs. Tai is brave and resourceful, she is not as experienced as Li Chengliang in all battles. Fighting a battle is not a one-on-one contest between two people. With Tai's martial arts, he defeated Li Chengliang; and Li Chengliang had hundreds of thousands of troops in Liaodong. What about Tai? In the entire Gule City, even women and children Counting together, how many mouths are there in total? How many elite soldiers of Li Chengliang can be blocked? Besides, although Gule City has natural dangers, Li Chengliang has enough soldiers and food. If Gule City is surrounded, after a long time, the food in the city After all, Li Chengliang can win without fighting! Besides, I heard that Li Chengliang divides his troops to attack Shaji City first. Shaji City is weak and must be broken soon; The people of Gule City must be in panic; alas! At that time, without Li Chengliang attacking the city, Gule City will already be in chaos!"
He spoke slowly, but his expression had unconsciously become very worried.
After hearing these words, Tu Keshi stayed for a long time before he could speak: "Ama is right! Then, what should we do now? Auntie asked us for help..."
Juechang interrupted him abruptly: "You can't just say this casually! First, we are the rightful and hereditary Jianzhou left guard commanders; second, the entire strength of the Jianzhou left guard is less than Li Chengliang's." 1% of that; three times, Nurhachi is now at Li Chengliang's place——with these alone, it is inconvenient for us to send troops to support Atai!"
"However, we can't just sit and watch Gule City being breached by Li Chengliang! Can we just ignore the big girl's marriage to Atai?" Tu Keshi said to Jue Chang'an with a worried face.
Jue Chang'an did not immediately answer Tu Keshi's words.He silently raised his head, looked up at the sky for a long time, then slowly closed his eyes, contemplated for a long time before letting out a long breath, and said to Tu Keshi: "I see, I am still alone. Let’s go alone! The big girl is there, I don’t feel relieved if I say anything! I’ll go, even if it’s the last moment, I can always bring the big girl back!”
As he said that, he opened his eyes suddenly, stared directly at Tu Keshi with sharp eyes, and ordered in a firm and low tone: "Go and get my armor and prepare the horse!"
"Yes, Ama;" Tu Keshi responded respectfully, and then added to Jue Chang'an: "Ama, let me go with you too; Taitai is in trouble, we can't help, although there are I always feel a little bit sorry for my difficulties, and I will go to see him too, so I can do my best!"
"Ok!"
Having made such a decision, the father and son immediately set off for Gule City; along the way, the wind and snow were blowing, and the cold was bitter, but the two ignored the bone-chilling cold, braved the wind and snow, and rushed on the road non-stop. Unexpectedly, in the middle of the trip, we still encountered obstacles.
It was a group of about 30 to 40 people from Shaji City, who were trudging on the snow with the old and the young; they had no mounts, let alone vehicles. Immediately the feet could not move in the slush; therefore, the wailing and wailing sounded one after another, which was doubly miserable in the sound of the wind and snow.
When Tu Keshi heard the sad voice, he couldn't bear it, so he hurriedly stopped and asked what happened.
"The wind and snow are so heavy, everyone, where are you going?"
One of the leaders was a middle-aged man, and he answered Tu Keshi's words with a sad face: "Nikan Wailan of Tulun City led the Ming army to besiege Shaji City. I was afraid of being killed and escaped; however, fleeing After entering our own city, we have nowhere to go. In the past two days, we have been running around in this kind of wind and snow. There are already dozens of people who have fallen behind and died. Now, we are the only ones left. People, maybe—ah! If you have nowhere to go, you will also die of freezing and starving on the snow!"
Tu Keshi felt his nose hurt when he heard this, so he asked Jue Changan for instructions: "Ama, let them come to Jianzhou Zuowei! If there are more people, it doesn't matter if we share some food with him, there will always be a few lives. !"
Compassion was also aroused in Jue Changan's heart, and he nodded to Tu Keshi with sadness in the corner of his eyes; then, Tu Keshi took off the saber from his waist, handed it to the middle-aged man, and said to him: "We still have something to do." , to rush to Gule City—with this saber, go to Jianzhou Zuowei to find my children, and they will take you in!"
The middle-aged man took the saber, and wept bitterly with gratitude: "Good-hearted people, God will bless your descendants prosperous! I, Pahai and all the people here will never forget that you gave us rebirth grace!"
Tucker said: "You guys go well!"
Then he turned his horse's head and left with Jue Chang'an; the two continued to go to Gule City, and when it was time to rest, Tu Keshi couldn't help but sigh angrily at Jue Chang'an: "This Nikan Wai Lan is really abominable, he instigated Li Chengliang to send troops for no reason, but he didn't know how many lives would be killed! The same Jurchen, he poisoned his brothers and feet like this, I really don't know what his heart is made of!"
Hearing what he said, Jue Chang'an didn't directly talk about his topic, but just shook his head subconsciously, and after thinking for a long time, let out a long breath with a worried face, and slowly said every word. He said suddenly: "No matter how I think about this matter, I feel that it is a bit wrong; Nikan Wailan himself is a low-level character, how can he fool the wily and calculating Li Chengliang?"
Hearing this, Tu Keshi couldn't help being dumbfounded: "Ama, what do you mean—Nikanwailan is just a cover?"
Jue Chang'an's eyes were full of worry and sorrow: "I've thought about it for a long time, and it should be eight or nine. The purpose of this war is to destroy Atai—Shaji City is just a funeral object! "
"But, have any unpleasant things ever happened between Mrs. Li and Chengliang? She has always been obedient to the court. Li Chengliang has no reason to destroy Mrs. Tu!" Tu Keshi said suspiciously.
Jue Chang'an shook his head, and said slowly: "Of course we don't know the real reason, just like A Tai's father, Wang Gao, was wiped out for some unknown reason - we can guess what was hidden in Li Chengliang's heart. I can't guess; for the present plan, the only thing I can do is to protect myself, as long as I can save the big girl on this trip, I will be satisfied!"
"Ama..." Hearing the words, Tu Keshi seemed to have a lump in his heart to vomit, but after calling out, he pondered a lot, and then reluctantly opened his mouth to speak: "Ama, I still remember that in the past, Shuo Se Na took his nine sons, and Jiahu took seven sons. Relying on their strength and bravery, wearing armor, they leaped into the two clans of nine bulls and invaded all the tribes of our Jurchen; at that time, you and your uncles were called As 'Ninggu Tabeile', the six brothers, with one heart, led our brothers and the clansmen to resist their aggression bravely, not only defeated them, but also counterattacked the past, and wiped out the Shuosena and Jiahu two families; From then on, all the tribes within 200 miles to the east of Wuling and west of Sukesuhu River all surrendered to us in Jianzhou——At that time, Ama, how brave you were, leading us like a god of war Fight everywhere! But this time, why, when you heard the news that Li Chengliang sent troops, you only wanted to protect yourself from the beginning to the end, and you couldn't muster any fighting spirit to fight against him?"
Tucker continued to speak eloquently, his expression was mixed with anger and puzzlement, but his tone still maintained a gentleness under patience.
However, no matter how much he maintained his calm tone, every word he said pierced into Jue Changan's heart like a sharp knife. She retracted her palms and clenched them into fists, and her lips trembled slightly, but it took a long time before she made a sound: "Maybe, I'm getting old!"
"Ama..."
Hearing Jue Changan's slumped voice, Tu Keshi was startled in his heart, and blurted out; however, Jue Changan raised his arm and waved to him, making a gesture to stop him from speaking, and then , I let out another long moan, and said to Tu Keshi with a solemn expression: "Besides, you would never have imagined that Li Chengliang today is very different from Shuosena and Jiahu back then. Li Chengliang has been guarding Liaodong for so many years, and he has a heavy army in his hands-the Ming Dynasty's "Nine Borders" important town, Liaodong Town is ranked first, and no one in the Ming Dynasty has ever said that the martial arts of the border commander, Ning Yuanbo is the two The first person in a hundred years - with the current strength of our Jianzhou Zuowei, how can we use an egg to hit a rock? What's more sad is that our Jurchen ministries are not united and attack each other all the year round. Think about it, once Jianzhou rises to fight against Li Chengliang , the other ministries will also point their arrows at Jianzhou to take advantage of the opportunity; by then, how many enemies will Jianzhou face?"
Jue Chang'an suddenly shed two tears when he said this. He held Tu Keshi's hand and said, "Even if our father and son do not hesitate to fight for this breath, defeat is nothing more than death; but how many constructions will be affected by that?" What about the people of the state being massacred?"
After hearing this, Tu Keshi lowered his head in silence, but Jue Changan's voice gradually calmed down, and he whispered with tears in his eyes: "Takshi, you must remember my words, you are not as powerful as others At that time, there is only patience, patience - to wait for the opportunity; maybe, God has mercy on my Jurchen, who has been trapped in wars and bullying for hundreds of years, and will eventually descend to a wise, wise, persevering and martial artist Heroes come, do a good job, and lead all the Jurchens to Kangzhuang!"
After hearing this, Tu Keshi was silent for a long time, with tears in his eyes, but he replied solemnly: "Yes, there will be that day!"
Jue Chang'an's expression was even more solemn, and the two of them reached a consensus in their hearts, so they stopped talking and were busy picking firewood to make a fire, preparing to spend the night; When they were young, the two had packed up and were ready to ride their horses and set off.
However, the two had only traveled fifty miles before they heard a bad news: Shaji City had been breached, and Nikan Wailan ordered the massacre of the city, and none of the soldiers and civilians in the city were left alive...
At this moment, the victorious Nikan Wailan was leading the Ming army, and was going to join Li Chengliang's army and jointly attack Gule City.
Upon hearing the news, Jue Chang'an and Tu Keshi became more worried and anxious.
"Ama, we have to hurry up, it's too late, I'm afraid we won't be able to save the big girl!"
"Yes, Gule City is already in danger!"
The whips in the hands of the two swung faster.
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