Bright Spring

"Caught alive!"

The next day, the captured knight, together with his belongings, was sent to the west by the army scouts.The group passed through the Qujing Military and Civil Mansion, which had already been occupied by the military, and arrived at the military camp outside Kunming.

Gu Cheng, whose hair and beard were half white, got a lacquered letter first in the camp of the Chinese Army.He tore it open to read, and it was written in excellent calligraphy: General Ping, please send a letter to Sheng Yong and Mr. Li, and pass on the military order of the king, strictly ordering them to defend Kunming to the death, and fight until every soldier dies.

Signed by Zhu Gaoxu, King of the Ming Dynasty.It also stamped the golden seal of the King of Han.

Gu Cheng asked the general who sent the letter: "Where did you capture him?"

The general replied: "Commander, Pingyi County is ten miles north of Wei. There is no garrison there. The last general is stationed at the Qujing Military and Civil Mansion. The day before yesterday, he was ordered to inspect the north, and he happened to catch this person."

Gu Cheng pondered for a moment, then said: "You did a good job. Immediately torture the victim and ask him to tell where the contact point is!"

The general clasped his fists and bowed: "The last general has orders!"

The arrested courier couldn't help extorting a confession through severe torture, and confessed on the same day that the location of the letter was delivered, which was located in a mountain village of the Yi nationality between Wusa Military and Civil Mansion and Qujing Military and Civil Mansion.Perhaps because the Mu Mansion joined the King of Han Army, many barbarians in the southwest were inclined to the King of Han Army; but the King of Han Mansion dared to set up a secret stronghold in the place of the Yi people, which was somewhat unexpected to Gu Cheng.

Gu Cheng immediately dispatched troops to that place to eradicate the stronghold of the King of Han army!A few days later, it was reported that there were high mountains, dense forests and complex terrain near the Yi nationality's cottage, which caused most of the people in the stronghold to escape.

The news leaked, so the officers and soldiers could no longer follow the vines to raid the safe barracks.But of course the King of Han's military orders were withheld by Gu Cheng.

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In February, the spring breeze is like scissors. In this beautiful spring time, the four cities of Kunming are in a mess.In the roar of cannons,.It's good to understand each other, don't force it.

... The gate of the pear orchard near Caihaizi was closed.There has been no business here for many days.

The theater, which used to be hard to find, is now empty.It has only been closed for more than a month, and there is a decaying musty smell in the dust, like the smell of wood after it has been damp.

Shen Xu, who was wearing a floor-length white dress, walked silently, from the private rooms upstairs where dignitaries sat, to the stage where popular actors showed their skills.She was wearing a dress made of white cotton without a trace of pattern, a pale white dress between the dark wood; she didn't have any jewelry on her body, nor did she wear any makeup on her face.Occasionally, even Shen Xu himself felt as if he had become a ghost.

Shen Xu raised her head, as if she saw someone sitting upstairs, Zhu Gaoxu, the prince of the Ming Dynasty, and Mu Sheng, the owner of the Mu Mansion, who is well known in Yunnan, nodded slightly to her, showing a slightly arrogant and reserved smile.

The sound of the surrounding silk and bamboo orchestras also sounded, and the loud applause and noise followed. Xiaoer and Dr. Tea shuttled among them, and there were people everywhere.Li Louxian on the stage slightly bowed his knees and showed a reserved and shy smile to the lobby.

"Ma'am..." came a voice.

All the "people" around disappeared at once, Shen Xu turned around and saw a middle-aged woman standing at the door and bowing.The middle-aged woman was her valet, I don't remember what her original surname was, Shen Xu, but she was given the surname Shen; from Shen's residence to Liyuan, everyone called her Aunt Shen.

When Shen Xu came back to her senses, she immediately smelled the musty smell of the rotten wood. She seemed to smell the smell of the coffin planks buried in the soil, soaked by rain and slowly rotting away. She seemed to feel the silky skin on her body. Decaying, falling.

The middle-aged woman came over and whispered in Shen Xu's ear: "Our people outside the city came back with carrier pigeons. Zhang Fu's cochin army is less than a hundred miles away from Kunming City! It is heading for Kunming City. of."

"Oh..." Shen Xu responded.

When Hanwang Mansion fled Kunming City and went to Dali, the people of Hanwang Mansion did not call Shen Xu.Shen Xu also understands that Princess Han must not be very satisfied with her... But if she wants to escape, she doesn't have to follow the people from the Palace of Han. There are people from the Shen family and Xu family everywhere in Yunnan.

When the deadline came for the officers and soldiers to approach the city, Shen Xu finally did not leave here.

She is a young woman. As Xu Fujiu's prostitute and Shen Wansan's daughter-in-law, she has invested heavily in money many times.But to say that, like this time, providing military expenditures of more than [-] guan to the King of Han army successively, it is still a "business" that has never been done.The thing that can be compared with this kind of business is probably Shen Wansan's sponsorship of the Great Ming Tai | Ancestor to build Nanjing City.

But it didn't seem to end well in the end.It is indeed too dangerous for a businessman to do business with those superiors who are vying for the world.Shen Xu once again understood this truth.

Shen Xu said: "Should I quickly dispose of the family property and prepare the white silk?"

"Madam, absolutely not!" The woman knelt down in front of her, her voice choked with sobs.

Shen Xu's face was gloomy, "The minister of the ministry and the female family members in his family also suffered humiliation and were tortured to death, let alone businessmen like us?" She showed a cold smile, "It's a pity that no one praises me for being chaste. My reputation is too bad... Sigh, my death is too humiliating."

Aunt Shen in front of her was already weeping, and Aunt Shen, who was usually quiet, also began to cry at this moment, "Madam should have left Kunming City long ago, and if you stay with Qingshan, you will definitely be able to regain your strength."

Shen Xu shook her head slowly, without saying a word.She knew in her heart that it was possible to recover from a loss in business, but this kind of thing could not.The righteous way is that the world is so big, could it be the land of the king, the imperial court wants her life, it is too difficult to escape, I don't know how much training I will have to suffer in a foreign country.Shen Xu suddenly felt a little tired.

Although Kunming City has the reputation of being like spring all the year round, all things also have their prosperity.The world is also afraid that there will be no exceptions, the prosperity will always come to an end, and there is no normal state of wealth and disaster.

Chapter 4 Thirty Reinforcements

In the city of Guizhou near the city wall, many houses were on fire.The sky was full of flames and smoke billowing.

The pig iron mine thrown from outside the city was filled with gun|powder.Some cast inaccurately, skimmed the city wall and fell into the city. The gunpowder ignited|exploded and set fire to the house;

"Bang, bang, bang..." A burst of boulders fell on the city wall like a huge hailstone, breaking the masonry and splashing earth and stone.The wide city wall is full of pits and pits, all of which are smashed by stone bullets.Then there was a loud "boom", and another pig iron mine exploded inside the wall pile!

Screams sounded from everywhere, and an officer and soldier knelt on the ground, screaming very strangely.Half of his face was shattered by the blasted pig iron, and the teeth on the left side that were not covered by the mouth were very ferocious, like a dead|corpse blood|drenched skull.But he was only injured on the flesh, and he couldn't die for a while. He could move his hands and feet. He stood there with his hands next to his face, tense, but he didn't dare to cover the wound because of the severe pain.He couldn't open his mouth either, and made a strange cry.

"Fire the arrows!" The angry general roared.

A row of officers and soldiers stood by the wall and shot arrows at the rebels who were transporting soil below, but immediately there were several screams of "ahah", and a few officers and soldiers were hit in the face by arrows fall down.Every time the officers and soldiers took the lead, in the trenches as close as [-] steps below, the enemy troops would also aim and shoot their arrows.

"Come here... come here!" A young man shouted loudly, and he was clutching the neck of a sergeant on the ground.The arrow pierced the sergeant's throat, and the sergeant was speechless, making a "cuckoo" sound while spitting out blood from his mouth.

A general came over to take a look, and said, "It's hopeless, give him a good time!" The general turned back and said, "Go to the tower and ask for orders, and quickly dispatch troops to reinforce this place."

"Order!"

At this time, inside the city tower, the dispute between several generals became louder and louder.Even the officers and soldiers on the city wall outside could vaguely hear the voice.

One of the generals said: "If this consumption continues, it won't be long before all the power and brave teams in the four cities will be exhausted!"

Another person said: "If you don't attack the enemy soldiers who are laying the soil and let them go, they will be able to pile up the soil on the city wall in a few days, do you believe it?!"

The general in the middle put on a majestic expression, raised his left hand to stop the general and said, "Go back to the capital's yamen and talk about it."

When he raised his hand, the index finger of his left hand was terrible, with cracked nails and a strange shape.It is said that the coach was naughty when he was a child. He accidentally smashed his finger with a stone, and found a quack doctor who was trying to gain fame. The wound was not stitched well.

Gu Yong, the commander of the garrison, stopped the generals from arguing here. His worries were not unreasonable.

Guizhou City has been besieged for nearly a month, and the defenders suffered heavy casualties. Guizhou City is like a Shura field.Rumors abound in the military!

Because Wu Gaobu, the promised imperial reinforcements, has not arrived for a long time, and he has not even seen a person.Some people say that Wu Gaojun has been defeated by the rebels!Some people even said that the reinforcements were a lie, and there were no reinforcements in the first place!

The Dusi Yamen has published the list many times in an attempt to stop the rumors, but it has little effect.Because the generals deceived the brothers in the army more than once in order to boost morale, so now no one believes it... Just like the beginning of this year, when the rebels just besieged the city, Gu Yong himself said that within ten days Jiangyin Hou Wu Gao’s 10,000+ The army will come to rescue!As a result, a month has passed, and the legendary Jiangyin Hou army has not been seen yet.

Gu Yong looked around and said: "We must wait for the reinforcements! Guizhou City is an important place in the southwest, with Wu Gaojun in the east and my father's main force in the Guizhou Army in the west. Both sides can come for reinforcements. As long as the brothers stick to this city, they will definitely be able to wait for reinforcements."

Reinforcements!Reinforcements!In the city of Guizhou, from the yamen of the capital to the army, people are chanting this word every day.

...In the Hanwang military camp outside the city, the situation was not much better.Most of the wounded soldiers sent back from the front were wounded by arrows, and they yelled in the wounded barracks all day long.The smell of nitrate blowing in the wind, as well as the peculiar smell of flesh and blood, has been reverberating in the air, and it seems that it has never dissipated.

Zhu Gaoxu sat in the hall of the Chinese army camp in the earthen castle, silent.The military generals in the room were whispering to each other, talking about it.

At this time, Liu Ying's report came from Xingyuan Waibao.

Liu Ying described the military situation on the Eastern Front.Wu Gaojun was very cautious and prudent. He not only built fortifications at Maoyunba, but also successively set up military camps in many places around him. Small-scale wars continued to occur with Liu Ying's troops, but there was no aggressive move by the army at all.The enemy army is trying to use the camp to advance steadily, outflank Liu Ying's troops in deployment, and establish an advantage in the final battle.

Zhu Gaoxu thought in his heart: The current situation is also very bad, but luckily he didn't try to destroy Wu Gaojun first, otherwise it would take longer and the situation would be even worse!Wu Gao is really too stable. Although he leads the troops slowly, it is extremely difficult to show his flaws, and he hardly gives the opponent a chance to destroy him.

"Report!" There was another shout from outside the door after a while.