This sleeve is broken secretly

As expected by Shen Yi, although the next battle in the north could not be said to be smooth sailing, it still forced the prairie soldiers to retreat steadily.

Lou Changfeng, the son of Lou's parents, is still young this year. He is determined and courageous. Despite the loss of his father and brother, he still maintains a calm mind and a stable position.Before the reinforcements and provisions arrived, he took the remaining [-] soldiers and horses to defend Jianzitun, no matter how the enemy soldiers outside shouted and scolded, he resolutely stayed behind closed doors.

According to the information sent back, in order to lure Lou Changfeng to attack rashly, the grassland soldiers did not hesitate to find a corpse similar to Lou's father, tie it to the leg of a horse, and drive the horse to drag the corpse in front of the tower.

The guards in the city were all furious when they saw it.The lieutenant under Lou Changfeng knelt down and begged for his life, only to go out and kill the daring maniac who dared to insult Lou Shuai's body.

However, the 29-year-old young general just climbed up the tower calmly, looked down while leaning on the wall, and asked for a bow from the accompanying soldiers.But I saw him stretching his bow and setting up an arrow, shooting three arrows in succession, one arrow shot at the horse's eye, one arrow shot at the horse's leg, and one arrow shot at the tongue of the enemy soldiers.

In the end, the arrow was unbiased, it hit the enemy soldier just as he opened his mouth, it went in from the right cheek and out from the left cheek, stringing a human head into a string with half a cent.

After the shooting, Lou Changfeng ignored the screams and curses downstairs, threw the bow casually, turned his head to the lieutenant who begged for his life, and said: "Whether the corpse dragged on the horse's leg is Lou Shuai or not, we should feel Angry, because we are all neutron brothers."

"We will take revenge, but not today. We will take revenge with our knives and guns, not our own lives."

After saying that, he fined the lieutenant general who invited Zhan ten boards, and continued to stay behind closed doors.

He stayed up until mid-January in the 28th year of Hongwu, when Xie Huacai finally arrived at Jianzitun with fresh food, shiny weapons and tens of thousands of reinforcements.

Lou Changfeng looked calm, ordered the generals, put the rations and weapons in the warehouse, and after three days of purging the whole army, Fang raised the tent of the Chinese army and summoned the soldiers of the three armies.

"it's time."

At that time, he was standing under the bright red flying military flag, his whole body armor was shiny, and the broad-backed tiger-headed knife in his hand was glowing with a dark crimson light due to being stained with too much enemy blood.His young face, which resembled Lou's father, finally had a strong evil spirit, and his whole body stood upright like a gun, and the knuckles holding the handle of the knife were already turning white.

"If you don't kill Hu Kou all the time, you will never pay back!"

The young man suddenly raised the big knife in his hand and roared loudly.

The enmity and hatred between the old father and the younger brother have always been buried in his heart, and reason forced him to hide these emotions under a calm mask.

But now is the time.

He needs to use this full of anger to ignite the fighting spirit and murderous intent of the Central Plains soldiers, and burn those grassland barbarians who invaded our land in one fell swoop!

He opened the gate of Jianzi Tun city wide, and commanded the three armies on the left and right to form an outflank, like a tiger descending the mountain with its mouth wide open, crazily biting the enemy soldiers on the grassland.The enemy soldiers hurriedly counterattacked, but why did they fight against the fierce generals of the Central Plains who had been holding back behind the city gate for several months?Immediately killed, he dropped his gun and armor, and fled in despair.

So far, since the "Yulinguan disaster", the imperial court has received the first good news from the north.

And if Lou Changfeng is a steady and decisive handsome talent, his younger brother Lou Wanli is a brave and invincible fighter.He used a heavy gun weighing [-] jin, which usually required three small soldiers to lift it up, but Lou Wanli could wield this heavy gun like a tiger with a single arm.

When Lou's father was still alive, he was the general of the vanguard. Although his soldiers were not many, they were all brave and good at fighting.This team is just like the leader, everyone uses the gun, and together with the firecrackers, its power is unimaginable.

If the generals of the prairie are afraid of the resourcefulness of the eldest son of the Lou family, then ordinary prairie soldiers are terrified of the second son of the Lou family.Whenever he killed the enemy in front of the battle, the gun in Lou Wanli's hand would be like cutting melons and vegetables. Once he became fierce and roared, he rushed forward and strung five grasslands on the gun. soldier!

With the cooperation of the two brothers, good news came back frequently.It seems that all the frontier soldiers took a deep breath and wanted to avenge Lou's father and his young son who died in the battle.

In less than a month, the Central Plains soldiers who were forced to retreat to Jianzitun had driven the grassland army back to Yulin Pass again.

On the twenty-ninth day of February, which was the 28th year of Hongwu's New Year's Eve, Lou Changfeng led his troops to launch a general attack on Yulin Pass.Lou Wanli took the lead and led a team of elites to step on the city first, and finally climbed up the city wall stepping on thousands of corpses, and raised his hand to throw the heavy gun at the commander of the grassland!In front of the roaring heavy guns, the commander's head was like a watermelon, splitting into a bloody residue.

It seems that time has gone back and returned to the battle situation a few months ago-only this time the tragedy will not repeat itself.

When the two brothers worked together to insert the fiery red Central Plains military flag on the wall, the sky was completely dark, and there was also a light snowfall in the sky.The Lou family's army, which was clearly a great victory, stood quietly among the remains of the ruins, no one made a sound, and the world woke up silently from the shocking shouts of killing, and returned to silence.

The torches held in the hands of the soldiers stretched away, dotted with dots, as if they were leading the way back for the souls of the soldiers.

I don't know who it was, and sang the military song softly.

"Catch iron armor, carry a long knife. Fight with your son, the road is long. Together with the enemy, we will die together. Fight with your son, never let your heart down. Step on the swallows, chase the beard..."

Countless voices gathered together, condensing into a mournful murmur on the post-war battlefield.

Those brothers who died here, we have returned.

On the top of the tower at the highest point in Yulin Pass, the two indomitable and seemingly omnipotent commanders of the Lou family trembled and lowered their heads one after another, holding the unfurled military flags and listening to the singing echoing in the wilderness. .

Hot tears spilled on the cold and snowy city wall, turning into ice.

Can their eighty-year-old father and 17-year-old brother still hear it underground?

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"The city wall of northern Xinjiang in the next 30 years will be built by the Lou brothers."

In Xie Hua's letter back to the capital, it was written like this.

When Xie Ling relayed this remark to Shen Bing, Shen Bing was sitting in front of the table to approve the document. Hearing this remark, he could not help hanging his pen for a long time, and finally sighed: "Heaven will send a star to Lou's house... I am so lucky to have them both by my side. .But the armor I put on, sometimes I can’t take it off.”

Xie Ling understood the meaning of his words, and couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable, sighed: "Brother Lou, I know him. When we were young, a group of children were messing around with wooden swords and knives. He had already worshiped General Jinwuwei as his teacher. He has been practicing for several years. But even so, he never thought of going to the battlefield. When he drank with his elder brother and the others, they said that they would go to the south to be an idle official and marry a Jiangnan wife..."

But now these wishes will be buried deeply by gravel and weeds.

His tone was sad.Shen Bing looked at him, then put down his pen, got up and came to him, raised his hand and gently rested his head on his chest.

"We're not going to be like this," he said softly.

Xie Jin's heart was shaken, and he couldn't help stretching out his hand, wrapping his arms around his thin waist.

Even though the situation in the court is changing rapidly like a turbulent river, I hope that we will not be carried away by the tide involuntarily.

You and I stand shoulder to shoulder, and we will be able to overcome the ups and downs of the world.

Time flies, and it is April of the 27th year of Hongwu.The battle situation in the north is stable and improving. Lou's army has repelled the prairie soldiers to the outside of Yingzhou half a month ago, and the Central Plains has regained the important pass of Xinpingbao.Although Hui County and other places have not yet been recovered, with the Xinping Fort as a barrier, the grassland soldiers will not be able to invade again in the short term.

As expected by Shen Yi, the war ended before the summer solstice.At the end of April, Lou Wanli stayed at the frontier, and Lou Changfeng will return to Beijing with Xie Hua to report on his duties.

In the past six months, the Lou Brothers have become well-known heroes.On the day when the triumphant soldiers entered Beijing, the people in the city lined the streets to greet each other, and cheers resounded all over the world. The scene was no less magnificent than when the white elephants paraded the streets.

After Lou Changfeng and Xie Hua met the Holy Queen and handed over military affairs, it was already ten days later when they were free.Another important thing for Lou Changfeng this time is to set up a tomb for Lou's father and third brother at home.After the official business was over, Xie Ling took Shen Yi together to pay homage to Lou Changfeng and Lou's father and brother.

Shen Bing finally met this famous young general.

Different from the rumored eyes like copper bells and a height of nine feet, Lou's eldest son is tall and straight but a bit thin. Half a year of military life has stained his resolute eyes and brows with many vicissitudes.His eyes were calm, and when he looked at others, he was as silent as stagnant water, and time seemed to have nothing to make his eyes turbulent again.

"Master Shen." After greeting Xie Ling, Lou Changfeng greeted Shen Yan, "I have heard the name of your master for a long time."

Shen Yan looked at him, sighed in his heart, and said softly: "My condolences to the general."

In front of the mourning hall are enshrined the clothes of Lou's father and Lou Chuiyun, the third son of the Lou family, and their bodies have been integrated with the frozen soil in the north, and they can never return to their homeland.

Xie Ling and Shen Yi twirled three sticks of incense and inserted them into the incense burner after worshiping.Lou Changfeng at the side stood silently, he raised his hand and lightly brushed off the thin dust on the clothes of his father and brother, and finally passed his finger across the longbow placed in front of Lou Chueyun's altar, lingering for a while.

"My younger brother, who is only in his teens, can already shoot three arrows at once. Even my archery skills are practiced with him... It is not an exaggeration to say that he is very talented..." Lou Changfeng said in a low voice , "But he has a violent temper and has been beaten and scolded by his father many times, but he still doesn't change. I have persuaded him before, thinking that there will always be times when he will grind his temper. Who knows..."

Unexpectedly, the life of the young man in fresh clothes and angry horse is so short.Like the fire that was wiped out when the gold and stone collided, it was fleeting.

Lou Changfeng closed his eyes briefly, suppressed the ups and downs of grief, turned around and bowed deeply to Shen Xie, "I heard later that the two of you were the first to discover Kuang's conspiracy. Although I didn't catch up in the end, but in my heart I have always been very grateful, and now I can finally thank you in person.”

Xie Ling and Shen Yi hurriedly returned the courtesy and said they dared not.Lou Changfeng couldn't stand it, and said firmly: "We stick to the frontier pass and never retreat a step until we die for the sake of the territory behind us. Changfeng knows in his heart that those who guard the country are steadfast people like the two. When the enemy defends the city, they will be more courageous."

When Shen Yan stretched out his hand to support him, he felt that the general's hard arm, which had been holding a bow and knife all the year round, was trembling slightly at this moment.

We either immediately slashed our swords, or faced forward to remonstrate with death, all for the sake of seeing a beautiful landscape when the sun rises every day.