Chapter 1 Clouds
In the spring of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, on the first day of March, three hundred miles outside Shanhaiguan, the spring was cold and cloudy.
Ningyuan City, an important military town in eastern Liaoning during the Ming Dynasty, stood like a black hill majestically above the howling wilderness of western Liaoning.
The tall and solid city wall of Ningyuan is not far from the coast of Liaodong Bay to the east. The cold wind from the sea, carrying a salty smell, makes the flags standing on the city head whistle.
It was past noon at this moment, but the leaden sky was very low, which made people feel depressed and made it difficult to judge the morning and dusk scenes.
On the small school ground inside the east gate of Ningyuan City, the sound of ping-ping-ping-ping-ping-ping-ping-ping-ping-ping-ping-pong-ping guns started to ring out early in the morning, and it has been ringing intermittently for two or three hours now.
The groups of soldiers on duty near the east gate of Ningyuan City were complaining about this. They all kept muttering in their hearts and couldn't figure out what was going on with their superior officer's madness.
"Have you heard, brother? Yang Xie fell from his horse back to town and was unconscious for three days and three nights. When he woke up, guess what, brother, his whole person changed! Oh, what about brothers?
You're being polite! Yesterday, my brother was waiting on me, giving me water to wash my feet, and he kept saying thank you! I confused my brother!"
A little soldier with a scar face, seeing no superior officer patrolling around, couldn't help but continued to talk to another veteran soldier who was much older than him:
"I just don't know what kind of madness Yang Xiezhen is going to do today?! Not to mention this Ningyuan City, even in the entire Liaodong area, what kind of firecrackers, shotguns, and iron cannons are not leftover from our brothers' fun? There are also
There is nothing to try, pick and choose, fight back and forth, but they all look like birds!"
After hearing these words, the old soldier looked unhappy and impatient, and said angrily: "Open your mouth, you really have a stinky mouth! And you are talking nonsense behind your back, saying
If Yang Xiezhen is not good, I will beat your mouth to pieces with my own hands! Yang Xiezhen is a decent man!"
The little Jun who was called Suizui Zhang was not afraid when he saw this, and then said to the old Jun with a playful smile: "Brother Pan, don't be angry! I didn't say anything bad about Yang Xiezhen! I just went to Yang Xiezhen.
To our brothers, they scolded them when they opened their mouths and hit them when they raised their hands, but they did not treat us brothers as outsiders. We brothers are all used to it, and now they are polite, but they feel offended!"
"Brother Pan" opened his mouth. Before he could speak, Xiaojun next to him said, "You can tell! That's what's wrong!"
At this time, another soldier also became interested and interjected in a low voice: "Hey, hey, tell me, the bay red horse in Yang Xie Town that has been riding for many years suddenly went crazy a few days ago.
, why did Yang Xiezhen get kicked down?"
The soldiers on duty outside the primary school in the east gate talked to each other in low voices. Some talked about how the bay-red horse in Yang Xie Town used to be a great horse, and some talked about various deeds and legends in Yang Xie Town's past.
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At this time, another burst of "bang bang bang bang" gunshots came from the small school field behind them. The veteran soldier named "Brother Pan" turned his head and looked in the direction of the gunshots.
In the small school grounds, a small group of men with helmets and armors surrounded a strong young man with a red cloth wrapped around his head. The man held a black multi-barreled firecracker and was talking to the people around him.
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"This four-eye iron spear has a very domineering name! Unfortunately, it can't hit very far, and it's not very accurate! Just this movement, it's so fucking big! On the battlefield, it's pretty good at bluffing people!
"But it doesn't work with gunpowder or projectiles, and it doesn't work even if it's far away. Even if it hits Jiannu's cotton armor a hundred steps away, it won't help! Are there any other muskets and blunderbuss in Ningyuan City?"
Quickly find everything you think is useful and show it to me first?!"
The young and strong man who said these words at this moment was the Yang Xiezhen mentioned by "Shou Zuizhang", "Brother Pan" and other soldiers on duty outside the school.
Xie Zhen is an honorific title.
In the army of the late Ming Dynasty, the general officer was called "Zongzhen" or "Master Zongzhen", while the deputy generals who assisted the general in managing the army and commanding operations were respectfully called "Xiezhen".
The deputy general was placed below the general. In the military system of the Ming Dynasty, he was at the same level as the deputy general. They were both military positions between the general and the general.
Of course, most of the time, the deputy commander-in-chief is the deputy general, and the deputy general is the deputy commander-in-chief.
However, the Ming Dynasty was an era that emphasized status and status. Since the two have different names, it means that there is still a little difference between them.
Deputy Commander-in-Chief refers to the official title, and Deputy General refers to the position.
Based on the observations and understanding of the current "Yang Xie Town" in the past few days, those who are below the generals and above the generals, who independently lead an army and guard a city, are called deputy generals.
Correspondingly, those who cannot independently lead an army and defend a city are only called deputy generals.
In other words, the deputy general is only the deputy of the chief military officer. Apart from his own servants or personal soldiers, he does not have a battalion to lead independently, nor does he have his own independent territory. His duty is to assist the chief military officer in managing the army or
Command operations.
Ever since "Yang Xiezhen" woke up from the coma after falling from a horse, he started to beat around the bush, asked many questions, and finally realized the reality before him, he became nervous.
The judges were bright-eyed, and when they saw the words spoken by Yang Xiezhen in front of them, they must have realized that this Yang Xiezhen was a time traveler.
That's right, Yang Xiezhen in Ningyuan City on the first day of March in the twelfth year of Chongzhen was no longer the Ningyuan deputy general Yang Xiezhen who fell from his horse on February 27th in the twelfth year of Chongzhen.
He is still the same person, with the same beard and scars on his face, the same height and long arms, and the same strength. No matter how you look at it, he still looks like a brave warrior.
However, under that face and strong body, which could not be said to be unattractive, but also had thick eyebrows, big eyes, and a rather heroic air, there was an almost completely new soul.
His name is Yang Zhen. He never thought that he could really travel through time. Before his soul left his body, or to put it simply, before he fell from the east gate wall of the ancient city of Xingcheng, he was just a man who loved reading novels in his spare time.
Just ordinary people who fantasize, love to brag, and love to show off.
On that day, he, the office director, accompanied the department leaders and colleagues from the unit to travel to the ancient city of Xingcheng in the name of team building. At that time, the east gate wall of the ancient city was being repaired. There were a lot of construction workers and tourists were not allowed to enter.
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But he loves to show off, and in order to stand out in front of department leaders and colleagues, he had to go up to communicate and coordinate with others to make special arrangements. As a result, the communication failed and he accidentally fell down the two or three-meter-high step.
I don’t know whether it was because he was so awesome and coaxing and showed his claws that he accidentally missed the step, or whether he was pushed or kicked by someone in the crowd who couldn’t see clearly. In short, the steps were only two or three meters away.
It actually died after being planted.
When his soul separated from his body and was slowly rising, he had only one thought - he would never show off again in the next life!
Immediately afterwards, his vision went dark and he completely lost consciousness.
However, what he never expected was that, no matter how long it took, his consciousness gradually recovered.
But when he struggled to wake up from the boundless darkness, the deep sea of consciousness was filled with fashion and costume movie promotional videos, one after another.
In fact, "Yang Xiezhen" only woke up after being in a coma for one day and one night.
But the "Yang Xiezhen" who woke up is no longer the Yang Xiezhen of the past, and he didn't dare to let people know that he was awake.
Therefore, in the next two days and two nights, Yang Zhen couldn't figure out the situation and could only pretend to be unconscious.
During his "coma" period, many people came to see him, one after another.
Some of these people came over to take a look and then left, while others said a lot of words that he couldn't quite understand at the time.
Others came more than once, sitting on his kang and talking nonstop about his parents' shortcomings, including how naughty and naughty he was as a child, and how bold and near-miss he was when he grew up.
Some people knelt beside his bed and cried loudly as soon as they came in.
The visitors came like a lantern, which really disturbed him, who had been thinking about what to do.
Of course, during this period, some people clumsily opened his mouth, fed him water, and even fed him some millet porridge.
In this way, after lying in bed for three days and three nights, during which he pretended to be unconscious for two days and two nights, Yang Zhen roughly figured out what was going on, and what kind of situation he was about to face, and felt that he could no longer
Put it on.
If you keep pretending, there is really no need to wake up, you can just die.
Because while he continued to pretend to be in a coma, he heard words such as the second year of Chongzhen, the eleventh year, the twelfth year of Chongzhen, Liaodong, Ningyuan, Tatar, governor, and general town from the people who visited him more than once.
With these bloody words, the joy of his resurrection disappeared in an instant, and he began to fall into continuous panic.
Fortunately, after two days and two nights, he had figured it out.
In this time and space, the man possessed by his soul, or the host of his soul in this time and space, has the same name and surname as him, also named Yang Zhen, and he is also a deputy general.
Moreover, he happened to see Yang Zhen's name in a novel about Cheng Chongzhen in the late Ming Dynasty.
And because he had the same name as him, he even checked Yang Zhen's glorious deeds on his mobile phone.
Although there are very few records about Yang Zhen in history, and it can even be said to be pitiful, the little records in official and unofficial history are enough for him to clearly recognize that this late Ming army general with the same name as him was a hero.
, a hero who fought against the Qing Dynasty and died to serve his country with all his loyalty.
Just three days ago, this Yang Zhen was riding his horse back from outside the East Gate of Ningyuan City. At the moment when he passed through the East Gate of Ningyuan City - Chengmen Cave at high speed, his horse suddenly stumbled, accidentally fell off the horse, hit his head on the ground, and passed out.
In the twelfth year of Chongzhen's reign, the spot where Ningyuan's deputy general Yang Zhen fell from his horse and landed on his head is exactly the same spot where office director Yang Zhen landed on his head three hundred and eighty years later.
Just like that, Yang Zhen got a blessing in disguise and traveled through time.
He is still Yang Zhen, but now he no longer wants to play the role of Yang Zhen, the hero who died tragically and died tragically despite defeat in the history of the late Ming Dynasty.
He doesn't believe in fate, he wants to change, he wants to reverse, he wants to make a comeback.
Chapter completed!