But this moment came faster than Xu Ping imagined. After the Changqing Battalion advanced another ten meters, Xu Ping saw a sudden chaos behind the rebels. Through the telescope, Zhen Octopus, who had been directing the battle, got on his horse and led

The surrounding guards left in a hurry. Looking further, Xu Ping saw the flag of the Ming Army appearing in his field of vision. It was the military flag of the Shanlan Camp, and there were also dense spears surrounding it.

Countless rebels threw down planks and sticks and began to flee. To Xu Ping's expectation, the rebels in the center were still resisting. Hundreds of people surrounded their cannons and fought desperately with the Ming army. Gradually

, the Ming army's frontline changed from a straight line to an arc. The two ends of this arc continued to bend, and finally joined together to form a closed ring, tightly surrounding the cannon and the last few hundred rebels in the middle.

The rebel cannons were still firing. Before each fire, the gunner would let out a loud roar, and the rebels in front would huff and puff out of the way. The shells would then fly out of the gap, leaving no one with time to dodge.

Kai's companions were defeated together with some Ming soldiers.

Xu Ping, who was riding forward, walked all the way behind his soldiers. Only dozens of rebels were left in the middle, and they were still desperately defending the artillery. Xu Ping was so close that he could even

I heard rude curses coming from the mouths of the rebels. The rebels were still decreasing rapidly, until there were very few left. A disheveled rebel, frantically

He waved a long spear wildly, causing it to crackle against the approaching Ming army's guns. Another rebel had been stabbed by the Ming army's spear. He leaned on the heavy bronze cannon that he defended with his life.

He held the single knife on the ground with one hand, and covered the wound on his stomach with the other hand to prevent his intestines from flowing out. He let out a dying cry: "Kill the officers and soldiers!"

The last rebel gunner pushed the last lead ball into the barrel. At this time, the rebel holding a long gun who was covering him had been killed. He was also stabbed in the calf by the Ming army behind him, nailing his whole body to the ground. The rebel

He struggled to raise the torch, and at the same time several guns pierced his back. The rebel made a roar in his throat, threw the torch towards the fire door, and stared as the torch hit the cannon and rolled down.

to the side.

The rebel gunner who missed the shot fell to the ground, his face stuck in the blood-soaked mud - he was dead.

The single sword had slipped from the hand of the last seriously injured rebel. He was struggling to protect the cannon body with his backhand, looking at the countless pairs of eyes around him hidden behind the visor. He puffed up his chest, but no one shot him.

This action exhausted the last of the rebel's physical strength, and he slowly fell to the ground. "Kill the officers and soldiers!" The rebel shouted again, eyes wide open, and he sat on the ground with his back against the cannon -

—He died too.

A solitary bronze cannon, which looks like it may have been produced a hundred years ago. It was sleeping in a dusty corner of which county yesterday, but today it was dragged to this battlefield. The cannon is covered with old rust and fresh blood, and it is surrounded by old rust and fresh blood.

More than 400 farmers sacrificed their lives to defend it.

Wei Landu, the commander of Shanlan Camp, jumped off his horse. In front of him, the soldiers of Changqing Camp had reorganized. The soldiers of the Ming Army with brilliant armor lined up in a neat formation. The spears they held high were covered with blood, but they were still

Unable to cover up the bits of cold light emanating from the sharp blade, Weilandu walked through the murderous ranks. There were ragged corpses of rebels everywhere under his feet. Many of these barefoot rebels were still holding on to the wooden sticks in their hands until they died.

.

Wei Landu continued to move forward. In the center of the battlefield, he saw Xu Ping, known as the rising star of the new army, kneeling on the ground, carefully looking at the corpses of the fallen rebels one by one. Until Wei Landu walked to the bronze cannon.

, Xu Ping just let go of him.

The rebel who was inspecting the arm slowly stood up from the ground with his eyes still fixed on the deadpan face of the rebel. At the same time, he said softly to Wei Landu: "These are not long-standing thieves, they are all ordinary farmers.

"

"Yes...yes." Wei Landu had just examined the palms, arms, etc. of several fallen rebels. Obviously, they had no traces of contact with weapons, but they all had the characteristics of farmers.

Xu Ping raised his head and looked at Wei Landu, who sighed and told Xu Ping that today Shanlan camp encountered a large number of rebels, most of whom were temporarily armed farmers. This time the officers and soldiers attacked Shandong, many people fled, but more people still

They stayed in the local ravines to avoid disaster until the Ming army went on a killing spree and then fled. The rebel leaders gathered these refugees who had lost their families and gave them a knife and a wooden gun, and they got a large number of soldiers who were not afraid of death.

These farmers are a complete mob, with worse combat effectiveness and organization than the main force of the rebels. However, it was tens of thousands of these farmers and soldiers who blocked the Shanlan Camp’s front army’s thousand officers and soldiers here for a whole day. Just now Wei Landu saw the people on the opposite side.

Half of the rebels went north, and he judged that the reinforcements from the Changqing Battalion had arrived. When he heard the sound of cannons, he hurriedly rushed out with his troops, dispersed the thousands of rebels in front of him, and then rushed to join Xu Ping.

Xu Ping knelt down and stretched out his hand, gently closed the rebel's wide-open eyes, stood up and asked, "Where is Mr. Fang?"

Wei Landu shook his head and told Xu Ping: "We are being held back. There are nearly ten thousand bandits in the south."

"Ten thousand more?"

"Yes, there are bandits everywhere, at least seven or eight thousand people, including more than two thousand of Long's cavalry." Wei Landu looked at the sky and said: "Although they can't stop us, we can't move fast either. I suggest

Let’s camp for a while and rest, what do you think, Brother Xu?”

Today, more than 30 people in Xu Ping's department were killed and more than 60 people were seriously injured. The Changqing Battalion's front army lost almost 10% of its troops, and there were countless minor injuries. The officers were also exhausted, and many staff officers were exhausted for days and nights.

I never slept a wink, and many people along the way fell asleep in their spare time during the battle.

In view of the situation of the troops, although Xu Ping wanted to support Shanlan Camp's retreat overnight, he was powerless. Even his own spirit and physical strength were close to the edge of collapse. After Xu Ping and Wei Landu joined forces, he struggled to force the exhausted officers and soldiers to follow the regulations.

After setting up the camp, he stumbled back to his tent and threw himself on the pillow he had touched for the first time in three days. Xu Ping fell asleep as soon as he closed his eyes.

Not long after Xu Ping got up the next day, Zhang Chengye led the Chinese army to arrive and ordered Xu Ping's troops to repair. Zhang Chengye himself went with Wei Landu to meet the Shanlan Camp headquarters. Xu Ping asked the military doctors to seize the time to treat the wounded soldiers, and the soldiers in each battalion remained vigilant.

hold on tight at the same time

It was time to regain strength. Unexpectedly, the battle in the south was much more intense than expected. Zhang Chengye soon sent someone to notify Xu Ping to dispatch 500 troops for reinforcements. In the afternoon, he ordered Wu Zhong's rear army to move forward and join Xu Ping's camp, and then

Take five hundred soldiers from the rear to the front line.

It wasn't until night fell that Xu Ping saw the Ming army's brigade return to the camp. Zhang Chengye and Wu Zhong both had solemn expressions on their faces. They told Xu Ping that the commander of Shanlan Camp, Fang Mingda and the commander, were both killed, and Wei Landu was already the only commander of Shanlan Camp.

Commander Long's rebels brought several artillery pieces. During the fierce battle, a cannonball happened to hit the general's flag.

Fang Mingda was killed and killed on the spot. In order to speed up the march, Shanlan Battalion ordered all twelve artillery pieces to be destroyed and abandoned. However, the rebels' two thousand cavalry still harassed him frequently. The commander of Shanlan Battalion ambushed the rebels.

The military queen personally led the cavalry to launch a counterattack, which severely inflicted heavy damage on the rebels. He was also seriously injured and died shortly after being taken back to the camp.

"A total of two battalions were killed, 668 officers and soldiers were missing, and 424 were seriously injured, which is close to 20% of our army's strength." Except for the negligible losses in the previous stage, most of the casualties in the past two days were Shan Lan's.

After Fang Mingda of the battalion unexpectedly died in battle, his Chinese army fell into command chaos, and several thousand regiments were completely defeated.

"However, the rebels also suffered heavy casualties and should not be able to launch an attack in the short term." The staff officers of the two battalions all gathered in the Chinese military tent. After discussion, the four commanders decided to abandon all the artillery of the Changqing Battalion in order to finally

Retreat north as quickly as possible.

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english channel

The violent sea gradually returned to calm, and the ship, which had been tossed about by the strong wind, once again stood upright on the blue waves. The French sailors on the deck knelt down to thank God for his gift.

The few sailors who had just braved the risk of being blown out to sea by the strong wind and bravely climbed up the mast to furl the sails. After re-rolling the sails, they also returned to the deck from the mast. These people held their chests high and waited for the captain.

Award for commanding everyone to defeat the violent

The French captain crossed the group of people and walked behind them, bowing to a young man with his back bent, who had also just jumped off the mast: "Dear Viscount, your extraordinary courage is admirable.

He is a true nobleman."

"Thank you." Huang Naiming smiled and said to the captain: "You are the most calm captain I have ever seen."

"Brother Huang...Brother Huang." Bao Yuanlang, who had not yet recovered from his worries, rushed forward and stammered: "You are so brave."

"We've seen a lot of strong winds and waves," Huang Naiming laughed and said, "What does this little wind mean?"

"Brother Huang, put on your clothes quickly. Don't freeze." Shi Tianyu put Huang Naiming's clothes on his shoulders and noticed a jade pendant around Huang Naiming's waist. Shi Tianyu stared at it for a long time: "It's very precious.

Was the treasure given by the Marquis?"

"Oh." Huang Naiming carefully took off the jade pendant he kept close to his body from his waist and wiped it clean carefully: "Yes, it was a token that Jia Yan gave to Xian Ci back then, and then he gave it to me."

"Can I take a look?" Shi Tianyu asked eagerly.

"Okay." Huang Naiming knew that Brother Shi liked jade the most and loved these treasures more than his life, so he took off the jade pendant and handed it to him.

Shi Tianyu immediately grabbed it in his hand and looked at it carefully, "It's priceless, priceless!" He praised: "There is such a good jade in the world, it is so perfect, how come I have never seen Brother Huang with this thing?

"

"Jiayan gave it to me when I left Beijing this time."

"But it seems like they should be a pair," Shi Tianyu pointed to the smooth and clean back of the snow-white jade pendant, which did not have the same beautiful patterns engraved on the other side: "It should have a sister."

"Brother Shi has a good eye." Huang Naiming couldn't help but be in awe: "Jia Yan also said that they should indeed be a couple."

"Where?" Shi Tianyu immediately asked, his eyes still searching Huang Naiming: "Brother Huang, would you like to give me a look?"

"Not on me..."

"It turns out it's at the second young master's place." Before Huang Naiming could finish speaking, Shi Tianyu suddenly realized.

"No, I thought so at first, but Jia Yan said that he didn't give any tokens to his second brother's mother." The smile on Huang Naiming's face gradually faded, and he took the jade pendant back in his hand, as if he was thinking about something, and finally

, Huang Naiming made up his mind and said: "Jia Yan told me that Xian Ci still has

A sister, when Jiayan was in Liaodong, she gave Xianci and her aunt a piece of cake each. When they hurriedly transferred from Liaodong to the town of Funing, my aunt, like Xianci and the second brother's mother, was pregnant, so she didn't take the three of them with her.

But later when we sent someone to pick her up in the capital, my aunt disappeared."

"Ah, I'm missing, how is this possible?"

"I just don't know where to go." Huang Naiming shook his head: "Jia Yan said that he has been looking for twenty years, but there has been no news. Well, that is to say, in addition to my second brother, I also have a brother or sister who was a commoner, but my family

Yan didn’t know whether he was a boy or a girl.

Where are their mother and son?" Huang Naiming's tone was filled with sadness: "I have been well-dressed and well-fed since I was a child, and I have been taught by famous teachers. As for my brother, if he is a brother, will he have the money to study and be literate? If he is a sister,

If so, how is she doing?"

The two companions were silent. After a while, Bao Yuanlang said hesitantly: "Brother Huang, Mr. Hou is famous all over the world. Your aunt will definitely know it."

"I know what you are thinking. I thought the same thing at first, but Jia Yan firmly believed that my aunt refused to come to him. I don't know why." From a common sense point of view, Huang Naiming felt that his aunt and the man he had never met before

The brothers and sisters in front of me are definitely no longer alive, but my father is obviously

However, there is something unspeakable, and he also said that this child is closer to Huang Naiming than Huang Naiming's second brother. Huang Naiming also thinks so, because not only is he a father, but his mother is also a sister. His father also asked him not to tell about this jade pendant.

Mother, second brother and sister.

As early as the third year of Chongzhen, the Marquis of Zhendong discovered that one of the two children was real and the other was fake. The loyal servant of the late emperor who met Jin Qiude had betrayed a concubine, but both children were raised by him. After twenty years, father and son

He was deeply in love with her, and he did not want his wife or anyone else to know about it. This secret was of great importance, and Zhendong Hou spent more than ten years trying his best to find it.

, still found nothing, and did not dare to tell the truth to Huang Naiming. Huang Naiming thought that this was because his father did not want to cause trouble at home, and the second brother did not have a jade pendant, so he might have thoughts in his heart. Huang Naiming held the jade pendant tightly in his hand: "

Every time I hold it, I have a feeling that it is one of my brothers and that I will definitely meet him."
Chapter completed!