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Chapter 1 Tartars and Bandits Frontier Guard Gyeonggi

In the evening, on the second day of October in the 11th year of the Chongzhen reign of the Ming Dynasty.

On the official road from Xuanfu to Juyongguan, there are more than forty horses galloping, and there are more than twenty sturdy knights immediately, it looks like one person and two riders.

All of them are wearing long body armor, water-like iron arms, the armor is quite broad, but it is a dark armor with nail leaves embedded, and the armor is covered with thick copper nails.

Every knight had heavy weapons such as thick-backed machetes or iron rods hanging on their saddles, and they carried double slashes on their shoulders, with strong bows inside, and these men also carried firecrackers on their backs. Although they were tightly wrapped in blunderbuss bags, However, looking at its style, it looks like an extremely sophisticated Lumi gun.

The man in the lead rode a horse and galloped ahead alone. From a distance, he seemed to be in his twenties. He had a handsome face and was dressed like an officer of the Ming army.

He is wearing a double-breasted chain mail, an iron tasseled helmet on his head, and a thick woolen cloak. Kaiyuan bow and quiver are hung obliquely on both sides of his body, and a knife-clamp stick is hung on the victory hook of the saddle on the right side.

This stick is about seven feet long. The head of the stick has a short blade in the shape of a duckbill, two inches long, with ridges on one side and blood grooves on the other side. It can be smashed and stabbed at the same time. It is a long-handled weapon commonly used by cavalry at this time. Anyone who is good at using this kind of weapon in the army is an elite cavalry general in the army.

From a distance, he was seen holding the reins of his war horse with one hand, and stopped about five miles away from Juyongguan. The cloak flew up in the wind, making it even more heroic.

The more than [-] brave knights who followed behind him also rode their horses to stop beside him, and the more than forty war horses all lightly stepped on the ground with their hooves, and snorted at the same time, continuously exhaling thick White air, the cloaks of the knights were flying in the wind.

"Master, Juyongguan is just ahead, and we've reached the border of Changping. Do you want to rest your feet and raise your horsepower?" A knight with an obvious scar on his face said to the leader.

At this moment, a stream of smoke and dust rose from the direction of Juyongguan, and two horses galloped towards them, and they were approaching in a blink of an eye.

"Mr. Qian, Mr. Chen Shao led the outpost to pass Juyongguan and is heading towards Changping City to search. The gate is now closed and wide open. Please Mr. Qian pass." A young knight ran up to Mr. Immediately reported loudly.

The "Lord Qian Zong" that the knight said was still holding the reins of the horse under his crotch with his left hand, lightly raised the whip with his right hand, pointed backwards, and ordered in a deep voice:
"Chen Zhong, take the two of you and pass them backwards. Each sentry passes through Juyongguan in turn. You must rush to the city of Changping before dark. Order Hu Shao to lead the rear sentry to the rear and pay attention to collecting the fallen cavalry. I am in Changping, sir. The city is waiting for him."

"Decree." A young knight beside him rode his horse and agreed loudly, then led the two knights and galloped backwards, leaving behind a cloud of smoke and dust.

"The whole team passes the customs, and follow me to Changping." The leader Qian Zong whipped his horse and galloped towards Juyongguan.

The smoke and dust rose, and a group of knights followed closely behind, passing through Juyongguan, and galloping all the way towards their destination, Changping.

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This team of capable knights is the subordinate of Zhang Yan, the general of Xuanfu Town. The leader is his cousin, named Zhang Cheng. The subordinate cavalry general is in command of nearly a thousand cavalry under Zhang Yan's command.

In September of the 11th year of Chongzhen, Huangtai, the chieftain of Donglu slaves, ordered his younger brother Dorgon, Prince of Donglurui, to be the commanding general, with Hauge and Abatai as deputy generals, commanding the left-wing soldiers and horses;
He appointed Bei Le Yuetuo, the eastern captive, as General Yang Wu, and Du Du as the deputy general. He commanded the right-wing soldiers and horses. Shut down my side wall and enter.

On September 28, two armies of Eastern captives joined forces with Tongzhou on the outskirts of Beijing and invaded the important place of the Ming capital.

The capital was in danger, and the imperial court urgently summoned the Minister of the Ministry of War and the title of Yushi of Youqian Capital. Lu Xiangsheng, governor of Xuanfu, Datong, and Shanxi, led the elite frontier troops of Xuanfu, Datong, and Shanxi to rush to help Gyeonggi. The Emperor Chongzhen also sent someone to give Lu Xiangsheng a Take Shang Fang's sword and tell him to come to Beijing in the starry night, and the governor of the world will help King Qin to rescue him.

Zhang Yan, the general of Xuanfu Town, also received a military order from Governor Lu Xiangsheng, asking him to lead his troops and horses to defend Gyeonggi with the army of the three towns.

Zhang Yan wanted to take care of his own family, so he asked the governor Lu Xiangsheng to order his nephew Zhang Cheng, the commander of the cavalry, to lead more than a thousand elite cavalry from the four outposts under his command, as the vanguard of the whole army, to take the lead in the front of the reinforcements. To explore the way, we must rush to the city of Changping in advance as a meritorious service.

He also used this as a reason to ask the governor Lu Xiangsheng to allocate another batch of excellent armor and weapons from the arsenal of Governor Xuanda. Now Zhang Cheng, the cavalry headquarters, is finally fully armored, and there are still [-] soldiers in it. Zhang Cheng allocated the excellent Lumi blunderbuss for his own soldiers to use.

However, after Zhang Cheng received the order, he only led three of the sentry cavalry to set off first, and deliberately left the right sentry to go to the aid with Zhang Yan, in name to strengthen the cavalry around Zhang Yan...

Because Zhang Yan only has more than 1000 cavalry from the Chinese military post, and the [-] infantry led by another thousand presidents will arrive in Changping later than the cavalry, so Zhang Cheng's move makes sense, but he stayed behind. A sentinel cavalry, but in fact has another mission.

Running all the way, Zhang Cheng finally arrived at Juyong Pass and approached Changping ahead of the army.

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But the current Zhang Cheng is no longer the original Zhang Cheng!

About three months ago, it was the beginning of July in the 11th year of Chongzhen.

Zhang Cheng had sex with prostitutes after drinking in the town of Xuanfu, and led a few soldiers under his command to beat up another thousand households in the town. Passed out to death, and when he was carried back to the barracks, he was already dying.

Although Zhang Yan hated Zhang Cheng somewhat, he was generally satisfied with his nephew's performance.

Zhang Cheng is proficient in bowing and horses. He has read books when he was young. He is familiar with the art of war and the way to lead troops. He can share the joys and sorrows with the soldiers. He is deeply supported by the soldiers under his command. However, he usually likes to drink and often leads the crowd to make trouble because of drunkenness, which makes him very angry. .

This time, because of a moment of anger, he saw that the soldiers in charge of the torture were hitting too lightly with the army sticks, so he beat Zhang Cheng with thirty army sticks by himself.

His original intention at the time was just to let this nephew learn a lesson and get rid of his bad habit of drinking and making trouble, so even though he saw Zhang Cheng being knocked out on the spot, he didn't care.

But later, when he heard the military medical officer say that Zhang Cheng was dying, he was afraid of his life, and his heart was filled with remorse, and he blamed himself deeply.

However, no one thought that Zhang Cheng had been in a coma for three days and three nights without eating a grain of rice, and then he woke up by himself. Although he was a little confused at first, and the people around him often didn't know what to say, but fortunately, his body was not serious. The only obstacle is that the breath is weak, but as long as you have a good rest, you will be nourished, but there is no concern for life.

This made Zhang Yan extremely relieved, and quickly took him to his home and continued to take care of him. After about ten days, Zhang Cheng basically recovered, and his basic activities were no longer hindered.

It's just that I can't juggle swords and guns, ride horses and shoot arrows in the barracks as I did earlier, and I still need to rest for a period of time before I can fully recover.

The only problem is that after the nephew recovered from his illness, he would often be in a daze by himself, and would often talk to himself alone. Fortunately, his health was fine, so Zhang Yan was relieved, and other problems became trivial. Things, did not pay too much attention.

From Zhang Yan's point of view, he is very satisfied with his nephew Zhang Cheng now.

After this beating with the military stick, although Zhang Cheng had been bedridden and unconscious for several days, he felt that this nephew had changed, and he was more calm, cautious and polite than before.

After observing for a while, I also found that Zhang Cheng was eager to learn, and he was not ashamed to ask questions when he saw anything, and he stayed in the barracks all day long, joined the soldiers under his command, commanded and drilled the army formation, and took the team to the field from time to time. What kind of zipper training made him a little confused, but he never had the problem of drinking again.

This really made Zhang Yan quite relieved, thinking that this army stick was not in vain!
This time, Zhang Yan was ordered to lead his troops into Weijingji with Xuanda Governor Lu Xiang, and he asked his nephew Zhang Cheng to lead the cavalry to the Changping garrison first as the forward of the whole army.

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