weaving

Chapter 472
On December 13, the [-]th year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, at Chenshi, the army of Xuanzhen North Road set up camp, left Yanshi and went north under the watchful eyes of the people of Yanshi.

Although there were many Yanshi gentry who tried their best to keep them, even willing to pay the food and salary, and hoped that Zhang Cheng could leave an army to guard the safety of Yanshi, but they were all declined by Zhang Cheng on the grounds that the military affairs were urgent.

However, before Zhang Cheng's army withdrew, a round of purges had been carried out in Yanshi City, and those rogue rogues who actively attached to the thieves had been wiped out, and some young men were recruited, and they were given the responsibility of maintaining law and order and guarding the city.

Yanshi had already been looted by intruders, and now that Zhang Cheng's army had withdrawn, it was a small city that had nothing to gain. I thought that the Chuang Wang Li Zicheng would not come to harass him again, at least he would not come again in the near future.

Just after noon, Wei Zhice, Zhang Guodong, Zhang Guangda, and Wang Yuanjing led a cart and infantry to set up camp in the valley five miles away from Yang's House.

Chen Zhong rushed to the scheduled camping place early to wait for them. Everyone has received the information that Zhang Cheng will marry Ms. Yang Liying from the Yang family's Louzhai today. They came here specially to give the bride price and attend the wedding banquet.

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It turned out that at the banquet on the evening of the [-]th, after Yang Liying came to toast Zhang Cheng's bowl of wine, Yang Shibin, the head of the Yang family building, offered to Zhang Cheng to betroth his younger sister to Zhang Cheng.

Although Zhang Cheng also admired Yang Liying in his heart, he said that he did not want to make Yang Liying wronged, and that she must personally agree to the matter. Yang Shibin left Zhang Cheng to continue drinking in the hall.

Yang Shibin hurried into the inner house and asked, Yang Liying just replied: "My red-tasseled gun is a token of love, since Zhang Cheng took it, he can't regret it, not to mention that I also accepted his two pistols as a dowry gift." .

As for being a wife or a concubine, I don't care here, as long as I fight with the army and don't want to stay alone, I can rely on General Zhang Cheng for everything else! "

On Zhang Cheng's side, it's the best thing to embrace a beauty, not to mention that the Yang family can become his agent in Yu Province, how can he let go of such a beautiful thing!
So that night they agreed to get married on December [-]th, and the Yang family was responsible for inviting old friends from various villages in the surrounding Mangshan Mountains, and Zhang Cheng also ordered Lin Fangping to go to Yanshi, and ordered the army to leave as scheduled.

Generals Wei Zhice, Zhang Guodong, Zhang Guangda, and Wang Yuanjing were summoned to bring a chariot, an infantry, Chinese cavalry, and two sentinels from the cavalry department to Yangjialou to attend the wedding banquet.

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Lanterns hung high in the Yangjialou, and the whole village was brightly lit. There have been three disaster years in a row, and bandits and bandits are rampant. Everyone lives in fear and care, for fear that they will not see each other after today. Tomorrow's sun in general.

Although there is quite a lot of savings in the village, they live their lives tightly on weekdays. After all, the times are not good, and no one dares not to leave behind. Who knows what kind of disaster will happen next year?

But today is different. Yang Shibin opened the warehouse in the village and distributed grain, meat and vegetables to every household. A man of prestige.

Besides, Zhang Cheng even promised to give him two hundred pairs of Yangjialou armor, five hundred spears, knives and sticks, one hundred shields, and twenty tiger cannons. These are items that are hard to buy with money and food. , is also an important material that his Yang family building urgently needs.

Although Zhang Cheng and Yang Liying's marriage was kept simple due to the turbulent love of bandits, the festive atmosphere was like New Year's Eve. The leaders of the more than forty villages around Mang Mountain that had not been breached by the bandit army all came to Yangjialou .

Firstly, they already had some friendship with Yang Jialou, and now they even signed a joint defense and joint guarantee agreement, which should be the case, and they all heard that Yang Jialou's marriage this time was a commander-in-chief.

In this troubled world, there are soldiers who are the grass head kings. How could these individual sperm not understand this truth!
When Chen Zhong led Wei Zhice, Zhang Guodong, Zhang Guangda, Wang Yuanjing and other generals into the Yangjialou, the streets were full of surprised eyes and expressions, especially the armor shields, spears, knives and sticks of the carts, which surprised them the most. It's still those twenty tiger squatting cannons!
"Look, that's the cannon that the new uncle gave us..."

"... I heard that the new uncle is the grandfather of the general soldier..."

"Of course... our aunt is not bad... worthy of Grandpa Chief Soldier..."

"...I heard that the new uncle killed a Tartar..."

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More than [-] knights in bright armor escorted dozens of carts to the gate of the Yang family compound, and the eyes of the guests from the surrounding villages who came to the wedding banquet were filled with envy.

They looked at Yang Shibin with a trace of deep awe in their eyes. The cavalry passed the gate of the Yang family compound and went directly to the martial arts field next to it. They carried down bundles of excellent armor, shields, spears, knives and sticks.

Especially those twenty tiger squatting cannons lined up, a few guests from other villages who came to Hexi for a drink couldn't help but stepped forward and gently caressed one of the tiger squatting cannons.

"Excellent, even better than those in the county!"

"Wang Yuanwai is a man of knowledge, and his uncle is the classic history of Mengjin County..."

At this time, Zhang Cheng was wearing a red tight-fitting battle jacket and a big red cloak and appeared in front of everyone. All the knights got off their horses, held the reins of their horses, stood up and shouted: "See you, Commander!"

Everyone in the martial arts arena was shocked. Seeing that Zhang Cheng was still in military uniform, they started discussing again.

"Didn't you say you were married?"

"Why is he wearing a battle jacket..."

"...This is what you don't know...Grandma Yang's aunt asked for it..."

Amidst the discussions among the surrounding people, Zhang Cheng turned his head to Zhang Guodong and asked, "How about what I told you?"

Zhang Guodong clasped his fists and saluted, "Report to Commander, everything is ready."

After he finished speaking, he turned and said to the [-] infantry sergeants following the cart: "Listen to the order, line up in three sections, get your guns, and prepare to shoot!"

Hundreds of sergeants dressed in red mandarin duck battle jackets rushed into the center of the martial arts arena, stood in three rows, took out Yunzhou Type [-] guns and held them in their hands, waiting for the next military order.

Amidst the astonishment of everyone who didn't know why, Zhang Guodong stepped forward and shouted loudly: "The first row, raise the gun to the sky, get ready, let it go!"

"boom!"

The neat crisp sound was accompanied by a burst of smoke, which startled the surrounding guests, and several of them sat on the ground directly.

After the three rows of firecrackers were fired, there was another burst of discussion.

"No, why don't these guns have matchlocks?"

"...What's the matter? I've never seen someone who is married wearing a battle jacket and setting off firearms..."

"Forget it, there are many you haven't seen before. Let the guns sit on the ground after a while. If the twenty guns are fired at the same time, how about..."

A crisp female voice came from Zhang Cheng's side: "Hey, this is the same self-fired hand cannon as mine!"

He looked back at Yang Liying, who was also wearing a pink war jacket and a bright red cloak with white wool trim, and asked jokingly, "Is it really okay to show up like this before the ceremony?"

"I, hmph, I'm not the kind of person who is too delicate to look up and sit in an embroidery room and pretend to be a bride for people to see!"

(End of this chapter)