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Chapter 66 Can a scholar be killed but not humiliated?
October 11, the [-]th year of Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty, was not in time.

On the Liangshui River about 25 miles southeast of Yongdingmen in Beijing, there is a stone bridge, and a group of Ming soldiers are busy busy.

More than a dozen Ming soldiers wearing red mandarin ducks and fat jackets ran towards the bridge, and quickly moved away the Juma standing there. Four soldiers rushed up the stone bridge, each holding a long-handled broom, With a sharp sweep, the barbed wire on the stone bridge was swept from the middle to both sides.

After about ten steps to the west of the stone bridge, there is a half-circle of chest-high earthen walls, along the official road connecting the stone bridge, to the banks of the Liangshui River on both sides. There is a passage of more than ten feet.

In front of the earth wall, there is a shallow ditch that is one step wide, almost to the waist. In front of the shallow ditch, there are several horse-repelling posts in disorder. Behind the earth wall, fifteen guns are propped up on the earth wall, aiming at the stone bridge. direction.

To the east of the stone bridge, there was a cloud of smoke and dust, accompanied by the rumble of horseshoes stepping on the ground, gradually approaching, rushing towards the stone bridge.

They were the cavalrymen of Zhang Cheng's Right Sentinel Division A, which was sent out today, and they were galloping towards the stone bridge under the leadership of Zuo Qinghe, the officer of Division A, facing the dazzling sunset.

A group of more than thirty cavalry did not cross the bridge, but when they were a hundred steps away from the stone bridge, they began to slow down their horses, stopped at about twenty steps in front of the stone bridge, and began to change horses.

The war horse that had just galloped stopped in place, snorting non-stop, and the sound of "咈哧咈哧" came one after another. After the knights changed trains, they slapped the buttocks of the war horse they had just ridden, blowing continuously. Whistling or shouting orders, I saw those war horses, screaming "咴咴", rushing up the stone bridge and running to the west.

"The whole team, check the guns, and prepare the bows and arrows."

Team officer Zuo Qinghe shouted orders.

The knights quickly lined up into three rows and rode their horses to stand on the north side of the official road east of the stone bridge. About [-] paces away to the east of them, smoke and dust rolled forward, and the rumble of horseshoes on the ground was louder than before.

At the same time when Zuo Qinghe ordered "to complete the team", two messengers with command flags on their backs rode their horses across the stone bridge. He hurriedly shouted: "Captain Cao, there are about five hundred Tazi captives riding, report to your chief sentry quickly."

After finishing speaking, he rode his horse and hurried along the official road, turned to the back in the distance, and ran towards the abandoned fort where Zhang Cheng and others camped.

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Ma Yuan led Team C to gallop back, waving his hands and shouting from afar: "Left, cross the bridge, cross the bridge..."

A group of 33 cavalry came galloping towards them, and some of them seemed to be covered in scarlet, blood-red patches. They did not stop at the Zuoqing River, but shouted "Cross the bridge, cross the bridge quickly..." He rushed past, but there was only smoke and dust all over the sky on the official road.

Zuo Qinghe could see behind Ma Yuan and the others from a distance, about [-] paces away in a puff of smoke, a red cloak could not stop flashing, and further away, the sky was almost full of smoke and dust, rolling towards his position in a fan shape.

He hurriedly yelled, and the 33 riders followed Ma Yuan and the others, galloped across the stone bridge, and didn't stop until they were behind the cart.

He met Liu Changliang, the commander-in-chief of the outpost of the infantry thousand headquarters, and hurriedly stepped forward to say hello: "General manager Liu, there are more than 500 Tartars, and they are chasing Tongtou..."

With a big wave of Liu Changliang's hand, more than 100 general sergeants who followed him fanned out behind the earth wall, and they mounted more than 40 guns on the earth wall, aiming at the direction of the stone bridge.

"Listen well, don't panic, I must hold on to you, the cavalry brothers have killed more than a hundred Tartars in Mafang, let's show our skills today." Liu Changliang shouted loudly, his words made people The spirit of the soldiers behind the earthen wall was lifted.

The sound of hoofbeats came, and more than [-] cavalry rode across the stone bridge. They looked a little tired, and some of them still had arrows hanging on their armor. Continuous and slow flow.

Tong Shoushan also had a few arrows stuck in his body, and a bright red oozes from his left shoulder.

As soon as he crossed the stone bridge, he got off his horse and said to Liu Changliang, "Tartars, there are hundreds of Tartars, they chased me for more than 20 miles."

After he finished speaking, he panted quickly, and without waiting for Liu Changliang to answer, he continued: "I have ruined several brothers of Lao Tzu, they are very vigorous, but we are not at a loss. Those who catch a living will get a share of Shiku and cut it off." A dozen or so Tartar heads were killed."

After finishing speaking, he turned around and shouted to Bao Jiqiang, the officer of the second team: "Baozi, hang the corpses of those three Tartars on a big tree for me to let the other side see."

It wasn't until then that Liu Changliang interrupted and said, "Mr. Tong, take a break first. The brothers in the cavalry team have worked hard too. The police report has been sent back to the camp, and our Chen Shao is also rushing over. We will never Let the Tartars cross the bridge."

As soon as Tong Shoushan and the others crossed the bridge, the sergeants guarding the bridge quickly swept twice with their big brooms, then turned around and ran back. As soon as the refusal horse stakes were placed, the Tartar cavalry chased to the stone bridge. Start to slow down, and don't stop until more than 100 steps away from the stone bridge.

They hurried back to the earth wall, and quickly set up the cart again, blocking the official road.

Chen Dakuan, the outpost chief of the Zhenbiao Right Wing Battalion Infantry Thousand Headquarters, came galloping on horseback, followed by the sergeants of the B and C teams. Their B and C teams had been guarding the stone bridge, and the C teams stayed behind at the crumbling pier, so only the B team Thirty-three sergeants came to support.

On the side of the official road behind the earth wall, there was an earthen platform, and Chen Dakuan, Liu Changliang, and Tong Shoushan were standing on it, looking at the opposite side of the stone bridge.

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The smoke and dust on the east bank of the Liangshui River gradually dissipated. Chen Dakuan saw a large pure white flag appearing in front of his eyes, and then a large white flag came into view, fluttering in the cold wind.

Under the dense banners, there are all knights in pure white armor inlaid with iron wool. On the top of the jet-black high-pointed helmet, the white helmet peak is fluttering in the wind.

"The Tartars of Zhengbai Banner seem to be Niu Lu Zhang Jing." Tong Shoushan said in a deep voice.

"Chen Shao, we still caught a living person who was allocated Shiku."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Chen Dakuan to speak, he turned around and shouted to Zuo Qinghe: "Wake up the allocated Shiku, hang him on the tree, and let the other side watch."

Chen Dakuan turned his head to look, and saw the big tree by the river bank tied his feet with hemp rope, hanging upside down on the tree fork, the heads of the three Tartar corpses were all chopped off, and they kept coming down from the neck Blood flowed, and flowed along the river bank into the Liangshui River, and the river was dyed red.

The Tartar's Fende Pashiku had already been awakened at this moment, and he was covered in dust, spitting out Tartar-speaking and screaming indiscriminately.

Chen Dakuan asked: "Damn it, what is this tartar called?"

Ma Yuan was originally from Yebushou, and had learned Tartar dialect. When he heard the question from Chen Dakuan, the head of the sentry, he stepped forward and said, "Go back to Chen Shao, Tongtou, what this Tartar said is 'Scholars can be killed. The meaning of "not to be humiliated."

Chen Dakuan stared wide-eyed, and scolded angrily: "You son of a bitch, you can't fucking be killed, you can't be humiliated, you go and pull out all the mother's clothes, and the whole tree will beat him to the bone, and tell the opposite side to kill him!" Let's see, kids."

Ma Yuan went away in response, while Tong Shoushan saw that the Tartars on the opposite side were still forming a team, and there were still scattered Tartar cavalry rushing towards them. They should be Yu Dingchong in some banners as auxiliary soldiers, and Those armored ahas that the waistcoats wear.

Although these people also have horses, most of them have their own mules and horses at home. How can they be compared with the crotch horses of the vests and infantry?

(End of this chapter)