The Ming Dynasty began from Sarhu

Chapter 370 Farewell (Death of Shen Lian)
Shen Lian covered his bleeding waist and said to Lin Yu while struggling:

"Lin Yu, no, kill him."

Lin Yu was like a violent beast, swinging the mace. With one blow, Mei Jianchi raised his knife to block. How could a thin knife block the mace weighing dozens of kilograms!
The waist knife broke into two pieces and Meijianchi was bounced far away. When he looked up again, he was vomiting blood and was dead.

"Dad, I finally avenged you!"

Lin Yu jumped up and landed steadily in front of the guards.

"die!"

The mace was swung down again, and Mei Jianchi raised his head and smiled.

The broken bones and flying blood blurred Lin Yu's eyes.

He pulled up the corpse and threw it towards the city wall with all his strength. Mei Jianchi instantly turned into a pool of blood mud...

The giant beast glared around, and the pursuers were so shocked by its momentum that they stood still.

"Captain Shen, hold on, I'll take you to find Wu Youke."

Lin Yu propped his mace on the ground and stood in front of the sinking gate like a gate god. Through the gate, he shouted at the rebels rushing forward:

"If you want to die, come up here!"

A servant bent down to get through the gate, but before he could straighten up, a mace came whistling and knocked him out.

Seeing this, the remaining servants shouted, drew their swords and attacked together.

Lin Yu protected Shen Lian and used his mace to block the weapons coming from all directions.

From time to time, heavy arrows would penetrate the armor and hit Lin Yu.

The defenders on the city wall urged them to enter the city gate quickly, as the gate was about to close.

Lin Yu remained indifferent, dragging the blood-covered Shen Lian and fighting while retreating. Several guards provided cover with muskets and short crossbows, and spearmen also came forward to help. They suddenly stabbed at Zhang Chun's servant.

The crowd fought and retreated, and after retreating across the moat, the ropes on the drawbridge were cut by the rebels and the drawbridge could no longer be retracted.

The Qianjin Gate was the last line of defense of the city wall. Zhang Chun's servants no longer fought at close range, but took out their bows and shot at the giant thirty steps away.

Lin Yu turned his back to the moat and used his body to block the arrows. Five or six heavy arrows shot into his back. Fortunately, he was wearing two layers of iron armor and a thick cotton armor on the outside. The arrows could not cause fatal damage to the violent beast.

Shen Lian lost too much blood and woke up from his coma. He said to Lin Yu:

"Brother Lin, please leave. Mr. Shen has killed too many people..."

Lin Yu's throat moved but he didn't say anything. Only then did he realize that there were only five or six comrades left around him. The captain of the spearmen who had just protected them had been shot into hedgehogs. The few who were injured but not dead were rushed over by Zhang Chun's servants and were being killed.

Lin Yu protected Shen Lian with one hand, patted his chest with the other, picked up a broken spear on the ground, and threw it towards the enemy with all his strength...
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Zuo Miaoqing, wearing a paramedic uniform, walked through the messy north-south streets and stumbled to the Meridian Gate of the Forbidden City.

This is the temporary station of the Civil Affairs Bureau. All supplies can only be obtained here.

When she passed Zuoanmen, she would think of Shen Lian, and a faint feeling filled her heart.

Shen Lian caused the destruction of the Zuo family and the tragic death of her parents. Zuo Miaoqing can never forget this man.

However, he protected her from Zhengding Prefecture to the capital, from the capital to Tianjin, and then fled from Tianjin to Shandong. For her, he offended Xu Xianchun's nephew, and for her, he almost lost his life several times.

From the moment he risked his life to protect her on the Fu ship, Zuo Miaoqing had accepted this man.

Zuo Miaoqing followed Liu Yue'er around to collect the supplies needed for the wounded soldiers' camp, mainly some honey and gauze, as well as Dianxi Baiyao for stopping bleeding, but this medicine is very scarce now.

Liu Yue'er is impetuous and has a strong aura. The pacification soldiers have to look at her and salute her when they see her. Liu Yue'er is not only a high-level civil affairs official in Kaiyuan, but also the wife of Yang Tong, who is the highest commander of the pacification soldiers.

"It's a chaotic time, with many rebel spies. We destroyed a nest yesterday, and Yang Tong and his men killed dozens of spies. When you come to get the gauze honey in the future, Miss Zuo, don't come in person. Just let the auxiliary soldiers come. You still have to get married when Captain Shen comes back. If anything happens, I won't be able to explain it to him. The Suoyi Guards are very vicious..."

Before Liu Yue'er could finish her words, Zuo Miaoqing's face turned red.

Liu Yue'er, on the other hand, was carefree, chattering away in the carriage. She was energetic and hot-tempered, and usually worked like a man at the Civil Affairs Bureau, a skill many men couldn't match. Now, she had become the most capable subordinate to Director Xie Yang of the Civil Affairs Bureau. The carriage stopped in front, and a team of soldiers patrolling the streets stopped the carriage for a routine inspection. This was already the third time that day.

Liu Yue'er suppressed her anger and wanted to rush out to argue with the captain of the new recruits several times, but Zuo Miaoqing stopped her and gently advised:
"Manager Liu, reinforcements arrived from Tianjin today, but were defeated by the rebels. A group of them are now at the gates of Yongding City, and many of them are injured. They're afraid of spies sneaking in, so they're keeping a closer eye on them."

Liu Yueer said angrily, "If they're investigating urgently, they should investigate the soldiers. Why are they investigating our civil affairs? I'll definitely report this to the Duke of Protectorate. The commander of the 14th Guards Army is such a blockhead..."

As they were talking, the carriage had already arrived at the Yongdingmen City Wall. Liu Yue'er lifted the curtain and saw from afar that there were hundreds of corpses densely packed in the city wall. Judging from the armor and mandarin duck-shaped battle jackets on them, it was obvious that they were not Kaiyuan soldiers.

The defenders set up a camp for wounded soldiers in the city wall to temporarily accommodate the wounded. The bodies of the soldiers who died in the battle were transported far away to avoid affecting morale.

"Why did so many people die?"

Liu Yueer explained, "They were all defeated soldiers under the city, soldiers from the Tianjin Garrison. When the defenders pulled them up, the rebels shot arrows from across the moat. Many were hit by arrows, and only a few survived."

As she spoke, she jumped off the carriage holding a pile of honey gauze and strode towards the wounded camp. Several paramedics in white uniforms came towards them, and hurriedly took the honey and gauze from Zuo Miaoqing's hands and smeared them on the wounded soldiers who were screaming loudly.

Some paramedics used red-hot knives to carve out the arrowheads from the wounds of the wounded. The air was filled with the smell of burning human flesh. Liu Yue'er frowned and watched for a while, but she couldn't bear it anymore. She turned around and left without saying goodbye to Zuo Miaoqing.

Zuo Miaoqing was not afraid at all. She had been a paramedic for over a year and had seen scenes ten times more bloody than the one before her. When the battalion commander saw Zuo Miaoqing coming back, he quickly made arrangements for her:

"There was a fierce battle at Qianjinzha, and we suffered many casualties. Hurry and take people over there and bring our people back. When the cannons attack the city later, they will hit the corpses and it will be difficult to distinguish them."

Zuo Miaoqing agreed, took three rescue soldiers and a team of auxiliary soldiers, crossed the southern area of the city, and walked towards the Qianjin Gate of the city wall. The arrows on the ground became more and more dense.

From a distance, several arms were seen sticking out from under the brake. The arms were broken, and the bodies below the arms were crushed into a pulp by the brake. Blood splattered around like balls of splashed paint.

Zuo Miaoqing looked around and found that the two sides of the gate were divided by corpses. Although she could not see the casualties behind the gate, it was easy for her to imagine.

The corpses piled up into a small hill, with more than a hundred of them. They were mainly rebels who broke into the city. Many of them were shot to death by the musketeers on the city wall after they rushed into the city in chaos. Some rebels who were lucky enough to survive were killed by the spearmen and central army guards who came from behind.

The auxiliary soldiers used hooks to pull down the layers of rebel corpses until the corpses wearing Kaiyuan Army uniforms were exposed underneath.

After the bodies of the Kaiyuan soldiers appeared, the auxiliary soldiers all scattered around to be on guard, and the rescue soldiers stepped forward to continue cleaning. Their movements were obviously more delicate and careful. Everyone seemed cautious, fearing that the bodies of their comrades would be damaged in their hands.

One, two, three, until a very tall Kaiyuan soldier appeared. The auxiliary soldiers in the distance screamed in surprise. They all recognized him. This was Lin Yu, the warrior of the central army guard.

Lin Yu held the scarred mace in his left hand, which was covered with blood and flesh. His cotton and chain mail armor was torn, and there were more than a dozen arrows stuck in his waist and back. Blood was flowing down his armor.

There was a cry of surprise all around, and the auxiliary soldiers on guard around could not help but look over here. They could not believe what was happening before their eyes. One of the bravest warriors in Kaiyuan was actually killed by the rebels.

Zuo Miaoqing stretched out her hand to feel the giant's neck and shouted to the auxiliary soldiers beside her: "Carry him into the city wall, he is not dead yet."

Four auxiliary soldiers used the door panel as a stretcher and quickly lifted Lin Yu up. One auxiliary soldier wanted to take the mace from the giant's hand, but failed after trying several times. The giant had no choice but to hold the mace and carry it to the wounded camp together.

At this time, the paramedics had cleared all the bodies of the soldiers and transported the three or four surviving wounded back to the wounded camp. Zuo Miaoqing looked at the tragic battlefield in front of her. The scene, which had long been numb, made her heart tremble with fear. Her left eyelid began to twitch wildly. She vaguely felt uneasy in her heart. She told herself not to let her imagination run wild. She quickly stepped forward to catch up with the teammates in front of her and rushed to the wounded camp to treat the wounded. After taking a few steps, she suddenly heard someone shouting from behind:

"Hey, don't go, there are still corpses down there."

Zuo Miaoqing looked back as if possessed by a mystery. After Lin Yu was carried away, a shallow crater was revealed under Lin Yu's body. It should have been left by the rebels when they used the red cannon to attack the city yesterday.

"I'm afraid it was destroyed by artillery shells."

She walked to the side of the crater and glanced into it casually.

The body had already frozen stiff. The auxiliary soldier who had been shouting just now turned Shen Lian over with force, making him lie on his back.

The dead man's face was pale and his mouth was slightly open.

"Hey, what's your name?"

"My name is Shen Lian."

Zuo Miaoqing stared at Shen Lian's pale face and saw that he still had a farewell smile on his face.

(End of this chapter)