Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 291

The news of the captive chieftain Huang Taiji's death spread like a gust of wind across Daming, from outside the pass to Beijing, and from Beijing to all places in Daming.

Wherever he passed, countless people spontaneously set off firecrackers.

As for the places with the loudest firecrackers, Beijing is the first, Nanjing is the second, but the third place is not a big city, but a small sea city by the sea.

The sound of firecrackers in Haizhou City was set off for more than ten days in a row. The siege of the captive soldiers in the past few months left a deep impression on the city, and even now many people still wake up from their dreams.

In the end, I heard the news of the death of the chieftain, how could I not be happy.

In the Qunying Temple in Qushan, rich pig and sheep sacrifices were enshrined.

Xie Fei, an officer of the Xinjiangkou Water Battalion who had been promoted to the head of the banner, was also in the temple at this time.

Looking at the iron armors propped up by wooden frames in the temple, with bloodstains on them that were slightly blackened after drying, Xie Fei was very familiar with these iron armors, because these iron armors were exactly the ones worn by his brothers in the past. with.

After the Haizhou War, the Haizhou gentry, under the leadership of Dian Shi Song Lian, built this temple of heroes on the mountainside of Qushan, which was used to enshrine the hundred heroes who died in Haizhou.

This time Xie Fei came to Haizhou to recruit soldiers under Yang Chao's order, because Xie Fei had trained and led a hundred Haizhou civilians in the past, so he hoped to use his connections to recruit enough soldiers in Haizhou. A total of dozens of officers like Xie Fei came, all of whom were officers who led and trained the people.

Xie Fei had heard about this Temple of Heroes as soon as he came here. Xie Fei wondered why it was not built in the city, but on a mountain outside the city. He finally found out after asking.

It turns out that when the Haizhou War just ended, some people who went out of the city said that they often heard some strange sounds on Qushan Mountain. Where are the thousands of captive soldiers buried? It should be the ghosts of the captive soldiers crying.

Well, the fact that Yang Chao bombarded the camp of captive soldiers and caused a landslide has changed from the anger of the mountain god to the legend that Yang Chao bombarded Qushan and buried the captive soldiers.

As a result, it was extended that there were ghosts with captive soldiers on Qushan Mountain. This news was continuously confirmed by the people of Dachai, so it spread in Haizhou City for a while, and no one dared to go up the mountain to collect firewood.

At this time, the gentry in the city were discussing the construction of a temple dedicated to the martyrs, so someone suddenly proposed to build this temple of heroes instead of the place where the captive soldiers were buried on the mountainside of Qushan, and use the evil spirits of these heroes to continue to suppress the captive soldiers. the ghost.

This proposal was approved by everyone, so they built the Temple of Heroes on the middle of the mountain, in which a hundred blood-stained iron armors were enshrined, and there were also tablets of these heroes, and they set up a temple to celebrate and worship every day. The tablets of these one hundred people are therefore called the Temple of Heroes.

This is the second time for Xie Fei to come to this temple. The first time he came was when he first arrived in Haizhou in early September. Hearing about the existence of this temple, he immediately came to pay homage to his brothers who died in battle. This is the second time, because the gentry from Haizhou came here to worship together, and burned yellow paper to inform the news of the death of the heroic captive chief Taiji.

Huang Taiji died on the ninth day of August, and it has been more than a month since the news reached Haizhou.

Xie Fei set off from Nanjing on the first day of August, and arrived in Haizhou on the third day of September, which took more than a month.

It is already September 28th, almost two months have passed, but Xie Fei's recruiting is not going well.

In a few days, Xie Fei will be leaving. Yang Chao will give their family a month to recruit soldiers in Haizhou for a month, and then no matter how many people are recruited, they must return immediately.

Seeing that there are four or five days before the return journey, Xie Fei himself only recruited about twenty people, and the officers they came this time only recruited four to five hundred in total.

"Hey, they are all heroes!"

Xie Fei was offering incense, when he suddenly heard two people beside him who were offering incense sigh.

These two people are quite tall and well-behaved, and Xie Fei immediately felt familiar. They are soldiers who have received military training, and they must have received military training like Yang Chao's. The soldiers in the Chao army training have certain rules when sitting, lying and walking.

But it is obviously impossible for these two people to be soldiers from the water battalion from Nanjing. There is only one possibility. They are the people in Haizhou City during the Haizhou War.

"It's a pity that he died early, and we didn't hear the news of the chieftain's death."

Another Min Zhuang said.

After the two finished offering incense, they were still under the futon, kowtowed to the high shelf with a pair of iron armor, and then shook their heads and exited the Qunying Temple.

Xie Fei also finished burning the incense, and followed out quietly.

"Two brothers stay behind!"

The two people went out of the temple gate, turned to the right, and reached the mountain road down the mountain, at this time Xie Fei stopped them.

The two stopped and looked at Xie Fei in surprise.

"The two brothers are heroes who fought against the enemy side by side with General Yang in Haizhou City?"

As Xie Fei said, he cupped his hands.

Seeing that Xie Fei was wearing muslin clothes, he was not an ordinary person, and his gestures were quite heroic, so they also bowed their hands.

"Brother, my brother, my two brothers just stayed in the city with General Yang for more than ten days, and I dare not say that I stand shoulder to shoulder with General Yang."

When the two of them talked about Yang Chao, they couldn't help showing admiration on their faces.

Xie Fei laughed and said: "You two brothers are joking. Since you have fought against the enemy with Master Yang, you are a hero."

The two were surprised at this moment: "How does this brother recognize us?"

Xie Fei said: "But I, Xie Fei, will recognize all the brothers who fought against the enemy with General Yang!"

The two Min Zhuang cupped their hands, smiled awkwardly, and recognized the title of hero.

In fact, they did have a hero addiction for a few days. They were tenants in a nearby village. They were two brothers. Their parents died early. Fortunately, the two brothers were strong enough to beg for food. They just wanted to build a house and marry a wife. That is an extravagant hope, so they are already over twenty years old, but both of them are single.

After the captive soldiers came to Haizhou, the two fled to Haizhou City to take refuge with their landlord, but the landlord had money, but the two of them were poor, and the prices in Haizhou rose day by day. At this time, Gao Liangming, the magistrate of Haizhou, enlisted the people to guard the city. The two brothers saw that starving every day was not an option, so they made up their minds to enlist in the city.

Therefore, they participated in the whole process of the offensive and defensive wars and counterattacks that took place in Haizhou, and because of this kind of deeds, after the two returned to the village after the war, they were flattered by a group of young people from the same village for a few days. But they still had to live. The landlord was afraid that the two of them would have too much prestige because of this, so he desperately belittled them, saying that if it weren't for General Yang from Nanjing, they would be nothing.

It is nothing to say that they just stood on the city for more than ten days with General Yang.

In the era when foreign monks were fond of chanting scriptures, the villagers quickly believed what the only educated landlord said, and also believed that the two brothers had no great skills, or why they hadn't seen them before, so their heroic brothers were addicted. It's over after a while, and I still lie in the field facing the loess and back to the sky to work for the landlord's house, otherwise there will be no food.

Xie Fei and the two went down the mountain together, and they chatted together until the bottom of the mountain, and basically found out about the situation of the two brothers, knowing that they were not doing well.

So when they were about to part at the foot of the mountain, Xie Fei revealed his identity.

"Brothers, please forgive me, my younger brother Xie Fei, the chief officer of the Water Camp Banner in Xinjiangkou, Nanjing, this time he was ordered by General Yang to come to Haizhou to recruit the brothers who were born and died together in the past. I hope that the two brothers will not give up and join our water camp. Follow me to Nanjing to vote for General Yang!"

As a result, as soon as Xie Fei revealed his identity, the two brothers were dumbfounded. The two of them showed off their attack in Haizhou for a long time. The feeling was that Li Gui met Li Kui. The warrior who rushed to kill with General Yang.

The two couldn't help feeling embarrassed: "It turned out to be Mr. Xie, my brother has eyes but doesn't know Mount Tai, and Guan Gong is playing big swords in front of him."

After he had to kneel down to salute, Xie Fei immediately helped them up: "You are right, and you are not bragging. General Yang said that the one who bleeds with him is his brother, that's why he let me come forward Find these brothers."

When they heard that Yang Chao sent someone to Haizhou to look for these bloody folks, the two brothers couldn't help being moved: "Master Yang really said that?"

Xie Fei nodded.

This is not made up by him, but by Yang Chao. The purpose? Naturally, he hopes to lure those folks to Nanjing. Anyway, the soldiers in the water camp, Yang Chao has always called them brothers.

The two brothers glanced at each other, and suddenly ignored Xie Fei's support, and knelt down on the ground.

"General Yang is benevolent and righteous, and my brother dare not disobey, this life will be handed over to General Yang!"

To be honest, after being a hero, they were not used to continuing to face the loess and the sky when they returned to the village. At first, they refused Yang Chao's solicitation because after the war, they were suddenly full of a kind of disaster for the peaceful life. The sense of happiness for the rest of their lives, but after returning to the hard days before, they are more or less worried about gains and losses.

At least the two brothers had chatted a lot, asking if they had chosen to go to Nanjing with General Yang, would they have received a large amount of military pay now, would they be able to get married at the end of the year, and said that if the military salary is not enough, they should first Let the boss marry a daughter-in-law.

"Very good, very good! You should have been like this a long time ago, there is no reason for a hero to be a coolie!"

Xie Fei, who has always had trouble recruiting people, saw the attitudes of these two people, and couldn't help but sigh in admiration.

Yes, there is no reason for a hero to be a coolie. Before the two brothers arrived in Nanjing, they already felt that they were valued by others, and they couldn't help being very excited.

The so-called scholar died for his confidant, precisely because this feeling of being respected by others moved those humble and ordinary people so much.

"It was General Yang's death!"

The two brothers spoke loudly, their voices were as powerful as gold and iron.

Xie Fei helped them up, then asked again: "I don't know if you know any other folks who used to step into the city?"

(End of this chapter)