I saw the second master mingling among the crowd, trying to sneak out of the city gate.

Suddenly hearing Xie Xiaoni's words, several people stood stunned on the spot.

The commander of the Chinese army guarding the city gate was a veteran who had joined the Chinese army at Laolong Mountain. He realized that the matter was urgent and immediately ordered that no one leave the city.

"Surround all these people!"

The captain drew out his knife and looked at the group of people warily.

Soon a platoon leader at the city gate noticed something unusual and came over with two teams of people.

After knowing the cause of the matter, he came over and asked Xie Xiaoni to step back, took out the knife, and began to look at the hungry people one by one.

Seeing that he couldn't escape, Wang Heizi winked. One of his companions shouted loudly and rushed towards the searching platoon leader. The other person took the opportunity to rush towards the city gate.

Seeing the Chinese soldiers rushing toward him with spears and spears like a forest, the man who was running towards the city gate knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.

Wang Heizi cursed secretly, rushed out suddenly, and pulled out the short knife hidden in his arms.

Xie Xiaoni immediately pointed at Wang Heizi, "Be careful, it's him, he's the second in charge!"

When the hungry people around saw the two sides fighting with each other with swords, they ran away in shock. Taking advantage of the chaos, Wang Heizi actually turned around, ran past the platoon leader, and fled towards the city gate.

Xie Xiaoni was surprised when she saw the second master passing by and actually came forward to pull the hem of his clothes.

Wang Heizi cursed in his heart, "In the past, this bitch used to tremble with fear when she saw me. She was as docile as a sheep. No matter how insulted she was, she didn't dare to say a word. Now she has the heart of a bear and the courage of a leopard, and she dares to stop me."

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Soon after, Wang Heizi flew up and kicked Xie Xiaoni away.

However, as soon as the force was suffocated, several Chinese soldiers had already blocked the way.

Wang Heizi held the short knife, took a quick look at the surrounding situation, turned around and rushed towards the platoon leader behind him.

The platoon leader had already chopped down the man just now, and was calling on the surrounding soldiers to guide the hungry people and control everyone, lest anyone fish in troubled waters and take the opportunity to escape.

Wang Heizi wanted to capture the thief first, so he came close and struck with a knife.

The platoon leader suddenly saw Wang Heizi stabbing him with a short knife. He hurriedly dodged the knife and raised the long knife upwards with his right hand, drawing an arc.

One inch longer and one inch stronger. Although Wang Heizi was agile, he had to dodge. He could only retreat diagonally to the back to avoid the knife.

The Chinese soldiers behind him had already pressed forward. The platoon leaders waved their spears in unison, and the spear heads stabbed at them like a forest of spears.

Wang Heizi saw gun heads everywhere, up, down, left and right. No matter how sharp his skills were, he could not hide to the left, not to the right, from above, but not from below.

Immediately, two spearheads pierced Wang Heizi's body.

Wang Heizi eats it in pain, and his body takes a beating.

But in the blink of an eye, the platoon leader's knife had been swung over and placed on Wang Heizi's neck!

Several soldiers immediately rushed forward and held the captured Wang Heizi.

The platoon leader put the knife back into the scabbard, turned around, helped Xie Xiaoni and said, "Are you okay?"

Xie Xiaoni felt sore all over her body and felt dizzy. She struggled to stand up from the ground.

The platoon leader said, "You're bleeding. I'll help you see the doctor. Where are you injured?"

Xie Xiaoni came back to her senses at this time and noticed that there was some blood on the ground under her body and there were blood stains on her clothes.

Xie Xiaoni held her stomach, "My stomach hurts a little."

The platoon leader quickly supported Xie Xiaoni and said, "Be careful, I will help you go to the pharmacy."

The platoon leader turned around and said, "You guys continue to guard the city gate and prohibit anyone from leaving the city. You guys take this guy to the county government office."

He helped Xie Xiaoni to the pharmacy. After taking her pulse, the doctor said, "Fortunately, you are really lucky. I will prescribe a prescription for you to fry and drink. Your body is already weak, and today you were hit by an external force, and you almost lost the baby."

I can’t keep it!”

Xie Xiaoni lost her mind movie

After a moment, he realized, "Doctor, I have it?"

The doctor said, "Yes, you are pregnant. It has been more than a month."

The platoon leader heard this and said in admiration, "You are really brave, little lady. In that situation, you actually dared to arrest the gangster. Fortunately, you are fine. I, Qi Weilong, admire you!"

Xie Xiaoni said weakly, "I didn't think too much, I was just anxious and didn't want the second boss to run away!"

Qi Weilong gave the doctor an explanation and left two soldiers to take care of her home.

Qi Weilong made arrangements, turned around and went to the bedside, and said to Xie Xiaoni, "Master Wan summoned me over, so that I can have a good health, little lady. I will leave two people to send you back, and I will visit you later when I have free time!"

Xie Xiaoni said, "Thank you, sir!"

Qi Weilong saluted with a military salute, gave some instructions to the two soldiers, and hurriedly left and rushed to the county government office.

Entering the lobby of the Yamen, they saw Wang Heizi, covered in blood, kneeling on the ground miserably. Wan Jun was holding a piece of paper in his hand and looking at it. Wan Jun folded the paper and lit it with a candle.

Looking at the scattered ashes, Wan Jun said, "Call Zhang Shenglai!"

After a while, Zhang Sheng was carried to the front of the hall. Under Zhang Xiaoyan's care, Zhang Sheng recovered well.

Seeing Wang Heizi kneeling in the lobby, Zhang Sheng looked solemn, turned over on the ground and said, "Sir!"

Wang Heizi gasped and said loudly, "Sir, Zhang Sheng's confession was admitted by him himself! I dug out this traitor for you, please give me a way out, spare my life, I will go through fire and water for you!"

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Wan Jun said, "What confession? You tortured my brother Zhang Sheng for several days without rest, and in the end you couldn't help but make up some words. It can't be considered a betrayal!"

He turned to Zhang Sheng and said, "I have burned the piece of paper in his hand. Both confessions are gone. Don't think too much about it. I will leave this guy to you!"

Zhang Sheng's eyes were full of tears and he cried with joy. He knelt his head on the ground and said in a trembling voice, "Thank you, sir!"

Wan Jun supported Zhang Sheng and said, "What am I saying? How can this be done between comrades? Get up quickly."

Waiting for Zhang Sheng to calm down and sit down again, Wan Jun turned to look at Qi Weilong, "You did a good job in this matter. I'll write it down first. You will be rewarded heavily in the future!"

When Qi Weilong heard this, he gave a military salute and said, "Thank you, sir. I just did my duty in this matter, and it was the civilian girl Xie Xiaoni who made the great contribution!"

Qi Weilong told the whole story and Xie Xiaoni's situation.

Wan Jun couldn't help but praise, "Xie Xiaoni, a weak woman, dared to intercept the gangster. Her courage is commendable. You have someone give her a reward of twenty taels of silver and tell her to take good care of her baby!"

Qi Weilong took the order and walked out of the lobby, when a soldier ran in.

"Sir, there is news coming from Fushui Pass." After saying this, he handed over a letter. The news in the letter was very shocking!

After Li Zicheng occupied Beijing in March, he sent troops to Shanhaiguan on April 21 to start a war with Wu Sangui, the Ming Dynasty's Liaodong general.

The two sides fought at Shanhaiguan for two days. When Wu Sangui was about to be defeated, he shaved his head and surrendered to Dorgon, the Manchu regent. Dorgon led the Manchu soldiers into the pass. Li Zicheng was caught off guard and was killed in a great defeat. Most of the elite soldiers of the Shun army were killed.

this!

Li Zicheng returned to Beijing after being defeated at Shanhaiguan. On April 29, he proclaimed himself emperor again in the Wuying Hall of the Forbidden City and withdrew from Beijing on April 30.

The Manchu lovers entered Shanhaiguan, and the soldiers and horses came very quickly. On the way to retreat, Li Zicheng was overtaken by the Manchu soldiers and horses. He was killed by the Manchu soldiers and horses in Zhending and other places in a great rout. Now he has retreated to Shaanxi in embarrassment.

"Open the city gate to welcome King Chuang, but King Chuang will not accept food when he comes." The people of Zhili, Henan, and Shanxi welcomed the peasant army very much a few years ago. Now they are extremely disappointed with Li Zicheng. When they heard that the Shun army was defeated, they all rose up to create a riot.

The opposite of smooth.

Many prefectures and counties have killed Dashun officials and re-established the banner of the Ming Dynasty.

Another piece of news is that on May 15th, that is, last month, King Fu of the Ming Dynasty proclaimed himself emperor in Nanjing!

Everyone thought that Li Zicheng entered Beijing and Li Shun replaced Zhu Ming. Unexpectedly, within a month, the situation in the world took a turn for the worse and once again fell into chaos.

All armies know this period of history. After Li Zi succeeded and retreated, the Qing Dynasty entered the Pass and established its capital in Beijing, quickly pacifying the world. The Han people once again perished at the hands of the barbarians, until the later powers invaded China, from the colonial war to the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895.

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This is the dusk before the long night of Chinese history. Wan Jun couldn't help but think in his heart, what would history have been like if the Han people had not perished?

Now with thousands of Chinese soldiers in hand, how should Wanjun get along?

The letter ended with a piece of bad news. This year's winter has been long, and summer has arrived half a month early. The weather in western Henan has been extremely dry. Most of the prefectures and counties in Henan have been stripped of their land for thousands of miles. It is feared that there will be a large-scale famine. Fushui Pass has already begun to appear.

Hungry people fleeing famine in Henan!

There have been several road collapses at the south gate of Lucheng County these days, and Wanjun has arranged disaster relief points in the south and east of the city.

The summer harvest will begin in a few days. Fortunately, the Chinese army mobilized manpower to fight the drought. The damage to the villages near Lucheng County was limited, so the harvest should be pretty good.

The soldiers of the Chinese army in the various camps in the city have been training for some time. After Wan Jun arranged the things here, he delayed for a day or two and went to Wulipu.

The firearms in Wulipu were the big stones in Wanjun's heart. Seeing that Wang Lihui's arrangements were in order, he felt a little more at ease. He also remembered the matter of the stone marrow lead in Huangtu Village because the attack on Lucheng County had been delayed for a long time.

So Wan Jun asked Liu Sanjin to lead the way, and he and Wang Lihui went to Fushui Pass.

Twenty miles eastward from Wulipu, there are towering mountains in the north and gradually gentle mountains in the south. Fushui Pass is stuck between the two mountains and is the easternmost gate into Guanzhong via Wuguan Road.

After passing a hillside, Wanjun saw from a distance the three hills that they had climbed in the past. Just north of the mountain pass was a gate city.

The city wall of Fushuiguan is only about ten feet long, with only two east and west gates. The southeastern city wall is built along the Heiqi River and serves as a moat. Compared with the world-famous Shanhaiguan and Yanmenguan, this Xiaoguan City is very ordinary.

Everyone went east to the west gate. The flag of the Chinese army was hung on the city gate. He Chuyi led the people to greet them.

After entering the city gate, there is only one street in Fushui Pass. The road paved with bluestone is only about 300 meters long, with low houses on both sides.
To be continued...