(This is the second update. Thanks for the recommendation. Two recommendations came to us: one is the new history book and the other is the new client book selection. However, it is not the time to be happy yet. There are ten new books selected in total, but only nine out of them can be displayed on the app. Oh my God, the popularity is twenty books, and nineteen are displayed. I am the twenty book that I will not show. I am not so unlucky this time!)

There are 20 guard duty rooms around the East Palace, each room is guarded day and night, and 28 copper bells are around as warning signals. During the first update, copper bells are sent from the first duty room outside the Queyoumen. The soldiers on duty slammed the copper bells to the second duty room, and directly transmitted to the first duty room outside the Queyoumen. The next morning, the copper bells were sent to the first duty room in the Queyoumen.

The entire Yingtian palace has 72 guard duty rooms, each room is guarded by 10 soldiers, and 78 copper bells are set up. Every night, copper bells are sent from the first duty room of the right gate of Chang'an and all the way to the left gate of Chang'an.

Every night around the palace, the parade inspectors were sent to check the soldiers' duty.

The bronze talismans in the imperial city are cast on the characters "Cheng", "East", "Wei", and "North", respectively, representing the names of their city gates. At night, the inspector holds the left half and the guard holds the right half. When the guardian meets the inspector to inspect, the bronze talisman is in line with each other and engages in it.

The Ming Dynasty formulated strict security rules and regulations, stipulating that no substitution is allowed when on duty, no resignation is allowed, no disbandment of teams, no inquiries about officials, military and civilian affairs, no inquiries, no inquiries about property, etc.

Not only are there too many guards outside the palace, but there are also many heavy troops in the palace.

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"Old Deng..."

Just when Deng Shou arrived outside a guard duty room, a heroic voice sounded inside. As soon as this sound appeared, a bearded general appeared in Deng Shou's mind.

This general fought the most fiercely. As long as he charged, he would always rush to the front. Everyone thought that this general wanted to make military achievements. But in fact, only Deng Shou himself knew that this general had no fame and fortune. He would always rush to the front, just wanting death.

But God has always favored him and has not let him die. This person is Dong Zheng, a man with many stories.

"Hey...Old Dong..."

Deng Shou remembered the time they were together. Although they had been separated for a year, they met again, and their comrades-in-arms were not at all separated.

Then they saw the two hugging each other tightly.

Dong Zheng said hehe, "Are you not dead yet?"

"No...you are alive, too." Deng Shou patted Dong Zheng.

"You know, I don't want to be alive." Dong Zheng said with a sneer.

"I know, but it's not very good to live, I can have a drink with me." After letting go of Dong Zheng, Deng Shou shook the wine jar in his hand: "But the wine in the palace...!"

"Hiss... It's still your old Deng who is so good. You can get all the wine in the palace. Come in, there is tofu stew in it. Let's have a drink soon...!"

As he said that, Dong Zheng pulled Deng Shou into the guard duty room.

At this time, there was a small stove in the guard duty room. There was a small pot on the stove. The pot was stewed with tofu and pickles, and it was steaming. There was a small plate of peanuts, a wine pot and a wine glass on the table next to it.

There is no meat or vegetables at all. Of course, this is not because Dong Zheng has no money to buy meat, but because Dong Zheng never eats meat.

Obviously, Deng Shou was not surprised at all after seeing the vegetarian dishes in the guard duty room, so Deng Shou should have known that Dong Zheng did not eat meat, so Deng Shou pulled out the blockage on the wine jar.

A strong aroma of wine wafted out. After Dong Zheng smelled it, he smiled knowingly and said, "Old Deng... This is the best Fenjiu. You are really amazing. Where did you get it?"

Why Dong Zheng was so surprised? It was because the wine at this time was really not easy to get, especially good wine. Because you could probably understand it in the early Ming Dynasty, because of the disasters in the late Yuan Dynasty, the early Ming Dynasty, that is, the ten years before Hongwu, the Ming Dynasty's agriculture was still in its recovery period.

Brewing wine requires a lot of food. Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang could not let go of brewing at this time. It is recorded in "History of Ming Dynasty": "At the beginning, Taizu conquered Wuzhou and banned winemaking. Dahaizi was the first to attack him. Taizu was angry and wanted to do the trick." From this we can see that Zhu Yuanzhang adopted a strong attitude to ban wine.

So it is really hard to find good wine at this time.

Seeing Dong Zheng's obsessive appearance, Deng Shou smiled and said, "I knew the last battle to destroy Xia and Shu. My adoptive father sat in Xiangzhou to transport food for people in the army and food for horses to supply the troops to the various departments.

Who knew that the Shu army had sneaked into the food and grass I transported. At that time, there were about 3,000 people in the Shu army, but in the end, our troops repelled and killed more than 1,000 people on the other side... In order to commend me, the adoptive father gave me this jar of wine, saying that this jar of wine was brought out by His Majesty from Fengyang, and only His Majesty's old brothers could drink it.

Hehe... You guy got it today. My adopted father and I don’t like to drink it very much, so you guys are bringing you a cheaper one...!"

"Oh, oh, that's really too precious. I'll drink it in a small sip and drink it for a while...!" Dong Zheng laughed and then hugged the wine jar from Deng Shou's hand, as if he was holding some rare treasure.

"Crazy...!"

Another cheap wine was poured into the bowl. After Dong Zheng and Deng Shou drank three or four bowls directly, the two laughed happily and told them about the past. Some stories were like this. When they were together, they liked to recall the past. The memories of Dong Zheng and Deng Shou were very long. It was the first time that Dong Zheng and Deng Shou met.

It was in the 22nd year of Zhizheng, which was ten years ago...

Deng Shou was brought to Hongdu by his adoptive father, and Dong Zheng also came to Hongdu with his general Zhao Desheng. This was a famous battle that took place in the Nanchang area of ​​Jiangxi in the late Yuan Dynasty. It was against the two sides of Zhu Yuanzhang's army and Chen Youliang's army. In the face of the extremely disparity in the power balance, the two sides launched fierce attacks and captures around Hongdu City (now Nanchang, Jiangxi).

At that time, Deng Shou and Dong Zheng were only fifteen or sixteen years old. This war should be the cruelest war they had ever experienced.

Hongdu, which is today's capital of Jiangxi Province, is located at the intersection of Fanyang Lake and Ganjiang River. It has been known since ancient times as "the three rivers are connected to the five lakes, and the barbarians and Jing are controlled and Ouyue is led". It has extremely high strategic significance and has always been a place that military strategists must fight for. After Zhu Yuanzhang controlled the Jiangxi area, he sent the famous general Zhu Wenzheng to station in Hongdu.

Chen Youliang from the middle reaches of the Yangtze River always wanted to swallow Zhu Yuanzhang's power, but he returned despite several expeditions in the east. In the 22nd year of Zhizheng, Chen Youliang led 600,000 navy troops and hundreds of giant ships to attack Wu.

The Han army came overwhelmed. The Western Wu Dynasty was shocked. At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang was busy fighting with Zhang Shicheng of the Eastern Wu and had no time to look west. Even if he led his troops to help the West, it would be difficult for Zhu Yuanzhang to compete with the Han army with his power.

Therefore, in order to gain more time to prepare for war, Zhu Yuanzhang issued an order to Hongdu: he vowed to defend Hongdu to the death and wait for the army to come to aid!

After receiving this order, Zhu Wenzheng, the Hongdu Guardian, was living a life of devotion and food on weekdays. He seemed to have become another person at this time. He quickly convened an emergency military meeting. He said to every soldier in a firm tone as a top officer: "The city is dead or dead, we swear to defend Hongdu City to the death!"

He immediately allocated troops to defend various city gates. Next, Zhu Wenzheng and the Nanchang defenders were facing an army of 600,000... At that time, he was one of the largest and most powerful troops in the world!
Chapter completed!