Chapter 713 The Righteousness

"Brother, go at ease. Brother knows that you are very bitter. Although you killed the unfaithful mother-in-law with your own hands, you always think you are a dwarf in your heart. You often drink alone and often inexplicably in a daze. I know this. I just can't bear to say it. Brother, you are not ashamed. You have been innocent all your life. Although you are not vigorous, you are an honest man..."

The man by the moat talked while wiping the body with a cloth towel dipped in the water in the river, carefully wiped the face of the body, and moved slowly and piously.

"Who said that your brother is not vigorous enough?"

The sudden voice of the person behind scared the man. When he looked back, he swung and stammered at Song Nan: "You...you are not...not that... Song..."

"It's me. After years of separation, how is Brother Zhu?" Song Nan nodded.

This man was Zhu Changping. After the war, he looked for the body of his brother Zhu Changshun in the city. Because there were too many bodies, it was late and he couldn't find it for a while. Early this morning, when everyone came to clean up the bodies on both sides of the city wall, they found the body that Zhu Changshun fell down with a talita in his arms. Zhu Changping Carry the body out of the city, intend to clean it by the moat and find a place to bury it.

Song Nan respectfully bowed to Zhu Changshun's body lying on the ground, reached out to pick up a wet cloth on the ground and squatted down to wipe Zhu Changshun's body. Zhu Changping hurriedly said, "Lord Song, how can you work to wipe your body for my brother?"

Song Nan didn't raise his head. He carefully wiped Zhu Changshun's face and whispered, "Why not? Your brother died for Lingzhou, and he is a loyal man respected by everyone. Just now you said that your brother has not been vigorous in your life, but in fact, your brother has done something vigorous. This alone is enough to draw a satisfactory end to his life.

Zhu Changping crossed his hand and said for a long time, "That's what my lord said. Yesterday on the wall was the most glorious time my brother I have ever seen. The elder brother was stabbed seven or eight times and still jumped off the wall with a Tatson soldier in his arms. When I found his body in the morning, he held the body of the soldier tightly with his hands and put his fingers into the meat. It took me a lot of energy to break it apart.

Zhu Changping's voice choked. Song Nan nodded slightly, kept tidying up Zhu Changshun's body, and then got up to untie the cloak behind him and slowly wrapped it around Zhu Changshun's body.

"Your excellency, how can you use your cloak?" Zhu Changping shouted.

Song Nan waved his hand to stop him. After getting up, he stood aside and said, "Get a coffin to bury Zhu Yishi and set up a monument in my name. When the war is over, the names of all the people who participated in this war should be engraved on the stone tablet and stand outside Lingzhou City to worship incense."

Wang Yong nodded and said that in this chaotic time, if the dead body was not burned, it would be swept over by the bar and buried grass. It was already a luxury to have a coffin. It was already a great honor for Song Nan to give Zhu Changshun a coffin and set up a monument to bury it.

"Thank you, Lord, for your kindness on behalf of my brother." Zhu Changping knelt down and kowtowed, with tears in his eyes.

Song Nan picked him up and whispered, "I heard that you initiated the people's assistance in defending the city this time. Although you are a scholar, it's good to have such courage. After saying that, what do you want? I can help you."

Zhu Changping thought for a moment and said, "Your Excellency, the villain has always regarded adults as role models. Adults used to invest in the army, but now they have shocked the world. The villain also wants to imitate adults to make contributions in the army, and they don't read this book. I don't know if adults can do it?"

Song Nan smiled and said, "Don't you read? Don't you hear that 'all kinds of low quality can only be read high'? Don't you want to become an official and become a waiter and a scholar in the cabinet?

Zhu Changping shook his head and said, "I just want to be a man like an adult."

Song Nan smiled and nodded, "Okay, you deal with your brother's aftermath first. If you still have such an idea later, come and look for me."

Zhu Changping knelt down and kowtowed to thank him. When he raised his head, Song Nan had already taken the generals into the city.

In the Battle of Lingzhou, both sides suffered huge losses. More than 13,000 soldiers and civilians in Lingzhou were killed and injured, while nearly 40,000 Taran troops lost more than half. Originally, the loss of Tartar soldiers and horses was not great, but unfortunately, 4,000 soldiers and horses were left in the city when they escaped. Jiang Bin and Xu Tai's soldiers and horses were annihilated and captured, and 4,000 people were suddenly lost in vain.

The bald man who escaped from the east gate of Lingzhou led his army to run dozens of miles away. After dark, he walked north all night. When he was tired, he rectified and rested in a ravine. After the inventory of soldiers and horses, there were only 16,000 left, and the supplies and food had been exhausted. I couldn't help sighing at the sky.

He now has no fighting spirit to go east. Originally, he went east from Lingzhou. He had two directions to choose from. He could go east to attack the nearest town supplies, or go north to the bank of the Yellow River to wait for the opportunity to cross the Yellow River. But in fact, he can only choose the latter. His soldiers and horses are getting less and fewer. He will stay in Daming for one more day, which is more. There is a danger of destruction; now he doesn't want anything, but wants to quickly return to the Tatar border north of Helan Mountain and return to the Hetao prairie. He has sent someone to cross He Lanshan to report to his second son and ask him to gather the last soldiers and horses to gather in the north of Ningxia Town to cooperate with himself to break through, so crossing the river to attack Ningxia is his last choice.

But the 16,000 soldiers and horses on hand have no fighting spirit. How to cross the Yellow River is another problem. What needs to be solved now is the stomach problem. There is no time to collect supplies in Lingzhou City. After hastily fleeing overnight, there is no chance to plunder supplies in this uninhabited hilly valley. Besides, he doesn't want Mingjun to find his whereabouts. If the problem of this belly is not solved, everyone has no strength to walk. How can we talk about crossing the river?

Looking at the soldiers lying on the ground, there is no reason to scold them for maintaining the appearance of Tatar warriors. A group of people who have experienced a series of fierce battles and fled hungry for a night, no matter how brave they are, they can't keep their military appearance tidy. For the first time, he regretted his attack on Daming. He came with more than 100,000 troops in his arms, and no one could stop it for two months. How did it become like this in just half a month? There were only less than 20% of the soldiers and horses in his hand, and they were facing the encirclement and suppressing of the Ming army.

My own strategic tactical equipment and other aspects are considered meticulously. The preparations for this in recent years are not inadequate, but they still get such a result. In those years, the Ming army was also beaten by the thorns in the battle of Tumu Fort, and hundreds of thousands of Ming troops were like scattered sand. Compared with those in those years, his military intelligence and equipment are not only superior, but why is it such a result?

"Song Nan, that's Song Nan, is your little rabbit on the grassland the nemesis that I can hit with baldness? Meeting you is the spell that I can't cast when I'm bald? Long live, tell me, is that so? Shouting the baldness silently.

At the suggestion of the general, he finally promised to kill the horse to satisfy his hunger. These horses are the closest partners and comrades-in-arms on the battlefield, but at this time, their comrades-in-arms can only be regarded as things in their abdomen; a war horse was put down on the grass, and the knife stabbed into the horse's abdomen, and the war horse came The sad sound before death silenced the whole Tatar army. These horses never thought that people who usually treat themselves like brothers could stab knives into their bodies. Did they forget that they carried them to rush into battle, and still covered their swords for them at critical times? If the war horse has thoughts, he will sigh: people are not trustworthy at all.

The movement of the Tatar has always been under the control of the Ming army's scouting cavalry. In fact, Song Nan wants to know only one thing. Whether the Tarot is going east or north, and if it goes to the east, it is to fight desperately to disturb the inland, until it is encircled and annihilated, and to the north, he still has to do something on Ningxia Town. Even if the Tahs are hit hard again, after the decisive withdrawal of the baldness, they still have 16,000 soldiers and horses, which is not a small number. With the current two guards in Ningxia Town, they still can't resist.

Jiang Bin's Zhenwei camp has gone to the West Cliff Ferry, which is the only ferry crossing the river. If the soldiers and horses want to cross the Yellow River, they must seize the West Cliff Ferry. The number of troops at the West Cliff Ferry is the first thing to do. Song Nan could not order the pursuit immediately. All the soldiers and horses were in a state of fatigue. The Ming army that arrived first in six or seven days was exhausted, and it was really unwise to chase the four-legged satar soldiers and horses. Song Nan's intention was that since the target of the tars was still Ningxia, he would increase troops to Ningxia Town to wait for work. If you want to run back to Tatar, you must make a break in Ningxia Town.

In view of this, Song Nan ordered the Shenshu Battalion and the Northwest Guards and Horses on the way to speed up their way to Lingzhou. At the same time, Xu Tai led troops across the West Cliff and rushed to Ningxia Town for reinforcements, and sent Jiang Bin to strictly guard both sides of the West Cliff. Then send a large number of cavalry sentries to explore along the Yellow River.

Song Nan has a worry in his heart. Although the Yellow River is wide, it is not the middle of winter. If the tartans want to cross the river, they may find a place with gentle water to cross. A well-trained soldier and horse can never be stopped by a river, not to mention this soldier and horse who escaped alive, their creation The power is infinite.