Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 58 Famous General
In ancient times, it was very impolite to call someone by their first name, and it could even be regarded as an insult to a person. Yang Menglong's performance can be said to be too rude.The white-robed general didn't care, and was still gentle: "The little general knows Lu?"

Yang Menglong took a breath, nodded like a chicken pecking rice: "I know, I know, how could I not know!"

Indeed, it is impossible for anyone who has read several novels on the theme of the end of the Ming Dynasty not to know Lu Xiangsheng. This name is a shining star in the dark age of the end of the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty is indeed a very interesting dynasty. The general dynasty has already withered its talents by the end of the dynasty. It is different. In its last ten years, there are still many famous generals.As soon as the Chongzhen Dynasty came out, there were four fierce men, namely Cao Wenzhao, Hong Chengchou, Lu Xiangsheng, and Sun Chuanting. Each was more powerful than the other, and Lu Xiangsheng was the fiercest among the fierce men.He is from Yixing, Jiangsu Province. He was born as a literati. He looks like a scholar. He passed the Jinshi examination in the second year of Tianqi and served as the head of the household department. Because of his excellent work and good popularity, he was promoted to Yuanwailang within two years. He also became the magistrate of a daimyo. It took only five years from passing the Jinshi examination to becoming the magistrate. At that time, he was only in his twenties. Officials who have not made a bubble in the city for 20 years know that the magic horse is called speed.He is a clean and honest official, has no gray income, is serious and responsible in his work, and the people have a good impression of him. To put it bluntly, the first impression he gives is that of a standard scholar and a civil servant.

But there will be fierce people among civil servants.In addition to his fondness for reading, he has also practiced martial arts since he was a child. He is extremely powerful, swinging a practice knife weighing more than 100 kilograms like flying, and he is more familiar with military books.If it was in the Taiping era, his ability in this area would probably be useless, but unfortunately, what he encountered was the last dynasty, the world was in chaos, and there was a lot of smoke, which made him embark on a completely different path.In the winter of the second year of Chongzhen, Houjin bypassed the Ningjin defense line and entered the bandits from Xifengkou.At that time, there were more than a dozen soldiers and horses entering Beijing. This army of peasants was very inconspicuous, but it was very interesting because no one asked him to come.Lu Xiangsheng is a responsible person. He believes that eating the emperor's salary should be a burden for the emperor. He doesn't care whether you are called or not. Anyway, when he heard that the capital was in danger, he rushed there with a makeshift team.This unremarkable but very interesting team guarded the city of Beijing for a month without fighting with the Houjin army. After the Houjin main force retreated, they also returned home, which can be regarded as a small contribution.The imperial court took a fancy to Lu Xiangsheng's military talent, and promoted him to participate in politics, and was responsible for military training.From then on, he, who was born as a literati, no longer had the opportunity to read scriptures, and led his troops to fight here and there, fighting bandits and slaves, and he couldn't take off his war robe until he died on the battlefield.

To be fair, there were many capable men in the late Ming Dynasty. Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting, Cao Wenzhao, and Yang Sichang were all invincible generals or commanders who commanded thousands of troops. But Hong Chengchou was greedy for life and afraid of death, and Sun Chuanting was too Aloof and arrogant, Cao Wenzhao is a bit arrogant, Yang Sichang is narrow-minded and lacks the capacity to tolerate others, Lu Xiangsheng is the only one who can really take the lead.He is good at training soldiers, and his individual combat ability can only be regarded as second-rate Beizhili soldiers. He is "Lu Yan Wang"; he has a strong personal charm and can convince the generals. Guan Ning's army is strong enough, right?There is no inland general who can hold back this gang of arrogant soldiers, only he can make the Guan Ning cavalry assist in the battle fully cooperate, let the Guan Ning army fight as they like; During the reign of Governor Xuanda, the Xuanda army and civilians were mobilized to reclaim the fields, and a rare bumper harvest of grain was obtained.The most rare thing is that he has always been loyal to the empire, and he has never had the idea of ​​preserving his strength. Whether it is to wipe out the bandits or to dispose of the gold, he always fights to the death. It can be said that this is a nearly perfect person.His end, however, was the most tragic.Cao Wenzhao died on the battlefield, and he deserved his death; Sun Chuanting died in the 17th year of Chongzhen, and he was considered a martyr; Too bad.Only Lu Xiangsheng, 11 years after Chongzhen, when Jin entered the bandits again, raised his teacher to kill the enemy, but was constrained by Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian in many ways, and finally fought and died for the country. Because he offended Yang Sichang, not only did he not get the honor he deserved, he even It is not enough to be buried in the ground for peace. The body was not buried until [-] days after the death in battle. It was not until Yang Sichang died that he received the honor he deserved. This was already a few years later.It is embarrassing for a generation of famous generals to end up like this.At this time, he was on his way to the capital, and he knew nothing about his future fate. However, even if he knew his fate in nine years, he would still lead his troops to the capital to assist in the defense of Gyeonggi, and calmly face his fate. Because, he is Lu Xiangsheng.

Yang Menglong didn't learn history well, but he still heard about this famous general in the late Ming Dynasty. When he heard that this white-robed general who dared to fight against Houjin with tens of thousands of temporary recruits was Lu Xiangsheng, his jaw almost dislocated. Stuttering and unable to speak.Lu Xiangsheng was quite surprised by the kid's exaggerated reaction, but he didn't ask any questions, and just turned his attention to the battlefield.I saw a forest of swords and guns, a crowd of people, and the Golden Cavalry was completely submerged. More than 600 people plunged in. Except for the point where they ran out with Tabrun quickly, none of them ran away. Everyone has to face the attack of dozens of weapons, and each one is chopped into meat sauce.He looked at the direction in which the golden cavalry were fleeing, and sighed regretfully: "Unfortunately, our cavalry is too few, and our horses are too poor. I have hundreds of elite cavalry, none of them can survive."

Only then did Yang Menglong notice that the horses ridden by the cavalry who dared to chase after the Golden Cavalry were few were real war horses, most of them were draft horses or even mule horses, the kind that couldn't run fast at all.Also, in the era of cold weapons, war horses are very precious. Only the elite frontier army can have a large number of war horses. Don't even think about an impromptu patchwork of farmers and soldiers. It is not bad to have a mule to make do with riding.He chuckled, "So what if they run back? If the three Niulu ran back to such a small number of people, their banner owners would definitely be furious and hang them up and beat them to death."

Lu Xiangsheng said: "That's what I said, but I can't kill these bloody beasts. Lu is always unwilling..." His eyes fell on Yang Menglong's crossbow, showing a trace of surprise.From the eyes of the ancients, the material and style of this powerful crossbow are too weird, and they cannot be understood at all.At this time, a cavalryman ran over dragging Tabrun's body, clasped his hands and shouted, "My lord, the chief's body has been brought back! Who shot that arrow just now? It pierced the heart, it's amazing!"

Lu Xiangsheng jumped off his horse, knelt down and fiddled with Tabrun's body, and was surprised to find that Tabrun was wearing a layer of iron armor and a layer of chain mail. He looked like an iron can, and the crossbow bolt The whole body was penetrated, and the slightly deformed arrowhead protruded from the chest, bloody. It is not difficult to imagine how amazing the power of this arrow is.He grabbed the arrow shaft and pulled it hard, pulled out the crossbow arrow, grabbed a handful of snow to wipe off the blood on the arrow, looked over and over, his brows became more and more wrinkled.Yang Menglong looked at Tabrun's head, and his heart was full of joy.This is a genuine Niu Luerzhen, his head can be exchanged for a thousand households!There should be several thousand acres of fertile land under the name of a thousand households, right?Developed!Now he only hopes that Lu Xiangsheng will go away first, so that he can cut off Tabrun's head. Whether he can live a good life depends entirely on him!What he experienced during this period made him understand one thing: this chaotic person, whose human life is cheaper than an ant, wants to live a longer life, he must find a way to manage his own strength!Tabrun's head became his capital, hey, buddy, I'm sorry I have to do it again, why is your head so valuable?
Lu Xiangsheng's fingers rested on the arrowhead and scratched lightly. The icy chill passed through his nails and penetrated into his whole body, and the hairs on his arms stood up one by one.He raised his thick eyebrows and said: "What a sharp crossbow. If everyone in our Ming Dynasty can use this sharp and powerful crossbow, Jiannu'an can go so far!" Returning the crossbow to Yang Menglong, his gaze returned Once it landed on the strong crossbow in Yang Menglong's hand, and asked: "Little general, can you show me your crossbow?"

Yang Menglong blurted out: "Of course! However, I shot this tartar to death, and his head is mine, so you can't snatch it!"

Lu Xiangsheng laughed: "Of course, I don't bother to do such things as taking military merits."

Yang Menglong happily handed the crossbow to Lu Xiangsheng, then pulled out the dog-leg saber, and called: "Jiang Zheng, Li Yong, come here, help me strip off this Jiannu's armor, I want to cut off his head!"

Everyone loves to do this job, and several dog legs rushed over, digging out their pockets, stripping off their armor, stripping Tabrun down to a pair of underpants.Li Yong called flatteringly: "Little General Yang, just leave the rough work of beheading to the villain, so as not to dirty your hands."

Yang Menglong waved his hand domineeringly, and said: "I shot him to death, so naturally I should cut off his head. This is what a good man will do to the end, and send the Buddha to the west!" Lun's head was chopped off.

(End of this chapter)