Shen Lian covered the gurgling blood, turned his back to Lin Yu and said, "No, kill him."
Lin Yu didn't hear anyone talking behind him at all. He picked up the mace and swung it down. Mei Jianzhi tried to block with his knife. There was Lin Yu's opponent. The waist knife in his hand was suddenly broken into pieces and hit his chest. It was as if he was being pinned down by a boulder, and his body was thrown five or six steps away. When he was struggling to stand up, the mace swung down again, smashing half of his head.
Lin Yu kicked the corpse away and glared at everyone around him.
A group of Zhang Chun's servants who were following him and preparing to enter the city saw this situation and took the opportunity to sneak into the city like a fish in troubled waters. Lin Yu pushed the mace as tall as a person to the ground and blocked the Wengcheng Qianjin Gate like a door god. The rebels swarming up from outside shouted:
"die!"
He swung his mace and hit the servant who rushed to the front, knocking the man away. Seeing this, the remaining servants shouted and swung their sabers to kill him.
Lin Yu protected Shen Lian, who was seriously injured, with one hand, and used a mace to block the incoming weapons with the other hand.
The defenders at the top of the city loudly urged Lin Yu to enter the city gate quickly, and the Qianjin gate was about to be lowered.
Without saying a word, Lin Yu dragged Shen Lian, who was covered in blood, and fought and retreated. He quickly retreated to the Thousand Jin Gate. A group of servants rushed up from behind. They no longer fought closely and took their steps one after another. He picked up his bow and started shooting heavy arrows at the giant in front of him. Upon seeing this, Lin Yu quickly turned his back to the moat and blocked the flying arrows with his body. After a moment, five or six heavy arrows shot into Lin Yu's back. Fortunately, he was wearing two layers of iron armor and a thick layer of armor on the outside. Cotton armor, arrow feathers shot across the moat, cannot cause fatal damage.
Shen Lian lost too much blood and was on his deathbed. He opened his eyes and said to Lin Yu:
"Brother Lin, let's go. Shen has killed too many people..."
Lin Yu's throat trembled, but without speaking, he picked up a broken long sign on the ground and protected Shen Lian.
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Zuo Miaoqing, wearing the uniform of a rescue soldier, stumbled to the Meridian Gate of the Forbidden City. This is the temporary residence of the civil affairs. All supplies must be obtained here.
Zuo Miaoqing had no feelings for Shen Lian, only a faint affection.
Shen Lian ruined the Zuo family and her father and mother died in front of her. Zuo Miaoqing could not forget this man.
But Shen Lian protected her from Zhengding Prefecture to the capital, from the capital to Tianjin, and then fled from Tianjin to Shandong. Because of her, he offended Xu Xianchun's nephew, and almost lost his life several times on the way because of her.
From the moment she risked her life to protect herself on the lucky ship, Zuo Miaoqing had accepted this man.
Zuo Miaoqing followed Liu Yue'er. This fiery female civil affairs officer had a strong aura. All the soldiers who saw her around her would salute Liu Yue'er, because Liu Yue'er's other identity was Yang Tong's wife, and Yang Tong was the wife of Yang Tong. The former highest officer of Zhenfubing.
"The city is in chaos, and there are many rebel spies. Yesterday, the Zhenfu soldiers destroyed a nest. Later, when we come to collect gauze and honey, Miss Zuo should not come in person. When Shen Baihu comes back, you will get married. If I can’t explain anything to him, because those people in the coir raincoat guard are very fierce..."
Before Liu Yue'er could finish speaking, Zuo Miaoqing's face suddenly turned red.
Liu Yue'er, on the other hand, is very carefree, sitting in the carriage talking non-stop. She is full of energy and has a hot temper. She usually acts like a man when working in civil affairs. Many men can't compare to her. Now she has become the most capable person under Secretary for Civil Affairs Xie Yang. Go-getter.
The carriage stopped in front, and a group of soldiers patrolling along the street stopped the carriage and conducted a routine inspection. This was the third time today.
Liu Yue'er suppressed her anger and wanted to rush out several times to argue with the recruit flag captain. Zuo Miaoqing stopped her and persuaded her in a gentle tone:
"Shopkeeper Liu, the Tianjin Guards' support troops arrived today and were defeated by the rebels. A group of troops moved under the Yongding Gate. Many people were injured. They were afraid of sneaking in and doing something detailed, so they investigated more closely."
Liu Yue'er said angrily: "If we are serious about investigating, we should also investigate those soldiers. Why are we investigating our civil affairs? I will definitely report it to the Lord Protector when I get back. The commander of the 14th Guards Army is simply a fool..."
As the two of them talked, the carriage had already arrived at the Yongdingmen Wengcheng. Liu Yue'er lifted the curtains and saw hundreds of corpses densely packed in the Wengcheng from a distance. Judging from the armored mandarin ducks and war coats they were wearing, they were obviously not from the Kaiyuan Army.
The defenders set up a camp for wounded soldiers in Wengcheng to facilitate the temporary placement of wounded soldiers. The bodies of those soldiers who died in battle were transported far away to avoid leaving behind and affecting morale.
"Why did so many people die?"
Liu Yue'er explained: "They were all defeated soldiers under the city, soldiers from the Tianjin Guards. When the defenders pulled them up, the rebels shot arrows across the moat. Many people were hit by arrows, and only a few survived."
As she spoke, she jumped out of the carriage with a pile of honey and gauze, and strode towards the wounded soldiers' camp. Several ambulance soldiers in white uniforms came towards her. They quickly took the honey and gauze from Zuo Miaoqing's hands and directed them towards the people who were shouting and screaming. Smear it on the injured soldiers.
Some ambulance soldiers used red-hot knives to cut out arrowheads from the wounded soldiers' wounds. The smell of burning human flesh filled the air. Liu Yue'er frowned and looked at it for a while. She couldn't stand it anymore and turned around to leave without saying goodbye to Zuo Miaoqing. .
Zuo Miaoqing was not afraid at all. She had been a rescue soldier for more than a year and had seen scenes that were ten times bloodier than before. When the battalion commander saw Zuo Miaoqing coming back, he quickly arranged for her:
"Xiao Zuo, there has just been a fierce battle over Qianjin Gate. Several Chinese Guardsmen were killed or wounded. Please take people over to take a look. Our people will be pulled back quickly. Later, artillery will attack the city and the cannons will hit the bodies. I can’t tell the difference.”
Zuo Miaoqing agreed, and led three rescuers through the messy southern area of the city, heading towards the Thousand Jin Gate on the edge of Wengcheng. The further they went, the denser the arrow feathers on the ground became. This showed that something had happened here not long ago. A bloody battle.
Several arms stretched out from under the gate. The arms had been broken. The body under the arms was crushed into a pulp by the gate. The surrounding blood was splashing like balls of paint.
Zuo Miaoqing looked around and found that the Qianjin Gate was the boundary, with corpses piled on both sides. Although she couldn't see the casualties behind the Qianjin Gate, she could easily imagine it.
There were hundreds of corpses piled up in a hill, mainly from the rebels who had invaded the city. Many of them were shot to death by gun soldiers at the top of the city after rushing into Wengcheng in chaos. Some of them were lucky enough to survive. The rebels were killed by the pikemen and Chinese guards who came from behind.
The auxiliary soldiers used hooks to pull down the layers of rebel corpses until the corpses wearing original army uniforms were exposed.
After the corpses of the Kaiyuan Army appeared, all the auxiliary soldiers were scattered around to guard, and the ambulance soldiers stepped forward to continue cleaning up. Their movements were obviously more delicate and careful, and everyone appeared to be cautious, fearing that the corpses of their colleagues would be damaged in their hands.
One, two, three, until an extremely tall Kaiyuan soldier appeared, and the auxiliary soldiers in the distance screamed. They all recognized this as Lin Yu, the warrior of the Chinese Army Guards.
Lin Yu held the scarred mace tightly in his left hand, which was covered with flesh and blood. The cotton and chain mail on his body had been torn. There were more than a dozen arrow clusters densely inserted on his waist, and blood flowed down the armor. .
There was an exclamation all around, and the vigilant auxiliary soldiers around couldn't help but look this way. They couldn't believe what was happening in front of them. One of the bravest warriors in Kaiyuan was actually killed by the rebels.
Zuo Miaoqing stretched out her hand to explore the giant's neck and shouted to the auxiliary soldiers beside him: "Carry him into the urn city, he is not dead yet."
Four auxiliary soldiers used the door panel as a stretcher and quickly lifted Lin Yu. One auxiliary soldier wanted to remove the mace from the giant's hand and tried to pull it out several times without success. The giant had to pull the mace away. Drag him and carry him to the wounded barracks together.
At this time, the ambulance soldiers had cleaned up all the corpses of the soldiers and transported the three or four surviving wounded back to the wounded barracks. Zuo Miaoqing looked at the tragic battlefield in front of her. The scene, which she had already numbed, made her tremble with fear, and her left eyelid also followed. Jumping wildly, she vaguely felt uneasy in her heart. She told herself not to think nonsense, and quickly stepped forward to follow the teammates in front of her, rushing to rescue and treat the wounded soldiers. After taking a few steps, she suddenly heard someone shouting from behind:
"Hey, don't go, there's a corpse down there."
Zuo Miaoqing looked back unexpectedly. After carrying Lin Yu away, a shallow crater was exposed under Lin Yu. It should have been left when the rebels used Hongyi cannon to attack the city yesterday.
"I'm afraid it will be beaten to pieces by a cannon."
She walked quickly to the crater where the corpse was hidden, leaned over and glanced into the crater casually.
The corpse was already frozen, and the auxiliary soldier who was shouting just now turned the man around with great force. There was no blood on his face, and he looked like he had been dead for a long time.
Zuo Miaoqing stared at Shen Lian's pale face and saw that he was still smiling at her.
