What needs to be said has been said, and Zhang Mingwei no longer stayed in the prisoner camp. He still had many things to do.
After returning to the Zhongjun tent, Zhang Mingwei said to Zhu Yuluo: "In addition to the victory report, I also want to write a secret report to Your Majesty. I say, you write it."
After hearing this, Zhu Aao smiled sweetly, agreed immediately, and quickly went to prepare.
It was not until the next day that the army set off and headed for Kaifeng City, south of the Yellow River.
When he arrived at the edge of the Yellow River, for some reason, Zhang Mingwei immediately remembered the classic song "Defend the Yellow River" in later generations.
Seeing the army crossing the Yellow River with high morale, he had an idea, thought about it in his mind, and made a decision.
So, he turned to the generals beside him and said, "Are you interested in hearing me sing a song?"
"..." When Zhou Yuji and others heard this, there were a lot of question marks on their foreheads. The Duke's song?
Before they could react, Zhu Ailao heard it and quickly nodded like a chicken pecking at rice and responded: "Okay, okay!"
After hearing what he said, the others reacted and quickly nodded in agreement.
Since the Duke of the country has this kind of elegance, it is of course the best. Who can object?
If the Duke doesn't sing well, everyone should applaud loudly and not spoil the Duke's mood!
They were thinking this in their hearts, and at the same time they were also looking forward to it. What song did the Duke want to sing?
Among them, Zhu Yuluo has the greatest sense of expectation. Because she was the only one who had ever heard Zhang Mingwei sing a song, and she liked it very much. Unexpectedly, Zhang Mingwei offered to sing a song today. Of course she was eager to do it, and because of this, she responded the fastest.
Zhang Mingwei gathered his emotions for a while, then reined in his horse, sat on his tall horse, pointed at the Yellow River, pointed at the troops crossing the river, and sang loudly.
The wind is roaring
Horses roaring
The Yellow River is roaring
The Yellow River is roaring
The hills in Hexi are ten thousand feet high
Sorghum is ripe in Hedong and Hebei
There are so many heroes who suppress thieves in the mountains and jungles
In the green gauze tent, the athletes of the army and the army are heroes
Picked up a long gun and a musket
Wielding a sword and spear
defend hometown
Defend the Yellow River
Defend North China
Defend the entire Ming Dynasty
He changed the lyrics slightly, but it didn't affect his smooth singing.
Hearing his song, everyone in the crowd, even the uneducated gangsters like Bai Guangen, were stunned.
It’s not that this song is magical and blew them away. But the song sung by the Duke was very suitable for the occasion.
They were right by the Yellow River. They had won a great victory in the past two days, and they were also ambushed by hiding in the green gauze tent. They are suppressing thieves, aren't they just defending the Ming Dynasty and protecting the people's well-being? Once again, their justice was sung out!
Secondly, of course, the song is catchy and easy to remember.
No, Zhu Ainao just listened to it once and hummed it.
While singing, I was beaming with joy, as if I had eaten delicacies from the mountains and seas, the most delicious food I had never eaten in my life.
The generals were lucky enough to hear not only the Duke's song, but also Princess Kunxing's song.
It was not until Princess Kunxing finished singing that they listened to it for the second time. At this time, Mrs. Zhou Liu cheered: "Okay, this song is so nice!"
After hearing this, Zhou Yuji and others came to their senses and quickly echoed and praised loudly.
"The song "Guo Gong" is really the most beautiful song I have ever heard!"
"Yes, yes, it turns out that the song can be sung like this, it's really nice!"
"Yes, yes, it sounds great. I like it very much!"
"..."
A group of old men, most of whom are illiterate, don't know how to express themselves. What they say is just saying "it sounds so good" over and over again, without any new ideas at all.
Zhang Mingwei looked at them and said with a smile: "Come on, do you want to try?"
"..." Upon hearing this, Zhou Yuji and others couldn't help but be dumbfounded, should we sing too?
However, they were also in high spirits. Not only was this song sung by the Duke, but Princess Kunxing had also sung it, and this song was actually singing about their great victory and the purpose of their war.
Although he wanted to sing, Zhou Yuji said a little embarrassedly: "My lord, I didn't remember it!"
"Yeah, I forgot a few words too!" Yuan Shizhong also replied.
On the other hand, Wu Sangui and Lan Tianbao replied in unison: "I remember!"
Hearing their different answers, Zhang Mingwei became very interested and said with a smile: "Come on, let's sing it together. If you don't know how, just sing along!"
So, under his lead, the group of them sang together.
Zhu Aao didn't have the nerve to sing loudly, but she couldn't help it and hummed along in a low voice.
In the meantime, don't worry about forgetting the lyrics and pretending to be the same. Of course, the lyrics are really simple, and several people memorized them in one go.
When there are more people, the singing voice becomes a bit loud.
The officers and soldiers who were marching suddenly heard the Duke and the generals singing songs, very cheerfully, and they couldn't help but turn their heads to look over, which was very strange. So much so that accidentally, the back bumped into the front, which messed up the team a bit.
After singing, Zhang Mingwei asked with a smile: "Can you sing?"
People who can sing will naturally answer immediately that they can sing. Some people who forgot the lyrics were embarrassed to say it, so they nodded quickly and continued to count.
Seeing this, Zhang Mingwei smiled and said: "Since you know how to do it, then you go back to your respective armies, teach this song to your men, let everyone sing it, and let everyone know that we are protecting our home and country." , bring peace to the world!"
"General, I obey!" Wu Sangui and others quickly agreed. This was considered an elegant thing. Singing it in the army could not only praise the prince, but to be honest, they also felt that it had a negative impact on the morale of the army, especially in the military. It is definitely beneficial to integrate the reduced pawn into the team.
Those who pretended to be fake were a bit dumbfounded. But I didn't dare to show it, after all, I took the lead just now. When leaving, I asked the guards around me if they remembered anything. If they hadn't remembered it yet, they would have to go privately to find a fellow singer who could sing!
Zhu Yuao watched them leave and couldn't help but said to Zhang Mingwei: "Sir, this piece of music is really excellent. I want to send it to the capital immediately so that Chen Yuanyuan can publish it in Ming Pao and let it be sung in the capital."
Of course Zhang Mingwei had no objection to this and nodded immediately in agreement.
Therefore, Zhu Aona immediately selected a guard who could sing and asked him to go to the capital immediately to sing the song to Chen Yuanyuan, and asked Chen Yuanyuan to spread it widely in the capital.
About half an hour later, each army started singing songs one after another. Until now, all the soldiers were singing "Defend the Yellow River" while marching.
The wind is roaring, the horses are whistling...
The majestic singing echoed over the Yellow River. It can be clearly felt that the morale of the army has been improved because of this song.
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Besides, on the Kaifeng City side, the defenders on top of the city have been paying attention to the movements of the thieves outside the city, especially those on the Yellow River side in the north.
They all want to know what the result will be if the bandits are out in such large numbers?
Usually when the thieves were not attacking the city, Gao Mingheng, the censor of the Henan patrol who was usually in the city conducting official business, would go to the top of the city several times to look north.
Of course guard Chen Yongfu knew what he was thinking, but he estimated that Master Gao would be disappointed.
When he saw the thieves exiting the camp and heading north in high spirits, he knew that this was definitely not good news for them.
When the thief comes back, he might return to Kaifeng City to show off his power. Maybe, they could escort Wu Sangui, Bai Guangen and others who had come to the city before, or take their corpses and heads to destroy the morale of the Kaifeng defenders and force the Kaifeng city to open the door and surrender.
The thieves' army is so powerful that it has become a climate, and there is no hope! Chen Yongfu thought so, and couldn't help but feel very heavy.
As night falls, on top of Kaifeng City, of course, there will be no loss of vigilance because there are fewer thieves outside the city and there is no attack on the city. As the guard general, Chen Yongfu still stayed at the top of the city and slept in the arrow tower.
Needless to say, in the middle of the night, he was suddenly awakened: there was movement outside the city.
So, he immediately observed the direction of the movement outside the city. After just a little listening, he could tell that there was movement in the thieves' camp.
In the dark night, there were no torches on the other side of the Yellow River, so we had no idea what was going on. However, he could feel that there was probably movement over there, all the way to the thieves' camp.
How is this going? With this in mind, Chen Yongfu immediately ordered the garrison on duty at the top of the city to be more vigilant. Then, he opened his eyes wide, trying to see clearly what was going on outside.
Of course, he was a general who led troops in battle, so he was no stranger to the movements in the army. After listening for a while, he recalled the movements of the thieves yesterday, and he was a little surprised to find that the thieves were defeated and escaped overnight.
After reaching this conclusion, Chen Yongfu felt that this was unrealistic and was just wishful thinking.
Because he knew that not only did the bandits mobilize more than 30,000 people yesterday, they also left many teams on the north bank of the Yellow River to deal with Wu Sangui and the others. With the small amount of troops Wu Sangui and the others had, even if they won the battle, they would not be able to defeat several times the enemy so quickly.
When did the imperial army achieve such a great victory? This is not in the early years of Chongzhen!
After rejecting this idea, Chen Yongfu was startled. Could it be that the thieves were taking advantage of the night to mobilize their troops, or were they deliberately creating this illusion to lure Kaifeng City to open the door and take advantage?
With this in mind, he immediately ordered the entire army to be vigilant to prevent thieves from stealing the city.
Chen Yongfu himself did not go to rest, but kept listening to the movements outside the city.
When it dawned the next day and he could clearly see the situation outside the city, he was stunned.
I saw that the bandit camp outside the city was already empty, and there were no bandits at all. Did they run away under cover of night last night?
Why?
Is there any fraud involved?
Chen Yongfu couldn't figure out what was going on, and quickly sent someone to report the situation to Gao Mingheng.
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