Chapter 26: Heaven's Punishment
The Ming army camp outside the city, the Ming army's military discussion has been completed, and officers from various departments are leading teams to patrol the camp. Then they will return to the tent to rest and accumulate energy for tomorrow's battle. The officer patrol the camp tasks at night will be handed over to the military judges to take charge.
The soldiers patrolling the night lined up by the big tent. Chen Wen lifted the lampshade and blew the fire of the oil lamp, and the big tent became darker. After taking off his official uniform, Chen Wen lay on the bed, closed his eyes but did not fall asleep, but was still thinking about the war that had lasted for half a year.
In the battle tomorrow, the Ming army was ready. The Qing army had suffered a great defeat before, and the number of people who could escape back to the city should not be large, and the establishment must be scattered, and the combat effectiveness was very doubtful just by relying on the assistance of civilians. On the other hand, all the tunnels that were dug into the city were dug to the city. During this period, the siege equipment had been built in a hidden place, and the number would definitely be far beyond Chen Jin's imagination. At that time, the two-pronged approach would be to strive to capture this "Iron Quzhou" known as the "Bronze Jinhua". Chen Wen was full of confidence in this, but the army had been on the battlefield for half a year. Even after a few days of rest in the middle, the soldiers began to feel homesick. Even without the report of the military judge, Chen Wen could still hear some clues from the military merit rewards mentioned by the soldiers.
In fact, even he began to miss his days in Jinhua Mansion. It is indeed necessary to combine work and rest. If there is another beautiful and kind girl, it would be even more perfect.
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The quiet sandalwood enveloped the entire room from the incense burner. A beautiful woman with a plump body came slowly, and she was holding a baby who was wrapped tightly and only had a small face in her arms.
"Master, I have given birth to a boy for our Chen family. Come and see how cute our children are."
In the woman's soft and charming voice, her vision gradually narrowed. The woman's appearance in front of her was very familiar, but she could not call out her name for a moment, as if she was hidden in the fog of memory.
The next second, a warrior, covered with calluses, gently stroked the woman's cheeks, and his tentacles were smooth and tight. At this time, his eyes also moved with his pretty face, his slender neck, and his clothes, which suddenly raised his head under his clothes, to the baby's face in his arms step by step.
That should be a very cute child, it must be like this.
However, what appeared in front of me was not a fat baby face, but there was only a skeleton of baby skeleton left. The baby's skeleton waved to him at this moment.
His eyes pulled back for a short while, as if he had taken two steps back. When he raised his head again and wanted to ask the woman why he was so fooling him, his towering peaks disappeared, his slender neck became even thinner, and the pretty face instantly turned into a skull. What's even more incredible is that as the skull and the jawbone opened and closed, the soft voice disappeared, but it was like the cold wind at the top of the Daling River city in western Liaoning.
"Master, twenty-one years ago, you killed me with your own hands and cooked my flesh and blood. It's been twenty-one years, I've been with you and have never left. Why, now that I'm about to die, have you disliked me, have you despised the baby I just got pregnant not long ago before you took this ruthless move?!"
The long-haired skeleton holding the baby skeleton moved forward step by step, and skeletons wearing Han people's uniforms began to emerge in the fog behind him, as if they were coming together to settle the old accounts from twenty-one years ago.
As the skeletons advanced, their eyes retreated step by step. Until the next moment, they seemed to be tripped by something. As their eyes moved up, everything in front of them shattered like glass in an exclaim, and it seemed that even the whole world began to collapse.
"ah!"
When he woke up from the nightmare, Chen Jin sat up all of a sudden, and his senses returned to their effectiveness while breathing heavily. However, as more heavy breathing sounds in his ears gradually became clear, he turned his head and saw Li Jinzhong, Lu Pichang and Chen En, the close-fitting slaves, standing by the bed in shock, seemed to be at a loss.
"Who asked you to come in? Where did that dog slave Li Zhong die?!"
With an angry shout, Chen Jin saw clearly what was happening in the hands of these three slaves, and was immediately shocked.
"What do you want to do?"
"Do it!"
A loud shout sounded, and Li Jinzhong, who was in charge, pounced on him, pressed Chen Jin back on the bed, then picked up the pillow and pressed it on Chen Jin's face. Only half a second later than Li Jinzhong, Lu Pichang and Chen Zhong held Chen Jin's hands with the sharp wrist knife, and held Chen Jin's hands with the other hand, lifted the sharp knife backhand and stabbed Chen Jin straight into Chen Jin's chest and abdomen.
“Woo…”
The pain was very clear, and then it began to become numb as the pain continued to occur. Opening his eyes, a faint light passed through the fabric on the edge of the pillow, like the mist in the nightmare just now. The pressure from his arms and the palms full of cold sweat made him feel like he was pulled to hell by the red pink skeleton.
“Woo…”
Amid the suppressed pain and wailing under the pillow, Lu Pichang and Chen En stabbed continuously, as if they were venting their long-established anger. Soon, the struggle was completely over in a gradual weakness, but the light of the knife lifting did not stop.
For a moment, Lu Pichang, Chen En, and Li Jinzhong, who was always preventing Chen Jin from shouting, these three domestic slaves who were obedient on weekdays were as hideous as evil ghosts crawling out of hell, which made people feel frightened.
After a long time, the three people who had tensed their nerves finally exhausted their last bit of strength in this high-intensity exercise. After confirming that Chen Jin was not breathing, Li Jinzhong lifted up the knife and stroked Chen Jin's neck, cutting off the possibility of their former master getting up again. Then the three people sat heavily on the ground, staring at their companions with dull eyes, and gasping for breath. It seemed that only in this way could they calm their terrified hearts down again.
After a while, Li Jinzhong was the first to slow down and whispered to them to deal with the aftermath. Even though there was a layer of quilt in the middle, a lot of blood was still splashing on the three of them. However, the first thing they had to do at this moment was not to remove the clothes on their bodies, but to cut off Chen Jin's head and put it on the quilt, so that the blood could be sucked into the quilt as much as possible.
Chen Jin's head had been cut off, and the three of them quickly took off their blood-stained clothes, threw them on Chen Jin's corpse, and covered them with a layer of quilt to cover the ragged quilt and body. Then, they changed into another set of ready clothes and put Chen Jin's head in a brocade box, and carried it in their hands with another brocade box containing the seal of the Zhejiang-Fu Governor General in their hands to leave.
The trembling hands undoubtedly slowed down their progress, and Li Zhong, who was always guarding the door, was already sweating profusely, and even completely wet his clothes in October of early winter.
The courtyard where Chen Jin lived had already been cleared under the name of Chen Jin's bad temper today, and there was no one except them. But even so, Li Zhong was still full of fear, fearing that something suddenly came out from outside the door, from the back of the rockery, from the corner of the corridor, from any place where people could hide, to make their secrets public.
It was not until Li Jinzhong and others changed their clothes and came out that Li Zhong rushed into the room, took off his clothes, and changed the military uniforms and armor that were the same style as the three of them who were usually used to wear when they went to war with Chen Jin. He casually inserted the door latch from the room, and he flipped out of the window.
Chapter completed!