Songshan Deputy Commander-in-Chief Jin Guofeng was about forty or fifty years old at this time.

From a distance, he looks tall and burly, wearing a certain old iron phoenix-winged helmet on his head. He is wearing a red cotton armor with a layer of double-breasted chain mail on top, which makes him look very powerful.

Looking closer, you can see a face with a Chinese character, a beard, thick eyebrows, big eyes, and a high nose bridge. The whole person looks excited and tired at the same time.

Under the introduction of Xu Changyong and Zu Keyong, Yang Zhen dismounted, walked quickly towards Jin Guofeng who also dismounted, and said loudly from a few steps away:

"With less than 3,000 soldiers and horses, Deputy General Jin was able to withstand the siege of tens of thousands of Tatars by artillery fire, hold on to the isolated city of Songshan for more than two months, and finally make the Tatars return with a broken sword. This really made Yang admire him immensely.

ah!"

Yang Zhen had sincere respect for Jin Guofeng. When he said this at this time, he was sincere and without any pretense.

After walking up to Jin Guofeng, Yang Zhen bowed to Jin Guofeng, bowed to the ground, and said: "Perhaps people in the world don't know the importance of the small town of Songshan, the difficulties and dangers of Deputy General Jin's defense of the city, and the strength of the general."

The meaning of Baosong Mountain is intact, but Yang knows this very well, please accept Yang’s courtesy!”

When Jin Guofeng heard Yang Zhen say this and saw Yang Zhen do this, he quickly stepped forward to support him, lifted him up, and then said to him repeatedly:

"I don't dare to accept it! I don't dare to accept it! I absolutely cannot deserve this gift from General Yang! If General Yang hadn't led the dispatch battalion soldiers to come to the rescue in time, it's hard to say what Songshan City would have been like in the future!

"This time, General Yang led his team to come to the rescue. Kim and all the soldiers and civilians in Songshan City would like to thank General Yang for your help!"

Yang Zhen and Jin Guofeng saw the ceremony, turned around quickly, pulled Zu Keyong and Xu Changyong in front of them, and met Jin Guofeng one by one.

Jin Guofeng came from a family of generals in Xuanfu Town. His brother Jin Guoqi was also the chief military officer of a town in the Ming Dynasty before he died in battle.

Although he is not from Liaodong, he has accomplished almost half of his career in Liaodong. Therefore, he has worked with people like Xu Changyong and Zu Keyong before, and they are no strangers to each other. When they met, they were all familiar with each other.

It is to greet each other.

Songshan City went through many battles, but no one came to help.

Jin Guofeng has been sticking to the isolated city until now, and finally met one of his own people. Needless to say, he was so excited and affectionate.

Even when Xu Changyong and Zu Keyong met Jin Guofeng again and knew that he had defended Songshan City for such a long time in the face of tens of thousands of Tatar troops, they felt the same admiration as Yang Zhen in their hearts.

After a few people exchanged pleasantries, and under Zhang Degui's reminder, they finally mounted their horses and, under the guidance of Jin Guofeng, ran towards the south gate of Songshan City.

When Yang Zhen and others followed Jin Guofeng to the south gate of Songshan City, the soldiers and civilians in Songshan City already knew the news of the Tatar army's retreat. A large number of people gathered inside and outside the south gate, beating gongs and drums.

Waiting for the reinforcements sent by the imperial court from Ningyuan to enter the city.

As soon as Jin Guofeng led Yang Zhen and others appeared, bursts of cheers erupted at the south gate.

Yang Zhan'ao, who returned to the team, proudly held high the banner of the temporary Ningyuan advance battalion and followed Yang Zhen closely, enjoying this hard-won moment of glory.

It's just that this moment didn't last long and ended.

Songshan General Xia Chengde, guerrilla Lu Pinqi and other generals and officers who were waiting for Yang Zhen and others outside the city gate all thought that the reinforcements sent by the imperial court must be a large army. Otherwise, how could this reinforcements be able to scare away the Tatars?

The army besieging the city.

However, Jin Guofeng led Yang Zhen and others to meet them one by one, and after introducing each other, they were both very surprised and very disappointed.

What they didn't expect was that this reinforcement force under the banner of Ningyuan Advance Battalion was actually just a few hundred people led by a miscellaneous deputy general?!

Moreover, Lieutenant General Yang Zhen and his subordinates did not look like the well-equipped army at all, but more like a group of refugees who had fled somewhere!

Could it be that they really defeated the Tatars who besieged the city?! Could it be that they really relieved the siege of Songshan City?!

The generals and officers of the Songshan City Guards, including Xia Chengde and Lu Pinqi, saw the Ningyuan reinforcements riding horses and filing into the city like this, and all of them were filled with doubts.

As soon as Yang Zhen and others entered the city, the welcome ceremony at the south gate ended hastily, and the crowd who came to welcome the imperial army immediately dispersed.

Jin Guofeng naturally knew that Yang Zhen's advance battalion not only had the people in front of him, but also had an artillery team slowly following behind, and there was also a naval battalion docked on the coast waiting for orders.

But even though he knew this, his heart was still full of doubts.

Could it be that Yang Zhen came to rescue Songshan with just these people?! With such a small number of people, how dare he come to rescue Songshan City, which was surrounded by tens of thousands of Tatars?!

However, the withdrawal of the Tatars is a fact before our eyes after all, and the reason why the Tatars withdrew their troops is also related to the disturbances Yang Zhen and others made before.

In the final analysis, these are all good things. Although Jin Guofeng was also confused, he was too embarrassed to say it directly to his face.

The psychological changes of the Songshan City guards before and after they led Yang Zhen and others into the city were naturally revealed in their words and deeds.

Songshan General Xia Chengde, who was familiar with Xu Changyong and Zu Keyong, directly asked them about Yang Zhen's background and the arrival of the follow-up troops from their advance battalion.

Since it is an advance battalion, it means that it is only the first one, and there must be a main force behind it!

Therefore, when Zu Keyong told Xia Chengde that there were only about 600 people in the Ningyuan advance camp to rescue Songshan before departure, Xia Chengde simply couldn't believe it and kept shouting "how is this possible" and said to Xu Changyong and Zu Keyong

:

"Brother Xu! Brother Zu! When you set out from Ningyuan, there were really only about 600 people in total?! Don't be kidding me! The Tatars have tens of thousands of troops besieging the city, and our three thousand brothers in Songshan City are fighting to death.

After fighting for more than two months, we know very well what kind of strength the Tatars have!

"How come you six hundred people dare to come?! Even if you are all brave and brave, it's still impossible! The tens of thousands of Tatars outside the city are not clay dolls! Are you really like one for a hundred?

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"Brother Xia! What you said is not very nice! Why can't we use one for ten and one for a hundred?! Besides, you don't know our style of play. With Yang Xiezhen, we don't need to

Go head-to-head with the Tatars! You don’t have to guess all the time. We just set off a big fire and burned the Tatars’ food camp! The Tatars have nothing to eat.

Can you not retreat!?”

Yang Zhen also heard more or less what Xia Chengde and Xu Changyong said behind the team.

He could also guess that when these people came out to warmly welcome him into the city, they found that there were only a few hundred men under his command, and they would definitely have questions.

He can completely understand this, and if he were to consider it from the perspective of Jin Guofeng or Xia Chengde, he would definitely feel uneasy.

Take Yang Zhen himself, the leader of the advance battalion, for example.

Since coming to this parallel time and space, Yang Zhen has not even taken a bath, especially in the past few days after leaving Ningyuan, he has been running around and working hard.

Either sleeping on the ground in a cold shack, crawling around in dirty trenches, or trudging through muddy reed swamps. I don’t know how much sweat I sweat and how much blood is soaked in my body.

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If there were a mirror to look at him now, even Yang Zhen himself would be shocked.

If there was a bathing center now, where he could take a hot bath and give it a good rub, he would probably be able to remove several kilograms of ash.

Of course, even if there is a bathing center, no one can let him in if he looks like this. With his appearance, I am afraid that one person can pollute a large pool of water.

Because now, he looks like a beggar, more like a refugee, but not like the general of the imperial court. He looks completely indifferent.

People often say that a man relies on his clothes and a horse relies on his saddle. In fact, this has been true since ancient times.

If it were not for the official document written by Governor Fang Yizao, and if it was not accompanied by generals such as Xu Changyong and Zu Keyong, Yang Zhen and his subordinates, including Jin Guofeng, would have to think carefully about whether to give in or not.
Chapter completed!