The next morning, that is, the morning of the third day of March, there was a cold wind blowing in the Dongmen Elementary School, and the morning light suddenly appeared.

Early in the morning, all 200 people from Yang Zhen's old department were gathered here to accept Yang Zhen's "inspection."

In the evening of the previous day, Zhang Degui and Li Lu had already divided the two hundred people into three teams according to Yang Zhen's statement: the artillery team, the grenadier team and the musketeer team.

For the convenience of command and to boost morale, Yang Zhen asked Zhang Degui and Li Lu to find a tailor in Ningyuan City overnight that night and sew three team flags in preparation for a "flag presentation" ceremony the next morning.

Early this morning, as soon as Yang Zhen got up, he got these three team flags. He smiled bitterly and shook his head while looking at them, and at the same time he had to secretly admire the wisdom of the ancients.

At this time, most of the soldiers who came from the guards were illiterate. Among the two hundred people under Yang Zhen's command, not many were literate, and there were not many scholars.

Therefore, in order to make it easier for these people to identify their respective flags, Zhang Degui and Li Lu simply drew pictures of muskets, enemies of ten thousand people, and tigers crouching with cannons, and embroidered them directly.

Fortunately, the craftsmanship of the tailor shop in Ningyuan City is pretty good. Although I have never seen what the "Lumi Gun" looks like, I have seen what other matchlock guns look like. In addition, Zhang Degui and Li Lu had people draw the rough lines.

, they were also embroidered almost exactly the same - roughly the same.

Even though the word "Musketeers" is not clearly written on the flag of the Musketeers, one look at this flag and even a fool would know that it is the flag of the Musketeers.

The Grenadier team's flag has a large black ball with a fuse directly embroidered on it, and the meaning is clear.

As for the flag of the advance battalion artillery team, what is embroidered is the shape of a cannon that cannot be seen as a squatting tiger cannon or a franc machine. It is more like a Ningyuan cannon than a crouching tiger cannon or a franc machine.

Those powerful "Red Cannons" at the top of the city.

Let us say that this morning, facing the rising sun in the morning light, Yang Zhen led several soldiers holding team flags to the small school field.

At this time, 40 people from the musketry team, 80 people from the artillery team, and 66 people from the grenadiers team had been divided into three small square formations, lined up in a row, and stood waiting there.

Yang Zhen led several soldiers holding team flags to the front. One hundred and eighty-six people standing in three small square formations all stared at Yang Zhen, waiting for Yang Zhen to speak.

Yang Zhen came to the phalanx with a serious expression. He first stopped for a moment with a few soldiers with scars on their faces in the front row, patted their shoulders with his hand without saying a word, and then walked past the ranks of the musketeers.

Pass in front of the artillery, pass in front of the grenadiers.

Finally, he turned back without saying a word, returned to the original standing position, faced the little 200 people, scanned the whole place again, and then said in a deep voice:

"Yang Zhen is not talented, but you have not abandoned me, and you have followed me all the way! You have followed me, Yang Zhen, through life and death for many years. In terms of love, although you and I are not the same mother, we are far better than the same mother.

I look at you all as brothers and sisters of my Yang Zhen!

"In the past, Yang Zhen shared joys and sorrows with you, and in the future, Yang Zhen will live and die with you! I, Yang Zhen, am willing to swear that if I am rich in the future, I will share it with you! We will live and die together, and we will be rich and honorable together! If it goes against this.

I swear, both heaven and man will be destroyed!"

When Yang Zhen finished speaking, Zhang Degui and Li Lu responded loudly at the same time. Together they raised their arms and shouted to the more than 180 people who stood attentively to listen: "We will live and die together, and we will be rich and noble together! Anyone who violates this oath will be disgusted by heaven!"

In the past, although Yang Zhen also cherished his soldiers and always shared the joys and sorrows with his soldiers, he was not good at talking and rarely talked to his soldiers in such a heart-to-heart manner.

Even when he followed Lu Xiangsheng and was surrounded by heavy Tatar troops in North Zhili last year, Yang Zhen rarely showed his emotions in public in front of his soldiers.

This time, Yang Zhen, who has always been a bit aloof, said such heartfelt words "very rarely". In the eyes of his soldiers, it seemed unusual.

Therefore, after Zhang Degui and Li Lu raised their arms and shouted the oath of "live and die together, get rich and honor together", the two hundred veterans standing in front of Yang Zhen, who had lived through hundreds of battles, were finally moved, and soon joined them in raising their arms.

Shout: "We live and die together, we share wealth and honor! If you violate this oath, God will hate you! We live and die together, we share wealth and honor! If you violate this oath, God will hate you!..."

Yang Zhen looked at the soldiers and veterans who were chanting the oath, and his eyes swept over the faces that were flushed with excitement. Seeing that the atmosphere in the school grounds finally became heated, he immediately raised his hands and pressed down. After a moment,

, the small school grounds became quiet again, everyone looked at Yang Zhen.

At this time, Yang Zhen then said loudly: "I have called everyone here today to explain three things to you! The first one - just the day before yesterday, Yang Zhen was ordered to lead you north to rescue Songshan! -"

As soon as Yang Zhen finished speaking, the veterans in front of him made a loud noise, like a ladle of water being poured into a hot oil pan, and chaos suddenly broke out.

In the past few days, Yang Zhen's subordinates have been making constant moves. Some people with quick minds have already guessed that something is going to happen again. Some people have even learned about the general situation from Zu Keyong's headquarters who has recently moved to the joint camp.

But most people didn't know anything about going north to rescue Songshan. When they heard this, they were filled with doubts - wasn't it clear that we were going to die?!

Yang Zhen's subordinates are all veterans who have survived hundreds of battles. Naturally, there are many veterans who have been in the army for many years and are thoughtful. They know that tens of thousands of Tatar troops are besieging Jinzhou and Songshan. Going there at this time is almost equivalent to committing suicide.

It was definitely a narrow escape from death, and there was even no return. There was a lot of noise right now.

Yang Zhen had already anticipated the reaction of these people. His mentality was the same as when he first learned that he was Yang Zhen. His first reaction was to shirk and escape.

Therefore, he did not speak or stop him, he just stood there and observed the reactions of his soldiers.

Zhang Degui, Li Lu and Yang Zhen'ao, Yang Zhen's captain, also stared at Yang Zhen to see his reaction.

If Yang Zhen signals to stop, these people will certainly not mind finding the person who is the leader of the noise and punishing them on the spot for disobeying military orders and being the leader of the noise, in order to establish their authority and subdue everyone.

But Yang Zhen himself didn't say anything. He just looked at the noisy crowd silently until the noise turned into whispers. It wasn't until a long time later that the crowd finally became quiet again.

"I know that everyone has opinions and dissatisfaction with this arrangement. To be honest, I, Yang Zhen, was just like you, I was not satisfied at first! There are so many officers and soldiers in Ningyuan City, why should we, the old, the weak, the sick, and the disabled be left alone?

Go north for rescue!? But——"

Seeing that the crowd finally calmed down, Yang Zhen continued what he had said before and wanted to explain a few words. However, when he had just finished speaking, he had been observing the team in front of him when he suddenly saw that the first person in line in front of the Musketeers had a broken right side of his face.

, the scar-covered veteran raised his hand at him, his face full of resentment, as if he had something to say, so Yang Zhen immediately stopped and looked at the ferocious "scar-faced" soldier.

At this time, Zhang Degui also realized that something was wrong and shouted at the "scar-faced" soldier: "Zhang Guogan! What are you going to do! Do you dare to interrupt my speech!?"

"Uncle! I have something to say!" The "Scarface" soldier didn't seem to be afraid. After hearing the words of Zhang Degui, the second in command of Yang Zhenjun, he still stiffened his neck and said unconvinced.

When Yang Zhen heard this, he looked at the "scarface" soldier carefully. The soldier said he was a veteran, but he was actually not that old. He looked about 20 or 30 years old. He was only a little younger than himself.

"You are a mere commander-in-chief who has been dismissed from office and is in front of Dai Zuijun. What nonsense can you say!?"

Zhang Degui didn't give the "soldier" named Zhang Guogan a chance to speak at all, and yelled at him to shut up, but Yang Zhen could tell that the "soldier" named Zhang Guogan was not convinced.

In fact, Yang Zhen also wanted to hear what the soldiers under his command were thinking. Without knowing their psychology and understanding their thoughts, who knew what would happen after going north.

Therefore, just after Zhang Degui finished speaking and suppressed the situation, Yang Zhen spoke immediately.

"It doesn't matter! Let him speak! I also want to hear the true words of the brothers!"

As soon as Yang Zhen said these words, Zhang Degui had nothing to say, and the whole place suddenly became extremely quiet. The only sound was the wind blowing the flags and making a rustling sound.

The "scar-faced" soldier named Zhang Guogan immediately grinned. Without looking at Zhang Degui's frown and gloomy face, he immediately said: "Sir! It's not that we are rude! I am really angry as a brother! You also said it, my lord,

You are not satisfied either! After what happened last year, if anyone is satisfied with this arrangement, then he is either heartless or short-sighted!

"Don't mention that there are 20,000 Guan Ning troops in Ningyuan City now. Even if there are no such people, why should we go?! Jinzhou is besieged and Songshan is besieged. What does it have to do with us?!

"Last year, we followed your lord, your uncle Yang Zongzhen, and Governor Lu, and were surrounded by tens of thousands of Tatar troops in Julu. Who came to save us?! Their Guan Ning army was dozens of miles away, but

They just ignored death and watched us and the Tianxiong Army being annihilated! If you hadn't led us to break out of the encirclement desperately, we would have been trapped there!
Chapter completed!