The Queen of the Prairie and I

In the 13th year of Hongning, in November, there was an earthquake in the capital, and the roof tiles in the whole city fell. The general Wang Zhan ordered the Northern Expedition to divide the army. A poem reads: In early spring plum blossoms shine in the clouds/Dare to ask men to learn from Wen Niang.In December, there was purple air in the Hetao section, and everyone called it Jichang. The prince heard it and was paralyzed.In the 14th year of Hongning, in January, black snow fell in Liaodong, covering hundreds of miles like black mud, which melted in a day.In February, the yellow-headed thieves surrounded Luoyang, and Luoyang was in a hurry.In March, there were stars as big as the moon in many places, and rumors of great ominous omens, the female thief chief Zhuonatia in Monan fled, and the emperor was furious.

"Miss Ningsheng, it's cold outside."

said a soldier.The small village in western Liaoning is made of wood from the walls to the houses, and now it is covered with a layer of early spring snow, giving off a very fragrant smell.Working military households and heavily armed soldiers, the clang of swords and hoes rang out from time to time.

"Girl, don't worry about General Li anymore, you will surely win the battle."

He continued.

It's not just him I'm worried about, I'm worried about another person too.

If she thinks I'm dead, will she take her anger on Lu Jun?Will she take revenge on Lu Jun after regaining the emperor's body from the prisoner?What would happen if Erniang Wen fell into her hands?

Although I don't have any worrying feelings for Wen Liangyu, I still don't want her to retaliate in the same way, or even use more cruel means to repay Wen Liangyu.She is not this kind of person, and she should not drift away on this kind of road.That is like hanging people with a white silk scarf, it is a more terrible blasphemy.

Today, the shadow of war has also covered western Liaoning.The old and the young in the village said that this place was originally a peaceful place, and merchants would come to do business with Hu people when they left the village, and it was common for Hu and Hua to mix together. I was also worried, and later Wang Zhan came and swept away several tribes here, making this place rare and deserted.The soldiers didn't know that I had traded the bracelet brought by the Tanning Mansion for a horse with the horseman, and I had prepared some food, so I was going to leave tonight.

"Mom, I'm hungry."

There was a food shortage in the Walled City, and the Westinghouse tailor's daughter began to cry.For some reason, thinking of what happened in western Liaoning back then, I suddenly felt a pain in my heart.Without thinking too much, I went over and handed my cake to the little girl.He didn't listen to the thanks or excuses, turned around and left as if fleeing.Anyway, it's a good thing to leave.

The first time I came to the west of Liaoning was when I was 12 years old. Not long after I was taken captive, I was sold back and forth at a low price. Once, I encountered a disastrous defeat by the buyer’s tribe. At that time, I was lying in the blood of corpses Only escaped a catastrophe.

That was the first time I saw a tribal vendetta on the grassland. Just a day ago, there was still a lot of people around, and there were groups of livestock and horses. Now the grass is full of all kinds of corpses until the horizon as far as I can see. .The stench of corpses is everywhere, and covering your mouth and nose is of no help.The flies, insects, birds and birds danced all over the sky, as if they would eat up the living.Perhaps since then, I have no curiosity about the human body, because on that battlefield, there are clothes or no clothes, skin or no skin, incomplete, broken, burnt, scattered , only the unexpected, the appearance that a person can present is all there.At that time, I spent a long time trying to get out of the mountain of corpses and sea of ​​blood. At one time, I thought that I was dead too, and I was already in hell.

I still remember meeting a woman at that time.I can't remember what I looked like, and I can't remember my name, and I don't even know what I did.But I remember that woman asked me to call her mother.

She can speak Central Plains dialect, and let me call her mother.

******

Zhuonatia's army was divided into eight battalions, facing Wen Liangyu and Li Weiyi's army head-on.Wen Liangyu couldn't bring out too many troops to confront Zhuonatia from the beginning to the end, because her main force was confined to the south, and the army of General White Wolf that came out of the Yin Mountain in the south caught her by surprise.

Wen Liangyu ordered the craftsmen of the whole army to build several miles of wooden giant gates and wooden villages overnight.Li Weiyi led the tiger and wolf cavalry to attack the White Wolf General's sword and shield formation to the south. The two sides fought fiercely for a long time, regardless of the outcome.Zhuonatia led an army of tens of thousands, but was still unwilling to launch a general attack with the main force.Although he immediately made a comeback after escaping from the enemy's position and regained most of the tribes and troops, Lu Jun was not an idler.Compared with the situation before being captured, the situation of this battle has not improved much. One step is dangerous, every step is dangerous, and if you are not careful, you may be doomed.

"it's time."

One night, when the north wind blew up, Dronatia said so when she saw the wind blowing.

"Give me the order to launch a general attack on Wen Liangyu."

"But the enemy has several layers of board doors, so it's hard to get down overnight." General Hei Xiong said.

"It's the board door. Order the front officer to prepare the train for two hundred, and the archer rides the archer for the rocket, and burn it for me."

Speaking of the north wind, Wen Liangyu immediately knew the reason for Zhuonatia's delay in attacking, but it was too late. The defenders were burned to death countless times, and they were already disbanded.

In the dark night, the sky is full of night sky, but only the southern horizon is like the morning glow. With the uninterrupted burning and crackling of wood, the red light of the fire on the distant horizon, Donatia stepped across On the horse.

Just fighting, there is nothing difficult for her.For many years, Zhuonatia was afraid of nothing, never afraid of the battlefield, never afraid of fighting wits and bravery with others, and fighting to the death with others.Because most of the time, she doesn't need to bear the consequences of death, which are just battle reports and numbers to her.What Jonatia was afraid of was the sense of reality that she couldn't get rid of when the words were too close to her.

She still remembers that when she was in Liaoxi, she fought a battle that she was most unwilling to look back in her life.

At that time, she was only 14 years old, but she had already taken the position of her father. She wiped out the Hutan Department for Li Yisheng, and embarked on the road of war that could not be turned back.Later, she heard that Fuhan had gathered a large number of stragglers in western Liaoning, and that the Dalu court secretly supported him.If it is not resolved, the Cuckoo Department will lose control from her.

At that time, she had just ordered the Bugude soldiers to slaughter all the camps of the Hutan Ministry, and the main force of the army was not far from the west of Liaoning, so she decided to go directly to deal with this threat.

*****

"Are you a human or a ghost?"

The woman really asked me this way at the beginning, maybe it was because I was covered in blood, and it was hard to tell the difference between a ghost and a human.After shaking her head, she realized that she was speaking the Central Plains dialect, and she also discovered that I understood the Central Plains dialect.At that moment, it seemed that the mountain of corpses and the sea of ​​blood were gone.

"where is your family?"

When walking with her, she asked.

"I don't know. I was arrested here and I don't know anyone." I replied.

"If you call me mother, we'll know each other, won't we?" she said, laughing again.

How can the title of mother be called indiscriminately?This kind of thought did not surface in my heart at the time, but I found that sentence extremely attractive.

"mother"

I replied without thinking, and she nodded.From then on, I called her mother, and she called me girl.The two of us dug up a lot of grain and dried meat from the pile of corpses.At that time, she said that she wanted to go to the west of Liaoning, because there were many castles and castles in Dalu in the west of Liaoning.When they get there, they are all their own people, whether begging or doing anything, they can survive.

"Why did mother come to the grassland?"

She didn't know how to answer my question.

"My man said that he was going to Kaiyuanwei to be a craftsman. It was a serious job, but when he arrived on the grassland, he found that there was no Kaiyuanwei, only soldiers and horses."

At that time, I remembered the name Kaiyuanwei, thinking that it was also a paradise that was hard to find, no different from the Central Plains.It was not until a long time later that I realized that Kaiyuanwei was what Dalu once called the Bugude tribe.

I don't know how long we walked, and the blood on our feet soaked the cloth shoes. When we were about to die of thirst, we finally saw a river.After drinking the water, my mother washed my body again, pressed me to wash it clean, and washed the blood-stained clothes.It was much cooler but my clothes were soaked.There was a long stream of dirt in the river.

"What a decent child." My mother held my face and said, "I will grow up to be a beautiful big girl." But I was not happy at all, for me now, words like being beautiful and decent don't give me anything real feeling.I hope to hear that I can go home and have a full meal, and I have been expecting my mother to say that.Thinking about it now, how could she say "I will go home and have a full meal" at that time, it was just that I was thinking blindly at the time.

"If you don't eat, you will not be able to marry in the future."

Facing the hard-to-eat wild vegetables picked by my mother, my tears were full of bitterness, and she would scold me like this.

"mother?"

"Ok?"

For some reason, I suddenly felt that a sentence I had always understood since I was a child could not be understood anyway.It seems that something is wrong, and the world becomes more and more strange.

"What exactly is being married?" I need to carefully confirm that the concept I understood since childhood is correct.

"It means that when a girl gets married, she leaves her mother's house, marries into her husband's house, and spends day and night with her husband, sharing the same bed."

"Will you do that?" I gestured because I didn't know the language.

"Yes, in order to have children and carry on the family line."

"So... is that a good thing?" I asked.Sure enough, something went wrong.Getting married is just like this. I have been doing this since I grew up a little this year.What am I, am I married to several people?Then why are you afraid that you won't get married?Others are afraid of starving to death, but I am about to starve to death.If there is only marriage when I grow up, and if being married is considered a great blessing in life, wouldn't I have lost the only great blessing in my life, and only suffering will be left in the future?

Mother didn't say much, she asked me after a long time: "Do I have any grandchildren?"

"What grandson?" I asked. "How do I know if my mother has any grandchildren?"

"Silly girl, you understand all this, but you still don't understand about your grandson?"

"Oh oh oh oh!" I suddenly realized, "No"

"Why not?"

"If I knew why I didn't, I wouldn't have to suffer so many beatings these years."

We set off again, walking a long way every day.She didn't know where the city in western Liaoning was, and I didn't know, but I firmly believed that she was right, and the two of us kept heading towards the setting sun.After all, the only thing we know is that Liaoxi is to the west.

"Mother doesn't want to find Kai Yuanwei?"

"Think about it, I don't know where Kaiyuanwei is. I just know that my man said that Kaiyuanwei's flag is a white eagle. The man and I were arrested as slaves when we arrived, and we never saw the white eagle flag."

"You man..."

"Call Dad."

"No." I said, "You are mother, he is not father."

"Silly girl, there is no such reason in the world." She laughed.

"I only recognize my mother as my mother. That man has never met or recognized him. How can he shout like that?" In fact, he felt that someone he had never met was not good enough for his mother.

"That's all, if you want to call you a man, call you a man."

"Where is your man?"

"die"

"Oh" I replied.

******

Waiting for Zhuonatia in western Liaoning was a yurt owned by her father.She left the army behind and went into the yurt alone, and saw Fuhan in a long robe drinking milk tea alone in the yurt.

"My daughter is here at last. Sit down quickly. I often make milk tea made by my father."

Donatia did not speak, took off her armor belt and saber, and sat across from her father.

"My daughter, the loser goes from defeat to victory, and the winner goes from victory to defeat. Once he wins, he can't turn back." Although he smiled kindly, even unprecedentedly, it made Zhuonatia feel uncomfortable. accept.

"Father, my daughter please go back."

"Go back? What are you going back for? Now you are Kehan ​​of Bugud. Am I asking for trouble?"

"But the imperial court only recognizes you." She felt helpless.

"In Da Lu's eyes, I'm just a border guard with thousands of households. What's the use of recognizing me? Daughter, don't tell me you don't want to be a dog for Da Lu?"

"Da Lu has already prevented Bugude from entering all the gates. We were blocked by Da Lu."

"Of course, my daughter, Da Lu will not just sit back and watch you grow. From now on, as long as you stand outside the yurt, you will see enemies wherever you look, enemies in all directions."

"If you go back, you don't need it, the war can end."

"I go back?" He put down the teacup, "If I go back, Da Lu will let Bugude go, and we will be Kaiyuanwei again, but they will not ignore the matter of the Hutan Department, they will hold them accountable, and they will take the matter away." If you take it back to the capital and show it to the public, you will make us pay half of the property to compensate some Hutan nobles scattered in other tribes, let us fight the Hutan tribe for nothing, and then we will become thorns in the eyes of other tribes, besieged until we are about to die Da Lu will help us only when they want us to live, but they don’t want us to grow, that’s all.”

"Father...but snoring carbon is a lie in itself. Mr. Li lied to me, and he also lied to..."

"Mr. Li told me, and Mr. Yisheng also told me, no one will lie to you, this is your last lesson."

"But...why? Why did Sister Yisheng do this, and why did Father Han do this to you?" Zhuonatia couldn't understand more and more.Her world also collapsed.

"Remember, Dronatia, eagles don't blame the sky for the heights, wolves don't dislike the mountains for being far away. We, the White Eagle Familia, won't fall down unless we die after flying." After he finished speaking, he suddenly pulled out a dagger .Donatia jumped to her feet, turned and picked up her saber but didn't pistol.

"As expected of my daughter, good move. Remember, after I died, I gathered all the stragglers in western Liaoning. Before they were scattered, I wiped them out in one fell swoop, eliminating future troubles forever!" Father Han said, piercing his throat with a knife and falling On the ground, only Zhuonatia was left standing motionless holding her saber.

She didn't think much, and immediately decided to carry out her father's will.

Take advantage of the enemy's gathering to eliminate future troubles forever.

******

Mother talked about western Liaoning, she knows the landscape of western Liaoning.

I feel that Liaoxi seems to be no different from the previous place, because I smell blood.The two of us were lying on the high ground, only then did we see another mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood in front of us.The cavalry were collecting the spoils, picking up the swords and armor.

"It's the White Eagle Flag!" Niang shouted suddenly.Excited, she jumped up and ran there.

"Is it Kaiyuanwei! Is it Kaiyuanwei!"

Niang shouted, and suddenly remembered the piercing sound of arrow clusters. An arrow hit Niang's throat, and the body of the arrow pierced through her neck. She lost her voice and fell to the ground, convulsing.

"mother!"

I yelled, and went forward to hug the corpse.She was still pulling out, looking at me with wide eyes, her mouth moved as if she was saying something, but the only thing she made was a gurgling sound of blood bubbling.A cavalryman came up to my side and drew his bow on me.

I never thought it would turn out like this.

"Stop!" A girl's voice shouted, and I saw a girl in white clothes and armor who seemed to be slightly older than me riding a horse to me.I looked at her in a daze, and immediately realized that I couldn't look directly at these people. I lowered my head and hugged the silent mother, and closed my eyes.

"Give her a bag of millet."

"Princess?"

"Where is the slave mother and child, you still kill the mother, it's poor, do it."

"Yes." The cavalryman replied and threw a bag of millet rice on my head.

"It's your fault," he said.

Afterwards, I only remember hearing the sound of horseshoes, and I dared to raise my head after a long time. Those people had already gone far away.

******

Zhuonatia's offensive was too fierce, breaking through Wen Liangyu's army overnight.She had no choice but to take her cronies, and under the protection of Li Weiyi's surviving tiger and wolf cavalry, she left all the camp and fled westward in a hurry.Zhuonatia didn't let her subordinates chase after Wen Liangyu, she immediately started to deal with the camp luggage left by Wen Liangyu's army.He also ordered to ask about Li Ningsheng from all Lu Jun prisoners and survivors.But no one knew who Li Ningsheng was. There were many fabric girls in the camp, and it was impossible to find out who Li Ningsheng was.

Dronatia returned to the dungeon, which was still the same.There was also a trace of blood on the ground, it seemed that Wen Liangyu hadn't touched here since he was rescued by the An people.She was wearing armor, sitting on the haystack in front of the stake, dazed all the time.Whether Li Ningsheng was dead or alive, she had no way of knowing, which made her feel as if she was being hanged.

Dronatia hated this dungeon, where she suffered inhumane suffering, and Wen Erniang tried every means to humiliate her here.

But she didn't want to burn down the dungeon, and she didn't want to rush to kill Wen and seek revenge on her.

She is more concerned about Li Ningsheng's life and death, and she also hopes that the dungeon can remain as it is.Because here, she also had her best memories of the night.

In the 14th year of Hongning, in April, the bandit chief Zhuonatia led [-] thieves to attack Wen Liangyu's tribe. Wen fled away with more than [-] casualties.In May, Zhuonatia regained power and gathered [-] rebels to go to the west of Liaoning. King Lu Jun heard that the rebels were powerful and led [-] troops to return the lotus flowers. Wang Zhan gathered [-] troops to defend Liaoxi.

So far, in the nearly one-year Northern Expedition to Zonatia War, 5 people of "Meteor Hammer" General Gao Hong were wiped out in Guangjianchuan, and 5 people of "Double Sword General" Wen Liangyu were wiped out in Weining Haibei. At the source of the Three Rivers, the rebel king's army fled as the leader of Niaoshousan, and the army of Lianhuacheng King Lu withdrew to Hexi. Only Wang Zhan's 5 people in the west of Liaoxi were left to face Bugude's reorganized menacing [-] troops.