The Queen of the Prairie and I
Chapter 49
On the Jinlianchuan grassland, you can see thousands of miles away, except for the green grass, there are golden golden lotus flowers.
The army has marched so far, and will no longer be harassed by the Liaodong Army or other prefects.After a few days of repairing, the wounded soldiers and morale problems have been greatly improved.
Not only that, the supplies from Wanhu in Monan also quickly joined the army.
Although I have never doubted Zhuonatia's use of troops, this ending makes me feel like a thrilling escape.
"It hurts."
Every night when I go to bed, my head injury gives me a jolt.The appearance of a white gauze wrapped around the head is always laughed by Donatia as "like a strange cuckold's official crown." After all, they admire white.
"It hurts too much, I can't sleep," I said.
"The military doctor can say that there is no serious problem. Sheng'er has suffered more serious injuries, so this will not work?"
"If you get hurt again, people still know it hurts, don't you?" What is this called, I don't know why, I always feel that she is becoming more and more heartless, it's really annoying.
"The headache is a trivial matter. If I'm not mistaken, the people in the Western Regions should have received the letter, so don't make any trouble."
"Who?" I asked.
"An people."
"You don't hate the An people anymore?"
"A general of the An clan died in our hands, and we have to return the remains."
"How do I remember that Tia wanted to trample Elima down?"
"I can't wait, but who can hate it now." She said, her tone was very indifferent.There was no gnashing of teeth itching with hatred, nor was it disheartened and exhausted. "That An Xiche saved you and me, and she said she wanted to repay her kindness, so I should do the same for An Mu's funeral."
Does Tia's words mean repaying An Heechul's favor, or repaying some other kindness to the An people?I didn't ask for details, because I was too embarrassed to ask.
"If it is said that revenge must be retaliated." For some reason, I suddenly remembered that incident again, and I really wanted to tell her to Dronatia to hear what she thought. "I--"
"You are Li Yisheng's younger sister, should you be responsible for what she did to me? Sheng'er doesn't mean to ask that, does she?" She seemed to see through my thoughts right away.
It was also rare that Dronatia would become so sensitive about this kind of matter, she really became understanding.
"You know, there is also a spiritual seat set up by King Lu for them in Li's mansion."
"I'm very glad that Li Yisheng has his own spiritual seat in his own home." Donatia didn't intend to answer my question at all, as if changing the subject.
"what about me."
"Sheng'er—are you stupid? You're not dead, what do you want a spirit seat for?" Her expression seemed to be looking at a fool.
"I don't mean that. I mean, you really don't feel a little—hard to let go?" I don't know if she is really so open-minded, but I feel uncomfortable just thinking about it.
Since being taken away, this has been the case every time I hear news from my hometown.
The earliest no news is news, which means that they didn’t want to redeem me from the Bode people. Although I later learned that it was Wang Zhan’s move to prohibit giving any money to the Bode people, but at the time I still understood that it was the adults who gave up saving me. proof, and deeply wounded.
After that, when I saw my second brother for the first time, I knew that all the family members had been given to death.
After returning to Danning's mansion, Li's mansion has been occupied, so he can only live in a small house.
Or before being stabbed by Shan Ying, I was told that Li Yisheng was my sister and Li Fu was my uncle——in a sense, the tragic ending of the family was really their own fault.
Time and time again, there was never any good news.
"Speaking of which, does Sheng'er know why the Baishan tribe and the Bode tribe joined forces to attack the Western Regions, and only broke through the Danning Mansion and burned the city?" Tia asked suddenly.
I shake my head.Don't know, never thought about it.
There are also prefectures and counties outside Danning Mansion, and there is also Lianhua City.In terms of wealth, Lianhua City is rich, and in terms of proximity, Ganzhou is closer than Danning Mansion.
It is said that after the Hexi Army was defeated and retreated into Lianhua City, the two coalition forces entered the pass, bypassing important towns and counties, and directly attacked Danning Mansion.Shortly after entering the city and setting fire to looting, various reinforcements fled back to the grassland before encircling them.
"Why exactly?"
"Because the Hexi army will sweep up the territory of Baishan and Bode every year, depopulate the nest, kill the men, and sell all women and children into slaves, no matter how high or low. Danning Mansion is the hub of commerce in the Western Regions, and people from the Central Plains and Western Regions come to do business every year. So naturally the slave market also sprang up."
"So the two parts hate the Danning Mansion?"
"That's right, the slaves captured by the Hexi Army were mainly from various ministries, who sold the cheapest ones, and they were all good at farming, animal husbandry and horseback riding, so they were quite famous. People with a certain status back then knew that the ones sold by the Danning Mansion Slaves are the cheapest and most practical, so they are called 'Tanning yokes', and the various ministries in the Western Regions call being cut down by the Hexi Army a 'grasping tanning yoke', so they all hate the Danning Mansion."
"Why are you telling me now?" I asked, "No, I should have asked, why are you telling me this?"
"Sheng'er, don't get me wrong. I didn't say it was reasonable."
Although this matter is indeed reasonable, after all, after making so much money, he must have become a bird of prey.
"I was thinking. When I was about six years old, Da Lu almost removed our Bugude's feudal domain and canceled our guard quota. Because at that time, because of some problems with the pasture land in Monan, Dalu's border army and Bugude had a quarrel. It's too much to deal with."
"So?" I asked, "Hexi Army is here?"
"At that time, King Lu pursued the leader of a tribe in the Western Regions, and led [-] Hexi troops all the way to the vicinity of Jinlianchuan, annihilating that leader. Afterwards, the Hexi army was ordered by the court to surround the Bugude Camp. At that time, Bugu Germany is simply not capable of confronting the armored heavy cavalry of the Hexi Army."
"How did you escape?"
"There was no escape. The leaders of several major clans quarreled. But Mr. Li Fu, who had just arrived in the tribe at that time, and Sheng'er's uncle, recommended himself to my father, and wrote a letter of appeal to the border military guard in the Central Plains dialect." The general of the frontier army asked us to kneel to send Dalu's army ten miles away, including me, our family knelt on the ground, waiting for the heavy cavalry to go away. The first time I knelt in my life was at that time, with me The whole family was together. The Hexi army also drove away [-] good horses, [-] sheep, and even sheep and horses from our tribe, as compensation for the extra participation of the Hexi army in trivial matters. It made us almost unable to To spend the winter, you can only sell your own tribesmen as slaves in exchange for herds."
"But Cuckold kept his position."
"That's right, my father has changed since then. I have been learning the scriptures and strategies from Li Fu and Li Yisheng," she said. "However, after I arrived at Chaoshang Pavilion that day, I kept thinking. If Fuhan hadn't decided to seek peace and plead guilty at that time, but had fought with the Hexi army to the death, then I might have been captured by the Hexi army, and I might have been used as a shackle. , sent to Tanning Mansion for sale.”
"In Chaoshang Pavilion?"
"In Chaoshang Pavilion. I feel that another possibility, but even so, the two of us are still destined to meet each other. Only this time I will be the slave and you will be the master."
"That's it."
Even so, I couldn't help but think about that scene.
"I later found the old housekeeper and servant of Sheng'er's house, and asked a lot about Sheng'er's childhood. I gave him a lot of money, but he distributed it to other residents. Then I begged me to spare those who were conscripted to defend the city and Workers."
"So, did Tia let it go?"
"I said that I didn't have the condition not to recruit civilians. But I assured him that the civilians would not be taken away when I retreated, so he can feel at ease."
"So it's true - no one from the Tanning Mansion came here. How should I say, Tia is still very merciful"
"Being kind or cunning, I didn't intend to take away the man from the Danning Mansion, because I must pack lightly when I retreat."
Unexpectedly, the real thing was told by Tia herself.I thought she would be unhappy, but now it seems that it is not me who is more careful and tolerant.
Not happy that I'm actually behind.
"But—still, why did Tia tell me this?"
"I just think that I met Sheng'er, and I was destined to have a relationship with Li Yisheng or the Bode Department. It's just the difference between whether I go to find Sheng'er or Sheng'er comes to me. So don't think about Li Yisheng anymore It's okay, Sheng'er doesn't often say that Li Yisheng is Li Yisheng, you are not her substitute, are you?"
A little clumsy though, a little whimsical.
However, I still feel warm in my heart.
Thinking about it, I also suddenly felt stupid that I would have such a strange sense of competition with her.Doesn't her kindness still fall on me?
It's like thinking that it's hot outside the shade of the tree, but the warm majesty with fruity fragrance is blowing head-on.
"Thank you."
The eye sockets were wet, the vision became blurred, and the throat hurt unbearably.
"Eh? What? Why are you crying?" She was a little confused and flustered, thinking that she hurt me by saying these words that she would never say normally.
"No."
Turn away.
"I didn't cry."
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Tannin House.
For those who don't know, it's just a dilapidated empty city now
The bright moon in the night sky showed its face, illuminating the dilapidated Li Mansion.
An Xiche was alone in the courtyard. She stood there quietly looking at the half-collapsed long pavilion beside her.Perhaps in her pale pupils, it was just a simple outline.
She turned her head again, and what she saw were the broken trees and broken boulders in the courtyard.
Scars, each one is a scar of this ancient mansion.
But it also seemed to feel the urgent atmosphere of life and death at that time.
But no matter how you think about it, how you dig into the feelings of that night, the battle with An Mu that night, everything has been overturned.It is absolutely impossible for the battle that has passed to continue as if it is still going on.
I really don't know how to cherish myself.
She thought so.
A serious duel with the eldest sister, a big battle about everything.Shouldn't that be something that many people have been looking forward to since I was a child?
Why did he not cherish that battle at all at that time?
The subordinates also came to the courtyard, ready to call her away.
She knew what they were going to say, but she didn't answer, and her subordinates also knew that An Xiche didn't want others to speak to disturb her, so she didn't speak either.
The most precious encounter, the most cordial contact.But without realizing it at all, with those unsteady moves and attacks, those moves and tricks that were not his best, became a thing of the past.It can no longer be remedied, no longer compensated.
Only know after the past.At that time, he thought that he was going to save An Mu, who was on a detour, but now he knew that An Mu was saying goodbye to him that night, and he was seriously fighting against him.
She knew that there would never be such an opportunity again.An Mu has left everyone.
"I will never fight again."
Saying so, she turned and left the garden.
The deserted Danning Mansion, the deserted Li Mansion, the lonely Chaoshang Pavilion.
Although it was midnight, there were only scattered lights in the city.
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On the fourth day of stationing in Jinlianchuan, a group of excellent An cavalry appeared here.They all came lightly, and the leader was also a general of the An clan.
Dronatia gave a very high standard of reception, she personally and took me out of the camp to welcome them.But the An people are relatively indifferent and are not willing to enter the barracks.
"I am resting in Anyin. After receiving the letter from Her Majesty the Queen, I came from the station outside the desert to take General Anmu back to Alima to rest in peace." Her attitude was different from that of some An people I had met.Subtle and polite, there is no such evil spirit as eating blood and eating people.
But judging from her appearance, she seems to be an acquaintance with me, right?
After the big coffin was pulled out on the carriage and handed over to General An Yin, after all the general things were done, I asked.
"You are" "General"
As a result, General An Yin and I spoke at the same time, and she stopped talking as if she was frightened, and so did I.
Then she greeted me with a smile, and let me speak first.
"General An Yin, is your Excellency... I mean, is An Xiche the general's daughter?" I asked.
"That's right, you are Miss Li Ningsheng, right?" She asked, and I nodded too. "She mentions you often in her letters to me, and you have taken care of my worthless daughter," she said, nodding at me.I know what it means for General An to be so polite, so I quickly returned the salute respectfully.
"Where, An Xiche also saved my life."
"This time I have a mission. Otherwise, if there is anything else, please feel free to speak up. An Yin will definitely help without asking for anything in return."
"Where, General An Yin's own mission is important."
An Yin's attitude terrifies me, I haven't seen such a polite and polite person except my second brother for a long time.I suddenly felt that An Xiche's change was not too abrupt. Maybe she just found a good teacher, and also found a kind of her original disposition very similar to her mother.
"About General Anmu, I am also very grateful to Your Majesty for writing. General Anmu is an old friend of mine. I am very happy to be able to retrieve her body after she died on the battlefield."
"This is from the An tribe—ah" I thought this sentence was a bit strange, but when I subconsciously asked, I felt it was impolite and stopped.
"Yes, taking back the body is the highest etiquette of the An people. It is very important who takes it back, and it will be written on the epitaph." An Yin didn't care about it at all, but simply solved my doubts . "Yeah, old friend..." She suddenly sighed in a low voice, and at that moment, her clear appearance disappeared a lot, and she became sad instead.So how many regrets and stories are there?Although An Xiche only wailed in the dungeon back then, I can understand how much weight it has.
"There is a beginning and an end. Thank you both, and An Yin will leave."
Pulling the coffin, the An cavalry headed west again.But before going far, An Yin suddenly looked back and came to us.
"Let me tell you one more thing, if your Majesty plans to go to Lianhua City, you'd better be careful."
"Why?" asked Donatia.
"An accident has happened in Lianhua City."
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On the hillside, King Lu got off his horse, handed the reins to the guards, and looked at the desolate grassland in the distance.And Li Weiyi followed closely behind, dismounted and stood side by side.
"Your father, Li Xing, Li Shixu, is my old friend. But I just saw the young general today, and I'm disqualified." King Lu said.
"If you have an old friend with my father, you are an elder. Why do you say that." Li Weiyi said, "I am flattered that the prince has come to our military camp today, and it is enough to comfort my father's spirit in heaven."
"Things are impermanent. I think back in those days, during the Hongning Dynasty, your father Shixu and I often talked about the general situation of the world. We talked all night, but we were not satisfied." King Lu showed a mournful look, "I think back in the past, Shixu asked me, what is the current situation in the Central Plains?" Thieves have been in power for a long time, if the world is in turmoil again, how can we help the universe? I replied, I am based on the lotus flower, and I also have Anlu, Yuezhe, Baishan, and Bozhi on the outside. , What is your intention? Shixu said, I will enter the imperial court, occupy a high position in the temple, Fulu room, the side of the Qing emperor, widely appoint intelligence, and use the way to control him. I can do anything. I was ambitious in the past, but now there is a separation between man and nature. People are right and wrong, ambitions are hard to reward, so I have to break my heart! Thinking that I can establish myself as an emperor, and I can inherit the great rule, is really wrong!"
King Lu was in tears, and Li Weiyi couldn't say anything.
But not far away, Wen Liangyu arrived in armor and iron face, dismounted from the horse, and came to the two of them.
"Dozens of words were eloquent, the emotions were stirred up, and the tears were shed, but they didn't talk about business." She said.
"General Wen is really quick to talk." Lu Wang said, putting away his mournful face, "Now that Shanying has withdrawn to the grassland, and the Ronghua Army and you have temporarily reached peace talks, have the two generals ever thought that Fengronghua is vacillating, if we join forces to fight Kaiyuan, she will come to vote, and the world will definitely change when the time comes."
"We are not related to Queen Shan Ying, and we have no intention of turning against each other. Besides..." Li Weiyi did not continue.
"Besides, the prince said in front of me that he wanted to form an alliance with Fengronghua, did he deliberately provoke me to humiliate me?" Wen Liangyu continued, and King Lu shook his head.
"A talented husband should have the ambition to swallow the world and embrace the universe. The grievances between Fengronghua and the general should be put aside for the time being."
"Having said that, the prince and Queen Shanying belong to the Ten Arrows Alliance, which is known as the old state on the grassland. They are hostile to each other with Zhuonatia. It is really an internal struggle in Kaiyuan. Relationship?" Li Weiyi said, his tone was still very polite.
"My son's words are wrong. You don't know. At the end of the Hongning Dynasty, the change of Tongguan, the murderous Chen Jiao wiped out the Lu family. At the end of the Qingyong period, Feng Yuliang and Liang Yun successively dominated the capital and slaughtered the emperor's relatives. .”
"Everyone in the world knows that Lu descendants are extinct." Li Weiyi replied.
"This king is here, why do you say that Lu descendants are extinct? Since the two generals consider themselves the vanguard of Dalu, they should help me. To help me is to help Dalu revive."
"My lord, since you are trying to convince yourself, you just say it, why is it so?" Li Weiyi's expression became a little disappointed, and Wen Liangyu couldn't help but look at him. "I wait for the defeated generals to dare not be called Zhongliang, but I am also Dalu's eagle dog. In the battle of Weiliao, the prince had tens of thousands of troops, but he did not come. He watched the fire from the other side, causing our army to be defeated in Weininghai. Later, Dalu's court was still there, but the prince raised his troops Conspiring to usurp, and being a monster with Chen Jiao, the imperial court was overwhelmed by the division of troops from the north to the south, the capital was broken, and Tongguan was changed. Although the prince is a relative of the emperor, he is also a rebellious king. According to the law, we have no right to kill the rebellious king. I also respect that the prince is my father's old friend, so I respect him as an elder, and I will not hurt the prince in the slightest. But I also ask the prince to be self-respectful, the descendants of Lu are extinct, and we will never help the rebellious king to flee to Dalu to rectify his name."
"So far, we have to say goodbye." King Lu was a little angry, but he didn't show much. He just turned around and mounted his horse, and headed towards the barracks with his followers.
"Seeing off the guests, please send them away safely." Li Weiyi said to his subordinates, who followed after answering.
Seeing Li Weiyi standing there sighing, Wen Liangyu said: "The spies are still reporting the location of every movement of the Ronghua Army's camp. Last time you just cast a net and let the slaves in the Ronghua Army encourage the An people in the Central Army to fight to the death. Burn the Chinese army to confirm that Feng Ronghua's plan is sound so far, why are you sighing?"
"I'm just worried, my little sister is not in Fengronghua's hands, so where is she? What exactly does Ronghua's army want?"
"The movement of the Ronghua Army is under control, and I have the initiative. General Li, please don't be sentimental. Your little sister is auspicious, and she will be fine."
"If we procrastinate to see Fengronghua, will she break her face and attack us?"
"Her army was captured and burned by the An people just now, and the Ten Arrows Alliance and the Cuckoo German army went back to the grassland to prepare for a decisive battle. They couldn't spare the energy to control us." Wen Liangyu said, which also made Li Weiyi's sadness dissipate a lot.
"General Wen is still very wise and brave, and he can solve the confusion with one word." He smiled wryly.
"Where, it's just a few more days of fighting."
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In the Ronghua Army barracks, the female straight soldiers are not as meticulous as before, waiting to feast on the battlefield.
Whisper.
Groups of three to five.
An invisible and intangible thing quietly spread among the best legions of the Bugud Empire.
This kind of thing, no one can carefully describe what kind of atmosphere it is.But people with a little bit of literacy, or people with long-term experience in the military will feel:
This is what would destroy a mighty machine.
"I heard that Liang Yun's generals have all become emperors in the capital."
"Why are we still here?"
"I really want to go to Liaodong"
"Don't be overheard by the supervisor."
"Queen Sugizakura's messenger is said to have not returned yet"
The whispers of the soldiers, people thought it was their own voice, they thought it was only in a small group, they thought no one could hear it except themselves, not many people would agree with this.
But the fact is that everyone is like this, not to mention the supervising army, all the army leaders below Fengronghua actually know these rumors, maybe Fengronghua herself knows it well, but she just refuses to admit it and turns a blind eye.
"Shanying has come back?" Fengronghua asked, and the female general nodded. "I expected her to do something, but she failed so thoroughly." Feng Ronghua looked disappointed.
"Shanying has already defeated Queen Zhuonatia's defense in the Western Regions, but the Danning Mansion was defeated, the army was defeated, they were attacked by a group, and they retreated outside the pass."
"What did the prefect of Lianhua City say?"
"The prefect of Lianhua City has dispatched [-] troops to control Shanying's army in the west. When the main force of Queen Dronatia arrives, they will be wiped out in one fell swoop."
"But the queen still didn't give us any orders." Feng Ronghua murmured.
"If Shanying can't continue to retreat northward, the Ten Arrows Alliance will be destroyed in less than half a month."
"I know, Shanying is already unreliable." Feng Ronghua said
"And now there are rumors and rumors in the barracks."
"Speaking of this, let's pull out those military leaders who have fled privately in the pigsty and expose them to the sun for another day." Feng Ronghua said, "Let's see who dares to talk about fleeing."
Although the female general nodded in agreement, she still felt something was wrong.Those military leaders who fled to Liang Yun from the pass were captured alive by Feng Ronghua, and as expected, they were all tortured to the point of inhumanity, and they were taken out every few days to frighten everyone.
However, some living creatures that cannot be recognized as human beings will still lose people's hearts if they are hung for a long time.Now that Feng Yuliang is dead, the Liaodong Army is torn apart, and Liaodong has become a vacuum. The soldiers either want to go to the capital to join Liang Yun or go back to Liaodong to seize good land. They are indeed tired of constantly stationing on the Bugude Grassland.
Feng Ronghua has nothing to do with herself, that's how the signing army is.After leaving the homeland, the combat effectiveness is unusually high compared to other places, and it is necessary to keep killing meat to maintain morale, but not many people really intend to stay in a foreign land or become a foreigner, and eventually as time goes on, they will be killed because of these things. Leading to a drop in morale and demoralization.
Yes, meat.
Feng Ronghua knew that what she originally thought was impossible.That being the case, if you have to do it yourself, you really need some victims to boost your morale.
"The emissary of Shanying?" She asked suddenly, "Invite him here."
General Nvzhi nodded, and soon after the order was delivered, the envoy was invited to the big tent to salute Fengronghua.Feng Ronghua still sat on her main seat, and waved for the envoy to come to her.
"Did the general agree to the Queen's...request?" The envoy was an old man from the Ten Arrows Alliance, and a wise man like this in Bugude would be respected by most people.
"What did I capture Antes, destroy her department, and release Shanying from her hand?"
Fengronghua didn't answer the question.
The wise man knows that her words are aimed at something, and he also knows that the Ten Arrows Alliance is asking for help from others, so how to answer is very important.
"The general has done a great feat for the man of destiny, and we should all admire the virtue of the general."
"But your queen has lost the battle, and now the flames of war have come to me." Feng Ronghua continued, her tone deliberately annoying.
"Winning or losing is a common matter for military strategists, let alone kings—"
"First lost to Queen Zonatia, and then defeated to Dalu's remnant soldiers, are they worthy of saying these things?" Fengronghua laughed contemptuously, "In the final analysis, the new Ten Arrows Alliance is nothing more than It's just a mob who gathered the remnants of the defeated army to Bugude, and neither King Lu nor Anmu achieved anything, so it's not worth mentioning." Fengronghua raised her head, "Shanying shouldn't have been let go in the first place. It's a shame that people call themselves queens and steal the name of the Ten Arrows Alliance."
When the envoy was insulted like this, he broke out in cold sweat and trembled with anger, but he didn't dare to say anything against Fengronghua. He just said tremblingly: "If the general is dissatisfied with the queen or our army, just speak up." Yes, I will definitely report the original sentence. Queen Sugi Sakura is not a stubborn person, she will definitely improve and adopt it, why bother to hurt people like this?"
"Should I say this to An Mu who was thrown in the pass? Shouldn't she still be alive or dead? Isn't An Mu the number one general beside your Queen Shan Ying, who is as close as a sister? If you lose the battle, just throw it away." Throw, this sisterhood is too thin."
"Queen Sugi Sakura also has her own difficulties..."
"But I think it would be against her sisterhood to rebel against her sister, so it's not a real reason to leave An Mu behind, it should just be a relapse of an old illness—hahahaha!" Feng Ronghua laughed after saying that.
"Our Queen Shanying led [-] troops, started from Baishan, crossed the desert, broke through the Xiguan, drove straight into the Danning Mansion, destroyed Zhuonatia's defenses in the Xiyu Pass, and forced her to abandon the Western Region and retreat to the grassland. Isn't that right? Is that already a major blow to Dronatia? Isn't that enough?"
"From Baishan Mountain to Danning Mansion, the teeth of the prefectures and counties along the way have already been pulled out by Zhuonatia. You raided others behind your back, and finally escaped in despair. You still think it's Weiye?" Feng Ronghua laughed again He got up, laughed until tears flowed, and wiped them away, "The Ten Arrows Alliance is not very good at fighting, but they are very good at being funny."
"Since the general said so, then we should have nothing to talk about?" The envoy was finally irritated, trembling all over, even his beard trembled.
"No, no, please come to me, Your Excellency the envoy." Fengronghua suddenly changed his attitude, the envoy was startled, and was somewhat confused about Fengronghua's intentions.
But he also knows that some people just like to test others with beatings and prods before they talk about the business, and maybe Fengronghua is the same.She finally became serious, no longer the playful and hateful look of belittling others just now.
He got up and walked to Fengronghua, Fengronghua motioned for him to lean his face closer.
"What I want to say now, don't tell anyone except Queen Sugi Sakura."
Fengronghuadao.
The messenger nodded.
"Tell her, it doesn't matter if you lose the battle. We still have a backup. When she comes to me, I will tell her a good plan when she arrives at the appointed place." Feng Ronghua whispered in his ear.
"General, what is the agreed place?" The envoy asked puzzled.
"Didn't I tell her?—" She raised her head and thought for a while, "It seems that I forgot to mention it, so let me tell you, the appointment place."
"Um"
"Of course it's the pigsty."
She said softly, the messenger's expression was still very puzzled.
But Fengronghua kept smiling, and suddenly punched the messenger's throat like a thunderbolt.
Hearing the sound of broken cartilage, the old wise man fell down in front of Fengronghua's seat, clutching his throat in pain and struggling, making a sound similar to that of water boiling in a kettle.
"Ah, how boring."
Feng Ronghua leaned on the seat and dragged her cheeks, the expression on her face turned into a dull look.
The envoy was still struggling, and stared at Fengronghua with blood-red eyes.She still looked bored about it.
"General, since you want to kill him, why bother to insult him with so many words." The female general beside him said.
"Kill people directly? Doing such a boring thing, you're the only ones who think so." She stepped on the messenger, and he gradually became silent.
"Although he's still more boring than I thought."
Fengronghua said, looking at the female general. "If you were smarter that night, that General Anzu, my new pig mother-in-law wouldn't have burned our food and grass—you made me have to do it myself. The new pig mother-in-law I managed to get, now Are you not allowing me to have fun?"
Her tone became more and more cold from complaining about boredom, making the general sweat profusely.
"It's the subordinates who are incompetent."
"Shanying is not worthy to be my pig mother-in-law at all." She said, kicking away the corpse of the messenger under her feet, and stood up. "Even though they are sisters, they are far worse than my sister Dronatia."
She said, as if she was thinking about something, and suddenly fell silent for a long time.
"Forget it, I've had enough. If I suppress myself any more, it will definitely hurt my body." She smiled, as if she was talking about something as trivial as eating meat. "Pass me the order!"
"Yes!"
The sudden and serious loud order forced the female general to stand up straight.
"The whole army is repaired and ready to go south."
Fengronghua said suddenly, which surprised General Nvzhi.
"General,... this, what?"
"Go south," she said, "to Lianhua City."
"But--"
"Do I need to say more? If Shan Ying is wiped out by Sister Zhuonatia, we will never have a chance to enter Lianhua City again." She said with a smile on her face. "Go to Lianhua City, and then entertain Shan Ying who came from afar. If everything goes well, she will settle down with me."
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Lianhua City.
The heavy fog suddenly rose to the north, making people inside and outside the city very puzzled.
But later people discovered that it was an overwhelming army of tens of thousands of people.
Now the people in Lianhua City who have not yet fled are basically familiar with Ronghuaqi, so there is not much panic.
The army camped on the spot on the distant horizon, and then thousands of people were separated from the barracks and rushed all the way to the city gate.And the city gate was closed long before they approached.
"Who is under the city? Why did you bring the army here?"
On the city wall, the military head asked so loudly.
"The person who came was the leader of the Nine Thousand Households of Liaodong Women, the leader of the ever-victorious Ronghua Army, the tenth general of the Bugude tent, and General Fengronghua himself! You should stand on the city wall as a salute! "
The leader of the Ronghua Army shouted.
"Without the queen's order, I can't let you enter the city!"
"The queen is on the way from the west of Jinlianchuan, but the Shanying rebels are coming! If the battle is delayed, you can't afford it!"
After shouting like this, there was no movement on the city wall for a long time.
The Ronghua army under the city is full of confidence, and the wavering shows that there is hope.
"Open the city gate!"
shouted on the city wall, and the city gate slowly opened, revealing the outline of the streets and alleys in the south of Lianhua City.
The city guard came to the gate of the city in person without armor, with countless followers behind him.According to the law, his status is much lower than that of Fengronghua, and he goes out of the city to greet him according to the rules.
"The city gate is wide open, I read it right, right?"
On the horseback, Fengronghua asked aside, the general nodded.
"That's good, level the Lianhua City for me, General!" She pointed with a whip and said.
The female general took the order, and shouted "Attack!" The army charged towards the open city gate, only Fengronghua's army of more than a hundred people did not move, like stubborn stones in the torrent.
The city guard turned pale with fright, while the followers behind scattered and fled in all directions. Some soldiers moved forward holding guns, but they were all swallowed up by the tide of cavalry after a while.Shouts, hoofbeats and screams rang out together.
"Back to camp, I'm hungry, let's slaughter a pig."
Fengronghua yawned, turned and walked against the flow of people.
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The vanguard officers of the Ten Arrows Alliance continued to march towards the north, observing the distance, ready to report back to the army at any time.
Several defeats made Sugi Ying's army in a very bad situation, with supply difficulties, low morale, and people mutinied and fled.The appearance of the soldiers throwing away their helmets and armor, lacking guns and swords is really appalling.
The vanguard officials saw a large number of figures in the distance, and immediately pulled
The army has marched so far, and will no longer be harassed by the Liaodong Army or other prefects.After a few days of repairing, the wounded soldiers and morale problems have been greatly improved.
Not only that, the supplies from Wanhu in Monan also quickly joined the army.
Although I have never doubted Zhuonatia's use of troops, this ending makes me feel like a thrilling escape.
"It hurts."
Every night when I go to bed, my head injury gives me a jolt.The appearance of a white gauze wrapped around the head is always laughed by Donatia as "like a strange cuckold's official crown." After all, they admire white.
"It hurts too much, I can't sleep," I said.
"The military doctor can say that there is no serious problem. Sheng'er has suffered more serious injuries, so this will not work?"
"If you get hurt again, people still know it hurts, don't you?" What is this called, I don't know why, I always feel that she is becoming more and more heartless, it's really annoying.
"The headache is a trivial matter. If I'm not mistaken, the people in the Western Regions should have received the letter, so don't make any trouble."
"Who?" I asked.
"An people."
"You don't hate the An people anymore?"
"A general of the An clan died in our hands, and we have to return the remains."
"How do I remember that Tia wanted to trample Elima down?"
"I can't wait, but who can hate it now." She said, her tone was very indifferent.There was no gnashing of teeth itching with hatred, nor was it disheartened and exhausted. "That An Xiche saved you and me, and she said she wanted to repay her kindness, so I should do the same for An Mu's funeral."
Does Tia's words mean repaying An Heechul's favor, or repaying some other kindness to the An people?I didn't ask for details, because I was too embarrassed to ask.
"If it is said that revenge must be retaliated." For some reason, I suddenly remembered that incident again, and I really wanted to tell her to Dronatia to hear what she thought. "I--"
"You are Li Yisheng's younger sister, should you be responsible for what she did to me? Sheng'er doesn't mean to ask that, does she?" She seemed to see through my thoughts right away.
It was also rare that Dronatia would become so sensitive about this kind of matter, she really became understanding.
"You know, there is also a spiritual seat set up by King Lu for them in Li's mansion."
"I'm very glad that Li Yisheng has his own spiritual seat in his own home." Donatia didn't intend to answer my question at all, as if changing the subject.
"what about me."
"Sheng'er—are you stupid? You're not dead, what do you want a spirit seat for?" Her expression seemed to be looking at a fool.
"I don't mean that. I mean, you really don't feel a little—hard to let go?" I don't know if she is really so open-minded, but I feel uncomfortable just thinking about it.
Since being taken away, this has been the case every time I hear news from my hometown.
The earliest no news is news, which means that they didn’t want to redeem me from the Bode people. Although I later learned that it was Wang Zhan’s move to prohibit giving any money to the Bode people, but at the time I still understood that it was the adults who gave up saving me. proof, and deeply wounded.
After that, when I saw my second brother for the first time, I knew that all the family members had been given to death.
After returning to Danning's mansion, Li's mansion has been occupied, so he can only live in a small house.
Or before being stabbed by Shan Ying, I was told that Li Yisheng was my sister and Li Fu was my uncle——in a sense, the tragic ending of the family was really their own fault.
Time and time again, there was never any good news.
"Speaking of which, does Sheng'er know why the Baishan tribe and the Bode tribe joined forces to attack the Western Regions, and only broke through the Danning Mansion and burned the city?" Tia asked suddenly.
I shake my head.Don't know, never thought about it.
There are also prefectures and counties outside Danning Mansion, and there is also Lianhua City.In terms of wealth, Lianhua City is rich, and in terms of proximity, Ganzhou is closer than Danning Mansion.
It is said that after the Hexi Army was defeated and retreated into Lianhua City, the two coalition forces entered the pass, bypassing important towns and counties, and directly attacked Danning Mansion.Shortly after entering the city and setting fire to looting, various reinforcements fled back to the grassland before encircling them.
"Why exactly?"
"Because the Hexi army will sweep up the territory of Baishan and Bode every year, depopulate the nest, kill the men, and sell all women and children into slaves, no matter how high or low. Danning Mansion is the hub of commerce in the Western Regions, and people from the Central Plains and Western Regions come to do business every year. So naturally the slave market also sprang up."
"So the two parts hate the Danning Mansion?"
"That's right, the slaves captured by the Hexi Army were mainly from various ministries, who sold the cheapest ones, and they were all good at farming, animal husbandry and horseback riding, so they were quite famous. People with a certain status back then knew that the ones sold by the Danning Mansion Slaves are the cheapest and most practical, so they are called 'Tanning yokes', and the various ministries in the Western Regions call being cut down by the Hexi Army a 'grasping tanning yoke', so they all hate the Danning Mansion."
"Why are you telling me now?" I asked, "No, I should have asked, why are you telling me this?"
"Sheng'er, don't get me wrong. I didn't say it was reasonable."
Although this matter is indeed reasonable, after all, after making so much money, he must have become a bird of prey.
"I was thinking. When I was about six years old, Da Lu almost removed our Bugude's feudal domain and canceled our guard quota. Because at that time, because of some problems with the pasture land in Monan, Dalu's border army and Bugude had a quarrel. It's too much to deal with."
"So?" I asked, "Hexi Army is here?"
"At that time, King Lu pursued the leader of a tribe in the Western Regions, and led [-] Hexi troops all the way to the vicinity of Jinlianchuan, annihilating that leader. Afterwards, the Hexi army was ordered by the court to surround the Bugude Camp. At that time, Bugu Germany is simply not capable of confronting the armored heavy cavalry of the Hexi Army."
"How did you escape?"
"There was no escape. The leaders of several major clans quarreled. But Mr. Li Fu, who had just arrived in the tribe at that time, and Sheng'er's uncle, recommended himself to my father, and wrote a letter of appeal to the border military guard in the Central Plains dialect." The general of the frontier army asked us to kneel to send Dalu's army ten miles away, including me, our family knelt on the ground, waiting for the heavy cavalry to go away. The first time I knelt in my life was at that time, with me The whole family was together. The Hexi army also drove away [-] good horses, [-] sheep, and even sheep and horses from our tribe, as compensation for the extra participation of the Hexi army in trivial matters. It made us almost unable to To spend the winter, you can only sell your own tribesmen as slaves in exchange for herds."
"But Cuckold kept his position."
"That's right, my father has changed since then. I have been learning the scriptures and strategies from Li Fu and Li Yisheng," she said. "However, after I arrived at Chaoshang Pavilion that day, I kept thinking. If Fuhan hadn't decided to seek peace and plead guilty at that time, but had fought with the Hexi army to the death, then I might have been captured by the Hexi army, and I might have been used as a shackle. , sent to Tanning Mansion for sale.”
"In Chaoshang Pavilion?"
"In Chaoshang Pavilion. I feel that another possibility, but even so, the two of us are still destined to meet each other. Only this time I will be the slave and you will be the master."
"That's it."
Even so, I couldn't help but think about that scene.
"I later found the old housekeeper and servant of Sheng'er's house, and asked a lot about Sheng'er's childhood. I gave him a lot of money, but he distributed it to other residents. Then I begged me to spare those who were conscripted to defend the city and Workers."
"So, did Tia let it go?"
"I said that I didn't have the condition not to recruit civilians. But I assured him that the civilians would not be taken away when I retreated, so he can feel at ease."
"So it's true - no one from the Tanning Mansion came here. How should I say, Tia is still very merciful"
"Being kind or cunning, I didn't intend to take away the man from the Danning Mansion, because I must pack lightly when I retreat."
Unexpectedly, the real thing was told by Tia herself.I thought she would be unhappy, but now it seems that it is not me who is more careful and tolerant.
Not happy that I'm actually behind.
"But—still, why did Tia tell me this?"
"I just think that I met Sheng'er, and I was destined to have a relationship with Li Yisheng or the Bode Department. It's just the difference between whether I go to find Sheng'er or Sheng'er comes to me. So don't think about Li Yisheng anymore It's okay, Sheng'er doesn't often say that Li Yisheng is Li Yisheng, you are not her substitute, are you?"
A little clumsy though, a little whimsical.
However, I still feel warm in my heart.
Thinking about it, I also suddenly felt stupid that I would have such a strange sense of competition with her.Doesn't her kindness still fall on me?
It's like thinking that it's hot outside the shade of the tree, but the warm majesty with fruity fragrance is blowing head-on.
"Thank you."
The eye sockets were wet, the vision became blurred, and the throat hurt unbearably.
"Eh? What? Why are you crying?" She was a little confused and flustered, thinking that she hurt me by saying these words that she would never say normally.
"No."
Turn away.
"I didn't cry."
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Tannin House.
For those who don't know, it's just a dilapidated empty city now
The bright moon in the night sky showed its face, illuminating the dilapidated Li Mansion.
An Xiche was alone in the courtyard. She stood there quietly looking at the half-collapsed long pavilion beside her.Perhaps in her pale pupils, it was just a simple outline.
She turned her head again, and what she saw were the broken trees and broken boulders in the courtyard.
Scars, each one is a scar of this ancient mansion.
But it also seemed to feel the urgent atmosphere of life and death at that time.
But no matter how you think about it, how you dig into the feelings of that night, the battle with An Mu that night, everything has been overturned.It is absolutely impossible for the battle that has passed to continue as if it is still going on.
I really don't know how to cherish myself.
She thought so.
A serious duel with the eldest sister, a big battle about everything.Shouldn't that be something that many people have been looking forward to since I was a child?
Why did he not cherish that battle at all at that time?
The subordinates also came to the courtyard, ready to call her away.
She knew what they were going to say, but she didn't answer, and her subordinates also knew that An Xiche didn't want others to speak to disturb her, so she didn't speak either.
The most precious encounter, the most cordial contact.But without realizing it at all, with those unsteady moves and attacks, those moves and tricks that were not his best, became a thing of the past.It can no longer be remedied, no longer compensated.
Only know after the past.At that time, he thought that he was going to save An Mu, who was on a detour, but now he knew that An Mu was saying goodbye to him that night, and he was seriously fighting against him.
She knew that there would never be such an opportunity again.An Mu has left everyone.
"I will never fight again."
Saying so, she turned and left the garden.
The deserted Danning Mansion, the deserted Li Mansion, the lonely Chaoshang Pavilion.
Although it was midnight, there were only scattered lights in the city.
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On the fourth day of stationing in Jinlianchuan, a group of excellent An cavalry appeared here.They all came lightly, and the leader was also a general of the An clan.
Dronatia gave a very high standard of reception, she personally and took me out of the camp to welcome them.But the An people are relatively indifferent and are not willing to enter the barracks.
"I am resting in Anyin. After receiving the letter from Her Majesty the Queen, I came from the station outside the desert to take General Anmu back to Alima to rest in peace." Her attitude was different from that of some An people I had met.Subtle and polite, there is no such evil spirit as eating blood and eating people.
But judging from her appearance, she seems to be an acquaintance with me, right?
After the big coffin was pulled out on the carriage and handed over to General An Yin, after all the general things were done, I asked.
"You are" "General"
As a result, General An Yin and I spoke at the same time, and she stopped talking as if she was frightened, and so did I.
Then she greeted me with a smile, and let me speak first.
"General An Yin, is your Excellency... I mean, is An Xiche the general's daughter?" I asked.
"That's right, you are Miss Li Ningsheng, right?" She asked, and I nodded too. "She mentions you often in her letters to me, and you have taken care of my worthless daughter," she said, nodding at me.I know what it means for General An to be so polite, so I quickly returned the salute respectfully.
"Where, An Xiche also saved my life."
"This time I have a mission. Otherwise, if there is anything else, please feel free to speak up. An Yin will definitely help without asking for anything in return."
"Where, General An Yin's own mission is important."
An Yin's attitude terrifies me, I haven't seen such a polite and polite person except my second brother for a long time.I suddenly felt that An Xiche's change was not too abrupt. Maybe she just found a good teacher, and also found a kind of her original disposition very similar to her mother.
"About General Anmu, I am also very grateful to Your Majesty for writing. General Anmu is an old friend of mine. I am very happy to be able to retrieve her body after she died on the battlefield."
"This is from the An tribe—ah" I thought this sentence was a bit strange, but when I subconsciously asked, I felt it was impolite and stopped.
"Yes, taking back the body is the highest etiquette of the An people. It is very important who takes it back, and it will be written on the epitaph." An Yin didn't care about it at all, but simply solved my doubts . "Yeah, old friend..." She suddenly sighed in a low voice, and at that moment, her clear appearance disappeared a lot, and she became sad instead.So how many regrets and stories are there?Although An Xiche only wailed in the dungeon back then, I can understand how much weight it has.
"There is a beginning and an end. Thank you both, and An Yin will leave."
Pulling the coffin, the An cavalry headed west again.But before going far, An Yin suddenly looked back and came to us.
"Let me tell you one more thing, if your Majesty plans to go to Lianhua City, you'd better be careful."
"Why?" asked Donatia.
"An accident has happened in Lianhua City."
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On the hillside, King Lu got off his horse, handed the reins to the guards, and looked at the desolate grassland in the distance.And Li Weiyi followed closely behind, dismounted and stood side by side.
"Your father, Li Xing, Li Shixu, is my old friend. But I just saw the young general today, and I'm disqualified." King Lu said.
"If you have an old friend with my father, you are an elder. Why do you say that." Li Weiyi said, "I am flattered that the prince has come to our military camp today, and it is enough to comfort my father's spirit in heaven."
"Things are impermanent. I think back in those days, during the Hongning Dynasty, your father Shixu and I often talked about the general situation of the world. We talked all night, but we were not satisfied." King Lu showed a mournful look, "I think back in the past, Shixu asked me, what is the current situation in the Central Plains?" Thieves have been in power for a long time, if the world is in turmoil again, how can we help the universe? I replied, I am based on the lotus flower, and I also have Anlu, Yuezhe, Baishan, and Bozhi on the outside. , What is your intention? Shixu said, I will enter the imperial court, occupy a high position in the temple, Fulu room, the side of the Qing emperor, widely appoint intelligence, and use the way to control him. I can do anything. I was ambitious in the past, but now there is a separation between man and nature. People are right and wrong, ambitions are hard to reward, so I have to break my heart! Thinking that I can establish myself as an emperor, and I can inherit the great rule, is really wrong!"
King Lu was in tears, and Li Weiyi couldn't say anything.
But not far away, Wen Liangyu arrived in armor and iron face, dismounted from the horse, and came to the two of them.
"Dozens of words were eloquent, the emotions were stirred up, and the tears were shed, but they didn't talk about business." She said.
"General Wen is really quick to talk." Lu Wang said, putting away his mournful face, "Now that Shanying has withdrawn to the grassland, and the Ronghua Army and you have temporarily reached peace talks, have the two generals ever thought that Fengronghua is vacillating, if we join forces to fight Kaiyuan, she will come to vote, and the world will definitely change when the time comes."
"We are not related to Queen Shan Ying, and we have no intention of turning against each other. Besides..." Li Weiyi did not continue.
"Besides, the prince said in front of me that he wanted to form an alliance with Fengronghua, did he deliberately provoke me to humiliate me?" Wen Liangyu continued, and King Lu shook his head.
"A talented husband should have the ambition to swallow the world and embrace the universe. The grievances between Fengronghua and the general should be put aside for the time being."
"Having said that, the prince and Queen Shanying belong to the Ten Arrows Alliance, which is known as the old state on the grassland. They are hostile to each other with Zhuonatia. It is really an internal struggle in Kaiyuan. Relationship?" Li Weiyi said, his tone was still very polite.
"My son's words are wrong. You don't know. At the end of the Hongning Dynasty, the change of Tongguan, the murderous Chen Jiao wiped out the Lu family. At the end of the Qingyong period, Feng Yuliang and Liang Yun successively dominated the capital and slaughtered the emperor's relatives. .”
"Everyone in the world knows that Lu descendants are extinct." Li Weiyi replied.
"This king is here, why do you say that Lu descendants are extinct? Since the two generals consider themselves the vanguard of Dalu, they should help me. To help me is to help Dalu revive."
"My lord, since you are trying to convince yourself, you just say it, why is it so?" Li Weiyi's expression became a little disappointed, and Wen Liangyu couldn't help but look at him. "I wait for the defeated generals to dare not be called Zhongliang, but I am also Dalu's eagle dog. In the battle of Weiliao, the prince had tens of thousands of troops, but he did not come. He watched the fire from the other side, causing our army to be defeated in Weininghai. Later, Dalu's court was still there, but the prince raised his troops Conspiring to usurp, and being a monster with Chen Jiao, the imperial court was overwhelmed by the division of troops from the north to the south, the capital was broken, and Tongguan was changed. Although the prince is a relative of the emperor, he is also a rebellious king. According to the law, we have no right to kill the rebellious king. I also respect that the prince is my father's old friend, so I respect him as an elder, and I will not hurt the prince in the slightest. But I also ask the prince to be self-respectful, the descendants of Lu are extinct, and we will never help the rebellious king to flee to Dalu to rectify his name."
"So far, we have to say goodbye." King Lu was a little angry, but he didn't show much. He just turned around and mounted his horse, and headed towards the barracks with his followers.
"Seeing off the guests, please send them away safely." Li Weiyi said to his subordinates, who followed after answering.
Seeing Li Weiyi standing there sighing, Wen Liangyu said: "The spies are still reporting the location of every movement of the Ronghua Army's camp. Last time you just cast a net and let the slaves in the Ronghua Army encourage the An people in the Central Army to fight to the death. Burn the Chinese army to confirm that Feng Ronghua's plan is sound so far, why are you sighing?"
"I'm just worried, my little sister is not in Fengronghua's hands, so where is she? What exactly does Ronghua's army want?"
"The movement of the Ronghua Army is under control, and I have the initiative. General Li, please don't be sentimental. Your little sister is auspicious, and she will be fine."
"If we procrastinate to see Fengronghua, will she break her face and attack us?"
"Her army was captured and burned by the An people just now, and the Ten Arrows Alliance and the Cuckoo German army went back to the grassland to prepare for a decisive battle. They couldn't spare the energy to control us." Wen Liangyu said, which also made Li Weiyi's sadness dissipate a lot.
"General Wen is still very wise and brave, and he can solve the confusion with one word." He smiled wryly.
"Where, it's just a few more days of fighting."
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In the Ronghua Army barracks, the female straight soldiers are not as meticulous as before, waiting to feast on the battlefield.
Whisper.
Groups of three to five.
An invisible and intangible thing quietly spread among the best legions of the Bugud Empire.
This kind of thing, no one can carefully describe what kind of atmosphere it is.But people with a little bit of literacy, or people with long-term experience in the military will feel:
This is what would destroy a mighty machine.
"I heard that Liang Yun's generals have all become emperors in the capital."
"Why are we still here?"
"I really want to go to Liaodong"
"Don't be overheard by the supervisor."
"Queen Sugizakura's messenger is said to have not returned yet"
The whispers of the soldiers, people thought it was their own voice, they thought it was only in a small group, they thought no one could hear it except themselves, not many people would agree with this.
But the fact is that everyone is like this, not to mention the supervising army, all the army leaders below Fengronghua actually know these rumors, maybe Fengronghua herself knows it well, but she just refuses to admit it and turns a blind eye.
"Shanying has come back?" Fengronghua asked, and the female general nodded. "I expected her to do something, but she failed so thoroughly." Feng Ronghua looked disappointed.
"Shanying has already defeated Queen Zhuonatia's defense in the Western Regions, but the Danning Mansion was defeated, the army was defeated, they were attacked by a group, and they retreated outside the pass."
"What did the prefect of Lianhua City say?"
"The prefect of Lianhua City has dispatched [-] troops to control Shanying's army in the west. When the main force of Queen Dronatia arrives, they will be wiped out in one fell swoop."
"But the queen still didn't give us any orders." Feng Ronghua murmured.
"If Shanying can't continue to retreat northward, the Ten Arrows Alliance will be destroyed in less than half a month."
"I know, Shanying is already unreliable." Feng Ronghua said
"And now there are rumors and rumors in the barracks."
"Speaking of this, let's pull out those military leaders who have fled privately in the pigsty and expose them to the sun for another day." Feng Ronghua said, "Let's see who dares to talk about fleeing."
Although the female general nodded in agreement, she still felt something was wrong.Those military leaders who fled to Liang Yun from the pass were captured alive by Feng Ronghua, and as expected, they were all tortured to the point of inhumanity, and they were taken out every few days to frighten everyone.
However, some living creatures that cannot be recognized as human beings will still lose people's hearts if they are hung for a long time.Now that Feng Yuliang is dead, the Liaodong Army is torn apart, and Liaodong has become a vacuum. The soldiers either want to go to the capital to join Liang Yun or go back to Liaodong to seize good land. They are indeed tired of constantly stationing on the Bugude Grassland.
Feng Ronghua has nothing to do with herself, that's how the signing army is.After leaving the homeland, the combat effectiveness is unusually high compared to other places, and it is necessary to keep killing meat to maintain morale, but not many people really intend to stay in a foreign land or become a foreigner, and eventually as time goes on, they will be killed because of these things. Leading to a drop in morale and demoralization.
Yes, meat.
Feng Ronghua knew that what she originally thought was impossible.That being the case, if you have to do it yourself, you really need some victims to boost your morale.
"The emissary of Shanying?" She asked suddenly, "Invite him here."
General Nvzhi nodded, and soon after the order was delivered, the envoy was invited to the big tent to salute Fengronghua.Feng Ronghua still sat on her main seat, and waved for the envoy to come to her.
"Did the general agree to the Queen's...request?" The envoy was an old man from the Ten Arrows Alliance, and a wise man like this in Bugude would be respected by most people.
"What did I capture Antes, destroy her department, and release Shanying from her hand?"
Fengronghua didn't answer the question.
The wise man knows that her words are aimed at something, and he also knows that the Ten Arrows Alliance is asking for help from others, so how to answer is very important.
"The general has done a great feat for the man of destiny, and we should all admire the virtue of the general."
"But your queen has lost the battle, and now the flames of war have come to me." Feng Ronghua continued, her tone deliberately annoying.
"Winning or losing is a common matter for military strategists, let alone kings—"
"First lost to Queen Zonatia, and then defeated to Dalu's remnant soldiers, are they worthy of saying these things?" Fengronghua laughed contemptuously, "In the final analysis, the new Ten Arrows Alliance is nothing more than It's just a mob who gathered the remnants of the defeated army to Bugude, and neither King Lu nor Anmu achieved anything, so it's not worth mentioning." Fengronghua raised her head, "Shanying shouldn't have been let go in the first place. It's a shame that people call themselves queens and steal the name of the Ten Arrows Alliance."
When the envoy was insulted like this, he broke out in cold sweat and trembled with anger, but he didn't dare to say anything against Fengronghua. He just said tremblingly: "If the general is dissatisfied with the queen or our army, just speak up." Yes, I will definitely report the original sentence. Queen Sugi Sakura is not a stubborn person, she will definitely improve and adopt it, why bother to hurt people like this?"
"Should I say this to An Mu who was thrown in the pass? Shouldn't she still be alive or dead? Isn't An Mu the number one general beside your Queen Shan Ying, who is as close as a sister? If you lose the battle, just throw it away." Throw, this sisterhood is too thin."
"Queen Sugi Sakura also has her own difficulties..."
"But I think it would be against her sisterhood to rebel against her sister, so it's not a real reason to leave An Mu behind, it should just be a relapse of an old illness—hahahaha!" Feng Ronghua laughed after saying that.
"Our Queen Shanying led [-] troops, started from Baishan, crossed the desert, broke through the Xiguan, drove straight into the Danning Mansion, destroyed Zhuonatia's defenses in the Xiyu Pass, and forced her to abandon the Western Region and retreat to the grassland. Isn't that right? Is that already a major blow to Dronatia? Isn't that enough?"
"From Baishan Mountain to Danning Mansion, the teeth of the prefectures and counties along the way have already been pulled out by Zhuonatia. You raided others behind your back, and finally escaped in despair. You still think it's Weiye?" Feng Ronghua laughed again He got up, laughed until tears flowed, and wiped them away, "The Ten Arrows Alliance is not very good at fighting, but they are very good at being funny."
"Since the general said so, then we should have nothing to talk about?" The envoy was finally irritated, trembling all over, even his beard trembled.
"No, no, please come to me, Your Excellency the envoy." Fengronghua suddenly changed his attitude, the envoy was startled, and was somewhat confused about Fengronghua's intentions.
But he also knows that some people just like to test others with beatings and prods before they talk about the business, and maybe Fengronghua is the same.She finally became serious, no longer the playful and hateful look of belittling others just now.
He got up and walked to Fengronghua, Fengronghua motioned for him to lean his face closer.
"What I want to say now, don't tell anyone except Queen Sugi Sakura."
Fengronghuadao.
The messenger nodded.
"Tell her, it doesn't matter if you lose the battle. We still have a backup. When she comes to me, I will tell her a good plan when she arrives at the appointed place." Feng Ronghua whispered in his ear.
"General, what is the agreed place?" The envoy asked puzzled.
"Didn't I tell her?—" She raised her head and thought for a while, "It seems that I forgot to mention it, so let me tell you, the appointment place."
"Um"
"Of course it's the pigsty."
She said softly, the messenger's expression was still very puzzled.
But Fengronghua kept smiling, and suddenly punched the messenger's throat like a thunderbolt.
Hearing the sound of broken cartilage, the old wise man fell down in front of Fengronghua's seat, clutching his throat in pain and struggling, making a sound similar to that of water boiling in a kettle.
"Ah, how boring."
Feng Ronghua leaned on the seat and dragged her cheeks, the expression on her face turned into a dull look.
The envoy was still struggling, and stared at Fengronghua with blood-red eyes.She still looked bored about it.
"General, since you want to kill him, why bother to insult him with so many words." The female general beside him said.
"Kill people directly? Doing such a boring thing, you're the only ones who think so." She stepped on the messenger, and he gradually became silent.
"Although he's still more boring than I thought."
Fengronghua said, looking at the female general. "If you were smarter that night, that General Anzu, my new pig mother-in-law wouldn't have burned our food and grass—you made me have to do it myself. The new pig mother-in-law I managed to get, now Are you not allowing me to have fun?"
Her tone became more and more cold from complaining about boredom, making the general sweat profusely.
"It's the subordinates who are incompetent."
"Shanying is not worthy to be my pig mother-in-law at all." She said, kicking away the corpse of the messenger under her feet, and stood up. "Even though they are sisters, they are far worse than my sister Dronatia."
She said, as if she was thinking about something, and suddenly fell silent for a long time.
"Forget it, I've had enough. If I suppress myself any more, it will definitely hurt my body." She smiled, as if she was talking about something as trivial as eating meat. "Pass me the order!"
"Yes!"
The sudden and serious loud order forced the female general to stand up straight.
"The whole army is repaired and ready to go south."
Fengronghua said suddenly, which surprised General Nvzhi.
"General,... this, what?"
"Go south," she said, "to Lianhua City."
"But--"
"Do I need to say more? If Shan Ying is wiped out by Sister Zhuonatia, we will never have a chance to enter Lianhua City again." She said with a smile on her face. "Go to Lianhua City, and then entertain Shan Ying who came from afar. If everything goes well, she will settle down with me."
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Lianhua City.
The heavy fog suddenly rose to the north, making people inside and outside the city very puzzled.
But later people discovered that it was an overwhelming army of tens of thousands of people.
Now the people in Lianhua City who have not yet fled are basically familiar with Ronghuaqi, so there is not much panic.
The army camped on the spot on the distant horizon, and then thousands of people were separated from the barracks and rushed all the way to the city gate.And the city gate was closed long before they approached.
"Who is under the city? Why did you bring the army here?"
On the city wall, the military head asked so loudly.
"The person who came was the leader of the Nine Thousand Households of Liaodong Women, the leader of the ever-victorious Ronghua Army, the tenth general of the Bugude tent, and General Fengronghua himself! You should stand on the city wall as a salute! "
The leader of the Ronghua Army shouted.
"Without the queen's order, I can't let you enter the city!"
"The queen is on the way from the west of Jinlianchuan, but the Shanying rebels are coming! If the battle is delayed, you can't afford it!"
After shouting like this, there was no movement on the city wall for a long time.
The Ronghua army under the city is full of confidence, and the wavering shows that there is hope.
"Open the city gate!"
shouted on the city wall, and the city gate slowly opened, revealing the outline of the streets and alleys in the south of Lianhua City.
The city guard came to the gate of the city in person without armor, with countless followers behind him.According to the law, his status is much lower than that of Fengronghua, and he goes out of the city to greet him according to the rules.
"The city gate is wide open, I read it right, right?"
On the horseback, Fengronghua asked aside, the general nodded.
"That's good, level the Lianhua City for me, General!" She pointed with a whip and said.
The female general took the order, and shouted "Attack!" The army charged towards the open city gate, only Fengronghua's army of more than a hundred people did not move, like stubborn stones in the torrent.
The city guard turned pale with fright, while the followers behind scattered and fled in all directions. Some soldiers moved forward holding guns, but they were all swallowed up by the tide of cavalry after a while.Shouts, hoofbeats and screams rang out together.
"Back to camp, I'm hungry, let's slaughter a pig."
Fengronghua yawned, turned and walked against the flow of people.
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The vanguard officers of the Ten Arrows Alliance continued to march towards the north, observing the distance, ready to report back to the army at any time.
Several defeats made Sugi Ying's army in a very bad situation, with supply difficulties, low morale, and people mutinied and fled.The appearance of the soldiers throwing away their helmets and armor, lacking guns and swords is really appalling.
The vanguard officials saw a large number of figures in the distance, and immediately pulled
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