Record of ups and downs in troubled times

The cold sunshine in the early spring shone on the armor, refracting many dazzling spots of light, quite dazzling.

King Xiang and the general rode their horses along the river, surrounded by countless guards wearing armor and holding iron swords. It was so dark that it made people feel dull and felt endlessly oppressed.

It really is old.

General Lu Guang stiffened his back, looked at the mountains and rivers in the north that he hadn't seen for many years, and then at this formidable army that had been carefully polished by his hands, his heart was full of boundless melancholy.

The overly rich little King Xiang beside him has always only heard that his father's family had a great career in the southern border, but he has never actually managed the military affairs of the army. This time, when he returns to the southern border with him, as expected, he must plan to do it himself. in power.But Lu Guangnian was in his sixties, and he still had a bit of self-confidence. He dared to conclude that His Highness had absolutely no talent for commanding an army, so he handed over the hard-earned country to King Xiang, and taught him how to be at ease?

This [-] army is Lu Guang's own flesh and blood!

Thinking of this, the general's face became more and more rigid, and the plump little King Xiang next to him also became more and more distasteful.

Damn, I've been terrified and frightened all my life, but in the end I still make wedding clothes for this Xiangzhu!I can't stand it!

"You!" The general was furious, and he didn't dare to embarrass King Xiang face to face, so he could only scold the subordinates to vent his anger, "Go to the front and urge Lu Ling to go! Are you waiting for others to catch up and kill him? ?!"

The little soldier trembled tremblingly, trembling so much that he almost fell off his horse: "General, you just... have sent someone to urge Mr. Lu, it's only been half an hour..."

The general immediately widened his eagle eyes and said, "If I tell you to go, then go, what nonsense!"

"Look at you marching people, you are impatient." King Xiang was excited after watching a good show, and added fuel to the applause, "When I was in Beijing, I was also impatient, and I couldn't bear them one by one. Pretentious. This king still remembers that when he was young, he went to Liyuanchun to listen to an opera, and the singing was so hoarse, and this king smashed the place without saying a word. When he comes back, he can call my uncle who is the emperor. It’s easy to scold him, saying that he is very similar to my father in temperament, as long as things don’t go his way, his temper can’t be suppressed.”

The general gritted his teeth, pretending to be attentive and interested, wishing he could pick up his silver gun and stab this man right through.

He usually fights on the battlefield, and the souls under the knife are all lean and capable characters, but he has never killed a high-ranking official or prince.I don't know if King Xiang is so fat, if he stabbed a silver spear in, would the blood come out?

"Tsk, if you want me to tell you that the fate of our great dynasty is that if the emperor changes, one generation will not be as good as the next generation." King Xiang spit, still wanting to say, "Look at our late emperor, who was given by three naughty sons." I was so angry that I was half dead; it was the posthumous son's turn, and he committed suicide before sitting on the throne for 20 years. Now that his posthumous son has not been given a posthumous name yet, he is going to take his posthumous son to the throne again. His fate is really poor and pitiful Very much."

Hearing what he said, it seems that he has forgotten who the reason is for the emperor's death over the wall.

"Posthumous child after posthumous child, hum, who doesn't know what the word 'posthumous child' is? The queen who gave birth is Cheng Baimian's daughter! The son she gave birth to is the grandson of the Cheng family, right? The son of my poor-fated imperial brother will have to be carefully considered by the people of the world."

"His Royal Highness Xiaoxiang," General Lu Guang suppressed the sarcasm in his tone with all his strength, but he couldn't hold back in the end, and questioned in a rather grumpy voice: "Although the old man doesn't know how capable King Ke and His Royal Highness are, But His Royal Highness Liu Qian, King Chenghuai, is the God of War in the frontier, and he has won innumerable battles at a young age, even if I am an old man, I have heard of his great achievements and admire him very much, how can he be regarded as a 'bad'?"

The Battle of Chenghuai was an extremely glorious page in the book of war, and Liu Qian, the general who led the battle, was even cited as a confidant by many great generals.

General Lu Guang has been suppressing rebellions in southern Xinjiang all the year round. He knows that the simple word "big victory" in the records is soaked in layers of thick blood; Some of the novel tactics were written by the young prince with the pressure of the court and the bitterness of the border people.

As a member of the army, he couldn't get used to hearing King Xiang say a bad word to him.

There are so many rich and nobles in Beijing, but these rich and nobles only care about extravagance and extravagance, embracing beauty and beauty, drinking wine and teasing beauties in their free time, pointing fingers and spouting a few random words when they are busy.As for the hard work of these low-ranking generals going in and out of life and death, who doesn't bother to take a look?

A few days ago, King Xiang talked with him about military affairs, intending to make a comeback in the southern border, so as to take advantage of the canal and fight back to the capital.

The reason that King Xiang said was naturally the side of the Qing emperor and the murder of treacherous ministers.But how could Lu Guang not understand that in these six short words, there is the evil intention of usurping the throne!

"Hmph!" King Xiaoxiang was obviously very disdainful of that King Chenghuai, "A thing that the late emperor didn't even bother to look at him, and he can only beg for life in the frontier! You are not in Beijing, and you have never heard of him having a hobby." , It's really disgusting!"

Lu Guang cast a glance at him, and then he choked out a word:

"Oh?"

"It is rumored that he likes masculinity. I think he looks like a woman. It is not surprising that he is overwhelmed by men. There are no women in the frontier army. Who knows if he has a world where Jiang Weiye slept? !"

General Lu Guang was shocked, his white eyebrows and beard trembled, but he had nothing to say.

The more King Xiang thought about it, the more he hated it, his small eyes showed a fierce light: "Do you think they are all good people? They all looked so innocent, and their hearts were vicious. Can you see what happened to my unborn child?" Sin? If it wasn't for the general, you insisted on withdrawing the troops, how could I be willing to spare those bastards!"

The baby he was talking about was the one in the womb of the original empress dowager.After the Empress Dowager committed suicide to thank the world, Cheng Nan ordered his servants to dissect out the "evil barrier" in her abdomen, and put the remaining body of the Empress Dowager in the coffin for three days as a punishment, and then buried it in the tomb of the first emperor.And the excised fetus was put into a black box and sent to King Xiang's army.

King Xiaoxiang carefully opened the black box and saw the fetus that had been stripped alive and had the shape of nose and eyes. Children have to pay for this stillbirth.Naturally, Lu Guang was not stupid, so he didn't say the last sentence of King Xiang, he only said that if he won the battle, he would be rewarded with a lot of rewards.

This inspired the subsequent Tianjiao victory.

However, when Lu Guang saw the stillborn baby that day, Lu Guang even sympathized with Xiao Xiang Wang for a moment, but now, Lu Guang only thinks that he has lived such an old age, and he has never seen such a disgusting person.

In fact, the one in the army who understands King Xiang's thoughts the most is Lu Guang.He also gradually understood that what King Xiang said at the time to kill the children of his brothers to pay for the stillbirth was not a joke, but that King Xiang really did such a thing.He naturally gradually understood that this army, to him, is flesh and blood, brothers, and close relatives, but to King Xiang, it is just a straw that he grasps when he thinks about it in times of crisis.

King Xiang has no feelings for this army.

For southern Xinjiang, there is no affection at all.

Lu Guang glanced at King Xiang beside him from the corner of his eye, and thought to himself, Southern Xinjiang is the place where the old man achieved success and fame, and it is also the hometown of the old man.As long as you are resting comfortably, I will let you live a happy life for a few years; but if you want to take the southern border as your own, my old bones will naturally be able to bear you!

Both sides had their own thoughts, and went all the way again.

King Xiang still has the virtue of being complacent for a while, and hating his teeth for a while when he thinks of something. He is nagging, which is really unbearable for ordinary people.General Lu Guang was also having a hard time, but whenever he was annoyed by King Xiang, he dragged the soldier next to him and scolded him, telling him to go forward and urge Lu Ling to march faster.

So it's all right.

The army was urged by the general to almost trot all the way to the mouth of the canal.When King Xiang and the two approached the port, the soldiers were already boarding the boat in an orderly manner. Seeing the general glaring at him, they might have been frightened all the way, and hurriedly squeezed onto the boat, almost getting stuck on the ferry. Lu Ling, who directed the boarding, also squeezed into the water.

Several soldiers also lost their feet, fell into the water, and swam towards the shore.

King Xiang pointed at those people and laughed ho-huh.

General Lu Guang didn't want to talk to him, and secretly scolded him for being a fool, then looked around for the figure of his cronies.It happened that Lu Ling was clinging to a wooden post beside the ferry with his hands and feet together, describing him as quite embarrassed.However, all the people at the port were only rushing to the boat, and had no intention of giving him a hand. Only a shirtless young general jumped a few steps on the bank, grabbed Lu Ling by the collar crookedly, and fell back to the bank. .

The young general's posture is somewhat elegant, it seems that he has been taught by a high teacher, but for some reason he has not insisted on practicing martial arts in recent years, so he is much more relaxed.

Hmph, I must have been unable to bear the hard work of martial arts, so I gave up halfway.

General Lu walked with King Xiang all the way, already depressed, so impatient, he just wanted to find Lu Ling to scold him for venting his anger.But when he got closer on his horse, he saw that the shirtless young general had a three-finger-wide forehead band tied on his forehead and a dirty sliver of gauze on his arm. It turned out to be Yan Gui, the son of Feng Shuxing.

Although several children of the Feng family are in charge of military affairs in the army, none of them are actually talented.When the boy Yangui first entered the military camp, he saw that the kid was the eldest son of his adopted brother, so he kept him by his side for a while, but afterward, because he felt that he had no military spirit, he threw him to the side of King Xiang to do business. A messenger, in short, it's an eyesore.

But then again, he usually didn't look carefully, maybe this kid might be a malleable talent.Besides, he, Lu Guang, wants to cultivate a young boy, so why not just rub him around and let him fuck him?Can't help him not becoming a talent!

Although just looking at this appearance...it really doesn't look like the material for leading troops to fight.But before, King Chenghuai, it was said that he was also the crown of the capital, and he also made great military exploits.

If it doesn't work, just make an iron mask for this kid and weld it on his face.

"Why are you the only two here? Where did Uncle Xing go? You are young, and you have never been in any army. After all, you will not be able to convince the crowd. Doesn't he know?!"

Lu Ling didn't care about wringing out the water stains on his trousers, and he cupped his hands and replied, "That's not true. The soldiers in King Xiang's army were mixed with our troops, and there was a dispute. Commander Feng was afraid that there were too many of us. It is not easy to explain to the person who has become King Xiang, so I went on board the boat first to persuade him."

The general glared again: "I'm going to fight! Those who join the army can't resist three punches and two kicks? I sent him here to assist the general to board the ship. He resigned without authorization, but he is really daring!"

After all, Feng Shuxing was the elder of Lu Ling and Yan Gui, so if the general scolded him like this, Lu Ling would not be able to say much.

Tan Yangui also had other things to do, so he gave Lu Ling a compliment, and then resigned.

"Isn't the ship fully repaired? Was he summoned by King Xiang again?"

"That's not true. Although the boats have been fully repaired, the five-foot carts operated by grain this morning somehow scattered, and a lot of things fell into the river. Even if we march by water, it will take another seven or eight days. There is not enough food before we can go to land, so we must not waste it, so we borrowed people to salvage the lost things. Yan Gui is bare-armed, just to help them find things."

The general nodded, thought for a while, then leaned over and said to Lu Ling in a low voice: "I want to cultivate Yan to become an adult, and you should take care of him."

Although Lu Ling felt a little surprised, but seeing King Xiang coming on horseback, he knew that this was not the time to speak, so he didn't intend to ask for clarification immediately.

He responded, clasped his fists behind the general and saluted, and said hello in a loud and exaggerated voice: "His Royal Highness King Xiang!"

King Xiang didn't bother to pay attention to him, he just waved his hand, his face was very ugly.

"General Lu, you have a lot of people, right? Can't you even look down on a brat?"