All your life is gentle

Fu Sheng sat beside Fu Ding, drinking to the brim.

Fu Ding said: "Second brother, Fu Yi sent news that tens of thousands of soldiers and horses of the mighty Xia people are fighting and retreating southward. I plan to go up and intercept their retreat. He and Fu Yi will attack back and forth, and they will definitely die without a trace. A place of burial."

This initiative to fight, flanking back and forth, was originally a trick used by Lu Fusheng.

"I'm growing fast. I'm willing to use my brain." Fu Sheng smiled secretly in his heart, but on the surface he was polite: "But it's up to the elder brother to make the decision."

"Father once said that Tongcheng is an important town in the south of the Yangtze River, and told us not to throw it away. Are you willing to intercept with me, or stay here?"

Seeing Fu Ding's expression, Fu Sheng clearly didn't want to follow him to claim the credit, and said, "I'll stay here and wait for the good news from big brother."

"Give you 3000 troops, is that enough?"

"Enough."

"I guess I'll be back in three or four days. When the time comes, let Fu Yi stay here to watch over you. You can go south with me."

"Thank you bro."

The two brothers stopped talking and picked up their glasses to drink.

The wine and meat dishes at the celebration banquet were all stocked by the prefect's mansion and several wealthy households.Tongcheng is a rich place, even if it is guarded for a month or two, the supplies will not necessarily be embarrassing, but it is a pity that the military strength is too weak.

The Xirong army has never brought food and grass, and supplies on the spot, and grabs it wherever it goes.Ever since they went south, they have become meaty, gold, silver, jewels, beauties and babies, they simply cannot be snatched.The officers and soldiers went up and down, hooked.However, when it comes to murder and robbery, there has never been such a happy time as in Tongcheng.

There are also dissonant notes in it.

Wang Yuanzhi, the prefect of Tongcheng, was a famous Confucian, but because he was too old to go up to the top of the city, he organized the people below and did logistics work.When the enemy broke through the city, the old man put on his official uniform and sat upright in the hall.His family members were not here, and all his subordinates and loyal servants voluntarily stayed behind, standing neatly on both sides.

Seeing this scene, Yi Fu Ao, a hundred households who rushed into the prefect's mansion, was taken aback, feeling unspeakably strange.Suddenly furious, he raised his knife and cut Wang Yuanzhi into two pieces.When the soldiers saw the leader making a move, they flicked their knives one after another, like cutting vegetables and melons, and immediately the ground was in a mess.From the beginning to the end, the other party did not utter a single scream or moan.If he hadn't seen the blood gushing out and his bones torn apart, Fu Ao would have thought that he and the others had just chopped up a room full of puppets and clay sculptures.

So spooky, so scary.

This battle was really the most exhilarating and painful killing since going south.Fu Ao was so uncomfortable that he had no choice but to lead his subordinates to find someone to kill him frantically.

When Fu Sheng arrived, he saw Fu Ao commanding a group of soldiers to clean the lobby.

"How did it happen?" Fu Sheng asked.

Fu Ao is eager to learn and motivated. Generally, he is satisfied with a few words of Xia language. He also wants to learn characters, so he occasionally asks Fu Sheng for advice in private.The two are kind of friendly.

"I've met the second prince. Cough, this is so fucking bad luck!" Fu Ao told the story angrily, "Second prince, tell me, are these southerners mentally ill?"

Fu Sheng smiled.Seeing the eldest brother approaching from a distance, he stopped talking and went straight to meet him.I thought to myself: "From the emperor to the hundred officials in the city of Yanyang, if there is half of this kind of backbone... But, so what if you have the backbone? It's just a worse death." There was an old Li Ge before, and now I heard Speaking of Wang Taishou, the souls of such a defeated general will make you panic when you think about it.The Xia people are really a strange race.

After drinking for three rounds, the generals gradually let go.Some people came up to toast the two princes.With a smile on his face, Fu Sheng never refuses anyone who comes.

At the beginning, many people were not optimistic about the beautiful second prince.After fighting several battles, it was discovered that although he was young, he had real skills, and he struck decisively and ruthlessly.The rarest share of calmness, no number of veterans may be able to match it.Different from the murderous and aggressive might of the eldest prince, he is very approachable at the moment, but those who are toasting don't dare to make trouble casually.

After another two rounds of drinking, he naturally started to mess around.The waiters in the hall are all young women who were taken captive from the city.These women who survived the catastrophe have already been ravaged several times.At this time, he was either trembling, or numb and dazed, letting others wreak havoc.

Fu Ding hugged the two best-looking ones, and staggered towards the back hall.After two steps, he stopped again, hung on the two women, turned around and said with a smile: "Second brother, don't treat yourself badly. Women from Jiangnan have a very different taste..."

"Brother, just have fun."

Fu Ding laughed and went in.

Suddenly there was a scream, a very young girl in the hall, she looked no more than eleven or twelve years old, was pinched by two ten household chiefs, half of her skirt had been torn off, and she was struggling desperately with her beautiful face.

Fu Sheng hooked his fingers.Although the two ten household heads were drunk, they still knew how to let go and pushed the girl: "Go, serve the second prince well."

Teach her to sit down next to her and put down her glass: "Pour me a drink."

The girl was trembling, pouring and pouring, and she couldn't fill it up for a long time.

"Useless things." With a backhand knife, the girl fell silently to the ground, dying immediately.

"Disappointing." Fu Sheng poured himself two cups, drunk and blindfolded, and lay down on the table.

Zi Shi found a cave halfway up the mountain, settled down his siblings, and then came out to inspect them, covering up the obvious traces of stepping on them.Going back to the cave again, I couldn't hold on no matter what, and fell to the ground and fell asleep.

When I woke up, I had no feeling in my arm for a while.It turned out that two small heads were resting on it.Looking at the sweet sleeping faces of the two children, it is within reach, and the experience of the past day reappears in front of my eyes like a rewind.

"I thought it was a dream... Is it real? Or... I just haven't woken up yet?" Zi Shi didn't like this feeling of being out of control, so he closed his eyes and seriously questioned his memory.

He also vaguely remembered the sunset glow of the West Mountain, the gray sky when he fell from a high altitude, and some more distant causes and consequences of grievances and resentments.However, all the fragments that come to mind are disorganized, and it seems that many important things have been lost.Force myself to think back, this time even the pictures are blurred, I only know that they have existed, but I forgot where, when, and in what state they existed.Only countless fragmentary details escaped, telling him that he once had a sad and complicated dream in another world.

He didn't feel any pity in his heart, but he was still a little bit happy and excited—it was unsustainable, and he happened to overthrow and start all over again.My whole body hurts—thinking of my running away day and night, my current life is really hard-won.How many sufferings have I suffered to earn this opportunity to suffer!My back hurts badly, and I don't know how long I have been sleeping on my stomach, and my ribs seem to be falling apart from the floor.Looking sideways, the light outside was dim, it was probably dusk.

dream?Reality?Why bother to ask.

Zhuang Sheng dreamed of a butterfly, and a butterfly dreamed of Zhuang Sheng.There is nothing left or right but this butterfly, this Zhuang Sheng.When it is a butterfly, live the life of a butterfly.When it's Zhuang Sheng's time, just live the life of Zhuang Sheng.

My heart suddenly brightened.Then other details emerged in my mind and gradually became clear.

The father—a bit unnatural after all—Li Yancheng, a former Hanlin University scholar who became an official and stayed at home, known as Li Ge Lao, assisted General Lin in defending the city for several days.Himself—wrong, it was the eldest son Li Fang, who followed behind all the time.Although he only did some uploading work and never personally killed the enemy, but in the city and the city, swords and arrows have no eyes, and life and death are only in the blink of an eye.With awe-inspiring spirit, he didn't feel afraid.

All the male servants in the family went to the top of the city, and all the food, money and silk were taken out and confiscated.Seeing that nothing could be done, Li Yancheng said: "My family members of the Li family must not be humiliated by Yi Di." He told his wife and concubine a few words, and took his three children into the library "Sidang Zhai", ready to light the fire.

Afraid that Li Quan and Li were too young to run around, Li Yancheng tied the two children to a post with a rope.Li Quan stared at his father, and Li cried out in fright.Li Yancheng seemed to be possessed, and said while tying the knot: "Son, even though you are not the descendants of the Li family, you can only go with me. If your father catches up with today's situation, he must be like this...Qiming, I'm sorry , your flesh and blood, I can't keep it..."

Li Fang vaguely guessed about the background of the younger siblings, and only now heard his father clearly mentioning it, but they are already going to the underworld together.

What happened later, Zi Shi thought, I was involved.There is no difference in the degree of clarity between those memories that belonged to Li Fang and the memories that later belonged to Li Zishi.After a while, the two gradually become one, and they can no longer be distinguished clearly.Zi Shi thought he would panic, but he was very calm.

"At that time, I didn't rush up to stop him. How could I feel that I should? How could I..."

Thinking about his own thoughts, he didn't notice that the two children had woken up.Li Quan and Li also looked at each other and found that the elder brother was lying motionless with his eyes closed, crying loudly at the same time.

Zi Shi got up and put his arms around them: "What's wrong? Xiao Quan, Xiao Huan, why are you crying?"

"Brother...don't die...don't die..."

"Brother is not dead, he is here." Patting the two children lightly, Zi Shi sat on the ground, weeping in a daze.

The two children cried more and more.The shock, panic, and fear that I hadn't had time to recollect for such a long time... finally turned around and fought back. Li Quan and Li Huan called their parents one after another, crying in the arms of their eldest brother, almost dying.

The three brothers and sisters hugged each other and cried.

The pain of the past life and the present life, the pain of the body and the mind, came too violently and quickly, which made Zi Shi fall into numbness for a short period of time, forgetting to react, but at this moment he fully awakened.

The world that has been abandoned is not worth thinking about.The unwillingness in the past was not because of nostalgia.What are you facing?I'm alive.It's just that my parents, my relatives, my compatriots, my hometown, my country... are all gone...

Zi Shi said in his heart: Li Mian is the one who has nothing in this world, that's not you.But, why, the tears flowed and flowed, how could they not flow endlessly?

After crying for a while, I felt that one self was watching quietly, shaking his head and sighing slightly, while the other self was weeping, beating his chest and stamping his feet, full of resentment, filling the world.Finally, Li Zishi stepped forward and embraced Li Fang, and gradually became one. At this moment, in this life, only you and I support each other, let us live a good life together.

Drying my tears, I remembered that there was a mountain spring not far outside the cave, and stood up: "Xiaoquan is still waiting here, brother, go get some water. We are going to have dinner."

Fu Sheng sent Fu Ding away, and led a small group of people to patrol the city.

It was already late when I entered the city yesterday, so I went directly to the prefect's mansion without having time to take a closer look.Now I can see clearly, there are piles of dead bodies everywhere, scattered limbs, broken arms and heads.There was a large pool of purple-black blood on the road, and the horseshoe stepped on it, only to find that it was a pool of solidified blood, and each step made a pit.

It is better to continue to be stationed outside the city tonight.

If I knew I had to stay behind, I should have stopped Fu Ding's stupid order to massacre the city.Making so many dead people, making them so fragmentary and ugly, is much more troublesome than cleaning up the living.Send an order to clean up Beicheng first.The corpses were piled up in several open places, and they searched for gunpowder and grease in various warehouses, and piled up a few large piles of firewood, ready to be burned.

Continue to patrol.

I can't see under my feet, so I don't bow my head at all.Strolling freely from street to street, visiting houses, terraces, flowers and trees.

Tongcheng buildings are mainly black and white, with white walls and blue tiles, and bucket arches and cornices.The corners of the house are pointed and thinly curled upwards, drawing out streams of gossamer clouds, and green tiles are used to inlay various hollow flower patterns on the roof ridge.Originally the simplest color matching, life and life entangled with a gorgeous and charming.The rich and noble families are embellished with Zhu Bi and painted with gold powder, and have paid great attention to the details, in order to be luxurious without losing style.

Every household is shaded by willows and willows, supported by flowers and trees.The height is scattered, and the position and color are very particular.Roses, gardenias, camellias, impatiens, cannas...all are in full bloom.Although many of them were trampled and crushed, shriveled to the ground, and still blooming on the branches, they still held their heads high and their chests were eye-catching.

Fu Sheng didn't know the names of those carved doors and windows, nor could he name these beautiful plants.Just suddenly feel melancholy.

what a beautiful place.It is even more charming than the fairyland of Jiyang in the painting.He thought of the desert, the setting sun, the cold moon, and the tent that he grew up with... Of course they are beautiful, but they can never make people intoxicated.

How could it be like this, even if the corpses are all over the ground and the blood is flowing like a river, you can't help but linger.

These Xia people always like to spend their minds on such useless places (of course, they are really beautiful).And I can't help but wonder: what kind of person would put so much thought into dressing up the place where he lives so enchantingly?For a moment, he became confused again: Is it really the same group of people who fought desperately at the top of the city before?

Whether it is or not, it has become a city full of dead bodies.

Look at the sky, the sun is about to set.Fu Sheng returned to the north gate.Along the way, I saw several hills piled up with corpses.A head of ten households came and reported that he had found a lot of powder and rapeseed oil.Fu Sheng nodded: "Forget it today. Find some safe place to store it, and burn it tomorrow."

After leaving the city, looking back, Tongcheng in the setting sun was dyed with a golden glow, which was a bit dazzling.The details can't be seen clearly, only the delicate and beautiful silhouettes are left, which are gradually blurred.

In the middle of the night, Fu Sheng woke up suddenly.His horse "Yueying" was roaring uncomfortably outside the tent.

"Come on!"

The guards come in.

"The manpower on duty at night has doubled... and the range has been expanded by two miles."

The guards went out to deliver orders.Fu Sheng's drowsiness disappeared, he simply got out of the tent and prepared to walk around the camp.The ground under his feet suddenly began to shake, and there was a faint shout.Several scouts galloped on flying horses: "Second prince! It's Xia people, Xia people! There are so many——"

Night attack!How can it be?The shaking of the earth became more and more intense, and the shouts of killing became more and more clear.It was such a big and undisguised night attack!

After a moment of confusion, Fu Sheng got on his horse and said, "Blow the horn!"

3000 men and horses quickly assembled.Successive victories left the Xia people unable to fight back. It is undeniable that the Xirong army got carried away with complacency.Fortunately, these soldiers are used to fighting on the battlefield, although they were surprised, they did not panic.

"Second Prince, what should we do?" Baihu Yi Shanqi, who was ordered to stay to assist Fu Sheng, said anxiously: "It seems that the opponent's troops far surpass us, why don't we rush out before they encircle..."

"It's too late." Fu Sheng said coldly.

Looking around, the giant dragon made of torches has formed a large encirclement, probably no less than tens of thousands of people.

Where did the tens of thousands of Xia troops come from at this time and in this place?

Suddenly remembered what Fu Ding said to himself last night: "Fu Yi sent news that tens of thousands of soldiers and horses of the Xia people's mighty army are retreating south while fighting, and I plan to go up and intercept their retreat. Let them die without a place to bury them."

How come the tens of thousands of Xia troops retreating southward while fighting over there just happened to miss Fu Ding who was going to intercept them head-on, and they came so fast and in such a timely manner that they happened to surround the [-] Xirong soldiers who stayed behind in Tongcheng, and, The second prince Fu Sheng.

Sure enough, it's growing fast.When did my impulsive elder brother learn the tricks of pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, and killing people with a knife?

You can't blame others for being smart, you can only blame yourself for being too stupid.Underestimated the enemy.

Not quite.Colluding with the enemy to murder fellow brothers, Fu Ding would do such a thing, I really didn't expect it.It seems that I am too kind.Fu Sheng thought.

"Second prince, what should we do?" Shan Qi asked again.

Fu Sheng turned his horse's head: "Go into the city!" Before he finished speaking, the horse was already galloping.

"How can we hold our troops? Besides..." Shan Qi yelled while chasing.

When will Xirong soldiers defend the city?There is no need to wait for the other party to climb to the top of the city, I'm afraid I can't help but open the door and go out to charge.

"If you can't defend the city, will you set fire to it? Let's burn Tongcheng, block them, and go out through the south gate.

The south gate should be safe.Unless the Xia army who came to attack at night and the defenders of Liaocheng joined forces to encircle the north and south.According to what I knew about the Xia people, they were not so united, nor could they be so fast.

Leveraging the power of gunpowder and grease, starting from the city gate, a line of fire was pulled out in an instant, and with the cooperation of Night Breeze, it expanded into a wall of fire.Soon, the entire North City became a sea of ​​flames.Originally planned to burn the corpse, but now they have to burn the city.The previous preparations were just used to save lives.Lucky hit.

3000 people were broken into pieces and set on fire everywhere.The order of the second prince: no rendezvous after the fire, leave the city from the south gate as soon as possible, go around in circles to the back of Xia Jun, go north, go to Tongluo direction to find the eldest prince and General Fu Yi.

Fu Sheng rode on the horse, thinking: Since the Xia army is here, the road to the north must be unimpeded, and most of these 3000 people will be able to survive.Hmph, maybe, Fu Ding didn't go very far at all, he was waiting on the road, and he was about to turn around to clean up these Xia people and avenge himself!Anyone can go to the eldest prince and General Fu Yi, except himself.Are you going back to Changyang?There is no proof, what do you say when you see your father?

Thinking of this, I was shocked and almost fell off the horse.

——How could such a reckless character like Fu Ding make such a vicious plan?Who gave him the idea?Father, he... asked me to go south with my eldest brother, did you ever think about this possibility?He is clearly aware that elder brother and I... Could it be that...

Will not.Father Wang must not know.Fu Sheng tried his best to suppress the subconscious idea of ​​jumping out, and rushed forward with all his energy.His horse was fast, and there were not many people following him, so he galloped in a trance, and even the few men who reluctantly followed him fell behind.Get rid of them, just get rid of them. In the current situation, there is really no way out for following me.

Just as he was thinking about it, he suddenly heard a slight piercing sound behind him, and instinctively turned sideways to pass.When he was flustered, he didn't react well, barely avoided the vital part, and shot an arrow straight into the vest.At the same time, "Yueying" staggered, raised his head and hissed, and slowly fell down.It turned out that the two arrows arrived at the same time, one up and one down.

"Good arrows! Good aim!"

I actually ambushed such a master by my side, leaving such a deadly aftermath.

Fu Sheng took a deep breath, turned over and stood on the ground.Concentrate, turn around, bend the bow, nock the arrow, hit!

With a flick of the finger, five shots were fired in succession, and several screams sounded one after another, and the five subordinates who followed fell off their horses one after another.Thanks to this big fire, half the sky was burning red.Fu Sheng didn't need to check at all, and he knew that there must be no survivors.Fortunately, he had a heart at the beginning, and walked with Fu Ding all the way, and always kept a hand, otherwise he would definitely not escape the bad luck of being killed on the spot today.

But, next, where to go?