Li Zhang

At the end of spring of this year, Zhang Yuan's Guan Market was open as usual, but the Xianbei people who came to the market were very chaotic, and some even fought on the periphery.Livestock, which some were bartering for food items, was robbed, and desperate struggles abounded.There were also frequent fights in the market place in the pass. Ling Yuncong, who was in charge of security on the spot, had a deep hatred for the Xianbei people. Reentry.

After such a day, the turnover of Guanji is less than [-]% of last year's, and most of them are ironware. The grain and cloth specially prepared by the imperial court for Guanji have not been exchanged, and there are signs of Xianbei wandering around the warehouse where the grain is stored.

After Zhang Yu got the report, he got in touch with the news of Ling Yuncong's return, and he was already very well prepared for this collection.While reporting to Rong Huan, he sent additional manpower to guard the warehouse, and at the same time made Ling Yuncong ready for the change.

On the evening of the third day, the closing market was even more chaotic than the previous two days. Some people who wanted to take advantage of the end of the market bargained harder. Officials and businessmen were impatient and had already started to clean up the stalls.At this moment, a group of Xianbei people suddenly poured in outside the city gate, leading hundreds of unsaddled horses, boldly heading towards the market.The eyes of several grain merchants who were collecting their stalls lit up, and they got up and greeted them with an interpreter.

Although they knew that Xianbei people didn't like to bargain, these officials and merchants still habitually picked and relegated the horses. Seeing that the complexions of those Xianbei people became darker and darker, but they never turned around and left, the officials and merchants felt even worse. It was because of the blossoming of happiness, and the price of the transaction was lowered and lowered.

Although the Xianbei people looked bad, they still obeyed the price of the grain merchant, but they insisted on going to the warehouse to check the quality of the grain face to face.The grain merchants wanted to make this big deal, and ignored Zhang Yu's management regulations on shipments, and they really took the Xianbei people to the warehouse.Since Ling Yuncong only has the right to govern the market, seeing this, he can only try to disperse the Xianbei people as much as possible, and he can't control it outside the scope of the market.

So a group of people led the horses and walked behind the grain merchant to the warehouse. Along the way, Xianbei people who looked like watching the excitement continued to join their team.Seeing that there were too many people, the guards at the warehouse came forward to stop them. The Xianbei people took advantage of the large number of people and couldn't understand them. Taking advantage of the opportunity of the grain merchants interacting with the guards, they broke up the formation of the guards at once and rushed inside.

The huge warehouse was full of bags of grain, and the Xianbei people's eyes lit up, and they scattered involuntarily, unwrapping a few bags of grain randomly to take a look, then throwing them away to look at other things.At this time, the grain merchants felt a headache, and they went around to help finish the work, but there was still a lot of grain poured all over the ground.

In the chaos, the guards outside the door were put down at some point, and the Xianbei people moved bags of grain out of the warehouse and loaded them into the carriage.The grain merchants were busy counting the numbers at first, but then it became obvious that something was wrong, and they wanted to stop them, but they had no guards to rely on.This action frightened the grain merchants, and if they wanted to leave the people who had already been watched to death, there was only one who was a little smarter and set off an alarm siren while indiscriminate.

Seeing that the matter had been revealed, the Xianbei people no longer wanted credit, and with a whistle, everyone mounted their horses and rushed towards the closed door.Ling Yuncong was monitoring the Xianbei people who were leaving slowly outside the market. When he heard the alarm siren, he immediately led people to run to the warehouse, and ran into the Xianbei people who rushed out halfway.Without saying a word, he swung his sword and stabbed at the belly of the horse in front.The man gave way to the horse, pulled the reins, the horse stood up, and stepped on Ling Yuncong's head with its hard hooves.Ling Yuncong retreated hastily, and at the same time released a warning arrow.

The arrow soared into the sky with an extremely sharp whistling sound. Ling Yuncong was taken aback when he heard the sound, and when he looked up, he saw that it was the fireball that exploded after the arrow rushed to a high place. It was bright red and eye-catching. .

In just a short while, the Xianbei people had already set the warehouse on fire, and the flames shot into the sky.The defenders of the camp did not know who had listened to the order, and they all rushed to the warehouse with a hush, crowding the aisle to the brim, but they were unable to get water to put out the fire, and even blocked the people who saw Ling Yuncong's warning and rushed to support at the other end.

Ling Yuncong only had more than 20 short-sword soldiers around him, and he couldn't stop the Xianbei's cavalry at all. He could only make way out, and at the same time called for reinforcements, while running towards the city gate.

At this time, Zhang Yu had also received the news, and rushed to Ming Jin to assemble outside the warehouse, and then organized a group of soldiers who looked like headless flies out of formation, and rushed to the city gate.But just as they ran out of the alleyway, they saw that the city gate that was about to be closed was rushed by the Xianbei people, and a large group of Xianbei troops rushed into the city, and they rushed across the open land in front of them in an instant.

This open land was originally the site of the Wengcheng that Zhang Yuan planned to build for Guan Ji. Not long after the site was cleared, the construction of the city wall had not yet started, and it happened to be the gathering place for the Xianbei cavalry at this moment.The thousands of soldiers Zhang Yu led were all short soldiers and light armor, unable to fight against the cavalry at all. In desperation, they could only retreat to the lanes and use the terrain to resist stubbornly.

This is an extremely brutal battle.

Xianbei people and horses are strong with sharp swords, Zhang Yuan's alleyway is already full of carriages and horses, and the horses running among them are still like entering no one's land.The Wei army could only occupy the roofs and gates, or sneak attack or set up tripping ropes in the dark, using the lanes to beat the Xianbei people one by one under the horse, and guard the position inch by inch.

The fallen horses in front blocked the approach of the follow-up horses. The Xianbei people quickly discovered the disadvantages of the horse team in the street fighting, so they abandoned their horses and walked, taking advantage of their numbers to crush Zhang Yu and the others.Zhang Yu and the others fought and retreated, setting up defensive lines layer by layer, but with few bows and arrows, they could not use the rear layer of defense lines to attack the enemy effectively, and still had to rely on one individual to desperately resist.

The companions around him fell one by one, and the alleyway in front of them was full of bodies in disorder, and the wounded who were too late to recover, under the merciless trampling of the Xianbei people, soon became silent.Zhang Yu was drenched in blood. Looking at the gradually darkening sky and the battlefield approaching the center of the city, there were less than ten people left around him.

The fire in the warehouse has spread to the residential areas, burning up half of the city, everyone in the city who could escape has already fled, and the noisy market is in a mess.Zhang Yusu's face with a smile on his face was full of sternness at the moment, he glanced at the direction of the still quiet south gate, and clenched the sword in his hand.

"There have been changes in the old battalion, and it is impossible for General Rong to rush to rescue in time. Zhang Yuan... can't hold on anymore!"

Rong Huan's [-] troops were stationed in the old camp at Wulipo outside the city. After Ling Yuncong's loud arrows were released into the sky, continuous alarms would be sent into the old camp. If there were no accidents, the army should have entered the city by now.There has been no movement at the south gate so far, which can only mean that something happened to Rong Huan!

Standing in the courtyard of the last line of defense, listening to the shouts that gradually subsided outside, the soldiers who had already understood the last moment looked dull. Seeing that the chief who was as embarrassed as himself was not more impassioned, but not at all Shaken and timid.

Zhang Yu looked at them one by one, looked at them seriously as if he wanted to remember their appearance, and his expression returned to his usual kindness and warmth.He looked at these people who never really regarded him as an officer, but lived and died with him at the moment of life and death, and continued: "We have guarded until now, and we have a clear conscience. It is impossible for the few of us to stop the Xianbei people." If someone wants to leave, I will not stop him, I just ask him to report the situation to General Su after he leaves for future plans."

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, they didn't expect Zhang Yu to come out like this, people who went to find people in several other alleys came back one after another, and the sentinel reported that the Xianbei people stopped attacking.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, but Zhang Yu's face became serious: "Those who want to leave hurry up now! Those who want to stay, go and pack some arrows. They are coming!"

Everyone was stunned when they heard the words, Zhang Yu had already taken the lead and ran to the alleyway to pick up some missed arrows.

An old soldier came over and stopped him: "General Zhang, since guarding is useless, why do you bother to stay inside! I know a small way, and I can get out of the city as soon as possible, everyone follow me!"

He took the lead and ran out while talking, Zhang Yu was taken aback for a moment, looked at the people who were also in a daze, gritted his teeth and stomped hard: "Go! Let's go out!"

Under the darkness of night, half of Zhang Yuancheng was brightly lit and the other was completely black.The Xianbei people rushed through the alleys and houses on the outskirts of the city in one go, and went straight to the south gate.Zhang Yu and the others followed the veteran and left Zhang Yuan through the secret passage of the Tianwang Temple in the east of the city under the cover of night.

During the service, the Xianbei people plundered all the property in the city, and the fire burned down half of the houses in the city. After dawn, they went back to kill in the pass.

Zhiqing has lived in Rongjiazhuang for nearly two months since Li Zhang entered the mountain.During the period, Li Zhang came once and told her that he had found the place. His words were full of excitement and happiness that could not be concealed.At that time, Zhiqing had already changed back into women's clothes, and the elf-like Fourth Miss of the Rong family followed closely, so Zhiqing could only sit dignifiedly, looking at Li Zhang who was beaming with joy, her heart filled with sadness.But as soon as she made up her mind to go to the mountain with Li Zhang, several cases of vomiting occurred in the village, and there was a faint tendency to spread.She and the rest of the Rong family were busy decocting medicines, cleaning up and isolating patients, fearing that Li Zhang would also be affected, they resolutely drove him back to the mountain.

After Li Zhang left, Zhiqing studied the condition day and night, staying in the same room with the patient from time to time, carefully observing and asking the pulse, and finally saw a flower recorded in the "Poison Classic" when inspecting the wells in the village. .

Rong Xie has been accompanying Zhiqing to do these things, seeing her looking left and right at a wild flower as if she had found a treasure, comparing the leaves with the book from time to time, smiling like a child who discovered a treasure, she couldn't help pointing at the wild flower. The flower with fat petals, white and fragrant asked her, "Are you sure it's a poisonous flower?"

Zhiqing carefully dug up the flower by the root, put it into the bamboo basket she brought, and then smiled at Rong Xie: "The buds of this flower bloom only in winter, and it is the most cloudy and cold, so it is rare to bloom .However, once the flowers bloom, the coldness will dissipate. So this flower is non-toxic."

"That--?"

"It's the buds that fell into the well."

"So this is a poison well?"

Zhiqing laughed: "It's not that serious. I thought it was a plague at first, so I was worried. Now that I know it's brocade flowers, I feel relieved. These brocade flower buds are just colder and hurt Yang Yuan, but they are not fatal poisons. It is the most poisonous that has no solution when you encounter another kind of poisonous grass, but that kind of grass is thousands of miles away."

"So miraculous?"

"That's right! It's also the first time seeing Zhiqing!"

Zhiqing looked at the blooming flowers in the basket with emotion, and for no reason recalled the days when Li Zhang took the Gu, her expression was naturally filled with longing and shyness, and in Rong Xie's eyes, she was more beautiful than before. A little more charming and charming, although he has always been calm, he was also shaken by this look.

The column of Jinhua in "Poison Classic" only records the unsolvable poison after combining with Corrosion Heart Grass, but there is no detoxification method for Jinhuabud alone.Zhiqing used internal warming medicine to support the yang and relieve the cold. Although the symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea were relieved, the cold poison could not be completely eliminated.Therefore, based on the principle that all things in the world are mutual generation and mutual restraint, she searched and tried repeatedly near the place where brocade flowers were produced, and finally found that the blooming stamens of brocade flowers are the antidote.

After nearly a month of tossing like this, all the patients had recovered and returned home. Zhiqing suddenly relaxed, and her body could not hold on after a long time of hard work. She was lying in bed and sick for several days before she had the energy to sit in the garden for a while. .

The fourth young lady of the Rong family, Rong Juan, is a young girl who admires this elder sister Song who has excellent medical skills. She always follows Zhiqing like a tail on weekdays. If she can help, she will roll up her sleeves to help.I like to see Zhiqing choosing medicines in the pharmacy the most. I feel that the small drawers in that room are like treasure chests. Sister Song grabs a handful here and there, and together they can cure people's diseases. This is very fascinating.

A few days ago, Zhiqing was so busy that she didn't have time to sleep, so she was not in the mood to talk to her, and her family didn't let her go to the place where patients gathered, so she hadn't seen Sister Song for a long time.It was not easy to hear that Zhiqing had gone to the garden that day, and the little girl grabbed a handful of peanut candies that had been stored for several days and went to pester her.

"Sister Song, are you better?"

Zhiqing also liked Rong Juan very much, and smiled and patted her head: "My sister is just a little tired, but she is already fine."

"Then——, shall I recite the medicine book with you tomorrow?"

"If you like it, you can do it now!"

"Second Sister said that Daddy is back, so let us all wait in the main room."

"That's it, then come back tomorrow!"

"Ok!"

Rong Juan happily agreed, put the handkerchief wrapped in peanut candy in Zhiqing's hand, and jumped away.