The purse cannot really be hung.
The personal soldiers mentioned this just to remind General Liu that someone who could not be provoked came with the commander of Jin Yiwei.
Thinking of the various "encounters" in Yongzhou, Pingzhou, and even Taijing, Liu Dan's face turned black, and he was stuck in his chest in one breath, but he couldn't attack.
It doesn't matter whether Meng Qi is an enemy or a friend, he can't beat him, he can't run, he can only bite the bullet and get used to it, how can he turn his face
Liu Dan took a deep breath, his original intention was to calm his mind, and then he was suffocated by the smell of Gongfang.
- There are a lot of people running belly with diarrhea recently.
Liu Dan had an idea, isn't there a magic doctor by Meng Qi's side, maybe there is a prescription for treating the water and soil
Thinking of these afflicted brothers, Liu Dan immediately regained his energy, and with heartfelt joy, he took steps to prepare to welcome the "guests".
As a result, after walking two steps, he was dragged by the personal soldiers.
"General, you have to change."
How can you meet people with a stench? !
Anyone who has surplus wealth and no shortage of servants has the habit of going to the Gongfang to change clothes. So Shang Gongfang is also called changing clothes. Liu Dan is a big and rough leader of the army.
But now that he is asking for something, Liu Dan glared at the personal soldiers, turned his head to the bedroom and went to look for clothes.
When General Liu changed his clothes, put on his armor, and appeared majestic with his personal soldiers, he was stunned to find that the person he was looking for was not there.
There were only three people sitting in the hall of Nuoda.
That's all, Gong Jun, the commander of Jin Yiwei, actually respected the one in the last seat.
In terms of official status, status, and even in martial arts... it shouldn't be right!
Liu Dan deliberately brushed past Meng Qi beside Gong Jun and stopped at the person sitting on the first chair on the east side.
The man was wrapped in a black cloak, his tall and thin body was almost nestled in the chair, his head was buried, and his face could not be seen clearly.
There was a buzzing sound in General Liu's mind, and the one who subconsciously touched the saber was the man's gloomy aura, as if he had climbed out of the corpse mountain's ten thousand bones. It was no longer murderous but deadly.
Liu Dan had seen such a person in Qiuling County. After the strong earthquake, those who survived staggered to stand up from the corpses of their blood relatives, and were driven away from their homeland by the fire, and there was such a sense of despair around them.
Sudden change overnight, nothing left, but to continue to live, questioning the injustice of God.
"cough."
Liu Dan withdrew his hand and coughed vigilantly to remind himself of his arrival.
The man raised his head suddenly, his eyes blank, as if he had just recovered.
General Liu opened his mouth involuntarily and even took a step back.
"you… "
Why does this face look like Emperor Yongchen
Meng Qi had expected this for a long time. He looked at Liu Dan with a scared look of his wallet, and his eyes involuntarily slipped to Liu Dan's belt.
—Oh, only a saber, no purse.
Gong Jun reluctantly opened his eyes and looked at Liu Dan's frightened appearance, and felt very sympathetic in his heart, because he had also experienced it.
It's just that the palace commander knows a lot of royal secrets. The words that the former prince and the current emperor Yongchen said when he killed the king were not only heard by the cabinet ministers, but also by them, so they quickly thought of this godlike Yongchen emperor. The person must be the missing prince.
—A prince who was almost killed by the late emperor, and then was taken away by the Ning family and raised in a Buddhist temple.
In detail, it is normal to be similar to Emperor Yongchen, who are the direct brothers of the same father and mother.
In fact, the facial features in front of him are more female-like, and the temperament and temperament of Emperor Yongchen are very different, and even if they are similar, they will not be connected immediately.
However, Emperor Yongchen was seriously ill and had been weak for a long time, and the sadness between his brows was difficult to resolve; Yan Cen suffered a big change, and he lost the habit of always avoiding looking at people. Once he recovered, the decadence and emptiness were swept away. , the corners of his eyes are tight, his eyes are like sharp knives, and they seem to penetrate people's hearts.
All kinds of coincidences made the two brothers look more and more alike.
Gong Jun and Yigan Jinyiwei were shocked in the first round, and now it was Liu Dan's turn.
Since General Liu's personal soldiers had no chance to face the Holy Spirit, they couldn't sympathize with Liu Dan's inner surprise. Seeing that the situation was wrong, he quietly kicked Liu Dan's boots behind him.
Liu Dan snapped back to his senses, looked around while pretending to be okay, and smiled at the same time: "It seems that the commander of the palace is doing a good job, and he came back so soon, I don't know who this is—"
"It's the grandson of General Ning, who went out to study martial arts at a Buddhist temple when he was young. His surname is Yan." Gong Jun said with a deep meaning.
Liu Dan nodded as he was about to address him, but his head suddenly stopped.
The different surname is a grandson. Old General Ning clearly only had one daughter, and she died early.
Liu Dan's face was puzzled and twisted for a while. Fortunately, he has been in the officialdom for many years. Seeing Gong Jun's secretive appearance, he forcibly suppressed his surprise. What about him, even if the emperor has a half-brother, the cuckold is not him.
"Yan... Young Master Yan, please." Liu Dan squeezed out a smile and waved his hands to serve tea to the soldiers.
Yan Cen was taken aback by this title. The monks at Baoxiang Temple called him by his name or called each other a brother and sister. At Shimo Mountain Village, others called him the second master. When walking around the rivers and lakes and guarding Xuanchuan Pass, he always dodged. Show your face, never stay in front of people too much, and have to patch your clothes when you are so poor.
Liu Dan continued to look for the doctor, and suddenly met Meng Qi's inquiring gaze, and his back suddenly froze.
"...Meng Guoshi, why didn't you see Doctor Mo?"
"You really want to see him?" Meng Qi tilted his head and asked playfully.
Liu Dan smelled a hint of ominous breath, and said quickly: "After crossing the river, this general's soldiers felt a lot of discomfort, and it was difficult to swallow the soil.
Meng Qi's expression turned solemn, and the most feared thing in the march was shock and illness.
Fright is the roar of the camp, which refers to the soldiers waking up and screaming from nightmares at night. If the army is not a well-trained old soldier, but a new soldier, or everyone is nervous and afraid of fighting, they think it is a mess, causing chaos in the same tent and even the entire camp. , a battalion roar can even cause thousands of casualties.
Disease is naturally a disease, and it means half of it is lost.
The problem of acclimatization is not too big or too small, but it greatly affects the combat power.
Now that the rebels are in trouble, the Jingzhou army can't count on it at all. They can only see that Yangzhou and the northern land are in the same state. The two-pronged approach has trapped the King of Heaven in Jingzhou. Losing either side is like a sudden lameness, fearing that things will change.
"There have always been similar problems in the northern army and the southern expedition. How can they ignore it?" Meng Qi was puzzled.
Liu Dan had a bitter face. He was a gangster general who fought with one knife at a time. I don't know how many bandits he killed. He often traveled around, and he had his own way of dealing with dissatisfaction, but this time, the secret recipe didn't work.
"Originally, we used soil from the north, mixed with water from the south... We used to use it in other places, but when we crossed the river, we heard that there were worms and diseases in the water in the south, and we couldn't drink raw water directly. ."
Meng Qi Xindao said that although the disease is widespread in Pengze, it is always better not to drink raw water.
"In the city you occupy, we are looking for craftsmen who make tofu, and then make people cook porridge. These days, we eat some easily digestible food, especially tofu. The local water is used, which can make the soldiers adapt slowly. You can also prepare some tea soup. Those who are severely ill are separated from each other, and I will go and have a look."
Liu Dan looked at Meng Qi in surprise, almost thinking that the national teacher in front of him was disguised by Mo Li.
"What are you waiting for?" Meng Qi frowned at first, then suddenly said, "I'm not a doctor, I've seen a lot."
Liu Dan thought about it, yes, Meng Guoshi was also a general before the establishment of the Chu Dynasty, not the civilian officials of Qintianjian.
Now that he is a treasure, as long as Meng Qi can help him solve this trouble, he is willing to give him three money bags.
Liu Dan is not a person who is strict with etiquette, so he left Gong Jun and Yan Cen and left directly. Anyway, when he wanted to come, one of these two guys was Jin Yiwei who couldn't ask him in detail, and the other couldn't even know his identity. Said that he was stupid to be close to it.
Liu Dan walked away simply, but Yan Cen looked at him with admiration, because Jin Yiwei was so busy, Yan Cen realized that he was very similar to his brother.
After so many years, it is impossible to say that he has never thought about his brother's appearance, and that there is no resentment in his heart, but Yan Cen doubts himself more, suspecting that he killed his brother and made a big mistake.
Even though Master Yuanzhi told the eminent monks of Baoxiang Temple that everything is the source of the law, that doom is born from the sea of suffering, and must not be grown in the heart, Yan Cen is still very hard to see. He hated many people, but he hated himself the most.
When he met Doctor Mo in Shimo Mountain, he solved a part of the magic barrier in Yan Cen's heart.
It turns out that he is also an ordinary person, suffering from ordinary diseases, which can be cured with ordinary prescriptions.
A real healer really doesn't care about his abnormality. Even though they meet by chance, they can treat his limb deformities as normal like Master Yuanzhi, so it's not surprising.
Yan Cen took a deep breath and his expression became even colder.
- Master Yuanzhi was still worrying about him before he passed away, he can't continue to be depressed.
"You have reported my case back to Taijing?" Yan Cen looked at Gong Jun with no good intentions, and Jin Yiwei didn't have a good reputation among the people.
Gong Jun touched his nose, thinking that if a raccoon slave could be replaced by a younger brother, Emperor Yongchen would not lose.
"Brother Ling always misses you." Gong Jun said seriously.
Yan Cen was stunned when he heard the words, and then revealed a suspicious look.
The commander of the palace had to explain: "The change you encountered when you were born, my brother saw it with his own eyes and never forgot it. Later, he secretly ordered people to visit and once found Baoxiang Temple, but you have already left, Baoxiang Temple. The monk even kept his mouth shut, he could only give up."
Yan Cen sat stiffly, as if he had suddenly lost all feeling.
***
After the Qi army crossed the river, they quickly captured two cities and used them to store grain.
The wooden towers of the riverside fortress are connected one by one, and soldiers are patrolling everywhere.
Meng Qi was suspicious in his heart. Seeing that this hot posture doesn't look like he's not accustomed to the environment
"This is the navy recruited this time." Liu Dan was embarrassed.
He is a miscellaneous general, and he has a lot of rank. Those generals of the navy were not very convinced by him. Now that the soldiers and horses of the direct line have fallen ill again, contradictions are also emerging within the Qi army.
Even if the generals above are still stable, the soldiers below are already arguing with each other. You call me short, I call you sick man, not to mention armor and armor, even who can eat first and whose camp can be noisy at high places. nonstop.
Originally, this kind of thing was not uncommon in the barracks. Rolling up your sleeves and having a fight on the colonel would be over. Whoever has the bigger fist speaks, just let out his energy.
But now the people are in the south of the Yangtze River, occupying the enemy city, and the camp is still sick, Liu Dan is very worried.
If this expedition is not successful, his official career will come to an end, and don't think about making contributions in the field, only to suppress bandits.
Meng Qi glanced at him and said nothing, so he was taken to the camp of the sick soldiers to see.
- He can help Liu Dan for a while, but he can't help Liu Dan for a lifetime.
There is no problem with coming up with ideas. The person who really wants to lead the troops to fight is Liu Dan. If not all of his soldiers and generals can be recovered, and the opposition of other generals cannot be suppressed, it is worth noting this battle. Being able to be stationed here all the time and posing a threat to the God-given King is also considered helpful.
Just as Liu Dan showed 12 points of courage and was devastated to deal with military affairs, suddenly there was a commotion in the distance.
"what happened?"
"General, yes... the people in the city, like scholars."
Liu Dan frowned, thinking that these Jingzhou people wanted to make trouble.
"I can't explain it clearly, General, you should go and have a look."
Liu Dan greeted his personal soldiers and strode towards the camp gate.
This is the riverside, with a wide field of vision, and a group of people gathered there from a distance, most of them dressed as scholars.
With his armor on, Liu Dan is imposing and looks like a general. As soon as he approached, everyone bowed in unison.
"What are you doing, elders?" Liu Dan narrowed his eyes and looked at these scholars who only wore plain blue and white clothes, some with swords on their waists and long bows on their backs, and some were very old, but they did not look at all. like ordinary people.
A white-haired old man cupped his hands and said, "This general, we are the masters and scholars of Yunming Academy. I have come to see you today, and I would like to contribute to the general's crusade against the rebels."
Liu Dan was stunned, he was from Qi, and there was no doubt that these people in front of him were the people of Jingzhou under the rule of Yi Chu.
Jiangnan is contemptuous of the North, especially in the eyes of literati, Lu Zhang's usurpation of the Qi Dynasty has also become a rebellion, why did he suddenly come to fight today.
The old man was trembling, but his words were clear and high-pitched.
"God bestows the king against the army to burn, kill and loot in Jingzhou. The king of Jing retreats to Nanping, the government does not move, and the people outside the city are screaming and the smoke is blocking the sun. We can only sit and watch, and we can't leave the city. After the general came, the old man watched the lineup of the Qi army. Purge, only busy preparing for the battle, not disturbing the people in the city, really have the heart of crusade against the rebels.
"The Yunming Academy has been passed down for two hundred years. It was scattered in the last years of the Chen Dynasty, and it was inherited from the legacy of the former Chu Leyang Marquis.
"The academy admonishes not to forget that my generation was born in this water and soil, and comes from ordinary surnames. After reading the calligraphy of sages and learning the arts of literature and martial arts, I don't ask the king's surname and surname, and only stick to the homeland. The floating name is loyal like dust and smoke, and the blood of the soldiers burns the rivers and mountains. , At the time of writing to join the army, the sky is clear and the clouds are not easy to resolve... This old man and his classmates used to cross the river for Chu. Now he has brought the old man's students, disbanded the academy, and let the servants go home with three hundred load of grain and grass. Come see me, old man. These students, who can wield the three-jun sword and open the six-foot bow, are willing to be driven by the general."
Speaking of the last sentence, everyone bowed down again.
"I would like to be driven by the general."
The prosperity of the country is hanging by a thread, who dares not to step forward
Liu Dan was shocked and was speechless for a long time, and suddenly felt that there was another person behind him.
When he turned his head and saw that it was an unfamiliar old man, he was about to ask, when he heard the man whisper in a familiar tone: "It's me, Meng Qi."
Liu Dan: "..."
Wait, why did the national division go to the barracks and come back seventy years old
"Master Yue." Meng Qi stepped forward and supported the white-haired old man, "I never expected to meet an old friend here."
The old man was dazed at first. His eyes were dim and he couldn't distinguish people. He gradually felt refreshed, as if a warm current was pouring into his meridians. When he escaped with an arrow from inquiring about the enemy's intelligence, General Meng personally brought doctors to rescue him. He seems to feel the same way.
"You, you... Could it be Meng, no, Meng Guoshi?"