The attendant walked quickly into the hall and knelt down in front of Han Zhongwen, "Sir."
"How is it? What did King Xiling say?" Han Zhongwen asked eagerly.
The attendant looked up at him and replied, "Reporting to your lord, the villain couldn't see King Xiling, and he couldn't even enter the mansion gate! People in the palace said it was inconvenient, and the guards stopped him from entering, asking for help. There was no response even when the notification came in. The little one has no choice but to come back and ask you first."
Han Zhongwen's face changed completely, his body swayed violently, and his tone became sharp, "Inconvenient? What's the inconvenience! Li Chenghua is so eager to clear the relationship, so eager to draw a line? It's already Tied to a rope, does he still want to get away to protect himself, does he just abandon me like this?"
The attendant did not dare to answer, but the head of the guard, who had been kneeling beside him, couldn't help but said, "Your Excellency Mingjian! Last night, my subordinates did see the prince's talisman before letting them go. The subordinates really didn't expect..."
"Enough!" Han Zhongwen interrupted him, "What's the use of you talking about this now? Chu Mingyun and Su Shiyu have already been let go by you, needless to say, they must have arrived at the southern border camp a long time ago, and Zhang You's case has been revealed and broken with me. Contact, now that the Southern Border Army is in their hands, what can you ask me to do?"
The guard leader also lowered his head, not daring to let out the air. There was a dead silence, and after a while, Han Zhongwen calmed down a little, but ignored them and walked out of the hall. He walked all the way through the courtyard to the backyard, Liu Yunzi was sewing cold clothes in the room, and when he saw him, he got up and said with a smile, "Husband."
"Ma'am." Han Zhongwen covered her hand, clenched it tightly, and then said solemnly: "You go to clean up immediately, and take Ziming away from Shouchun. Don't go back to your mother's house yet, find a safe place..."
"I'm taking Ziming, what about you, husband?" Liu Yunzi said hurriedly, "Since you want to leave, husband will go with us."
Han Zhongwen shook his head, "I have to stay. They won't let me go. If I leave, you will definitely be implicated, how can you escape."
"Then the concubine will stay with her husband!" Liu Yunzi said.
"Madam!" Han Zhongwen said in a serious tone, "You can only die in vain if you keep it. What are you doing here? Listen to me, and leave with Ziming as soon as possible, just to save a little of my blood."
"Have someone escort Ziming away, but the concubine won't leave." Liu Yunzi looked at him stubbornly, "Since I can remember, the concubine has been by her husband's side, the clothes on her body are chosen by her husband, and the hairpins on her hair belong to her husband's hairpin. It’s also my husband’s, if I don’t have you, I don’t know how to live alone in this world.”
Han Zhongwen couldn't help sighing, took her into his arms, and kissed her on the forehead lightly, "Madam, how can Han Zhongwen be as good as he is, how can I bear to let you accompany me to death."
She shook her head, smiling softly as usual.
At this moment, the attendant suddenly rushed in from the outside, so excited that he even forgot his etiquette, and shouted, "Sir! Your Excellency! The soldier's talisman for the reinforcements has been found!"
"Found it?!" Han Zhongwen let go of Liu Yunzi and took the military talisman from the attendant's hands, "I haven't found it for so long, where is it hiding?"
"Reporting to my lord, it's no wonder that I couldn't find it before. It turned out that Luo Xin swallowed the soldier talisman! When disposing of the corpse, he opened it up and found it in his stomach!"
His thumb carefully rubbed the military talisman, although some of the lines on it were blurred, but it did not affect it. Han Zhongwen's eyes gradually became firm as iron, and he clenched the military talisman, "Okay, God will help me too. Then take a gamble!"
"Husband, don't." Liu Yunzi took his arm, "Let's go down, the situation has been settled, while we still have some chips, why don't we make an exchange and ask Lord Chu and Lord Su to let us go."
"You are so naive, Madam, who are the two of them, or do you really think that Chu Mingyun and Su Shiyu are kind people? Not to mention that I killed them that night, and they will not be smashed to pieces after surrendering. Even if Duan is soft-hearted, how could he still let us go?"
"But husband..."
"Even if you say it's possible, how can I put my life on the difference between their thoughts? The situation has been decided? No, not yet! Now I can still fight to the death, and there is still a chance of survival!" Han Zhongwen said Turning to the attendant, he instructed: "Go to see King Xiling again and tell him plainly that if I lose, I won't let him escape. Let him completely break the idea of being alone and send troops to support me immediately!"
"Husband..."
Han Zhongwen gave Liu Yunzi a deep look, then forcibly pulled her hand away and walked out without looking back. Only Liu Yunzi was left standing in the same place, her eyes finally condensed into tears, she slowly raised her hands to cover her face, knelt on the ground and wept softly.
The noise in the outer room woke Han Ziming who was sleeping in the inner room. He pulled the long-life lock that was sleeping crookedly, got out of bed, and pulled Liu Yunzi's arm in surprise, "Mother, what's the matter with you?" He touched Arriving at the wet water, he hurriedly said, "Don't cry..."
Liu Yunzi hugged the child tightly, tears falling like rain.
The ground trembled faintly, the iron horse glaciers were rolling, and a large group of men and horses were approaching the military camp, and they could see a vast cloud of smoke and dust stirred up by the horseshoes in the distance.
"Report! General, the enemy is attacking, it is already twenty miles away!"
"Understood. Send troops out of the camp, don't act rashly, wait for my order."
"Yes!"
The scout was ordered to withdraw from the central army tent. Su Shiyu looked at Chu Mingyun next to him and couldn't help but say, "Han Zhongwen didn't immediately send troops to chase after him, but waited until now to attack in a big way. He must have already mastered the reinforcements of the court. You are injured. It's still very heavy, I'll take care of you in this battle."
"Did I say I'm going to fight?" Chu Mingyun laughed. "Han Zhongwen is so anxious that he doesn't even need his brain. It's useless to give him 30,000 reinforcements."
"How?" Su Shiyu asked.
"What kind of soldiers do you think he will send?"
Su Shiyu thought for a while, "The reinforcements and the Shouchun Army both have unstable factors, and it is difficult to fully control them. For the sake of safety, those who stay in the city should still be traitors, and those two armies must be sent to fight."
Chu Mingyun smiled and said, "My family's reputation is smart." Then he kissed him on the side of the face.
Standing behind them, Su Bai silently turned his face away, feeling that he was going blind.
Chu Mingyun suddenly looked back, Su Bai met his gaze awkwardly, hesitantly wanted to say that Madam, you and your son are happy, don't worry about yourself, but listened to Chu Mingyun's order: "Take that woman from last time. Come here, be quick."
"...Ah?" Su Bai couldn't react for a while, but when he saw Chu Mingyun's eyes, he suddenly woke up, "Yes!" He hurriedly ran out and passed by Xu Shen, who was rushing into the account.
Xu Shen saluted: "General, the enemy is approaching, please give your order!"
Chu Mingyun chuckled lightly, "Cry the drums to prepare for battle, and raise my flag."
The reinforcements from the imperial court and the cavalry of the Shouchun City army came forward, and they were mixed into one. Thousands of people galloped and marched. The sound of a horn suddenly sounded in the barracks ahead, majestic and high-pitched, and it came from a distance. Zhao Kejing raised his eyes and looked at it. The fierce horses under him continued to shorten the distance. He could see more and more clearly. , there was a word 'Chu' on it, he couldn't help but be taken aback.
Although the main general of the reinforcements followed Su Shiyu's wishes and appointed Luo Xin, Chu Mingyun would not trust him with the entire army, so Zhao Kejing, who was the deputy general, was naturally Chu Mingyun's person. When he arrived in Shouchun that day, he accidentally fought against the rebellious party. He obeyed Luo Xin's instructions and led his troops to retreat to the mountains. It was difficult to survive for several months. Many soldiers, but fortunately the main force still exists, and finally survived until the soldiers reappeared and had to go down the mountain. However, they were ordered to fight again after a short rest, and the target was still the southern army camp. Although Zhao Kejing was full of doubts, the messenger did not intend to explain anything to him, so Zhao Kejing had to obey the orders, but now the general flag in front of him is all too familiar. There are several counties and cities in the three states, and a hundred miles of barren desert. We fought bloody battles under this banner.
There was a low voice of discussion behind him, and it was obvious that the other cavalrymen also saw the flag, and their mood was turbulent. They were getting close to each other, Zhao Kejing suddenly stopped his horse, raised his right hand, and the people next to him waved the flag with understanding. They faced off with the Southern Border Army at a distance, the horns were still ringing, and the two sides were deadlocked with no movement.
"What are you doing? Who allowed you to stop without authorization!" The booming voice approached, and angrily stopped beside him.
Zhao Kejing looked at the other party. The person who came was the messenger who held the military talisman, led the Shouchun Army, and was also the main general of this operation. He couldn't remember the name, only vaguely remembered that it was a county commander elsewhere in Huainan, "I'm trying to figure out things. Before, I didn't want to act rashly."
"It's ridiculous! As a general, don't you know that the military orders are like mountains?" the commander shouted, holding up the talisman, "Continue to attack!"
Zhao Kejing remained motionless, turning his head to look at the flying flag of the generals in the distance.
The commander was furious, "Look clearly, the talisman is here, are you going to disobey the order?" He turned his horse's head, held the talisman high, and shouted at the soldiers, "Go ahead and capture the barracks!"
The people below were vaguely agitated, especially the Shouchun City Army, who didn't know what was going on, but they all hesitated and did not act.
"Bastard!" The commander pulled Zhao Kejing's collar, "According to military regulations, I can kill now..."
A black shadow flew over, and it was almost too late for even Zhao Kejing to react. In the blink of an eye, the commander let go of him and stared at the arrow that penetrated his chest in disbelief. up, and then fell back onto the horse's back.
There was an uproar in the army.
Zhao Kejing was overjoyed when he saw the bow-wielding man on the gatehouse at a glance, "... My lord," he said loudly, "General Chu! It really is General Chu! Don't be on guard!"
Shouchun City Army looked at each other in dismay, not knowing what to do, but there was a loud cry from the side, which was scattered and messy at first, but gradually became clear and unified.
After several months of struggling to survive between life and death, the future is bleak. In the cold weather and withered vegetation, seeing his comrades die of illness or starvation, the reinforcements are almost desperate, and they even dare not hope to return to Chang'an. However, they never expected to see Chu Mingyun here. They were still calm when they saw the soldiers, but at this sudden moment, the reinforcements almost burst into tears and couldn't help cheering: "General Chu! Chu! General!"
Su Shiyu stood in the camp, looking up at Chu Mingyun's back above the gatehouse. Although he was in the camp and was far away, due to his martial arts, he could clearly hear the sounds outside, not to mention the high-pitched voices that even people without inner strength could vaguely hear. The shouts were full of joy and excitement, but Su Shiyu's eyes gradually became dark and heavy, and a pool of depression was difficult to dissolve.
He suddenly remembered that he had asked Chu Mingyun a long time ago, if there was a military talisman and his orders at the same time, who would the army obey.
The answer has emerged clearly.
And this is far from the prestige that a captain or a general should have.
"This subordinate finally sees you..." Zhao Kejing muttered to himself outside the camp, and was about to rush the horse forward, but the opposite team suddenly separated from it, a woman came out unexpectedly, and stopped at the two armies. in between, facing them.
Zhao Kejing was surprised that no woman had ever appeared on the battlefield, but Shou Chunjun was even more surprised than him. Yunniang's husband-in-law is quite popular in the Shouchun Army. Many people also know Yunniang, and a few generals have been invited to her house for dinner and drinking. It suddenly appeared here, and it still came out of the enemy camp.
Yunniang hugged the long sword in her arms tightly, as if she could absorb the temperature from the cold iron sword. She glanced around for a week, took a deep breath, closed her eyes and returned to that bloody dark night, she spoke loudly, her words clear , There is no ambiguity, and the details of the branches come one by one.
She is a woman, her martial arts is not very good, and her voice is naturally not too loud. The cavalry standing in front relayed what they heard to the back and spread it in sequence. Their expressions changed from confusion at the beginning, to shock, then to anger, until they heard the scene of the massacre, and the soldiers who conveyed it all became bizarre. His eyes were blood red, his teeth were gritted, and he was furious.
Thinking of them being drafted into the army, their hearts and minds are all over the place, and all they want is to protect the stability of the country and the well-being of their families, but now, their loved ones have been brutally slaughtered, but they are still being deceived and tricked by the murderer!
At this moment, Han Zhongwen's reinforcements controlled by the soldiers and the Shouchun army who used lies have all defected, and the situation has changed completely.
After reorganizing the team, Chu Mingyun ordered to take advantage of the situation and attack Shouchun City.
The Southern Border Army, the Shouchun Army, and the imperial reinforcements, the three armies jointly launched a raid, and the rebels closed the city and resisted stubbornly. The drums shook the sky, the soldiers trembled, arrows flowed like rain, and kerosene poured down the city wall, burning fiercely. The battle continued until dusk, the sky was full of bloody clouds, and the city gate was broken.
When they invaded the city, Han Zhongwen's family, who had not escaped in time, was killed by the rebel party. The angry Shouchun army rushed in and shredded his body.
Those refugees then returned to the city, some embracing and reuniting with their families in the army, and some weeping in front of their homes where things were different.
In the county governor's mansion under the pressure of twilight, Su Shiyu was silent and seemed to be thinking heavily. It was not difficult for Chu Mingyun to guess that when Han Zhongwen died, it was exactly the same as the previous situation of King Huainan. It's hard to see through the fog.
Chu Mingyun hugged him from behind, resting his chin on his shoulder, and wanted to say something, Su Shiyu suddenly turned his head to look aside, Chu Mingyun followed him, and saw a silver one lying in a pool of blood on the bluestone floor. Longevity locks, shiny and blood-stained.