Abandoned Zong Nongzan looked at the Tang envoy's motorcade, running hurriedly and staggering like a child who had grabbed a candy bar, scattering a string of smoke that quickly disappeared in the wind.
"She is such a true, pure and affectionate woman. It is a pity that she cannot be with her in this life!" Qi Zong Nongzan still sighed, "Qin Mubai, what are you capable of?... I am eagerly looking forward to meeting you. Your meeting!”
Li Xueyan sat on the bumpy carriage, holding the small purple medicine bottle tightly to her chest, and kept urging, "Go quickly, go quickly."
She had never experienced such excitement before, which made her whole body tense and trembling. The medicine bottle she held in her palm seemed to be her life and everything at the moment. She held it tightly and refused to let go for a moment.
I closed my eyes and took a deep breath, but I still couldn't calm down the uncontrollable excitement and anxiety. At this moment, Li Xueyan wished that she could turn her arms into wings, fly to Qin Mubai's side in an instant, and feed him the bottle of antidote with her own hands.
The mission's convoy ran wildly for more than an hour and was about to leave Qingluo Plain and approach the Tang Army's camp. The accompanying maids and soldiers were all overwhelmed, and the horses were foaming at the mouth, so they begged Li Xueyan if he could stop and rest even for a moment.
Li Xueyan had no choice but to agree. Everyone got out of their carriages and took a break to drink some water. At this moment, there was a sudden noise and thunder in the direction of Tangying ahead. The sky in all directions was filled with smoke and dust, as if there were thousands of troops galloping towards them!
Everyone was shocked, and one of the soldiers hurriedly got on his horse and went to check. After a moment, he hurriedly ran back to his saddle and dismounted, and said in great surprise - "I don't know why, but two soldiers and horses appeared in front, all of them are our own people... It seems, It seems like there’s a fight!”
"Our own people are fighting? How is this possible!" Li Xueyan said in surprise.
"You can't be wrong!" the pawn said with certainty, "One of the troops is the tribe that the villain once belonged to, the Lanzhou Zuoweiwei Field Army led by General Hou Junji! How could the villain in the flag armor admit his mistake?"
"What about the other group?"
"I can't see clearly... I can only vaguely see that there seem to be many shields and swords. Although they are also equipped with horses, they should be infantry."
"What's going on?" Li Xueyan said in shock and annoyance, "The young commander is seriously ill and is in bed and is in critical condition. Why are our own people fighting?... Come on, let's take a look!"
"Princess...it's better not to go to this chaotic scene of swords and blindness!" Zuo Zuo advised.
"No!" Li Xueyan said resolutely, "I have to go and take a look! I just want to know who among the hundreds of thousands of men in Dafeichuan is not as enlightened as a female like me!"
Everyone was silent and could only follow Li Xueyan forward.
After walking no more than two or three miles, we saw a large group of soldiers and horses in front of us, crowded together in a really chaotic manner. It wasn't like there was a real fight, but everyone was very excited. One of the groups comprised the vast majority of about three to four thousand people, blocking a group of only a few thousand people in the middle.
Li Xueyan hurriedly urged people forward, and when they got closer, no one from the two soldiers came to pay attention to them. Li Xueyan climbed up and took a look, and was shocked: "Aren't those Hou Junji and Yuwen Hongtai? Why did these two people run out of the camp and start a fight? - Quick, come forward, I want to stop them!"
In the chaotic crowd of soldiers, Yu Wen Hongtai was riding a big horse with his naked body, holding a golden phoenix-winged sword in his hand, his black face flushed red, blue veins on his arms bulging, and he roared: "Hou Junji, you are such a fool." You little white-eyed wolf, don’t try to stop me! If you don’t get out of the way, I’ll be the first to chop your dog’s head off like a watermelon!”
"If you want to chop, then do it!" Hou Junji led a few guards and rode their horses to form a human wall in front of him. He did not use a weapon and said calmly, "No matter what happened, You have to remember that you are a general of the Tang Dynasty, and you cannot act impulsively and recklessly. If everyone is like you, taking three to five hundred brothers and running to find Garqin Ling to fight, then the young commander will die in vain. …”
"Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! How dare you mention his name again!" Yu Wen Hongtai suddenly roared furiously, raised his arms high and roared to the sky, and then burst into tears!
The area suddenly fell into a dead silence, and everyone stopped making noise. Hou Junji was surprised to find that among the crowd of many soldiers, there was an extra woman at some point.
Princess Wencheng, Li Xueyan.
She held her hands in front of her chest and looked at Hou Junji and Yuwen Hongtai dumbly. Her face was white, her lips were parted, but she was speechless.
At this time, many sergeants could not help but cry softly.
"General Hou... General Yuwen, what did you say just now?" Li Xueyan murmured in a voice so low that only she could hear it.
Hou Junji hurriedly dismounted and walked to Li Xueyan's side, saying, "Princess, there is no need to ask any more questions. Please go back to the camp and rest first!"
"No!" Li Xueyan suddenly shouted and ran to Yuwen Hongtai's horse, pulled his reins and shouted loudly, "Yuwen Hongtai, please explain what you just said clearly - Marshal, what's wrong with him?"
Yuwen Hongtai looked down at Li Xueyan, with tears on his big black face and his mouth wide open, not saying a word.
"What's wrong with Mu Bai! What's wrong! - Tell me!!!" Li Xueyan yelled hysterically.
"Ah!!! -" Yuwen Hongtai shouted, threw away the phoenix wings and gold-plated bell, fell off the horse, turned his head to the sky and hammered his fists on the ground, crying loudly, until his voice became hoarse.
All the soldiers knelt down and cried bitterly.
Hou Junji turned his face away, sighed heavily, and shook his head speechlessly.
With a "Bang!", the beautiful little purple flower medicine bottle fell to the ground, and the flowers shattered.
"Mu Bai, why didn't you wait for me to come back..."
After murmuring, Li Xueyan felt like the world was spinning and her whole body felt weak. She fainted and fell to the ground...
…
Qin Mubai, the commander-in-chief of the Guanxi Army, died of poisoning.
In Dafeichuan, all the camps for dozens of miles were filled with mourners, and the sky was filled with countless mourning and crying.
The mountains and rivers have lost their color, the sun and the moon have lost their light.
…
Li Xueyan didn't know how long she had slept, as if she had no concept of time in her mind. I just felt like I was floating in a black abyss, with no fingers visible around me, and a vast and uncertain cliff. No sight, no hearing, no touch, no hunger, no thoughts, no pain, no happiness...
Life seemed to have turned into a meaningless and empty cycle. She didn't even know where she was, whether she was dead or alive...
Su Lianqing sat beside Li Xueyan's bed, took her pulse carefully, sighed, and shook her head. Hou Junji and Zhang Tong hurriedly asked her, how is the situation
Su Lianqing stood up and said: "He was already exhausted mentally and physically, and when he heard the bad news about the young marshal, he was so furious that he fell into a coma. This blow was really too heavy for her. Okay. Said... At this moment, she has completely collapsed."
"Then when will she wake up? Is her life in danger?"
"I don't know." Su Lianqing looked at Li Xueyan lying on the couch, showing a rare hint of pity and sorrow, and said softly, "Maybe she was awake to begin with, or maybe she will never wake up."
"What's the explanation?"
"Whether she wakes up or not depends on whether she wants to..." Su Lianqing said, "A person with a mental breakdown has nothing more to mourn than death. Living is no different from being dead."
"Why!… "
"What a crime!"
Li Xueyan heard all this, but it was like it went in one ear and out the other, completely irrelevant and forgotten after listening. All around, there is still only a vast darkness, endless and endless cliffs, no light, no life, and no hope...
In the Tubo camp, inside the Chinese army's tent, Abandoned Zong Nongzan and Gar Qinling stood up together to shoot the case and exclaimed in unison: "Qin Mubai died of poisoning? How is this possible!!"
"It's absolutely true!" the messenger said with certainty, "The general couldn't believe it either. He dared to report it only after repeated inquiries to make sure that he was sure! At this moment, the whole battalion in Dafeichuan was filled with mourning and mourning; before that, there was also Tang Jun General Yuwen Hongtai led his troops out of the camp to seek revenge on us, but was stopped by Hou Junji, and there was a conflict between the two sides! "
"Impossible, absolutely impossible!" Gar Qinling's face was tense and his eyes were like daggers, and he shouted categorically, "Probe again! Probe again a hundred times! If the information is the same a hundred times, report back again!"
"yes!"
Qizong Nongzan's expression became extremely complicated, and his eyebrows were furrowed and he fell into deep thought.
Gal Qinling was also silent, pacing back and forth quickly with his hands clasped behind his back, rarely showing a bit of anxiety.
The Tubo generals present were a little puzzled: The enemy's commander is dead, shouldn't we be happy? Zamp and Marshal, what's going on
Naturally, they couldn't figure it out. Qizong Nongzan and Gal Qinling were pondering something deep in their hearts.
Upon hearing the news, Qi Zong Nong Zan's first reaction was, "Something is wrong." After Qin Mubai's death, the Guanxi army was leaderless. How could it still be the opponent of Garqin Ling? Moreover, Qin Mubai died of a poisonous attack. After Qin Qiong, the old hatred between Tubo and Tang Dynasty was added to the new hatred, and the alliance was bound to come to nothing. As a result, war is absolutely unavoidable... The Tubo Empire will irreversibly go down the "road of dominance" expected by the Garqin Mausoleum!
Thinking of this, Qizong Nongzan couldn't help but trembled in his heart, and thought to himself: "In this way, it is indeed Gal Qinling who poisoned Qin Mubai! He had such a motive, and the situation in front of him was also It was exactly what he wanted! But the problem was... when he sent the envoys to Tang Ying to escort the ashes, besides the three Shadow Fangs, did he have anyone else hiding in Tang Ying? Princess Wencheng sent her away without letting me know. She also didn't tell me that Danba Wangjie's ears were cut off and Princess Wencheng came to ask for the antidote. Is it because he didn't want me to know that he poisoned Qin Mu? Bai? ...How many things does he hide from me?"
When Gal Qinling heard the news, his first reaction was - "Qin Mubai faked his death"! He clearly sent someone to administer the drug, so how could it become a fatal poison? Could it be that someone else had done something wrong? If there is, this person is either a member of the Tang Army, or... it can only be Danba Wangjie sent by Zanpu, or himself!
The eyeliner reported that Zamp had stopped Princess Wencheng on her way back, and the two had a secret conversation. Could it be that Zanpu took advantage of that simple and silly girl who was eager for medicine, replaced the antidote with poison, and poisoned Qin Mubai with her hands under the guise
—But Zanpu, what reason is there to kill Qin Mubai? Is it just to frame me and warn me? Is it just for a woman like Li Xueyan? Or for...something else
"Fake death! Definitely cheating death!!" Finally, Gal Qinling said to himself with certainty in his heart, "Qin Mubai, you are definitely not going to die that easily, and you can't even think of using such a trick to cheat. Me! We haven’t decided yet, so how can you die? … Without you as my opponent, where can I go to find the joy of victory?”
Abandoning Zong and Nongzan, and the Garqin Mausoleum, the two of them each had their own hidden agendas and were puzzled, but they could not ask each other for evidence. Otherwise, once the window paper is broken, the suspicion between the two will deepen and create more rifts!
Therefore, the atmosphere at the scene became quite strange, but no one dared to say a word.
The Tibetan generals all felt extremely depressed and said in their hearts: This is strange. An enemy commander died. Why are our own people so preoccupied and depressed
Such a shocking change was like a raging fire in Tuyuan, first burning in the military camps of Tang and Tubo...