Danba Wuerji rode his proud black-headed horse and was the first to rush out of the military camp in Dafeichuan. It seems like one step too late, Lanzhou's golden beauties will fall into the hands of others.
Immediately afterwards, 30,000 Kunlun cavalry among the 100,000 cavalry roared out like dark clouds covering the sky. Each knight raised the Tibetan scimitar in his hand and screamed. It was as if they were not going to fight, but getting married.
To them, the Central Plains is a paradise in their dreams, where gold is everywhere and beauties are like clouds!
Gal Qinling stood on the big chariot with his hands behind his hands, watching Danba Urji lead his army to attack. He exhaled a long breath from his nose and said to himself: Although Danba Urji was a little reckless and stupid, he charged into the battle. He is indeed a first-class expert in destroying cities and villages. It's time for me to send troops to attack Shanzhou earlier. Even if we can't capture the prefecture and county capital, we can still besiege the city and fight for reinforcements - my two younger brothers are still fighting hard at the Second Pass of Yuyang. As long as there is a war here in Shanzhou, the grain road at the second pass of Yuyang will be cut off and completely isolated, and it will only be a matter of time before the pass is broken... In this way, Lanzhou's defense line will definitely collapse!
"The horse is stepping on the river and the sword is pointing to the Central Plains, just around the corner!" Gar Qinling slapped his palm on the fence, and his eyes were filled with light!
At the same time, Qin Mubai, the fake sheepherder, abandoned the sheep and the hairless black-skinned herdsman, fell on the back of the Fire Cloud Horse, and galloped crazily!
"Huoyun! It all depends on you! Run as fast as you can!" Qin Mubai lay on the horse and hugged the horse's neck tightly, saying, "The Tubo army can advance at most two hundred miles a day. . It’s already past noon, and they have to camp for a rest in the middle of the night, which is about fifty or sixty miles away from Huanyue Valley. We won’t stop, and we will try our best to get to Shanzhou as soon as possible!”
Huo Yun seemed to understand what he said, the muscles all over his body exploded, and he ran like lightning with his hooves raised!
The north wind is like a knife, cutting my face hurts!
Qin Mubai felt that he had been frozen, facing the wind, he could not open his eyes, and his nostrils seemed to be filled with ice.
Huo Yun is really capable of risking his life! He drove Qin Mubai all the way and seemed to have no intention of stopping!
…
Late at night, in the governor's mansion of Shanzhou.
It has been a few days since the news of Qin Mubai's death was officially spread. A mourning hall was set up in the governor's mansion, and military generals from all over Zuozhou County came to express their condolences. The people in the city were all grieving. They gathered outside the governor's house every day, wailed and begged, and wanted to be the first to go inside, offer incense and worship...
At the same time, Shanzhou City was also in a state of turmoil and tension. After all the Guanxi Army retreated to the prefecture city, they all moved into the city and began to deploy their defenses. Li Daozong issued an order and ordered Xiao Liang, the governor of Lanzhou, to transfer the 30,000 new Lanzhou troops recently recruited and all the left-behind soldiers in other counties and counties, totaling 50,000 troops, both good and bad, to Shanzhou to participate. Armed. The people in Shanzhou City also spontaneously organized some manpower, either donating money and food or helping to build military buildings. They also formed a logging team to go out of the city to cut forests and prepare mucus to assist the army in building city defenses.
As a result, all the troops under the control of the Lanzhou Metropolitan Governor's Office, except for those deployed at the Second Pass of Yuyang, were all concentrated in the outpost city of Shanzhou!
Li Daozong had already written to the court, informing him of Qin Mubai's death, the truth about his defeat in Dafeichuan, and requesting reinforcements.
The current situation can be described as extremely critical. The gateway to Dafeichuan has been lost, and Shanzhou has become the throat of life and death. If this place is captured by the enemy, Lanzhou will be nakedly exposed to the iron hoof scimitar of the Tubo people.
In the land of Helong, there are dozens of states and counties for thousands of miles of fertile fields, and the situation is like a fortress!
Li Daozong, the acting governor and temporary grand marshal, felt unprecedented depression and crisis. In the early years when the country was founded and the country was conquering the north and south, he also took command and led the army, but at that time he could only bear the gains and losses of one battle regardless of success or failure. But right now, anyone can bear the heavy burden of Lanzhou with grinning teeth.
In the early years, when the emperor Li Shimin was still the king of Qin, he attacked Xue Ju in the west and fought hard twice before he was able to conquer Helong. Now, decades have passed, will Lanzhou fall into enemy hands again
Li Daozong was so anxious that he couldn't sleep at night.
This is half of the Tang Dynasty!
In this battle, no one really dares to lose, and no one can afford to lose!
…
The men were so busy doing big things that they seemed to have forgotten a few special women.
Li Xueyan, who was originally seriously ill and in a daze, became even more seriously ill after a bumpy journey and saw Qin Mubai's coffin and mourning hall with her own eyes. He had a high fever and was unconscious all day long. Occasionally he opened his mouth and uttered a few murmurs, all of which were words like "antidote", "mubai" and "wait for me".
Chen Yan and Tantai, who had recovered enough to get out of bed, accompanied her every day and were worried. From the moment Su Lianqing saw the appearance of Chen Yan, her natural nemesis, it was as if she had disappeared from the world and hid far away from anyone.
After several days of force-fed decoctions, Li Xueyan's high fever finally subsided, and she became much more awake. Chen Yan and Shuangshuang breathed a sigh of relief.
In the early morning of this day, Li Xueyan just opened his eyes and suddenly said to Chen Yan, "Sister, can you do me a favor?"
Chen Yan was adopted as an adopted daughter by Li Daozong. Li Xueyan had no sister, so he regarded Chen Yan as his biological sister and they always had a very good relationship with her.
"Okay, you say." Chen Yan replied.
"Go and prepare a wedding dress for me, okay?" Li Xueyan said.
"Wedding dress?" Chen Yan blinked in confusion, "What do you want to do?"
"I want to hold a dark marriage ceremony with Mu Bai."
"!!" Chen Yan was startled and looked at Li Xueyan with wide eyes, speechless for a moment.
"Sister, help me, please?" Li Xueyan turned around, looked at Chen Yan, and begged.
Chen Yan sighed softly and nodded, "Wait a minute."
"Thank you, Sister Yan." Li Xueyan said with a pale smile, "I knew you would definitely agree!"
"Why?" Chen Yan smiled, reached out and touched Li Xueyan's pale face, and said with compassion.
"Because at this moment, only you can understand my mood. Even my father, he doesn't understand..." Li Xueyan said softly.
Chen Yan suddenly felt a pain in her heart and nodded gently, "Just rest for a while, I'll be back as soon as I can."
An hour later, Chen Yan left and returned, bringing with her Fengguan Xiapei and Marriage Fat Gouache.
Li Xueyan got out of bed, took a shower and changed clothes. She sat in front of the bronze mirror while Chen Yan dressed her up.
Li Xueyan looked at herself in the bronze mirror and kept smiling.
"Sister Yan, have you and Mu Bai held a wedding ceremony?"
"No." Chen Yan replied while combing Li Xueyan's long hair, "I never care about this."
"Woman, it's just this once in a lifetime, how can you not care?" Li Xueyan raised the corners of her lips, revealing a sweet but sad smile, and said, "From today on, I am also a wife, no longer a child. ”
Chen Yan's hand suddenly paused, her brows furrowed, and she said, "You don't want to do something stupid, do you?"
"Don't worry, I won't." Li Xueyan said with a smile, "Although Mu Bai has gone, he still has his mother, brothers and sisters, and children, as well as you, Princess Gao Yang, and Wu Meiniang. With you by my side, I am not alone. I can survive."
Chen Yan was speechless, sighing silently and shaking her head.
"Sister Yan, do you think I'm stupid?"
"No." Chen Yan said, "There are many infatuated women like you in the world, but there are even more gentlemen with iron hearts."
"Sister, I don't regret it." Li Xueyan paused, then suddenly raised her head and looked at Chen Yan, and said seriously, word for word, "Really, I don't regret it!"
"I understand..." Chen Yan nodded gently, patted her shoulder and said, "Before, I saw a woman who was intoxicated with love and crazy with love. I thought that was the ultimate form of a woman. Now I understand. , The depth of love can only become more infatuated, but there is no ultimate.”
"Is the woman who is 'drunk and crazy about love' that Sister Yan mentioned, is my Sister Gaoyang?" Li Xueyan said.
"Yes, it's her." Chen Yan sighed and said, "She is really persistent, so persistent that she is crazy."
"I'm very envious of my imperial sister..." Li Xueyan bit her lip gently and said, "I'm not envious of what she got or gained in the end, but I envy her courage and persistence. Compared with her, I I am just a poor coward. I live a timid life. I don’t dare to ask for what I like, and I don’t dare to say what I want. But when I dare to say it, I have no chance... Why, Sister Gao Yang can do it. So straightforward and persistent, yet I’m so hesitant?”
"Everyone has their own nature. How can we be the same as others? You don't have to belittle yourself. Your kindness and sincerity are unmatched by others." Chen Yan stroked the hair around her ears and looked at the bronze mirror. She smiled and said, "Xueyan, you are really beautiful today."
"Really?" Chen Yan raised her hand, gently stroked Chen Yan's face with her cold fingers, and said leisurely, "Sister Yan, you are the wisest and most magnanimous woman I have ever seen. I am with you. Together, I really don’t feel depressed at all, let alone worry about anything. Besides, you are very good at taking care of others. Mu Bai must be very relaxed and happy when he is with you, right?"
"..." Chen Yan was speechless. The scenes in the small building in the countryside of Xiangyang reappeared in my mind again.
An hour later, it was dusk. There were gradually fewer people in the mourning hall in the side house of the Governor's Mansion. Only Yuwen Hongtai was still sitting in the mourning hall, holding in his arms the tiger-head-chiseled golden gun that Qin Mubai had used, holding a piece of silk in his hand, and silently wiping the tip of the gun with a cold face.
"Third brother, if that Tubo barbarian comes to kill someday, I will take your big gun and kill people!" Yuwen Hongtai said to himself, "If I can't come back, I will die when I get to the underworld. I will go to see you with this spear and I will tell you how many Tubo barbarians I have killed with this spear!"
The few remaining sergeants in the mourning hall who were serving the incense table and paper money clenched their teeth and clenched their fists until they heard him say these words.
At this time, Chen Yan and Tantai both supported Li Xueyan, who was wearing a phoenix crown and harem, and walked into the mourning hall from the side door.
Everyone was surprised. Yuwen Hongtai stood up and said with wide eyes: "Sister-in-law, what are you doing here?"
"Today, Her Royal Highness Princess Wencheng will marry the young marshal." Chen Yan said.
"Ah?" Everyone was stunned.
"Sister Yan, there is no need to disturb too many people. Let's hold the wedding!" Li Xueyan said with a smile, "Everyone present is the guest."
"This, this, this..." Yuwen Hongtai was dumbfounded and his mouth was trembling.
"call-"
With a sound, a bright red groom's robe was draped over Qin Mubai's coffin. Li Xueyan looked at Yuwen Hongtai and said, "General Yuwen, what you are holding is the young marshal's ancestral weapon, a golden gun with a tiger head and a chisel?"
"Ah? Yes... yes." Yuwen Hongtai replied blankly.
"Please take it over and put it next to me." Li Xueyan said with a smile.
Yuwen Hongtai walked over suspiciously, chiseled the tiger's head with a golden gun, and stood next to Li Xueyan.
Li Xueyan raised her wrist, led the bride and groom into the wedding hall hand in hand, and tied one end of the red silk ribbon on the golden gun with a tiger head to show that they were holding hands together.
"Sister, please put on the red wax. Mu Bai and I... are going to worship!"
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At this time, inside the big tent of the military camp in the city.
Li Daozong, Hou Junji, Xue Wanjun, other generals, and officials from Shanzhou prefecture and county all gathered together to discuss intensively the defense of the city against the enemy.
After the army withdrew from Dafeichuan and returned to Shanzhou, even Hou Junji didn't know what happened next. At this moment, while listening to Li Daozong's instructions on various matters, Hou Junji was secretly anxious: Qin Mubai, Qin Mubai, are you faking your death or are you really dead? It's getting urgent now, and there is no next step. Do you want to worry to death
After the meeting was over, all the generals went about their business. Li Daozong, who was tired and tired, let out a heavy breath and slumped down on the handsome chair, feeling dizzy. Hou Junji stayed behind, preparing to talk to him about military affairs.
At this time, a primary school student came in to see him and handed him a note.
Li Daozong lazily opened the letter and took a look at it. He snorted coldly and threw it on the table, "Get out of here and let him go!"
Hou Junji curiously picked up the writing and took a look at it, and immediately laughed, "Haha, what a second son of the eldest son! Seeing the army approaching, he actually escaped and returned to the capital!"
Li Daozong glanced at him and said, "I know you have a bitter feud with the eldest son's family. But you don't have to worry about this kind of thing."
"Why don't you care?" Hou Junji sneered and said, "I am a marching Sima, specializing in military discipline and rules. Changsun Huan said that he went home without asking because his mother was sick at home, and he ignored the military law and fled the battle. This is a crime. The Great Commandment of the Ten Killing Orders!”
"Then what do you want?" Li Daozong said casually, "Catch him back and chop him with a knife?"
"Your Majesty is wise, I am planning to do this." Hou Junji responded seriously, and then shouted loudly, "Come here! Issue a sea arrest order to capture the fugitive general Changsun Huan!"
"You're crazy!" Li Daozong slapped the table, "The enemy is facing us now, don't create any trouble!"
"Your Majesty, you don't have to worry about such trivial matters." Hou Junji smiled coldly, bowed his hands to Li Daozong, "General, I'm leaving."
Li Daozong's face was tense, and his heart was beating loudly as he watched Hou Junji exit the tent. He secretly thought: Originally, Changsun Huan came to do some military work and showed his kindness to Qin Mubai. Unexpectedly, half a year after arriving, I had not even seen Qin Mubai a few times, let alone working in the military industry and fawning over him. Now that Qin Mubai is dead, and the situation is critical, he actually ran away with oil on his feet! ...Such a villain should indeed be killed! -Forget it, it’s up to Hou Junji to avenge his private revenge! If Changsun Huan is really captured, he will die here!