Under the sky, by the light of the sky, he could see that the man had disheveled hair and was wearing ragged clothes. Before he came to him, he smelled a bad smell. He looked nervously at the black figure, who half-crawled around the boulder, came to him, suddenly raised his upper body, and threw himself on him.
Although Huo Luo was seriously injured, he was still able to raise his arm and knock the man away. The man was knocked down to the ground, and he wailed briefly, but he struggled again and crawled towards Huo Luo again. This time, as soon as this person approached, he stretched out his hand and grabbed the edge of Huo Luo's armor. No matter how much Huo Luo hit him, he would not let go. At the same time, he bit Huo Luo's arm with his mouth, like a mad dog. Shen Jian and the others finally regained their hearing power, heard the voice, and walked towards this side.
When Huo Luo waved the man away again, he lifted the hair covering the man's face, and a particularly ferocious face flashed in Huo Luo's eyes. Huo Luo felt that this face looked familiar, and when the man rushed forward again It was only then that I remembered, isn't this the fake princess of the Southern Dynasty that he married? !
This person is the fourth princess. Huo Luo rose out of the camp, and the soldiers naturally followed with their families and camp prostitutes, and the four princesses were also engulfed in it. After setting up camp, the soldiers went to attack the pass on the ridge. The camp was empty, and the four princesses finally found a chance to leave the camp. She has only one foot and can only walk with a limp. Surrounded by mountains, she walked to the mountain where the battle was taking place. If she could reach the place where the battle was fought, even if she died in front of the battle, she would be regarded as dying beside her own people, not among the Beirong.
She walked very slowly, and had to avoid the Bei Rong soldiers on the mountain road. Those soldiers could climb the mountain in half an hour. She started climbing in the afternoon, and it was only halfway through the mountain in the middle of the night. It was dark all around, only one ridge was lit with raging fire, and the sound of gongs and suonas was heard from time to time. Listening to these noises, the fourth princess endured hunger and severe cold, and tried her best to move forward, but she crawled more and more slowly. She was afraid that she would die if she couldn't get there...
Suddenly, footsteps came from the front, and the fourth princess hurriedly climbed behind a big rock. A person rolled to the boulder where she was hiding, and what did she hear? ! She heard the voices of the southerners! It's still an absolutely authentic Beijing accent! In these years, the fourth princess seldom heard Chinese, and when she heard the accent again, she burst into tears, she wanted to cry, but judging from what the man said, there should be a fire in front of the stone, and the hatred burned like a raging fire. Immediately dried up her tears. She climbed out of the boulder and rushed towards Huo Luo...
Shen Jian finally identified where the noise was, he waved to the others and ran here. He found two shadows fighting together. In the darkness, Shen Jian saw that the person lying below was Huo Luo, so he didn't stab the person above with his sword. Only said on one side: "This is Huo Luo, we can help you."
When the fourth princess heard this, she fought Huo Luo even more recklessly. Huo Luo's blood was about to run out, and several arrows had penetrated deep into his back. Seeing that there was no hope of going down the mountain, and unable to warn Bei Rong, he was desperate, his arms began to weaken, and finally fell to the ground. The fourth princess finally pulled his hair to his chest, her one eye fixedly stared at Huo Luo, a few inches away, and grinned at Huo Luo. The madness in her eyes made Huo Luo terrified, his whole body trembled violently uncontrollably, with a look of fear on his face, the fourth princess seemed satisfied, she lowered her head and bit Huo Luo's neck...
Huo Luo reluctantly let out a low cry, then gasped for breath with difficulty, his eyes widened, and before long, he gradually lost his breath. Shen Jian and the others, even if they were sergeants, felt that the situation where one person bit off another's throat was very tragic, and they didn't dare to step forward. When Huo Luo's originally slightly bent legs suddenly straightened, the person on his body slowly raised her head. Her face was covered with blood, like a ghost in the night.
The onlookers were silent, Shen Jian swallowed, and said, "This...er..."
The fourth princess didn't speak for a long time, her tongue was already stiff, she made a hoarse voice Ulu Ulu.
Shen Jian felt a sudden chill on his back. He vaguely heard the voice of Nanchao. He got closer, knelt down and said, "Your man is from Nanchao?"
The fourth princess laughed, choked up and cried a few more times, then sobbed and howled with difficulty, and gestured with her fingers on the ground.
Shen Jian was taken aback when he saw the word "Shen" in the handwriting, and moved closer. The other person was one-eyed, with wrinkled skin all over his face, like an old woman. He didn't know such a person... Suddenly, he saw the other person's bloody body. There was a horizontal scar on his face, and he lost his voice: "Fourth princess?!"
The fourth princess was hoarse, almost crying: Princess...
Someone looked down the mountain and said: "There is a large group of torches coming up!"
Shen Jian raised his head and said to the people, "Hurry up, carry her up the mountain!"
The fourth princess shook her head, pointed at the dagger on Shen Jian's calf, and yelled a few times.
Shen Jian hesitated for a moment, but still took out the dagger from his boots and gave it to the fourth princess. Seeing the current state of the fourth princess, Shen Jian really couldn't bear it. No matter how arrogant and unreasonable the fourth princess was, it was a pity that the fourth princess fell to this point.
The fourth princess took the dagger and began to cut Huo Luo's neck. There are bones in the neck, so it is not so easy to cut. She cut it repeatedly for a long time, but only cut the flesh in front.
Someone whispered: "Those people are approaching, we have to go quickly."
The fourth princess raised her head, gasped and gestured to Shen Jian, asking him to help.
Seeing the miserable state of the fourth princess, Shen Jian knew that the Huo Luo she married must have tortured her in every possible way, and she should take revenge if she wanted to, so enduring the stench from the fourth princess, she possessed herself and held the fourth princess's hand, for her Jiali cut off Huo Luo's head.
The fourth princess tightly grabbed Huo Luo's hair with one hand, and lifted Huo Luo's head, as if suddenly without bones, she threw herself on Shen Jian's arm. Shen Jian wanted to take back the dagger from the fourth princess, but the fourth princess was still dead. Clenched tightly, he had no choice but to support the fourth princess to get up, and said to the others: "Come on, let's go up the mountain." A soldier came over and lifted the fourth princess's feet and said, "Oh, she is missing a foot!"
When they heard Shen Jian call this person "Fourth Princess", they knew that she was the daughter of the emperor who married Bei Rong, but she was so cruelly destroyed by Bei Rong! Hearing this again, he became even more furious, and scolded: "Those bastards, how could they do this to a woman?!"
A string of torches at the bottom of the mountain approached, Shen Jian and the soldiers hurriedly climbed up the ridge, and after walking into the light of the fire, the soldiers on the ridge kept shouting for them to run quickly. The Beirong people started shooting arrows from behind. Shen Jian and the others ran zigzags. Some soldiers jumped out of the wall and shot arrows backwards. They protected Shen Jian and carried the fourth princess over the wall. They couldn't walk around, they could only go to the side of the ridge and put the four princesses on the ground.
Under the firelight, the fourth princess's distress was even more obvious. She held the dagger in one hand and Huo Luo's head in the other, like a Yaksha.
Duan Zeng hurriedly took her hand to give her pulse, he frowned, put down the wrist of the fourth princess, and did not speak.
Yan squeezed over and asked Shen Jian with concern: "Are you okay?"
Shen Jian said, "I'm fine."
Yan Shi saw Shen Jian carrying a person up, and looked on the ground, it was a man in ragged clothes, holding a dagger in one hand and a human head in the other.
Shen Jian said in a low voice, "This is the fourth princess."
Yan was taken aback when she heard this, and squatted beside the fourth princess. Seeing that her lips were all cracked, she looked at Duan Zeng. Duan Zeng shook his head very weakly, and then said to the person: "Bring hot water quickly."
Outside, the soldiers of Bei Rong who were chasing up began to charge, and Qi Conglin yelled for people to start shooting arrows. The soldiers and people who rushed up this time were not elite soldiers, it was because the commander and his men never returned to see what was going on. These people did not charge violently, and they could be shot back with arrows and crossbows, so they failed to climb the remnant wall.
Duan Zeng asked someone to boil ginger water for the soldiers during the attack, so someone brought hot water in a short while. Yan helped the fourth princess up and gave her a sip of water.
After taking a mouthful of hot ginger water, the fourth princess seemed to be relieved. She watched Yan Shi pointing to her skirt, snoring in a low voice, and said "book" with her mouth. Yan asked: "Letter?" The fourth princess blinked in approval , making mouth shape again: prince...
Prince? Yan blinked her eyes, but she saw that the fourth princess's eyes were a little loose, knowing that she would die soon, she nodded and said: "Okay, give it to the prince."
The fourth princess reluctantly raised the hand holding Huo Luo's head to let Yan Shi see, Yan suppressed his nausea, and said to the fourth princess: "You kill him." The fourth princess let go of her hand, and the head rolled away a little. The fourth princess pointed to the head, then pointed to the broken wall, and spoke with her mouth. Yan stared at her mouth and said, "Pick it out and let them see it?"
The fourth princess nodded vigorously, and Yan said: "Okay, show it to the people of Beirong!" She had never met the fourth princess before, but now she saw that such a woman suffered so much and cut off Huo Luo's head head, with tears in his eyes for a moment.
There were shouts and bangs outside, and in the flickering fire, the fourth princess saw tears in Yan's eyes, and her eyes were also moist. She watched Yan Shi trying to speak, but she lost her tongue, so she could only whimper, and wrote on the ground with the dirty fingers that were holding Huo Luo's head: buried... She pointed to herself, and then to the ground.
Yan said hesitantly: "Still, why don't you go back to the capital?"
The fourth princess seemed to smile and shed a drop of tears. She shook her head vigorously: Do you want people to see me like this
Yan Shi understood what she meant and said to her, "Okay, listen to you."
The outside attack stopped, Shen Jian and Qi Conglin both came back in a hurry. The fourth princess looked at them, seemed to sigh, and then began to breathe. Duan Zeng took out the needle, hesitated, and said in a low voice, "It's just to make her suffer more..." But he still stuck the needle on the top of the fourth princess' head.
The fourth princess breathed more steadily, looked at Yan Shi again, and struggled to speak to Yan Shi, but Yan Shi couldn't understand. The fourth princess wrote on the ground with her hands: They... failed to kill me...
As soon as Yan Shi read this word by word, Fang was about to nod her head, Shen Jian shouted: "Quick..." Yan Shi hurriedly raised her head, seeing that the fourth princess had put the dagger on her heart, Yan Shi was going to pull her The fourth princess looked at her with begging eyes, and Yan's hand stopped in the air. The fourth princess fiercely stabbed the dagger towards her heart, she straightened her whole body up, then relaxed, let go of her hands, and exhaled her last breath.
Yan Shi knew that the fourth princess was the prince's younger sister, but she couldn't help crying at this moment. Duan Zeng took the needle from the fourth princess's head, and his face was heavy.
The people around watched silently for a while, Yan turned her head and said to Shen Jian: "She said she would be buried here, she doesn't want to go back to the capital."
Seeing the appearance of the fourth princess, everyone also understood that if she was sent back, it would be publicizing her humiliation to the world. Being buried here has saved her some dignity.
As the sky was approaching dawn, some remaining soldiers and civilians of Beirong hesitated to go up the mountain, but no one charged up again: Tens of thousands of elite soldiers disappeared with the commander, so who would dare to go up again? While watching, someone on the ridge picked out Huo Luo's head with a bamboo pole. There was an uproar on the Beirong side, and people began to retreat down the mountain. The coach is definitely dead. Should everyone go home
When they all went down the mountain and returned to the valley, Yan Shi lit the fireworks, and the fireworks flew into the sky. After a loud explosion, the surrounding area was still silent before dawn. But soon, the seven peaks around the valley rumbled almost simultaneously.
Seeing the fireworks, the old carpenter pulled the iron chain with a pulley, and pulled away the tripod that stabilized a pillar under a wooden platform not far away. The pillar swayed first, and soon tilted. The stones piled up on the wooden platform rolled down naturally. Along the hillside, the rolling became bigger and bigger, driving the snow accumulation, forming an avalanche...
The speed of the avalanche is getting faster and faster as it goes down, and the snow waves are getting bigger and bigger. At the beginning, Shen Wen told Yan that he was worried that these avalanches would not be able to take shape, or they would not be able to reach the valley where the Beirong soldiers were located, or the speed would be too slow, because some The avalanche may only have a speed of fifty kilometers per kilometer, allowing the enemy to retreat. Therefore, the Yan family has always put the avalanche on the back burner, planning to use the avalanche to scare off the rest after eliminating a large number of elite soldiers.
Now, Yan Shi was watching nervously on the mountain. Several avalanches facing the valley of the Beirong garrison gradually gathered during the descent, forming a snow flow that washed away the valley.
An avalanche occurred in the surrounding mountains at the same time, and a line of snow flowed down, which seemed to indicate that the heavens had punished them. The Beirong people were already guilty, but when they saw such a strange avalanche, they became even more frightened. A crowd of people screamed, dropped their helmets and armor, retreated in a hurry, and quickly left. In almost a moment, Beirong's men and horses disappeared at the bend of the mountain, and the snow flow on the mountain also reached the valley, slowly filling the gully. The original mountain full of flags and people turned into a sheet of white snow again, only the flagpoles and the tops of the tents were exposed in some places. The hillside in front of them was covered with corpses. The two piles of fire had been burnt out, and the remaining smoke and ashes drifted in the cold morning wind.
Qi Conglin breathed out, and said in a hoarse voice: "They are retreating!" The soldiers behind cheered feebly a few times, and many of them sat on the ground, stretched their limbs and said, "I have to sleep for a while..." They I haven't closed my eyes for three days and three nights.
Duan Zeng kicked them one by one: "Don't sleep! There are no tents here. Sleeping like this is courting death! Get up! Get up! Otherwise, I will prick you with needles..." The hillside is facing the severe wind and cold, and these people will freeze to death if they sleep.
Shen Jian pointed to the valley and said, "The avalanche filled most of the valley and blocked the road. Even if they want to come back, they have to wait for a few days."
Yan said: "I calculate that they have lost more than 50,000 people, most of them are soldiers. Even if they come back, there are not many soldiers left."
Qi Conglin said: "Should I just leave a few hundred people behind? Monitor Beirong and bring others back to the city. We are needed more there."
Yan shook her head: "It's too cold here, we can't keep people here."
Shen Jian nodded and said, "Since they lost most of their soldiers, we won't guard here anymore, go back, and enter the city before the Beirong siege."
Yan frowned and said: "Someone must follow the scholar to pick up those who made the avalanche. They have been guarding there for a long time, so we can't leave them alone."
Duan Zeng heard it, and came over and said, "We have dozens of wounded, some of whom are slightly injured, but if we hurry, we will definitely not be able to move fast."
Shen Jian thought for a while and said: "The wounded, those who were withdrawn from the mountain, and the volunteers, don't go back to the city. Go south from here, and tell people there that Beirong may pass."
Yan nodded immediately: "Good idea!" This will spread the news of the entry of Beirong East Route Army...
Qi Conglin remembered that Shen Yi said that the final decision should be made by Shen Jian, so he nodded slowly.
Everyone quickly packed up their things, drank hot water, ate dry food, and helped the volunteer soldiers who had stood next to the black ice all night untie their ropes and returned to the ground without black ice. The faces of the volunteer soldiers were ashen. After the night, each of them was exhausted, and some of them still couldn't hear a sound.
Shen Jian beckoned Li Chang Chen, who had dark and purple lips, to come over, and said to Li Chang Chen, "I will send thirty sergeants and your volunteers to send the wounded to the south..."
Chen Lichang stared and waved his hands vigorously - he really didn't want to talk now, Shen Jian raised his hands and said: "This is not an easy job, although Bei Rong has retreated now, there is still a possibility to come back. We can't stare here, and, they There are not many troops on this road, and the inland people and the government soldiers should be able to resist. You can go there with the soldiers and organize an armed force against the enemy. If there are Bei Rong passing by, you can block them."
Chen Lichang played the suona all night, and his vitality was greatly injured, but this did not stop him from asking in a trembling voice: "Then... can I... get the crossbow?"
Shen Jian looked at his weak arm and shook his head. Seeing Li Chang Chen's disappointed expression, Shen Jian hurriedly said: "Everyone who is on the ridge now is a meritorious person! You will all be rewarded in the future, that is Going to the south, you also represent the Shen family army!"
Li Chang Chen felt a little happier, so he went to discuss with the volunteer soldiers he brought. Soon, he came back and said that there were more than 60 volunteer soldiers, and about ten of them were determined to return to the city, and the rest could go to the south.
In contrast, Qi Conglin's side was a bit more difficult. None of the soldiers he asked wanted to go to the south. Many people were furious at the time: "No! How many years have I practiced, such as piercing arrows with a hundred steps to extinguish candles, and finally waited until now, only to fight with those civilians after a battle? Does this mean that I can't do it? Think I'm a fool ah… "
Qi Conglin earnestly said: "There will also be battles over there. What if Beirong passes through? It depends on you to lead the people to fight against the enemy..."
Someone replied: "Even if Bei Rong has passed by, how can there be so many people attacking the city?! You are so brainless!"
"That's right, let the wounded soldiers go? Those people heal quickly..."
The wounded were also protesting: "I just hurt my thigh! I can still shoot arrows for sure! I want to go back to Yancheng!"...
In the end, Qi Conglin had no choice but to agree to let the wounded soldiers go, and those who were not injured would not have to go. As a result, there was another debate about who was the wounded soldier, and many people said that they were not considered wounded. Duan Zeng identified them one by one, and finally settled on fifty-seven people.
Yan called several scholars together and said to them: "You lead the volunteers to the mountain over there to pick up those who caused the avalanche, and then go to the south and tell the people along the way..."
A scholar immediately said: "No, I have to go back to the city with the military division. There are many things in the city..." Others also said they wanted to go back to the city.
Yan's persuasion: "You have helped me do a lot of things. This time I went to the south, and I was also doing things for the border. You should speak out loudly that the Beirong might pass by, let the people along the coast be vigilant and organize resistance, so that we don't need to keep soldiers around. We have defended here, we can go back to defend Yancheng with all our strength."
Shen Jian walked over and said, "That's right. You can speak well and write well. When you get there, it's better to deal with the local government than just our soldiers and volunteers."
Several scholars were very unhappy, and Yan urged: "Take someone to find the old carpenter and the others, and return here before dark." The scholars had to call a dozen young volunteers to go to the peak of Xuebeng To meet the people there, Qi Conglin asked all the people who wanted to go back to the city to go down to pull arrows from the corpses. The soldiers knew it had to be done, but they still complained wearily: "You are really stingy." Let people live..." It took them a long time to recover most of the arrows, but they didn't have the strength to deal with the corpse.
Yan found a piece of cloth that the fourth princess hid in the tattered placket. It looked like a corner of a gorgeous embroidered dress, but unfortunately it was already full of stains. There were only a few bloody words written on it: Huoluo beast, kill my envoy .
Even if the fourth princess doesn't write anything, her appearance also shows that those who follow her will not end up. Yan Shi has never been hurt by the fourth princess, so he is very sympathetic to the fourth princess at this time. Enduring her sadness, she wiped the face and hands of the fourth princess with water. There were men all around, so she didn't wipe her body. She chose a relatively flat place on the ridge and asked someone to dig a hole. At this time in the twelfth lunar month of winter and three feet of freezing, it was impossible to dig a deep hole, so I had to use an iron pick to dig a shallow hole, put the fourth princess in it, and then pressed stone slabs on it, and piled up the stone for Yan's family at that time. Arrange some stones brought up from the ground. Yan found a piece of wood, hesitated for a while, and asked someone to carve "The Tomb of the Southern Dynasty Women" with a sword, and then engraved "Here is here" on the bottom, marked the date, month and day, and inserted it on the stone.
Soldiers lifted the ice from the rocks and restored the hillside to its original appearance, but piled the material nearby for later use.
In the afternoon, the scholars and volunteers returned with the old carpenter and his men. The old carpenter was crippled and his face was full of frostbite. Yan saluted him and thanked him. The old carpenter said in a trembling voice: "Thank you, the military division, for sending me to find me. I was so cold that I didn't want to move. Without their support, probably I can't come down."
Duan Zeng came and said, "Let me take a look." He took turns to diagnose and treat several people who were half frozen to death.
Yan wanted the old carpenter and others to go to the south, but the old carpenter and his sons were determined to go back to the city, saying that they would take care of the woodcarver with bad eyesight, so Yan had no choice but to agree.
The sun was setting on the western mountain, the soldiers carried their luggage and quiver, and the volunteers carried the wounded and walked down the mountain.
Yan Shi and Shen Jian stayed at the end. Before they left, they took a last look at the valley that had been covered by the shadow of the mountain peak. Recalling the scene when Shen Wen led them here to point out the country that day, Yan said to Shen Jian in a low voice: "At that time, the younger sister said that she couldn't bear this trick, because I didn't give the enemy a chance to change. Now I understand she meant."
Shen Jian sighed: "War is so bloody, I hope you and my little sister don't have to go through all of this. Women should be in the rear, just embroider flowers and weave cloth..."
Yan Shi glared at him, "Look down on women? If you don't have a younger sister, how can you do this? Didn't I help you?!"
Shen Jian shook Yan Shi's hand and said, "Of course I helped, I want to thank my lady, otherwise..."
Knowing what he was going to say, Yan Shi pulled him hard: "Don't talk nonsense! Oh, I haven't settled the score with you yet, why did you go down and chase Huo Luo by yourself?"
Shen Jian's surprised expression: "You still want me to take you to chase after Huo Luo?!"
Yan Shi curled her lips: "No, but I should say hello anyway..."
Shen Jian took Yan's hand: "Okay, next time I'll say: I'm going to chase the enemy, can Master Yan agree?"
Yan smiled: "Yes!"
Shen Jian looked at Yan Shi and also smiled, Yan Shi was a little embarrassed, turned his face to look at the team going away, saw someone waving to them, and said: "Let's go, they called us, there is still a battle to go back to the city !According to my Senior Brother Ji's estimates, we are barely gaining the upper hand, and it won't be easy."
Shen Jian nodded, and the two walked down the mountain holding hands.
There was no one on the ridge, and the setting sun in the cold winter illuminated a section of the dilapidated city wall. There was a tall human head in front of the wall, a solitary grave behind the wall, and layers of dead bodies under the ten-zhang cliff in front of the slope and behind the mountain.
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The Marquis of Zhenbei finally finished his inspection of what he thought to be ordinary "city defense works", and he was so shocked that he couldn't speak for a long time. Although this lost city was built crudely, with rough stones and wood, its designed offensive and defensive structures and various mechanisms were full of killing intent. It is very difficult for those who have entered this lost city to get out alive.
Ji Wenzhao looked at Zhenbeihou's surprised but also vaguely angry expression, and thought to himself, this is probably the same as when a mouse returns home and finds a big hole dug out by the little mouse under the original small hole.
Just as he was proud, Zhenbeihou asked: "How did you mobilize so many craftsmen's money to complete this lost city?"
Ji Wenzhao found that his habit of bragging really came into play at this time, and said in a calm tone: "Master Hou said that I am Zhuge reincarnated, and Xiuming is ashamed. But such a small construction, Xiuming can still undertake it! This matter , First of all, it is to draw the map, and then quarry the stone and materials according to the map, and call the craftsmen. In the famine a few years ago, people were displaced, and it was easy to find manpower. As for the food, Shen Dushi has been distributing... "
Mentioning Shen Jian, Zhenbei Hou felt a headache, he couldn't be angry that this usually gentle second son carried out such a big project behind his back, he could only say: "Very... not bad."
Ji Wenzhao smiled, "Of course."
Zhenbeihou didn't care about Ji Wenzhao's arrogance now, he saw this lost city and felt that he was more confident in defending Yancheng, so he said: "Let's go to the other gates and then deploy soldiers to defend the city. "
Ji Wenzhao said critically, "It's not just about defending the city."
Zhenbeihou frowned, then nodded: "Yes! It's not defending the city, it's annihilating the enemy!"
Shen Yi outside the city received the report that all the soldiers had retreated, so he said to others: "Five hundred cavalry and a thousand empty horses, follow me to meet Governor Shen."
It was dark soon after the team of Shen Jian and others went down the mountain. They were too tired and the wind was light down the mountain, so they camped to rest and set off again before dawn the next day.
Shen Jian and Yan Shi walked together, Shen Jian asked in a low voice: "Are you tired?"
Yan said proudly: "Of course I'm not tired! Back when I was at home, I had to walk for four hours every day, and then I came to the border again. My legs and feet are almost like iron."
The two of them walked in front, muttering to each other, and Li Zhang behind looked at it and sighed: "It seems that not only father and son are going to fight, but also brother-in-law."
Qi Conglin and everyone around laughed, and Shen Jian and Yan Shi left a little distance.
Suddenly someone shouted: "Come and see! Isn't this the two people who left early that day?!"
It turned out that someone left the team to go to the side of the road for convenience, and found the two people killed by Wang Zhi.
Li Chang Chen hurriedly ran over, and immediately shouted: "Really! These two people were brought by me, but how can I tell their families!"
A person next to him said coldly: "Let's say they fled the battle, but they didn't die on the battlefield, but they found their own death!"
Chen Lichang sighed: "Although they don't live up to expectations, they can't be so straightforward, can they? How uncomfortable the family members are!"
Shen Jian looked at the corpse, saw Yan's contemptuous eyes in a blink of an eye, knew that she also understood Wang Zhi's intentions, and said to Chen Lichang: "Let's say they were killed by spies."
Chen Lichang bowed his head: "It's better to die on the battlefield for such a useless person. Shall we carry them back?"
The soldiers all carried bags of arrows and other weapons on their backs. The volunteer soldiers usually did not have intensive training, and now they were carrying the wounded, and they were extremely exhausted. People said, "I can't carry it back." Bury it here and tell their families."
The crowd covered the two men with earth and stones, and then moved forward again.
Thinking of Wang Zhi, he thought of other spies. Shen Jian said to Qi Conglin, "It's best not to spread random rumors about our affairs above, tell everyone, and keep the details secret until after the war."
Someone said, "Yeah, maybe you can do it again."
Qi went all the way from Lin busy, and a soldier said to Chen Lichang and others: "You people, keep your mouth shut!"
Li Chang Chen got angry: "You kid called us people at this time?! We are righteous soldiers, soldiers!"
The soldiers laughed: "Uncle! Your days as a soldier are over!"
Li Chang Chen retorted: "No!"...
Qi Conglin yelled: "Don't quarrel! Remember, no one talks too much!" Everyone agreed scatteredly.
Soon, at the fork in the road, Chen Lichang and other volunteer soldiers, scholars and wounded soldiers were going south. Everyone gave them the rest of the dry food. The active wounded soldiers and volunteer soldiers were equipped with weapons. The two sides said goodbye. The volunteer soldiers carried the wounded and supported the lightly wounded and left.
Not long after walking, there was a group of cavalry coming in the distance. Shen Jian looked at the banner and knew that it was Shen Yi who came to meet him.
When Shen Yi saw Shen Jian and the others, he immediately stepped forward, dismounted and ran in front of Shen Jian, with a rare expression of joy and anger, and said to Shen Jian: "Second brother! You have already gone down the mountain?! You are not really injured, are you? "
Shen Jian laughed: "Of course not."
Qi Conglin ran over to meet Li, and Shen Yi asked, "How are you doing?"
Qi Conglin said loudly: "Great! Everyone is a hero!"
The soldiers burst into laughter, Shen Yi looked over with a straight face, and everyone was quiet.
Shen Yi asked Qi Conglin: "They still listen to you
This time, Qi Conglin stuttered and said, "Still... I'd better listen... listen..."
The soldiers around laughed softly.
Shen Jian rolled his eyes at Qi Conglin, knowing why those soldiers were not afraid of him.
Shen Yi snorted, ignored Qi Conglin who couldn't get up, and said loudly: "Everyone get on your horse! Let's go back to Yancheng!" The soldiers were busy allocating empty horses, putting luggage on the horses, etc., the old carpenter and others I can't ride a horse, so I have to sit on someone else's horse...
Taking advantage of the confusion, Shen Jian whispered to Shen Yi: "Little sister's idea really succeeded."
Shen Yi nodded, glanced at Yan Shi who was standing silently behind him and said: "You can't leave the city, the things above are all arranged by Yan Junshi's leaders, and Yan Junshi should be the leader!" He still doesn't know Yan Shi's real identity .
Yan Shi heard this, and hurriedly said: "No need..."
Shen Yi said: "How can I do it? After the war, I will ask for credit for you."
Yan shook his hand: "It's really unnecessary, I'm just a... uh... a scholar who came to help..." How can I repay the merit? It's true that Uncle Yan is in front of the county magistrate far away, and if his identity is revealed, it will be a disaster!
Shen Yi interrupted: "Mr. Yan doesn't have to be so modest..."
Shen Jian hurriedly changed the subject and said, "Everyone has meritorious service, and I will report it properly when I get back."
Yan's heart is relieved, anyway, it is Shen Jian who writes, so he naturally knows the depth.
At sunset, they rode out of the mountain area, and there were no people in the villages along the way. Shen Yi said to Shen Jian: "The people in the surrounding three hundred miles should leave. They will either enter Yancheng or go south. All the soldiers from the frontier stronghold have also been summoned into Yancheng, and now you are outside." Just as he was speaking, there was a rush of horseshoes ahead, and the soldiers shouted: "General Shen!"
Shen Yi waved his hand, and the soldier came over and said to Shen Yi: "Report! A large group of Beirong cavalry was found a hundred miles north of Yancheng!" It was Shen Yi's signal soldier.
Shen Yi turned his head and shouted: "Speed up!" Bei Rong's cavalry were so fast that they couldn't delay.
Shen Jian hurriedly turned his head and said to Yan Shi who was riding behind him: "Master Yan! Come up, I'll take you!" Although Yan Shi learned how to ride a horse while traveling north, he didn't have the skills to gallop on horseback, so he jumped off immediately after hearing the news. He got off his own horse, climbed onto Shen Jian's horse's back, hugged Shen Jian's waist with both hands without any shyness, and pressed his body tightly against Shen Jian.
Shen Yi looked at it and felt that it was very, very wrong! frowned.
A soldier said to Duan Zeng: "Duan Langzhong, we are going to fly, how about you ride behind me, like Yan Junshi?"
Duan Zeng raised his eyebrows: "How can I be like her?! She is..."
Shen Jian and Yan Shi coughed at the same time in front, and Duan Zeng snorted, "I know how to ride a horse better than her!" He went to Beirong with the Second Miss Shen, and galloped thousands of miles!
A soldier jokingly said: "Duan Langzhong, don't be brave! What if you fall down for a while? Come on, put your arms around me!"
Duan Zeng scolded: "Be careful, don't get hurt in my hands! I will make you cry!"
The soldier cried and said: "Duan Langzhong, I dare not..."
The people next to him laughed, and Shen Yi said sternly: "Why are you laughing! Go forward quickly! We are blocked outside the city by Bei Rong, and we have to cry and call for someone to save us?!"
No one dared to take Shen Yi's next step, and while the twilight was still dark, they could still see the road clearly, so everyone rushed their horses and ran towards Yancheng.
At the same time, the Marquis of Zhenbei frowned tightly in the Yancheng army, listening to the urgent reports again and again: "The northern army cavalry entered twenty miles..."
"More than 400,000 people crossed the border..."
"Bei Rong has passed the Xiaoling Pass in the north, the soldiers at the pass have withdrawn, and the Bei Rong can go straight in without hindrance!"
"The Northern Army cavalry has arrived at Heishui Town, sixty miles away..."
Marquis Zhenbei said: "Tell the imperial court the urgent military situation, and tell the emperor that our Shen family army will stick to it to the last breath."
Ji Wenzhao hurriedly wrote the memorial, Zhenbei Hou signed it, and Ji Wenzhao sent someone to send it out.
When only Ji Wenzhao was in the room, Zhenbeihou asked, "Are you sure that General Shen and the others have received an urgent message?"
Ji Wenzhao nodded and said, "For sure, General Shen's recruits are all around (not less than your army). He must have gone to the northeast to meet Governor Shen, and he should be on his way back now."
Zhenbeihou said: "Let's go to the city."
They guarded the city all night, when it was dawn, Zhenbei Hou looked north from the top of the city. In the morning of severe winter, the sky and the earth are still gray, and there seems to be a dark shadow in the north where the sky and the earth connect...
Zhenbeihou blinked, and suddenly shouted: "Order! Close the city gate! Beirong is here!"
Ji Wenzhao who was beside him hurriedly said, "No! Keep the northeast gate, and wait for General Shen and the others!"
Zhenbeihou nodded and said: "Okay, just leave the northeast gate, let's go there."
There was a sound of horns in the city, and the sporadic pedestrians on the road outside the city were desperately running towards Yancheng. The black shadow in the distance became bigger and bigger, and finally became a crowd of people with banners, spreading towards Yancheng like overwhelming.