She looked at the old doctor in disbelief, and asked incredulously, "What did you say? Say it again?"
"Madam, you are so careless. You are pregnant and it has been almost three months. Why don't you know about it? Besides, your physique is very poor and your pulse is very chaotic. Tires are dangerous."
three months? Chu Qiao lowered her head and looked at her still flat belly, how could it be possible? She was pregnant? When she was waiting to get married, when she was fighting north and south, when she was soaking in the river and fighting on horseback under the hail of bullets, there was actually a child in her stomach
"I'll prescribe an anti-fetal medicine for you that nourishes blood and nourishes qi. You should take it well and then rest with peace of mind. Don't travel long distances. You're tired after hard work." The old doctor comforted her, and then went out with He Xiao.
Chu Qiao sat on the bed with a dazed expression. These days, bad news came frequently, wars broke out up and down, and everything was like a huge wave, hitting her one after another. But unexpectedly, in such an environment, she was pregnant.
She stretched out her trembling hand and gently covered her lower abdomen, vaguely, she seemed to be able to hear the weak heartbeat of the child.
A line of tears suddenly slipped down from the corner of her eyes, she bit her lower lip lightly, with a choked sob in her throat, she shed tears silently.
Zhuge Yue, I am pregnant with your child.
I have a child.
As the night gradually fell, He Xiao lit a candle for the room, and he called for some nourishing food and soup, walked to Chu Qiao's bed, and asked softly, "Sir, shall we still go to Tang Jing? Why don't you just turn around and go back to Qinghai?"
Chu Qiao raised her head and looked at him, her eyes were straightened, she didn't speak.
"My lord, your body is not suitable for continuing to lead the army. If you don't think about yourself, you should also think about the fourth young master and the child in your belly."
Chu Qiao was startled when she heard this, she looked down at her stomach, and continued to remain silent. After a long time, she raised her head and said softly: "He Xiao, I have already lied to him once."
He Xiao was taken aback, not knowing who she was talking about, so he asked, "What did you say, my lord?"
"I've already lied to him once." Chu Qiao's eyes were serene and misty, looking at the candle light quietly, "I told him that I would stay by his side to protect him and prevent others from bullying him, but I Couldn't do it. He doesn't have any parents anymore, and I think about my children, so who's going to think about him?"
Suddenly, He Xiao knew that she was talking about Emperor Tang Li Xiuyi. He frowned and said: "My lord, the situation has not been reversed by you alone. Even if you stayed in Bian Tang, you may not be able to put an end to what happened today. You are not in good health, so don't think too much. Don't worry about it." Take everything on yourself."
Chu Qiao raised her head and took a deep breath.
"He Xiao, there are some responsibilities in this world that cannot be escaped." The corners of her mouth parted, and she said calmly, "I have received great favors from Li Ce and Bian Tang, and now it is time to repay them. I think if I set that If my child ignores me in danger, my child will look down on me in the future."
She sat up, got off to put on her shoes, walked to the table and started eating, and after eating, she drank the medicine honestly.
Under the lights, she looked so thin, how could she look like a mother who was three months pregnant
"Don't worry, nothing will happen."
He Xiao looked at her, and for a moment didn't know who she was talking about, whether it was herself, or the child in her belly, or the current Emperor Tang.
The cool night wind blows the willow branches outside the window.
Bian Tang landscape remains the same, but the pace of war is approaching.
At the same time, in Baizhi's big tent, Yan Xun was wearing a black robe and sitting on the couch. Below are more than a dozen young beauties just sent by wealthy local businessmen, all dressed in light gauze and half naked, looking delicate and attractive.
From time to time, a bold girl raised her head and secretly glanced at the man with power over the world. It's a pity that his eyes never bet on this side for a moment.
"Your Majesty, we have deployed our troops and we must wipe out the Xiuli army at Hanshui Pass."
"Come here!" Yan Xun raised his head suddenly, waved to the outside, and some soldiers walked in.
"Drag him down and beat him with twenty army sticks!"
The subordinate's personal guard immediately set up the staff officer and was about to go out. The man didn't know where he said something wrong, so he quickly pleaded guilty, but he didn't dare to beg for mercy. After a while, the screams rang out. The girls kneeling on the ground turned pale with fright, and no one dared to look up again.
"All in one go..." Yan Xun repeated these four words indifferently, without any emotion, the candlelight shone on his face, as if a thin layer of gold paper was covered.
He lay lazily on the couch, just sleeping on his side, letting so many charming beauties kneel below him, and fell asleep after a while.
This night, they were thousands of miles apart, yet they said the same sentence at the same time.
"I hope I don't meet him (her)."
Faintly, many, many years ago, under the dilapidated eaves, a girl was wearing a light pink jacket, rubbing her hands with a blushing face, sitting under the lamplight sewing clothes, turning her head back to the boy and saying, "There are no fathers and sons on the battlefield. Everything is for the benefit of the country. Even if your brothers go to the battlefield, you can’t back down. I’m not telling you the Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, I’m talking about the history of the Tang Dynasty. That’s a joke, this is the official history, listen carefully. "
"What official history? Why haven't I heard of it?"
"Anyway, just listen carefully and study hard."
"If you were Li Shimin, would you kill your elder brother too?"
"Of course I will kill him. Are you keeping him to kill me? Didn't I tell you that their relationship broke up later. By the way, what about you, don't you want to kill me?"
The young man thought for a moment, then suddenly said: "If it were me, I would kill Liu Wuzhou when I hit him."
The girl was taken aback, then gave a thumbs up, "You are very good."
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The pitch-black night enveloped the sky and the earth, and even the waves of memory were backlogged together, unable to utter the slightest sound.
On the second day, someone in Baizhi Pass secretly left the pass and rode his horse all the way to Hanshui. There are now 100,000 troops stationed there, all of which are elite troops from Yanbei. One is to help Princess Jing'an, and the other is to guard the lifeline of the other party and guard her own way.
On the same day, Chu Qiao waited for other soldiers from the Xiuli Army and the Wolf Army in Nanli County. Forty thousand people gathered in the wasteland, and their black swords were raised like a forest.
"Han River is the only way for Tang Jing to go to the northwest. If Han River is not broken, it will be impossible to solve the danger of Tang Jing being trapped."
Chu Qiao's snow-white finger pointed on the map, drew a circle at the Hanshui Pass, and said in a deep voice, "The battle of life and death is coming soon."
The gray sky was raining continuously.
The wormwood near Hanshui was as tall as a person, and the thunder rumbled across the river, from west to east, followed by a thunderbolt, which split a century-old elm tree in Hanshui Pass. Two guards of the Yanbei Army on duty were injured, and the beams of a residential house in the east of the city were cut off, and all seven members of the family were crushed to death in their sleep.
This was the first bloodshed in the Battle of Hanshuiguan. Even though there was no fighting or hacking, it was enough to push the already frozen atmosphere to the brink of collapse. The people in Hanshuiguan hide in their homes all day long, and no one dares to go out even during the day. The heavy rain was pouring on the empty long street, and there was no human habitation in sight, only some withered and yellow grass was blown up by the wind, and the wet fly could not fly far.
It has been raining for eleven days in a row, causing the water level in Hanshui to rise crazily. The weather is abnormal, the birds fly north, and every night, you can vaguely hear the howling of the lone wolf on the wasteland, like a death knell. A well-informed old man said that the summer of Emperor Xiaozong's seventh year was also the same rainstorm. That year, Xue Li, the great general of the Bian Tang Dynasty, led an army of 400,000 to attack Daxia. It was in such weather that he crossed the Hanshui River and headed northward like a broken bamboo, breaking through Baizhi Pass and reaching the hinterland of Daxia. However, just when the whole Bian Tang was waiting eagerly, thinking that the Great Tang was going to take back the lost land, Yanbei Lion King suddenly sent troops to defeat the Tang army, and beheaded the Changsheng General Xue Li with his own hands, shattering the world once again. Datang's ambition to dominate.
That year, blood stained Chishui red, all the way along the Chishui River into Hanshui, corpses floating on the river surface stretched for dozens of miles, wild dogs and wolves jumped into the river, standing on the layers of corpses as if walking on the ground, they did not sink , all red eyes.
Decades have passed, but that tragic battle still echoes in the minds of the old people. Today, the Lion King of Yanbei has been dead for many years, and the tomb of General Xue Li is also covered with moss and wormwood. Bian and Tang were weak, and there were endless disputes within the Great Xia. Things changed and people changed, but Yanbei's eagle flag once again floated over Baizhi Pass, and meandering all the way, it was inserted on the head of Hanshui City.
On the seventh day of May, Yan Xun, at the request of Princess Jing'an of the Tang Dynasty, personally led troops to sit in Hanshui to resist the Xiuli army who came from thousands of miles away to protect the superior battle situation east of Hanshui Pass. Only one day later, Chu Qiao's Xiuli Army appeared in Weiliao County on the west side of Hanshuiguan. Weiliao County, a small town that no one paid attention to in the past, quickly gained fame and attracted the attention of the entire Bian Tang and even the entire land of Simon. On the small city tower, a red cloud battle flag with a white background was erected, and Chu Qiao personally put on her armor to celebrate the oath of alliance. After hearing the news, all the Tang troops who had been scattered west of Hanshuiguan rushed over, and the princes loyal to the royal family also escorted them. Food and grass came to reinforce the army. Within three days, the Xiuli Army had expanded to 90,000 troops, and it was still growing.
This is the first crusade that Bian Tang has formally erected since Princess Jing'an rebelled so quickly, and it is still facing such a powerful ally of Princess Jing'an—the Yanbei Army.
A war of unprecedented scale is imminent, and everyone is holding their breath, waiting for the arrival of that bloody storm.
On May 14th, the torrential rain stopped suddenly, and the water level of the Hanshui River stopped at a very alarming scale. The confrontation for six consecutive days has brought the patience of both sides to a dangerous critical point. Although the generals of both sides know the necessity of this confrontation, they still stand still with hundreds of thousands of troops at such a short distance. Know this is very dangerous behavior. The tense atmosphere reverberated over the barracks of both sides. If you don't pay attention, there is a possibility of mutiny.
Although Chu Qiao and Yan Xun had made full preparations, scouts from both sides shuttled like the wind, and various battle plans were changed and changed, they finally decided on the direction and location of the battle by coincidence. But the arrival of the first battle still made them panic for a moment.
On the afternoon of the 14th, Mo Xu, the prefect of Wuling County, had just crossed the Heyuan Plain, escorting 50,000 loads of grain and grass, crossed mountains and ridges, carefully crossed layers of fire lines, and was heading towards Chu Qiao's Wei Liao base camp.
He is a native of the Tang Dynasty. His ancestors once fought with the first generation of Tang kings and were awarded high positions. His ancestors also had great figures who served as princes and ministers. However, it has been passed down from generation to generation. Today's Mo family is no longer what it used to be. However, at this moment, facing the country's crisis, the prefect Mo, who is over seventy years old, still personally led the troops to escort the food and grass, and wanted to do his part for the army led by Chu Qiao.
However, just when they arrived near the Tiexian River, they accidentally ran into embankment workers on a small road in Yanbei. The Tiexian River is a tributary of the Hanshui River, and the dam is not stable, so Yan Xun sent 3,000 infantry to rush to repair the dam here, so as not to destroy the headquarters of the camp downstream. Unexpectedly, Prefect Mo was cautious, but still bumped into the muzzle of this group of people. The war was about to break out, and the shouts of killing alarmed the scouts from far and near. Within half an hour, the armies of both sides approached one after another, and the battle situation was in chaos.