Chapter 46: Patience
I haven't seen him for many days, Pei Minzhi is still the same sassy bag, his hair is meticulously combed, his hair is wrapped in a bun and wrapped in a cloth towel, and the white robe on his body is spotless. In addition, the hand is almost the same color as the dust tail jade handle, which can be dragged out and surrounded by the big girl, the little daughter-in-law, and the old woman holding hands to throw fruits.
Oh, Liaodong doesn't like to throw fruit so elegantly, if the Xianbei girl takes a fancy to him, where is the use of throwing fruit, directly drag the horse and pack it away. By the time the Pei family finds it, maybe there will only be a mess left.
But what is he here for? Qin Xuan still remembered that Pei Minzhi was stuffed by his father Pei Song to Murong Hyun's side, in Pei Minzhi's words, to be a dog-headed military advisor, but ...... This war...... It doesn't seem to be the specialty of the family. It's not that Qin Xuan has an opinion about the family, but the rumors she heard about the family are that few of the family members are good at fighting, and those who stay in the north are either working for the Hu people, or they are being given a nest by the Hu people.
Out of the corner of Pei Minzhi's eyes, he saw Qin Xuan standing over there, he blinked, said hello, and then walked in front of Murong Hyun and stood still, "Greetings to the general." ”
Murong Hyun was quite polite to a family like Pei Minzhi, Qin Xuan looked at the two of them talking in a gentle manner, and couldn't help but want to doze off, she woke up early today, and then crossed the river again to protect Murong Hyun ashore. Tossing here, it is impossible to say that you are not tired.
Fighting a war is the most physically exhausting, physical exhaustion is secondary, and what is more terrible is mental exhaustion.
Murong Hyun glanced at Qin Xuan, "You go down first." ”
"Yui." When Qin Xuan heard this, he couldn't ask for it, and immediately retreated from the big tent of the Chinese army. When they arrived outside the tent, they were greeted by a group of patrolling soldiers. She walked for a while and saw many Xianbei people cutting down a lot of trees from the distant mountains and forests and dragging them over with horses to make fences, she knew that this was to seal the city of Unbearable and achieve the purpose of forcing the city to surrender earlier.
This has already been fought, and the siege equipment, such as rushing carts and siege rams, has been transported from the opposite bank. The moat in Goguryeo, to be honest, is only Liaoshui. The adjacent Jieshui of Liaodong has been captured, and the next siege equipment will be sent in a steady stream.
The Xianbei people are not good at attacking cities, but the Han people are not necessarily, and the Han people are good at attacking cities. Especially in recent years, the Murong Department has been accepting Han people. But anyone who has some skills can mix a bite to eat, and the benefits of those craftsmen will be revealed.
The siege equipment must be built by many craftsmen, and compared with the Murong Department in Goguryeo, the Han people rarely crossed Liaodong to Goguryeo, even if Goguryeo itself was very affected by the Han wind, but the people were there.
Qin Xuan has nothing to do, and she doesn't want to go to her tent early to sleep, it's strange to say, obviously in the big tent of the Chinese army, her eyes are glued together, and when she comes out, she is frozen outside, and she suddenly comes to life.
The field where he worked was in full swing, and martial law was imposed on all sides. Those tall equipment, such as rushing cars, are guarded by a battalion of people, and if there is anything abnormal, you can notice it immediately.
Qin Xuan saw that many Goguryeo people were arrested to do hard work, all of them doing some wood-chopping work, and there were people next to them to supervise the work. The Xianbei people came in, and these Goguryeo people naturally became captives, and naturally they could be used as slaves.
Those Goguryeo people had frightened eyes, and their cheeks were thin and sunken. It doesn't seem like he's had a good life.
After Qin Xuan glanced at it a few times, she saw that a few Xianbei soldiers over there were looking at her, as if they were going to come over for interrogation, she was impatient to deal with these people, and simply turned around and left.
During the siege, the atmosphere in the camp was tense, no matter where Qin Xuan went, there would be people staring, if it weren't for her armor that only the main general's own soldiers wore, maybe she would have made a noise to drive people away.
After a meal, it was even more boring.
Everyone has their own things to do, and she seems to see that she is idle, and when she is depressed, she simply goes back to lie down and sleep.
Li Tu is a good boy who is worry-free, the army is encamped outside the city, he waited until the tent where Qin Xuan lived was set up, and immediately arranged it, Li Tu has already kept Qin Xuan's hobbies in mind. As a result, before they were busy here, Qin Xuan came in over there.
"Master?" Li Tu was holding a clay pot in his hand, looking at Qin Xuan who came in over there, with a confused expression. At the moment, the tent is not neat, but only dragged the necessary things in.
Qin Xuan strode in, spread out the rolled mattress, and lay down on the mattress with his whole body, not paying attention to it at all. Seeing this, Li Tu said to her, "Master, let's let the villain clean up." ”
"No, that's it." Where would Qin Xuan care about this, and lay down directly.
Seeing this, Li Tu didn't dare to speak, but quietly retreated with a clay pot.
Before the city was conquered, no one had a hard time. Whether it is the Goguryeo people in the city or the Xianbei people outside.
Open the city to face the battle, this is naturally the best, as long as the city dares to send troops, then it will be easy to do, but I am afraid of the perennial consumption of energy. Unable to bear that the outside of the city was already trapped, Murong Hyun asked people to prepare pontoon bridges, ladders and other things, and starved the people in the city for a few days to start working.
Goguryeo is rich in ginseng and fur, but these things can't fill the stomach, especially the food transported from outside is really intercepted by the Xianbei people, and the city is sealed again, and the next thing is to wait for the people in the city to be hungry.
Qin Xuan thought that no matter what she said, it would last for so many months, but who knew that after half a month, a team would come out of the city to prepare for battle.
The Goguryeo people really can't stand the torture of Murong Hyun like cutting meat with a knife, in the past, Goguryeo and Murong Xianbei were the same set on the grassland, today you rob my people and cattle and sheep, tomorrow I will rob you. The last time he and the Yuwen Department and the Duan Department besieged Murong Xianbei was a few years ago.
The united army was also brought home by Murong Xianbei with a few meals.
The guards could see that Murong Xianbei was menacing, but at the moment, compared to waiting for reinforcements who didn't know when they would come back, they had to fight to the death.
When the army went out of the city to fight Murong Hyun outside the city, this desperate fight soon became a one-sided joke. Qin Xuan is Murong Hyun's personal soldier, and Murong Hyun did not take the lead this time, so Qin Xuan cannot participate in the battle without Murong Hyun's order. The war drums beat and brought to the front to retreat, and the Yan army immediately followed, followed by pontoon bridges and rushing vehicles.
When the army is defeated and retreats, it is a time when people's hearts are unstable. In particular, the appearance of the defeated soldiers fleeing was even more frightened by the guards on the original city gate, and they were about to pull up the drawbridge in a trembling manner, but the Yan soldiers had already caught up, and the pontoon bridge was on the moat, and the momentum of destruction and decay was irresistible.
The city was not impatient, the city gate was breached, and the army entered the city.
The Yan army was originally all Xianbei people, and Murong Hyun did not issue a military order not to allow the soldiers to loot, and soon the Xianbei soldiers who entered the city began to burn and loot, valuable things and food, whoever robbed it was whoever. In addition, those young women and men were all taken prisoner, and when Qin Xuan followed Murong Hyun into the city, what he saw was that the city had been swept away, and thick black smoke was coming out of the burned house.
Murong Hyun sat on the horse and was not the slightest interested in this situation, while the soldiers except Qin Xuan turned a blind eye.
Qin Xuan saw a young woman running out of a low house crying, followed by a Xianbei soldier, grabbing her and dragging her into the house.
Qin Xuan had seen a lot of killing, but the scene in front of her made her forehead pop out of the green tendons, and she took out a feather arrow from the quiver on her leg and put it on the bow and aimed it at the soldier's hat and shot it in one go.
After a few movements, the soldier wanted to drag the woman into the house, but he only heard a whoosh, and his head was cold, and when he reached out to touch it again, he found that his head was already bare.
He was stunned, and the woman immediately broke free from him and ran away.
Such an obvious movement was obviously impossible to hide from others, Qin Xuan's arrow was shot, and all the people around her looked at it, with surprise and puzzlement.
"......" Murong Hyun heard the movement and also came to see her. I just saw Qin Xuan put the bow and arrow back on his back.
The scene suddenly fell silent, and even the sound of killing around it faded.
"Come, take him down."
Murong Hyun captured the city of Unbearable, and did not intend to leave people to defend it, he indulged his men to loot the city, and went straight to the Taishou Mansion himself. This place was originally Lelang County, but it was later annexed by Goguryeo, and the houses in the Taishou Mansion still have this strong Han style.
Murong Hyun sat in the house of the Taishou Mansion, "Bring Qin Xuan over." ”
Not long after, Qin Xuan, who was tied up by five flowers, was brought in. When the soldier behind him heard that Qin Xuan actually shot arrows at his own people, he looked down on her very much, and he wanted to make her suffer a little, he deliberately tightened the rope on her wrist a little, and even pushed her heavily on the shoulder when escorting Qin Xuan.
Others saw it and persuaded, "This person is a rare warrior, you can save some face for others, and it will not be good if he makes trouble for you in the future." ”
"This man's arrow is not aimed at the enemy but at his own people, where will the general spare him? I'm afraid it's a matter of asking a few words and pushing it out to cut! The man spat as he spoke.
Qin Xuan didn't speak, and there was no need to talk to this kind of person, she was brought to Murong Hyun. Before the person behind her could scold her to kneel, Murong Hyun spoke, "You all stand down." ”
No one dared to disobey Murong Hyun's words, as soon as he said this, the people in the room withdrew one after another, and the door outside was closed.
Finally, only the two of them were left in the room.
Murong Hyun put his hands on his abdomen, "What are you doing?" ”
"I saw him forcing a woman." Qin Xuan frowned, "So stop it." ”
"Shoot arrows at your own people for the sake of a woman?"
"I didn't hurt him, I shot his hat!" Qin Xuan's voice increased slightly, she didn't have the idea of taking someone's life, she just wanted to scare people away, so that she could fight for a way for that woman to live.
"But as long as you make a move, you can't wash it off." Murong Hyun said, in Qin Xuan's memory, this master general has always been smiling, no matter whether he is angry or happy in his heart, there is always a smile on his face, but this time there is no smile on his handsome face.
"For a woman who has no other way but to be a captive, do you know how guilty you are?" When the words came to the end, Murong Hyun couldn't help but get angry.
The woman in front of her is not the woman in her memory, she is still a little green, and even a little bit of so-called chivalrous and warm-hearted that can be called stupid.
"But isn't it a sin to attack a woman?" When Qin Xuan heard his questioning, the suppressed anger in his heart suddenly rose up. She knew that she might not be able to escape a dead word this time, since she was going to die, what else was she afraid of?
"There is no right or wrong in this world." When Murong Hyun heard her words, he didn't laugh angrily, "You know that King Michuan of Goguryeo frequently invaded Liaodong and other places, and the captive population was almost 10,000!" The woman you saw today didn't know that Goguryeo had also treated Xianbei Liaodong! Even if they treat the Han people like this, they are no different from the Xiongnu mentioned in your historical records. Now a tooth for a tooth and an eye for an eye, what's wrong? ”
"The strong are respected, this is the way of the world today!" Murong Hyun looked at the stubbornness on her face, her heart was complicated, and many words came to her throat, "You only saw the pity of that woman, but the Xianbei and Han people who were taken captive back then, which one came to pity them?!" ”
"General!" Qin Xuan knew that it was impossible for him to convince Murong Hyun, and it was impossible. She also knew that her idea was ridiculous to people at the time.
"The villain once heard that anyone who wants to achieve great things will definitely have a lot of constraints on his subordinates, which was the case with Han Gaozu and Xiang Yu back then, and after entering the city, burning, killing and looting may cause fierce resistance from the Goguryeo people in the future......"
"I know better than you." Murong Hyun interrupted her, and his whole body leaned back, "Han Gaozu is not as innocent as the historical records say, you Han people are like grass and mustard in troubled times, I heard that when the Han family was at the end, Cao Cao used to use human flesh as military food, you can tell me, do those people remember this now?" ”
Qin Xuan frowned, staring at Murong Hyun's face without saying a word.
"Win or lose, those so-called moral etiquette are all bound to fools." When Murong Hyun said this, the smile on his face was a little distorted, "It's good to listen to it, but if you are really fooled, it is not enough to die ten thousand times." ”
"General......
"Also, if you want to buy people's hearts, it's not in Goguryeo." Murong Hyun leaned closer to her, and his words softened, as if the master was teaching his apprentice, "Don't be deceived by the things in the history books, some people salute the corporal in their faces, but they know very well in their hearts, who is worth buying, and when to say those words are just to hand the ladder so that people can step down." It is the soldiers and horses that win the world instead of the so-called benevolence and morality. ”
Murong Hyun looked at Qin Xuan and turned her face slightly, he knew that she understood what she was talking about, "Goguryeo and Murong have a deep hatred, and it is not easy to send people to guard the hometown of Lelang County, rather than staying intact to recuperate for Goguryeo, it is better to ruin the matter with a fire." Don't leave any money to the Goguryeo people, do you understand what I'm saying? ”
"......" Qin Xuan bit her tongue, and the pain on her tongue forced her to wake up, "Subordinate...... Can't ......"
"If you can't figure it out, sooner or later you'll go crazy." Murong Hyun opened his mouth and said, "This is not a peaceful and prosperous era. ”
"But it became like that, in order to vent anger and desire...... What is the difference between it and animals? Qin Xuan bit the tip of her tongue, and the sweet smell of blood came from the tip of her tongue, and she was short of breath.
Murong Hyun got up from the seat, his eyes softened, and even looked at the person in front of him with affection.
Qin Xuan subconsciously took a step back, he stood very close, as long as he lowered his head, he could kiss her. Such a distance is really too dangerous.
"In this world, everyone is crazy, everyone is a beast." Murong Hyun smiled, and the smile that bloomed on his face was like a poppy flower that was extremely gorgeous, beautiful and deadly.
"You're never dealing with people, you're dealing with wolves in human skin. You can be cruel to wolves, you can kill them, but you can't pay attention to the so-called benevolence. If you keep that righteousness, maybe one day you will be eaten by those wolves, and there will be no bones left. ”
"......" Qin Xuan's face suddenly turned ugly.
After Murong Hyun said this, he turned behind her, and saw that her palm was white on the back of her hand because of the blood flow, and he immediately took out the dagger he carried with him and broke the rope on her hand.
"The Han people have a saying: 'The world is bustling, and it is all for profit.'" The world is crowded, all for profit. 'If you want a soldier to give you your life, you have to give people benefits, treasures, titles, land, women, you have to give them what they want, so that you can give you a better life.' ”
Qin Xuan felt a loosening of her hand, and at this moment Murong Hyun's words were no longer true, no, except for the first few words, there were almost no words in the matter of her attack on her own people.
“……”
Murong Hyun saw the strangulation marks on her hand and put her hand in the palm of her hand, Qin Xuan was stunned and forgot to pull out her hand.
He sighed softly, and his slender fingers rubbed the strangulation marks on her wrists, full of ambiguity.
"General?!" When Qin Xuan reacted, Murong Hyun had already lowered his head and kissed her gently on the wrist. The cold and soft touch of her lips was so clear that she couldn't even make a fool of herself.
Murong Hyun raised his eyes when he heard her voice, and the glint in his eyes made him look like a terrifying wolf on the grassland.
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Pei Minzhi hurried over, he heard before that Murong Hyun had a personal soldier who had violated military law, and then it was a Han man, and he immediately knew that something was wrong.
Murong Hyun's personal soldiers were almost all selected from the Xianbei nobles, and the Han could only be Qin Xuan.
Xianbei people are simple and rude, for those who have violated military law, they are either beheaded, or deprived of their previous status to be slaves, no matter which one they are, they will never be able to turn over.
No matter which one it was, Pei Minzhi didn't want to see it, so he hurriedly came over to ask to see Murong Hyun, but learned from the soldiers at the gate of the Taishou Mansion that Murong Hyun was now personally interrogating the prisoner.
The soldier at the door couldn't help but look at Pei Minzhi vigorously, obviously a man looks better than a girl. The skin on those hands was whiter than those women.
"If you are tired of retribution, you will say that Pei Minzhi wants to see you." Pei Minzhi breathed a sigh of relief, and felt a little strange in his heart, this kind of thing is just for the criminal officer in charge to handle, and there is no need for the main general to ask in person.
He heard that Murong Ming and Qin Xuan had some friendship before, and sent someone to Murong Ming to tell him about it, wanting Murong Ming to drag the criminal officer, so he ran to Murong Hyun himself and wanted to intercede for Qin Xuan. Qin Xuan is Murong Hyun's personal soldier, and according to the Xianbei people, Murong Hyun has the most say in her life and death, so he will come.
"The general has ordered, and no outsiders are seen." The soldiers guarding the door looked at Pei Minzhi's life, and the tone of his speech was a little better.
was talking outside, and suddenly there was a sound inside, and Pei Minzhi looked up. Qin Xuan was pushed and pushed out of it, she was not tied, but her face was very bad, and the corners of her mouth seemed to be broken?
Pei Minzhi's eyes were very good, and he could see that the corners of her mouth were a little red and swollen, and what came out of her mind was that Qin Xuan was beaten, but it didn't seem to be beaten by someone.
Before he could speak, Qin Xuan was escorted past him, Qin Xuan hung his head and didn't look up at Pei Minzhi.
The criminal officer was entangled by Murong Ming on his side, and no one was here, so who did he want to hand out? And he didn't have the final say on the matter.
"General Folding! Whether this man lives or dies depends on the Lord's decision! The criminal officer was so disturbed by Murong Ming that he almost knelt down and called Grandpa, so he had to beg him to raise his noble hand and change someone to harass him, "Why don't you go and see the main general?" ”
Murong Ming naturally thought of this, he thought of Pei Minzhi, he still didn't believe much in this Han man, gritted his teeth, he turned around and went to find his brother.
It's just a Goguryeo woman, the third brother can't really want Qin Xuan's life, right? Murong Ming clenched his fists.