Midsummer slipped away in the annoying cicadas, the weather cooled down day by day, quietly stepped through the fallen leaves on the ground and walked to Li Xie's study, just pushed the door open, saw a figure flash by the window, and disappeared into the eaves in the blink of an eye.

She has been numb to such a scene in recent days, her brother has been exchanging messages more and more frequently in recent months, as if he was planning something big, and he didn't even care about the wounds on his body, and the last time she saw it by chance, she was startled by the pus-draining wound, and after saying it a few times, she didn't hear it into her ears, so she could only supervise and change the medicine for him.

Fortunately, this person was quite cooperative with the medicine, and after she took a sip with a frown, she raised her head and dried it up.

Jing Hao picked up a candied fruit from the small dish on the side, suppressed the taste in his mouth, and at the same time broke his arm, skillfully handed him to change the wound medicine.

Li Xie put the medicine bowl back on the tray, glanced at her movements, and said in a straight and unwavering tone, "Tap." ”

Jing Hao couldn't wait to pinch off the intact part of his arm, a person who could cut a knife at his hand without blinking his eyes and deliberately fell off the horse with an injury, and left the wound to suppurate, and now he still screamed what kind of pain.

Li Xie looked out the window, a fallen leaf just fell from the tree, fell into the window flutteringly, and fell at his feet, he stared at it a few times, raised his foot and crushed it into pieces, "It's almost time to go." ”

He deliberately injured himself in order to stay in Haocheng, counting the time, and now the wound is almost healed.

Jing Hao lowered his head and didn't hear his muttering words, so he told him the news he just got from Li Guan, "Father made a fire today, I heard that another city has been lost on the front line, this is the third after the summer, and if you retreat, even Haocheng will be in danger." ”

As she spoke, she thought about the information she had seen before, but what was written on it was basically Li Xie's news, and she was in a hurry when she read it, and she could remember a few things that had a big impact.

After bandaging her, she packed up her things and hurried back to Li Guan, things have not been going well recently, and Li Guan's anger has become more and more, so that the people waiting for her see her as if they have seen a savior.

She sneezed as soon as she opened the door, and the waiting maid hurriedly came forward to surround her, and the noise covered the words of the person behind her, and Jing Hao was about to look back, when a small servant in the distance had already hurried over, and the look on his face was full of panic.

“…… How could Ukraine and Uganda form an alliance? You haven't heard a word about it before? It's like this that people hit the city, but now they come to tell me that they have lost another city, and they can't even keep Ningcheng! Do you know how far Ningcheng is from Haocheng? But it's just three cities, three! ”

Li Guan picked up a teacup on the table and threw it at the person on the ground, but he was angry but lost his head, and went straight past the person and smashed it to the door, Jing Hao, who was entering the door, took a step back, and the breath that came back quickly was not even, and he couldn't help coughing a little when he was startled.

All that was left in the empty study was her cough.

Li Guan looked at her somewhat pale face, and took a few steps back before standing firmly, and sure enough, sure enough, sure enough......

He stood in place for a while, took a few deep breaths to calm down, raised his head and walked to the door, "Tell several generals in Haocheng to go to Shang Shufang, saying that His Majesty has something important to discuss, and then send someone to Ningcheng, tell them to defend it no matter what, and if they retreat back to the city, they will be punished for conspiracy and rebellion!" ”.

The situation in Haocheng immediately became tense within a day, the city gate was closed and the city was closed, there were no more people walking around the streets, even the sound of banquets that had been continuous before also stopped, the forbidden army kept going back and forth in the city, and a large number of laborers were recruited to strengthen the walls of Haocheng.

Li Guan originally planned to go to Ningcheng in person, but Emperor Yuan Huai, who was so frightened that he lost his blood, pulled him alive and dead, crying a handful of snot and tears begging him to defend Haocheng, he could only let his fierce generals move forward on his behalf, and he planned with the ministers in Haocheng for a few days, except for most of the soldiers who were deadlocked in Ningcheng, only the stragglers from all over the country could be transferred to defend Haocheng.

But something is better than nothing, and Emperor Yuan Huai immediately issued an order.

Li Xie was stunned when he received the news of the order, and now it is only October, but when he went to ask for reinforcements in the previous life, it was the end of October, not to mention that most of his injuries were healed after calculating the time, and most of the strength he had arranged before was still on the road, and after the closure of Haocheng, I am afraid that few people could enter.

While he was thinking, he habitually knocked on the table a few times, only knocked twice, and a cup of tea was placed at his hand, which was the cool temperature he was accustomed to drinking.

He turned his head to look at the person sitting on the side of the table, she was looking down at the book in her hand, she was only eight years old, the curvature of the side face was a little seductive, her forehead was covered with a thin layer of bangs, like a crow's long eyelashes seemed to be dancing lightly, quite a small nose, her rosy lips naturally maintained an upturned arc, and her smooth chin curled up a delicate arc.

Sure enough, it's a beautiful face.

Li Xie knocked down the table again, allowing the people immersed in the book to cast their eyes on him, "There has been a lot of chaos in the city recently, don't go out and walk around if you have nothing to do." ”

In the previous life, after Haocheng was besieged, the commoners who lacked food caused several riots, and several high-ranking nobles were folded inside.

She doesn't have to worry about Da Sima's mansion, but she's afraid that she will become the target of public criticism outside.

Jing Hao nodded, lowered his head and continued to read the book, and before he could read a few words, the book in his hand was completely snatched away by someone's hand, and he was thrown into the charcoal basin in the distance with a coherent movement, and was licked into the fire in the blink of an eye.

Jing Hao watched the book turn into ashes little by little, and turned his head to glare at Li Xie who didn't care, "Brother, what are you doing?" ”

Many of the books of this era are solitary, and the one she looked at was the only one after being transcribed by a master in the previous dynasty, even the handwriting on it, and it was also something that many bibliophiles couldn't ask for when they were taken outside.

Li Xie took the teacup and sipped it one after another, looking at her phoenix eyes with a sense of calmness, "I'm talking to you, but it's bothering you." ”

Jing Hao was really a little angry with him, "If Brother cares, just say it, what ...... do"

"By the way, I also warn you," Li Xie reached out and pinched her face, trying to vent some strength again, "If you dare not listen to my words, I guarantee that your fate will be more crisp than that." ”

He got up, and after taking a few steps, he rubbed the slippery touch between his fingers and turned back, "Remember my words, don't take a step outside the house." ”.

The stragglers who were summoned back by the order came a little earlier than expected, holding the token of Emperor Yuan Huai all the way unhindered, until they were stopped outside Hao City.

It happened that Li Guan and Li Xie were both on the city wall that day, and as soon as the person leading the troops said a few words, Li Xie immediately noticed that something was wrong, "Father, his accent is the accent of the Uzbek country." ”

His volume was not loud, but the general immediately turned his head to look, the expression on his face was a little tense, and he also defended that Li Xie had already taken a bow and arrow, and an arrow shot at his waist, hooking out a token of a Ukrainian general.

The offensive and defensive battle immediately began.

The number of people on both sides was equal, and the battle situation was stalemate for a while, and Luan fought for two days before a temporary truce.

The soldiers outside the city were packing up their tents, and Emperor Yuan Huai was helped by the palace people to go up to the city wall, and the first thing he said when he saw the exhausted Li Guan was, "Da Sima, let's call the sergeant back in Ningcheng quickly." ”

Li Guan glared at him angrily, with a heavy bloody aura after the battle, "Call them back to suffer the enemy on their backs, so that the enemy army can gather together and capture Haocheng in one fell swoop?" ”

Emperor Yuan Huai took a few steps back under his eyes, and asked again, "That'...... Can I live in the Great Sima Mansion? ”

He sat on the throne like a seal, and he was really afraid that he would be abandoned casually after the city was broken, and he lived in the Great Sima Mansion, so he knew when to flee for his life.

Li Guan was almost half angry at the cowardice that the emperor had completely exposed in the crisis, so he directly sent him back to the palace, and specially sent two soldiers to "protect" him.

Li Xie leaned on the side to watch the whole process, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but hook up a little smile, it was this kind of scumbag emperor, his father would actually let him take the blame before.

I really don't take him seriously at all.

He looked back at the Wuzhen coalition army camped in a dark house a hundred paces away, and watched as their gang leader set up a cauldron at a river stream, and within a quarter of an hour smoke was rising.

The main river stream just bypassed one city and flowed into Ningcheng and another city.

Since the Wuzhen coalition army here is fetching water by the river, those outside Ningcheng must also be the same.

Madame Hao was worried about her husband and eldest son, and talked with Jing Hao all day, until the evening when she was sent back, Jing Hao passed by the dark and gloomy Qiyuan, and walked in with a turn of footsteps, and the maidservant behind her followed a few steps, and stopped under the porch as usual.

Jing Hao was about to push the door in, when in the dark night, he saw a familiar figure flickering from behind the house, completely drowning in the night.

She stood there and thought for a moment, pushing open the door with a slight gap, just as there was a gust of wind passing through the hall, bringing the slightest smell of blood.

She quickly pushed the door in and lit the candle, and saw a pool of blood on the side of the window, and a large pool of blood on the side of the shirt thrown casually by the window, and a large pool of blood on the arm that had been blurred and then dried up, but it was forcibly removed.

On the side, he also threw loose bandages messily.

Li Xie fought on the city wall for two days, and it was normal for the wound to open again, so where did he go when he hurried back and treated the wound in such a hurry?

She jumped out with her hands on the window frame, judged the direction in which he had left, and was running around the back door, when she heard a neighing horse outside the door, and when she went out, she saw a man riding in the direction of the city gate, all the way through the silent street, and into the night.