Chapter 48: Heroes in Troubled Times (7)
Li Xie hurried all the way to the city gate, got off his horse when he got closer, and went straight to a city wall he had designed in advance, pulled the rope down the city wall, and groped towards the enemy camp in the dark.
After pouring all the medicine hidden in his sleeve into the main stream of the stream, he looked at the narrower and clearer stream upstream, touched the porcelain vase hidden in the other sleeve, and counted the guards over there.
He only found out on the city wall in the past few days that the guards of Haocheng were more unbearable than he had estimated, and he was able to stalemate for a long time in the previous life, relying on the death of the civilians in the city, so that after this battle, it took six or seven years, and the situation in the city was still difficult to recover to the state before the war.
He didn't want to take this hot potato into his hands.
He crouched in the grass next to the enemy camp, calculated the time for the change of guards, saw the gap between their change of guards, dodged into the barracks, cut down one of the leading soldiers, changed his clothes, and touched the river where they were getting water.
The river stream, which he looked at from the city wall, was only a narrow one, and when he got closer, he looked at it through the night, and he was afraid that the dose he had brought was not enough to really put these people down.
He was facing the river stream in front of him thinking about what to do in the short term, and when he heard the sound of footsteps, it was too late to hide, so he could only stand in place and pretend to be sleepy, and stretched out his hand to cover half of his face.
"Why are you here?" The team leader's squad leader held the torch and looked her up and down, "There is a news from the garrison camp that a person has sneaked in, can't it be you?" Take your hand away and show me your face, you are a mate, you don't sleep in the middle of the night, what are you going to walk around? ”
He stepped forward and was about to pull people, when suddenly there was a fire behind him, mixed with shouts, "Go water, go water, go water on the side of grain and grass!" ”
When they attacked Haocheng, they were originally an attempt to hit the city, and there was not much grain and grass to prepare, but at this time they were deadlocked outside the city, and they were attacked from front to back, and they lost the transportation channels of grain and grass.
I didn't expect it to be burned.
The squad leader was startled, and he didn't have time to entangle the suspicious leader in front of him, so he immediately rushed to put out the fire with someone, "You, you also follow me, the grain and grass are all burned, see which of you can't starve to death, and you still come out at night to hang around." ”
When they turned their heads, Li Xie immediately pulled out the porcelain bottle in his hand and threw it into the river stream, answered loudly and followed the team.
As he walked, he looked at the opportunity to get out, thinking about the way, but he didn't stop, and when the first few soldiers in front of him turned their heads to look, he pulled out a dazed look and smiled with a bit of flattery.
I really want to be a guy who is unlucky enough to be pulled to work.
As soon as he turned around a tent at his feet, a hand suddenly reached out from inside, grabbed his sleeve and pulled the man in.
The hands were small, soft, and familiar.
Li Xie was puzzled in his heart, and was pulled into it by the surprisingly large force, and before he could get used to the darkness in the tent, the little hands covered his mouth upward, and the familiar figure tiptoed to his ear, and the soft voice was still slightly hoarse.
"Brother, it's me, come with me."
Jing Hao pulled people around the corners, taking advantage of the panic and darkness of the night when they were busy fighting fires, secretly led a horse, and returned to the previous city wall in a half-circle, but looked up but couldn't see the rope.
She was in a hurry to find a rope, but Li Xie, who had not spoken all the way, suddenly grabbed her arm with force, and pushed her around and on the city wall with all her strength, and there was him in front of her, and there was no way back.
"They said you were the one who snuck into the barracks?" Li Xie stretched out his hand to support the top of her head, lowered his head and stared at her, his backlit face was indistinguishable, but his tone was extremely gloomy, "You are so bold that you dare to sneak into the enemy camp alone?" Do you know what happens if you get caught? ”
He moved his hand, pressed her shoulder with one hand, and lifted her chin with the other, forcing her to look up at him, enveloped by the anger he could no longer suppress.
"Li Jing, have you completely forgotten what I told you? I said that you should take care of yourself and let you stay in the house and not go out, you completely took my words as wind in your ears and completely forgot my warnings, right? ”
His tone was cold, and he didn't even suppress the volume, and the horses on the side couldn't help but stomp their hooves restlessly, and snorted a few times anxiously, making a loud noise in the silent night.
"Who do you really think you are? You have to save me once or twice, who do you think you are! ”
Jing Hao was held by his hand and his shoulders ached, and just as he was about to break free of his shackles, there was a burst of torches on the city wall, and the sound of soldiers and armor came with human voices, and immediately illuminated the place where they were, "Who is the one who came down from the city?" ”
Li Xie looked up, and didn't even change his expression at the sharp arrows facing them, staring straight at the person who took the lead in shouting, and even brought a little smile, "People are under the city, you can release arrows if you want to." ”
"Don't shoot arrows!" Jing Hao shouted, raising his eyes and staring at Li Xie who was smiling indifferently, "We are from the Great Sima Mansion. ”
As soon as she finished speaking, a gap was opened on the top, and Li Guan poked his head out, and after looking at it, it was even more difficult to distinguish, "Jing'er? ”.
Jinghao was pulled up the city wall, and before Li Guan could question, she first rushed over and hugged him deadly, and took the blame on herself as soon as she spoke, "Father, don't be angry, it's Jing'er who hates those bad people outside the city and sneaks out, Brother is worried that I will follow, if it weren't for Brother, Jing'er would ...... Brother Ah has already scolded Jing'er fiercely just now, does Father want to continue scolding? ”
For the sake of convenience, she could only take off the outermost layer of beautiful Han shirt in a hurry, and there were a lot of stains on her body, even her clothes were torn in a few places, and her little face was very dirty, which was really pitiful.
Li Guan was so angry that the patrol found the knot here, a large number of people waited here for half the night, but he didn't expect to catch his children, but the reason was that he put Jing'er on the tip of his heart, and he really couldn't deal with him, but it was difficult to calm the hearts of the people present if he didn't deal with it.
immediately looked at Li Xie, who was standing silently behind Jing'er.
"How can Jing'er run out of the city alone, Xie Er......"
Before he could say his words, the guards who were guarding in another place ran over panting, "Da Sima, there was a fire in the enemy camp just now, and the spies came to report that most of their grain and grass had been burned ......."
Li Guan immediately looked down at his daughter who was staying aside, his eyes widened and he couldn't speak, he didn't think about burning grain and grass, but he couldn't find the right person for a while, and the enemy knew the preciousness of grain and grass, and he would definitely strengthen his defense, and it was not easy to burn it.
Unexpectedly, Jing'er made a fool of himself, and most of the grain and grass were burned.
Jing Hao didn't miss the shock in his eyes, and raised his voice slightly so that everyone present could hear it, "It turns out that Brother set fire to burn grain and grass, and I also said why they were in such a hurry to put out the fire." ”
The eyes of the audience turned to the young man who was standing under the lamp and had been silent, and his eyes were already full of admiration.
Li Xie clenched his hands, only looked up at the back, and only saluted when Li Guan asked again, "My son is scared, but I am fortunate to be able to help my father." ”.
The daughter suddenly disappeared in the house, which scared Mrs. Hao enough, and after Jing Hao was sent back, she kept an eye on people, and strictly forbade the servants in the house to mention the battlefield to the four girls again, until there was good news to inform her.
"The enemy army was defeated and fled, Haocheng was saved, so Father and Brother should also come back, right?" Jing Hao obediently followed Mrs. Hao to do embroidery work, and after pretending to be a beginner for a few days, the recent ones already have a good look, "This battle has been fought for more than ten days, and it is finally over." ”
"Not really." Mrs. Yin also breathed a sigh of relief and touched her daughter's soft hair, "Fortunately, most of their grain and grass were burned this time, and those enemy soldiers who had nothing to eat went to fish for game, and I don't know what they ate, they were all weak, and many of them died of their own illness, otherwise we don't know how much we have to lose in this battle." ”
Enemy army onset?
Jing Hao's hand shook, and the tip of the needle pierced her index finger, and bright red blood beads rolled out, which frightened Mrs. Hao to call someone quickly.
Although the war in Haocheng has ended, there are a lot of things after the war, and so on have been dealt with almost the same, more than half a month has passed, the weather in winter is even more cold, but the war on the front line is still stalemate, and I heard that the two armies facing each other have also appeared the symptoms of the previously defeated Wuzhen coalition army, and there are not a few people who have fallen.
Li Guan's father and son were already busy at home, Li Xie made great contributions in this battle, and even Emperor Yuan Huai made an exception to give him the post of general from Sanpin Zuoyi, and also discussed together.
Jing Hao accompanied Mrs. Hao, who was worried about the second son who was far away in Ningcheng, and said a word for a day, and as soon as she returned to the bedroom, she was startled by the person sitting at the table, waved away the maidservant, and walked over after covering the door.
"How can Brother have time to go home today?"
Li Xie had a sachet that she had embroidered most of the time, her fingers buckled twice on the table, and she took the tea cup she offered before she opened her mouth, "Naturally, I came back to settle accounts with you." He raised his eyebrows and looked at Jing Hao, after a few days of fighting, he won another reward, and his face, which was still a little childish before, has matured a lot.
"Do you think this is the end of it?"
He knocked on the table twice, neither light nor heavy, "Think beautifully." ”
"Didn't I help my brother settle this account? General Zuo Yi from the third grade, I'm afraid that the position that my father wanted to ask for the eldest brother before was much lower than this, right? ”
Jing Hao suppressed the doubts in his heart, and even his tone was faint.
Li Xie has been proud of the spring breeze recently, and it has been a squeezed out time to come to talk to her, so he didn't care about her tone, "It was given by the Yuan family, and the account of your disobedience has not been settled." ”
He took the sachet and threw it to her, "I'm going to leave for Ningcheng tomorrow, and I'll be back about a year ago, and when I come back, I'll embroider this for me as an atonement gift." ”
After he got up, he bent down and touched Jing Hao's head, "If you take care of yourself again this time and take a step out of the mansion, I will definitely settle accounts with you." With a move, she had already put a silk flower on her head into her sleeve, and after a slight pause, she softened her tone rarely, "The epidemic is not yet complete, don't eat river fresh." ”