Chapter 34: Tribute to the Dead The Messenger
In the end, the shogun still didn't survive the noon of the day, and the morning's kung fu went, and before leaving, he called his wife to the tent to explain everything about the aftermath. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 Info Madame walked out of the tent with red and swollen circles under her eyes, and it was the only one I had ever seen that noble, elegant, and independent woman exude the posture of a little woman.
Madame covered her eyes with a handkerchief, and didn't say much, but softly ordered the three young masters to go in, and the general had something to say, and ordered the people on the side to call a few brothers and sisters in the house to come over to meet the general, and the servant just left and sent another person to chase him back, but finally dispelled this idea.
I stood quietly in the corner, narrowing my sense of existence, only vaguely hearing the general's occasionally raised voice and muffled snorts, as well as the consolations of several young masters, and vaguely hearing a few sobs mixed with it.
When the young masters came out, they had different expressions, and the lady sat by the tent with her husband, quietly covering her face with a handkerchief, and the whole person exuded a sad color. Several young masters also had different looks, kneeling beside the bed to guard their father, accompanying him in his last days.
When he was about to die, the general went, only to see the woman who was strong enough to resist the next family, who lost her pillar in an instant, and fell to her knees on the ground and wept loudly, silently depressed but also the most sorrowful. The young masters of the shogunate family are all brave and strong sons, and they are also red eyes and tears at this moment.
There was no funeral, no one came to pay respects, as the marshal of the army, the shogun's death could only be kept secret, except for the shogunate's own soldiers who knew about it in advance, even a few young ladies did not know that their father had died.
Feng Shuming hurriedly entered the courtyard, looking at the scene in the room at this time, it was also difficult to hide the sadness, bowed down to his wife deeply, and opened his mouth to comfort, "Uncle Mu will go first, my father can't come in person to see off the grief in my heart, Uncle Ming came on behalf of my father, but I didn't expect to be a step late, my heart is really, and now I hope that my aunt can mourn and change." ”
Mrs. beat her spirit and said, "Uncle Ming has a heart, and I also understand the truth inside, but I have supported each other with the general for so many years, but now he has abandoned me, how can I live well!" ”
"Auntie's Day condolences." Uncle Ming Gongzi gave a light salute, "Can you let me go and see my uncle?" ”
Madame raised her head and looked at this young man who had grown up with her youngest son since childhood, and he was also a child who grew up with the general, how could he have treated him as an outsider in her heart!
"Go, look at your uncle, I think with you to send him off, he can go with peace of mind!" Before he could finish speaking, he couldn't suppress the grief in his heart, and fell on the table and cried suppressedly.
Seeing that his wife was like this, Xian Ge couldn't care about anything, so she glanced at her and asked a few maids around her to take care of her, and pulled Feng Shuming into the tent by herself, and asked him to go and say goodbye to the general.
At this time, the three young masters were in the tent, and when they saw Feng Shuming entering, although they were surprised on their faces, they thought that they were also world friends, and coupled with the situation at this time, there was nothing to think about. Feng Shuming took a few steps forward and knelt side by side with the three young masters, his face sad in his heart.
"Now that my uncle is gone, there is no general at the border, and I hope that my brother will make a decision as soon as possible." Feng Shuming said this to the eldest young master, the eldest young master Yu Qing is the eldest son of the shogunate, and Yu Li is the young general of the shogunate army, this sentence is to be asked no matter what.
"At this time, the border is uncertain, and the news of my father's death must be covered up now, and I also have to ask Uncle Feng to write to the emperor to make a decision on this matter as soon as possible, now that the war has arrived, all I can do as a border general is to keep Jingzhou and keep the border fortress." The eldest young master hid the grief in his heart and cried blood, at this time, this man who had been on the battlefield for more than ten years was also like a child, crying uncontrollably.
"I'll tell my father about this when I go back, let him go to the emperor as soon as possible, and I have to ask the two of you for the border matter." The few people present are not children who have never seen wind and rain, and now when they encounter such a situation, they are just sad in their hearts, and Duan will not lose an inch.
"Big brother and second brother, now that you are all killing enemies on the battlefield, my crippled body can't help anything, I will investigate the assassination of my father this time, and I will not let go of the murderer." The young master said.
"It's okay for Tan to come and check, you have been smart since you were a child, so you can do these things!" The eldest young master agreed after a little thought, "It's just that the thief is dangerous, and you don't have the ability to protect yourself, I'm still not at ease!" ”
"Big brother doesn't have to worry about me, I won't have any problems with Yu Su, and the eldest brother and second brother can also meet the enemy on the battlefield." The young master comforted, his voice carried a kind of convincing magic, even if it was hoarse at this time, it could make people quickly put their minds at ease, "Shuming, this is dangerous, the person who enters Beijing to deliver the letter must be carefully selected, don't be careless." ”
"This is very true, this person must be strong in martial arts, and he must be flexible, I have a candidate, but I don't know if you want to be Atan!"
"Shu Ming said bluntly, what kind of circle do you have to turn around now!"
"Alright, that's how it was arranged......"
In the afternoon of the same day, the body of the shogun was collected and placed in the ancestral hall in the backyard of the shogunate, where it was not mourned. At the same time, the eldest young master temporarily took over the city guards of Jingzhou, joined forces with the 300,000 soldiers stationed in the city led by Marquis An Yuan, and swore to defend Jingzhou City to the death, waiting for Shao Jing's next order.
Feng Shuming led the personnel under the Feng firm to arrange the supply of materials in wartime as soon as possible, and set up a porridge shed in the west market, where the refugees lived in Jingzhou City, to clear the supply of porridge once in the morning and once in the evening, so as to ensure the survival of the refugees as much as possible, and recruit a large number of young and middle-aged people from them to form a private army and train them to maintain order in the city.
The Black Fox Battalion Guards led by the Second Young Master rode into battle, still in accordance with the combat form of a small group of cavalry, and wiped out the Wuqiang stragglers in various resettlement points outside the city, and at the same time tried to resettle the refugees as much as possible. Within a few days, the nearby villages and market towns had become empty cities, with no people left, and the nobility was bleak. A large number of refugees from all walks of life poured into Jingzhou, and the pressure on Jingzhou increased sharply.
As early as the afternoon of the day of the death of the shogun, Xian Gebian led a group of cavalry to quietly leave Jingzhou City, except for the city gates, which were scattered separately to carry out their important task this time - to deliver letters.
Now that there is a shortage of soldiers and major generals, the overall situation has not been decided, and the emperor's royal family in Shaojing still does not know the huge crisis that Jingzhou is facing, let alone that the general who has guarded the border for many years has passed away. The people who have been fighting horses all their lives have not been able to get the glory of a horse leather shroud dying on the battlefield, nor have they been able to disarm and return to the field in the last few years of their lives, and enjoy the joy of family, but they were assassinated and killed at this moment, and it is difficult to even enter the ground for peace......
Xian Ge is not slow to be alone, and the next day he crossed the Covered Horse Ditch and entered the sacrificial plain, and solved a lot of mountain bandits along the way, but looking at the appearance of those people is not for money, but some deliberately intercept the way forward for Xian Ge in order to delay time, and repeatedly encounter such a killer, Xian Ge has no patience and kills directly. I don't know what happened to Jingzhou now!
After the horse ditch into the pass, the ability of the Wuqiang people is not to infiltrate the pass no matter how big it is, the string song string song heartstrings are a little fixed, but they don't dare to be careless, this time the Wuqiang march is weird, no one can figure out what benefits they can get at this time, in case, if you really want to think like the young master, Dayan is in danger!
A few black-clothed killers appeared in front of Xian Ge while he was thinking, if it weren't for Xian Ge's wake-up call, it was estimated that he would already be a dead soul under the knife at this time!
The four of them, the number of martial arts paths are all superior, unlike those bandits and grass robbers who came before, they are formally trained killers At this moment, the black scarf is masked, leaving only two eyes to see clearly, a sharp arrow flew from the shadows, just hit the horse's leg, x even if Xian Ge reacted in time, it was only able to control his body that landed, and responded in the shortest time.
The knife is fatal, the four people cooperate with the advance and retreat, one person's knife skills are fierce and domineering, difficult to parry, and one person's swordsmanship is flexible, and the weak points are picked, and everyone cooperates to a degree. The other two made one of them a military stab, and the other made a short sword, specializing in close enemies.
The cooperation of the four people is called a wonderful, deadly move, and Xian Ge also took out his own weapon, which is a sword, but it is more than a sword. Thorn, pick, block, split...... One move and one style are also murderous swords.
Between the man who made the military stab quietly sneaked into the rear of the thought to kill the killer, and there were three people in front of her who pestered her and couldn't react, the sword in the string singer suddenly deformed, softened section by section, disassembled, and turned into a stainless steel soft whip with steel thorns, and a whirl was to leave a whip on the person who sneaked up behind him, and where he passed, the flesh flew over, and the bones were visible, which was enough to prove the lethality of this steel whip!