Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Praying Mantis Catches the Cicada
Most of the architectural structures in Ulanxili imitate the Tang Dynasty style, and the exterior walls and interiors are carved with animals with Mongolian characteristics as decorations, and the green buildings that were moved from the south inherited the Tang style construction model, with large courtyards and small courtyards, pavilions and pavilions. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
When he arrived at the small courtyard where General Rida was, Qin Ran found that there were many soldiers inside, and there were soldiers guarding all sides of the courtyard.
She changed into a navy blue robe skirt, wrapped in a sky-blue cloth on her head, and naturally passed by the gate of the small courtyard with a tray face, and went around to the back of the courtyard, she walked to a soldier guarding the northwest corner, knocked him unconscious, dragged him to the corner, and then climbed over the wall and entered the courtyard.
Finding the house where Rida was, Qin Ran looked through the crack in the window.
The man who was tied to the pillar and exposed half of his body was Song Tianying.
"In my hands, haha, it's a blessing for you!" General Rida whipped Song Tianying with a leather whip and told him how the Tang soldiers had been defeated and retreated, that the imperial court had abandoned the north of Jiangling, and that the Mongol army had defeated the last defenders of Zhaozhou with great courage and skill.
Song Tianying understood the Mongolian language, and after listening to General Rida's words, his face was quite ugly.
Qin Ran looked to the side, and not far from the pillar, there were four young men kneeling on the ground with their hands and feet tied.
Rida forgot to talk about his achievements, he faced Song Tianying with his back to the window, Qin Ran quietly pushed open the window lattice, held his breath and moved in.
Seeing Qin Ran, a trace of astonishment flashed in Song Tianying's eyes, but there was no change on her face, she made a gesture, and he suddenly felt at ease, and then, Song Tian talked about the war with Rida in Mongolian to attract his attention, and Rida saw that Song Tianying actually refuted him, and he spoke more energetically for a while.
The more fierce the fish to be slaughtered, the more excited Rida became.
As soon as Qin Ran landed, a man next to the pillar suddenly saw Qin Ran coming out of nowhere, and he stared at her and exclaimed in a low voice.
Immediately, General Dida knew that something was wrong, and he drew the long knife at his waist with one hand and turned back in vain.
said that it was too late, and Qin Ran rushed forward with an arrow step.
When General Rida's knife was an arm's length away from Qin Ran, she stopped her foot and fell sideways, and when she dodged the long knife, Qin Ran swept her underneath.
However, Rida is extremely stable, wrestling with others since he was a child, his legs are like old trees, where can he be easily shaken. Although Qin Ran's strength on his feet was not small, it made Rida's ankles and knees hurt, he just held his breath and raised his long knife to cut down, he wanted to cut off her head!
How could Qin Ran wait for the enemy's sword to fall, in an instant, she had changed her strategy.
Seeing the knife cut down, Qin Ran clamped his feet upwards and clamped his wrist tightly, even though the tip of the knife was an inch away from her forehead.
How could a wrist in one hand resist the strength of her legs, she flung her ankle upwards, and Rida's long knife flew out, at this time, Qin Ran coiled his thick waist like a snake, and when he got up, he had an extra dagger in his hand, and the blade flashed, and it was inserted into Rida's neck.
Zyda clutched his neck and slammed back against the wooden shelf, and there was a bang in the room, and he fell backwards, shattering the flask on the desk.
Qin Ran hurriedly cut the rope on Song Tianying's body, sensing the footsteps of the soldiers outside the house, she smashed the knife in her hand into the man who exposed her with a surprised sound just now, and said, I will kill whoever makes a noise.
At the same time, Song Tianying cooperated in dragging Hita into the corner.
He stood up, only to see Qin Ran running towards him, tearing off the long skirt on his body.
Song Tianying didn't react, Qin Ran had already thrown him down on the thick blanket, she propped herself up and straddled him, and covered the skirt in her hand on Song Tianying's face.
Forgetting to close his eyes, he could faintly see the woman's naked upper body and clean skin through a thin inner skirt...... Song Tianying hurriedly closed his eyes, and he didn't know whose heartbeat it was.
With this, the soldiers rushed in.
Qin Ran deliberately opened his mouth and made a panting appearance.
When Song Tianying heard this, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva silently.
The soldier was also embarrassed, closed the door silently, and as soon as the door was closed, Qin Ran pulled on his long skirt and got up, where did he come and go.
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Qin Ran knocked out several soldiers in the backyard and showed traces of having fled from the Qinglou, in fact, she and Song Tianying hid back in another room in the courtyard of Rida, even if they thought that Qin Ran and the others were still in the Qinglou, it was difficult to imagine that they actually turned back the same way.
General Zhida's body had been laid down, and the courtyard was empty.
The two hid behind a cupboard in the house, waited for a long time, and did not see the soldiers chase it back, Song Tianying said. "Thank you, girl."
"Why are you in Uransili?"
"You know me?" Hearing her ask, Song Tianying couldn't help but be on guard, and after thinking about it, he felt that he was too worried again.
"Hmm." Qin Ran nodded, heard the vigilance in his tone, and explained. "My friend saw you in the slave market, went there in front of me, and saw a soldier of the Anbei Army, and he told me that you came here."
Although he didn't know who the woman in front of him was, Song Tianying felt that the other party had no malicious intent, a woman did not hesitate to kill a general in order to save him, and even took off her clothes in front of a strange man, Song Tianying was grateful, and felt extremely ashamed.
There was nothing to hide, Song Tianying told him about it.
"As early as Zhaozhou, led two thousand soldiers to break through, but was surrounded and suppressed by the Mongolian army, and then dispersed, I took four wounded brothers to stay outside the city, because of the change of people's clothes, the Mongolian army thought we were homeless, and went around to Mongolia." Song Tianying was not seriously injured, but he was unwilling to abandon his brother, and now there is only one of the four brothers who were born and died, so he has been staying in the slave market. "Lao Chen injured the Mongolian people a few days ago, the old wound recurred, and the arm was seriously injured, and besides, Kublai Khan recently returned to the court, and the road was full of Mongolian troops, and we are not familiar with the situation in the city, even if we escape, it is very dangerous."
After talking about his condition, Song Tianying asked. "Is it true that the Holy Lord has given up north of Gangneung?"
Song Tianying didn't know about Chang'an, and he was really surprised when he heard what came out of Rida's mouth.
Jin Yuwei rebelled, and the palace was already controlled by Li Sheng, who falsely sent a holy decree to arrest the ministers of the court and the central government into the palace, saying that the Hua family and the Song family were plotting against him, and Li Sheng, who gave up the north of Jiangling, had actually colluded with Kublai Khan. Li Hao rescued Song Shikun, who was imprisoned in the prison, and after leaving Chang'an, Li Hao went to Linnan, and Hua Yanjun, who had been missing for a while, appeared in Linnan to support him. ”
"Uncle is missing?!"
Hua Yanjun was trapped in Chang'an, the situation in the north is dangerous, but it does not mean that the entire north has fallen, Song Tianying went all the way north to Mongolia, but he didn't know that the imperial court really gave up the place north of Jiangling, and Hua Yanjun didn't know where to go.
"His business starts with him returning to Chang'an to congratulate the saint on his birthday...... Qin Ran said the matter in general, mainly because Hua Yanjun was implicated in the third brother Hua Songqiao's private sale of weapons, and there was a domestic uproar to impeach Hua Yanjun, and he couldn't leave Chang'an for a while, resulting in the Anbei Army having no generals and delaying the fighters.
In less than a quarter of an hour, Song Tianying had learned too much unimaginable information, and he shouldn't have said anything for a while after listening to it.
As it grew dark, the soldiers' search area shifted to the surroundings, and the small courtyard where the two were located was quiet, and the house was even darker.
"Today, if you hadn't come to the rescue, I would definitely be more than lucky, I don't know what to call the girl?"
Qin Ran hesitated for a moment and said. "Qin Ran."
"It was Miss Qin...... Qin, Qin Ran? You are not the fifth brother's ......" Song Tianying has never seen Song Tianxian, and he doesn't know much about this sibling, but Song Tianying knows that he is not treated at home like himself, and he has been raised in Mrs. Song's house since he was a child, and he went to Puguang Temple at the age of ten, and he didn't stay long when he returned to Song's house.
In any case, when it comes to Song Tianxian, Song Tianying will still be a little familiar in his heart, and he has heard a little about Song Tianxian and Qin Ran, especially Qin Ran's case.
Knowing that she was Qin Ran, Song Tianying was immediately relieved.
Because she is Qin Ran, she will come to save him.
"He's in Uransili too?"
"Something happened to him, and I don't know where he is." When she said this, Qin Ran didn't know how deep the sadness was in her words.
In troubled times, no one knows what will happen, Qin Ran doesn't elaborate, and he doesn't ask questions.
"No wonder you know these things, why are you in Urancili?"
Qin Ran didn't explain that she came to Ulanxili because of Kublai Khan, she just said. "I'll be in Uran Sili for a while. In a few days, you can leave Ulaansili with a friend of mine, and then go to Linnan, Linnan......"
"Nope." Hearing this, Song Tian should reject Qin Ran's suggestion. "Even if Zhaozhou is lost and the imperial court gives up Zhaozhou, there are still countless Tang people and brothers of the Anbei Army in the city, and I will go to Zhaozhou after leaving Ulanxili."
Song Tianying is a soldier, and his duty is to protect his family and the country and protect the people.
Later, Ichiro Yamano stayed in Ulanxili with Qin Ran, while the soldier surnamed Chen fell seriously ill and died, and Song Tianying returned to Zhaozhou alone. He had the intention of fighting against the Mongol army, but his personal strength was really insignificant compared to the army, so Song Tianying thought of gathering the remaining Anbei army in the city to a deep mountain not far from Zhaozhou and bordering the Shengji Kingdom, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and formed an autonomous army to take in the displaced people.
At this point, he finally realized what he said to Qin Ran when he hid behind the cupboard - to protect the people.
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After Qin Ran and Song Tianying separated, she went to Princess Hastana's mansion.
Hastana's real purpose in going to Mount Tata was to raise Han women for Kublai Khan, not for Han Chinese in the hunting grounds, so her soldiers only obeyed the order to bring Yamano Ichiro and others back to the princess's mansion and imprison them.
But Ichiro Yamano and the others didn't step into the door of the princess's mansion, and another team took them away.
When Hastana found out, she didn't say anything, as if it had never happened.
The soldiers who took Yamano Ichiro away belonged to Dai Qin, who was cunning and suspicious, even Hastana, who was temporarily cooperating, was suspicious, and he could not give up every opportunity to overthrow Kublai Khan, so he had to interrogate those Han people in person.
Therefore, Ichiro Yamano suffered some flesh and skin for no reason.
Looking at Kublai Khan again, Qin Ran was like a wild horse caught on the grassland to him.
If she is honest and obedient and gives him what he wants, she is a war horse to him, and with her she is like a tiger with wings, and if she is stubborn and refuses, Kublai Khan will definitely not use her, and if she can't be tamed, he will kill her.
According to Harun said, according to his method, using Qin Ran to enhance Kublai Khan's masculine power, he knew that Qin Ran was difficult to train, so he waited to use her and then kill her.
But if someone wants to jump out and spread wilderness on his territory and let people escape, Kublai Khan will inevitably fight back without mercy.
After learning that Hastana took away the Han people in the hunting ground, he went to her to ask Yamano Ichiro, as long as Yamano Ichiro was in Qin Ran, he couldn't escape, Hastana saw Kublai Khan, showed her daughter's delicate appearance, pouted and said that Dai Qin deceived her and used her to go to the hunting ground to arrest people, but she robbed people halfway.
Kublai Khan led his troops to the door, but Dai Qin resolutely refused to admit it.
The people in the hunting ground all watched that it was Hastana's soldiers who took people away, so why did he ask him to hand them over?
In fact, seeing that Kublai Khan cared so much about those Han people, Dai Qin was sure that there was something wrong with those Han people.
Kublai Khan left that night, and in the next few days, the three of them fought fiercely openly and secretly, but they cheapened Qin Ran, Qin Ran rescued Ichiro Yamano on the second day, and the two hid in a Mongolian house in the city.
Ichiro Yamano saved the life of the head of the family, and they hid the two of them in the cellar and delivered some food every day.
After a little calm, Qin Ran decided to let Ichiro Yamano follow Song Tianying all the way out of the city.
"Why? Why do you want me to leave and you stay here? For the first time, Ichiro Yamano spoke to her like this, and he was very emotional.
"Yamano-kun."
"Xiao Ran, I won't leave." For her sake, he risked his life to cross the battlefield of gunpowder to come to Mongolia, and now she is the only one left, and Ichiro Yamano will never agree.
Yamano Ichiro never asked Qin Ran, why she didn't leave in a hurry and didn't run away in a hurry, her attitude towards Kublai Khan has always been tolerant, and Yamano Ichiro also didn't ask Qin Ran why he asked him to inquire about the princess and princess of Meng, although he knew that it must be related to what happened in the palace that day.
On that day, he was trapped in the side hall with the palace maids, eunuchs, and other attendants, and afterwards, he knew that Li Sheng had sent countless people to hunt her down, and through the corpses of those soldiers, golden feather guards, and black-clothed people, he could imagine what she had experienced.
There is a limit to what he can do for her, no matter what she wants to do, he will do whatever it takes, and he just wants to be by her side, he doesn't want her to be alone.
Finally, Qin Ran sighed heavily.
Since Yamano Ichiro was reluctant to leave, Qin Ran made an appointment with Song Tianying to send him out of Ulanxili in Daiqin's team out of the city three days later.
Ulanxili out of the city to the south, walk for a day, you can see the town of the famous Tuokali, Tuokari is built according to the river, the topography of Tuokali is more special, its east is a flat prairie, the west and northwest are rugged mountain roads, the mountain roads stretch, and over time become a natural barrier.
It was yesterday afternoon, and the two followed Dai Qin's team, and the next morning, they reached a mountain pass, and the soldiers were ordered to rest in place.
The two waited for a long time and saw no movement, so they left the team under the pretext of going to Xiaoxie.
"Let's go." Qin Ran took a small bag and handed it to him, which contained a copper coin used in Mongolia.
Song Tianying didn't know what Qin Ran was doing in Ulanxili, but everyone had their own mission, just like Song Tianying himself, he wanted to return to Zhaozhou.
He didn't look at the bag when he took it, only looked at Qin Ran deeply, and said. "Be careful, there will be a period later."
Song Tianying gradually drifted away, and his resolute back seemed to be able to support a heaven and earth.
He disappeared at the end of the road, and Qin Ran turned around and walked back.
Qin Ran's main purpose in leaving the city was not to give Song Tianying a ride, but to have something to do with another person.
Returning to the place where the Dai Qin team rested, he saw the soldiers dozing off behind the stones, they were indeed a little tired after walking all the way last night, Qin Ran quickly glanced at the team, and suddenly saw a scout who had won the general's order and went to the west, and Qin Ran followed the man far behind.
On the western side of the col, a team escorting grain is moving steadily.
Qin Ran saw that the scout confirmed that there was someone in front of her and ran back quickly, she chose a position that was easy to watch the play and squatted, and after a while, the western people finally came.
This year's winter in Uran Xili was longer than last year's, and the grain harvest was not as good as usual, so when Harun brought back the cultivation technology and exchanged grain from the Western Regions, the king was happy to reward Harun with a lot of treasures, and the task of bringing back grain to the western border was extremely important but there was no oil and water, and this thankless task of course fell on the unfavored Gredan.
Gredan took 500 men with him and transported grain back to Urancili.
At this moment, there is also a team on the road on the south side of the mountain pass, which is the gold, silver and jewelry that Kublai Khan got from many cities in the north of the Tang Dynasty, this kind of thing must be Kublai Khan himself escorted back, he returned to the capital in advance, and the escort team and generals are his henchmen.
But yesterday Dai Qin said that he had taken the opportunity to fill his own pockets and did not hand over all the treasures to the treasury, and in the end, the king agreed to Dai Qin's proposal and let him go outside the city to meet him. Kublai Khan was not worried about Dai Qin's bite, because the things had already been registered, and they could be checked one by one when the time came, and his people were not waste materials.
Here, Gredan and his party were about to reach the center of the col, when the soldiers in Daichin's team met Gredan and immediately asked for support.
When asked, it was learned that a group of soldiers of the Anbei Army who had infiltrated Mongolia had attacked Kublai Khan's convoy escorting gold, silver and jewelry, and suffered heavy casualties, and the people of Tuokhali near the mountain col suffered misfortune.
Gredan immediately left a hundred men to take care of the food, and the rest went with him all the way to support.
As soon as Gredan left, Qin Ran knew that her opportunity had arrived.
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Qin Ran was in a high position in the south, and she was aware of all the movements on the other side.
As expected, as soon as Gredan left, a large number of masked people came quickly on the east and west paths, forming a trend of encirclement and suppression on the left and right, and the masked men on the east side went up first, rushed out and slashed wildly against the people of Gredan, and Gredan left a tall and thin man in the team Although he did not know where to ambush, he reacted quickly, leading people to counterattack while strictly guarding the food.
The tall and thin man was obviously not an ordinary soldier, his eyes were like eagles, his movements were quick, most of the masked people died under his sword, and he commanded effectively, and it didn't take long for the masked people who came out of the host road to solve half of it.
However, they did not know that the masked men who had been killed in the west were eyeing them, and that there were even more people in the west, and some people were carrying torches with the intention of burning the grain.
Gredan's mission is to transport grain from the border, if there is no food, how will the Mongolian people survive the rest of the winter, and what responsibility should he bear?
Most of the Gredans were attracted to the masked men in the east, and the dozen or so soldiers who stayed behind were able to resist the other group of masked men and protect the food?