Chapter 21: The Fierce Battle
"Lord Wang, you must hold back."
The guard Li Ting and Lou Yao's younger brother Lou Tong all changed into eunuch clothes and mixed in the palace people.
"Lord Wang, save your life, we will avenge today's revenge sooner or later." Li Ting clamped Lou Tong's arm with one hand and asked Lou Tong to hold back.
"Who's leading the troops?" Lou Tong's two palms hidden under his sleeves were clenched into fists.
"Ning Sichen." Li Ting said.
"Ning Sichen, Ning Sichen, Ning Sichen." Lou Tong's eyes were glowing with blood, he gritted his teeth, and repeated Ning Sichen's name over and over again.
In the direction of the imperial study, the sky-high fire gradually dimmed.
Ning Sichen, I swear that I must pay you with blood.
……
The dark sky is getting lighter, and it won't be long before it dawns.
The woods outside the limestone valley, where the fighting there, also slowly weakened from the initial fierceness as the number of casualties continued to increase. There were fallen soldiers everywhere, and I didn't know how many people had died, but I felt that the withered air was filled with a strong smell of blood.
In the darkness, Shu Shengxuan was already wounded, but he was still fighting with the enemy.
"Marshal, there seems to be another sound of killing in the woods, is it that the reinforcements have arrived, and the last general will protect you back to the Limestone Valley first." Tian Shaofeng said to Shu Shengxuan while killing the enemy.
Shu Shengxuan also heard the movement in the distance, in addition to them, there were indeed other people who were also fighting with the army of Liangchang Kingdom, but the momentum was not big, the number should not be much, unlike reinforcements, maybe it was just Deng Chenglin who sent troops.
Whether they were reinforcements or not, they couldn't retreat.
"Kill." Shu Shengxuan, together with the remaining soldiers, continued to fight the enemy soldiers who surrounded him.
Blood splattered from the air and splashed all over the place.
In the Limestone Valley.
"General Li, you stay here." Shu Zhenxuan couldn't bear it after all, he handed over the wounded and letters in the Limestone Valley to Li Jiandong, and also rushed down the Limestone Valley.
Zhao Zhongping took a shortcut and returned to Shanyang City as quickly as possible, Lou Yao died, the dragons of Liangchang Kingdom were leaderless, and the whole army retreated. The battle of Danyang City, which had been fought for half a year, ended with the victory of Chu Huiguo, but in the face of that hard-won victory, no one in the hearts of the soldiers was happy.
It's too hard.
Whether it was Chu Huiguo's soldiers or the enemy army, this last battle was even more tragic.
Shu Qingyue only entered the woods after the retreat of Liangchang Kingdom.
The sky is finally bright.
However, what Shu Qingyue saw in front of her eyes was not light, but corpses all over the field, stained with blood. She was in the woods, trying to find the figures of her father and second brother, and suddenly, her body trembled, and her whole person seemed to be nailed to the spot.
That, not really.
"Marshal." Someone among the soldiers shouted.
Among the countless fallen soldiers, one person was shot dozens of times, and blood stained his armor red. However, he stuck his gun in the ground and stood with his support. That person was none other than the generalissimo of Chu Huiguo, Shu Qingyue's father, Shu Shengxuan.
Shu Qingyue didn't move a single step, she didn't dare to walk over, once it was confirmed, her father would never come back.
After Zhao Zhongping, Ning Sichen also hurried back to Danyang City, and when he heard the news of Shu Shengxuan's breakthrough, Ning Sichen went to the woods outside the limestone valley. Seeing the battle situation in the woods, Ning Sichen was shocked, he had never experienced such a tragic war.
In less than two hours, the number of casualties on both sides reached 80,000, 80,000, what a terrifying number. There are 70,000 in Liangchang and 10,000 in Chu Hui. Generalissimo Chu Huiguo - Shu Shengxuan, died in battle.
It's a pity, a generation of famous generals.
Shu Qingyue, who had been standing for a long time, couldn't bear the facts in front of her, and in the end, she only felt that it was dark in front of her, and she didn't know anything.
"Miss, miss." Yue Rongfei supported Shu Qingyue, who had fallen.
Ning Sichen, who was standing behind, watched Shu Qingyue fall into Yue Rongfei's arms, and he heard it very clearly, Yue Rongfei called her Miss. It's not Satsuki, it's Miss.
Who would Yue Rongfei call "Miss"?
As far as Ning Sichen knows, in addition to Shu Shengxuan's two sons, he also has a daughter, and the name of Shu Shengxuan's daughter seems to be called Shu, Shu, Qing, Yue, Shu Qingyue?
He had asked her name, and she said that her name was Satsuki. Shu Qingyue, Xiaoyue? Could it be that she is Shu Shengxuan's daughter?
It wasn't until that moment that Ning Sichen realized Shu Qingyue's true identity.
She is not Yue Rongfei's woman, let alone a dusty woman, and originally, she is not at all like a Qinglou woman. If she is Shu Shengxuan's daughter, the daughter of the Shuai Mansion, she can clearly know the details of the battle between Chu Huiguo and Pingshun a year ago, and she has such amazing insight, and Yue Rongfei takes care of her so meticulously, etc., etc., it can be explained logically.
She would be Shu Shengxuan's daughter!
And he never thought that she would be Shu Shengxuan's daughter.
Why, she is Shu Shengxuan's daughter?
……
In the military tent, Shu Qingyue walked on the couch, her brows furrowed, as if she was having a frightened nightmare.
"Daddy." Shu Qingyue woke up, her palms and back were covered with cold sweat, she saw Yue Rongfei guarding the couch, she asked him. "Rong Fei, where's my father?"
"Miss, marshal, marshal, sacrificed." Yue Rongfei didn't dare to look directly into Shu Qingyue's eyes, his voice was so low that he could barely hear it, but every word of his was so clear that it hit Shu Qingyue's heart.
Shu Qingyue thought about it a lot, she just had a dream, and she heard it. But God, he didn't even give her such a mistake. Shu Shengxuan died, and she didn't even see her father for the last time.
Shu Shengxuan's body was still in the barracks, and before she woke up, no one moved, just changed into a neat military uniform for Shu Shengxuan.
Shu Qingyue stood next to the coffin, looking at her father lying inside, she hadn't seen her for half a year, he had added a few strands of gray hair between his temples, and there were more wrinkles at the corners of his eyes than before he set off. The man is still there, but he will not open his eyes again, and he will not speak again. Just like three years ago, when her eldest brother Shu Ziqian died in battle.
"This is a letter left by the marshal and the second general." Yue Rongfei handed a letter to Shu Qingyue, and it took a long time for her to take it.
Shu Qingyue spread out the letter, it was the handwriting of her second brother Shu Zhenxuan, there were not many words on it, only a few sentences, but those few words alone were enough to make her heart ache to death.
"Xiaoyue, let you bear this every time, I'm sorry for you as a brother. The luckiest thing in this life is to be the son of my father, and the three of us are brothers and sisters. Don't be sad, the second brother, the eldest brother, and your father and mother will guard you. You must, live well. At the end, it is written: Shu Zhenxuan.
If it weren't for Yue Rongfei's support, Shu Qingyue would have fallen to her knees.
"Where's the second brother?" Shu Qingyue looked away, and Shu Zhenxuan was nowhere to be seen.