Chapter 63: Farewell to Hatred and Sorrow
As Xie Chengyu expected, since the first five-day battle ended with an agreed truce between the two armies, there were only three or four more battles in one month.
On the sixth day of the lunar month, Xiahou An ordered Li Jie to lead the troops alone on the grounds that 'General Xie is tired from fighting for a long time and needs to recuperate', although this move aroused the dissatisfaction of the next lieutenant general of the Xie family's army, but seeing the attitude of his own general without acquiescing to a word, everyone did not open their mouths to dissuade them.
Early the next morning, Li Jian was ready to lead his troops in a majestic manner, but in the evening he returned with a great victory, following Xie Chengyu's defeat of half of the Woto grassland, and captured the other third.
An Emperor Long Yan Dayue immediately ordered him to rest tonight, and relieved Li Qi of punishment, and ordered him to be the deputy marshal tomorrow and follow Li Shot to lead the troops on the expedition.
When Di Lian went to Xie Chengyu's tent, she saw her second uncle sitting on a short couch in a regular suit and drinking tea calmly.
Pursing her lips slightly, Di Lian walked straight to the soft couch and sat down, "Second uncle, it's been more than a month, and Zixu has been in the horse circle for about the same." ”
The corners of Xie Chengyu's lips raised, "Don't worry, he has liked horses since he was a child, and he won't be impatient." ”
"Is that what Lian'er meant?" , Tillian couldn't help but roll her eyes angrily and helplessly.
"Don't worry, the battle on the grassland is easy to fight because Yu Wenyi is waiting for them in the city, as long as they get to the city, the good luck of the Li family and his son will come to an end."
Xie Chengyu was right, on the seventh day of the lunar month, the Li family and his son captured the entire Woto grassland, and the eighth star general of the lunar month killed the Xia Lan army outside the border pass and returned with Xie Yu, and the 200,000 soldiers and horses brought by this battle only came back 100,000.
The wolf of the army returned to the barracks unbearable, and Deputy General Lin in the Xie family's army shouted in front of Emperor An regardless of his dignity, "This grandson of the Li family is stubborn and uses his nostrils to the sky, and he does not listen to the persuasion of his ministers and others at all!" If His Majesty lets them lead the troops again, this battle will be unbeatable! ”
As soon as he shouted, others also complained, and some of them even smashed their helmets on the ground, this group of rough men who have been fighting bloodily all year round, once the group is angry, it is really a little terrifying.
Emperor An is also angry and angry at the moment, and he can't wait to pull the Li father and son out and cut them down, but in the end he protected them with 'lack of ability', and handed over the handsome seal to Xie Chengyu again.
Xie Chengyu and Xie Hengxu led the Xie family army, which was categorically not on a business trip, because of the mistakes of the Li father and son, the Starfall army was re-stationed on the Woto grassland, and the battle returned to its original location.
It is said that Starfall was led by four fathers and sons of the sister-in-law family, and for a while the two sides seemed to be in a confrontation, even if they did not win the battle, they did not lose the battle.
And in the days of worry, Di Lian still followed Luo Jia through the wounded soldiers, and could only look at Xie Hengxu from a distance when the army returned to the camp.
The hardships of the war continued, and Tillian was disguised in the barracks, and it was a year in the blink of an eye, if it weren't for Xie Hengxu sneaking to accompany her for half a moment on her sixteenth birthday and her grandfather's death, she would have almost forgotten that she was still Jiang Dilian, not a little doctor in the barracks.
In the war for more than a year, Xiahou An and Yu Wenyi have also been to the battlefield several times, but it is unreasonable to have no owner in the palace for too long, not to mention that although Yu Wenyi is called the emperor, his name is not right, the war on the border will not subside for a while, and the domestic situation is obviously more anxious to stabilize.
At the beginning of June of the third year of Qianhua, Yu Wenyi returned to the imperial capital with his personal guards, leaving the father and son of the concubine family to sit at the border pass, and Xiahouan also drove back to Beijing a few days later.
Sending him away, Di Lian instantly felt at ease, and Xie Hengxu was the same, on the first night after Xia Hou'an left, he got his wish and plundered Di Lian into his tent.
Tillian sat in the chair, her eyes closed and her head held high, and he let him remove the disguise from her face.
When facing her face again, Xie Hengxu looked at her for a long time before he sighed with satisfaction, and reached out to hold her in his arms, "A year has passed, Xia Hou'an's mind should be lighter, right?" Now my grandfather's filial piety has passed, and he can get married when he returns to Beijing. ”
The moon's eyes were soft, Di Lian gently hugged him back, and whispered, "It's a pity, I'm afraid I won't be able to return to the capital in a year or two, Zixu, do you really want me to wait until I am ten years old to become an old girl?" ”
Xie Hengxu smiled, holding her shoulders and staring at her beautiful eyebrows, "Lian'er will never be old, even if I wait for another ten or twenty years, Chinese New Year's Eve years, as long as I can marry you, I can afford to wait." ”
With a warm soup in his chest, Tilian Yue's eyes bent into his arms, pretending to be arrogant, "I still think you are old, and in two years, you will be twenty-seven!" ”
With a frown, Xie Hengxu hugged her arm tightly, and said in a rough voice, "It's too late to be old!" Even thirty-seven, you can only marry me. ”
Di Lian laughed clearly, Xie Hengxu's thin lips rose, and the two snuggled and whispered under the flickering candlelight, reflecting in the camp tent, Chanjuan was warm like a picture scroll.
The next day, Tilian woke up in Luo Jia's shaking, squinted and opened to see Luo Jia's white goatee, and the moon blinked and woke up.
"Do you know what time it is?" Seeing her confused appearance, Luo Jia glared angrily.
Covering her lips with her bare hands and yawning, Tillian sat up from the couch and smoothed her loose hair, "What time is it?" Her eyes fell on the hanger opposite, and the black armor and helmet were still hanging steadily, which she had hung with her own hands last night.
Slightly stunned, Tilian pointed to the armor and looked sideways at Luo Jia, "Didn't you go on the expedition today?" ”
With frowning eyebrows, Luo Jia gritted his teeth and said, "How dead did you sleep, Xie Hengxu left the camp with his guards when he was ugly last night, and you slept in his tent, and you didn't even know it?!" ”
"What did you say?" , The clear moon eyes widened, and Tilian's heart was slightly suffocated, "Zixu was ugly last night." After a pause, he stood up sharply and hurriedly walked to the curtain window and lifted it.
The earth-gray tents stretched among the green grasslands, and the cloudless sun was in the sky above the sky, as if it was already noon.
Xie Hengxu left the camp late at night with her guards, and she must have done something she would not allow, so she did something to make her sleep until this time.
Flustered and constricted, Di Lian suddenly looked back at Luo Jia who was standing behind her, "Did he go to the Starfall camp at night!" ”
Luo Jia pursed her lips, watching her plain and white beauty look even paler under the satin-like black silk, and couldn't help but move her apricot eyes, and said in a low voice, "I also only found out this morning, he took away fifty guards and came back twenty-three." Xie Hengxu was not among them.
As soon as her eyes were white, Tillian took a step back and leaned against the tent, then suddenly got up and pulled a green blue robe on her body, and walked straight out of the tent without stopping.
Luo Jia was startled when he saw this, and took a step forward and pulled the black cloak hanging on the hanger and chased him out like a fly, and with a shake of his hand, he covered Tilian in the cloak, and quickly glanced at the guards near the camp, but it attracted the sideways glances of more than a dozen people.
Now where did Di Lian still care about the side, she hurriedly broke into Xie Chengyu's tent, ignored everyone in the tent, and spoke indifferently and hurriedly.
"Where's Zixu!"
Her sudden appearance shocked everyone, in addition to the deputy generals in the Xie family's army, there were also Li Qi and two imperial historians left behind.
Everyone looked at this slender figure who suddenly broke into the military tent, covered by a black cloak, and the indifferent and soft voice of Fang Cai, who was clearly a woman.
Xie Chengyu's cold eyebrows frowned, "You go back first." ”
Di Lian was so angry that she threw her cloak on the ground regardless of it, and took two steps forward and looked straight at Xie Chengyu with clear eyes, "Sue me and he's back!" ”
Luo Jia followed closely behind her, and when she saw her face exposed, she couldn't help frowning and stroking her forehead.
Miss Tilian, the generals' eyes widened in surprise and surprise, but Li Qi and the two imperial historians on the side were shocked and lost their minds.
The woman in front of her was full of black silk like a cloud, her skin was like jade, her eyebrows and eyes seemed to be delicately painted, even if she was wearing a loose gown of coarse cloth and blue blue, she did not lose the slightest bit of beautiful and peerless demeanor.
Li Qi squinted slightly, retracted his gaze and looked at Xie Chengyu in the upper seat, if he guessed correctly, could this woman from Yunyue Qinghua be Jiang Dilian who Emperor An couldn't find?
As if in order to confirm his guess, I saw Xie Chengyu sigh helplessly, and said in a deep voice, "We are discussing this matter, and my uncle will come to your tent to talk to you in detail later, and you go back first." ”
Tilian was unmoved, her moon eyes were slightly pink, and her lips were white, "He's good at advocating a night attack on the Starfall camp, isn't he?" ”
Xie Chengyu's eyebrows were furrowed and he was silent, and the tall Deputy General Lin on the side saw this and hesitated, "Well, the young general also wants to end the war earlier, and if the confrontation continues like this, not only will the Starfall army, but even we will be struggling." ”
Holding the sleeves of the robe tightly with her hands, Tilian Yue's eyes were moist and red, and she said quietly, "The guards came back and said something." ”
Seeing her look like this, no one in the tent knew how to speak, Luo Jia, who was standing on the side, sighed, stepped forward and looked at her, "The people who came back were all injured, I asked a person who was still in a clear mind, and he said that when he returned, he was noticed by the family of the concubine, and they were divided into two ways, and Xie Hengxu took the other person to the other way." ”
"Both of them were hunted down by the samurai, and Zixu was afraid that he was captured." , The matter has reached this point and it can't be hidden, Xie Chengyu simply told her everything.
Captured.
Di Lianyue's eyes slowly widened, and her lips trembled slightly, "Since he was captured, he is still alive, and my uncle sent someone to rescue him." ”
"Lian'er." , Xie Hengxu looked tired and sighed shallowly, and said in a deep voice, "Naturally, it is necessary to save it, but it still needs to be considered in the long run." ”
"Think long-term?" , Di Lian Qingsu's face was slightly pale, and she looked at him with a confused expression.
At this moment, someone outside the tent rushed in, staggered and pounced on him and whispered, "Report to the general!" The Starfall army hung the yellow flag of the armistice and retreated. ”
"What?!" , Xie Chengyu was shocked and slapped the table violently.
"Where is there a sudden truce with a yellow flag when there is a war!! What the hell is the old ghost who kills the knife! If you plunder our major general, you will leave!! ”
"Exactly, what is the truth! If you go, you have to return the major general, general, please order the ministers and others to lead the troops to pursue! ”
"When the Red Flag War starts, the Yellow will stop, and the Starfall Dynasty will no longer fight this battle to reconcile, what reason do you have to pursue!" , Xie Chengyu scolded angrily, and kicked the long case over in a fit of anger.
Tilian's face turned pale and she muttered, "Shouldn't Zixu be put in front of the battle to coerce us to cut the land and save people?" They took Zixu away, why did they take Zixu away. ”