Tong Xue reached out and touched his forehead, "No fever!" Why is it nonsense! ”

In her heart, Li Yu was still the little beggar who was half a head shorter than herself and had a dirty face.

But I haven't seen him for a few years, and now although he is two or three fingers taller than himself, he is still just a young boy.

"You're sixteen this year." Li Yu saw that Tong Xue didn't take what she said seriously at all, and there was a trace of anxiety on his face.

Tong Xue looked at him with a smile and asked rhetorically, "Yes, I'm sixteen, what about you?" ”

"I'm ......" Li Yu's ears were a little red, "I'm fourteen." ”

"Go outside and ask, which fourteen-year-old boy would put the matter of "marriage" on his lips, and you are still a hairy child! "Don't think you've fought a few battles and think of yourself as an adult.

Dayue men are twenty years old, and the children of the family or the eunuch family, there are many people who are over twenty years old before getting married, even if they get married early, they are seventeen or eighteen years old, and fourteen-year-old teenagers are too early to marry!

Li Yu understood that she felt that she was too young.

"And you're going to marry someone else?" He changed the question.

Tong Xue was looking at him at this time, and suddenly a smile appeared at the corner of her mouth, although the arc was gentle, there was a gritted teeth in her tone, "I won't marry!" ”

Li Yu looked at her and stopped talking.

Back then, Emperor Xining made a joke in the palace, and no one dared to listen to it as a joke.

Since he said that Tong Xue will be the wife of the heavenly family, at least the nobles of the family who heard the slightest rumor in Beijing would never dare to ask to marry her.

Because marrying her means blatantly opposing the emperor, and no courtier has the courage to do so.

"You rest early." The two were relatively silent for a long time, and Li Yu was not good at words, so he looked at her silently for a while, whispered, and then walked out of the tent.

"Hmm." Tong Xue sent him out and whispered behind him, "Thank you for saving my grandfather and my life today." ”

Her gratitude is different from Fang Cai, Li Yu still chose to save her grandfather when she knew that she would be attacked, and she knew what it meant.

Because of this, Li Yu stopped, turned his head, and looked at her with a serious expression, "I won't let you have anything to do, and there are people you care about." ”

For the next five days, business was normal at the border.

A month later, after the Tartars had recuperated, they attacked again, and this time the offensive intensified, with a desperate ferocity, and they swore not to return the city walls in the east if they did not break through them.

Under the strong offensive of the Tartars, the Dayue army was quite difficult to deal with, and the war lasted from night to day, sending away the night and ushering in the day.

Three days and three nights without sleep, many soldiers only retreated to nibble a few steamed buns, drank a few sips of water, and quickly substituted, the soldiers on both sides were red-eyed, the battle lasted for five days and five nights, if it were not for the soldiers holding their breath and swearing to defend the city gate, they were afraid that the third city gate in the east had already fallen under the iron hooves of the Tartars.

After this battle, the corpses of both sides were piled up like a mountain, and the casualties were serious and devastated.

In addition to being wounded by swords, some of them were frostbitten by the cold weather in the east, and the mild ones were infected with wind chills, coughing and fever, and the severe ones turned into tuberculosis, and the medicine was ineffective.

Except for the middle-aged cold temperatures along the northeastern frontier, most of the climate in Dayue is warm and pleasant, so the soldiers' ability to resist cold is not as good as the Tartars' perennial experience in the ice and snow.

After the war, Zhen Guogong and General Weiyuan discussed this issue, and they were both worried.

The Tatars originally colluded with Beidi, one to attack the northern part of Dayue, and the other to attack the eastern part of Dayue, so that the fight was to disperse Dayue's forces, and the two sides broke through and carved up Dayue's intention.

However, on the side of Beicang City, General Weiyuan withstood the pressure and pushed the Beidi people back for three hundred miles.

The Tartars can only advance and not retreat, otherwise they will only suffer a worse end than the Beidi people.

The east of the eastern border, is a stretch of snow-capped mountain highlands, can be cultivated actively less, now the eastern army and the Beicang army converge, the Tartars can only fight hard, first attack the wall, weaken their troops, in order to get the slightest chance to prolong the breath, if the eastern army and the Beicang army work together to encircle and suppress, they may be able to hide in the mountains and forests, but the people of the Tartars are bound to be slaughtered by the Dayue army.

General Zhenbei and General Weiyuan were discussing the current situation, and Li Yu, who had been staying in the main account of the Chinese army and had never taken the initiative to speak out, suddenly said: "We should take the initiative to take advantage of the victory to pursue and be caught off guard by the Tartars." “

The eyes of Zhen Guogong and General Weiyuan looked at him for a while, but Li Yan beside him was the first to speak, "The junior thinks that Seventeen Lang's suggestion is feasible. We're defending the city now, and we're too passive. Since the strength of the army is far superior to that of the Tartars, and the troops that can still fight can still be gathered, it is unexpected to fight the Tartars? ”

General Weiyuan and Zhen Guogong glanced at each other, and they both saw the meaning of approval in each other's eyes.

So a group of people began to discuss the details.

In the tent, Tong Xue was drinking hot soup with her left hand, and at the same time stretched out her right arm and asked Qi Haotian to bandage her.

She was slashed twice by the Tartars, one on the arm, the wound was slightly deeper, the flesh was rolled, and the bones were almost visible, and the other was on the back, the wound was slightly shallow, and it was not good for the foreign man to see, so he planned to wait for Qi Haotian to deal with the injury on the arm, and then he estimated that he would sprinkle some medicine on his back.

Qi Haotian is not much better than her.

Even the injuries on his body were even worse.

But he is a man, he is not so particular, he has already been bandaged by the accompanying military doctor, and at this moment he frowned and sprinkled medicine powder on Tong Xue's bloody wound, which seemed to hurt three points more than when he was taking the medicine.

But Tong Xue seemed to be unconscious, grinning and drinking a bowl of warm mutton soup, which was not enough, licking her face and begging a familiar companion on the side, begging for a bowl.

"The mutton is hot, so you should drink less!" Qi Haotian said angrily and handed her the kettle.

Tong Xue unscrewed the spout and poured a few mouthfuls, as if she had come to life.

After Qi Haotian bandaged the wound on her arm.

She patted him on the shoulder, thanked him, grinned, and got up to go back to her little tent.

When I walked to the entrance of the tent, I saw two people coming from a distance.

It was General Weiyuan and Li Yu.

The two of them walked together, looking very awkward.

When General Weiyuan saw the bandage on Tong Xue's arm, his face became a little gloomy.

"The knife and gun have no eyes, and my little injury is not in the way." Tong Xue smiled, and then pointed to General Weiyuan's thigh, "Grandpa's injury has been treated, right?" You're badly wounded, and you'll be able to recuperate in the next few days. ”

General Weiyuan was stabbed by a hidden arrow, if it weren't for Li Yu's quick push with his hand, the arrow would have already pierced General Weiyuan's chest.

Not only that, but he was also stabbed in the chest, but the dodge was timely, and the wound was not too deep.

As Tong Xue said, the sword has no eyes on the battlefield, he has been marching for many years, which time he has never been injured, and he doesn't pay much attention to it, this time Bai Bai Nen's granddaughter, her face is gray and red, and there are dark red blood stains standing on her clothes, and she has always been cold and hard, but she feels a little uncomfortable.

"Can you have dinner? Do you want to use some more in your grandfather's account? ”

Tong Xue smiled and shook her head, "I've eaten enough." ”

General Weiyuan snorted. Turned his head to look at Li Yu.

The kid followed him to the door of the tent silently, but he didn't explain his intention, and General Weiyuan had no intention of entertaining him in the tent, so he had to block people out of the tent.

Li Yu took out a white porcelain bottle from his sleeve, "This is the gold sore medicine that my father-in-law rewarded when he was a child, and it has a good effect on the treatment of trauma, you try it." ”

As he spoke, he handed the porcelain vase towards Tong Xue.

Tong Xue rubbed her hands on the placket, not knowing whether to take it or not.

Later, he thought that he had given it in front of his grandfather anyway, a bottle of gold sore medicine was not a matter of importance, let alone a private gift, so he took it generously and said with a smile: "Thank you Seventeen Son!" ”

"The old man has a lot of good medicine here! There's no shortage of you in this bottle! Xiaolang, please go back! General Weiyuan said with an unkind face.

Li Yu hugged his fists and saluted, "Junior, retire." ”

(To be continued.) )