Chapter 33: The Dead City
Nong Zhigao's hair has turned white, and when he stands with his mother Anong, he looks even older......
Walking in the foul-smelling city, looking at the bureaucrats who are huddled in the sheds with their swings, my heart is like a knife......
"This is Braltar's punishment for us! He was angry that we had given up the mountain and came to this city, we were the descendants of the mountain, we were born and raised in Si, and lived on the mountain, and this time we abandoned the mountain, so he will punish ......"
Nong Zhigao turned his head to look at his mother and said: "Mother, take your people back to the mountains, don't think about coming out to avenge me, this city is my glory and my sins, I will stay and fight to the death with the Song people."
We are too arrogant, Mother, the victory of Quang Nam has made me forget what kind of country the Song State was, and they only sent a box army and 30,000 border troops to put us in a complete predicament.
I thought that they had habitually endured defeat and humiliation, and now it doesn't look like this at all, Mother, if I don't die, the anger of the Song Kingdom will not subside, only my head is made into a wine cup by others, so that the emperor of the Song State can unload his anger, however, we have already shown our strength, we are not lambs to be slaughtered, next time, the child believes that the emperor of the Song State will not throw away our contributions and golden books, and my death can make others no longer look down on us This is also a victory. ”
Nong Zhigao watched a child stuff food into his mouth, while streams of water gushed out of the child's buttocks, and closed his eyes in pain, there are too many such people, too many in the city......
Listening to the sound of the child falling to the ground, Nong Zhigao said decisively to his mother: "Hurry up, hurry up, take away those who have not been harmed by the plague and return to the mountains!" Don't stop for a moment. ”
Anon hugged her son and hurriedly prepared, she had never been an indecisive person, and she was not afraid of death. There's no point in just worrying about dying.
Xiaolin was lying on the cliff like a gecko, looking up at the rickety suspension bridge above his head and motionless, he had been observing for a whole day without seeing Nong Zhigao come out of the city, and the canyon was about to turn dark. With a wave of his hand behind him, a ropeway immediately straightened up, and he hung the hook on the rope and attached it to a very thin rope, and soon his figure disappeared into the mist of the valley with the cableway......
It was not comfortable to soak in lime water, Xiaolin still insisted on soaking enough incense for a long time, buried his head in the water and blew a breath of bubbles, and then came out of the lime water and stepped into the prepared warm water, this link was his favorite link. Not only do you need to drink a large pot of the strongest liquor violently, but you also have to let others wipe your body with alcohol, and when you come out of the tent in the Western Regions, the whole person not only has a three-point sense of alcohol, but also a drunken aroma of wine all over the body.
"There aren't as many dead people as you think. A sturdy old woman walked away with tens of thousands of elite people, all of them were very energetic, not like they were sick, and there were many women and children in the middle, and they didn't seem to be sick, at least I thought that the people who could walk across that section of the suspension bridge were considered healthy people, you miscalculated. The fragrant Xiaolin said to Yun Zheng while eating a fragrant dinner.
Yun Zheng still took a book and read it again. A voice came from behind the book: "I never expected that one malaria could kill the whole city, smallpox, if it was the Black Death, it would be very likely, and the purpose of letting you blow up that Tiansheng Bridge was to prevent them from taking away the Eight Ox Crossbows and trebuchets, as for killing all the wingmen." I haven't thought so yet.
I just want to leave a dead city for Yu Jing and these civil officials to see, and let them exaggerate the terrible Cheng of the plague, so that Di Qingdi Marshal can decisively borrow the Dali Kingdom is serious, and those people are better gone, and it won't take much time. Nong Zhigao himself will come out of the city to fight us, he used to plague us with his eight-ox crossbow, and now it is our turn to scourge them with the eight-ox crossbow. ”
"Why don't you take advantage of Nong Zhigao's low morale to attack the city now?" Liang Ji asked Yun Zheng stupidly, he thought that now was a very good opportunity to attack the city.
"Get this idiot out of here!" Yun Zheng's voice continued to come from behind the book, and the monkey and Han Niu immediately pushed the smiling Liang Ji out of the tent.
Yun Zheng put down the book and took a thick letter from the case and threw it to Xiaolin and said: "You are also unlucky, Hua Niang gave birth to a girl for you, I wanted to see what Hua Niang said to you, but I don't think it's good to explain to you, so you should read it yourself." ”
"I have a baby?"
The chopsticks in Xiaolin's hand fell to the ground, and he looked at Yun Zheng in a daze, but he didn't take the letter, letting the letter fall on his body, and he seemed to be unable to move his whole body.
Yun Zheng saw Xiaolin's stupid appearance, picked up the letter from the ground with a wicked smile and blew the dust that was not on it, and planned to say a few words of revenge.
"I'm going to take a shower...... I'm so dirty...... Maybe there are germs, and the lime blisters just now are not thorough...... I didn't drink enough alcohol...... Oh my God, there's still a corpse smell on my sleeves, take a bath, take a bath, Yunda, give me your scented soap, oh my God, I have a baby...... Yunda, my money and food will be calculated for me immediately, and I will ...... now I'll fight with you for less than a penny......
Yun Zheng looked at the black line on the face of Xiao Lin, who had already begun to strip and undress in the big tent, this guy walked out of the big tent barefoot in a big trouser, and it is estimated that he will take a long bath today.
Zhou Tong looked back at Xiaolin who passed by, and looked at Yun Zheng's military tent suspiciously, but still opened the door curtain and walked in, the finger pointed at the distant Xiaolin in confusion.
"There's nothing to explain, this guy heard that he had a child, and he was afraid that he would take the letter sent from home and contaminate the child with bad luck, so he planned to take a new bath, and he would take a good look at the letter when the smell was gone."
Zhou Tong nodded thoughtfully and said: "Yes, we really stink here, general, the position in front has been built, when do you think the army will start to enter the defensive state?" ”
"It should be soon, Nong Zhigao is likely to attack in the next two days, but this is my judgment based on this guy's character, maybe people will escape from that rope bridge. You just keep an eye on them from afar, they need to go through the mud pit to get through the mud pit when they open the city gate, and we don't care how many people we kill, and it is a big deal not to let them come into contact with us, and those people had better be shot in the mud pit, so that the water we have accumulated in the valley will be useful, and then the levee will be dug and the corpses will be covered with a batch of mud. ”
Zhou Tong saw that Yun Zheng said that it was not painful, and hurriedly said: "Nong Zhigao's head is still useful, that can't be buried." Without a head, how can we be sure that we have killed Nong Zhigao? ”
Yun Zheng grinned, pointed at Zhou Tongdao with the book in his hand: "You are a dead-eyed person, and you still don't understand what we are going to do at this time?" What do you want Nong Zhigao's head to do, why do you have to make sure that Nong Zhigao is dead, as soon as Nong Zhigao dies, we will have to return to the camp, what to use as an excuse to enter Jiaozhi? ”
Zhou Tong said noncommittally: "If you want to add to the crime, why don't you have to use Nong Zhigao as a disguise?" I heard Xiaolin say that Nong Zhigao's mother, Anong, had left the nest with people who were not sick......
No, Anon can't leave, the Jiaozhi people are actually staring at Anon from behind, how can she let her leave with a large amount of wealth, so as long as we leave Guangyuan Prefecture, we will face a life-and-death battle with the Jiaozhi people? ”
"Don't worry, wait for Di Qing's news before making a decision. Only when Di Qing leads his troops to take advantage of Dali can we have a chance to enter Jiaozhi, and there must not be a thing where an army fights two countries at the same time, so no one will have a good time.
You go and prepare, for the black nest we besiege but not attack, now it is very beneficial for us to spend time, Cui Da's logistics battalion is about to come to Guangyuan Prefecture, and when the time comes, the supplies will be replenished, so that they can rush to Shenglong Mansion with full personnel! ”
Zhou Tong laughed and got up to leave, Yun Zheng continued to nest his body into the chair and continued to look at himself, the Son of Heaven had already decided that the entrance exam would start in the autumn of this year, and he didn't know if he would be in time.
The tired eight-hundred-mile flying cavalry finally brought Yu Jing's twists and turns to Bianliang City, Tokyo, and this time the messenger was no longer an ordinary post delivery express, but a team of thirty heavily armed cavalry.
The knight led by the head of the back of a small flag, the flag is not exquisite, even a little broken, the cavalry is also full of dust, but the ability to ride a pair of horses is still surprising, Lang Tan sat on the horse, let the flag behind him hula, he clearly remembered the general's instructions, this is the first time Wu Shengjun appeared in Tokyo Bianliang City, an appearance will make all Tokyo people firmly remember Wu Shengjun, especially to leave a very deep impression on Han Qi.
So before entering Beijing, he deliberately thought about it, there is no need to wear new armor, this armor for daily fighting is very suitable, if it is more than armor, the gilded armor of the Japanese army is much more beautiful than his own armor.
Late autumn, it is a good time for Tokyo people to go to Xiangguoji Temple to enjoy chrysanthemums, countless scholars, noble women sit in the light gauze tent curtain to chant poems and paint, the road is full of luxurious carriages, each carriage is followed by a few servants in green clothes and small hats, not only good looks, even walking around is very regular, neither close to the carriage, nor far away, just the most convenient distance for the master to call himself.
The vegetable farmers who carried the burdens, the merchants who drove the ox carts, the nobles who walked out of the city, and the crowd was even mixed with a few blonde and blue-eyed Hu people, and the guards at the city gate clubbed their bodies on their spears, lazily watching the flow of people coming in and out, a scene of peace and prosperity.
"Eight hundred miles expedited! Di Shuai broke into Guangyuan Prefecture, and the Wusheng army besieged Wuchao City! ”
The smoke and dust rose, the horse's hooves were like thunder, and the war horse with armor suddenly appeared in this paradise on earth and rushed straight to the city of Tokyo.
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Chapter I