Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Battle (5)
An ox cart was pulled close to the Hening Gate, the green cloth was not completely sealed, and on the board of the back carriage sat a little boy, combed with braids and wearing a homespun cloth jacket, although it was very old but not dirty, looking around with a pair of curious eyes, as if it was the first time to come to this kind of place.
"Lady, it's here." The ox cart stopped outside the palace wall, and the one leading the ox in front of it was actually a soldier with a big waist and a thick waist, who shook the cart horizontally and said a word to the carriage.
"Dog, help A-Niang."
"Hey!"
The little boy responded crisply, jumped off the board of the car at once, and then stretched out his hand, revealing a haggard face from the carriage, she supported the wall of the carriage with one hand, held the child with the other, carefully raised her feet, landed, until she stood up, looked at the red walls and blue tiles around her, and looked a little incredulous.
The woman's age is not very old, and she is born normally, her face looks like what she is used to in the field, her head is simply tied with a wooden hairpin, she wears a white flower on her sideburns, she is covered with white coarse cloth clothes, her eyes are too timid to look more, she just holds the little boy in place, and waits for something motionless.
"Has the lady of Yingdu arrived?" A slightly sharp voice sounded very suddenly, and the military man leading the car stepped forward quickly and hugged his fist at the comer.
"Here we are." He gestured to the two people behind him.
"The slave's husband's family is Ying San, I don't know what we are calling us for?" The woman looked up at the person who came, her face was white and beardless, she was wearing a bright robe, she looked like a nobleman, her expression was even more timid, her voice was as thin as a mosquito, and she didn't know what she was talking about if she didn't listen carefully.
"It's good to arrive, come with us, but I'll be waiting for you alone." The chubby Huang waiter was a little anxious on his face, but when he looked at the other party's expression, he patiently explained, "Don't worry, it is the decree of the saint himself, a good thing, a great thing." ”
I don't know if this Ying lady understands it, anyway, she has been brought here, so naturally she will do what others say, but since people say that it is a saint who invites her, it will probably not be bad, she said lightly 'um', and led the little boy to follow. The waiter who led the way in front looked a little anxious, she had to speed up her pace, and the boy she was pulling looked at everything around him with wide eyes, pavilions, strange flowers and plants, all of which were unheard of and unseen, and he was so excited that he screamed, and the waiter who led the way in front frowned, but he didn't say anything.
"This is the official dormitory, the lady will go in for a while and pay a little attention, don't let the little brother run around." Outside the Chongzheng Palace, Huang Nei led their mother and son to the side hall, and gave a special instruction before entering the door, which frightened the woman and grabbed the child and wanted to fight, which made the little boy stop.
In fact, Huang Neishou is exaggerating, the official family does not live here at all now, and the apse is empty most of the time, and this is a small part of the special time. When Ying Niangzi was led in, she was surprised to find that there were already many people standing inside, and what reassured her was that all the people were women like her, and what puzzled her was that all the people were dressed in plain clothes and wearing white flowers like her!
They are all about the same age, and they are in the same situation, so it is naturally easy to talk together, and while chatting with the women here, Ying Niangzi quietly looked at this side hall. The furnishings inside have been emptied, except for the pillars around the painting wall, the strange thing is that a group of men in the color of the forbidden army uniform are climbing up and down, they are holding a thin black line, on both sides of the wooden boxes more than half a person high, and among the two boxes, a large silver-gray cloth is hung by a rope, the cloth is very large, enough to cover the painting wall in it.
What these women didn't know was that on the main hall across the wall, there were hundreds of men, the young official sat in the middle with a curious face, and under the throne stood two men, who were about the same height, and even the age difference was not much, but the momentum that did not give in at all showed the tense atmosphere in the hall.
"Liu Ziqing, how long are you going to delay?"
"What's the hurry, Yuanren won't run for a while."
"I don't have the time to spend with you here, and how many major things have been delayed by you."
"No matter how big it is, is it worth beating Liu into the eighteenth layer of hell and stepping on two feet? has become the prime minister, how can he increase his temper and not grow his temper. ”
"You"
The two of them played with lip fights without changing their faces, and their voices were so small that only they could hear them, just when Chen Yizhong's patience was about to run out, an attendant ran in from the side door, and reported something to the Empress Dowager inside through the curtain, and then heard a voice coming from behind the curtain.
"Liu Yu, the old body you want has been invited for you, can you start?"
"Thank you, saint." Liu Yu turned around and arched his hand, didn't even look at the people beside him, and said aloud to the courtiers: "The dukes of the right people want to explain the ins and outs of the matter, Liu Mou is as you wish, but the side hall is too small to accommodate all the people here. ”
"So let's see, what the hell are you doing?"
Chen Yizhong was not afraid, he didn't believe that if he changed places and had fewer people, things would be reversed, wasn't it a recommendation? Two ministers, two ruling ministers, several officials of the six ministries, a few chief officials of Taiwan, plus some volunteers, a total of more than 30 people, Chen Yizhong is very satisfied with the composition, except for himself and the people who stay in Mengyan, only a few are neutrals, and the only one who can be regarded as Liu Yu's friend is Meng Zhijin, a mere military department staff Shi Lang, has not been put in his eyes.
When entering the apse, Liu Yu walked last, and more than 30 people, plus the original fourteen women and a few children, filled this small hall at once. Fortunately, the chamberlains had already prepared and used a screen to separate the two sides, and the Empress Dowager Xie naturally went to the woman's side, as for the man's side, Chen Yizhong, Liu Mengyan and others gathered in a circle, chatting with a good show, but when he saw the huge curtain, Chen Yizhong's eyes shrank slightly.
How could he not know the rumors of Fengle Lou, how did those moving paintings come about, he was not interested, left and right were just some tricks to confuse people, and now it was not those mercenary businessmen standing here, he thought that no matter what kind of pictures, they could not touch the hearts of these people, in this case, let this son die convincingly.
The personnel arrived, the equipment was in place, everything was ready to stop, Liu Yu stepped forward without giving in, took a rectangular strip from the hand of a forbidden soldier, and behind him was the huge curtain, and directly opposite, a square box hanging from the girder was fixed in mid-air by several ropes, and the black lines arranged along the corner of the wall were almost difficult to detect, and the efforts of his subordinates had not been forgotten.
"Saints, everyone, before starting, I want to remind everyone, no matter what you see next, it is just the clouds of the past, if you have any questions, please ask them after reading it, and if you can't stand it, you can leave from the side, don't say anything, remember to remember."
After the sage nodded to a few ministers, Liu Yu reached out and pressed a few on the long object, and a beam of white light shot out from the square box hanging in the air, and hit the curtain behind him through his body. Rao was prepared, but this change still caused a few exclamations, and many more people were stunned, because they saw the image appear on the curtain, a huge, realistic, impossible to look at!
Under the sunset, the remnant building is half a que, one person and one ride independently, winged hat official uniform, scarlet robe and jade belt, the long envoy moves with the wind, and the slanting sun hits his shadow at his feet, lonely and lonely. The camera slowly moved forward with his line of sight, over the city tower, a large river was embedded in the ground like a white practice, several pontoon bridges were spanning the wide river, several marching teams on the pontoon bridge were passing quickly, as the camera zoomed in, the faces of one sergeant after another appeared on the screen, they looked the same faces as the Song people, wearing black armor and iron helmets, the clumps of white tassels were like flying snow in the sky, and the uniform footsteps were like thunder in the hearts of the viewers.
This is not enough, on one of the pontoon bridges, the fast horses riding side by side are almost advancing at the same pace, the knight's fur hat on the horse is carved, holding the bow and riding the horse, the quiver hanging behind is shaking with the rhythm of the horse's hooves, each of them has a face that is different from the Song people, and the fierce eyes reveal a solemn aura, which makes people shudder, and the iron horse rumbles like rushing out of the painting, if it weren't for the fact that the kid stood in front of everyone, even Chen Yizhong had the idea of grabbing the door, without him, it was too real!
"That's Xiangyang City, and the Tartar army is crossing the Han River." Wu Jian, who knew the Privy Council, was stunned and couldn't help but exclaim, and his words just became the annotation of this fragment.
Chen Yizhong suppressed the shock in his heart, in just a quarter of an hour, he already felt that something was wrong, no matter what the next picture was, it would be extremely impressive, but can it be stopped now? If it's just a courtier here, of course it's okay, but there are still a bunch of women and children of unknown origin over there, Liu Ziqing, what do you want to do?
Fortunately, this clip is not long, Liu Yu just wants them to face the army of Tartars, to be honest, no matter how the movie is made, it is too far from the real scene, this is already the limit of what he can do, and the effect is self-evident, even he himself was touched by this picture.
The next scene cuts to an ancient city, where a long shot from an aerial view takes the viewers to the capital of an enemy country, where everyone knows what it is, and they can't help but look forward to the next scene.
The slanting sun is like blood, the palace of the Yuan people flashed in the distance, a two-story small building appeared on the picture, downstairs is an independent courtyard, more than ten sergeants in red jackets and light armor in the courtyard looked nervously on guard, sideways, hunched waist, hands on the handle of the knife, eyes staring at the closed courtyard door without blinking, the real picture made the viewers feel the same way, one by one involuntarily clenched their fists, anxiously waiting for the next fate.
"Mother, look, that's Daddy!" When the camera moved to the face of the first sergeant, a childish child's voice sounded in the pile of women on the other side of the screen, the woman hugged her child with one hand, and covered her mouth tightly with the other, for fear of alarming the picture in front of her, the son was right, that was the husband she was looking forward to day and night, and the sweetheart who fainted several times when the murderous letter came, was so close to her at this time, so close that she could reach it with her hand, but she didn't dare.
As the camera pulled, there were exclamations and low sobs in the women's pile one after another, Chen Yizhong was already speechless with shock, and looked at Liumengyan on the side, the other party also had the same expression, but they didn't know the identity of those women until now, they were actually the Dianzhi family who sacrificed in the capital, what could they do in front of the saints? What do you mean?
"Listen to the Song people, my lord is merciful, I can't bear to slaughter you and others, just put down your weapons and be loyal to our dynasty, no matter what position you have in the past, you can be added to the first rank, if you can go south with my army, you will be rewarded for your achievements, and my lord will never break his word!"
If the surrender of the Yuan people is expected, the next picture is speechless, because there is a knock on the door, after consulting the opinion of the chief officer in the courtyard, that is, Liu Yu himself, a sergeant glanced through the crack in the door, and then removed the bolt and opened it a little, a figure squeezed in, and the door was quickly closed.
"Deputy Envoy Lu? Why you. Liu Yu's voice sounded clearly.
"Sheren, the Yuan people are powerful, just rely on me, it is impossible to escape, according to what the lower officials see, it is better to endure for a while, put down the weapon first." The person on the picture is Lu Shimeng, Chen Yizhong looked at the familiar face, and suddenly thought of a possibility, maybe this is the reason why Liu Yu was able to escape.
"What do they say about peace?"
"Oh my Chinese book, how can there be any peace discussion, the army of the Yuan people has been waiting for the day, and even the text has been prepared, don't you believe it? The lower official recited a few sentences to you: 'After the fall of Xiangyang, Ji Song repented, or made an order, but he was obsessed and reckless, so he asked the teacher of sin, and there were those who had no choice. Today, you will be sent to advance by land and water, and the proclamation will be far and wide, so that Xian will know it. Innocent people, without foresight, soldiers are not to kill and plunder in vain. There are those who go against the reverse and follow the rules, and those who do not make miraculous achievements will be rewarded for their ranking. If they refuse to obey and rebel against the enemy, there is no doubt that they will be captured.'"
"Enough! If you want to betray your lord and choose someone to do things, you can't do it, what do you think? Liu Yu interrupted him with an angry shout, and then said in a deep tone.
"We are willing to die with the envoy!"
The sonorous and powerful slogan sounded, but fourteen people, but there was a breathtaking power, Chen Yizhong looked at everything in front of him, his mind was already blank, unless he could point out that all this was fake, but those lifelike characters and real words had already exceeded his imagination, what to refute?
Next, as expected, Lu Shimeng, who intended to surrender to the enemy, was killed on the spot, and the Song people dragged his body up to the second floor, and the room was full of fire-starting things, and all the lamp oil was concentrated.
"There is a secret room in the middle of the first floor, leading directly to the street behind, the person will take off all the clothes on his body, and wear it on that person, you go to the secret room to hide, someone will order this building, the building collapses, the entrance to the secret room will not be found, and you will come out again when the Yuan people are relaxed, and you will steal out of the city, so you may be able to save your life."
"No, how can a certain person live alone, if he wants to die together, he wants to go together." Liu Yu looked resolute.
"There's only one person in there! We all died here, who will go back and report to the court? And my poor wife and children, if you are alive, you can help someone with a word to her, 'Yang Lei can't stand her in this life, and he will definitely be a cow and a horse in the next life, and he will repay him for a lifetime.' ’”
"Husband!"
A woman rushed out of the crowd and cried and pounced on the screen, but no matter how she shouted, the people above were unmoved, at this moment, the camera gave Yang Lei a close-up, that resolute expression, reluctant eyes, even Liu Yu himself saw it with tears in his eyes.
"I see, Yang Lei, the old man remembers that he was only sixteen years old when he entered the palace, he was on an errand for more than 20 years, he was diligent, and now he is loyal and unyielding, and he died in a foreign country, and he is worthy of death, and someone will help Yang Niangzi over, let me wait and see, how they killed the enemy."
The next picture is the same as the battle that day, Yang Lei let people set fire to the room on the second floor, and then opened the door to surrender, just when the Yuan people were a little relaxed, they suddenly launched, and more than ten people split the enemy formation like giant blades. The movie can't be completely real, but because of the role of the lens and editing, the effect is stronger than what you see with your own eyes, and everyone in the temple was shocked by this scene for a while, for most people this is the first time to face the real blood, how not to make people excited.
The camera first opened a complete picture, more than a dozen bright red dots of bright red churning and undulating in the black and white sea, seemingly submerged, and suddenly appeared again, the sound of weapons crashing and screaming was endless, and it was impossible to distinguish which side of the people were emitting.
Immediately afterwards, the camera was given to everyone, from life to death at a glance, every time a person fell down in unyielding, the women watching the movie would cry down, and the last nearly ten minutes were left to Yang Lei, pounce, dodge, move, and get up again, watching the tall figure covered in blood approaching the chief officer of the Tartar step by step, all the moviegoers were enthusiastic, eager to shout and cheer on the side, although they already knew the result.
"Ask him, what's his name?" The Tartar on the horse is very young, and at first glance it is either rich or expensive, and the person who answered has been seen by many people, that is, Lian Xixian, the secretary of the Yuanren Rite Department who was still in Lin'an City a few months ago.
Lian Xixian stepped forward, lowered his head and squatted on the ground, looked at the tall body that was no longer able to move, and then leaned over and asked something in his ear.
"Listen, your grandfather's surname is Yang Minglei, and he is the Marquis of Yu in front of the official Song Palace, but he is the seventh grandson of Hewang, after the old Linggong." Yang Lei spat blood foaming heavily, his eyes had begun to drift, one arm was missing, and only a bloody wound remained, which was shocking.
"Which Linggong?" The young tartar opened his mouth on his own.
"The two Hu Mountains fight Hu Er, the sky shakes"
Yang Lei's voice gradually weakened, but the voice outside the painting suddenly sounded, this soundtrack was specially invited to sing by an old Qin artist, and it is also the ending song of the whole film, of course, there will be no cast and crew list or anything like that.
The picture is frozen at this moment, there are countless enemy corpses lying next to Yang Lei, and the same is true for every other palace, in the dense crowd, such a contrast is so strong, so that these moviegoers only have a sigh, Chen Yi is very clear in the center that the matter is irreparable.
"Where did all this come from?" He was so weak when he heard his own questioning.
"Let's talk about it." Meng Zhijin, who didn't know when he came over, took over the conversation, his eyes were still on the picture in the screening, "For what I saw today, Yanshan Road under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Justice lost seven people, and Hebei Road lost four people, and they didn't even have such a picture. ”
Chen Yizhong was silent, and if he continued to doubt it, he was afraid that even his cronies would defect, after all, this is a great righteousness, and there is no room for doubt, otherwise it will touch the most basic bottom line. At that time, all the neutrals will fall to the other side, and this force is not small, and the Empress Dowager will be able to interfere with it justly, and her authority will become a joke, and the result will be more tragic than defeat.
"If you have made a great contribution to the court, the political hall will discuss it as appropriate, and the reward will come down soon."
Saying this sentence with difficulty, Chen Yizhong's eyes were gloomy, and he looked at Liu Mengyan who was no better than him, there was a cry in the side hall, he didn't want to stay for a moment, he walked out of the hall door from the side passage, and before he could breathe a breath of fresh air, his arm was grabbed, and he couldn't help but change color in anger, and waited until he turned around.
The words behind "you" were swallowed by him, because the person in front of him was Liu Yu who he couldn't get rid of.
"There is no one at the moment, someone has an inquiry, and I hope to tell the truth." Liu Yu put his arm and put his hand into his sleeve, as if to keep warm, Chen Yizhong did not answer, and looked at him vigilantly.
"Why did you send someone to harm such and such a child?"
After speaking, without waiting for him to answer, he stretched out his hand suddenly, and a black fist slammed into the other party's surprised face, and Chen Yizhong, who was caught off guard, let out a scream like killing a pig, and his body flew backwards and fell to the ground.