Gorou's military sense is indeed keen.

On the third day of sending Ke'er Yi'er away, the Turks stepped over the Thunder Pond and plundered 300 miles into the suburbs of Xiling City.

Fortunately, Pingxihou had already transferred the villagers from several villages in the suburbs earlier, otherwise the war would have been ignited and it would have been a mess.

The Turkic monks recuperated for five years and came prepared.

With the backing of the Western Regions to provide grain and grass supplies, this battle is much more difficult than the fight in Beifu five years ago.

This is the second time Cui Ling has been on the battlefield with gunpowder, but this time it is far more cruel than in the northwest.

Seeing that the wounded soldiers were constantly carried to the government for treatment, she saw the blood of the war with her own eyes.

Although Xiling City had long been ready for battle, the Turks were like a rainbow, and their strength was ten times that of the Su army.

Although Gorou had already warned the imperial court, it took a certain amount of time for the imperial court to transfer troops, as well as various complicated procedures, and it was not necessary for reinforcements to arrive in three days or two.

Therefore, despite having the best generals and military advisors of the Sheng Dynasty, the Su family army was defeated and retreated this time.

Cui Ling was very afraid, she was glad to send the two children away as soon as possible, otherwise she didn't know when the reinforcements from Xiling City would be lost, and what would happen to the children then?

Gorou comforted her, "The two nearby state capitals have already sent troops to support, and reinforcements will arrive in a few days, as long as we hold on a little longer, we will definitely be able to turn defeat into victory." ”

The Turks invaded the outskirts of Xiling, but the inner city was strong and could still resist for a while.

Now we just hope that reinforcements will arrive sooner.

Cui Ling didn't understand the war, she only knew that Lu Dao had to trust the general and Goro in this regard, they were both born soldiers. He has an incomparably sharp sense of touch and talent.

Although the current situation is not favorable to Xiling. But she still believed in it. The final victory will belong to Dasheng.

There wasn't much she could do, all she could do was help to bandage the wounds of the wounded and then make sure they were fed every day.

At this time, Xiling City gradually entered the heat of June, and the weather was filled with a fiery atmosphere.

The soldiers had to endure the scorching heat while fighting a very difficult war with the Turks.

Cui Ling tried his best to rack his brains to make some mung bean soup and other things that could relieve heat and relieve fever, and distributed them to the soldiers when he was resting, and he did his part to some extent.

However. The enemy is outnumbered, and the soldiers of Xiling City are well-trained, but they still don't have the ability to be ten in the end.

In addition, the Turks were unscrupulous and scheming, and often played the Xiling soldiers around.

Every sunset, when Cui Ling stood in the courtyard of the government to accommodate the disabled soldiers, he could always see many new faces, and as for the soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the country, there were countless soldiers.

The atmosphere became heavier and heavier, and the soldiers were full of confidence from the beginning. Gradually decadent despair.

The reinforcements mobilized by the nearby cities were delayed, and the enemy was outnumbered. Seeing the iron cavalry of the Turks approaching the inner city step by step, whether it was Pingxi Hou Su Shizi or the general Goro, all of them had solemn expressions.

Xiling City cannot be lost, the city is broken, and the Su family is destroyed.

This battle, no matter how hard, how difficult, and how miraculous it is, the Su family will win!

But now, all the advantages are so weak in the face of the disparity in numbers, and the only thing that can wait is reinforcements!? The 50,000 troops in the nearby city, the 200,000 troops sent by the DPRK and China, and the 200,000 Yuan army are still on the way.

I can only grit my teeth and wait for this last road!

After five days of supporting like this, the guards came to report that the reinforcements from the nearby state capital had just arrived at the border of Xiling City and were intercepted by the people of the Western Regions, and those insidious plots lost many soldiers.

The mountains and rivers are cut off, the big rivers are intercepted, and those shady tricks have blocked the reinforcements outside Xiling City, whether it is to repair the fortifications or make a detour, it will take time.

In the end, only 5,000 soldiers and horses were able to arrive at the battlefield as promised, and there were many remnants of the army and wounded generals.

There are tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Xiling, and the other party has ten times as many as that, and there are only 5,000 of them, which is really a drop in the bucket.

The most difficult thing is not only the unprecedentedly powerful Turkic army, but also the Western Regions countries, which are also eyeing the side, ready to get a piece of the pie at any time.

The Turks and the Western Regions, the enemies who have been fighting for many years and have constant small contradictions, don't know what's wrong with Lu Dao, it seems that they have suddenly become brothers who grew up wearing the same pants.

Cui Ling looked at Gorou's increasingly silent expression, and didn't know what to do.

She racked her brains to search for military allusions in her mind, but found that these methods had already been tried by Pingxi Hou and the Great General, and the effect was not good.

Ashina Taijiang came prepared, with a terrible determination to devour everything.

He is not afraid of sacrifice, and the hundreds of thousands of soldiers under his command are all his pawns, moving forward bravely in the direction he pointed, even if he is sent to death, he is desperate.

However, Su Jiajun cherished the lives of every subordinate, and even the last resort sacrifice was painful.

In such a contrast, the Su family's army, which was already lagging behind, was even more passive because of their constraints.

After supporting it with great difficulty for half a month, the Yuan family army, which came from Shengjing City thousands of miles away, finally arrived!

The general was still on the front line, and Gorou and Cui Ling personally went outside the city to greet him.

After greeting the vanguard troops, the general who led the troops did not enter the inner city and went directly to the battlefield.

After waiting for a long time, I saw a carriage coming, and the curtain of the carriage was lifted, revealing an extremely familiar face from inside.

Cui Ling was surprised and delighted, "Second sister-in-law! ”

She hurriedly greeted her, "Second sister-in-law, why are you here?" ”

Liang was dressed in a short beat, and her hair was tied up at the back of her head, if you look at it from afar, you think it is a heroic man, only when you get closer, you can find that her clothes are carefully restructured, and her hair bun is neater than that of ordinary women.

Although she had traveled a long way, she seemed to be in good spirits, and her eyes were even sharper.

She jumped out of the carriage, "Fifth brother, fifth brother and sister, I'm here!" ”

It was Ashina Taijiang's leader who killed her husband five years ago, and when she learned the news, in addition to worrying about her family in Xiling, she also had a sense of mission in her heart.

She wants to go to the front line and kill the enemy. Get up where Jiro fell. Defeat the Turks. Take off the head of Ashina Taijiang, and when he returns to Beijing one day, he will use the enemy's head to sacrifice the flag in front of Erlang's grave.

Before Yuan's army left, Liang proposed to follow his wish to Xiling.

Da Lang and the county lord of Yining disagreed.

The cruelty of the war made them lose Erlang five years ago, and this kind of pain is painful, and they never want to have a second time.

The old Taijun General and the Gorou family in Xiling City have already made them doubly worried. Liang must not be allowed to take any more risks.

But Liang's attitude was resolute, and before Erlang's tablet, she complained bitterly to Dalang and the county lord.

The Liang family has now recovered, although the situation is not as good as before, but it is slowly regaining prosperity, the brothers and nephews have regained their fighting spirit, and the situation of the mother's family no longer needs her to worry about it.

There is already an heir in the second room, and although the child is small, he is very smart and sensible.

Dafang is kind, even if she has three long and two short in Xiling. will not treat the child badly, and there will be successors in the second room. She is not worried that she will be ashamed of him when she sees Erlang in the future.

As for a spicy restaurant, in the past two years, she has done her best to spread it all over the country.

At first, she went for the generous dividends, but then she has regarded this as a career and is really doing it with her heart.

In her lifetime, in addition to spending her life in the back house, she also had such a story, and she felt that she had not wasted her life.

Except for Erlang's hatred with ten thousand arrows piercing her heart, she has no other hatred, other regrets, and other debts.

Da Lang and the county lord couldn't resist the Liang family's insistence, so they had to reluctantly let her go, hoping that after she arrived in Xiling, the old lady could persuade her.

But only Liang knows how resolute she is.

For five years, she has been practicing marksmanship day and night, and in addition to using it to express her grief, she has been waiting for today.

Revenge blood hatred.

When they arrived at the Pingxi Hou Mansion, the Liang family and everyone greeted each other.

Mrs. Shizi and the second lady and the third lady, she has all met, and they have similar temperaments to each other, and they become familiar again after saying a few words.

The old lady learned about Liang's ambition from the letter from the county lord of Yining, and she was both worried and relieved.

She herself is a heroine, if she is not too old, she also wants to gallop on the battlefield again, defend her family and country, and avenge her distressed grandson.

Therefore, Liang has such an idea, she does not feel strange, but admires it very much.

But now that the enemy's momentum is like a rainbow, and our side is being pinned down and passive, it is too dangerous for the Liang clan to rush into battle at this time.

She whispered to the Liang family, "Your grandmother understands your feelings, but now is not the time, when we turn defeat into victory, grandmother promises you that the Turkic lord will be captured by your own hands." ”

Although Liang has practiced marksmanship diligently in the past five years, her poor foundation is incomparable with those men who have practiced martial arts since childhood.

She is not a reckless person, and she also knows that if she goes to the battlefield now, she may not even see the face of Ashina Taijiang, and she may die under the stray arrows.

So, she didn't insist very much.

Protecting the family and defending the country is important, and protecting the land of Xiling is also the key, but for her, there is only one purpose for coming to Xiling City, to take the head of Ashina Taijiang and avenge Erlang.

Liang smiled and said, "Grandmother, don't worry, I know it in my heart." ”

She paused, and then said, "When I came, I heard that Empress Bai Guifei of Liang had a dragon heir at the same time, and Princess Bai's twin children may be reunited soon." ”

The queen is pregnant, this is a major event related to the fortunes of the country, and everyone is very concerned.

But when she heard that Bai Guifei was also pregnant, the old lady and Mrs. Shizi had a strange expression on their faces.

The old lady sighed, "If the two are each a prince and princess, it would be fine, if both of them are princes......"

People who have no long-term worries must have near-term worries.

The Empress Dowager's maiden family, the Chengen Hou Liang family, is weak, but Bai Guifei's maiden town, Nanhou Mansion, is an important minister in the court and powerful.

If both of them are pregnant with the prince, more than ten years later, there will inevitably be a very dangerous battle for the heir, and when the time comes, it will inevitably affect innocent people again.

And an aristocratic family like the Yuan family and the Su family must also have some turmoil.

Cui Ling said with a smile, "Look at grandmother, you can think about it, how many years will it be, why do you think so much?" ”

The matter in front of us has not been solved yet, and that is the point!

The old lady was stunned, and then patted her head, "I'm also old." The head is not good. More than ten years later. I don't know if this old bone is still there, I'm worried about this! ”

She smiled bitterly, "Since the second daughter-in-law is here, let's live with the fifth daughter-in-law for the time being, there is not much we can do, that is, to help take care of the sick and wounded and do some logistics work." ”

Liang hurriedly said hello and said goodbye to everyone. Follow Cui Ling back to the yard to pack up her things.

The two have always had a good relationship, and they can't wait to talk along the way.

Cui Ling asked, "Concubine Bai is also pregnant with a child, so are Princess Bai's two children safe?" ”

Even if the Marquis of Zhennan has any ambitions, with Bai Guifei's upright child, why should he hold on to the posthumous son of the former prince who made a mistake?

In this way, Princess Bai, a woman with a tragic fate, can finally live a clean second half of her life.

Liang nodded slightly, but shook his head again, "Princess Bai and her child." What will be the fate in the future, but I don't look at Bai Guifei completely. As an embarrassing identity as the former crown princess, she and her children are destined to be unpeaceful for the rest of their lives. ”

She thought about it, but added, "However, Jinshang has a kind temperament, maybe he will empathize with him and raise his noble hand extraordinarily." ”

Cui Ling's face changed, she smiled bitterly in her heart, there was nothing wrong, maybe the emperor felt the same way, and when he thought of his own experience, he would be extraordinarily ...... Harsh and severe, nipping danger in the bud.

This heavy topic, she didn't want to go on.

I thought about finding something else, but now there is no other topic besides war, and war is obviously heavier.

The two of them had just packed up their things, and suddenly Su Qiang cried and ran to Cui Ling, "Fifth sister-in-law, what should I do, my eleventh brother was caught by Ashina Taijiang, he ...... He sent someone to shout that if he did not agree to his request, tonight would be the day of my eleventh brother's death! ”

Su Shiyi is the second son of Erfang, the elder brother of Su Qiang's mother, and has just turned seventeen this year.

Originally, a son of this age was easily not allowed to go to the battlefield, but this time the war personnel were tight, and all the adult men of the Su family could go to the battlefield.

Although this is a rare opportunity for young sons.

But it is also very dangerous, and it will encounter blood and bones at any time when it brushes with death.

Because Su Shiyi was young, he didn't really go to the front line, and he was ordered to escort grain and grass supplies today.

However, the Turks did not know where the route came from, so they actually laid an ambush at the checkpoint where the grain and grass were transported in advance, not only robbed twenty carts of grain and grass, killed many soldiers, but also captured the young Su Shiyi.

For an unscrupulous person like Ashina Taijiang, having the Su family's sons in hand is equivalent to having the weight of threats and temptations.

He made a request to let Su Jiajun retreat fifty miles, otherwise he would let Su Shiyi be in a different place tonight.

In the past two months, the Su family's army has been defeated and retreated.

The Turkic army had already spread its ground in the land of Dasheng, and if it had retreated another fifty miles, it would not be long before the Turks would have been able to march under the city.

Although the people in the outer city have been evacuated, there are still most of the people of Xiling in the inner city.

They refused to evacuate easily, because they were nostalgic for their hometown and because they trusted Su Jiajun.

But if the Su family army does not withdraw, then Su Shiyi's life is likely to be lost tonight.

Whether it is for Pingxihou or the entire Su family, this is a very difficult choice.

Compared with the anxiety of others, Su Qiang, a fellow mother, was even more afraid and sad in her heart, that was her own brother, she had a chance to save him, how could she watch him die tragically under the enemy's knife?

But Su Qian is not there, and the people she can discuss things with, except for Su Wei, only Cui Ling can be trusted by her.

Cui Ling frowned when he heard this, "Ashina Taijiang wants us to retreat fifty miles?" ”

Her tone became heavier and heavier, "Otherwise, or else he will tear up the ticket?" ”

If the Su family army retreats fifty miles, then it will make the people of the entire Xiling City feel that the Su family army is unreliable, and that huge sense of loss and betrayal will destroy the foundation of the Pingxi Hou Mansion in Xiling City for hundreds of years.

But if Pingxi Hou killed his relatives and sacrificed Su Shiyi, it would make the Su family army and the descendants of the Su family who followed Pingxi Hou feel cold and disappointed, which is of great significance to morale.

No matter how Pingxi Hou chooses, it will be a victory for Ashina Taijiang.

Su Qiang cried and said, "Yes, the letter with blood was delivered to my grandfather, and I saw that the sun was about to set, but my grandfather didn't decide. ”

She couldn't stop her tears, "Fifth sister-in-law, you say, will it, grandfather, will he let Brother Eleven sacrifice?" ”

For soldiers, if there is only one between the family and the country, there must be only the country.

And Pingxi Hou Su Shixun is such a conscientious general.

Cui Ling looked at Su Qiang worriedly, "Qiang'er, don't cry, let's think of a way first." ”

She looked up at the sky, "I'll send someone to invite your fifth brother back, he has always had a lot of ideas, maybe there will be some way to get the best of both worlds." ”

Liang came out of the house and said loudly, "This kind of thing, even the Marquis of Pingxi can't make a decision, and it's useless to go to Goro." ”

She patted Su Qiang on the shoulder, "According to me, men are chaotic, and sometimes they are not necessarily more reliable than us women." ”

Cui Ling's eyes lit up, "Second sister-in-law, do you have an idea?" ”

Liang is not the kind of person who likes to be pompous, if she is full of confidence, she must be confident.

Sure enough, Liang said with a smile, "If such a choice is a dilemma, then let's think of ways to make it not difficult." ”

She pursed her lips slightly, "Otherwise, I will snatch Su Shiyi back for me, otherwise I will rob one of them and threaten the other party in turn." Is there a better way to do it? ”

The light on Su Qiang's face was clear and extinguished, and after a while, she shook her head, "The Su family's troops are all on my grandfather's side, if it weren't for his consent, this matter would not have been possible." ”

She cried again, "However, it is too risky to snatch back Brother Eleven, and it is impossible for grandfather to agree easily." ”

Liang sighed, "Silly girl, what are you crying about?" The road to heaven is endless, have you heard of it? ”

She paused, "There may be no one in this world who knows Ashina Taijiang better than me, I know that he has a weakness, as long as we can find a way, not only your eleventh brother will be fine, but even the entire Su family army will be fine!" (To be continued......)