Gyeongju State City.

The smoke and chaos continued, and the banners of the Tangut people had been replaced on the towering city walls.

On the southeast side of the city, the smoke was still filling the sky, and on the third day of the city, the southeast side of the city did not seal the sword, and at this time, the meritorious Western Xia soldiers were carrying out the final madness in it. For the sake of future rule, Li Qianshun, the king of Western Xia, did not let the madness of the army continue indefinitely, but of course, even if there was an order, the other directions of the city at this time could not be called peaceful.

For such a city that has resisted, the accumulated anger of the army is also huge. The meritorious army wantonly slaughtered, plundered, tortured and raped people on the southeast side of the demarcation, and other teams that had not been assigned to the sweetness often robbed and humiliated the local people in other places. In such a war, being able to leave a life behind is already a great gift in the eyes of the slaughterer.

Once a courtyard of the gentry Yang Ju of Gyeongju City, it became the temporary palace of the king of Western Xia at this time. Wen Chen, whose name was Lin Houxuan of the Han Dynasty and Qu Nuze of the Western Xia, was waiting for Li Qianshun's reception in the room of the courtyard, and he looked at the group of people on the other side of the room from time to time, guessing the origin of this group of people.

There were six people in that group, and the person at the head was very strange. It was a woman dressed in a lady's dress, and the woman was beautiful, and her dress was blue and white, bright but not bright. When Lin Houxuan came in, she once politely got up and smiled at him, but after that, she had been sitting on the chair and bowing her head to ponder something, her eyes were calm, and she didn't talk to the few people around her.

The woman's temperament resembled that of a Han girl who had read a lot, but on the other hand, her bowed head and contemplative look looked like a person in power who had taken care of a lot of things—the five men on the side occasionally whispered to each other. But he never dared to ignore her, and her attitude also proved this.

This is the room waiting for the emperor to receive you, and the procession led by a Han woman looks really intriguing.

His career is located on the way of tongue and horizontal, and it is habitual to observe people's temperament and observation of words and feelings, and he thought about the origin of the woman's party, and there were officials outside the door. A wave of his hand called him aside. This official was his father, Qu Ligai, who was also the leader of the party and nobles, and served as the counselor of Zhongshu Province in the Western Xia court. For the return of this son, the old man was not happy that he failed to persuade the Wu Dynasty army to surrender Xiaocanghe, although there was no fault in his heart, but on the other hand, there was no credit at all.

"Your Majesty will see you soon."

"Yes."

"You can't make it this time, and you have met Your Majesty. Don't gloss or pass the buck. What's going on in the mountains is what's going on, and what to do, it's up to His Majesty to decide. ”

"Yes."

After a few words of advice, the old official nodded and left. After a while, someone came to announce his official entry and met the emperor of the Western Xia clan again. Li Qianshun.

Compared with the Wu Dynasty, which has taken a sharp turn in recent years, the Western Xia Emperor Li Qianshun was forty-four years old at this time. It is the time when the prime of life and spring and autumn are at their peak.

Western Xia was truly a country founded by force. Among these countries west of the Wu Dynasty, Dali is located in the south of Tiannan, with rugged terrain and many mountains, but the country is an out-and-out pacifist, because of its geographical advantages, although it is weak externally. But the Wu Dynasty and Tubo next to them didn't bully it much. At present, the feudal kings of Tubo are both rising and the power is huge, and the people among them are not good people, but there is not much possibility of expansion, and in the early years, they were close to the thigh of the Wu Dynasty. Occasionally helped to resist the Western Xia, in the past few years, the Wu Dynasty weakened, and Tubo no longer helped the Wu Dynasty.

Only the Western Xia, which has established itself for so many years, has fought with the Wu Dynasty, with the Tubo, and with the Liao State, and the battles of all sizes have been endless. If it weren't for the Seed Master Dao who had met the talents of Heaven and Depth in the previous decades, and the Seed Master Dao was supported by the strong economic strength of the Wu Dynasty behind him, it would not have been driven out of the Hengshan area.

The barrier to the south disappeared, and seeing that death was imminent, the middle and upper class subjects of Western Xia had a more or less sense of urgency. In such an atmosphere, Li Qianshun, as the king of a country, seized the opportunity of the Jurchen southern invasion to form an alliance with it, and then pushed the army across Hengshan, and in half a year, he even took down several large cities, and even the ancestral graves of the Western military families in Qingjian City were dug up, and at the beginning of the year, the remnants of the army of the seeds were scattered. The king of a country has broken ground, and his power is at an unprecedented peak.

When Lin Houxuan was summoned in, there was a discussion in the hall as the main hall, and several big leaders in the party clan, such as Ye Li Chong, Tanuki, Jiu Yanmu, and several generals in the army, such as Meile and Nadu Hanju, were all present. At the moment, when it was still wartime, the general Nadu Han, who was known for his ferocity and good fighting, was bloody, and he didn't know where he killed someone and came over. Li Qianshun, who was in the front position, with a short beard and majestic eyes, asked Lin Houxuan to explain the matter of Xiaocanghe in detail, and the other party also asked: "What is that place?" ”

"East of Yanzhou, a small valley." Li Qianshun pointed to the map behind him.

The big leader, Ye Lichong, said: "There is a rebel army of the Wu Dynasty entrenched in it, about 10,000 people, which can be regarded as a usable talent, and I went to recruit Qu Nu to surrender, but he refused, therefore, Your Majesty wants to hear what happened." ”

Nadu Han nodded slightly, Lin Houxuan saluted everyone, and only then did he talk about the passage to Xiaocang River. He can also see at this time that for the big strategy in the chests of these people at the moment, what Xiaocanghe is just one of the unimportant moss mustard troubles, he didn't dare to add oil and vinegar, but just told the whole story of this trip to Xiaocanghe one by one, everyone just listened, and when they learned that the other party refused to see people for a few days, they were already out of interest, and the general sister snorted coldly. Lin Houxuan continued, and when it came to the conversation between the two sides later, no one was surprised.

After he finished speaking, Li Qianshun frowned and waved his hand, he was not angry, but his voice became a little low: "In this case, let him go to this small place." "His army of more than 100,000 swept through the northwest, and he was willing to surrender to the other party, since the other party refused, then the next thing is to erase it.

Ye Li said: "What Qu Nu said is good, I want to repair the book Marshal Jin Guozonghan, resign as a general, and order him to block the northern line of Luliang." In addition, the herald ordered him to block the direction of Luliang, and anyone who came and went from the mountains. Kill them all. There is no food in the mountains, and it is our top priority to stabilize the situation in the southwest, so we can trap them in the mountains and ignore them. ”

At this time, there were whispers in the hall, and some people told the people around them about the origin of this Xiaocanghe army. Everyone knows that the emperor of the Wu Dynasty was killed last year. But the one who killed the king turned out to be the team in front of him, such as Nadu Han, who still didn't understand. At this time, he looked at the map carefully, shook his head and laughed.

"Rebelled and killed the emperor of the Wu Dynasty...... A bunch of maniacs. Look at these people, they may have the combat strength at the beginning, but they don't even dare to occupy a state or a county, and only dare to go into those mountains to defend it, which is really stupid. But they did not descend to us, so they starved to death and died of pertitution in the mountains. When the situation in the south is certain, I can also give them a ride. ”

"You don't need to worry too much, but you can't ignore it." Li Qianshun waved his hand and looked at Yeli Chong, "The matter will be decided by the leader of Yeli, and he also needs to tell Ji Ra Sele, he guards the northeast line, Yu Zhijia army, and this gang of mountain bandits." All need to be treated with caution. However, this group of bandits in the mountains killed the emperor of the Wu Dynasty, and there was no possibility of forming an alliance with the Zhe family. When we calm the southwest and go up to the northeast, we can sweep it with our hands. ”

Meile said: "However, the people who were scattered in the original army of the planters are now wandering around, and they need to be prevented from forming an alliance with the bandits in the mountains. ”

"Removing the remnants of this line of breeders is an immediate priority. But if they flee into the mountains, I don't think they need to worry. There is no food in the mountains, and the more outsiders they accept, the more difficult it is to feed. ”

"Chong Yan has now fled to Huan and Yuan Erju, and we have already taken Gyeongju. You can consider attacking Yuanzhou directly, and if he retreats to Huanzhou at that time, our army will be able to cut off his rear road......"

For the Western Xia army at this time, the real henchmen were still the Western army. If you go to the northeast, the Zhejia army has been in obscurity during this time, and now it is sitting in the northeast of Fuzhou, and the head of the Zhejia family has never sent troops to rescue the breeder, but for the Western Xia army, it has always been a threat. Now the general who is leading 30,000 troops to defend near Yanzhou, the main task is to guard against the sudden southward movement of the Zhi family.

On the west side, since the last defeat, Tan Yan has led thousands of direct troops to roam around the vicinity, trying to recruit troops to make a comeback, or to save the fire. For the Western Xia people, there is no suspense in attacking the city, but to say that sweeping the northwest of the Wu Dynasty must be based on the premise of completely destroying the Western Army.

As for the Xiaocang River - the people of the northwest are fierce, and now this northwest place is full of rebellious mountain bandits, which is just a slightly larger number of people, like a snake locked in an urn, you reach in and take it, maybe you can bite it out and kill it, but seal the urn, and after a while, it will naturally die.

Those who govern a country, who will really take a group of bandits too seriously.

As everyone talked, the conversation moved away from the conversation to a larger strategic level. Ye Li Chong waved his hand at Lin Houxuan, and Li Qianshun above spoke: "Qu Nu Zeqing has made a meritorious mission this time, so go down and rest." There is still a void in the other day. "Lin Houxuan thanked him and went out."

Gyeongju City is still in great chaos, and for Xiaocanghe, the people in the hall are just a few words, but Lin Houxuan understands that the fate of the valley has been decided. Once the situation on this side is settled, even if it is not trapped to death, it will be swept away by its own army. In his heart, he was still puzzled by the attitude of the leader surnamed Ning in the river valley, and he really left it behind at this time.

He has more to do than bother with the dead.

On the way out of the verandah of the courtyard, he saw a group of six people who had been in the same room with him before, led by the woman, who had been summoned by the emperor to enter.

……

Lou Shuwan walked through the courtyard of the temporary palace of Western Xia, turning the indifferent expression on her face into a soft and confident smile. Subsequently, he walked into the hall of the Western Xia Emperor's deliberations.

She came with Tian Hu's seal and the list of many businessmen along the way.

A few moments later, she stumbled upon something on the map in front of the chamber. That was where the heart demon Ning Yi and the others were, and it was newly painted with a cross.

……

The Western Xia Emperor Li Qianshun and several leaders and ministers heard about the rebels of the Nawu Dynasty and Xiaocanghe for the second time today.

He looked at the beautiful woman under the hall with serious eyes, and frowned: "Wait, do you have an old relationship with the people here?" ”

As far as the Tiger King is concerned, he is also a judge of the rebellion. He is thousands of miles away and wants to come over to cooperate, but Li Qianshun does not reject it. He didn't value this bandit of Xiaocanghe, but he had just sentenced him to death in his heart, in the heart of the emperor. But it's very taboo for someone to make him change his mind.

The woman below lowered her head: "The heart demon Ning Yi is the most deviant person, he once killed Shu Wan's father and eldest brother with his own hands, and the Lou family and him ...... Don't share the hatred of the sky! ”

"Oh." Li Qianshun waved his hand, and then he laughed, "The revenge of killing my father...... Don't worry about it. That's dead land. ”

When Lou Shuwan walked out of this courtyard, the documents to the Jin Kingdom had already been issued. The summer sun is in full swing. She suddenly felt dizzy.

When she came over from the Tiger King's side, she had already analyzed Xiao Canghe's intentions and understood the other party's efforts to open up trade routes. She took advantage of the situation to run around, lobby, entangle a group of businessmen, and first return to Xixia for peace, that is, to disrupt the layout of Xiaocanghe to the greatest extent.

She didn't know if her efforts would succeed, and she expected that because of her efforts, the other party would fall into a huge quagmire and difficulties. She also looked forward to Xiao Canghe's death in difficulty, and the man named Ning Yi died in agony. But. Today, when Li Qianshun casually said, "That's the place of death," she suddenly felt a little unreal.

It's too simple. But Li Qianshun will not lie, he has no need at all, 100,000 Western Xia troops swept through the northwest, and there are more troops in Western Xia to consolidate this place. More than 10,000 people hiding in that poor mountain and bitter soil were hostile to Western Xia at this time. and then blocked by the Jin State, plus the great treachery they committed in the Wu Dynasty. It's really the enemy of the world, and they can't have any chance. But it's still too simple, as if everything is fake.

Sometimes it's like that, and a lot of things happen without any real sense at all. In her fantasy, there was naturally Ning Yi's death. At that time, he should have begged for mercy in front of her—no, he might not beg for mercy, but at least, he would have died in agony in front of her.

But now it seems. She would only suddenly get a message one day, telling her: Ning Yi is dead, and there will never be such a person in the world again. Thinking about it at this point, it's suffocatingly fake.

"What would you do......" she whispered, making her way through the chaotic city.

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"Wow, wow—"

"Bang bang, bang bang...... Sister, don't cry, look here, look here......"

"Was she woken up by me? Sister Sister ......"

Mixed with the crying of children, the noon in the small courtyard was a chaotic and noisy scene.

It was after lunch, and Luo Ye, who was left to eat, also left, and in Yunzhu's room, the little baby who was only a month old cried without warning after drinking milk. Ning Xi, who was already five years old, was holding a rattle next to her and wanted to coax her, Ning Ji stood there biting his fingers, thinking that he had woken up his sister, and looked panicked, and then went to coax her, Yunzhu, who was dressed in white singles, sat on the edge of the bed and held the child, shaking gently.

"What's wrong, what's wrong?"

Ning Yi came in from outside the door, followed by Jin'er. Ning Xi shook his head: "My brother and I are reading villain books next to us, and we didn't quarrel with my sister." He turned the rattle in one hand, and held a villain book drawn by Ning Yi and Yun Zhu in the other, Ning Yi touched his head with a smile, and went over to look at the crying child in Yun Zhu's arms: "I'll take a look." He took her and held her in his arms.

Entering Ning Yi's arms, the baby's cry became smaller.

As Ning Yi's third child, this little girl had a difficult time after she was born. She was weak and breathing, and she had suffered from the wind chill twice in a month after she was born. As a mother, Yunzhu almost died in childbirth, and lay on the bed for more than half a month, and finally stabilized. Previously, Ning Yi found a nurse in the valley to feed the child, and asked the nurse to drink medicine and turn it into milk to treat the child. Yunzhu was a little better, so she insisted on feeding the child by herself and taking medicine by herself, so that she sat only so-so this month, if it weren't for Ning Yi's insistence on controlling her behavior many times and relieving her mood, I am afraid that because of feeling sorry for the child, Yunzhu's physical recovery would be slower.

These days, the situation inside and outside the valley is not optimistic, Ning Yi will personally inquire about almost every daily affairs in the valley, but what he can't shake is that he will come here every night to take care of his children and wife. The frail and sickly little baby cries uncomfortably every night, Yunzhu is weak, and he can't coax the child to be more anxious, Ning Yi came over and hugged the child to coax her to sleep, at this time, he is more skilled than Yunzhu in how to coax this little girl.

"I'll see...... Didn't pee my pants and just finished my milk. Ning Xi, stop beating the rattle. Will argue with my sister. And Ning Ji, don't worry, it's not you who woke her up...... I guess it's a little stuffy in the room, so we went outside to sit down, well, it's really not windy today. ”

He carried the child outside with him. Yunzhu took out the embroidered shoes and took a scarf to cover the child's face slightly. In the afternoon, there is a slight chirping of cicadas in the yard, and the sun shines down, sprinkling a warm light between the trees, only a breeze, and the swings under the trees sway slightly.

Sure enough, after coming to this count, the child in her arms stopped crying. Jin'er sat on the swing and shook it. Ning Yi and Yun Zhu also sat next to them, and Ning Xi and Ning Ji saw that their sister was quiet, so they ran to the side to read a book, this time running far away. After Yunzhu took the child, he looked at the child's sleeping face under the scarf: "I didn't even do a good job as a mother." ”

"You gave birth to her, and you lost half your life. Whoever said you were not good, I beat him. Ning Yi chuckled softly.

Yunzhu lowered her head, she was already calm, and her appearance had not changed much from before. The beautiful and plain face, but a lot of weight loss. Ning Yi reached over and touched her cheek. Recalling the thrill of giving birth a month ago, I still feel uneasy.

He has experienced a lot of major events over the years, and it was not difficult for Tan'er and Xiaochan to give birth to two children before, but this time Yunzhu had a difficult birth, and the fluctuation of his mood was even more violent than killing Zhou Zhe in the Jinluan Palace. Hearing Yunzhu's pain in the middle of the night that night, he even got up and rushed into the delivery room directly after hearing Yunzhu, who had been quiet, and wanted to force the doctor to simply kill the child and protect the mother if he didn't work.

Perhaps because of this, he felt a little guilty about this immortal child, plus it was a girl. In fact, there is more love in my heart. Of course, he ostensibly refused to admit this.

Yun Zhu knew what he thought, and smiled at this time: "My sister has also lost weight, if you have something, you don't have to sit here with us." You and your sister have a heavy load. ”

She is older than Tan'er, but when it comes to Tan'er, most of them are called sisters, and sometimes they are called Tan'er sisters. Ning Yi nodded, sat next to her and basked in the sun for a while, and then turned around and left.

He still has a lot of work to attend to. Leaving this courtyard, he went to the conference hall accompanied by Chen Fan, and this afternoon, he met many people and made a boring summary of affairs, and he couldn't catch up with dinner. Jin'er and Chen Fan's wife Ji Qian'er came over with a food box, and after dealing with the matter, they had dinner on the hill watching the sunset, and then they had a little free time, and the group took a slow walk on the hill.

It was already dark, and Jin'er whispered some interesting things that happened today, and occasionally expressed some trivial thoughts. When she stopped on the grassy slope, she crossed her legs, asked Ning Yi to lie down with his head on it, and reached out to massage him. In a soft voice, Jin'er, who couldn't hide her words, occasionally asked about things in the valley. At dinner today, she saw that Tan'er had also lost some weight, and she was very busy, but the situation might not be good. The grain in the grain was a little reluctant to eat until June and July, and it had gradually begun to bottom out by this time, but the people who went out did not seem to have good news.

“…… Listening to Duan Shanhua, Qingmu Village was also a little anxious, so I persuaded her that it would definitely be fine...... Well, in fact, I don't understand these things, but I know that Liheng is so calm, you will definitely be fine...... But I'm also a little worried sometimes, Liheng, is there really so much food from outside the mountain that can be transported in? There are more than 10,000 of us, plus Aoki Village, almost 40,000 people, so we have to eat every day...... Uh, how much to eat......"

While massaging Ning Yi's head, she whispered softly, but when she reacted, she saw Ning Yi open her eyes and was looking at her with a smile from below.

"What, it's uncomfortable to press?"

"You're talking I'm almost asleep." Ning Yi said with a smile.

"That's not good, then you can rest for a while."

In Jin'er's voice, Ning Yi had already sat up cross-legged, the night had fallen, and the mountain wind was still warm. Jin'er approached and pressed his shoulder.

“…… You deal with so many things every day, and you have to grasp the big and small things in your hands, and you are very tired...... Didn't you say that you just need to leave it to the people below, I see that the previous shopkeepers, as well as Zhuo Xiaofeng's children, are all reliable...... Your sister and I are very worried about you doing things so late every day, and you won't ......sleep if you want to sleep."

This chatter continued again, until at a certain moment, she heard Ning Yi speak in a low voice.

"It's hard, but it's not without a chance ......"

"Huh?"

The hand in front grabbed the hand on her shoulder, Jin'er was pulled over, she knelt behind Ning Yi, wrapped her neck around his neck from her back, only to see Ning Yi looking at the valley below, and after a while, she said slowly and in a low voice: "Look, what does Xiaocanghe look like now?" ”

"Huh?"

Jin'er's eyes widened, and then she blinked. She is actually a smart woman, and she knows that what Ning Yi said at this time is mostly a mystery, although she doesn't need to think about these, but of course she will be interested in it.

Looking down from here, on the banks of the Xiaocang River and in the settlement area, the lights gather, condescendingly, you can also see groups of people gathered or scattered. This small valley is surrounded by the darkness of the distant mountains, and it seems lively and lonely.

What is it like?

However, this night, Jin'er has never been able to guess the riddle......

It was also on this night that a figure cautiously avoided the outer outposts of Xiaocang River and quietly fled towards the mountains and forests to the east. At the same time, the Western Xia documents, which demanded that the Jin State block the smuggling road north of Lüliang, rushed on the road.

In the turmoil of the world, the vicious situation around Xiaocanghe and Qingmu Village, ambushes on all sides, has gradually unfolded.

Malice is about to be crushed...... (To be continued.) )