697,Battle of the Daimyo's Mansion (13)
Zheng Fei hugged Song Yan in his arms in a daze, feeling her body that was gradually getting cold, and his heart was like a knife! It was only at this time that he truly realized how much Song Yan cherished him, and was even willing to sacrifice his life for him!
Looking at Song Yan's beautiful but pale face that had lost the color of life, Zheng Fei closed his eyes in pain, what a poor woman this is, her fiancΓ© and the whole family were first killed by the Khitan nobles, and the only remaining relative, her brother Song Yun came to the Great Song Dynasty after all the hardships, in order to avenge the brothers and sisters After almost sacrificing everything themselves, Song Yun killed herself in order to protect all her companions, it is hard to imagine that when she learned the news of Song Yun's death, she had to pretend to be indifferent in the Cai Mansion, What a pain she had to endure in her heart! Now I can finally start a happy life, but I haven't had time to touch it with my own hands, and I ...... the world!
Her life is full of all kinds of endless tragedies! Why did God torture this poor woman so much?
Zheng Fei knows that all of this is caused by this tragic era! The invasion and killing of foreign races, the cruelty and oppression of the powerful people of their own clan, have caused all kinds of human tragedies everywhere in the world, and if we can't end all this as soon as possible, the same tragedy will continue to happen!
In an instant, an infinite anger burned violently in Zheng Fei's heart! He reopened his eyes and looked at Song Yan swearing in his heart, "Yan, you can go in peace, I will definitely do everything I have, even at the cost of my life, to end everything in this tragedy." Let peace and fairness return to the world, so that all kind, peace-loving people can live freely and equally! And before that...... I will make everyone who has hurt you and your family pay, no Khitan nobles, no Cai Jing, none of them can escape! We can only raise the butcher's knife without hesitation when dealing with the wicked and the unrepentant enemy, and if we cannot let the wicked be punished, what kind of justice can we talk about? β
Zheng Fei carefully hugged Song Yan and slowly stood up, as if he was afraid that he would wake her up who had been asleep forever, and then slowly turned around and stared to the side with a pair of bloodshot eyes,
There, several guards were escorting a Song soldier who was kneeling on the ground trembling and looking like ashes, and it was this person who had just shot that arrow!
This person was shot down in the battle just now, there was no big problem, but he saw that his side had no chance of winning, and he continued to fall to the ground and pretend to be dead as soon as he had an idea, and wanted to wait for everyone to disperse and then find a way to get out, but he happened to hear the conversation between Zheng Fei and others just now, so that he knew Zheng Fei's identity, this person couldn't help but think after knowing Zheng Fei's identity, thinking that if he let himself kill the enemy commander, wouldn't it be a great achievement?
He saw that there was no one around him, and there happened to be a war horse with no one not far away, which was very conducive to escaping, so this person gritted his teeth, secretly squinted at the timing of Zheng Fei's back to him, and suddenly got up and picked up the bow and arrow that fell beside him and shot the arrow just now at Zheng Fei, fortunately it was discovered by Song Yan, and he desperately threw down Zheng Fei and died for him.
This person saw that it was a pity that he didn't shoot Zheng Fei, but he didn't have time to shoot a second arrow, he got up and jumped on the war horse and fled, he originally had a chance to escape, but he was wrong because he shouldn't choose that horse, because that horse was the war horse of the Independent Army, Li San, who was chasing behind, only whistled, and the war horse got the order and suddenly raised his front hooves to pull him off the horse, and then he was caught by Li Sangen and others who caught up from behind.
At this moment, as soon as this person saw Zheng Fei's fierce eyes, he knew that his life was over, and he immediately beat his courage and said, "I have heard that the prince is kind-hearted and does not kill prisoners. β
Zheng Fei glanced at him coldly, and said to Li Sangeng, "Sangeng, a thousand knives and axes and woks are not enough to calm my anger at this person, I will hand him over to you, from now on, use all your imagination, I want you to keep torturing him for ten days and ten nights with all the cruel methods you can think of, so that he can't survive, can't die, within ten days, if he loses his breath, don't come back to see me!" β
The cruelty and ferocity exuded in Zheng Fei's flat tone made Li Sangen shudder, and he hurriedly said, "Yes, my subordinates will definitely do it." After that, Li San looked at the already frightened Song soldier with more sympathy, and with a wave of his hand, he dragged the man up with a few guards and walked to the side.
It was only then that the Song soldier reacted, he struggled desperately, and let out a terrible scream, but to no avail.
The dozen or so Song soldiers captives were all frightened and trembling, Zheng Fei was unmoved, and said to Pang Wanchun, who had just returned to the letter, "Send a message to the secret agents in Tokyo, ask them to investigate the specific place of exile of Cai Jing, Cai You and others, take them first, interrogate who forced Song Yun to death before taking their heads, and then record these people one by one, and hunt them down all over the country!" Let's ask Ma Zhi again, who are the Khitan nobles who harmed Song Yun and Song Yan's family in the first place, send people to infiltrate the Liao Kingdom, closely monitor their every move, and wait until Yanyun is recovered, I want to wash their whole family in blood! β
Pang Wanchun hurriedly said, "Obey!" β
After that, Pang Wanchun thought about it and couldn't help but say, "Commander, you ...... Please mourn, there is a sentence that my subordinates don't know whether to say or not, you see, Miss Song still has a smile on the corner of her mouth, maybe for her, it is also a kind of happiness to be able to save you with her own life and die in your arms. β
Zheng Fei looked down, and sure enough, there was a hint of a smile on the corner of Song Yan's mouth, as if she had a sweet dream in her sleep, and she seemed peaceful and happy.
Zheng Fei felt a pain in his heart, tried to keep this smile deep in his heart, smiled at Pang Wanchun gratefully, and then said, "Go and chop some firewood, I will hold a cremation for her, put away her ashes, and drink Ma Yanyun in the coming day, and then bury her in her hometown!" β
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After Song Yan was cremated and properly reinstated, the two armies of the nearest Tiandao Army, totaling more than 40,000 people, had successfully surrounded Nanle City, and there were other nearby armies that were rapidly assembling here.
Zheng Fei handed over Song Yan's ashes altar to a special person and sent it back to Weizhou quickly, and then tried to regain his mood, cheered up and came to Nanle City, just after learning that Zheng Xiunian was in Nanle City, Zheng Fei sent more than a dozen horsemen outside the city to monitor Nanle City at all times, until the army successfully surrounded Nanle City, and did not see anyone escape from the city, Zheng Fei deduced that Zheng Xiunian must still be in the city.
In fact, Zheng Xiunian was indeed still in the city, and he also witnessed the whole process of the short battle just now on the city wall, Zheng Xiunian's nose was really crooked, the five or six hundred cavalry and thousands of infantry of the Beijing Forbidden Army actually couldn't help the other party only two or three hundred cavalry? What a bunch of rice buckets!
Zheng Xiunian secretly said that no wonder his father had written a letter to himself, reminding himself that he had to take a good grasp of the Northwest Forbidden Army no matter what, saying that the rest of the forbidden army except for the Northwest Forbidden Army was all useless, especially the Beijing Forbidden Army, without any actual combat experience, but one by one his eyes were too high to the top, and he was an expert in putting up empty shelves to please the emperor. I didn't think so at the time, but now it seems that my father is right, and my father's privy envoy for so many years does not seem to be in vain, and he already knows the real situation of the military strength of the Great Song Dynasty.
Seeing that the group of people who were still menacing just now were almost retreating in the way of "escaping", Zheng Xiunian went down the city wall angrily, originally wanted to watch a good show and hurry up at dawn to go back, but now he doesn't want to leave, he is ready to stay and take this opportunity to train these people, and ask them to see the situation in front of them clearly!
Soon, after everyone came back, Zheng Xiunian immediately held a military meeting, at which he was furious and scolded the generals for a bloody head, this time it was just two or three hundred thieves who came like this, and the next time the war really started, when facing the twenty or thirty thousand thief army, what would it be? Wouldn't Nanle City be breached in an instant?
Unexpectedly, this meeting was only halfway open, and suddenly someone came to report urgently, saying that an army of tens of thousands of people had suddenly come and surrounded Nanle City!
These words were just like a bombshell that exploded all over the house, Zheng Xiunian and the generals came to the city wall in a panic to take a look, and they were all stunned, the outside of the city that was empty just now was already hunting with flags, the smoke and dust were billowing, the armor scales were shining, and countless Heavenly Dao soldiers were suddenly born like a trick, surrounding a Nanle City!
Zheng Xiunian was dumbfounded, drenched in cold sweat, and at that moment, a heartfelt fear rose from the bottom of his heart, this was the first time he had faced so many enemies, or was he surrounded by himself, and he forgot to react for a while.
"Your Excellency, ......?" After a long while, the generals around him couldn't help but call him when they saw that Zheng Xiunian still didn't react, "Please give the order to resist the enemy quickly!" β
Zheng Xiunian reacted at this time, the first thing he thought of was to smoke his two mouths, the crow's mouth, he was definitely a crow's mouth, he just said what if the thieves came to twenty or thirty thousand, this is really twenty or thirty thousand, oh no, not to mention that there are seventy or eighty thousand thieves who trapped themselves here, how can this be good?!
"Defend against the enemy, yes, quickly defend against the enemy!" Zheng Xiunian endured his fear and hurriedly ordered,
The generals looked at each other and did nothing, Zheng Xiunian said angrily, "Why don't you act?!" β
One of them hesitated for a moment and said, "Will the last general ask...... Should...... How to defend against the enemy? "Yes, you are old and shouting to defend against the enemy, but you are talking about a strategy to defend against the enemy, is it that he does not come to attack and I defend? Or do you not challenge and I hit? How are the armies deployed? How are instruments distributed? How are people mobilized? Should and how should I ask for help? Wait, wait, you don't always explain these things, how do you want us to defend against the enemy?
Zheng Xiunian also noticed his gaffe, he endured his fear and comforted himself, not afraid, not afraid, I am a dignified Beijing left, the commander of the three armies, but a thief who invaded the city, there is no need to worry, as long as I hold on for a few days and wait for the rescue of the armies, it will be fine!
Zheng Xiunian thought about it, he really didn't panic in his heart, he was about to make a detailed deployment on how to resist the enemy again, but he saw a sudden rush from under the city, and it turned out to be a mighty silver-armored knight.
This person stretched out his hand and pointed to the top of the city tower and shouted at Zheng Xiunian, "The brightly dressed person upstairs is Zheng Xiunian?" β
Zheng Xiunian was startled, and before he could react, the man had already picked up the longbow and raised his hand at him to be an arrow!
This arrow was menacing, as fast as lightning, the generals hurriedly dodged, Zheng Xiunian was also so frightened that he squatted, and then looked up, an arrow had been nailed into the wooden pillar behind the head of the place just now!
Seeing this, the man laughed out loud and shouted again, "I am the Heavenly Dao Army Pang Wanchun!" Zheng Xiunian, listen, there is a letter written by His Royal Highness the King of Qi of my family, Zheng Linfeng, the commander of the Heavenly Dao Army, in Ruzhi, you should make a decision quickly, otherwise, after half a pillar of incense, the sword will be blind! β