Chapter 31: Return to the South at Sunset

In the twilight, twenty miles southeast of Jiangling City, on the north bank of the Yangtze River, the lights of the Chen army's camp were lit up.

Chen Shuling, the drunken king of Shixing, burped and walked towards a big tent surrounded by his entourage, and when he entered the big tent, he waved his hand, and the rest of the people retreated when they saw this.

As the commander of the attack on Jiangling, Chen Shuling should have sat in the Chen army camp outside Jiangling instead of going to this Jiangjin garrison every night to rest and drink and talk, if other generals dared to be so ridiculous, they would definitely be scolded by the courtiers, but this was not a matter at all for Chen Shuling, who was extremely favored by Emperor Chen.

He has even done heinous things such as forcibly robbing people's daughters, killing husbands and wives, and opening coffins and throwing bones, so how can he care about this kind of red tape!

The tent was full of luxurious pleasures, Chen Shuling paced into the tent, a pair of mud-stained combat boots stepped straight on the fine carpet in the big tent, he stood still, opened his arms, let the servants come forward to remove the armor on his body one by one, and then sat on the couch to let people take off their boots and socks, and bring hot water to soak their feet to relieve fatigue.

A servant stood behind him and carefully pressed his shoulder, Chen Shuling closed his eyes and enjoyed it for a while before he said, "Bring the beauty here, tonight as usual!" ”

A big husband can't be without power for a day and can't be without a woman for a day, this is Chen Shuling's life goal, he has no shortage of women, but power is not enough, his half-brother Chen Shubao has been the prince of Dachen for many years, what makes him unhappy is that he will bow down to this nest in the future.

"The news from Jiankang today, Your Majesty is sick again." The servant who helped him press his shoulder whispered.

"How long will it last?" Chen Shuling was most concerned about this problem, and he heard the servant say that it seemed that his condition was stable, and he didn't say anything anymore, and his father, who was sitting on the throne, had begun to deteriorate, and seeing that he had a good life in a few months, and he still couldn't fight for the crown prince, he was anxious.

Chen Shuling is used to being lawless, and in the past ten years, I don't know how many people he has offended, and I don't know how many officials have been impeached, but he is still safe and sound, relying on his father's protection. If his father, Long Yubintian, let the weak and incompetent Chen Shubao take the throne, then his good days for Chen Shuling would come to an end.

After a moment of silence, he suddenly opened his eyes and scolded: "Lone is much better than him." Why make him the crown prince! ”

My father was already old and confused, and he insisted on passing the throne to the crown prince Chen Shubao, so Chen Shuling decided to cut through the chaos quickly. The father took the throne of his nephew, but he did not care about the relationship between uncle and nephew, so he decided to 'follow the rules'.

His cousin who was robbed of the emperor's throne is a waste so he is not qualified to sit on the throne, and his eldest brother is also a waste so he is not qualified to sit on the throne, and that position should be sat by him Chen Shuling!

Therefore, Chen Shuling decided to seize this important opportunity to attack Jiangling to clear the way for himself to ascend the throne, Da Chen since the establishment of the dynasty several times to attack the Liang capital Jiangling in vain, if he can lead the army to conquer Jiangling, he will be able to make the first great contribution of the dynasty.

After the matter was completed, he then took the army in the name of the class division, and went down the river to the east by boat to return to Jingshi Jiankang, and then suddenly rushed into Taicheng and seized the throne.

Now the Northern Dynasty is in the dark of civil strife, even if he seizes the throne to cause political instability, but he is confident that he will sit on the throne before the end of the civil strife in the Northern Dynasty.

"When you sit alone on top of the main hall. It depends on how you kowtow and beg for mercy! Chen Shuling muttered to himself, thinking that after he led the troops into the Taicheng Palace in the future, he looked at the trembling appearance of the crown prince Chen Shubao who was crawling on the ground, and he was very happy.

Just when he was angry, a voice came from outside the tent saying that someone had brought it, and when he heard the news, Chen Shuling sat up and was in high spirits: "Bring it in!" ”

According to military law, women are not allowed in the barracks, but this is ineffective for Chen Shuling, not only with a maidservant but also with a 'warm bedding' beauty, and now the beauty who is about to be brought up is his new favorite.

But it was not a woman who came first, but a man in rags, with his feet shackled, his hands tied behind his back, his mouth gagged with rags, and his body smelled sour, as if he had just been dragged out of the pigsty.

The two servants who had led the man in kicked him in the legs from behind, kneeling him to his knees, and then took out ropes and tied him firmly to a stake, and a moment later the two maidservants walked in with a woman dressed in silk and satin.

The woman's face was quite delicate, like the landscape of the south of the Yangtze River, revealing a faint and elegant, but her face was pale, her eyes were blank, and her hair was tied into a bun with green silk at will. Then she saw the ragged man on the ground, and tears rolled in her eyes.

The man who was originally dying also caught a glimpse of the woman, his cloudy eyes instantly rounded, and the gagged mouth made a 'lotus' sound, as if he wanted to say something but couldn't say it. He struggled desperately, but he couldn't move, so he had to watch as Chen Shuling walked up to the woman and grabbed him in his arms.

"Don't be a king!" The woman begged and twisted her face to dodge but was kissed by Chen Shuling, and the man struggled in pain but couldn't get up.

"Take it off yourself! Otherwise, you will let your husband eat the knife! Chen Shuling pinched the woman's chin with one hand and said with a smile, his smile combined with his upright appearance looked gentle and elegant, but he looked very hideous here and now, it seemed that the woman and the man on the ground were husband and wife.

The woman glanced at the man who was tied up on the ground, laughed miserably, and removed the dress like a puppet, and was thrown down by Chen Shuling when she was leaving the underwear, and got up in front of the man.

The man's eyes were cracked and he wanted to turn his head but was forced to press his head to 'watch', he wanted to close his eyes but was forcibly opened with his hands to see the filth in front of him, he watched his wife's clothes being torn off by Chen Shuling, watched Chen Shuling lie on his body and twitched, and watched Chen Shuling shuling shiver for a while and then stopped gasping.

"Lone is very satisfied with your woman, good, good!"

As soon as the words fell, the woman was already in tears, and the man's forehead was bruised when he heard it, he thought that the ordeal was over, but there was a second time, and then Chen Shuling lay flat on the carpet and let the maid hold the woman to do it: "Move yourself!" ”

"The king, beg the king to release the people's daughter's husband, and the people's daughter is willing to be a cow and a horse." The woman couldn't stop crying.

"Sit on and do it yourself!"

The man witnessed all this in front of him bitterly, watching his wife being held hostage and sitting on Chen Shuling's body in humiliation, moving his head in pain, breaking free from the hostage, and constantly hitting the ground with his forehead, banging The forehead that had been scabbed back was open again, and the flesh was full of blood.

This scene is not the first time it has been staged, he had to look helplessly at Chen Shuling in front of his **** wife again and again, he thought about death but was coerced by Chen Shuling with his wife's end: "If you dare to commit suicide, let her go to the camp \ prostitute!" ”

The man was in pain, and Chen Shuling snorted comfortably in front of him, his wife sat on him and trembled slightly, and then softened and was held by the maidservant, Chen Shuling kept staring at him with a mocking look on his face during the whole process, and smiled coldly when he saw that another round had passed: "Toast and don't eat and drink, this is the end of your offense!" ”

"Go on, hahahaha!" ……

In the wilderness outside the Chen army camp in Jiangjin, several Chen army patrol sentries were sitting under the trees and napping, and the sound of horses' hooves was heard in the distance, and they looked up to see dozens of people riding horses slowly towards their side, and they were about to go up to investigate, but they saw that there was a person lying horizontally on each horse, and they were constantly struggling.

The long-haired face was dressed in women's clothes, and it seemed that it was a woman, and the sentry probably knew what was going on when he saw this formation: they were comrades who went out to arrest people in the surrounding villages today, and the people who went to catch them a few days ago were all men Dingla to do coolies, and today they were naturally women.

Even if it's leftovers tonight, the brothers can finally open the meat!

The Chen **** system inherited the old system of the Song, Qi and Liang dynasties, and the ordinary soldiers had a low status in the military household for generations, and the poor family could not open the pot, and the monthly military salary and food that were pitifully small were deducted layer by layer, and it was good to have a surplus, so don't say that the daughter-in-law has nothing to think about even if she is a woman.

However, now that the female generals who went out with the army to rob eat meat and gnaw bones, how can they say that their big-headed soldiers have a bowl of soup to drink, so they subconsciously relax their vigilance against these comrades who returned to the camp with women.

A small leader wanted to greet these approaching people, but when he looked over, he didn't seem to recognize any of them, not quite like his comrades who went out to fight the autumn breeze today.

"Could it be that it's too far away and the sky is dark and you can't see clearly?" The leader muttered but didn't think much about it, Jiang Jin went north to attack the Jiangbei port of Jiangling for this time, and the battalion gathered various troops and horses, and there were many groups of people and horses coming in and out every day, and it was normal that he couldn't remember everything.

Liang Guo can survive to this day, that is, relying on the Jiangling garrison of the Zhou State to protect it, and now Jiangling City is besieged by his own army, and those Zhou troops who can fight are trapped in the city and have not been able to jump for a few days, so although the defenders of Jiangjin Shu have the responsibility of defense, few people will think that there will be any reinforcements to save Jiangling.

The leader was thinking about it, but he heard a man dressed as a general in the cavalry approaching him pointing at him and shouting, "What are you guys doing here!" ”。

The tone was very arrogant, with a northern accent, but the leader didn't do it, he thought, because this tone was too familiar to him: those bastards who were officials were so commanding!

There were also some generals from the north in Chen's army, so the leader didn't intend to tease the tiger's beard, and now when he heard the other party's words, he quickly squeezed out a smile and said that they were sentinels sent to patrol outside the camp, and when he saw the other party riding his horse approaching, he behaved more and more respectfully.

"Brothers have worked hard, everyone has a share tonight!" Yuwen Wen smiled slightly, he sat on his horse and looked down at the Chen soldiers in front of him.

The afterglow of the setting sun sprinkled on his body, and behind him, Yuwen Fifteen, Yang Ji, Shi Wansui and others quietly rode horses to surround him. (To be continued.) )