Chapter 158: The Battle Begins

"Brother Ling Feng, it's been a while since we parted."

Zhao Lingfeng sat down in the lower position with a comfortable gesture, and replied with a smile: "It is said that Shibei should be impressed for three days, and the farewell of adults can make even the eyeballs fall out of the next place." The last time I saw my lord, I was just a regimental training envoy who had just arrived in Chengdu, and now I am already a feudal official of the imperial court. ”

An Yi saw this Zhao Lingfeng as an "adult", and hurriedly waved his hand at him: "Brother Lingfeng, why should you be so polite, there are no outsiders here, you and I are brothers, without your two helps, I can't say now that I can't go with Nazhu to see the king of Hades." ”

"Jiren has his own natural appearance, but it just happens to be Lingfeng, even if there is no me, there will be Zhang Lingfeng and Li Lingfeng to help the adults."

Then he smiled mysteriously at An Yi and asked, "Brother An left me down, wouldn't he just want to catch up with me?" ”

An Yi said frankly: "I won't go around the corner, tell my brother directly, I want to ask you about someone." ”

Zhao Lingfeng was a little puzzled when he said this, and asked him comfortably, why didn't he leave the two guard commanders to inquire just now? Aren't the two of them trying to know better than they know who this is? Could it be something?

"Who does Brother An want to inquire?"

"He Liu! Does my brother know this person? ”

"Ho....... Six. ”

Zhao Lingfeng muttered the name for a while, frowned and thought about it, and felt very familiar,

"This Ho Liu......... Come to think of it! ”

His brows furrowed, and his face was replaced by a sudden expression and said to An Yi: "This He Liu is none other than the nephew of our Wei Commander He Ji!" ”

An Yi pondered the names of these two carefully, one He Liu and the other He Ji, aren't the two people with the same surname, how did he react at the beginning, and then asked: "Then why is this He Liu not under his own uncle's hands?" Instead of running to the hands of Gu Chenxi, the right guard of Chengdu? ”

Zhao Lingfeng shook his head: "I don't know about this, but Commander He rarely mentions his nephew to us, and even in the military camp, he rarely has contact, it doesn't seem to be so close, even their relationship is also something we learned about by eating and chatting together." ”

This suddenly made things confusing in An Yi's mind again, although it was confirmed that He Liu was Gu Chenxi's man in the morning, and this Gu Chenxi was a philistine villain, but it didn't mean that he had a problem, not to mention that He Liu and He Ji still had such a relationship between uncle and nephew, after all, it was a family relationship that blood was thicker than water, who could guarantee that He Liu was not a front in his camp?

Zhao Lingfeng saw An Yi's brows tightening more and more, and he didn't know why he was so interested in a hundred households.

"My lord, but I knew this He Liu before? Why did you suddenly ask about him? ”

An Yi looked at Zhao Lingfeng's puzzled eyes, and decided not to tell him the truth for the time being, so he covered up and responded: "Oh, it's nothing, it's just that I met him at the south gate when I left Lanzhou in the morning, and he looked quite capable, so I just asked casually." ”

Unexpectedly, Zhao Lingfeng nodded and admitted: "Yes, his skills are really good, ordinary people can't make a few moves under his hands, I saw it with my own eyes, when he was in Lotus Village before, he killed three Liao soldiers with his bare hands, and he didn't even breathe." ”

An Yi said in his heart that he really couldn't see it, the Khitans were already tall and strong, but he didn't expect this thin and small He Liu's subordinates to have such a murderous aura.

"Okay, I see, thank you."

Zhao Lingfeng didn't know why An Yi was polite, and hurriedly said: "Brother An, why should you be so polite, you just took over this Chengdu Health Office, if you have any unfamiliar situations, just ask me, you must know everything." ”

An Yi stared at his eyes after hearing this, although he only had a two-sided relationship with Zhao Lingfeng, but he felt that there was a kind of righteousness in these eyes that was rare in the eyes of other Great Xia officials he had seen, this kind of righteousness could make everyone who talked to him feel refreshed, and there was a feeling of being in the Buddha Hall and not afraid of any ghosts and evils, as if he was born,

He suddenly opened his mouth and asked Zhao Lingfeng, "Brother Lingfeng, do you want to be the commander of the guard?" ”

Zhao Lingfeng didn't expect An Yi to suddenly ask such a sentence for no reason, so that he didn't know how to answer for a while,

"What do you mean, brother?"

"If you hand over the left guard or right guard to Chengdu, can you command it now?"

Zhao Lingfeng didn't answer immediately, but was silent for about a long time before he spoke: "I can command, but I don't want to be this commander now." ”

Comfortably puzzled, he asked him why he didn't want to now,

Zhao Lingfeng thought for a while and replied, "Since adults treat me as a brother, I also have something to say."

Ling Feng lost his parents since he was a child, leaving only me and my sister to rely on each other, and then gradually grew up, in order to eat before joining the army, because he and his sister have ridden horses since childhood, so at first he was a cavalryman in Gansu Town, and then he was transferred to the guard in Chengdu, and he went to a thousand households step by step. I knew in my heart that although Qianhu and Commander Wei were only one step away, for a person like Ling Feng who had no background, it was possible that he would not be able to wait for this step until the day he died on the battlefield.

I know that some accidental things have helped adults before, but Ling Feng didn't want adults to promote me to the commander of the guard, it's not that I don't know how to lift, this northwest war is wrinkled, it is both a danger and an opportunity, if the adults really treat me as a brother, just have the right to watch from the wall and give me a fairness, if Ling Feng has the ability, he will rely on his military merits to climb up little by little, if he is not capable, then even if the adults reward me as a commander, it will be in vain for the adults to work hard. ”

The corners of Anyi's mouth continued to deepen with Zhao Lingfeng's words, so that at the end, he stroked his palms and laughed,

"Hahaha, Brother Ling Feng, if your words are brought to the court, I don't know how many pillars of the country who claim to be humble gentlemen will die of shame."

Zhao Lingfeng also smiled when An Yi said it, and said: "It's a pity that in the current Great Xia Dynasty, no one will be willing to listen to Ling Feng's words except for Brother An." ”

"Brother Ling Feng's words are fallacious, official skills are not black and white, because they are all means, but human nature is divided into good and evil, because that is the heart, if you lose your heart, no matter how big the brother and official do, it will become a scourge to the people of the world, such as Brother Ling Feng, if one day they will rise to prominence, but it is really the blessing of the Great Xia Dynasty."

Zhao Lingfeng grinned and arched his hand towards An Yi: "Then I can borrow my brother's auspicious words!" ”

"By the way, brother just said that you have a sister? I've never seen it before, where is it now? Or have you already been married? ”

Zhao Lingfeng heard An Yi carrying his sister, and the eyes that were still smiling just now obviously dimmed, sighed and said: "Alas, it's a shame to say that my sister was placed in Chengdu before, and often only those who were on New Year's holidays could go back to see her, but then I didn't know what happened, and when I went back again, it was like suddenly disappearing without a trace." At that time, I also went to report to the official, but it was originally two foreigners, and the county magistrate had no way to investigate, so it was over, and I haven't seen my sister again. ”

An Yi also breathed a sigh of relief, foreigners like Zhao Lingfeng's brothers and sisters came to Chengdu, they were as helpless as duckweed, plus the court has been treating the Jurchens or the Liao people for the past thirty or forty years, and there has always been no stop, this kind of population loss may have been commonplace for a long time, even if it was killed, it is estimated that there is no corpse to be found.

"Alas, I'd rather be a peaceful dog than a troubled world!"

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late at night

Lanzhou City

More than 20,000 Gansu border troops are on duty day and night, Sun Dezhang ordered that if there is a little wind and grass under the city here, they must report to him immediately, although this zigzag defense has the advantage of forming a horn and easy to counterattack, but it also requires the eyes and nose of the Lanzhou defenders to be more sensitive.

But the Liao people seemed to have suddenly stopped moving, and after a drizzle of attack on Lanzhou some time ago, they disappeared, but Sun Dezhang, who had been fighting with the Liao people for half his life, knew that all the silence was just the tranquility before the storm.

Although these defenders, who had just changed their guards in the evening, had already rested in the city all day, the reversal of day and night would always make people a little unrefreshed.

Coupled with the freezing northwest on this day, the whistling mountain wind makes people miss the warmth in the bed.

These big-headed soldiers on the city wall, one by one, lit and planted the brazier flags, and they all hid behind the buttresses of this female wall, relying on the cold bluestone brick wall to resist the biting night wind, just turn their heads from time to time to see the situation in the darkness under the city.

Looking at the weather in Lanzhou these days, it is surprisingly cold, as if it is going to snow, and even the iron helmets of the soldiers accidentally touch the meat, which is like a knife stinging, so the Xia army in the north, especially the border army, learned from the Liao, that is, to fill some velvet and cotton in the iron helmet, although it is not as warm as the "fox tail" hanging on both sides of the Liao's fur hat, but it is much warmer than the cold iron bumps.

However, it is warm, but it is warm, and this "new" hat has a drawback, that is, when these sergeants go to the battlements of the city wall, the iron helmet is buttoned down, and the cotton wool inside is filled next to the ears, and people are not so sensitive to the sounds of the outside world, especially in the middle of the night.

The Khitans, who are quite martial, always say how cunning and untrustworthy the Han people are, but judging from the confrontation on this battlefield, it is really half a catty and eight taels, and no one can say who has more eyes.

Generalissimo Han Guangde began to gather troops and horses when it was already night, and when the sky was completely dark, leaving only a trace of silk red, the Liao army, which had already been ready to go, began to slowly leave the camp and march in the direction of Lanzhou City.

The Liao soldiers who had been deliberately held back by Han Guangde for a long time were all full of energy, and the tiger's mouth holding the scimitar in his hand trembled slightly with bloodthirstiness.

The more than 20,000 people of the Tuoba Department responsible for attacking Lanzhou were all extinguishing fires and wrapping horses' hooves with cloth, like a silent night owl in the dark night, secretly revealing their sharp claws to the sleepy city........

The night was already very deep, and the sergeant in Lanzhou City had just returned from the city, while wearing his trouser belt, he cursed the cold ghost weather, and when he walked to the city, he subconsciously looked at the city.

At first, he thought that he was dazzled, why was something sticky surging under the city outside the city wall in the middle of the night, rubbed his eyes that were a little red and looked carefully, it didn't matter, he almost didn't even scared the pants he just lifted,

What kind of slimy thing is this, this is clearly a crowd of human heads!

After he took advantage of the fire on the top of the city to see clearly the few hunting banners that had come to the entrance examination, he immediately ran to the city wall in a panic, and shouted desperately to the sergeants who were lying in the battlements as he ran:

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! ”