Chapter 27: The Lady Protector
"What is this? You give me an honest account! β
Wen Xin, who was standing in front of Li Yue's bedroom, heard Xiao Ning'er's angry voice before he entered the house, and when he opened the door curtain and walked into the house, he saw Xiao Ning'er holding a beautiful white silk handkerchief in his left hand, and twisting Li Yue's ear with his right hand and asking in a loud voice:
"You don't mean that?"
"Lady, can you let go of your hand first?"
"Oops!" Xiao Ning'er's hand suddenly strengthened, Li Yue's face was red in pain, and he had to say to him: "I said it's not okay?" You tap ...... Ah! β¦β¦ Okay, I'll just say, this is yesterday when the young lady of the Lin family was talking about the bank in Fenghuanglou and Changyuan Mountain, Liang Youtian, and Quanzhou, the young lady of the Lin family lent me a loan, and I forgot to return it on my body. β
"Smack!" Xiao Ning'er slapped the handkerchief on the table in front of her with her left hand.
After the sound that echoed in the house for a long time dissipated, Xiao Ning'er, who still grabbed Li Yue's ears and refused to let go, roared: "Okay! You have increased your ability, and even the world-famous widow Ting has hooked up! β
Li Yue really regretted his intestines at this moment, and after being named the courtier, he couldn't stand the repeated invitations of his father-in-law Xiao An, so he moved from the barracks of the Holy Protector Army to the Xiao family tavern. But it's just as dangerous as the crater.
Yesterday he was careful and couldn't be more careful, he got off the carriage in advance, for fear that Xiao Ning'er would find out that he was riding in the same car with the widow Ting. But he forgot to return this handkerchief, and asked Xiao Ning'er to turn it out when he washed his clothes. It's really a hundred secrets!
Li Yue could only explain innocently: "The construction of this bank is an official matter of the imperial court, so how can the Quanzhou Lin family have a two-percent stake in the bank, how can it be said to be a collusion?" β
"Am I wrong about you?" Xiao Ning'er's face seemed to begin to turn clear.
"It's really business!"
Xiao Ning'er's big bright eyes turned around and said, "Then I'll burn this handkerchief now!" β
"Lady! Cannot! β
The dense clouds on Xiao Ning'er's face instantly returned: "What? Are you reluctant? β
"No!" Li Yue felt that his thinking really couldn't keep up with the brain circuit of his fiancΓ©e, so he had to continue to explain: "As the saying goes, it's good to borrow and repay...... Yes! Not ......"
Li Yue was about to change his words, but it was too late, Xiao Ning'er continued to exert strength in his hands, and Li Yue screamed again.
"What? Is it difficult for you to borrow again? Xiao Ning shook his handkerchief in front of Li Yue and asked.
"Lady, wronged! I mean, it's always not good to borrow something and not pay it back...... Hey, Brother Wen, when did you come? Li Yue said in the tone of discovering the savior.
Xiao Ning'er looked back and was stunned, Li Yue had already taken the opportunity to get out of her "clutches", hiding behind Wen Xin, Xiao Ning'er didn't mean to let him go, she said to Wen Xin: "Brother Wen, please get out of the way!" If he doesn't make it clear to me today, I'll have to let him take off a layer of skin! β
"Sister Ning'er!" Wen Xin chuckled and said, "The prince wants to invite Li Yue to the mansion for a drink, look at my thin noodles, and let him go for the time being." β
"Then I'll settle accounts with him at night!" After Xiao Ning'er finished speaking, she didn't forget to glance at Li Yue.
"Since it was the prince's invitation, let's hurry up!" Li Yue was afraid that if he stayed any longer, Xiao Ning'er would change his mind again. He is a human being in two lives, but he still can't guess a woman's mind.
When the two walked out of the tavern door, Li Yue asked with some dissatisfaction: "Brother Wenxin!" You're too uninteresting to walk in the door for so long without squeaking. You like to see me make a fool of myself, huh? β
"The prince promised Sister Ning'er to try to save you at that time, saying that it was because he felt that Sister Ning'er and Mrs. Protector were a little similar. Today, she is really the same as her wife! Wen Xin laughed out loud after speaking.
Li Yue knew that Wenxin was talking about the battle of Zhenjiang, the battle of Zhenjiang between Wang Wenbin of Wu'an County and his wife Yang.
In the third year of the rejuvenation of the Great Liang Dynasty, the Youjun crossed the Yangtze River in the south, broke Jiankang, occupied Lin'an, the then Emperor of the Great Liang, and now the Emperor Zhu Gaoyan fled to Ningbo. In the first month of the second year, the Youjun army attacked Ningbo, and Zhu Gaoyan entered the sea by boat.
At that time, Wen Bin was appointed as the envoy of the town of western Zhejiang, and he expected that the Youjun army would be alone and would inevitably return north. So he led 8,000 troops to seize Zhenjiang at the confluence of the Yangtze River.
Sure enough, on February 10, the commander of the You'an army, the fourth prince of Youguo, Qi Ge, said that because the soldiers in the camp were not satisfied with the water and soil in the south of the Yangtze River, there were many sick people, so he led an army of 100,000 troops from Lin'an to the north along the canal, wanting to cross the river from Zhenjiang to the north.
On 5 March, Zigger led his troops to Zhenjiang. Wen Bin had already ordered the sailors to tightly seal the ferries on both sides of the Yangtze River, and after the Youjun entered the river from the canal, they quickly blocked the canal mouth with the broken boats prepared in advance.
The 100,000 Youjun who were not good at water warfare were trapped on the Yangtze River, and Wen Bin commanded the sailors to besiege the Youjun on a ship. The Liang army ship is large, the You army ship is small, the Liang army warship is rampaging in the river, and where it passes, the You army capsized and fell into the water.
Coupled with Wenbin's wife Yang personally beating the drums to help the battle, the morale of the Liang army doubled.
Seeing that he couldn't support it, Qi Ge sent an envoy to Wenbin to express his willingness to return the plundered people and animals, and the goods to be returned by the north.
Wen Bin said with a smile: "Return my old emperor, restore my territory, and return to the north!" β
Qi Ge was furious when he heard this, and the whole army fought again, and the two armies of Youliang fought fiercely on the river for three days and three nights. Although the Liang army was good at water warfare, it was outnumbered, and the two armies couldn't hold each other for a while.
However, considering that the Youjun army was trapped in the river and the supply was cut off, in order to reduce casualties, Wen Bin ignored the intention of his wife and the generals to constantly seek war, so he besieged but did not attack, wanting to trap the Youjun alive.
Trapped for half a month, seeing that the army ran out of food, Qi Ge made a quick move and offered heavy rewards to the captive Han people in order to break the enemy's strategy. Chen, a native of Fujian, offered advice: "The Liang army is all big boats, and the dark army is light boats. If there is wind, do not come out, and when the wind is resting, it will come out, and shoot the sails of the Liang military ship with rockets. β
Ziggy ordered people to make rockets overnight. On the second day, the sky was sunny and windless, and Liang Jun's sea ships were huge and difficult to drive. Persuaded to use light boats to carry good archers to approach the Liang army's fleet, and fired the Liang army's sails with rockets, the Liang army was defeated, and Wen Bin had to retreat to Zhenjiang.
Although Wen Bin and Qi Ge only fought to a draw in this battle, after all, they were 8,000 against 100,000. After this battle, the Youjun army also did not set foot on the south bank of the Yangtze River, so Zhu Gaoyan could return to Lin'an and set his capital in this city. Half of the south of the Yangtze River has been preserved.
Wen Bin is also known as a famous general at the beginning of the war. But after the war, Wenbin's wife Yang wrote to impeach her husband: "Bin lost the fighter plane, fled north, and asked the court to add guilt!" β
After Zhu Gaoyan read Yang's recital, he did not condemn Yu Wenbin, but issued an order to crown Yang as the wife of the protector of the country, and eat 1,000 households.
Wen Bin actually said that Xiao Ning'er was somewhat similar to the Yang family who dared to impeach his husband, and Li Yue's eyebrows suddenly twisted into a big Sichuan character.
Wen Xin looked at Li Yue, who was full of sadness, and patted Li Yue on the shoulder while smiling without saying a word.