Chapter Eighty-Eight: Fighting on the Battlefield
Lu Xi gave up stupidly, Bai Qiaoxuan was still unhappy when she saw her, and teased her with all kinds of jokes, and finally made her smile again. Under the moonlight, Lu Xi's eyes were full of tenderness, sometimes smart, sometimes cunning, no matter what, Bai Qiaoxuan could see full of happiness there. He couldn't help but think of the purple figure in his memory, if she was angry, he was afraid that it would not be so easy to coax, she would even be even more angry because of her jokes, but he thought about it, how could she be angry for such a trivial matter? If it wasn't a major matter involving the family, what could make her such a quiet person angry?
"Qiao Xuan, Qiao Xuan!" Seeing the smile on his lips, Lu Xi couldn't help but scream.
"What's wrong?"
Lu Xihu wondered, "What do you think?" Meals are coming up. ”
Only then did Bai Qiaoxuan see Boss Ma standing aside, and hurriedly said, "Brother Ma has worked hard, thank you." ”
Boss Ma smiled: "Young Master Bai is polite, you use it slowly." ”
Lucy took off his scarf and asked, "Would you like some hot and sour soup?" Very delicious. ”
Bai Qiaoxuan shook his head and smiled: "You drink, these dishes are enough for me to eat." ”
Lu Xi asked again, "Don't you like to drink hot and sour soup?" I've been here so many times, and you haven't drunk it once. ”
Bai Qiaoxuan replied: "It's not that I don't like to drink hot and sour soup, I don't like to eat sour food." ”
Lu Xi was stunned for a moment before saying, "Why didn't you tell me earlier that you don't like to eat sour food?" If I had known, I wouldn't have dragged you to drink hot and sour soup all the time. ”
Bai Qiaoxuan smiled: "I don't like to eat, but you like to eat." I don't have any special preferences other than sour food, and I can eat all the other dishes here. ”
Lu Xi smiled sweetly, "You don't have to accommodate me in everything, you also have to consider your own feelings." ”
Bai Qiaoxuan nodded with a smile and said softly: "Got it, drink it quickly, the soup should be cold in a while." ”
After the two finished eating, they walked back hand in hand, Lu Xi saw two shadows stacked on the ground, and suddenly remembered something, she asked, "Did you and your second sister-in-law have any unpleasant feelings when they worked together in Yejin before?" ”
Bai Qiaoxuan's footsteps stopped for a moment, "Why do you ask that?" ”
Lu Xi said hesitantly: "Do you remember that I asked you about Yao Yao again a few days ago? That's what the second sister-in-law told the second brother, and the second brother told me, if you haven't offended her, why did she say that about you? ”
At that time, when Lu Xi mentioned Yao Yao again, Bai Qiaoxuan guessed that Tong Yuqing was behind the ghost, but he didn't think about it, or he didn't think about it, Lu Xi would have such a misunderstanding.
He thought about it and replied: "There will inevitably be some bumps and bumps between colleagues, but I don't think your second sister-in-law will indiscriminately charge me." How can outsiders know the truth about me and Yao Yao? Maybe she misunderstood and said that. ”
"Oh......" Lucy said after a moment's thought, "If that's the case, then we'd better solve this misunderstanding as soon as possible." Among the three elder brothers, only the second brother is the best for me, and I don't want to leave a knot between me and him because of a misunderstanding. Why don't you go a few days later, when the peach blooms and the warbler cries, we invite the second brother and second sister-in-law to go on a wild outing, what do you think? ”
Bai Qiaoxuan was a hundred reluctant in his heart, but when the words came to his mouth, he still ......
"Okay, it's up to you."
A headlight suddenly flashed on the faces of the two of them, causing them to cover their eyes, and before they could lower their arms, a figure had already rushed in front of them, "Young Master, someone from the Overseer said that the Overseer urgently summoned you back to the office, it seems that something has happened." ”
Bai Qiaoxuan saw that it was Xuan Cang, and said to Lu Xi with a relaxed heart: "Then I'll leave first and let Xuan Cang send you back to the house." ”
Lucy nodded, "You go get busy." ”
Bai Qiaoxuan hurriedly got into the car behind Xuancang and hurried to the Overseer's Office.
When he arrived at the Overseer's office, Bai Qiaoxuan saw that Yang Hao was leading people to clean up the broken porcelain pieces on the ground, and couldn't help but feel 120,000 points of spirit to deal with it carefully, and he whispered to Lu Tiansheng, who was sitting on a soft chair with his eyes closed: "Overseer, I'm back." ”
Lu Tiansheng opened his eyes and handed a secret letter on the table to Bai Qiaoxuan, who was stuck in his throat after reading the letter. The commander who guarded the southern border secretly took refuge in Qu Li! No wonder none of the secret agents of their father and son's turn of face were sent back to Jindu, it turned out that they were killed by their boss! That Qu oak is obsessed with sound, is it also pretending......
The person who wrote the letter was a deputy general under Cheng Jiang, named Sun Yi, and seeing the scribbled handwriting of the letter, it was obvious that he had found some emergency and wrote it in a hurry. The reason why he chose to write a letter instead of taking a telegram or making a phone call must be because Cheng Jiang and Qu Li cut off all Qi Feng's signals. As soon as the messenger had delivered the message, he died. From Qifeng to Jindu, a full ten days of driving, I think the current situation in the south must be extremely bad......"
Before Lu Tiansheng finished speaking, a newspaper soldier came and knocked on the door, "Overseer, Changjie is urgent." ”
Bai Qiaoxuan could clearly hear the "bang" of his heart, Changjie was the closest city to the northern boundary of Qifeng, and at this time, an urgent telegram came from there, which obviously would not be a good thing.
Sure enough, Lu Tiansheng looked at the color of the iron blue behind the telegram, and shouted through gritted teeth: "Cheng Jiang! ”
Yang Hao came over after packing up the debris, and asked cautiously, "Overseer, what happened to Changjie?" ”
"That bastard of Cheng Jiang asked Changjie to open the city gate under the pretense of visiting his old friend, and Changjie was defenseless and had fallen."
Bai Qiaoxuan pondered for a moment and said, "Overseer, it was Qiao Xuan who was unprepared for a while, misjudged the situation, and involved Changjie's brothers. So whoever the Overseer wants to lead the army on, take Qiao Xuan with you. ”
Lu Tiansheng ignored Bai Qiaoxuan's words, and Bai Qiaoxuan looked at him as if he was waiting for someone. Sure enough, it didn't take long for Bai Qiaoxuan to see a familiar figure through the window.
Lu Jingwu came in and saluted Lu Tiansheng, "My subordinates have seen the Overseers. ”
After Yang Hao told Lu Jingwu the ins and outs of the matter, Lu Tiansheng finally raised his head and said to his son: "This expedition, take Qiao Xuan with you as a deputy general, he knows more about the situation this time, and he can help you if there is anything." ”
Lu Jingwu thought of the humiliation he had suffered under Bai Qiaoxuan that day, a trace of gloom flashed in his eyes, and he said in a deep voice: "Yes, Overseer. My subordinates will go and count the soldiers and horses, and please come with me as Vice Admiral Bai. ”
Bai Qiaoxuan said: "Overseer, then Qiao Xuan retires. ”
After the two left, Yang Hao asked, "Overseer, if you arrange Young Master Bai by the side of the eldest young master, you will not be afraid of the eldest young master......"
Lu Tiansheng said with a smile: "Although Wu'er is obedient, he will not destroy the Great Wall, at most, he will send Bai Qiaoxuan to fight some difficult battles." If he can't even cope with Wu'er's methods, then he is not worthy of being my Lu Tiansheng's son-in-law. ”
When Bai Qiaoxuan walked downstairs to the Overseer's Office, a thought suddenly flashed, he looked back at the Overseer's Office, every chess piece arranged by Tong Baiyi was close to the vital point, did this sudden war have anything to do with Tong Baiyi? He no longer knew the answer, but fortunately the answer itself was no longer important, what mattered was how they should deal with the current internal and external war.
Bai Qiaoxuan and Lu Jingwu rushed to the military camp on the southern outskirts of Jindu overnight and convened their generals to discuss military plans.
Lu Jingwu said: "Everyone, Cheng Thief betrayed the Lord and committed treason, and everyone will be punished. With the trust of the Overseers, we have entrusted the crusade to us, and I ask you to express your opinions and cooperate with you. ”
After discussing more than a dozen plans, they finally decided to send two groups of men and horses, divided into pieces, and detoured from the east and west directions to Guanghui City in the south of Qifeng, where they would meet and make peace, and coerce Guanghui Ji to attack the rear of Qifeng, contain Qu Li's defenders in Qifeng, and bring back some of his troops who were busy attacking elsewhere. At the same time as bringing back the troops, the small troops rushed to Qifeng to aid the first two groups of men and horses, and occupied Qifeng. The large army concentrated its firepower on attacking Changjie, which was occupied by Cheng Jiang, and after taking Changjie, it swept away Qu Quercus that had no nest to return to, and the war ended.
Lu Jingwu asked Bai Qiaoxuan, "Are you sure that the handle in your hand will definitely be able to coerce Ji Tong to cooperate with us to raise troops?" ”
Bai Qiaoxuan replied: "Unless he doesn't want his own life, he must obediently listen to us." ”
Lu Jingwu was still hesitant, Bai Qiaoxuan said: "My subordinates are willing to make a military order, if Ji Tong knows the handle in my hand, he is still unwilling to raise troops to resist Qu, I am willing to deal with it in accordance with military law." ”
"Good! Military orders are like mountains, I believe you. Lu Jingwu turned to everyone and said, "Let's go!" ”
Bai Qiaoxuan and his team, a total of 30 people, rushed to Guanghui from the West Road, and successfully arrived in Guanghui after 15 days, but as soon as they arrived in Guanghui, Bai Qiaoxuan and others encountered a strict investigation, fortunately, they were well prepared, and no accidents occurred, Bai Qiaoxuan sneaked into the Ji Mansion at night, but unfortunately although he captured Ji Tong, the head of the Ji family, he was discovered.
Bai Qiaoxuan grabbed Ji Tong's throat fiercely, and said coldly: "Master Ji, don't worry, I won't kill you, as long as you send back these people who are pointing guns at me, I promise that I won't hurt your life." But if you want to burn the jade, I won't mind......" Saying that, Bai Qiaoxuan added a little more strength to his hand, Ji Tong's face turned purple, and he waved his hand indiscriminately, letting people disperse first.
Bai Qiaoxuan pulled out a gun with one hand to hold Ji Tong's head, and slowly loosened his strength with the other, Ji Tong coughed violently, Bai Qiaoxuan said: "I came here today to borrow troops from Master Ji." ”
No matter how stupid Ji Tong was, he guessed his identity, "Are you Lu Tiansheng's person?" The Qu family and my Ji family have been married for generations, why do you think that I will betray Brother Qu for you? ”
Bai Qiaoxuan smiled at the corner of his mouth, "It's not that I think, it's that you have betrayed Brother Qu in your mouth, twenty years ago." ”
Ji Tong's face turned pale instantly, and Bai Qiaoxuan smiled again: "Do you want me to remind you?" Twenty-four years ago, the fourth daughter of the Xu family married into the Qu family and had nothing to do for many years, but not long after Qu Li took a concubine, his wife suddenly became happy, which also made her immediately save Qu Li's heart. Qu Li took a concubine, and Master Ji, who was a relative, also rushed to congratulate him, right? How does it feel to relive the mandarin dream? ”
Ji Tong trembled, "You...... You don't want to talk nonsense! Me and Xiaowan don't have it at all! ”
"Oh......" Bai Qiaoxuan dragged out his voice meaningfully, "It turns out that the wife who calls my brother should call her by her first name...... It's really teachable. ”
Ji Tong's body stiffened, and Bai Qiaoxuan no longer talked nonsense with him, "I advise you, don't try to get rid of me, I dare to visit your mansion today because I have enough evidence in my hands and I am well prepared." If you know each other, listen to me obediently, otherwise, my people outside will spread the news of your adultery with Mrs. Qu Li all over the world, and promise to let the Qu family and the Xu family know, guess what they will do to you then? Actually, you should thank the Overseers for giving you such a chance, otherwise we could have just spread the word and reclaim Changjie when Qu Li freed up his hands to clean you up. ”
Ji Tong was silent for a long time, and finally said, "You...... What do you want me to do? ”
Bai Qiaoxuan smiled: "It is enough for you to stay by my side all the time." ”
Bai Qiaoxuan took Ji Tong to the Ji military camp quickly, and then ordered 20,000 soldiers and horses to rush to Qi Feng in the starry night, he guarded Ji Tong, while calculating the time when Qu Li's secret agent left by Ji Tong's side to deliver the news to Qu Li, and calculated the time when Qu Li reacted, thinking that there was not much time left, he couldn't help but step on the accelerator and rush towards Qi Feng.
Bai Qiaoxuan looked at the dark sky and said to Ji Tong, "Tell me about Qu Li's troop deployment in Qifeng." ”
Ji Tong hesitated slightly, and Bai Qiaoxuan scolded: "There is no turning back arrow when you open the bow, don't you understand?!" ”
Ji Tong replied tremblingly: "He has a total of 50,000 horses, most of which have been pulled out to attack the north, and there should be only more than 10,000 left in Qifeng." ”
Bai Qiaoxuan roared: "I don't want to listen to most of the words that should be like this, I can't guess the approximate number?!" I want accurate numbers! ”
Ji Tong was like a sifting chaff, "I don't know the specific deployment, I don't know ......"
Bai Qiaoxuan glared at him, then turned back and concentrated on driving.
Along the way, Bai Qiaoxuan quietly extinguished the observation sentinels in three places, so when they arrived at the southern border of Qi Feng, Qi Feng's southern city tower was still very quiet.
Bai Qiaoxuan looked at the map of Qifeng carefully, and with the help of the terrain, he pushed Qu Li's troop deployment in various places in Qifeng. Qu Li would not think of Ji Tong's betrayal, so he would not arrange too many troops on the south city tower, and his focus should be on the east, west, and north city gates, and the most important thing is this north city gate.
After thinking about it, Bai Qiaoxuan wanted to talk to the captain of the second group about his thoughts, but he didn't expect him to raise his head and seem to have something to say to himself, Bai Qiaoxuan smiled: "You say it first." ”
The man was not polite, and said directly: "Vice General Bai, I took a cursory look at the map, and wanted to arrange our troops in this way: we will first send fifty top masters to infiltrate this south city tower, and let them open the city gate for us from the inside, and then we will each lead nine thousand men and horses to attack the east and west city gates respectively, the bigger the noise, the better, and attract all the men and horses they are guarding the north city gate, the south city gate is guarded by two thousand men and horses led by Ji Tong, there are us on the east and west sides, and the people in the middle, we can kill as many as we want, If they can't be killed, they will be driven north and handed over to General Shi's men to deal with, and he has 50,000 horses in his hands, which is more than enough to deal with these remnants of the defeated generals. What do you think? ”
Bai Qiaoxuan laughed: "What General Wu wants coincides with me. ”
Wu Kui was burly and tall, and his smile was also bold and uninhibited, "Then let's act!" ”
Bai Qiaoxuan and Wu Kui fought all the way, trapping Qi Feng's remaining soldiers and horses in the middle as they wished, but before they could wait for reinforcements, they waited for the enemy's rescue. They had no choice but to abandon their original plan and retreat all the way south, but unfortunately they were exhausted after a bloody battle, and there were not many men and horses left, so when they fled back to Guanghui, they were already exhausted.
Wu Kui scolded Shi Fei and scolded him, which made Bai Qiaoxuan on the side laugh so much that his stomach hurt. Wu Kui began to scold him again, "You fucking laughing fart!" If that bastard doesn't come again, you, the pony master, will have to die with me in this ghost place where birds don't shit, are you willing to be the flowery Miss Overseer? ”
Bai Qiaoxuan giggled, "How are you willing?" What if you can't bear it? In the current situation, it's not that I can't go back if I don't want to, or that I can't go back if I can't give up. ”
Wu Kui scolded: "Is it okay to talk about people? When is it time do you still have the heart to play tongue twisters with Lao Tzu? You've got a big heart......"
Bai Qiaoxuan smiled: "Brother, I dragged you down this time." ”
Wu Kui frowned, Bai Qiaoxuan saw that he didn't understand what he said, so he simply gave up and said to Ji Tong, who was sitting between the two: "You don't know Qu Li's deployment, you should always know the secret room secret passage at home, take us there for a while, do you hear?" ”
Ji Tong nodded hurriedly, but as soon as the car drove to the gate of Ji's mansion, Bai Qiaoxuan watched a * fly to this side, Ji Tong wailed, and then was dragged into the mansion by Bai Qiaoxuan, Ji Tong vigorously broke away, and roared: "It's you!" It's all you! You killed my children, I killed you! ”
Bai Qiaoxuan kicked him away, "That* is not so powerful, maybe it didn't blow up your children, but if you want them to die, I can also go to them now, one person makes up for one shot, and everyone is finished together!" Life or death, the choice is yours! ”
Ji Tongsoft knelt on the ground, Wu Kui picked him up again, and shouted: "Don't you go quickly?!" ”
"I'm going to see my child first, the entrance to the secret passage is in my child's room."
Bai Qiaoxuan and Wu Kui walked to the entrance of the dark passage with Ji Tong on the left and right, but unfortunately the heavens did not fulfill people's wishes, when the three of them arrived there, they were already in ruins, Ji Tong completely collapsed, Bai Qiaoxuan and Wu Kui glanced at each other, and joined forces to knock him out.
Bai Qiaoxuan's thoughts turned sharply, "It is impossible for the huge Ji Mansion to have only one secret passage. ”
Wu Kui willed, "Ji Tong's bedroom!" ”
The two of them ran to Ji Tong's bedroom together, and a * fell from the sky, and I don't know who shouted, "Hurry!" Run! ”
After the deafening explosion, the world fell silent......
Wu Kui rubbed his ears that were in great pain, picked up Bai Qiaoxuan, who was stunned on the side, and placed him in a hidden place, while he looked for the entrance to the secret passage. The road to the sky, he relied on his intuition to twist a lampstand for the first time, and opened an escape road for them, he hurriedly picked up Bai Qiaoxuan, escaped along the dark passage, and then grabbed a car, and shouted while driving: "Brother, wake up, wake up!" ”
Bai Qiaoxuan slowly opened his eyes, coughed violently a few times, and finally came to his senses, "Where is this?" ”
Wu Kui shook his head, "I don't know, it seems to be out of Guanghui's territory." ”
Bai Qiaoxuan listened to him, only to see that his right arm was injured and blood flowed, so he hurriedly tore off a piece of his clothes and wrapped him. He turned around and looked around, but heard Wu Kui say, "Don't look for it, I've already looked around, and there is no water source." ”
Just when Bai Qiaoxuan wanted to give up, an abandoned ruined temple came into Wu Kui's eyes, Bai Qiaoxuan saw that Wu Kui wanted to abandon the car and hide in the broken temple, and asked: "There is obviously nothing in this temple, what are you doing parking the car here?" It is also easy to recruit pursuers. ”
Wu Kui's tone was quite natural, "Drink water and eat." ”
Bai Qiaoxuan was puzzled, but he heard Wu Kui shouting: "Hurry up, the chasing soldiers will catch up in a while." ”
Walking into the temple, Wu Kui excitedly ran to the desk dedicated to the gods and Buddhas, and picked up a broken bowl, "Sure enough, there is this thing!" As he spoke, he turned his head and asked Bai Qiaoxuan, "Do you have urine?" ”
Bai Qiaoxuan finally understood what Wu Kui said about "water", he was sick to his stomach, holding on to the door frame and retching, Wu Kui shook his head and sighed: "Alas...... I forgot that you are a rich young master, how could you have suffered such a crime? If you don't want to drink urine, you can eat some hay here, you can't die. It's convenient for me to go there. ”
As soon as Wu Kui took a step, he turned back and said: "I can remind you, normal people will die if they don't drink water for three days, you are injured now, you are not a normal person, don't chase the soldiers before they arrive, you yourself die of thirst first." ”
After Wu Kui left, Bai Qiaoxuan grabbed the hay on the ground and stuffed it into his mouth, and after eating for a long time, he didn't see Wu Kui come back. He couldn't help but panic, and hurriedly went to the back of the desk to look for it, only to see that Wu Kui had fainted to the ground at some point, unconscious, and the wound on his right arm was still bleeding unstoppablely......
Bai Qiaoxuan pinched his people, Wu Kui woke up, but the person was extremely weak, and the corners of his mouth pulled upward, "Lao Tzu this time, it was really planted in the hands of Shi Fei's turtle grandson." ”
"Don't talk nonsense, as long as people live, there is still hope, and if there is hope, you can't give up easily. I'll take you back to Jindu. Saying that, Bai Qiaoxuan picked him up and walked out, but he was blocked by Qu Li's men and horses at the door after taking a few steps.
Bai Qiaoxuan slowly put down Wu Kui, and when his fist was swung into the air, he heard a gunshot, but the shot did not hit him......
Although the night was dark, he could still vaguely see a large group of people and horses in the distance, who were rushing towards this side. He happily shook Wu Kui's shoulder, "We have been saved!" ”
Qu Li's thousands of men and horses were quickly shattered by Shi Fei's 50,000 horses. Bai Qiaoxuan and Wu Kui were both sent to the army for medical treatment. When they woke up again, the army was already on their way back. Bai Qiaoxuan was not worried about the war, so he could only put aside his personal grievances for the time being, asked someone to find Shi Fei, and asked, "General Shi, is it going well on the young marshal's side?" ”
Shi Fei thought that Bai Qiaoxuan was not suspicious, and put his heart at ease and said, "Everything is going well." Qu Li and Cheng Jiang have both been captured......"