On the opposite side of the river beach in the distance, the two infantry formations of the black pressure were slowly advancing towards the river beach, standing on the city wall, the two phalanxes were like two lush dense forests, this half relied on the green uniforms of the soldiers in the phalanx, and the other half was due to the just right distance between the infantry in the two phalanxes.

The party warriors on the city walls looked at these enemies with little energy, but there was no fear or excitement on their faces.

The warriors defending the city were all wearing leather armor, and there were two rows of warriors standing on the four-hundred-step long city wall, the total number of which was estimated to be around six hundred, and the defensive density was quite large, but these warriors were all pale and tired.

This is already the fifth day of the siege of the Guanbei Army, that is to say, these guards of Shangxian have not slept seriously for five days and five nights. These days, the enemy troops outside the city have been tossing day and night, although they have not caused any substantial harm to the defenders in the city, but they have also made the party, the army and the people miserable. The lower ranks of the warriors had already complained privately that the enemy had not attempted to storm the city for five days, and the purpose of such a toss was obviously to use such a despicable trick to drag down the defenders of the city. Such an obvious trick, Tuoba Yilin, as the chief general of Suizhou, could not see through it, and in the past five days, he personally put on armor to supervise the battle in the city, and he has never slackened at all. Many soldiers did not understand why they had to work the city tower day and night since the enemy army had no intention of attacking the city.

In order to boost morale, Tuoba Yilin slaughtered fifty lambs in the city every day to maintain the morale of his soldiers, and even so, it took five days. Almost all of the party fighters felt that they had reached the limit of their physical strength.

Unlike the lower-class warriors, the noble officers who led the team of the Tuoba family showed surprising unity at this moment, and none of them disobeyed Tuoba Yilin's military order to take their subordinates down to the city to rest.

After a few days of siege, the Tuoba family has a very clear understanding of the situation, and the scouts can't get out of the city, according to visual estimates. The Guanbei Army assembled at least 5,000 troops in Shangxian County this time - Tuoba Yilin privately counted the battalion flags of different colors that appeared outside the city, and there were as many as 18 of them, that is to say, Guanbei, where 18 battalions were assembled outside Shangxian County at this moment

Tuoba Yilin knew in his heart that the real strength of the Guanbei Army was probably still above this number, as evidenced by the strange cavalry that appeared outside the city to block off the battlefield, although there was no banner. But Tuoba Yilin judged. The strength of the Yanzhou cavalry should never be less than one battalion.

Tuoba Guangqi followed Tuoba Yilin with a heavy heart, the situation in Suizhou was critical, this can be seen from everything, but Tuoba Yilin strictly ordered not to go to war or abandon the city to retreat to the north, every day in the city so deadly, Tuoba Guangqi was worried, if it went on like this, he was afraid that he would not need the enemy to attack the city, and the Tuoba family himself would drag himself down.

"Ding Lu, we must let half of the soldiers go down to the city to rest tonight, otherwise there won't be even half of the people left in the city tomorrow......" Tuoba Guangqi frowned and said to Tuoba Yilin. His eyes were fixed on the lookout being built across the moat. The platform was built yesterday, and today it has been erected for nearly three zhang, as long as there is one more day, those soldiers of the Eighth Route Army labor battalion can build this lookout platform to more than five zhang, and at that time, there will be no secret to the enemy army in the city of Shangxian.

Tuoba Yilin was also staring at the lookout, his teeth clenching his lower lip tightly, and his lips were bleeding with too much force. He himself was not aware of it.

"Dinglu - I'll take people out of town tonight. End it! Tuoba Guangqi said through gritted teeth.

"No way!" Tuoba Yilin simply vetoed Tuoba Guangqi's request to fight, and he said in a somewhat unquestionable tone: "The night warriors are all blind. It's a blessing not to get lost, the enemy army is around, and this risk can't be taken! ”

"But—"

"No, but—the enemy is waiting for us to get out of the city and fight hard—" Tuoba Yilin growled.

"Li Wenge did not attack the city because he was unwilling to fight hard to increase casualties, he wanted to defeat us in the field and destroy us in the pursuit. We can't do what he wants, he doesn't want to fight, we can't fight hard, we can't fight hard, we can't fight ......"

Tuoba Guangqi swallowed helplessly: "They want to drag us down, besiege but not attack, and make a nuisance every night, this is obviously to exhaust us to death and then seize the city......" "That's the case, but it's a blessing!" Tuoba Yilin smiled helplessly, "I'm just afraid that Li Wenge didn't take us seriously at all, and he surrounded Shangxian for five days without attacking, I'm afraid that he has other plans." ”

"He wants to besiege the city for reinforcements?" Tuoba Guangqi rolled his eyes and understood.

Tuoba Yilin sighed softly: "I don't know, now that the enemy is strong and I am weak, Li Wenge suddenly has a large number of cavalry in his hands, we are blocked by information, and we don't know anything about the situation outside the city, and we are trapped in a lonely city." It stands to reason that even if the enemy's main force is dispatched with the whole army, the total strength should not exceed 5,500 people, and if this number is exceeded, the defense of Yanzhou will be empty. However, the enemy's proven strength is now more than 5,000 people, not including the cavalry of unknown origin, such a force is already the sum of the elite soldiers that can be mobilized by the eight major tribes of my Yinxia Party, although the cavalry may not be much, but it is not impossible to besiege the city and send reinforcements. ”

Tuoba Guangqi nodded: "It is indeed much more clever to attract the main force of Tongwancheng to the east of Hengshan to conduct field battles, and to wait for work and oppose the guests, than to storm Tongwancheng......"

Tuoba Yilin sighed softly: "What I'm worried about now is whether the messenger sent to Xiazhou can arrive safely, if the head of the family does not know the reality of the enemy army on the eastern front and rushes to help, I am afraid that I will suffer a big loss!" ”

"Who is this Li Wenge?" Tuoba Guangqi asked in frustration.

“…… Since the rise of this person in Yanzhou, our eight tribes have been doomed, and it is just that they returned under the Luzi Pass twice, and last autumn they were actually attacked and occupied by the head of this new army that could fight with no more than a thousand people in their hands, and last winter——"

Tuoba Guangqi was in a hurry, but he couldn't say any more when he said this......

"Where the hell did this man come from? What did you do in Yanzhou? ”

Tuoba Yilin's eyes looked melancholy into the distance, and the "Right Xiaowei General, Eighth Route Army Festival Envoy" Dijie Banner. He said abruptly: "The heavens sent down this person, and it was the Demon Star of the Tuoba family that descended......"

Luo Yiniang's recent life has been a little inexplicable.

On the way back to the northwest from the Central Plains, Li Wenge personally investigated and visited all the way when he never came back, just hiding in the carriage and chatting with Luo Yiniang all day long, and from time to time he would hum a small tune for Luo Yiniang to play.

Since being rescued by Li Wenge. Luo Yiniang didn't think anything about it at the beginning, this kind of thing is not rare in these years, even if it is a feudal town of the imperial court, it is not out of place to accept a Qinglou woman as a concubine. At the beginning, Luo Yiniang thought that since this young general of the earth had saved himself, he was naturally ready to accept himself into the room to serve as a concubine.

Li Wenge's performance in Manjing Courtyard that night did not look like a womanizer, but he was barely an elegant person. Luo Yiniang is quite satisfied with this fate. Although it is also considered a famous family. But Luo Yiniang, who fell into the dust at a young age, saw very clearly that a person like herself had no hope of entering the house in this life, although there were examples of Li Weigong and Zhang Chuchen in the previous dynasty, but the red whisk girl was just a prostitute after all, and she could not be regarded as a person in the dust.

At this time, Ban Zhaodi has not yet become a universal value in the world, but for women, the disparity in status is still extremely important.

The key is not that Luo Yiniang has been a prostitute, but because the Luo family will not recognize her identity at all.

Men in this era don't care much about how many men their women have slept with, but they care a lot about their women's family background and bloodline.

Those women whose family lineage is not prominent. If you want to find a good home. There is only one possibility - she herself is rich.

Of course, it is not completely without exceptions, Luo Yiniang's father-killing enemy, the queen of Tang Zhuangzong, Zhang, is such a girl from a poor family from a humble background. However, after this person became the queen, he was deeply ashamed of this, and once beat his biological father who came to the door and drove him out, and even Zhuang Zong himself was a little blind.

This incident illustrates that in this era. A motherless child is like a grass. A woman without a family background is not much stronger than a piece of grass.

Luo Yiniang not only has no mother, but also no family background.

The Luo family would not admit that a prostitute born to a prostitute adds shame to the family. Therefore, Luo Yiniang's fate is doomed.

What makes Luo Yiniang grateful is that General Li does not seem to be unimpressed by his background, but - very concerned, in Li Wenge's opinion, Luo Yiniang seems to be a lady from a famous family, not a prostitute who has been attached to Qinglou since birth.

But the general is really a bit unpredictable.

From that rather absurd and chaotic night in the Manjing Courtyard to now, Li Wenge has not touched her with a little finger.

At the beginning, Luo Yiniang had a misunderstanding, thinking that Li Wenge just fell in love with his mastery of the piano inherited from his mother, and was ready to raise a slightly better prostitute.

Luo Yiniang herself knows that her appearance and figure are not as good as those of a middle-aged person, even if she is not outstanding in the Manjing Academy, and the well-informed general naturally looks down on her.

However, Li Wenge treated him differently, when he was in Beijing, Li Wenge not only did not allow himself to comb his hair like that morning in the Manjing Courtyard, but also did not even allow himself to do the work of folding quilts and washing clothes. The only thing that can barely be regarded as a request for himself is to listen to himself play, even if he listens to the piano, he must first ask himself if he is comfortable before it is convenient. Luo Yiniang once tried once, deliberately saying that she was unwell and refused to play, but Li Wenge actually gave up like that, without the slightest intention of forcing it.

This is what puzzles Luo Yiniang the most, Li Wenge's respect for himself does not seem to be just for show.

Whether it is a concubine or a maidservant, even if it is a domestic prostitute, Luo Yiniang is also mentally prepared to accept it, and she owes Li Wenge a life, which originally did not say anything.

Every time he gets along with Li Wenge's lonely men and widows, Li Wenge's request is very simple, except for listening to the piano, it is to chat.

Chat, everything, even some militaristic events. Li Wenge did not avoid her, Luo Yiniang was not conceited enough to think that Li Wenge wanted to let herself participate in the discussion of these things, every time Li Wenge talked about this kind of topic, it was either a joke or a deep exhaustion and boredom, Luo Yiniang had a faint feeling in her heart that this general was not so much chatting when he faced him. It's more like resting.

At that time, Li Wenge was completely relaxed, and he would often pop out of his mouth with some inexplicable words, saying things that Luo Yiniang couldn't understand, and even talking about some things when he was a child - Luo Yiniang's deepest impression was that the general often mentioned his grandfather, who seemed to be a general with outstanding military achievements, although Luo Yiniang had not heard of it.

For Li Wenge's proposal to "make a friend". Luo Yiniang didn't understand what it meant. However, Li Wenge did not treat her as a lowly slave, but she understood this.

In addition, Luo Yiniang is still confused about her future.

Li Wenge stepped forward to save himself with such a big pomp, and took himself all the way to Yanzhou, what is the ...... Why?

Before she could figure it out, an uninvited guest came to the door.

Luo Yiniang lives in the West Cross Courtyard of Jiedu Mansion, which is also Li Wenge's bedroom, but Li Wenge lives in the main house, while Yiniang is arranged in the north wing. Except for a mother. The entire Jiedu Mansion is full of civilian officials and pro-soldiers. There is no half a woman, Li Wenge doesn't want a woman to serve, and he didn't think of buying a maid to serve Yiniang, so Yiniang has to deal with the soldiers in many things. In other houses, of course, this is a taboo thing, but in the Jiedu Mansion, everyone from top to bottom takes it for granted that Yiniang is a "woman". Even if the future is not the main mother. It's also an aunt. Naturally, the top and bottom dare not slack off.

Li Wenge was originally born at the grassroots, and the wealthy gentry families in Yanzhou looked down on him in their hearts. Therefore, although this situation has also attracted criticism and jokes, it is not strong.

Li Wenge has done far more apostasy than this......

On this day, a personal soldier who was on duty at the gate of the mansion came to report to his aunt: "The inner room of the Jiedu Mansion and the Han army came to pay a visit to Miss Luo. ”

Luo Yiniang was stunned for a while, frowned and asked, "This Han joined the army, but the hunchbacked Lord Han?" ”

The soldiers replied yes, but Yiniang was even more confused, and after being silent for a while, she agreed to ask for a meeting.

Carefully took the original Chen family's aunt into the West Cross Courtyard, and Luo Yiniang was embarrassed to find that there was no place to entertain guests. Of course, it is not appropriate to invite Han Chen into Li Wenge's room to talk, and he will enter his own room...... Yiniang hesitated a little, her identity is not a secret in Yanzhou, who knows if this woman from the Yanzhou family will mind?

Chen Sulan was wise, and in the blink of an eye, she guessed what Yiniang was hesitating about, and she smiled faintly: "If Miss Luo doesn't mind, would you like to entertain guests in the boudoir?" ”

She is not called "Luo Girl", but "Luo Girl", these two words are not much different in Guanzhong dialect, but they are not the same in the Central Plains accent.

It seems that this lady of the Han family has done her homework before she came, and Luo Yiniang is also a person who is smart and beautiful in Bingxue, and with a faint smile, she no longer hesitated, and generously let Chen Su into her room.

Chen Su has heard a lot of rumors about Luo Yiniang in recent days, and now everyone in Yanzhou City knows that General Li went to Beijing to report on his work and brought back a woman, who was raised in Jiedu Mansion, and I heard that she is still a Qinglou woman.

There was a lot of speculation outside, and they all thought that the woman who could make Li Wenge look at her was naturally like a fairy and had a coquettish charm, but she didn't expect it to be such an ordinary woman who was not outstanding in appearance and figure.

Chen Su only glanced at it, and immediately overturned his original assumption, Li Wenge did not avoid suspicion and raised this woman in the house, either he really liked this woman, or he had ulterior motives.

She hesitated for a moment, and slowly spoke: "Don't be surprised Miss Luo, the concubine is here for one thing, and I want to ask Miss Luo for advice!" ”

"Don't dare-" Luo Yiniang replied lightly, her face was as usual, and she could see that this beautiful young woman came to see her rashly, obviously there was something important.

Chen Su looked at Luo Yiniang and said, "Miss Luo has been with the general for so long, so she must be familiar with the general beyond the reach of ordinary people......

Speaking of "familiarity beyond the reach of ordinary people", Luo Yiniang's face suddenly became hot, and she was a little embarrassed, but she still replied: "Mrs. Han is only afraid that she will be disappointed, adults and concubines have no selfishness of children, speaking of which, she is just a confidant in music......

No one would believe this, and Luo Yiniang didn't expect Chen Su to believe it.

However, Chen Su nodded immediately: "I see, the concubine also thinks that General Li has great ambitions, and he should not be a person who likes women......"

Although these words made Luo Yiniang feel like a trusted confidant, there was a layer of implication that Luo Yiniang was not attractive enough, which made Yiniang frown slightly.

However, Chen Su's question below surprised Luo Yiniang: "Does the general have plans to be an official of Miss Fengluo?" ”