PS: The second chapter is around 12 o'clock, and the content was miscalculated yesterday, and the third volume will end tomorrow O(∩_∩)O~

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When the news of the attack on the port of Wenxian by the enemy fleet reached the city, it immediately caused a small chaos.

Zhao Ying took the young man in the city to Yiguan, and now he doesn't know where to fight, and he can't return to defend in a short time. Therefore, only Zhao Guangde was left in Wenxian County with a group of defenders composed of old and weak soldiers, erect people, and untrained, and even underage boys, and the women and children in the city relied on them for protection.

Zhao Guangde took on this kind of heavy task for the first time, but he was quite calm, he and the commander of the boat division Gu Cheng deployed a certain defense on the bank of the river, the enemy's ships were very scattered on the shore, and the attack was not very sharp, and now they have not even occupied the tidal flats, as long as they are driven into the water, they can be victorious.

After he came over to inform Ji Huan of this, he put on a dazzling armor and rode a red horse, Ji Huan could see that his dress was on par with that of the shirtless, but his temperament was more than one point worse.

"There is Guangde outside the city, and I will ask my cousin in the city!"

The number of enemies is unknown, but since they came from the water, there must not be many of them, and what is most feared at this time is not that the city will be attacked, but that the city itself will be chaotic first, giving the enemy a chance to take advantage of.

Outside the male lead, inside the female lead, in the past year and a half, Ji Huan was the hostess of Wen County, she nodded, and watched Zhao Guangde resolutely go out of the city with the soldiers to support the port, and she took the maids and black-clothed guards to take all the nobles and families in the city to the hall of the Zhao family temple complex.

By nightfall, the battle had begun outside the city, and almost all the ladies of the doctors and scholars in the city were sitting in the hall, as well as a few respectable old men and infant children. These women were the parents, wives, and daughters of Zhao's doctors and retainers, and their Kun brothers either followed Zhao Wuxian to the east, or followed Zhao Ying's westward march, or fought against the enemy side by side with Zhao Guangde outside the city, or transferred manpower and materials in the city.

Ji Huan sat on the main seat of snow leopard skin, scanning the people in the hall, the city defense and order have a group of retainers who are proficient in this matter to take care of, and her task is to protect their families - on the one hand, protection, on the other hand, hostages, who knows if this enemy attack is an internal response in the city? The concentration of family members here, on the one hand, can make them feel at ease to defend against the enemy, and can also make those with bad intentions throw into the mouse.

However, the atmosphere is not very good.

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The feast in the hall has begun, and the musicians are not ringing the chimes, but playing the new song "Turtle Although Shou", which can drown the sound of fighting and distract attention, but cannot dispel fear. The guests forced a smile on their faces, but they couldn't help it, as if they could turn into sadness at any moment. They are here, but their hearts are outside the city, in their families on the battlefield, and in Zhao Guangde's thin riverside defense.

After the war, I don't know how many people can return, and more importantly, they are not around when their families are in danger, so contrary to the cheerful music, the atmosphere in the hall is solemn, and everyone is worried.

Ji Huan knew that if her family was depressed and disappointed, the doctors and retainers would not inspire the courage to defend the city, so she smiled and began to call out the names of one person after another, asking them to come forward and speak. Talking about the history of their clan as a retainer of the Zhao family, talking about the phoenixes in the city they came to, the military exploits and honors won by their husbands' children and grandchildren, and even holding the newborn baby who had just been born, and asking the subordinates to give gifts, which made the boy giggle.

These things were taught by her father since she was a child, and she didn't learn them by herself, so the atmosphere in the hall was relaxed, and she praised Ji Huan's erudition and strong news, which was almost as good as Duchess Xu Mu back then.

But this did not affect the people closest to Ji Huan: she was surrounded by the ladies of the Zhao family: on the left hand side was Zhao Ying's concubine Jinjuan, and the young daughter Zhao Jia, Jinjuan was relatively calm, but just coping with the active little Zhao Jia regardless of the occasion was enough to make her anxious.

On the right is Han Ji, the daughter-in-law of the Zhao family, and Zhao Zhou, the son of Bolu, who is babbling, Han Ji, who is both filial piety for her husband and filial piety for her father, tightly holding her son's little hand, looking at Ji Huan's performance, a trace of jealousy and impatience flashed in her eyes.

"The enemy army may break the city at any time, and you are still here to talk about the shortcomings of the family?"

Finally, she couldn't hold back and popped out such a sentence, and in an instant, the voice stopped talking, and everyone stared at Han Ji in surprise.

When the music stopped, when Ji Ying wasn't chatting with them, their ears seemed to hear the sound of battle in the distance again: it was the murmuring of the golden drum, the waving and crashing of armor weapons, the splash of water when the clipper ship landed, the crackling and burning of pine planks...... In addition to all this, there are terrible shouts of killing, and the cry of the living who are dying.

Ji Huan's efforts were in vain, and everyone who had just forgotten about the war remembered that they were still in danger, and the house could collapse at any time and crush everyone to death! Their chatter was gone, and the hall fell silent again.

Ji Huan glanced at Han Ji coldly, her smile was still the same, but she lowered her voice and said, "Is my sister-in-law drunk?" You're still serving filial piety! ”

There is a low degree of liquor in the temple, and at such times, many people need to use the power of alcohol to forget their fears. Han Ji did drink a lot, her little face was flushed, the drunken beauty was the most tempting, but the words that came out of her mouth were very unpleasant, Han Ji raised a glass of wine, took a sip like a demonstration, and responded with a smile:

"My father and my husband Huang Quan are knowledgeable and will be considerate of the concubine."

Tears flowed out, when she was in the Han family, she was a shark bead in the palm of her grandfather and father brothers, she was afraid of cold in her hand, and she was afraid of melting in her mouth, but after coming to Zhao's family, her husband's limelight was robbed by Zhao Wuxian, and she didn't get the power to manage internal affairs, and Ji Ying, who had been delayed in marrying, picked up what should have belonged to her!

She wiped away her cowardly tears and revealed a hint of mockery: "After all, in a few hours, I'm afraid I won't be able to drink it if I want to." ”

Ji Huan's eyebrows tightened together: "What do you mean by this?" ”

"But in battle, there is no one who is not only victorious and undefeated, at this time last year, the Zhao family almost lost Fan and Zhongxing, fought to Chaoge, hit Handan, and let Han's Pingyang and Shangdang fall, did you ever think that one day Wen County would also be attacked?"

Han Ji sneered and pointed to the trembling crowd in the hall, who seemed to her to be chirping hens, and chicks who only knew how to hide under their mother's wings.

"Sister-in-law, you lost your word!" Ji Huan refuted her, his gaze swept across the hall, and said with a smile: "I believe that Guangde will protect Wen County and ensure that the enemy army will not enter the city." ”

"If Zhao Guangde can't repel the enemy army, the fate of Fan and Zhongxing, the family temple will be burned, the clan will be scattered, and the children will suffer, I'm afraid it will be repeated tonight!"

Han Ji did not give up, her dissatisfaction with this marriage after marrying Zhao, the resentment of Bolu and her father Han Geng against Zhao Ying, Zhao Wuxian's father and son after their deaths, and even her jealousy of Ji Huan, all erupted tonight under the traction of fear and alcohol.

As if prophesied, a maid hurriedly entered the hall and whispered in Ji Huan's ear, Ji Huan's face was as usual, but her palms couldn't help but clench into fists.

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"What happened?" The people in the hall were not stupid, and at this time they all realized that the situation was not good.

"I hope the gentleman and the daughter will tell the truth!" They are anxious to know the truth, is it the fall of the city? Or did Zhao Guangde die in battle? Even knowing it doesn't help.

The fact is that the battle on the riverbank has ended, Zhao Guangde brought out few people, and finally failed to stop it, he was slightly injured, but still endured the pain and commanded the remnants to retreat to the city, the riverside was occupied by the enemy, they began to carry the keel of the ship, attacking the city gate, the banging sound that everyone heard, and the shock they felt came from this.

The situation is very bad, but Ji Ying can't get rid of the truth, people's hearts are pessimistic and fragile, she must appease them, even if it is a white lie.

"The Zhao army was valiant and repelled the enemy many times, and Guangde was unharmed, but it was easier to fight when he retreated to the city."

Even if it was just that, some people could not accept it, and soon in the silent hall there was an old woman hiding her face and crying, followed by the cardamom maidens of the doctor's family, and several boys also weeping, and they smelled the smell of fear.

The situation is even worse, even Jinjuan is a little dazed and helpless, Han Ji sneered, she has no intention of helping, she just wants to watch the excitement and watch Ji Huan end like this.

"Don't be afraid! The walls are still there! ”

Ji Huan stood up at some point, her red dress was extremely eye-catching, and she could hear every word she said.

"The three-zhang high version of the city wall is protected by a moat, and there are enough bows and arrows in the treasury, and there are three trebuchets on each wall, so that the other generation can not get close. The number of enemy troops is not large, not even enough to surround a corner of Wenxian, let alone one night, even if it is a month, they will not be able to defeat it. ”

She was no longer afraid, but proudly proclaimed: "What's more, even if Wenxian is besieged, my brother has defeated the Qi army, and he will return here in the near future!" ”

The chaotic hall calmed down again, and the Zhao gentleman, who had won a hundred battles, could stop the night crying of children in the enemy realm, and could also reassure everyone in the Zhao clan's territory, not to mention, since the beginning of summer this year, the tall and mysterious trebuchet has also become the most loyal guardian of this city.

"You just expect to wait for your little brother to come to the rescue, maybe he didn't come to Wen County to help, but went directly to Chaoge to see his wife and son, or even the news of his defeat of Qi is fake, he has died in the east!" Han Ji was still sneering in a low voice, she pulled her son and prepared to leave here.

Ji Huan was stabbed in the heart by this sentence, but reached out to stop her: "Where is my sister-in-law going?" ”

"Get out of here and go to a safe place."

"Where else in Wen County is safer than here?"

Han Ji was stunned for a moment, but still insisted: "It is safe to return to the guards sent by the Han clan to protect me, the Zhao clan may not be able to hold on this time, I don't know if the difficulty of going to the palace will be repeated, when the time comes, I don't know who will be the orphan of the Zhao family, whether it is the boy of Chaoge, or my son, the real eldest grandson of the Zhao family......"

She looked down at her son gently, imagining how she would escape from here under the escort of the Han family's tiger ben and the remnants of Bolu's retainers if Wen County fell, and who should she turn to? But he didn't know that his actions tonight had frightened him.

"I just think that all this is my sister-in-law's drunken nonsense, if you are tired, you can go to the back of the palace to rest, but no one is allowed to leave this place until the war is over! Zhao's daughter-in-law, even more so! Ji Huan was very serious and didn't give an inch, and behind her, fifty Zhao pawns dressed in black stood by the door, like rocks and mountains, blocking anyone's intention to leave.

"You ......"

Han Ji was speechless, because she caught a glimpse of Ji Huan's slender and white hand, holding a sword, a real sword!

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The sword is thin and long, and at a glance you know that it is not for men to kill enemies, but for women to defend themselves.

"You don't dare, when you were a child, you didn't even know how to do it with raccoon slaves and young deer......" Han Ji saw what Ji Huan wanted to do, her momentum subsided, and she gritted her teeth and whispered.

"I have never swung a sword, not because I don't dare, but because I have good intentions, because my swordsmanship is not as good as my father and Wuxian, I am afraid of accidentally injuring innocents, and because I don't want Ah Zhou to see a scene that I shouldn't see......"

Ji Ying saluted Han Ji, seemingly pleading, but with an ordered tone: "But compared to these, the responsibility of being the eldest daughter of the Zhao family is more important, if the enemy breaks through the city, this sword is my self-cutting tool, if the enemy army does not enter the city, but someone leaves without permission, spreading rumors to make people unstable, regarded as enemy spies, there are officials outside the palace who will be brought to justice by military law, and the palace will be punished by me with family law." Sister-in-law, please don't embarrass Ji Ying......"

She is that kind of person, usually like a lazy female cat, but once she bares her fangs, people understand that this is actually a female tiger!

Han Ji finally relented, but she couldn't stay here any longer, she was like a hen drenched in soup, drooping her head, and followed the maid to the house at the back of the palace.

And Ji Huan quietly withdrew the sword behind him, and said loudly to everyone in the hall: "Everyone is responsible for defending the city, so the Ding girls in the city and those under sixty and fourteen are all on the city wall, and we can do nothing here, which is already a great advantage, everyone just needs to wait and wait for the reinforcements to arrive." ”

In order to appease everyone, the feast was still the same, Ji Ying lived alone on the high seat, and became the heroine of Wen County.

The women and children in the hall cast reverent glances at Ji Huan, the battlefield on the city wall was the man's sword and sword, and the battle at the banquet was the spring breeze and drizzle of the heroine, which resolved the fear and enemy in their hearts. The topic changed, and they began to talk about how brave Ji Huan was, how strong, and how to motivate their morale, and she was unwavering without a moment of doubt.

This is what Zhao Zhi's father's daughter should look like!

"It's not like this......" Ji Huan tried to make herself look like this, but no one could recognize the pain in her heart.

The leopard skin cushion under her body was very gentle, but Ji Huan only felt like she was on pins and needles, and those natural spots seemed to have become traps and stingers that devoured her.

It turned out that this seat was so difficult to sit in, this should not be her place, she hoped that her father would continue to exercise the power of the head of the family here, and she also hoped that Wuxian would one day inherit this position and give orders from it, and she only needed to watch them quietly and smile from the side.

At the end of the day, she's just a little woman in her twenties......

"Shirtless, are you rushing here? When exactly will it arrive? The shouting and killing outside the city came here through the night, and Ji Huan knew that this night would be very long, very long.

(To be continued.) )