Chapter 331: Drawing a Corner of the Lonely City (2)

The sun is in the west, and the tall Tulou Mountain in the northwest of Shancheng rises a wave of evening haze.

Immediately afterwards, the horn sounded, and the people of Shancheng knew that it was the Tang Dynasty army that had gone out to train and returned to the city.

Because the city of Fan has not stopped, there are still many merchants passing through Shancheng on the ancient road of Tangbo, or stopping to stay. This isolated border city is still as prosperous as ever, or the sound of the horn in the morning and evening reminds people that the huge figure of war has been loomed.

Duan Mingzhen brought the meal. A large pot of roast lamb, a few Hu cakes, and a pot of wine. cut a piece of mutton with a knife and put it on Hu Sheng's mouth and said, "Ah Lang, how about tasting the mutton I roasted?" ”

He chewed it and said, "It's delicious." ”

"Can you catch up with the smell of roasting in those restaurants in Chang'an?"

"A hundred times stronger than what they baked."

Duan Ming really knew that he was praising her, and he wouldn't take it seriously, so he held his cheeks and asked, "What does Chang'an look like?" I haven't been there once. ”

"Chang'an City is very large, the walls are so high that you need to look up, and there are countless people living in it. It is possible that the people of Chang'an City can have more than half of Tuyuhun. There are also many beautiful houses, and the roads are also very wide, several as wide as Shancheng. ”

Regardless of friend or foe, Chang'an City is now almost the yearning of all the people around the Tang Dynasty, a dream-like existence.

"Ah Lang, I really want to go and see it. Do you want Chang'an? ”

"I also want to, but the Tang army is too hateful, and I don't take our people surnamed Zhaowu Jiu as the same thing, I will take revenge for this, but it's a pity that Li Jinxing escaped, otherwise when General Suhe caught him, I would go up and kick him in the head."

"But I heard that Prince Tang said the Hanhu family."

"Don't listen to him, let's drink."

"Yes, where is our home, I grew up in a poor family, and I fell in love with a young man, and then he married me, and I was happy to live a happy life, but then General Suhe valued me, so he killed him." In fact, with the arrival of Su Hegui's attack, Duan Ming's true state of mind has also changed more, and the balance in his heart is also shaking again and again. After following Su Hegui, you can enjoy glory and wealth, and your status is prominent. But Su Hegui is finally old. Although this Hu Sheng's status is a little shabby, he is young and golden, and he is also gentle to her, so he may not be a good candidate to accompany her for life.

Once Su and Gui conquered Shancheng, Hu Sheng would definitely die. What 10,000 people, Tuyuhun is a hundred people for the chief, and 10,000 people are the generals. How many 10,000 people will there be in Tuyuhun? Even if the prince of the Tang Dynasty is caught, it is impossible to make him a general. This businessman didn't know that he was with Su Hegui behind, but he heard and witnessed many things. With such a big credit, the praise of Po should take the lion's share, and the rest is plain and expensive, and then divide a small part evenly.

It would be good to be able to seal Hu Sheng as the commander of a thousand soldiers. What 10,000 people will! This is clearly to kill people and erase his merits after he succeeds. and he is Su Hegui's forbidden belly, before his face has not become old and decrepit, Su Hegui is really willing to give himself to Hu Sheng?

Hu Sheng heard it, but he didn't dare to answer, and he didn't believe it. Continuing to hide and seek, he avoided the topic and said, "Mingzhen, I will treat you well in the future." ”

Hu Sheng had made up his mind, Duan Ming really couldn't say any more, so he had to say, "Ah Lang, eat wine." ”

Pour him a glass of wine, be good to yourself, just treat him as a dewy marriage these days, be kind to him, and return it.

After a few glasses of wine, two big men broke in. Because there were many people with him this time, and these people were not treacherous, they had to buy a house in Shancheng, three in and three out, three houses on three sides, Su Hegui's subordinates lived in the front two rows of houses, and he and Duan Mingzhen lived in the back house.

One of the two people who came was named Murong Zhi, and the other was Su and Yousui, who were He Sugui's cronies. But then again, two hundred strong men were sent this time, and that one was not Su Hegui's cronies, not only Su Hegui's cronies, but all of them were very clever, including some people in secret, otherwise they would not have been allowed to go deep into Shancheng City alone.

He saluted, but he was not very respectful to Hu Sheng, but he was very polite to Duan Mingzhen, who was wearing a green embroidered thin silk skirt. Murong Zhi said: "Tonight, the general is going to attack Shancheng. ”

"That's great." Hu Sheng stood up happily.

The two looked at each other for a moment, and they didn't see anything unusual on Hu Sheng's face, and nodded to each other. This was intentionally notified to Hu Sheng, in order to make a final confirmation. If something is wrong, the attack is immediately aborted.

"Then don't bother the two," Su Heyou owed a body and retreated with Murong Zhi. Before the Tang Dynasty army closed the city gates, the news was sent out.

Duan Mingzhen's heart was even more entangled, Hu Sheng didn't know what he thought, but he stood in his position and thought about it, if Tang Jun was notified at this time, there was still room for redemption, and once the Tuyuhun people came, everything would be a foregone conclusion.

So he said: "Actually, when I was a child, my family was very hard, and my clan was very thin. ”

The Duan clan is also a big clan in Tuyuhun, but like the Tuoba party, they are not together, and they are also divided into several tribes, some large and some small.

"At that time, I was not very sensible, married him, he, after him, he always felt that time was very happy. Or, after marrying you, I will be happy too. I still don't know much about the rules of the Central Plains, although I learned from the Central Plains and changed my husband to Ah Lang, I don't know that the relationship between her and Hu Sheng is not called marriage, but acceptance: "Ah Lang, who else is there in your family?" ”

"There are also mothers and aunts in the house, as well as a few younger brothers."

"If you defect to General Suhe, will it affect your family?"

"I don't know."

"I really want to go to Chang'an with you......"

"Don't talk nonsense," this sentence was too clear, Hu Sheng immediately stood up to stop it, but his tone softened again, took her hand and said: "Mingzhen, don't worry, I will let you live a happy life for the rest of your life." ”

Duan Ming really ignored him.

While the two were playing with their hearts, the pace of war finally approached.

Li Wei asked Xue Ne, "Has any of their people left Shancheng?" ”

"There's a guy named Su and You, who just got out of town."

"Okay, close the gates, and begin."

With the sound of cymbals, the gates on both sides of Shancheng slowly closed. But it didn't end there, and groups of soldiers rushed out.

There was a knock on the door of Hu Sheng's house, and the porter looked at the dozens of neatly armed Tang soldiers outside, and asked suspiciously: "How many military masters, what are you doing?" ”

"Ordered for a routine check."

Routine inspection, the porter didn't care, while sending someone to inform Hu Sheng, the door was opened, and the leading lieutenant still said expressionlessly: "Take out your papers, and all the people will gather in the courtyard." ”

"Huh," Hu Sheng responded, Murong Zhi didn't care about them, before they came, Hu Sheng had completed all the formalities for them, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to enter Shancheng. Standing up one by one, Hu Sheng took the paperwork over the office, the captain took it in his hand, but he squeezed a look, and the two guards strode up and stopped Hu Sheng behind him, and then shouted: "Catch!" ”

Murong Zhi and them are not easy to mess with, but at this time, with their bare hands, how can they be the opponents of this group of Tang soldiers who are like wolves and tigers, and as soon as a few of them resisted, they were immediately slashed in the courtyard by Tang Bing. Duan Ming was so frightened that he screamed.

Hu Sheng said in a low voice: "This woman is my concubine. ”

"I know, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince specially ordered it, and said that your kid is not shallow," this captain haha, he is one of the guards of the Qibi Department under Li Wei. Collect your heart, 20,000 soldiers of the Qibi Division, it is precisely because of these 100 guards who defend Li Wei's safety day and night that all of them really care for Li Wei. patted his shoulder again and said, "After the arrest, Your Highness has invited you to come over and talk about it." ”

"Thank you, Your Highness."

Murong Zhi's face changed greatly, and his two elbows were tied with ropes, but he couldn't help but scold: "You ungrateful fellow, have you forgotten how our general treated you?" ”

He held his chin with a horizontal knife and said, "Don't pull it! If your general really respects Hu Sheng, do you dare to slack off Hu Sheng these days? 10,000 generals, how many 10,000 people are there in Tuyuhun? Pull it down! ”

He turned around again and said to Hu Sheng, "Go and meet His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

Hu Sheng came to Duan Mingzhen hesitantly and said, "I lied to you, but if you want to see Chang'an, I will take you to see Chang'an in a few days." ”

Duan Mingzhen didn't answer angrily, but still followed Hu Sheng to meet Li Wei, Li Wei didn't say anything, looked at Hu Sheng ambiguously, and then looked at Duan Mingzhen, who was secretly looking at him with a pair of wonderful eyes, and said: "I want to see it, look at it generously, Lone is the same as you, with two eyes, a mouth, and a nostril." ”

Duan Ming was really happy, Hu Sheng tugged at her skirt and said, "Don't be rude." ”

"Hu Sheng, don't be restrained. You've done a great job this time, but you can't reward it yet. You will not be rewarded until after the war, when the battle report of the lone general is reported to the court. Well, I forgot one thing, congratulations to you for being a beautiful girl, this is a piece of jade pendant that you carry with you as a gift. ”

"The minister doesn't dare to be."

"Yes, but you sit down first to suppress the shock, Lone still has affairs to do." Saying that, he left. There are many things, and they will capture all the fine works found in the city one by one, and then order all the people in the city and the merchants who are temporarily staying to let them carry their homes or valuable belongings with them. Then go to the two large warehouses in the south and north of the city.

These two places have been designated as warehouses for a long time, and after Li Jinxing arrived, they were expanded again. After Li Wei arrived, he expanded it again. However, there were a lot of supplies inside, especially gunpowder, so it was heavily guarded. In fact, Li Wei played a small trick and spent some effort to transport bags of clay from the rear at any cost, which seemed to be transporting a large amount of grain and grass materials. Actually, no. Then use clay to secretly build these two large warehouses into two cities within a city.

Or the Tibetan scouts also saw it, but they definitely couldn't remember it. The warehouse is heavy, and it is normal to build a tall wall. It's far away, otherwise you can see something wrong. Therefore, this piece of news, Su Hegui never expected.

Nor can they be moved out of the city. Because of the harassment of the war, there are not many people in the city, most of them are soldiers, but there are also many people who move to the rear and attract attention as soon as they leave the city. But this time, many people were reluctant and noisy. But Xue Ne said: "There will be tens of thousands of Tibetan troops tonight. ”

All silent.

The night began to lower the curtain heavily, and the heavens and the earth were immediately darkened......