Chapter 0087 - Funeral
After more than an hour of fierce fighting, Lu Fei basically didn't have any battle here, and the defenders of the Liao army didn't react at all, and they didn't know what happened to see that the forbidden army had rushed into the city, and they didn't know how many people came. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The fire in Dongcheng has illuminated half of the city, and Cao Keming only took half an hour to repel the granary guards, but there are only more than 500 people, dry air, in the early spring, the fire can not be stopped at all, the fire quickly spread, and even many houses around the granary were burned to the ground, and I don't know how many people died in the fire.
After a while, I saw Tie Hammer leading more than a dozen forbidden troops back to Nancheng, everyone didn't say anything when they met, no one felt good, and Shengsheng threw two thousand brothers in Wuzhou City, who didn't feel heartache.
"Someone!" Lu Fei called the herald: "Clean up the streets and clear a way for the brothers in Dongcheng to survive." ”
Look at the fire in the direction of the east city has been burning for an hour, look up at the sky, the morning star in the east is rising, the battle has been going on for three hours, presumably this monstrous fire has already spread out for hundreds of miles, no accident, within two or three hours the Liao army iron cavalry will arrive.
When he was young, the people of Nancheng shouted that the horses were neighing, and Cao Keming had already killed back along the original road and joined forces with Lu Fei.
Lu Fei looked at the direction of Beicheng, waved his hand with difficulty, and said, "Withdraw!" ”
More than 6,000 forbidden troops quietly withdrew from the city, leaving behind 2,000 brothers in the northern city who were used to attract reinforcements from the Liao army.
This battle was fought suddenly, the loss of the forbidden army was not large, it came quickly, and it was also urgent, and when the sun was on the third pole, Lu Fei and others had already found a few people and ran out for more than 100 miles, and there were no chasing soldiers behind them, but from the spies from all sides, it was learned that the 30,000 cavalry of the Liao army had surrounded Wuzhou City at dawn, and the 2,000 people must have been more than lucky.
But in any case, burning nearly one million stone of military rations and horse feed in the Liao State, this achievement is brilliant and a great honor, in exchange for the lives of two thousand brothers.
Kill a thousand enemies, lose eight hundred, this account can be calculated by anyone, Lu Fei can't guarantee the lives of all the forbidden soldiers, he really understands why Dane was so hesitant before issuing the military order, it's really too difficult, one by one, fresh lives, came to this wild land in the north together, but were abandoned by his brothers, I am afraid that anyone who survives will hate Lu Fei to the core.
As a general on the battlefield, you have to endure as much scolding as you can accept as much glory as you can, and nothing can be perfect.
The way back was very smooth, until I arrived at the Song realm, I heard the spies who followed me to report that the Liao army was chasing, but it was too late at this time, and after crossing the Great Wall, it was the mountainous Luliang Mountains, and the army entered the mountains, and the cavalry of the Liao army had nothing to do.
Sure enough, the Liao army that was chasing with great momentum only pursued to the edge of the Great Wall and did not advance, without any operational deployment, the Liao army would not rush into the Song Dynasty to fight.
Along the Luliang Mountains and the Yellow River Ancient Road, Lu Fei slowed down and counted the results.
The important thing is that the Liao army's military rations and horse materials have all turned into ashes, and at the same time, it has broken the rumors that the Song army did not dare to go on a northern expedition, and it directly attacked the hinterland of the Liao State in one dozen.
It was four days after returning to Jinju after the battle, and as soon as he entered the city, he realized that the Japanese army had left, and Kou Zhun had already prepared all the necessary matters, just waiting for the arrival of the army.
When the army entered the city, the scene really had the feeling of 10,000 empty alleys, all the streets where the army walked were all covered with red and hung colors, and the joyful gongs and drums were even more deafening, the people of Jinzhou City crowded on both sides of the march, looking at the soldiers of the forbidden army who returned triumphantly, everyone was in admiration, how many years I only heard that the Liao people often came to 'threshing grass', this time they finally raised their eyebrows, and even someone in the crowd shouted 'the forbidden army is mighty' or something like that, and Lu Fei was so happy that he fell straight into the clouds.
Thanks to Kou Zhun's good organization, Lu Fei understood that Kou Zhun did this just to dilute the forbidden army's forbidden move of launching a military operation of 10,000 people without a holy decree, and the people's sentiment was surging, coupled with the genuine victory, it was impossible for the emperor to attack Lu Fei at this time.
This kind of huge welcome scene is not only in Jinzhou, Kou Zhun also arranged people everywhere to spread it, this kind of thing does not need the emperor's secret agent to report to the palace, and the whole city will know about it in less than five days.
Lu Fei's name spread like a plague in Jinju as the center, and now who doesn't know that there is a general in the forbidden army who once invaded the hinterland of the Liao State and greatly promoted the national prestige of the Great Song Dynasty.
The army is still repairing in Jinju for the time being, and Lu Fei passed down the military order, all the materials sent by the common people as rewards will be accepted, so that the soldiers can live happily for a day, and tomorrow they will go to chase Li Jilong's brigade.
In the evening, the gentry and businessmen of Jinju chartered a few restaurants in the city to reward the soldiers of the three armies.
At the banquet, the Jinzhou officials and the local tycoons took turns to get close to Lu Fei and have a fight, because the fool also knew that such a great merit would be followed by a great reward, and it would be considered slow, of course, if these people knew that Lu Fei was sending troops without a will, then seeing Lu Fei would definitely be far away like seeing a plague.
After the banquet, the generals of the forbidden army were hazy and faltering, and they were so happy that they couldn't find the north, but the show was not over, and many rich people invited a lot of beautiful girls from the green building in the city, saying that the generals had worked hard and made great achievements, and they wanted these ladies to serve well, and some of the generals didn't dare to bear it, but they saw Lu Fei leave the sedan chair with left and right hugs, so everyone took it all with peace of mind.
This night was really a song and a swallow dance, the lights were bright and green, and the soldiers who had just shed blood on the battlefield were sweating in the spring boudoir, all of them were very comfortable, and soon, as soon as the day dawned, the reputation of the forbidden army plummeted.
At the end of the day, Lu Fei rubbed his temples and woke up from his sleep, the warm quilt was fragrant, and his smooth chest was on the left and right with the white and tender jade arms on both sides, thinking of the madness of last night, but he was still unsatisfied, but this room was a little strange, and he found a random inn last night when he was half drunk and half awake, and he came in, and he didn't know where.
Bang Bang Bang!
There was a knock on the door.
The two beautiful girls lying next to Lu Fei frowned slightly in their dreams, turned over and continued to sleep.
"Who!" Lu Fei shouted casually.
"Big brother, it's me, and Master Kou is also there." It was Cao Keming's voice.
Lu Fei snorted, raised his hand to lift the quilt, revealing the two smooth jade bodies inside, he reached out and slapped each of them lightly, and said, "Get up, where did you get dressed?" ”
The three of them got dressed, and after the second daughter left, Cao Keming and Kou Zhun walked in.
Yes......
Lu Fei picked up last night's herbal tea on the table and rinsed his mouth, pushed open the window, spit it out, and asked casually, "Mr. Kou, are you ready?" ”
Kou Zhun said: "We are assembling, and we can leave Jinzhou within an hour." ”
Lu Fei nodded, took the winter coat handed over by Cao Keming, dressed it neatly, and said, "Well, have you written the report for the official family and Li Jilong?" ”
Kou Zhun took out two book folds from his cuffs and said, "It's already ready, will you send it now?" ”
Lu Fei said: "How to write, say I'll listen." ”
Kou Zhun said: "Because the Liao people repeatedly violated the border, the staff was commanded by the Japanese army to make Li Jilong order to patrol the border for three days, but because the route outside the fortress was unknown, so that he lost his way and strayed into the hinterland of the Liao State outside the city of Wuzhou. ”
Lu Fei raised his brows when he heard this, and snorted and said, "Okay, just write it here, Mr. Kou, who knows me, just send it like this." ”
Cao Keming was a little worried: "Will this Bianliang believe it?" ”
Kou Zhun laughed and said, "If you don't believe it, who will." ”
Cao Keming glared, even more flustered, and said hurriedly: "That's not bullying. ”
Lu Fei frowned and tilted his chin and said: "Look at you, the sky is falling, Li Jilong is on top, I am on top, it's not your turn to cut off your head, besides, Lao Tzu won the battle, why cut me." ”
Kou Zhun hurriedly smiled and arched his hand: "Congratulations to General Lu for his victory, and he will be promoted to the rank of knight!" ”
When the three of them walked out of the inn, Tie Hammer and Luo Cheng, Zhang Jiang and some brothers of the First Army rushed over, and the group rode a high-headed horse and walked on the street and was heading towards the barracks, and the pedestrians on the road could see that this was the general of the forbidden army who entered the city yesterday, but among the pedestrians, there was no such cheering as yesterday, on the contrary, they were still whispering there, pointing from time to time.
Kou Zhun hit his horse and came to Lu Fei's side, and laughed quietly: "General, look at it, we have been poked in the back." ”
Lu Fei didn't care, and said with a smile: "It might be better to scold more intensely, ah, haha." ”
The two laughed in unison.
The brothers behind were puzzled, and they all urged their horses to follow them.
Luo Cheng wondered: "Big brother, we finally worked hard to earn some people's reputation, and we were ruined by you overnight, as soon as I got up in the morning, I heard that there were brothers in the army talking about it, saying, you said that you are greedy for money and lustful, what is this." ”
Lu Fei turned his head to look at the brothers, raised his eyebrows, and said with a smile: "Yes, it's very fast." ”
Tie hammered behind him and smiled: "Hehe, good things don't go out, bad things spread thousands of miles." ”
Lu Fei laughed and did not answer.
The brothers were even more confused, and they all set their eyes on Kou Zhun.
Kou Zhun was also leisurely, and said: "Let me tell you a story, when the Tang Dynasty was founded, Tang Gaozu sent Li Shimin, the king of Qin, to quell Wang Shichong's rebellion, fought in Luoyang, Shichong was invincible, and asked for help from Dou Jiande, but I didn't know that the two were obtained by Li Shimin at the same time, dedicated to Chang'an, Gaozu killed and rewarded, the notorious Wang Shichong was rewarded, but Dou Jiande, who won the hearts of the people, was executed, do you say that Tang Gaozu did right or wrong? ”
Everyone looked at each other, looked at each other, and suddenly burst out laughing.
Lu Fei also turned his head at this time and said with a smile: "This is the so-called gentleman's 'Sun Bin Zhiwei' plan, drive!" ”
The crowd galloped and disturbed the people.
**
Bianliang, Dane Mansion.
Early in the morning, Dai Xiong, who had been tossing and turning on Hua Gu for a night, had just woken up from his dream, when he heard the noise in the house, and the door of the room was slammed by Uncle Liu.
Dane scolded and opened the door in his cloak, but saw Liu Bo crying, his voice was choked, and he trembled: "Young master, someone from the palace has passed the decree, saying that the master is on the front line and died on the front line...... Before the words were finished, the person had already knelt down with Dane's legs.
"What?" Dai Xiong looked dazed, pulled Lao Liu Bo up from the ground, and said hurriedly: "What are you talking about?" ”
Uncle Liu burst into tears and cried: "The master is dead, in Sanchuankou, the palace attendant is in the front hall, and the lady has passed out, young master, oops, general!" ”
Dai Xiong stood stunned, his body swayed, and the clothes he was wearing slipped quietly.
The flower girl who was shrunk in the quilt curled up, not daring to move, and the flower was discolored.
Dai's mansion has become a mess of porridge, busy welcoming the holy decree, busy setting up a mourning hall for Dane, after Dane's death, the official family gave Dai Xiong a false position, which can be regarded as a heavenly grace, but not many people know that Dane has actually been in the calculations of the Zhao Guan's family for a long time, even if he did not die on the front line, he had to die in front of the king, which was a fate that he could not escape.
The mourning hall is a simple arrangement, listen to the waiter, the Northwest War, the Song army won a complete victory, Dai's body is being transported back from the front line, Dai Xiong spent all day drinking, never asked about the family, now everything is on him, suddenly he seems to have changed a person, kneeling alone in the garden, a few hours without saying a word, from time to time in the backyard from a burst of heart-rending crying, he knows, it is his mother is crying, it is his father's concubines crying.
The sunset spread on the cold ground in the garden, the cold through the bones drilled straight into Dai Xiong's legs, his legs had lost sensation, he suddenly became confused, everything in the family was his father in Zhang Luo, he only had to stretch out his hand to ask for money and things, and he was looking for fun in Bianliang City all day long, crazy and dark, and now, the sky suddenly fell, and his father died.
A slight sound of footsteps came slowly, and Hua Gu and her daughter Qiao'er, who were wearing white flowers in their ears, walked over slowly, and Qiao'er was holding a cup of steaming tea in her hand.
Hua Gu has been coming to Dai Mansion for more than ten days, and was arranged to do things in Dai En's room, one morning a few days ago, she waited for Dai Xiong to get up, but he pulled him into the quilt, don't look at Dai Xiong is only twenty years old, but he has the same body as his father, Hua Gu wants to be difficult to follow, and it may be possible to live a better life if she can get the favor of the young master in Dai Mansion, and she can make her daughter live happily, Hua Gu obeyed.
"Young Master!" Xiao'er is already twelve years old, and she knows a little about life and death, with sympathy on her little face, she held the tea in front of Dai Xiong, and whispered: "Young master, drink tea!" ”
Dane's eyes were a little glazed, and he turned his head slowly, glanced at Qiao'er, and didn't say a word.
Hua Gu is seven or eight years older than Dai Xiong, and she has had a skin-to-skin relationship with him, and when she saw him kneeling here for a long time, she couldn't help but feel a trace of reluctance in her heart, and said timidly: "Young master, it's cold on the ground, get up, the front yard, several ladies in the front yard are waiting for you." ”
Dai Xiong snorted and said with a wry smile: "Wait for me, it's not me who is waiting, what I'm waiting for is how I divide the family property, my father's corpse hasn't arrived home yet, and these aunts are clamoring to split the family, I really saw it." ”
Hua Gu doesn't quite understand what is going on in the deep house, she is already Dai Xiong's person, if a woman hands over her body, her heart will definitely follow him, at this moment, one of her dearest people is her daughter, and the other is the young master, although the young master may not take himself seriously at all.
Hua Gu muttered: "Young master, don't be too sad, the eldest lady is still unconscious, you still have to make up your mind about the big and small things in this family, Uncle Liu asked if he would send someone to greet the master's coffin, saying that he had already arrived in Lanzhou." ”
Dai Xiong's face was pale, he took Hua Gu's hand, and stood up with difficulty, he suddenly remembered one thing, a few days ago, the capital was suddenly under martial law, and the six departments and Jiuqing all entered the palace, saying that something happened on the front line, could it be that at that time the palace knew that his father died on the front line? But why didn't you come to report the funeral until today, what happened in the army?
Thinking of this, Dai Xiong brushed off his aunt's hand and rushed to the front yard, Liu Bo was busy arranging the mourning hall with a group of family members in the front yard, and the entire Dai Mansion was white and desolate.
"Young Master, where are you going?" Liu Bopest shouted with his cane.
Dai Xiong had already rushed out of the door and went straight to Tianbo Gate.