Chapter 253: The Day of Blood and Tears
The girl looked at Li Guanqi for a long time with her sharp eyes, and finally seemed to choose to believe his words, only to hear her say: "I heard that today's saint is a genius of heaven, a Ming Monarch Holy Lord who has not been met in five hundred years, but how can you ...... How to ......"
This is obviously saying that Li Guanqi's actions do not conform to the norms of the Holy Lord of the Ming Monarch, Li Guanqi also felt a little embarrassed, touched his nose, laughed dryly twice and said: "The emperor is also a human being, what happened to the Holy Lord of the Ming Monarch?" I also grew up eating whole grains, and I also have seven emotions and six desires! ”
The girl looked Li Guanqi up and down carefully, suddenly fell to her knees, and said, "Concubine Lu Yuting knocks to see Your Majesty!" ”
"Concubine?" Li Guanqi frowned slightly, and said in a deep voice, "Are you the daughter of the eunuch?" ”
"The minister's father is Lu Zizhen, the general of Yuanzhou!" Lu Yuting said with a sob.
"So you're the daughter of General Lu?" Li Guanqi said excitedly, "When I arrived with my troops that day, your father's department had all been martyred, and I heard afterwards that you were also there at that time, how did you escape?" ”
Lu Yuting slowly raised her head, her face was already covered with tears, and after a while, she slowly spoke: "That day ......"
After Lu Zizhen gave the final order to charge, he led the pioneer horse to gallop forward and killed more than ten Shannan soldiers who crossed the river in a row, but he himself was stabbed several times, and blood gushed out.
The remaining 300 soldiers are also Lu Zizhen's pro-army, all of them are warriors from a hundred, and they are the most combative force in General Yuanzhou's line, and now they are a fierce charge that is not afraid of death, and they also suppressed the momentum of the Shannan army for a while, and retreated slightly.
But how many of the Shannan troops who have crossed the river are ten times as large as theirs? The drive was endless, and soon a melee formed. Lu Zizhen's troops were outnumbered and suffered heavy casualties. Caught in a siege. Lu Zizhen was even surrounded by dozens of spearmen of the Shannan Army, and the situation was extremely dangerous.
Just when Lu Zizhen's mount was pierced by two spears, he himself was thrown to the ground, and his life was on the verge of death. Suddenly hearing the sound of horses' hooves behind him, the Shannan Army screamed again and again, and the soldiers of the Shannan Army who surrounded Lu Zizhen looked back in shock. But I saw a female general with a heroic posture, killing all the way, the two mandarin duck swords in her hands flew up and down, and wherever she passed, no one stopped her move, it was Lu Yuting.
Seeing Lu Yuting's bravery, the remaining cadres were greatly encouraged, roared in unison, and fought bravely again. Although the Shannan army was overwhelming, it could not support it for a while, and they were defeated and retreated. The officers and men of the Great Cadre Army were even more energetic, shouting and shouting wildly, pressing step by step, and slowly forcing the Shannan Army to the riverside again.
Seeing that the enemy's ninth attack was about to be repulsed again, and the reinforcements led by Emperor Qianwei Li Guanqi were not far away, Lu Zizhen's heart couldn't help but feel slightly wider. It doesn't seem necessary to be wiped out.
At this moment, suddenly the sound of hind hooves sounded. A group of senior sergeants looked back in surprise, only to see a group of cavalry galloping forward, led by a man with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, a silver armor, a fiery red robe, and a gold-backed big ring knife. He carried an iron bow on his back.
"It's Cao Shixun's son Cao Pengxiang!" Lu Zizhen said in surprise, "Cao Shixun's reinforcements still arrived. Looks like I'm still wrong about him! ”
Cao Pengxiang rode his horse to the front, suddenly stuck the knife upside down on the ground, shook his hand and took off the iron bow on his back, and took out the wolf's tooth arrow from the beast pot. Drew the bow cleanly.
Lu Zizhen looked at Cao Pengxiang in surprise, his eyes were full of doubts, because he found that the direction that Cao Pengxiang was aiming at was his chest!
"Whoosh!" The wolf's tooth arrow flew out with a roar......
"Daddy! Be careful! Lu Yuting exclaimed and reminded.
But it was already too late, the wolf tooth arrow had already shot deep into Lu Zizhen's chest, and he was choking with blood in his mouth, and roared angrily: "Why? ”
Cao Pengxiang didn't answer, but took the bow and arrow again! His knights also mounted their bows and arrows, and they were aiming in the same direction as the soldiers of Daqian.
Arrows rained down, screams arose, blood splashed, and these brave men did not die under the enemy's sword, but died under the arrows of their own people.
Looking back on the troops who fought bloodily and suffered casualties, Lu Zizhen knew that the general trend had gone. At the end of the hero, the sadness suddenly came to his heart, and he looked up to the sky and sighed: "The saint trusts me with the major affairs of the river defense, but I am incompetent and unable to keep the Wujiang defense line, what face does I still have standing between heaven and earth?" ”
Lu Yuting was shocked, struggled to push away a few arrows that came over, turned around and shouted: "Dad, stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of no firewood." Let's hurry up and break through, go to meet the saint, and tell him about the things here! Let him call the shots for us! ”
Lu Zizhen's hair was raised, and he shouted: "I received a death order from the saint, hold the Wujiang defense line at all costs, I can fight to the death, but I must not escape!" Kill your brethren quickly, that you may avenge me in the future. ”
Lu Yuting cried: "Dad, let's go together, let's die together." ”
Lu Zizhen said angrily: "Nonsense! This is a military order, who dares not to obey? Lu Kai, you protect Miss leave, go quickly! ”
Lu Kai is Lu Zizhen's lieutenant general, but he doesn't know what to do when he hears the words, it stands to reason that the military order cannot be disobeyed, but at this time, wouldn't it be a shameless coward to leave the main general and flee?
Seeing that the retreating Shannan army began to counterattack again, Lu Zizhen was shocked and anxious, and shouted: "Ting'er, it's too late if you don't leave." Waiting for the father to die in vain! After speaking, he raised the giant sword in his hand, reflexively greeted it, and fought the enemy with great strength, and the Shannan army was frightened by his brave actions, and no one dared to approach for a while.
Seeing her father's figure gradually being drowned by the rebels, Lu Yuting couldn't help but mourn in her heart, and her eyes were full of tears. She understands her father's thoughts very well, the Lu family was loyal and good in the era, and since she accepted the holy decree to defend the Wujiang defense line, her father, as the main general, would never choose to escape. In fact, everyone, including her, was ready to die together. It's just that now the situation has changed abruptly, His Majesty's reinforcements will arrive soon, and the rebels who crossed the river can also be repulsed, but they were suddenly plotted by their own people. How can this grievance be swallowed?
Lu Yuting has the intention to stay and live and die with her father, but she also understands that if she doesn't leave now, her father will die in vain, and who knows how he died in the future? Who can avenge these unjust deaths?
Thinking of this, Lu Yuting endured the severe pain in her heart and evacuated the battlefield with Lu Kai and more than ten other people.
Lu Zizhen recalled that his daughter had gone away, his heart was relieved, his eyes were full of tears, the giant sword in his hand hung down, he was so tired that he wanted to rest. More than a dozen spears stabbed at each other, but Lu Zizhen turned a blind eye.
The blood splashed, the blood flowed out, and the robe was stained, but Lu Zizhen's body was standing...... At this scene, even the Shannan Army was moved, and for a while, no one stepped forward, and they forgot to chase after Lu Yuting, who fled.
But the fact that the Shannan Army does not chase does not mean that there are no other pursuers...... (To be continued......)