PS: Between the strong, a qiē is easy to say

Volume II, Chapter 43

The military doctor cut the wound on Chen Song's calf with a knife, took out the arrow with tweezers, and made sure that the arrow was not poisonous.

Although there was no direct evidence, by the time the two wounded rangers returned, Zhu Lingshi had already determined that the ambush of the Xia soldiers was due to Wei Hua's rebellion. According to his habit of leading troops in the past, the more than 200 infantry who did not follow Guo Xu would eat military sticks even if they did not cut off their heads, but this time he just frowned and asked them to go to the city wall to guard. At this time, every soldier is precious, and neither the body nor the heart can be hurt.

He was ready to lose two thousand elite cavalry and two fierce generals, so when Chen and Guo actually returned with nearly a thousand cavalry and one hundred and ten infantry, that kind of surprise was something he had never tasted in his life.

But the joy soon passed, and the great anxiety flattened everyone.

What will Xia Jun do next?

Zhu Lingshi hoped that the Xia army would attack the city immediately, because this would mean that Liu Yizhen's side would be safer. Liu Yizhen brought more than 10,000 elite soldiers, and the commanders were all fierce generals, and the Huns wanted to eat this army, and I am afraid that many people would die. Instead of being weakened and then attacking the city, it is better to attack the city directly.

As if to enlist his thoughts, just after lunch, a continuous sound of trumpets and drums sounded outside the city.

The Hun army descended on the city.

Zhu Lingshi settled Chen Song and took Guo Xu and Hu Lu to the top of the city. At this time, it was reported that there were Xia soldiers outside the four gates, and although their strength was not enough to besiege Chang'an, the rangers sent to the east early in the morning had been blocked out. The news from Liu Yizhen's side was cut off.

In front of Zhu Lingshi's eyes was a sea of armor and weapons. The Huns in the north of the city measured tens of thousands. Divided into ten thousand teams. There was a squad closest to the wall, and behind them were three. In the back were five, and at the back there was a huge chariot with a tent on it, and the knight's armor around the cart was brighter, presumably where Helian Bo was driving.

Between the 3rd and 5th Wings, there was a tall rushing cart with a big drum on it, and some people waved flags of various colors to direct the advance and retreat of the three armies. That's the former enemy commander-in-chief. At this time, the man made a move with two small red flags, and the more than 10,000 Huns in the north of the city let out a shout, and the troops in the east and south of the city and the west of the city spread their voices in turn, as if a burst of rolling thunder circled around Chang'an. The veterans on the city walls were fine, and the newly recruited homeless recruits were already shaking their legs and their throats and eyes were dry.

Zhu Lingshi looked at it for a while and knew that the Xia army had no intention of attacking the city, because all the cavalry who came did not bring a siege equipment, such as ladders, rushing cars, and battering rams. Nothing to see. But he immediately thought that Helian Bobo had no intention of sacrificing his manpower for the siege, and he was waiting for the melons to ripen. Immediately send an order, as long as the Huns do not climb the city wall, the city will not move. Do not fire an arrow or throw a stone.

After a short silence, a small group of cavalry came out of the Hun army, all dressed in heavy armor. With a large shield, the horse also wore armor. Only the mouth, nose, eyes, and half of the leg are exposed. Walking to the bottom of the city, someone shouted to the city in Chinese:

"Brothers of the Jin Army, listen. Someone is talking to you! ”

A man came out, wrapped like an iron silkworm:

"Brothers, I'm Wei Hua, I'm here to show you a way out!"

There was an immediate commotion in the city, and everyone leaned down to take a closer look at the battlements.

Sure enough, it was him!

Although Zhu Lingshi had already prepared Wei Hua to join the enemy, when he really saw this person coming out of the enemy camp, he was still so excited by the anger gushing in his stomach that his face was full of hideousness, his eyes were on fire, and he almost felt dizzy, one hand subconsciously clenched his sword, and his boots unconsciously stomped on the ground, as if they were about to give birth to wings, hold up their master and fly down, and a sword turned out to be a shameless traitor who could be punished by this person.

Wei Hua obviously knew the thoughts of the people in the city, and at this moment he was riding on his horse and looking up at his comrades in the past:

"General Zhu Lingshi, brothers, Wei Hua sold his life with Liu Yu for so many years, and was finally thrown by him in Chang'an to fend for himself. Think about it, Liu Yu wants to usurp the throne and pacify Jiangdong, how can he be willing to send a soldier to the rescue. There was not much grain in Chang'an City, and half of it had to be taken away by Liu Yizhen; In the middle of winter, the firewood was cut off again, and everyone said how to defend this city? Instead of being martyred for Chang'an, it is better to listen to my advice, those who are willing to be loyal to Daxia, Your Majesty loves talents, and will never be stingy with official positions! Those who are willing to return to Jiangdong will be entangled in Daxia and will not be blocked. All you have to do is open the gates, and you're all right! ”

The city was silent.

In Wei Hua's vision, this is the first step in the wavering of will. When he was in the city, he had actually heard civil and military officials privately discuss the situation in Chang'an, and what he just said was just something that everyone wanted to say but did not say publicly. Now that the Hun army is pressing the border, and the city of Chang'an is descending at dusk, such a voice will become stronger, eroding the will of the defenders from the inside.

It's just that he forgot one thing: many words in this world, his own people say it's one thing, the enemy says it's another thing, and his own people help the enemy say it's another thing; It's one thing to talk about it, it's one thing to do it, it's another thing to help the enemy do it; It's one thing to say it on the wine floor, it's another thing to say it on the battlefield, and it's another thing to transfer what is said on the wine floor to the battlefield and say it for the enemy.

Before Zhu Lingshi opened his mouth to scold, a gust of sound suddenly rolled up in the city, which was the dirtiest words used by the soldiers guarding the city to greet Wei Hua's "son of a" and several generations of ancestors. Almost at the same time, Zhu Lingshi's ban was automatically broken, and I don't know how many people fired bows and arrows at Wei Hua, and the dense arrows hit his heavy armor, making a piercing clanging sound. The Hun knights on the side immediately surrounded him, intending to hug Wei Hua back.

Hu Luzheng jumped on the battlement, drew his bow, took aim, and let out a crisp chord sound. Just as Wei Hua was about to be wrapped in perfection, Hu Luzheng's arrow passed through the last gap before closing, and hit Wei Hua's mount in the calf. The horse neighed, and one of them fell to the ground, knocking Wei Hua to the ground, and his helmet rolled off the side. Perhaps fearing that the second arrow would hit him in the head, he quickly covered his head with both hands. However, at this time, he had been strictly protected by the Hun knights. A group of people moved back to the big formation amid the laughter of the Jin army in the city. Leave a slumped and screaming horse in the clearing.

Hu Luzheng jumped off the battlement:

"It's a pity for the horse!"

The people on the city walls forgot about the great crisis for a moment and immersed themselves in the pleasure brought by this arrow.

And then. They heard a low drum beat.

The Hun general on the car drew an arc with a small blue flag, and the Hun officers and soldiers instigated their mounts. Turning away, more than 40,000 horses' hooves struck a soul-shattering thunder on the hard ground.

The Jin army in the city looked at each other, not believing that one arrow was enough to retreat the enemy.

Sure enough, about a mile or so, another drum sounded a flag. The Xiongnu army stopped turning around and faced Chang'an. After a brief silence, the first thousand-man detachment, which had regained its form from the end of the formation, suddenly rode its horses, rushed to the wall with the sound of hooves, and suddenly turned to the left when it was about fifty paces from the moat. The knights fired arrows at the head of the city as they galloped, and the dense arrows swept towards the head of the city like the wind, and many flew over the walls and landed in the city. The eight thousand-strong teams that followed followed did the same, and in less than a stick of incense, tens of thousands of fierce arrows had been shot at the north wall of Chang'an City.

Zhu Lingshi ordered the officers and soldiers to hide and not have to fight back. As long as you hide behind the battlement, the arrows flying from this angle will not hurt anyone.

But he could see that the recruits were already faceless.

Nine thousand-man teams have demonstrated. The city suddenly played a big drum music, and it was magnificent. Zhu Lingshi straightened up and looked at the cart with a tent in the distance just now. Already under the escort of the Guards cavalry, slowly drove over.

Helian Bo is here.

This person's name shocked Huayi, and he relied on an iron fist that is rare in the world to build an iron-clad Tongwan City. Tempered a fierce Xiongnu army, I had only heard the name before, and today I finally had to face each other.

The cart didn't seem to care that there were bows and arrows on the walls. I actually walked all the way to the edge of the moat.

Everyone on the walls held their breath.

The curtain of the tent was lifted.

The person who came out was not wearing armor, only a long black coat and a black fur hat. In the middle is a fair-skinned face.

Zhu Lingshi forgot for a moment that this was on the battlefield, and almost let out a sigh of admiration. Koto is known as a prosperous character. Some are elegant and elegant Yushu high-ranking sons, but compared with the Hun emperor in front of them, they all look rough. I really can't imagine how such a handsome and delicate face can calm the fierce and unruly northern nomadic tribe!

Standing on the cart, Bo Bo asked slowly and clearly:

"Who of you is Zhu Lingshi?"

Zhu Lingshi suddenly felt that although he was standing on the city wall, he actually looked shorter than Bo Bo. He leaned out of the battlement and waved at Bo Bo:

"I am, are you Helian Bobo?"

Bo nodded his head:

"General Zhu, it's very tiring for us to talk like this, you might as well go out and talk to me."

Zhu Lingshi was stunned for a moment, glanced at the people around him, everyone shook their heads and waved their hands. Then I heard a burst of laughter:

"General Zhu, you destroyed Shu and broke Qin, how can you be so stingy! You're worried that I'm going to take advantage of the city, aren't you? I don't even wear armor, just to show good faith in negotiations. You have a marksman on your wall, and if I make a move, I can be killed with one arrow, what do you have to worry about? ”

Zhu Lingshi's face flushed, and he was determined to go down for a while.

Hu Luzheng said why do you want to do more, I'll shoot him. He died, and it was no wonder that the Hun army did not disperse.

A strange force held down Zhu Lingshi and prevented him from sniping Bo Bo. The latter brought it lightly, with a kind of kingly grace, so that people could not act rashly, although they knew that this kind of kingly majesty was dyed with blood, including the blood of the soldiers of the Jin army. Zhu Lingshi asked himself, secretly feeling that the emperor of the Jin Dynasty was far less heroic than Bobo, even if Liu Yu came in person, in the face of Bobo, I am afraid that he will not be able to override his bearing. Moreover, since Bo Bo dared to do this, he must have already made arrangements, and killing him would not help the overall situation, but would only increase the hatred of the Huns and bring greater disaster to Chang'an.

He asked Hu Luzheng and more than a dozen hard crossbowmen to aim at Bo Bo in the city, and asked Guo Xu to lead people to prepare the door to rush the car, once the Huns showed signs of seizing the door, the city issued a crossbow, and the city was closed to the door, smashing its plan in one fell swoop.

Seeing the city gate open, Zhu Lingshi rode out alone, nodding vigorously. He stood on the car, Zhu Lingshi rode on the horse, and the two happened to be at eye level with each other.

"Liu Yizhen is gone, why doesn't the general follow, don't you know that there is a dead end to defend again?"

There was no threat in his tone, like an old friend. Zhu Lingshi knew that there was no need to be clever in front of such a smart person. It is to say bluntly:

"Ling Shi was ordered by Song Gong, and he was not exhausted. Will not give up Chang'an! ”

Bo Bo nodded:

"What a mountain and water! I admire the courage of the general, but I don't look down on your pedantry either! You know there is no way out. You still have to defend here, even if you are not afraid of death, you have to think about your subordinates and the elders of Chang'an, for a city that is destined to be lost, with thousands of lives, is it worth it? ”

Zhu Lingshi straightened up on his horse:

"Since the Beifu soldiers came into the army, they have never succumbed without a fight, and Zhu Lingshi will not set this precedent!"

Helian Bobo smiled slightly:

"The general didn't expect that one would be perfected, and I would also fulfill you. I take my Chang'an, do you keep your decency? ”

Zhu Lingshi said that he would like to hear about it.

Bobo jumped out of the car and made a gesture, someone moved out two Hu beds from behind the car, he sat on one, and motioned for Zhu Lingshi to come and sit on the other. Zhu Lingshi hesitated slightly, jumped off the horse and walked over. One of Bobo's own soldiers came over and motioned for him to take off his sword, but he heard Bobo say don't move General Zhu's sword.

The two sat down on the Hu bed. Zhu Lingshi looked at Bobo's face carefully, and finally saw the corners of his mouth and the cold light in his eyes. But at this moment, his face is full of spring breeze, and it doesn't look like he is negotiating with an enemy general, but like catching up with an old friend:

"General Zhu. What I mean is this: since Liu Yizhen is gone, let him go, frankly. I had no interest in following him down. It's not that I can't clean him up, it's that I have two ideas. First. I don't want to completely offend your Song Gong, lest he contact Xianbei. attacked my Great Xia on two fronts and let his son go, he still has to admit this favor; Second, I don't want to compromise my forces in order to fight a worthless milky kid. I'm only interested in Chang'an. And this Chang'an has no meaning for you now. Liu Yu is about to become the emperor, and your northern border will reach the sky when you reach the Yellow River, Guanzhong has nothing to do with you, and Liu Yu has already thrown Chang'an away in his heart. What you want to discard is precisely what we are rare, why don't you have adult beauty? Why should people die for this? ”

Zhu Lingshi admitted in his heart that what Helian Bobo said was reasonable, but he couldn't show the slightest agreement on his face:

"So what do you want to do?"

Bo Bo wrapped his hands around the city, and then slowly released his fingers, revealing a gap:

"I withdrew the army a hundred miles, leaving the general for a day and a night. The general took advantage of this gap to lead people to withdraw from Chang'an and rush south, and I will never follow and kill! Even if I have this thought, if you join forces with Liu Yizhen, I won't be able to eat you. In this way, you will get out of the way, and I will get Chang'an, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds? Don't worry, I'm not a thief, I don't want to go to Chang'an to loot and never come back, but to try for long-term peace and stability, so I will never touch a single hair of the people of Chang'an! ”

Speaking of this, I suddenly remembered that Liu Yizhen had just plundered, and it seemed that he was ridiculing him as a thief, so he smiled apologetically, and said Don't blame the general, I don't want to mock your army.

Zhu Lingshi made a hundred thousand turns in his heart, and he had already turned Bo Bo's abacus over and over again, and quickly saw where it could be used, so he arched his hand to Bo Bo for the first time:

"Your Majesty, Zhu Lingshi understood. However, although I am the highest local governor, I still have to discuss with the civil and military officials and ask His Majesty to return to the camp. With the quasi-letter, I will send a messenger to inform His Majesty! ”

Bo Bo stroked his palms and laughed, saying that I knew that it would not be difficult to talk to someone who understood, so I would go back and wait for your news.

Zhu Lingshi got up and got on the horse, and suddenly remembered one thing:

"Is Your Majesty planning to reuse Wei Hua?"

Bo Bo smiled and said that you underestimate Bo Bo, this kind of person, will you reuse it if you change it?

Zhu Lingshi said that since he had already sued all the qiē, then he was also a waste. His Majesty said very well just now, Chang'an is a person who abandons me to take it, and this Wei Hua is now His Majesty's discard, but it is what we desire. If His Majesty has the sincerity to fulfill the contract, he might as well be a token and handed it over to us!

Bo Bo pondered for a long time, and slowly said I understand your thoughts, but if I hand him over to you right now, it seems that I am too unkind and unkind to kill donkeys.

Zhu Lingshi didn't say a word and didn't leave.

Bo Bo looked into his eyes and suddenly smiled;

"That's it, I don't want to upset the general for a rebellious minister and thief! I promise you, when your messenger returns to Chang'an, you can take Wei Hua away! ”

Zhu Lingshi bowed his hand to Bo Bo. Turn the horse's head and enter the city.

There is a way to live, but you need to step through the thorn bushes. His heart was heavier than ever. He's going to play a dangerous game. After that, he can return to Jiangdong to serve his old mother. Chen Song and Guo Xu can take their families to escape from the scourge of annihilation, and the soldiers left behind in Chang'an can be saved from slaughter. But if you don't play well, not only will all the chess pieces not survive, but even the chessboard will be shattered into powder.

Soon after Helian Bobo returned to the camp, the scouts sent to the Eastern Front brought back the latest news, and Liu Yizhen's marching speed was indeed expected. Bo Bo slowly drank a bowl of deer heart blood, walked to the map and looked at it for a long time. Thankfully, every qiē is what I wanted. According to the current situation, he can trap Liu Yizhen. can also take Chang'an City, as for the agreement with Zhu Lingshi, it is natural to speak and count, or how to call the emperor's Chrysostom? It's just that after fulfilling the contract, it depends on General Zhu's creation. If he can't escape, it's not because I'm so vigorous, but because he has a young master who has more than one defeat!

Ask someone to find Helian Bi.

After more than a year of training, this son is much more stable than in the past, but it seems today. is still not the material of the handsome in the field, and naturally it is not the prince's wishful choice. led tens of thousands of ambush soldiers, but he couldn't completely annihilate 2,000 enemy cavalry! Although the Beifu soldiers are fierce and good at fighting, if it weren't for his timidity. Moving without permission shakes the hearts of the army, how can you let the cooked duck fly away?

But a son is a son, and no matter how bad it is, he has to be given a chance. Otherwise, wouldn't it be a broken jar?

Helian didn't know if his father was going to blame him, so he came in and knelt down tremblingly. He didn't dare to raise his head, waiting for the moody father to suddenly pour out a dog's blood.

Unexpectedly, Bo Bo smiled and asked him to get up. He was handed a glass of warm wine.

"You don't have to bear the burden of today's loss, this little setback is nothing! But I'll have a long memory in the future; In the event of a strong enemy, the Chinese army must be steady, otherwise there will be no piece of armor left. I called you here today to change your mission. ”

Helian warmed his stomach, and felt his father's generosity, and his blood surged, saying that his father only had to give an order, and his son's ministers would be broken in this meeting, and they would never live up to their father's trust.

Bo Bo said that what I want is for the Jin army to be crushed to pieces, so you have to be as hard as a hammer this time. I have already promised Zhu Lingshi that our army will retreat a hundred miles, and give him one day and one night to withdraw from Chang'an and go south.

Helian was startled, looked up to say something, and when he saw his father's confident appearance, he swallowed his words back. Bo Bo pointed to the green clay area on the title map:

"Zhu Lingshi had nowhere to go out of Chang'an, so he could only go east to chase Liu Yizhen, hoping to join forces in one place. However, according to the current situation, when General Wang Maide broke Liu Yizhen, it happened to be the time when Zhu Lingshi rushed to the battlefield. General Wang is an anvil, and I need a hammer to smash Zhu Lingshi's department. ”

Helian Xuan's eyes lit up, and he looked at his father eagerly.

Bo Bo looked at his son gently:

"Originally, I said that I wanted you to prepare for me to enter the city, so I don't have to bother you, don't you hate Chen Song and Guo Xu to the core? Then go and make this hammer for the Father. ”

Helian prostrated again and again, saying that the sons must have used their heads to make drowning weapons for their father.

Helian Bo frowned:

"I don't like to pee in their heads! The country has expanded its territory, and you, as a prince, must cherish your talents. If it is really a rare good general, it is better to appease than to kill, it depends on whether you have this spell or not! ”

After sending Helian away from Helian Xuan, he looked at the map for a while, and he had no last resort, but ordered his own soldiers not to disturb anything except the messenger sent by the Jin army, and he wanted to sleep.

He slept until dark, and he had a daydream.

Above a sea, a red sun rose, and he was naked, standing on the back of a great fish, and sailed all the way to the red sun. Suddenly, dark clouds drifted in, as if to obscure the red sun. He was furious and said shoot down the clouds for me. Suddenly, there were countless Hun soldiers around him, all naked, all standing on the back of a fish. They fired thousands of arrows in unison, tearing apart the dark clouds and revealing the red sun again. He was about to give the order for the reward, when he heard the soldiers shout in unison:

"Long live General Yao Annihilation!"

He was so angry that he stomped his foot and woke up from his dream because of cramps, and when he opened his eyes, he saw his own soldier kneeling not far away. Seeing him wake up, the soldiers cautiously said that General Zhu Lingshi of the Jin Army had sent a messenger.

The envoy brought Zhu Lingshi's handwritten letter, to the effect that he agreed to the covenant under the city today, asking His Majesty the Emperor of Great Xia to withdraw his troops for a hundred miles, and the Jin army would send someone to monitor it, and please hand over Wei Hua.

Helian Bobo immediately ordered the withdrawal of his troops, and then asked his own soldiers to call Wei Hua over.

Wei Hua had already changed into the clothes of the Huns, and he looked very unaccustomed. When he entered, he first saw the Jin army messenger, who stared at him with angry eyes. He was slightly surprised, but could only press it first. Kneel down and kowtow to Bo Bo, saying that the minister Wei Hua knocked to see His Majesty.

Bo called him up and motioned for him to sit down:

"Wei Beijia is a reader, so he must know a little bit about interpreting dreams. I just had a dream, don't worry about it. ”

Wei Hua also knows nothing about the interpretation of dreams, but looking at the current battle situation and thinking about his ambitions, this dream is not difficult to solve:

"The minister thinks that this is a dream of great fortune, indicating that His Majesty wants to dominate the world!"

The Jin army messenger didn't say a word, and secretly gritted his teeth.

Bo Bo said, you say be careful.

Wei Hua arched his hand:

"Big fish, in fact, is the homonym of Dayu, His Majesty Xià stands on the back of the big fish with the true body of the Son of Heaven mixed Yuan, which means that His Majesty Xià wants to reign after Dayu. The Qiang and Han people are ancestors of Dayu, and for the Qiang people, it means that His Majesty is going to enter the main pass; For the Han people, it means that His Majesty wants to take the Central Plains. The red sun, the appearance of the Son of Heaven, His Majesty Xià directly into the red sun, indicating that not only the Huns are Dadanyu, but also the Son of Heaven of all ethnic groups in Huayi. Although there are dark clouds and they are shattered, it shows that even if there is a clown jumping off the beam, it will not stop the road to the throne! ”

Bo Bo listened to the eyebrows and danced, although he knew that under the troubled times, it would be good to be able to withstand the attack of the Xianbei people, let alone enter the Central Plains to reign over the world? But I didn't wear any sycophants, and I was still scratched by this dream.

After laughing, pull down your face:

"It's a pity that you can't share this world of mine. I promised you that I would let you be a driver in Yongzhou. But today, I have an appointment with your Yongzhou assassin General Zhu Lingshi, and I want to send you back. It seems that you can only be a don't drive in Dajin, and you can't be a don't drive in Daxia! I wanted to send you back alive, but I thought that you were due to Great Xia, and I couldn't bear to let you go back and be tortured, so I simply sent you a good death here! ”

Wei Hua was dumbfounded, he couldn't say a word, he only felt a heat between his legs, and a wave of shame came up, and when he looked down, his crotch was already wet.

Bo Bo didn't look at him either, and said to the Jin army messenger You see clearly, is he your don't drive Wei Hua?

The envoy is a battle-hardened master, and at this time, he has a lot of strength in his hand, and he can't wait to crush the wine glass in his hand:

"Yes, it's this beast, I recognize it when it's burned to ashes!"

Bo Bo said that's good, don't say that the Huns are looking for a substitute for the dead to fool you. Come!

A strong Hun man came in.

Bo said to behead the man on the spot.

Wei Hua was already slumped on the ground, but he didn't beg for mercy at all, because he opened his mouth wide, but he could only hiss like a snake.

The strong man pulled out the scimitar, stepped on Wei Hua's back, and made a slight gesture, the scimitar drew an arc, Wei Hua's head rolled to the side, and the Hun fur hat on his head fell off.

Bo Bo asked someone to find a skin, put the human head in it and handed it to the Jin envoy, and then called a master book, and dictated a list in front of the messenger:

"Yongzhou of the Jin Dynasty don't drive Wei Hua, in a high position, and have been favored by the monarch for a long time, but he is a traitor to the enemy, turning his back on his comrades, although he has contributed to the Great Xia, he is really not allowed in the world! All my subjects, take this as a lesson, those who are loyal to the king will be rewarded, and those who have two hearts will be killed! ”

The messenger is awe-inspiring.

He took Wei Hua's head, beat his horse out of the Hun camp, looked back at the Hun army that was preparing to pull out the camp, and thought to himself:

With a monarch like this, and a soldier like this, can Daxia not be able to Chang'an? (To be continued......)