"That's good, that's good, but it scares my sister, let's go, since I have to do it to the end, I'll have a class with the students on the first day today." That Cao Duanconcubine flashed her hand and slapped her chest and said.

All the women rushed in, the women's college officially opened, the sound of reading aloud came from the women's college, the voice was neat but with the unique delicacy of women, not only not far from the Dengzhou Mansion Qilu Academy, even the men passing by felt a slight itch in their throats, and just wanted to go in and explore.

But this is all fantasy, for the sake of the girl's reputation, the girls' academy is different from Qilu Academy, not everyone who wants to enter can enter, a few five big and three rough women at the door are not easy to mess with, if anyone breaks in, I am afraid that they will be caught all over the face. What's more, today's emperor's concubines are studying in the academy, even if someone eats the ambition leopard gall, they don't dare to break in. There were not a lot of guards around the academy, and although they couldn't be seen at first glance, the muzzles of the guns in the black holes were a bright and secret reminder to the hot-headed people.

To be honest, Meng Xueqing's piano skills have reached the point of transcendence, not to mention these ordinary female students, even Cao Duan, who has seen a lot of people and many people, are amazed, and pull Meng Xueqing to let her teach her to play the piano.

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Cao Duan's concubine's name is Cao Luoying, the daughter of Cao Cha, the magistrate of Shaowu County, Fujian, because of her extremely beautiful appearance and a little similar to Meng Xueqing, she was valued by Zhu Houxi and was particularly favored. In fact, Zhu Houxi still has some feelings for Lu Bing in his heart. This affection comes from childhood. At that time, Lu Bing was his role model, and he was just an idle king.

Lu Bing has a wide range of connections and high martial arts, and the women who are affectionate to him are also beautiful women. Among them, Meng Xueqing, who looks like the world, is especially bright. Therefore, Meng Xueqing is simply indelible in Zhu Houxi's impression, and most of the women who were fortunate to Zhu Houyu in the early days have the shadow of Meng Xueqing.

Whether you say it's a mental illness or a perverted Zhu Houxi, that's the way it is. Lu Bing also heard a little about this, but after all, this is a private behavior, although Lu Bing is unhappy, it is not easy to say anything. As an emperor, it is not difficult to investigate Meng Xueqing's old background. After all, Meng Xueqing was once the top brand of Sixitang in Nanjing City, even if Lu Bing wanted to cover up the truth, it would be difficult to hide the public. Therefore, Zhu Houxi checked and fell to the bottom.

After Zhu Houxi learned the truth, he finally let go of the knot in his heart, thinking that Lu Bing was nothing more than a man on the issue of men and women, and Meng Xueqing was nothing to do, just a good Qinglou woman. But when he saw Cao Luoying, who was a show girl entering the palace and swaying her body. Zhu Houxi suddenly realized that he still hadn't let go of his heart. And so. Cao Luoying began to be favored, and at a young age, in the ninth year of Jiajing, the nine concubines were set up as concubines, known as Cao Duanconcubine.

Cao Luoying unanimously believed that she was innocent and beautiful as a flower to get the emperor's love, so that she stood out among many women in the harem and was able to get the emperor's repeated stay. But when Cao Luoying saw Meng Xueqing, she realized that the reason why she was really favored, the woman in front of her, who was somewhat similar to herself, was the eldest lady of Lu Bing, who was the top name. I seem to be favored because I look like her.

In all fairness. Although Meng Xueqing is similar to herself, she has its own merits. It's just that he is slightly better by relying on his youth and luxurious clothes. On the other hand, Meng Xueqing has a refined temperament, although she is dressed plainly, she still can't hide her beauty and temperament, which is really flawed.

Cao Luoying was not jealous, she had done her homework before she came, and she knew a lot of information about Lu Bing and Meng Xueqing. This strong woman is definitely not a stumbling block for herself, and having a good relationship with her is equivalent to having the strong reinforcement of the Lu family, although it is a bit far-fetched to be a queen at that time, after all, there is a queen now, unless this queen is killed by the emperor like the previous queen, but in general, it is no problem to be promoted to the imperial concubine in the future. In addition to not being favored in the harem, he also has to pay attention to his identity and family background, his father is just a Jinshi, and now he is only a petty official, how can it be comparable to a towering tree like the Lu family?

Don't look at Cao Luoying, although she is young, but under the influence of the harem, she doesn't have to think less about those far-sighted politicians.

She and Meng Xueqing privately became sisters with different surnames, and the two took something from each other but also had a bit of like-mindedness, just based on their appearance, if they didn't say their surnames, they were afraid that they would really be regarded as sisters. The inner palace of the imperial court is not allowed to make friends with foreign officials privately, although Lu Bing is classified as a brocade guard, and is in charge of the guard work in the palace, but now he still has an identity that is the general of the dragon shadow, who goes out on the expedition instead of the emperor, and holds the power of the marked foreign officials. It's just that Meng Xueqing and Cao Luoying's friendship can't become the handle of others, and the sister's complicity can't become criticized by others, just because all this is caused by the emperor's destiny and obeys the destiny of heaven.

When Cao Luoying left Dengzhou Mansion, she tasted the sweetness of becoming the Lu Family Alliance in time, not only did she get a lot of strange antiques and treasures of silk and satin, but also brought back two cars. Meng Xueqing didn't explain anything, but just said that she would leave it to her sister to take care of in the palace. Cao Luoying finally understood what Meng Xueqing was dressed plainly, because she was rich enough to a certain level, and there was no difference between cloth clothes and silk satin.

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At this time in the northwest, Xia Dade was trying to put the city outside, and the road was not as smooth as he imagined. The original raid plan was discovered in the evening of the same day, and the unstoppable Shandong bandits took the lead, causing the imperial soldiers and horses behind to be confident. Xia Dade is even more on the front line, as the saying goes, if a soldier instigates one, he will instigate a nest, with a strong man like Xia Dade taking the lead, the soldiers are also imposing.

Naturally, it is difficult to resist the Li army, and the army has been caught in the melee in Yarkand, and the rest is to prevent the Turpan sneak attack on the border and it is difficult to withdraw for a while. But nomads who have lived in war for a long time are naturally not straw bales. From an early age, they had to fight, fighting wild beasts, fighting against the harsh natural environment, fighting with the surrounding tribes, and facing the menacing Han army. They tried to resist for a moment.

Obviously, Xia Dade was not the Han straw bag army they had encountered before, but Yili defeated the Li army at the touch of a button, so Yili adopted a containment tactic to delay the march of Xia Dade's army as much as possible. In this way, whether it is to find reinforcements or a war of attrition in the future, it will have an advantage, at least this will put Xia Dade in danger of running out of food and grass. They took a fancy to the strangeness of Xia Dade's Ming army. They didn't bring any baggage, which means that they wanted to make a quick raid.

In the face of the opponent's cold arrows constantly harassing the tail of the team or breaking through various harassment methods from the middle, Xia Dade did not stop in the middle of the plan. A small number of troops were specially stripped out to treat their own people in their own way, and to entangle the opponent's harassing troops. Even so, the trip was affected.

Three days later. When it comes to the time when Yili puts the city down. The rations carried by the soldiers had already been eaten, and without rations, they fell into passivity. Although we can learn from the cauldron and take Yili in one go, there is also another possibility, that is, the attack is unsuccessful, and the soldiers are hungry and thirsty and are defeated by the enemy's counterattack, and they are buried in this vast desert.

At this time, Yili has brought in reinforcements as much as possible through the time gained by the containment troops. Although it is not a climate, it is better than nothing, and they are determined to defend the capital to the death. When the capital is broken, there is nothing.

In terms of reinforcements, it is difficult for the soldiers who are deeply trapped in the Yarkand Khanate to withdraw, and once they retreat, they will not only cause the encirclement to be torn, but also fall short and be caught up by Yarkand from behind. What's more, Turpan and Uzbekistan did not allow Yili to do this, the offensive routes of the three were well planned, and once Yili withdrew his troops, the previous efforts would be in vain. Therefore, after finding out the movement of the Ming army in Turpan, after discussion between the two parties, they chose to withdraw their troops at the border, and the border defenders immediately set out to rescue the capital.

In this regard, Xia Dade had already heard the report of the sentry horseman, and he was immediately worried, and his heart was clouded. After thinking about it, Xia Dade resolutely picked up a single axe, and made a decision with extraordinary courage and reprimand. Attack, desperate attack, retreat is too late at this time, if you can't attack, not only will you run out of ammunition and food, but you may also be surrounded by reinforcements and suffer from the enemy, and you will definitely be dead at that time.

Xia Dade walked out of the big tent, and the generals all stood in front of the tent and looked at the supreme commander Xia Dade. Xia Dade's face was devoid of the stupidity of the past, his face was solemn and majestic, and his expression was like a god descending from heaven without being angry and arrogant!

Xia Dade summoned the whole army to listen to the order, took a deep breath and raised his voice: "Today, a sentry cavalry has come to report that the troops deployed in Turpan and Yili have withdrawn the troops on the border of Li, and they will arrive about tomorrow evening, and we will definitely be attacked from front to back at that time." This expedition is a plan for everyone to carry rations to attack, and I believe everyone knows this. As you brothers know, we have no food or grass to spare, so there are only two ways before us, one is to die of hunger and death by the enemy, or to be captured as a slave, in any case it is a death and a starving ghost. Second, tonight we will have breakfast in the city. Brothers, I listen to you, how do you choose? ”

After a moment of silence, someone shouted, "Kill the Yili Force!" ”

"Kill the Force!" The shouts suddenly came and went, and the plan to break the cauldron and sink the boat was first realized.

Xia Dade took a spear from the soldier's hand and ordered: "The artillery will concentrate on attacking the main gate of Yili, and the brave will win when they meet on the narrow road!" ”

The twin-shot artillery developed by Lu Bing played a role at this time, this kind of artillery is small in size and light in weight, easy to carry, and is a must-have equipment for each of the elite soldiers, so the elite soldiers can not only be able to break through but also attack the city. At this time, the army under Xia Dade was also equipped with a lot of such artillery.

Because of its size, this cannon was not loaded with much gunpowder, and it was not very powerful, and it was just a big pit in the strong city wall. However, it can be carried when it runs, unlike the imported Fran machine and earthen cannon, which need to be pulled by a horse-drawn cart, and it is the first choice for light travel. This cannon will crack the barrel after firing the second shell, and the third shell will explode and cause casualties, so it is called a double shell.

Despite its shortcomings of one kind or another, the twin gun is still a good firearm, allowing it to fire one-sidedly from the range of the opponent's guns and crossbows. The power is small enough to make up for it with numbers, and Xia Dade's troops have suffered casualties on the road to resist the harassment, but the number is very few, and now there are nearly 7,000 soldiers and horses, and there are 3,000 artillery pieces, all of which are produced by Dengzhou Prefecture in Shandong. The wrought iron of Dengzhou Mansion has become the top wrought iron base in the country, and under the vigorous development of Lu Bing, the assembly line operation has been formed, and the productivity is very amazing. (To be continued......)