Some things are understood, and the heart is no longer so entangled, and it is not easy to achieve fame in this world, and it is not easy to think about things and go deep to hide merit and fame.

When they returned home, Li Mi and Sui Yi came to report, they had received the will of the imperial court to go out with the army, although they did not say that they had arranged any errands for them, but they knew that going out to fight for military merits was the best opportunity to pay homage to the marquis, and they hurriedly prepared, so they came to ask Liu Yu for instructions.

"Go back and get ready!" Liu Yu spoke a little weakly and perfunctory, "The grassland outside the Saiwai is a bitter cold place, this war has taken a long time, maybe it will drag on until the next year, thinking that it will be enough to bring a small dry food bag and water bag?" ”

Seeing Liu Yu throw them down and enter the door, Sui Yi frowned and looked at Li Mi next to him and asked, "Are we going to fight or do labor." ”

was about to follow Liu Yu into the door to discuss again, for example, to ask about his errand, but the two were stopped by Lu Chu'er, who was in charge of guarding the door on duty: "Two, didn't you listen to what our uncle said, let you go back and prepare again, I won't entertain you here today!" ”

A little female guard dared to block the way, which made Sui Yi and Li Mi feel very unhappy, but they also knew Lu Chu'er and knew who she was.

"I said Guard Lu, your uncle is a little abnormal today, his face is as if someone owes him, you go in and ask, is he being bullied, let's give him a head!"

Lu Chu'er said arrogantly: "You don't have to worry about our uncle's affairs!" ”

"You little girl, just like your uncle! Let's go, Brother Li, let's ignore her! ”

Sui Yi said. was about to pull Li Mi into the door. Who knew that Lu Chu'er was still on a par with them. Lu Chu'er was also very helpless, and said in a gentle tone: "Two Mansion Yin, general, think about it, our aunt will go out tomorrow, so don't you give him a little time to get along with our general?" Is there anything you can't talk about tomorrow? ”

It is rare that Lu Chuer, who has always been criticized by Liu Yu for being big-chested and brainless, has also learned to put himself in the shoes of others, Sui Yi said: "That's right, Brother Li." Let's not disturb Brother Liu's good deeds, brother, I remember something, so I won't accompany you. See you tomorrow! ”

Li Mi was quite helpless, and when he saw the direction in which Sui Yi went, he knew that this kid was awakened by Lu Chu'er and went to Yashe to find his Miss Lan family. Pity the three brothers who used to be, only he is left without worry.

"Find Hu Xuan's kid to drink tea!"

Hu Xuan was snubbed by several of them because of his father's affairs, and Li Mi felt that it was time to say goodbye. Once a comrade-in-arms in the trenches, there was no overnight feud.

…………

On this day, the whole Chang'an City was quiet.

Liu Yu, who is about to go on the expedition. At home, I made the most embarrassing confession to my wife. Xu Xuanzhu also specially took out some of the military books she had learned back then and handed them to Liu Yu, asking him to bring them with them, which might be useful. Liu Yu casually put it into the baggage. For a "wild man" like him, the dead-framed military book is useless to him at all.

Thousands of miles away, Jinyao City on the grassland, this night is much more lively.

Min Shaoqing and Ma Feng, who were participants in the Battle of Xuzhou and were great contributors to the pacification of King Huai by the imperial court, encountered exactly the same situation as the Battle of Xuzhou this time:

The city was besieged.

The siege army is here again.

It's a pity that Jinyao City is just an earthen city, and the scale of Xuzhou City can not be compared, although the siege army outside does not have the same siege baggage as the Huai army, but it has dozens of times higher endurance than the Huai army, twelve hours a day, the cavalry takes turns to shoot rockets into the city, and it is difficult to store grain and grass in the city.

Fortunately, half of the 20,000 soldiers trapped in the city were equipped with new firearms, and as long as the rapid gunfire rang out, the Turkic cavalry would also retreat honestly.

"Fuck, the end of the hero, the end of the hero!"

On the night of April 29, Ma Feng complained and ran to the city tower in a hurry, this scene was too familiar to him, in those days of the Battle of Xuzhou, he also needed to run to find Min Shaoqing almost every day. I thought the nightmare was over, but who knew that the same nightmare began again.

"Heroes, can there be self-styled?"

Min Shaoqing said angrily and continued to look at the surrounding topographic map. But this topographic map is really ominous, most of the places on the grassland are flat and flat, the ups and downs are very small, and there are only encounters when leaving the city. Whenever the cavalry of the Turks encountered, the border army of the Great Shun Dynasty would suffer.

The Turks fought on horseback, and the border troops of the imperial court were accustomed to hiding behind the battlements and putting cold arrows since the founding of the Dashun Dynasty.

"How much grain and grass are left?" Min Shaoqing asked.

"I lost a batch before entering the city, and I was burned a batch when I came in, and there are not many things that have been shipped, but fortunately, everyone has a little bit on them, and it is estimated that they can last for three or five days."

Faced with Ma Feng's ambiguous answer, Min Shaoqing said angrily: "Is it three days, five days, or seven days?" ”

"Seven or eight days, at most, in fact, everyone only has three or four days of rations on hand, and the dog is harassing day and night, and it is impossible to save some physical strength to eat. If you continue like this, you don't have to wait to starve to death, and the soldiers in the city are tired to death! ”

Min Shaoqing sighed, the situation was indeed beyond his expectations.

In his original opinion, even if Jinyao City is not a big city like Xuzhou, it is similar to a county seat, at least it can be attacked, retreated and defended. Who knows that under the disrepair of Jinyao City, it has already become an inconspicuous earthen city outside the plug, not only the city wall is so short that a bamboo pole can climb in, but the boundary is not large, the length and width are less than two miles, and the size is about the same as adding a layer of earthen walls around a small town in the Central Plains.

Turks, patience is not very good, but patience is good. Originally, if the city was trapped for a few days, it would be cut off from water and food, and it would collapse without a fight, but the Turks were not so patient and the siege did not stop for a moment. Their siege was different from the Huai siege, the siege was started from all sides, and as long as the defense of the city was negligent, the Turkic cavalry would enter the city.

The offensive and defensive battles had been going on for two days and two nights, and this was the third night, and it was also the night that the soldiers could not stand the most. Two days and two nights were almost the limit of every soldier's body, and many soldiers had not rested since they entered the city, even if they fell asleep for a while, because of the tightness of the siege, they had to get up to organize defense.

"What about the other armies of our Dashun Dynasty? Why didn't you keep up all the way? If they fall behind, they decide not to come? Ma Feng complained angrily, "There are also reinforcements from Hui, doesn't it mean that they will join us in Jinyao City as soon as possible?" ”

Min Shaoqing sighed and said, "I don't think it's that they don't want to come, I'm afraid they are too busy to take care of themselves." Looking at the current situation of the Turks, they have already taken precautions, but unfortunately I thought that my tactics were so appropriate, it turned out that I had fallen into the trap that the Turks had set up a long time ago! ”

Ma Feng comforted: "General Min doesn't have to blame himself, we originally took the initiative to attack the Turks, even if we die in defeat, we will be left in history, it's not too bad to think about!" ”

Min Shaoqing glanced at Ma Feng, there are not many people like Ma Feng who can comfort themselves in such a difficult situation, this is just a success and a name in history, think about what it says in the history books? Because of this erroneous dispatch of troops, the Dashun Dynasty was at an absolute disadvantage in the war against the Turks in the future, and it was necessary to pay tribute and sue for peace in order to seek Gou'an?

He would rather not leave such a name in history!

"The imperial court, it should be sent reinforcements." Min Shaoqing looked at the little fire flashing in the darkness in the distance, and said thoughtfully.

Those fires represent the soldiers and horses of the Turks, Min Shaoqing looked at it for a long time, and thought about it, even if the imperial court got the news to send reinforcements, I am afraid it will be ten days later, from Chang'an City to Jinyao City, thousands of miles apart, it is difficult to complete this road without stopping for ten days.

At midnight, the Turks besieging the city entered a short rest, presumably because the Turks had another meal. Every day, only when the Turks had a meal, the soldiers in the city would breathe a sigh of relief, eat some dry food, drink some water, or sleep for a while. Min Shaoqing and Ma Feng leaned on the mound, staring at the vast starry sky in a daze.

"On the grassland, looking at the stars in the sky, it's just different, you see, they flash one by one as if they are within reach." Ma Feng said, and then turned his arm to support his body and looked at Min Shaoqing, who was sleeping, "You say, who will the imperial court send to rescue us?" ”

"How do I know?"

Min Shaoqing tilted his head to the side, not wanting to be disturbed by Ma Feng's nap.

"I will definitely send that person surnamed Liu, except for him, I'm afraid no one else can bring troops to kill him!" Ma Feng speculated and said, "But whether the surname Liu is so kind or not, I don't know what to do." It can be seen from the battle in Xuzhou City that he is definitely a person who will do whatever it takes to achieve his goals, even the emperor can be thrown in Xuzhou City, let alone us? If I were him, I wish we had died sooner! ”

Min Shaoqing turned his head slightly and glanced at Ma Feng, then turned his head back again.

Ma Feng was still comforting himself just now, and now he is starting to say frustrating words. But this is also Ma Feng, in Min Shaoqing's view, Ma Feng is the kind of person who doesn't care about everything, a good man, others said that they wanted to surrender to the Huai Army, Ma Feng helped everyone to persuade him to surrender, the emperor arrived in Xuzhou City, Ma Feng did not slack off at all. When it came to asking for rewards for meritorious service, Ma Feng didn't count the credit, but instead pushed all the credit to him.

Such a person is suitable to be a friend, not a subordinate. History will not remember him as a loyal servant.

"How do you know that Liu Wenyan won't come?" Min Shaoqing said.

"Needless to say? This time, the two of us are clearly robbing him of the credit, which is good, the credit was not grabbed, and it was seen as a joke. That Liu Wenyan doesn't look like he is loyal to his duties all day long, but he is definitely the kind of person with a small belly and chicken intestines, such a person has high merit and will not die sooner or later! ”

Speaking of this, Ma Feng added again, "But it's better to die sooner, otherwise we will die too!" ”

Min Shaoqing sighed, now it's like the battle of Xuzhou, knowing that only Liu Wenyan can solve the dilemma of Lu Dao, but he also doesn't trust him, looking at him but as if he knows that Lu Dao he will not come. In the Battle of Xuzhou, although Liu Wenyan did not personally save the urgency of Xuzhou City, it was indeed Liu Wenyan who forced the Huai army to retreat. Sometimes to save a city, you don't need to send troops, and you can also besiege Wei to save Zhao.

"Come or not, just follow the order!" Min Shaoqing sighed after the most reluctance. (To be continued......)