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Chapter 566: Luoshui Corpse Mountain, Ma Lilian, Vermilion Bird, Moon Looking, Wu Yinyu

Since the founding of the Great Sui Dynasty, the Luoshui area has not experienced such a tragic war. When the emperor personally marched, there were sailors to open the way, and Li Yuanshan deliberately led the army westward, so there was almost no resistance when crossing the river. The last blood-stained war in Luoshui dates back to more than 100 years ago when Yang Jian, the founding emperor of the Great Sui Dynasty, led his army to pacify the northwest. In that battle, the Yang family wiped out the 160,000 troops of the northwest army of Zheng State in a battle on the bank of the Luoshui River, and it is recorded that the corpses of the defeated Zheng army were sprinkled for dozens of miles, and the Yang family army killed Jinyang City in one go.

This time, the soldiers who followed the Yang family did not have the morale of more than a hundred years ago.

Wang Yiqu is the general of the Great Sui Water Division, this person has led the army for more than 20 years, and no one knows how to lead the water division to fight better than him. More than 20 years ago, he led the water division to attack the Shang State and became famous, which also established his status as the first person in the Great Sui Water Army. Because of this, it is difficult to break through the Luoshui River where he led the army to defend it.

It was not that the emperor did not think about dividing his troops to cross the river and stretch the battle line to disperse the forces of Wang Yiqu's army. But the army around the emperor is not as strong as Wang Yiqu and Gao Kaitai's troops, the superior side defends, and the weaker side attacks, which is destined to be extremely tragic in every battle.

The glow of the setting sun turned red and no longer dazzling.

The big boat that broke down in the middle of the river was dropped in the river, and the soldiers of the former Great Sui Navy Division looked at the soldiers on the west bank to carry the corpses, and everyone's faces were not very good-looking. To be honest, they don't want to kill each other like this. But the banner of rebellion has been raised, and there is no turning back.

The soldiers of the Sui army carried the corpses of their comrades with expressionless faces, and another group of people in the distance were digging pits. For the past two months, this has been repeated almost every day. So the soldiers had become numb, and they didn't even have fear of the corpses all over the ground.

After the soldiers bandaged Ma Lilian's wound and went to fetch water, Ma Lilian watched with a blank look at the soldiers mechanically walking over, carrying the body back and throwing it into the pit. Tens of thousands of corpses are buried in dozens of huge graves not far away. Since being blocked on this side of the riverbank, many people have been dying every day.

Ma Lilian knew that the main theme of war was never life but death, but she still felt a little lost.

Just two years ago, when the emperor's personal expedition crossed Luoshui to the west, she also saw a warm smile on the faces of the sailor soldiers, and even gave each other a strong hug when the infantry and sailor soldiers parted. They said blessings to each other and waved goodbye.

Two years later, meet again.

It's already a sword and a gun, and it's not going to die.

It all came so suddenly, so suddenly that she couldn't get used to it.

The wound was painful, but Ma Lilian didn't care at all. The glow of the setting sun fell on her face, then faded again. She just sat dumbfounded, watching a large pit gradually fill in with corpses and then cover it with dirt to become a burial bag. When it got dark, the soldiers brought a bowl of gruel. Ma Lilian looked at it and slowly shook her head: "I'm not hungry, you can drink it." ”

The soldier opened his mouth, but finally just reluctantly put the bowl of porridge beside her and turned away.

When night came, the smell of blood in the wind was still so strong.

Ma Lilian turned her gaze to the huge imperial chariot in the distance, and could vaguely see those brocade schools still standing there upright. The lights on the chariot were bright, but you couldn't see the people inside. From time to time, people come in and out, and they all seem to be in a hurry. Ma Lilian then remembered that it seemed that she hadn't seen the emperor for nearly a month. The last time I saw the emperor was the day when the blood of the thousand warriors stained the east coast.

Could it be that the emperor is sicker?

Ma Lilian frowned slightly, but couldn't find an answer.

I guess that's right...... If it weren't for the serious illness, the emperor shouldn't have even been under the imperial palace for nearly a month. I saw the imperial doctor go in and out several times every day, perhaps because the blockade of the rebels was too tight, and the emperor's mood was getting worse and worse, so his health was getting worse and worse.

She looked at the bowl of porridge, and although her stomach hurt with hunger, she had no appetite.

It's been more than a month, and each person only has two bowls of gruel with a few grains of rice per day. She is now a general of Zhengwupin, and she can drink three bowls a day.

If this continues, I am afraid that it will not take half a month to completely run out of food. By that time, the rebels blocking the river would not need to come and kill them at all, they would just come and watch them starve to death. Just across the river, the smoke from the rebels' cooking on the east bank of the river wafts over every day, making people fantasize about a whole bowl of white rice and pork stewed until it is touched and scattered.

"Don't Waste"

I don't know when someone sat down opposite her, Ma Lilian looked up and hurriedly got up to salute, and the person opposite waved her hand and said gently: "Sit down, drink the porridge." ”

He sniffled and said with a smile: "The other side is eating pork stewed cabbage tonight, it's so fragrant, you can eat when you smell it." ”

Ma Lilian smiled bitterly and took a sip of the porridge bowl.

"Lord Hou, is Your Majesty ......?"

She hesitated for a moment and finally asked, "Are you unwell?" ”

Sitting across from her was a middle-aged man in brocade, who was neatly dressed and clean, with no mud on his boots, even in such a difficult environment. His hair was neatly combed and tied back at the back of his head. The beard is cleanly shaved and meticulous.

His name is Hou Wenji.

Originally, the emperor left him to assist Jin Shixiong in quelling the rebellion, but at this point, the affairs of Jin Shixiong were no longer important. The emperor changed his mind and planned to take him back to Chang'an City. Because Hou Wenji's experience is no one can compare, if there is a rebellion in Chang'an City, he can find out one by one. The emperor often changed his mind, for example, he really thought about letting Fang Xie be the young master of the crown prince and enter the East Palace as an assistant. But later, he did not hesitate to let Fang Xie go to guard the Wolf Milk Mountain Canyon. For example, he wanted to die in the northwest like this and no longer worry about government affairs, but in the end he changed his mind.

"Discomfort?"

Hou Wenji's smile was a little bitter, and he shook his head and said, "Maybe......"

"Even you don't know what to do."

Ma Lilian sighed and looked at the gruel in the bowl in a daze.

"Drink the porridge first, or you may lose the desire to drink it in a while."

Ma Lilian glanced at Hou Wenji in some surprise, then craned her neck and poured the porridge into her stomach. Because she was too hungry, the gruel rushed into her stomach and broke away the walls of her stomach that had been glued together, and she immediately frowned in pain. It took a while to recover, and then she smiled apologetically at Hou Wenji.

"What do you want to tell me?"

Marilyn asked.

"Pick a few of your cronies to escort you out tonight, and I'll order someone to let you go." You're the only woman in this camp, war...... Women should never be involved, and women never belong to the battlefield. After going out of Lu, I kept going south, took off my battle robes, changed into the clothes of the people, and if I was lucky enough to avoid the rebels, I would go back to Chang'an, and don't think about going to the battlefield again in the future. ”

Ma Lilian was stunned: "For ...... For what? ”

Hou Wenji looked at the empty bowl beside her, was silent for a while, and said, "How long have you not seen the emperor?" ”

"It's been a month"

"How long has it been since I saw the eunuch Su Buwei of Bingbi?"

"It's been a month too"

Hou Wenji got up, looked at Ma Lilian with some pity and said: "Let's go, this is the reason why I want you to drink that bowl of porridge before telling you, if you know the Tao, you will feel nauseous, and if you can't eat, you won't have the strength to escape, you shouldn't have come here in the first place." The emperor has been gone for a long time, and the army can't cross the river, but it's not difficult for the great cultivator to take the emperor across the river, the people here are just left by the emperor to die, and they go to die every day, just to make the rebels on the opposite side think that the emperor is still here......"

Ma Lilian's heart almost stopped, she looked at Hou Wenji with wide eyes, hoping to see the flaws on his face and see that he was lying.

However, she knew that she could not find a flaw.

"For what...... Why do you want to do this? ”

She muttered.

"Where is there so much for what?"

Hou Wenji glanced at her, was silent for a while, and then took out a silver ticket from his cuff and handed it to her: "Go back, you still have a mother at home, your father has died in battle, think about your mother." The emperor is no longer the emperor who is worthy of your life, and the court is no longer the court that you are worthy of fighting for. I'll be gone, too, but not yet. ”

With that, he placed the silver ticket on Marilyn's knee and turned to leave.

Marilyn looked at his back, and then at the huge chariot.

"I--you ancestors!"

She hugged her head and cried, and she didn't know who she was crying about and what it was.

……

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Huangyang Road

Suzaku Mountain

This is a mountain range that stretches for hundreds of miles, and it is the most famous scenic spot in Huangyang Road. In the peaceful years, I don't know how many literati and writers climb the mountain every year, leaving many witty sentences. The most famous allusion is the story of Zhu Xiaochen, a genius of the Great Sui, who met Princess Anyang of the Great Sui here and then fell in love here, a love poem for life. Although the talented and beautiful couple did not come together in the end because of the huge difference in their families, many young men and women later came here to see the Mochizuki Pavilion, which was a poem.

However, since the war, all the rich and noble families have avoided disaster, and ordinary people still have the heart to play. Moreover, in the past year, there has been a group of robbers who occupy the mountain as kings on Suzaku Mountain, and it is said that they are extremely vicious, robbing the rich merchants and merchants in the past, so no one dares to approach them again.

Mochizuki Pavilion is halfway up Suzaku Mountain and is built on a protruding boulder. Sitting here, you can see the scenery below the mountain.

A young woman in a goose yellow dress sat on a stone bench, drooping in a daze. The mountain breeze blew her long skirt, making her a little more agile. It looks like she is seventeen or eighteen years old, with a round and lovely goose egg face, two curved eyebrows slightly frowned, and I don't know what Lu Dao is thinking.

She had a short hammer in her hand, and it was bright and clean to wipe.

"Miss"

On the stone steps, a little maid in a lilac dress floated over like the wind, holding a letter in her hand and her face was full of joy.

"I've got a letter, sir."

She ran over with fine beads of sweat on her forehead.

Wearing a goose-yellow dress was Wu Yinyu, the pearl of Sanjin Hou's palm, she sat up straight and took the letter and opened it to look at it, and then her face also showed joy: "Daddy is coming, and it will be within a month at the latest." ”

"That's great!"

The little maid said with a smile: "The young lady is worried every day, but now she can finally rest assured." Miss, what else did the old man say in the letter? ”

"It's nothing"

Wu Yinyu lowered her head to hide the flush that flew on her face, and deliberately suppressed the excitement in her heart and said, "I also said that that guy is coming, it's really annoying." ”

"Hate?"

Long'er chuckled, "How do I think Miss likes that person so much?" ”

"Bah, Bah, Bah"

Wu Yinyu glanced at Long'er and said: "Who likes that scoundrel guy, just watching the broken workshop for him every day, it's annoying to death, if he comes, he just looks at it himself, who wants to care!" ”

As he was talking, he suddenly saw a puff of green smoke rising from behind the mountain.

"This Andrew!"

Wu Yinyu stomped his feet: "What trouble happened again, I burned a row of houses last time, I injured my arm last time, and I don't know what happened to Lu Dao this time." Their few blue-eyed and big-nosed foreigners knew how to toss around. ”

She stood up and straightened her dress: "Let's go, go down and have a look." ”

At the same time, several newly built wooden houses on the flat ground behind the hill have collapsed, and many people are carrying water to extinguish the fire. A tall foreigner with a blackened face smiled and didn't care about his tattered clothes at all, laughing wildly while shouting in broken Chinese: "I succeeded!" Finally succeeded in finding the proportion! Talented...... What a genius you general is here! Without his letter, I could not have found the most perfect proportions! ”

PS: When I first came up with these two names, I thought that sooner or later there would be such a chapter. In the sea of corpses and blood, Ma Lilian is a blood-stained flower. In the southwest mountains, Wu Yinyu is the beautiful jade hidden in the mountains. The sea of blood blooms lotus flowers, and the mountains hide beautiful jade. In fact, when Ma Lilian was frightened by Fang Jie, who spit out insects in the martial arts theater, she may have been destined to stay away at that moment. She and Fang Xie didn't have any deep contact from beginning to end, and Fang Xie may have forgotten about this woman a long time ago. It can't be said that because she is far away from Fang Jie, she will experience such suffering. It can only be said that because of knowing Fang Jie, Wu Yinyu will be safe and down-to-earth, so that he is a little bored to live in Vermilion Bird Mountain.