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"Imperial Husband, please stay!"

"Imperial Husband, Your Majesty is resting, and the Grand Master has ordered no one to enter!"

"Please report to the emperor first!"

The sound of the soldiers outside the door suddenly came. But with the sound of the sword unsheathed, all the soldiers fell silent.

Immediately afterwards, Helan Chu saw Ashina striding indefinitely, walking from behind the screen, followed by two guards guarding the door, not daring to step forward to stop or not to stop.

"Humph! Isn't someone there? Say no one is allowed to enter?! Ashina glanced at the soldier beside him with a fierce look, so frightened that he almost couldn't steady.

Helan Chu stood up and raised his hand, signaling the two soldiers to retreat.

"Helan Chu pays a visit to His Royal Highness." Helan Chu arched his hand, seemingly humble, and his tone was indifferent.

Ashina didn't look at Helan Chu for a long time, went straight to Zuo Ying's bed and sat down, looked at Zuo Ying with his eyes closed, frowned and said to himself: "How can you be unconscious?" ”

"Your Highness, Your Majesty is not unconscious, but his body is too tired and he is sleeping. Please do not disturb Your Highness. Helan Chu said coldly.

"Hey, wake up!" Before Helan Chu finished speaking, Ashina Wuji had already held Zuo Ying's face and shook it.

The eyeballs under Zuo Ying's eyelids, who were awakened, moved slightly, trying to adapt to the light in front of her, and slowly opened her eyes.

Seeing Zuo Ying wake up, Ashina smiled and said, "If you don't wake up, how do I know if you're okay?" ”

Helan Chu knelt down beside the bed and said, "The minister knocks to see Your Majesty." ”

Zuo Ying glanced at the two people in front of her, surprised that she was unaware of the entry and exit of these people.

"Pingshen, what time is it? What is the situation in the army? ”

"Back to Your Majesty. It's late noon. Helan Chu got up and said, "The minister has sent Lu Chen to lead 3,000 soldiers and horses to attack the fleeing enemy army, and it is estimated that he will be able to return to the camp before Shen Shi." At the celebration banquet tonight, the minister wanted to ask His Majesty to personally preside over and accept the officers and soldiers of the three armies. ”

"Good. Just do what Aiqing said. Zuo Ying nodded and got up.

"Little ...... Your Majesty, when are we going to kill back to Ziyang City? Ashina's indefinite sentence "little girl" just came to her lips. Only then did I remember that there are "outsiders" now, and I can't call them casually: "This time the soldiers are full of food, and they vow to kill those thieves without leaving a piece of armor!" ”

"Don't worry." Zuo Ying smiled lightly: "Taishi must have made some arrangements. ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your trust." Helan Chu arched his hand and said: "The 10,000 horses led by the minister are the vanguard troops. In addition, the generals of the Zhuguo State, Tuoba Gao and Duguyuan, led 8,000 men and horses from Yuqiao and Suiyang respectively, and marched into Pingzhou and Ziyang by separate roads, forming a combined encirclement. The thieves will be wiped out soon. The minister plans to pull out the camp to the west early tomorrow morning and only besiege Ziyang City. When the rear army arrives, it will be conquered in one fell swoop. ”

Zuo Ying agreed: "This plan is good. It's just that...... These thieves may seem like a rabble and are not to be feared, but there are a few tricky areas here. One. Along the way, they used the looted disaster relief grain and grass to absorb the victims, and often used the victims as the front to advance, making our army a dilemma; Second, their core figures are all relying on the 'Six Dust Sect', using it to penetrate into the hearts of the people to confuse the people, and even gain a lot of support and recognition; third, there are really a few leaders among them who know some of the tricks of changing shapes and shadows, stealing the sky and changing the sun, and if they are not careful, they may fall into their way. Aiqing should pay more attention. ”

Helan Chu frowned slightly, "These three points that Your Majesty said. The first two points have already been heard; It's just that this third point was only learned by His Majesty. ”

Zuo Ying said: "If it weren't for my personal experience, I'm afraid I wouldn't have believed anyone who said it." The reason why Ziyang City fell was because they used magic to make the weather extremely favorable to them. Otherwise, with the heroism of the imperial husband, he will definitely be able to lead the soldiers of Ziyang City to hold on until the day when the reinforcements led by Taishi arrive. ”

Ashina, who was already at odds with Helan Chu, had no time. At this time, watching him and Zuo Ying chatting endlessly, he neither disdained to accept He Lanchu's words, nor did he want to be left aside, his stomach kept sulking, and he was a little more comfortable when he heard Zuo Ying say this.

Helan Chu nodded and said, "The captives captured last night are being interrogated, and maybe they can ask for some valuable information." ”

Ashina saw that the two of them were finished, and he couldn't hold back now

"Your Majesty," he grabbed Zuo Ying's hand stretched out from the quilt and said, "Why are you still so dirty?" There's a hot spring not far from here, so you can go with me to take a shower. ”

Helan Chu's face sank slightly because of Ashina's indefinite recklessness and rudeness, and he bowed down and said, "If Your Majesty has no other orders, please retire first." After a pause, he said: "Although the conditions in the barracks are simple, please reluctantly let Your Majesty do not leave the barracks easily, so as not to cause danger." ”

Zuo Ying smiled and said, "Aiqing don't worry." ”

Helan Chu straightened up and glanced at Ashina Wuzhi intentionally or unintentionally before turning around and leaving the tent.

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When it was getting dark, there was an atmosphere of joy and busyness in the barracks. The news of the triumphant victory of the pursuing troops and the triumphant return of the captured ordnance, grain and grass once again invigorated the ranks of the army. Everyone was busy with Zhang Luo's celebration banquet in the evening.

A man dressed in plain white stood outside the tent, looking up at the stars that had begun to appear in the sky. With every step he took, there was a "pop" sound of metal clashing under his feet, and a black iron chain appeared at the hem of his robe.

"Your Royal Highness Concubine Yun, please go back," a soldier who followed him looked to both sides and said, "The night breeze is clear at night, Your Highness is thinly dressed, beware of catching a cold." ”

The person looking up at the sky was none other than Li Yunshen. When he lowered his head, there was a look of joy on his face.

"The purple microstar is still shining, and His Majesty seems to be out of danger." Li Yunshen turned around, looked at the soldier and said, "Is there already news of His Majesty in the army?" ”

The guard behind him hesitated, pursed his lips, and said in a low voice: "Your Highness, in fact, Your Majesty has arrived at the military camp last night. It's just that...... Without an order, the villain did not dare to reveal it to His Highness casually......"

Li Yunshen nodded and said with a smile: "Don't worry, this palace will not ask to see Your Majesty." The palace is very clear that even His Majesty can't save the palace now. It's just that there is an important matter that this palace hopes His Majesty can know. ”

The soldier looked at Li Yunshen puzzled.

Li Yunshen said solemnly: "This palace just observed the celestial phenomena, and I only felt that the stars of the white tiger in the west were particularly bright, which was a sign of abnormal movement and blood and light. Seeing that the army seems to be feasting, I am afraid that some enemy troops will take advantage of our army's complacent spirit to sneak attack the barracks, causing our army to suffer losses and endangering Your Majesty's safety. ”

The soldier was slightly taken aback when he heard this, but after a moment, he became embarrassed again: "What Your Highness said may be good, but the villain is a lowly person, how can he be qualified to report to His Majesty?" ”

Li Yunshen slowly turned his head, looked at the figure of the soldiers in the distance carrying the food table and wine jar, setting up the grill, cooking and slaughtering sheep, and then looked up at the bright purple microstar in the sky, and said to himself faintly: "Everything has the will of heaven......

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The place where the military camp is stationed is called "Ox Horn Bend" precisely because of its topography, the central avenue is coiled, and the hills on both sides are undulating, like ox horns.

The geographical location of the camp is not only to defend the danger and be easy to defend and difficult to attack in the terrain, but also to pay attention to the convenience of drawing water and being conducive to supply. Therefore, the reason why it has become an excellent choice for camping is that less than a mile away from the barracks, there is a hot spring called "Ox Horn Spring", and the people nearby have dug the hot spring into a pool, so that the hot spring water can be better utilized, and now it provides convenience for the soldiers here to draw water for cooking, washing and bathing every day.

Taking advantage of the moonlight, Zuo Ying broke away from the people guarding the door of her tent, changed into a set of soldiers' training robes, pretended to be ordinary soldiers, and came to the Niujiao Spring.

The conditions in this barracks are far from comparable to those in the palace. If you want to take a bath, you don't even have a wooden basin that can soak your body, and if you want to draw water to bathe indoors like you used to do when you were in the palace, you can only scrub it with a small basin of water. The old and young masters in this military camp are all accompanied by people who bathe in this lake, and they will not encounter problems like Zuo Ying at all.

Zuo Ying didn't want to make laborers go to the nearby city that had entered a state of security to make daily necessities for her because of such a small problem like herself. In order to be able to take a refreshing bath, to accept the worship of the three armies in a glorious way, and not to want to lose the reputation of being a selfish man, the best choice in front of her was to come to this Oxhorn Lake in person.

Fortunately, she Zuo Ying is not a pampered prince and nobleman, and she has adapted to bathing in rivers and lakes when she was forced to stay in war-torn areas before. The only thing she needed to do was hide from all the others here.

She came to the shallows of Horn Spring.

The spring is bordered by the rock wall of a nearby hill on one side and a dense forest on the other. The light heat of the spring water floated like a light veil on the shallow water, and then drifted away with the wind, making the rising moon floating on the water loom in the face.

After carefully observing that no one was around, she took off her shoes and tiptoed down the pool, and a warm feeling quickly climbed up from her toes, spreading down her lower limbs and all over her body.

She quickly took off her clothes, shoes and socks and poured water into the pond, letting the warm hot spring water cover her chest. She just wanted to get a quick fix, wash herself off, and rush back to the evening celebration before she was thought missing. But after so many days and nights of fatigue, the feeling of being soaked in the warm spring water and relaxing physically and mentally at this moment still made her feel a sense of satisfaction that she did not want to leave immediately.

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