Chapter 1 The Young Handsome Prince The dream of a girl in the capital
During the Ming Dynasty, the leader of the Mongolian Warat Department also led the army to invade the border of Datong in the Ming Dynasty, and Qiu Luan, the general defense soldier of the Ming Dynasty in charge of Datong, was a big straw bag, he did not learn any skills, he did not understand anything, and his general military official position was also bought with money from Wang Zhi of Xichang. In the face of Yexian's attack, he was helpless, and the city was handed over to the thieves.
also tasted the sweetness first, so he led his troops to the east and attacked Gubeikou. The defenders of Gubeikou had no ability to resist and were vulnerable. In this way, the soldiers of Warat, who had also pioneered, drove straight in, killing and plundering along the way.
As soon as Gubeikou missed, the government and the opposition in Beijing were shocked.
At this time, Xianzong heard the alarm of the border guards, and Long Yan was furious.
Summoned the ministers to discuss the urgent gathering of the army and the Quartet should raise martial arts to defend the city, and flew to summon the vassal kings and the soldiers of the important towns, and sent the crown prince Zhu Youtang, the king of Xingxian Zhu Youyuan and the king of Qihui Zhu Youyu and his three sons to personally lead the troops to the battle.
Standing at the head of the team on a tall horse is the crown prince, he is the eldest son of the emperor, and his appearance seems to be debauched, but the inadvertent light in his eyes makes people dare not underestimate him.
With black and dense hair, and a pair of slender peach blossom eyes under a pair of sword eyebrows, it is full of affection, which makes people fall into it if they are not careful. The nose is tall and the red lips are moderately thick, but there is a dizzying expression.
I saw that he was in moderate shape, with a bronze complexion, clear and deep facial features, like a sculpture, and dark and deep ice eyes, which looked wild and uninhibited, evil and sexy.
His three-dimensional facial features are as handsome as a knife, and the whole person emits a kind of king aura that is mighty in the world, and there is a dissolute smile on his handsome face at this time.
He was followed by his two younger brothers, who were also elegant, radiant, and had the radiance of the emperor's family between their eyebrows.
King Xingxian and he were born to the same mother Ji, who was persecuted to death by Wan Guifei when the princes were young, and then the two children were raised by the Empress Dowager Zhou. King Qihui was born to Wei, and after Wei's death, he was adopted by the noble concubine Wan.
In less than three o'clock, the army set off from the capital, and 50,000 horses swept through the four squares of Yongxing, Chongren, Shengye and Daozheng.
This is the first time that the citizens of Beijing have witnessed the demeanor of the prince, although they are fenced by layers of guards and guards, they can only look at each other from afar, but they are still amazed.
"Longxing Fengju", he is really a good royal son, a beautiful boy in fresh clothes. The common people have long heard that the prince Zhu Youtang is handsome, has both ability and political integrity, and is both civil and military.
The emperor ordered the soldiers of Datong, Baoding, Yansui, Hejian, Xuanfu, Shanxi, and Liaoyang to go to Gubeikou successively to help the imperial army fight to the death with the Wara soldiers.
In the city of Liaoyang in the same time and space
Zhang Laizhan, the king of Liaoyang, had fought with Wara, and knew the whereabouts of the Mongol soldiers, and the camp was discussing countermeasures to send He General to support the imperial court.
"Daddy, send your daughter!" Talking and walking into the house, she was dressed in soft armor, and the clothes inside the cover were all red, without a helmet, imitating a man's hair in a bun, which made her delicate and incoherent face even more charming and heroic. Walking into the camp step by step, it seems that the moon breeze passes.
She approached step by step, in fact, she was close to everyone, and everyone felt that this woman was far away from the world, and she did not dare to be abrupt, and her beauty was unique in the world.
This woman is Zhang Mingyu, the pearl of the King of Liaoyang. This girl grew up in the military camp since she was a child, she is naturally beautiful, ice and snow smart, lively and cheerful, good at doing what she likes, and she is especially liked by everyone.
"This battle is not trivial, it is the emperor's personal order, and the vassal kings and important towns go to support, how can it be child's play." King Liaoyang frowned and said.
"My daughter fought with the Mongolian soldiers, how many soldiers and horses they hurt us last time, not only robbed us of iron ore and jade, but also verbally insulted our daughter, this revenge is not avenged, Mingyu is unwilling!" Mingyu panicked, worried that her father would not send her to fight.
"The general sent me and Mingyu to meet the battle, and also repeatedly offended my Liaoyang first, this goes to Gubeikou, too close to the capital, if the general personally leads the troops to go, there are traitors like Wang Zhi, Liang Fang, Li Zi Province and Wan Guifei in the court, I am afraid it will be unfavorable to the general. It's better to arrange according to what the eldest lady said. "The one who made the plan was General Li Jinglong, who fought with the king of Liaoyang in the south and the north.
The King of Liaoyang pondered for a moment, and said: "It makes sense, the former dynasty and the harem have to be guarded." Then General Li Jinglong is the main general, and Li Dongyang and Zhang Mingyu are the deputy generals. Sent troops to Gubeikou. ”
The Liaoyang army set off towards Gubeikou.
On the road, Dongyang was considerate to Mingyu and added: "Mingyu, are you tired?" Would you like to drink some water?" Li Dongyang is the son of General Li Jinglong, and Mingyu is a childhood sweetheart, and Mingyu has always been Dongyang's favorite person.
But Mingyu didn't mean this at all. Mingyu's personal maid Caiyi said to Mingyu: "Miss, Li Gongzi is so handsome and pretty, and his martial arts are good, why doesn't Miss care, wait for other ladies to run away."
"I want to marry the person I love, the so-called one eye for life, that is, the first sight can make my heartstrings flutter, such as restrained, can not refuse." Mingyu was radiant and eloquent. The words are shocking, and she is high-minded, and she is a woman like her.
The August sun shines through the dense foliage on the mountain stream, gilding the babbling stream with a dappled gold. The water's edge is full of flowers and trees, and a gust of wind blows, and the petals of various colors fall down like snowflakes, causing the fish in the water to flick their tails and chase after each other. This beautiful scenery reflects Mingyu's delicate face, which is even more moving.
In this expedition, Mingyu led more than 20,000 soldiers with General Li to join the imperial army under the command of the prince, and invited himself to be a team in the front army.
The soldiers and horses led by Zhang Mingyu were originally in the middle of the front army, so they urged the horses to move forward in extreme strides, and soon overtook them, leaving the other soldiers and horses behind, and no one stopped them from marching in front without authorization.
After two or three hours, the twilight gradually converged, the fog was blurred, and only the battle flag in the army was still clear and discernible in the chaos.
But seeing the dense pine forest on the rare hill ahead, he asked the people around: "Where has this been?" He asked three times, but no one answered. Most of the soldiers she led were people from the eastern Liaodong area, and no one was familiar with the capital.
Zhang Mingyu was not reckless, seeing that he was far away from the rear army and horses, and it was very dangerous if there was an ambush in front of him, he ordered him to bring a map, light a torch and look at the terrain with the deputy general Dongyang. Analyzed: "It turns out that this place is called Qiu Sigang. This shape is very complicated, and if no one leads the way, it is easy to get lost. ”
Mingyu thought carefully, he needed to send a team of soldiers and horses to explore the way, this time it was different from the scouts who explored the path, if Qiu Sigang really ambushed the soldiers first, if the number of pathfinders was too small, the ambush soldiers would only stand still, please enter the urn, such a path exploration is useless, it seems that he has to pay a lot of money!
She rode her horse and looked at the dense soldiers behind her, all of whom were born and died by Liaoyang, for the sake of this size, could she really bear to let them move forward?
"Mingyu, there is danger ahead, don't move, I am willing to lead a thousand soldiers to explore the way." Dongyang pleaded for his life in a deep voice.
Zhang Mingyu glared at him and bit his lower lip violently: "Okay, Brother Dongyang must be careful!" ”
Dongyang smiled, looked at Mingyu with a look and said: "Mingyu rest assured, not retreating in the face of danger is the wind of our Liaoyang army, and even more so for you, I will never be greedy for life and afraid of death, and insult the prestige of our Liaoyang army." In Zhang Mingyu's nod, Li Dongyang had already ordered his troops, and he marched towards Qiu Sigang without looking back.
Zhang Mingyu rode his horse on the slope, his eyes staring at the narrow official road in the thick fog, and his body remained motionless. She felt that time was so difficult, as if every breath dragged on for a long time.
"Miss, there is, fire! Fire! There's a fire......" a nearby soldier shouted in a low voice.
Zhang Mingyu subconsciously rubbed her eyes, and sure enough, she clearly saw a beam of fire ignited, followed by two and three beams...... She smiled slightly, looked back and ordered, "Hurry up and get to the location of the fire!" "As I was advancing, I saw that the firelight was really chaotic and found that something was wrong.
Zhang Mingyu was taken aback, only this momentary effort, and then looked at the firelight and changed, scattered and jumping, and then listened carefully, there was a faint sound of killing in the distance. She knew that there was a change, and she was about to recall the soldiers of the rear team who had just left the official road, when she suddenly heard the roar of war drums and the sound of killing.
"Retreat, retreat, we are in ambush!"
"There are crossbowmen, be careful! ———”
Her soldiers screamed and retreated like a tidal wave.
Zhang Mingyu frowned, she couldn't help but retreat, she pulled up the reins of the horse, and another group of soldiers retreated in the direction where she was, her horse neighed back a few steps back, and at that moment, the horse's hind hooves kicked down the loose soil on the slope, and she, together with the horse, slipped down at once.
"Ahh
The man lightly grabbed the waist, because the force of the fall was too great, Mingyu's arm tightly wrapped around the man's neck, the two of them staggered around a few times, in the rotation, Mingyu looked up at the man, only to see that he was handsome, his face was like a carving, his facial features were distinct, and his angular face was handsome.
She seemed to see her soul swaying into the Chongxiao Qionglou, everything was silent, and the fairy music was about to leave.
"What a bold man, right in the middle of the enemy's ambush." The man lowered her to the ground, and there was a reproach in his tone. He was dressed in leather armor and covered with a scarlet cloak, his posture was elegant, his face was radiant, and he had the radiance of the emperor's family between his eyebrows, and the cold and noble aura faintly protruding between his eyebrows.
Mingyu looked at him, his eyes never looked away, his heart was a little shy, and there were a few wisps of joy. It is estimated that he still hasn't come back to his senses in the dream, and his arms are still tightly wrapped around the man's neck, without any relaxation.
"Have you seen enough?" The man asked coldly. "Your Royal Highness the Crown Prince, are you alright?" The entourage Xie Qian also ran to catch up. "His Royal Highness the Prince? Are you the crown prince? Mingyu was surprised, but still didn't let go.
The person who came was the current prince Zhu Youtang. "Let go" The prince didn't answer her question, he glanced at her with a blank and slightly disgusted look and said coldly.
"Mingyu, are you alright? As soon as I saw that there was a fraud, I quickly escaped and ran out to save you. Makes me so anxious! ”
It was Dongyang, seeing Mingyu staring at the prince without blinking, Dongyang suddenly got angry and dragged Mingyu over. Instinctively has a bad impression of His Royal Highness the Prince.
The prince finally got out, turned his head sideways, and said to the left and right: "The defenders here would not have thought that my Ming army would cross the river silently in the middle of the night. In one go, he quickly took Qiu Sigang. ”
"Have Zhang Laizhan, Qi Sheng, Zhang Fu, Jing Yuan, and Wang Yonghe's soldiers and horses arrived?"
Someone replied: "Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, except for the soldiers and horses of Zhang Laizhan, the king of Liaoyang, who have not yet arrived, the other branches have arrived. ”
Zhu Youtang said: "That's good, let's capture Qiusigang first, and then discuss the matter after the camp tent is set up and General Yu Suzhong arrives." Riding on the war horse, looking back and seeing Zhang Mingyu still standing in place, he said, "You are General Zhang's vanguard?" ”
Mingyu came back to his senses at this time: "Exactly, the king of Liaoyang is my father, this is the pioneer, I want to attack at night, but I didn't expect ————"
"Okay, then General Lao will calm down the injuries of his subordinates, set up his own camp and rest." After the prince finished speaking, he rode away with his horse in the dust.
Mingyu looked at the back of the prince, still staring, as if he was still in a dream.
Mingyu faintly felt that he was the one who he was determined to live for life and couldn't refuse.
Sure enough, as the prince expected, the garrison troops of Qiu Sigang did not expect the Ming Dynasty army to arrive here at such a fast marching speed, and did not make repairs and rest for a night attack, and when they found the Ming Dynasty military flag, the entire Qiu Sigang had been surrounded.
The army under the crown prince was battle-hardened and well-trained, and when it charged, it was like a divine soldier descending from heaven, and like a tiger descending from a mountain, and breaking through the city gate in the blink of an eye.
The prince himself went into battle and rode his horse into the wide open gates, surrounded by shouts of victory.
"Miss, miss, are you alright? I was so frightened that when I heard the sound of fighting, my little heart was about to pop out. Caiyi looked at the broken thoughts from the side.
"Mingyu, what are you doing? Hey, look at me here. The enemy was intent on letting us pass through the pass to paralyze the army, but the weather turned cold, and they had been lying in ambush in the pine forest for a long time and were shrunk and shivering, and one of the Mongol soldiers was too thin to stand it, so he fainted on the ground and made a noise, which happened to be heard by me, and then the battle took place. I'm all hurt, and you don't care. Dongyang told the story.
"Well, fortunately, His Highness arrived, otherwise my army would have really fallen into this ambush." Mingyu muttered absentmindedly.
"Mingyu, Mingyu! Have you listened to me? Dongyang shook his arm in front of Mingyu.
Mingyu suddenly came to his senses, and said playfully: "Oh, I can't forget you, are you injured?" Let me see, where, where? I'll help you bandage it. ”
In Dongyang's tent, Mingyu came to help him with medicine. Dongyang originally had skin injuries, but in order to make Mingyu care more about him, he pretended to be weak.
"Where's the injury? Gentleman! Mingyu knocked Dongyang's head.
"I'm hurt everywhere, here, here, and here" Dongyang complained coquettishly, and looked at Mingyu with straight eyes, looking forward to her care and care for him.
Mingyu picked up the medicine jar next to him, reached out and wiped it, and rubbed his hands: "Come, I'll give you medicine and take off your clothes." ”
"Ah, still undressing? Mingyu, you girl, why aren't you reserved" As he spoke, Mingyu was pressed down on the bed.
"That-so much nonsense, didn't you ask me to give you medicine, reserved, Miss Ben didn't know what it was to be reserved since she was born." Mingyu smeared Dongyang's arms, back, and chest with his hands, as if he was painting, and Dongyang screamed in pain, and the screams came from the tent from time to time, and the whole army had to hear it.
In the tent of Prince Zhu Youtang
His younger brother Xingxian Wang Zhu Youyuan was chatting with his brother: "Brother Huang, I heard that the leader of the Liaoyang Army is a beautiful lady, and today the royal brother also staged a heroic rescue of the United States." Brother Huang, how about that girl, can she enter the eyes of the royal brother? ”
The prince was studying the military deployment map, and he didn't hear what Youyuan was saying at all.
"Brother Huang, Brother Huang, don't look at it, it's okay, you stretch yourself so nervous every day." Youyuan shook his hand in front of his brother's eyes.
Youzhu was interrupted, "Yuan'er, what did you say?" ”
"Oh, Brother Huang, I said that today's beautiful female general, have you been tempted?"
"Bored" Youtang looked up and glared at Youyuan expressionlessly.
Continue looking at the topographical map of the area.
"Imperial brother, you also have to be careful of Youyu, he was sent by Concubine Wan to compete with the imperial brother for military merits. Compared with Wen Taowu, more hard-working, and more prestige in the army, which of them can he compare with the imperial brother? I could have left the palace and breathed a good breath, but I was still following an idle King Qihui. ”
"Yuan'er, it's good that you understand some things in your heart, don't say anything you can't say."
"But can't I talk to my eldest brother? Besides, doesn't this big brother think so in his heart? "A big brother, so heartwarming, the two brothers looked at each other and said the pain and understanding in their hearts.
Youtang looked at his younger brother with a smile, "It seems that it's time to add a housewife to the house to control you." ”
Youyuan: "I'll say it first, I don't accept such a vulgar fan." Whether it's this father or the emperor, or Wan Guifei, they can't just stuff someone to me according to their own will anyway. Brother Huang, I've heard that Wan An's daughter, Wan Guifei's niece Wan Jinxiu, but she admires you very much, who doesn't know that she has been determined to be the crown princess since she was a child. ”
Youtang: "Wan An, Wan Guifei and my East Palace look like they are separated, my mother was killed by them, and now I want to stretch out my hand to my prince's mansion." Now that we are in the East Palace, the situation is delicate, and it is inconvenient to offend Concubine Wan. ”
Youyuan: "Even if you find a pillow person, you have to look up to Concubine Wan's snort." Our Prince's Mansion is too much of a bag. ”
Youtang: "Since it can't be avoided, let's gladly accept it." Could it be that this niece of Concubine Wan Guifei, after entering my mansion, the people in my entire prince's mansion are surnamed Wan. This matter will be handled by the brothers, and now we have more important things to do. ”
A crescent moon hangs high in the sky, and the moonlight is clear and bright, illuminating the Baigou River at night, like a winding Milky Way. Sincere young boys and girls, even though there are cruel wars, conspiracies, gunsmoke, plunder, and killing in this world, because of you, it is the most beautiful scenery and hope in this world.