Chapter 45 Grain and Grass Rescue

The winter in northern Xinjiang was cold, and after several days of fighting and fighting, the enemy soldiers were no longer able to fight back. Due to casualties and fatigue, the soldiers in northern Xinjiang repaired, and the two sides temporarily ceased fighting.

The trees were not at ease, and patrolled the sentry in the middle of the night.

The cold wind was shining, and the trees looked at the cold moon in the sky, thinking of their father and sister in King Qiong's mansion. The little prince who ran behind him all day long, Runyu. He misses them so much. King Joan was not in the palace. I don't know how much the princess has to do.

Shu'er thought about it, and felt that his responsibility was heavy, when he first fought with the enemy country, Shu'er was not far from King Qiong's side. I was afraid that King Qiong would make a mistake, because of this, King Qiong was very angry. scolded him, "You are here to fight, to protect the country, not for you to protect myself, if I go back to the capital in this way, you can still fight with all your heart." ”

In the future, every time there was a battle, Shu'er would desperately rush to the front and fight with the enemy, boost morale, and try to minimize the danger of King Qiong.

Shu'er knew that he was just a poor boy who was about to starve to death, and it was King Qiong who gave him the opportunity to read and practice martial arts. In the end, he became a soldier, this kind of kindness is like regenerating the kindness of parents, and the tree will never be able to repay it for a lifetime.

The tree was thinking silently when he heard a sound of rattling under the city wall, and he immediately looked under the city wall. There seemed to be a figure shaking, and the trees hurriedly came to look behind the city wall, and there were also figures. The trees were shocked, they couldn't beat it in the open, so they came to the dark, and wanted to take advantage of the darkness to secretly attack the city.

The tree immediately asked the soldiers of the night watch to beat the drums and prepare for battle.

King Joan was about to put on his armor. A few soldiers came in and quickly snatched King Qiong's armor, but before King Qiong could understand, the other soldiers had already put the brown armor of the tree on King Qiong's body. Shu'er walked into the tent, and several soldiers put on King Qiong's silver armor to help Shu'er put it on.

All this was done so quickly, and by the time King Joan reacted, his armor was already in place.

"Tree, what are you doing here?" King Qiong shouted.

"King Qiong, wait until you return to the capital Shu'er and then confess your guilt to King Qiong." "It's too late now. The enemy is coming from the front and back, I can only divide into two ways with King Qiong's soldiers, King Qiong, you are on the back road, and I am on the front road. ”

King Qiong said. I don't know who the main commander is. The tree is afraid that we will not be able to protect me if we are separated. Swap armor with me to attract enemies to pursue him, and the trees behind the walls are dense, making it easy to dodge and break out of the encirclement.

But there is no time to scramble. King Joan can only be arranged by the tree. He led a group of men and horses to rush down from behind the city walls.

The sky has gradually brightened, and the silver armor on Shu'er's body is particularly conspicuous, and the enemy generals shouted, "Capture the thief and capture the king first, and give me heavy troops to capture King Qiong." ”

The enemy country immediately weakened the men and horses of the rear bread, and the men and horses of the tree were deadly besieged.

The trees are fearless, wielding knives and fighting. The war horses neighed, the flesh and blood flew sideways, and the corpses that fell down were trampled by the war horses.

The more the tree fights, the more courageous it becomes. His face was splattered with blood, and he could no longer tell if it was anyone else's or his own, staring at a pair of murderous eyes, invincible.

The soldiers under Shu'er were infected by the momentum of Shu'er, although there were more enemies and less of me, but none of the soldiers flinched, they roared, boosted their fighting spirit, and rounded the enemy with the sword in their hands is flesh and blood.

After about half a day of fighting, the enemy soldiers were finally defeated. Shu'er's soldiers also suffered heavy losses.

This should be the most brutal fight in northern Xinjiang in the past few days.

King Joan's men and horses were also killed.

The wound on Shu'er's body could no longer tell whether it was a knife wound or an arrow wound, and King Qiong ordered the military doctor to treat the wound carefully.

The enemy's men and horses were even more seriously lost, and they could no longer fight, and the two armies began to confront each other.

King Qiong's grain and grass were obviously insufficient, and the people sent to the capital to deliver the letter were gone. King Qiong was so anxious that the dry food for the soldiers had begun to decrease. They are all seven-foot men who fight with their lives, how can they fight if they can't eat enough.

The person sent to the capital to deliver the letter had already arrived in the capital, but the emperor did not go to court for many days, so the military department forwarded the letter to King He, who said that he would enter the palace immediately and present the emperor in person.

King He peeked at the letter and saw that it was urging grain and grass. Having a trick, he withheld the letter.

"People are iron, rice is steel, there is no grain and grass, no matter how hard King Qiong's bones are, he can't bear it, and when the time comes, he will return defeated, I see how you see the emperor." He Wang thought to himself.

Qiu Xun always felt that something had made her uneasy these days, at night, thinking about King Qiong difficult to sleep, in a trance saw King Qiong walking towards her with an empty dry food belt, and when she got closer, she saw King Qiong's face full of fatigue, his eyes were dull, Qiu Xun sat up suddenly, and felt a headache. Qiu Xun knew that he knew that the feeling of predicting the future was coming again, it must be King Qiong who was trapped and cut off food and grass.

As soon as the day dawned, Qiu Xun took Xing'er in a carriage, hurried to the barracks to see General Nie, and told Nie Tiancheng about his dream, Nie Tiancheng had already learned the princess's prediction many times, and believed that King Qiong must have something.

"Don't worry, princess, I'll go to the military department immediately to ask."

Nie Tiancheng rode to the Ministry of War, saw Lord Shangshu of the Ministry of War, and asked, "My lord, can King Qiong of Northern Xinjiang have an urgent letter delivered." ”

"King Qiong does have an urgent letter to deliver," said the military secretary, "but the emperor has not been to the court for many days, and the officials are not allowed to disturb the palace." On that day, King He came, so he handed over the trust and King He to the emperor. ”

Nie Tiancheng was furious, "How can the Northern Xinjiang Urgent Letter be so negligent. ”

Nie Tiancheng flew on his horse and rushed to King He's mansion.

Seeing King He, Nie Tiancheng didn't care about giving a gift, so he said, "King He, a few days ago, the secretary of the military department had King Qiong's trust to transfer it to the emperor with you?" ”

"Huh?" King He pretended to be stunned, and suddenly remembered and said, "Oh, by the way, there is such a thing, but that day I went to the palace, and my father-in-law said that the emperor has not been safe in the past few days, and I will come back if I don't see the officials." thought it was the good news of King Qiong's meritorious service, and thought that it would not be too late to delay it for a few days and give it to the emperor. ”

King He's words made Nie Tiancheng angry, and he said in his heart, "King Qiong is fighting bloody battles in northern Xinjiang, but you are playing tricks here. Deliberately delaying the delivery of grain and grass. But he couldn't do anything to King He, so he had to take the letter and rush to the palace.

The father-in-law came to report that General Nie wanted to see the emperor. The emperor has just gotten up. The ladies were waiting to wash. The emperor didn't want to see it, but he knew that Nie Tiancheng would be a big deal when he came, and he was afraid that it would be a matter of defense in the capital, so he ordered Nie Tiancheng to come in to see him.

Nie Tiancheng saw the emperor and immediately handed King Qiong's letter to the emperor, and the emperor was taken aback. Said. "A few days earlier, I instructed King He to send some grain and grass to the northern Xinjiang, why didn't it arrive."

In fact, the emperor knew that he was at a loss, and he also casually asked King Qiong when he was drinking and having fun, and King Qiong was drunk. I don't know if I went to my heart. The emperor didn't know that King He would pretend to be stupid and drunk if he wasn't drunk.

Nie Tiancheng couldn't take care of it anymore. If you want the emperor to send grain and grass, you have to personally escort the grain and grass.

"General Nie personally escorted it, what should I do about the affairs of the capital?" The emperor is only worried about himself.

"The emperor can rest assured, there are other generals in the capital, I will go back and explain to them, and after transporting the grain and grass, I will return to Beijing immediately" Nie Tiancheng assured the emperor.

The emperor could only do this when he saw it, and ordered General Nie to go to Beizhuang to escort grain and grass.

The soldiers in northern Xinjiang have been without food for a day. King Qiong asked the soldiers to dig up the wild vegetables that grew at the root of the city wall and boil them for the time being.

King Qiong is most worried about Shu'er's injury, relying on his youth, the injury is relatively fast. But Shu'er needs to replenish his body because of excessive bleeding, but he can't eat enough, so how can he have anything to replenish his body. King Joan is in a hurry.

After another two days, the soldiers were completely starved of food. Many of the soldiers had begun to collapse, and King Qiong stood on the wall and looked into the distance.

There was a small servant coming to report, and there was the sound of weapons in the distance, as if two soldiers were fighting. King Qiong was overjoyed, it must have been the arrival of grain and grass. Find some soldiers who can still fight and are in better health to pick them up.

As soon as I heard that food and grass had arrived, many soldiers also had the spirit. They went to answer one after another.

Where are the defeated troops of the enemy country who are General Nie's opponents, after a while, General Nie escorted the grain and grass to the barracks.

King Qiong didn't care about catching up with General Nie, so he hurriedly asked people to put the pot up to boil porridge, and let the soldiers drink some porridge first, and then eat slowly.

Nie Tiancheng told King Qiong about King He's detention of the letter, and told King Qiong about the princess's dream that King Qiong had run out of food and found herself.

King Qiong sighed, the heavens will not die for me, give me a concubine. Several crises were fortunate to be expected by Xun'er, so he was able to get out of danger.

General Nie came to visit Shu'er and said, "Good boy, I didn't train you in vain, it's a good material." ”

King Qiong personally fed the porridge of the tree and said, "This kid is exactly the same as you were back then, and my King Qiong has another treasure." ”

Shu'er smirked, "King Qiong, it's too stingy." Just give me porridge and a piece of dry food, and I'm hungry. ”

General Nie said with a smile. "King Qiong is reluctant to starve you, you have been hungry for several days, and eating dry food will break your stomach. Drink porridge first and slow down before eating dry food. ”

Because General Nie was ordered by the emperor, it was not appropriate to stay for a long time, so he bid farewell to King Qiong and returned to the capital.

King Qiong said to Nie Tiancheng, "You go back and reassure the princess, this time in a battle, the enemy country will also be greatly injured." It is estimated that it will not last much longer, and now that their new king has ascended the throne. Changing the name of the country to Mongolia is a great achievement. This time I taught him a lesson, and it will be reined in. ”

General Nie transported grain and grass to northern Xinjiang in time, and the morale of the northern Xinjiang generals increased greatly. King Qiong took advantage of the victory to pursue, and while the emperor of Mongolia was busy with the enthronement ceremony, he chased the poor man.

The new emperor of Mongolia was ambitious, invaded a number of neighboring countries, occupied a long line, and was deeply damaged by the war with King Qiong, so he had to withdraw his army.

Nie Tiancheng returned to the capital to report to the emperor, King Qiong and General Shu'er fought bravely, and victory was in sight. The emperor also praised a few words perfunctorily. Wait for King Qiong to triumph and then make a reward.

Nie Tiancheng came to King Qiong's Mansion again to reassure Qiu Xun, and told the nurse about Shu'er's great military exploits, but he didn't say anything about Shu'er's injury. The nurse was crying with joy. Shu'er's father is an honest man who has no ability, at that time, in order not to starve to death of this only son, he reluctantly sold his newborn daughter, and now he is excited to see that Shu'er finally has a chance and doesn't know what to say.