Chapter 320: My General's Death Is Unpaid
Zhu Zhanji led the army into Gaoqiaomen, and did not stop for long, but went all the way to Zhengyangmen in the inner city.
Li He led a thousand men and stayed behind to clean up the remnants.
After the city gate was opened, the Ming army outside the city poured in, and Wu Chenliang's figure was drowned in the shadow of the sword and sword. Although Hu Yanjin kept staring at his shadow, he still let him out of sight.
After the army left, the defenders of Gaoqiaomen were leaderless, and the soldiers surrendered one after another. The barracks had been burned down, and Li He only led his troops to count and surrender the army, and there was not much material left.
He saw Hu Yanjin from afar, and hurriedly ran over with a smile to salute:
"My lord! You are really worth thousands of troops alone, Li He is really convinced, but it's a pity that I can't see you fly into the city......"
Hu Yanjin was in a hurry to find his father, and he didn't have the heart to listen to him, so Hua Qiao hurriedly said:
"Li He, you asked people to help you find it, have you seen a weapon like this?" As she spoke, she handed the three-edged whip in her hand to Li He.
He took it and took a closer look, but he didn't know it. However, the three-edged whip was easy to recognize, and he called a flag commander, and asked him to look at it too, and with a few personal soldiers, he carried torches and looked around.
Hu Yanjin glanced at Hua Qiao gratefully, and then he remembered that when his father walked out, he didn't have another Hu Yan whip in his hand, Hua Qiao was careful and had already thought of it.
Xiao Gao and Can'er also ran over, and when they saw that Hua Qiao was unscathed, they were relieved.
Li He's people were still counting the living, and the four of them started from the city gate, because Wu Chenliang was wearing the armor of a captain, which was not much different from the soldiers, and the corpses lying on the ground had to be confirmed one by one.
Can'er hadn't seen General Wu, so she took the three-edged whip for the princess and followed them.
Several people were rummaging around in the city defense, and suddenly, from the shadow behind the fortifications, a hand stretched out and grabbed the Huyan whip in Can'er's hand, and Can'er screamed in fright.
Xiao Gao scurried over, and was about to pick the hand away with his sword, but in the light of the torch, he suddenly noticed that the man who was half leaning behind the fortifications and clinging to the whip was so familiar:
"Sir? It's the master! ”
Hu Yanjin hurriedly ran over, and when Wu Chenliang saw him, a little light lit up in his distracted eyes.
"Jin'er ......"
"Father! How are you? Are there any injuries? ”
When Wu Chenliang heard this "father", he saw that he was anxious and distressed, and there was a smile on his face. He shook his head and said:
"The Father was just tired and not hurt. Where did you say, "Where are you going?" I want to go with you for the Father. ”
The buckwheat couldn't help but cry with joy.
Hu Yanjin and Xiao Gao helped him up, he looked at Hua Qiao and smiled: "Did you hear that I, an old man, were going to go with you, and you were so scared that you cried?" ”
"It's not...... I'm afraid of my brother...... Grab dumplings with us and eat them. ”
Hua Qiao cried and laughed, wiped her hand on her face, and with tears, she spent a large piece on her face, and everyone laughed.
Can'er said happily, "Shall we leave now?" It just so happened that our carriage was still in the camp, and from here we went all the way to the southeast, which was Maoshan. My mother came to Yingtianfu from Maoshan when she was a child. ”
No matter where you go, it's the right thing to get out of here.
Xiao Gao and Can'er went back to the camp to pack up their things and drive the carriage, and Hua Qiao saw that there was a water tank by the wall, so she went over to scoop water and wash her face.
Hu Yanjin untied his armor for his father, looked up and down again, and was indeed not injured, so he calmed down. The place where they were standing was closer to the inside of the city tower, and at this time they heard Li He calling him from outside:
"My lord! My lord! Where are you? The triangular whip has been found! ”
Hu Yanjin let go of his father's hand and said with a smile: "Father, you stand and wait, I'll go over and get a three-edged whip, and by the way, make up a reason, and don't ask them to look for Ah Qiao everywhere." ”
"Go, you don't want anything, you have to take the whip away."
Wu Chenliang suddenly felt that he could actually talk to his son well.
Hu Yanjin ran over, took the three-edged whip from Li He's hand, and was about to tell him that the princess was going back to Shuntianfu, when he suddenly heard a sound from behind the fortifications, and heard the cry of the buckwheat, Hu Yanjin did not hesitate, turned around and ran over there.
Li He and the guards also ran over.
In the shaking firelight, Hu Yanjin saw his father fall to the ground, Hua Qiao was fighting with a man, the man wanted to leave, but Hua Qiao entangled him, but her body was disadvantaged, and she couldn't subdue the man with martial arts.
Hu Yanjin flew over, pulled out the three-edged whip and stabbed it, the man threw off the buckwheat, turned around and blocked with his sword. At this time, the firelight illuminated his face: it was Zhou Chuang, who had just escaped in chaos!
Zhou Chuang scolded:
"Wu Chenliang, you traitor! Your Majesty had long expected that you would rebel, so he called me to monitor you early, and as soon as he had any objections, he immediately asked for beheading! Unexpectedly, you have already colluded with Zhu Zhanji's people...... ...... knot"
He had forgotten that when he was held hostage by Hu Yanjin, he also called "open the door quickly", but no one paid attention to him.
Fortunately, he came later, and no one told him about the relationship between Wu Chenliang and Hu Yanjin.
Hu Yanjin "whipped the mountain down", jumped up, hit him from the air, Zhou Chuang's skull was cracked, and he was killed on the spot.
He looked back and saw that Hua Qiao was sitting on the ground, tears streaming down her face, her father's head resting on her lap, her hand holding her father's heart, but blood still seeping out of her fingers.
Hu Yanjin slowly squatted down, in the firelight, Wu Chenliang's eyes stared at his face, as if he had something to say, Hu Yanjin put his ear to his tears and only listened to him try to say:
"For the Father...... The father finally died...... Die on the battlefield...... Very good...... You guys...... Walk! ”
Li He, who rushed over, was dumbfounded, I don't know what he had just experienced, why did this person on the ground make the princess and adults so grief-stricken?
Hua Qiao took two deep breaths and said to Li He:
"This person is the princess's savior, if it weren't for him, the princess was killed by the thief just now, and the princess would take him to be buried properly. Lord Huyan, please carry the body of your benefactor to the carriage of this princess. ”
Li He and a few pro-soldiers wanted to step forward to help, but they were stopped by Hu Yanjin raising his hand.
Xiao Gao had already arrived at the city gate with the carriage, but saw the adult walking out with a person in his arms.
In the darkness, the torches at the city gate were blown by the wind, flickering and dimming, the barracks were already burning, the open flames were gradually extinguished, only the smoke had not yet dispersed, a kind of battlefield had a tragic grandeur, with the wind swept into the heart, suffocating.
Wu Chenliang was in his son's arms, as if he was asleep, his gray beard trembling gently in the wind, as if he had taught Xiao Hu Yanjin in the past:
Do you know how to whip it? Master Zhou knows how to teach these useless things! Do you need to use a lyre to accompany you on the battlefield?
What did Mr. Wu say? He knows a fart! You just have to remember the king, the minister, the father, the son!
What is there to cry about? Get up! Keep playing! You can't take three moves under your father's whip today, you don't want to eat!
Hu Yanjin put him in the car and gently brushed away the hair that was sticking to his face:
Father, this time I finally got tired of scolding.