Early the next morning, Xie Ze personally led the team to the city of Licheng to call for battle.

Zhou E and Li Ran stood on the high gate to watch.

Zhou E leaned on the protruding log, half standing and half sitting, squinting at the twenty or thirty sergeants who came out of the front of the formation, shouting at the top of their voices, and said to Li Ran:

"Today must be in vain, unless that Qi Yi loses his mind and goes crazy, he won't fight."

"Why?" Li Ran asked casually.

"The Shu army has just suffered a fiasco, and its morale is low, so we want to make a big move, and for them, it's best to decline and exhaust it.

Look at the Anzi flag next to Dashuai, don't forget, Shudi is playing the banner of the old Chaorenzong.

Also, the northern tribes that went south fled cleanly, in his original strategy, the northern tribes must be a large piece, the left wing and the right wing or something, this new strategy is not so fast, and the grain and grass behind it are heavy, and they have to follow suit.

This Qi Yi doesn't know what his temper is, whether he is good at defending or attacking.

Call for three or five heavenly arrays, and it's time to attack the city. ”

Speaking of siege, Zhou E sighed.

Li Ran turned her head to look at Zhou E.

Zhou E met her gaze with a wry smile.

"I've been idle for several years, and since the day I was free, I planned to retire idlely from now on, and I also told the handsome and the marquis, and I led the idle errand in the capital.

This person, as soon as he is idle, he scatters, and his heart scatters first. It's in a place like the capital again.

In the past few years, I have lived a comfortable and leisurely life, eating well and sleeping deeply, and what I see with my eyes is the prosperity and excitement of the capital.

When I went to the battlefield again, I felt uncomfortable when I smelled blood, and I felt uncomfortable when I heard the neighing of horses.

Alas, when the siege came, I stayed in my tent. ”

After a pause, Zhou E added.

"Stay in the camp, don't look at the excitement, just stay in the camp, get ready, if there is a case, we have to run."

Li Ran was a little choked by what she said, and nodded with a smile, "Okay." ”

After two days, the siege began.

Zhou E didn't stay in the camp as she said, didn't listen or look, before the siege began, she was neatly dressed, carrying her long knife, and Li Ran, standing on the gate and watching from afar.

One by one, the ladder carts were pushed to the front of the formation, and in front of the ladder carts, there were hundreds of people in a row.

Zhou E stretched out half of her body, looked carefully, looked back at Li Ran, twisted her eyebrows and said, "It's Chang'an Hou, at the front." ”

Li Ran hurriedly stretched her neck to look ahead, the steps in front of the cloud ladder seemed to be similar, and with her familiarity with Chang'anhou, she couldn't recognize which one was Chang'anhou.

In the Chinese army where Xie Ze was standing on horseback, a heavy drum sounded, and in the middle of the infantry in front of the ladder, swords and guns were raised, and the fierce killing sound also sounded at the same time, and the men and horses scattered forward at the same time.

Li Ran gripped the railing tightly with both hands, staring at the charging footsteps, his breath was about to stagnate.

Rushing to the place of shooting, on the head of the oak city, the iron arrows sounded intensively when they broke through the air, Li Ran watched in horror as the iron arrows in the sky fell in the middle of the rushing cavalry, and after the rain of arrows, the galloping cavalry seemed to have not experienced the round of shooting just now, and the people and horses seemed to be faster than just now.

Li Ran's gaze settled on the foot riders who fell with the rain of arrows, and watched the horses neigh, turn in circles, and rush in all directions.

Li Ran's throat was so tight that she could barely speak, and turned her head to look at Zhou E.

Zhou E furrowed her brows, staring nervously at the steps that continued to rush forward.

Li Ran slowly breathed a sigh of relief, his eyes ripped away from the corpses in that place, and looked at the foot riders who rushed out from the second round of arrow rain, and further on, there was a chaotic and dense rejection of horses.

The knight who rushed to the front strangled his horse with all his might, jumped forward from the horse that was strangled with his front hooves raised, rushed to the front of the rejection, roared, picked up a heavy piece of the rejection horse, threw it to the side, rushed over, and then picked up another piece of the rejection horse and threw it out.

"It's Chang'an Hou!" Zhou E's face was tense, it was the four words of Chang'anhou, and it was like a taut dough, and the hard erection popped out.

The infantry behind Chang'anhou rushed into the gap that he threw away, and in the chaos, Li Ran looked at the horse that was spinning in circles, but he couldn't see where Chang'anhou was.

The gap became bigger and bigger, and more and more soldiers poured into the city, and the ladders were mixed among the soldiers, staggering close to the tall and heavy oak city walls.

Iron arrows were shot down from the top of the city, and also from under the wall, and there was a fire against the wall, and the smoke was rolling, and the ladder was against the wall, and then it was pushed away, and it was knocked down, and several rockets were shot into the wall, and smoke rose from the city.

Li Ran looked straight at the soldiers who rushed forward and piled up on the city wall, like a group of ants climbing up in the heavy rain, turning a blind eye to the death of their companions, and kept climbing until they died.

After a while, Li Ran breathed violently.

"Can you take it? How long will it take? ”

Zhou E glanced at Li Ran.

"How is this possible? This is the temptation of temptation, and it is still early, until it is dark. ”

Zhou E looked at Li Ran again, frowned and wondered:

"Didn't you rush to kill a few days ago, this is scary?"

"When you rush to kill, you are in it, and you have no distractions, not to be scared, but to be like ants." Li Ran took a deep breath and slowly spit it out.

"Ants."

Zhou E corrected, looked at the tragic attack in the distance, and sighed.

"It's not just ants, they are all counted by a few dozens, hundreds of thousands, after a war, that is, count the numbers, how many soldiers died, how many horses died, sometimes, horses are worth more than people.

Why don't you watch it and go back for a cup of tea? ”

"No, I'm fine."

Li Ran took another deep breath.

"Do you often besiege cities like this?"

"Of course, to fight the world, it is such a city after city, you fight it today, and I will fight it back tomorrow.

The year I was just promoted to deputy general, I fought Zhaozhou City. If you fight down, I will take it back, and if you fight it again, I will take it back again, back and forth seven times.

It's hard to attack the city, it's not easy to defend the city, you haven't experienced it, at this time, in the oak city, I don't know what the chaos is like, a little careless, let people attack the city, tear a hole, and soon collapse.

I'd rather siege a city than defend it. ”

Zhou E looked from the soldiers besieging the city, looked at the head of the oak city, and from the head of the oak city, to the sun that was about to rise overhead.

"It's almost noon, let's go back and eat and come again, it's early, no matter how you attack it, you have to attack until dark.

In the morning, I heard Shi Nan say that today is a feint, and the troops will almost be withdrawn after dark.

If you officially attack the city, the kind that has to be captured, it will be even earlier, at least tomorrow night, the city wall of Oak City will be strong.

Let's go, let's come back after dinner. ”

Li Ran hummed lowly, but didn't move. "I'm not hungry, I can't eat, you go eat, I'll stand for a while."

"Then let them send it in." Zhou E simply answered directly, beckoned Xiqing, and told him to bring something to eat while standing.

Xiqing quickly held the meat and vegetable steamed buns and the soup and waited over.

Zhou E took the small basket of meat and vegetable steamed buns and handed them to Li Ran first, Li Ran shook her head, she really couldn't eat it at this time.

Zhou E didn't let it go, took a meat and vegetable steamed bun and took a big bite, and said a little vaguely: "The first time I watched the war, you were okay, it would be good if you watched too much."

If you feint today, you may have to attack again tomorrow, and maybe you will have to attack the day after tomorrow.

kept attacking the city, so that Qi Yiteng couldn't make a move, which was also to cover for the An brothers.

You want to see it, you have to see it. Just watch it a few more times and get used to it. ”

Li Ran listened to Zhou E's words and didn't answer her.

Sure enough, as Zhou E said, this feint attack lasted until it was dark, and when Xie Ze's Chinese army heard the sound of the gong to collect the troops, the city did not send a ride with a rain of arrows as Zhou E said, and the two groups seemed to hear the director shouting to stop at the same time, and they suddenly separated quietly from the fierce battle.

Li Ran and Zhou E stood in the gate one after the other, watching the cars full of corpses enter the gate and go to the several fires that had been erected next to them.

Li Ran looked at the carts full of corpses like piles of soldiers and shrimps that passed in front of him with some blankness.

Xie Ze walked around from the side, stretched out his hand to wrap his hand around Li Ran's shoulder, bowed his head slightly, and looked at her face carefully with the help of Hongwang's torch.

"Are you alright? Scared? Don't look at it, go inside. ”

Li Ran replied in a low voice, twisted his head a little stiffly, and no longer looked at the mountains of corpses.

She wasn't scared, she wasn't afraid of the dead, but it was the first time she had seen so many fresh corpses, and just now, these corpses were still living people with names and surnames, each with their own joys and sorrows.

Before that, the most she had seen was eleven.

It was her group, that mission, she had a very bad cold, she had a fever, they didn't let her go, a group of twelve people, went to eleven people, and came back eleven corpses, yes, they were ambushed.

After that, she left and returned to the city where she grew up to hide the experience.

But she had never forgotten the image of the eleven corpses in front of her, and remorse and guilt became a part of her.

If she went, they wouldn't have been ambushed, at least, they wouldn't have all gone without returning.

"Are you alright?"

Entering the tent, Xie Ze looked at Li Ran's somewhat pale face and became worried.

"It's okay, I've been standing on the gate for a day, I'm tired from standing, I haven't eaten lunch, I'm fine, I'll be relieved by drinking a bowl of hot soup."

Li Ran took a deep breath, looked at Xie Ze, and smiled.

"Then let's have a bowl of soup first."

Xie Ze looked at Li Ran and didn't let go.

Xiqing brought in a few soups and snacks, and Li Ran picked up the soup bowl, slowly sipped the soup, and cleaned up the emotions that came out.

After drinking a bowl of soup, Li Ran cleaned up her scattered thoughts, looked up at Xie Ze, and smiled: "I'm fine." ”

"Hmm." Xie Ze looked at Li Ran's obviously relieved complexion and breathed a sigh of relief. "You rest for a while, I still have some official business, just a while."

Seeing Li Ran nodding in response, Xie Ze stood up, lifted the curtain and entered the other side of the tent.

Li Ran curled up on the thick cushion, pulled open the quilt cover, closed her eyes as if she was asleep, and listened to the footsteps and talking on the other side of the curtain dimly, but she couldn't hear clearly, in a trance, like a dream.

I don't know how long it took, Li Ran was pushed awake by Xie Ze.

"Asleep? You don't eat much in the morning and you don't eat at noon, so you still eat something and go to sleep. “

Xie Zelian dragged Li Ran to pick up, and said with a smile while taking the light salt water from Xiqing's hand and handing it to her.

"You're busy." Li Ran sat up, came to her senses, took the light salt water and rinsed her mouth, and watched the two little guys set up a table full of refreshing dishes.

"There's a good letter."

After eating, without waiting for Xiqing and the others to remove all the dishes, Xie Ze looked at Li Ran and smiled.

Li Ran looked at Xie Ze, raised his eyebrows slightly, and waited for him to continue.

"Mr. Hong, who sent you away from the north of Licheng, is safe, the uncle of the Hong family has returned home, and he is safe, and the Hong family is safe."

Xie Ze looked at Li Ran and said.

Li Ran raised her eyebrows in surprise, "Really? ”

"Hmm." Xie Ze nodded with great certainty and laughed. "I specially arranged for someone to go and see it quietly, and it was safe and sound."

"Have you been safe all the time?" Li Ran couldn't believe it.

"Well, it's been safe and sound."

"How could it be ......?"

Li Ran's words paused.

"Didn't they report the seal letter used by the Hong family? Or, for some other reason? Li Ran couldn't believe it, sending her away was not a trivial matter.

"I won't fail to report it, Zhou E and Xiao Wu are very sure, the light cavalry you met that day must have recognized that you were all war horses, a group of more than 100 horses, and they didn't dare not report it.

After Qi Yi arrived in Licheng, he recruited horses from the people twice, and more than 100 sturdy military horses, how dare they hide it? ”

"Is that Qi Yi?"

"It should be concise and sharp."

Xie Ze raised his hand and pressed it between Li Ran's twisted eyebrows and rubbed it gently.

"Jian Mingrui and Wang An have a good relationship, Wang An and Mr. Hong are from the same list, and they have a very good relationship, Jian Mingrui must know, perhaps, when they were in Rong'an City, Jian Mingrui and Mr. Hong also had some friendship.

The matter of Mr. Hong sending you away should be Jian Mingrui's past friendship with Mr. Hong, or because of his friendship with Wang An for decades, so he did not pursue it. ”

"Hmm." After a while, Li Ran snorted, "What kind of person is Jian Mingrui?" ”

Jian Mingrui was known as a prodigy when he was a child, he was indeed extremely smart, and he was excellent at piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, poetry and articles.

The people you have seen him, he was born well, his bearing is extraordinary, and when he married Princess Leping, he said that the golden boy and the girl were a good story.

After the city of Rong'an was broken, Jian Mingrui avoided Shu with his family, until today, he is alone, and I heard that the people who are waiting around him are also some small servants, or old mothers-in-law.

Jian Mingrui is very good at civil affairs, and in Shu for more than ten years, he has been recuperating and recuperating, and he has been very effective.

I heard that he has been patrolling outside all the year round, serving simply, paying attention to the people's livelihood and governance, and he has made great contributions to the prosperity of Shudi.

Jian Mingrui also has a younger brother, Jian Mingzhe, compared with Jian Mingrui, it is a pearl compared to a fisheye, Jian Mingzhe has already married a wife and had children, and now has three sons and two daughters, and regards himself as the next lord of Shu. ”

Li Ran listened attentively, was silent for a moment, looked at Xie Ze and asked, "Why doesn't Prime Minister Jian become emperor?" has been using Renzong's year name, Prime Minister Jian is at least sixty this year, right? ”

"Sixty-seven, Jian Mingrui has two older sisters.

If the Jian family is called emperor, first, there will be little left of Renzong's benefits, and second, if he is called emperor, the imperial court will definitely send troops to recruit immediately. ”

Li Ran hummed lowly.

Prime Minister Jian did not claim the title of emperor, except for the two things that Xie Ze said, I am afraid that there are many other things that cannot be explained, after all, the matter of being called emperor has disadvantages and countless benefits.

(End of chapter)