Chapter 44: Zheng Guan's Choice
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"On the eighth day of the ninth month, forcing the palace to kill the king, breaking the kettle and sinking the boat, regardless of success or failure."
Hua Chenghe's reply was only this simple sixteen words, and his meaning was already very clear, let Zheng Guan take the few teams in his hands to rush straight to the North and South Palace, and exchange their lives for the chaos of Yunjing, which was a very favorable condition for Hua Chenghe, who was raising troops in Zezhou at the same time.
Just when Hua Chengji thought that Zheng Guan, a "lover", would definitely do what he asked, Zheng Guan had already knelt in front of Jingzong with those sixteen words in tears.
On the floor of Yongning Palace, Zheng Guan, who was grief-stricken and crying, made a look of eagerness to pull out his heart.
Jingzong was really moved.
On the outskirts of Yunjing City, the rolling Qujiang River is surging, the bulging cloud sails go straight to the sky, and the 100,000 elites of Daning are heading towards the southeast under the leadership of Zheng Guan.
On the handsome platform on the deck, the wanton contempt in Zheng Guan's eyes clearly overshadowed the pain of widowhood.
When Zheng Guan's own life was not threatened, he would feel that Chunlan was more important to him than anything else, but when Hua Chengji wanted Zheng Guan to die, he really realized it...... It turns out that his love for Chunlan is far less profound than he thought, what is a vision of ten thousand years, and a sea vow...... It was all false, and selfishness and ambition crushed all his beliefs in love and righteousness.
Going down the river, drinking horses and looking at the sea, a person who is not "righteous" led a "righteous" division to win the war with a near-perfect attitude.
In front of the entrance of the vegetable market in Zezhou City, Zheng Guan angrily snatched the big knife from the executioner's hand, until he cut off the head of Hua Chenghei with his own hands, Hua Chengji did not tell him the whereabouts of Chunlan, and before he died, Hua Chenghe, who was full of blood, looked up to the sky and smiled, as if he was the victor in this war......
Chunlan, who is uncertain about life and death, left a deep wound in Zheng Guan's heart, but the prominent rank of the commander of the palace commander, the supreme commander of the 100,000 Royal Forest Army, and the first-class palace marshal made his wound scab quickly, and only the occasional inadvertent touch would make his heart hurt slightly, but it was only a slight pain.
At this time, the news of Lu Ziyu's marriage to the mute girl just touched a long-standing wound in Zheng Guan's heart.
Which one should you choose? Hua Chenghei's problems back then tossed Zheng Guan to death, and finally forced Zheng Guan to choose a choice that even he looked down on.
In the wind, the flying snowflakes scraped on Zheng Guan's wound like a knife cut, but the smile that appeared on the corner of his mouth was so proud, and even deformed with pride, it was a kind of pleasure after the revenge was successful.
This time, Zheng Guan also wanted Lu Ziyu to make a choice.
In Tongzhou City, Dong Xiaohua got up early in the morning, looking at the bright and gorgeous Luo skirt brocade clothes sent to her by the servants, her nostalgic eyes were full of happiness and satisfaction, but she didn't wear any of them, after carefully folding these gorgeous new clothes and putting them in the cabinet, she still changed into the coarse linen clothes that she was used to wearing on weekdays, and ran towards the back kitchen of the barracks in a bouncing manner.
"See...... Met the princess. The stammer, who was putting steamed buns on the steamer, was the first to see Dong Xiaohua's figure, he quickly stopped what he was doing, touched his hand stained with water stains and flour on his apron, and bowed respectfully.
"The little one has seen the princess." Everyone in the back kitchen also bent down to salute, their expressions full of awe.
Just before Lu Ziyu and Du Dong Xiaohua got married, they were not so formal and restrained when they saw Dong Xiaohua, and they got along very well with laughter, but today's attitude is clearly different, but they are not estranged from Dong Xiaohua, but because Dong Xiaohua's identity at this time is already the first-class princess of Beiyang Palace, and it is the existence of the Beiyang King in their hearts.
But Dong Xiaohua didn't like these hierarchical etiquette, because she couldn't speak, so she hurriedly ran to everyone's side, helped them up one by one, and then shook her head at everyone with a serious expression, signaling that everyone didn't have to salute so much trouble in the future.
"This ...... How good is that? He stammered and said first, he felt that Princess Beiyang should have received such a courtesy, and if she was exempted, it would be disrespectful to Princess Beiyang and disrespectful to the entire Beiyang Palace.
But as soon as he said this, Dong Xiaohua took the steamer from the stammering hand and began to steam the steamed buns, with a happy smile on her cheerful expression.
"Princess, this ...... That's not your job. He stammered and wanted to snatch the steamer from Dong Xiaohua's hand, but he couldn't do it because of his identity, and his embarrassed and helpless appearance looked very funny.
Dong Xiaohua shook her head with a smile, and made a gesture with her hand for a long time, meaning that she couldn't be idle, she had to work like everyone, steam hot steamed buns, and wait for Lu Ziyu and the soldiers to triumph.
The simple and damp back kitchen became extremely warm because of Dong Xiaohua's arrival, and the clatter of the kitchen knife hitting the board and the crackling sound of the firewood burning were intertwined, covering the sound of everyone present sobbing slightly because of the warm current in their hearts.
The distance between Tongzhou and Yunzhou is not too far, the happy words and red candles in the wedding room have not been removed, after nightfall, Dong Xiaohua, who was dressed in coarse linen, lay on the table in the wedding room, she dragged her cheeks, and looked at the hot meal over and over again, she always felt that Lu Ziyu would push the door in the next moment, but in the past two days, she often fell asleep on the table without knowing it, and it was already dawn when she opened her eyes.
That night, as a few days ago, she fell asleep on the table alone, she had a dream, she dreamed that she and Lu Ziyu had a child, in the endless rape flower field, Lu Ziyu put his arm around her shoulder, she held the child in her arms, the family of three talked and laughed, she seemed to hear Lu Ziyu say to her, "Xiaohua, can I meet you...... It is Ziyu's greatest happiness in this life. ”
"Me too" in the dream she was able to open her mouth to speak.
However, the hurried sound of pushing the door broke Dong Xiaohua's dream, and the tall man who pushed the door rushed into Dong Xiaohua's wedding room with a group of people.
Dong Xiaohua, who was lying on the table, was woken up, and her sleepy eyes were frightened by her tall appearance as soon as she raised her head.
"Take the princess away!" The tall man had never spoken so loudly in front of Dong Xiaohua, his face and body were covered with blood, and he was almost roaring.
Dong Xiaohua looked at them incredulously, she instinctively screamed, and withdrew her arm from the soldier's support in resistance, she looked at the tall one, wondering what was going on.
"Princess, the enemy army has broken through the city, and it is about to be killed in the barracks, and it will really be too late if you don't leave!" As he spoke, the tall man set up Dong Xiaohua and wanted to go out.
I thought that Dong Xiaohua would go out with Gao Yi and his party immediately after finally figuring out the situation, but she didn't expect that after hearing these words, she suddenly broke away from Gao Ren's arms.
But she didn't refuse to be tall, but rushed to the closet, and found the wedding dress she had worn when she got married a few days ago among the piles of clothes, and when she put on the wedding dress, she hurriedly ran out with the tall one.
How important this wedding dress is to her, outsiders are far from understanding.
Outside the barracks, the sky-high firelight and shouting and killing are getting closer and closer, because Lu Ziyu has brought most of the main force when he rushed to aid Yunzhou, so the soldiers who stayed in Tongzhou could not stop the tens of thousands of horses led by Zheng Guan......
But after all, they were outnumbered, and in less than half an hour, the city of Tongzhou was broken, and the tall man tearfully left his stammer, and returned to the barracks with the remaining remnants, and the princess asked them to take care of it before leaving, so they couldn't let the princess have an accident.
In the white suburbs north of the city, the footsteps of Gao Yi and Dong Xiaohua and his party stepped on the thick snow and looked hurried and difficult.
Dong Xiaohua, who was out of breath, was still gesturing towards the tall man with her hand, and the tall man knew...... She was asking Lu Ziyu.
Facing Dong Xiaohua's inquiry, Gao pretended to be relaxed and said: "Don't worry, princess, he will definitely be fine, he will ...... soon." will come to the rescue, all you have to do now is to protect yourself and not fall into the hands of the enemy. ”
At this time, the tall man had more or less guessed the purpose of Zheng Guan and his people to raid Tongzhou, but it seemed that he was ...... Late.
The rain of arrows that fell from the sky pierced into the open space in front of Dong Xiaohua and his party, blocking their way, and the intense firelight surrounded them from all directions, reflecting the white snowy night like day, trance and scorching.
"Kill all but that woman!" Zheng Guan on horseback pointed at the group of people with his only remaining arm, and the firelight reflected his expression that was almost distorted to the point of deformation.
"Protect the princess!" The tall man immediately drew his sword and shouted.
"Yes!" More than ten officers and soldiers of the Beiping Army present also shouted in unison, and they immediately surrounded Dong Xiaohua to the death, facing tens of thousands of enemy troops, and their faces were only loyal to the determination to live to the death.
"Princess...... Be sure to wait until the prince comes. The tall man smiled at Dong Xiaohua, he stuck his knife in the snow and removed the spear on his back.
Facing the thousands of troops and horses in front of him, he glared angrily.
"Ahh
In the snowy night on the outskirts of Tongzhou, the roar of the tall man killing Zheng Guan was deafening.
The two generals who intercepted the tall man head-on were directly knocked to the ground by the tall spear, and the bloody spear stabbed into the bodies of the two generals one after another like a long snake, and the scarlet blood splashed the tall man in an instant.
"Killing one is enough, killing two earns one!"
Immediately, the murderous tall man immediately brandished the spear in his hand and stabbed towards Zheng Guan.
He's almost on the verge of getting it.
However, the cavalry on both sides of Zheng Guan immediately raised their spears in unison, and more than ten spears instantly passed through the tall body, and under the huge momentum of the horses, those cavalrymen used their spears to fork the tall one, pushing him away for more than ten zhang, and when they pulled out the spears from the tall man's body, the tall one was already a blur of flesh and blood.
"Brethren! Fight with these bastards! The soldier of the Beiping Army behind him almost cried out this sentence.
Zheng Guan waved his hand expressionlessly, in the cold winter of snow, the tragic situation of these people when they died in battle was even more than tall.
And all this...... All of them were completely reflected in Dong Xiaohua's eyes, when had she seen such blood and killing, she was stimulated and collapsed in the snow, her helpless and frightened eyes as if she was dead.
When Zheng Guan's men pulled her forward, she suddenly burst out with a strength that she had never had before, she struggled and resisted, biting those people with red eyes, shouting at them.
But she was greeted only with a heavy slap. Then, she was pressed to the snow, her mouth and nose pressed against the cold snowflakes on the ground, almost breathless, and after the tie-up, Zheng Guan had her put in a prison car.
During the whole process, Zheng Guan looked disgusted, and he almost didn't look at her with his eyes, because Dong Xiaohua's bullied appearance would make him involuntarily think of the situation after Chunlan fell into the hands of Hua Chenghei.
The noisy suburbs finally returned to calm, and the team of men and horses began to move towards the south gate of Tongzhou, Zheng Guan, who was riding on the horse, couldn't help but glance at Dong Xiaohua when he passed by the prisoner car, and he snorted coldly: "Let's go, let's go to the south gate and wait for your husband...... to save you. ”
In the prison car that was ventilated on all sides, the messy hair and bright red wedding dress looked very abrupt, Dong Xiaohua's eyes looking at Zheng Guan seemed to be even colder than this weather, and bright red palm prints could still be seen on the pale face blown by the cold wind.
"Phew!" Dong Xiaohua, who was tied up and couldn't move, spat at Zheng Guan fiercely.
On the other side, Lu Ziyu, who rushed back from Yunzhou with troops, was already about to go outside Tongzhou City, the closer he got to Tongzhou City, the heavier Lu Ziyu's mood became, and the villagers who had been destroyed and looted along the way and the villagers who threw their corpses in the wilderness all confirmed Lu Ziyu's previous guess, Zheng Guan really chose to die and break the net.
Remorse and self-blame tormented Lu Ziyu's heart like a knife, and he didn't know or dare to think about what kind of poison his wife had just passed through the door and his father and fellow villagers in the same state.
The sweat on his forehead slid through Lu Ziyu's moist eyes, and fell to the ground drop by drop from the tiger head gun along his arm, and the snow seemed to feel the anxiety in Lu Ziyu's heart, because of the rapid rush, it was panting constantly, but its pace did not slow down in the slightest.
"If the old thief Zheng Guan dares to touch the princess, I can pick his tendons alive!" Zhang Benyuan, who was beside Lu Ziyu, gritted his teeth and said angrily.
After listening to Zhang Benyuan's words, Lu Ziyu's cheeks trembled slightly, and after a long silence, he choked up slightly: "After a while, you will take someone to surround the entire Tongzhou City for me outside, regardless of whether Xiaohua has ...... Zheng Guan has to die this time, understand? ”
"The last general obeys!"
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