Chapter 8 Counting is Counting

Liu Ning understood that Brother Wang was worried that he would be emotional and miss the war, she understood her brother Wang's thoughts, in the face of the country's righteousness, the private feelings of his children were all afterthoughts in his heart, Liu Ning didn't dare to say more, and took Chu Chu to the place where the grain and grass were escorted.

When he went, Liuning and Chu Chu chatted with laughter along the way, but when they came back, they were silent all the way, Liuning felt that it might be too long to see each other, and it was possible to be silent and embarrassed for a while, Liuning looked at Chu Chu as if he had any doubts in his heart and was embarrassed to say, so he asked Chu Chu: "When we were young, we played together, and you talked the most, why did you have something to say today?" ”

Chu Chu was a little hesitant, not knowing if this question was rude, Liu Ning smiled at her and said, "It's okay, we sisters are commensurate, you have something to say, don't shy away from it." ”

Chu Chu was relieved to hear this, so he said: "Sister, you are strong in martial arts, sometimes even the two brothers can't beat you, why did Brother Jingli send you to escort the grain and grass, is the story of you and the Marshal of the Tang Dynasty circulating in the army true?" ”

Liuning was silent when he heard the four words of the Tang Marshal, turned his head to Chu Chu and nodded with a smile, Chu Chu saw that Liuning had no intention of blaming, and became interested in his heart, leaned on Liuning, shook her arm, and said to her coquettishly: "Beauty is worthy of heroes, I am so envious, Sister Liuning, can you tell me your story." ”

Liuning smiled, and just wanted to say yes, but heard a male voice say, "What story does Xiao Nizi want to hear, brother, I'll tell you." ”

Chu Chu leaned closer to Liuning, Liuning and Chu Chu looked around, but saw Zhao Nan sitting on the tree in front of him, Liuning saw the person who came clearly, arched his hand to Zhao Nan, and said: "Who should I be pretending to be a ghost here, it turns out that General Zhao is here." ”

Zhao Nan jumped down from the tree, also arched his hand, and said, "Princess Liuning, don't come unharmed, let our parents Yu be worried." Liuning blushed slightly, Zhao Nan pointed at Ding Chuchu again, and said very lightly: "The emperor ordered me to rob the grain and grass, and Changyu did not allow me to hurt Liuning's sister-in-law, fortunately, with you, this little girl, dare to fight with my brother?" ”

Ding Chuchu is also a girl with a high temperament, hearing Zhao Nan so provocative, how can there be no reason, holding his plum blossom gun and pointing at Zhao Nan and saying: "Stinky boy, you can take advantage of the moment to be too late, and when your aunt and grandmother will beat you to the ground, kneel down and beg for mercy." After speaking, he stabbed out a shot, Zhao Nan saw this, resisted with a knife, and let Chu Chu make three moves, Ding Chuchu saw that Zhao Nan was defeated and retreated, and couldn't help but get a little carried away, and said to him proudly: "Stinky boy, it's just a Tang general." Zhao Nan saw that Ding Chuchu was careless, the speed of the knife became faster and faster, Ding Chuchu hurriedly resisted, the defense was insufficient, and he was even more powerless to attack, Zhao Nan took advantage of his unpreparedness, and slapped Ding Chuchu's horse with a knife, the horse was startled and threw Chu Chu off, Liuning wanted to fly out to save Chu Chu, but Zhao Nan took the lead, Zhao Nan flew out one by one, and held Ding Chuchu, who was about to fall, in his arms, Ding Chuchu looked at Zhao Nan's face, and the words "unruly" were written in his deep and dark eyes, which made Chu Chu's brain a little blank for a while.

The two have landed safely, but Zhao Nan didn't want to let go of Chu Chu, Chu Chu struggled, Zhao Nan said: "Xiao Nizi, the martial arts are so bad, and the temper is still so big, it's better to submit to our Tang Dynasty and go home with me to be a concubine." ”

Ding Chuchu felt that he was being humiliated, struggled hard, and said to him: "Stinky boy, let go of me, when I see you again one day, I will definitely let your head fall to the ground, stinky boy, you let go of me." ”

After hearing this, Zhao Nan let go of the hand holding Chu Chu, and Ding Chuchu fell to the ground again and fell hard. Zhao Nan approached Ding Chuchu, who fell to the ground, with the attitude of a victor, and said, "Little Nizi, see you next time." Then he turned around and got on the horse, and said without looking back: "Goodbye sister-in-law Liuning, goodbye Xiao Nizi." ”

Liuning helped Chu Chu who was sitting on the ground, Chu Chu was still jumping to his feet angrily, cursing Zhao Nan viciously, Liuning comforted her and said: "Fortunately, our grain and grass have not been lost, let's go back quickly, so as not to cause another incident." ”

When Zhao Nan returned to the Tang camp, Li Shimin asked, "General Zhao, why didn't you rob the grain and grass?" ”

Zhao Nan looked at Tang Changyu aggrieved and angry, Tang Changyu smiled at him, Zhao Nan was very aggrieved and defended himself: "Your Majesty, it's all the fault of Weichen, Weichen's skills are not as good as others, it's really the princess of the enemy state is too powerful, Weichen can't beat it, even Marshal Tang has been defeated under her." ”

Tang Changyu saw that Zhao Nan was in an embarrassment, but he didn't forget to roll his eyes at him, so he had no choice but to help him speak: "Your Majesty, let General Zhao and his ministers go out in the first battle tomorrow, and it should be regarded as a confession." ”

Li Shimin heard this, nodded, and said: "Aiqing is all flat, you two have to recuperate well today, Qingjing City is a hard bone, and the two Aiqing want to win the first battle." ”

Tang Changyu and Zhao Nan took the order and withdrew from the Chinese military tent together, as soon as they went out, Zhao Nan gave Tang Changyu a vicious look, pushed him and said, "It's all up to you." ”

Tang Changyu patted him and said, "Aren't you fine, besides, I can listen to the people around you, you also flirted with a little girl, the daughter of the guard of Qingjing City, don't you learn from me, like people you shouldn't like." ”

Zhao Nan rolled his eyes at the exotic blue sky again, and said very complainingly: "Why do they say everything, see if I don't clean them up properly when I go back, you can rest assured, I already have a beloved, and I won't be the same as you." ”

Tang Changyu was very puzzled and asked, "When did you, a graceful and merciful son, have a beloved?" I don't know. ”

Zhao Nan just smiled, and Tang Changyu chased all the way and said, "Hey, you said yes, I invited you to drink wine and eat meat." The two fought all the way back to their respective camps, and Zhao Nan always smiled and did not speak.

The next day, Zhao Nan was ordered to fight the first battle, and led the troops to fight under the Qingjing City, and it was Ding Chuchu's turn to guard the city gate, Ding Chuchu saw that there were people under the city calling for battle, remembering the orders of his father and the marshal not to open the city to meet the enemy, seeing that it was Zhao Nan who came to fight, he immediately put down the cruel words viciously: "Stinky boy, just your rotten martial arts, you are embarrassed to come to fight, aunt and grandmother, I let you have no return today." After Ding Chuchu said this, he immediately ordered the arrow to be released.

Zhao Nan resisted while cursing Ding Chuchu: "You ruthless little girl, you have the ability to come out and fight me, you bully people with many people, what kind of hero are you." ”

Ding Chuchu shook his head proudly, shook his hand at Zhao Nan arrogantly, ordered to stop firing arrows, and said to him: "Stinky boy, you can see clearly, my aunt and grandmother are not heroes, I am a little woman, have you suffered enough today, go home and run for your life, our marshal said, we are not allowed to fight when you come to fight three days ago." ”

When Zhao Nan heard this, he turned his horse's head and ran back to the Tang camp.

In the military tent of the Tang camp, Zhao Nan reported to Li Shimin: "The little girl who was guarding the city in Qingjing City slipped her mouth, saying that their marshal asked them not to face us three days ago. Li Shimin felt justified when he heard this, and nodded frequently.

Tang Changyu also felt reasonable, so he continued Zhao Nan and said: "Then we will no longer fight, just raise troops and train soldiers in this camp, and when they can't hold back, they will come by themselves." ”

For three days in a row, Jingli saw that ** no one came to fight, it was very strange, and they all said that the soldiers were fast, but ** came to camp under Qingjing City but only came to fight once, and sent spies to explore**, but the report said that ** was cooking in a cauldron, and the soldiers took off their armor to bask in the sun, and the days were very comfortable, not like on the battlefield at all. Jingli felt that there was fraud in it, and he didn't dare to act rashly, and ten days had passed, **There was no sign of attacking the city, Jingli couldn't hold it back, secretly thinking about how there would be so much grain and grass to eat from afar, but he didn't want to ** is a teacher of benevolence and righteousness, won the hearts of the people, and the big families in various cities were willing to donate the food they had hoarded for many years as military food, and it was also a smooth journey to transport grain from Chang'an.

Seeing that you are in an advantage, but in the eyes of the enemy you are evenly matched, this is also an advantage. So Li Shimin sent Tang Changyu to lead the army to ambush on the path between the two armies, and surrounded them when Jingli was dispatched. After another two days, Jingli secretly thought that he should have exhausted the grass and grain, and decided to strike first and seize the opportunity, Liuning Liubin was afraid of insecurity, and persuaded Jingli to wait and see for a few more days, Jingli thought that the military situation was urgent, and he was afraid that the food and grass would be insufficient, so he decided to send troops, but he didn't see the flying pigeon sent by Wanyan: ** The grain and grass are sufficient, and an ambush should be set up early, and Brother Wang will make plans early.

Jingli sent troops to the Tang camp, all the way to the momentum, in order to prevent accidents, Jingli did not take Liuning and Liubin to fight, but took the old general Ding Ming to kick the camp together, the old general Ding Ming talked hard all the way, persuaded Jingli to withdraw his troops back to the city, so as not to deceive, but Jingli insisted that the war could not be delayed any longer, and it was necessary to take the initiative to attack, and the old general Ding was not allowed to discuss again, otherwise the military law would deal with it. In front of the Tang camp, there were only a few people guarding, Zhao Nan rode out of the camp tent, and Jingli and Ding Ming old general handed hands, after a few moves, another sound of fighting sounded, Tang Changyu led people from both sides to kill, Jingli's troops were surrounded, Tang Changyu and Zhao Nan joined forces, Jingli picked off the horse, captured Jingli, Ding Ming and other subordinates did not dare to act rashly, Zhao Nan put the knife on Jingli's neck, ordered his subordinates to put down their weapons, his men did not dare to resist, obediently put down their weapons, Tang Changyu and Zhao Nansheng captured Jingli and Ding Ming and put them in the prison.

In Datang Prison, Jingli and Ding Ming were speechless, Jingli suddenly knelt in front of Ding Ming, with a very sad expression, Ding Ming wanted to help Jingli up, but Jingli insisted on refusing, saying that he wanted to apologize, and said to Ding Ming: "General Ding, I'm sorry, it's all because I didn't listen to your advice, insisted on going my own way, insisted on sending troops, and caused our whole army to be annihilated, and also caused a brave and warlike veteran like you to become a prisoner with me, tortured like this, now I have a way to get us out, but I still need your cooperation, General Ding, I hope you'll give me a chance to make amends. ”

Ding Ming saw that Jingli was so sincere, hurriedly helped him up, and said to Jingli: "Thanks to the king's love, Ding's death is not a pity, and Ding is willing to serve the dogs and horses to keep the king safe." ”

When Jing Li heard this, he was very pleased, patted Ding Ming's shoulder, and said with a smile: "Old General Ding, you are serious. Jingli turned around and called the jailer again, and said to the jailer: "Go and tell the emperor that I Jingli has something important and wants to see the emperor." ”