Chapter 7: War Clouds Gather
More than a month later, the general Li Zhi was killed, and the brave Marquis Sikong Zhao was ordered to rush to the border pass to guard the town, and Emperor Yan promoted the deputy general Situ Nan to be the general and sent him to the water fortress.
The Red Flame Border City was lost one after another, and when the cave door was wide open and the country was not guaranteed, Xuanyuan and Heiyi, the two enemies of the Sun, fought because of the turf dispute, which relieved the Red Flame Country.
Chiyan suffered heavy losses, and was robbed of several cities by the three tiger and wolf countries, especially the black towns with the ambition of the wolves, and those small countries that were sandwiched between the four countries were wiped out this time, and those who were not destroyed also surrendered one after another, becoming vassals of the big countries, and setting an alliance under the city to pay tribute every year, and survived, but I am afraid that sooner or later it will be difficult to escape the end of being annexed.
If it weren't for the fact that the Emperor of Xuanyuan State had not been on the throne for a long time, and he was at odds with Heiyi and other countries, and they were guarding against each other, I am afraid that Chiyan would have been captured by them.
The courtiers offered advice, and finally the Empress Dowager of the Yan Kingdom held the government, and ordered the Emperor Yan to issue an order to retreat 1,000 miles and retreat to Yucheng.
Although Chiyan was forced to retreat for nearly a thousand miles, fortunately, most of them were desert Gobi, so he didn't lose much.
There is yellow sand all day long, and even if tens of thousands of soldiers enter, it is like a drop in the ocean, and those who are not familiar with the terrain will soon get lost.
In the end, the thousands of miles of desert Gobi became the natural defense of Chiyan, which greatly slowed down Xuanyuan's offensive.
Because what worries them the most is the canal that leads directly from Xuanyuan to the capital of the Red Flame Kingdom, the reason why Xuanyuan doesn't use it is because that river is only a hundred miles away from the Heiyi border, and Xuanyuan is in danger of running out of food.
At this time, Chi Yan cut off Xuanyuan's offensive, and it was hard to guarantee that he would not transfer the battlefield, and if he was lost on the water, then Chi Yan would not be able to escape the disaster of destroying the country.
At the same time, Emperor Xuanyuan was also worried, although his situation was not as good as Chiyan being surrounded by the Three Kingdoms, but there were many princes of the previous emperor staring at him, which could be described as a group of wolves, so he did not dare to deploy troops on a large scale and launched a water attack.
Xuanyuan was the first to strike, and the first to retreat, and when the sky and Heiyi saw that Xuanyuan had withdrawn, they also withdrew from the battle one after another, and went back with the loot.
When the news came back, the whole country rejoiced.
After this battle, the blueprint of the world was redivided again, and the Xuanyuan Kingdom still held the position of the hegemon, occupying three out of ten lands in the world, and Heiyi, a rising country, rose rapidly through this station, suddenly surpassing Chiyan, and catching up with the sky that now has two out of ten lands in the world. Chiyan originally lived in the third country of the world, but after this stop, he was reduced to a phoenix tail and became the fourth country.
In this four-nation war, the small and medium-sized countries that had stood between the four countries for a hundred years all suffered from the catastrophe of annihilation, and only some scattered small tribes scattered around the four countries escaped the catastrophe of this annihilation, but they only accounted for one-tenth of the land in the world.
Li and Li Tong hugged each other and cried, God knows how they have come these days, they are anxiously waiting for news from the front line every day, but they are extremely afraid of the news from the front line, and when they heard that the war was over, Li hugged Mu Bingyue and cried loudly as if they were reborn.
Mu Bingyue thought that if she was lucky, her father would not be able to return home until the New Year at the earliest, but who knew that not long after the war ended, her father came back.
Mu Chengjie looked at the stunned family and laughed, "Why are you not happy to see me come back?" ”
Mu Bingyue was the first to come back to her senses, and she saw that her mother was so happy that she couldn't speak, and she just kept wiping the tears on her face.
Li Tong was also so excited that she couldn't speak, she was afraid that Miss would lose her husband in the war like her, but fortunately, God was pitiful, and her uncle came back safe and sound.
Mu Chengjie stepped forward a few steps and hugged Mu Bingyue with a smile, "My little Yue'er, I don't recognize my father!" ”
Li Shi reacted, stood beside her husband and stretched out her hand to pat Mu Bingyue, and urged with a smile: "Yue'er, call dad quickly." ”
It's not that Mu Bingyue is not close to him, but she is more than 20 years old in her heart, she is hugged by her father like this, she can be as awkward as she wants, but she can't stand the coercion of her mother, so she reluctantly shouts her father, and struggles to jump down.
Mu Chengjie only thought that she was afraid of life and didn't care about the attitude of rejection with her, and kissed her the face before letting her down.
As soon as Mu Bingyue's feet touched the ground, she turned around and hid behind her mother.
Her father gave her a funny look and led the group back to the house.
Li Shi poured him a cup of tea, and asked as he handed it over, "Husband, why did you come back at this time?" ”
Shen Xue also poked her head out of behind Tong Ma curiously.
Mu Chengjie took a sip of tea, put down the cup, and turned his gaze to Mu Bingyue, "Speaking of which, this time it's thanks to my baby daughter!" ”
Mu Bingyue only understood after listening to her father, it turned out that the down jacket she asked her mother to make, her father was very comfortable and warm, because he received the holy decree that the army abandoned the city and retreated, and often rushed overnight, and the garrison was not thin, and he saw that the garrison's leg cold was committed, so he gave the clothes to the garrison to wear, which greatly reduced his illness.
As soon as the war ended, the garrison dragged the relationship, dredged him up, released him back early, and gave him a full twenty days of leave. Before leaving, the sergeants with cold legs, more than 20 people, dragged him to help bring a cotton coat like the garrison, and even paid the deposit.
Mu Bingyue didn't expect her to have such a big surprise with a small move. However, the border is bitterly cold, and if you have rheumatism, your legs are indeed a little unbearable.
Li was also surprised and delighted when he heard it, surprised by her husband's thrilling adventure in the military camp in the past few months, and happy that her husband was appreciated by the garrison, "I will do a few more things when I arrive, and my husband will take them to send more people, and there will be a foil for him in the future." ”
Mu Bingyue couldn't help but smile bitterly when she heard this, just that one, she saved up for two years to save up the eiderdown, and heard her father say that she needed more than 20 pieces! She plucked all the feathers of the dozen ducks, and it wasn't enough!
Mu Bingyue interrupted her mother's bold words and hurriedly asked, "Dad, how much deposit did they give?" ”
Hearing her father scratch her nose and laugh at her, "Little wealth fan! ”
Mu Bingyue wrinkled her nose and complained: "Mother......"
At the end, everyone laughed.
Mu Bingyue was eating by herself, listening to her parents discuss, going to buy some ducks and coming back, and then taking care of a few showmen to help prepare.
At night, Li Tong took the two children to lay on the floor in the kitchen, and Mu Chengjie slept in the room.
If you want to say that there are many people, it is fast, and in just a few days, Mu Bingyue and the others have all the things their father needs.
On this day, Li went back to her parents' house, she sat on the chair, listening to Yu crying there and being poor, if she wanted to put aside the past, she would have left a long time ago, but thinking of her husband's situation, she gritted her teeth and sat down.
Yu Shi saw that Li had not left yet, and suddenly became displeased, although when her granddaughter got married, Li gave her a very generous gift, but she couldn't lend her fifty taels of silver! Although his husband is still alive, he can't help but have an accident at some point, who will she go with when she arrives?
Seeing that Yu still refused to let go, Li gritted his teeth and promised two points of interest.
Yu Shi was finally a little tempted, thinking about it, although the Mu family was defeated, but the ancestral house was still there, her eyes rolled, "Hey...... Four girls, I really can't take out fifty taels of silver, your mother died early, you and I also watched grow up, now you have an emergency, I can't stand by as a mother, so let's wait for your father to come back, I will ask him to go to relatives and friends' houses to borrow it, and make it up for you. ”
The Li family knew that the Yu family was just an excuse, and the Li family also had one hundred and eight taels of silver, but she also knew that fifty taels of silver was her bottom line, so she didn't dare to ask for more. Seeing that Yu was relieved, she didn't expose it, and went home after thanking her.
Originally, when Mu Chengjie's father was alive, he would pay to help him avoid military service whenever he was serving in the military, but later his father died, his income gradually decreased, and he and his wife exhausted their family funds because of their sons, so they were requisitioned by the imperial court to the border.
The family was backward, and the father-in-law's family was estranged from them, and this time I don't know if my wife can borrow it.
Now that the war is over, Mu Chengjie is still worried that fifty taels of silver is not enough, although the garrison appreciates him very much, but he is afraid that in this matter, he will not be able to help him too much, and he can only take one step at a time. He knew that his wife was ruthless enough to go back to her mother's house, and her father-in-law's family was the most snobbish.
Li went for a long time this time to come back, and when she saw her husband waiting for her at the door, her heart was sour, and she really laughed.
Mu Chengjie greeted him, and when he saw his wife's appearance, he knew that he had borrowed it, but he couldn't hide his sadness, and said in a low voice: "Xiangyun, you have suffered, I will definitely let you and your children live a good life in the future." ”
Li wiped away his tears and said with a smile: "I believe in my husband." It's all because the concubine's body is not angry, and the husband who is only harmed has fallen to such a point. ”
"Don't say these words again, you and I can become husband and wife, but it was cultivated in eight lifetimes in the previous life, and no matter what blessings and misfortunes in the future, we must help each other go on."
Li couldn't speak anymore, only choked up and wept. After a while, I was afraid of being seen, so I hurriedly wiped the tears on my face and went back to the house to pack up.
Mu Chengjie watched his wife busy preparing food and clothing for him, and his heart was blocked. I think that their husband and wife have only been together for more than ten days, and the child has just become more intimate with him, so he can't say how long he will be delayed!
At this time, men began to prepare for military service at the age of seventeen and were exempted from military service until the age of fifty-five.
A man is required to serve in the military four times in his life, and the length of service varies depending on the situation of the war.
Although Mu Chengjie has avoided two call-ups, this time he served in the army, and the danger was worse than in the past, Chiyan and Xuanyuan were both the new emperors, and a fight was inevitable.
"What is this?" Mu Chengjie was frowning but saw his daughter handing over a piece of paper diagonally, he reached out and took it, looked at what was written on it, and asked puzzledly.
"It's a prescription for rheumatoid legs, and Lang Zhong gave it to me who treated me, and said it was an ancestral heirloom!" She explained that for fear of arousing the suspicion of her mothers, she stole the family's money and went out to find a letter writer at the stall to help write it. Rheumatic legs are the most difficult to treat, in that life, she wore a skirt to film in the icy and snowy North Pole, so she fell into rheumatic legs at a young age.