Chapter Eighty-Five: Training the Dead
Sui Feng in the distance watched a fallen corpse in front of him slowly remove the veil covering his face, and after seeing Xu Zhaohua and Zhou Shengcuobai walking away hand in hand, his eyes were a little happy, and a little lost.
Last night, he couldn't sleep peacefully in the middle of the night, and got up to look at Ji Qiu's emptiness, which was very big and round. The sound of a broken flower pot pierced the silence, although the sound was far away and not loud, but he could easily judge that this sound came from Daxing Palace, who had been practicing martial arts secretly all year round.
He waited for several months, except for the daytime palace people worked, the rest of the time Daxing Palace was like a dead silence, something must have happened today. So he didn't have time to put on a warm coat and ran out, and when he arrived at the door of the main hall of Daxing Palace, he saw Xu Zhaohua fighting with Brother Sui Yue from the window.
Brother Sui Yue looked normal, not like Chu Chenlu usually said that his body was sick, nor like Xu Zhaohua said that he had fallen into witchcraft.
Chu Chenlu may be lying to him, but Xu Zhaohua will not lie to him.
To prevent Sui Yue from discovering the clues, he also broke a flower pot after a distance from the direction of the main hall of Daxing Palace, and the sound of the flower pot could make Chu Chenlu notice, and as expected, Chu Chenlu made a movement.
After making sure that Chu Chenlu went to Sui Yue's dormitory, he left with confidence and went to the rockery, he knew that Chu Chenlu was Sui Yue's weakness, and Xu Zhaohua would definitely take advantage of this.
Looking at the maple leaves gradually drifting away, Sui Feng turned around and left the rockery, and an autumn rain was coming.
The dark clouds that had been piling up for a long time began to release its tricks, the sky gradually began to rain, the blood on his body was gurgling, mixed with the rain soaked through his clothes, and there were constantly chasing soldiers running behind him, Sui Feng's vision gradually blurred, and there was only a trace of a shadow in his mind, her voice, and her laughter.
and the hand she held with Zhou Shengcuobai......
As long as he wants her to be safe, he doesn't care who he joins hands with.
When the pursuers arrived, he had already fallen, and everyone saw that it was King Feng and carried him to the gate of Daxing Palace to listen to Sui Yue's disposal.
Sui Yue in the Daxing Palace never thought that the person who secretly helped Xu Zhaohua was Sui Feng, but he soon understood why, after all, Xu Zhaohua was peerless, and a generation of emperors and queens naturally had her superiority. She must have crossed paths with Sui Feng after lurking in the palace for so long, and it is normal for Sui Feng to be deeply trapped in her.
Sui Yue was a little stunned, the men in the world are so amorous, and sighed softly, for Sui Feng and himself.
Xian Yue was next to him at this time, this woman was not completely credible, so he could only pretend to be controlled by her witchcraft, every time Xian Yue came and went, Chu Chenlu would go to his dormitory to feed him the antidote to the poison pill, otherwise he would not keep his consciousness awake.
The rain outside the window kept falling, and Sui Feng was carried to the gate of Daxing Palace and placed there, surrounded by soldiers guarding him, waiting for Sui Yue's order on what to do with him.
At this time, Sui Yue slowly walked out of the main hall, his eyes were dull, and he spoke slowly, Chu Chenlu, who was waiting outside, knew that Xianyue had once again cast a Gu to enhance the effect of witchcraft, otherwise the effect of witchcraft would gradually weaken until it disappeared, so Xianyue would give Sui Yue witchcraft regularly.
"Sui Feng, as a member of the Daduan royal family, helped the enemy queen Xu Zhaohua escape, but he couldn't escape the blame, and he was imprisoned in a dungeon and never allowed to come out!" After Sui Yue finished speaking, he turned around and went back to the dormitory.
After hearing this, the soldiers below carried Sui Feng, who was lying in the rain, to the dungeon, which was a special cell set up inside the palace, and the people related to the royal family were imprisoned inside.
As the name suggests, this dungeon is underground, and it is only separated by a wall from the dungeon built by Sui Chen, but people in the dungeon just don't know that there is a magnificent palace next door.
Waiting for the personnel to leave gradually, Xianyue got the result of what Sui Chen told her to do and came out of the main hall satisfied, and after Xianyue left, Chu Chenlu took the antidote pill and went to Sui Yue's dormitory.
Seeing Sui Yue sitting on the bed in a daze, Chu Chenlu fed him the antidote with tears in his eyes, and after a while, Sui Yue regained consciousness.
Xu Zhaohua and Zhou Shengcuobai found that it was slowly raining, it was mid-autumn, and the weather was getting cold, but they couldn't stop the joy of not meeting again, and the two played in the rain for a while and unconsciously arrived in Dongqi.
Song Hezhu was a little surprised to see Zhou Shengcuo come back wet and wet, the two looked at each other, and saw that there was a person behind him, and after a closer look, they found that the person was their queen Xu Zhaohua, and they were surprised and happy in their hearts.
"Your Majesty! Empress! "Matsuwa and bamboo made a big salute in a proper manner.
"Your Majesty, it's raining outside, your body ......"
Zhou Shengcuobai waved his hand to stop Song from continuing.
"Song, I and the queen are both drenched in the rain, you go and get two bowls of ginger soup."
Song nodded and left.
Their queen hadn't seen her since the last time she said goodbye, and the emperor didn't think about tea and food in the first few days, and the whole person lost a lot of weight, and then gradually became more appetizing.
Why now I look at the queen and have lost a lot of weight.
Xu Zhaohua and Zhou Shengcuobai entered the tent, Zhou Shengcuobai looked at Xu Zhaohua's face, and now her hair was still dripping with rain, and the whole person looked more fresh and refined.
Zhou Sheng Cuobai also found that Xu Zhaohua had become thinner than before leaving, thinking of the scene when he saved her at that time, what would she do if it was a little later, how did she spend so many days in the Daduan Palace as a woman?
If you think about it, you know that it must be full of hardships.
Zhou Sheng Cuobai suddenly thought of this, and then thought of her resignation and deliberately did not talk to Xu Zhaohua, walked straight to the chair and sat down, holding a military book in his hand and looking at it.
Xu Zhaohua looked at the book of war that he had taken the wrong way and smiled secretly in her heart, she didn't expect him to have such a childlike side, she walked over and slowly snatched the book of war from Zhou Shengcuobai's hand and put it on the table next to him, leaning on his lap.
"Cuobai." Xu Zhaohua covered Zhou Sheng's frustrated face with his hands and looked into his eyes: "I miss you so much." ”
With that, he buried his face in his shoulder.
Zhou Sheng was frustrated and slowly patted Xu Zhaohua's back with his hand: "Me too." ”
"I'm sorry Cuobai, I know that this sudden departure made you worry too much, and after thinking about it, there is something wrong with me, it won't be like this next time, no, there will be no next time." Xu Zhaohua solemnly apologized.
"Fool, don't tell me I'm sorry, you shouldn't say it now, you don't have to say it later." Zhou Shengcuobai said with a doting face, and gradually his eyes became a little blurred, and then he fell.
"Cuobai! Cuobai! Xu Zhaohua's voice became smaller and smaller in Zhou Shengcuobai's ears, knowing that it was gone.
Zhu at the door heard the movement inside, and quickly rushed in, and together with Xu Zhaohua, he helped Zhou Sheng to the bed.
"Queen Mother, my subordinates will go to the imperial doctor."
Song, who was about to bring in the ginger soup, saw this scene and quickly put the ginger soup on the table and ran over.
"Subordinates go to the Imperial Doctor!" Loose was ready to run out of the tent.
"No need, the bamboo is already gone." Xu Zhaohua said.
Matsu stopped.
"Song, tell me the truth, what's wrong with the emperor?"
Song thought about it, this matter can't be hidden after all, so he can only explain it in 1510: "Back to the queen's mother, the last time you left, that is, not long ago, Xu Qingshan led people to attack Dongqi again, and the emperor went to the battlefield in person in order to boost morale, but unfortunately was shot by a poisonous arrow. ”
"Poison arrows? Has the poison been cured at the moment? Xu Zhaohua was a little anxious.
"Originally, the imperial doctor said that this poison is too toxic, and it can be solved, but I am afraid that the emperor will not wake up for a while and a half, and he will never wake up for more than a month. At that time, when the emperor was in a coma, he couldn't feed the emperor liquid food, and according to this situation, the emperor was ......"
Loose said halfway and did not continue.
"Say!" Xu Zhaohua said loudly.
"It is very likely that the emperor would have starved if he hadn't been poisoned." Song said.
Xu Zhaohua knew that what Song wanted to say was that even if he was not poisoned, he would be starved to death.
"At that time, the imperial doctors were helpless, but I don't know who mentioned the name of the queen, the emperor gradually reacted, and slowly woke up." The more Matsu spoke, the more excited he became.
It turned out that he cared about her more than she thought......
After speaking, the imperial doctor hurriedly walked in.
"Wechen knocks to see the queen." The imperial doctor knelt down and gave Xu Zhaohua a salute.
"Excuse me, hurry up and see how the emperor is injured."
To be honest, she was very tired of these trivial etiquette, why should she care about such nonsensical things at such a time when her name is at stake.
Perhaps, she was too anxious.
The imperial doctor frowned after taking the pulse, and Xu Zhaohua was a little anxious to see his reaction: "Imperial Doctor Liu, what's wrong with the emperor, is the situation optimistic." ”
"Back to the queen, the emperor was drenched in rain today, and the wound was also stained, just clean it up." As he spoke, he opened the medicine box he was carrying, took out his tools, and prepared to clean up.
Xu Zhaohua was afraid that Zhou Shengcuobai would be in pain, and he didn't worry about letting others clean up for him, so he put forward his request to clean up Zhou Sheng's wounds with his own hands, Imperial Doctor Liu hesitated for a moment and felt that it was feasible, so he was ordered to go out, although he studied medical skills in the Tai Hospital all the year round, but the deeds of their queen were widely spread, and he still heard about them, and he was very relieved about their queen Xu Zhaohua's ability.
Seeing this, Matsu and Bamboo also quietly went out to guard the door.
Xu Zhaohua lifted Zhou Shengcuo's white cuffs open, and saw a lot of blood oozing out of the gauze wrapped around his arm, as well as some mud spots. At that time, he also sneaked into Daduan alone and fought with the soldiers in Daduan's palace, his wounds must have been torn at that time, how painful it must be.
Xu Zhaohua carefully gave Zhou Shengcuo the medicine, and after bandaging it, he crawled beside him and guarded it until dawn.
When Xu Zhaohua opened his eyes, he didn't know when he was lying on the bed, Zhou Shengcuobai disappeared, when she went out to look for it, she found that the sun outside was already very big, and when she asked, she realized that it was now past the end of the meal, and she realized that she had slept too much.
Now it was just past breakfast time, and it was the time for the soldiers to practice, and it happened that the soldiers of Dongqi had not seen the drills for a long time, thinking about Xu Zhaohua, he walked towards the training ground.
When he arrived at the place where he was practicing, he saw that Zhou Shengcuobai, Yide and Su Mingtuo were all here, and he couldn't help but wonder why these three people were guarding the drill at the same time today?
No wonder there was no one in the tent of the German division and his uncle when he passed by.
"Why are you so interested in watching the drill today?" Xu Zhaohua asked with a smile.
"The queen mother Wan'an." Tsubasa saluted.
Su Mingtuo, who heard the news of Xu Zhaohua's return last night, wanted to visit her at that time, but thought that she must be with the emperor at this time, so she was embarrassed to disturb the little couple, so she didn't go. Now that I finally see my niece, the joy in my heart is naturally indescribable, and I can only grin.
"My uncle was so happy to see me that he couldn't even speak." Xu Zhaohua teased.
This sentence caused everyone to laugh.
"Crispy, what do you think of the soldier in the second row of the third column?" Zhou Shengcuo asked.
"The movements are capable, the eyes are like torches, very good, with the demeanor of my Dongqi man!" Xu Zhaohua did not skimp on her praise.
Zhou Sheng Cuobai looked at it after hearing this, and nodded with satisfaction, and Song next to him immediately went down and said something in the soldier's ear, and the soldier walked out of the team and stood aside.
Xu Zhaohua only now realized that there were still a few soldiers standing there where the soldier was standing.
"Cuobai, isn't this to train some soldiers?" Xu Zhaohua asked.
Zhou Sheng Cuobai looked at Xu Zhaohua and nodded, his wife was really different from mortals, he hadn't said anything, she guessed it with one sentence.
"Train the dead." Su Mingtuo added on the side.
Dead soldiers, warriors who dare to die.
This morning, Zhou Sheng Cuobai opened his eyes and saw Xu Zhaohua's face leaning next to him, she guarded him all night, and only fell asleep on weekdays, thinking of her various thrills in the Daduan Palace these days, Zhou Sheng Cuobai was distressed and blamed himself.
If Dongqi's military strength could be stronger, his crispy would not allow himself to go into a dangerous situation again.
Thinking of this, it occurred to him that it was time to train the dead.
He will not treat the soldiers who volunteer or are selected to do their best, live in the best military tents, eat the best food, and if they do not die in battle, their families will not be left to rely on, and the government will give their families a lot of money and food. If there are soldiers who regret not wanting to be dead soldiers halfway, they will not stop them.
In this war-torn era, it is not easy for people to be fed and clothed, they can get the best material conditions, and their families will not have to worry about eating and drinking afterwards, in fact, there is nothing more than this to kill two birds with one stone, and in order to defend their country, even if they don't have these, they will fight to the death on the battlefield. After all, there is a country to have a home.
Soon, the number of dead soldiers reached a certain number, and they were arranged to train secretly in a forest near the barracks, so as not to be detected by enemy spies, and Xu Zhaohua also followed to see how they were trained.
When he arrived in the woods, he saw that Su Qinfeng was also here, and Su Qinfeng was about to spit out the word cousin on his lips, but suddenly thought that there were so many people around, and his cousin was already the queen of Dongqi, so he respectfully saluted:
"The queen mother Wan'an."
Xu Zhaohua couldn't help but be a little amused when he looked at his pretending to be respectful: "Well, excuse me." ”
The soldiers beside him knelt down on one knee and clenched their fists: "See the queen mother, the queen mother Wan'an!" ”
Xu Zhaohua said to everyone: "Warriors, please get up quickly." ”
With a respectful and serious expression, standing in front of her at this moment are the bravest men of Dongqi, who are about to spill their blood for the people on the battlefield, they are worthy of respect.
After finishing speaking, Su Qinfeng began to form a team, and began to train soldiers by doubling the amount of training in a unified manner.
Xu Zhaohua watched from the sidelines, and after a long time, she asked Su Qinfeng to stop the training of the soldiers, Su Qinfeng was actually a little unhappy in his heart, he had always known the power of his cousin, and she could have military strategy, but he himself had trained a lot of soldiers with his father on the battlefield over the years, and he had also encountered dead soldiers on the battlefield, and they men had more say in this kind of thing......
"Major General Su" Xu Zhaohua had a serious face: "I propose to train the soldiers separately according to their fatness, thinness, and height. ”
"What?" Su Qinfeng was a little puzzled, the soldiers' training is training, why should they be separated.
"In hand-to-hand combat, strong physical strength and killing skills are the keys to victory. But people are tall, short, fat and thin, and their skills are good or bad, clumsy. If it is a special training for the dead, the individual ability of a single soldier can be more clearly reflected in battle. Xu Zhaohua told the story.
After listening to this, Su Qinfeng also analyzed it carefully for a while, and felt that it did make sense.
This cousin of his, he is really convinced.
The soldiers who were close to them nodded their heads when they heard this, and many of them marched and fought on the battlefield, and fought with the dead soldiers of the enemy, but none of them had done so.
This proposal of their queen is the first person in ancient and modern times, wonderful, wonderful.
Soon, according to Xu Zhaohua's instructions, the soldiers were separated according to their own characteristics, and people with different characteristics practiced tactics and combat movements that suited them, and suddenly the combat effectiveness of this team of dead soldiers improved a lot.
After seeing this effect, Xu Zhaohua left here and walked to the training ground, where the soldiers still accounted for the majority, he told Su Mingtuo and Yide about this method, and the two also agreed very much, so they also applied this training method to ordinary soldiers, and the combat effectiveness of the army of Eastern Qi was the icing on the cake on the original basis, and their shortcomings in numbers were also made up.
At ten o'clock in the middle of the day, after the morning training, the soldiers went back to the barracks to rest, Xu Zhaohua returned to his camp tent, and now Zhou Sheng Cuobai's wind and cold have healed, and the two of them will live in the same camp, Xu Zhaohua let his original camp tent let those dead soldiers live, and fulfill the promise that Zhou Sheng Cuobai gave them today.
At this time, Imperial Physician Liu was changing the dressing for Zhou Sheng Cuobai in the barracks, and only after Imperial Physician Liu left did Xu Zhaohua ask: "Cuobai, why didn't you tell me the news of your injury?" ”
"Crispy, I ......"
"Are you afraid that I will be sad? You know how heartbroken I was when you fainted last night. ”
Thinking that when Zhou Shengcuobai rescued her and came back, he also played with her along the way, and he was happy and distressed in his heart.
"No next time, oh no, no next time." Zhou Sheng Cuobai imitated Xu Zhaohua's tone of apology to himself last night, and both of them were amused.
"What are we going to do next?" Xu Zhaohua asked
Zhou Shengcuobai thought about it and asked her: "What do you think we should do?" ”
"This negotiation with Sui Yue failed, and now our only way is to solve Sui Chen as soon as possible, after all, Sui Chen is the igniter of the war between Eastern Qi and Daduan, as long as he disappears, this war will naturally disappear." Xu Zhaohua said.
Zhou Shengcuobai took a sip of tea and said slowly: "That's right, I think so too." ”
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Grand Duan's Palace
"What do you think?" Sui Chen asked Zhou Shengchenmo, seeing that Sui Feng didn't learn and didn't know how to do it on weekdays, his martial arts were so powerful, which made him never expect it.
"Since he helped Xu Zhaohua, then the two must have colluded in private, and he must know something we don't know." Zhou Shengchenmo replied.
"Oh? Is it? As he spoke, Sui Chen squinted at the burning candle next to him.
There is no light in the underground palace all year round, so it has become a habit to light candles during the day, not only all the candles on the candlesticks are kept perennial, but also the night pearls around are inlaid with hundreds, even if you don't light candles, it is like daytime.
"Then go and send someone for interrogation." Sui Chen gave an order to one of the guards beside him.
"Oh! By the way, the movement is lighter, and the person can live. Sui Chen added.
A basin of cold water was poured on Sui Feng's body, Sui Feng slowly opened his eyes, he felt that his body was hot now, and his throat was dry as if it was smoking.
"Water...... Water...... Give me water, I want to drink water. Sui Feng said weakly.
"You want to drink water, don't you? Okay, then let Lord Feng drink enough at one time! As he spoke, a soldier with a meaty face in front of Sui Feng lifted another bucket full of water next to him and pressed Sui Feng's head down.
Sui Feng didn't struggle, and after a while, the soldier with a meaty face thought he had swallowed his breath and hurriedly took Sui Feng's head out of the bucket.
I saw Sui Feng cough for a while and then said, "Quench your thirst, quench your thirst!" ”
The soldier was a little annoyed when he saw this, grabbed Sui Feng's collar and lifted him up from the ground: "Lord Feng, calling you Prince Feng now is to respect you, do you think you can still afford to be called this life?" I'm telling you, you won't be able to get out for the rest of your life, and you'll be a prisoner for the rest of your life. ”
Sui Feng didn't speak, but laughed out loud.
The soldier with a meaty face felt that Sui Feng was laughing inexplicably at this time, but he still remembered the task sent from above: "Say! Why do you want to help Xu Zhaohua, are you in the same group as her? ”
"Hahaha, hahaha, why should I help her, I want to help her, so I help!" Sui Feng said.
"What else do you know about her, what have you said to each other?"
"Let's talk about the world, talk about the moon before the flowers, talk about the love of men and women, do you want me to tell you one by one?" Said sarcastically with the wind.
The meaty-faced guy obviously didn't expect him to answer like this, and he didn't know what to say for a while.