[02] Borrow arrows on a rainy night
on the trees.
A woman dressed in a light veil of water and moon, falling from the lush canopy, she leaned over and pulled out the small silver needle around Xiao Zhen's neck, slender hand, and won the high-grade mutton fat white jade on her waist.
The mountain breeze suddenly rose, blowing the girl's black hair flowing, and the skirt was like a dance, which made her figure as slender as a jade bamboo, as if she wanted to support the handsome and elegant bones in this world alone.
Dark clouds suddenly fell on the horizon.
"It's another year of fishy winds." Xijiang Yue's lips pursed slightly, and she looked up in the direction where Mu Yi left.
But after half a cup of tea, I saw a young man with red lips and bright teeth, and a bright young man between his eyebrows and eyes, coming in the air against the wind.
"What happened to my sister? But where is the injury? Mu Yi was full of worries, and it was not until he saw that there was nothing unusual about her whole body, so he relaxed and looked around.
The twelve or thirteen-year-old boy's eyes were as bright as stars, but with resentment, he fell on Xiao Zhen, who died in a faint under the big tree.
"I'm fine." Xi Jiangyue stretched out her hand and picked a few fine fallen leaves from the young man's sideburns, and said in a soft voice, "This is not the place to speak. ”
Hearing this, Mu Yi nodded and said yes, stretched out his hand to hold the flexible waist of the girl who treated him like a sister, pointed his toes on the ground, jumped up, and stepped forward.
Mixed with the fresh mountain breeze of grass and trees, Xi Jiangyue looked at the green branches and leaves that were rapidly retreating under her feet, and instantly felt that her vision was broadened, and her mood became refreshed.
Suddenly.
Mu Yi placed Xijiangyue firmly on the carriage hidden in the tall bushes, and then Fang took out a piece of brocade from his arms, and sent it to her, "Sister, taste this fruit quickly." ”
The young man suddenly thought that she had always loved Jie, and hurriedly added: "Mu Yi has just been cleaned with spring water. ”
Xi Jiangyue put a vermilion fruit on Jinpa, which was better than red jade, into her mouth, and nodded happily, "It tastes good." ”
Hao-toothed Zhuguo, thin-liped snow muscle, just the scene in front of you, is already better than the delicious mountain fruit.
Mu Yi was overjoyed when he heard this, and sent all the Zhu Guo in Pazhong, "Sister eat more." ”
"My sister is afraid of acid, so she can't eat too much." Xijiangyue smiled, Bai Yu pinched a vermilion fruit with her fingertips and sent it to the young man's mouth, before asking, "It took you so long to come back, but you encountered obstacles on the way?" ”
Mu Yi smirked, "I have never encountered obstacles. Even if it is the impregnable Cangzhou City, for him, it is far less than the two or three out of ten hardships and dangers of Wuling Mountain, where he has lived since he was a child, and it is as easy as exploring the mountain to clear the road this time.
Rao is like this, Mu Yi is still not worried that Xi Jiangyue, who has no internal strength, will follow him to adventure.
"It's just that I saw that the wild fruits on the mountain wall were good-looking, and I thought that my sister would like it when she saw it, so I delayed it a little longer." Mu Yi said that Fang had just jumped off the cliff to pick wild fruits, as easily as a joke.
"Let's go." In the carriage, Xi Jiangyue shook her head with a wry smile, wanting to say something but knowing the young man's temperament, she smiled and pinched a vermilion fruit and tasted it carefully.
Three hours later, a line of peaks, peaks.
Mu Yi fell to his knees with a thud, the hard gravel collided with the bones, making a crisp sound, "Grandpa, Mu Yi and my sister have come to see you." ”
Xi Jiangyue stood in front of the neat tombstone, her face was indifferent, she tucked her sleeves lightly, and put the two zhuguo fruits she was reluctant to eat in her hand on the stone tablet.
Washed by heavy rain, the moonlight in the mountains is as cool as water, sprinkled on the girl's body, like a fairy who has crossed the holy silver glow.
"Grandpa, are you still used to living here?" Mu Yi took two steps on his knees, and his body was leaning against the stone tablet, as if he was coquettish.
Grandpa once said that he likes to stand on the top of the mountain, watching the sun rise and set in the valley every day, and watching Mu Yi grow up safely, "Grandpa, if you are tired of seeing the scenery under this line of peaks, tell Mu Yi, Mu Yi will give you another place with a better scenery." ”
Xi Jiangyue wanted to comfort him a few words, but she was always a quiet and cold person, but when the words came to her lips, they were like air, silent.
After a long time, Mu Yi looked at the stone tablet and reluctantly turned to leave, "Sister, where are we going next?" ”
"Just stay here and watch a show with grandpa." The mountain peak is half immersed in the cold and lonely moon on the horizon, looking at it from afar, the slender figure on the top of the peak wearing the shallow veil of water and moon is like a jade tree.
Xijiangyue raised her eyes and looked into the distance, the mountain wind suddenly rose, and the dark clouds pressed down in an instant, and there were bursts of thunder.
Ten miles away, on the tower of Cangzhou City, a little fire is lit in the rainstorm like a pillar, beating like a firefly.
It's night, sub-hour.
The Dongyue army guarding Cangzhou City, in accordance with the order of Xiao Wei, the general of the Protectorate, hung the puppets with thatch stuffed inside the armor outside the city wall.
The Beiqiang army was alert, but it was already aware of the movement in Cangzhou City in a moment.
The commander of Beiqiang, Bei Mingzhen, is very familiar with military books and is suspicious by nature.
In the middle of the night, and strong winds kicked up smoke and dust, disturbing the eyes and ears, he was afraid that the East Vietnamese army would set up an ambush to attract bricks, so he only ordered the archers to defend and forbade the army to meet the enemy.
For a moment, the arrows were as dense as a cow's hair, and in the blink of an eye, the rainfall in the air had been cut into silver beads.
On the tower of the city, the wailing of the East Vietnamese army seemed to compete with the rolling thunder in the sky.
Seeing this, the soldiers defending the city ordered their subordinates to sound drums and withdraw their troops, and for a while, in the thunderstorm, only the sound of Dongyue children struggling to drag the ropes was heard.
When the rain of arrows in Beiqiang was slightly weaker, the soldiers of the Xiao family in Dongyue tied their ropes again, like moths, and jumped down from the city.
At the beginning, Bei Mingzhen still looked at the majestic city wall and stood proudly, although he looked up, he had a great look at the vastness of all beings.
So several times, the showers stopped at the beginning, and the sky was slightly bright.
After Bei Mingzhen vaguely saw the Dongyue soldiers on the city tower full of feathered arrows fluttering in the wind, his face changed abruptly, "Not good!" ”
Hit the trick!
His face was pale, his sharp eagle eyes flashed with a terrifying cold light, and he said angrily, "Archers pause. ”
Bei Ming Zhen is proud of himself, and he has no defeat in his life, but he doesn't want to be calculated like this tonight, and he is almost angry.
And above the Cangzhou City Tower, the soldiers beat drums and shouted, "Prince Xie Beiming gives arrows!" Prince Xie Beiming gave arrows! Prince Xie Beiming gave arrows! ”
In the siege of March, the Dongyue sons and daughters, who were defeated many times by the Northern Qiang army, instantly had high morale.
On the tower of the city, the East Vietnamese soldiers stationed in the city took back all the thatched dolls full of feather arrows, and counted them one by one, just after noon.
The General's Palace.
Xiao Zhen knelt on his knees, he raised his head, his face was slightly cowardly, but his tone was extremely excited, "My subordinates have obeyed the general's order and handed over 200,000 feather arrows." ”
Xiao Wei sent forty times, dressed in silver armor, with long black hair and hair, just because he had fought on the battlefield all year round, his face and body were more resolute and upright than that of men who were not confused.
Xiao Wei sent to look at Xiao Yuan, the most timid and cowardly concubine under the tent, and his eyes were threatening, "This plan is really what you think?" ”
When Xiao Yu heard this, his breath stagnated, and he counted the cold attitude of his father in the past and his eager gaze today.
Back then, the Liu family, who was the wife of the Xiao family, took her young son from the countryside to find a husband, but she didn't want to, in order to protect his prestige in the court, General Xiao, who was already a very popular minister, only said that the Liu family was a concubine, and because the Liu family came all the way, he casually named his son.
Xiao Zhen immediately held his breath, and the soft voice in the valley suddenly flashed in his mind, although he was full of doubts about this matter, he finally straightened up and clenched his fists, and said, "Yes." ”
For a long time, Xiao Weixuan was unusual, showing a rare smile to Xiao Zhen, and patted the concubine he didn't like the most with his wide palm, "This is the bearing that my Xiao family's son should have." ”
He was suspicious in his heart, but laughed loudly in his mouth: "I don't know if my son has a good strategy to defeat the enemy?" ”
Bei Mingzhen led his troops to besiege the city for more than two months, although it did not hurt the root of Cangzhou, but the supply of grain and grass in the city was insufficient, causing the people of the three armies to panic and the people to flee.
If the enemy is not defeated in August, Cangzhou will be self-defeating.