Chapter Forty-Eight: Calculation within Calculation
Song Lingxi turned around helplessly, didn't he? The two princes of Dachang Kingdom are still fighting with her father and brother at the border, and with her current status, she has not been imprisoned or directly executed, which is already the emperor's greatest mercy, how can she be let out of the city?
"Let's go Peony"
"Will you return to the palace, miss?"
"Let's find a place to live first, I'm afraid the palace won't be able to go back"
The battle at the border pass was still in a state of anxiety, in the face of the howling wind and snow, the Song army was never able to break through the Black Bear Ridge, and the army of Dachang did not dare to attack rashly, and at this time, seeing that in recent years, the soldiers of the pass had already returned to their hearts like arrows, and the army was unstable, and the emperor's deadline for Chu Yiyun was about to arrive.
Chu Yiyun knew in his heart that the emperor gave him this deadline was nothing more than to force him to give up Song Lingxi, no matter whether he could exterminate the rebels before the New Year, the emperor would not be able to kill him, but Song Lingxi was probably not so lucky, so for Song Lingxi, he must solve the problem of the rebels before the year, and he had no time to sit idly by.
Chu Yiyun, who was standing on the commanding heights of Black Bear Ridge, looked at the snowfield in front of him and began to think about how to take down Song Yi and his son in one fell swoop.
For the Song army of Song Yi and his son, the Black Bear Ridge has not been able to be attacked for a long time, and I am afraid that the originally enthusiastic soldiers will gradually become discouraged, and this time is the best time to fight the heart-to-heart war.
Chu Yiheng hurriedly came behind Chu Yiyun with a piece of letter in his hand: "Third brother, it turns out that you are here alone and it is really easy for me to find, this is the second brother's letter is sandwiched together with Mulan's family letter, you see"
Chu Yiyun took the letter, and wondered how Chu Yifei could write to him at this time, and how could the letter be sandwiched in Mulan's family letter.
"What is written in the second brother's letter?"
After reading the letter, Chu Yiyun held the letter tightly in his hand, and suddenly felt at a loss: "The second brother said that Lingxi was sick, she had been worried about me, and said that she was waiting for my letter every day, and he asked me why I didn't write to Lingxi for so long?"
"Didn't you send all your letters back with mine?"
Chu Yiyun's emotions suddenly became excited: "Since I left the capital, I have written to Lingxi every day, I have been thinking about her day and night, how can I not write to her, what about my letter?" Where did my letter go? Why is your letter delivered without any problems? Could it be that it will run on its own long legs?"
"Could it be that someone has detained it?"
"The letters from the army are all sent to the military department through a messenger, and then distributed by the military department, why do you detain me alone?"
Chu Yiyun crumpled the letter paper into a ball and gritted his teeth and squeezed out three words: "An Yuexiang"
After learning that Song Lingxi was sick, Chu Yiyun felt that the war could no longer be extended, so in order to see Song Lingxi as soon as possible, she discussed with Chu Yiheng and decided to take risks and design "luring you into the urn".
The premise of luring the king into the urn is that first of all, the wind of discord between the Chu brothers must be released, and then the soldiers can't stand the cold weather at the border pass, and the army is disheartened, and they only know how to make fires all day long to keep warm, and they are unguarded.
Three days later, Song Zhiyuan got the false news that Chu Yiyun deliberately released out, and that night he took two cronies to visit the camp of King Xiangwang at night, the situation in the camp and the report of the spies are basically true, except for a few night patrol soldiers, everyone else is basically sleeping in the camp with fire, and the night patrol soldiers are all listless, Song Zhiyuan hurriedly returned to the Song camp after finding out about this situation, probably because the situation in the Song camp is not optimistic, so this time he will believe what he sees with his eyes so easily, And he didn't think as calmly as before, maybe Chu Yiyun blocked this point.
After confirming that the Black Bear Ridge could be broken, Song Zhiyuan immediately led 3,000 elite soldiers to attack the Xiangwang camp at night, and after Song Zhiyuan's people entered the Xiangwang camp, the 100,000 troops led by Chu Yiyang who were lurking in the snow area of the Black Bear Ridge launched a surprise attack on the Song camp.
Song Zhiyuan entered the camp of King Xiang and was soon surrounded by Chu Yiyun's 10,000 horses, and it was only at this time that Song Zhiyuan knew that he had fallen for his brother-in-law.
After an hour of fighting, only Song Zhiyuan, who was seriously injured, and several of his followers fought their way out of the encirclement, but they were chased by Chu Yiyun, he was determined to exchange Song Zhiyuan for Song Lingxi, even if she didn't forgive him for the rest of his life, he couldn't watch her being executed and do nothing.
After Chu Yiheng and Luo Zhong entered the Song camp, they were taking advantage of the Song army's soldiers to sleep, lighting the Song camp's big tent and grain and grass, so that many soldiers were killed in their sleep.
Song Zhiyuan, who was seriously injured, was particularly difficult to walk in the one-foot-deep snow, and before he left the boundary of Black Bear Ridge, he was caught up by Chu Yiyun and Han Peng on horseback, and finally slowly approached the cliff, seeing that there was no way ahead, several loyal followers were still sworn to protect Song Zhiyuan.
How could Song Zhiyuan bear to drag down a few brothers in life and death, and had to plead with Chu Yiyun: "Song Zhiyuan is willing to die, please ask His Royal Highness the King of Qi to let me go of these brothers"
Chu Yiyun returned: "All I want is you, I don't care if they are alive or dead."
Song Zhiyuan pushed Ma Liang away beside him: "Take them away"
"We don't go generals, we don't fear death"
"Go to Master Hou and tell him for me that I can't stay by his side in this life anymore and do my filial piety, let him take care of himself and leave immediately"
After Ma Liang left, Chu Yiyun slowly dismounted: "You are really not afraid of death"
"From the day we embarked on this road, we have already put life and death aside, the king is defeated, please let the prince do it, after I die, please take care of my sister"
"I knew why I didn't kill you today, you come back to Beijing with me, only you can save Lingxi"
"In that case, please ask the prince to take my head back, because ...... I don't want my sister to see me beheaded, if that were the case, she would be sad to death, my dad and I are already so sorry for her that I don't want to see her sad again"
Song Zhiyuan's words are not unreasonable, Chu Yiyun waved his hand at Han Peng and motioned for Han Peng to do it, after all, this is Song Lingxi's brother, when Han Peng raised his knife, he suddenly remembered that the princess was good and didn't do it for a long time.
Chu Yixing, who was in the distance, watched Han Peng raise his knife at Song Zhiyuan, and hurriedly rushed over to block in front of Song Zhiyuan: "Don't, I beg your third brother not to kill him"
"Xing'er, come here, don't mess around"
"I'm not messing around, why is it the right thing for you to save the third sister-in-law, it's nonsense for me to save him, he is the third sister-in-law's own brother, and the third sister-in-law won't forgive you if you kill him"
"That's better than watching my father execute your third sister-in-law and I do nothing, Xing'er, come here"
"I don't ......"
Song Zhiyuan walked around to Chu Yixing and said: "Thank you princess, I have decided to exchange my own life for my sister's life, and please don't interfere in this matter."