Chapter 100: The Deserted Temple

On the night of the siege fiasco, in the camp of King Qin, Hongyi sat silently in the tent.

The smell of blood and burnt smell mingled, and countless tiny pieces of ash wafted through the air. Not far away, blazing flames burned, devoured, and wreaked in billowing smoke.

Wars have always been made up of countless bones and undead, hundreds of thousands of lives, and within two days, they were slaughtered.

With the wounded's moans of pain filled with his ears, and his heart was like a whiplash, Hongyi got up and walked out of the tent.

"Your Highness, where are you going?" A soldier ran after him.

"Don't stop me!" He roared angrily.

"But there are enemy troops in ambush everywhere around here, and now the situation is critical, Your Highness, you must not be reckless."

"You also think this king is useless?" Hongyi asked sharply.

"No, that's not what the subordinates meant!" The soldier lowered his eyebrows, and he didn't dare to breathe.

Hongyi snorted coldly, raised his eyebrows with ice faces, and brushed his sleeves away.

He grew up and believed that he was very intelligent, and this time he led the troops to attack the city, he thought that with the 500,000 army and the experience of the army in the past few years, he would capture Luoyang like a bag, and he would not expect to be defeated so badly.

And the crown prince Jingyao has been smart and studious since he was a child, he is familiar with the strategy of the military book, and the arrangement of troops is very skillful, and he won a great victory in the previous battle of Chang'an, and successfully captured Chang'an City as Kyoto.

He just doesn't admit defeat, what Jing Yao can do, why can't he do it!

Hongyi walked out of the camp, and the wasteland in the distance was now dug out of a huge deep pit, and the bones of soldiers who died on the battlefield were piled up in the mass grave.

The north wind hunts, the red land is thousands of miles, full of devastation, and the corpses are everywhere.

Unconsciously, Hongyi walked to a nearby town, and now the army is in chaos, and the young men have gone to join the army, and only the old people and children are left in the town.

Dark clouds rolled and raindrops fell from the gray sky, and the rain grew heavier, pouring down like a flood from the mouth.

A twelve or thirteen-year-old girl rushed forward from behind recklessly, carrying a banana leaf, and the paint-dropping medicine box on her back hit the boy's arm while running.

The girl seemed to be aware of this, turned her head and grinned at him, and hurried forward again, and soon there was no one to be seen.

Hongyi's hand that reached into her waist suddenly stopped, if it was normal, the girl's inadvertent collision just now was enough to kill her. Since he learned martial arts, it was only a breath from drawing his sword to swinging his blade, and his years of fighting with the army have made him develop the habit of being highly vigilant and reflexively counterattacking any attack.

The sword spike at his waist was gently raised, and he lowered his fingertips, tilted his head slightly, and let the rain wash away. He was drenched all over his body, and the droplets of water on his hair were dripping down to the dirt.

I don't know how long I walked, a dilapidated deserted temple appeared in front of me, and the incense burner at the door was smoked into a dark gold color, which was enough to imagine the scene of the peak of incense at the beginning.

The multicolored lacquered wood carving of Guanyin has a compassionate eyebrow, and on the altar are several broken porcelain bowls and a young girl sitting on a futon.

The girl's wet hair was dripping with rain, and her delicate little face was ordinary, only the smart and cunning black water eyes, clear and clear, as bright as stars.

I don't know what she thought, she smiled at Hongyi, her eyes were curved like crescent moons, as if the spirit was overflowing.

With a smile and a smile, it is not pretentious, and naturally reveals a sassy and heroic posture that is different from that of ordinary daughters.

"What a coincidence, you're here to take shelter from the rain!" The girl looked curiously, a smile on her lips.

"Hmm." Hongyi is just the head of the jaw.

"Well, it's still an ice cube, depending on your outfit, you should be a general!" The girl continued to ask.

Hongyi turned away from looking at her, facing strangers, he didn't intend to reveal too much information.

"Yo, ignore me, look at your unlucky appearance, you must be defeated and deflated." She said casually.

was poked in the wound by the other party, Hongyi stared back, and reprimanded impatiently: "What do you know, ignorant woman!" ”

"Woman?" The girl pointed to her nose, "This girl is much younger than you, I am a woman, then you are an old man!" ”

Hongyi sat on the ground, took off his soft armor, and red blood oozed from his shoulder blades.

When the girl caught a glimpse of him in full clothes, she knew that the wound had broken open again.

"Sit still, I'll help you." She took out gauze and Jinchuang medicine from the medicine box she was carrying, "I have this ancestral formula, in addition to the hemostatic drugs such as Panax notoginseng, Bai Ji, and Xianhe grass, it can also repair skin wounds, leaving no marks or scars, it is your luck to meet me today, and we are also fated, so I will only accept you one or two silver!" ”

Hongyi glanced at her: "No need! ”

"Eh, it's wrong for me to say that you little brother, now you are drenched in rain, and the wound is cracked again, if you leave it alone, it will easily suppurate. Is it possible, you can't afford to give silver taels, or I'll give you a cheaper one? ”

Hongyi just turned his head to look at the pouring rain outside, and stopped paying attention to the girl.

"It's really unlucky today, forget it, just be kind to me, and I won't accept your money!" The girl's face was gloomy, and she continued to chant, "Whoever told my Bodhisattva-hearted mother not to see others suffering, and always have to show mercy when she sees an injured person on the side of the road." ”

She muttered in her mouth, and kept tearing off a piece of gauze in her hand: "But we also have to eat, I originally came to Luoyang to join my uncle this time, and there is not much silver left on my body, if I don't come out to earn some subsidies, I'm afraid I won't even be able to eat steamed buns for the next meal." ”

"So you carried a medicine box on your back and ran out alone just to sell medicine to make money?" Hongyi was slightly stunned, with a little deep research in his words.

"Of course, there are many injuries here, and the money is fast!"

The girl was complacent about her cleverness, but Hongyi took out a silver ingot and threw it into her arms: "You stay with the medicine, and go back quickly when the rain stops!" ”

She was not polite, and smiled as she put the silver into her money bag.

"Why don't you stay in the barracks and lose the battle and lose the war?" The girl spoke without a match, "This Luoyang was originally Kyoto, so it is naturally easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is impregnable." ”

Hongyi was silent, he led the troops to attack the city this time, and he was already despised by several veterans in the battalion, and now the 500,000 army was defeated, and he had no shame to go back to meet his father.

"You've already been defeated, what are you doing in the barracks?" He sighed bitterly and lowered his eyes.

"Leaving the camp without permission is a felony that ignores military regulations, and the offender will be beheaded!" The girl said.

"You think I'm afraid of breaking military rules, and the mass grave is not left alone." Hongyi smiled fearlessly.

"I can't say that, my father has been fighting horses all his life, and has experienced countless battles and battles, and you failed to attack the city, do you plan to continue to be depressed like this, if my father is still alive, I will definitely teach you a hard lesson with a military staff!"

"Who is your father?" Hongyi asked casually.

"General Changsun is my father, we came to Luoyang this time to join my uncle."

"General Changsun was famous when he was alive, but I had a one-sided relationship."

"That's natural, my father is good at marching and fighting, and sometimes he can't rely on a strong attack alone to deal with a place like Luoyang that is easy to defend and difficult to attack."

"Don't rely on a strong attack?" Hongyi muttered to himself, pondering, "Now our military camp is located on the Beibi Mountain in the northwest of Luoyang, and we can command the overall situation from a high position. Several strongholds in Luoyang City are currently heavily guarded by the enemy, and each stronghold is a fortified city that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is difficult to succeed in a year and a half if it is fought hard. But in terms of soldiers and horses, they are invincible. The other side clearly intends to prolong the campaign and stall for time. ”

"In this case, just watch Luoyang to the death, and then divide the troops to cut off all the grain roads in Luoyang, and then uproot those strongholds if they can be uprooted, and those who can't be uprooted will be seen to die, so that this place will completely become a dead turtle."

Hearing this, Hongyi raised his eyes to look at the ordinary girl who was not outstanding, and the corners of his lips were slightly hooked: "It is worthy of being the daughter of General Changsun, but she has a little bit of your father's demeanor and resourcefulness." ”

"Actually, I'm also familiar with it, but it's a pity that I was born only a woman, and I can't fight with the army like my eldest brother."

The girl sat with her knees crossed, her expression was quiet, a few strands of hair were hanging down, a pair of crystal eyes were embedded in the fair and immature little face, the bottom of her eyes was full of inexplicable emotions, she felt the inquiring sight beside her, and suddenly looked back and smiled.

"Although dancing with knives and guns is not a problem for me, it is really miserable in terms of female celebrities. My mother said that with my vulgar temperament and queen, no one would dare to come to the door to propose marriage. ”

"Who said there would be none!" Somehow, Hongyi felt an inexplicable feeling in the heart of this girl who met for the first time.

She looked at him stunned, the young man's lowered eyebrows couldn't see clearly, and a touch of water dripping from his neckline was slightly exposed.

The sound of the rain gradually decreased, falling from the eaves, the girl handed the remaining medicine bottle in her hand to Hongyi, lowered her eyes and did not dare to look at him, just like the shyness of the water lotus, whispering.

"You can take this medicine back and use it, I'm going back, my mother doesn't know about me sneaking out."

"Then you go back quickly, don't run out alone in the future!"

She smiled lightly and nodded, and walked out of the deserted temple with the medicine box on her back.

The sky gradually cleared, the slightest ray of sunlight poured down through the heavy clouds, and the most beautiful scenery was just the petite and delicate girl wearing a light green Confucian dress, smiling, and the skirt swirled out a light and graceful arc.

"Little brother, we'll meet again!" She smiled.

"Yes, Luoyang City Mayor's Sun Mansion, I will go to you in the future."

He stared for a long time, and when I am successful, I will definitely come to you

The heavy rain of that year made him meet a girl he admired all his life, he never imagined that women could conspire with men in the world, and they could also have such a broad mind and be optimistic and open-minded.

Such a woman can be worthy of his title of Princess Qin and help him create a prosperous era in Tai'an.

Tiance Mansion, the night was thick, Hongyi lay on the stone table of the pavilion, muttering to himself: "Yinyin, I did approach you for a purpose, why did you really like you later, but you want to leave me"

"Yinyin, no matter who kills you, I will never let you die blindly!"