What is the meaning behind cruelty? I gradually believed Zhu Di's words: "Then where has he gone now?" ”

Zhu Di didn't answer and asked: "Where is he going for you?" ”

His eyes lit up, "Yaoguan? Zhu Di nodded.

I couldn't let go of my heart before I saw Ah Ping, I always said that I was not a compassionate person, and after seeing the cruelty of war, I wanted to grasp what I could grasp. So when Zhu Di proposed to send me to Yaoguan to find A, I didn't object, but looked around again, took a deep breath and followed Zhu Di to the carriage that followed me all the way.

Changning saw me very nervously and grabbed me, and asked urgently, "How is it?" Is there anything wrong with my sister? ”

"I'm fine, don't be afraid, Changning, we're safe, let's go to Yaoguan."

"Do you want to go to Yaoguan now? What about Your Highness? What about Seventh Brother? ”

I patted him on the head, "Don't ask, my sister is as confused as you, I'll know when I see him later." ”

The army arrived at Yaoguan until dark, and had no intention of thinking about anything else, hoping that Aping could be seen at the head of Yaoguan. When he stepped out of the carriage and looked up, there was only a faint light of fire in the darkness, and he couldn't see whether the scattered figure was familiar or not. Zhu Di ordered people to come forward and shout, holding a bonfire to illuminate the handsome flag, and then saw the city gate slowly open from the inside out.

Looking at this dim Yaoguan, I almost lost hope, but in the next moment, from the sound of horses' hooves inside the door, a group of soldiers rode out in unison. From afar, I heard the question: "Is the marshal coming?" ”

When Zhu Gaoxu heard this, he shouted happily: "It's Lao Zhu!" Without waiting for Zhu Di to speak, he raised his voice and responded: "Old Zhu, it's us." "Listening to them call it like that, is it Zhu Neng? That is, General Zhu in their mouths, then he has already come to Yaoguan, what about Ah Ping? Zhu Di didn't say......

The thought came to a halt as I saw one of them go very fast, passing all the other horses, and the figure of the horse became more and more familiar. I waited with bated breath, only to hear the sound of a horse, and a dark shadow flashed before me, and by the time I fixed my eyes again, the figure of the horse had already rushed towards me, and the next moment I crashed into an embrace.

I asked blankly, "Is it Ah Ping?" ”

"Daughter-in-law, I was wrong, I shouldn't have let you break through with the army, I regret my decision to put you in such a situation." Panicked, lost, frightened, mixed with the voice of many emotions against the eardrums.

A familiar embrace, my Ah Ping.

I quietly let him hug, my mind was complicated and unsettled, I was worried about him before, and I waited until this moment to finally taste it in his arms, it turned out that the taste of the rest of my life after the catastrophe was like this.

I pray that this battle will end soon, and that Ah Ping and I will never be separated again.

When my emotions calmed down, Ah Ping let go of me, and his gaze turned to Zhu Di, "Uncle Wang." ”

He didn't say thank you, but he heard his tone full of emotion. I quietly took his hand underneath and immediately felt him squeeze it back, and it was extremely tight.

Zhu Di rode his horse to him, looked down at us slightly, and said in a dull tone: "Let's all enter the customs first and then discuss." ”

No one objected, and the army was stationed outside the city, and all the generals entered the city one after another. The city guard had already heard the news and waited at the door, as soon as he saw Zhu Di, he bowed his head to the end, Zhu Di let him be exempted, and the city guard got up and said: "When the little general came, he said that the prince would arrive immediately, and the minister still didn't believe it, and he didn't want to really welcome you to my Yaoguan town, and asked the prince to come with me quickly." ”

Hearing this, I frowned, the city guard didn't know Ah Ping's identity, just thought he was a young general? Looking back at Ah Ping's outfit, he roughly understood what was going on, thinking that Ah Ping didn't tell his identity when he entered the customs, or came with General Zhu Neng, and this city guard only regarded him as a young general by Zhu Neng's side. It is indeed easy to misunderstand that the armor, which is the same as that of ordinary soldiers, should be worn in exchange with the soldiers who died in the forest.

Just as he was thinking about it, he heard Zhu Di suddenly scold in a cold voice: "Bold, His Royal Highness the Emperor is here, how can you be rude?" ”

The city guard was stunned and didn't react, looked left and right and asked, "Where is His Royal Highness the Imperial Grandson?" Zhu Gaoxu suddenly laughed first: "Brother Wei, you are a real person in front of you but you don't know it." ”

I saw that Dianmingtang was coming, and their father and son intended to let Ah Ping establish authority in front of the city guard, but Ah Ping was not stupid, and after a glance at it, he said lightly: "Since you are outside, I won't talk about these false courtesies." ”

The city guard suddenly realized, and after looking at Ah Ping, he was so frightened that he fell to the ground, but he immediately quickly crawled to Ah Ping's feet and kowtowed, and shouted in his mouth: "His Royal Highness, the emperor is a minister who has no eyes and does not know Mount Tai in front of him." The minister is too confused, and begs His Highness for forgiveness. ”

Ah Ping frowned at this, took half a step back and said, "Those who don't know are not guilty, so be exempt." ”

The royal majesty speaks for itself, and these things may have been born in his bones long ago. Ah Ping is a little good, he does not have a natural sense of superiority like many princes and grandchildren, even if he is really the pride of the sky, but he can still eat poor and endure ridicule. It's just that he occasionally has a bad temper, but that's only when he faces his own people, and he is always gentle and elegant in front of outsiders. is also able to play the Confucian spirit of a deputy marshal general, so it is no wonder that the city guards despise it.

When the city guard got up tremblingly, I saw that he was already sweating profusely, obviously really frightened, and the cold sweat was still breaking out after getting up, probably because he was afraid of all the rude behavior before. But we didn't know him, after entering the city, Ah Ping and I got into the carriage together, Changning was "expelled" by him and let Yan Qi take him, and neither of them spoke in the space where they were alone, because this was not the time to talk in detail, but their hands were holding each other.

I don't know what Ah Ping was thinking, but the thoughts that were circling in my mind were—fortunately, he was safe.

There are three things in life that cannot be saved: life, time, and love.

Among them, life comes first, life cannot be turned back, if it is gone, there is nothing. I have never cherished the opportunity to hold his hand more than at this moment, and I feel terrified when I think of the image of the man in his armor lying motionless on the ground with a black arrow, and at that moment my whole head was mixed, and I couldn't feel the ground with every step I took on the road.

Don't go through this kind of heart-rending moment again, I just want to hold this person's hand and go all the way.

Suddenly, the carriage stopped, and immediately guarded the city outside: "Your Highness, the minister's mansion has arrived." ”

Ah Ping stepped out of the carriage first, and when he got under the carriage, he turned around and came back to pick me out. But when I raised my eyes, I couldn't help but be stunned, the lintel of this city guard house was really simple. There were already a few spots on the black lacquer door, even the knocker was a little rusty, and there were several holes in the walls on both sides.

When I entered the door, I found that it was an ordinary house, which was extremely simple.

Although the city was sacked by the Northern Yuan army, it turned out that the city guard mansion was gorgeous from the architectural point of view, and the area was many times larger than here. When I turned my eyes, I saw that the city guard was shrinking back with a worried face and didn't dare to speak, for fear that we would dislike it, but Ah Ping and Zhu Di didn't say much after looking around, and only ordered the soldiers and generals to clean up their rooms. It can be seen that neither of them is the kind of high-minded person, and they will not complain much about the harsh environment.

But looking back at the beginning, one was a person who lived incognito in Ginkgo Village for a few years, and the other was a person who was seriously injured and wandered outside Ginkgo Village, and was finally rescued by me and lived in a cave for a while and became a bandit leader for a while.

The first thing to be sorted out was the council chamber, because the two groups of soldiers and horses urgently needed to communicate with each other about what was going on the battlefield. When I saw that I wanted to discuss important matters, I opened my mouth and proposed to recuse myself first, but Ah Ping and Zhu Di both denied it, saying that I was a participant in this battle and should have the right to listen to what happened, so as not to explain to me afterwards.

So I stayed and stood still. After listening to what they had to say, I was overwhelmed by the fact that a battle had been fought in a real ...... Every step is a camp, every step is a calculation.

It turned out that the Northern Yuan army withdrew fifty miles away from Mengcheng and turned to Kaifeng, in order to lure the enemy and try to lure our army out of the city, and their goal was only Mengcheng from beginning to end. And Zhu Di also saw through this plan, and after discussing with Ah Ping, he decided to plan the plan, first he led the Yan army to pretend to pursue, but in fact, the soldiers were divided into two roads on the way, one way around Heijun Mountain and hiding in the forest, and the other way in turn attracted the Northern Yuan army to sneak attack and ambush.

Zhu Di concluded that the Northern Yuan Dynasty would have this trick, so he came to catch the turtle in the urn and "make dumplings" for the ambushed Northern Yuan army. And his plan with Ah Ping was that when there was a rumor that the Yan army was trapped, Ah Ping would do whatever it took to send troops to rescue, so that the Northern Yuan thought that the treacherous plan had succeeded and killed the reinforcements in a big way. This is a plan to wait for the rabbit, it seems that Zhu Di risked his life to lead the enemy army to besiege, but in fact, the real bait is on our side, because the Northern Yuan is afraid of the name of the Yan King and will not dare to fight with it, and will only send thousands of people to attack and ambush at night. And most of the army will rush to us and the city, and with the city behind, we are the first line of defense to be leveled.