Lu Changfeng is not dead
Li Hanning responded: "It's okay." β
Stay close to him.
Cheng An's generals have a lot of experience in marching, although he is about the same age as Xiao Ce, but he always feels that his side is much safer, but Xiao Ce is different, Xiao Ce's side looks more dangerous.
At night, when Li Hanning was packing her luggage in the tent, Cheng An stood aside and looked at her in confusion:
"Don't you sleep here at night? Where do you want to change to? β
Li Hanning silently packed his luggage, in fact, there were only a few single clothes, Li Hanning's movements in his hands did not stop, and he didn't even raise his eyes and said:
"Change places."
Cheng An didn't understand, with Li Hanning's identity, apart from him, which camp in the entire military camp dared to take her in? Is he really not afraid to turn back and settle accounts with him?
Seeing that the person was about to leave, Cheng An couldn't help but step forward and stopped:
"No, General Li, if you want to leave, you have to tell me where you're going, right? The tents around here are full, and you're moving around alone at such a late hour. β
While the two of them were talking, they didn't notice that someone opened the tent and walked in.
Cheng An looked at Li Hanning again, and said with some complaint in his heart: "I'm also worried about your safety." β
By the way, I was also worried about my own safety, don't look back, Xiao Ce asked and blamed him for not taking people seriously.
Xiao Ce saw that Cheng An had been stopping, and Li Hanning lowered his head again and didn't speak, and suddenly said not far from Cheng An:
"Don't worry, she's moving to me."
Cheng An suddenly heard this familiar voice, and his heart was inevitably shocked, isn't this Xiao Ce's voice?
Cheng An's vigilance in the barracks was much lower than before, and he was still in the camp now, so he realized that Xiao Ce didn't know when he had come in.
"Your Highness can't rest so late, this is-"
Cheng An only reacted to what Xiao Ce had just said halfway through the words, no wonder-
Cheng An glanced at Xiao Ce quietly, then turned his head to look at Li Hanning, and suddenly as if he understood something, he rushed over with an arrow and came to Li Hanning's side:
"Oh, you've been living with me all along, we're like brothers, and now my brother is moving out, so why don't I help make the bed when I'm a brother."
Xiao Ce glanced at Cheng An without moving, and said meaninglessly: "No need, it's not far from here, if you miss her when you go back, you can go to me to take a look." β
Cheng An smiled, how dare he, besides, if their master is careful, don't they understand it? If you really want to feel that Li Hanning is inconvenient for a woman outside, why should she fall into his tent? It would be good to transfer Cheng An to live with Xiao Ce and let Li Hanning live here alone.
However, it is rare for their second son to have such careful thoughts, Cheng An has been a subordinate for so many years, and he has to find a way to fulfill him.
"Okay, I suddenly remembered that Lao Feng asked me to go out tonight to inspect the tents stationed in the south, and I will leave first if I have something to do, so I won't disturb the two of you."
Cheng An hurriedly withdrew from the tent.
After leaving the camp, the weather outside was a little cold, after all, it was night in the mountains and forests, Cheng An really went to find Feng Qi again, Feng Qi was so late over there, and it was a little surprising to see him suddenly.
"What's the matter, General Cheng, what are you doing here at such a late hour? I haven't gone back to rest yet, but I'm going to have to go again tomorrow morning. β
How can they be in a hurry like this, not sleeping well, and keeping their spirits up.
Cheng An also thought about it.
Cheng An unceremoniously pushed him, rubbed past him, and squeezed into the tent:
"I'll be able to deal with you for the night."
Feng Qi couldn't understand his abnormality tonight: "I was originally a small tent here, I'm already crowded enough, why don't you go back to your own place to live?" β
"I have two living Hades there, I learned to calculate a hexagram from the Mo Yunxi on the other side, and my tent is really not suitable for people to live in tonight."
"Living Hades? Two? Aren't you just a Li Hanning? β
Cheng An fell asleep helplessly, and his eyes didn't want to open at all:
"And Your Highness."
Feng Qi was a little surprised after hearing this: "His Royal Highness King Ming is also here?" β
When King Ming and Li Hanning are both there-
Doesn't that meanβ
No wonder Lao Cheng wants to come to him to squeeze all night, no wonder-
In the manager's tent here, there is a screen between Xiao Ce and Li Hanning's bed, but the screen is made of thin silk, and as long as the lights are not turned off, you can still see it faintly clearly.
"I have to march again tomorrow, so the second son should rest early."
It was late at night, and there was no sound between the tents except the sound of patrolling soldiers walking to and fro, and the only thing that was quiet in front of the woods was the chirping of birds and insects.
But Xiao Ce hadn't slept in the tent yet, he was still watching tomorrow's military situation at his desk, and the affairs of Luoyang were all pressed on him, no matter who the imperial court sent in the past, or the generals from other places, he had more or less fought or heard about them.
Only the Mo Yunxi on the other side always made him feel a little uneasy.
Although he knew Mo Yunxi's origins, he didn't know his knowledge and the arrangement of troops he was good at, and when he fought against such an enemy, Xiao Ce had to make all preparations.
"Actuallyβ"
Li Hanning hesitated again and again but said, "I saw him when I was in Huai'an before. β
Xiao Ce was stunned: "Have you seen Mo Yunxi before?" β
Li Hanning admitted: "I once met him by chance on the way to the inn, he was dressed in white, with only one guard by his side, saying that he was going to take other unsuccessful brothers home, and later I understood that he was referring to Mo Qing, but Li Zhao Gongzi also mentioned him before, although his surname is Mo but his mother also has some relationship with the Li family, the parents were in the court at the time, and other people from the Mo family were all from the Li family, and he pleaded for the Li family alone. β
even knelt at the door of his own house on a rainy night that day and begged Prime Minister Mo, but at that time, the Mo family was in power and completely ignored his son, which was also the reason why Li Zhao later chose to let him go.
"Mo Yunxi has been taught by the Great Liang National Teacher, and it has been decades so far, as long as the Great Liang National Master is not allowed to count the hexagram, he has also calculated the hexagram for his apprentice before."
Although there are some things that may not be taken to everyone's heart, it doesn't hurt to listen to them occasionally, Xiao Ce has never believed in ghosts and gods, but he just listens to them occasionally when he has nothing to do.
Xiao Ce was rarely interested in this matter, looked at the person in front of him and said, "How is it?" β
Li Hanning recalled that it was the young man in white he saw in the inn, and remembered what Li Zhao had said before, so he said quietly: "You must not become an official in your life, otherwise you will definitely not die well in the future." β
Now that he has broken his oath, he also came with the courage to die, and it is even more troublesome, Xiao Ce used to be a person who was not afraid of trouble, but now he is followed by the people who follow him, and behind him are 100,000 soldiers in Luoyang, he can't afford to lose, otherwise how should he face the people in Luoyang City who were sent by hundreds of miles in Luoyang City in the future?
Li Hanning naturally understands the pressure he is under now, just like Li Zhao was in Huai'an at that time, but she always believed that they would win.
So Li Hanning stretched out her hand and picked the wick with the iron hairpin on the side, the light of the candle shook for a while, it became brighter and brighter, and the whole tent illuminated by a few candles was brightly lit, so she stood quietly and watched Xiao Ce sit on the desk and read.
They had only slept for a few hours, and the day dawned, and the birds and insects chirping in the mountains and forests awoke with the soldiers in the tents, and when they had finished breakfast, it was time to go south again.
It's just that the soldiers who were scouting in front suddenly heard the sound of hurried footsteps, and rushed all the way towards sleeping.
"Oh no! Your Highness is not good! β
As soon as Xiao Ce woke up, he frowned unconsciously when he heard a chaotic voice:
"What's wrong?"
It can't be Mo Yunxi who came out of the city, right?
If not, there's nothing to panic about.
Xiao Ce opened the tent and saw a dusty soldier kneeling outside the tent:
"Jinling is gone, a team of soldiers who came from nowhere, masked and riding horses set fire to the city, there is hot smoke everywhere, people can't open their eyes, there are too few soldiers to rescue, although they have been trying to find it, but there seems to be no living people in the city."
This is indeed bad news.
Jinling City.
Who will set fire to the city at this time?
Their soldiers and horses are obviously not far from here.
Li Hanning had just come out of the tent and heard them talking, and subconsciously glanced at Xiao Ce.
I don't know who came up with the idea, I'm afraid I don't want them to carry this pot and blame everything in Jinling City on their Luoyang Army?
There were many women and children in Jinling City, all of whom were villagers from Qi An's subordinates at that time, could it be that there were also any righteous troops nearby, wanting to provoke them to fight to the death with the defenders in Tianwei City?
Li Hanning suddenly opened his mouth and asked in a deep voice: "Didn't you say that there are a pair of soldiers of unknown origin?" What about those people? Can there be traces now, can you see which direction they are going? β
The grizzled soldier knelt on the ground, where did he dare to raise his head:
"Back to General Li's words, I don't know, I was already gone when I waited, someone in Jinling City told us before he died, that the people were already seriously injured and dying, and now they are seriously injured and dying."
They didn't have time to consider these other reasons now, and Xiao Ce reacted:
"The order is to go down and mobilize the three armies and go to Jinling City to rescue, and save as many people as you can."
"Yes."
When they came to Jinling City, they found that it was indeed a mess, and even the bricks and tiles defending the city had been scorched in half.
The smell of blood filled the air, mixed with the smell of burnt and smoke, very pungent.
Luoyang's soldiers and horses poured into the city of Jinling, and corpses could be seen everywhere in the city, some of them fell on the street, some died at the mouth of the well, the hot porridge in the pot of the vendor, and even the smoke was still thick, and the corpses were not cooled, and their clothes were stained with blood, almost all of them were knife wounds and spear wounds, and there were horse's hoof prints galloping past on the streets.
The goal of those people was very clear, after entering the city, they killed people, and then set fire to it, eager to burn Jinling City clean.
Li Hanning rode a horse and followed Xiao Ce, slowly entering the city, and what he saw everywhere was shocking, these scenes should have only happened on the battlefield, these people were powerless, why did they suffer today's disaster.
Xiao Ce turned over and dismounted, looking at everything that was happening around him, he didn't speak, how dare the generals behind him speak.
Li Hanning knew in his heart that so many people came in Jinling at once, and the number of soldiers in this team was probably hundreds, and being able to let so many people in show that those who were guarding the city should still trust them, so they could easily enter the city, and there must be someone they knew among these people, so that in the troubled times, the people in Jinling City let down their guard so quickly.
Who could it be?
Xiao Ce looked at a woman and child on the side of the wall protecting the child under him, kneeling on the ground, but he and the child in his arms had already lost their breath.
Xiao Ce's face sank and he looked at the soldiers who came to report on the side:
"Are there any living people in the city?"
The soldier's face was even worse, and he saw the more terrifying scene of those people being killed in the city: "I haven't found it yet, but I'm already searching with all my might, and I don't know what to do with the remaining corpses?" β
Xiao Ce looked at the scene in front of him: "Naturally, it is a good burial, we will stay here for a day and bury the people in the city well." β
"Yes."
They stood here for a while, Xiao Ce was silent and did not speak, and a group of soldiers stood quietly with him, and after a long time, another soldier hurriedly ran over to report:
"Your Highness, we seem to have found a living person, do you want to go over and take a look?"
Xiao Ce glanced at him, naturally he wanted to go, since there was a living person, maybe he would know who it was.
A few people followed the soldiers who came to report the news, turned over and came to the east of the city, here are several families connected together, one of the beams of the house has been burned down, but the soldiers of Luoyang City defenders from the collapsed beams of the broken wood to find an intact cellar.
Ning Yu had already been waiting in the courtyard first, and when he saw them coming, he immediately said:
"A man was found in the cellar, he was still breathing but unconscious, he may need to see a doctor, I have already found a military doctor."
Xiao Ce nodded, they did a good job, and when they walked into the courtyard, they saw the person lying on the ground.
"It's notβ"
Some things make sense of the word.
Li Hanning was also stunned, there would never be such a resemblance in the world, the two of them were exactly the same height and appearance, although he looked a little embarrassed now, with many abrasions on his body and his face full of dust, she would not remember the wrong person.
The person lying on the ground was Lu Changfeng, who should have died.
Xiao Ce was stunned for a moment, and then reacted: "Tell the doctor who is accompanying the army that no matter what method he thinks, he must save this person for me, and I can use as many precious medicinal materials as I want." β
His soldiers didn't know why their Highness was so nervous about this man, but he told them to always remember.
"Yes."
Xiao Ce glanced down at the person lying on the ground, this was also the biggest surprise he had when he came to Jinling City, Lu Changfeng was still alive.