"In addition to this tiger cavalry battalion, the southern army also has the Qilin army. Xia Ruiren pointed to the phalanx on the left and said.

Hearing this, Wu You looked in the direction that Xia Ruiren was pointing to, and saw more than a dozen phalanxes pushing the cloud ladder to the city at a city wall. Wu You was carefully watching the soldiers' training, and Xia Ruiren's voice came.

"Because of this battle with the Liang State, the Liang State will definitely defend the city, so the Qilin Army in our army is mainly trained in siege battles. The archers and elite soldiers in this Qilin army have their own duties, because our Great Xia army has not fought for a long time, and now they can only carry out this siege training every day.

Avoid being unable to capture the city due to lack of siege experience in the battlefield. ”

Wu You nodded and continued to look at the phalanx training below, thinking back to what Xia Ruiren said, he found that the Tiger Cavalry Battalion still had a total of 250,000 soldiers of the Qilin Army, so he looked at the phalanx that was training swordsmanship, and found that only ten phalanxes were training, and there was no one in the five phalanxes, so he couldn't help but be a little puzzled.

Xia Ruiren seemed to see Wu You's doubts, so he continued to speak: "The phalanx that Director Wu is looking at is the army transferred from the other three armies, and it is now called the trilateral army in the southern army, with a total of 150,000 elite soldiers. ”

Wu You pointed to the five empty phalanxes and asked, "Your Highness, why are there only ten phalanxes training in sword skills, but those five phalanxes are empty?"

Hearing this, Xia Ruiren put his hands behind his back, looked at Wu You with a smile and asked, "Has Director Wu ever heard of the tunnel battle?"

(This tunnel war is not a tunnel war during the War of Resistance Against Japan, but a kind of tunnel war in ancient times.) It is a method of digging tunnels to the back of enemy troops, and when digging tunnels, the holes are not collapsing, so they are fixed with wood and stakes. ）

Wu You's heart suddenly became stunned when he heard this, and the scene of 150,000 elite soldiers suddenly appearing behind the enemy during the siege of the city appeared in his mind, and Wu You couldn't help but glance at Xia Ruiren with admiration when he thought about it.

Xia Ruiren saw Wu You's admiring eyes, and continued without the slightest modesty: "This tunnel war was created by Li Yan, the military god of Taizu's time, but this tunnel war was only used once, and only a word was described in the history books, and there was no tunnel war in this summer land after that tunnel war.

A few days ago, I accidentally found in the history books that the military god Li Yan had used this tunnel warfare, and there had been no war in Xia for more than 10,000 years.

In this way, if our army wants to quickly take the Liang State, it will also have more chances of victory. ”

Wu You nodded and exclaimed, "His Royal Highness King Qin can be praised as the god of war at that time. ”

Hearing this, King Xia Ruiren modestly replied: "Pavilion Director Wu Miao praised, this is nothing more than the responsibility of being a general of Great Xia, everything is for Great Xia." ”

Wu You heard that everything was for the sake of Great Xia, looked at Xia Ruiwu and the four of them, and found that the four of them were enthusiastic and muttered that Xia Ruiren's everything was for Great Xia, so he looked at Xia Ruiren and said: "Your Highness, Ruili and I came to the army this time, just to integrate into the army faster." Why don't you let us go to these trilateral armies?"

"Director Wu is sitting in the army, why do you want to go to the trilateral army?"

Wu You thought about the King of Qin, Xia Ruiren, and said: "Although I am entrusted by the King of Xia to mainly target the immortals in the vassal states, but in terms of the information under my control now, I don't know if there are any immortals in the vassal states, and even if there is, I won't take it lightly."

Either by the side of the prince and the king, or in the battlefield waiting for the opportunity to kill the enemy army and kill the enemy general.

Rui Li and the four of them went to these trilateral armies, first, His Highness has Lao Xiao by his side, and he will definitely ensure the safety of the commander in the army, and there is no difference between me and Rui Li and a few of them going to the trilateral army to go behind the enemy when they are attacking the city, and then I can go deep behind the enemy to kill the enemy generals and attract the immortals of the vassal states to kill them in one fell swoop. The third is that since I am here to fight, how can I play a role if I do not charge into battle.

What do you say? His Royal Highness the King of Qin. ”

Xia Ruiren heard Wu You's words, and solemnly saluted Wu You and said, "Then there is Director Lao Wu." ”

Wu You held Xia Ruiren's arm with both hands and slowly raised it and smiled: "His Royal Highness King Qin is the commander of the first army, since I am also His Highness's subordinate in the army, Your Highness should not be like this in the future, you are being seen by others in such words?"

"Since that's the case, then I'm not too hypocritical, when Director Wu wants to enter the Trilateral Army, his words are just a word. Xia Ruiren raised his head and looked at Wu You with a smile and said.

Wu You nodded and said no more, and continued to look at the phalanx training below.

After reading the training, Xia Ruiren wanted to deal with military affairs, so he asked his soldiers to take Wu You, Xiao Chongwu and Xia Ruili four brothers and six people to walk around the army in a group and watch the equipment and equipment used by the southern army.

But after reading it, he still admired the smelting technique of Great Xia. I continue to admire the pioneers who have entered this lost realm for 10,000 years, and admire the fact that these pioneers can use the refining methods of the outside world to transform them into smelting techniques.

Later, when he saw siege weapons such as catapults and cloud carts, Wu You looked at these siege weapons, and he could think of the scene of hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers relying on these siege weapons to enter the city when they attacked the city.

After Wu You and his party finished reading it, Xia Ruiren was not busy, so after letting the soldiers report, Wu You and his party rode back to Hengcheng.

After returning to the Hengcheng General's Mansion, it was already noon, and after lunch, Wu You returned to the room, and Wu You, who was sitting in the room, missed Jian Ru a little, so he began to write a letter to Jian Ru in the room.

Xia Cheng, Princess Muyang's Mansion.

In the middle of the princess's boudoir, a charcoal heat warmed the room, and on the soft table lay a fruit bowl and two bowls of steaming soup, on which two beautiful women sat on it.

"Xiaoru, do you say they have arrived in Hengcheng now?" Princess Muyang Xia Chaoyu leaned on the table and held her beautiful face with her hand, looking at the snowflakes floating outside the window, revealing a look of longing and muttering.

Jian Ru put the bowl in her hand on the table and wiped the corners of her mouth with a handkerchief, looked at Princess Muyang in front of her and smiled: "They shouldn't have arrived yet, it's snowing every day, and the horses can't run fast." ”

Princess Muyang Xia Chaoyu retracted her eyes from the window when she heard this, and looked at the smiling Jian Ru and said, "Yes, if they arrive, they will write back." ”

"Even when they did, the letter wouldn't be here so quickly. ”

"Doesn't they have 800 miles in the army to rush it? This Hengcheng to Xia City is not 800 miles away, and it will arrive in one day. Princess Muyang smiled.

Jian Ru sneered when she heard this, and said with a smile: "I said princess, you can't say this even if you miss it, if it spreads, won't people laugh at your big teeth?"

Princess Muyang frowned when she heard this, and looked at Jian Ru in confusion: "Is there anything wrong with what I said?

After hearing this, Jian Ru pecked the rice and said: "That's right, the 800-mile expedited is to send a letter, but it is to send a war report to the upper part of the war, not that it cannot be used in wartime, let alone send us a letter." ”

"What did I think? since it's a messenger. Princess Muyang Xia Chaoyu took a sip of hot tea and said: "This southern border army, my younger brother is here, I will write to him, if Xiao Chongwu sends me a letter, I will ask him to expedite eight hundred miles." By the way, there is also a letter from your family Wu You. ”

Jian Ru was speechless when she heard this, how could Xia Chaoyu be thirty years old when she encountered love like a fool, Jian Ru looked at Xia Chaoyu who was telling Qiao'er to take pen and paper, and persuaded:

"Princess, don't forget that the eldest prince doesn't know about the matter between you and Xiao Chongwu yet. ”

Princess Muyang smiled when she heard this: "It's okay, I'll write to him and tell him if you don't know?" He has listened to me since he was a child. He didn't dare not disobey me about this. ”

"Princess, don't forget that the king doesn't know about the matter between you and Xiao Chongwu. Jian Ru continued.

Princess Muyang Xia Chaoyu was stunned for a moment when she heard this, and then said with a melancholy face: "I don't know if my father can agree to Xiao Chongwu's request and let me regain my freedom to marry him." ”

Jian Ru looked at Princess Muyang with a melancholy face, stretched out her hand and grabbed Princess Muyang's hand and said gently: "Yes, don't forget that the two of us are not ordinary people." ”

Princess Muyang chuckled twice when she heard this, and looked at Jian Ru with interest.

Jian Ru was a little embarrassed by Princess Muyang, her face was slightly red and she let go of Princess Muyang's hand, but Princess Muyang grabbed Jian Ru's hand and laughed: "That's right, who told us that the two of us are not ordinary people?"

Hearing this, Jian Ru looked at Princess Muyang and said coquettishly: "Who just rushed to write a letter to make people expedite eight hundred miles, so that everyone in the world knows that our Princess Muyang of Great Xia likes Xiao Chongwu?"

Princess Muyang pretended to be angry and said: "Okay, you Jian Ru dares to make fun of this palace and look at the claws of this palace." After speaking, he stretched out his hands and grabbed Jian Ru's body.

Jian Ru was not to be outdone, after the two of them played around on the soft collapse, the two of them sat on the soft collapse with flushed faces and straightened the crumpled clothes on their bodies when they were playing.

After Qiao'er brought a new tea cup, Jian Ru took a sip of tea and regained her composure, looked at Princess Muyang and said, "Princess, what we can do now is to support them in the back." ”

Princess Muyang put down the teacup and nodded, looked at Jian Ru and said, "You're right, we women just want to reassure our husband, stand behind us and silently support our husband to do what he wants, and don't block them." ”

After Princess Muyang finished speaking, she didn't speak when she saw Jian Ru looking at the snowflakes floating outside the window, leaning on the table with her face and looking at the snowflakes floating outside the window with Jian Ru, thinking about the person she wanted in her heart.

After Wu You wrote a letter to Jian Ru, he handed it to Xia Ruiwu and asked him to arrange someone to send the letter, not that Wu You didn't want to find someone to send it himself, but that he had asked Xia Ruiwu to help him do things for so long, plus Xia Ruiwu did these things quickly, and he also silently formed this habit Wu You didn't want to change it, so he formed Wu You found his second apprentice to do everything.

Wu You sat and rested in the middle hall, and when he saw Xia Ruiwu and Xia Ruiren coming back together, he got up to greet him.

After Xia Ruiren asked Xia Ruiwu to call the rest of the brothers to the middle hall, Xia Ruiren, who had finished drinking a sip of hot tea, looked at everyone and said slowly: "I have already explained the generals of these trilateral armies, and you can go to these trilateral armies at any time, and they are not dispatched by anyone."

As for what you want to do in the Trilateral Army, Director Wu, you can talk to the generals of the Trilateral Army. ”

Seeing that Wu You nodded, Xia Ruiwu looked at Xia Ruili's four brothers and instructed: "The four of you must not reveal your identities after entering the Trilateral Army, and your identities are now only known to me and several generals." Military discipline must be observed in the trilateral army, and if I find that the four of you have violated military discipline, I will take care of you. ”

Xia Ruili smiled and said, "Big brother, don't worry, we are not the children you saw at home eight years ago, and now the four of us have grown up and know what to do with Master." ”

Xia Ruiren nodded with satisfaction, then looked at Wu You and said respectfully: "My four younger brothers have Director Lao Wu." ”

Wu You heard the words and Xia Ruiren exchanged a few polite words, and when he saw that there were no other important things, he learned about the generals of the trilateral army with Xia Ruiren, and then left.

In the early morning of the next day, Wu You and his entourage arrived at the barracks with Xia Ruiren early, and after arriving at the barracks, Xia Ruiren wanted to deal with military affairs, so he asked his soldiers to take five people to the army of the trilateral army.

Wu You and his party followed behind the soldiers through row after row of military tents, and stopped at the door of a large military tent, after the soldiers spoke to the two soldiers in front of the door, the soldiers turned around and went in to report, and then Wu You and his party walked into the military tent.

After entering the military tent, a middle-aged man who was nearly fifty years old, wearing a military uniform, with a tiger's back and a scar on his waist, walked up to the five of them and saluted, and then said with a full of anger: "The last general, Wei Yuan, has seen Director Wu, His Royal Highness King Hui, His Royal Highness King Zhao, His Royal Highness King Wei, and His Royal Highness King Han. ”

Wu You walked up to the middle-aged man and hurriedly raised the middle-aged man who saluted: "The general is polite." ”

Then seeing the middle-aged man looking at the four Xia Ruili behind him, Wu You smiled and said, "General, don't care about those boys being easy-going, treat us as your soldiers." ”

Wei Yuan heard yesterday from Xia Ruiren, the king of Qin, that several princes and their royal highnesses came to the army with his master, although Wei Yuan has been in the army for a long time, he also heard that several princes in Xia Cheng play every day and do not have that motivated heart, when they heard that they were going to come to their army, they were a little unhappy but did not dare to refuse.

After coming back, he has been thinking about how to deal with these princes, and after hearing Wu You's words, he glanced at the princes behind Wu You and found that there was no abnormality, and he couldn't help but have a little more respect for Wu You in his heart.

Although Wu You said this, Wei Yuan didn't dare to be disrespectful in the slightest, so he said: "Director Wu said that he was laughing, how dare the last general treat Director Wu and several His Highnesses as soldiers?"

After finishing speaking, he greeted a few people seated, Wei Yuan didn't know who to let sit on the main seat, and after seeing that the four princes were sitting in the guest seat, he respectfully let Wu You sit on the main seat, Wu You hurriedly shirked and sat on the guest seat, Wei Yuan immediately looked up to Wu You and several princes.

Wei Yuan walked to the table and lifted the teapot to pour the tea on the tea bowl, and after serving tea to the five people, he said loudly: "There is only this coarse tea and fresh water in this army, and I hope that Director Wu and several His Highnesses will not mind." ”

The five of them didn't say much, and drank the tea with a smile.

Wu You put down the tea bowl after drinking, looked at Wei Yuan and said indifferently: "General Wei, don't call them His Royal Highness the prince or call me Director Wu, just call me by name, and the five of us will come to this trilateral army and obey your command."

Besides, compared to our identity, His Royal Highness the King of Qin also told you that we can't leak it out. You just do it. ”

After hearing this, Wei Yuan pondered for a moment, then looked at Wu You and said, "Director Wu, this King of Qin did tell me. I call you by name when you are outside, and I call you by your name in private. ”

Wu You didn't know what to say, nodded and smiled: "That's it, don't add a surname when you call a few of them." ”

Wei Yuan nodded, drank the tea, and found that the tea bowls of several people had been wiped out, so he got up and poured tea for the five people.

After Wu You saw Wei Yuan return to the main seat after pouring tea, he remembered the tunnel battle that Xia Ruiren said yesterday and asked, "General Wei, I don't know how this tunnel is being built now?"

Wei Yuan replied: "This tunnel began to be excavated in the direction of Changlong Pass in a deep mountain outside the barracks, which is about twenty miles away from Changlong Pass, and now it has been dug ten miles away from Changlong Pass because there are many stones and tree roots under the mountain. ”

Wu You was a little puzzled when he heard that he was a hundred miles away, how to ventilate in the tunnel, so he continued to ask: "I don't know how the general ventilates in this tunnel?"

Wei Yuan didn't hesitate when he heard this, and continued to speak: "When this tunnel was excavated, His Royal Highness the King of Qin had a way, and every ten zhang of digging would be dug upwards, and then a wooden plank and grass would be used as a cover for ventilation.

The fifty tunnels dug by our army are not under the official road, they are all on both sides of Changlong Pass, so they are not afraid of being trampled on, nor are they afraid of being discovered by the enemy troops in Changlong Pass. ”

Wu You's heart suddenly dawned when he heard this, and he admired Xia Ruiren, the king of Qin, even more.

Thinking of the fifty tunnels connected under the ground, he couldn't help but have some expectations, so he said, "I wonder if General Wei can take us to the deep mountains to see this tunnel?"

Wei Yuan nodded and said with a full breath: "I'll let people prepare horses." ”

After Wei Yuan finished speaking, he went out to let the soldiers prepare the horses, and after the six people chatted in the military tent, the soldiers came in to report, and the group got out of the military tent and rode towards the deep mountain.

The two rode for thirty miles, and when they reached a deep mountain, they dismounted and walked towards the mountain.

After walking for about a cup of tea, the six people stopped, and then a sentence came from the grass: "Yellow sand wears gold armor in a hundred battles"

Wei Yuan was full of anger and said loudly: "If you don't break it, the princes will never return." ”

Then, more than a hundred soldiers appeared in the grass, hurriedly walked seven steps in front of Wei Yuan, knelt down on one knee and shouted in unison: "I've seen the general." ”

Wei Yuan waved his hand, and the more than 100 soldiers walked back to the grass quickly, Wu You looked at the grass that had returned to its original state and admired the superb concealment skills of these soldiers, except for the grass that shook a little after walking just now, it could be seen that they had walked before, and the rest could not see any flaws.

Thinking of Wei Yuan's code before, Wu You asked Wei Yuan beside him: "General Wei, I don't know who did this yellow sand wearing gold armor in a hundred battles, and if it doesn't break the princes?"

Wei Yuan said with a look of admiration when he heard this: "When His Royal Highness King Qin came here to visit the brothers who were digging tunnels in the trilateral army, I heard the shrew scolding the street code that I was talking to the soldiers at that time, and His Royal Highness the King of Qin shook his head after hearing it, so I asked His Royal Highness the King of Qin to make a code.

After thinking about it for a while, His Royal Highness the King of Qin said that this yellow sand hundred battles golden armor will not be returned if it is not broken.

Although I, Wei Yuan, am a big old man, I can also hear the meaning of this poem of His Royal Highness King Qin, not only this poem is used as a code for the trilateral army. Also as a slogan for the Trilateral Army. ”

Wu You looked at Wei Yuan, who looked at Wei Yuan, who looked at him with an adoring face, and nodded, listening to Xia Ruili behind him praising this poem, Wu You smiled and continued to follow Wei Yuan towards the deep mountain.

After the group passed through a flat place in the mountains and forests and saw the military tent stationed, they walked to the low-lying place on the left side of the flat land, and after approaching, Wu You saw a big pit about a hundred zhang in size, and looked at the bamboo ladders hanging around the big hole, and people were constantly going up and down.

The group walked to the front of the pit, Wei Yuan pointed to the hole with a faint light in the pit and said: "This is the place where the deep mountain is close to the Changlong Pass, and there are still five miles out of this deep mountain, so digging a tunnel here is hidden and closest to the Changlong Pass." ”

Wu You nodded and said, "General, let's go down and have a look." ”

Wei Yuan nodded, and the six of them climbed down the bamboo ladder and slowly walked towards the cave, the entrance of the cave was a little slippery after some snow melted, Xia Ruixin almost fell and ate, but fortunately, Gao Qiang in martial arts hurriedly controlled his body and pulled Xia Ruiwu beside him, so that there was no scene of the dog eating.

After the six people entered the cave, Wu You looked up when he saw that there were wooden pillars standing in the cave every other zhang, and he didn't see yellow mud and other things above, but all the planks and stakes, seeing that it was so stable, Wu You secretly nodded in admiration.

After walking for about a mile, the group saw two forks, and Wei Yuan pointed to the forked road and said: "This tunnel starts to fork from here, and goes to both sides of Changlong Pass respectively." ”

After seeing Wei Yuan's answer, the six of them walked towards the forked road on the right, and the more they walked, the more forked tunnels there were, and Wei Yuan also answered all the way.

At the beginning, it was a two-point digging towards both sides of the Changlong Pass, and after going inside, it was divided into two and four, and then it was divided into four points and eight and finally divided into fifty tunnels leading to the Changlong Pass, and the fifty tunnels would be dug to both sides of the Changlong Pass, and the distance between the fifty tunnels was a reference to the length of the Changlong Pass.

In this way, the trilateral army of 150,000 elite soldiers will not appear on one side of the Changlong Pass, but will appear in every place in the Changlong Pass, and there will be 3,000 elite soldiers in each place to kill the enemy.

On the way back to the barracks after reading it, Wu You and the five of them were still immersed in the magic of the tunnel, and they all admired the uniqueness of the idea and the hard work of those soldiers when digging the tunnel.

After returning to the barracks, Wu You and Wei Yuan chatted about the training of the soldiers in Changlong Pass, knowing that the task of the trilateral army is to go deep behind enemy lines, so every month and a half, 50,000 people will go to the deep mountains to dig tunnels in turn, and the remaining 100,000 will practice swordsmanship.

After chatting, Wei Yuan took the five of them to continue to visit the training of those soldiers.

These days, the four brothers Wu You and Xia Ruiwu have been eating and living with the soldiers in the army all day long, and they have not returned to the general's mansion after noon like Xia Ruiren.

Xia Ruiren went home at noon because there was a princess at home, and the princess was six months pregnant. Therefore, Xia Ruiren went home every day to accompany him.

Wu You and the others now don't have a beautiful wife and concubine by their side in Hengcheng, so they simply stay in the army all day. The generals and soldiers in the trilateral army also gradually got along with Wu You and others, and the identity of the five people in the trilateral army was to join Wei Yuan from Wufu from Xiacheng.

In addition, the four brothers of Xia Ruili also played a good swordsmanship in the army during this period, and they also fought a good set of boxing with the soldiers on weekdays.

Therefore, the four brothers Wu You and Xia Ruili did not have any discomfort in the trilateral army, but the relationship with the soldiers became better and better.

"Old Wu, I'm going to have a drink with you after the battle. A man in his thirties, full of scum, patted Wu You on the shoulder and said.

Wu You bit the grass, glanced at the man and said, "Are you sure you want to drink with me?"

"What about drinking with you? Who have I Xiao been afraid of in the wine field?" The man full of scumbags looked at Wu You with grass in his mouth with disdain and said: "Old Wu, you will brag all day long, if it weren't for the fact that alcohol is not allowed in this army now, I would have put it on the ground." ”

Wu You laughed twice, patted the scumbag man's shoulder and said, "Old Xiao, don't overdo it, what did you say before? I can put down this stinky boy with one hand? And then?"

The scumbag man smiled awkwardly and said: "That doesn't count, that kid Ruili doesn't look like a person who practices martial arts at all, not to mention that he said wildly that day, I can't lose in this momentum, right?"

"Haha, Rui Li is my Wu someone's apprentice, and he said wildly because he has the ability to be my apprentice. Wu You smiled and looked at the scumbag man with interest, "Why don't you also call Master to listen to it?"

"Come on, you, you're younger than me and you want to take advantage of me? If you want me to say, as a younger brother, you should take care of your brother and me more, and offer this fist with both hands. "The bearded man is unbearable.

Wu You waved his hand and said, "Okay, Lao Xiao, this martial arts practice is not a day's work." Let's get down to business, now that the end of the year is approaching, have you sent money back to your mother-in-law and children?"

The scumbag man looked up at the mountains and forests in the distance and said melancholy: "Now that the war is about to start, I can't go home to accompany my mother-in-law and children for the New Year, so I sent back all the drinking money I secretly saved." ”

Wu You nodded and said, "It should be so, the man is struggling outside just to make the mother-in-law and children in the family live a good life." ”

The scumbag man looked at Wu You obliquely and said gloomily: "I have been in the army for more than ten years, although I have been mixed up in the position of centurion, but I have never fought, and I don't know if I can come back in this battle, so I sent all the money back." ”

Wu You patted the scumbag man's shoulder and smiled: "Who said to invite me to drink just now? Could it be that someone wants to play a scoundrel?

Hearing this, the scumbag man looked at Wu You and replied loudly: "Old Wu, you wait, I must let you lie on the wine table and call me brother." ”

"Hahaha, then I'll wait for you to call me brother. ”

The two sat on the hillside and watched the small snowflakes floating in the sky, chatting with heat in their mouths, and bursts of laughter echoed in the air from time to time.

Great Xia Palace, Yong'an Palace.

King Xia, dressed in black civilian clothes, and a white old man in official clothes sat on the soft collapse next to the hall, and two cups of steaming hot tea were placed on the table.

King Xia looked at the white old man and asked, "Li Shangshu, are the materials for guarding the city already in place?"

The old man coughed twice when he heard this, and slowly replied: "Your Majesty, the supplies that went to the three armies yesterday have arrived, and these materials can allow the three armies to hold the vassal state and attack the city for three months, and the grain, grass, and food can be eaten until next summer." ”

"Li Shangshu is still working for me in Daxia at such an age, which is my luck in Daxia. King Xia nodded, and said with a worried look on his face: "Shangshu should pay more attention to his body when he is working on state affairs. ”

"Thank you for worrying about the old ministers, it is the honor of the old ministers to be able to dedicate their meager efforts to the reconquest of Great Xia, and this mere body is not enough to worry about. The old man said respectfully.

King Xia looked at the white old man and nodded solemnly, looked at the stove in the hall, and said with emotion on his face: "If my court in Great Xia is full of people like Shangshu who are dedicated to the country, how can my Great Xia be reduced to the reconquest." ”

The white old man looked pensive when he heard this, and said slowly: "The king doesn't have to sigh, after the completion of this great cause of recovering the lost land, the king is purging the dynasty." ”

After hearing this, King Xia turned his head to look at the old man.

The white old man looked at King Xia and said slowly, and King Xia heard this, his face showed contemplation from time to time, and from time to time he showed a solemn look.

A monarch and a minister had a long talk in the Yong'an Palace.

Xia Cheng, Princess Muyang's Mansion.

Princess Muyang and Jian Ru sat on the soft floor and looked at the letter in their hands, and a smile appeared on their faces.

After half a cup of tea, the two of them reluctantly removed the letter, carefully folded it, and stuffed it into the envelope and put it aside.

After Princess Muyang picked up the teacup and took a sip of hot tea, she looked at Jian Ru, who was still immersed in missing Wu You, and said softly: "Xiaoru, why don't we go to Hengcheng to see them during the New Year?"

Jian Ru was about to agree when she heard this, but after thinking about it, she shook her head and said: "No, if the two of us go, it will distract them, and besides, your identity is already a gift for the king to let you walk around the summer city, if you go to the Hengcheng, the king will definitely know." ”

Princess Muyang Xia Chaoyu said with a depressed face when she heard this: "These two are too, why don't you come back for the New Year if you don't fight now." ”

Jian Ru smiled and said, "My good princess, you are also a princess of a country." Can you not always be in love and love, but also stand by their side and think about it.

If the two of them came back at this time, how would they gain a foothold in the army, and they both wrote in the letter that they would get along with the soldiers every day on weekdays, and if they suddenly disappeared? The soldiers must have known that they must have gone home for the New Year.

Will the soldiers who can't go home for the New Year envy them? Some of them may even resent them. ”

Princess Muyang Xia Chaoyu nodded and said softly: "Xiaoru, what you said is also true, my two younger brothers have not come back during the Chinese New Year since they went to the army, except for coming back once a year to report to their father. The rest of the time was spent in the barracks. ”

"Isn't that it, although they are not ordinary people, but when they come to this place, they have to follow the customs, right?"

Princess Muyang Xia Chaoyu didn't know what she was thinking when she heard this, and then looked at Jian Ru and said, "Xiaoru, you said that you are following the customs of the locals." I suddenly remembered that Xiao Chongwu and your Wu You are not bad-looking.

Is there no custom in their world where men marry women who marry women? Or are there no women in their world who are as beautiful as you and me?"

Jian Ru looked at Princess Muyang and said a little narcissistically, and after hearing that she had praised herself, she didn't make a sound and laughed at her and said, "Maybe the two of them are like some rich sons in this summer city."

Maybe they already have three wives and four concubines in their world, and they didn't want to marry and have children after they arrived here, but meeting the two of us made them think. ”

When Princess Muyang heard this, she pretended to be angry and looked at Jian Ru and said, "What do you mean that when you meet the two of us, they will make them think, as if I am going to marry Xiao Chongwu when I catch a duck on the shelf." ”

Jian Ru sneered when she heard this, looked at Princess Muyang with two pairs of big eyes and said slowly: "Princess, I didn't say that you wanted to marry Xiao Chongwu when you rushed ducks to the shelves. It's you who said it yourself. ”

"I don't, it's you. Princess Muyang's face turned red and pointed at Jian Ru and said loudly: "On that night when there was goose feathers and heavy snow in the windy and dark sky of the month, Jian Ru asked Wu You loudly in the backyard if he liked you, and everyone in the village heard it at that time. ”

Jian Ru was embarrassed when she heard this, and did not return to Xia Chaoyu's words, so she lowered her head and picked up the teacup and drank the tea.

Princess Muyang Xia Chaoyu looked at Jian Ru's appearance and remembered that when she saw Xiao Chongwu for the second time that day, she slapped the table and asked him if he liked herself, and she was also a little ashamed.

I couldn't help but wonder if I was too active at that time? Did I scare Xiao Chongwu when I slapped the table? Will it leave an irritable image in his heart?

Xia Chaoyu didn't think much about it when he thought about it.

No matter what Xiao Chongwu thinks, anyway, he promised to ask his father to marry him after recovering the lost land.

So Xia Chaoyu's beautiful face showed satisfaction, picked up the teacup and drank the tea.

Jian Ru, who was on the other side, looked at the thick snow on the osmanthus tree outside the window with a longing expression, thinking about the scene of Wu You roasting roast goose when he and Wu You met for the first time, and asked him if he burned it for himself.

Thinking that when he returned home that day and went to bed at night, he smelled the smell of Wu You on his bed, and remembered that Wu You had lived in his room for more than two months.

I didn't hate Wu You's taste at that time, but I liked it very much? It turned out that I liked Wu You at that time, not when Wu You bought himself a lantern and put Kong Ming lanterns together.

Thinking of the days when she was with Wu You in Sanssouci Village, Jian Ru had a happy smile on her face.

Hengcheng, General's Mansion.

Today is the New Year, Xia Ruiren went to the army early in the morning, and after finishing military affairs, when he returned at noon, he went to the trilateral army to invite Wu You and Xia Ruili back to the general's mansion for dinner to celebrate the New Year.

Because according to the practice in the army during the New Year, the main general will celebrate the New Year with the soldiers in the army and cannot return home for the New Year, Wu You and Xia Ruili did not refuse to return to Hengcheng with Xia Ruiren.

As soon as I arrived at the General's Mansion, Xia Cheng's letter also happened to arrive.

After Wu You got the letter, he hurriedly returned to the room and sat at the table, looking at the beautiful font, Wu You's face showed happiness.

After reading the letter a few times, Wu You folded the letter and sat on the table, added a little water to the ink that had dried, and began to slowly grind the ink.

When the ink was good, Wu You picked up the pen and began to write on the letterhead:

I'm fine, Lao Xiaoru misses. It's just that when she was in the army, Xiaoru's beautiful appearance has been wandering in her heart, and every time she thinks about it, she misses it more and more.

I don't want Xiaoru to take care of my father and mother at home, but now it's deep winter, I don't know if my father and mother's rheumatism can be cured?

......................

Stopping the pen, Wu You blew the letterhead, and after the ink dried, he stuffed it into the envelope and hurriedly walked out of the room to hand it over to Xia Ruiwu.

Xia Ruiwu took the letter and looked at Wu You with a smile on his face, and only after being kicked by Wu You did he trot to send the letter out.

After Wu You walked slowly to the middle hall, Xia Ruiren and Xiao Chongwu were talking in the middle hall, so he walked to the chair and sat down to look at the two.

Xia Ruiren saw Wu You sit down and said, "Director Wu, my father also sent a secret edict to me today, and the time for this siege has been set. ”

"I don't know when I started attacking Liang State?"

"After the end of the year, on the fifteenth day. Xia Ruiren took out the secret edict from his sleeve and handed it to Wu You and said.

Wu You took the secret edict and opened it to look at it carefully, only to see that the secret edict was written on the first day of the new year, when King Xia issued a message announcing to the world to wish the New Year, the national policy would send out a crusade against the Liang State, and at the same time, he would also express his determination to the five countries to recover the lost territory, which also wrote that grain, grass and materials were constantly transported to Hengcheng.

When the end of the year comes, it will all be in place.

Wu You closed the secret edict and returned the secret edict to Xia Ruiren.

After the three of them talked about some military affairs during the siege of the city on the fifteenth, it was dusk.

At dusk, the ladies in the middle hall began to serve the food and began to take their seats, Princess Qin did not eat with everyone because she was pregnant with Liujia in the room, Wu You, Xiao Chongwu and Xia Ruiren brothers were all big men, so they could also eat.

After a few taels of white wine, Xia Ruiwu also began to talk drunk, and began to talk about the matter between Xiao Chongwu and Princess Muyang.

Xia Ruiren knew that his eldest sister Princess Muyang Xia Chaoyu had been carrying the body of a widow since Gu Tang died violently because of Gu Tang's violent death, but he had never been approved by his father, and his father had always refused to appease Gu Xiang's family.

Over the years, I have returned to Xia Cheng every year and also know that Xia Chaoyu has been living in Princess Muyang's mansion, except for entering the palace, he has not gone anywhere else, and he feels pity for his eldest sister in his heart.

When Xia Ruiren listened to Xia Ruiwu say that Xiao Chongwu had saved his eldest sister, he had respect for Xiao Chongwu in his heart, and then Xia Ruiwu continued to say that Wu You and Xiao Chongwu couldn't receive apprentices when they opened a museum in Xiacheng, all because when Xia Ruiwu made a bet with someone to prevent the two from receiving apprentices, Wu You and Xia Ruiren both gave Xia Ruiwu a chestnut.

Xia Ruiwu continued to say that his eldest sister let him go to the Dust Guarding Pavilion to apprentice from that time, Xia Chaoyu wrote a letter to Xiao Chongwu, and then the two began to communicate frequently from then on, and finally said that when Xia Chaoyu was rescued and went to Sanssouci Village to thank Xiao Chongwu after his injury, he asked Xiao Chongwu if he liked her in the middle hall.

After hearing this, Xia Ruiren could only take a sip of wine to admire the boldness of his eldest sister, and he also had some respect for Xiao Chongwu, who could make his eldest sister so beside him.

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PS: The fifteenth day of ten thousand changes.