Chapter 40: The Battle for Capture (I)
A string control sound like a gathering rain suddenly sounded, and Yan Qixing and I reacted quickly and retreated. "Crackling" a row of feathered arrows stuck a few inches in front of our feet.
More than ten meters ahead, under the firelight, the new crown prince Yu Shan led a group of archers to line up, stretching out his bow and waiting to stop and run. Yu Dan's eyes were on fire, he glared at us viciously, and with a wave of his hand, the second round of arrow rain came.
Yan Qixing stretched out his hand to catch the arrow, and Yu Shan shouted: "This king wants to see how many hands you have and how many arrows you can take." β
The pursuers will arrive soon, what kind of ghost arrows will they take?
"Sensei is cool!" I shouted.
Yan Qixing shook his hand and put the arrow into his arms and said: "The military minister Shan Yu was not killed by Lord Liu, he was framed, and the prince Hugh was deceived by others." Now that he is dead, the princes are in chaos, beware of someone plotting against him and raising an army to cause chaos!"
Yu Dan was willing to listen, waved his hand again and again, the third round of arrow rain was about to attack, Yan Qixing jumped into the air, and the sharp arrow in his arms shot out, and the thing returned to its original owner. Immediately, a scream sounded, this time it was not a bet, the person who was hit by the arrow was killed instantly.
I glanced at him and turned back to meet the Huns who had caught up. Dodged the halberd stabbed by the soldier who rushed to the front, stabbed him in the chest, snatched his halberd with his hand, threw it to Yan Qixing and shouted, "Next." β
His broken sword has already curled the blade, and looking at the tall and big horses, this halberd is just right. Yan Qixing took the halberd, the pursuers had already arrived, he rounded the halberd in his hand and suddenly bent over, the halberd whistled a 360-degree sweeping stick, and immediately five or six people screamed and fell, the force was so great that it actually swept the ankle to the bone. The Hun soldiers in the outer circle were shocked, but they were not afraid of death, Yan Qixing stabbed the chest of the Hun soldiers with a halberd as a gun, and borrowed the strength to do a "pole vault", and jumped up, kicked down a piece of his feet.
I was red-eyed, squinted my eyes to see the truth, and couldn't help but praise: "Good kung fu!"
This is the first time I have experienced a war that cannot be considered a war, and it is said that it is a war because the sword is red, the sword kills, and it is really killing. The countless Xiongnu troops were like a tide, and they had no idea how many people there were, and how could they still take care of benevolence, righteousness, morality, and conscience in order to save their lives? As for the principle of not killing, they had already been thrown to Java, and there was only one thought in their hearts: to get out alive and return home alive.
So I didn't faint anymore, I didn't feel like vomiting, I don't know where the power came from, the weapon in my hand, one moment was a knife, one moment was a sword, and one moment I grabbed a spear, anyway, I stabbed someone when I caught it, and when I saw someone, I stabbed it, blood shot out, and screamed constantly.
As the saying goes, a good tiger can't stand a pack of wolves, even if Yan Qixing and I are two tigers, after a long time, the physical exertion is excessive, and in the end it is certain to die. What's more, because of the news of the poisoning, the two of us basically didn't eat water and rice for a day, and our physical strength was quickly overdrawn.
I really suspect that the BOC said that the bastard deliberately put out fake news to make us hungry and have no strength to fight.
Severe pain in the back, was actually slashed by a knife, I turned around in pain, a knife slashed diagonally, this knife can do its best, the body of the Hun soldier flew out more than a meter away, and he stared angrily before he died. And I was not lightly injured, although I couldn't kill anyone, but the pain was not bearable.
The Hun soldiers were originally barbaric and cruel, their combat effectiveness was quite strong, and the more people who died, the more they could stimulate their fighting spirit, seeing that Yan Qixing and I had two people who had suffered heavy casualties, they were all resentful, and the blue face and red eyes were like trying to eat people, and they rushed up desperately.
I know in my heart that if I continue like this, sooner or later I will lose my strength, and the result will be death. Still have to find a chance to rush out.
While fighting, while looking for a gap, to say that the sky is endless, just now someone shouted "the Han army is coming", and then several places were on fire, it is estimated that the soldiers of the Han Dynasty envoy group are playing ghosts to create a chance for us to escape, but unfortunately people were not fooled. At this time, I don't know who concocted the same method, and the fire broke out again in many places in the royal court, and the posture was more violent than the previous one, and then someone shouted, first a few people, then a dozen people, and then I don't know how many people, shouting everywhere. As for what was being shouted, I didn't understand.
Yan Qixing's face changed greatly, and he shouted: "It's not good, the right sage king is reversed." β
"Ahh "I'm overjoyed.
Could it be that he wronged King Zuogu Li this time?
King Youxian is really the opposite, and the commander of our arrest Yi Zhixian and the crown prince Yu Dan obviously received a reliable report, and immediately left the scene to deal with a more serious crisis.
The backyard of his house caught fire, the commander left, and the Huns besieging us began to be in disarray. Yan Qixing and I joined forces to open a gap, dodge east and west, scurrying around the tent, and escaping from the encirclement.
A panicked Han soldier ran out of the stabbing stab, and when he saw us, he shouted: "Two adults, the right sage king has rebelled, let's take advantage of the chaos and flee quickly." "With that, he runs faster than a rabbit.
Hey, this guy who escaped from the battle is really embarrassed by the face of the Han Dynasty, wait to go back and clean him up!
Yan Qixing pulled me and ran in the opposite direction.
"Hey, what are you doing?" I exclaimed, in surprise.
Yan Qixing was silent, and dragged me all the way to the stable. Untie the two horses and say, "Four legs are faster." β
I was overjoyed and said, "Count you smart." He took the reins, and swept his eyes unconcernedly, and saw a separate stable not far away, which was not ...... Ha, sweaty BMW!
As soon as I rolled my eyes, I ran over, and when the horse saw me, a stranger, he immediately whispered a "whine", and his front hooves were uneasy to the ground, and it seemed that I would have to kick me again.
I took two pieces of candy out of my bosom, and the thief wanted to steal the horse, so I asked the princess's maid for a few sweets, and tentatively put them under the horse's nose. The little red horse glanced at me warily, and immediately attracted his attention to the sweetness of the candy, and opened his mouth to eat one of my hands.
I'm happy, there's a door. Yan Qixing rode over and hurriedly said, "Hurry up, it's too late to go." β
Hurry up and cultivate a relationship with the little red horse, and give it a few more sugars, sure enough, it is very wary, I touched its head, no response, patted its back, shook its body, knew that it had accepted me, pulled the reins and flew on the horse, shouting: "Go!"
The two of them were about to set off, and someone stopped in front of the horse, it was the maid of Princess Nangong, and shouted: "Two Han envoys, the princess will meet at the poplar slope ten miles away in the south. With that, he threw us a package and hurried away.
Yan Qixing opened the package, it was actually two sets of Hun soldiers' armor and some food, and the two of them changed their clothes at the moment, their faces were full of blood, and they didn't need to disguise at all, and they ran to the gate of the royal court with a whip and a big horse.
By this time, the royal court was already in chaos, the slaves were carrying buckets to fight the fire, the children were crying and the women were shouting, the horses were neighing, the roars of the horses, the sound of horns and drums of unknown significance, and the sound of killing came from nowhere, and the dark night was creating the conditions for us to escape.
rushed out of the royal court and ran for more than ten miles in one go, and saw a small poplar forest, and even people and horses hid in it, so that he had time to breathe a sigh of relief.
Sitting on the ground, feeling weak, Yan Qixing suddenly snorted in the dark, and I asked in surprise, "Hurt?"
Yan Qixing slowly sat down and said, "Old wounds." β
I think that it must have been an old problem from the day I was assassinated before leaving, and today I used too much force to crack my mouth. Tearing a strip of cloth from the placket of his shirt and bandaging him briefly, he said, "You were also injured just now." β
I smiled and said, "That little injury is fine." β
Actually, it wasn't a small injury, and the wound was still painful, but I knew it wouldn't take a few hours for them to heal on their own. But Yan Qixing can't let Yan Qixing know about this, otherwise he will definitely treat me as a monster.
I thought of the jade pendant and asked, "Is the jade pendant still there?"
Yan Qixing said "here", pondered for a while, and then said: "I always feel that this matter is very strange: first, the military minister Shan Yu knew that something was going to happen, but he did not make any military arrangements, and as a result, he lost his life; second, the soldiers I sent heard about the poisoning, but there was no movement; third, who was the person who secretly killed the military minister Shan Yu?"
I thought about it and said: "Forget it, don't think about it so much, the jade pendant is back, the Bank of China said that it is dead, the military minister Shan Yu is also dead, my goal has been achieved, we have escaped again, so it is none of my business if there are any conspiracies and tricks, they are good to hit the dog's head, just to reap the benefits of the fisherman!"
Actually, I thought more and thought harder, but I didn't want to tell him, or even to myself.
Yan Qixing sat sideways beside me and said slowly: "What kind of person are you? Sometimes the laughter of Yan Yan makes people feel like a spring breeze, sometimes the bitterness makes people unbearable; sometimes they emphasize love and righteousness, sometimes they are ruthless; they would vomit when they saw a dead person before, but now they don't change their face when they kill people." You can weigh the gains and losses, but when you turn your head, you can forget your personal safety for a woman you don't know. If you prevented me from reporting the poisoning to the military minister Shan Yu and then changed my mind, did it also have something to do with this woman's death?"
I nodded, remembering the woman's poignant and desperate face, I swallowed my saliva unconsciously, and said in a gloomy voice, "I refuse to kill because I respect life." I kill people because I respect life......"
Respect my own life and that of that beautiful girl!
Thinking of how many people had died just now, and his hands were stained with blood and could never be washed away, my heart was still very uncomfortable.
In the darkness, Yan Qixing seemed to sense my thoughts, reached out and grabbed my hand, holding it in his right palm.
I was slightly startled and tried to pull my hand, but he held me tighter. His hands are very large and warm, and his palms are full of hard calluses, which have been honed by years of martial arts training, which are completely different from Xiao Jian's hands, which are often cold and very delicate.
In the quiet of the night, in the quiet woods, my heart gradually calmed down, and my hand was still in Yan Qixing's palm, clenched tightly.
I suddenly remembered something and asked, "I heard that you are missing two fingers on your left hand, is it true?"
This guy's clothes are very strange, whether it is a short shirt or a long robe, the sleeves are always long, and his hands are well hidden, so I have never had the opportunity to see the three fingers of his left hand.
Yan Qixing stretched out his other hand and covered my hand, a little cool, as if two of the fingers were carrying something iron. I only heard his slow voice sound: "I once had an enemy, his family and my family are feuds, I swear with my fingers, if I don't avenge this revenge in this life, heaven and earth will be destroyed." So now there are only eight or seven fingers left. Master made me two iron finger covers, which are no different from fingers, and can be used as killing weapons when necessary. β
He said it lightly, but I knew there must be a very tragic story in it.
I touched the two iron fingers and asked, "Have you taken revenge?"
Yan Qixing didn't say it, and I didn't ask any more questions, I have always been uninterested in things like revenge, but since I witnessed innocent girls being burned alive, I began to slowly understand what hatred is, and some hatred cannot be shared with outsiders.
The night was long, and Princess Nangong was still nowhere to be seen, and there was only the sound of two people and two horses breathing in the silent woods.
I didn't have anything to say: "When I first met you, you were very unkind to me. But since the envoy to the Huns, I have found that your attitude towards me has changed, when I speak excessively, you do not blame but defend everywhere, and when I am in trouble, you stand up without saying a word, why?"
Some changes are superficial, some changes are in the heart, even the three words "Lord Liu" have been replaced by the word "you", and there are fewer and fewer times when I call myself "this official", I am a woman, and I am not stupid, I can feel it, even if he doesn't like me, he must have a good impression of me.
Yan Qixing didn't speak for a long time, and just when I was about to give up, he suddenly said: "You and I are both from the Han Dynasty, and we have the same enemy!"
A little disappointed, but also a little reassuring, warm but sour, strange feeling!
But I quickly got rid of that feeling, and I didn't want to develop a relationship with no end in the only month I had. It's been a few years, and I can't do anything sorry for Xiao Jian in the late season. And at this time, when I think of the little thing between men and women, is it a little too late and irresponsible? Especially since the other party is still Yan Qixing!
It is undeniable that I have a good impression of him, and this kind of good impression has actually been there since we met, think about it, it is the Han Dynasty, that is, in the 21st century, which man can make me thunderous?
So don't hurt him! Just nip this good feeling in the bud.
"Grunt", then again, I rubbed my stomach in embarrassment, took the opportunity to withdraw my hand, and immediately a piece of bread was handed over. I couldn't help but take a big bite first, and said vaguely: "I can't see it...... You're a hard-standing person, but you also know how to be considerate. β
Yan Qixing said softly: "You once praised me in front of the Huns for being chivalrous and affectionate, but now my words are still in my ears, why have you become erect again?"
I swallowed my food and said very seriously, "Then I'm talking nonsense and don't count." In fact, you are basically a gentle, affectionate, and romantic person...... I don't know if the wind is not romantic, anyway, I can't fight with gentleness and affection. But then again, I feel a lot better about you these days, although you are sometimes stingy, you are more courageous, strategic, virtuous, and very righteous, I think, we can definitely be good friends, and it is the kind of heart and heart that treat each other. β
Yan Qixing said lightly: "I won't be friends with you." β
I was stunned and asked, "Why? Am I not worthy to be your friend? Or are I afraid of endangering me because of your official position?"
Yan Qixing sighed and said, "You already have many friends, Wei Qing, Han Yan, Guo Jie, General Li Guang, and even Your Majesty, you have no shortage of friends. β
I could hear what he was saying, so I snorted and said, "But also, you are the culprit who caused me to lose the jade ring back then, and the old account has not been settled, so this friend doesn't do it." β
mentioned the past, Yan Qixing was silent.
At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves was heard in the distance, and Yan Qi moved very quickly, standing up and looking out of the woods. I swallowed the rest of the food in a few bites, then stood up.
At this time, the morning light was slightly dewed, and sure enough, a group of several horses galloped over, and when they got closer, they could see clearly that there was Princess Nangong inside.
When the two met, Yan Qixing asked anxiously, "How is the situation in the royal court?"
Princess Nangong's face was tired, and she said, "King Youxian has been defeated and fled. β
Yan Qixing breathed a sigh of relief: "In this way, Yu Shan can smoothly inherit Shan Yu's position." β
I sneered, "I'm afraid it may not be." β
Princess Nangong looked at me with a gloomy expression, but she opened her mouth but stopped talking.
Yan Qixing knew something was wrong and asked, "Princess, could it be that things have changed?"
A maid beside the princess said angrily: "King Zuogu Li has different ambitions and wants to be this big Danyu. β
Ah, this is history!
Yan Qixing looked at the people around the princess, motioned for everyone to stand down, and asked, "Princess, the subordinate has something unclear, please consult the princess." β
Princess Nangong said: "Yes, I really didn't report that incident. β
Yan Qixing and I glanced at each other, and both of them were silent.
Princess Nangong sighed and said: "This palace has been pro-Xiongnu since she was thirteen years old, how can outsiders know all the hardships? There is a dispute between the Han and the Huns, and there are concubines of the royal court competing for favor, although this palace is a princess of the Han Dynasty, but for national affairs, she has to commit herself to the enemy and seek perfection. He was really trembling and walking on thin ice, for fear of taking a wrong step. The days of such fear are not one or two years, but a whole seventeen years. This palace is not complaining, as a royal daughter, for the sake of the country, it is appropriate to sacrifice like this, but this palace ...... After all, she is also a woman, and she really doesn't want to live this kind of life anymore. β
The princess's chest rose and fell violently, and there were tears in her eyes.
I can understand, I really can understand. The princess is also a human being, like other ordinary women, longing for love, longing for love, this request is not too much and very reasonable, even if you don't get these, at least a dull and warm life is a blessing, but unfortunately she doesn't get anything.
So no matter what she did, there was no reason to accuse her. Seventeen years, she gave birth to her in the Han Dynasty, and she only stayed for thirteen years. What should be repaid has been repaid, and the responsibility that should be fulfilled has also been fulfilled, and she has the right to live for herself once, doesn't she?
Princess Nangong cheered up and continued: "When I first arrived in the Xiongnu, I was just a little girl, naΓ―ve and naΓ―ve, and I didn't understand anything. He is Shan Yu's younger brother, not yet twenty years old, Shan Yu loves this younger brother very much, and allows him to live in the royal court for many years to accompany Shan Yu. So we had the opportunity to see each other often......"
So there was an unruly love between uncle and sister-in-law.
This is the younger brother of Shan Yu, and it is naturally the king of Zuogu Li, Yi Zhixian.
Yi Zhixian fell in love with his sister-in-law, Princess Nangong was very scared after knowing his thoughts, and avoided him for a long time. It wasn't until a few years later that Princess Nangong had become a mother and Yi Zhixian had become a father, and the two met again.
"When we met again, I was already twenty years old, and I had experienced a lot, thinking that my heart was also old and dead, but because of his return, this heart came back to life. β
Princess Nangong didn't tell in detail how she was with Yi Zhi in the end, but from this sentence alone, you can understand how happy she was.
"After all, paper can't hold the fire, and Shan Yu will know about it sooner or later. Although Shan Yu is old, with his temper, he will definitely not let us go. He consulted with me, and wanted to kill the military minister Shan Yu for a long-term plan, and helped Yu Shan ascend the throne in advance. It happened that the prince of the Yue clan was eager for revenge, so he sent someone to use the prince of the Yue clan to assassinate Shan Yu, and if the matter failed, he would implement the birthday plan. Later, the prince's assassination failed, and the birthday plan was imperative.
In fact, the Bank of China said that he had already been Yi Zhixian's confidant, and this incident was planned by him. The original plan was to poison Shan Yu's food in water, wine and food on his birthday, poison the military minister Shan Yu, and then find a scapegoat to bear the matter, and successfully help Yu Yu ascend the throne, who knew that this matter was accidentally learned by the two adults......"
The next thing is clear when you think about it, so the princess will plan it, pretending to report Shan Yu, but in fact informing Yi Zhixie, who knows that Yi Zhixian is even more ruthless, and temporarily changed the plan, but wants us to mistakenly think that they will really carry out a coup d'Γ©tat by poisoning. It is estimated that when they received the notice from the princess, they guessed that the purpose of my tracking was to kill him, so they didn't know what tricks they used in front of Shan Yu to trick him into the place of the incident, let him witness the scene where I wanted to kill the thief, and then let the master in the dark see the right time to kill Shan Yu, and I became the scapegoat.
What a good means!
Except that the Bank of China said that such a good method will not come from the hands of others, but unfortunately people are not as good as heaven, his plan was successful, but his people still died under my gun.
Yan Qixing said: "In this way, the princess doesn't know about the future changes?"
The princess smiled bitterly: "When I learned the news, it was too late, and then I thought that Yi Zhixian had other plans, and he didn't really want Yu Shan to be the king of the Huns." β
I asked, "Is the mutiny of King Youxian also in your plan?"
The princess shook her head: "This is very abrupt, and we didn't know about it beforehand. β
Oh, it seems that it is really providential, if it weren't for the sudden rise of the Right Xian King to seize the throne, Yan Qixing and I are afraid that we would die in the court of the Huns.
The princess said, "Although the rebellion was quelled, and King Youxian fled back to his fiefdom with only a few cronies, but this time he let the tiger return to the mountain, and soon after, there may be a big battle to be fought." β
"What the princess said just now, Yi Zhixian didn't really want to stand in the single, could it be that he had already made it clear to the princess that he wanted to be a big single?" I asked again.
Princess Nangong sighed when she heard this, and said: "He said that Da Shan Yu died, Yu Shan was young and weak, and his prestige was not enough to lead the Xiongnu, and now the right Xian Wang rebelled, and the people who coveted the throne within the Xiongnu must be ready to move, when the situation is chaotic, it may be difficult to convince the public, if you want to stabilize the Xiongnu, you must have a high-powered, powerful and prestigious person to come forward." β
I snorted and said, "That person must be the king of Zuo Gu Li." β
I'm not angry at his ambition, it's understandable that a man, especially a capable man, has ambitions to climb to a higher pinnacle of power, what I'm angry about is that he actually uses a woman's feelings for his own ambitions, what a bastard!
"Didn't the princess agree?" Yan Qixing asked, frowning.
Princess Nangong shook her head and said, "My son was originally the crown prince, and I, as the great Huns, how could I ignore the overall situation because of my personal feelings, and Yi Zhixian had already left the royal court." β
They must have turned their backs. I couldn't help stroking my palm and shouting "Okay", this Yi Zhixian is really not worthy of our Nangong princess, it's good to divide it, and what is even more rare is that the princess has this kind of wisdom and decisiveness!
Princess Nangong frowned slightly, and said with a worried face: "Now the situation is very unfavorable for Shan, there is the right Xian King in the front, and the left Gu Li King in the back, the strength of the two kings is very strong, Yu Shan has no war experience at a young age, how can he be the opponent of the two kings?"
This is indeed a serious problem. And personally, I know that the end is already decided, and I have no intention of doing anything at all. But then again, isn't the military minister Shan Yu dead? That is to say, history has changed, since it can be changed, why can't Yu Shan be the king of the Huns?
Yan Qixing asked the princess, "Does the princess really want the prince to make a big order?"
Princess Nangong said: "This is natural, if my son makes a big order, from now on the Han and Hungarian countries will be able to live in harmony and communicate freely, and there will be no more wars, this is the greatest wish of this palace." β
Yan Qixing said: "If you want the prince to ascend the throne, it is not difficult, you only need to use the power of your younger brother His Majesty the Emperor Han, and he will definitely be able to make the princess's wish come true." β
Yan Qixing's trick is insidious and despicable enough, if this thing is done, Yu Shan will not be able to gain a foothold in the Xiongnu unless he is a puppet of the Han Dynasty.
The princess has already chosen the former between the son and the lover, so how will the son and the younger brother choose? In my opinion, 100% will choose the son. So Princess Nangong didn't fall for Yan Qixing.
The princess said: "This palace has also thought about this matter, but the Han and the Hungarians have always had a feud, if he uses the Han Dynasty to attack his own brother, even if he does Shan Yu, how can he face the Xiongnu people? "Then what did the princess ask us to meet for?" I didn't want to beat around the bush any more.
Princess Nangong looked at us, and suddenly fell to her knees with a "plop": "Please help my son." β
Yan Qixing and I were both startled, and hurriedly pulled her up.
The princess said sadly: "Now there is no credible person around the prince, and he will meet the two kings on the battlefield one day, but I am afraid that there is no chance of victory." Lord Yan and Lord Liu are both capable ministers of the Han Dynasty, and they have won the trust of the palace, and they also ask the two to stay in the Xiongnu temporarily to help my prince become his great event. β
Yan Qixing said: "Prince Yu Shan misunderstood that Lord Liu was the murderer of Shan Yu, if we return to the royal court, we are only afraid of seeing death immediately." β
Princess Nangong said: "The two adults just rest assured, I have explained this matter clearly to Wang Er, and for the convenience of acting, I have arranged another identity for the two of you, and there is no danger!"
In the face of this sudden incident, Yan Qixing and I looked at each other, and we really couldn't do it. Note: Because there is no time to proofread may make mistakes, please forgive me, and we will talk about it when we revise it later.