Chapter 290: Winter is coming
"The Queen Motherβ"
"Queen Mother--look, the people of the Wu Dynasty have retreated....they have retreated!!" someone hid his face and cried. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ο½iqugeγ ο½ο½fo
Yanjing City suddenly became a battlefield, which no one could have predicted, but fortunately, the short and rapid war had come to an end, and the Liao people kept their city. Goddess Xiao Puxian pinched the wooden railing tiredly, and she watched the smoke and flames raging in the outer city from far and near from the height of the city tower, and the corpses of people were piled up and stretched out.
At this time, the surrounding soldiers and generals were noisy and shouting, and there were shouts of victory from the bottom of the tower, but Xiao Puxiannu was sad in her heart...... In her memory, Da Liao was a great country, a country made of iron and blood, a country of wolves, and now, even a weak Wu Dynasty can enter the house, and everything at this time, the charred houses, the piled up corpses, made her feel unreal.
β...... Immediately send a scout horse to keep an eye on the Wu Dynasty people along the way, and carefully kill a horse pistol. She ordered as she went down the city tower, "Send someone to control the west gate immediately, and then ..... clean up all the corpses in the city..."
"Yes!" the general below responded excitedly, and then led people down the city wall.
After she finished her order, she also walked down the city wall, and it was already drizzling outside, but it could not wash away the blood stains on the ground, she took two steps and stopped, and a group of ministers in front of her stood in the rain to congratulate each other on this victory, and the conversation was full of joy.
Xiao Puxian clenched her fists, and the old ministers came forward and congratulated one after another: "It is really unprecedented for the Queen Mother to inspire the morale of the army by risking herself, so as to repel the people of the Wu Dynasty." "Yes, yes..... Empress Dowager Xiao is really a woman, she doesn't let her eyebrows go. "Who said it wasn't....Earlier, the old minister said that the people of the Wu Dynasty were just ordinary sheep, how could they defeat the warriors of our Liao Kingdom. β
Over there, the woman named the Queen Mother gritted her teeth, her eyes were full of anger, but there were faint tears in the corners of her eyes, and the sadness in her heart was magnified like never before at this moment, "....A bunch of sour ...... like the people of the Wu Dynasty"
She had wanted to scold these people right here, but a fast horse came over and interrupted her thoughts, and when she received information from the front, her hands trembled just by looking at it.
On the edge of the ruined city wall, filled with this bloody atmosphere, the wind blew the drizzle, in the night, the queen mother, who was still iron-blooded before, her face was gray at the moment, and her beautiful eyes flashed with despair.
The two sides confronted each other wordlessly.
After a while, the woman under the city wall, Xiao Puxiannu, spoke, "I just got the battle report from Juyong Pass, three days ago, the Jurchens entered the pass....At this moment, it is two hundred miles away from Yanjing, and the army will come to the capital at noon tomorrow." β
Over there, there was an instant silence, but these people were extremely smart, and they were not in a hurry to make a statement, they were all waiting for the woman who held a city of life in her hands to make a plan, and then they would make a decision.
In the wind and rain, this woman over forty years old stood on the edge of the city wall in military uniform, looking at the darkness in the distance, listening to the joyful crying voices of countless Liao soldiers who survived the victory, and sighed in a low voice.
"How many years have ..... stood in the wind and rain of Daliao..... rise of a country..... the demise of a country, a woman in this palace can't bear it....how can I carry it. Her hand was pinched, and then released, frowning and taking a deep breath, she remembered the actions of the father and son in the hall today, and then took a step.
"....If the Jurchens come tomorrow, you will come down, not only to save your family, but also to save the people in the city from the suffering of the Jurchens' swords, although in the middle you and even the people of Daliao will suffer some humiliation, but it is better than losing your life. You don't have to die with Da Liao. β
"....let's live well. "The wind blew up, and the red-hot cloak shook in the drizzle, and the hunt rattled.
Over there, there was a murmur among the crowd, and someone bowed out movingly and asked, "So, the Queen Mother... What?"
Here, Xiao Pu smiled, she stretched out her hand to touch the ancient city wall, rubbing the cracked fine lines on it, "....my Xiao family has always been the descendant of the Great Liao, representing the royal family, even if I am a woman, I know that it is impossible to descend ..... that cannot be lowered." β
Her lips trembled, "..... want to save the face of the royal family, instead of descending inhuman encounters, it is better to leave here with the royal family, Yelu Yanxi is probably not dead, and the palace is to find him and return the royal family to him." β
"No!" an old minister came out to persuade: "Queen Mother, before supporting the deceased husband as the emperor, you have already offended that side to death, once you pass, the consequences will ......"
"There is no fear of life and death... This Da Liao is dying, if he is still obsessed with this matter..... then..."
At this moment, the wind blew everyone's thoughts.
In the middle of the night, a drizzle of rain drops down the eaves.
On the carriage, Bai Ning walked towards the small courtyard with Xifu in his arms, Lu Junyi followed behind with a little joy on his face, and then sat down quietly in the living room and drank tea.
After a while, Bai Ning came out of his usual clothes and sat in the first place. After Lu Junyi got up and gave a salute, he said: "Since you know that Xiao Yi is still alive, Lu is down-to-earth, in fact, there is one more thing to tell the Admiral when he comes over this time." β
"Speak!"
Over there, the tea cup was put down on the table, Lu Junyi frowned, and said: "Some time ago, Lu heard that a senior monk in Shaolin spontaneously wanted to come to you, but I don't know if Lord Admiral knows?"
In the hall, Bai Ning closed his eyes and shook his head slightly, "I haven't heard of this, the affairs of the rivers and lakes have been handed over to the six doors to deal with, and the governor has been staying in the north recently, supervising the affairs of the Northern Expedition, and he has not paid too much attention to the trivial matters on the rivers and lakes." β
However, after that, Bai Ning got up and walked a few steps with his hands in his hands, and smiled indifferently: "Shaolin monk, do you still want to come to eliminate harm for the people? This bald donkey is not afraid that he will be investigated by the imperial court because of himself? What a nonsense." β
"Not really. Lu Junyi waved his hand, "I heard that the monk doesn't know martial arts, at most he can do some superficial kung fu to strengthen the body, but the Dharma is very high and very respected." β
Under the lampshade, Bai Ning frowned, and the orange light reflected his face.
"This is strange....an old monk who doesn't know martial arts came to Bentu, does he want to influence me?" he looked at the slightly flickering flame in the lampshade.
Obviously, I don't understand the other party's intentions. (To be continued.) )