Chapter 15: Strange Things in Liangzhou
The smoke rose, the people had no land, the soldiers had no clothes, and the bitter cold and disease stained the ground. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
With the temple, the sword is facing each other, the blade brothers, and the war is all over for the community.
Ask the sky, who is the lord of the country and who is the lord of the land?
On the city of Liangzhou, Li Zhen saw that the enemy was unstoppable like a tide surging up the embankment, and secretly thought to himself that today is his end-of-life?
If the sky has eyes, it will not watch the living beings in Liangzhou fall into suffering!
"Everyone, smash me!" Ge Dayou rushed up the city wall with a group of victims carrying sandbags on his shoulders, and fought off the enemy with the defenders of the city.
"Dayes, why did you bring the victims here?" Li Zhen saw that the victims had just been settled, and he didn't want to let them get involved in this sword shadow.
"Master Li, I didn't ask them to come, they came voluntarily. Ge Dayou didn't bother to answer, and threw the rolling stone downward.
"Adults are our life-savers, and we are willing to advance and retreat together with adults!" said a thin young man with an unusually determined look in his eyes among the victims.
"Yes, Liangzhou is our home, if we don't have a family, what's the point of living. An old man with gray hair said excitedly.
Li Zhen was moved by these ragged and young and old victims on the city wall.
However, reality soon pulled Li Zhen back to the brutal war, a city wall guarded by the rebels had already been attacked by enemy troops, and the victims were the opponents of these hungry wolves, and one by one the emaciated figures fell.
More enemies rushed up, and chaos arose on the walls.
"My lord, get out of here quickly!" Ge Dayou rushed to Li Zhen's side and asked him to go first.
"I can't go, as soon as I leave, the soldiers will be even more discouraged, and they will be defeated without a fight!" Li Zhen has made up his mind, he is there!
Seeing that he couldn't persuade Li Zhen to leave, Ge Da stunned him with one palm, asked his subordinates to send Li Zhen down the city wall, and continued to fight the enemy himself.
When Li Zhen woke up, it was already dusk, and he remembered how he got to the palace while supervising the battle? After a while, he remembered the situation during the day, and he didn't know what was going on in the battle, so he hurriedly got up and rushed out.
The distance from the palace to the city wall is not very far, but this way Li Zhen feels that time passes slower than ever.
On both sides of the street were wounded soldiers and civilians, some screaming in pain, some moaning quietly, and some crying bitterly......
War is always destroying the most painful nerve of mankind!
A group of soldiers in front of him carried a person and walked towards this side, and Li Zhen hurriedly stepped forward.
"Have a beard?" Li Zhen saw Ge Dayou being carried by everyone, as if he was not lightly injured.
"My lord, I'm fine!" Ge Dayou saw Li Zhen looking at him eagerly.
"Oh, how's the battle?" Li Zhen heard that Ge Dayou was okay, and hurriedly asked how the battle was going.
"Liangzhou is defending!" Ge Dayou squeezed out a smile on his face.
"What's wrong with you?" Li Zhen asked suspiciously, seeing that Ge Dayou's facial expression was painful.
"My lord, Lord Ge's leg was cut off by the enemy. One of the soldiers carrying Ge Dayou replied with a crying voice.
"What? If you break a leg, don't go to the rescue, go to Doctor Li. Li Zhen only thought about Liangzhou City in his heart, and didn't notice that Ge Dayou's leg was already blurred with flesh and blood. This one has a beard, and if he is injured, he doesn't say that he is injured, but it's fine, really.
"My lord, don't worry about me, just now Lao Tzu hacked three enemies to death with one leg. Ge Dayou grinned in pain, and everyone carried him away in a hurry.
Li Zhen admired Ge Dayou even more in his heart, he not only has the blood of a soldier, but he also has the tenderness of an iron man who doesn't want others to worry about him.
"My lord, Liangzhou is defending. Song Tianba came over and knelt down in front of Li Zhen and cried.
"Song Tianba, what are you doing here? Hurry up!" Li Zhen looked at Song Tianba, who was covered in tears and blood, with a suspicious expression.
"My lord, my brothers suffered heavy casualties in this battle, and all the people who infiltrated the enemy camp with me died. Song Tianba took the brothers of the "Song" battalion to put on the enemy's clothes, infiltrated the enemy camp, and waited for the two armies to start a battle.
But when the enemy saw that the base camp was burned and did not retreat, Song Tianba knew that it was not good, but fortunately, he reacted decisively and led people to rush directly to the enemy's rear, and for a time the enemy's rear formation was in chaos, Song Tianba and others slashed and killed in the team, they were wearing the same clothes, no one knew what was going on, it was difficult to distinguish between the enemy and me, and the whole situation was chaotic.
A part of Lin Chong's troops in front had already attacked the city wall, but they did not connect to the back, which was unbearable for the vanguard troops, and they were slaughtered for a while on the city wall, delaying the best fighters.
"Song Tianba, we will still pull up the team, hurry up!" Li Zhen helped Song Tianba up, just like soothing the eagle that had just been injured, Li Zhen was very pleased that he had such a group of men under his command who could fight and kill, flesh and blood, and the ambition to show off his ambition to dominate the industry was ignited in his heart.
Li Zhen walked up to the city wall to appease the soldiers defending the city, there was a tragic situation here, blood flowed down the corpses of the fallen soldiers, and the steps that flowed through the city wall converged under the city, which made people look shocking.
"Report ......" A spy hurriedly rushed to Li Zhen.
"Lord Lin! The enemy army has withdrawn from the border of Liangzhou City! Its movements are unknown! Our army is still tracking and investigating. ”
"Alright, got it, continue to follow up on the enemy's movements. Li Zhen didn't know what tricks Lin Chong was playing again, but he knew that it would not be so easy for Lin Chong to do it again.
Lin Chong never thought that the little Liangzhou would resist so stubbornly, his own grain and grass were burned, and the siege was unfavorable, and now he was defeated, and if he wanted to withdraw, Song Qing would definitely not be able to explain, and it was not easy to attack Liangzhou again, so he led the remnants of the army to the northern grassland.
As for what Lin Chong should do in the future, he himself is also very confused, but he firmly believes in his heart that sooner or later he will come back one day, and the blood will stain the northwest!
Liangzhou City was defended! But the price paid was quite heavy! Li Zhen didn't know how much value the city he had worked so hard to hold on to, maybe it was just to keep the dignity in his heart! Or to keep his soul.
Late at night, he was still sitting in the candlelight. Suddenly, a warm hand was placed on his shoulder.
He looked back and saw that it was the face that had made him forget everything.
"Wan'er, why aren't you sleeping yet?" Li Zhen smiled and stretched out his hand to pull Wan'er to sit beside him.
"Actually, I'm sad too! This war, no matter how it ends, is not what I want to see. On one side is his brother, and on the other side is his beloved, why would fate tease the common people so much. Lin Wan'er knew that her brother was defeated and was already a lost dog, and she didn't know where he would go.
"Wan'er! Everything will pass! Lin Chong is doomed to fail if he acts for the tiger, we have done our best to be benevolent and righteous!" Li Zhen reached out and stroked Lin Wan'er's pretty cheeks.
"Brother Zhen, no matter what happens, don't leave me, okay?" Lin Wan'er lay on Li Zhen's lap, letting her lover caress her face, all her spiritual sustenance is now on this man.
"What stupid words, how can I be willing to leave you!" Li Zhen smiled and knocked on the tip of Lin Wan'er's nose, I really hope that there will be no more wars, and I can always rely on each other with Wan'er as we do today.
The war is over for the time being, and there is an urgent need for doctors in the city, and there are too many wounded, but in recent days, strange things have happened frequently in the city, and there are fewer and fewer doctors in the city, and the wounded are miserable. Li Zhen hurriedly mobilized doctors from Lingshui and Lamutu to Liangzhou to treat the patients, and temporarily arranged for them to live in the Liangzhou post station.
"My lord, why didn't Dr. Huo, who was transferred yesterday, go to the barracks today?" Li Weibin hurriedly ran to the government office early in the morning to report to Li Zhen.
"What? I just came here yesterday, and I didn't go to the barracks today?" Li Zhen was furious, the soldiers were injured and waiting for the doctor to take medicine, this Doctor Huo was so ignorant, got up and went to the post station to see what was going on.
In a short time, the people arrived at the inn.
"Lord Lin, why are you here, I have arranged everything here for the doctor, are you still not at ease?" said Lao Liu, the manager of the post station, with a smile.
"Where does Dr. Huo Siguang, who was transferred from Lingshui, live?" Li Zhen said coldly.
"Huo Siguang? Stayed in the upper room of the Westinghouse. "This Huo Siguang heard that the medical skills are exquisite, Lao Liu specially arranged a clean room for him yesterday, and planned that in a few days he will not be busy and let him give him a number and pulse, and see the old headache for many years, so he can quickly remember Dr. Huo's room.
"Take me to him. Li Zhen glanced at Lao Liu.
"Doctor Huo was called away early in the morning! Didn't he go to the barracks to treat the wounded?" Lao Liu wondered, why did Li Zhen come to find him in person?
"Was called away early in the morning, by whom?" Li Zhen felt more and more strange the more he listened.
"Someone said that they were ordered by the adults to invite Dr. Huo to the barracks to treat the wounded, but I don't know who it is!" Lao Liu looked innocent, not knowing how this kind of thing could happen.
"Didn't your people invite you?" Li Zhen said to Li Weibin beside him.
"No! I've been busy all morning today, so how can I have time to send someone to invite him!" Li Weibin's face was full of helplessness, other military camps had doctors who were rescuing the wounded, but the brothers in his own battalion were waiting.
"Mo Feilin sent a detailed work to kidnap Dr. Huo?" Li Zhen muttered to himself.
"Absolutely not, the city gate has been opened once in the past few days when the doctor was picked, and it is strictly forbidden to open it at any other time, unless they fly in with their wings. Li Weibin said firmly, he is a leader, and during the war, outsiders will lose their heads when they enter the city gate.
"So Dr. Huo should still be in the city?" Li Zhen reasoned and analyzed, who was this Huo Siguang tied up, if the city gate could not be opened, then they should not be able to take Dr. Huo away.
"It must still be in the city, so I will send someone to search the whole city, and I must catch the gangsters and bring them to justice. Li Weibin turned around and left.
"Wait! Now that the soldiers in the city have just gone through a fierce battle, how can they have the energy to search the city again! You go back first, and transfer doctors from the Song Zi Battalion, as for finding Doctor Huo, I have my own way. Li Zhen's eyes rolled and he had already calculated it.
The next day, the gates of the city, which had been closed for nearly a month, were opened, allowing people to enter and exit freely, and Li Zhen planned to let the kidnappers of Dr. Huo leak out.
The victims in the city are ready to go home, Lin Chong's troops have disappeared, it is almost time to plant wheat, the fields can not be wasted, Li Zhen ordered, three years will not collect the people's field endowment, and promised to give the people free seeds and farm tools to encourage the people to farm.
It is not an overnight thing for Liangzhou to recover, although Li Zhen only has three cities now, he still feels a lot of pressure, and the people can only be at ease if they follow him without suffering.
While Li Zhen restored the people's farming, he distributed the portrait of Dr. Huo, the soldier guarding the city, and asked the soldiers to put their tricks on the spot, pay close attention to the passers-by at the city gate, and be sure to find Dr. Huo.