The woman who got out of the car, dressed in a vegetarian dress, holding a baby in her arms, her eyes were red and swollen, it was Li Yao who she hadn't seen for a long time! Dugu Jian saw Li Yao's appearance, and was stunned for a moment, he couldn't believe that all this in front of him could make Li Yao wear linen and filial piety, except for her father and brother, there was only Xu Tianchang, and there was no trace of Xu Tianchang at this time, but his Bai Xueji was here, so the answer was already coming out!

"Brother and sister, why are you here?" my second brother ......" Dugu Jian looked at Li Yao and asked hesitantly. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Two lines of tears fell from Li Yao's red and swollen eyes, and the baby in her arms seemed to feel her mother's sadness, and cried with Wow Wow. Li Yao hurriedly hugged the baby tightly and coaxed him to sleep. After a while, the child stopped crying and fell asleep, and Li Yao told Dugu Jian about what had happened in the past few months.

It turned out that not long after Dugu Jian and Zhang Linxin set off from Ezhou to Dongting Lake, Liu Jian defeated the attack of Jin Wushu and won the victory in the defense of Shunchang. Xu Tianchang also took advantage of the situation to chase and kill for a while, and won a lot, originally he planned to lead the army back to Ezhou, but Li Ying came with an order, asking him to quickly lead his troops to attack Yingtianfu to relieve the siege of Xuzhou. At this time, in the entire Central Plains, there were many wars, even the area around Mengcheng, where Li Ying, Yan Qing and others had been stationing troops, was not very safe, so Xu Tianchang decided to let Li Yao stay in Ezhou with peace of mind to give birth, and he waved his army to the east and went straight to Yingtianfu!

Just when Yue's army conquered Caizhou and Lushan, Han Shizhong also recovered Haizhou, and Zhang Jun also took Bozhou. At this time, Li Ying led the troops to besiege Ying Tianfu very urgently, the Jin soldiers were shocked three times a day, and constantly asked for help from the Jin Wushu in Tokyo, but the Wushu knew that the Song army at this time had been in the east and west, although Li Ying had few soldiers and horses, but the east could get the support of Han Shizhong and Zhang Jun, and there were reinforcements from the Yuejia army in the west, Ying Tianfu was already undefendable, so he had not sent troops, but planned to let Ying Tian's soldiers and horses drag on for a few more days to buy time for himself, so as to transfer troops from the rear again, and then fight a decisive battle with the Song army.

But at this time, the Song court ordered Zhang Jun to withdraw from Bozhou and move to Tun Shouchun, and to transfer Liu Jian in Shunchang to the south of the Yangtze River. In the entire Central Plains, only the Yue family army was left at once, and Yue Fei asked for friendly support one after another, but he never looked forward to reinforcements. As a result, the Yuejia army could only take a defensive position in the entire Central Plains, and could only continue to attack after the rear troops and horses were transferred. Jin Wushu saw the opportunity and urgently ordered Han Chang to lead his troops to relieve the siege of Ying Tianfu first, and he himself reorganized his army for battle, intending to wait for Ying Tianfu to relieve the siege, and then go south to fight a decisive battle with Yue Fei.

At this time, Ying Tianfu was already crumbling under the day and night attacks of Li Ying, Yan Qing, and Xu Tianchang, but he didn't want Han Chang to lead a large cavalry to arrive, and a surprise attack, and the Jin soldiers in the city should be combined with the outside, and the righteous army was defeated and fled, but surrounded Li Ying and others. In response to the siege of Tianfu, Li Ying gathered the defeated troops, prepared to break through, and asked Zhang Jun of Shouchun for help, but Zhang Jun refused to send troops on the grounds that he had not received the imperial edict. The two sides held out for several days, the righteous army ran out of food, and could only break through at the risk of death, Xu Tianchang led the cavalry to open the way in front, protecting Li Ying and Yan Qing and rushed out, but in this battle, the entire righteous army also suffered heavy casualties and casualties.

Li Ying was disheartened and planned to disband the soldiers and horses, and wanted to find a place to live in seclusion with Yan Qing. At this moment, Li Jun, the "mixed river dragon" who was adrift overseas, sent a letter, inviting them to go overseas together and share the glory. Xu Tianchang was bent on serving the country and was unwilling to go with them, Li Ying Yanqing was not reluctant, and Li Yao didn't want to leave, so Li Ying incorporated all the soldiers who were unwilling to leave into Xu Tianchang's command, and he and Yanqing took everyone to the sea by boat to join Li Jun.

Xu Tianchang reorganized the army and horses, there were only more than 1,000 people left, and he knew that he was weak and could not compete with the Jin soldiers, so he decided to lead the troops to take refuge with Yue Fei. Originally, when Li Ying, Yan Qing and others were there, they said that they would not change to the official army, firstly, because the heroes of Liangshan had a deep hatred with the Song court, secondly, because they did not trust the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty, and thirdly, because everyone was used to being comfortable and did not want to be subject to that control. This is also the reason why when he was in Danjiang, Dugu Jian asked Yan Qing why he didn't join Yue Fei's command, but Yan Qing kept his mouth shut. But Xu Tianchang didn't have these scruples, his father Xu Ning was originally the head of the Great Song Dynasty Forbidden Army, and he had an official position, and later died in the battle against Fang La, and he respected Yue Fei, so he naturally wanted to go to the same place at this time.

When the army marched to the Linying area, Xu Tianchang's troops suddenly encountered the army of Jin Wushu. It turned out that after Jin Wushu relieved the siege of Yingtianfu, he joined forces with Han Chang, and the eastern front was without the pressure of Zhang Jun, Liu Jian and others, so he decided to concentrate his forces and solve the Yuejia army first. When the spies reported that Yue Fei was stationed in Yuncheng with his troops, and there were not many soldiers and horses, Jin Wushu used 15,000 cavalry to attack Yuncheng directly, in an attempt to wipe out the command center of the Yue family army in one fell swoop!

This battle, from the afternoon to the evening, Xu Tianchang's troops were all killed, Xu Tianchang himself was covered with dozens of wounds, his back and waist were also hit by several arrows, Yanling Jinjia and Bai Xueji were dyed blood red, the hook and sickle were also broken, dying, under the cover of the only remaining generals, Bai Xueji took Xu Tianchang out of the encirclement and came to Yuncheng, but unfortunately Xu Tianchang was too seriously injured, and went to the ...... that night

It was precisely because of the desperate resistance of Xu Tianchang's troops that the Yue family army in Yuncheng was given time to prepare, so that the surprise attack of the Jin soldiers did not succeed. It's a pity that more than 1,000 people, including Xu Tianchang, except for the one who came to report the news, none of them survived, and they all died in battle. After Yue Fei got the news, he couldn't help but be moved, and personally carried Xu Tianchang's coffin, sent it out of Yuncheng, and ordered someone to send Xu Tianchang's body back to Ezhou City. Li Yao was already nine months pregnant at this time, and after seeing Xu Tianchang's corpse, she immediately fainted, and when she woke up again, because of excessive sadness, she gave birth prematurely, and gave birth to a boy who was less than a month old, which is the one she is holding in her arms now.

Who would have thought that Xu Tianchang and Li Yao's parting would be forever separated from heaven and man, and there would be no day when they would see each other again! After crying and hurting, Li Yao looked at Xu Tianchang's corpse, and then looked at the newborn baby in his arms, and decided that he wanted to live well and raise the child as an adult. So she made a decision: she wanted to leave Ezhou and go to Xiuzhou. It is the place where Xu Ning died in battle, and it is also the place where his bones are buried, and after Xu Tianchang returned to the south, he also personally rushed to Xiuzhou to bury his mother's bones next to his father. Li Yao also planned to take Xu Tianchang's bones to Xiuzhou and bury him next to his parents.

Therefore, Li Yao took the servant generals left by his father for him, hired carriages and horses, said goodbye to Li Dao, Yang Qin and others who stayed in Ezhou City, wrote a letter to Yue Fei, and then took Xu Tianchang's coffin and went south. If Dugu Jian hadn't seen Bai Xueji, maybe the two of them would have missed it like this. Dugu Jian never expected that the people around him left him one after another, and while he was sad, he also increased his determination to help Yue Fei succeed in the Northern Expedition as soon as possible and end this troubled world!

Seeing Dugu Jian alone, Li Yao was also a little strange, so she asked about Zhang Linxin's whereabouts, and Dugu Jian knocked the girl off the cliff and told Li Yao the news that there were no bones, and Li Yao was also very sad. Both of them have lost their beloved at this time, and they are both fallen people at the end of the world, how can they not be sad and sad? Li Yaoshang is better, and there is such a child, he can divert his attention and comfort his grief a little, but what about Dugu Jian? He lost Zhang Linxin and Yang Ying in succession, and at this time, he learned that Xu Tianchang died in battle, and the sadness in his heart was far greater than that of ordinary people.

The two talked for a while, and Li Yao handed the child to Dugu Jian to see. Dugu Jian saw that this child was handsome, and his eyebrows and eyes were very similar to Xu Tianchang, and he remembered the righteous relationship with Xu Tianchang, and his heart was even more sad. Li Yao wept and said: "Brother Dugu, if Brother Chang died in battle today, he didn't leave a word, my father and brother went overseas again, and I was the only one left, please help me name this child." ”

Dugu Jian thought for a while and replied: "I married Jin Lan with my second brother, and I thought that I could serve the country loyally together, but I didn't expect that the second brother would go before me, which is really a big regret in my life." But I hope that when this child grows up, he will be like his father, brave and faithful, and serve the country. I'll give him a name called Xu Ji, the word Chengzhi, if he can inherit his father's will, do you say okay?" Li Yao thanked him: "Thank you Brother Dugu, I just hope that when this child serves the country loyally in the future, he will also be able to live a long life." ”

After a while, it was not early, the two of them said goodbye to each other, Dugu Jian rode a horse to the north, and continued to rush to Mount Tai with Lu Qing and others. Li Yao got into the carriage, supported Xu Tianchang's coffin, and went to Xiuzhou...... (To be continued.) )