Chapter 57 Where are the green mountains?
Shen Liuzhen straightened up and stood firm, thought for a while and said:
"My father and the others didn't know what it was like on the front line... Zhang Guo surrendered, and the Beiyi people marched straight across the border and came straight here. And they were very calm and unhurried. It seemed that they were waiting behind them. Where are the infantry?"
He frowned as he spoke, suppressing the worry about his father in his heart, and said: "If it's not entangled, it's going to be wiped out. If that's the case, where is the turning point?"
Xie Yuan looked up at Liu Qinbing, who was lying next to the window, observing the outside, and said:
"Brother Liu, I remember that there are two thousand soldiers guarding Linjiang City. Relying on the advantage of the city wall, they should be able to stop it for a day, right?"
"There are still two thousand anywhere. The front line was tight some time ago, so everyone who can be transferred has been transferred. Now there are 600 wounded soldiers, 100 defenders, and more than 200 government officials in the city. That is to say, they have not started. Attack the city, and once you attack the city, your secret will be exposed."
When Xie Yuan and Shen Liuzhen heard this, they looked at each other deeply and fell silent...
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In the city, Xie Yun, who was sitting in the government office, turned pale after hearing the reports from the soldiers who had returned from the front line.
Zhang Guo suddenly surrendered to the enemy, and the already precarious situation on the front line suddenly collapsed. Now even Shen Qingzhi and others are in danger.
And because of the tension on the front line some time ago, all the soldiers who could be mobilized in the entire county have been transferred to the front line... There are no reinforcements available in several nearby cities.
What can you wait for now? Wait for a tragic death?
Xie Yun, who had already felt that the end was coming, couldn't help but cursed in great pain:
"The imperial court of the Southern Dynasties has no self-awareness! A group of fat men who eat like food from a sack of wine want to think that they are strong men who can carry a cauldron!!"
He was extremely angry, his eyes were red, he raised his face and shouted helplessly: "God is trying to destroy my Xie family!"
All the government officials in the lobby felt sad after hearing this.
Many of them are confidants that Xie Yun has cultivated over the past few years. One of them said:
"Guardian, while their army has not arrived yet and the troops at the city gate are empty, we will lead our men to fight out and escort you to escape from the west city gate. We will leave the green mountains behind so that we don't have to worry about running out of firewood."
Xie Yun looked at him, with tears in his eyes, and said dejectedly: "Thank you for your kindness, but... where are the green hills?"
The officer was stunned for a moment, thought for a while and said: "The county guard is reluctant to leave his family?...But this is also a helpless matter. If the county guard can escape and die, the Xie family will not die."
Xie Yun smiled even more miserably, with tears in his eyes, and said: "You don't understand, the glory of the Xie family depends on the green mountains, not this bit of blood, but those outdated classics and books. Without them, So what if my surname is Xie? It’s nothing..."
The government officials were all shocked and speechless, but they made sense once they thought about it.
The so-called aristocratic family, isn't it because they are more knowledgeable than others that they have had members of the family serve as officials and be respected by others in all dynasties?
It's just that as time goes by, people only remember that their surnames are noble, but gradually forget why they are noble.
At this time, a government servant hurriedly ran in from outside and reported:
"Chief, your young man and the Shen family seem to be trapped in the refugee camp, and the Beiyi people are looking for them!"
"What?!" Xie Yun stood up suddenly, heartbroken.
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Xie Yuan and Shen Liuzhen hunkered down in the corner, shrinking their hands and feet. Shen Liuzhen grabbed Xie Yuan's arm fiercely and looked at the thatch and dust falling from the roof in horror.
The three soldiers of the Shen family squatted in a corner, looking at the roof as if facing a formidable enemy.
"Boom!" There was a loud noise, the ground shook, and a tile above the head actually fell down.
Shen Liuzhen said with a cry: "...I never thought that we might be killed by a trebuchet so miserably."
Xie Yuan also looked at the roof, a trace of panic flashed in his usually determined eyes. Shen Liuzhen pinched the flesh on her arm until it hurt. Somehow, Xie Yuanfu reached into his heart and comforted him in a gentle tone:
"You have to think on the bright side. It's good that we didn't die on the siege crossbow. I heard from the master that a crossbow arrow can shoot a person to pieces."
"Boom!" There was another sound of a boulder hitting the ground. It seemed to be getting closer to them...
Shen Liuzhen lowered his head and leaned on Xie Yuan's shoulder, wishing that he was blind and unable to see, but he said:
"Damn, are you trying to comfort people?"
"If my father hears what you said, you will get another slap in the face..." Xie Yuan said numbly, her thoughts were flying around, as if she was panicking because of the death that was about to come at any time and was out of her control. .
Shen Liuzhen grinned so frightened that his dimples came out, and he said with a crying voice:
"A Yuan... I thought back on the past ten years of my life, and I feel that there must be a lot of people who hate me, and most of them are much older than me. Maybe I will encounter them when I enter the underworld. Then. You have to protect me. If I didn't have you, wouldn't I be torn apart by them?"
Three more tiles fell from the roof overhead and shattered when they hit the ground.
Xie Yuan laughed because of his words and said amidst the sound of the house collapsing:
"I bet you also know how much people hate you for the things you did? Don't worry, we are engaged, brother, I will definitely protect you."
The Shen family soldiers nestled in the other three corners looked at the two ten-year-old children across from them who were still chatting and laughing in the face of danger. They couldn't help but admire them, and then... they couldn't say anything, and their expressions were complicated.
Should I say they are stupid, or should I say they are smart? One moment they are engaged, another moment they are brothers, is there such a thing?
"Boom boom..." Along with the sound of broken boards and tiles, the ground shook again.
Shen Liuzhen said with a small vibrato:
"...Are they so idle? Just to find the two of us, they would take a trebuchet and leave the city wall alone to smash the houses in the refugee camp?...When did this end?"
"If you smash these bricks and use them as trebuchet projectiles, you can use them longer when attacking the city. I will do the same if you want." Xie Yuan said lightly.
Shen Liuzhen looked at her in shock and said, "You really know how to think, you really don't waste resources at all."
"Don't use bad words, be careful with my father's mouth."
Xie Yuan was already haunted by the two consecutive slaps her father used to slap her. Every time she heard the word "fuck", she would hallucinate and feel her father's mouth whizzing towards her. Then there was a dull pain on my face.
So she never said these three words from then on. When she did, she only said them in her heart.
Shen Liuzhen had never been beaten before, she thought. No, Shen Liuzhen could be as stubborn as a knife, so a beating would probably not help.
At this time, Xie Yuan's father, Xie Yun, stood on the city wall and looked down, hoping to find the shadows of the two of them among the dark heads of the small figures, and was extremely anxious.
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