Taking out the undershirt from his bag and shaking it out in front of him, his wife's special font came to his eyes. "I am very lucky to marry a man like you and have your love. I am willing to wait for you and protect you. These are all
I am willing to bear the price I should pay, and I can survive no matter how difficult it is until the merciful God sends you back to me."
He put the shirt on his arm with satisfaction and continued to look for underpants while muttering to himself: "Who is God? You should ask her..."
"What is this?" I found the underwear, but why is there an extra red mark on the white and clean pants? The location is very... very embarrassing.
His mind exploded: "Is it blood? Is the baby injured?"
Blushing and frightened, he got under the covers and checked carefully to make sure they were intact, then he felt relieved. He picked up his underwear again and took a closer look...
The blood all over his body suddenly rushed to his face, and there was actually a complete red lip print with a fragrant smell.
That night, some of the soldiers in the military camp fell asleep with their shoe soles in their hands, some fell asleep with their wives' bellybands in their arms, and some fell asleep with their purses on their pillows... Marshal Zhao was probably the only one in history who slept with his underwear in his arms.
Youzhou, surrounded by Liao City, fell into bleak despair. Since the day Waqiao Pass was captured by the Liao army, the Song army stationed in Youzhou had been irreversibly exhausted day by day.
The defending generals Cao Rui and Yang Jinzhong were in a dilemma. Breaking through the encirclement seemed to be an extremely difficult task. The Liao army's 00,000 troops were stationed in the neighboring city Zhuzhou, even if the Song army avoided Zhuzhou and took Waqiao instead.
If you break through the siege at Guan Pass, you will also encounter a joint attack from Waqiao Pass and Mozhou.
They can only choose to continue to defend the city and wait for rescue. But when will this rescue come, and whether it is possible? They have no way of knowing.
Zhao Changyuan once said to Cao Rui that the people of the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun had plenty of food and clothing, and their hearts were devoted to the Liao Kingdom. His indifferent words at the time had now become a huge torment that Cao Rui's troops had to face.
"Hand over the robbers! Get out of Youzhou City!" "Hand over the robbers! Get out of Youzhou City!" "Song Army, go back to the Central Plains!" "Song Army, go back to the Central Plains!" The people outside the gate of Youzhou Mansion screamed and cursed
Zhentian. The trigger for this riot was that the Song Army's granary was about to run out. Cao Rui's deputy general Chen took his money and went around the city to raise food but failed. In a rage, he snatched a cart of food and returned to the camp.
Of course, this was just the trigger. The real anger of the people came from the arrival of the Song Army, which disrupted their long-term peace and order.
"What's going on outside?" Cao Rui, who just turned forty years old, has aged ten years in half a month.
Lieutenant General Li Mingchang told him with a worried look on his face: "General Cao, there is another group of mobs. They take turns harassing us like this, and our soldiers will be overwhelmed! It's better to just..."
Before he could finish his words, he was categorically rejected by Cao Rui: "No, General Chen went to the city to rob food to keep his soldiers alive. If I hand him over, it will definitely cause the morale of the army to collapse, and it will really be a dead end."
!" Moreover, General Chen went to the city to buy grain with real money, but he was unreasonably rejected and insulted by the people. He always cherished his soldiers as his sons, how could he endure such grievances? His mind was burning,
He did something that he himself regretted, and even paid back the money afterwards. But these people still refused to let go...
Li Mingchang explained: "My subordinates don't mean that. We are in internal and external troubles now, so we might as well go out and kill for a while, eat and drink enough to break out of the encirclement and fight to the death with the Liao soldiers!" At the end of the sentence, he clenched his hands in anger.
The hilt of the knife. As long as Cao Rui gives the order, he will be the first to go out and kill him. These past half a month have been too frustrating!
Unexpectedly, Cao Rui's eyes widened even more, and he shouted in a low voice: "Absolutely not! Youzhou City is still our territory of the Song Dynasty, and the people outside are all the people of the Song Dynasty! We are the soldiers of the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, how can we do this?
Attacking defenseless people?"
"General Cao!" Anger and grievance made Li Mingchang, a seven-foot-tall man, eyes turn red. The emperor's soldiers... I'm afraid everyone in the army knows that they are just abandoned brigade.
Cao Rui walked up to him, patted his shoulder, softened his tone and comforted him: "No need to say anything, wait a minute, I believe that the emperor will not leave us here and ignore us."
Having said this, I heard even more unpleasant yelling coming from outside and coming into the room. "Get out! You evil wolves!"
At this time, some old, weak, sick and disabled people, encouraged by a large group of common people, stretched out their trembling hands, pointed at the noses of the little soldiers guarding Youzhou Mansion outside the door, and cursed fiercely: "Little bastards! Little bastards!"
You beasts! Get out of here!"
Cao Rui could almost hear the gnashing of teeth of the soldiers in the hall. He felt heartbroken and wanted to rush out and break the mob's necks one by one, but in reality, he could only give words of advice to the soldiers around him: "Soldiers,
Cao knows that you are wronged and that you are in pain! But we are soldiers, we have fought through mountains and seas of fire, and we are heroes, so we cannot be like the unarmed people outside. Do you understand?" After the words fell, no one responded for a long time. Suddenly, no one responded.
A guard's weak voice came from the corner: "General, I miss home." "I want to go home too!" "I miss my mother..." A series of aggrieved and desperate appeals, accompanied by slight sobs, in
It spread among the army.
If it had been Yang Jinyi, he would have jumped three feet high, jumped off the tower and fought with Bao Sui'an. But Yang Jinzhong was a calm man after all, and he was pacing up and down the tower with his hands behind his back as if he was deaf and dumb.
.Sometimes he lowers his head to look at the blue bricks under his feet, sometimes he looks up into the distance and looks at the foreign soldiers who are still majestic under the flying snowflakes.
But Yang Tieniu, the family-born deputy general beside him, couldn't hold back his anger. Yang Guodong treated him like his own son, and the Yang brothers and he were brothers and sisters. How could he let others insult the Yang family in this way? He was so angry that he almost broke his teeth: "General,
Let your subordinates go out and kill him for you!"
Yang Jinzhong grabbed his robe and advised lightly: "Let him scold him. If we don't go out, they can't do anything. If they open the city gate to fight, it will not do any good except speeding up our losses."
Tieniu suppressed his anger, but still couldn't calm down. He glanced at the round and muscular enemy soldiers under the tower, and then at the young soldiers of the Song Army standing beside him. All of them had earth-colored faces and cracked lips. "But we are trapped here.
There’s no other way! Sooner or later, our military strength will be exhausted!”
Yang Jinzhong stopped, his eyes were blank, and he murmured to himself: "I don't believe no one will rescue us."
Tieniu shook his head and snorted coldly, and said what he had been holding in his heart for a long time: "The Liao army's two hundred thousand troops are watching eagerly. The emperor must not even want Youzhou City. How can he care about our life and death?"
Yang Jinzhong turned his head and looked at him steadily, and finally said firmly: "I believe in my father! I believe in my second brother! My family will never sit idly by and ignore it!"
Zhao Changyuan's army has always been known for its speed. However, God did not cooperate, and the continuous violent snowstorms slowed down the march by a full double. It was originally planned to arrive at the Song and Liao border in six days, but now, it took ten days to walk , and then marched hard to the northernmost part of the Song Dynasty territory.
"General He, further ahead is the boundary of Yingzhou City." The first to step into the junction was naturally the vanguard army led by He Yong. Thanks to the 20,000 cavalry, they worked hard to clear the way for the snow along the way. The middle and latter armies paved their way.
"Let's just wait here." He Yong jumped off his horse first, planning to set up camp and wait for the arrival of the army.
As soon as he pulled the horse aside, he heard someone calling him from behind. Looking back, it turned out that it was Zhao Changyuan's messenger soldier galloping over on a fast horse, followed by Xiao Jun: "General He, this is what the marshal asked me to do. A letter for you."
While opening the letter, He Yong asked him in confusion: "Didn't they follow? Why are there only the two of you?"
Xiao Jun said nothing, and the messenger only said: "The marshal said that you will understand his intention after reading the letter."
He Yong took a look at the letter and grinned: "Good guy..."
At night, the villages on the outskirts of Yingzhou City were protected by the overwhelming snow. The villagers got into bed early to avoid the biting cold air. There was silence outside the windows, except for the occasional sound of wind blowing against the huts.
The strange noise seemed to come from a dream. It was not until the person sleeping next to him suddenly turned over and sat up that he suddenly realized that there was really a lot of movement outside the window. "What is the sound?" Village woman Ximei asked her husband Wang Sheng uneasily. .
Wang Sheng put on his coat and came to the window and looked out. He only saw pairs of iron hooves passing in front of his eyes: "It looks like an army."
Ximei was startled and her heart beat wildly: "Is there a war again?" she asked in a low voice.
Seeing her surprised expression, Wang Sheng replied disapprovingly: "Whatever, we ordinary people don't have this heart. Anyway, they haven't beaten us."
As soon as her husband climbed into bed, Ximei heard the sound of smashing in the sheep shed outside: "Hey? Why is it so noisy?" Wang Sheng was so frightened that he ran out of bed and opened the door suddenly: "It's his uncle! He's here to steal something!" "Oil lamps all over the mountains and fields are lit one by one, accompanied by the voices of villagers, the braying of livestock, and the neighing of war horses... The lonely village is not lonely at all tonight.
The next day, the surrounding Liaocheng exploded, especially Mozhou, which is adjacent to Yingzhou City.
"Report to General Yelu! Last night, a large number of Song troops appeared outside Yingzhou City, looting and destroying houses and villages. They are now heading towards our Mozhou!" Yeluqi, the general who defended the city of Mozhou Prefecture, had just clicked his buttocks and hadn't sat down yet. Steady, he heard Lieutenant General Zuo Nan telling him such an exasperating matter.
After a lot of unreasonable swear words, he calmed down and asked suspiciously: "Have you attacked the city? Are you deliberately trying to lure our people out of the city?"
Zuo Nan said: "That's not the case. It's just robbing the people on the outskirts of the city, making people panic. General Tuo of Yingzhou City went out of the city overnight to stop the attack, but the Song army did not fight... They just robbed and ran all the way..." (To be continued)