When the wind was light, everyone in the army shook off the yellow sand on their bodies, stood up one after another, and continued what they had left unfinished. But Mo Lingfeng stretched out his palm and saw that what he was holding in his hand turned out to be a locust.
"General Zhong," she said, holding the front legs of the locust and walking to Zhong Jiaqing, "Look."
Zhong Jiaqing took a moment to take a look, thinking that he was being naughty and wanted to catch a bug in his busy schedule, so he ignored her and turned back to continue explaining: "Send more archers out to investigate..."
Before he finished speaking, he turned his head back and looked at the insect in Mo Lingfeng's hand.
At this sight, my heart suddenly thumped and my throat rose.
He bent down and took the locust from Mo Lingfeng's hand, took a look in the wind and sand that had not subsided, and then lowered his head and looked around.
Soon, he found another one.
With a sullen face, he took the lead to walk down the fort: "Go outside and have a look."
Mo Lingfeng also followed, and he and Zhong Jiaqing walked down the stone steps and searched in the gravel on the ground. Soon the four commanders who followed found them and picked up the dead locusts from the ground.
"General, the wind is blowing from the direction of Hengshan. Do you want to send someone to Hengshan to have a look?"
"Maybe there are just sporadic locusts and they won't cause a disaster."
Zhong Jiaqing raised his foot and crushed a locust that was still jumping on the ground to death. A drop of sweat on his forehead flowed from his temples to his neck. He couldn't tell whether it was cold sweat or too hot. He just stretched his head and looked around, and suddenly saw
Not far away, a swarm of migratory locusts swarmed in darkness, migrating in the wind.
"Quickly start the fire!" Zhong Jiaqing really had cold sweat on his forehead this time, and even his back was cold.
The commander also panicked, rushed into the stronghold, ordered the soldiers to bring out firewood, poured oil on the firewood pile, and instantly a fire burst into the sky. In the dim sky, the fires that were lit one after another were extremely bright, and the migratory locusts
It moves toward the light and throws it into the fire, making a "cracking" sound.
An hour later, the wind gradually calmed down, the floating sand dispersed, the red sun set to the west, and the ground was covered with red light, shining on the yellow sand, creating a different scene.
Most of the swarm of migratory locusts were thrown into the fire, a few more were shot down by the soldiers, and a few scattered locusts went to Gaopingzhai out of weather.
Zhong Jiaqing was still uneasy. After returning to the village, he sent people to Hengshan to check it out. At the same time, he compiled a letter and sent it to Gaoping Village.
The arrival of migratory locusts may cause disaster.
Mo Lingfeng led his men to wait by the fire, adding firewood all night long, and not letting the fire go out. If locusts came again, they would not miss it.
The night is lonely, there is no moon to admire, and the stars are few and far between. The flags in the village are spread out by the wind, and the wind blows on the body, gradually giving rise to a chill.
Mo Lingfeng couldn't sit still, so he got up and walked slowly to the southeast. As he walked far away, he saw a hibiscus tree as tall as a person. There were buds on the branches. Only one flower had bloomed early, and it had already withered on the branch.
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Morning comes and evening falls, glory lasts only a moment.
Mo Lingfeng leaned on the flower branch, took out the xun, and played a song in tune with the sound of the wind.
No one listened to her blowing the xun, so she blew it for a while to relieve her depression, then she put away the xun, broke off a branch with flower buds, and returned to the fire.
Throwing the branches into the fire, the fire danced and swallowed up the unopened fragrance without any sigh.
If there really is a locust plague and the war must stop, then her plan will stop here and be swallowed up like this flower branch.
In June of the twenty-fifth year of the Yuan Dynasty, the Antares star was high in the south, and the intense heat and sparks came together. The locusts devoured the vegetation in the mountains and rivers of Jinlu, flew over the fortress, and reached the pastures by the Shuo River. The grain grown in Kuanzhou was not spared.
Jinlu took advantage of the situation to seek peace.
The emperor knew that he was determined to covet the country and that peace would not be long, so he refused and took the opportunity to send troops. The army of Zhenrong went out in full force, penetrated deep into the Jin Dynasty, defeated the Jin captives, and later withdrew to the fortress because of the lack of food and grass.
The Jinlu were besieged internally and externally, so they mobilized the whole country and gathered troops outside the Sanchuan Stronghold to attack the stronghold day and night. If they won, they would go to the Central Plains to live with the Han people. If they could not win, they would not make things easier for the Han people.
After fighting for half a month, all the troops guarding Sanchuan Village were killed, and Sanchuan Village, Huaiyuan Village, and Dingchuan Village were lost.
The Jinlu forces once again joined forces to attack Gaoping Village. The Zhenrong Army defended it and lost more than half of it. When Zongzong, the leader of the Zhenrong Army, was patrolling on top of the female wall, he was hit in the head by a Qiang man and died. His morale was devastated.
Zhong Jiaqing, who had been charging into battle all day long and wanted to shed his blood, was actually unscathed.
In this chaos, Mo Lingfeng quickly adjusted his strategy, instead of making any interlocking strategies, he simply opened his gluttonous mouth and swallowed up the army.
With an unstoppable attitude, she threw away money and won people's hearts, and took advantage of the chaos to carve out a wooden sign - a wooden sign with a round top and a bottom, three inches long, two inches wide and five minutes thick, with a bird of prey carved on the front and "Mo's Dingyuan Army" engraved on it.
, there is a tiger sitting on the back, and the name and description of the person holding the token are inscribed on it.
When the Suppressing Army was repeatedly defeated, her team only won and was coveted. However, once it fell into the hands of others, it would become weak and would only use its full strength to escape.
Everyone in the army had nothing to do, and it was the time to recruit people. They could not suppress them, they could only bully the superiors and conceal the inferiors. Let Mo Lingfeng, the leader, use his full wings to expand the team to the size of an infantry camp and a cavalry camp.
She even organized a female army in the capital, and used Yin Nan to lead the troops. They were not limited to digging ditches and transporting grain and grass in the rear camp, but also galloping on the front lines, and the pay they received was the same as that of men.
At this point in the battle, the Jinlu were exhausted and decided to negotiate peace again. If the Han emperor still insisted on fighting, they would have no choice but to fight to the death to accompany him.
On the first day of July, Liuhuo slowly fell from the south. The emperor, forced by the huge military expenditure and the insufficient treasury, nodded and agreed to peace talks.
On the second day of July, Zhang Yuanlin, the enshrined official at the inner east gate of Kuanzhou, accompanied the imperial emissary Cao Zhibin to Zhangjiabao in Hengshan, Kuanzhou to negotiate the oaths between the two dynasties. His Majesty personally ordered Mo Qianlan, the military envoy of Kuanzhou, to go with him.
In Kuanzhou City, they learned about this on the fourth day of July. Wang Zhizhou and others had been fighting hard for a long time. They were deeply afraid that the emperor would conduct a thorough inspection of the fort during the long battle. He wished he could calm down the situation immediately and cover up the empty pay and lack of personnel. They learned that
Being able to negotiate peace, I breathed a sigh of relief and prepared to welcome the imperial emissary and the peace talks.
The weather was still hot and hot, and Mo Mansion received the news earlier than Wang Zhizhou, but Mo Mansion was as silent as usual.
Zhao Shiheng, full of news, walked through the second hall and went straight to the back garden. When he saw Mo Qianlan standing in the waterside pavilion, he walked forward lamely.
Mo Qianlan wore a Taoist robe, leaning on a green jade staff, standing against the wind in the waterside pavilion. The wide robe and wide sleeves let the wind pull the corners and make a hunting sound. The whole person looked like a pile of white jade, which was almost blown to pieces by the wind.
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When he saw Zhao Shiheng coming, he smiled slightly and said: "The rain is coming and the wind is blowing all over the building. This wind may cause the building to collapse."
The emperor's wind has already blown towards the Mo family.
"Let him blow it away," Zhao Shiheng said, holding on to the railing: "Leifeng has annexed two battalions. Now the army is in chaos. During the peace talks, there is still much to be done."
Mo Qianlan nodded and pointed at a few large elm trees outside the waterside pavilion: "It has reached its peak, and it is time to decline."
The leaves of the elm trees are dark green, making a sound of waves in the wind. The ground is covered with a layer of messy fallen leaves, and the edges of the leaves are slightly yellow. It is the scene when midsummer has passed and early autumn is approaching.