beggar prince

At night, Zhao Yuanjian was resting on the army bed with his arms around Xiao Heng, when suddenly the tent outside was on fire.

Master Xu ran into the camp tent and reported: "King Zuoxian is dying, and he led a hundred thousand soldiers and horses to surround the three important cities in the frontier pass."

Xiao Heng was a little worried when he heard this, and he said, "I'll stay with you for a few days, okay?"

A rush of horns sounded, and Zhao Yuanjian quickly put on the silver frost armor and took the red tasseled spear.

He said: "Your Majesty stays in the tent and is not allowed to go out anywhere!"

Zhao Yuanjian rushed out of the camp and ordered the two generals to guard Xiao Heng.

Zhao Yuanjian will personally lead the army to guard the most dangerous Beijun City.

Zhao Yuanjian stood at Dianjiangtai and said: "All generals listen to orders!"

Qi He and more than a dozen generals walked down the stage to listen to orders.

Zhao Yuanjian said in a calm voice: "Now there is a riot in the southern Huns tribe. The Xiongnu Shanyu is dying, and his remnant troops are coming to make trouble. You must guard all the fortresses! Qi He will follow me to guard the gate of Beijun. Li Yuan will go to Liao Guard the gate of Yuancheng, and General Fuyuan went to guard the gate of Neiqiu County..."

Zhao Yuanjian set off with Qi He and General Zhongwu, and led [-] soldiers to Beijun City to guard the tower.

Zhao Yuanjian boarded the tower and sent troops to guard the gate, above the tower, and the county government.

Then he found the baby emperor Xiao Heng standing beside him in soldier armor, smirking at himself.

Xiao Heng: "It's so fun to go to the battlefield. I want to fight the Huns with you."

Zhao Yuanjian was so angry that he was dizzy and took two steps back.

Xiao Heng hurriedly stepped forward to help him: "Queen, I am actually worried about your safety and fear that something will happen to you. Let's return to Beijing after this battle."

Zhao Yuanjian threw Xiao Heng into the tower room, took off his pants, parted his thighs, and pinched the tender flesh in his legs.

Xiao Heng yelled in pain: "Even if I strangled me, I wouldn't admit my mistake! I'm 22 years old, and I stay alone in an empty room every day. I'm getting old, and the skin on my face is rough. Will you like me?!"

Zhao Yuanjian heard this, let go of him, and looked at Xiao Heng carefully.Xiao Heng has an oval face, delicate and fair skin, big and dark pupils, clear and translucent, looking bright.

He pinched the flesh on Xiao Heng's face, and curled the corners of his mouth: "Your Majesty's skin is tenderer than before, where is it rough? I have never seen a man more beautiful than His Majesty, and His Majesty is heroic and masculine."

Xiao Heng hugged him and said, "General Hussars ordered his generals to deal with the Xiongnu. Wouldn't it be better for you to sit in the court?"

Zhao Yuanjian: "Does it still hurt?"

"It's all swollen by you. You don't feel sorry for me at all. If I make a mistake, just pinch me."

"I will never pinch His Majesty again. Now is not the time to return to Beijing. I want the Huns to be driven out completely."

There was nothing to do outside the city all day, but at night, the weather was cold, much colder than during the day.

Many torches suddenly appeared under the city, and they were all red.Just listen to the sound of war drums outside the city, someone insulting Zhao Yuanjian outside.Scolding, firecrackers, and all kinds of sharp noises were mixed together.

These noises made the defenders' brains ache.

The ears of Zhao Yuanjian and Xiao Heng were also tortured deeply.After three days of noise torture, Zhao Yuanjian sent Qi He out of the city to fight.

Qi He put on his armor, grabbed his red-tasseled spear, and led the troops out of the city gate.

The soldiers lined up to fight, but the Huns only beat drums and shouted, and did not go forward to fight.

Qi He and the soldiers sneezed and sneezed in the cold, had runny noses, and endured harsh noises.

An hour later, Qi He returned to the city.

He reported to Zhao Yuanjian: "His grandma, the Huns are playing tricks on us. They want to toss us enough before attacking the city. It seems that the general will not be able to sleep tonight."

Xiao Heng: "I heard that the Huns are the most cunning, and they sometimes use these dirty tricks. I think they should prepare more thick cotton coats for the soldiers."

Liu Min said, "I'll go."

Zhao Yuanjian said, "Go and come back quickly."

Liu Min took the token and ran to the county government office to find the county magistrate.

The Huns beat the war drums again, Xiao Heng climbed on the wall to watch, he said: "I can't tell how many people there are."

Zhao Yuanjian: "Qi He, go find out how many Huns there will be."

Qi He: "It's the general!"

Qi He went to change his night clothes, and quietly climbed down the city wall with the two spies.

They rolled down the slide and into the pine forest.When he arrived in the pine forest, he quickly stood up, bent down and ran towards the Huns' barracks.

Next to the pine tree in front of them, two Huns were urinating, and Qi He covered their mouths from behind and wiped their necks with a knife.

They dragged the corpse into the pine forest and put the Hun fur coat on themselves.

At this time, General Zhongwu opened the gate of the city, and with [-] soldiers, he went out of the city to form a battle against the Huns.

Qi He and the others swaggered into the Huns' barracks and beat the war drums just like the Huns.The Huns were chattering away, but Qi He couldn't understand.

Qi He and the others put down their drumsticks and walked around the Huns' barracks. They calculated that there were more than [-] Huns.

They led the Huns' horses and explored into the distance. The distance was quiet and there was no ambush.

Qi He and the others hurried back to the city wall, took off the clothes of the Huns, and climbed up the city wall.

Two hours had passed since they returned to the city.

Qi He reported: "General, there are only [-] Huns."

Zhao Yuanjian felt relieved after hearing this. It was snowing heavily at this time, and in the dark night, there was snow and mist.

The snow shook the ground brightly, and it seemed that the bonfires lit by the Huns were a little dim.

Liu Min came back with several cotton-padded clothes and shoes in a large carriage.

Qi He distributed cotton clothes to [-] soldiers.

Zhao Yuanjian sent General Zhongwu to take a remote path from the back of the city to surround the Huns.

At this time, the Huns beat their drums and clamored outside the city.

Zhao Yuanjian led the trembling soldiers out of the city to line up.The soldiers were frozen through, and the temperature was the lowest in the middle of winter, which was the most difficult time.Snowflakes blew on their faces and necks with the wind like knives.

The Huns retreated and refused to fight.

An hour later, there was a loud noise in the sky, and a brilliant firework lit up the sky.This is a signal of the success of encircling the Huns.

The retreat route behind the Huns has been cut off by the soldiers

Zhao Yuanjian led the soldiers and rushed to the Huns' barracks in the woods, where ghosts were crying and wolves were howling for an instant.

The soldiers fought against the Huns in the snow in the woods.

Zhao Yuanjian swung his red-tasseled gun like a dragon flying into the sky, flying in the air like lightning, and the sound was like dragons chant and tigers roaring.He stabbed forward and back, swayed left and right, and defeated more than 20 Huns with [-] strokes.

While fighting, he saw his precious emperor again, and Zhao Yuanjian hurriedly retreated to Xiao Heng's side to protect Xiao Heng.

Xiao Heng was not weak either. The Huns felt that he was like a plague god, as long as they got close to him, they would either be injured or die.He has two knives in hand, fighting left and right, and he uses them superbly.

The Huns couldn't see Xiao Heng's way at all. The two knives protected him like armor, and the messy shadows of the knives reflected the cold light.

There was blood burning in his eyes, and he was like a wolf in the snow.As soon as the Huns approached him, their fingers, arms and weapons flew together.

For a while, many Hun soldiers were frightened away.

They fought until the early morning and captured more than [-] Hun soldiers.

Zhao Yuanjian sent another team in the city to escort the prisoners back to Liaodong camp.

Zhao Yuanjian went back to the city to rest, but he didn't notice the danger was approaching.

They slept all day and woke up in the evening again.

Xiao Heng woke up and looked at the woods below the city, feeling something was wrong.He patted Zhao Yuanjian's face, Zhao Yuanjian also sat up, put on his armor and walked towards the city wall.

Xiao Heng pointed to the woods in the distance, and he said, "I guess someone is ambushing there, and someone is also ambushing behind."

Zhao Yuanjian: "Your Majesty is saying that we are surrounded?"

"Because I saw the woods move. There was no wind tonight, but the woods moved."

Zhao Yuanjian understood, he sat down and meditated.

Soon, countless Xiongnu soldiers began to attack the city, Qi He and other generals fought on the tower of the Huns.

There were countless Huns like fish and shrimps. They carried crash carts and smashed into the city gates and walls, and carried ladders to attack the city.

Zhao Yuanjian sent soldiers to release the guns, attacked with catapults, and beat with rings, but they still couldn't resist the powerful offensive.

Soon Beijun City fell, and they saw that the Huns used yesterday's heavy snow to build a thick snow wall outside the city.More Huns stepped on the snow wall and rushed into the city.

Zhao Yuanjian escaped from Beijun City with his soldiers and horses. They rode for a long time and ran to a desolate and abandoned small village nearby.

The soldiers were all froze.

Zhao Yuanjian said, "It's broken!"

Xiao Heng asked: "What's the matter?"

Zhao Yuanjian said: "We are not short of food and grass, what we are short of is firewood."

Xiao Heng understood what Zhao Yuanjian meant. Winter outside the Great Wall had already entered, and the weather would get colder and colder. Now the soldiers needed coal and firewood to keep warm.

And they didn't know where this village was, and the soldiers couldn't survive without firewood.

Xiao Heng remembered lying in the snow when he was a child, and Zhao Yuanjian picked him up when he was about to freeze to death.He didn't expect to feel that terrible cold again.

He leaned his head on Zhao Yuanjian: "We are saved this time, we must go back to the palace, and you will never be called out to fight again."

Zhao Yuanjian: "Okay, as long as you are safe and sound."

In the afternoon, Zhao Yuanjian sent several teams of cavalry to go out on horseback to find a way out.

Smoke was everywhere in the snow in the village. Zhao Qi asked the soldiers to cut down the trees in the village, light a bonfire, and keep warm on the fire pit. The soldiers finally felt warm.

Zhao Yuanjian wrote a rescue letter and tied it to the pigeon's leg. He prayed for God's blessing to send the letter back to the camp.

But as the days passed, they seemed to be abandoned, and no one came to rescue them.

A few days later, the trees in the village were all cut down, and the soldiers began to tear down the house beams, tables, chairs, and benches to make firewood.

All the wood was demolished and the fire was lit for warmth, and the soldiers fell into the cold hell again.

Later Qi He held the trembling Liu Min in his arms and said, "We will definitely survive."

Every time Xiao Heng took a breath, he felt pain in his chest, his lungs ached dryly, and his teeth were as cold as ice.

He saw that when soldiers froze to death, some had their ears dropped, and their hands and feet were separated from their bodies.

Xiao Heng leaned on Zhao Yuanjian, and Zhao Yuanjian hugged him tightly, warming him up: "What an idiot, being an emperor is still as stupid, I'm going to drive you to death!"

"I think it would be nice to die with you."

He found the last bit of firewood and lit it, and the four of them were in the small fire, imagining the warmth of the fire pit.

Xiao Heng fantasized about going back to his warm and comfortable bedroom with Zhao Yuanjian.

Later, Qi He and Liu Min fell down first, and Xiao Heng was attacked by the biting cold again.

Zhao Yuanjian hugged him and shouted: "Heng'er, we have to go back to the capital, we will never be separated again when we go back, wake up."

In a daze, Xiao Heng saw Zhao Yuanjian yelling for himself with his arms around him.

Later, when Xiao Heng heard Zhao Yuanjian calling himself with his adoptive mother, younger sister, and Xiao Luan, he woke up instantly, knowing that he was hallucinating.

Later, when Xiao Heng saw Zhao Yuanjian shed tears, Xiao Heng stretched out a hand as cold as ice to wipe his tears.

Xiao Heng said: "We will still be together in the next life."

When Xiao Heng woke up, he found that he was lying in the military tent. He had already got rid of the piercing cold. He couldn't help panting heavily. He was greedy for this warmth.

He sat up abruptly, Qi He was beside him.Xiao Heng asked anxiously, "Where is Yuan Jian? Did he freeze to death?"

Qi He: "The general is going to chase the Huns, don't worry, Your Majesty."

After hearing this, Xiao Heng lay down and fell asleep in peace.

This time, Zhao Yuanjian's battle lasted for a month and completely repelled the Huns' army.

Zhao Yuanjian returned triumphantly, drums and trumpets were beating in the barracks, and flags were fluttering.

Xiao Heng greeted Zhao Yuanjian at the gate of the barracks.

Zhao Yuanjian jumped off the horse and hugged Xiao Heng in his arms. The two of them looked at each other and smiled, and made a vow never to be separated again.