I'm not Murong Chong

At this time, Chang'an had been drained of its last bit of vitality by the Lianyue War, and it was dying before its eyes.Former Qin General Dou Chong even issued a curfew order. Just after the time of the unitary hour, the bustling streets of the past are empty, and dilapidated houses are shadowed in the silent eternal night, like a ghost town.

Mrs. Li carefully placed the small oil lamp on the stove, lifted the lid of the pot in the dim yellow candlelight, and took out a small broken porcelain bowl, which contained a small piece that had shrunk after being boiled. meat, and half a steamed bun.

"Brother, hurry up and eat some." She brought it over and put it on the table, and whispered to a tall, white-faced man, "I can't finish eating today, so I left some for you."

The man turned his head, with sharp eyebrows and starry eyes, and deep facial features, he was the Xianbei who was injured that day: "This time, how can there be a time when I can't finish it? Save the child and eat it tomorrow."

The woman was in a hurry, and hurriedly said: "This is what you saved from the army rations to help us. How much can orphans and widows eat? How can you be hungry like a big man!" It was dry and hard, but it still stimulated all his senses that were numb with hunger.As soon as he put the cornbread into his mouth, before he could chew, a large amount of saliva rushed out from the side of his tongue, wrapping the little pasta and slipping into the esophagus, but the hunger was more obvious because of the water. , He didn't care about anything else, and suddenly stuffed the rest of the cornbread in. At this moment, he heard Li Shi gulp down a big mouthful of saliva.The man stopped moving, guessing that since Li Shi was reluctant to starve his children, he must have saved his rations and him.

He pushed the small piece of meat left in the bowl over reproachfully, Mrs. Li hurriedly waved her hand, the man frowned, and said in a serious tone: "Sister-in-law of the Li family took me here to recuperate because of her responsibility." , I am a man, do you still need to save on food to support me?"

Mrs. Li is usually used to running the house aggressively, but at this time she was a little afraid of his anger, so she murmured: "...you helped me go up to the tower to fight for me that day, so why didn't you save me? It's not good to say, the chaos outside If this is the case, where can I beg for food as a widow whose husband has died? Eat well, I’m afraid you can find some food and come back. Whether my daughter and I can survive or not depends on you.” The two were still alive. Pushing aside, I suddenly heard a loud knock on the door from outside.Mrs. Li was taken aback: "It's past the curfew, who dares to come to the door?! Could it be that Li Zheng is here to pull the young man again?"

One sentence reminded the man, he rushed to the stove, reached out to wipe the bottom of the pot, then rubbed his face with soot stained on his hand, and then motioned for Mrs. Li to open the door.

Sure enough, there was a middle-aged man in armor and a tired face standing outside the door. Seeing that Mrs. Li finally opened the door, he heaved a sigh of relief: "It's been so long, I thought something happened to the big sister! I got some new rice noodles today. , I’ll send it to your house first. Go back and be seen by my mother-in-law, so don’t even think about leaking it!” After finishing speaking, he walked into the house on his own, and when he saw him, he turned on the lamp and complained: “Dou The general expressly forbids folk display of lanterns, if it is discovered, it will be a big trouble, turn it off—" He suddenly stopped talking, because he saw a tall and tall man stepping out from inside, and he was not surprised when he saw him. Flustered, he just clasped his fists as a signal.

Mrs. Li came over anxiously and explained: "This is the sworn brother of my family's dead ghost, this is—" She suddenly became hoarse, what can she say?As long as she said the word Xianbeiren, her uncle could kill him with a knife!Fortunately, the man was grounded and natural: "My younger brother is a soldier under the command of General Li Bian. The white captive attacked the city that day and was seriously injured and fell down the tower. Thanks to the sister-in-law of the Li family who saw me when she was delivering food, she saved my life and temporarily took refuge here to recuperate. "

The middle-aged man looked him up and down suspiciously, but he couldn't think of any doubts for a moment. Mrs. Li was very nervous, but the Xianbei man was still there - this man could still get some fine white flour during the chaos. , it can only be Dou Chong's direct army, and most of them have a half-official title. How can this kind of person remember an unknown ordinary soldier in other people's army?Sure enough, the middle-aged man believed him a little more when he saw his muzzle and the bandages on his elbows, because he said: "In this case, return to the team as soon as you recover from your injuries. Now is the time to employ people! Anyone in the city who can All the crawling men are on the front line!" The Xianbei man nodded in agreement, and Li Shi dared to exhale at this time, the expression of concern was palpable, the middle-aged man was a centurion under Dou Chong's tent, Just came back from changing guards on the top of the city tower. He is a rough man, so he didn't notice anything unusual at the moment. He just asked Mrs. Li to bring some utensils to serve the noodles, and at the same time told him to store them carefully. Nowadays, women and children starve to death on the streets every day in Chang'an City. It is more expensive than gold, children, don't ask him to go to the streets at will, and be captured by those hungry and faint thieves, but he will become a "two-legged sheep" (Note 1) and never come back.Li Weiwei nodded, and was also very grateful: "How did Uncle get such a good thing?" The middle-aged soldier suddenly regained his spirits, put the things in his hand and said in a low voice: "I have made a great contribution today, how about How can I get such a reward? You should also know that at this time today, the Yan army came to attack the city again. Good fellow, the arrows on the buildings were faster and more violent than the hail. The brothers on the towers were desperately guarding , who knew that was just a cover! Next, he rammed a car into the east city gate, who would have thought that? The gate was smashed open within a short time of pissing, and the Yan army cavalry rushed like a swarm of hornets Come in!"

Hearing this, Mrs. Li also groaned in shock, and hurriedly asked the following.

The soldier waved his hand: "Fortunately, our General Dou was careful, and set up a giant army outside the second gate of the Wengcheng, surrounded by archers. Seeing the white captive rushing in, he hurriedly fired ten thousand arrows to stop him. Once blocked, the other brothers desperately rushed up to seal the door again, and it only takes a moment for the white captive army to press in, and Chang'an will be over!" Li Shi listened to the Buddha and kept chanting, but the man beside him just remained calm. After listening to the ground, he suddenly said for a long time: "Do you know who is the leader?"

The soldier snorted: "Who else! That shameless traitor Yang Ding!"

The man was silent for a moment and said: "Yang Ding has always been invincible on iron cavalry, this time it was just a small test of the sword, so our army was lucky enough to take back the city gate. If this person is allowed to plunder the formation several times, it may not be safe to rely on human life to fill it."

The soldier blew his beard and stared: "If you have a way, you should go to guard the city gate and see if you can stop a hoof!"

The man shrugged slightly: "You don't need someone to guard the city gate—the cavalry under Yang Ding's troops are fast and fierce, and they are the only natural enemy. If you have this, you won't be afraid of him."

The soldier didn't believe it, he asked again and again, the man Fang said slowly: "Natural enemies, fall into a horse pit."

Then he briefly explained the fortification in a few words, and the soldier was dumbfounded when he heard it: "Boy, what's your name?!"

The man paused for a moment before saying word for word: "My... Renzhi."

Within three days, the Yan army regrouped and attacked the city again. Ren Zhen was still in charge of the central army, Han Yangao Gai Duansui was in charge of the frontal battlefield, and Yang Dingsuo led [-] cavalrymen to wait for the opportunity.

Gunpowder smoke filled the air, arrows crashed into cars like locusts, and the sound of heavy wooden hammers could be heard endlessly. Finally, an excited shout came from the front: "The city gate is broken!"

"Come on!"

The cavalry battalion swept across like lightning and lightning in an instant, and swarmed into the east gate like bees and ants!

good!Ren Zhen couldn't help clapping his hands on the horse. In just a few days, the cavalry of the Yan Army had greatly improved their mobility under Yang Ding's training.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the cavalry rushed into the gate, they suddenly stagnated row after row in the urn city, so that they staggered left and right and could not move forward. Human head, clean up the hundreds of elite riders who rushed into the city gate first like chopping melons and vegetables.Seeing the situation, Yang Ding took a turn for the worse and didn't dare to advance rashly. He immediately withdrew his troops and retreated. Most of them withdrew from the encirclement of the Qin army. Among the dust, the Xuanping City Gate, which was already riddled with holes, was once again behind them. Close it with a bang!

Yang Ding suffered such a sudden change, and he was also in a state of uncertainty. He returned to the formation and spit out a mouth full of sand, raised his hand to wipe the blood and sweat from his forehead - what are the rows of fences in the urn city?He has never seen it before in all battles—it is not like a wildebeest repelling deer, but the fences are connected with iron locks, which are specially designed to trip horses, making people fall into the pit behind them, which does not fall. Deep, but covered with barbed wire, thorns, sharp blades and other things, it seems that they came here specially to defeat his heavy armored cavalry!Dou Chong doesn't seem to have such a talent all of a sudden~ Yang Ding was thinking about it and came to see Murong Chong back to his life, but saw that he was in a daze on the horse, ignoring others, just talking to himself The ground murmured: "Stuck in a horse pit...he didn't die? He...really didn't die..."

The second monk Yang Dingzhang was puzzled: "Who is not dead?"

Ren Zhenru was shocked by the electric shock, jumped off Zhebai excitedly in an instant, grabbed Yang Ding's elbow and said, "Murong Yong! Murong Yong is not dead! He thought of falling into the horse pit!"

Yang Ding was also stunned, and then shook his head violently in disbelief: "Impossible. If Murong Yong hadn't died, how could he stand by Qin Jun's side and be your enemy?!"

Ren Zhen's sudden ecstasy condensed at this point - yes, if Murong Yong was not dead, he should do everything possible to return to the Yan camp, so why would he join the Qin army and fight against him? !He thought of all the situations when Murong Yong left Ah Fang, and suddenly felt a pang of sadness in his heart. In fact, he had already seen that something was wrong with him at that time, but he was negligent and refused to ask in detail. Standing in front of him alive, he has too many things to ask and too many things to say.

Dou Chong stepped down from the throne, and kept looking at the man in front of him who had just made great achievements: "You said, your name is Renzhi? This name is very rare-you don't look like me, let alone Han... Could it be..." He walked in front of Ren Zhi, suddenly struck like lightning, and rubbed his cheek hard with his thumb, a white streak appeared in the layers of ashes, "Xianbei people?"

There was an uproar in the audience, everyone hated the Xianbei people to the core, and several sergeants were about to draw their swords—Ren Zhi was not in a hurry, but just sneered, and suddenly changed to the local dialect of the Huns: "Everyone says General Dou has led troops for many years and has seen a lot, so how could he not know that there is a clan in this world whose surname is Tiefu?" Dou Chong raised his eyebrows when he heard this—Sima Yan, Emperor Wudi of the Western Jin Dynasty, moved the Wuhu tribes into the Central Plains Yong In the four prefectures of Qin, Si, Bing, and Qin, the Hu people did not pay attention to the family and married freely, so some northerners called "Tiefu" who were born to their father Huns and their mother Xianbei. After that, they gradually became a clan, and their descendants all took this as their surname—— If this Xiongnu boy was born to a Xianbei woman, then it is not surprising that he looks like a white captive, but he still can't let go of his heart: "How can you know how to be a horse trap?!" On the day of this trap, he and Yao Xing secretly teamed up to ambush Murong Yongshi, and it was only thanks to it that he exhausted Yang Ding's five thousand Qiuchi cavalry and forced him against him--this is naturally not enough for outsiders.

That Tie Furen paused for a moment, and then said with great pain: "That day, the younger one was drawn out from General Li's subordinates by General Dou to attack the Yan army as a forward. When you trip and fall, how can you be surrounded and slaughtered by the Yan army! Those white captives are so brave, even if they have no weapons, they will hug you by the waist and perish with you! After an encounter, not only the Qiuchi cavalry, but even us as the vanguard More than a thousand infantrymen were almost wiped out! The young one survived by hiding in the pile of corpses for a day and a night, and there was a wreckage in a horse pit beside him. The troops came to clear the battlefield, were rescued, and withdrew to Chang'an. So I can remember this by heart."

These words half-clearly reveal some of Dou Chong's plans that are still in the dark—kill people with a knife to eliminate dissidents, and even send friendly infantry to die, but do nothing. Dou Chong waved his hand in embarrassment, He signaled him not to say any more. Seeing that he described the battle so vividly that he should have been there, he believed it a little more. He turned to Li and argued, "General Li, is this person a soldier under your command?"

Now all the people in Chang'an are soldiers, and they can be dispatched at any time. As a former banned general, Li Bian would not remember an ordinary soldier, but he has gradually become jealous of Dou Chong's domineering and domineering power, and he wishes that the whole world's credit can be attributed to him, the pillar of the sky. After all, now that "our own people" have made great achievements and gained face, how can they be willing to make more troubles before denying it: "Naturally. Could it be that only the direct descendants of General Dou can protect Chang'an and make great achievements?" Dou Chong laughed forcefully. Waving his hand: "Where is General Li? In this case, you will be rewarded for your meritorious service, and you will be promoted to commander-in-chief. You will need to be supervised by a lot of people who are trapped in a series of horse pits. In the future, you will repel the Xianbei army, and the king of heaven will add an official to you At that time, you should treat this general to a cup of kumiss that you are used to drinking!"

Tie Furenzhi smiled slightly: "General Dou often drank with the Huns, why did he forget that our Tiefu tribe has already moved to the Central Plains and lived in Longzhou for a long time. The customs are very different from those of the Huns outside the Great Wall. We drink wine more than horses Milk wine."

Dou Chong came here to test the rear, completely relieved, and laughed: "Okay, Ren Zhi will be transferred to the Chinese Army, responsible for the defense of the city gate—"

Li leaned against the door and waited for a long time before seeing Ren Zhi come back, he had put on new armor all over his body, he looked a lot more heroic, he was no longer like the downcast and seriously injured man in the pile of dead people that day, he couldn't help but also beamed with joy.Ren Zhi met her face to face, and she breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Didn't you say that you went to see General Dou to receive the reward? Why did you go for so long, and just now many military masters came to the house to take a closer look?" I questioned you several times about your background, and I was so scared that my heart was pounding." Renzhi didn't expect Dou Chong to act so cautiously, he sent him away while interrogating Mrs. Li, but this woman couldn't bear to be scared and said I'm afraid he won't come back.But he still asked calmly and casually: "Oh? What did you say?"

"What else can I say? Are you telling them that you are from Xianbei?!" Li Shi gave him a blank look, then lowered her head again, "Don't look stupid, I know what to say and what not to say—just say it Those Xianbei people... I don't think everyone is a monster who eats people~" The words became softer as they went on, and finally became almost twitchy, but when he finished speaking, he raised his eyes and saw that there was nothing in front of him. There was a figure, but it turned out that before she could finish speaking, Ren Zhi had already stepped into the room. When he saw Li's little daughter staggering towards him, he bent down and picked her up, and threw it in his arms. The girl was only three years old. At the age of five, she was the least shy of strangers, so she was amused and giggled. Ren Zhi deliberately rubbed her chin against her black and yellow shrunken cheeks from starvation. Qi greeted her, and Li Shi came over embarrassingly: "Nannan, don't break the rules! Come here soon!"

The little girl continued to lie in Renzhi's arms and refused to obey, she said in a childish voice, "Uncle is prettier than mother, I don't want to come here!"

Li's face turned green, and Ren Zhi hurriedly put her down on the ground: "Good girl, don't run around, it's dangerous outside." The girl was born in troubled times, and she had never lived a peaceful life. Ai Huo refused to let her go easily, and kept begging Ren's relatives to help her comb her hair.

Renzhi had no choice but to comb her fingers clumsily, but her hair was sparse and stretched due to long-term malnutrition, and she couldn't comb it into a straight hair. The next piece of uneven dry hair came.The girl burst into tears immediately, but Ren Zhi scratched her ears and scratched her cheeks to stop her, so she coaxed anxiously: "Uncle will make you a wooden comb, use it to comb your hair, and it will soon grow black."

At first Nannan wanted to make trouble again, but when she saw that Renzhi really went to the stove to find a piece of half-decayed firewood, took out a handy dagger, and carved out the prototype with two or three strokes, she instantly became happy and squatted beside him for a closer look. After all, Ren Zhi is a big man, a wooden comb was carved by him into three to five parts with crooked or crooked teeth, the little girl didn't dislike it, and grabbed it into her arms fondly. She couldn't remember the last time she used a comb to comb her hair. , her mother said that they were not poor in the past, at least they had rice and noodles to eat every day, and they didn’t have to worry about being kidnapped and cooked when they went out. Well, those who are not poor must be able to use combs!Looking up, he saw that the dagger in Renzhi's hand was inlaid with pearls and jade, which was very gorgeous, and he said, "I want this one too!"

Renzhi was stunned, and stroked the little girl's furry head: "I can't give you this, it's something very important to uncle, even if you don't want to die, you have to keep it." She pursed her lips and said, "Then you have to carve me another bronze mirror! And wooden clogs! I want colorful lacquer paintings. My mother said that young ladies wear them, so they don't run around barefoot like me."

Renzhi couldn't laugh or cry, so he had no choice but to agree.

Mrs. Li was watching with a smile at first, but at the end she felt ashamed for no reason, and burst into tears. The well-off life she once had, a prosperous family and family happiness have been trampled by the flames of war, and now this scene , she wanted it even in her dreams, but she was afraid that it would be nothing more than a ridiculous extravagance.

Ren Zhi caught sight of Li Shi wiping his face with his sleeves up, but he could only turn his head away, pretending not to know.

Note 1: The word “two-legged sheep” appeared since the Eight Kings’ Rebellion at the end of the Western Jin Dynasty. In Wuhu, Shihu of the Jie tribe first established the post-Zhao regime. According to historical records, he marched and fought without preparing food and grass. It is called "two-legged sheep".Another theory is that it only appeared when the Jin Dynasty destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty and the Jingkang period.