Cang Ri Qing Lan

It was night, the moon was covered by dark clouds, and the south wind outside the window was blowing more and more urgently, passing over the eaves violently, and the sound of the wind was like the cry of gods and ghosts.

Qing Ling walked to Cang Lan's door, knocked on the door, hesitated for a moment, opened the door and entered.The light in the room was dim, and a figure could be vaguely seen trapped in the quilt on the spacious bed.Actually fell asleep... A helpless smile floated on Qingling's face.

"My lord, all the generals are waiting for you at the top of the city..." Qingling walked to the head of the bed, his voice, which was not considered loud at all, fell silent halfway through, the familiar sleeping face imprinted in his eyes, suddenly there was a sense of disobedience that he hadn't seen for a long time .Silently staring at the side face that looked much younger than in the daytime, strands of hair lingering over the eyelids and hanging down the side of the face, quiet and white as if lifeless.Qing Ling frowned, and reached out to stroke the silver thread away. With the warm touch, the entanglement in her heart gradually eased, as if her hand was wrapped by the warmth, and she was dazed by this posture.After a long while, he moved his fingers lightly, carefully stroking the contours under his palm, from the eyebrows to the corners of the eyes, to the cheeks and then to the lips... little by little, as if being pulled by an invisible gear, he leaned closer and closer to the sleeping person. close……

"Your Highness, the hour of Hai has arrived."

Qingling was startled, and turned around abruptly, Xing Ye arrived at the door at some point, and the silhouette was reflected on the door lattice by the flickering lights, as if it really turned into a shadow.

"Your Highness, the hour of Hai has arrived." As if he didn't see the scene just now, Xing Ye raised his voice, Cang Lan finally moved, and his voice was slightly hoarse:

"I see……"

Staring at Xing Ye who didn't respond for a while, the blood surging up from Qingling gradually recovered:

"My lord, do you want someone to make you a pot of tea?"

"No need." Seemingly getting used to the frequent headaches after waking up, Cang Lan sat up with her forehead supported, and her unique temperament was also revived.Qingling found that his face with a smile on his lips could look so much mature.

"Let's go, go and see how the Hui army's siege preparations are going." Originally sleeping in her clothes, Cang Lan got up after sitting for a while and left. Seeing this, Qing Ling hurriedly said:

"You... my lord, you will catch a cold if you go out like this."

Cang Lan had already walked out the door, turned her head when she heard the words, silently watched Qing Ling sort out the clothes in the closet, her silver eyes were flickering.

He woke up before Qingling entered the door, but the low blood pressure almost prevented him from waking up during the action that can be called cherished.The feeling of hands cruising on her face is still clear at this moment, Cang Lan's mind is full of thoughts, but the moment Qing Ling looks over, she calms down again.Still smiling calmly, he took the cloak and wrapped it up.

Stepping up to the city tower, not far away, Nanhui's army camp was submerged in the windy autumn night, with only a few lights flickering on and off. Under the weak light, it seemed like a herd of beasts crawling in the desert to choose people and devour them.

Dozens of huge pots have been set up here, and the golden juice is churning out bursts of stench in the pot. Arrows, stones and logs are piled up in an orderly manner.The city was also very quiet, only the sound of howling wind and the sound of boiling oil and water in a cauldron.

"My lord! Everything about defending the city has been prepared, what should we do now?" He Jingwang saw Cang Lan, heaved a sigh of relief, and came up to him.

"Wait." Cang Lan didn't even look at the group of generals who looked nervous, and said in the tone of waiting for the show to start.

After about two quarters, the strong wind stopped suddenly, and Cang Lan said:

"coming."

He Jing moved his mouth before speaking, there seemed to be a faint sound coming from the enemy camp, the sound became louder and louder, from far to near, and after a while, it rolled like thunder, and a black cloud pressed down to the city. The formation is dense, and even the darkness behind the formation looks endless.

If they hadn't known about the battle in advance, the sudden formation alone would have been enough to make the soldiers guarding the city flustered. Even so, many people felt guilty when they saw it.

As soon as the dense crowd of people arrived at the city, suddenly the gust of wind picked up again, several times stronger than before, lifting the yellow sand and pushing against the tall city wall. Not moving at all.While the sound of hoofbeats from behind was still coming, I saw the soldiers under the city lighting up the torches, and countless bright lights suddenly rose, riding the wind and rushing towards them.

"I actually saw the Kongming Lantern here..." At this moment, everyone admired Cang Lan's anticipation of the enemy's initiative. Just about to ask him what a Kongming Lantern is, the enemy's golden drum was thundering, and the attack had already begun.None of the soldiers dared to launch ballista attacks without his order, but their calves had already started to tremble, and they saw Cang Lan staring at the enemy's boxcar covered with raw cowhide, almost fascinated, although Hui's army was mighty, but The people who came to the city didn't swarm up, and they were even very careful. They didn't use columbine wagons, but they used boxcars with stronger defenses. Why?Cang Lan's eyes flashed with great interest:

"Archers obey orders! Shoot them all before Fudeng approaches the city! Don't let any one go!"

"My lord, everything is ready in the city, why not concentrate on dealing with the enemy army under the city?" Although the generals had one idea, He Jing questioned it.

"What does it mean to be fully prepared? The battlefield changes rapidly, how can the enemy act according to your arrangement?"

Before the words were finished, a soldier obeyed his orders and shot down a lamp. The falling flame suddenly became incandescent and exploded in mid-air. With a loud noise, the air wave emptied out, shaking the towers on the left and right. Things rustled.

"Huo Tianlei!" Everyone exclaimed, all of them turning pale.This Huo Tianlei has existed for a long time, but it cannot be attacked from a distance. This kind of usage is really unheard of.

"Throw the log!" Cang Lan's calm voice made the generals feel relieved. I saw him standing firmly on the most conspicuous place on the top of the city, dispatching and commanding calmly, without any anxiety of being caught off guard. Lend me a longbow?"

Immediately, the nearby soldiers held up their bows, Cang Lan pulled up her sleeves and led the bow, and after a false shot, she shot again and again. Although all the targets were very close, the soldiers under her immediately increased their confidence. , Only the sound of explosions could be heard one after another, and many lights in the sky had been extinguished.

The logs that rumbled down flew along the slope and slammed into the boxcar, twisting up pieces of broken wood and crushing them all the way down, screaming endlessly as they passed.

The soldiers on the city became more and more courageous as they fought, and the arrow net in the air has not yet released a lamp to float over the city tower.

Cang Lan was about to withdraw her bow, when a ray of cold light suddenly shot from the dark and chaotic battlefield in front of the city, it was impossible to guard against!

Qing Ling looked at Cang Lan with all his attention, seeing this sudden change, his blood almost froze.At this moment, a black shadow emerged from Cang Lan's shadow, leaning forward.Before everyone exclaimed in surprise, they heard two consecutive sounds that almost became a single sound. The green light in front of them reflected the lights on the top of the building, and the cold sword light was flowing with golden lights.The man in black stood up straight, and everyone saw that it was Xing Ye. Then they remembered that this sword had beheaded countless heads. This man has never returned without success!

Xing Ye drew his sword and slashed and slashed. The two arrows missed their aim, and one arrow was nailed into the ground. The other arrow actually drew blood grooves on the face of a general behind him, and flew away in the night. It was the general in blue again during the day. The strong arrow!

Thinking that there was also a threat on the safe high wall, Cang Lan swept across the terrified crowd, twitched the corner of her mouth, and shot again without moving her foot.Several loud bangs exploded, mixed with the airflow rolled up by the strong wind, Cang Lan stood in the middle of the cyclone, calm and calm, as if the wind and waves were summoned by him.All I saw was that everyone was in a daze, and the sound of shouting and killing in the city seemed to be much quieter.

Xing Ye retracted his sword and stood by Cang Lan's side, staring at the enemy army below the city without any slack, only to see the general in blue shoot another arrow, but this arrow was shot at a floating lamp near the city, and the lamp emitted a dazzling light. The fire fell to the top of the city, and it exploded with a bang. The earth and rocks flew down from the city wall, creating a hole more than three feet deep.The men and horses hiding under the boxcar near the corner of the city waited for the signal, and one after another stretched out their arrows and crossbows to aim at the approaching lights on the top of the city. In an instant, there were continuous explosions from the top of the city, and the entire city wall shook under the impact.

"Don't stand there in a daze! Shoot the lamp down for me! Are you condescending than the bows and arrows with crossbow stones under the city?" The cold shout was very clear on the battlefield where the sound of killing was loud, and the soldiers should have said yes, Cang Lan turned around and bowed again,

"My lord, let me do it." Every time Cang Lan shot an arrow, Qing Ling felt tense, and finally couldn't help but stepped forward and took the bow and arrow from Cang Lan's hand.He is obviously injured, since when did he, a pampered prince, not take care of his body so much.

"you……"

Cang Lan was slightly stunned, seeing that Qingling's misses were sure to hit, but he was very accurate, "I didn't know you knew how to use archery?"

"...I don't know when the lord will be able to hit every shot..." Qingling's expression was slightly astringent, but his hands didn't stop. Cang Lan smiled and wanted to pass it on with a sentence, but He Jing couldn't bear it anymore and interjected:

"My lord! Is it time to send a signal for the general to come to help?"

The lights are still falling, blowing up the hard city wall, and blowing over the huge pot at the top of the city from time to time. The kerosene in the pot is ignited, and a raging flame is strung together. come up.

"It's not yet time. The main team of the Hui Army is still ready to fight in the wilderness. If you call the general over now, all previous efforts will be wasted." Cang Lan didn't see any panic: "Don't stop the rolling log, pour the golden juice!" Boiling The kerosene poured from the top of the city, transported to Mars, immediately wrapped in flames, and poured on the soldiers of the Hui Army, casting a suit of armor red, sticking to the skin until it burned to the internal organs, and rolled down the ladder with heart-piercing screams , fell into the red flames and blood below the city.The explosion at the top of the city continued, but the enemy soldiers were unable to kill them.After a moment of stalemate, the blue-clothed general raised his bow and fired consecutively, and all the lights fell on the same place. A gap was abruptly collapsed in the tall and thick city wall. rushed up.

"...My lord...don't...don't send any more signals..." Watching the enemy troops rushing towards the gap, before He Jing could speak, a group of generals who said less and made less mistakes were so anxious that they could hardly speak clearly.

"Not yet." Cang Lan smiled easily: "Generals, now is the time for you to show your strengths and take the lead. You each occupy a section of the city wall and go forward to resist the enemy. If anyone retreats or lets the Hui army break through I'll ask Master Ye to execute the law with a magic arrow, and execute him on the spot!" He took off the cloak and put it on Qingling's shoulders: "I'll leave it to you here.... General He, follow me to the gap in the city wall."

"My lord!" Qingling was shocked and grabbed Canglan.

"Don't worry, people like me have always lived a long life." Qingling couldn't say anything to the smile on that handsome face: "What's more, if the Hui army invades, who else can survive here?"

The last sentence was naturally addressed to the frightened general.Everyone trembled, who would dare to object?

Watching the generals disperse worriedly, Qingling suddenly found that Xing Ye was still by his side, and couldn't help being anxious and startled: "Xing guard?! Why didn't you keep up with the prince?!"

"..." Xing Ye pursed his lips and clenched his fists, but he didn't speak. He started to follow, but was stopped by Cang Lan's eyes. It was obvious that he wanted him to stay and protect Qingling.

"It's your responsibility to protect the prince's safety, hurry up!" Qing Ling frowned, but Xing Ye suddenly raised his head, the anger and anxiety in his eyes made his pupils flicker like leopards, and he held back for a moment Go down and observe the movement under the city sideways:

"It was the prince who asked me to stay here."

Looking at the tense back, Qingling suddenly caught something, his eyes sank and he didn't speak any more, he looked at the gap in the city wall, there were piles of broken stones, crowds of people, and the enemy troops behind him were still surrounding them.

The soldiers guarding the gap gathered together with shields in their hands, blocking several layers inside and outside, barely holding Hui's army out of the city, but while the enemy's corpses were piling up, the comrades in front kept falling, and part of the defense line was breached. It was getting thinner and thinner, and after a while, a bloody path had been washed away. The soldiers holding shields were shocked, and they were about to collapse...Suddenly, one man and one rider, galloped up, and the silver spears were like snow. Recognizing that it was the commander who was commanding at the top of the city just now, his morale was boosted immediately, he let out a chorus, rushed forward with all his strength, and pushed the enemy back.At the same time, He Jingye had arrived, and he picked up a shield to force him up.

"General He, listen to my order and let them in." Cang Lan ordered some of the soldiers crowded behind to retreat, He Jing immediately understood, and cooperated with him to put in some enemy troops, and the prepared soldiers immediately followed Cang Lan. As soon as Lan rushed forward, after several times of trapping and killing, Hui Jun suddenly felt timid, while Jun Jun saw Cang Lan swinging his arm freely and with ease, he felt like a god's mansion behind him, and the lines of the shield pushed out a lot.

After a few moments of stalemate like this, almost all the flying lights have been shot out. The inside and outside of Xiaocheng city walls are full of gunpowder smoke. The soldiers are waiting to catch their breath. Come.

"My lord, it seems that the entire enemy army has been dispatched!"

"It's time!" A gleam flashed in Cang Lan's eyes: "Now is the most difficult time."

"General! The enemy is about to climb the wall!"

Ignoring the burning report from his subordinates, Shen Haozhe Lema stared at the fireworks all over the sky in Xiaocheng and did not move. He did not move, and the tens of thousands of soldiers lined up neatly behind him were also silent, silent in the darkness.It's just that no one noticed that his hand on the handle of the knife trembled slightly due to the force.From the siege to the present, he almost ordered the whole army to go up to the rescue several times. The appearance of Huo Tianlei should have broken his own deployment, but for some reason, he was able to suppress the anxiety in his heart, and waited for the one who had never received Although he was worried about the signal from Prince Yi, he could trust his judgment from the bottom of his heart.

The subordinate wanted to speak, but suddenly saw Shen Haozhe's face change, and the fireworks sent not far away shrieked into the sky above Xiaocheng, which could be seen dozens of miles away.

The dark light in mid-air illuminated the battlefield in an instant. Looking from the top of the city tower, the enemy army below the city was like a wave, and the wave was bigger and bigger. With the surging crowd, the huge columbine cart was pushed up the ramp again, stabilizing the big tree. The rushing car was also carried on the waves and hit the city gate, making a loud noise like a death knell.

When Hui Jun saw the rescue signal, he intensified his efforts and wanted to attack the city before the reinforcements arrived.

The red flag at the end of the team also began to move. The general in blue moved slowly with a fiery shadow riding while pulling his bow and firing arrows. Wherever he went, the surrounding Hui army immediately boiled up, rushing forward with a strong wind. The momentum of no return seemed that the man was a mass of lotus-red flames that would burn rapidly when touched by thousands of troops.Anyone with a little bit of eyes can see that this extraordinary spirit must be the coach's appearance.

The generals here really wanted to abandon the city and flee, but Cang Lan ordered them to die. In order to survive, they had no choice but to stand on the top of the city and resist desperately.

Up and down Xiaocheng, burning fire and bathing in blood, wherever densely packed arrows and stones touch, there are always casualties. Hui Jun rushed to the top of the city several times and was pushed back.The chariots under the city were drenched with golden juice and burst into flames. The soldiers on both sides screamed and rolled away. The flames were not extinguished, and the people behind pushed the chariots and smashed the city gate again. This was repeated and the most intense But the struggle is at the gap in the city wall.

Qingling looked over from the tower, the soldiers from both sides were huddled together, they couldn't tell the difference between enemy and friend, even dead and alive.

Cang Lan stood behind the line of defense with a gun, the top and bottom of her white clothes were already stained with blood, and the white tassel on the tip of the gun turned red. Whenever the enemy soldiers who intruded came to the front, none of them could make any further progress.However, the number of enemy troops is too large, and the number of defensive soldiers is gradually decreasing. After a while, they cannot form a shield formation and are rushed into by the enemy in large numbers.Cang Lan suddenly fell into a tight siege, picked up the few people in front of her, and was about to fill the gap, a man without armor even raised a heavy shield and spear to block Cang Lan's body and went up.

The vigorous and powerful back blocked the crowd completely, and the thick shield took root in his hands, like a dam in the current, stably stopping the enemy's erosion.After a solid defense, the spear strikes out neatly, almost every time he makes a shot, he must hit the opponent's vital point, and he has the spirit of being invincible.However, this brave man does not seem to be a soldier in the army, his neck and forehead are still wrapped in gauze, and it seems that his injuries have not healed. Cang Lan concentrated for a moment, and suddenly remembered a person:

"...Yiyan?"

The man trembled and turned his head. Under the slightly curly brown hair, his eyes were as blue as the deep sea, and his emotions flowed out.

"Look ahead!" Cang Lan threw out the long spear in her hand, knocked down an enemy soldier who was trying to sneak attack, picked up a suitable sword and shield and pressed forward.With these two people joining the shield wall formed by the Jun army, the pressure was greatly reduced and the formation was stabilized.While quickly knocking down the enemies in front of him to minimize the impact of power, he said to Yi Yan who was fighting side by side: "Why are you here?"

Yi Yan tried his best to help Cang Lan block the squeeze of the enemy soldiers, his sharp-edged face looked a bit cramped: "... Hearing the sound... Come over to the city wall... I found you... Dangerous..."

The enemy rushed forward one after another like a collapsing mountain, the shining swords were flying in front of his eyes, and Cang Lan was a little tired in the center of the impact.After some beheadings, the pressure was relieved a little, and he held the shield with some difficulty, finally took the time to look at Yi Yan: "Is your injury healed enough to go to the battlefield?"

"...it doesn't matter..." the vague words gave Cang Lan the illusion of talking to a child, but her unflinching figure could tell the master's determination: "... yes."

"Okay!" Cang Lan laughed, and killed a few more people and moved forward, leaning against Yi Yan, protecting each other's sides.

The shouts on the battlefield and the sound of the wind disappeared from his ears, and the splashed blood criss-crossed on the skirt of his clothes and seemed to seep into his body, causing him to feel hot for a while.Yan Yan's turbulent mood and increasingly firm determination almost overflowed into the spear, the enemy's attack became more and more fierce, and the surrounding enemies seemed to be unable to finish killing—even if they really couldn't finish killing, it didn't matter , since leaving Luhai, no one has ever allowed themselves to stand beside each other like this, let alone entrust their lives to each other on an equal footing!

What Yiyan felt was fleeting, but in the eyes of others, it seemed as long as a century.

"My lord! The generals are here!" He Jing, who was covered in blood, cheered in the crowd, and the horn of the Jun army's charge finally sounded, and Nanhui's army panicked. , will soon fail.The soldiers guarding the city took advantage of the situation and killed them back.

"Yiyan! Take the rest of the soldiers and guard here!" Cang Lan withdrew from the sea of ​​blood and corpses, and most of the white figure turned red: "He Jing! You can save the soldiers who can fire the ballista except for the soldiers who fired the ballista. Pick out the ones who rushed to kill me!"

The body temperature on the shoulder dissipated, Yi Yan watched Cang Lan take a few steps from the nearby stairs to the city wall in a daze, until she couldn't see her anymore.

Seen from above, Hui's army began to retreat, the crossbow stones on the city wall were chasing the rout army, not far away Shen Haozhe's men and horses trampled over, tens of thousands of enemy troops huddled together in the middle, the sound of charging drums, The sound of killing, neighing and screaming of dying horses, and the sound of slave cannon bombardment were mixed in the battlefield.There are mutilated corpses everywhere, blood flowing everywhere, the city has become a killing field for Shura, and the boulder can almost splash blood!

At this point, the defeat of Hui's army was decided, and suddenly the enemy's commander-in-chief's flag was unfurled, and a few horns blew, and the panicked soldiers nearby reorganized their formation, gathered around and charged back.In the light of the fire, a group of red shadows could be seen in the lead, burning a path in the iron barrel-like encirclement, and the vanguard had gradually left the range of Jianshi on the city.

"It's Helian Yuya!" He Jing, who had just assembled the soldiers, came up to see this scene.

"How many people can fight?" Cang Lan asked without turning her head.

"About two thousand, the team has been completed." He Jing replied, and suddenly said happily:

"The great general is here!" Helian Yuya's momentum leading the troops to break through the encirclement suddenly stopped, and a black-armored general, Heng Dao, blocked the front. At the place where the horses met, the soldiers of both sides surrounded them again and fought together.At the moment of stalemate, the blue-clothed general who had been drawing his bow to the top of the city to relieve the arrow stone joined the battle group, and drove Shen Haozhe back more than ten feet with his arrows. Helian Yuya immediately rushed out of the encirclement of the army like a broken bamboo.

Shen Haozhe didn't command his troops to pursue, instead he waited for the surging tide to rush out before cutting him off.According to what Cang Lan said beforehand, if the commander-in-chief cannot be taken down, he will be let go, so as to eliminate the possibility of a huge enemy army dying to fight back.

Seeing the red flag circling outside the encirclement for a while, unable to return to the sky, and finally going away, Cang Lan ordered: "Stop the boulder throwing crossbow, and 2000 troops will follow me to fight!" After thinking for a while, he said: "Call Yiyan. "

He Jing was startled, remembering that Cang Lan seemed to have called the blue-eyed man by the name, hesitated for a moment, and took the order.

At this time, Hui's army had no one to give orders, the elite of the army had just left with the commander, and they were already like headless chickens. Being pinched from front to back, it was even more chaotic.Tens of thousands of enemy soldiers were running back and forth on the slope, becoming more and more frightened, but they could not arouse their desperate heart.This repeated killing until dawn, the gunpowder smoke on the battlefield had long since dissipated, and the slope in front of the city was littered with corpses, and the remaining soldiers had no energy to fight anymore, and surrendered one after another.

In the battle of Xiaocheng, Cang Lan won more with fewer soldiers, lost less than [-] soldiers, killed more than [-] enemy troops, and defeated Helian Yuya, the right minister of Nanhui who was good at fighting, and became famous in the first battle.