Qingzhou trip

On the ninth day when Li Jixin encircled the sand sea, the Beixia army, which had been unable to gain an inch of land for several days, had many small mutinies.There were more than a thousand people who threw away their helmets and armor for silver, and dozens of people took the risk to take Li Jixin's head.The rest of the people are terrified day and night, because there are wolves in front and tigers in back, no matter Baosheng army, Zhenrong army or Deshun army are all sharp with their knives, "waiting to pay back the money with their heads" - this is their army. According to the folklore, there is a man who spends money sitting in Shahai City, and since he wants to buy Li Jixin's head, the heads of his subordinates are also valuable.

Zhao Yifang didn't expect this. When the rumors spread to her ears, she woke up like a dream, "When it comes to business, the people from Beixia are not bad." And the five hundred riders she directly led went out of the city a few times, rustling and flying in the snow. , the iron horse neighed at Ye Qiang, so strong that Xie Penglai and Li Mo dared not speak out.

When the birds and beasts scattered around the city and the tooth flag was chopped off, Zhao Yifang stopped chasing it, and let Ren Wu and the others go and get it.

Xie Penglai checked the remaining food and grass in the city, and he needed thousands of mouths at once, and how to arrange for the reinforcements to have food and lodging in the city was imminent.So when Lu Jinhua and the others were fighting outside the city, Xie Penglai had arranged for the racetrack and the military camp in the city in advance.

On November [-]th, Li Jixin finally abandoned his troops and fled to Manguan.The north gate of Shahai, which had been closed for more than ten days and was already scarred, was officially opened. Wine, meat and cooked food were already prepared. Zhao Yifang waited in person at the gate to welcome the two reinforcements who had never met before.

To avoid suspicion, the Deshun Army only sent people to thank them and then withdrew. He Sansheng followed Lu Jinhua into the city in high spirits.Under the banners of Zhenrong Army and Baosheng Army, he saw a smiling but imposing woman standing in front of the door. He was startled for a moment before realizing that Lu Jinhua got off his horse first.He Sansheng also hurriedly dismounted and followed Lu Jinhua forward, his sobriety when fighting and killing the enemy was replaced by dizziness, and when he met with the chief officer standing at the front of the team, he heard Xie Penglai's introduction, "This is His Royal Highness King Jin."

Lu Jinhua clasped her fists, "Lu Jinhua, Bai Zhi's deputy general." She always disliked people from Beijing.During those years with Bai Zhi, people who came here were either forced to make peace or forced to marry, or to pick and choose to poke Bao Shengjun's backbone.The young woman in front of her looked about the same age as Yun Bailu, wearing armor with a sword on her waist, looking at her with a pair of almond eyes, "General Lu, nice to meet you."

She is obviously a spoiled dandy of the Zhao family in Jiamaying, but Zhao Yifang has neither the arrogance of a royal family nor the arrogance of a civil servant. , cut off the enemy’s rear, and disturbed the enemy. Without General Lu’s courage, Sha Hai’s tens of thousands of lives would have been lost.” Her tone was earnest, and Lu Jinhua took the wine and drank it all, “Should Sha Hai , Quebei invaders are the responsibility of the Baosheng Army."

This King Jin was also heroic, he raised his head and gulped it down, then turned around and asked Lu Jinhua to enter the city, but the latter was taken aback when he saw her face sideways, "This... Your Highness led troops to attack the enemy's east side with our army the day before yesterday ?”

When the two armies had a tacit understanding, their respective generals just glanced at each other from a distance immediately.Lu Jinhua only remembered that it was a female general, and thought that there are such desperate women in Shahai City, and finally remembered after seeing Zhao Yifang again.

Zhao Yifang smiled, "It's my king. Seeing that the enemy's east side is in danger, I want to take someone to add more firewood."

When the two of them gradually fell in love with each other, Xie Penglai couldn't get in the way for a while, so he secretly looked carefully at Lu Jinfang for any injuries, and then took a look at King Jin who didn't seem to feel any sourness at all.

Although Lu Jinhua looked bad, there was no obvious injury on her body.Feeling relieved, she had no choice but to pick up the bowl in her hand and take a sip to cover up her embarrassment. Before she could swallow it, she heard a soft "Thank you teacher" in front of her.

Looking up, I saw Yun Bailu leaning palely in front of Li Suyue. Although the wounds on her back had been treated with wound medicine, she hadn't recovered from the constant running around in the melee for the past few days and the cold weather.

"I'll send her to the clinic." Li Suyue said to Xie Penglai, and when Zhao Yifang heard her, she immediately stopped her, "Go to my house to find a doctor."

After sending Yun Bailu away, Zhao Yifang asked Xie Penglai again, "I will thank you for the arrangement of the reinforcements." With a warm expression on her face, she personally handed over Lu Jinhua's reins to her subordinates, "The general will follow me into the house."

Lu Jinhua was stunned, and was about to refuse, but his wrist was caught by King Jin Suzhi, "My mansion is the former Yun Mansion, or in other words, the former Bai Mansion, the general must be familiar with it. The tablet of the Bai family has not been removed, a hero who deserves the homage of future generations."

Lu Jinhua breathed a sigh of relief, "Alright." She walked side by side with King Jin, and suddenly turned to look at Xie Penglai, "Ah Xie, when are you busy?"

Zhao Yifang's clear eyes flickered, she raised her lips and looked at Xie Penglai, "Master Xie, please go to the mansion to sit with General Lu after you are done with work." Her teacher Xie's expression was like that of Liu Erniang's house in Stone Lane The ring cakes sold will turn green if they are baked a little longer.

Zhao Yifang could see clearly what Xie Penglai was worried about.

If Xie Penglai felt distressed like a sister when she looked at Yun Bailu, the first glance she looked at Lu Jinhua was full of complex colors: there was some forbearance, there was some worry, and there was still some needless to say about Daoming's expectation hope.

The person she can't forget in her heart is clearly in front of her eyes.If it is said that the joy of a day or two can be hidden on the face, but the love that has been planted for ten years has already taken root in the eyes.It penetrates into the internal organs, blood and flesh, and naturally creates a new shape and spirit.

Xie Penglai sighed silently, Zhao Yifang seemed to hear it.She stopped and walked in front of Xie Penglai, and looked at her helplessly, "Master Xie, I won't do things on my behalf, don't worry." The constant cutting or messing up is Xie Penglai's own business.

Xie Penglai smiled reluctantly, "Thank you, Your Highness." She still had to preside over the changing of defense and the reception, and was busy as soon as she paid her respects to the person in front of her.

Accompanying Lu Jinhua to pay homage to the Bai Family Ancestral Hall, the two naturally went to visit Yun Bailu together.She dismissed Xie Penglai, and wanted to spend a while with Lu Jinhua.Ask her about the plan of this Baosheng army, learn about her past with Xie Penglai, or observe this battle-tested Shahai female general up close.

Lu Jinhua is a Hu-Han hybrid, half a head taller than himself.The bridge of the nose is also higher than his own.He spoke calmly, but crisply.That day, she immediately had a glimpse, and a strange intuition suddenly arose in her heart: Could it be this person?

After the conjecture was confirmed, Zhao Yifang applauded Xie Penglai's vision: Yingjie should be like a flower.Based on her observations both openly and secretly in the sea of ​​sand, almost no one is worthy of thanking the teacher.

But this love is too long.Zhao Yifang pursed her lips slightly, but said enthusiastically, "How about General Lu staying at my house these days?"

Lu Jinhua smiled and refused, "Thank you, Your Highness. I'm used to wandering around, so I'd better go back to apprentice Yueniang's house." She slowed down and looked at Baizhi's house, which she was very familiar with.It has hardly changed here, the left side is the small garden where Bai Zhi taught her stick skills.Lu Jinhua leaned on the railing and looked at it for a while, then raised his head and said to King Jin, "Can your Highness allow Lu to sit here for a while longer?"

His highness, whose eyes were drizzling when facing Xie Penglai, seemed to have something to say to him, so Lu Jinhua took a chance to wait for her to speak.

Zhao Yifang asked her to sit down, and she sat on the other side of the railing. The two looked at each other, and this was the real sizing up of each other.

"This king... would like to ask General Lu to lead his troops away from the sandy sea tomorrow." Zhao Yifang finally spoke up, "It would be a shame to say that, but General Lu is frank, and this king is not willing to pretend to be courteous."

Lu Jinhua had a smile in his eyes, as if he had guessed what she said, "Lu also wants to ask, if Jingli's order comes, what will His Highness plan?"

Zhao Yifang took a deep breath, and suddenly stood up and bowed to Lu Jinhua, "Zhao Yifang is determined to attack the Northwest, but at the moment the soldiers are weak, and they still have to deal with the capital. However, the danger of the border village has not been lifted, and the general needs to recruit troops to guard it." .”

"What kind of strategy?" Lu Jinhua leaned on the railing with one arm, but stood up unceremoniously to support King Jin.

"Suppress officials, reform the constitution, drive out thieves, and protect the people's livelihood." Zhao Yifang saw a sneer on Lu Jinhua's lips.

"Is this what A Xie wants to do?" Lu Jinhua heard too many such big words, but after doing something vigorously, she was still rotten.She would rather go back to the village to be a bandit than sacrifice her life for anyone else.

"More than that." Zhao Yifang lowered her voice, and suddenly felt that such words were too useless, so she raised her voice again, "I would like to use this place as the foundation to create a new world and find a clean way out for the women of the world."

"How clean?" Lu Jinhua still smiled.

"Women are mostly officials, and most of them are patriarchs. Their merits are not usurped, their flesh and blood are not controlled by others, their minds are not taken away by others, their names are written in history, they can marry as they like, and they can have children by themselves. Live for yourself." Zhao Yifang worshiped again, "General Lu, this is an extremely dangerous and narrow road, and it is also a road doomed to death if you fail. Zhao Yifang asks the general to think twice before proceeding."

Lu Jinhua patted the railing lightly, then looked back at the small garden where she used to practice sticks, "Forget it," she finally got up to help Zhao Yifang, and bowed down with fists herself, "There are still too few women in the world who are willing to take dangerous paths. That would cost a lot of money."