Dragon Fate of Shan Hai Ji

The Empress Dowager was listening to music and admiring flowers in the Xiajing Pavilion, when she approached the Liang Pavilion, she smelled a refreshing fragrance.She was standing outside the pavilion, and the maid came inside to report for her. When she opened the bead curtain, the fragrance was even stronger. Tantai Rongyue took a closer look. It is about the spices that have been left on the shelf, so it can be so fragrant.

The Queen Mother treated her very kindly, and specially asked her to sit aside, eat rice dumplings and listen to the piano together.

After the qin music, a group of eunuchs dressed in colorful mottled clothes came up, deliberately pretending to be strange, juggling and fighting.

A maid quietly came to the Queen Mother's side and reported: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has already entered the palace. He sent someone to pay his respects to the Queen Mother. He said that he has to go to the Queen Mother first if he has something to do, and he will come later. I hope the Queen Mother is not surprised."

When Tantai Rongyue heard the word Prince, her heart skipped a beat, but she could only keep her expression on her face, pretending she didn't hear it.

The queen mother wondered: "What does the prince need to go to the concubine?"

The maid quietly glanced at Tantai Rongyue.

Tantai Rongyue got up, only said that she was going to wash her hands, and retreated to avoid it. When she walked out of the Liangge, she heard the maid from just now whispering to the Queen Mother: "His Royal Highness brought a girl into the palace, which is Chuling County of Zhenxi Prince's Mansion. My lord, but due to the changes in the West County, the whole family of the princess suffered misfortune, the prince was afraid of being taboo, so he sent it to the concubine first, not daring to disturb the queen mother."

Tantai Rongyue was shocked again, Princess Chu Ling actually entered the palace, I don't know if her injury has recovered, and why she was sent into the palace suddenly, I wonder if she will be able to see her in the palace for a few days .

In the Liangge, the Queen Mother was also very surprised: "The Ai family heard that this girl was placed in the National Teacher's Mansion, why did the prince send her into the palace? The prince sent her to the palace, and the etiquette is also somewhat inconsistent."

The maid replied that she did not know.The queen mother was silent.

After Tantai Rongyue cleaned her hands, she returned to the banquet. Not long after she sat down, there was a report saying that the crown prince had arrived.Tantai Rongyue got up again and retreated, the queen mother smiled and said: "No need, the prince is only one or two years older than you, and he has not reached the crown yet, he is still a child, so there is no need to be so polite."

Tantai Rongyue had no choice but to sit back again, after a while, the bead curtain opened a person wearing a light golden gown to enter, and saluted the Empress Dowager.

Tantai Rongyue quietly glanced at the prince, only thought that he was handsome, but his brows and eyes were a bit sharp, and he didn't look very kind.

The prince had already seen Tantai Rongyue beside the queen mother, and guessed her identity, but he just didn't know it, and glanced at it intentionally or unintentionally when he was seated.But seeing that Tantai Rongyue's appearance is gentle and elegant, and his manner is dignified, it is quite different from what he imagined, she really looks like a lady in a deep boudoir.

He thought to himself, either this woman is too good at disguising, or she is indeed inconsistent with Princess Chu Ling's words.

Although she is beautiful, she is still not as good as that bright figure in red clothes wielding a long whip, because those bright eyes and sweet smile are unparalleled in the world.

At noon on the fifth day of May, Fengtong went to Wutong Lane to greet Feng Jun.

The little boy who came out to greet him said, God Lord Shang Xuan is here and is playing chess with him, let him wait for a while.Feng Tong stood on the porch, Huang Ling turned out from the corner, and happily ran towards him: "Brother Feng Tong."

Feng Tong smiled and said: "Going out for a long trip, did you have fun? The big event in West County happened to catch up with you, and you saw a lot of excitement, right?"

Huangling curled her lips: "Don't mention it anymore, I'll get angry if you mention it. That princess of the Qilin clan is so mean-spirited. And Ah Huang, it's embarrassing. When I saw that dragon, I jumped at it. Those guys Thought he was a mother, and said we were going to pay back."

Fengtong laughed.

Huang Ling continued: "However, that dragon is too stupid, stupid and small, it is impossible to be your opponent, Brother Feng Tong."

Fengtong was silent.

Huang Ling said again: "That's right, I heard that the crown prince sent Princess Chu Ling to the palace. He...wouldn't have taken a fancy to Princess Chu Ling, right? When Tantai Rongyue was in her palace, she was talking and laughing on the surface, but in a blink of an eye, when she was in a place where others could not see, she immediately had a different expression. She was quite jealous that Tantai Rongyue could be the princess, maybe she would come Ri will still fight with her for the crown prince, brother Fengtong, do you want to go and tell Junshang that Princess Chuling should also be given a Phoenix God?"

Feng Tong's expression was not moved by it, and said indifferently: "I came to find you for another matter."

Huang Ling opened her eyes wide in doubt.

About the time of drinking a cup of tea, the little boy came to send a message to invite Fengtong to the back garden.

Feng Jun and Shang Xuan just finished a game and are clearing the chessboard.

Feng Tong stepped forward and knelt down: "Your Majesty, I don't want to take over as the national teacher, and I don't want to take care of the crown prince anymore."

Feng Jun paused for a moment with the hand that picked up the chess piece: "Why?"

Feng Tong replied concisely: "The prince is too stupid."

Shang Xuanchi laughed out loud.

Feng Jun's expression remained unchanged, and he said: "Then who do you think is not stupid? Le Yue?"

Feng Tong said: "Le Yue is also stupid, but he is different from the prince's stupidity. Each has its own merits. I thought that the prince could be slightly stronger than Le Yue, but I didn't expect..."

Feng Jun put the chess pieces into the chess box and closed the box lid: "Ordinary people have such and other problems, otherwise why do we need our Maid God?" He smiled slightly, "This afternoon, there is a war outside Jiuyi City, you can go there Take a look."

Feng Tong stood up: "Obey." He wanted to resign, but he still couldn't help asking the question that had been pent up in his heart for a long time, "Your Majesty, why must Mu Zhen be the next emperor?"

Feng Jun said: "Because it must be him."

At this time, in Jiuyi City, in Zhenxi Palace, Le Yue was walking up and down in the hall, hesitating.

Half an hour later, the battle was about to start, and Le Yue's hands could not help sweating slightly. He was suddenly very uncertain whether his decision was correct.

After roughly discussing the enemy's layout in the room yesterday, they analyzed the enemy's situation together with General Li and other people from the rivers and lakes.Judging from the grain and grass reserves in the city, General Li, the two lieutenants, and Du Ruyuan all agreed to fight a battle as soon as possible within two or three days.

Sun Ben said: "If Shaoxia Le can be more decisive and make up his mind, it would be best for us to fight tomorrow."

Du Ruyuan agreed: "Tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival, and monsters and monsters dare not move rashly. We will go to war tomorrow, and we will be able to dispel the rumors that the court slandered the dragon god as a dragon demon. And during the festival, the enemy army will go deep into the hinterland of Xijun, so it is inevitable to be impatient."

General Li suggested that the time of battle should be chosen after noon. Generally, in such a situation of being trapped on all sides, it is best to take the initiative to fight in the early morning, evening or midnight. This time, doing the opposite will probably catch the opponent by surprise.

Sun Ben said: "It is probably impossible to kill King Anshun by surprise. But noon is indeed the best time. It's just..." He squinted at Le Yue, "How many soldiers to use, where to send them, and Le Shaoxia Give me an idea."

Le Yue recalled the analysis of the troops after breakfast. Among the four commanders, the two generals under King Pingbei, Wu Zhiming who guarded the west and You Changmeng who guarded the east were slightly weaker.

And You Changmeng's side is especially weak.

He said: "At present, it is easier to attack You Changmeng first."

General Li, Commander Gao and others all nodded in agreement, Le Yue had some ideas in his mind, and said, "But I don't know how many soldiers should be used. According to the information, You Changmeng has [-] soldiers under his tent..."

General Li said: "We send out five thousand or six thousand soldiers, which is slightly more than him. The case is not at a disadvantage, and the battle will be resolved quickly."

Sun Ben laughed a few times.

General Li and the two lieutenants were both a little upset, and lieutenant Qian said: "This chivalrous man, if you have a good opinion, you may as well speak it out, why stand aside and laugh at it?"

Sun Ben didn't say anything, he just looked at Le Yue and Luo Lingzhi: "Le Shaoxia, and what do you think of this young master Luo who is said to be in charge of fighting?"

Luo Lingzhi said: "There are only [-] soldiers in the city, it would be too rash to send [-] or [-] troops at a time, but I have never fought a battle before, so I dare not speak nonsense."

Le Yue hesitated and said, "That's right, or should we send four thousand troops?"

Sun Ben couldn't stop laughing again, and strode to the sand table: "It's not suitable to send troops to You Changmeng's place. If you want to fight, you can fight here." He picked up a red flag and inserted it on the sand table in the direction of the north of the city.

There was silence all around.After a while, Le Yue said, "Uh...Brother Sun, are you being too aggressive..."

Deputy General Qian said with a smile: "Sun Shaoxia is really a hero. If you want to come here, you will be familiar with military books. You know how to use soldiers to shoot generals first, and to capture thieves first to capture the king. With five thousand soldiers, he drove straight in, killed Mao Wangfu first, and then killed King Anshun, and defeated [-] soldiers. It's a waste of water. The next step is to direct your troops at the capital."

Sun Ben adjusted his eyebrows indifferently, "It doesn't matter if you don't want to listen to my advice. But don't blame me for not reminding you in advance, You Chang Mengchu really wants to fight, with two thousand soldiers at most, no more than three thousand."

Lieutenant General Qian still sneered and said: "Take care to remind me." He quickly walked to General Li and knelt down on one knee, "I implore you to go to battle tomorrow, and I ask the general to send three thousand cavalry with me. Before tomorrow evening, you must be taken down." Chang Meng."

General Li turned to Le Yue and said, "Le Shaoxia..."

Le Yue stood up and said, "Tomorrow, I will go to battle with Vice-General Qian. I have never fought before, and this is my first time on the battlefield. I hope that Vice-General Qian Duoduo will take care of me. Just treat me like an ordinary soldier."

Everyone was startled, and then tried to dissuade them.

Du Ruyuan brought up his theory of leadership coordination again, but General Li and the two lieutenants evaded and said that the first time was only a small dispatch of troops, and there was no need for Le Yue to go out in person. People in the world, headed by Mrs. Nangong and Nangong Ling, all agreed with Du Ruyuan's idea. In other words, Leyue only needs to sit in the city to plan.

Le Yue waved his hands and said: "You don't need to make excuses for me. The most useless thing in the past few days of closing the city is that I am here. Half of the reason for this city being trapped is me. How can I stay back and not even fight a battle?" Now that the rebellion has been created, everything has to be fought on the battlefield.

Sun Ben said in a drawn-out voice: "You are so brave, but you are too stupid." Fei Xianfeng yelled twice, but they were intentionally ignored by everyone.

In Le Yue's arms, Zhao Yuan gently pressed the dragon's horn against his chest, and whispered: "I support you, I will go with you."

Du Ruyuan wanted to persuade him again, Luo Lingzhi, who had been silent all this time, took a step forward and said, "Let me go this time."

Le Yue opened his mouth: "Brother Luo..."

Luo Lingzhi stopped him, "Brother Yue, since I'm already in charge of the military, I should go to this battle first, otherwise, wouldn't I be a useless person here?"

Lin Jing also hesitated, she wanted to support Le Yue to go, but now it seemed that Luo Lingzhi was the one who should go.

Du Ruyuan said: "If we rashly send troops, the other three parties may take advantage of the opportunity to sneak attack. Brother Yue should stay in the city, and Brother Luo will go first."

Everyone also agrees.

Mrs. Nangong said: "Le Shaoxia, since you are our leader now, you should listen more to the audience."

Le Yue had no choice but to give up, and finally decided that Deputy General Qian and Luo Lingzhi would lead [-] soldiers to fight.

After Sun Ben heard the result, he let out a smirk and walked away with Fei Xianfeng.

The time for dispatching troops is set at the beginning of Weishi, when the soldiers are ready to go.

Luo Lingzhi took off his gown, put on his armor, and finally discussed with Deputy General Qian about the battle, but Le Yue hesitated.

If it was him who went there, he would just wait to jump on the horse and leave the city with a whip, without thinking about anything.But now it is indeed Luo Lingzhi, Deputy General Qian and [-] soldiers who are going out of the city, and they are going to fight after his final decision, Le Yue's heart suddenly becomes agitated.

Now the lives of these people are all on his shoulders. He remembered that in Jiuyi City, Ying Ze once said that those who achieve great things must bear countless lives. He finally had a real feeling. I even doubted whether my judgment was wrong, whether this battle should be fought, or whether I should stop it.

Lin Jing walked to his side and said in a low voice: "Don't worry, I will follow Luo Lingzhi later and take care of him. Nothing will happen if I'm here."

However, as the pulse protector, Lin Jing could not directly intervene in the battle, the battle was won or lost, and in the end it all depended on the soldiers themselves.

Sun Ben stood far away and shouted at Le Yue: "Le Shaoxia, you'd better not be stupid, there is still time to adopt my method."

Du Ruyuan said from the other side: "Brother Yue, in this position, please make a decisive decision, and don't let yourself get confused."

Le Yue was uneasy, in order to pretend to be calm, he involuntarily drank more tea, coupled with inexplicable nervousness, he ran to the latrine twice within a quarter of an hour.

When he came out of the hut for the second time, Le Yue ran into Mrs. Luluo again in the corridor, she seemed to be here specially.Ever since Jiuyi City was trapped that night, Le Yue has never had a chance to thank Mrs. Luluo, so she stepped forward and said, "The Princess was poisoned the day before yesterday, thanks to Madam who saved my life with lotus seed soup, I have not had time to thank you in the future, I am ashamed I'm ashamed, don't blame Madam."

Mrs. Luluo has become more and more haggard in the past few days, with a worried look on her face, she forced a smile and said, "That day, Shaoxia Le, you said that your ribs hurt, so I guessed that you were probably poisoned. I was in Jianghu After a long time, I was quite experienced looking at this. At that time, I also thought that someone in the palace might be poisoning Miss Tantai. I used food as an antidote just now, but I didn't expect that the person who poisoned it was the princess. She sighed lightly: "The princess Although it wasn't my junior sister's own birth, she was the one who brought me up, sometimes I came to visit my junior sister, and she was often yelled by aunts and aunts, who knows..."

Le Yue could only say: "Madam's condolences, the so-called people's hearts are unpredictable."

Mrs. Luluo sighed again: "Yes, everything is unpredictable, just like I didn't expect Le Shaoxia to have such an identity."

She suddenly changed the subject, Le Yue knew that this was her intention to wait here.

Sure enough, Mrs. Luluo went on to say: "Le Shaoxia, I am waiting for you here on purpose, because I have some unpleasant things to say..." She was silent for a moment, and then said: "At present, it is impossible for you to be the opponent of King Anshun. It is better not to send troops."

Le Yue's heart twitched, and he said reluctantly: "Please remind me more, but, no matter whether we win or lose, we will fight this battle. We have no way out, if we don't fight, we will die."

Mrs. Luluo smiled wryly and said: "I know Le Shaoxia will not listen to it, but... I am dissatisfied with Le Shaoxia saying that I have an old friend who was an old acquaintance with King Anshun. I also know a thing or two about King Anshun. He has a deep scheming heart. , act viciously, beyond what anyone can imagine."

When she said this, her eyes fell away, obviously recalling some painful past.

"It's very unwise for Le Shaoxia to confront him head-on at this time. If we can negotiate peacefully..."

Le Yue said: "Ma'am, you just said that King Anshun's actions are vicious, even if we negotiate peace, is it possible to succeed? Ma'am, do you remember the blood that covered the city in the past?"

Mrs. Luluo's face changed slightly.

Le Yue said: "Madam, if we don't resist, Jiuyi will only end up as the second Tucheng. No matter what, we must fight."

Le Yue didn't wait for Mrs. Luluo to speak again, said goodbye, and hurried away.But Mrs. Luluo suddenly said behind her: "Le Shaoxia, I saw the golden dragon appearing in the city of Jiuyi that day. If Le Shaoxia really becomes the emperor in the future, can you agree to it for the sake of the bowl of lotus seed soup?" I have one request."

Le Yue was silent, Madam Luluo's request was most likely to save the life of the prince, he said: "I don't want to be emperor, and I have to fight now, but I just want to let myself and the whole city live." Just go down. Madam and I have the grace to save lives, so no matter what request you have, just ask."

Mrs. Luluo was silent for a moment, then shook her head: "Le Shaoxia's words reminded me of an old friend. What he often said at the time was that he was in this position because he had no choice but to go boating. Jianghe, spend the day indifferently..." Her gaze fell to the distance again, and then she returned to Le Yue, "Le Shaoxia, when you reach my age, you will probably understand that many of the so-called last resorts are caused by yourself. on oneself."