across mountains and seas

The autumn colors of the mountains and rivers are gradually fading. On the day of Lidong, the originally clear sky was gradually shrouded in cloudy clouds. After half a day of cold wind, there were scattered snowflakes in the sky.

On the turret facing the east and west of the city, the two Daliang soldiers who were ordered to be on duty rubbed their hands to keep warm while cursing the new governor of East Fuzhou in a low voice.

"I think the Dongjing family is nothing more than that. Brother, we need to be careful. If the alien race from Xishen Prefecture comes here, we two brothers will save our lives!"

"Well, I thought that the little Patriarch of the Jing family could bring a few powerful beasts, but just like you and me, we are ordinary people. After handing over the military affairs to the son-in-law, we just shrank in the government office. Out!"

"I heard from the refugees who fled into the city in the past few days that the foreign army has already left Sanshan Pass. Counting the distance, within three days, they will definitely kill Donglin City..."

"If you kill him, you will kill him. The Ye clan has made it very clear that if you kill him, you will avenge yourself. As long as we don't protect Jing Xiaowu, he will never kill innocent people indiscriminately."

"That is to say, Jing Xiaowu really asked us to guard, can you and I still resist orders?"

"Hey, when will this troubled world end?"

"Brother, don't say when the troubled times will end, I heard that when the son-in-law left, he took a large amount of food, grass and military equipment with him..."

"Where did you hear that?"

"I have a brother from the same town at Donglin Treasury, and he told me everything."

"That is to say, there is not enough food, grass and military equipment now?"

"Yeah, it's obvious that we are asked to stay here to die..."

"Is this true?"

"Exactly!"

The more the two talked, the more their hearts became colder, and the morale of the army was unstable. They were not the only soldiers in Donglin City who had such thoughts.

It's not that Jing Lan doesn't know, and now she can only pretend not to know.

Everything was developing as Liu Xi worried about. On the first day she arrived in Donglin City, she received a letter from Feige from Sanshan Pass, saying that the foreign race and the Ye family had pulled out their camp and dispatched troops.

The fight was under the guise of personal enmity, and they even said that as long as the Jing family died, their entire army would definitely withdraw from the territory of East Fuzhou.

In the past few days, more and more refugees have entered the city, and a lot of secret work has been mixed in, spreading rumors and disturbing the morale of the army.

Stand still and wait for the third brother to appear.

Jing Lan believed in Liu Xi's strategy, and also believed that the third brother would not let her down.

Any means of suppression is not as inspiring as a victory.

Liuxi misses the rice so much, it must be for something else if he didn't let Uncle Jing Jiu bring him to Donglin City this time.

Jing Lan did keep her promise to stand still for the time being, but she has not been idle for the past ten days. She is in the center of the whirlpool, and the military spirit has been in panic for many days. There are some things that must be done first, so as not to accidentally cause a mutiny and die in the hands of these Daliang soldiers. hands.

As the night grew darker, candles were lit in the study of the government office in the east.

The carving knife carved the tenth plum blossom on the pear blossom scabbard, Jing Lan put down the carving knife, and suddenly pulled out the polished cold iron knife inside.

The blade exudes a threatening chill, a few small plum blossoms are engraved on the back of the knife, and a bunch of plum blossoms are also slightly carved on the handle of the knife.

Jing Lan looked at herself reflected in the blade, and murmured, "Today is the tenth day..."

Her foot injury should be better, right?

Flying snow fluttered outside the window, and occasionally a few pieces fell on the window and melted quietly.

Outside the city of Donglin, a fast horse led the way, followed by seven men on horseback, galloping towards the west gate of the city of Donglin.

"Who is here?!" The soldiers guarding the west city gate held up torches and yelled at the seven people below the city.

The man in the front took off his coir raincoat, raised his handsome face, smiled brightly and cleanly, and said with a smile: "Master Dongjing, Jing Yuan!" After speaking, the seven men behind him also took off their coir raincoats, revealing their faces. The emblem of Dongjingshi on the belt.

Jing Lan is already the governor of Dongfu Prefecture, Jing Yuan is the third brother of the governor, how dare the guards stop him?

Immediately, he ordered to open the city gate, and welcomed Jing Yuan and his party into Donglin City.

Jing Yuan rode his horse into the city and came straight to the government office.

When Jing Lan heard that the third brother was back, she was overjoyed and greeted him with a knife.

"Third Brother!"

Jing Yuan smiled softly, handed the reins to the man behind him, strode over, and punched Jing Lan on the right shoulder with a clenched fist, "Xiao Wu, the rest is up to you!"

Jing Lan was stunned for a moment, "Look at me?"

Jing Yuan laughed loudly and said, "To catch a turtle in the urn, when will we wait?" As he spoke, he hooked Jing Lan's shoulders, "Go, go in and change into armor, third brother will accompany you to send troops, and have a heart-to-heart fight !"

"Send troops now?"

"Sister-in-law said, as soon as I succeed, I will immediately rush back to Donglin City and lead troops to kill them with you!"

Jing Yuan knew that Xiao Wu must want to ask clearly, but soldiers are expensive and quick, and this is not the time to say these things, "Even if you don't believe in sister-in-law, you should believe in third brother!"

"How could I not believe my sister-in-law?" Jing Lan said in a low voice.

Jing Yuan subconsciously glanced at the cold iron knife in Jing Lan's hand, the plum blossoms on the scabbard exuded a beauty, it would be a bit feminine for a man to use such a knife.

He quickly thought of something. Looking at the entire Dongjing family, except for his sister-in-law Liu Xi, no one is a master of swords.

Jing Yuan knew that Xiao Wu had such a temper, sometimes his mouth was tough, but his heart was softer than anyone else.

Jing Lan noticed that Jing Yuan found the cold iron knife in her hand, "I lost her knife in Longling, I don't want to owe her anything..."

"As long as Xiao Wu has a heart." Jing Yuan suppressed a smile.

It's rare that Xiao Wu doesn't get awkward with his sister-in-law, how could Jing Yuan get to the bottom of Han Tie Dao's matter?

"Third brother..."

"It's time to fight, Xiao Wu."

Jing Yuan suddenly reminded in a deep voice.

Jing Lan felt a burning sensation in her chest, she nodded her head heavily, and raised her voice to order, "Uncle Jiu, beat the drum and sound the trumpet, and in a moment, the three armies will gather in the east and west suburbs of the city!"

"No!" Uncle Jing Jiu took the order to retreat.

The governor Jing Lan, who had been dormant in Donglin City for ten days, suddenly ordered to go to battle, and the whole army was shocked.

The army has been in panic for many days, so after the military order was issued, the speed of assembly was not satisfactory.

Jing Yuan looked at the sky, but the soldiers and horses were still sparsely assembled, so he couldn't help feeling anxious.

"Uncle Jiu, go and open the gate of the Donglin treasury, and move out all the food and supplies inside." Jing Lan was wearing silver armor, sitting on the back of a horse, and said it again in front of the soldiers who were reorganizing the army, " Open the treasury door and let them see clearly!"

It was the first time the soldiers saw the young boy get angry, and they suddenly fell silent.

Jing Lan held the reins, stared at the front row of soldiers, and said coldly: "The governor will give you a chance to choose. If you want to leave without being a soldier with your salary, you can go directly to the treasury to get your things and leave!"

"There is not much food, grass and military equipment left in the Donglin government treasury, and the military pay is also very small. Whoever goes late will not get anything!"

As soon as Jing Lan's words fell, the originally quiet soldiers started to quarrel emotionally as if a pot had exploded.

"Continue to quarrel... If you quarrel with an army of foreign races, you will die!" Jing Lan continued in a cold voice, "I just want to ask you, the Japanese governor has withdrawn you from the western border of East Fuzhou to Donglin City in the past few days. Have you ever cut off your daily rations and military pay?"

When the soldiers heard the last sentence, one of them raised his arms and shouted: "Brothers, stop arguing and listen to what the governor has to say." Someone took the lead, and the excited soldiers gradually calmed down.

"The military pay is the silver taels of my Dongjing family, and the food and grass are the grains brought by my Dongjing family. Otherwise, with the moldy old grain in the treasury, you may have hundreds of people vomiting and diarrhea in the past few days. "

It's good that Jing Lan didn't mention it. After mentioning it, the soldiers thought about it carefully, and the rations for these few days were indeed much better than the two days when the son-in-law was here.

Jing Yuan looked at Jing Lan's side face in shock, half of her cheek was covered by the silver peeping cheek guard, at this moment, how could Xiao Wu still have the slightest childishness like usual?

Jing Lan breathed a sigh of relief quietly, and looked down at Uncle Jing Jiu.

Uncle Jing Jiu also let out a sigh of relief.

They did bring a lot of silver to Donglin City, but they didn't bring even a cart of food.On the first day Jing Lan arrived in Donglin City, after receiving Cao Consort's tiger amulet, she sent Cao Concubine away first, and then went to the treasury to count the remaining military pay, food, grass and military equipment.

Cao Yang took away another batch of resources that were not much in the first place, which undoubtedly made things worse.

This hot potato was thrown to the Dongjing clan, and Cao Yang didn't know if Jing Lan could turn the tide, so taking away food, grass and armaments was the last move.

Concentrating all resources to defend Lidu, this is the last retreat of the imperial court.

Cao Yang did it blatantly, so naturally he couldn't hide it.

When Jing Lan first arrived in Donglin, it was not clear who could be used and who could not be used in the government office, and it was not clear in just a few days.Since you can't rely on the civil servants left by the court, you can only rely on yourself.

So that night, Jing Lan dispatched the guards of the treasury to collect all the better grains in the treasury, and gave them priority to the soldiers in the past few days, and the rest of the uneatable old grains were put in the treasury. middle.The silver taels brought in were broken into pieces, and distributed to the corporal leader on time every day to take back to the soldiers.

There are silver mines in the East China Sea, the Jing family is not short of silver taels, and there is rice harvested in Liuxi, so Donglin City will not run out of food.

This "empty city plan" is not really an empty city, the only thing missing is time.

"The governor didn't come empty-handed." Jing Lan sat proudly on the horseback, and continued to say in a stern voice, "I called you all back to Donglin, not because I'm afraid of fighting, but because I don't want your sacrifices to be in vain." Jing Lan said. He drew his sword out of its scabbard and pointed towards the west of the East Fuzhou, "The time has come. Today, those who are willing to follow the governor to face the alien race will be rewarded tenfold! Those who do not want to follow the governor, the governor will not either!" Forced to stay, your names will not be written in the deserter book, let you go back and reunite with your family."

The soldiers did not answer immediately, as if they still hesitated.

"Give me another moment." Jing Lan said lightly, put away her sword and rode her horse to the gate, looking at the gloomy sky in the distance, "The flames of war have already started, no one in the world can escape today alone..." She said solemnly Looking back, "Tomorrow... can I really escape?"

The fine snow was falling, and the torch in front of the gate illuminated her resolute expression.

Jing Lan raised her eyebrows and smiled slightly, her brows were full of heroism.

She... resembled her late brother Jing Duo very much.

Not only Uncle Jing Jiu was stunned, but Jing Yuan was also stunned.

No, it should be said.

She is no longer the carefree Jing Xiaowu in the past.

Jing Lan remembered that in Hailong Mausoleum, Liu Xi once asked her a word——

"Alan, have you ever thought about it? End this troubled world."

At this moment, Jing Lan could answer decisively, "I think so."

If this battle is not won, no matter how strong Haicheng is, it will not be able to stop Ye's thousands of troops.

The world continues to be in turmoil, and there is a corner of peace, but it is only lingering.

Jing Lan's heart was burning, she always thought that she had no ambition, but now she is very clear that what burns her heart is ambition.

Instead of relying on others for protection, it is better to become stronger yourself, and protect whoever you want to protect.

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