Lei Yue Longmen

Before getting into the car, Li Jingzhu only had one sentence to tell the driver, "Just drive, be sure to go fast."

Yuezhong rode a horse on the other side, feeling extremely nervous, and still comforted her: "Don't worry, Your Highness, the hidden guards are already chasing you. They are fast and they will definitely catch up. What's more, without the imperial edict, he? When you get to the barracks, you can't do anything."

Li Jingchen endured the pain coming from under his shoulder blades, and said: "It doesn't matter if there is an edict or not, the deadline on it is ten days. He? He just came to convey the deadline, whether it's true or not, as long as he conveyed it, It is inevitable that the morale of the army will be shaken."

"Ten Ri, this is too cruel. Will the Emperor really punish the families of the soldiers?"

"Not just them, but uncle, Jingchai, and... us."

"Us?" Yue Zhong was taken aback, "What's the matter with our East Palace? It's a well-known fact that His Highness has been deeply trapped in the northern border."

Li Jingchen gritted his gums, "You don't know, my aunt has been refusing to withdraw the troops. The emperor must think it's because of me, and suspects that she has plans to rescue me and establish a new monarch. Besides, the capital is besieged, and Tu Yuanshan is the only source of news about the capital. They? Want to divide? Us, it's easy. Even whether I'm really trapped in Northern Xinjiang, or whether I'm being treated as a guest by Northern Xinjiang is unknown in the eyes of the emperor. Don't forget, these few months , he? The people closest to him are all from the King Cheng family."

"It's unreasonable! They will never let go of the opportunity to slander, it's really disgusting!" Yue Zhong felt more and more angry when he thought about it, and at the same time he was anxious for Li Jing, "Then what should we do next? What if The hidden guards can't intercept and kill Qin Liang, once the soldiers know the news, they will definitely clamor for help. Will there be a mutiny?"

Li Jing was silent, knowing that this was a high probability event.

As the crown prince, all her rights are bestowed by heaven? Son?, and military power has always been something that Li Pinghong strictly guards against.If you want to grab it openly, it is even more difficult.So she can only use extraordinary means to start with the eldest princess.However, just for this unproven bias, the emperor is so afraid that he will threaten the family members of the whole army. Once this edict is issued in front of the three armies, no matter how she tries to remedy it, it will be difficult to restore the slack. The morale of the army, withdrawal is almost inevitable?

"Unfortunately, we don't have our own soldiers."

As she thought this way, cold sweat dripped down her forehead, and her lips began to turn pale.His eyes suddenly became firm, "I promised my aunt to protect her whole family. Even if the army is withdrawing, it cannot be withdrawn like this, nor can it be withdrawn now. A surefire way must be thought of. So, it must be quick. "

Yue Zhong flicked his horsewhip, "Don't worry, Your Highness, even if you risk your life, you will never let him succeed."

The convoy finally arrived at the barracks in the middle of the night. Yuezhong was still out of breath when he got off his horse. It is not difficult to imagine Li Jingchen, who was seriously injured.But she still insisted on getting out of the car. Seeing that there was no abnormality in the camp, she breathed out a few breaths, and said with pain: "Don't worry about me, call Master Xu to come over. Order the whole army to strengthen vigilance, don't To put in? One person."

Opening the big tent of the Chinese army, it was pitch black inside, if it was normal, it would be fine, but at this moment it was inexplicably weird.Out of vigilance, Etsuchu went in first to light the lamp, and suddenly bumped into a person head-on, and with a sound of "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"Who knew that the other party's move was so quick that he pushed back the half-drawn hilt of his sword in an instant.

"Don't? Hit, it's me!"

Yue Zhong was stunned for a moment, the voice was quite familiar, until the brazier in front was lit, and the whole big tent was lit up immediately.He arched like a cat, his back suddenly loosened, and when he got up, he gave the person a moderate punch, "Hey guys, why are you guys?!"

Li Jingchen came in afterward, and when he saw the people in the tent, his expression was also slightly startled.Then, a rare stream of light flashed across her eyes that were used to being quiet, but now they were full of color.

"Your Highness."

Yun Zhong, Lan Xi, Zhu Yu'an... all bowed to her and saluted, "Please refer to Your Highness for the humble rank (the last general)."

This is really a complete surprise. All the generals of the Eastern Palace appeared in the barracks, which is like injecting a boost to the isolated and helpless empress dowager.She pressed her restless heart and asked:

"When... did you arrive?"

Yun Zhong could hear the trembling in her words, his throat was a little constricted, and he didn't answer the words for a while.The tall and burly Zhu Yu'an put his hand on his shoulders, but answered quickly, and said with a smile, "It's only two hours earlier than Your Highness. That military advisor named Xu asked us to wait here. We'll have to wait... Stomach? I’m hungry! If His Highness doesn’t come, I’m going to go to the cook? To steal something to eat.” Then he made a stretching motion, and licked his lips with some salivation.Everyone laughed at the same time, as if they were back in the Eastern Palace.

Yue Zhong casually touched his belly, and teased, "Your belly is almost as fat as the fattest horse in our barracks." Zhu Yu'an immediately puffed out his belly, and said bluntly, "Tch, maybe a horse Run faster than me."

Young Li Jingchen showed a smile, and immediately sent people to prepare meals.Yue Zhong moved a chair to the middle and helped her to sit down slowly.Seeing her pale lips and sluggish movements, Yun Zhong felt that her body was obviously wounded, but felt that her heart was cut by a knife, but regretted that she couldn't resort to words, and tears swirled in her eye sockets.

Zhu Yu'an worried: "Your Highness, are you alright?"

"It's okay, I'm just a little tired from driving at night. But, seeing you all in good spirits, I'm not tired anymore." She said that she was telling the truth. If she was still struggling with the fact that she had no helper at the moment, then look at her now. Looking at the group of people who came to her from thousands of miles away, there were only a few hot words left in her heart, "Take care of each other with all my heart".

"Your Highness is suffering," Zhu Yu'an said, "When we learned that His Highness had escaped from Pingyang City, we were so excited for three days? We didn't sleep well, and we wished we could fly to His Highness's side. Seeing that His Highness is safe and sound now, the Empress You and the prince are the spirits of heaven, and you can finally rest in peace."

Li Jingchen's heart was warm, and he smiled and said: "Thanks to the protection of my mother and elder brother, it is finally safe and sound."

Seeing that Lan Xi's arm was wrapped with a thick bandage, hanging around his neck, he asked, "Lan Xi, is your arm alright?"

Lan Xi scratched the back of her head shyly, "It's okay, I just got a little injury when I broke through. It's almost healed."

At this moment, Yun Zhong suddenly turned around and turned his back to the past. The shadow under the thin green shirt lowered his head halfway, as if he was trying his best to suppress and endure.Everyone was shocked at first and then felt a little sad. Zhu Yu'an stepped forward and hugged them by the shoulders, and comforted him softly: "Okay, now that our brothers are here, we won't let His Highness be wronged again, don't you? That's it, His Highness is here? Looking at you!"

Yun Zhong nodded, quickly adjusted his mood, and turned around.

Zhu Yu'an said with a smile: "Mr. Gu? You can really hold your breath, and didn't tell us until the end that His Highness has escaped from Pingyang City. We concealed our names as soon as we heard the news, and mingled with the dead soldiers recruited by the court. In the team, together? Out of the city."

"This is my idea. I was afraid that the news would be revealed in advance, so I let Mr. Gu hide it from you."

"So that's the case, Your Highness has already made up his mind."

Li Jingchen nodded, and then began to get to the point, asking Yun Zhong: "Is everything okay in the East Palace?"

Yun Zhong said: "Returning to Your Highness, everything in the East Palace is fine. It's just that the capital is besieged, soldiers sometimes die in battle, and they are everywhere? Recruiting troops. But even so, the emperor has no intention of reactivating us. He also sent secret guards, Monitor the East Palace day and night."

Li Jingyu had expected this long ago, "Is there a large-scale food shortage in the city? How is the people's hearts?"

"Your Highness, don't worry," Zhu Yu'an said, "The food reserves in the city can last for several months. When Tu Yuanshan's soldiers approached the city at first, people's hearts were indeed in chaos for half a month. But hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians worked together to defend the city, and Tu Yuanshan was repelled one after another. The several attacks have stabilized. At present, the 60 generals of the Shenwu Army have been lined up on the city wall. In addition, the [-] troops of the imperial court are in northern Xinjiang and will return at any time. The people believe that , Tu Yuanshan will be repelled sooner or later. It’s just that it’s difficult to break out right now.”

Speaking of? The fact that the emperor wanted to use the family members of the soldiers of the three armies to threaten to withdraw the troops was heard by everyone.

"Mr. Gu? There is a letter that I want to bring to Your Highness." Yun Zhong took out a letter from his pocket and handed it to Li Jingchen to open and read.

"Mr. Gu? Said? The reason why the emperor is in such a hurry to withdraw troops is, in the final analysis, that he is afraid of the Eldest Princess joining forces with the Eastern Palace." In addition, he also emphasized in the letter that Li Jingchen must not interfere with military affairs openly. Once you grasp the handle, it will be difficult to wash it off.

"Mr. Gu and Your Highness are thinking of going together." Yuezhong thought of what Li Jingchen had analyzed before, and suddenly figured it out.To deal with this matter, it is far from enough to stop Qin Liang.The emperor's suspicion is the real source of trouble.

Li Jingchen looked at the bonfire calmly.

At this time, the soldiers came in with food. The army did not open fire in the middle of the night. They only had some cold food, but everyone devoured it hungrily. It can be seen that everyone was starving on the road.Li Jingchen made an exception and asked Yuezhong to go to Yuezhong. He brought a jar of wine for the celebration and sat on the brazier to warm it. He told them to drink a bowl each and not to drink too much.Zhu Yu'an rubbed his hands "Oh, oh", and said with a smile, "Your Highness is still sympathetic to us, and has already prepared fine wine to treat us."

"I'm not drinking this wine for nothing." Li Jingchen smiled with a deep meaning.Zhu Yu'an patted his chest and said: "Don't worry, Your Highness, even if you go up the mountain of swords and down into the sea of ​​fire, I will never blink your eyes."

"I won't let you go up the mountain of swords, nor let you go into the sea of ​​fire," Li Jingchen adjusted a more suitable posture for support, leaning forward slightly, with his arms resting on his elbows, "I just let you go back overnight Going to Beijing?"

"Pfft~" Zhu Yu'an just took a sip of wine before choking it out, coughing loudly and not daring to make too much noise, "Your Highness, are you kidding me?" Yun Zhong and the others looked at her in astonishment .

Li Jingbin closed his eyes instead of shaking his head.

"No, this..." Zhu Yu'an still had wine stains on his nose, looked at the crowd, and then at Li Jingchen, dazed and unsure of why, "Minister waited? He ran non-stop day and night for ten days? Ten nights, Just to be able to go to His Highness, why...you want me to wait again? Return to Beijing?"

"Gu want you to bring back the news of Gu's 'death'? Only after Gu's 'death' will the emperor not get up again? Suspicious."

As soon as Li Jingchen said this, everyone's hearts trembled.

"What?" Zhu Yu'an didn't react.Yun Zhong heard the implication, but did not make a sound immediately, but waited patiently? Her next words.

Sure enough, she explained calmly: "Withdrawing the army, I will definitely not withdraw. In order to avoid the threat of the slaughter of the family members of the soldiers of the three armies, the emperor must believe that the eldest princess's refusal to withdraw the army is for the sake of maintaining the overall situation, not selfishness. Want to keep me safe?"

Yun Zhong looked up at her, "I understand, Your Highness wants...to dissuade the Emperor from withdrawing his troops in the name of feigning death."

"Not bad." Li Jingchen took a deep look at him, obviously he had made up his mind.

"Only if I die, the eldest princess will regain the trust of the emperor. Only when I die can the soldiers of the three armies avoid the fate of their families being slaughtered, and the emperor can stand with the whole army for the sake of future generations. "Together, let's do our best to give it a go. Only when I die can the army's morale not be shaken. Only then can I, Yurui, be able to defeat Beijiang and win this ZTE battle that is related to the fate of the country. And I'm just looking forward to this ending. Why not do it?" Her tone was tinged with sadness, like a wall with leaks everywhere, which had already been battered by the rain, but was still trying to hold it up ? Overhead dome.

"So, Gu wants you to return to Beijing overnight, and in the name of the eldest princess, deliver my 'bones' to the emperor with your own hands. Seeing Gu's bones, I believe, he will give up his mind."

"But, where do you go? Find a pair of 'skeletons' similar to His Highness?"

Yuezhong suddenly stood up and said, "I know where it is." Li Jingchen nodded, took off the scarlet carp jade pendant from his neck, and handed it to Yuezhong.Yuezhong was jealous for a moment, and held tightly, "Wait? I'll be an hour."

Zhu Yu'an also understood Li Jing's deep meaning, and said worriedly: "But? If this is the case, His Highness's sacrifice is too great."

"I don't care? I don't care about the gains and losses overnight. What I want is the long-term stability of Yurui for decades. During this trip to northern Xinjiang, I understood a truth. The Tu family is not a dead thing, it is a tree, in a place After a long time, it will take root. If you can't win Beijiang this time, then you won't be able to win it ten years later. Tu Yuanshan dared to make such a risky move, and he was betting for the same reason. In the next few months, our every day Every step will be related to Yurui's future national fortune. Therefore, this bowl of wine is not only a farewell wine, but also Gu's trust and entrustment to you. Gu and Yurui, please." She stood up while supporting the armrest. Come, get a full wine bowl, and drink it up to everyone.Because the pungentness of the wine and the movement involved the wound, her hands shook badly, and tears flowed into the wine bowl.But she still insisted on finishing the drink, and put the crumbling empty bowl back?

Although she knows how to drink, her drinking has always been elegant, and she seldom has this kind of booze. Entrusted mission." Zhu Yu'an slammed the empty bowl on the ground, "The most important thing for a man to live his whole life is to follow the Ming Lord to do great things. His Highness has ambitions, and we should have great ambitions. We are willing to risk our lives to follow." "Yes !"

"So good."