(11) Jiezhou Night Talk
The crossbowman who had finally ambushed was mostly knocked down by Bai Yunfan's men. Then there was another gong sound, and a large group of people broke out at the intersections on both sides, completely trying to kill Bai Yunfan.
The soldiers led by Bai Yunfan were all good at fighting. They were not in a hurry at this time, but immediately organized into three groups, two groups were killed at the intersections on both sides, blocking the ambush, and a group of crossbowmen continued to use crossbow arrows to suppress the ambush. At the same time, dozens of people rushed to Bai Yunfan with shields, quickly protected Bai Yunfan, and began to fight out of the city.
Su Yuncheng was the mastermind of this ambush. He had already sent people to ambush near the city gate. After the battle started, he immediately rushed from the city wall to the city gate. Unfortunately, they met a group of war-torn soldiers. The first reaction of the crisis was to send people to occupy the city gate and guard the retreat. Those ambushed soldiers sent to seize the rear were shot by Bai Yunfan's people and shot them with a crossbow. After being knocked down, Bai Yunfan's people immediately picked up the guys and came to the ambush.
Although the ambush was forced to be launched in advance, Su Yuncheng didn't feel anything at first. After all, he had ambushed tens of thousands of people and tens of thousands of people nearby, and there were also cavalry ambushing on the road leading to Jiangzhou. It is estimated that Bai Yunfan will be dead this time.
Although there were many ambushers, Su Yuncheng unexpectedly appeared on the battlefield. The three thousand soldiers led by Bai Yunfan were like three thousand dead soldiers, all of whom were afraid of death. Moreover, with one crossbow, he confiscated the guys after firing the crossbow arrows. Even if he fell to the ground, he would still hold someone to hold him on his back.
Although Su Yuncheng carefully selected these soldiers in the capital to ambush, in the face of these desperate fighting styles, there was no way to win over 3,000 people, and some of them were beaten backwards.
Bai Yunfan finally broke out of the city gate under the escort of the soldiers. After this encounter, three thousand soldiers lost thousands of losses. Su Yunzheng saw Bai Yunfan escape from the city, and immediately became anxious and quickly ordered the troops to pursue him with all their might. Bai Yunshan knew the consequences of Bai Yunfan's escape and shouted a reward of "Catch Bai Yunfan and reward 100,000 silver."
As expected, there must be a brave man under heavy rewards. The morale of the ambush, which had been severely frustrated, was suddenly aroused. With 100,000 taels of silver, what a good life could be. Under the stimulation of the reward, the ambush's morale was greatly boosted and he killed the city gate like crazy. Although Bai Yunfan fled, his men did not retreat completely. Instead, about 300 people stayed and nailed to the city gate. No matter how fierce the ambush's offensive was, no one took a step back.
Bai Yunfan escaped from the city and saw the shouts of killing in the city. He knew that this was the time for his brothers to escape for him. Bai Yunfan, who was injured in many places, could only barely lie on the war horse. He looked at the capital with tears in his eyes, and fled to Jiangzhou with more than a thousand remaining subordinates.
Although the soldiers who stayed to cover were brave, they were few after all. As more and more brothers fell down, the ambush was finally over when the last soldier was injured and rolled down the city wall with an enemy in his arms.
What annoyed Su Yuncheng was that an ambush was hit and the ambush suffered a loss of up to 1,000, and Bai Yunfan escaped from the city. This was a failure, and it was a very ugly failure. Su Yuncheng was so angry that he quickly ordered the cavalry to pursue him, and he must kill Bai Yunfan when the ambush in front blocked him, otherwise the fun would be great.
The moment when the three hundred brothers at the city gate exchanged their lives, Bai Yunfan and the others finally escaped five miles away. Bai Yunfan knew very well that the crisis had just begun. He found a dense forest to greet his brothers for a temporary rest, and then sent a searching horse to reconnaissance, and used this short rest time to let the injured brothers simply treat the wound and prepare for the upcoming hard battle.
Fortunately, these brothers were accustomed to life on the tip of the knife, and each of them carried the medicine on their bodies. Bai Yunfan, who was hit by four arrows, asked someone to find a branch and bit it on his mouth, so that the brothers pulled out the arrows for themselves. Fortunately, these arrows did not hurt the vital points and had not been poisoned, otherwise a large amount of blood loss and poisoning would have taken Bai Yunfan's life.
As soon as the wound was treated, there was a Ma Lai report. There was an ambush at the intersection ahead, and it was full of cavalry. Fortunately, the road was full of flat ground, and the ambush was hidden in the woods, which alarmed the birds in the forest and were discovered. Soon, another Ma Lai report was reported. The pursuers in the city had already come out and had to retreat immediately.
With too little time, Bai Yunfan immediately ordered to bypass the ambush and break through the west. Bai Yunfan's move was something Su Yuncheng did not expect. Most of the mountains are in the west. Once Bai Yunfan escapes into the mountainous area, it will be difficult to kill him. However, if Bai Yunfan wants to escape back to Jiangzhou, the difficulty will be increased, so Su Yuncheng will also have the opportunity to deal with the Jiangzhou garrison without a leader.
After learning that Bai Yunfan had escaped, Su Yuncheng was furious, but there seemed to be no better way except to continue to send people to chase Bai Yunfan so that he could not return to Jiangzhou.
At night, Su Yuncheng walked back and forth in the study uneasy. The prime minister, who looked quite elegant, had a look of expression at this time. He must have been so scared that he had nightmares in the middle of the night. The study was quiet and afraid of people. Su Yuncheng, who was sitting in a chair and focusing on thinking, did not notice that the door was gently opened, and a pair of exquisite embroidered shoes flashed in from outside.
When a pair of familiar little hands gently pinched their shoulders, Su Yuncheng sighed long and leaned back without looking back, whispering: "You are here, have you been doing well recently? You have suffered all these years."
The visitor stopped kneading, put his hands on Su Yuncheng's neck, his face pressed against Su Yuncheng's face, and whispered softly: "You cruel guy, you know that I'm pregnant with your flesh and blood. You married me to Bai Qiwei. Now that Bai Qiwei is dead, you won't give me away again, right?"
The woman talking under the light raised her head and looked at Su Yuncheng with big eyes blurred. This woman was the biological mother of Baiyun Mountain, the eldest lady of the Su family, and Bai Qiwei's second wife.
"I married you in the first place just to form an alliance with Bai Qiwei. Now when I think about it, I regret it, but who told us to be nominal brothers and sisters? I can't marry my sister into the house, right?" Su Yuncheng sighed tiredly.
Miss Su sneered at this time, stood in front of Su Yuncheng, looked at Su Yuncheng's eyes and said, "I think you are for the Bai family's property. Poor Bai Qiwei doesn't know that he has been cuckolded at all."
"Girl, isn't everything I do now for our children? Now that Yunshan has already taken the lead, you should calm down, right?" Su Yuncheng turned around and hugged his girl.
"Girl? I'm afraid that only you and I know in this world. Actually, I was adopted by your Su family, right? I started to like you since I was nine years old. I went to your bed at the age of sixteen and sent to the Bai family by you at the age of seventeen. Twenty years have passed in a blink of an eye. How many twenty years are there for women? My best twenty years have been spent by the man I don't love, but you don't even have the courage to have an affair with me." After saying that, Miss Su hugged Su Yuncheng's neck hard and bit his neck.
Yulong Pass! On the night when Bai Yunfan was ambushed, the intelligence agencies lurking in the capital in Daozun Sect also took advantage of the chaos to send the information out in time. Intelligence has always been the department that Bai Qi attaches most importance to, so intelligence leader Xu Yuyan is the person she trusts the most in Bai Qi's mind.
After reading the information sent from the capital, "King of Lu is dead, Bai Da is buried westward, Bai Er ascended the throne." The short line of words was like a heavy hammer hit Bai Qi's heart. Although Bai Qiwei's status in Bai Qi's mind was not high, Bai Yunfan was different. He has always been the elder brother that Bai Qi respected. Now Bai Yunfan is in trouble, so Bai Qi has to reach out to pull it.
After a brief thought, Bai Qi immediately ordered Wu Ming to take people westward to find Bai Yunfan, and at the same time asked Xu Yuyan to immediately notify Kong Beihai in Jiezhou and immediately rushed to Yulong Pass.
Although Bai Qi had the idea of sending troops to Duliang immediately, he had only 5,000 troops at the moment. Even if reinforcements could arrive in a few days, Duliang City was a big city that the three dynasties worked hard to manage, and it could not be taken down in a day or two. Not to mention that Bai Qi had to digest the three states north of Yulong Pass before he could discuss the plot against Duliang.
"Yu Yan, please inform the brothers in Duliang City immediately and ask them to pick up their mother as soon as possible, and let the thunderstorm take three thousand people, waiting outside Duliang City, ready to respond at any time." At this time, Bai Qi was not afraid of revealing that he had occupied Yulong Pass.
Xu Yuyan, who had been waiting quietly, smiled and said, "Brother Seven, just don't worry, our people have been with the old lady for a long time, and I guess they are already trying to find a way to take her out of the city."
Bai Qi looked at the woman beside him who had always been docile and capable to him with gratitude. He pressed her shoulder with both hands and looked into her eyes and said, "You know me the best and what I want to do the best?"
When Bai Qi was worried about Bai Yunfan and his mother, Su Yuncheng, who was in the capital, was also thinking about the connection with Yulong.
The feminine moon penetrated into the window, and the dim light shone on Su Yuncheng's face. After a fight, the woman beside her was finally pressed onto the bed by Su Yuncheng, and surrendered in a few seconds, becoming a soft sheep under Su Yuncheng, who was now sleeping with a satisfied smile.
Su Yuncheng was not sleepy at all. He was so busy these two days that he had not paid attention to the Yulong Pass. When he calmed down to check the official documents tonight, he realized that there had been no official documents from Yulong Pass for two days. Su Yuncheng certainly knew the importance of Yulong Pass and also understood Bai Qi's character. Everything that happened in the capital would sooner or later reach Bai Qi's ears. Bai Qi would definitely react at that time. Bai Qi would choose to escape when Bai Qi was there, but Bai Qi was no longer so polite. Now even Bai Yunfan was injured, Bai Qi would not pay attention to Bai Yunshan's second brother, let alone his father-in-law.
Thinking of these, Su Yuncheng suddenly remembered a very important thing, and immediately broke free from the woman's hug and put on his clothes. "Come on!" Su Yuncheng said.
"Here! What are the Prime Minister's instructions?" The maid next to him appeared soon and asked respectfully.
"Let them prepare, I'm going to go into the palace."
Although it was very late at night, Kong Beihai and Jie Dongshan were sitting opposite each other in the military yamen in Jiezhou City. After a day of busyness, drinking some wine would be a relief.
"Brother Jie, Yulong Pass has been taken down. I will personally bring reinforcements tomorrow. I will work hard here. You will have to work hard. I will have to work hard for you in the future." Kong Beihai first learned about Dongshan for a cup. After drinking the two, Jie Dongshan stretched and said, "I'm nothing. You are going to fight with the Lord. Are you suffering from your body?"
Kong Beihai did not directly answer Xie Dongshan, but asked back: "Brother Jie, in your mind, what kind of person is our Lord?" Jie Dongshan was stunned by the question and quickly replied: "It is also disrespectful to talk about the Lord in private. I don't think about this topic."
Kong Beihai smiled and added wine to Jie Dongshan and said, "No one is here, so it's okay to talk. Besides, my master is not a person of small size. Even if he knows, there should be no problem."
"You said the Lord doesn't mind if he knows it? How can you see it?" Xie Dongshan asked back.
Kong Beihai smiled and said, "You have never been interested. You don't talk on weekdays. You only know how to work. You should talk more to the Lord even if you have nothing to do, and you will gain more understanding of the Lord."
Jie Dongshan glanced at Kong Beihai and said, "Brother Kong, I advise you, as a minister, you must not get too close to the Lord. Knowing too much may not be a good thing. This is what our old man said."
"I know that the doctrines passed down by your Jie family are the art of emperors. You Jie family have indeed assisted many emperors in history, but do you know? How does our master view the position of emperor?" Kong Beihai smiled indifferently.
"What do you think?" Jie Dongshan became interested now, and his originally tired eyes lit up.
Kong Beihai didn't keep it a secret, and smiled slightly and said, "A few days ago, the Lord asked me to drink. When he talked about you, he said that you were boring and didn't understand life. He was just a work machine. You never refused to ask you to drink and spank. This is the original words of the Lord." Kong Beihai couldn't help laughing as he said. At that time, he didn't expect that the slang would appear in Bai Qi's mouth.
When Xie Dongshan heard the chatting was said to be "fighting", he couldn't help but spray it out with a sip of wine. Fortunately, he reacted quickly enough and turned his head and sprayed it on the side. However, he was still choked and coughed continuously before he recovered.
Kong Beihai waited for Jie Dongshan to recover, and then continued, "I was like you at that time, but I was sprayed with the Lord. Unexpectedly, the Lord didn't care at all. After washing his face and clothes, he continued to chat with me. I also said, your Jie family has always opposed the ministers and the kings not being too close to each other. As a result, do you know what the Lord said?"
"How to say it?" Jie Dongshan became more and more interested.
Kong Hokkaido: "The Lord said that once the emperor is taken, he is destined to be a lonely man, but many people go to rob him. A world without a king is definitely better than a world with a king."
"What? What?" Jie Dongshan was shocked when he heard this. The wine glass in his hand fell off with a bang. His mouth opened, and he thought that Kong Beihai was talking about the Book of Heaven. In Jie Dongshan's mind, what the Jie family learned was to spend his whole life looking for a good king and then assist him. In Jie Dongshan's rebellious remarks, such as Bai Qi, were simply fallacies and evil deeds.
Kong Beihai seemed very satisfied with Jie Dongshan's performance and laughed: "Are you scared? I was also shocked at that time, but I still asked with courage, "There is no king in the country, who has the final say? No one has the final say, and the world is in chaos? Guess how the Lord answered?"
No matter how Jie Dongshan wanted to break his head, he could not guess what Bai Qi said. He could only smile bitterly and said, "My Lord is an extraordinary person. He will definitely speak extraordinary words, but I can't think of them."
"Hehe!" Kong Beihai smiled cunningly and said, "I didn't expect the Lord to say that at that time. Maybe the Lord was drunk and his words were a little messy, but I saw that his eyes were very bright at the time, and he didn't look like he drank too much."
"What the hell is said by the Lord? Just say it straight, don't keep it in my arms." Jie Dongshan was anxious. When he heard the most critical moment, Kong Beihai made this move.
Kong Beihai looked at Jie Dongshan, unable to see a smile on his face, and said word by word: "Listen, what the Lord said, a country without a king is of course the people have the final say. The people elected people they trust to form a parliament, and then elected a president who exercised his rights on behalf of the people. Although the president has the right to decide all major affairs of the country, once the president does not do well, the parliament has the right to impeach him and let him step down."
This passage hit Jie Dongshan's head like a thunderbolt. Jie Dongshan's face turned pale and he said loudly: "What's this happening? What's this happening? Isn't this all messy? Where is the ethics?" At this time, there was a sudden lightning in the sky outside the window, followed by a violent explosion of thunder, which shocked Jie Dongshan's whole body.
Kong Beihai also sighed and said, "Don't talk about you, you are so scared when I heard it. I didn't expect that the Lord changed his mind and these were just some thoughts. I guess I will never be able to see such a world again in my life. It seems that the Lord once lived in the world he described."
Jie Dongshan was completely speechless at this time, just staring blankly outside the window. The wind was blowing, and lightning kept flashing in the sky, and thunder sounded one after another, followed by a strong wind. The trees in the yard were shaking and swaying and struggling in the wind. Another lightning, another violent thunder sound, the raindrops as big as beans fell down, fell on the leaves, on the ground, and fell in the hearts of the two people who were drinking under the dim light.
For these two people, Bai Qi's theory is really unaware of it. Even Bai Qi himself knew clearly that if he wanted to develop democracy in this year, it would be better to dig a hole and bury himself. So at that time, he just talked casually, just as a kind of remembrance of his previous life.
After a long time of wind and rain, it finally stopped. A bright moon broke free from the shackles of dark clouds and drilled out. The night sky washed by the wind and rain was so clear and the air was refreshing. Jie Dongshan, who was not interested in wine, stood up, walked to the window, looked at the night sky without stars and said, "Brother Kong, you asked me just now what I thought about the master, now I can answer you." Without waiting for Kong Beihai to speak, Jie Dongshan turned around and looked at Kong Beihai and said, "One point of ruthlessness, two point of cunning, three point of sincereness, and four point of saving the world."
Kong Beihai looked solemn after hearing this, and slowly raised his hand, "Papapapapapa", and the applause was particularly loud in this quiet night after the storm.
The city of Liang City in Duliang this night seemed very boring, and even a little hot. Bai Qiwei's coffin was still parked in the mourning hall, but there were only two women who were guarding the spirit, the original eldest wife Yun and the originally insignificant Xiaolian. As for the new king Baiyunshan, he was on the bed, hugging the two women and venting his fear in his heart. Since Bai Qiwei's death, every night when he went to bed and dreamed, Bai Qiwei's face before his death always appeared in front of Baiyunshan, which made Baiyunshan very frightened. Baiyunshan, who had ghosts in his heart, could only vent on women all night to escape fear, venting his inner fear on women again and again, and when he could not do it, he would bite his teeth and twist it with his hands. Whenever the woman was tortured and screamed, Baiyunshan's inner fear would be eliminated a little.
Yun and Xiaolian knelt on the guard almost all night. Two days passed and they remained the same.
The night was dark, the lights were dim, and the mourning hall was gloomy. After Xiaolian's close maid walked to Xiaolian and whispered in a low voice, Xiaolian raised her head in surprise and looked at Yun, and then said firmly: "You take the eldest princess with you, I won't leave."
When Yun heard Xiao Lian suddenly say this, he raised his tired face and said, "What's wrong? What happened?" The maid also walked to Yun's ear and said a few words. Yun couldn't help but say tragically: "The king's body is not cold, so they dare to do this. I think we can't get rid of it even if we want to. Why don't we just wait here and see what they want to do?"
The maid became anxious when she heard this and hurriedly urged: "Two princesses, the villain has arranged everything to ensure that you can send you out of the capital safely. After tonight, it will be too late."
"Who are you?" Yun asked unmoved when he saw the maid's anxious look.
"I am the Seventh Master, and I have been arranged in the palace. The task is to protect you." The maid replied.
Chapter completed!