The rise of the prince

Chapter 299

At noon, the sun was hot, directly overhead, and the air was terribly dry.

After a while, Qi Rui ran up to the top of the city excitedly, panting and said: "My lord, someone dumped that pit, there are at least a thousand corpses in it!"

Thousands!

The balance in Li Xingzhou's heart began to tilt.

If there are thousands of corpses, it means that the fight last night must have been very tragic. People are not machines, and the limit of psychological endurance is very low, especially in hand-to-hand combat at close range. In a battle of tens of thousands of people, it is the only ones who can die and flee after thousands of people die. elite.

Obviously, it was impossible for the rebels to do that. Tens of thousands of them attacked the city for so many days, and the number of people lost would never exceed [-].

But so many people died in the battle last night, it must have been very tragic. Di Zhi also said that he had been paying attention to the withdrawal of the rebels since the early morning, and the number of people was greatly reduced, almost less than [-]. During the fight last night, many people should have fled and scattered. .

"My lord, let's go after them, it will be difficult for a certain army of two thousand horses to kill them all!" Qi Rui waved his fist excitedly.

Di Zhi also cupped his hands: "My lord, my subordinates think this is an opportunity to win in one fell swoop, and it's not a solution if they can't hold on. They will come again after the rebel army is regrouped. The opportunity is fleeting. It would be a pity to miss it."

Looking up at the hot sun above his head, Li Xingzhou finally nodded. After all, he still has the sun.

"Di Zhi obeys orders."

Di Zhi knelt down on one knee: "This subordinate is here."

"I order you to lead the [-] defenders as the central army, to rectify and stand by, and to go out of the city to pursue after noon."

"Order!"

"Qi Rui listens to the order!" Li Xingzhou looked at Qi Rui.

"The end is here!" Qi Rui knelt down on one knee excitedly.

"Order your horse army as the vanguard, start immediately, follow the rebels closely, find out what the rebels are doing and report back immediately, do not engage in battle."

"Order!"

Finally, Li Xingzhou looked at Yan Shen: "Yan Shen, you go to Jiao Shan and ask him to take the dead soldiers from the Princess Mansion to demolish the Princess Mansion and the Yamen."

"Deling, huh?" Yan Shen was stunned, not only him, everyone was stunned.

"My lord, what did you say?"

Li Xingzhou had no choice but to repeat loudly to him: "Go and tear down the princess mansion and yamen." Then he patted him on the shoulder earnestly, "Believe me, this is a difficult task, and ordinary people will not allow him to take the blame and do it."

Yan Shen was skeptical, but finally nodded with a bewildered face. There is no way, the words of the son are heaven.
In late April, the scorching heat gradually flooded the streets and alleys of Kaiyuan. No matter whether the people on the streets or the dignitaries, whoever dared to fight against the sun would be sweating profusely and miserable.

Many drinks and snacks, such as ice plum soup, freshly squeezed lotus root juice, etc., have become the most sought-after business on the street.

The south is too far, and the north of Guan is too far. At the foot of the emperor, there are grand events and prosperity. Kaiyuan always seems to be a scene of peace and prosperity.It's no wonder that Kaiyuan people have no sense of crisis, but since Taizong's founding of the country, Kaiyuan has not been affected by war for 200 years.

200 years, how many generations are there? The wars in the minds of most Kaiyuan people are nothing more than hearsay and opera texts. In addition, in such an era, travel risks are huge. Many people have never left Kaiyuan in their entire lives.

Therefore, the southern war is the topic that literati like to discuss most, but it is always the topic that is farthest from them.

Recently, I listened to these discussions in the Yulou. Some people chanted their poems, some made plans, some analyzed the situation, etc. There are countless, but there is one thing in common, that is, it is useless at all.

But it doesn't matter if it is useless, the world does not need useful things to exist. The sage said: The use of uselessness, the use of uselessness, is the greatest use.

On the third floor of Tingyu Building, the stairway is full of Shangzhi's personal guards in black scale armor.

The Shangzhi personal guard and the beast-headed green-faced imperial guard of the Liao Kingdom have the same effect in the same way. They are both envied by the poor and lowly, and despised by the upper class.

Shangzhi's personal guards are there, and the identities of the old man and the beautiful woman sitting on the third floor are also self-evident. They are the current emperor and queen.Standing in the middle of the pavilion, the emperor has already read several times the exquisitely framed "Storm and Storm on November [-]th" hanging in the middle.

"Ye Lan is lying down listening to the wind and rain, and the iron horse and ice river are dreaming." The emperor shook his head: "He shouldn't have died like this. I was negligent."

The queen doesn't speak, the parents die, and the children should have kept their filial piety for three years, but he is the emperor, and he has the final say on everything in the world.But how much, in fact, she is dissatisfied in her heart, except for the queen's affairs, the war in the south, the life and death of her grandson Li Xingzhou are uncertain, and the emperor is so leisurely that he goes out of the palace to have fun
The emperor also saw that she was not in high spirits.

"You know why I came here." The emperor sighed and looked out of the window. The window has been drawn with tulle, and ordinary people can't see it.

"If it was before, I would not let Ji Chunsheng go south, nor would I let Yang Hongzhao venture west." The emperor stopped reading the poem as he spoke, "Li Xingzhou is indeed Chengshe's son, and I value it too, but so what, He is the heir of the royal family first, and after the heavenly family, he must bear the burden, if he dies for the country and the community, he will die well."

The queen opened her mouth slightly, unable to speak.

"But once the Empress Dowager died, I understood." The emperor turned his head with a complicated expression: "I am getting old."

"The emperor is not old." The queen said hastily.

The emperor shook his head: "I know it well."

The queen also didn't know what to say for a while, but her heart trembled, and she also understood that the emperor was afraid that he was really old
No wonder he still wanted to come to this place despite his busy schedule. If the emperor was not old, he would be so looking forward to Xingzhou's safe return.

"The situation in the south is in turmoil. I don't expect him to do anything. I only hope that he can come back safely. The country will eventually be my heavenly home."

Hearing this, the queen couldn't help but shed tears.

Just at this time, through the window, she saw two young girls sitting by the river downstairs, both of whom she knew.

"Sister Gillian, when will he come back?" He Qian was shaking her little feet by the river.

Gillian sat next to her quietly: "I don't know why Xiaoqian cares about the prince so much."

The little girl panicked and her feet shook even faster: "No, I don't care about him, not at all.

I just think he is so stupid, what kind of hero is he going to be." As he spoke, he thought about the things he was covered in blood and stood in front of him. If he went to the south and acted like a hero, wouldn't it be very dangerous.

Thinking about it, the little girl's eyes turned red.

Gillian hugged her: "Xiaoqian, the prince will definitely come back, nothing in this world can trouble him, it's not good for you to squat here every day and wait, go to the palace and wait."

"I'm not waiting for him to come back, I'm just waiting here. No, no, I'm not waiting. I just come to see it every day. It's a wonderful situation." He Qian talked about himself in a hurry.

A-Jiao smiled: "I'm right, no one laughed at you when you went to the palace, everyone knows that."

He Qian quickly avoided her gaze, and put her hands on her hips: "Hmph, I know. What do you know? He was so rude to me back then. I thought...I wanted him to come and scold him to vent my anger."

"That's the first thing to scold at the palace."

"Oh, when will he come back?"

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Riding Meixue, Li Xingzhou slowly crossed the flat field and entered the forest in the south, with the army behind him. All of a sudden, the sun was blocked and the world cooled down.

Meixue shook her head comfortably, and Li Xingzhou smiled: "If this battle can be settled, we will be able to go home soon." Before he knew it, he had been away from home for a long time
(End of this chapter)