The rise of the prince

Chapter 581 What I Want + Desperate Situation
In the night wind, the bonfire flickered brightly, and the flames danced. Everyone happily sat around the fire and roasted the sheep.

Qifang looked at the happy faces of the people, and she felt very happy. She knew that she led these people to accomplish a big event, a huge event, something that she never dared to think about since she was a child.

This incident is enough to leave their names in history.

Of course, that was their joy, she herself had her own joy, think about it when she went back, when she came back victorious, how would that guy look at her, how should he thank her?

At that time, you can still be angry with his precious poetry, holding it in the palm of your hand for fear of breaking it, holding it in your mouth for fear of melting the poetry girl.

Whenever she thinks of that woman, she always has an inexplicable anger. Isn't it because she is more beautiful and can take care of the accounts?

Hmph, anyway, now he should see clearly who is the most capable person in the palace.

But thinking about it, I was a little discouraged, this matter was planned by him.
Thinking about it this way, Qifang couldn't help feeling sad, yes, no matter how well he did it, he had planned it long ago, so why would he be surprised? Sometimes thinking about it, he is so smart that he is so smart that it makes people admire , making her feel hopeless
But this time she managed to do it after all, and she didn't disappoint him. Thinking of this, Qifang couldn't help laughing.

"What are you laughing at?" Wei Yubai walked over and sat down beside her.

She quickly put away her smile: "No."

Wei Yubai looked at her with a half-smile, which made Qifang feel very uncomfortable as if she was being seen through all over her body, and quickly added: "Just... think about the things in the past few days, is there any omission, now it's done beforehand. , can’t be caught by Xia Guo. It’s a good thing to keep them in the dark and continue to attack each other.”

Wei Yubai smiled and said: "You are worrying too much. As long as no one talks about such a plan, who can guess it? It is said that the authorities are obsessed, and that the bystanders are clear, but what is happening now is that the bystanders are not clear. The prince's plan has not come to fruition." In the last few steps, I didn't understand what to do with it.

But when it was done, I looked back and couldn’t believe it, as if it came from the hands of heaven and man.”

Qifang felt the same, but didn't speak.

Wei Yubai looked at the night sky, blowing the evening wind, and said with emotion: "The people in Beijing all rumor that the prince is the star of Wenqu, and that the god of thunder reincarnated the god, so he attacked like a swift wind and thunder. People can see through, and sometimes I think it might be true."

Qifang glanced at Wei Yubai, saw her face full of emotion, and resonated in her heart: "Yes, he is such a person, but he just doesn't know how to restrain himself. Jingui is so approachable, and people can't help but want to get close to her." , wanting to get closer."

"So you are working so hard to let him see you?" Wei Yubai asked her.

Qifang didn't speak, and it took a while to arrive: "Actually, he can see without me doing this, but his vision will always be different from others."

"What's the difference?"

"Since I was a child, I have only seen two kinds of looks." Qifang raised two fingers.

"One is lying on the ground, looking at you submissively, for fear of being trampled to death by you accidentally." She raised her hand over her brow as she spoke: "The other is to be high above you, wishing that you would be trampled under your feet.

The day when the high one gets down, he will be submissive; the day when the one who is lying on the ground stands up, he will be the high one, it’s always the same, until I see him.”

As Qi Fang spoke, he slowly lowered his hand and put it between his eyebrows: "He looks at people like this, he looks at your brows flatly, neither high nor low, everyone looks the same.

When I met him for the first time, he was a high-ranking prince, and I was the commander of the small Xiang army, but they were all the same. He always looked at people in a normal way. "

Qi Fang said softly: "At first I was very dissatisfied, how can anyone look at people like this, either they are high on the top, or they keep their heads down, we have been established like this for generations.

But he doesn't, he just looks at everyone like this, the brothers who have been with him through life and death, his sister-in-law, and even the group of ignorant and troublesome people.
It seems that there are things in his heart that others don’t understand, things that others dare not think about, just like this, more and more people work hard for him, and more and more people follow him, going forward indomitably.”

"So you think you're wrong?" Wei Yubai asked.

Qifang didn't say anything, it was a tacit consent, "Anyway, apart from him, I can't find anyone in the world who would look at me like that.

He looked at my brows, neither high nor low, neither high above nor submissive, I...I can't leave him. "

"Then why don't you stay in the inner courtyard of the palace, you always have a way."

"I'm not that kind of person, do you think I'm a bird suitable for being locked up in the courtyard?" Qifang said in a panic.

Wei Yubai shook his head, and said with a smile: "It's not like, if I tie you a chain, even if you bite your teeth, you will break the chain." After getting along for so long, the two have a common topic, Qi Fang was the most exhausted when she was Take care, and now I have become a heart-to-heart friend.

"You call me a dog." Qifang pretended to be angry, but couldn't help laughing, she knew that Wei Yubai was joking with her.

"But you're right. There were still things that could hold me back at the beginning. They were my two older brothers. Now they are gone. If the prince hadn't gone to Luzhou, I would have fought hard with Ding Yi and Ding Yi long ago." She hugged on the knees.

Wei Yubai nodded: "Indeed, if you enter the palace, you are likely to enter the palace in the future. The women in the palace are worse than the birds in the cage, let alone you, a dog who can bite the chain."

"You just said that I am a dog, and you don't hide it!" Qifang was so angry that he patted Wei Yubai: "I don't have that kind of blessing, and that is not my life."

"What do you want to do when you go back?"

Qi Fang gave her a white look: "What else can I do, the more I do, the better, the more he can't leave me, I can hold him firmly in the palm of my hand."

Wei Yubai shook his head and laughed at her: "You little dog whose teeth haven't grown yet, I'm afraid it's just being held in the palm of your hand."

Just as she was about to refute, Yan Shen and the others brought a silver plate with sliced ​​roast mutton piled up on it: "Be in charge, eat meat."

"Eat first," she said.

Yan Shen laughed and said, "You and Fang Guanshi eat, so everyone can eat."

Qi Fang looked up, and saw that the people sitting around the campfire were all looking at her, looking at her eagerly.

After going through this incident, everyone has eyes, and they understand who has the ability, no matter whether she is a daughter or not.Qifang's heart warmed, and he took a plate of meat, and everyone began to eat and drink happily.

"Sometimes, I think it's worth doing these things." Qifang said.

Wei Yubai: "I eat your meat, it's okay."

"You've already done it, what can I say."

"Giggle" the two also laughed happily.

In the night wind, laughter swayed with the flames. This was their last night in Yan'an Mansion in the northwest. In order not to attract attention, they planned to evacuate as soon as possible. Let them have a good fight in Xia Guo, the more fun they have. , the happier they are.

Standing on the city wall of Juyongguan, Yelu Dashi looked at the gray Nanjing city below from a distance, and his heart was completely lost.

The Jin army besieged Datong, but he was powerless to break the siege, because now he only has more than a thousand troops, and the rest were transferred away by the new emperor Yelu Dun for various reasons. Not to mention support, it would be a big problem to stick to this pass.

If Xijing is broken, the army of the Kingdom of Jin will cross Juyongguan and go south to attack Nanjing, so he stays here.

But what can these more than a thousand men guard?In fact, he was confused in his heart, maybe he just tried his best.
"General, let's just stay here." The cronies beside him asked hesitantly.

Yelu Dashi didn't speak, he understood what his cronies meant, he wanted to say that they should run away, while the Jin people besieged Datong Mansion, they ran westward, and when they passed the Yin Mountain, no one could catch up with them.

Yelu Dashi almost predicted that this battle would not be won, because Jingguo had sent troops, Dajin had arrived in Yizhou, and Wei Chaoren's troops had defeated the local resistance.

The news came last night. The messenger who came delivered the letter and left in a hurry at night. It must be that the young emperor gave him some order. He didn't dare to stay for a long time, and he didn't dare to approach him.

But that's okay, this way, he doesn't have to think about how to tell the soldiers the desperate news.

He knew that Wei Chaoren had fought against him several times when he was the king of the South Courtyard, and he was a difficult opponent. According to intelligence, Wei Chaoren was only the right army, and the middle army also entered Yizhou from Bazhou.

It is said that there is still a left army, but there is no trace.
The situation is desperate, far more desperate than the soldiers under his command thought. What Yelu Dashi feared the most happened after all. What Jing Guo thought of facing the dying Liao Kingdom was not to be cold, but to get a share of the pie.

He couldn't say it, he could only hold it in his heart.

Yelu Dashi patted his confidant on the shoulder, and beckoned the brothers around him: "I understand what you are thinking, and I don't blame you, I was the one who helped Yelu Dun to Khan's seat back then.

But I still want to ask you, please all my brothers who have been born and died, just this time, the last time!We were born Daliao people, and we will fight for Daliao again. When the fight is over, we will no longer owe this land anything. Then we will flee west, and we will be together! "

"General!" Many soldiers bowed their heads, many people shed tears, and the atmosphere was compassionate. In just one or two years, their Daliao, the once powerful Daliao, became like this
"When the time comes, it will be life or death, we will all escape together!" He hugged the soldiers beside him heavily.

Everyone nodded: "Follow the general to the death!"

"Live together in life, and die together in death!"

Yelu Dashi's eyes were moist, and he looked to the south worriedly, because there was an ever-victorious army there, an army that he could not rest assured all the time
In the big tent, the lights flickered, and in the night wind, the footsteps of soldiers patrolling could be heard from time to time.

An old man in his fifties held a candle and carefully looked at the map on the table.
"Where is Jing Jun?" He asked, and the soldiers beside him said: "General, yesterday a scout said that he had seen Jing Guo's army in the north of Yizhou. Meet us in a few days."

The old man didn't speak, but just glanced at the soldiers around him, "Is that what the scout said?"

The soldier nodded.

The old general stared at him: "Say it again, what did the scout say?"

"The scout said" the soldiers paused, and said with a guilty conscience: "The scout said there are about two to three thousand, it should be the vanguard of Jingguo, the main force of the Jing army. They are still on the road and have not entered Zhuozhou." After speaking, he bowed his head.

The old general sighed, put down the candle, and did not punish the lying soldiers.

"I don't know what you are thinking. You just want me to take you to surrender to Jingguo. The Jing army is mighty and menacing. There is no chance of winning. Everyone is Han. They will be merciful to some extent. You think so Bar."

The soldier nodded.

The old general said slowly, "It's not just you, Zhang Linghui and the others also told me in private, but things are not that simple.

A surrender, a lifetime of infamy.Besides, if you want to surrender, you must have sincerity. Yizhou and Zhuozhou will be won sooner or later, and they may not be popular if they send them up. Then we can only make meritorious deeds on the battlefield. Once we surrender, we must take the lead in this battle.

At this time, if you look back and think about it, even though the tens of thousands of brothers under your command were all Han Chinese in Liaodong and Bohai, how many wives and daughters in the army are from Liao and Khitan?If the time comes, Jing Jun forces us to kill us, how will we deal with it?"

The soldier was speechless.
The old general stood up, walked slowly to the front of the big tent, and looked at the night sky for a long time: "But you are right, if you don't surrender, you will die in vain."

He was silent for a long time: "You go and invite Zhang Linghui, Liu Shunren, and Zhen Wuchen to come over and discuss it carefully. This matter cannot be delayed, and a decision must be made early."

The soldiers cheered up and hurriedly said, "I'll go right away!"

As if rebounding after experiencing the previous darkness and difficulties, the battle in the north is frequently successful.

Wei Chaoren's East Route Army won the victory first, and then Yang Wenguang's Left Route Army also reported frequent successes. The Left Route Army won consecutive battles, winning more than a dozen battles in succession, and went north all the way to encircle Weizhou, Liao Kingdom.

However, Yang Hongzhao's Central Route Army, with Tong Guan and Yang Jianye as the vanguard, drove straight into the territory of Zhuozhou, fought a big battle on the road, and defeated more than six or seven resistance troops composed of local Xiangjun and tribes in the south of Zhuozhou, and beheaded more than 800 people. The rest collapsed.

The reason why Wei Chaoren's East Route Army did not have any more success was because the tens of thousands of troops on the East Route, under the order of the coach Yang Hongzhao, stationed in Yizhou, besieged Yizhou City, and it was only a matter of time before the city was broken.

The three-way army is constantly reporting success, whether it is the officials in the court, or the people outside the court, they are all encouraged.

Kaiyuan Mansion is very lively these days, literati, beauties and women have begun to use poems and songs to cheer for the army or sing praises.

The emperor was so happy that he rewarded the main generals of several armies one after another, and even made people start rebuilding the Triumph Pavilion outside the city, preparing for a grand ceremony when the armies triumphed, to show the world's prosperity and the country's prestige.

Li Xingzhou did not relax. There are still two outstanding figures in the Liao Kingdom. One is Xiao Qian, the Prime Minister of the Northern Mansion, and the other is Yelu Dashi, the King of the Southern Academy and the Jiedu Envoy of Xingliao Army.

Xiao Qian was besieged by the Jin people in the Datong Mansion, and he was fighting fiercely with the Jin country, so he can rest assured for the time being.

But the other Yelu Dashi has been missing for a long time. He repeatedly emphasized, but the spies still have no news about Yelu Dashi, and they don't know where he is. This person is like a nail, nailing his heart, making Li Xingzhou feel good about the situation. The Northern Expedition was still unable to calm down.

(End of this chapter)