Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 351 The Enemy Is Coming
Chapter 53 The Enemy Comes

"I'm really sorry for the county owner. The post station is full today, and there is only one upper room left!" The postman said with a smile on his face: "The scenery in this upper room is a bit inconvenient. Tomorrow, the official will arrange people. Give the county master another room..."

Li Daozhen was a little tired, waved his hands weakly and said: "Forget it, we'll leave at dawn, don't bother!"

"If the Lord Baicheng needs anything else, just tell the postmen below to do it!" The postman bowed and smiled.

"I'm almost hungry, hurry up and get some food!" Xiaotao ordered to Yicheng: "Hurry up, get someone to prepare hot water, our county chief takes a bath!"

"Okay, okay, come right away!" Although Yicheng is a ninth-rank official, this official is an internal official of the Tang Dynasty.However, a maid who has no position and no authority can tell him what to do, but Yi Cheng really has nothing to do.

Facing the honorable clan of the Great Tang Dynasty, one must be cautious at all times. Offending anyone, they can squeeze a finger to death like an ant.

Yi Cheng exited the room calmly.After a while, the postman's chef prepared the dishes for the room, and a servant woman brought them into Li Daozhen's room.

Looking at the delicious dishes, Xiao Tao's throat moved unconsciously.

However, Li Daozhen was still lazy, too lazy to move.

Although Li Daozhen and Xiaotao are sisters in love, the difference in respect and inferiority is an insurmountable gap.Li Daozhen didn't finish eating, and Xiaotao didn't dare to move her chopsticks.

Xiao Tao was already very hungry, but seeing the dishes on the table, she became even hungrier at this time. In order to fill her stomach as soon as possible, she hurried forward, picked up a pair of chopsticks and handed them to Li Daozhen, and then held the other pair of chopsticks Li Daozhen's favorite dish at ordinary times: "Master, please eat something quickly. We have been traveling every day for the past few days, and we have already entered the boundary of Lingzhou. We can reach Bogulu City by tomorrow afternoon at the latest."

Li Daozhen took the chopsticks, picked up a piece of Mushu meat, and stuffed it into his mouth.Since stir-frying was not yet popular in the Tang Dynasty, this Mushu meat slice is not the kind of later generations, but mutton slices boiled in white water, with some fungus added.In terms of taste, it's really not that good.

Li Daozhen frowned just after taking a bite.

Xiaotao asked timidly: "Master, it's really hard to eat!"

"Ugh..." Li Daozhen didn't speak, and vomited directly into the spittoon.

After a while, after Li Daozhen finished rinsing her mouth, she picked up another piece of steamed chicken, but the chicken hadn't been eaten yet, and Li Daozhen could only smell the chicken, so she quickly lowered her head and vomited again.

Now Xiaotao couldn't bear it any longer, she slapped the table, and said to the servant woman who was serving beside her, "Call your Post Office!"

The maid ran out of the door without falling.

Hearing that the maid brought Li Daozhen to vomit after eating the meal at the post station, the post office was shocked.In case Li Daozhen really has something good or bad, he will be the postman to the end.

The chef who was called by Yicheng to go to the stove was full of scolding, and the chef was also baffled. He thought to himself, the dishes were prepared as usual, and it was not like the station had never visited dignitaries, and no one else had said anything. Why did something go wrong when the food arrived at Li Daozhen's place?
Before Yi Cheng knelt down to plead guilty, Li Daozhen waved his hands and said, "It's because I have no appetite, I can't eat greasy food, is there any sour food?"

The chef said: "There is still vinegar and parsley in the kitchen!"

"Bring it here!"

Yicheng murmured: "This..."

Xiaotao said: "Just take it if you tell me, don't talk nonsense!"

Yicheng had no choice but to obey the arrangement.

Vinegar celery is a side dish in the Tang Dynasty. It was not easy to preserve food in ancient times, especially green vegetables.Celery is a vegetable that is not easy to preserve, so in order to prevent celery from deteriorating, the common people invented a method. After ordinary celery is fermented, it is like vinegar, with a sour smell, but because of vinegar, if it is cooked with five flavors The soup is also very tasty.But this dish is not expensive at first, it belongs to the food that poor people only eat in winter.

There is vinegar and celery in the post station, but it is just a small dish for the porters and servants to accompany their meals.Not to mention that the nobles don't eat it, in fact, this food is not delicious, and it is a cold food. It is not very comfortable to eat in winter, and even Yi Cheng does not eat it.He almost threw up when he smelled the sour smell.

Not long after, the maid brought a plate of vinegared celery to Li Daozhen's table.

Facing the strong sour taste, Li Daozhen didn't feel it. Under the surprised eyes of everyone, she picked up the chopsticks and held up the cup, gobbled it up quickly, and seemed to think it was not sour enough. Li Daozhen even poured the vegetable juice in the vinegar celery Put into a small rice bowl.The vegetable juice of vinegar and celery, in terms of sourness, is no less powerful than old vinegar, but Li Daozhen ate it with great joy.A cup full of vinegar celery was eaten up in a short while.

Xiaotao suddenly lost her appetite when she smelled the vinegar smell all over the room.

At this moment, the servant woman inadvertently said: "The county master is probably happy!"

Xiaotao was stunned for a while like a lightning strike.

She hurriedly pushed the servant away and let the servant leave.When the maid left, Xiaotao quickly rushed to Li Daozhen's side, gently pushed Li Daozhen and said, "Master, do you feel something is wrong?"

Li Daozhen patted his forehead, and said softly: "I've been very lazy recently, maybe I'm a little tired from the rush, just rest for a few days."

Xiaotao was anxious, pointed to Li Daozhen's stomach and said, "Your stomach!"

"What's wrong with the stomach?" Li Daozhen also said inexplicably at this time: "My stomach is fine!"

"Master, do you have one?"

Li Daozhen's eyes opened a crack, and he gave Xiaotao a white look, walked to the bed, lay down on the bed, pulled up the corner of the quilt, covered his face, giggling non-stop. "Xiao Tao, this kind of thing...how dare you say it."

"What's so embarrassing." Xiaotao said disapprovingly, "The way of yin and yang, count the time, your menstruation seems to have not come..."

Li Daozhen lowered the corner of the quilt, showing sly eyes. "Is this impossible? It's just one night, how is it possible?"

Xiaotao said solemnly: "No, this matter must be clarified. If there is, you can't rush on like this."

Speaking of which, Xiaotao asked Yi Cheng to invite the doctor, and when midnight came, the doctor came to examine Li Daozhen's pulse, and finally came to a conclusion: "Slippery pulse!"

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The dark clouds were like lead, heavy and dark above the head, and the cold wind howled from the unsheltered Hetao Plain, blowing on the face like a knife.In the open field, except for the startled hibernating snake, there was no living thing. Occasionally, an old crow stood on a branch and uttered a hoarse cry, cutting through the desolate and silent hazy sky.

At this moment, snow particles have already fallen, and the first section of the road from Yanzhou seems to be difficult.

Liang Luoren squinted at the vast snow field to the north, the tassel beads on both sides of his cheeks were blown so that his ears hurt.Although the coming blizzard is extremely unfavorable to the march, this coming blizzard will make the people near Lingzhou hide at home to avoid the snow, and the blizzard will become a favorable cover.

A blizzard came whistling, snow particles rustled on the hat pockets, and a team of about [-] cavalry came meandering.Brown armor, short jacket with narrow sleeves, bowed hips and knives on the back, most of the face is hidden in the hat pocket to avoid the wind and snow, but it is a group of Turkic cavalry wandering to Yanzhou.

The Turkic cavalry followed Liang Luoren to Lingzhou, but their purpose was not simple.

At this time, Liang Shidu had lost most of Xiazhou, leaving only less than twenty counties.Although Master Liang scoured no less than three feet of land for the sake of the army, how much oil and water can people search for in twenty poor counties?
When Chen Ying was stationed in Lingzhou, these Turkic people would rather drink the northwest wind than come to Lingzhou.Now that they heard that Lingzhou was empty, they followed suit and looted some supplies for the winter.

Compared with Yanzhou in Liangshidu, Lingzhou is almost a paradise.In order to resettle the slaves rescued from the Turks, Chen should give them tax-free privileges and low-interest loans for them to buy family business and reclaim wasteland. Unable to support Lingzhou, there are fewer people and more land. Although these Lingzhou people are still poor, every household has surplus food to repay their loans.

The army under Liang Luoren's command was not only poorly equipped, but also seriously lacked winter clothes to keep out the cold.It is good to march on the road, but dozens or hundreds of people will freeze to death every time they camp.

Before the shadow of guarding the Tang army, Liang Luoren's staff was reduced by 600 people, and the morale at this time can be imagined.

Looking at the melodies that looked like walking corpses, Liang Luoren shouted: "Brothers, work harder, break through Lingzhou without sealing your sword for three days!"

Not sealing the knife means that you can do whatever you want in the city.You can kill, you can rob, and you can get the money, women, food, and supplies they want.

The army, which had almost no morale at all, immediately regained some morale after hearing Liang Luoren's order, and the eyes of these numb soldiers showed a green light like a wolf.

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The night was dark and visibility was extremely low under the snowstorm.Song Wusao, the general of Lingwu Eighteenth Town Fort, felt her eyelids twitching, and she could no longer sleep peacefully.So he put on his leather armor, took a harpoon, and walked to the town castle to inspect.

Originally a little bit tired, but was blown by the cold wind on the castle wall, and there was no trace of it.Looking at the self-reinforcing warriors who were shivering while roasting in the enemy building, Mrs. Song felt a very absurd feeling in her heart.

In this weather, how could it be possible to send troops?I must be under too much pressure and a little paranoid.

She was about to go back to the enemy building to sleep when suddenly a dull voice sounded.

"Boom boom boom!"

There was a strange sound coming from the top of the north wall of Zhenbao. Fifth Aunt Song looked back, but in the dark night sky, she couldn't see anything.However, at this moment, Mrs. Song saw the snow on the notch of the female wall, and the snow particles danced slightly.

Although Song Wusao is a Han Chinese, she has been in Turkic for more than ten years, and she already has a set of methods for judging the approach of cavalry.For a shock of this magnitude, at least a thousand cavalry were slowly approaching.

Song Wusao knew that there were not many mules in Lingzhou, not to mention the cavalry of the establishment, and they were all recruited by Li Daozong.The cavalry now appearing in Lingzhou must be enemies rather than friends.

Song Zisao shouted in a low voice: "Liang Zi, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zi, go back and inform the commanders of the castles that the enemy is coming!"

(End of this chapter)