Noble First Daughter-in-law

Night falls.

The cold wind whistled through a forest, the branches and leaves swayed, and the forest waves burst into waves, like thousands of troops galloping in the dark night, which was frightening.

But in fact, there were only a few riders and horses in the woods.

Dusk arrived for these people, and after they arrived, they hid in the woods. No matter how cold the weather was and the wind was as cold as a knife, they did not light a spark. It was not until the sun set that they were seen walking to the edge of the woods. The one among them The strong and burly figure leading the group was none other than Yu Wenye.

He was seen standing on the edge of the woods, his cold eyes staring closely at the huge shadow under the dark sky in the distance, crawling on the ground like a crouching tiger.

That was their target tonight—Taiyuan City.

He had previously agreed with Nie Chong and the others that they would take action at midnight tonight. They were here to observe the situation in Taiyuan City. However, if the army was sent out directly, it would be easy for Taiyuan to detect it and prepare for war in advance, so he asked the army to slow down and arrive at this place. The place several miles away was not moving for the time being, and he came here with several personal guards such as Shen Tutai and Shan Tong'er in light clothes.

Now, it is less than two hours before the agreed time.

Because they were traveling lightly, the clothes on everyone's body were not too thick. Although they were strong and not afraid of the cold, they did not light a bonfire at all in order not to be discovered. They just braved the cold wind for a long time. This feeling was difficult for everyone. It wasn't very pleasant, several soldiers' lips turned purple from the cold, and even Shen Tutai sneezed twice.

He sniffed and looked up at Yu Wenye standing at the edge of the forest.

As the King of Qin, his clothes were no thicker than those of ordinary soldiers. He had been standing in the coldest wind for more than half an hour, almost motionless, but he did not feel the cold at all.

On the contrary, his eyes and expression were colder than the wind.

In fact, everyone knows that His Highness the King of Qin has a resolute temperament, but today, there is a sense of coldness in his perseverance, as if he is deliberately trying to make himself colder, even colder, in order to extinguish the nameless fire in his heart.

Looking at his back, everyone looked at each other silently, with some faint worry in their eyes - although they didn't understand what happened in the county government, the situation before the troops were sent out today was indeed a bit strange.Princess Qin, who has always been very concerned about the military, did not go out with the army. Even though this time was different from the previous Fufeng city defense battle, it would be much more dangerous. As a princess, she did not have to accompany her, but in normal times, she would at least show up to help. The army led by King Qin saw him off.

But today, she didn't show up at all.

Not only did he not show up, but before leaving the county government office, King Qin also left many people in the county government office. The formation seemed to prevent someone from escaping.

Recalling the news from Changchun Palace, everyone seemed to understand something.

So along the way, including staying here for such a long time, no one dared to speak easily, and those who accompanied us were a little cautious. Until this time, another gust of cold wind came, blowing across people's cheeks like a knife, There was dust and sand in the wind, and it suddenly fell into Yu Wenye's eyes.

He said "Huh" and immediately lowered his head.

Shen Tutai glanced at Shan Tong'er, who blinked and walked to him carefully: "His Royal Highness King Qin."

"..."

Yu Wenye didn't speak, but rubbed his eyes vigorously.

Good Tong'er said softly: "Your Highness, this place is a wind outlet. Your Highness has been standing here for so long and it is easy to catch cold. You'd better go behind the tree. I will guard you here."

Yu Wenye said lightly: "No need."

"But, your body-"

"I said, no need."

Although there were only two words, they conveyed an unquestionable majesty, and there was also a hint of coldness that was different from ordinary ones. In addition, he raised his head and glanced coldly, and his eyes were bloodshot and red. Shocked, although Shantong'er was not a timid child, he was also startled at this time, and the words he had not yet spoken were choked back.

He pouted and looked back at Shen Tutai helplessly.

At this moment, a guard who had been standing quietly aside suddenly turned around and looked at the road outside the forest - the road they came from.

"Huh? Someone?"

Hearing his voice, Yu Wenye and Shan Tong'er immediately turned to look at him, and Yu Wenye immediately said: "What's wrong?"

The guard frowned slightly and listened again, then said softly: "Your Highness, there seems to be the sound of horse hooves coming."

"Oh?"

Yu Wenye's eyes darkened, and with a wave of his hand, everyone immediately hid behind the trees. After a while, he saw a horse and a horse galloping from the path, and then got into the woods, letting out a low whistle. .As soon as they heard the familiar whistle, Shantong'er and the others immediately breathed a sigh of relief, hurriedly rushed to greet him, and after questioning him for a few words, they brought him over.

That was one of Yu Wenye's soldiers who stayed in Qixian County.

At this moment, the man looked anxious and panted as he came forward to kowtow and salute: "Greetings to His Highness King Qin."

"Don't be too polite."

Yu Wenye simply raised his hand and asked him to get up, then frowned and asked, "Why are you here?"

The soldier's face was a little pale. After taking one look at him, he immediately lowered his head and said in a trembling voice: "Young man, I'm here to report to His Highness, and also to apologize to Your Highness..."

"What did you say?"

Hearing the word "please apologize", Yu Wenye's brows tightened even more.

He took a step forward and looked down at the soldier: "What happened, tell me!"

The last word he shouted out in a low voice made the soldier tremble, and he knelt on the ground with a thud, kowtowing: "Your Highness, forgive me, we, we didn't think much of the princess."

"what?!"

Yu Wenye's eyes widened suddenly, and everyone around him was shocked, especially Shantong'er, whose expression changed: "What did you say? Sister Ruyi -"

Yu Wenye's face darkened and he asked, "What's going on? Tell me clearly!"

The soldier said: "We, we were originally guarding the princess at the county government office, but unexpectedly, the princess knocked out the girl who brought her food, and ran out dressed as that girl; after we found out, we hurriedly followed , and the result—still didn’t catch up, the princess left the city.”

Yu Wenye's eyes flickered slightly.

Under the gloomy sky, his eyes dimmed after that flicker, and he said: "She left the city. Could it be that she went to Changchun Palace?"

When he said the last few words, his voice was not only cold, but also had an imperceptible weakness.

The soldier trembled again.

Seeing this situation, Yu Wenye felt something was wrong, and his eyes immediately turned cold again. He stared at the soldier and said, "Huh?"

The soldier almost didn't dare to look up at him. He just gritted his teeth and said bravely: "We were chasing out of the city. Originally, we were about to catch up with the princess, but unexpectedly, a group of people suddenly rushed out and took the princess away. Here, captured."

"what!?"

At this time, even Shen Tutai and Shan Tong'er couldn't hold back and exclaimed.

Yu Wenye's breath suddenly suffocated.

He immediately said: "Who is it?"

The soldier said: "Looking at the attire of that group, they look like people from the Western Turks. The leader wears a wolf head mask."

Upon hearing this, Yu Wenye froze.

Shen Tutai, who was standing beside him and was a little nervous, also raised his thick eyebrows. There was a trace of surprise and uneasiness on his tiger-like fierce face. He turned to look at Yu Wenye and whispered: "Your Highness, then, then yes--"

He had served in the army for several years before Luocao Wanggang Village, and had also fought against the Western Turks, so he knew the identities of some of the opponent's generals.

In Western Turks, the only person who can wear a wolf head mask is——

"Ashina Zhuxie."

Yu Wenye's deep voice sounded, and at the same time, his eyes became cold and stern: "The eldest prince from the Western Turks."

"...!"

Upon hearing this name, everyone gasped.

Ashina Zhuxie, this man is the eldest son of the Western Turkic Khan Ashina Zari, known as Prince Zhuxie. He has a sinister temperament, good at planning and making decisions. He has a team of brave and capable heavy armored cavalry under his command. They are invincible. Ashina Zhuxie Zari's ability to put down the rebellion and reunify the Western Turks was largely due to this son and his heavy armored cavalry.

However, the origin of Ashina Zhuxie is unusual.

For the Central Plains dynasty, the Turks were grassland tribes. Before they were split into two parts, the Turks were collectively called the Turks. But in fact, there were different tribes and clans within the Turks. The Ashina tribe was the most powerful royal clan. , all the Turkic Khans of the past generations came from this family, and in addition to Ashina, there are several powerful tribes within the Turks, such as the Sharituli tribe, the Sunong tribe, the Zhishi tribe, etc.

One of them is Zhu Xie.

This tribe, with the surname "Zhu Xie", is good at casting iron and making heavy armor. It is also a very powerful tribe within the Turks, but it has always refused to submit to the Ashina tribe, which also caused difficulties in the reunification of the Western Turks after they split.

Of course, this tribe was completely recovered by Ashina Tsari.The opportunity for recovery was the daughter of the leader of the Zhuxie tribe - it is said that Ashina Zari has been in love with her for more than ten years. Even if the two tribes were at war, they could not stop the lovers' love. In order to meet her lover, This woman informed Ashina Tsari about the situation of many defenders of the Zhuxie tribe; after that, Ashina Tsari led his troops into the Zhuxie tribe based on this information and killed all the tribal leaders. The evil tribe was destroyed.

And that woman committed suicide on the night the tribe fell.

No one knew how painful and regretful she was before she died. She even burned her tent on fire, leaving not even a complete skeleton for her father and brother to wear after her victory. The blood of Ashina came to seek her.

However, she left Ashina Zari a son.

This child is Ashina Zhuxie.

Because he did not dare to admit that his biological father was Ashina Tsari, who was an enemy of the Zhuxie tribe. This child had always been an illegitimate son and was despised by everyone in the Zhuxie tribe. After the mother tribe was destroyed, he was also taken by Ashina Tsari. Come back to me.Although he is the son of Tsari Khan, he is not taken seriously by the Turks because of his origin. He does not even have a formal name. Because he is the orphan of Zhuxie Buluo, he is named "Zhuxie" .

I didn’t expect that this time, he would appear in Qi County and kidnap Shang Ruyi!
But why did he appear in Qixian County?
And why did you want to kidnap Shang Ruyi?

Could it be that--

Yu Wenye suddenly raised his head. Although the light was dim, he could clearly see that his eyes were a little red, which was alarming. He said in a deep voice: "How many troops does Ashina Zhu Xie bring?"

The soldier immediately said: "Although it's dark and I can't see clearly, the opponent has a lot of people, at least close to ten thousand people."

"..."

"At that time, the defenders of Qi County were frightened, thinking that the Turks were coming to attack Qi County. However, when they arrived at the city gate, they happened to meet the princess leaving the city. They seemed to recognize the princess and took her away. After that, They circled around the city gate and left Qi County."

"..."

"And looking at them, they look like they have just experienced a war, and some of them are still injured."

"..."

"By the way, there is also a group of heavy armored cavalry in that group."

"Heavy cavalry."

These four words made Yu Wenye's eyes become even colder.

He squinted his eyes slightly, with a cold light flashing in his eyes, and said: "So, the reinforcements sent by the Western Turks to Taiyuan this time are led by Ashina Zhuxie."

Shen Tutai and others on the side also came to their senses when they heard this.

Ashina Zhu Xie would appear here, probably leading reinforcements to reinforce Taiyuan, but why did he go to Qi County instead of Taiyuan?
Yu Wenye thought for a while and said: "If I guessed correctly, they should have entered Taihang Road from Jingxing Pass, originally to reinforce Taiyuan; and before arriving in Taiyuan, they should have passed through Mengyang County to replenish water and grass there. "

"..."

"And Brother Huang, heading north from the east line, should reach Mengyang County faster than them."

"..."

"So, they should have met."

Everyone immediately understood that this was what they had discussed before. The Turkic reinforcements entered Taihang Road from Jingxing Pass. Before arriving in Taiyuan, they would probably capture Mengyang County, which is rich in water and grass, and replenish food and grass there. In this way, it would be very difficult. He may have met the troops led by the King of Han, because Mengyang County is the hometown of Mrs. Dong, the biological mother of the King of Han, and he is likely to resist the Turkic army there.

But the Turkic army actually arrived in Qixian County, which meant that they lost.

it turns out--

Shen Tutai looked a little surprised and said: "This time, Ashina Zhuxie came with heavy armored cavalry. The King of Han can actually fight against such a team, can he still win?"

Ordinary people may not understand, but they soldiers know it all too well.

Infantry versus cavalry, ordinary cavalry versus heavy armored cavalry, the gap between them is like the difference between fish and meat, there is almost no chance of winning, and this time they sent troops because they wanted to capture Taiyuan, so they did not care about the east and west. The men and horses led by them are all ordinary cavalry.

But Han Wang Yuwenzui was able to defeat Ashina Zhu Xie's heavy armored cavalry?

When everyone around him heard this, they all looked surprised and even a little horrified. On the contrary, Yu Wenye was not surprised at all. Only the cold light flashed in his eyes, as if he was recalling something.

After being silent for a long time, he said: "When people are in the Buddhist temple, they have the Shura field in their hearts."

"..."

"My royal brother is not an ordinary person."

After hearing this, everyone said nothing, but their expressions became solemn.

Although I don't know what strategy His Highness the King of Han used, but it must be a very clever strategy to fight against the heavy armored cavalry and defeat the opponent in this situation.

Enemy such people - danger!
In an instant, the entire forest was enveloped in a dull atmosphere, and even the howling cold wind seemed not so cold anymore.

After being silent for a long time, Shen Tutai looked at Yu Wenye: "Your Highness, what should we do?"

"..."

Yu Wenye said nothing, but his eyes became cold.

And everyone became quieter, and even their breathing became tense and constricted.

Everyone understands that there are two ways in front of Yu Wenye at this moment. One is to continue to stay here. After all, there is less than an hour left, and the time they agreed with Nie Chong will be up. When the time comes, they will The people in the city should cooperate with each other inside and outside, and if they take Taiyuan, they can win this battle!

The second way is to save Shang Ruyi.

but--

Yu Wenye raised his head, looked at the soldier who came to report the news with cold eyes, and said, "Where did the Turks go after they kidnapped her?"

The soldier thought for a while and immediately said: "North."

"North."

"When did it happen?"

"That's right, in the evening."

"evening……"

After repeating these two words, Yu Wenye's face darkened.

The group of people led by Ashina Zhu Xie fought against Yuwen Sui at Mengyang. Regardless of whether they were defeated or retreated, when they arrived near Qi County, they probably wanted to find out the situation here, because Lei Guo Because of Lei Yu's relationship, he has surrendered to the Western Turks and is considered one of their own.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he arrived outside Qixian City, he saw Shang Ruyi going out. With Ashina Zhu Xie's keenness, he should have immediately understood that Qixian County had been captured by Yu Wenye.

Therefore, the reinforcements from the Western Turks did not enter the city, they just walked around in a circle and left.

He also kidnapped Shang Ruyi.

This group of troops went north, but they stayed here but did not encounter them. In other words, Ashina Zhu Xie did not take the road to Taiyuan. He should have known that the situation here had changed and knew that Taiyuan I was afraid that I couldn't hold on anymore, so I went back to the Turks directly.

And Shang Ruyi...

At this time, Shantong'er, who had been forcing himself to be quiet for a long time, finally couldn't hold it anymore and whispered tremblingly: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, what are you going to do? Sister Ruyi - oh no, Princess, she was taken away. .”

"..."

"We are going to save her."

"..."

"Your Highness, we have to save her!"

Everyone around them frowned. Shen Tutai stretched out his hand and pinched Shan Tong'er's shoulder to signal him to shut up.

At this time, no one should, let alone speak.

For a moment, everyone held their breath, their heartbeats stopped, and they looked at Yu Wenye with burning eyes.

Now, it is less than an hour away from the time agreed between Nie Chong and them. If Yu Wenye leaves here to save Shang Ruyi, it will be equivalent to giving up Taiyuan!
But the victory or defeat of Taiyuan is related to the position of the prince!

How should he choose? !

Today, two chapters have been merged into one.