Brother Wanfu

Chapter 122 Fire

The outer curtain of the camp tent was thrown away suddenly, and Qin Shen walked out quickly.

Ji Yuan, whose pseudonym was Zhang Shouyuan, ran after him.

Hearing his footsteps, Qin Shen looked back.

"Master still wants to stop?!"

Waiting for more than ten years, he disguised himself as a Taoist priest, hid him beside Qin Guanzhong, educated him personally, and ran around for him, so that the former prince and old officials would not be scattered, until the Suzheng army rose up, and until today, the army has reached Shun Tianfu hit the capital's feet.

The long-cherished wish of more than ten years is about to come true, and Ji Yuan can't wait long ago.

But the young man's cold eyes suppressed all his words that he wanted to stop again.

He didn't say any more, Qin Shen secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

The truth of all this came too suddenly.

It's not that Qin Shen has never thought that the little girl whose age does not match the rumors is really not a princess?

But she has already been pushed to that position by everyone. If she is not the real princess, and the real princess is someone else, then what she faces will only be more difficult than the emperor's thorn in the flesh.

So after the farce of the real and fake princesses, Qin Shen didn't dare to think about her identity any more.

But it never occurred to him that she was indeed not a princess, and there were no princesses in this world at all.

The former prince's orphan was actually himself.

No wonder, "father" said that he was born to go up the mountain to practice, so he grew up with his master on the mountain since he was a child, and even "mother" Mrs. Qin had never seen him before he went down the mountain.

Those five years of practicing on the mountain were to cover up his age.
But the "mother" didn't know, she didn't know anything, and she was always happy that she was taller than the other children. Kai Meng was earlier than other children, and she entered Heming Academy early and became the favorite student of the head of the mountain.

As for "father" Qin Guanzhong, he never disciplined him like a father, and he discussed everything with him, and he was much kinder than his master.

When he was a little older, he followed his "father" into the army, trained his body, practiced his kung fu, and led troops in battle.

He stayed like this until the Suzheng Army rose up, and he naturally became the general of the Suzheng Army.

He is the orphan of the former prince, so he must take back the world inch by inch.

Qin Shen has no objection to this, but neither the master nor the "father" dare to joke about the future. He can lead the army to fight, but he can't take the position that is too dazzling early, and Zhao Yin knows his future early. exist.

What would it be like to be known by Zhao Yin, that little girl tried every one for him.

She will be assassinated day and night, will be buried by rumors, and will be surrounded by the city suddenly at this very moment. What awaits her is a siege full of murderous intent.
Qin Shen's heart ached and he panicked, writhing and convulsing.

He wants to order troops and generals, and go out immediately!
But another person stopped him.

Qin Shen looked at Wei Yunce incredulously, "You want to stop me too?"

Wei Yunce shook his head.

"of course not."

Qin Shen looked over suspiciously, and Wei Yunce spoke.

"Since you already know your identity, why don't you reveal your identity directly, so that the emperor who raided the Daming Mansion will be confused? At that time, the emperor will know that the princess in the Daming Mansion is not the orphan of the former prince, and the Suzheng Army has arrived at the capital. He will definitely give up the Daming Even if the soldiers are left behind and continue to encircle and suppress the Daming Mansion, it will be much easier for reinforcements to rescue them!"

After Wei Yunce finished speaking in one breath, Qin Shen's eyes lit up.

But Ji Yuan said badly, "If that's the case, Zhao Yin is very likely to return to the capital, and it will be difficult for the Suzheng army to attack the capital again."

How could Wei Yunce not have thought of what he was thinking about?
But Wei Yunce did not refute, nor did he explain otherwise.

Whether to save the besieged little girl more confidently, or let her continue to pave the way for Qin Shen's throne at the risk, is the future emperor's choice.

And Qin Shen didn't need to choose at all.

He turned his head to look at Ji Yuan and Qin Guanzhong.

"His Royal Highness, you must have left a will for me."

*
Outside the city of Daming Mansion.

Zhao Yin was dressed in bright yellow armor, standing on a high hill outside the city, looking at Daming Mansion in the distance with a diorama.

"How long can the walls of the Little Daming Mansion withstand my bombardment?"

He sneered and ordered the commander in the imperial firearms battalion to continue to order the bombardment.

He asked the general, "Is the cannon installed properly?"

The commander knelt down and reported, "Go back to the emperor, and it will be settled in the next afternoon today. By then, the cannons will be fired into the city, it will be no problem."

It takes a thousand days to keep an army, and a moment to use it.

The imperial court spends countless silver taels on firearms every year. In the past, it was just to build more firearms to resist the invading pirates and pirates from the north. Now the artillery is also used in the land of the Central Plains.

But in Zhao Yin's view, this is the right way.

If he can't sit firmly on the throne, what's the use of the world's firearms and swordsmen?
He was about to tell the commander that after the cannons were installed in the next noon, they would immediately fire at the Daming Mansion.

Even if he couldn't open the city gate, he still caused the city to collapse into ruins.

At that time, where did his good niece go to make a living?
He was about to speak when Huang Xian ran over in a panic.

These days, Zhao Yin was most annoyed by the people below, who rushed to report in a panic.

These reports, nine out of ten are not good things.

At this moment, Zhao Yin only saw Huang Xian, who had always understood his thoughts, running over, and was furious.

"You are also flustered, do you want to lose your dignity in front of my face?!"

Huang Xian didn't dare, he plopped and knelt on the ground.

"Your Majesty, another orphan of the former prince appeared in the Suzheng army!"

Zhao Yin swayed, "Who?!"

Huang Xian's voice trembled.

"Yes, it's Qin Shen, the general of the Suzheng Army!"

Zhao Yin snorted coldly when he heard the words, "What? They are afraid that I will kill their princess, so they want to divert the tiger away from the mountain? This method is too straightforward, thinking that I will really be fooled?"

But he saw that Huang Xian was shaking even more.

"Your Majesty, Qin Shen has a personal edict written by the former prince!"

"Personally written will?!" Zhao Yin's eyes widened suddenly.

Huang Xian said yes, "It's absolutely true, it was the handwriting of the former prince, and it was stamped with the private seal of the former prince and the seal of the prince. The Suzheng army announced the edict to the world. At this moment, Qin Shen led the army to the capital. !"

On the hills outside the Daming Mansion, the suffocating hot summer wind poured down his throat like strong wine.

The soles of Zhao Yin's feet shook again and again.

"Really? Really?"

Huang Xian didn't dare to say it was true, but he also told the emperor, "Ji Yuan, the cousin of the former prince, is Zhang Shouyuan in the Suzheng army, and Zhang Shouyuan is the Taoist who raised Qin Shen. Master."

After he finished speaking, Zhao Yin didn't ask any more questions.

He thought that as long as he killed his good niece, even if the Suzheng army took the imperial city, it would be defeated sooner or later.

After all, there is no leader among the dragons, who will the Suzheng army support as emperor?

But now, the orphan of the former prince has become Qin Shen.

And for a fake orphan, he ran away from the capital and came here. If the capital falls into the hands of the Suzheng army, there is no possibility for him to go back.

Zhao Yin was stunned and silent for a moment.

Huang Xian couldn't help getting anxious for him.

"Your Majesty, let's go back to the capital! It's not that easy for the Suzheng army to capture the capital, and you still need to stay in the capital!"

These words brought Zhao Yin back to his senses in an instant.

"Yes! You are right! I have to go back to Beijing!"

But what if this is really a plan to divert the tiger away from the mountain?
Zhao Yin looked at the Daming Mansion in the distance in the gunpowder, and the flesh on his face twitched.

He suddenly called back the commander of the Firearms Battalion who had retreated.

"I want you, no matter what, to destroy the Daming Mansion incomparably, even if the city cannot be conquered, the city will be razed to the ground!"

Regardless of whether the princess in the city is real or not, he, Zhao Yin, must let this girl die!no more trouble
The commander almost looked up at the emperor in astonishment, but suppressed his surprise.

"Yes, the minister takes orders!"

The emperor's army quickly turned back from here. As soon as the army left, the people below came to report to the commander of the firearms battalion.

"My lord, the artillery has been erected properly."

That cannon is the most powerful cannon in the current firearms battalion. It was made by countless craftsmen with painstaking efforts. There is only one in the firearms battalion.

From a high place outside the city of Daming Mansion, it can just shoot into the city.

No need to think about what the city will look like when the artillery fire falls into the city.

The commander hesitated for a moment, but under the emperor's order, he dared not disobey.

He also stood on the hill, looking at the Daming Mansion which was still stubbornly resisting in front of him.

He gave the order, "Shoot!"

With a bang, the cannon shot across the air like a bolt from the blue from the hills outside the city.

Only one mile away from the city of Damingfu, the horse stood up in fright and neighed unceasingly.

Qin Shen, who ran here at night, looked into the mid-air with trembling fingertips.

The artillery fire was like a shooting star, rushing towards the city of Daming Prefecture, it couldn't stop, leaving billows of smoke and dust in the air, before sinking into the city wall.

At that moment, Qin Shen's eyes cracked.

He couldn't hear anything in his ears, only saw the smoke and dust all over the sky suddenly rising into the sky.

he murmured.

"Tian Tian, ​​Tian Tian!"

*
There were flames all around, and screams and cries followed one after another, endlessly.

"Princess! Princess!" Tian Dong and Su Ye shouted anxiously and ran towards her.

However, after three shots in a row, Qin Tian's government office had already collapsed, and there were broken walls and wooden beams on fire all around. Qin Tian was besieged in a sea of ​​flames.

Both Tiandong and Su Ye couldn't come over, they kept shouting outside.

They were shouting "princess", but just now, just before the artillery fire hit, she heard the rumors that were going viral in the city.

The Suzheng army is attacking the capital, and the leader of the battle is the silver-faced general of the Suzheng army, and he is the real orphan of the former prince!
Qin Tian was in a daze, not knowing whether these claims were the court soldiers attacking outside the city, deliberately spreading disturbing rhetoric, or whether it was true.

But for some reason, Qin Tian was willing to believe it.

If that eldest brother is a real orphan, will he be able to lead the Suzheng army into the capital immediately?

Is the war over now?

As for herself. From the very beginning, she was just an unidentified little girl in a small county town.

"Princess! Princess!"

Tian Dong and Su Ye's anxious voices were still calling her, Tian Dong even splashed well water on her clothes, trying to break into the fire that surrounded her.

Qin Tian was also trying to figure out a way to get out.

However, there was another cannon blast, and the artillery exploded somewhere, but the collapsed and burned house on the side she was in, don't shake, and most of it collapsed.

Under the choking smoke, Tian Dong was knocked out and fell outside.

Su Ye quickly stepped forward and pulled her back to a flat place, but in the half-collapsed house, the flames rose higher, and the princess could hardly be seen.

"Princess?! Princess."

The sound was drowned out in the crackling and burning.

Qin Tian was crushed under the fallen bookshelf, and his head hit the corner of the wooden chair.

The flames flickered on and off in the dark, collapsed room.

Qin Tian touched her aching forehead, and the sticky blood filled her hands and slipped from between her fingers.

The headache was about to split, but blood beads kept ticking down the broken hair on the temples.

The little girl was slightly confused, but the flames rushed to the paper on the bookshelf.The dry book was like dry wood and fire, and the flame instantly burned to the corner of Qin Tian's skirt.

She resisted the pain on her forehead and tried to move herself out from under the bookshelf.

But the more she tried to use force, the more she couldn't do it. Instead, the blood beads on her forehead kept rolling down, staining her skirts, smudged one by one.

The color of blood was extremely dazzling in the flickering flames, Qin Tian tried to move himself out an inch, and his eyes were already shaking.

The bookshelf was on fire, but that shelf was too heavy. The most precious mahogany wood was used for the princess's bookshelf. Like blood beads.

The color of blood mixed with the light of the fire, as did the shouts and howls from outside.

Her consciousness gradually blurred, and she knew that she might not be able to escape this catastrophe, and her short life of more than ten years would probably stay in this Daming Mansion.

But she was homesick a little, not a little, a lot.

She wants to go back to the Princess Mansion in Yanzhou, where there are thousands of soldiers and civilians who defected to the Suzheng Army, just like Shen Xiao and the five tiger generals of the Shen family army, they have finally found their own way after going through hardships, she is happy for them;
Or go back to the Qin family in Qingzhou, where there is the most lively Dragon Boat Festival, the most passionate scholars, the loving Mrs. Qin and the brothers and sisters of the Li family who moved in later. She has a new identity of her own and can play freely in the city. Play;

Or, she wants to go back to Zhucheng, her original home, that somewhat lonely courtyard.

There is nothing in the small courtyard, but as long as she can plant a herbal garden that belongs to her, it would be great for her to guard her medicinal food.
But she couldn't go back, she knew that she was going to die in this foreign land soon.

If this is the case, the rumors outside are not a bad thing.

She is not really an orphan, and it doesn't matter if she dies here. The Suzheng Army supported by thousands of people still has a master, and they will lead them to capture the imperial city and change the world.

When she thought of this, a tall figure of a young man, a handsome face, and an indistinguishable expression appeared in front of her eyes that gradually became distracted.

He was always indifferent, always inconstant, he was like that when she was just his concubine sister, but now, she thought they were different, but he was still like that.

However, that doesn't matter anymore.

The little girl smiled lightly, her eyes filled with fire.

Because she is about to leave this world.

Get out of here, and get out of him too.

It doesn't matter who she is, and it doesn't matter how he treats her. All of these will be burned, hidden under the ruins, and buried deep in the ground.

The pain dissipated from her forehead, and the little girl leaned against the chair and closed her eyes.

"Tian Tian?! Tian Tian!"

Qin Tian was stunned for a moment, the hoarse voice was very familiar, as if that person had really come to her side.

But she didn't open her eyes.

How could he come?If he is a true orphan, he can ascend to the top if he captures the capital. What is he doing in Daming Mansion now?

But the hoarse shouts sounded again.

"Tian Tian! Where are you?! Respond to me!"

The voice was so real that the little girl couldn't help opening her eyes.

But she couldn't see anyone outside because of the flames in her eyes. There was only the crackling sound of the fire burning wood in the room.

She suddenly got angry with herself.

Why do these messy thoughts still appear in my mind before I die?

To him, at most, she was just a somewhat close sister.

He should have never liked her, never.

Everything between her and him that made her blush and heartbeat was just her wishful thinking.

"Wake up." She wanted to persuade herself to wake up, but she felt that there was no need to wake up, because she was about to die.

"As long as you calm down in your head, you'll be fine."

She closed her eyes again, and her gradually exhausted strength made her completely distracted.

But at this moment, a patch of sky suddenly appeared above the eyelids.

The daylight made her open her eyes again.

Above the blurred vision, under the bright white sky, a figure as tall as a mountain broke through the flames.

This scene is so real, as if it really happened in front of her face.

He even rushed straight to her face in a rage, his voice hoarse and almost choked with panic.

"Tian Tian, ​​Tian Tian!"

He called her by her baby name.

so true.

But the little girl didn't believe it anymore.

She smiled softly, and in the illusion she thought was impossible, she completely lost all consciousness and closed her eyes.

　good night

　　
　
(End of this chapter)