Legend of the Heroes of the Southern Kingdom

Chapter 344

After watching Su Qingxue leave, Li Wenxuan walked slowly to Yue Ying's door, thinking in his heart: "Qingxue is sleepy, I don't know how Yingying is? Has she fallen asleep now? I just called the door like this." , will it disturb her?"

Li Wenxuan was hesitating whether to call the door, but he heard a "boom—" on the door panel.

Li Wenxuan hurried forward and asked, "Yingying, what's wrong?"

But Yue Ying didn't see her talking, and there was another sound of "poof--", the paper on the door was splashed more than half, and many drops of water smashed the paper, and splashed on Li Wenxuan's body, making it messy. Li Wenxuan's face and body were wet.

Li Wenxuan wiped his face and smelled that it was freshly brewed tea, which was still warm. Yue Ying was obviously not asleep, but she was still angry in the room. It was strange that after so much effort, how could her anger not change? Li Wenxuan didn't dare to provoke her, so she had to take two steps back and said outside: "Yingying, it's my fault, you're in a bad mood, so I won't bother you, you calm down first, I I'll come back and talk to you later."

Li Wenxuan waited outside for a while, hoping to hear Yue Ying talk to him, but after standing there for a long time, there was no movement, so Li Wenxuan could only leave with a sigh.

Li Wenxuan went back to the room and lay down to rest, but as soon as he closed his eyes, there were always shadows of the two girls in his head, and he finally fell asleep in a daze, but he dreamed that the two of them were fighting for a while. He also dreamed that the two of them beat him together, and then he was stabbed by the sword, and then he dreamed that Yue Ying beat Su Qingxue up, Li Wenxuan slept in a very miserable sleep, unexpectedly It was more tiring than practicing kung fu, so Li Wenxuan only got up after lying down for more than an hour, because it was really uncomfortable to have such a dream, and when he looked at his underwear, he was wet with sweat.

After Li Wenxuan got out of bed, he walked around Yue Ying's door, thinking that Yue Ying must have fallen asleep, so Li Wenxuan didn't bother her anymore, he greeted Steward Wang, and walked out of Han Shuai Home, thinking of walking outside, soothes and relieves mood.

This Chuzhou city was also an important town in the Song Dynasty. Although Li Wenxuan had never been there before, he had heard a lot about the customs and customs of Chuzhou. Moreover, Chuzhou is located at the junction of the north and the south, with frequent merchants and good weather. It is one of the most affluent towns in the world. One, but at this time Li Wenxuan was walking on the streets of Chuzhou, but he did not see the slightest scene of prosperity in the past.

On the contrary, no matter in the streets or alleys, or in the corners of houses, almost no matter where it is, the choking and crying of women and children can be faintly heard.

As Li Wenxuan walked, he was getting closer and closer to the tower where he fought last night. Thinking of the battle last night, Li Wenxuan wanted to go up and have a look, but he was afraid that the guards below would stop him, so he was hesitating when he saw a man in front of him. A woman in her 30s, pushing a cart, came towards her.

The cart is a wheelbarrow. When pushing it, you have to use your arms to push the cart steadily. The lady seemed to be struggling when she was pushing it. There was a five or six-year-old man beside her. A little boy with a red string tied a whip on top of his head, his clothes are a little messy, his face looks like he just cried, and the dust mixed with tears sticks to his face, Li Wenxuan actually looked at it. Can't tell if it's a boy or a girl.

The wheelbarrow walked in, and Li Wenxuan saw a rolled up rotten straw mat on top of the cart, two feet sticking out from the straw mat.Li Wenxuan thought to himself: "This... is there a dead person inside?"

The woman was already struggling to walk while pushing the scooter with both hands, so she naturally had no time to pull the little baby, who was walking by the hem of her clothes all the time, when suddenly, the little baby tripped over a stone , Seeing that she was about to fall, the lady hurriedly stretched out her hand to pull the baby, but as soon as she stretched out her hand, the scooter became unsteady, and immediately tilted to the side, and the rolled up grass also fell to the ground and opened. A Song soldier fell out, lying motionless on the ground, his face had been dead for a while, there was a hole in his forehead, as if he had been shot in the head by a crossbow arrow and died.

When Xiaowa saw the man, she immediately cried, "Father..."

The woman put her arms around the baby, covered his eyes so that he wouldn't see it, and scolded: "Don't cry, I told you not to cry, don't you know?" Said that her own eye sockets were already bright red.

At this time, there were very few pedestrians walking on the road, but all the passers-by who saw the orphans and widows and the soldiers of the Song army who died in battle probably knew what was going on. They have seen this kind of scene a lot, and they all covered their faces and sighed.

Li Wenxuan was already in a low mood, but when he saw the mother and son, he felt great sympathy, so he stepped forward and rolled up the dead Song Bing again with a straw mat, put him on the cart, and said, "My sister-in-law, Where are you going, I just have nothing to do, why don't you take the child and go ahead, this... this big brother let me push him home. "

The woman took a look at Li Wenxuan, saw that his face was unfamiliar, his accent was not from a local, and his clothes were clean. She was afraid that some bad person would see this and wanted to take the opportunity to bully their orphans and widows, so she said repeatedly : "No need, no need."

When Li Wenxuan saw her looking at him, there was a lot of fear in his eyes, and the feeling of pity in his heart was even stronger, but he didn't dare to say more, for fear of accidentally scaring her, he helped the cart and handed it to the woman hands.

Li Wenxuan was about to leave, but saw a person hurrying up ahead, shouting, "Sister-in-law Chen, wait!"

The woman paused, turned her head and saw the person coming, and immediately saluted and said: "Vice General Wang, but is there anything wrong with my old Chen?"

Li Wenxuan heard the woman call Vice-General Wang, and immediately thought: "This person is the general on the tower last night?" Because Li Wenxuan had been downstairs last night and it was dark, he couldn't see Vice-General Wang clearly. face, momentarily uncertain.

The person who came was the Deputy General Wang, and he said again: "Sister-in-law Chen, no, it's just that Lao Chen has been with me for many years, and now his old friend is gone. Mother, you take this little thing, maybe it can be of some use!" After that, Vice General Wang took out a small purse from his pocket and stuffed it into the woman.

The woman declined and said: "It's not right... this..."

Deputy General Wang said: "Don't refuse, just accept it. Now that the golden soldiers are attacking Chuzhou like crazy, I'm afraid I will have to see Lao Chen sooner or later. What to do with these extraneous things, it's better to give them to me." You mother and son subsidize the living, so it is still the right way."

The woman sighed, feeling infinitely sad, and finally accepted the money bag.

Li Wenxuan suddenly said: "Vice General Wang, hello, is it you who was on the tower last night?"

Deputy General Wang was on the tower yesterday, and he couldn't see Li Wenxuan clearly. What's more, Li Wenxuan was covered in blood yesterday, and he changed into clean clothes today, so he couldn't see it anymore. He just nodded and said, "I've been on this tower day and night, are you Who?"

Li Wenxuan said: "My surname is Li and my name is Wenxuan. I was the person who was under the tower last night."

Although Deputy General Wang didn't know Li Wenxuan's face, he already knew Li Wenxuan's name from other people, and immediately called out: "It's you? Opening the city gate caused you to be in danger again and again under the city, don't blame me."

Li Wenxuan hurriedly said: "Don't dare, dare not, I have already met Han Shuai this morning, and I know that Vice General Wang is also a military order that cannot be violated. If the golden soldiers are approaching the city, if the city gate is opened, then it is really inappropriate. How can Wenxuan Can you complain? Besides, I would also like to thank Vice General Wang’s archers for helping me a lot.”

Deputy General Wang looked at the carts, sighed, pointed to the man lying on the cart, and said, "Brother Chen is the archer from last night. The arrow of the gold thief, this is... alas!"

Li Wenxuan's heart tightened, and he thought: "So this person died for me last night, alas!"

Li Wenxuan immediately stepped back and bowed three times to the man on the cart, and then bowed three times to the woman. The woman saw that Li Wenxuan knew Vice-General Wang and was very polite to him, even though he didn't know what happened in the city last night. What happened outside, but he didn't think that Li Wenxuan was a bad person, so he immediately returned the courtesy.

Deputy General Wang said: "Yesterday you killed the golden man who was alone in the city with blood flowing into rivers. Our brothers on the tower hate themselves for not being able to come forward to help you. They all admire you very much. Some brothers want to invite you I went to pay a visit to you with me this morning, but the affairs on the tower are too tight, I really can’t leave, so I had to put it aside, why don’t you just follow me to the tower, I just asked you to meet everyone!"

Li Wenxuan was naturally very happy to go there, but when he saw the person on the cart again, he hesitated for a moment and said: "I see that Mrs. Chen is struggling to support the cart by herself. I want to help her get this old brother Chen Send it home and put it away, how about I come to you later?"

Deputy General Wang said: "Well, you can come anytime!"

Li Wenxuan said to the woman again: "Sister-in-law Chen, can you ask me to give Brother Chen a ride?"

Seeing this, the madam didn't refuse any more, and said, "Then...that's my work."

Vice-General Wang returned to the tower, and Li Wenxuan pushed the cart and followed the woman forward. After turning a few turns, the woman pointed to a dilapidated hut and said, "This is it."

The woman took down a door panel and placed it in the middle of the room, Li Wenxuan wrapped Lao Chen's body in a straw mat and carried it in and placed it on the door panel.

Li Wenxuan glanced at this home, and only then did he really know what a family is like.The woman poured a bowl of water for Li Wenxuan, and said: "There is nothing to entertain at home, I can only... You have had a hard time on the road, please sit down and rest."

Li Wenxuan said: "Brother Chen should also have some military pay every month, why is it like this at home?"

The lady sighed: "The golden soldiers have completely surrounded the city of Chuzhou, and the food in the city has almost been eaten up. Even if there is some left over, it must be left for the soldiers guarding Chuzhou on the tower. We old and weak The women and children would rather go hungry than let them go hungry, if they lose their energy to defend the city and the Jin soldiers attack, the people in the city of Chuzhou will probably suffer.”

After hearing this, Li Wenxuan couldn't help thinking back to the common people in the city he saw on the road just now. Almost everyone looked hungry and walked weakly. He had been wondering before, but now he knew the reason.

After all, the little baby is young, and she is also sad and happy. At this time, she is looking at the purple lightning hanging on Li Wenxuan's waist, and seeing the various patterns on the hilt and scabbard. Dare not, Li Wenxuan saw this, smiled at him and said, "Do you want to touch it?"

The little boy nodded.

The murderous aura of the Purple Lightning Sword was too strong, Li Wenxuan was afraid of scaring the child, so he handed him the end of the scabbard, the little child rubbed it for a while, and then giggled, Li Wenxuan thought, and said: " Sister Chen, I'm going to get something, come as soon as you go!"

As soon as the woman nodded, Li Wenxuan strode out the door, looked around, and saw a big willow tree not far behind the hut, so he used lightness kung fu and quickly walked over.

After a while, Li Wenxuan came back, but he had a wooden sword in his hand. Seeing the little boy sitting alone in the garden, and the woman who was busy at the back of the house, he didn't bother him anymore. , handed the wooden sword to the little baby, and asked, "Do you like it?"

The little boy nodded and asked, "Did you give this to me?"

Li Wenxuan said: "Yes, this sword will be yours from now on. From now on, you have to listen to your mother, learn skills, and take good care of your mother, you know?"

The little boy nodded again, and Li Wenxuan said again: "Grow up well, if I can see you again in the future, I will teach you how to practice swords! Tell your mother later, I'm leaving!"

After finishing speaking, Li Wenxuan turned around and bowed to Old Chen three times, then took out a bag of silver from his bosom, stuffed it quietly under the door, and then drifted away.

When Li Wenxuan returned to the street, he heard a few more cries, so he could follow the sounds to see what happened. It turned out that either the son of this family died in battle, or the husband of that family died. Li Wenxuan was moved by the situation in front of him, and hated him even more. I couldn't kill Jin Wushu yesterday, otherwise the Jin soldiers outside the city would have dispersed by now, and the siege of Chuzhou should have been resolved.

Li Wenxuan remembered what Deputy General Wang said, and wanted to go to the tower to meet him, so he walked towards the tower again, but just halfway there, he heard the rumble of war drums on the wall far away, and the sound of killing was louder than himself. I don't know how many times louder the movement heard under the city tower last night.

At this time, all the women, old and young in the city also went out to look at the place where the voice came from. Li Wenxuan knew that they were all praying for the defenders to repel the golden soldiers. Come on, I don't know how many times I have been so frightened. I am afraid that every time I hear such a sound, I can't help worrying that the Jinren will break into the city.

In the distance at first, the sound of war drums resounded through the sky, but after a while, the sound of fighting and shouting became louder and louder, and soon became comparable to the sound of war drums. Li Wenxuan just listened to it from a distance, and did not see it with his own eyes. I saw the battle scene in front of me, but I felt thrilling when I heard the shouting.

Without even thinking about it, Li Wenxuan ran forward quickly. Suddenly, he saw a dark object falling from the sky with great force. Even though Li Wenxuan saw that the object was two or three feet away from him, he still couldn't help it. I dodged far away to the side, and then I saw that thing smashed on a private house, and the house collapsed immediately, and dust and smoke were everywhere, but the thing didn't stop, and the disaster that fell to the ground continued to roll out. He knocked down several houses before he stopped, and when the dust settled, Li Wenxuan could see clearly that the thing that fell was a boulder thrown by a trebuchet, and it seemed to weigh a hundred or so catties. A collapsed room, the people in the room seem to have been hit by the flying catastrophe, and they are already bloody and inhuman, even when they died, they still haven't figured out what happened.

Li Wenxuan couldn't bear to look at this tragic situation, so he continued to run forward, and then saw a lot of flying stones falling into the city, some of them hit the houses, and the surrounding shouts were heard endlessly.

When Li Wenxuan arrived under the city wall, he saw countless wounded soldiers under the city wall, and even more bloodstains on the tower, but the golden man's catapult also stopped suddenly and stopped firing. For a moment, the tower seemed to be quiet for a moment. But this silence was only a very pitiful moment, and soon the shouts of killing suddenly rose again, which was more powerful than the voice Li Wenxuan had heard before, like a sea tide, overwhelming the city of Chuzhou.

At this time, there were not only Song soldiers on the tower, but also many people who came to guard the city spontaneously. Li Wenxuan followed the crowd to the tower, and saw that the Jin soldiers from all over the mountains had poured into the city. As much as Han Shizhong was personally supervising the battle on the commander-in-chief platform of the city tower.

Arrows rained down from the top of the city tower, but the golden soldiers below the city were also brave, either attacking the city on ladders, or hitting the city gate with a charging car, everyone was not afraid of death, braved bows and crossbows, and rushed towards the city wall crazily. come up.

Since Song soldiers defended the city for many days, there are very few defensive equipment left, and they always have the intention to kill the enemy, but when facing equipment such as ladders, they are inevitably ineffective. In the blink of an eye, several gaps had been cut out by the golden soldiers. Not far in front of Li Wenxuan, there was a golden man on the carriage frame. Dozens of Jin soldiers are about to climb the city wall.

Li Wenxuan immediately held the horizontal sword in his hand, and rushed forward to throw the leading golden soldier off the tower. The three golden soldiers behind him saw that someone was blocking them, and were about to attack Li Wenxuan with their swords, but Li Wenxuan didn't wait for them to do anything. With a wave, he first told the heads of the three of them to roll to the bottom of the city.

In fact, if Li Wenxuan didn't want these golden men to ascend to the top of the city, he just needed to block them on the city wall, but the miserable appearance he saw in the city today only made Li Wenxuan hate the golden men so much, so instead of retreating, Li Wenxuan jumped out. The city wall jumped onto the ladder, rushed down the ladder, and knocked down all the more than 20 gold soldiers who were charging on the ladder. Then he retracted his sword and turned back. A ladder was cut off in the middle.

From a distance, Han Shizhong saw the golden man ascending the wall on the ladder, and he was commanding troops to reinforce him. Suddenly, he saw a man killed from above, killing dozens of golden soldiers in a row. It turned out to be Li Wenxuan, and he was even more happy in his heart, and couldn't help shouting: "Nephew is good at killing!"

(End of this chapter)