Reborn Concubine's Wife

Chapter 160 Protecting Her Well (2)
Zheng Ruo felt that she had taken the trip to Zhiyang City too simply. Sitting in the carriage, she felt that her bones were falling apart during the rapid march of the day.After Li Yun ordered her to rest, she slowed down, climbed out of the carriage, and moved her sore body in a hidden place.

"If you want to go back now, it's too late!"

Zheng Ruozheng was beating his shoulder with his fist, and suddenly heard someone talking behind him, he was shocked, turned around, and saw that Li Yun had already taken off the mask, was holding it in his hand, and was playing with it.Looking at her eyes, there was an inexplicable light flickering, and she felt that she was in danger.

"Why does Brother Li wear a mask?" She changed the subject.

Li Yun stared at her blankly, his eyes were deep and distant, like the vast night sky in the sky.Quietly, he just looked at her like that, but didn't answer.Zheng Ruo was a little overwhelmed by him, his back felt cold, and he didn't dare to look at his face, but he also understood why he was wearing a mask.His appearance was comparable to Wang Jinzhi's. She heard that Murong of Xianbei wore a mask because he was too handsome and lacked prestige in the army. Presumably he was the same.

Worried about how to solve this somewhat embarrassing situation, suddenly, smelling a scent of rice, Zheng Ruo exaggeratedly rubbed his belly, but still didn't dare to look at Li Yun's face, it was too scary for this man to get angry , "I'm so hungry...Brother Li, I'm going to have dinner." As he spoke, he turned around and left without waiting for his reply.I stepped on pebbles a few times and almost fell down.

Li Yun saw her running away in a panic, like a frightened rabbit, and felt that this kind of her had the vivaciousness of her age, unlike the ones she had seen in the past, as silent as an old woman, he felt that she was like a sister-in-law.Can't help laughing slightly.

He is obviously thirteen or fourteen years old, why is he so courageous?Li Yun had a headache.Forget it, if she really wants to go, I will protect her well.

If Qingshui Pass is the first pass for Yongzhou City to resist the Hu people, then Zhiyang City is the last pass.As long as you enter Zhiyang City, you will open the door to the Central Plains.

The city wall of Zhiyang City is strong and towering, surrounded by steep mountains, easy to defend but difficult to attack.For ten days in a row, the barbarians assembled a large army and fought under the city wall, saying anything.

"For the past two days, the barbarians have called for battle every day. I really don't know what to do?" A scribe looked at the battle below and said worriedly.

"Master City Guard, in my opinion, it would be better to follow Sima Chu's wish and open the city gate!" Another scribe said.

"What are you talking about? Once the city gate is opened, who can stop the barbarians who are like wolves and tigers? Is the thousands of miles of fertile land in China going to be handed over to others?"

Lord Du, the city guard, looked at the barbarians below and screamed, with one hand behind his back, and the other hand stroking the beard on his chin, he frowned and did not speak.

"Jiulang is here...Wang Jiulang is here..." someone shouted.

"Wang Jiulang..." At the place he passed by, everyone saluted and greeted him.Wang Jiulang still had a faint smile on his face, and he nodded gently in return.

"Lord Du!" He stood still in front of the city guard, bowing his hands in salute.

"Jiulang..." Lord Du turned sideways to avoid his salute, and returned the salute with his hands crossed.

Wang Jiulang stood side by side with him on the city wall, looking at the crowd of barbarians below, the faint smile on the corner of his mouth gradually disappeared.

"My lord..." A young general saluted him and said, "Why don't you give your subordinates a team and go out of the city to fight!"

"General Yuan must not do it! Now the defenders in the city only number a thousand, how can they fight against the barbarians who number in the tens of thousands?"

"Are we just waiting to die like this?" General Yuan shouted with red eyes.

The staff around Mr. Du stopped talking. During the famine year, there was not much military rations. When Sima Chu ordered the Qingshuiguan guards to withdraw, he took some of the military rations with him in Zhiyang City.Now, the food and grass in this city can only last for a few days, not to mention the water.

"Huh!" One person snorted, "I said it a long time ago, Master Sima ordered you to retreat back, but you didn't listen. Now you are trapped. When the food and grass are exhausted, wait for the barbarians to enter the city and kill them!"

"Does Mr. Xing Yuan want to be that eternal sinner? Who knows, once these robbers enter the city, tens of millions of people will suffer? Does Mr. Xing Yuan want to be the most notorious person in history?" Jiang Zijing sarcastically said.

"You..." Xing Yuan was extremely angry, "Even if you withdrew from Zhiyang City, it would be done by the Lord City Guard. How can you say that you are a sinner through the ages?"

"Hmph! Mr. Xingyuan, is this trying to injure the governor of the county?"

"you……"

"Okay!" Master Du sipped softly, turned around and said to Wang Jiulang, "Jiulang, there is not much food and grass in the city, and the defenders won't last long, and the only way to withdraw is then. Jiulang, I can't take more than a thousand soldiers Life is a joke." He said in a deep voice.

"Master Du said this, you can't make fun of the lives of soldiers, can you make fun of the lives of thousands of people in the Central Plains?" Jiang Zijing said with a sneer.

Lord Du ignored him, and said to Wang Jiulang, "Jiulang, it will take five days at most, and I will withdraw after five days. Otherwise, Lord Sima will not be easy to explain." After speaking, he ignored Wang Jiulang and led his men down the city wall.

"Jiulang, doesn't he take you seriously? Thanks to you for giving him so much food! A group of people who are greedy for life and afraid of death!" Jiang Zijing spat behind Master Du, "You bastard!"

Looking at the barbarians below, Wang Jiulang frowned slightly. After a long time, he turned his eyes to the distance and sighed softly.Suddenly, an arrow flew over, and a person jumped out from behind Jiang Zijing and pulled Wang Jiulang back forcefully. Fortunately, when the arrow was about to reach the city wall, it lost its strength and fell down.

"Please Jiulang get down the city wall." The dark guard said to Wang Jiulang.

Wang Jiulang didn't say much, and took Jiang Zijing down the city.The rapid march for several days made Zheng Ruo suffer a lot.Sitting in the carriage every day, the bumpy bones have fallen apart.Even Zhou Jue, who had been following the carriage, talked a lot less these days.

There are two more days to reach Zhiyang City.As night fell again, Zheng Ruo and Zhou Jue sat by the fire and ate the dry food in their hands.Li Yun came over and said to Zhou Jue, "Can you guarantee that Ah Ruo won't suffer any damage?"

(End of this chapter)