The First Great Ancestor of the Five Dynasties

Chapter 499: Recuperating at the beginning of the new year

On February [-]th of the third year of Guangshun, Guo Wei led an army to conquer Yedu in person.

Feng Dao stayed in Kaifeng and presided over the daily government affairs of the court. Zhang Yongde was in charge of the imperial army and was responsible for guarding the capital, ensuring the stability of Kaifeng with every article and force.

Chai Rong and Fu Yanqing led the Zhenning Army and Tianping Army to cross Hebei first, and arrived at Xiangzhou as the former army. After joining the emperor's army, they marched to Yedu in a mighty manner.

This year's winter has been extremely long, and the weather since the beginning of spring has been even colder than in the twelfth lunar month.

If he had a choice, Guo Wei would never want to use troops in early spring.

Tens of thousands of soldiers and horses moved northward, and more than [-] civilians were mobilized. This would inevitably affect the spring planting in the Central Plains, and then affect this year's summer grain harvest.

But the military situation was raging. Wang Yin encouraged Tianxiong's army to go south and had already fought with Xiangzhou's soldiers and horses. If Wang Yin was allowed to break Xiangzhou, the rebellion of Tianxiong's army would become an established fact, which would inevitably affect the stability of Hebei.

The Tianxiong Army is the key force to guard Hebei and resist the Khitans. It is also the work of Guo Wei and Chai Rong and his son, and it must not be destroyed in the hands of Wang Yin.

Fortunately, Chai Rong and Fu Yanqing arrived in time with their troops and stabilized the battle situation in Xiangzhou. Several battles frustrated the vigor of Yedu's troops, and Wang Yin had no choice but to order the withdrawal of troops to retreat to Yedu.

In early March, Guo Wei's camp arrived outside Yedu. Liu Ci, the military commander of the Anguo Army in Xingzhou, Wang Jin, the military commander of the Yongqing Army in Beizhou, and Bai Chongzan, the military commander of the Zhangde Army in Xiangzhou, successively led their troops to pick him up. The army blocked Ye. At the capital's main waterway, Wang Yin huddled in the city, assuming a posture of holding on to the end.

Something happened during this period. Li Chongjin, the commander of the palace who accompanied Guo Wei on his personal expedition, suddenly disappeared before the emperor's army arrived in Xiangzhou.

A few days later, news came from the direction of Caozhou that Li Chongjin claimed to have been ordered by the emperor to go to Sizhou to serve as a defense envoy.

He led more than a dozen soldiers and held the emperor's edict. Although he had no defense seal and no transfer orders from the Privy Council and the Ministry of War, they did not dare to stop him at the gates along the way and let him go south. They just reported the news as soon as possible.

Strangely, the emperor's camp in Xiangzhou did not pass down any decree on this, and it seemed that Li Chongjin's transfer of Sizhou defense envoys from outside was indeed a holy will.

Zhu Xiu woke up on the third night of her coma. Her eyelids were barely open and she didn't know where she was. She only saw a long table set up next to the bed and a mattress on it, barely enough for one person to sleep on.

He was in a coma for three days and his mind was shut down for three days. It took him a while to realize that the person lying on the long desk was Zhou Xian.

Zhu Xiu's last memory was that on the day of the assassination, he was sprayed with blood on his face by the assassin. He originally wanted to get up from the ground, but was horrified to find that he had been stabbed in the chest. It was very painful, and hot blood was pouring out, and then... His vision went dark and he fainted.

Zhu Xiu turned around and looked blankly at Zhou Xian, who was lying on his side on the bed. He tried hard to think with his groggy head. It should be that after he was seriously injured and fell into coma, the ladies in the family took turns to stay by his side to take care of him.

When he opened his eyes and saw No. 1 Zhou Xian, Zhu Xiu felt a little relieved. After all, there were three wives in the family, and the relationship between him and Zhou Xian was unclear. It was hard to catch them.

But at the critical moment, this girl can guard her, which shows that she can't let go of this thread of love in her heart.

Look at her tightly wrapped in the quilt, curled up on the narrow long desk, her eyelashes quivering slightly from time to time, her brows are full of haggard worry, and there are obvious tears in the corners of her eyes.

Zhu Xiu sighed softly in her heart. She was seriously injured and fell unconscious, which also affected several ladies in the family.

".Ehuang" Zhu Xiu shouted in a hoarse voice, trying hard to reach out and touch Zhou Xian's arm.

After shouting a few times, Zhou Xian opened his eyes in a daze and saw Zhu Xiu's pale face grinning at him. The dishonest hand touched his waist at some point.

After being in a daze for a while, Zhou Xian was sure that he was not dreaming. He was so surprised that he exclaimed, "Are you awake?!"

Zhu Xiu grinned weakly and said hoarsely: "I'm thirsty and want to drink water."

"Okay! Okay! I'll get it!" Zhou Xian hurriedly opened the mattress, not even bothering to put on his shoes and socks, leaving his bare feet while shouting "Zhu Xiu wakes up! Zhu Xiu wakes up!"

While hurriedly pouring hot water from the kettle simmering on the stove.

Looking at her busy figure, Zhu Xiu felt a warm current flowing through her heart. She tried to struggle to move her body, but the pain in her chest started to sting again, and her head became more and more dizzy. She closed her eyelids and fell asleep again.Soon, Bi Zhenhai, Shi Xiangwen and others who were guarding the courtyard rushed into the house. Several rooms in the courtyard lit up candles. After a while, the entire Taishi Mansion was alarmed. Feng Dao was wearing a cloak. With the support of Feng Ping, he rushed to visit and at the same time sent someone to inform the Hou Mansion.

On the dark and silent street, Fu Jinhuan, Zhu Wu and his wife, Shi Lingyan and others came from the Hou Mansion. The guard servants held lanterns and torches, like fireflies shining in the darkness.
Zhu Xiu woke up, but her body was still weak. After diagnosis, Feng Qingchan said that her life was saved, but she had lost both energy and blood and her vitality was severely damaged. She needed to rest peacefully for at least half a year.

He knew his own body. Even if Feng Qingchan didn't tell him, Zhu Xiu didn't dare to mess with it anymore. He didn't want to get the root of the disease and die young within two years.

The energy he had when recovering from a serious injury could only barely keep him awake for two or three hours a day, while he slept the rest of the time.

Several ladies in the family took turns talking to him. When they saw that he was slightly depressed, they strictly urged him to lie down and rest.

It was not until Guo Wei led the army to the expedition that Zhu Xiu's health improved significantly, and his energy and energy improved a lot. After Feng Qingchan's diagnosis, he relaxed his daily activity time.

Zhu Wu brought Wu Youdi over, and the mother and son held hands, feeling really sad for quite a while.

Wu Youdi's health was up and down, and Zhu Xiu did not dare to overwork her. After talking for an hour, he asked Zhu Wu and Yang Qiaolian to send her back to the house.

In mid-March, news came back to Kaifeng that a large army was besieging Yedu. Both the government and the public were looking forward to the officials quelling the rebellion as soon as possible and arresting the rebellious minister Wang Yin and returning him to the court for trial.

Regarding this battle, almost all the people in Kaifeng were optimistic. The people in the market did not talk about the war at all. Instead, they discussed what kind of punishment Wang Yin should receive and how Hebei's future defense arrangements should be arranged.

Hebei is the front line against the Khitan, a barrier to the entire hinterland of the Central Plains, and is related to the danger of the country.

Anyone who understands a little bit will keep a close eye on the safety of Hebei.

Zhu Xiu lay on the hospital bed for more than a month, and the trauma was basically healed. A two-inch-long, centipede-like scar was left on the upper left side of her chest near her heart.

It can be seen that Feng Qingchan's female worker must be good, as she stitched the wounds so neatly.

Touching this scar and recalling the dangerous situation that day, Zhu Xiu still felt terrified.

Starting from Cangzhou, he experienced many life and death tests.

Liu Chengyou, Zhang Yanchao, brothers Wei Hu and Xue from Jingzhou, party members Li Guangrui and Li Guangyan, Zhou Ling, Li Hongji, and Zha Wenhui from the Southern Tang Dynasty, until they were nominally demoted to Shangzhou, they had actually been killed by Wang Lingwen's men. Wang Jun on the way.

No matter which one of these people, their reputation, status, and ability are countless times stronger than that of the Northern Han assassin.

When Zhu Xiu fought with them, no matter how complicated and dangerous the situation was, he could handle it with ease.

But that day when he faced the vicious assassin, one stab at a time, it was the closest he came to death.

Piff was furious and blood spattered five steps.

People like Jing Ke, Nie Zheng, and Zhuan Zhu have been famous throughout the ages. It is because their sudden actions, which are usually inconspicuous, have more or less affected the general trend of history, and they are still talked about today. road.

Now, he was just a little bit away from becoming the Northern Han assassin's stepping stone to become famous all over the world.

Touching the scar on his heart and recalling the feeling of wandering between life and death, Zhu Xiu once again felt grateful that he had survived the catastrophe.

At the same time, it also reminded him that in this turbulent era, no matter what power, status, or honor he gained, it would not give him one more life than others. In the face of death, emperors were no different from barefoot peasants.

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