It’s hard to break a phoenix’s destiny

Chapter 596: Survival in the Melee

Three days after the marriage, Emperor Liu Cong of the Han Dynasty issued an edict, requiring Liu Yao to lead his troops to attack Jinyang. He was determined to capture the place in one battle and prepare for the future attack on Chang'an.

Liu Yao took the order and quietly left the general's mansion on the morning of the fourth day, fearing that he would wake up the extremely tired young lady. In fact, he also felt very tired, mainly because of the back pain.

However, he didn't tell anyone. Doesn't the general have any face?
There is light on his face, love in his eyes, his back is slightly bent, and his legs are slightly soft.

The deputy generals laughed so hard that their mouths were crooked, but they quietly turned their heads and wiped their eyes.

It's really not easy for their general to do this woman.

Liu Yao led 30,000 elite troops and fought against 50,000 troops led by Liu Kun, Marquis of Guangwu, and Gao Qiao, the prefect of Taiyuan, at Wuguan. After seven days of fierce fighting, Gao Qiao was defeated and killed, and Liu Kun abandoned the city and fled.

Finally, they won a battle. When they counted the number of soldiers, they found that only more than a thousand soldiers were killed, which was much better than before. Liu Yao was in a good mood and sent someone to deliver the victory report to Liu Cong. At the same time, he also sent a copy to his general's mansion. Of course, he also brought some private goods, and brought some millet, a specialty of Jinyang, to the general's wife. It is said that women in confinement can have sufficient milk if they eat more millet.

When Yang Xianrong received these, she felt ashamed. She also thought of what he had done in the past few days. He really kept her by his side all the time and was unwilling to let her go. Thinking of this, she couldn't help laughing out loud.

Cui Xi stood aside and said with a pout, "The general is really good, not like Erlang at all. If I drink an extra sip of chicken soup, he would rush to drink half a bowl. Look at him, he has gained a lot of weight."

Almost three months had passed since Liu Yao went out to fight, and the victory report finally came back. The people in the general's mansion spent the whole day in anxiety, and the atmosphere became increasingly heavy. Today, she was finally able to say some witty words, and Cui Xi was always watching Yang Xianrong's face.

As the wife of a general, she was not ostentatious, but lived a quiet life, and even did not clean up the house that Liu Yi had vacated. The house over there was almost three times the size of the general's mansion, and it would be too much trouble to tidy it up and renovate it.

What's more, once Liu Yao captures Chang'an, they will all follow him, so there is no need to clean up here.

Therefore, Yang Xianrong put more than 100 people including Yuan Jianshuo and the young generals of the Shaoying Group into Liu Yi's house and let them deal with it themselves.

After all, Yuan Jianshuo and his men were born as military guards, so the first thing they cleaned up was Liu Yi's private grain warehouse. This warehouse covered a large area, and the grain stored inside was enough for the people of Pingyang City to eat for the winter. Therefore, Yuan Jianshuo and his men were not idle, and they were busy for a long time just counting the grain and drying some old rice.

In extraordinary times, these grains are more precious than gold and cannot be thrown away under any circumstances.

Yang Xianyong just focused on recovering from his leg injury, and he also told Yang Xianrong what happened after he left Luoyang.

Because Yang Xiankang and his men left early and walked quickly, the journey was relatively smooth. But when the various forces heard that Luoyang had been captured and the emperor of the Jin Dynasty was captured, they were all upset. First, the local armies of the Jin Dynasty were ready to move, and they all sent troops under the banner of taking back the imperial city of Luoyang, and the whole situation suddenly became chaotic.

Yang Xianyong led Sima Jing and others to take a small road to avoid these troops. But they encountered mountain bandits and bandits again, and lost some people at that time. Later, it became even more chaotic. It was heard that there were many bandits on the road to Tai'an County, so he thought of finding a place to stop and wait and see the situation.

Who knew that the situation would become even more chaotic after this, and they even encountered Shi Le's army.

Speaking of Shi Le, he was an ally of Liu Yuan at first. But after Liu Yuan's death, his wolfish ambitions could no longer be hidden. Although he still obeyed the command of the Han emperor on the surface, he was secretly expanding his own troops and territory, and even rode his horse to enclose land and ran to the east, hoping to take over all the territories of the King of Donghai while everyone was busy fighting in the Central Plains.

At this moment, Sima Rui in the south could not stand it anymore. He led 100,000 troops and rushed over to fight with Shi Le's vanguard. There were all kinds of bloody battles, and they even started to massacre villages and plunder. No one survived wherever they went.

Sima Jing fell ill again and had a high fever. Lu Zhu held her and ran all the way, and Cao Tong followed behind. But it was unknown which side of the army was chasing them, and eventually they were all separated. Yang Xianyong fell off a cliff and lost consciousness.

It would be very difficult to look for him after he woke up. Moreover, his legs were broken, so he could only crawl a long distance before he found an abandoned courtyard to hide temporarily. But if Sima Jing and the others really had an accident, he didn't know how to explain it to Yang Xianrong.

Fortunately, he met a hunter who helped him treat his leg injury, and then he struggled out to look for people. But there were so many people that it was extremely difficult to find Sima Jing and the others.

But he also remembered that he had once chatted with Cao Tong about how Ruzhen could contact them after they were separated, so he slowly searched for clues on the street.

Until one day, he actually saw a guard who looked very familiar.

After thinking carefully, he should be one of the guards that Liu Cong sent to follow Yang Xianrong. But he didn't know what this man was going to do when he rode past at full speed, so he just huddled in the corner and waited and watched.

Soon, the guard entered Shi Le's temporary camp, but was beaten and thrown out again, looking extremely miserable.

Yang Xianyong quietly dragged the man to a corner and used the remaining herbs on him to simply treat and bandage him. Fortunately, the man was young and strong, so he didn't die.

The two compared their situations and learned that his name was Liu Xie, and that he was sent by Liu Yao to seek support from Shi Le. But Shi Le refused and drove him out.

Liu Xie was furious. He was a distant cousin of Liu Cong and Liu Yao, and his rank was not low. But Shi Le actually treated him like this, which was really infuriating.

He did know Yang Xianyong, but at that time Yang Xianyong was still struggling with whether to be loyal to the Jin Dynasty and did not pay attention to these Han soldiers.

In such a situation, the two supported each other and found a place to hide and recover. Liu Xie's skin injury was easy to heal, but Yang Xianyong's leg injury was delayed for a long time and did not receive timely treatment, so his condition became worse.

Liu Xie asked him, "You definitely can't go back to Tai'an County, the road is blocked. Why don't we go back to Pingyang first? There are good doctors there, and at least we can get your leg treated first."

At that time, Yang Xianyong also had a high fever and felt a little dazed.

Liu Xie didn't care about anything else. He quietly found an ox cart and took him to Pingyang.