Thin Mei·Love Fragrance Quilt

Chapter 202

In mid-October, Tang Tianxiao, who was gradually recovering from his injuries, allocated the newly recruited [-] Jiangbei elite soldiers to Tang Tianqi as the commander-in-chief, Zhou Shaoduan and Xie Yi assisted him, and rushed to attack the Chu army again.

The Chu army was defeated and retreated in successive defeats. Gradually, only four or five counties in the southwest were still under control.

On November [-]th, Tang Tianxiao rushed to the front line, broke through Bozhou again, and divided his troops around its rear to attack Youzhou and Qinzhou.

Li Mingyuan ordered Zhuang Bilan to dispatch the remaining [-] troops in Jiaozhou to rescue the emergency. Zhuang Bilan was afraid that Jiaozhou would be empty, and the barbarians from southern Xinjiang would take advantage of it and sacrifice hundreds of thousands of Jiaozhou people who supported the Zhuang family. Opened and fell into the hands of barbarians, so he refused to obey.Li Mingyuan led his troops back to aid on his own, leaving Zhuang Bilan alone to fight against the Zhou army which was several times larger than his own.

Not long after Li Mingyuan withdrew, Tang Tianqi attacked the Zhuang family and Zhuang Bilan went out to fight. Unexpectedly, some of the recruits were instigated by the court to act rebelliously and hijacked Nan Yayi who was staying in the camp.Under Tang Tianqi's successive attacks, Zhuang Bilan was troubled internally and externally, and barely put down the rebellion, but Nan Yayi was seriously injured in the battle between the two sides.

When he withdrew to Jiaozhou with the remnants of his troops, there was no food inside and no reinforcements outside, but Nan Yayi's injuries worsened while running around.

Tang Tianqi pursued all the way, seeing that Jiaozhou City was close at hand, and Zhuang's soldiers and horses disappeared before they could enter the city.

While he was wondering, the spies came to report that Zhuang Bilan was riding on a hillside ten miles outside Jiaozhou City, riding alone, and there was no one else.

He was surprised and suspicious.

Although the two have fought many life-and-death wars, before Zhuang Yao rebelled, they were officials in the same dynasty and had no ill will towards each other. Later, they became brothers because of Ke Qianmei. It's better than ordinary friends.

When Ke Qianmei had a difficult delivery, the two put aside their past suspicions, treated each other frankly, and guarded the birth of that new life together, even more sympathetic to each other.

Sometimes, there is no contradiction between respecting each other and fighting each other, but each is the master.

Therefore, after he got the news, he immediately led his troops to investigate.

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Sure enough, Zhuang Bilan was on the hillside, not wearing his war robe, even his sword was hung on his horse, and his plain clothes were full of dust.

But he is not alone.

He sat quietly on the Banpo with Nan Yayi in his arms, facing the direction of Jiaozhou City.

The bright winter sun casts down like countless newly woven bright gold brocades, and the white stones and green pines on the slope are extraordinarily bright, as bright as shining, warmly welcoming the coming unification of the world, a prosperous and peaceful world.

And all that enthusiasm, together with the sadness of withered grass and withered vines in winter, seems to have nothing to do with the man on the slope.

The blazing sunlight seemed to turn a corner when it hit the clothes and skin on his body, silently subduing the radiance.He sat quietly, exuding a light moonlight-like light alone.

Zhou Bing rushed up quickly, countless spears and halberds were aimed at him coldly.

But he turned a blind eye, his deep black eyes full of tenderness, only staring at the woman in his arms.

After confirming that he was indeed the only one left around, Tang Tianqi waved his subordinates to retreat, stepped forward and called out, "Zhuang Bilan!"

Zhuang Bilan raised her eyes and smiled faintly at him, "Marquis Cheng An!"

Tang Tianqi asked, "Where are your soldiers? Why don't you enter the city?"

Zhuang Bilan looked longingly at the city of Jiaozhou, and replied sadly: "The remaining [-] cavalry are mostly farm children recruited near Jiaozhou. Years after year of war, [-] children were brought out, and [-] cavalry were brought back... I, Zhuang Bilan, was incompetent in the end. Tired of these many people buried in a foreign land, I have no face to go back to the city to meet their parents and relatives. The remaining three thousand horses... I will bring them back and let them disperse and go home to farm, which is the last of me. A little effort."

"You...disbanded your last troops and never returned to the city?"

Tang Tianqi couldn't believe it, "As far as I know, there are at least [-] elite soldiers in Jiaozhou City for you to drive. Based on your Zhuang's reputation in Jiaozhou, isn't it difficult to gather another [-] to [-] soldiers and horses? Are you willing to do so?" give up?"

Zhuang Bilan turned her face sideways, a self-deprecating smile floated across her handsome face.

He said: "It's not difficult. But I still know what it means to judge the situation and retreat in the face of difficulties. So many people have already died, why let more people die for one person's selfish desire?"

Tang Tianqi sighed: "You knew this earlier, why did you help Li Mingyuan back then?"

Zhuang Bilan gave a bleak smile, and sighed softly: "What I get is never what I ask for. What I ask for, I always... can't ask for it."

Tang Tianqi seems to understand, but in the end he knows that it was his father Zhuang Yao who was determined to start the army at the beginning; while Tang Tianxiao has been suspicious of the Zhuang family in Jiaozhou for five years and never let go.

Zhuang Bilan stretched out her arms in her arms.

Tang Tianqi's guards were afraid that he would plot against the general, so they drew out their knives and halberds and cut towards his wrist.

When Tang Tianqi was busy drinking, the back of his hand and wrist were hit several times, and blood flowed out.

But he turned a blind eye to it, and handed the things he took out of his arms to Tang Tianqi, saying: "Our father and son had an agreement with the Jiaozhou guard to use this half of the tiger charm as a token of troop deployment. As long as you cut off my head , and this half of the tiger talisman into the city, they will naturally return to the city. The terrain in the southern border is complicated, and the customs of the barbarians are different. If these veterans continue to guard, they will get twice the result with half the effort."

The tiger talisman was already stained with blood, and it was still warm at first, but after a while it was blown by the wind and it became completely cold.

Tang Tianqi held it tightly and said, "I will report to the emperor for a decision. Do you have anything else to say?"

Zhuang Bilan lowered her head, carefully placed Nan Yayi, who had been lying on his wrist, on the crane cloak on the ground, and whispered: "Please take care of her."

Tang Tianqi saw the silent Nan Yayi from the very beginning, and only thought she was dead. Hearing this, he couldn't help being startled, and hurriedly called back: "Where is the doctor?"

A doctor accompanying the army hastily rushed forward and knelt down to diagnose and treat Nan Yayi.

After a while, the doctor shook his head and said: "It's useless, it's too late... But there is still a ray of breath in my chest."

Tang Tianqi lowered his face and said, "Since there is still a ray of breath, how can you say it's useless? Take it down quickly, and rescue it with all your strength!"

Immediately someone came over from that side, took care of Nan Yayi, and rushed down the mountain quickly.

Zhuang Bilan stood up, silently watching the woman with whom she had been closely related for so many years gradually drifting away from her, her expression was actually very peaceful, without much sadness.

Tang Tianqi was surprised, and said again: "Zhuang Bilan, if you are willing to enter the city by yourself and bring the Jiaozhou guards to surrender, this Marquis will help you with a few words. The emperor loves talents, so he may not forgive you."

Zhuang Bilan said indifferently: "Surrender once, you have already lost your character; if you rebel and surrender again, if you surrender and rebel again, you are not a general, but a running dog."

Tang Tianqi wanted to excuse him, but when he heard his words, he knew that he had made up his mind, so he felt sad, lowered his head, waved his hands and said, "Come here, tie him up! Detain him immediately!"

Zhuang Bilan didn't struggle and let someone tie him up tightly.

It's just that when others pushed him down the mountain, he couldn't help it, and looked back at Jiaozhou City, which their father and son had defended all their lives.

The golden sun sinks westward, and the original bright sun unknowingly turns into a mass of deep red, enveloping the black and green city like a glow.Several goshawks flew across the vast sky, lamenting above the nine heavens in the blood-like glow.

it's getting dark.

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On November [-]st, the day after Zhuang Bilan was captured, Li Mingyuan was ambushed while moving his troops to Qinzhou. The leader of the troops was Tang Tianxiao, Emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty.The Chu army was defeated.

On the [-]rd, Tang Tianqi led troops to Qinzhou and Youzhou to help wipe out the remaining Chu troops.

That evening, Li Mingyuan was captured while fleeing.

But Tang Tianxiao didn't give up.

Li Mingyuan and his confidantes were all tortured and tortured.

On November [-]th, according to the confession of one of Li Mingyuan's confidants, the captain, he finally found out Ke Qianmei's whereabouts.

Li Mingyuan hid her in an inaccessible valley in Da Cang Mountain, and sent four guards, some maids, and a doctor to serve her in the valley. It is said that food and water are plentiful, and life is very good.

Tang Tianxiao guessed that this was probably a retreat specially arranged by Li Mingyuan. After the defeat, he could still escape and stay with Ke Qianmei and fly together. A touch of pleasure.

Thinking of Qianmei's unbearable situation, even stepped on his feelings and dignity, and married someone else, he gritted his teeth with hatred and couldn't sleep at night.

But after discovering her whereabouts, his first reaction was to rush over in person, beat her up, and reprimanded her...

But he finally endured it.

He thought, with Qianfeng's little evil, he should be even more reluctant to let go of that goblin-like woman.

But no matter what, he won't and can't spoil her like before, and he can't let her climb on his head.

He didn't want her to feel that he still valued her so much after her shameless betrayal.

So, he asked Tang Tianqi to bring her back.

"Just leave her alive."

He said coldly, "As for all the loyal servants left to her by her husband-in-law who believed in the king... Kill them all in front of her, and no one will be left alive! Also, I don't want to see any more of her and Li Mingyuan The traces of living together! I will not tolerate her daring to have a little thought about him!"

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The next day, Nan Yayi, who had been holding her last breath with the best medicine, died.

When Tang Tianxiao heard the news and rushed to see him, she happened to be sober just before she died, and unexpectedly recognized him.

She said: "Your Majesty, I have caught many crickets for you."

Tang Tianxiao was in a trance, and seemed to have returned to the time when his childhood sweethearts played together.

The two hid in the bushes under the steps, each staring at the crickets with big eyes.

Suddenly finding the target, the two jumped up together, their foreheads touched, and the two small figures collided together.

After the sound of "Ouch", the two looked at each other and smiled.

The sun shining through the branches and leaves is sprinkled on the head, and the grass is as green as jasper, and their eyes are so clear, reflecting each other's smiles.

It's all over, a big dream of childhood sweethearts!
He looked haggard, looked at her disheartened face, held her hand, and said softly: "That's right, Yayi has helped me catch a lot of crickets."

She then said, "Your Majesty, can you let Bilan survive for the sake of those crickets?"

Tang Tianxiao was silent for a moment, seeing her sunken eyes fixed on him, anxious and eager, finally replied: "Well, I will spare him from dying."

Nan Yayi breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty."

"When did we become so divided?" Tang Tianxiao said sadly, "Do you want to meet Zhuang Bilan?"

Nan Yayi shook her head, "No, people who are about to die are ugly. It would be better not to see them."

As soon as her breath was loose, her eyes were scattered, and she sighed happily and sadly: "He...will find a woman he likes again, give birth to a few babies, and...in the blue sky, white clouds and green grass...to herd sheep... ..."

Her pupils gradually dilated, and her slender hands suddenly held him extremely tightly, and said with all her strength, "It's a pity that I... and Qianmei... still... please... no... yes!"

Her head fell back heavily on the pillow, her eyes were fixed in a daze, and she didn't move anymore.

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