Song Dynasty

Chapter 239 All Parties ([-])

After leaving the left-behind department in Tokyo, all she thought about was where she would settle down, how to survive, and give her brothers a way out.

Fortunately, Li Tianwang took everyone in, so he already had a bite to eat.

Li Cheng is a hero, and the robe of our cavalry army is also a hero. We have gotten along well in the past two years.Except... except that this battle is endless, with no end in sight.

Could it be that my life, Chen Lanruo, is to keep killing people on the battlefield, and then one day when I can't kill them, I will be chopped down by someone with a knife. Is this kind of life really what I want?
Thinking of this, Chen Lanruo raised her hands in front of her, and looked through the bonfire and the light of the lightning outside.However, he saw that his arms were full and strong, and his strong, slender and graceful muscles were looming.And his palms were calloused from carrying guns and holding knives for a long time.

"Am I still a woman..."

The long war has almost obliterated her feminine features, and she can't remember her gentle and virtuous appearance when she was young.

Only, only Huaixi a year ago.The man with thick eyebrows, bright eyes, and white and neat teeth when he spoke made her realize for the first time that he was still a woman and could still be liked by others.

"Dao Si, Dao Si...Little thief, where are you now? Are you alright?"

"This damn battlefield!"

In the lightning, blood can still be vaguely seen from the palm prints.

Seeing this blood color, the tenderness that suddenly surged in my heart disappeared in an instant, and was replaced by her unique strength.

Just today during the day, she beheaded three bandits with her own hands and won the victory of this small encounter.

Although the scale of this battle was small, the bandit army only had two hundred people.But they suddenly got out of the reeds by boat. There are mostly paddy fields and river forks in Hunan, which is not conducive to the cavalry charge.I and a dozen or so knights under my command were blocked by them on the river embankment, and on the other side was a rotten paddy field, which could not be unfolded at all.Although in the end, relying on the bravery of the cavalry army, the group of thieves were finally repelled, but he still paid the price with four lives.

Those are the elite of the Tokyo Remaining Division. These days, the qualified cavalry dies one by one, and there is no place to replenish them if they are exhausted.What's more, they followed me from Kaifeng, walked half of China, and never returned home until they died.

Thinking of the four brothers who are now buried in the open space at the head of the village, Chen Lanruo felt a wave of embarrassment.

She has experienced too many such battles in the past few months.Since Li Tianwang's army came to Hunan, the battle was going very smoothly at the beginning. Although Zhong Xiangzhong's monsters gathered tens of thousands of believers and had a great momentum, they were still a group of mobs, so how could they be opponents of regular troops.

But fighting and fighting, the war changed a lot, and the situation began to be unfavorable to Li Tianwang.

The demons of the Manichaeism were also ruthless. Everywhere they went, they threatened all the people, conscripted the manpower and material resources that could be expropriated before, and killed those who could not be taken away, and burned them all, so as to give the imperial army a strong wall to clear the country.

And Li Cheng also adopted the same method.

Both sides hold the goal of completely destroying the opponent's economic base and war potential, and using robbery to strengthen themselves.

In this way, you kill me and you kill me, and you burn me and burn you.The area south of Dongting Lake was literally turned into ruins.Walking on the road for two days, there are scattered corpses everywhere.Not to mention living people, not even a bird can be seen.

This is where the army goes, not a single blade of grass grows!
Li Tianwang originally thought that after he came to Dingzhou, he could easily put down the chaos of Zhong Xiang, and use this military exploits to build a mansion and become rich and prosperous.However, Zhong Xiang changed his style of play after repeated setbacks.

He no longer gathered a large army to fight against Li Cheng, but turned his army into a small team of hundreds of people, taking advantage of the convenient location, to shuttle back and forth between the river and the reeds in a small boat.Seeing a chance, he took a cold breath and gave Li Chenglai a note.I couldn't beat it anymore, so I went away with a whistling sound.

Without a boat and not familiar with water, the poor northern men under Li Cheng could only watch the enemy go away.

In one battle after another, the fighting power of Zhong Xiang's monsters has also been greatly improved, and they gradually fought with Li Chengjun.

The war was delayed, and Li Tianwang's manpower and material resources were also exhausted, which gradually became unsustainable.It is no longer possible to maintain the food and clothing of the army by looting alone.

Li Cheng's men and horses did not move at all. After crossing the Yangtze River south, there were only a little over seven thousand left.Later, he moved to many places in the south of the Yangtze River, and there were only five thousand left in Hunan.Now such a consumption is even more insufficient.

Li Tianwang was also anxious. After entering Dingzhou, he simply pulled down his face and directly swept away all the property in the city, and conscripted all the men in the city into the army.It's a pity that the officials and gentry in Dingzhou city sent people to invite Li Cheng to Dingzhou to understand the siege of Zhong Xiang, but the result was "thinking about the central government, hoping for the central government, and suffering even more when the central government comes."

In the troubled times, Chen Lanruo didn't sympathize with the people in Dingzhou: he had no brains, and he opened the door to meet the tiger, so he had to blame others.

After recruiting the men from Dingzhou City, Li Cheng's army finally expanded to [-], and the main force of them finally reached the previous number of [-].However, the combat effectiveness is much worse.

Moreover, those rotten civilian husbands simply have no qualified cavalry to supplement.

Thinking of the number of cavalry troops that he fought less and less, Chen Lanruo was worried.He lowered his head and thought, if Zhong Yaoren still uses that kind of tactics, how should he deal with it.

Just as he was thinking, the cavalrymen who were laughing and drinking suddenly stopped talking, and the room suddenly became quiet.

Chen Lanruo's hair stood on the back of her neck, she pulled out the clothes hanging by the side and covered her body, and said in a low voice: "The enemy is attacking, get on the horse, and prepare to fight!"

After everyone finished putting on their clothes, they went out of the house and jumped on their horses.

I heard the sound of rumbling horseshoes coming from far and near, and the target was this deserted village.

"It seems that we were really bitten by the monster. The enemy is one mile away from me, twenty horsemen. Hehe, play cavalry assault with me, and use the ax at the door." Chen Lanruo sneered, "Go, go up, kill this Thief, let's come back to drink again."

With a shake of the long lance in his hand, the sky was filled with buzzing and trembling sounds.

All the cavalrymen responded at the same time: "I would like to follow the general, and we have never been afraid of anyone. The battle during the day was suffocating, and we have to show those bastards a little bit tonight."

"Come here, let grandpa kill you!"

Amidst the loud laughter, more than ten riders rumbled out, and their long horses shone frighteningly in the night.

Rushing out of the small village, sure enough, there were about twenty cavalry in the previous life, all of them were light cavalry, each of them had only one knife in their hands, and their equipment was extremely poor.

Chen Lanruo yelled: "Fix the formation and prepare to charge!"

Seeing Chen Lanruo and others, the enemies on the opposite side were in a mess, shouting: "My own, don't do it, don't do it."

A familiar voice sounded: "General Chen, it's me, it's me!"

Everyone looked intently, only then did they recognize him, they all relaxed, and shouted: "So it's Mr. Tao, it's late at night, what are you doing here all the time?"

Sure enough, one of the team rode over.

This person is thin and small, with two stiff mustaches on his mouth, he looks very obscene, he is Li Tianwang's mastermind Tao Zisi.

He rushed to Chen Lanruo, cupped his hands and smiled flatteringly: "General Chen, I heard that you had an encounter with the monster's navy today. I couldn't be relieved, so I brought a team to help. Hey, as long as you're fine, that's it." I am also relieved. The general has been out of the city for many days to suppress the thieves, but the clearing has decreased."

Being stared at by this wretched middle-aged man with lustful eyes, even if Chen Lanruo is a heroine, she still feels uncomfortable.I don't know what kind of evil this guy is, since the army crossed the Yangtze River south, he changed his past and ignored his love for him, and came here all day to show his hospitality, and even talked to the king of heaven that he wanted to marry her as his wife.

Isn't this a joke, this bird-haired beast is a piece of shit, usually he only likes to tell stories and play tricks.I, Chen Lanruo, and others, even if I want to remarry, I have to marry a world-class hero like Wang Daosi, who is also worthy of the surname Tao?
Fortunately, the king of heaven just smiled and said: "Zisi, you are already old, Lan Ruo is really young, and it is a grievance to marry you, so don't mention it again."

Tao Zisi finally got four concubines from the king of heaven before he left in dismay.

However, in the next year, this guy refused to give up, and still came to flirt with him, which made Chen Lanruo angry and anxious.

It's just that everyone works under Li Tianwang's command, so it's not easy to turn against him.

Looking at Tao Zisi's exhausted middle-aged face at this moment, Chen Lanruo suppressed the urge to poke his face into pieces, and said coldly: "What are you looking at? Don't blame me for being rude. Mr. Tao , you are usually as timid as a mouse, you only know how to hide in the big tent of the Chinese army and gesticulate, how do you have the courage to go to battle in person today? Tell me, is it because the foster father has urgent military matters to consult with me, and sent someone to find me? "

Hearing her explain this point, Tao Zisi was very embarrassed and coughed: "Yes, there is something urgent, and the Heavenly King sent me an order to return to Dingzhou early tomorrow morning, not only me, but also Ma Jin and everyone else. The military control must go back to the city."

Chen Lanruo was startled, and asked anxiously, "But what happened?"

"There is a big event. It is reported that Wang Shen, the defense envoy of Huangzhou, is swearing-in in Anlu, and is going to Hunan to destroy Zhong Xiang. Seeing that it is the beginning of autumn, the king of heaven estimates that Wang Shen's main force will come in a month at most. State."

"Ah... Wang Shen..." A flash of lightning flashed across the sky, lighting up the sky and the earth, followed by thunder that shook the sky.Chen Lanruo swayed, and she held the horse with all her strength, and her knuckles turned white from the force.

Seeing Chen Lanruo's expression, Tao Zisi felt intense jealousy in his heart, and sneered, "General Chen is looking forward to Wang Daosi!"

"Wang Shen, I'm going to kill you!" Chen Lanruo let out a long roar, and threw the horse in his hand fiercely.

The long horse lance was nailed to the big tree in front, trembling and humming continuously.

"Wow!" The heavy rain poured down from the sky, drenching her head and face.

Tears welled up like springs and were washed away by the rain.

(End of this chapter)