The loyal minister was forced to marry the traitor

Chapter 118 The battle begins "Use firearms, and the rest stand by." …

Xiao Jiuqin assembled his army overnight to prepare for battle, and wanted to march to Guixi Mansion in a hurry.

Due to the cumbersome supplies of the army, Xiao Jiuqing led two thousand cavalry first for the time being, while He Zhaoyuan and others and the supervising army followed behind.

Bai Yan wanted to send him off, but he was going to court early the next morning, and before leaving, he "met" Huai Chun outside the gate of the mansion, so he only had time to present Xiao Jiuqin with a cloak before leaving in a hurry.

Xiao Jiuqin turned his horse's head when he watched Bai Yan's carriage disappear from sight.

On the other end, Bai Yan and Huai Chun were sitting in the same carriage. This time, Huai Chun was squatting at the gate of the Hou's Mansion early in the morning. It snowed all night last night, and the snow covered his insteps.

Huai Chun, dressed in fox fur, watched Bai Yan and Xiao Jiuqin say goodbye simply, without saying a word from the beginning to the end.

This time when the two of them met, Bai Yan was rarely calm. He rubbed his sore knees, and his brows were slightly frowned with tiredness.

Huai Chun watched his movements, opened the drawer of the small cabinet, and took out a tube of ointment, "Take off the shoes and socks."

Bai Yan didn't dawdle, quickly took off his shoes and socks, and opened his robe, and saw a large bruise from the knee down, his skin was pale, and his bones protruded quite a bit.

"Does he know?" Huai Chun poured medicated oil into the palm of his hand, squatted halfway in front of Bai Yan without hesitation, stretched out his hands and rubbed them vigorously.

Bai Yan gritted his teeth in pain, "If I know it, I won't be able to alleviate the pain for me. These are old problems, so why worry him anymore."

"You're just doing it yourself!" Huai Chun glared at him, "You've been suffering for a lifetime, and you don't even have a close friend to take care of you. Now Xiao Jiuqin has gone to Guixi Mansion again, and will be the first to clean it up when Yun Zhong frees his hands. It's you."

"Then let him do it. It's not that I don't have long hands, so I will naturally resist."

When Bai Yan was stubborn, he was really stubborn, Huai Chun wished he could beat him up.

"You were standing outside early in the morning, and people saw you and wanted to trouble you. To be honest, what are you doing here? After all, it can't be to send Xiao Jiuqin to an expedition."

As soon as Bai Yan opened his mouth, Huai Chun's subordinates paused at first, and then looked up helplessly, "Can't I come here for a personal matter?"

"Personal matter?" Bai Yan looked at him with an expression of "don't fool me".

Huai Chun was helpless, "To be honest, you don't believe me. I came here today to remind you that Yunzhong hates you to the bone now, because the emperor was addicted to alchemy and didn't continue to investigate. But Yunzhong is different. He checked it out yesterday. Why did you speak for Xiao Jiuqin one by one in the court that day, and even dragged out the prefect of Guixi, and you are behind it."

"This is a mistake. Although I used disgraceful methods, it is true that Xiao Jiuqin is innocent, and it is also true that the prefect of Guixi abandoned the people. Since he did it, no wonder others talked about it, and allowed It's not the first time that Zhong hates me so much, let him do whatever he wants."

Bai Yan didn't seem to care, Huai Chun looked angry, and suddenly squeezed him hard, Bai Yan gasped, "Who are you taking revenge on me for?!"

He hurriedly pulled Huai Chun up, put on his shoes and socks a few times, there was a faint smell of medicine in the carriage, but Bai Yan looked resentful, "My heart is so cruel, it hurts me to death!"

"It's only when it hurts that you can remember." Huai Chun took a cloth towel to wipe his hands, leaned on the carriage and glanced at him, "The ugly words are up front, as soon as Xiao Jiuqin leaves, there will be so many demons and ghosts in this city who will come to trouble you, and Then Song Que Zeng Xuan, stay away from them."

"Are you afraid that they will harm me, or are you afraid that I will pry them away?" Bai Yan suppressed his smile, "Is there more to what you want to talk about today, I know I am in a quagmire now, but I will be ruthless earlier. Pulling out/coming out is better than sinking deeper and deeper."

This time it was Huai Chun's turn to stop talking, and Bai Yan didn't care, and continued, "Who is Yun Zhong, don't trust him just because of Wei Chengdan, people who play tricks, the least thing they care about is blood relationship, Do you think that Yun Zhong really only cares about Wei Chengdan?"

"I'm afraid I want to think that Wei Chengdan is docile and easy to control, and when he ascends the throne, Yun Zhong will be the No.

"I'm afraid that even Wei Chengtan will not end well."

Huai Chun remained silent.

Bai Yan sighed, "Look at the people outside Yingdu, Yongzhou Mansion, Xiaoyang Mansion and even Guixi Mansion, they are so innocent, the high officials who play with power don't care, they don't know that the people below are struggling to survive .”

Once the success is over, the people who wield power will never see the people who really need their attention.

"If you don't fight, it's chaos, and if you fight, it's chaos. We've reached this point, and I can only gamble with him." Huai Chun knew that he couldn't turn back, so he could only continue to move forward, taking Wei Chengdan with him.

Speaking of this, Bai Yan knew that it was useless to say anything, so he changed the subject.

"Forget it, let's not talk about it, it's you...is there nothing going on in the palace these days? Why do you always run outside, not afraid of the Second Highness who makes things difficult for you inside?"

Bai Yan had a joking tone.

Huai Chun finally sensed some familiarity from his words, he smiled lightly, and said, "I am a slave and he is a master, and I can't control him, let alone he and the man in the palace. They are father and son, and now that Wei Chengfeng has been deposed, looking at the princes, it seems that he and Song Que are the only ones left to compete."

"So even if the emperor doesn't like him, it's not good to always make troubles now. These days, he probably thinks that he is not in good health. The emperor seldom troubles him. The second highness has gone to the front of the majesty many times to listen to the training. , so I have so much time to hang out outside."

Speaking of something flickering in his eyes, Bai Yan thought he was dazzled.

But no matter what, Huai Chun was just talking. Those who didn't know would almost believe what he said, but they were all foxes for thousands of years, so there was something they didn't understand, so Bai Yan asked straight to the point.

"Xiao Jiuqin has already left Yingdu, and Yun Zhong has already suffered some serious setbacks in court. It's no accident that he came to take revenge on me, but I still want to remind you that if you seek skin from a tiger, you are afraid that you will end up harming yourself and others."

Before Huai Chun could open his mouth the next moment, he smiled again, "But at that moment, I wanted to say, now that you belong to both inside and outside the palace, you don't have anything too embarrassing about it, so Why bother to worry about your dull eyes, it's your own body after all, don't end up with a weak body like mine."

Huai Chun nodded slightly, with an obvious smile on the corner of his mouth, "Listen to you."

"But no matter what, I'm a slave. If the master speaks, I still have to listen to their instructions, but I can survive. But you, listen to me, I will send some people to protect you later. Support early."

Bai Yan looked at him, "Didn't you test me?"

"Of course not." Huai Chun put the medicinal oil in Bai Yan's hand, "I won't harm you."

"But he will use me." Bai Yan didn't show any sign of anger, as if talking about other people's affairs, "You can't persuade me, and I can't persuade you, just resign yourself to fate and move on."

Xiao Jiuqin marched day and night with the two thousand elite riders, and finally arrived just in time for Beidi's massive attack on the city.

In order to hurry, the whole team was exhausted, but Xiao Jiuqin didn't dare to delay, hastily divided the two thousand elite riders into three groups, and surrounded them from three directions.

With the opponent's army pressing down on the situation, the people led by Xiao Jiuqin would hardly have the strength to fight.

So you can only outsmart.

Before the opponent could react, Xiao Jiuqin's men had already sneaked in. The opponent's camp was heavily guarded, but in the end they were no match for a pack of medicine powder.

"Master Hou, most of the opponent's horses have been damaged, what should we do next?"

"set fire."

After Xiao Jiuqin led the people to the palace, the rest of the people withdrew to the downstairs of Guixi Mansion City first.

"Boom!" The surging black smoke mixed with the crackling sound directly blew up the Beidi barracks.

After they reacted, thick smoke billowed outside, dust flew up, horses neighed, and soldiers clashed, making them dazed.

"How many enemies are there!"

"Report! I can't see clearly, the sound of horseshoes is scattered, and the enemy's shouts are all over the sky. It can be inferred from the sound alone... there should be no less than ten thousand people."

"The grain and grass in the north were also burned!"

"And the stables, the guards are all dead..."

The Beidi barracks were in chaos, and it was impossible to determine how many soldiers and horses there were in Daliang, so most of them stayed in the barracks and dared not come out.

Seeing that his goal had been achieved, Xiao Jiuqin took advantage of the commotion and took advantage of the commotion to quickly enter the city with the secret signal he had contacted in advance.

Their arrival undoubtedly relieved the people of Guixi Mansion, and even the garrison leader of Guixi Mansion almost burst into tears. He knelt at Xiao Jiuqin's feet, blood was still oozing from his broken arm, but his resolute face Full of the joy of narrow escape.

As long as the Marquis of Pingjin arrives, everything will be saved.

The Beidi barbarians attacked for three consecutive days, and the Guixi Mansion garrisoned no more than a thousand troops. They were able to fight at the beginning, but they were weak on the second day. There were only a few bows and arrows in the city, and food was also decreasing day by day.

The common people knew that they fought hard, so they saved their rations and sent them over, but these garrisons couldn't swallow it, so they began to eat clear soup with little water mixed with the forage they usually feed livestock.

Xiao Jiuqin didn't even have time to take a breather. He led people to patrol the city wall guards, rearranged them, and replaced the garrison with the people he brought.

Then there was the city, where he inspected it non-stop, and squeezed out two days' rations for the people whose lives were hard to sustain. People around him tried to dissuade him repeatedly, but Xiao Jiuqin still insisted on going his own way.

In his opinion, if the people are starved to death, then what's the use of defending the city of Guixi Mansion!

Time passed little by little, and the Beidi barbarians finally realized that they had been put together, and they were furious immediately, and thousands of people approached the city wall in black.

"Master Hou, do you want to fight?"

"Use firearms, and the rest stand by."

"Yes!"

They came lightly, and only brought [-]% of their firearms. Xiao Jiuqin knew that he could not back down in this first battle, but it was not suitable for tired soldiers to fight, so he used firearms directly.

Sure enough, the opponent was caught off guard and exploded in the formation of thousands of people. Xiao Jiuqin's offensive continued unabated and he ordered people to continue.

At the same time, several big drums on the city tower were beating, and the sound was so loud that the Beidi barbarians below couldn't tell how many people there were.

"Master Hou, they have retreated."

"Send someone to watch carefully, and the spies sent into the city by the other party, I have to find them out one by one!"

"Yes!"