phoenix knot

Chapter 18

King Liao was indeed suspicious by nature, but he led an army of 40. After a night of thinking, he led his army across the Yellow River and headed straight for Kaifeng without encountering any resistance along the way.

Liang Guanjing and her men hid behind a high slope and watched from a distance, it was too far away, beyond the range of the bow and arrow, Shen Chenghao proposed to use artillery fire to attack, but there were Empress Dowager Xu and Liang Guanjing's own brother, the artillery fire was ruthless, She ordered no war.After watching blankly for a long time, the front team had already entered the city gate, and the rear had not yet finished crossing the Yellow River. Shen Chenghao began to feel that the queen was famous, but she was actually a female class. She was frightened stupid by such a huge battle.

In the middle of crossing the river, the army suddenly mutinied. Chen Chunhe led his generals to fight in the rear. The reinforcements sent by Shen Chenghao to capture Dingzhou also arrived in time. Under the attack of the two sides, a tragic fight broke out on the Yellow River. Fighting, drowning, countless deaths, corpses piled up on the shallows of various river bends, gulls and herons competing for food, crows singing for thousands of miles, it is too horrible to look at.

In this battle, King Liao suffered a lot, including the food and grass he brought across the river. However, the main force was still there, and Kaifeng was well-off, so he could take a rest and fight the capital again.

Early the next morning, Liang Guanjing ordered people to call out at the east gate, asking King Liao to release Queen Mother Xu.The caller was very capable, and he spoke very harshly. He even talked about how King Liao bullied women, and asked him to invite the fake Emperor Huiwen to let everyone see how sacred he is.After shouting for a long time, not only the King of Liao was called, but the Queen Mother Xu was also escorted to the city wall by the guards.Her complexion was pale, and she seemed to have been frightened a lot in the past few days, and she was also forced to come up at this time.

Su Mingyue followed Liang Guanjing and sat in the car formation. Like Liang Guanjing, she was dressed in black plain clothes and did not wear any jewellery, just like the queen's maid.This dress was given to her by Liang Guanjing from the change of clothes, the belt was tied tight, and it barely fit.Su Mingyue looked up and saw Empress Dowager Xu was still a bright and attractive young woman a few days ago. Today, let's not talk about applying rouge and gouache, but the clothes on her body are the same as those on the boat a few days ago. They have been washed and have not been carefully washed. Her clothes were wrinkled, her hair was combed by a maid who didn't have a skillful hand, and the gold hairpins and jade hairpins were inserted in a mess.

"Where is Princess Yan?" She looked behind and shouted tremblingly, her voice hoarse.

Liang Guanjing got on the horse, but it was too late for Su Mingyue to hold her back.Horseshoes ticking, Liang Guanjing, dressed in commoner clothes and without armor, walked to the front of the formation. Except for a saber temporarily taken from a guard at her waist, she had no other weapons at hand. She took off the hat on her head, and Liang Guanjing looked up. "Empress Xu, don't worry, we are trying to rescue her."

"Is everything safe in my family?" She was asking Emperor Huiwen.

"It has been properly arranged, God knows, you know, I know."

A smile appeared on Empress Dowager Xu's face, and a tear ran down her beautiful face, "Thank you."

"Soldiers, the Emperor Huiwen behind King Liao is a fake! My son died in the country earlier than during the Seven Kings Rebellion!"

When the King of Liao heard something wrong, he almost rushed forward to cover the mouth of Empress Dowager Xu himself. Empress Dowager Xu bit him hard and continued to shout, "The Liao thieves are plotting to usurp the throne, deceiving the king, and deceiving me first,* *It's unbearable to be behind me!"

The guards behind also came forward to pull, Empress Dowager Xu suddenly exerted all her strength and pounced forward. The high platform she shouted was originally built temporarily, and she could cross the city wall with just one step.The king of Liao saw her weak and weak, weeping and begging to go back to the palace, he spared her life, how did he know that when he went up to the high stage to shout, he suddenly changed into a different person, completely ignoring life and death.He personally went forward, trying to grab Empress Dowager Xu, but was hugged by the left and right guards, there was no time.

Empress Dowager Xu's clothes fluttered, her body was as light as a swallow, and her paper-like body fell from the high tower until she was smashed to pieces.

Liang Guanjing pointed his sword and shouted: "Siege the city! Avenge the Empress Dowager Xu!"

The soldiers around him also shouted, "Revenge for Queen Mother Xu!"

The dragon-milling cart that was about to be in the formation was pushed over, and dozens of soldiers drove the horses to run, and the speed was getting faster and faster. "Bang!" It hit the heavy city gate.

Not to mention that Shen Chenghao didn't expect to really attack the city, the King of Liao was even more at a loss.

Liang Guanjing rode a horse and ran around the formation, and stopped at the side of the team. Not far from the horse's hooves was the corpse of Empress Dowager Xu. Su Mingyue thought she was going to order the vanguard battalion to attack, but she snatched it from a soldier's hand. Bow and arrow, aimed at the top of the tower.

Before the King of Liao could recover, the feathered arrow flew out, passed through the observation gap in the city wall, and pierced his chest with one arrow.The guards surrounded the injured King Liao and hurriedly retreated. The battle was imminent, the commander was attacked, and the morale of the army suddenly collapsed.

There was a man's majestic shout, "Brothers, follow me!"

"The Liao thief will die!"

In the chaos, Liang Guanjing dismounted from the horse, picked up Empress Dowager Xu's body and put it on the horse. She looked around in the crowd and rushed towards Su Mingyue.

"Take Empress Dowager Xu away, dress up well and enter the coffin, after this battle is over, I will have a rich burial."

With the help of the left and right guards, Su Mingyue transported Empress Dowager Xu's corpse from the front of the formation. In the chaos, she turned her head and saw Liang Guanjing's figure submerged in the tide-like formation.She thought, if she was in the Su Mansion's mansion, or the Hougong Pavilion, she would never know what fighting is like.Liang Guanjing brought her to see it on purpose. As a woman, why can't she live in a post house and go to the battlefield?As a weak woman, she asked her to evacuate in time after the battle started. Seeing the bloody Queen Mother Xu being transported to the car, Su Mingyue became extremely calm after being terrified.

Did she expect this scene early on?

Empress Dowager Xu was transported to a place far away from the battlefield. Su Mingyue scrubbed her body with the only gauze at hand, fitting her clothes so that the corpse would not be able to move after being stiff.She was guarding the corpse of Empress Dowager Xu, and soon there were wounded soldiers brought over, those missing arms and legs, blinded, bloody, screaming, just like Shura dojo, endless hell.

A military doctor saw her and shouted, "Come and help!"

Su Mingyue woke up with a start, and found that the military doctor was calling her. She didn't think too much, and rushed to help, "What should I do, I don't know how to do it at all?"

The military doctor heard that she was a woman, but he didn't rush to take a closer look. He just said, "Hold him down for me, and tie him tightly with a bandage."

Su Mingyue was about to hold down the wounded soldier, but she was stronger than others, and was kicked far away, and sat down on the ground.

"I will hold him down, and you will bandage him!"

Su Mingyue nodded, she can do this, under the guidance of the military doctor, she deftly flipped up and down with her hands, she knew it without a teacher.

The battle lasted from sunrise to sunset. Su Mingyue assisted the military doctor in rescuing the wounded under the simple tent. He was so busy that he didn't even bother to take a sip of water. He didn't know how the battle was going on at the front and whether Liang Guanjing was injured.

At night, when Liang Guanjing walked to her side, she was still sewing wounds. Yes, she learned how to sew wounds in just one day, and even felt that sewing wounds was much easier than embroidery. Just right.

A soldier asked her if her face would be disfigured, she said: "I learned Su embroidery before, and your military doctor's hands are not as clever as mine."

The military doctor laughed and said: "The war is in turmoil, as long as you don't lack arms or legs, you still care about whether you lose your appearance."

Su Mingyue said: "This young man looks handsome, it would be a pity if he loses his appearance."

The soldier stared at Su Mingyue, and was stunned when he saw the girl exhale like blue, stitching up the wound delicately, "My name is Liu Wusi, I'm from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, I'm 17 years old, has the girl ever married? "

Su Mingyue was taken aback for a moment, this little soldier might propose a marriage in the next step.

"What are you thinking, this is the empress!" Someone behind him said loudly, but it was not Liang Guanjing who was standing with his sword.

Su Mingyue quickly answered, "...the maid next to you! I am the little maid next to the empress. Do you know the empress? The one who took the lead and shot King Liao with an arrow on the tower today."

"I heard about it, but unfortunately I didn't see it. It is said that the empress is a heavenly soldier and general who descended to earth, shot arrows with a bow, and shot the old boy of the Liao king to death in one fell swoop."

Liang Guanjing sat down directly on the bamboo couch, and said with a smile: "I don't know if I'm dead or not, let him escape."

"Escape?"

"The enemy's entire army was defeated, but after all, there were too many rebels. There was a sea of ​​corpses and blood in front of the Renhe Gate, and the troops outside the city couldn't get through. Let him escape."

"Ah, you're injured." Su Mingyue saw that there was a long incision on Liang Guanjing's left arm that was oozing blood. Even though it was only a skin trauma, it couldn't be careless, so she quickly picked up a needle and thread to sew it up for her.

"It's okay." Liang Guanjing didn't even frown.

"Promise me, next time you can plan a strategy in the Chinese army, how can you put yourself in danger and do what that reckless man would do?"

"The commander doesn't take the lead, how can the soldiers below follow you to their death?" After Liang Guanjing finished speaking, he raised Su Mingyue's face with the other hand, "How are you doing today, how many times have you vomited?"

"I can't spit it out anymore."

"I've made progress." As he spoke, he elbowed the little soldier who was staring at him stupidly, "You said your name was Liu Wusi, and you were born on May [-]th?"

"Yes."

"The name is too cheap."

"My mother said that a cheap name is easy to support."

"When I was young, my name was cheap, but now I am in the army, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and ten. The military book list is full of such names. Isn't it just a nobody? I will change your name to Liu Wu Sike Good? One who comes from martial arts, you should think more about it before you can advance and retreat in a certain way. A soldier has no law, water has no shape, and a brave man with many strategies can become a great weapon. In the future, when you come out and enter the prime minister, I will take this court lady betrothed to you!"

The little soldier knelt down on the ground, "Thank you empress for your name! Thank you empress for your respect!"

Liang Guanjing helped him up, gave him a few words of encouragement, and then left in the midst of farewell sounds of "Respectfully sending off the empress, the empress is a thousand years old".She took Su Mingyue outside the tent, "Where's Empress Dowager Xu?"

Su Mingyue brought her to Empress Dowager Xu's bed, only to see Empress Dowager Xu lying there quietly with her face covered by white silk.

Liang Guanjing commanded the guards to lift the bamboo mat and take the body away, "The weather is so hot that the body cannot be brought back to the hometown, so it can only be buried on the spot. I have sent people to the city to do some cleaning. You come with me and dress her up." some."

"it is good."

After a pause, Liang Guanjing asked, "Are you afraid of dressing up the dead?"

Su Mingyue rescued a lot of wounded soldiers today, some of them were seriously wounded and died. Seeing the dying lights disappearing in her eyes, life and death were on the line, Yin and Yang were separated, she felt more sympathy than fear, so she shook her head, "The Empress Dowager Xu said Now, although I had little relationship with her before I was alive, I respect her as a great enemy, and I am not afraid of life and death.

Liang Guanjing nodded, "Follow me."

That night, Su Mingyue used rouge and gouache to make the Empress Dowager Xu look decent, glamorous and charming, and inserted gold hairpins and jade hairpins for the first time, put on silk and satin, and drew a pair of exquisite embroidered shoes on her feet.At dawn, eight guards carried it up the mountain, chose a geomantic treasure land, and the whole army lined up, dressed in white and plain onyx, dressed in linen and filial piety, and buried with the ceremony of the mother of the country.

After the Empress Dowager Xu was buried, Shen Chenghao came to see the queen again, and the spies reported that the Liao king had brought the remnants of his troops south overnight. He counted the number of people, rested the team, and there were 15 people left, and went straight to Yangzhou.Chen Chunhe led the rest of his troops to chase, and asked the people from Kaifeng if they should transfer to pursue them.

Liang Guanjing shook his head, "I can't catch up, you stay where you are and wait for the court's order." Then he got up, "General Shen, I'm leaving too."

"This is going away?"

"My task is only to send Empress Dowager Xu to meet the King of Liao. I have presumptuously been involved in the battle of Kaifeng. I am afraid that the emperor will punish me when I go back."

"What?" Shen Chenghao's eyes widened, "After such a big victory, you still have to be punished?"

Liang Guanjing smiled lightly, "When a husband and wife are together, beheading should not be the case. Just leave it alone, take care."

Liang Guanjing took the small group of people she had brought with her, got into the carriage, and was about to go south and return to Beijing. She even left without drinking the wine that Shen Chenghao hosted a banquet for.