frightfiction Chapter 290 Wuhuan
Chapter 290 Wuhuan
The soldier named Huang Maode walked forward in confusion. After taking the kite, he indeed saw his name on it. However, he could only recognize his own name and asked in confusion, "Who can read? Look at what's written on it."
"I recognize him..." There are many soldiers in the army, and there are always some who have attended private schools. They looked at him and said with wide eyes: "Huang Maode, you have a mother at home? This... This is a letter your mother wrote to you."
"What!?" Huang Maode was shocked when he heard this. He had a nice mother at home, but her home was far away, and his mother couldn't read a single word. How could she write a letter to him?
"Yes..." The man read out a few words and said, "Huang Xiuhe kindly asks to write for me. Your mother's name is Xiuhe?"
"It's really my mother!!!"
Huang Maode's eyes suddenly turned red. His father abandoned his wife and children and left. He changed his surname to his mother's. Huang Xiuhe was his mother's name!
Huang Maode said hurriedly: "Can you help me see what my mother said?"
The man hurriedly continued reading. The letter mentioned that the pigs at home had given birth, and the village chief took all the piglets away on the pretext of this, saying that this was the only way to collect money to send him winter clothes and money. Huang Xiuhe asked him if he had received the things, and said that there was nothing wrong at home and he was looking forward to his return.
"You bastard! I'm far away in Longdong where the army is strict, how can I possibly get anything! You bastard, you're trying to steal my mother's flesh!" Huang Maode couldn't sit still when he heard this. The orphan and his widowed mother had been bullied a lot in the village. Those people were relatively restrained when Huang Maode was at home, but now his old mother was alone at home, who knows how she would be bullied.
"Oh my God!" Huang Maode was anxious and angry, and he wanted to run back home immediately.
"Who is Zhu Chengcheng?"
"There is also this, Wang Wei..."
“They are all letters from home!”
"..."
The military camp in the city was in chaos. Soldiers who heard the news came and scrambled to see if there was a letter from their relatives on the kite. The kites in the sky fell down in a frenzy. When Zai Yongnian heard the news and came, he saw this chaotic scene.
He casually pulled the kite that had fallen to the ground, and after seeing the words clearly on the kite, the expression on his face changed again and again.
Zai Yongnian asked in a deep voice: "Where did this kite come from?"
"Your Majesty, it came from the cliff behind." Lian Shang, the general defending Longdong City, looked terrified and said quickly, "I have sent people to investigate. Archers are shooting down kites, but..."
"There are too many of these kites, and most of them have fallen into the hands of the soldiers." Lian Shang was also very surprised and asked, "Should we collect them and burn them?"
Zai Yongnian said nothing. He looked up at the scattered kites falling in the sky, then looked at the soldiers fighting for the kites to read letters from home, and then saw the soldier crying while holding the kite. He seemed a little dazed for a moment.
He thought a lot, defending the entire Longdong tightly and blocking hundreds of thousands of Daqian troops from entering, but he never imagined that what led to the defeat was not the bloody battlefield, not the sharp and terrifying swords and guns, but just this piece of light paper.
Zong Yanli is so smart and really patient.
Zai Yongnian was still feeling complacent about Zong Yanli's inability to capture Longdong, little did she know that she had never sent anyone to infiltrate Longdong. She had infiltrated the Northern Kingdom.
A letter from home became the key to breaking the city.
"It's too late..." Zai Yongnian slowly closed his eyes. If he went to collect the letters from the soldiers at this moment, he would only get a more powerful counterattack.
The siege horn suddenly sounded.
Lian Shang's face changed drastically. The soldiers who had just been immersed in grief stood up in panic. All their attention was drawn to the letter from home. They heard the general's roar, asking them to pick up swords and shields to fight the enemy, but some of them were so distracted that they ran to the wrong place.
As a result, the orderly military formation became disordered.
The army's morale is low and it is not an army at all.
Zai Yongnian watched this scene, strode up to the city wall, and roared with red eyes: "I know you all want to go home! If you can't resist the enemy, how can you go home!"
"Foreign enemies are at hand! The country is in danger!"
"If you don't protect your country, how can you protect your home?"
Zai Yongnian was using his last bit of strength to protect the army. The soldiers were attracted, and some of them recovered quickly. Their hearts were strong and would not be easily shaken, but the vast majority of them were extremely susceptible to the influence of the masses.
It is really impossible to make them regain their composure in such a short time...
But Zai Yongnian had no choice, because Zong Yanli's army had already attacked the city. The fierce sound of war drums was beating, and the approaching troops made Zai Yongnian's mouth dry.
Late September, early October.
Longdong City was broken.
Even though Zai Yongnian led the army in the front and inspired the soldiers by setting an example, they were still unable to resist Zong Yanli's army. After being defeated in this battle, the Northern Army no longer had any fighting power. Zai Yongnian fled in defeat, lost Longdong and lost the most important military defense area.
North……
"Zai Yongnian has fled back to the Northern Kingdom's imperial city." Sang Caijie approached with a wet body and said, "The Northern Kingdom no longer has the strength to fight."
"Okay." Zong Yanli narrowed his eyes. The battle and offensive were going so smoothly, everything was exactly as expected.
Longdong City was occupied by Zong Yanli, who immediately began a comprehensive cleanup of the cities around Longdong. There were also people in the Northern Kingdom who could see the situation clearly. Some died and some surrendered. They advanced all the way and only stopped when they were close to Yifeng.
It was already the end of November, winter had arrived, and heavy snow had blocked all the mountain roads.
Zong Yanli was recuperating at the garrison outside Yifeng, waiting for the snowstorm to pass.
It was on such an ordinary snowy day that a figure appeared outside the Daqian army tent in the wind and snow. The man was wrapped in thick cotton clothes and looked like a frozen beggar. He was discovered by patrolling soldiers and was almost killed as an enemy spy.
But the man happened to say the word "Wuhuan". The patrol guard did not dare to be careless and arrested him immediately and hurriedly informed Zong Yanli.
"Is the person dead or alive?" Zong Yanli frowned and asked in a deep voice.
"He's still got a breath left, but..." Gao Feilin frowned slightly and said, "I'm afraid he can't hold on for too long."
"Let's go." Zong Yanli stood up and said, "Let's go take a look."
The person lying flat on the ground in the military tent was difficult to tell whether he was a man or a woman. His clothes were frozen stiff, his hair and eyebrows were all covered with frost, and the scarf wrapped around his mouth was almost frozen to his face, but his face had an ominous flush.
Seeing Zong Yanli standing up, Xiao Tianhe said, "His limbs are already necrotic. He was dragged here by a horse. I looked through his body and found no tokens."
"The heart and lungs have inhaled too much cold air, and they are seriously damaged. I'm afraid he won't live to see tomorrow." Xiao Tianhe whispered, "I'll do my best to give you acupuncture and medication. Please ask me anything as soon as possible."
Zong Yanli lowered his eyes and nodded, then walked forward to look at the man and asked, "Are you from Wuhuan? What happened to General Duzhe?"
The man lying on the bed was breathing laboriously, as if every breath was extremely painful for him. Xiao Tianhe frowned, took out a needle and pierced it into his head. The man suddenly took a deep breath and opened his eyes.
Xiao Tianhe nodded to Zong Yanli, and Zong Yanli lowered his eyes and said, "I am Zong Yanli, do you have anything to say to me?"
"Save...save the princess." This sentence was particularly clear. Not only Zong Yanli, but everyone in the tent heard it.
"Saya?" Zong Yanli's eyes darkened slightly, and he frowned and asked, "You..."
Zong Yanli suddenly seemed to think of something, and suddenly reached out to touch the man's face, then forcefully pulled off the scarf covering his face. The ice chips tore off a layer of skin on his face, and Zong Yanli finally vaguely recognized something from his face.
"Min Xueer?" When Zong Yanli uttered this name, there was a slight tremor of disbelief in his throat.
"I...Princess...he..." Min Xueer's mouth opened and closed, her eyes seemed to have been frozen white by the ice and snow, and she tried hard to say something but could hardly utter complete words.
"Wuhuan...save..." She never uttered another word. Her slightly opened mouth was frozen forever. The ice in her heart and lungs seemed to freeze her whole body.
The stunningly beautiful woman of the past died here in such a way.
Zong Yanli stood there in shock. He turned around and asked someone to bring a handkerchief. He bent down and wiped Min Xueer's face bit by bit. After wiping off the frost on her face, he could finally get a glimpse of her once beautiful face. However, it was such a face that she never closed her eyes until her death.
She was like a broken ice sculpture of a beautiful woman frozen in ice.
What happened that made Min Xueer come all the way from Wuhuan and risk her life to come here...
"Something happened in the Wuhuan royal court." Zong Yanli stared at Min Xueer's face for a long time, as if he had just found his voice. He turned sideways and said solemnly, "This incident even threatened Queen Saiya's life. Is it a civil strife?"
"Did Duzhe send any news?" Zong Yanli asked with a frown.
"No." Sang Caijie said quickly: "Could it be that something happened to the remnants of Qi State?"
Zong Yanli shook his head: "It's hard to say."
She stood up, took one last look at Min Xueer and said, "Ask Mr. Mingxi to come and collect Miss Xueer's body and bury her tomorrow."
Everyone leaned forward to respond, and they were all very sad when they saw Min Xueer who was frozen to death. No matter how much time has passed, they still remember that when they first saw Min Xueer, they were amazed by her stunning appearance. Until now, they have never seen anyone with such a beauty.
How can it not be a pity that such a beauty died in such a way?
Zong Yanli returned to his military tent and sat at the table for a long time without saying a word. He stared at the candlelight in front of him. For no reason, he thought of Min Xueer's pampered appearance, and then thought about how she looked when she died.
Zong Yanli sighed silently, stretched out his hand and pressed his forehead, calling out: "Gao Feilin, go and ask Pei Liang and Mr. Wu Jiu to come over."
It was a cold snowy night, and it took Pei Liang and Zhan Haoyue a long time to come over. Zong Yanli apologized to them and said, "I'm so sorry to bother you two gentlemen so late at night."
"General, you're welcome, but what's the urgent matter?" Pei Liang asked first.
"Something happened." Zong Yanli briefly explained the matter of Wuhuan and Min Xueer. Pei Liang and Zhan Haoyue looked at each other with surprise on their faces. They were also surprised that Min Xueer would appear here, and then they felt regretful.
It was obvious that they all still remembered that stunning beauty, but they didn't expect to hear the news again into this kind of situation.
Zong Yanli suppressed his anxiety and said, "Now it seems that something big must have happened to Wuhuan, endangering Sai Ya's life. What I find difficult to control now is whether Du Zhe knows about this."
Zong Yanli was worried that he would lose his composure and issue an emotional order, which would disrupt the overall situation, so he called Pei Liang and Zhan Haoyue and asked, "How should I investigate the Wuhuan incident?"
"It would be inappropriate for the general to investigate so openly." As expected, Pei Liang and Zhan Haoyue quickly calmed down after a brief shock, and immediately analyzed to Zong Yanli: "The general should think about whether the news brought by Min Xueer is true or false. This is the first thing."
"If I remember correctly, Min Xue'er is the daughter of Min Wenshan, a native of Qi." Zhan Haoyue whispered, "Although she has left Qi, she still... must be on guard against others."
"What if Min Xue'er is Qi's last chess piece?" Zhan Haoyue frowned and said, "She may even use her life as bait to shake the alliance between Daqian and Wuhuan."
"The second is that Wuhuan is obviously closer to Qi. Min Xueer went so far to ask the general for help instead of asking Duzhe for help. Is it possible that Duzhe... is not trustworthy?"
As Zhan Haoyue finished speaking, Zong Yanli's originally emotional thoughts began to calm down and become clearer little by little.
She sat up straight unconsciously and listened to Pei Liang's words: "Wu Jiu is right. I think the general should not reveal the news that he had met Min Xue'er. He should secretly investigate the situation of Wuhuan and pay close attention to the movements of Duzhe's troops."
Zong Yanli calmed down completely, looked at the two of them and nodded slowly, "Thanks to the two gentlemen for their advice."
After thanking the two, Zong Yanli asked Gao Feilin to inform Lu Peibai to secretly deal with Min Xueer's body. No one in the army publicized this and everything was just right. Zong Yanli secretly ordered Sang Caijie to start investigating the news of Wuhuan.
But to Zong Yanli's surprise, the Wuhuan were peaceful and there were no signs of unrest.
It was not until the end of the year that Duzhe led his army back to Wuhuan and even sent a letter to Zong Yanli to inform him of the matter, but there was no unusual movement.
"Could it be that Min Xueer is really the last chess piece of Qi State?" Zong Yanli was very puzzled by the news that came back.
"General, don't be anxious. Perhaps the situation that Wuhuan is showing now is what they want you to see." Pei Liang said quietly.
"How about this, General, send a team to Wuhuan in the name of giving gifts and celebrating the New Year?" Zhan Haoyue turned around and suggested, "We can pretend to find out how Wuhuan plans to deal with Qi's territory after the fall of Qi."
"Let the Wuhuan mistakenly believe that the general is going there to steal the credit, so as to confuse them." Zhan Haoyue said.