460 Chapter 449-The Heat

On this night, the moon stars were sparse, the night wind was bursting, and the loose moonlight was slantingly slanted on the high wall of Huiling City, the vast land around, and there was no end at a glance from the city gate. In the eucalyptus forest...

This lush forest is on the edge of the official road, and it is lush, not only blocking the dust on the official road, but also blocking the blazing sun from the shade during the daytime; the northwestern side of the forest is next to the Huiling River, Huiling River has a wide surface and rapid water flow, making it extremely difficult to cross the river.

For the Nanliang Army, it is suitable for camping here: it can avoid the sun during the day; the side near the river is not easy to be attacked by the enemy, and it can provide water; plus the location of this eucalyptus forest is just right, but it is only one away from Huiling City Here, you can not only observe the movement of Huiling City nearby, but also facilitate them to arrange night raids at any time.

Today, it has been almost half a month since the 10,000 Nanliang Army camped here. Banners are spreading. Thousands of camps are stacked one after another.

In the middle of the camp, a large campfire was burning, and the sparks jumped, making the sound of "Zi Zi Zi".

The two Nanliang soldiers standing beside the campfire added firewood to the fire from time to time.

Not far in front of the camp came the cry of the woman's unwilling torture, desperate and sad, and people shuddered.

Soon after, two Nanliang soldiers with irregular clothing carried a corpse wrapped in a straw mat out of the camp. The two men threw the rolled straw mat on the ground, and one of them scolded: "Really Dirty!" After that, the two returned to the camp.

The corpse fell to the ground with heavy weight, so that the straw mat was slightly loosened, and a naked arm obviously belonging to the woman hung outside the mat.You can see that the fair skin is covered with blue and purple mottled marks, and there are still many Whip marks and blood marks make people hardly look straight.

The two Nanliang soldiers by the campfire just glanced indifferently, and then withdrew their eyes. The black skinny one looked up at the sky and said, "Now is it three more days? After another hour, we can ...Hehe!"

Qiuhu Hu beside him added another firewood and said, "Look at your virtue. General Elida said, as long as Huiling City is captured, we will be allowed to keep the knife for seven days. Then you will Afraid there is no better woman?"

Since the ancient Slaughter City has been paying attention to "every seven days stop", General Elida is willing to confess that he should not seal the sword for the next seven days. Obviously, he has been impatient with the battle of Huiling City, and he intends to use this to improve the morale of the soldiers. .

Qiu Hu rubbed his hands and said: "Last time in Yanding City, we were only allowed to slaughter the city for three days. It was not fun at all! However, this girl from Dayu was really beautiful, and the woman with cooler skin than ours, ......" He uttered a murmur with an aftertaste.

The black skinny man pointed at him sarcastically and said, "Ah, I said to you, be careful when you plant it on a woman!"

Qiu Hu laughed disapprovingly: "Hey, they didn't say that Dayu had something to say about peony flowers and died, even when they were ghosts..."

"Ah, what is that?" The thin black man suddenly interrupted his robe and pointed to the sky behind.

"What or what..." Qiu Hu looked at him suspiciously.

I don't know when the flashes of fire flashed in the night sky.

"Swoosh swoosh--"

"--"

The sounds of the sky breaking with the sound of swaying branches and leaves came closer and closer, and I saw the countless rockets blasted densely, just like the sky of meteors passing across the sky, illuminating the night as daylight--, a rocket shot powerfully on the camps and trees in the forest.

boom--

The camps and trees burned quickly, thousands, no, tens of thousands of ignition points and then a burst of night wind quickly joined together, spreading like a wildfire swiftly to the surroundings, and the smoke filled the surroundings. , Gradually blurring the vision.

The whole camp was boiling in an instant, cries, shouts, and screams came one after another, endlessly...

"There is an enemy attack!"

The two sentry Nanliang soldiers and several other sentries in the camp screamed in an attempt to awaken their sleeping companions to rise up against the enemy.

Immediately afterwards, the Nanliang soldiers in the camp rushed out like a tide, and they didn't even have time to put on their armor, and they didn't have time to pick up their weapons, and some even caught fire on their bodies, howling and rolling on the ground...

The fiery red light surprised all the chariots in the camp, broke the reins, ran, screamed, and even trampled on some soldiers, making the surroundings more chaotic and out of control!

In less than a tea time, this camp turned into a sea of ​​fire, a hell on earth, and a smell of roasted barbecue everywhere...

The Nanliang soldiers frantically ran out of the forest, even if their superiors were shouting to line up, but at this juncture of life, who could listen, but when they covered their noses and rushed out of this thick smoke of fire, in Waiting outside is that they are thousands of cavalry wearing one-color armor, layering one after another to surround the forest half, the front row of cavalry raised the bow and crossbow in their hands, and aimed at a burning rocket Got them.

"Boo-boo--"

The rocket fired like a rainstorm at these Nanliang people who had escaped the fire forest.

Behind the archer, there was a loud cry in unison:

"kill!"

In the loud shouts of the soldiers, the sound of horseshoes stepped on the ground, and the cavalrymen held up the silver swords to the fish in the net, like a raging wave on the sea, wave after wave. The bright red flag was flying in the air, and the originally quiet night was murderous at the moment!

Watching the enemy attack, the Nanliang soldiers certainly would not sit still, picking up the weapons available on the ground, fleeing and fighting. Everyone is fighting for their own lives.No one wants to die!

The knife rises and falls, and in the blazing fire, blood splashes and flesh flew.

The sound of weapons colliding, the sound of a knife slashing into the flesh, the crackling sound of the fire... The ensemble became a cruel and tragic song of tragedy.

The soaring flames stained the dark night sky with a touch of red, and the scorching air rushed across the face, with a scorching smell, and the wind brought thick smoke, and people coughed.

With such movements, Huiling City could not be unaware, and the wall suddenly became turbulent. A middle-aged man in armor hurriedly took several people to the wall.

"Master Stuart!"

The soldiers on the wall were busy saluting people with their fists.

As early as when the rockets suddenly attacked, the soldiers who had sent their posts had already discovered that at first they thought it was the Nanliang Army once again attacked at night. Unexpectedly, those rockets aimed at the camp of the Nanliangs.

The night watchman Chen Xiaowei hurriedly sent someone to inform the Situ guard. Since Huiling City was surrounded, the Situ guard has slept in peace. He didn't sleep well and had a good night's sleep, lest the enemy army suddenly attacked the city.

As soon as he received the notice, he hurried over.

Chen Xiaowei said happily, "Master Situ, will our reinforcements come?"

Stuart could not be so optimistic, but he said nothing, for fear of demoralizing morale.

In fact, since Huiling City was under siege, he sent several teams of people to report to Luoyue City, but no one could stand out from the encirclement alive.Even, their bodies were hung up high on the flagpole by the Nanliang people to show the public for ten days.

The closest to Huiling City is Lanyin City and Huayi City. These two cities are small cities, and the defenders in the city are only three or five thousand, let alone leave the city without the order of the prince, even if they come In the face of this 10,000 army of Nanliang, it is also a mantis.

Who is the comer...

Situ Shoubei took the clairvoyance from his own soldiers and looked at the direction of the Nanliang military camp.

Through the eyes of a thousand miles, the situation one mile away is clearly shown in front of the eyes of Situ. The camp of the Nanliang Army is on fire and the smoke is rolling.

Situ Defense slowly rolled his eyes for a long time, and suddenly his eyes were stagnant, staring at the swaying flag in the group of cavalry, his eyes slightly squinted, and he blurted out, "It is the prince of the world!" That is clearly the banner of the prince Xiao Yi!

"Shiziye!"

Chen Xiaowei also widened his eyes and raised his voice subconsciously.

The soldiers on the city wall all showed excitement and relief. They were so difficult to unite the people in the city for such a few days.They thought they were afraid that they would not be able to support the day when the army came. Now it is fighting with the Nanliang Army.

"We are saved!"

"Great, Shiziye has come to rescue Huiling City!"

"..."

The atmosphere on the city wall is getting warmer, but Situ's defense cannot be so relaxed.

Among the firelights, Yingying is so ambitious that it is difficult to estimate the number of the cavalry, but after watching it for a while, Situ defends but guesses that the number will not be very large. However, they just roamed the assault and deliberately avoided confrontation with them. Obviously, they had insufficient military power.

It takes time for the army to march. This should be the vanguard to rush to support.

Although Shiziye now disrupted the enemy's large camp with a fire attack and caused a lot of damage to the enemy, but when the Nanliang Army reacted and controlled the remaining soldiers, it might be a tough battle to be fought...

At this moment, Situ Guardian suddenly looked awkward, and at the same time, Chen Xiaowei's voice also sounded in his ear, "Master Situ, is the banner!"

semaphore!

Shiziye's banner is being held by a person and waving rhythmically, it is clearly the banner!

Shiziye let him lead the army out of town?

Situ Shoubu put down his clairvoyant eyes and raised his voice decisively and ordered: "Sound the drum of war, convene the whole army, and open the city gate! We will fight with Nanlianggou!"

"Yes, Master Situ!"

Chen Xiaowei and the soldiers only felt the blood boiling, and a sense of killing rushed from his chest, and he immediately acted.

At the same time, the forest where the Nanliang camp was located almost turned into a huge bonfire. The trees were burned, snapped and cracked, and overwhelmed the burning camp tent. The sound of breaking, collision, falling, and bursting... .

Everything that can be burned has been burned up, and there are corpses of Nanliang Army everywhere, with different forms of death, burned to death, shot by arrows, cut by swords, pressed by trees... Almost all the nearby grounds are dyed red, forming a world of fire and blood.

One after another, Nanliang remnant soldiers divided into several ways to escape from the woods. Xiao Yi did not order to chase. The vanguard had only 3,000 people. It was the key to solve the difficulties of Huiling City. It was not wise to pursue.

Xiao Yi glanced at the direction of the city wall, and the defense of Huiling City should have received the slogan.

With the 3,000 cavalry trying to destroy the 10,000 Nanliang Army, it is simply a fool's dream, but Huiling City has not been broken.Huiling City should have had 8,000 defenders.After repeated battles, Xiao Yi estimates that there are at least three or five. Thousands of people can give Nanliang Army a turtle in a urn!

Otherwise, if it is delayed, once the Nanliang Army arrives, I am afraid that Huiling City will be really dangerous.

"Shi Zi Ye!" At this time, Wu Chenming wiped the blood from his face and reported, "The gate of Huiling City has been opened."

"it is good!"

Xiao Yi picked up the heavy bow hanging on the horse's side, and put a long arrow on the bow string.

The bowstring was easily pulled away, until the bow was full, his hand was suddenly released, and the long arrow whistled out with a burst of air...

Snapped!

The commander of the Nanliang army broke the flag, and cheers thundered in the city of Huiling.

Morale is boosted.

"kill!"

Xiao Yi screamed, and took the lead in striving...

...

At this time, Nangong Yue, who was far away in Luoyue City, suddenly awakened, only to feel a while of hotness, she sat up from the bed and wiped her back neck, where there was already a lot of sweat.

The night was silent and only the cicadas outside came from time to time.

The nighttime thrush heard the movements in the inner room and hurriedly got up, walked in and lowered his voice and asked, "Sister Shizi, are you okay?"

When Xiao Yi was in the house, the ladies did not need to be on duty, but now only Nangong Yue is alone, and a few big ladies take turns in shifts.

The thrush's voice made Nangong Yue a little more awake and said, "I'm fine, I'm just awake..."

Thrush thrushed into the inner room, poured cold water on Nangong Yue, went out to change the ice basin, and the room gradually became cooler again.

After sending the thrush out, Nangong Yue still couldn't sleep, so she came to the beauty couch in front of the window in her middle shirt and sat down.

She pushed open the window and looked away to the southeast.

That is the direction of Huiling City...

It wasn't until dawn that Nangong Yue slept for a while, and Thrush knew that she hadn't slept well last night, and didn't dare to disturb early in the morning, so she got up a joss stick later than usual and used it early After the meal, he moved to the director of Xihong Hall.

As soon as he left the house, Nangong Yueton felt hot and uncomfortable, but now it was only a moment, but the scorching sun hung high in the sky, and the earth was roasting like a fireball.There was a breeze on the face, there was no trace of coolness, but it made people feel more hot. people.

"It's getting hotter and hotter." Nangong Yue frowned slightly.

"Yeah, Princess Seiko!" Can't help complaining with the thrush on the side, "I'm sweating without moving, and there are several little girls in the house who have been hit by the heat these days."

Nangong Yue pondered for a while and said, "Thrush, please tell me to stop it later. Let the maid and the wife in Bixiaotang stop cleaning in the courtyard recently at noon to avoid heat. If you want to clean it, arrange it before sunrise or after sunset. Right."

Thrush hurriedly thanked Nangong Yue for those servants who were maidservants and took their orders.

By the time Nangong Yue arrived at Xihong Hall, several stewards dressed in silk and silver were waiting under the eaves. When they saw Nangong Yue, they bowed their knees and saluted: "I have seen the concubine."

Nangong Yue motioned them to be courteous, and a group of people centered on her and entered the Xihong Hall.

Nangong Yue sat down on the Taishi chair. After giving the seat, several stewards and grandmothers sat on the ladle moved by the little maid.

First of all, Luma was so hot because of the recent heat, and the consumption of ice was larger than previously expected. She had already spoken to Zhu’s housekeeper, and Nangong Yue only told him to listen to the ice in Yuge and Yunliyuan. .

Then, the other stewards and mothers also reported one by one. When it was the turn of the mother in the needlework room, she sat there stunned for a long time, and there was no movement for a long time.

A fat grandma beside her quietly pulled her cuffs, and she suddenly recovered, but when she stood up, she bumped into the ladle behind her again, making a gurgle, extraordinarily harsh, other The grandmother looked at her in unison.

Mother-in-law hurriedly respectfully said, "Concubine Shizi, the sewing room is about to start summer... No, Qiuyi is gone. In the past, Qiuyi was one of two maid-in-laws, and the slave-in-law wanted to ask if the concubine Shige As usual?"

Nangong Yue thought for a while and said, "Qiuyi is just as usual, but I think this summer may be a little long, and it may be hot until the beginning of October. Qiuyi."

Several young ladies in the hall heard Ping Bai had a new Xia Yi, all smiled and exchanged a look.

Grandma Qu said, "Yes, concubine Shi, slave-maid, the people below ordered to make tailor-made autumn clothes for everyone..." As she said, her eyes were straight and she didn't realize she was wrong. .

Grandma Lu coughed anxiously and tried to remind Grandma Qu.

Nangong Yue frowned slightly when she looked at Qu Ma's absent-mindedness and answered the questions upside down.This is not the first time she has dealt with this mother-in-law. Seeing each other as a very capable person on weekdays, what happened?

Nangong Yue asked in a deep voice, "Mother Qu, what are you going to tell?"

Grandma Qu beat the spirits, and then came back to her, afraid of being punished, she knelt down in a panic, and asked for sin: "The princess of the world please forgive me. The young granddaughter of the slave is sick recently, and the slave is a little worried, so for a moment God," she said tremblingly.

Looking at Mother Ma's appearance, Nangong Yue guessed that it might not be a simple cold or cough, and asked again, "What's wrong?"

Grandma Qu was both worried and worried, and could not conceal the tremolo: "Yang Shizi, the slave-maid's granddaughter Xu Shi was struck by heat, vomiting and diarrhea. She gave some wormwood water last night, but she still vomited this morning! "Looking at how the granddaughter almost spit out jaundice, Grandma Qu frowned tightly."

Nangong Yue narrowed her eyes slightly, her expression a little dignified, and she couldn’t help thinking of her thrush telling her that she had recently suffered a lot of heat stroke from the little girl... Since these days, the weather is getting hotter and hotter, and the elderly and children are weak. It's not easy.

"You get up first," Nangong Yue ordered, "Bai Hui, you go get some anti-sunstroke medicine I made to Qu Ma..."

Bai Hui is busy blessing his body and taking his life.

"The slave maid thanked the concubine!" Grandma Qu relieved secretly. Fortunately, the concubine of the concubine did not blame, and gave the medicine.I heard that Princess Shizi is a magician, must this be the magic medicine?!

Nangong Yue said again: "Madam Qu, since your granddaughter is seriously ill, go back earlier and hurry to ask her for a doctor. Do not delay the condition, and the minor illness becomes a serious illness!"

Bai Hui walked to Grandma Qu and said politely, "Grandma, wait for me at the corner door, and wait for me to take the medicine, then I will send it to you."

"Thank you Baihui girl." Grandma Qu was grateful to Dade and left Baihong one after another with Baihui.

Followed by, the other stewards and grandmothers continued to report to Nangong Yuezhuang, and they received a pair of cards... After about Mo Yixiang, after finally handling these trivial matters, the stewards and grandmothers withdrew.

Nangong Yue yawned a little tiredly. The two days did get hotter and hotter. Although there was an ice basin in Xihong Hall, after sitting for a while, she also felt a sultry heat.

It is conceivable that those people will be even more difficult...

Nangong Yue frowned slightly, and said, "Qiao'er, the weather is getting hotter recently. Do you know how the city is?"

Queer immediately understood that Nangong Yue was worried about the heat, and she reasoned her thoughts and replied in an orderly manner: "Returned concubine, slave-servant went to the girl’s tea shed yesterday at your command, and girl Han also happened to be there. After the slave-servant had a cup of herbal tea, the slave-servant hid in the tea shed. These days, the elder girl’s tea shed is often full, especially when the sun is at the maximum around noon, and the women of the helpers are almost too busy, so It was only at that time that Han Daqiang went there to help. The sun at noon these days was really spicy, and the slave-servant sat in the tea shed for less than a scent of incense, and saw four or five people on the way with signs of heat stroke. He was sent to the tea shed to rest. But fortunately, it was not serious. Girl Han gave them two cups of warm herbal tea, and after a little sweat, she eased over. The passers-by in the tea shed said that tea was given The person is really meritless!"

Nangong Yue listened thoughtfully. Next, the summer heat would only be getting heavier. I am afraid that tea alone might not be enough...maybe you have to think about other methods.

Thinking about it, I heard the voice of the little girl's salute: "I've seen a big girl!"

As soon as the words fell, Xiao Fei, who was dressed in a cloud-shaped cloud, slowly came to the house.

After the two met the ceremony, Nangong Yue said, "Sister Fei, you came just right. I was planning to see the father, why don't you go with me?"

Seeing the father Wang? Xiao Fei stunned slightly, but did not ask much, and went to the outer study room of King Zhennan with her.

Their luck was not bad. The King of Zhennan did not go to the military camp today and was doing official duties in the study. Bai Shao led them in with respect.

After giving the ceremony to King Zhennan, Nangong Yue said obediently: "Father, daughter-in-law want to apply medicine in the city with sister Fei..."

The King of Zhennan narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at Nangong Yue with a slight scrutiny.

Nangong Yue continued without saying: "Father, my daughter-in-law and girl Fu Liu went to the teahouse to drink tea yesterday. I heard people talking about Fang's family, and mentioned our royal family in the middle. It is no wonder that Fang's family is the in-law of the royal family. ..." She paused deliberately, showing her helpless face. "As soon as the father-in-law and daughter-in-law think of the impaired reputation of the palace, they have tossed and turned to sleep all night. The daughter-in-law thinks about it and thinks that she should do something good for the benefit Yu Min, in the second visit, we can also revive the reputation of our palace!"

The king of Zhennan felt haggard when she saw her, and she couldn't help moving.

Those things of the Fang family are too ugly, they are disobedient and adultery, and they also make the reputation of the Zhennan royal palace flawed, which has become the topic of the people after tea and dinner.Although no one dared to chew the tongue in front of the King of Zhennan, he did not know something about it.

He thought about it carefully and thought that Nangong Yue's proposal was indeed good. The application of medicine was to do good deeds, which can not only improve the reputation and prestige of the palace, but also divert the attention of the people in the city from the scandals of the Fang family...

Zhennan Wang felt the idea was good, and when he looked up at Nangong Yue, his eyes showed a little appreciation.This concubine is worthy of being a daughter-in-law, and she has the style of a mistress of the palace.

Xiao Fang has become more and more out of shape recently. It is not appropriate for Wangfu Zhongfu to let a side concubine take care of it. Maybe Shizi Concubine can try it...

And Xiao Fei...

Zhennan Wang quickly glanced at Xiao Fei and thought: Sister Fei used to only know about reading, but now she has been with the Princess of the World for a long time.

"Okay, just do what you want!" Zhennan Wang Guo said decisively, "After a while, the king ordered people to go to the account room to get a thousand or two silvers, you first use... As for the manpower and purchase, you will Just do it for yourself. Your mother is still upset recently, so don’t bother her."

Is this completely overriding the little Fang? Also, the King of Zhennan is so good-looking, the fact that the three bedrooms of the Fang family is enough to make him disgusted with the little Fang.Nangong Yue thought so, so she lowered her eyebrows with Xiao Fei and said, "Thank you, Father."

The two looked at each other and couldn't help laughing. Even the originally dull study seemed to have become more relaxed and natural because of their brisk smiles.

The king of Zhennan was very satisfied with the beard. If he remembered correctly, it would be the gift of the concubine in five days, maybe he should give her some face...