ebookland Chapter 254: The Border on New Year's Eve
Chapter 254: The Border on New Year's Eve
"To answer the general's question. Madam has not rested yet."
"You guys go down."
Lu Yanfu pushed open the bedroom door and stood at the door for a while. He waited until the coldness on his body dissipated a little before walking inside.
Bai Zhi retreated.
"Why are you back?" Su Rumei took off her earrings and put them in the jewelry box.
Lu Yanfu took off his robe.
He walked behind Su Rumei and hugged her tightly. "I miss you. I don't want you to be alone on New Year's Eve."
Su Rumei remembered the custom of keeping vigil.
"I didn't plan to keep watch."
"Okay. I'll accompany you." Lu Yanfu took out a green hairpin from his arms.
"There was a little friction with the border before the festival. I think the hairpin I confiscated is just right for you."
Su Rumei took the hairpin and put it on the table.
"Your eldest daughter came back to see mother a few days ago, saying that her in-laws treated her harshly. She wanted mother to stand up for her, but mother scolded her and she went back."
Lu Yanfu frowned.
He moved his lips and kissed Su Rumei on the face.
"She didn't tell you?"
"She didn't come to see me. After she left, I heard about it."
"Hmph. Since she likes to look for her grandmother, let her do as she pleases."
"The capital sent me some gifts, and some were given to my family." Su Rumei paused, "I don't want to give them to everyone, what do you think?"
"Listen to you."
Lu Yanfu bent down and picked up Su Rumei. "I have to go back to the army early tomorrow morning. Let's lie down and talk."
Su Rumei blushed.
Lu Yanfu doesn't look like the kind of person who would talk while lying down.
It was almost dawn.
There was a rapid knock on the door.
"Miss Ziyuan, please tell them that a raiding team from the Li Kingdom has killed the people of our Tianhuang Village." Lu Yanfu's personal guard said anxiously to Ziyuan who was on guard.
"Just a moment."
Lu Yanfu heard the noise outside.
"Aster."
"General, there is a war situation."
"Got it." Lu Yanfu got up quickly.
Su Rumei opened her eyes and sat up. "What's wrong?"
"There's a war going on. I'll go back first, you can get some more sleep."
Su Rumei still got up and took the robe for Lu Yanfu to put on, "Be careful."
Lu Yanfu hugged her and kissed her on the lips.
"Rumi. Happy New Year."
Done.
Lu Yanfu opened the door and went out. As he walked, the guards talked about the attack on Liguo.
Lu Yanfu knew that Liguo chose to launch a surprise attack on New Year's Eve.
That means declaring war on the Great Zhou.
at the same time.
The Nanli Kingdom also had an army that attacked the people of Jianzhou at night, and a village near the border of the Nanli Kingdom was burned down.
Very far away.
I heard the tragic voices of the villagers.
Those villagers died at the hands of the enemy on New Year's Eve.
Mobei.
It rained in Mobei.
In the long and harsh winter.
Xiliang and Dazhou were both hit by the blizzard. When the Spring Festival was approaching, Su Buli personally led people to Chazhou to escort food and military supplies back to Mobei.
It rained heavily for several days in a row.
Plus I was delayed in Chazhou for a while.
New Year's Eve.
They haven't arrived at the Mobei military camp yet.
The members of the escort team ate steamed bread that was as hard as stone and drank rain water with their mouths open.
Ma Feng, who was following Su Buli, wiped the rain that was as sharp as a knife from his face, "Major General, no matter what, we must ensure that the food and fodder are delivered to the battlefield first.
The general and his men will run out of food and fodder by tomorrow at most."
Ma Feng and Liu Du have been running around for the past two months.
He knows the situation of food and grass in Mobei best.
The people of Mobei had a hard time getting through the cold winter, so Su Buyi sent some food to them. The food and grass sent by Song Huaiyan and Su Rutang were delayed for a few days on the waterway.
On the way back, they encountered continuous heavy rain.
As the escort team responsible for transporting food and fodder, their life and death are far less important than the food and fodder.
"Let's travel overnight."
Most of the people who followed Song Huaiyan to Mobei stayed in Mobei, either going to various outposts or joining the escort team.
Upon hearing this, several people nearby looked up.
"We can't stop for a while. Let's travel overnight." He was determined to deliver the food and fodder to the destination even at the risk of his life.
Their clothes were already soaked.
Enduring the bone-piercing cold, my fingers and toes had already lost feeling from the cold.
Su Buli had a big beard and his skin had long since turned bronze. His hands were dark purple as he untied the water bag from his waist.
Took a sip of Shaodaozi.
Starting from Chazhou, he asked everyone to replace the water in the water bags with Shaodaozi.
The Prince of Jianxing specially bought the strongest Shaodaozi and distributed it to everyone in the escort team, saying that drinking Shaodaozi could keep away the cold during the escort.
"Brothers, let's go."
The carriage moved on.
Only half an hour.
In the rain.
There was the sound of horse hooves.
Liu Du expressed his guess and everyone stopped immediately.
Liu Du lay prone on the ground, one ear pressed against the ground. The muddy rain water flowed over Liu Du's lips and flowed to both sides.
He remained motionless, sticking to the ground.
After a while.
He stood up.
"There are enemy cavalry."
"about how much?"
"There must be several hundred people." Liu Du thought for a moment, "Maybe there will be reinforcements later."
Su Buli quickly asked everyone to pull the carriage to the bushes on the side to cover it. He led a group of about a hundred people and jogged forward along the rain.
Arrived at the side of the road.
Hundreds of people hid in the bushes on both sides of the official road.
Everyone lay down in the mud.
His fingers pressed on the scimitar at his waist.
Su Buli's eagle eyes quietly watched the cavalry appearing on the official road.
The mud and water splashed by the horses' hooves fell on everyone's backs.
He didn't move.
No one moved.
I saw more than a hundred horses passing by.
Su Buli moved.
He jumped up.
He swung the scimitar in his hand at the cavalryman's neck.
boned...
The head fell backwards into the mud.
The horses on which the cavalrymen sat neighed.
After Su Buli's men killed the enemy with one move, they did not give the opponent a chance to react.
Then he killed him.
The mud mixed with blood warmed up the frozen Mobei soldiers.
No sound.
Only the muffled groan was drowned out by the pouring rain.
A loud thunder exploded in the sky.
It shines as bright as day.
Ma Feng was blood-thirsty.
The machetes in their hands were like cutting watermelons. The cavalry of Xiliang had been killed by them for several rounds in a row, and they were full of anger.
After the fight, these people from Mobei hid in the rain.
Su Buli knew that he couldn't fight a protracted war.
I don’t know how many reinforcements the enemy has.
Su Buzhi is in urgent need of food and fodder.
He tore off his clothes, entangled his knife and hands together, picked up the water bag with one hand, and took another big sip of Shaodaozi.
Su Buli thought of Su Zhixun.
Su Zhixun from the age of fifteen until his death.
For decades, they fought desperately with the people of Mobei and Xiliang.
Life in Mobei is really hard.
The silks, satins, delicious food and fine wines in the capital were all luxuries for the soldiers in Mobei.
What they like most is a bowl of Shaodaozi and a piece of hand-pulled meat.
Su Buli didn't dare to relax for a moment.
He flexed his fingers, jumped up and chopped the opponent on the head.
Until the end.
Nor did they encounter any enemy reinforcements.
The rain washed away the blood drops on the scimitar.
Su Buli had a bad feeling in his heart. He was afraid that the people of Xiliang would choose to attack the border with all their strength today.
He dared not delay any longer.
Let the escorts go to the battlefield with all their strength.
The Xiliang people's knives were taken away by them, and even their water bags were taken away.
People in Xiliang prefer to drink Shaodaozi.
Su Buyi had repelled several enemy attacks at the battlefield.
New Year's Eve.
Before the soldiers had time to eat, they took up their weapons and joined the battle. After finally repelling the Xiliang people, everyone hurried to eat with their stomachs rumbling.
The meal on New Year’s Eve was just a bowl of porridge.
Two steamed buns and a piece of pickled vegetable.
The deputy general sat on the ground and wolfed down a steamed bun and drank half a bowl of tea in one breath.
"General, even if Xiliang has no more food, at most they will harass our people during the New Year. Grab the food and bring it back, and then fight us.
This year, it’s just too wrong.”
Su Buyi also knew something was wrong.
"Today it doesn't seem like we're fighting for food, but more like an all-out attack." Thinking of this, Su Buyi's face suddenly changed.
He smelled a conspiracy.
Hundreds of years ago.
The largest country was Dong Qin. At that time, several surrounding countries chose to send troops to attack the Dong Qin border on New Year's Eve.
New Year's Eve is the most relaxing time.
Dong Qin considered itself a great power and the surrounding countries did not dare to touch it easily.
Unexpectedly, not only the neighboring countries took action.
And beat him to death.
That war lasted for eleven years, but it also led to the destruction of Eastern Qin.