Cover The Sky With One Hand, Beat The Ground With The Other - Chapter 60

When I returned to the hall, the leader of my shadow guard and the army Wang Qianhu knelt down, begging me to escape from Zezhou City quickly and send the report back to the capital before Liang Jun was in the city.

I said, “I have rushed back to Beijing with two flying knights. The court will do something in three days, so this princess doesn’t have to go there in person.”

A Shang stood up abruptly: “Princess, if one step later, I’m afraid it will be too late…”

Wang Qianhu also stood up, and said anxiously: “The spies reported that there are nearly 400,000 Liangjun, but there are no more than five thousand defensive troops in Zezhou City. Princess, Zezhou… Why bother to stay and wait for death…”

I was silent for a moment and glanced at them, “I’m leaving, can the half a million people in Zezhou City get out?”

Wang Qianhu said: “Princess, you are the body of a daughter, how can there be any mistakes, we are dead…”

I stopped and said: “This princess is the warlord sent by your majesty to Zezhou. The army has come out. There are no generals in the army. This princess is the general. It is the duty of this princess to guard the city of Zezhou. Have you ever seen one? The general abandoned the army and fled?”

“Princess-“

I said: “Ah Shang, order all Mingjian Division Shadow Guards to put on military uniforms and prepare to defend the city!”

Ming Jian Si Yingwei had always only obeyed. Seeing that I had decided, Ah Shang stopped persuading me and turned around immediately.

Wang Qianhu still wanted to say something, I asked: “Wang Ping, Liang Jun is attacking, are you afraid of death?”

“Subordinates…not afraid.”

I said: “You are not afraid, is this princess not as good as you are a small thousand households?”

Such questioning is naturally a secret exchange of concepts.

In this world who is not afraid of death except being impatient with life?

But Wang Ping couldn’t answer my words. He couldn’t even give me a convincing reason for me to leave.

Liang Guo’s sudden attack on the territory will definitely not be a temporary motive, and they must have known our military situation when they attacked the city during the Daqing civil strife.

Zezhou City will eventually be breached, just as Lu Lingjun and his team of less than 100,000 people will inevitably be overwhelmed by Nie Ran’s elite soldiers, but he has to fight to the last minute, and Zezhou must also Keep it till the last moment.

Allowing five thousand stragglers to defend the city in panic and without rules, and to defend together to the death under the guidance of someone, the result is absolutely different. I know that even if I don’t need to do anything, as long as I want to stay and die with them, the city can keep at least half a day longer.

Maybe half a day, neither can wait for reinforcements from all over the place to arrive, nor can Song Langsheng rush back to turn the tide, but at least, they can buy more time for them to defend and strengthen to make more preparations.

When I stepped on the city wall again and looked at the approaching Liang Jun from the battlements, I remembered the last conversation between my father and me. He suddenly said: “In my heart, you have always been…my daughter…forever. “

I didn’t say anything back then, but now I want to answer him.

I may not be able to be a princess for a lifetime, but I am Father’s daughter, Father’s daughter, and I will never be a deserter.

We spent a full day and night in this defensive battle.

The moat has long been filled with the corpses of the two armies, hot oil, rolling stones, and arrow formations never stop, but they failed to make the Liang Jun who was climbing the city regress.

Looking around, the corpses of Liang Jun under the city were everywhere, but they were attacking round after round like endless killing, human lives were like ants, and the killing would never stop.

Liang Jun’s chariot was pushed toward the city gate again, and every time it shook, it seemed that the whole world was trembling.

The city gate is about to be breached, but our forces are running low. It is a miracle to be able to fight to this point.

Liang Jun’s coach looked at me from a distance under the city wall. He had a relationship with him when the two countries made a good alliance. He knew my status in Qing, and he would try to capture me, like the princess of Daqing. If you really fall above them, you will only become a hostage at the mercy of others. If you can’t use them for them, the torture and humiliation you will suffer is self-evident.

How can I give them a chance to capture a living princess Xiangyi.

At this time, A Shang and several other surviving shadow guards stood by my side, resolutely said: “Princess, we will protect you to the last moment.”

I picked up a sword and said to A: “My palace doesn’t use swords, but it’s okay to pretend to be.”

It is enough to kill yourself with a single sword.

A Shang was dumbfounded: “Princess, you want to…”

“When Liang Jun breaks through the city, you will protect me from the siege until the head of Liang Jun.” I put the sword into the scabbard with the handle in my hand, and smiled softly: “Ah, thank you for being able to accompany me. I finished this last journey.”

I can’t remember the tragic scene of the sword, light, sword, shadow and **** wind. It’s just that as we approach the handsome flag and get closer and closer to the head coach of Liang Jun, at the end of the sky, finally Rising sunlight.

The jade pendant on my chest got out of the neckline under the sway of the horse ride. I looked down. This was when Song Langsheng had carved it for me before the expedition. After thinking about it carefully, he gave me this jade fan. My first gift, I’m afraid, it’s the last one.

He promised me that he would never let himself die on the battlefield, and he would reunite with me alive.

he made it.

But I promised him that I would wait for him to come back obediently, and join hands with him in the end of the world, but I couldn’t honor it.

I thought that I would die such a glorious death, and it would be a good story in later generations. Since then, my reputation has spread far and wide, and I have been mentioned endlessly in the long river of history.

But when I approached Chief Liang Jun, intending to wipe my neck calmly under the arrow array surrounded by them, I suddenly heard a swish, and a feathered arrow pierced into Chief Liang Jun’s chest impartially.

This sudden change shocked me to the point that I forgot the correct posture for suicide. Could it be that Liang Jun’s soldiers slipped their hands? Or is there such a magical archer hidden in the city of Zezhou that I didn’t even know?

Everyone around was stunned. The head coach Liang Jun was faltering. He clutched his chest and ordered someone to take me down. Even though I knew that at this time I should seize the time to judge myself, but I still can’t help curiosity head in the direction of the arrow. Looking back, he saw a person in a silver armor with a spear, riding a horse galloping toward this side.

The ground trembles faintly under his feet, and the sound of rolling horseshoes is stomping behind the person, layer after layer.

I looked at the flying flag, still stunned. The man had already rode his horse close in front of me, his spear shot horizontally—

The spear’s blade entered the armour and it was very ear-piercing, but with a bang, the head coach Liang Jun was about to land at the knife that I was swinging. The man turned his wrist and pulled out the gun. Blood splashed. Just as the head coach Liang Jun fell off the horse, he swung his arm around and took me on the back of his horse, encircling me in his arms. .

Then he said to me: “Sit down.”

I thought I had read it wrong, thought I had heard it wrong, wasn’t his elite soldiers on their way to the capital? How come they suddenly appeared in Zezhou.

Nie Ran, Nie Ran, how could he come?

Liang Jun finally reacted. Soldiers from several quarters rushed towards this. The Nie’s army on his side tightly guarded us in the middle. The Liang Jun coach who was lying on the ground shouted at Nie Ran: “You are the rebels of Qing Dynasty. , It is right to be with us against the Qing army! Why do you want to be an enemy with us!”

Nie Ran sneered and said, “What about us is our business! How can we allow foreigners to invade our country and kill my people?!”

The coach Liang Jun pointed out angrily: “You—you know this is your coach Nie Guang…”

Before he could finish his words, Nie Ran waved his gun across his arm, cutting off the words of the Liang Jun chief in a wave of blood.

At the same time, he spurred his horse and broke a blood-stained road amid Liang Jun’s encirclement and annihilation!

This way, the edge of the edge stabbed countless times, and countless people’s blood was splashed on the body, but all the offensive that swept through was blocked by his spear.

The Liang Jun’s strength is far greater than that of the Nie Jiajun. In this hard fight, every step of the advancement is the soldiers’ own flesh and blood.

Nie Ran cut down one more person again, and I saw the profound armored man coming from a distance. The huge “Qing” on the handsome flag was the elite soldier led by Lu Lingjun. I was shocked and murmured to him: “Why…”

Why did the Nie Jiajun join the Qing army to repel Liang Jun?

why?

Nie Ran didn’t bother to answer me. There were fewer and fewer fine riders guarding us. Every minute of his attention was on hitting the enemy, but his hands and feet were injured, and Liang Jun’s offensive continued. , He didn’t let me hurt me with a single arrow.

I never thought that the person who brought me out of this chaotic battle would be Nie Ran.

I don’t understand. I don’t even think about it. This Nie family army is their last elite team and their last hope for the restoration of the country. But Nie Ran led his army to fight with Liang Guo. Does he know? Knowing that he chose this battle, what kind of war it was.

Farther and farther away from the battle circle, the Nie family guard army who was next to us asked Nie Ran to go first in order to cut off the way, but he never caught up.

The horse rushed into the woods without looking back, and ran for a long time. It was so long that I could no longer hear the horrible howls of killing in the distance. The sky and the earth were vast and the deserted roads were rugged. The road seemed endless, I don’t. Know where Nie Ran is going to take me.

However, at the next moment, Nie Ran grabbed the rein and took me off the horse.

He was stained with blood all over his body and couldn’t tell whether it was his own or someone else’s. He calmly handed a bronze medal to me and said, “Passing through this forest is Songjiang. There are several farmers on the river. You show them this thing, and they will take you in. When the storm subsides, it will not be too late to leave.”

I didn’t answer it. He broke my finger and stuffed the bronze medal into my palm. Seeing that he was about to turn around, I said, “You hurt a lot…”

“It’s okay.”

After speaking, he turned on his horse and walked out of the woods again. I was at a loss, looking at his fading back, and then I saw him plop on the horse’s back.

The horse was also injured and couldn’t run too fast. I rushed to the front hurriedly, grabbed the horse’s rein, and stopped the horse.

Nie Ran had fainted, his face was as pale as paper, and his blood dripped to the ground along the saddle. Even at the end of the battle, he still wants to rush to the battlefield to fight side by side with his men.

I touched the horse’s mane and took the rein to walk step by step towards Songjiang. The afterglow of the setting sun shone on the treetops. The road was long and the dusk was vast.

The night mist, swelling with the wind, is like a tulle, dare not to open it, dare not to face it.

The candle in the house burned nearly halfway, and the village doctor bandaged the wound for Nie Ran. Then he walked out slowly and said to me: “The son has lost too much blood. Fortunately, he did not hurt his internal organs. He needs to be recuperated. The prescribed prescription is placed on the table, and the five-paste medicine is taken in ten days, and it will be cured in a few days.”

I nodded.

As I expected, this small village is inextricably linked with Nie’s family. Therefore, when the villagers saw Nie Ran, they were very concerned to find a doctor for him. They didn’t know my identity, but just I went all the way with Nie Ran, and vacated two village houses for us to rest, but I didn’t dare to ask more.

I walked slowly into the room. At this time, we all changed into clean cotton and linen clothes. Recalling the thrilling day of the day, I didn’t feel a little dazed.

I picked up the jade flute on the table and immersed the flute body in a copper basin to wash away the blood. I gave this jade flute to Xu Fang back then, but what I didn’t expect was that Nie Ran took it with him on the battlefield.

I moved the wooden chair beside the bed and sat down.

Nie Ran closed his eyes tightly and frowned slightly. It seemed that he could not sleep well because of the pain of the wound. I reached out and probed his forehead. It felt hot. Turning around to give him a basin of cold water, he suddenly held his wrist. I stayed for a while, but saw his eyebrows move slightly, and then slowly opened his eyes, with a clear voice floating in the night breeze: “Gentle breeze…”

I was stiff, what did he call me?

He saw me stunned and at a loss. He looked around with some doubts, his eyes gazing at me with a soft temperature, “Where are we?”

I looked at him in shock, and replied blankly: “We…this is…by the river…”

“Jiang?” He blinked in a daze, “Aren’t we going to Suiyang?”

There was a sound of crickets outside the house. At that moment, I suddenly realized that Nie Ran in front of me was burnt. He is the Xu Fang who wants to take Hefeng far away.

A gust of wind extinguished the candle in the house, and it was instantly dark.

I took out his hand hurriedly, “I, I’m going to light a candle.”

Flint and steel seemed to be out of order, hitting it again and again, it couldn’t strike a spark. I was shaking my hands, trying to ease my rapid breathing, and when I lighted the candle again and turned around, I realized that he was asleep again.

I walked slowly to the bedside step by step, and gently pushed him: “…Xu…Fang?”

He did not respond.

I stroked my heavy heart and stared at him blankly for a long time, so long that I didn’t even notice my tears.

I stayed by his bed, leaned back in the chair and thought about it, and fell asleep without knowing it.

I don’t know how long I have been asleep.

It’s just that when I woke up suddenly, I noticed that I was wearing a man’s robe, and the person on the bed had disappeared.

Someone was talking vaguely outside the door. I put my robe on the bed with my backhand, and walked slowly to the door. I saw a few soldiers in armor kneeling in front of Nie Ran along the crack of the door. The veteran said with a trembling voice: “Young Master… Liang Jun has been defeated and traveled to the west…just our army…”

Another veteran choked: “General Nie and the others are also… Young Master, now, only us are left, only us…”

Nie Ran turned his back to me. I couldn’t see his expression. His back was like a sculpture, motionless. The veteran wiped his tears and said: “Young master, no, don’t be discouraged. His subordinates have prepared a boat by the river. Da Ke crosses the river away from the Qing soldiers… Young Master, we also have a Talisman, and we can also win over the Old Ministry of the Northern Territory, and we will definitely be able to make a comeback. Young Master, as long as the Young Master is still there, the Young Master is Da Zhou’s hope…”

Nie Ran was silent for a long while, his voice couldn’t hear emotions: “General Chen’s words are extremely true. You are one step ahead, and I will respond to you when the sky lights up.”

After the veteran soldiers left, Nie Ran sat quietly by the door, not knowing what he was thinking.

I slowly opened the door, Nie Ran raised his eyes and looked at me, “Wake you up?”

“…No, I think you are not here…so…” I was in a mess, thinking of the way he called me “gentle” when he was asleep, and being calmly alienated from this moment is nothing like two people. I said: “Just now…”

“Ok?”

“When you were in your sleep… once dumbly…asked me…”

“ask you?”

“Ask me… Where are we…” I looked at him tentatively, “Can’t you remember?”

Nie Ran frowned for a while and shook his head, “Perhaps I was injured, and I was a little confused, so don’t take it to heart.”

I looked at him, his expression didn’t seem to be fake, so I nodded and sat down beside him, “Is your injury… better?”

He said: “Yeah.”

I just don’t know how to continue the topic. His mind was blank. He said to me: “Zezhou City is saved, and Lu Lingjun is still alive. You can relax.” After a pause, he turned his eyes to see me. I didn’t mean to rejoice, “What’s the matter?”

I lowered my head and realized that my hands were trembling slightly, “The Liang army attacked the territory, the imperial army was too late, and the capital was too busy to take care of it. Shouldn’t you take this opportunity to go straight to Huanglong? Why? Why do you come to Zezhou?”

He slowly said: “At this moment, what is the meaning of this question to you?”

I said, “Yes. I want to know the answer…I want to know, is it because you are worried that Liang Jun will end up reaping the benefits of the fisherman? Or is this also one of Nie Guang’s tactics? Or…”

“Because you are here.” He replied without warning.

Everything in front of me instantly became blurred, and then gradually cleared, and the moonlight reflected Nie Ran’s deep-sea eyes, “Because you are in Zezhou, I want to save you.”

I stared at him blankly, and heard my voice trembling: “Nie Ran, I don’t deserve you to treat me like this…”

“worth.”

This sentence is so familiar.

In the year that Yuxu Fang first met, I angered Fang in the village and told him that my true heart was not in him. He also said the same thing as me.

But this gentle remark, at this moment, slashed my heart like a knife, and I met his gaze: “You…”

He suddenly raised his mouth and laughed, “I lied to you.”

I don’t understand, “Huh?”

“Princess.” He said: “Today you also heard Liang Jun’s coach Feng Zhiyu said that they attacked Zezhou jointly with his father. The campaign for Zezhou was originally initiated by the Nie’s army, and what we are. Saved you?”

Tonight’s moon hangs in the black night sky, so cold. He looked at the night sky calmly, “As for me, even though…I chose to embark on this road to the restoration of the country, I don’t want them to use the power of foreign invaders and enemy countries to exchange the lives of thousands of people for the country… This is me. s answer.”

Moonlight pulled our figure to the ground, his hands folded on his knees, holding tightly.

He didn’t know that in the past in Chenjiacun, whenever Xu Fang had a guilty heart, he would clasp his hands like this.

I turned my head away and suddenly felt that something was clogged up in my chest. Nie Ran suddenly said, “I have always had a doubt…”

I turned around casually, “Huh?”

He took out the jade flute from behind and shook it in front of me, “Where did you buy this flute for him? I remember that Chenjiacun is a fishing village, and there is no way to sell jade flutes.”

I was reminded of the memories and couldn’t help but smile, “I walked for half a day to buy this jade flute. I only bought it in Linzhen… Don’t look at this jade flute because of its poor quality. To buy it, I washed it for a long time. What about his clothes…”

His eyes turned soft, “It seems that the princess really suffered a lot…”

I blurted out: “What’s the bitterness of being able to be with the person I like…”

Nie Ran’s turning of the flute stopped, and I realized what I had said, and said softly, “What I said… is the past…”

He was noncommittal, with a self-deprecating smile on his lips. He turned his eyes to look at the peach tree in the courtyard. Back then, in front of the home of Xu Fang and I in Chenjiacun, there was also a tree very similar to this one. Xu Fang liked the tree very much. Play the flute for me. Nie Ran decided to watch for a while, and slowly raised the Xiao to his lips, slowly blowing on the familiar music.

The wind and the moon.

But when he was halfway through, he stopped. He turned his head and asked me: “In the woods that day, you only hummed the first half of this song with me, and I couldn’t figure out the second half of the song. Yin, now, can you sing it to me? “My eyes were hot, I turned my head quickly, and opened my eyes without leaving a trace of the tears that slipped quietly, “It’s been too long…I can’t remember…”

After a long time, he gently broke the silence: “You’re right, it’s been too long, it should be forgotten.”

I lowered my head and dared not look into his eyes, “Nie Ran, will you leave as soon as the day breaks?”

“Ok.”

“Where are you going?”

“I don’t know, probably, I will go a long way…”

I nodded, “It would be great to forget everything here and start again…”

“Well, that’s also great.”

A few clouds moved lightly, covering the moon, and the light and shadow were mottled and dim.

I slowly stood up and walked into the house, “I, I’m sleepy, go to the back room to sleep for a while, you, you also rest early.”

Just as I stepped into the door, he suddenly stopped me: “Princess…”

I stopped and pressed one hand on the door frame, then slowly turned my head back and smiled hard, “What’s the matter?”

He looked at me, there was a momentary fluctuation in his eyes, as if he wanted to say something to me, but he looked at me deeply for a moment, after all, he didn’t say anything, just smiled extremely lightly, and said: “Nothing, early… rest.”

The two rooms, separated by a wall, are exactly the same as the Chen family village house back then.

It’s just that it’s never possible to go back to the forgotten time in the past day. When I open my eyes every morning, he is sitting next to my bed and then cautiously asking me: “Do you…remember me?” Me, my name is Xu Fang.”

I am no longer a gentleman, and he is not a gentleman anymore.

But this night, who of us can sleep peacefully in our dreams?

The night was thinning, and the sky oozes light.

When I woke up suddenly, I realized that the sky was already bright.

I put on my shoes and socks in silence, and walked around to the outer room. There was no one in the room. Xiao and Jian were not on the table. He had already left.

It turned out that the last sentence of last night was actually goodbye.

I walked slowly out of the village house, and in front of me was the sound of the river beating against the shore, and my clothes were facing the wind. I couldn’t help but get close and walked alone along the river.

A river of autumn water, whisked like silk brocade, condensed into a thin mist at the extreme eyes of the water.

I saw a flat boat on which there was a person sitting quietly, paddling and slowly driving towards the heart of the river.

It’s not who Nie Ran is.

But why, he has only one person, didn’t he leave with his subordinates?

I felt uneasy, and subconsciously walked forward, and then saw Nie Ran throw the oar into the water and slowly stood up.

What is he doing?

In the next instant, I saw that the torch in his hand was gently placed on the boat by him—

A little scarlet light suddenly ignited a raging fire!

“No!” I screamed in disbelief, “No!”

That leaf boat seemed to be piled up with straw poured with fire oil, the fire spread with the wind, and the whole boat fell into the sea of ​​flames in a short while.

I was so horrified that I looked ahead. Looking back at last night, why didn’t I see all the abnormalities!

He has lived for the restoration of the country in his entire life, and he has been burdened with too much, but in the end all the tribes who followed him died for him, but they did not die on the road to the restoration of the country.

How could he still live alone!

I only felt that the flame was burning wildly in my heart, but I couldn’t stop anything. I could only stagger into the river and shout with all my strength, hoping that he could hear it, change his mind, and don’t embark on this dead end.

In Hokage, the Qing Jun figure still stood quietly, as if the circling heat hadn’t affected him at all. He held up the Yuxiao, bowed his head slightly and blew it.

The sound of the flute is clear and gentle, flowing quietly, like the warmth of the morning sun, and like the breeze under the moon.

Once, the composer of this piece told me: Be gentle and warm, follow along, and wherever the wind blows is my direction.

Xu Feng and the moon, this is the promise of Xu Fang and He Feng in the moonlight.

Immediately after the next portamento, my breathing almost stopped at that moment.

It’s him.

The sound of the tune is long and long, which is a metaphor for emotion. It is the second half of Xu Feng He Yue.

It was the half that I couldn’t finish singing in the woods, the half that I lied to Nie Ran and said that I would never remember it again.

Always… it was him.

“Xu Fang…”

“Xu Fang!!”

The sight in front of me began to blur, and I fell into the water, calling his name over and over again, but apart from the music, I couldn’t hear any response.

Qu Zhong asked, but still remember the three-month peach blossoms, that moon-mingliang night, walking by shoulders, long companionship.

It’s just a few trips, a few drunkenness, and a few stays, but I can’t keep that dream.

The brilliant red fire light dyed the clouds in the sky red, and the gentle breeze and moon became the final calming tune.

When the music ended, the river surface was quiet again, and the sunrise on the east side completely rose, and it was a new day.

But in this world, there is no better place.