Su Xingran suddenly had a feeling in a trance that one day, it would be a good choice to live a life of playing in the mountains and rivers and wandering outside the mortal world with the guy in front of him!
"Princess, let's hurry up and send this poem for help from His Highness the Sixth Prince to His Majesty the Emperor Chen?" Zhong Xin couldn't help but remind him, watching Su Xingran holding Chen Xiaomu's manuscript in a daze.
"Oh, okay!" Su Xingran finally came to his senses, and hurriedly handed the poem asking for help to Chen Xiaomu, signed it at the back, and asked him to write a detailed military information document in his own name and add it to it, and then quickly dispatched the postman. He was sent to Luocheng, the capital of Chen State, at an accelerated speed of 800 miles.
Chen Xiaomu was almost 100% sure that Chen Ruchang, the emperor of Chen State, would never send a single soldier to rescue Zheng State, and he might also use people like Su Xingran as an additional bargaining chip in negotiations with Chu State. Today, He planned to find a way to persuade Su Xingran to leave this dangerous place no matter what.
Just when Chen Xiaomu was thinking of reasons to persuade Su Xingran to leave this place, Su Xingran spoke first: "Your Highness, I was originally going to stay here and wait for Chen Guo's reinforcements, but after thinking about it carefully, my idea seemed unrealistic. Now Chen Guo The army is marching to Weicheng in the south, and the Jiangling front line is locked in a bitter battle with Wu and Zhou. With Chen's current national strength, I am afraid it will be difficult for Chen to spare 100,000 horses to assist us. I want to say goodbye to you, and I will go to Tianquan County to look for you. My father, you should also go back to your country of Chen!"
Chen Xiaomu was dumbfounded when he heard this. It was obvious that he should be driven away! "But, Princess, how can I be here...!"
Su Xingran waved his hand, interrupted Chen Xiaomu's words, and said sadly: "Your Highness, do you know? Tianquan County is the last county in the Zheng State that has not been conquered by the Chu State. According to the report from the scouting horse just ahead, the Chu State's Xinyang Joint Governor is now Under Han Fei, the Left Route Army Commander Guo Huai led an army of 200,000 to surround Tianquan County. It is estimated that it is only a matter of time before the city is broken. To put it bluntly, those of us who died in the past, His Highness is still a thousand years old. Unexpected geniuses really don’t have to go to die with the rest of us!”
Chen Xiaomu couldn't help but feel worried when he heard this. Yes, Su Xingran had a thousand people to fight against Chu State's 200,000 army, which was not even enough to fill the gap between his teeth. He would definitely die if he left. Such a stunning woman died like this. How could he, Chen Xiaomu, bear it, not to mention that Su Xingran was still his wife in name only. His wife was going to die, but he was just living an ignoble existence. Others might be able to do this, but he, Chen Xiaomu, absolutely couldn't do such a thing!
Seeing Chen Xiaomu's silence, Su Xingran felt even more desolate. It's human nature to be afraid of death, but he couldn't even say a hard word. He could only say that this person was a complete coward! She didn't want to waste any more time on him.
"Zhong Xin listens to the order!" Zhong Xin was stunned and hurriedly walked up to Su Xingran, clasped his fists and knelt down on one knee, "We will be here!"
"I order you to lead a small team of troops to escort His Highness the Sixth Prince back to Chen Guoluo City."
Zhong Xin was anxious when he heard that the Su family's father and daughter had given him a new life. When such a powerful enemy was facing him, he could not do such a thing of fearing the enemy and avoiding his life, although he knew in his heart that Su Xingran did this to let him live. .
"Your Highness, I am sorry that I will not obey your orders! I will go with Your Highness to chop off the head of that old thief Guo Huai!"
Hearing a "bang", Su Xingran slapped the table in front of him and his face darkened, "Zhong Xin, don't you want to disobey me?"
"Your Highness Princess," Zhong Xin said with tears in his eyes, "I am sixty-six years old this year. Even if I don't die on the battlefield, I will die soon. I implore Your Highness the Princess to take back your order and let General Ximen escort His Highness the Sixth Prince back to Luo City to help us. Leave some seeds to Zheng Guo!" Zhong Xin burst into tears after finishing speaking.
"General Zhong, what do you mean?" A red-faced general about thirty years old, tall and tall, stood up from a corner of the tent, "I am light and strong, so I can take this opportunity to go and kill more. Enemy, do you dare to disobey Her Royal Highness the Princess?"
The man who stood up was called Ximen Song. He was the leader of the princess escort team and a fourth-grade sword-bearing guard in the palace. A person who belongs to the category of Ouchi masters in folklore.
"Hey, hey, you two, stop yelling. Who told you that I'm going back to Luo City?" Before Su Xingran could speak, Chen Xiaomu walked tiredly to Su Xingran and stood down. He didn't know the rules in the military. , which meant that Ximensong and Zhong Xin were kneeling down to talk to him. The two people suddenly looked embarrassed. This situation had never happened to them before. At this time, they didn't know if it was better to kneel or stand. Looks appropriate!
Su Xingran grabbed Chen Xiaomu angrily, "If you don't return to your Chen country, do you want to accompany us to die? You are a genius, and on the battlefield, you are just like a soldier fighting to the death, or even worse than theirs. Fighting technique!"
Chen Xiaomu nodded, "I know all this. If I go with you, I won't follow you to fight. I will just follow from a distance and watch you go into battle to kill the enemy!"
"What?" Chen Xiaomu's words shocked everyone in the tent. "What time has it been? You still have the heart to follow behind and watch the fun. Are you still a human being? If Su Xingran hadn't seen the two poems he wrote this morning, With a face that has been passed down through the ages, I really want people to drag him out of the tent and behead him in public.
"No!" Su Xingran's face turned red with anger from Chen Xiaomu, and she flatly refused Chen Xiaomu's request to follow them and watch the fun.
Chen Xiaomu touched his bald head, stood there for a long time, and then walked up to Su Xingran with a shy face, "Princess, look, if you want to send me back to Luo City, my father will definitely not send any more reinforcements. , then you will really have no chance of turning around!"
"Haha," Su Xingran sneered, "Do you think your father will send reinforcements if you stay here? There are some things that you should understand even if I don't tell you. Besides, even if your father sends reinforcements now, how many reinforcements can he send? ? Fifty thousand or one hundred thousand? Don’t forget that there are at least four to five million Chu troops in the territory of Zheng State. If Chen State had sent reinforcements earlier to fight jointly with our Zheng State army, there might still be a glimmer of hope. Now we Most of the main force of the Zheng army was wiped out by the Chu army. The few reinforcements you have from Chen State are just a drop in the bucket and will not help. I don’t have any hope in this matter!"
Now my only hope for His Highness is that when His Highness returns to Chen State, he can do his best to take in some of the refugees and dispersed soldiers from Zheng State so that they will not be tortured and killed by the Chu army again! "
"In this case, you might as well follow me back to Chen Country for refuge. Now you guys can't change the situation in Tianquan County. You will die in vain!" Chen Xiaomu still refused to give up, hoping to persuade Su Xingran to follow him.
Su Xingran shook his head gently, "I can't just live in peace while my father is here. We must go to Tianquan County, even if we die in vain!"
''Why! Chen Xiaomu sighed, "How about this?" I will go to Tianquan County with you. If you all die in the battle, I will collect your bodies for you. I can’t let you die in the wilderness. Besides, it really doesn’t matter if I return to Chen State later. I can’t lead troops to fight. , I’m just going to have nothing to do when I go back, and I’m just going to live less and less every day, so why not do some good deeds with you guys? What do you think about accumulating some moral virtue? "
"Princess, I think that since the Sixth Prince has such kindness, we might as well fulfill him. We who died in the battle will die in the battle. I am afraid that the Chu people will put the princess and those Chu soldiers who died in the battle." Together, we defiled the princess’s body!”
Su Xingran had never thought of these things at all. Now that he was reminded by veteran Zhong Xinyi, he suddenly felt that this matter was not trivial. After a war in the past, the so-called cleaning of the battlefield meant digging a big hole and collecting all the people who died in the battle, whether on one's own side or on the battlefield. Lift the enemy's weapon and throw it into the pit to cover it with soil.
"Okay, then you are allowed to follow us!" After much thought, Su Xingran finally agreed to Chen Xiaomu's request.
Su Xingran's princess escort stayed at the junction of Chen State and Zheng State for half a day, and finally started again, changing its route to Tianquan County to the west of Zheng State!
Although it was dripping with ice outside, there seemed to be a voice in Chen Xiaomu's mind urging him to get out of the carriage and ride on horseback! Chen Xiaomu was already afraid of the cold, so he simply put his fur coat over his head and lay down in the carriage not to think about these things. But no, as long as he was in the carriage, the idea of going out to ride a horse could not be erased from his mind!
He opened the curtain of the car irritably, and happened to see the veteran Zhong Xin riding a horse beside his car. Chen Xiaomu quickly clasped his fists, "Hello, General Zhong!"
"Hey, hello, Your Highness the Sixth Prince." Zhong Xin also hurriedly gave him a fist.
"General Zhong, I want to get off the car and ride a horse! I wonder if General Zhong can do it for me?"
"What's the inconvenience? I don't know anything else about our convoy, but there is no shortage of horses!" Zhong Xin said and waved to the back, and immediately a young soldier came over with a spare horse, and Chen Xiaomu also came. You're welcome, stepped on the carriage door, jumped onto the horse with the help of the young soldier.
It was really cold outside. Chen Xiaomu's bald head suddenly felt like countless knives were being scratched on it. He shrank his head into his fur coat, "I said General Zhong, why is it so cold outside?" "
Zhong Xin gave him a strange look, "Your Highness, isn't it this cold every winter?"
"Oh, oh, yes, yes. Maybe I stayed in the carriage for a long time, so I felt very cold when I came out!" Chen Xiaomu laughed at himself.
"Your Highness, please bear with me and it will warm up in Tianquan County.
"Oh, why is this?" This place is not far from Tianquan County, right? "
Zhong Xin stroked his long beard with his hand and said: "This place is at least three hundred miles away from Tianquan. If we walk faster, we will arrive tomorrow morning. There are many places in Tianquan County where water erupts from underground to the ground. Hot water. Local people often use this hot water to bathe, wash vegetables, etc., making the area full of mist all day long. Not only does hot water come out of the ground all day long in Tianquan, but a lot of black oil also comes out. It ignites on fire, but the smell is very unpleasant and produces thick black smoke that makes people cough if they smell it, so almost no locals use it!"
"That's it," Chen Xiaomu nodded thoughtfully!
