At this time, a man with a spear in his hand rode a horse and came to the front of the team. He looked at the group of soldiers and asked loudly, "Where is your general?"
Li Hanrui dragged the pain all over his body and walked to the front of the team. When he saw the man in front of him, he immediately knelt down and said, "So it's you who are back!"
At this time, the man jumped off the horse and helped Li Hanrui up with one hand. "Second General, we haven't seen each other for a few years. Are you okay?"
Li Hanrui smiled bitterly, "Thank you, the eldest prince, for coming to the rescue, otherwise these brothers and I would not be here today!"
Zhu Yunzhi smiled slightly, looked at Li Hanrui and the group of seriously injured soldiers behind him, and nodded lightly, "Is this the Qilin Guard? They are all good ones!"
"There is also the Far Eastern Army! We fought together all night, and now these are the only ones left!" Li Hanrui said with a disappointed look on his face.
"I'm here, so don't worry. At least King Yong'an doesn't dare to attack rashly yet. Take your brothers down to have a rest. Leave this place to me!" Zhu Yunzhi said.
"Thank you, eldest prince!" Li Hanrui turned to look at Tan Beiping and Qin Fangyu, "Let the brothers take a rest immediately and treat the wounds on their bodies. Hurry up, the enemy doesn't know when they will attack again!"
"Yes!" Tan Beiping and Qin Fangyu looked at the man in front of them and wondered, Tan Beiping called him the eldest prince? Who? I do not know!
Li Hanrui walked up to Zhu Yunzhi, "First Prince, time is running out, let me tell you about the current situation!" Li Hanrui briefly explained the enemy's configuration, number of people, weapons, etc.!
Zhu Yunzhi nodded and knew what he was doing, "I understand, please step back and take a rest!"
"Thank you, eldest prince!" Li Hanrui then stepped back with peace of mind and asked the Qilin Guards to help remove the armor and then apply medicine to the wound!
At this time, a beautiful woman walked up to Zhu Yunzhi and said, "First Prince, the brothers have taken over the battlefield, and the enemy has been pushed into the mountains behind the woods!"
"Okay, immediately arrange for 10,000 soldiers on the left and right wings to spread out the two wings. In addition, I see that there are unburned trebuchets in front. The enemy cannot have only a dozen or so. Let us follow the previous method. Dig on the spot, and we must not let the enemy's trebuchet fall under the city gate!"
"Yes!" Lan Qing nodded and said, and then immediately made arrangements!
Qi Haobi hurriedly ran back to Zhu Tianyou's camp. Zhu Tianyou had not slept all night, but he couldn't bear the fatigue. He slowly leaned on the desk to rest. When he heard the footsteps, he immediately opened his eyes!
Seeing Qi Haobi's frightened expression, Zhu Tianyou frowned, "What? Did you let the Qilin Guards defeat you?"
"No, I wiped out both the Qilin Guards and the Far East Army! But... reinforcements came from the other side!" Qi Haobi said.
"What do you mean? Zhao Xuanyi is back?"
"No, I saw their flags, they are King Taikang's army!"
"Who? King Taikang?" Zhu Tianyou asked with his eyes widened.
"You can't go wrong! They are wearing red military uniforms, and their flags have the word "Thai" clearly written on them!"
Zhu Tianyou stood up and kept circling in the tent, "Why did King Taikang come to intervene? The capital was about to be captured. How could King Taikang come out at this time? This is really...!"
Seeing that Zhu Tianyou was so angry, Qi Haobi asked in a low voice, "Father, I just sent scouts to investigate. It seems that King Taikang only sent 50,000 cavalry this time. Should we strike while the iron is hot? Directly?"
Zhu Tianyou immediately waved his hand, "No, it's almost dawn, and the soldiers have been busy all night. Now we are exhausted and it is not suitable to fight anymore. We immediately give the order for the whole army to rest!"
"If we rest, will they take the opportunity to attack?"
"Hmph! They don't dare! Once all our soldiers have recharged their batteries, we will regroup and continue to attack the capital!"
"Yes!" Qi Haobi nodded and said.
Li Hanrui was lying on the ground, watching the morning star in the sky shining with dazzling light. The sky finally became brighter. At this moment, all the Qilin Guards and the Far East Army were surrounding more than a dozen fires to keep warm. These fires were none other than But those dozen burning trebuchets
!
Tan Beiping poked his hands, "Don't tell me, is this thing really burning? It's been half a night, and there's still flames!"
Li Hanrui smiled, "Do you know how hard it is to find the wood for this trebuchet? Just this main beam requires hundreds of years of wood! It's very hard to find!"
"Oh, it's such a shame to make firewood!"
At this time, a fast horse galloped from a distance. When it got close, I saw so many new faces on the battlefield. Who are these red-coated soldiers? I do not know?
When Li Hanrui saw that it was someone from his general's mansion, he stood up quickly and said, "Here!"
When the soldier saw Li Hanrui, he hurried over and said, "See the Second General!"
"Why are you here?" Li Hanrui asked.
"Second General, the eldest princess sent someone to ask how the battle is going?"
"This?" Li Hanrui looked around, not knowing what to say, and took the soldier aside, "Go back immediately and quietly tell the eldest princess that King Taikang sent the eldest prince back to protect the capital!"
After the soldier heard this, he was so frightened that he could not speak. He turned his head and looked at the flag of the army. A large word "Thai" was written on it. The soldier then understood what was going on!
"Yes! I will go back and report immediately!" The soldier turned around, mounted his horse, and left quickly!
Li Hanrui sighed. There must be some instability in the capital now. Although the eldest prince came back to protect the capital this time, in the eyes of the royal family, that was not the case. What should we do now?
At this moment, the palace is still the same as before. Everyone is kneeling in the main hall. Everyone is very depressed. Everyone has been in the palace for two days now!
In order to express condolences to the emperor and their own grief, no one, whether it was the prince or the civil and military officials, had anything to eat or drink. According to the rules, no one could violate this rule in the past three days. Zhu Wenyu, Zhu Yuejun and others in the palace His complexion was extremely poor, even Zhu Yuejun's face was obviously thinner!
The civil and military officials outside were still kneeling. Some of the young ones were doing relatively well, but a few of the older ones fainted from hunger. Although there may not be hypoglycemia in this era, but good people can't go hungry for three days. Is it tough enough to survive? Not to mention these older people!
But even if these ministers fainted from hunger, they just took them aside and lay down to rest, and still did not give them food. The emperor is dead, how can you still be in the mood to eat? Isn't this too disloyal?
The messenger quickly returned to the palace. After Nanzhu talked with the soldier, Nanzhu's face became very ugly when he heard what the soldier had said. Then he entered the main hall and saw Zhu Yuejun sitting on the chair, who was sleepy. Nanzhu whispered softly He said, "Princess, I have something to tell you!"
Zhu Yuejun slowly opened his eyes, "How's it going?"
"The situation outside the city...is a bit complicated!"
Zhu Yuejun frowned, "What do you mean?"
"Because there are too many enemies, there are only less than 5,000 reinforcements from the Qilin Guards and the Far Eastern Army! But King Taikang sent reinforcements, about 50,000 cavalry, and the person leading the army is... the eldest prince!" Nanzhu said.
After Zhu Yuejun heard this, his eyes exuded a murderous aura, and he slowly turned his head to look at Nanzhu, "Is the news true?"
"It's true! Li Hanrui personally asked the soldiers to come back and report!"
After Zhu Yuejun heard this, he sneered, "What do you mean? Come back at this time to protect the capital? What's wrong? Do you want me to go to the city gate to greet you?"
Seeing Zhu Yuejun being so angry, Nanzhu was too frightened to speak, "Princess, what about us?"
"No answer, no attitude, everything is up to him!" Zhu Yuejun said coldly.
"Yes! This slave knows!" After Nanzhu said that, he slowly retreated!
Outside the capital, Tan Beiping, Bai Zhi and others gathered together and turned to look, "Miss Bai, I heard that you were the eldest lady of Baijun Hall before?"
"Not bad!" Bai Zhi nodded and said.
"Then I want to ask, who is this eldest prince...?"
"That's the eldest prince!"
"No, I mean, since he is the eldest prince, why have I never heard of him? Is this the first time we've met him?"
Bai Zhi rolled her eyes at Tan Beiping, "I'm not asking, don't ask, or your life will be risked!"
Tan Beiping was so frightened that his whole body trembled, and then he smiled, "I'm not curious, I'm not curious!"
Lan Qing walked up to Zhu Yunzhi and said, "The eldest prince! You haven't been back for a long time, haven't you?"
Zhu Yunzhi looked at the direction to the north, and a smile appeared on his lips, "Yes, it has been more than twenty years! I was still a child when I left! My memory is not very clear!"
"You can go back to the capital to visit when you have time! Besides...the emperor has passed away, so you should go in and offer incense and kowtow! After all, you are the prince!"
After Zhu Yunzhi heard this, he shook his head, "No! In the eyes of the eldest princess and the queen, I am a disaster and an ominous one! Forget it!"
Lan Qing looked at Zhu Yunzhi with unbearable eyes, thinking that the eldest prince had done nothing wrong, yet he was treated as a thorn in their side and a thorn in their flesh!
"He's back, the Duke is back!" A Qilin Guard shouted loudly.
This sound drew away all the souls of everyone. The Qilin Guards, the Far East Army and others all stood up and looked to the east, only to see an army approaching from a distance!
If you look closely, you will see that this army is all cavalry. From a distance, you can see the huge flag raised. There is a huge unicorn embroidered on the flag, and there is a huge word "Zhao" written on the unicorn!
This is Zhao Xuanyi's handsome flag, and it is also the Qilin Guard's handsome flag. When all the Qilin Guards saw Zhao Xuanyi's handsome flag, their noses sore and tears could not help falling! They had been waiting for this moment for so long. Although it was only one night, for them, it was almost as long as a year!
Zhao Xuanyi and Li Hanyan rode white horses to the battlefield. They saw corpses scattered all over the battlefield. The blood had dyed the entire land red. There were dozens of huge stones in the ruined woods. !
The flat ground was also dug deep and shallow, with various twisted ravines, and some that looked like some kind of huge weapons burning. Zhao Xuanyi didn't need to ask, he could tell at a glance that this battle was very fierce. Tragic!
Tan Beiping ran over in a hurry, stood up and came to Zhao Xuanyi [Plop! ] knelt down with a cry, "Subordinate Tan Beiping, please see the Duke!"
Zhao Xuanyi immediately got off his horse and pulled Tan Beiping up: "Brother, thank you for your hard work!"
Tan Beiping's face was filled with tears, "My lord, I can't help you. Your leadership in this battle was poor, which caused heavy losses to our brothers. I... I am guilty!"
Zhao Xuanyi turned around and looked around, and saw that there were less than two thousand people wearing Qilin Guard uniforms! its not right! He left 10,000 Qilin Guards in the capital, plus 30,000 Qilin Guards in his hometown, and now he only has less than 2,000 left?
Zhao Xuanyi was dumbfounded when he saw this situation. When had his Qilin Guard ever suffered such a big loss? Actually lost 30,000 people? How is this going?
But Zhao Xuanyi did not blame Tan Beiping, "Okay, we will talk about this later, at least you can defend the capital!"
Tan Beiping shook his head, "My subordinates are ashamed. We almost couldn't hold on. Our Qilin Guards cooperated with the Far East Army and fought with the enemy all night. During this period, we experienced five or six battles. In the end, there were less than 5,000 people left. Seeing that we were The opponent was completely wiped out, and now reinforcements are coming!”
"Reinforcements? Who are they?" Zhao Xuanyi thought, are there any reinforcements? Are the border guards back?
Zhao Xuanyi turned around and saw Li Hanrui limping over. After Li Hanyan and Zhao Xuanyi saw it, they immediately rushed over and supported Li Hanrui. "Second brother, are you...?"
Li Hanrui grabbed Zhao Xuanyi's collar, "How on earth do you know you're coming back? If you come back a little later, I won't be able to see you anymore!" Li Hanrui cursed loudly!
Li Hanyan's eyes turned red when she saw Li Hanrui covered with scars, "Second brother, we were intercepted four times when we came back, otherwise we would have come back long ago!"
When Li Hanrui heard what Li Hanrui said, he sighed, "Okay, don't say anything else, come and see the eldest prince!"
"Who?" Zhao Xuanyi asked in surprise.
"Don't be rude, come here!" Li Hanrui brought Zhao Xuanyi and Li Hanyan to Zhu Yunzhi. "First Prince, let me introduce to you. This is my sister. Have you met her?"
, this is my brother-in-law, the current protector of the country, the second son of Zhao Mingqing, Zhao Xuanyi! "
Zhao Xuanyi turned to look at the man in front of him, frowning slightly and thinking, is this the eldest prince Zhu Yunzhi? If I remember correctly, Wang Jinrong told him about this eldest prince, and it turned out to be him, Zhu Yunzhi, and a disgrace to the royal family!
