Chapter 176

He Yan looked at her with a smile: "because I saved those prisoners, is the real hero?"

"The real hero will see where others can't see. There are many men who speak for men, and many women speak for women, "said qiluo." but not many men speak for women. "

He Yan looked at her serious look and couldn't help but smile bitterly in her heart, but she was not a real man, so she couldn't really give what qiluo wanted.

The way of the world is so, it's not a matter of a day and a night if you want to shake it.

Seeing he Yan's silence, Qi Luo took the opportunity to say, "Lord Xiaohe, after you left last night, many aunts in the city came to inquire about you with me. The county magistrate's wife also asked about you. He said that if you could come back alive, he would like to tell you about his daughter. You don't have to marry you. You can be your concubine. "

He Yan also couldn't respond to this. Facing Qi Luo's hopeful eyes, he Yan could only use his usual excuse, "thank you for your love, but I already have a sweetheart."

"Already have a sweetheart?" Qi Luo was disappointed, but for a moment she turned to be curious, "who is Xiaohe's sweetheart? Is it beautiful? What disposition is he? "

He Yan mouth floating a smile, "yes, very beautiful, temperament looks very cold, but is a very gentle person."

The boy has always looked calm and gentle, only at this moment, it really shows like this age of youth, some shy and nervous.

Qi Luo was more curious. "Listen to you, this girl should be very excellent. Does she like you

He Yan was stunned and shook his head.

"Don't like it?" Qi Luo was surprised. "Lord Xiaohe is good at skill, handsome and kind-hearted. He is also Wu'an Lang, who was granted by his majesty. Why do these people dislike him?"

"Because he's good and there are better people around than me." He Yan shrugged, "and I also have my own things to do. I don't want to involve others."

Qi Luo looked at him and chuckled, "Lord Xiaohe, you are good at everything, but this is not good. As long as your sweetheart is not married, it is not a foregone conclusion, so grab it. At that time, the master wanted to choose a concubine's room. We had dozens of sisters in our yard. I swayed in front of him every day and dressed up carefully every day. The concubine, the master's favorite concubine, was also won by the concubine himself. Xiaohe really likes that girl, so don't worry about the others. People who are better than you can't be more confident than you, so they will lose to you. A strong girl is afraid of pestering her husband. If you pester her day and night, you can't make that girl like you one day. "

I didn't expect to hear that "the heroine is afraid of pestering her husband" here. He Yan thought of Jiyang's impatience at that time and secretly laughed. However, Qi Luo seemed to be very enthusiastic in offering advice for her to please her sweetheart. He Yan had to stop her saying: "miss qiluo, thank you for your kindness, but we are still in trouble now. If Rundu can hold on and the uto are driven back, I will do as you say, but now Still. "

Smell speech, Qi Luo also sighed tone, way: "also."

She suddenly fell silent and depressed. Heyan felt a little sorry. When the girl came, she was still in high spirits. She was so sad by her words. Thinking about this, he took out a preserved apricot from one side of the burden and handed it to him, "don't worry, we will keep it."

Qi Luo saw the preserved apricot in Heyan's hand. First, she was stunned, and then she was surprised. "Lord Xiaohe, how can you still have sugar?"

"I caught it when I started from Liangzhou Wei." He Yan scratched his head.

When she left Jiyang, Cui Yuezhi caught a lot of Jiyang specialty preserved fruit for her. Xiao Jue didn't like to eat them, so they all moved to Heyan house. When they left, most of them took dry cakes and food. For example, they didn't bring much snacks, but Heyan also picked up some, thinking that they didn't take up space anyway.

Qiluo carefully licked the apricot and said happily to Heyan: "thank you, Mr. Xiaohe. Since the uto people came, I have been hungry and full every day. I can't even eat any food. Let alone sugar, I dare not think about it. Now I'm very happy to receive the blessing of Xiaohe. "

He Yan: "you can't eat any rice? No, the uto people besieged Rundu, but how could the city be in such a situation after only a month? "

She came to run the capital until now, and Wang Ba they all eat from Liangzhou Wei's own dry food. I know that Rundu is short of food and grass, but that's because it has to be used by soldiers guarding the city. I've been so busy these days that I can't even go around the city. If not qiluo himself said, he Yan did not know Rundu had been so nervous.

You know, even qiluo is not enough to eat, let alone ordinary people.

Qiluo bit the apricot breast and looked at her with wide eyes and said, "Lord Xiaohe doesn't know. The uto soldiers have besieged Rundu for more than a month. But last year, Rundu had a snow disaster, and after the snow disaster there was famine. Even if the uto don't come, the people of Rundu have a hard time. Not to mention that the road out of the city is blocked now, and there is not much grain in the city. All of them are given to the army. The people have been hungry for grass and roots. A few days ago, some people have died of starvation

"What!" He Yan Teng once sat up, "is this really true?""I dare not deceive Lord Xiaohe." Qi Luo said: "otherwise, we run Du is rich in grapes. Why should Xiaohe give the bowl to Xiaohe on the first day of his coming? It's really That's already Rundu's last bowl of grapes. "

The famine of the people in the city is a great event, but Li Kuang didn't tell her about such a serious matter!

If this is the case, it is meaningless to defend the city. What Li Kuang and others will not come to is he Rufei, while Rundu people are waiting for endless despair and hunger. They are waiting for death.

He Yan lowered his eyebrows and eyes and put on his shoes without saying a word. Qi Luo asked, "what is Xiaohe doing?"

"I want to see Li Kuang."

……

Li Kuang was counting yesterday's war report in his room. Suddenly, he saw Heyan stride forward from the outside of the house. He was surprised and asked, "didn't you go back to your room to have a rest? Why did you come out again? "

Heyan sat down on one side of the chair. She was really tired. It would be better to sit down. He only looked at Li Kuang and said, "I came here to ask if we burned the food and grass of the uto people last night. What's the plan of Lord Li after that?"

At this point, Li Kuang looked at Heyan and said: "thanks to Xiaohe, we won yesterday. Now the uto people have no food and grass. I plan to continue to wait for reinforcements. If the uto people have no food and grass, they must be more anxious than us. If they attack the city by force Let's set a trap. What does Xiaohe think? "

He Yan: "I don't think so."

Li Kuang frowned: "why?"

He Yan gazed into his eyes. "Lord Li intends to have a stalemate with the uto people, which is fine. But the people in the city have been able to hold on for a long time. They are afraid that they will starve to death before they can come to help. There is not much grain left in the city due to the snow disaster this year. Why did Lord Li keep it from me? "

After hearing the speech, Li Kuang did not answer Heyan's words, but asked, "who told you this?"

"With so many people in Rundu, Mr. Li thought he could hide it?" He Yan's eyes are sharp, "even if you can hide one person, how can you not know when more and more people are dying of hunger?"

When she left the city with 500 elite soldiers of Rundu last night, she felt that the soldiers of Rundu were emaciated and emaciated. However, she only thought that it was the result of defending the city for several days. It was not until qiluo explained the reason that she suddenly realized it.

This is already the case in the army. This is a big taboo in war. It is not unheard of in the history books that people in the city starved to death. It's a hell on earth. I dare not think about it.

Li Kuang was silent for a moment and asked Heyan, "what do you mean?"

"We can't continue to defend the city. Our Lord and I, with our troops and horses of Rundu, have a decisive battle with the uto people outside the city."

"No way!" Li Kuang did not want to answer: "take the initiative to attack, this is the next bad strategy."

"We took the initiative last night."

"Last night, there were 500 elite soldiers, but Rundu had 30000 troops. This is Rundu's last hope. If, as you said, fight a decisive battle with the uto people, if defeated, the city will fall, and all the people in the city will fall into the hands of the uto people! He brothers and the utoes have already made contact with each other twice. It is impossible for them not to know the ferocity and ferocity of the uto people. These people fall into their hands even more cruelly than death. I am the city commander in chief of Rundu. Even if all the people of Rundu died of starvation, it would be better to die under the torture of uto people! "

"Who said we would lose?" He Yan frowned, "the battle has not yet been fought, everything can happen. We may also be the winning side

"How can we fight against 30000 to 100000?"

He Yan said: "the first battle of Jiyang was not to win more with less."

Li Kuang turned around with a cold voice: "I'm not the commander in chief of the right army. You're not general Feihong. I can't fight this kind of war, and you can't either."

"I can do it!"

Li Kuang looked back at her, as if he didn't know the height of the children. He shook his head and said, "brother he, I admit that you are a bit fierce. You also have a set against those uto people. But the war is very cruel. It blocks the lives of a city people. I can't take the life of a city to earn your military merit. We people are just dead. We are just a life, but the gate cannot be broken. I will not take the initiative to fight the uto people. If they want to attack the city, we will defend it. They will stand still, and we will wait for reinforcements to arrive. "

Li Kuang was very conservative in the war. He Yan was very clear about this. But in those days, she was an assistant general, commanding tens of thousands of Fuyue troops. Now

"This is Rundu. Even if he is wu'anlang, he can't command the troops of Rundu without my permission. So don't waste your effort! " Li Kuang said coldly.

Heyan took a deep breath. The stone was hard and smelly. She had not changed it for so many years. She asked, "well, if you don't attack and retreat according to Lord Li, you will die of starvation sooner or later if you don't attack and retreat as Lord Li said. What is the situation of Rundu's soldiers and horses? You and I know that even if the people don't starve to death, the soldiers and horses will starve to death. For the uto people, it's not cheap for them to die so many Rundu soldiers without paying a soldier or a soldier? "

"Soldiers and horses will not starve to death." Li Kuang's face was heavy, "I have my own way."

He Yan asked: "what way?"

Li Kuang looked at her and said, "you don't need to know." Said, then no longer pay attention to He Yan, turned to brush sleeves into the inner room.He Yan looked at his back and felt uneasy. Grain is by no means a problem that can be solved easily, but Li Kuang seems to have a plan in mind. Is there a secret granary in the capital. But if there is such food and grass, how can Rundu's soldiers and people suffer from such hunger.

He Yan shakes his head and plans to discuss with Jiang Jiao and his party. As soon as he goes out, he bumps into one person. However, Zhao Shiming, the county magistrate of Rundu, runs into him.

Zhao Shiming wiped the sweat from his forehead awkwardly, took a look at the room and said, "I and I were going to go in, but as soon as I got to the door, I heard that you and Mr. Li were quarrelling, so I couldn't get in." He looked at Heyan's face and comforted him: "Lord Xiaohe, please don't take Mr. Li's words to heart. He is such a man, stubborn and stubborn as a stone. The heart is good, he also dare not take Rundu people's life to bet. Mr. Xiaohe came from Liangzhou. It may not be clear that we people who have been running the capital I really dare not take the risk. "

"I'm not angry." He Yan sighed: "I just think it's not right."

She also looks at Zhao Shiming. Zhao Shiming, the magistrate of Rundu, seems to be very popular in Rundu. Now Li Kuang is not satisfied with her. Heyan can't find Li Kuang's important people. Jiang Jiao and he are always with him and can't be separated. Zhao Shiming There should be useful people around, though not many.

"Lord Zhao." She thought about it and bowed to Zhao Shiming for a long time. "I have something to ask you for help."

Zhao Shiming was startled and said, "Lord Xiaohe, it doesn't matter."

"Mr. Zhao, there are people who can use it, such as guards. I want to borrow two people for one. Do something for me After a pause, she added, "however, this matter needs to be kept secret from Mr. Li, and can not be known by him."

Zhao Shiming looks at the young man in front of him. He has been with Li Kuang for a long time. He should not help Heyan hide Li Kuang. But on the other hand, he believed that the young man was not malicious, even a rare pure man in the world.

Otherwise, last night, he would not have to take the risk of rescuing the women in the enemy camp.

Without thinking for long, Zhao Shiming said, "it's easy to say."

……

The sky of Rundu is gray, as if it hasn't shone on the sun for a long time, and the whole city is filled with a rotten, old-fashioned atmosphere.

In a family, two naked boys pushed out a corpse. This was their grandfather, who was placed on a straw mat. His whole body was thin enough to see every bone He died of starvation.

It's not uncommon that such a thing happened in Rundu recently. Yingxiang walked by and looked at it, and a trace of pity flashed in his eyes.

Their food, in fact, is not much.

"Fourth childe, we have been staying in Rundu, and it will become like this." She whispered a reminder.

Chu Zhao did not speak, but walked quietly.

Xu Xiang's people have already left Rundu. Here is to wait for death, no one will take the initiative to this city which is bound to fall. We can't find Xu Xiang here, even if he is the fourth son of the Chu family. When it comes to that day, it will be no different.

Death is an extremely fair thing, and will not be merciful for a moment because of the dignity of one's status.

"We..." Yingxiang wants to talk.

"Wait a minute." Chu Zhao interrupted her.

Wait, what else? Ying Xiangmo was silent and asked, "if the fourth young master is really worried about Miss He, why don't you take her with you?"

"She didn't even know Xiao Huaijin. She went thousands of miles to Rundu alone to save the people in Rundu. How could you think that she would leave a city and follow me?" Chu Zhao smiles. If all the dust settles, Heyan will probably leave quietly. The more critical the situation is, the more unlikely she will leave alone.

He thought it was stupid, but sometimes he couldn't help but want to keep looking to see what else the girl could do and how far she could do?

Ying Xiang walked with her head down and her voice was soft, "can't you let her go, fourth young master?"

Chu Zhao laughed faintly: "I just I don't want to see her die so easily

If she were alive, there would be more interesting things in the world. If she died, there would be only one woman in the world.

Just then, Ying Xiang suddenly said, "fourth childe, he girl..."

Chu Zhaoshun looked at her eyes and saw Heyan standing in the street, looking at a family's trance. At the door sat a woman, digging in the mud, trying to dig out some edible grass roots and bark.

She stood quietly with her eyebrows and eyes closed. Chu Zhao walked over and said, "brother he."

He Yan then saw them and said, "brother Chu, Yingxiang girl."

Ying Xiang owes himself and several people go forward together. Chu Zhao asks, "brother he has just had a fierce fight with the utoes last night. Why don't you have a good rest in the house?"

"It's OK. I'll come out for a walk." He Yan Dao.

Ying Xiang asked, "has he ever used rice? If not, there is still some dry food in the burden of the maidservant. " She sighed, "Rundu is now like this, there is no hot food."Yan He shook his head, but thank you

She couldn't eat it.

Chu Zhao thought for a moment and then began to ask, "brother he, you are suffering for the people of Rundu. Is it because there is no food in the city?"

He Yan looked at him: "brother Chu also know?"

"I came to Rundu earlier than you," Chu Zhao shook his head and laughed. "I have plenty of time. All the people in Rundu are like this."

"If brother Chu can talk about Xu Xiang..." He Yan asked tentatively.

He Yan has always doubted the identity of Chu Zhao. Although Chu Zhao was Xu Xiang's student, he did not seem to deal with Xu directly. To be sure, the reason why he was able to face Chu Linfeng had something to do with Xu Jingfu. But in many cases, Chu Zhao's choice seems to be contrary to Xu Jingfu's original intention.

For example, in Jiyang, the military defense map sent by Chu Zhao.

He is a man of great ideas, such a person, can not be the enemy, it is better not to be the enemy. Before he showed any hostility, he had to be careful. Just as Chu Zhao wanted to use her, it would be nice to get close to he Rufei through Chu Zhao. After all, he Rufei is crazy and has no human nature.

If he Yan had hoped to be promoted under Xiao Jue, now she has changed her mind. She has decided not to involve Xiao Jue and stay away from Xiao Jue and try to do it by herself.

Chuzhao's smile faded a little. After a moment, he shook his head and said, "brother he, I'm not omnipotent. Xu Xiang And will not listen to me. "

This seems to be a little aggrieved.

He Yan raised eyebrows, and the relationship between Xu Jingfu and Chu Zhao seemed to be of great significance.

"I can't help the people in shangrundu. The only thing I can do is to accompany them. But what is he going to do? " He looked at Heyan, "you know, Rundu can't last long."

A city without food can only support the city. Li Kuang didn't explain the situation to her at the first time, and now he refuses to confront the uto people. It seems that this road is a dead end.

"Will you give up?" He asked.

The man's eyes are soft, like the warm wind in March in shuojing, but with a little cold spring, sober, and secretly looking forward to.

He Yan didn't avoid it and looked at him frankly, "what do you want me to do, brother Chu?"

Chu Zhao was stunned for a moment, but laughed: "why do you still come to ask me?"

He Yan slowly walked forward, "I thought in the heart of brother Chu, it seems that there has been an answer."

After a while, his voice came from his side: "I have never seen anything that can block brother he's steps, nor have I seen anything that makes him lose hope."

"You think too much of me."

Chu Zhao said: "that's not true. Brother he can't do anything, can't he solve Rundu's urgent need now?"

He Yan is silent.

Chu Zhao continued: "brother he, do you know that in the past, when the famine was most serious, the people in the city even changed their children to live, and it was a particularly terrible thing for people to eat people. If Rundu goes on like this, that may not happen. "

He Yan lowered his head and gently laughed, looking at the distance.

The streets were empty, and the shops had been closed for a long time. Most of the food that could be eaten was found. It was a busy summer day, and Rundu seemed to be barren. Even the trees and branches on the road were bare. The leaves had been picked by hungry and crazy people to fill their stomachs.

If it wasn't for the hot sun, it didn't look like summer at all, like winter. This is not like the Rundu in Heyan's memory. It is small and lively, with crystal grapes and mellow wine.

War changed everything.

She whispered, "do you know what's more frightening than changing one's son and eating?"

Chu Zhao was a little surprised, "what is it?"

He Yan didn't speak, just looked at the dead city, and felt a helpless sadness in his heart.

That kind of thing If she could, she hoped that it would never happen in her life and never see it.

It was a real hell on earth.

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