Dejected

Author: Bei Wei

The Xiliang cavalry discovered Lin Kui near early in the morning.

Ordinary people would have been seriously injured and frozen in the snow for a long time, and would have died long ago. But as a doctor, Lin Kui bandaged the wound himself to stop the bleeding, and miraculously persisted until someone found him.

Even so, he was already dying. The sergeants wrapped him in several layers of blankets to keep him warm during transportation, and carefully escorted him to the forward camp of the Xiliang Army, where they found a doctor for treatment.

Lin Kui was unconscious until the sun rose. When he opened his eyes, the first person he saw was Shen Yuexi.

Shen Yuexi was wearing a thick cotton fur coat and sitting on a chair three feet away from him. The once reckless and weak girl had become strong and calm after many hardships, and her bright eyes projected a confident and intelligent light.

Qiang Lin stood guard next to Shen Yuexi, staring at him with a stern look on his face, the scar on his face twitching slightly, as if he wanted to draw his sword at any moment and cut him in half.

"An...Princess An." Lin Kui's voice was like a gnat, and he said hello weakly.

Shen Yuexi couldn't help but get angry when she remembered that he had poisoned Xiao Zhuo to death. But at the moment, she had a more important question to ask Lin Kui, so she suppressed her anger first and said coldly: "Lin Kui, what's wrong with you?" what's going on?"

Lin Kui reluctantly opened his mouth, showing a wry smile, and said: "Your Majesty... the stabbing was done. The wound on the leg is not serious. Although the sword wound passed through the body, judging from the position, it should not have damaged the internal organs."

"You can't die," Shen Yuexi said, "Why did my brother hurt you? Aren't you his most trusted subordinate?"

Lin Kui turned to look outside the tent. When he saw the sunlight filtering through the cracks in the curtains, a look of horror appeared on his face, and he said, "It's dawn... Where is the Queen?"

As he spoke, he tried to struggle to get up, but the pain from the wound was unbearable and he couldn't help but moan loudly.

Shen Yuexi sighed and said, "If you don't want to die, don't move around. Tell me what happened last night."

After the Xiliang cavalry rescued Lin Kui in the early morning, they rushed to the hill where Xiao Beiheng's army was located. They found that there was no one there, only tents, extinguished fires and sheep bones on the ground. Xiao Beiheng and Su Mo were nowhere to be found, and they did not know where they were. After escaping, he was captured by the Xirong people, so he had to bring Lin Kui back for questioning.

Lin Kui knew he couldn't get up, so he lay back on the bed and slowly told Shen Yuexi what happened last night.

Shen Yuexi was frightened when she heard this. After Lin Kui finished speaking, she asked anxiously: "Has he caught up with him?"

Lin Kui shook his head and said: "I don't know, they ran far away. The rope behind the Queen's back has not been untied, but His Majesty is affected by the drug and has difficulty walking."

Shen Yuexi stood up and said to Qiang Lin, "Can you find Su Mo?"

Qiang Lin said: "I'll set out to look for him right away."

Before the two of them could go out, Lin Kui raised his hand to stop him and whispered: "No need to look for it, we will know the result soon."

Shen Yuexi turned around and said, "What should I say?"

"King Doma's time limit is dawn. If the queen is not sent over at dawn, King Doma will withdraw his troops." Lin Kui looked at the sunlight filtering through the cracks in the tent, "What is King Doma doing?"

Qiang Lin went out of the tent to inquire in person. After a while, he turned around and said solemnly:

"Princess An, the scouts said that King Doma has sent 50,000 troops and is coming towards us. The leader... is Xiao Beiheng. The Queen of Xiliang has already led the black cavalry to fight."

After hearing this, Lin Kui lamented repeatedly, clenched his fists and beat the bed, saying: "It's over, it's over."

Shen Yuexi fell down on the chair and murmured to herself: "He really gave his brother and sister to King Doma, he really did that."

"Princess An, go and save the Queen," Lin Kui cried and struggled to get up, "I'll kill you or chop you into pieces as long as I want, go and save the Queen, go."

Shen Yuexi asked the sergeant to pull the excited Lin Kui back to the bed, and said to him: "Calm down. Su Mo is my younger brother and sister, and I am more anxious than you. But if we don't defeat my brother first, we can't save him."

It's useless to rush. They can't go to King Doma before defeating the Xirong army led by Xiao Beiheng.

She left the crying Lin Kui and went out of the tent to call a general and said, "Sister Mei has gone to the front line?"

The general said: "Princess Hui'an, after the Queen and the military advisor learned about Xiao Beiheng's attack, they led 5,000 black cavalry and 5,000 crossbowmen to fight directly. Before leaving, the Queen specifically told you not to disturb you, and we will I didn’t report it to the princess.”

"Where's the Crouching Tiger Cannon?" Shen Yuexi looked around the entire camp, but couldn't see the shadow of the Crouching Tiger Cannon.

The general said: "Princess, the Tiger Crouching Cannon is moving slowly. It has been escorted by the rear army. It will arrive at noon tomorrow at the earliest."

Shen Yuexi thought that the black cavalry was invincible and that her sister Shen Lan was with the army to plan, so she should not be able to defeat Xiao Beiheng. Then she returned to the tent and said to Lin Kui: "Take good care of your injuries, and we will do our best to save Su Mo."

She originally hated Lin Kui's past, but seeing Lin Kui making such a big sacrifice to protect Su Mo, she let go of the past.

"Princess An," Lin Kui stopped her as she was about to leave, "since you spared Lin's life, Lin also wants to repay you. Please ask someone to bring a pen and paper. Lin will write a letter, and the princess will have someone send it to you." To Su, the prefect of Anzhou."

Shen Yuexi said: "You mean Su Mo's father Su Han?"

Lin Kui said: "Exactly, if you write to Su Taishou, he will definitely not believe it, but I can. As long as you give the letter to Su Taishou, Su Taishou will no longer fight with King An, which is Lin's repayment."

Shen Yuexi thought to herself that if a letter could prevent thousands of soldiers from dying in battle, that would be great. She asked the sergeant to bring a pen and paper, and Lin Kui endured the pain and wrote a letter, the content of which was what Xiao Beiheng had done. People and gods are outraged by this, so I advise Su Han not to be an enemy of Xiao Zhuo anymore.

The messenger received the letter and left, and Lin Kui said to Shen Yuexi: "The queen will leave it to Princess An."

Shen Yuexi was thinking about Su Mo and wanted to lead her army to support, but there were only two thousand soldiers left in the camp, plus Qiang Lin's five thousand Xirong soldiers. If she left, there would be no one to guard the camp, so she had to go back Go to your own tent.

After lunch, the sergeant was called again to inquire about the situation at the front.

The sergeant said happily: "The scouts sent back by the queen said that Xiao Beiheng did not dare to fight the black cavalry. The black cavalry chased him, but Xiao Beiheng retreated. He has been defeated twice in a row."

After hearing this, Shen Yuexi felt relieved, thinking that the black cavalry was indeed invincible, and the two sisters should at least remain undefeated. When the 5,000 rear troops arrived with the Tiger Crouching Cannon at noon tomorrow, she would have the entire army break camp and go to the front. Meet up with Mei Dai's army.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, she felt sleepy and lay on the bed to take a nap. While she was sleeping, someone outside the tent shouted horses neighing and the sound of hooves made noisy, which suddenly woke her up.

She thought it was an enemy attack, so she quickly got up and walked to the tent door, when Qiang Lin came over.

"Why is it so noisy outside?" Shen Yuexi asked.

Qiang Lin said: "Princess An, the Queen of Xiliang has lost the battle and returned to the camp."

Shen Yuexi looked at the messy soldiers in the camp, puzzled, and asked: "Lost?"

In the distance, Mei Dai and Shen Lan hurriedly walked over. Mei Dai's originally fair and jade-like face was darkened and her hair was messy. She was holding an iron mask in her hand. Her body was still upright, but her face was covered with stains. Being depressed is like a phoenix turning into a chicken.

Shen Lan followed her, also looking furious. As she walked, she turned sideways to explain something to Mei Dai.

Shen Yuexi had rarely seen her two sisters in such a mess, so she quickly stepped forward and said, "Sister Mei, is the war not going well?"

Mei Dai stopped in her tracks, pouted in a rare moment and said: "I fell into a trap, tricked by Xiao Beiheng, and the black cavalry is gone." After saying this without thinking, she went to the commander's tent first.

Shen Yuexi turned to Shen Lan again: "What happened to sister?"

Shen Lan's face turned red and white, and she endured it for a long time before saying, "I was careless and was deceived by Xiao Beiheng."

It turned out that the two of them led an army of 10,000 to fight Xiao Beiheng, and they were full of confidence. They had seen the power of the black cavalry with their own eyes at the head of Leshan City.

After meeting Xiao Beiheng, Xiao Beiheng sent the Western Rong cavalry to fight, and they also sent the black cavalry to fight. Unexpectedly, Xiao Beiheng's cavalry led the black cavalry in circles instead of fighting. The black cavalry could not catch up, so Shen Lan quickly called back.

The two sides fought again, and Xiao Beiheng led the black cavalry in circles again, making Shen Lan very angry.

The third time, Xiao Beiheng finally stopped beating around the bush and let the cavalry formally fight the black cavalry. The black cavalry overwhelmed the Xirong cavalry at once, and the Xirong cavalry was defeated and fled. Shen Lan was walked twice by the opponent, and he was impatient, so he ordered the black cavalry to hurry up. Reluctant to chase.

"As a result, the other party's cavalry ran across an icy lake, and they all passed smoothly." Shen Lan lowered his head like a child who made a mistake, "Our black cavalry crushed the ice and the entire lake collapsed. Only a few escaped. Hundreds of people."

Shen Yuexi was stunned for a long time, remembering the tragic scene of the black cavalry falling into the water in her mind. In such a cold winter, and wearing such heavy armor and falling into the water, there was no possibility of survival regardless of whether he could swim or not.

She and Shen Lan entered the commander's tent and saw Mei Dai still sitting there, frowning and sulking, and she quickly advised: "Sister Mei, victory or defeat is a common thing in military affairs, don't take it too seriously."

Shen Lan knelt down in front of Mei Dai in shame and said: "Queen, it's all my fault. I started a war with Xiao Beiheng without examining the surrounding terrain. Please punish me according to military law."

Mei Dai waved her hand and said: "There is no need to say anything, military advisor, I am angry with myself. I have always warned myself to act cautiously and think before I act, but in the end I still couldn't do it, and I ruined such an elite cavalry."

When Shen Yuexi saw her two sisters, one of whom was blaming herself and the other kneeling on the ground begging for punishment, she had no idea and had to comfort each other with gentle words.

Mei Dai said: "Sister, I don't know. What I'm worried about is what if the enemy gets the black light armor and uses it to attack us?"

Shen Lan said: "Queen, the water in the lake is freezing cold, and the enemy cannot salvage it. Only by draining the entire lake."

The three of them were in chaos, and Geng Hong ran into the tent and said: "Queen, the Xirong army has already moved towards our camp and is camping in a depression five miles away."

Mei Dai said: "How many soldiers do we have left?"

Geng Hong said: "Two thousand infantry, four thousand crossbowmen. King Qiang Lin has five thousand cavalry, a total of eleven thousand people, and five thousand rear troops are escorting the tiger squatting cannon. They will arrive at noon tomorrow."

Shen Yuexi pulled up Shen Lan and said, "Sisters, now is not the time to be downcast. We must quickly consolidate the defense of the camp."

Mei Dai said: "My sister is right. The Xirong army is about to attack. The military advisor should go quickly to arrange defense."

Shen Lan and Geng Hong went out to arrange the defense of the camp. Mei Dai said to Shen Yuexi: "Sister, what we rely on is the black cavalry. Now there are only a few hundred black cavalry left, which is of no use at all. And the squatting tiger cannon is still there. If it doesn’t arrive, we have to get through today.”

Shen Yuexi said: "Sister Mei, are the enemy troops camped in a depression?"

"yes."

Shen Yuexi said: "Sister, don't worry, I have a strategy to defeat the enemy. But before that, I want to pay homage to the soldiers in the lake tonight. Let their heroic spirits protect us and successfully defeat the enemy."
Chapter completed!