What Yan and Lu Bu were talking about at this time was Lu Lingqi's marriage.
Hearing Yan's nagging that Lu Lingqi had reached the age of marriage, Lu Bu couldn't help but feel a little impatient and said: "Lingqi is still young, and as my daughter, the princes in the world can't find a suitable one for a while.
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Yan said: "Why not? I heard that the Yuan family, the Cao family, and even the Jiangdong clan all have unmarried children?"
"Furthermore, I heard that Yuan Gongli had an only son. A few days ago, I sent someone to ask for Lingqi's hand in marriage for his son. She is the third prince of the fourth generation and has the ambition of the world. Wouldn't it be inappropriate?"
Lu Bu said displeasedly: "What do women know? Yuan Shu has evil intentions and rebels against the Han Dynasty. It is only an expedient for me to join forces with him. How can I harm Lingqi?"
After hearing this, Mrs. Yan was unconvinced and said, "My husband is still thinking about the Han Dynasty?"
"Isn't my husband's current situation all caused by the Han Dynasty?"
"Now that the overthrow of the Han Dynasty is imminent, Yuan Jiujiu has ambitions for the world. If his prophecy comes true, Lingqi will be the crown prince and the queen in the future. Is there any better choice?"
Lu Bu also hesitated after hearing this, because Chen Gong also said similar things.
Chen Gong believed that Lu Bu had offended Yuan Shao and went to Bingzhou, which would inevitably anger Yuan Shao again. It was better to unite with Yuan Shu to control Yuan Shao.
Marrying a girl is currently the most effective method.
Lu Bu vaguely felt that something was wrong. In fact, he usually relied on the Yan family for most of his family affairs, but he only had Lu Lingqi as his daughter, so he naturally loved her very much. Now that he wanted to marry her far away, he was naturally hesitant.
Lu Bu thought about it again and again, and finally said: "The governor of Hanoi, Zhang Yang, has a close relationship with me. I will go and ask him in the past few days to hear his thoughts."
After hearing this, Yan knew that Lu Bu couldn't make up his mind at the moment and couldn't say anything, so he had no choice but to give up.
Lu Lingqi, who was next door, removed her ears from the wall, quietly left, went back to her room, and sat in front of the window in a daze, unhappy.
After a while, Mrs. Du came in with a wooden tray with a plate of meat and a bowl of porridge. She said, "Miss, the rice is ready."
Lu Lingqi said dullly: "I don't want to eat. I won't practice martial arts tonight. You can eat for me."
When Mrs. Du saw Lu Lingqi's expression was different, she didn't dare to ask, so she had to sit aside.
Seeing Du's appearance, Lu Lingqi said, "Mrs. Du, do you think that after a woman gets married, she can't do whatever she wants?"
After hearing this, Mrs. Du said, "What does the girl want to do?"
Lu Lingqi sighed: "I don't know either, but after looking at my wife's situation, I always feel that getting married is not a good idea. It is far less comfortable than what I am now."
Du Shi smiled bitterly and said: "A woman will always get married, and she will definitely find her right husband."
"I am just being unkind to others. As the noble daughter of Marquis Wen, I will never be like this. Who in the world would dare to treat a girl badly?"
When she thought about her own experience, although she comforted Lu Lingqi on the face, she felt sad in her heart.
It’s just that her ex-husband Qin Yilu didn’t protect her. Instead, he took advantage of the time when he was on a mission to marry someone else and abandoned him!
When Du Shi thought of this, her heart became filled with despair, knowing that she had done nothing wrong!
Seeing Du's expression, Lu Lingqi knew that he had been having a hard time recently, so she could only comfort her: "General Qin is short-sighted, and it may not be a bad thing for Madam to reconcile."
Lu Lingqi was also a little ashamed. She knew a little about the causes and consequences of Du's incident, and it was closely related to her father. Du staying by her side now was also a precautionary measure taken by her mother, Yan, to be wary of Lu Bu.
As a daughter, Lu Lingqi was naturally ashamed to talk about such things. She was a little aggrieved and wondered, are all men in the world so lustful?
Somehow, she suddenly thought of that abominable Hidden Tiger again, couldn't help but clamp her legs together, and her face turned red.
I don’t know where this bastard is now. If I meet him again, I will definitely make him look good!
She didn't know that Yuan Xi looked very ugly now.
After attacking the city in the past few days, the losses have been too great!
Just look at the Yuan army's desperate efforts to fill the city wall with people every day. Soldiers died in batches after batches. They often had to trade several lives for one life of the defenders.
Yuan Shao personally gave orders in front of the formation, and the vanguard generals rushed up with their men desperately. Only then did Yuan Xi realize that he was still not mentally prepared to be a lord.
At this time, when attacking a city, in the eyes of the coach, soldiers are just numbers, and it only makes sense to replace them with the opponent!
Yuan Xi discovered that he had been too naive before. He farmed with the soldiers, slept together with them, and treated them as family and friends. This kind of relationship was meaningless on the battlefield.
What the soldiers really need is for the commander to use cold calculations to win at the minimum cost, so that fewer people die and more people survive.
When going into battle, what the soldiers have to do is to kill the enemies in front of them as much as possible. Even if they die, they can get more pensions to support their families.
Yuan Xi somewhat understood why after capturing the city, many princes wanted to massacre the city with their troops.
In the process of life and death fighting, soldiers have accumulated a lot of resentment and madness. If they are not allowed to vent, it will be difficult to stabilize the morale of the army.
After all, in this era, for soldiers who were almost illiterate, they followed the most primitive human nature and did not pay attention to the complicated things of later generations.
ten years.
Emperor Mingzu of Tang Dynasty, Emperor Gaozu of Qin Dynasty, these are the average time it took for the founding emperor to conquer the world from the time he raised troops.
Zhu Yuanzhang, who spent the longest time, spent thirteen years, while Liu Bang, who spent the shortest time, only spent seven years.
This huge world is not as difficult to conquer as some people think.
As far as the laws of historical trends are concerned, the key trend of history for most of the feudal era was not in the hands of illiterate civilian soldiers, but in the hands of... the big landlord class.
As the times change, they can be princes, nobles, nobles, family members, or gentry. They control knowledge and land, and control the fate of the lower class people in their hands.
Ironically, in feudal society, it was often not the peasants who launched peasant uprisings, but the landlords.
Peasants occasionally appeared, but within a very short period of time, they joined the gentry class.
Including Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, who were the first to lead the peasant uprising and call out the princes and generals, but they were not peasants either.
They used the shell of the peasant uprising to inspire the people to revolt, but in the end their goal was to occupy the highest position of the landlord class.
In feudal society for thousands of years, it seems that only one person dared to betray his own class and point his sword at the landlord.
Thousands of years of reincarnation naturally include today's late Han Dynasty.
Yuan Xi looked at the soldiers driven by unknown forces, screaming and slashing at each other with the weapons in their hands at the top of the city. What drove them might be hatred of the enemy, might be their family members, might be hatred towards them.
The desire for life may even be a full meal tonight.
Driven by these countless different desires, regardless of right or wrong, regardless of morality, just to survive.
The shouts of hundreds of thousands of people in Yijing City and the clash of weapons together formed a small musical note on the vast land.
In the past and in the future, at different times and places, millions of people in the Thirteen Prefectures of the late Han Dynasty played different high and low notes, jumping and intertwining, forming a piece of music full of helplessness, but also tragic and magnificent.
Until the last moment, no one knows who will play the rest.
The day's siege ended under Yuan Xi's watch.
After previous discussions with Guo Jia, he divided his soldiers into several reserve teams of several hundred people, led by Tai Shici and Zhao Yunlun. When the soldiers were unable to cope with the situation, they were removed to rest and another team took over.
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This method did significantly reduce casualties. Only a hundred people were killed in the day. Compared with the tens of thousands of casualties on the entire battlefield, it seemed so insignificant, but it was still too heavy for him.
Yuan Xi was a little anxious. He had been fighting for nearly ten days. If this continued, sooner or later he would lose all his soldiers!
Every day he stood at the gate of the camp and watched the soldiers returning, feeling quite uncomfortable.
Because he had worked in the fields and cultivated the fields with the soldiers, he remembered most of the people's faces and could even call many people by their names.
But now many familiar people have never come back.
Old Xu who once squatted with him under the city wall to eat, the Dalang who carried the corpse, the two dogs who were bitten by snakes while farming, the strong ones who worked harder than donkeys when grinding flour...all kinds of people
After a certain day, they never appeared again.
The remaining people still alive still have to face the unknown fate of tomorrow.
Although Yuan's army has now broken through three city walls, it becomes increasingly difficult to fight as they go in. In many cases, soldiers on both sides have no way out, leading to a fight to the death.
Then it rained for three days. Most of the tunnels Yuan Jun had worked so hard to dig were flooded, and the siege was forced to stop.
Compared with Gongsun Zan's army hiding in the city, the soldiers of Yuan's army in the mud were obviously more disadvantaged. Their clothes were soaked and it was extremely difficult to make a fire. They had to eat some dry food.
In ancient times, wars were rarely fought in the rain, because rain would kill people.
Rain can not only destroy weapons and armor, but also make soldiers' clothes soaked. Combined with the cold weather, the human body can quickly lose body temperature. In addition, fighting consumes a lot of physical energy, and many people simply cannot bear it.
The soldiers of Yuan's army who had no tents were all trying to keep out the rain. Some used branches and leaves, some dug holes in the ground, and some hid under siege equipment, cursing the damn weather.
Low morale is inevitable. After all, there are many casualties these days, and many people are starting to become timid.
The soldiers under Yuan Xi's command were pretty good. Although many were killed in battle, the families of the dead soldiers were given a piece of private land that was enough to make a living, so the living ones were in good condition.
Yuan Xi felt helpless that he could not control the situation. The changes he was waiting for had not yet appeared. If it continued to rain like this, the Montenegrin Army would come.
Two days later, the rain finally stopped, but the weather suddenly turned cold again. Many people began to cough and shiver in the cold wind, and some people kept falling down.
The water stains on the ground and walls had not yet dried, and the accumulated water in the dug tunnels had not yet been drained. News finally came out from the Taihang Mountains.
General Zhang Yan, who was in trouble, personally led 100,000 troops from the Montenegrin Army, and sent troops in three directions to support Yi Jing!