The reason why Liu Zhen saved Jiang Shuo first was because Jiang Shuo was bleeding. Shen Tinggu used a different move and the sword directly cut through Jiang Shuo's military robe. It penetrated through the joint of the armor and was covered from waist to thigh.
A gash was made, half an inch deep and more than a foot long, and the gurgling blood looked shocking.
"Come here, get some ginger soup!" Liu Zhen cried while crying. Jiang Shuo's desperate sword move just now was really moving.
"Thank you, Miss Liu! You are so beautiful!" Jiang Shuo, who was leaning on Liu Zhen's tender chest, couldn't help but praise her sincerely when she saw the pretty face in the firelight.
"Hurry up and carry him down, I can't stand listening anymore!" He Qizhou muttered. He thought to himself, what does Liu Zhen look like? His injuries will only be more serious than that guy's, and the two consecutive swords not only drained his strength
All the energy was used to bear most of Shen Tinggu's sword. After three days of non-stop fierce fighting, the accumulated internal injuries began to feel unmanageable.
"No, no, I'll stay at the top of the city!" Jiang Shuo said hurriedly: "Can someone please call Master Liu and General Bao Shen?"
"No need to call, Prince, how are you?" Liu Xizhou and Bao An were walking quickly.
"He's not dead yet. Mr. Bao, you immediately send your horse to inform Zhang Wei and the Xiao family's army."
"Inform them of the battle situation and ask them to step up their march?" Bao An asked.
"If the army is within fifty miles from here, just say so. If it is more than fifty miles, let them retreat quickly and find a strong city to defend! Without the city wall, our infantry will be even less able to resist the enemy's cavalry." Jiang Shuo said sadly.
"Are you saying that you want to give up here?" Seeing that the enemy troops were repelled, Bao An was already relieved, but he didn't expect Jiang Shuo to be so pessimistic at this time.
"Don't give up! Those who are willing to sacrifice their lives for the country, please fight with me to the last man! I just want to state in advance that the oil is gone, the soldiers who can fight are almost gone, and the few of our capable generals can't fight anymore, so
Mr. Liu, please take away all the people now, retreat now, evacuate all the people after returning to Yuzhou Mansion, and clear the country! After an hour, the soldiers can leave if they want! Brother He, you can leave too,
Living is more useful." Jiang Shuo said while coughing up blood.
"I won't leave, but I will ask someone to handle this matter." Liu Xizhou said.
"Dad, I'm not leaving either," Liu Zhen said with a blushing face. Jiang Shuo's compliment made her blush to this day.
He Qizhou suddenly remembered his promise to Xiaoxue that he would live, but as soon as his forehead was filled with blood, he blurted out: "We will die together!"
"Damn you! What did you say back then!" A hoarse voice came from the ramp to the city. Everyone turned to look and saw a man running towards the city, a thin face revealed.
Come out—Xu Mu! An extremely thin version of Xu Mu! Xu Mu can already wear facial skin! Then the sound of groups of horse hooves came from the city...
"No need to die!" He Qizhou shouted, grinning and wanted to smile, but his vision went dark and he lost consciousness for an instant... Damn it, what was left in other people's eyes was that hateful and wretched smiling face again! This is what He Qizhou looked like when he fell down.
Final thoughts.
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"This time it's your turn to feed!"
"Sister Xiaoyun, help me, you should go and feed me! I really can't stand looking at that face!"
"I don't want to go either. It would be better for me, Miss, to take care of Mr. Jiang myself, but she asked us to serve this pervert-looking guy. I've had a bad smile on my face for three days!"
"He is a great hero guarding the city! If Mr. Xiao is lying there, will you go? I don't care, it's your turn this time!"
"How can this compare? I couldn't feed myself well. I vomited all over me twice..."
"It's all because of that doctor's fault. He said he had to give medicine every two hours, so we didn't even get a good night's sleep. Okay, okay, we have to wait a little longer, maybe Young Master Xu will come again...
"
"Well, wait a minute, I thought Mr. Xu and Mr. Xiao were similar, but I didn't expect they look so different..."
"Shh..."
"You two girls, have you fed the soup?" Xu Mu came from a distance, but the next few words fell into his ears clearly.
"Damn it, slave. The medicine has been heated up. I wanted to wait until it cooled down before feeding it, but I was just thinking about talking and didn't pay attention to the time..."
"It's okay, you go and rest for a while, I'll feed you." Xu Mu said gently to the two maids.
"Well, thank you for your hard work, sir. We'll be here as soon as dawn." The two of them left in a hurry like released prisoners.
He Qizhou could clearly hear the conversation outside the bed. It had been three days. He had been unconscious for three days? That damn face! I don’t know if Xiaoxue’s anger has subsided...
"Oh, I saw Xiao Jihuai acting like crazy. I couldn't even make a soup for you, and the quilt got wet again!" Xu Mu sighed, held the bowl, opened the curtain, and sat by the bed.
He began to mutter to himself again: "My pulse has been stable for most of the day, so it's time for me to wake up?"
He Qizhou let Xiaoxue lift him up and leaned on her thin shoulders. He took a spoonful of the soup into his mouth. The warmth slowly flowed from his throat into his internal organs. A strong fragrance of the medicine came to his nostrils, which made him feel indescribably comfortable.
, wild ginseng, astragalus, angelica, red dates... hmm? Why does it still taste like millet?
"The drink was good this time!" Xu Mu's mood improved a little after several mouthfuls of feeding. He patted Qi Zhou's back gently, then stroked his chest from top to bottom to help him swallow the soup smoothly.
Suddenly, he hugged He Qizhou tightly and said to himself: "Jiang Shuo can even walk on the ground. Damn it, you should wake up soon!"
He Qizhou was enjoying the caresses and hugs when he suddenly felt a warm flow passing through his face. He couldn't help but wipe it with his hands. It was wet! Xiaoxue was crying?!
"You're awake!" When He Qizhou made such a move, Xu Mu immediately let go of his arms and said eagerly, without even bothering to wipe his tears. Then he thought that the other party must have woken up long ago after drinking the medicinal porridge so smoothly, and he was suddenly happy and annoyed.
Feeling ashamed and hateful, he pushed the sitting He Qizhou to lie down flat.
After He Qizhou woke up, he felt like his body was hollowed out. He couldn't muster any strength. Being so piled up, even Xu Muxue withdrew her strength and fell on the bed. She felt a tightness in her chest and couldn't help but snort.
"Are you okay? Who told you to lie to me when you woke up?" Xu Mu said angrily, wiping away his tears with one hand and hurriedly touching He Qizhou's left pulse gate with the other.
"It's unfair, I woke up all of a sudden because I felt tears dripping down my face! If you had hugged me earlier, maybe I would have woken up three days ago!" He Qizhou said.
"Huh? Do you know that you have been in a coma for three days?"
"Weren't the two little girls at the door talking just now?"
"Then you still said you were woken up by me? You brat..." Xu Mu raised his hand to hit him.
"I was wrong, I was wrong..." He Qizhou hurriedly begged for mercy: "Are Jiang Shuo and the others okay? Tell me what happened next?"
"Why are you so anxious! I'll ask the doctor to come and take a look again! Forget it, it's the ugly time now. Let's call him again at dawn. How do you feel now?" Xu Mu said.
"I have no strength, all eight meridians are damaged, but I can still have some luck. I wish I could take more time to nurse myself back to health." He Qizhou said, then he touched Xu Muxue's pulse gate and said, "You have to take good care of yourself, the situation looks like
It’s back to half a month ago.”
"I'm fine, I'm just a little tired. I'll be fine if I take a few naps."
Qi Zhou said: "No need to call a doctor, I'm fine. By the way, why don't you take off my bad skin."
"You said it was fine. I heard that I vomited a liter of blood in three days! That doctor is a military doctor under Zhang Wei, and he has used the best medicine on you. I am a whole day behind you.
I arrived in Yuzhou City and spent a whole day lying down to adjust my breathing, so I haven’t helped you take off the facial skin until now. I’ll take it off for you now,” Xu Mu said.
"Don't worry, you won't die! It looks like the Zhou army has retreated, right? Did a lot of us die? How are Xia Tong and He Jing? Where are they? Xiao Jihuai is here too?"
"Eat the medicinal porridge first, then lie down and unveil your face, and then I'll tell you what happened next." Xu Mu fed He Qizhou the medicinal porridge, put a pillow on his head, and lighted the wick.
, pulled a chair over, sat down comfortably, and talked...
It turned out that Xu Muxue rode a snow dragon horse and caught up with the Yuzhou army on foot along the official road in just two days. After explaining the whole story to Zhang Wei, Zhang Wei persuaded the Privy Council Supervisory Army that he was willing to bear the consequences alone and collected the troops decisively.
The horses in the army asked all the masters, including his personal guards, to rush to Yuguan with Xu Mu. Xu Mu took a thousand elites and galloped for a day and a half, and finally arrived at night. That is, Jiang Shuo was desperate and Qi Zhou
When in coma.
Zhang Li unloaded all the horses carrying baggage and food, and raised another thousand horses. The second batch of more than a thousand people also arrived at Yinshi before dawn. Because these two thousand people were the elite selected from the 30,000-strong army.
, the combat power far exceeded Bao An's exhausted defenders, and the city defense suddenly became extremely stable.
As for the Zhou army, after a day and night of strong attacks, Huotang no longer had much fighting power. Although ten more ladders were added in the early morning, and Shen Tinggu also tried to attack the city again, he could not help but besieged by dozens of Qi army masters. He had just reached the top of the city.
He retreated again, and his injuries worsened. At noon, the Zhou army attacked several times, but all returned without success.
Someone recognized that the city defenders had turned into the Yuzhou Army. Helian Changying gritted his teeth and issued an order to withdraw. The army disappeared without a trace an hour later. Under the Yuguan City, only thousands of corpses from both sides were left behind.
and the twenty-odd ladders that were fastened to the battlements. After the battle, the Qi army and civilians lost 2,500 soldiers and civilians, and injured more than 2,000 people. The Zhou army's casualties are unknown, and they are estimated to be slightly more than the Qi army.
From the evening of that day to the noon of the next day, 30,000 infantry troops led by Zhang Wei arrived at Yuguan one after another. Those seriously injured in the battle to defend the city were moved to Yuzhou City a hundred miles away for treatment, including Qi Zhou and Jiang Shuo.
, Xia Tong, He Jing and others. He Jing's internal injuries were the most serious among the four, Xia Tong's leg bone was broken and he couldn't get out of bed for a month, and He Qizhou was currently lying in the wing of Liu Xizhou's inner office.