After traveling long distance for more than half a year, Li Qing was happy to finally return home.
Not only him, but everyone smiled happily. Going deep into Mobei, practicing asceticism in the desert, and fighting bloody battles on the battlefield was not easy. It was really not easy to come back alive.
It gets dark very quickly in winter. After a while, the light completely dimmed, the army slowly stopped, and Lan Yu ordered his soldiers to go and call the city gate.
A quarter of an hour later, the soldiers returned and said with an ugly face: "Commander, the general guarding the city said that the hour has passed. Let us work hard all night and then enter the city tomorrow."
"What a fucking fart." Lan Yu was furious, "Brothers fought bloody battles and fought to the death. It's okay for them to welcome us without fighting, but they didn't even let us enter the city. What kind of logic is this?
Someone is coming..."
"Commander, calm down." Li Qing reminded lightly.
Li Jinglong stared at him eagerly, "What are you going to do?"
"I..." Lan Yu saw the expressions on these two guys' faces that said, "If you dare to do this, I'll sue you." She slowly calmed down and said gloomily: "I'll go over and tell him."
With that said, he drove his horse forward.
Li Qing was afraid that he would cause trouble again, so he quickly followed him. Li Jinglong hesitated for a moment and followed Li Qing.
Not long after, the three people came to the city.
Lan Yu shouted towards the city: "Open your dog eyes and see, who am I?"
"Hey, you are really the Marquis of Yongchang!" The general who defended the city quickly saluted from the air, "I have finally seen the Marquis of Yongchang."
"Stop talking nonsense and hurry up and open the city gate."
The general who defended the city laughed dryly and said, "Forgive me, Lord Marquis, it's already past the hour, so I really can't open the city gate!"
"You're looking for death, aren't you!" Lan Yu took the soldier's bow and started shooting at the city wall.
Li Qing, with quick eyes and quick hands, snatched the arrow and said, "If you have something to say, why would you attack one of your own people?"
With that, he said to the general on the city: "General, the winter night wind blows bitterly and the soldiers fought hard on the battlefield. Now that we are victorious, please don't chill the hearts of the soldiers."
Since you have recognized that we are the Ming army, it would be better to open the city gate!"
The general guarding the city said with a grimace, "My lord, it's not that the general is deliberately making things difficult. The rules are like this, and the general does not dare to violate it!"
Li Qing smiled and said: "Rules are dead, but people are alive."
"Ouch!" The general who defended the city was about to cry. "Sir, if the general opens the city gate today, he will be taken to the guillotine tomorrow. The border is a very important place and there is no room for change!"
Everyone said this, and Li Qing couldn't persuade him any more, so he said to Lan Yu: "Since the rules cannot be violated, let's let the soldiers suffer for one more night!"
"You're talking lightly, why are you making decisions for the soldiers?" Lan Yu said angrily, "You won't be allowed in when you get to the door of your house. What's the point? If you give up here, how will I lead the troops in the future?"
Li Jinglong said, "If you want to win over people's hearts, you can't let the soldiers guarding the city take their lives!"
"Then I don't care." Lan Yu raised her head and said to the general guarding the city, "Let me ask you again, should I open it or not?"
"Master Hou, you really can't drive!"
"Okay, okay!" Lan Yu sneered, "Don't blame me for bullying you. I'll give you two-quarters of an hour to prepare. If you don't open it, I'll blast it for you!"
"Lanyu, I have to take care of this." Li Qing said coldly.
"Lanyu, if you dare to attack the city gate of Ming Dynasty, I will definitely impeach you to the emperor after you return." Li Jinglong warned.
"Impeachment, impeachment..." Lan Yu said angrily, "Besides snitching, what else will you do?
What role did you play in this battle?
As a person who relied on his father's support to get to the position of deputy commander, what kind of dignity do you have? Without your father's aura, who do you think you are?"
Although this was true, it was also a bit vicious. Li Jinglong couldn't stand it and was so angry that he trembled all over.
He was no match for Lan Yu in a fight, but he was very good at talking nonsense. He immediately said sarcastically:
"You Lan Yu have the nerve to tell others to use the back door. If it weren't for your brother-in-law, would you be where you are today?
If it weren't for your status as the prince's wife and uncle, would you be able to be the head coach?
Damn it, do you have the face to say that I went through the back door?"
"I'll fuck you, uncle!" Lan Yu was really angry now.
He thought that thanks to his achievements in this battle, no one would say that he had gone through the back door again, but now he was severely humiliated by Li Jinglong in front of everyone, which he could not bear.
A man jumped up and threw Li Jinglong off his horse, then rode on top of him and beat him violently.
The two of them each used their own strengths, one with his hands and the other with his mouth.
"Lanyu, if you have the guts, beat me to death, otherwise you won't get it when I go back."
In terms of fighting, Li Jinglong is no match for Lan Yu, so he can only fight back in this way.
A commander and a deputy commander were fighting each other in front of the officers and soldiers guarding the city. It was outrageous and outrageous. Li Qing was embarrassed to follow these two guys, so it took a lot of effort to separate them.
"If you want to fight, go back to the camp and fight!" Li Qing said calmly, "Of course, if you two don't feel embarrassed, pretend I didn't say anything."
"Return to what camp?" Lan Yu shouted, "We must attack the city today."
After saying that, he got on his horse, reined in the horse and rushed back.
Li Qing was well prepared, so he pulled him down and said to Li Jinglong, who was bruised and swollen, "Go and send the order to have the army stationed where they are, and leave the blue jade to me."
As he said that, he looked at Lan Yu's soldiers and said solemnly, "If you dare to talk nonsense, I will ask the king to kill him!"
How dare the soldiers dare to be stubborn? Besides, they are not fools. If they really want to go back to the camp and pass on the commander's military orders, they don't know whether the commander will die or not. They will definitely force him to death.
The group of people did not dare to look at their commander. They hurriedly raised their fists, turned their horses and left with Li Jinglong.
"Li Qing, you fucking have to fight me, don't you?" Lan Yufei was about to explode with anger, but doing so would only bring humiliation to herself, so she tried to reason, "The soldiers fought bloody battles, so let them be killed."
Is the wind blowing cold?"
The winter nights in the north are indeed cold. If possible, Li Qing wouldn't want his soldiers to suffer like this, but he can't let the generals guarding the city take their lives, right?
It is reasonable for people not to open the door. No matter what, he will never allow an attack on his own city gate to happen.
"I've endured so much hardship, and I don't want to miss this last night."
"It doesn't hurt to stand and talk, so why don't you eat?" Lan Yu scolded, "Not all brothers have tents to sleep in."
Li Qing said calmly: "Okay, I won't go back to the camp tonight, and I will go with my brothers who have no tents to rest in the wind. Is this possible?"
"no!"
Alas! I really don’t want to take action... Li Qing sighed, "Commander, please take a step to speak."
"No!" Lan Yu shook her head decisively.
Li Jinglong gained experience from being beaten, and so did Lan Yu.
"If you don't want to borrow it, you have to borrow it." Li Qing knew that if he didn't beat Lan Yu into submission, he wouldn't be able to stop tonight, so he couldn't help but put him on his horse and hide him in the night.
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The next day.
Lan Yu, who looked depressed, and Li Qing, who looked indifferent, returned to the camp.
Li Qing finally saved him some face and didn't slap him in the face. Lan Yu was also beaten to the point of losing his temper. It was already dawn and it was impossible to regain his dignity.
When the army arrived at the entrance of Xifeng, the general who defended the city immediately ordered the city to be opened and went out of the city to greet them in person.
Lan Yu came up with a big mouth, which made the guarding general's mouth bleed, and cursed: "You are a bitch, you are really capable."
The generals who defended the city were too angry to speak out, so they had to apologize repeatedly.
Li Qing secretly sighed: Lan Yu has the talent of a general, but does not have the virtue of a general.
He has contact with two veterans, Xu Da and Li Wenzhong. Compared with them, Lan Yu is not even a bit worse.
His achievements are so brilliant and dazzling, but he doesn't seem to be a little bit dazzling. Instead, he is more cautious, mature and steady, unlike Sapphire.
To be honest, Lan Yu is not young anymore, she is only five or six years younger than Li Wenzhong, but their temperament is very different.
Li Qing sighed and said he was not going to care about this guy anymore. Of course, he couldn't.
Fortunately, after entering the territory of the Ming Dynasty, everything was normal and Lan Yu no longer acted like a monster.
After traveling for more than twenty days, the army finally returned to the capital.
The army did not enter the imperial city at once, but was led away one by one by generals at all levels in the army who arrived.
At the same time, Lan Yu's military seal letter was also taken away by the imperial envoy who arrived.
"Marquis Yongchang, Duke Cao Guo, and Marquis Yongqing." Xiao Guizi cupped his hands, "The emperor has prepared a banquet to celebrate the three of you. Please come with us to the palace quickly. Don't keep the emperor waiting."
Xiao Guizi is now an imperial envoy, and she has changed her title from a slave to our family.
The imperial envoy represented the emperor, and even the arrogant Lan Yu did not dare to be too negligent. He clasped his fists and forced a smile.
Li Jinglong quietly pulled Li Qing and said softly: "Brother Li, are you going to impeach him?"
"What do you think?" Li Qing asked.
Li Jinglong smiled, "Damn it, let's see if I can kill him!"