The earth dragon is burning in the house, which is as warm as spring.
His knees hurt from kneeling and it was really uncomfortable, so Li Chengzhi sat down cross-legged.
When will we get a chair out...
While he was thinking wildly, Li Song handed over a bowl of ginger soup: "Lang Jun..."
After taking a sip and putting down the soup bowl, Li Chengzhi sighed and glanced at Li Song in front of him.
You ask me why I want to run away?
Your husband was obviously a fool, but he suddenly became smart after being ill. Didn't you suspect that?
Just because you don't doubt it doesn't mean that your son doesn't doubt it.
He is a ruthless man. He kills his favorite concubine and his youngest son at will, not to mention this useless and stupid son?
What if he thought that my stupid son was taken away by some mountain spirit and ghost and chopped him off with a knife? Can I wear it again?
I also saw a ghost. I accompanied the section chief to Kongtong Mountain to burn a stick of incense. How did I travel through time?
This is nonsense...
Li Chengzhi brought out the reason he had said several times: "I have told you that during the days when I was ill, I had a dream. The gods asked me to go to Kongtong Mountain to pay my vows on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month..."
It’s not entirely a lie. At the beginning, Li Chengzhi really just wanted to study how he traveled through time, but after he found out what kind of person his cheap father Li Shixian was, he couldn’t sit still...
Li Song rolled his eyes: Is this the rhetoric again?
Are you fooling the devil?
"Didn't the servant tell Mr. Lang that Erlang has written a letter, saying that he and his wife will come back from the city after the first lunar month and the weather gets warmer, and then they will take Mr. Lang there..."
By the time your Erlang comes back, everything will be too late...
Li Chengzhi sneered: "Do you put the incense on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month in February?"
"It can be said that everything happened for a reason. I don't think the gods will blame it..."
Li Song spread his hands, meaning there was nothing he could do...
He knew it would be like this, so Li Chengzhi was not angry and was thinking about what else to do.
Just as I was thinking about it, there was a sudden rush of footsteps outside. I leaned a little and heard Li Zhang's panicked voice again: "Dad, there are wolf smoke in the east..."
Wolf smoke?
How many years have you not heard these two words?
Li Song suddenly stood up: "Master, wait a moment, I'll go take a look..."
"I am coming too……"
…
Standing in front of Wubao Gate, Li Chengzhi couldn't help but curse again when he saw the copper lock as big as a child's head and the chain as thick as his arm.
If the door hadn't been locked too tightly, he would have sneaked in to check the terrain, otherwise he wouldn't have failed.
When the door opened, Li Chengzhi knew why it was locked so tightly.
The bows, arrows, swords and guns are all available, and they are not very rusty. You can tell from one glance that someone has been taking care of them regularly.
But he wasn't too surprised.
In the Northern Wei Dynasty, the people could not help but smelt iron, and the control of weapons was relatively loose. Some private individuals made weapons and sold them to the government.
There are also some people who forge armor privately, and there are even some places where powerful people and powerful people keep soldiers and slaves privately, such as Lijiabao. The court basically turns a blind eye, as long as you don't rebel.
I feel that this court is very strange, but Li Chengzhi has only been here for a short time. He only thinks about how to save his life and has not bothered to do any research.
He estimated that it was because the Xianbei people had not been Sinicized for a long time and still had the nomadic mentality that "every family has a horse and everyone wears armor" was not a big problem, and they did not pay enough attention to it.
It is also related to the lack of centralization of power by the central government, frequent external military affairs, and flawless consideration of internal affairs, as well as the fact that the Yuan and Wei royal families treated the Han gentry and landlords more leniently, did not touch the interests of these people, and were not worried that these people would rebel for the time being...
If it were Mongols and Manchus, would you try?
When he reached the second floor and saw a dozen military crossbows and armor, he was a little moved.
In other dynasties, this would have been enough to lead to rebellion and the execution of the nine clans.
However, the quality is a bit worrying. Let alone steel, it does not even reach the level of fully wrought iron...
When he reached the third floor, he was shocked: the standard city wall model, turrets, arrows, horse faces, etc. were all available, and there were all kinds of wood and rocks...
No wonder the heroic and cruel Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty wanted to ban Wubao, but in the end he still couldn't ban it?
This Wubao is equivalent to a small military fortress. If it develops a little in troubled times, it will rebel against the king...
Perhaps out of scruples, Li Song did not let his servants wear armor or get military crossbows for the time being. He just asked Li Zhang to lead people to get swords, guns, bows and arrows to guard the village wall.
Just a moment later, the sound of galloping horse hooves was heard in his ears.
Li Chengzhi squinted and saw more than a dozen black spots running towards this side along the river bank. When illuminated by the sun, two or three riders were reflected in the cold light from top to bottom...
He felt relieved: "The ones coming are cavalry, they should be officers and soldiers!"
Li Song glanced at Li Chengzhi in surprise: No one taught him, how could Lang Jun guess that he was a cavalryman?
Li Xian stretched his neck and wondered: "How did you recognize me when you are so far away?"
Li Chengzhi stretched out his hand and pointed: "Look at the two cavalry in the middle, both the man and the horse are reflecting light. They must be both men and horses!"
This is a rare thing. Not to mention private armed forces, even with the whole country's efforts, not many can be produced.
Counting down the dynasties, Li Shimin's Xuanjia Army only had about a thousand riders. By the Song Dynasty, the Jin Dynasty's Iron Buddha and Xixia's Iron Kites only had three to five thousand.
Li Xian said unconvinced: "Maybe he was sweating and his clothes were frozen..."
Li Song angrily slapped his son on the head: "Idiot, there are more than ten riders, why are he the only two frozen? Besides, clothes can be frozen, and horse hair can also be frozen?"
Li Xian covered his head in grievance and allowed his father to beat him and scold him.
In just three to five sentences, those people came into sight. Li Xian glared and saw that the three cavalrymen among them were all men and horses.
He looked at Li Chengzhi in disbelief: his father warned him and his eldest brother two days ago that Lang Jun was no longer stupid and asked them to be more respectful in the future. He didn't believe it at first, but after half a day today, he vaguely felt that what his father said
It seems to be true...
The person who came seemed to be an acquaintance. When he saw someone on the Wubao guarding, a knight ran to the wall without any precautions, raised his head and shouted: "Master Li, my captain is injured, open the door quickly!"
Li Song was horrified: No wonder it was the commanding officer of Anding Prefecture who came with all the troops and horses?
"Commander Hu, the gate of the fort has been sealed long ago. You can come in through the gate..."
After saying that, he pulled Li Chengzhi down: "Lang Jun, we are in trouble..."
Li Chengzhi gritted his teeth: "Is there a war..."
Li Song said solemnly: "Eighty percent is still a big battle..."
…
When he got off Wubao and saw the appearance of the visitor, Li Chengzhi's heart skipped a beat.
Li Song's guess was correct: everyone was covered in blood, two were lame, and two more were carried in on their backs.
One of the soldiers had a robe wrapped around his belly. It had been soaked with blood, and the outer layer was frozen into ice.