National Beauty

At the beginning of March, the privy envoy Cao Yu led an army of 90,000 on the East Road, hurriedly rushed to Zhuozhou, Zhuozhou Liao will fight to the death, but outnumbered, and fled after a day of resistance. This was the first effort of the East Route Army. Cao Yu immediately sent someone to pass the victory to the capital. The army rested for one night. The next day, Cao Yu continued to lead his troops and went straight to Youzhou.

At midday, Emperor Xuande was about to take a break. He heard that there was an urgent need for 800 miles, and Emperor Xuande's sleepiness disappeared. After receiving the battle report, his gaze swept over the handwriting line by line. Emperor Xuande's brows became deeper and deeper, and he slapped the battle report on the table, annoyed: "Guohua is greedy for meritorious service and misbehaving. How can the army go first? The reason why the grain and grass are backward? If the Liao army burns the grain and grass, our Eastern Route Army..."

Guohua is Cao Yu's word. Halfway through, Emperor Xuande walked out abruptly and sent someone to send an oral message to Cao Yu. He ordered Cao Yu to garrison Zhuozhou, first-class grain and grass, and secondly to the army in the middle and west roads, and he was not allowed to attack Youzhou without authorization. .

However, in Youzhou, which is closer to Zhuozhou, the general of the Liao State, Ye Luxiong, had received news of Zhuozhou’s defeat as early as yesterday. He also learned from the defeated Zhuozhou general who had come to join that Cao Yu was attacking in a hurry, and Da Zhou Liangcao was still slowly behind. Walk. Ye Luxiong walked to the sand table, about a quarter of an hour later, the man narrowed his eyes and called the eldest son Ye Luzhao, and pointed at Qigou Pass on the west side of Zhuozhou: "You take eight thousand elite soldiers and walk around the mountain path to Cao Yuzhi. At the back of the army, they went to burn the Dazhou grain and grass. They only burned the grain and grass. There was no need to fight with them."

Yeluzhao clasped his fists to lead the order.

Here, Cao Yu led the troops to Youzhou, but didn't know that Ye Luzhao had already taken a trail with eight thousand elite iron knights and went around behind them.

The vast majority of the East Route Army’s grain and grass have just arrived at Yingzhou, and before Cao Yu set off, he arranged for Guo Xiao to lead troops to **** the grain and grass. Guo Xiao did his best to let the grain and grass fleet move as fast as possible. The mules and horses were replaced three times a day in turn to pull the grain carts, but the mules and horses could not run under the load, and it would also take time to change halfway.

Located between Zhuozhou and Beijing, Guo Xiao first received an orally from Emperor Xuande and ordered him to catch up with the army as soon as possible. Guo Xiao took the order, but unfortunately he could only keep it as it was and couldn't think of a way to speed up.

"You don't need to be anxious, the coach has brought food and grass for the 20th, and we will definitely be there on the 20th." Supervising the operation made Ma Feng said in a relaxed tone.

Guo Xiao nodded, the team went for another hour, the red sun slanted, and Guo Xiao raised his hand to signal the team to camp.

When night fell, Guo Xiao walked around the camp again before entering his tent. In the long night, Guo Xiao and Yi leaned on the bed, leaving only a dim yellow oil lamp by his side. The evening breeze blew in from the gaps in the felt cloth, and the oil lamp flames swayed back and forth irregularly. Guo Xiao stared at the flames and slowly took out something from his arms.

It was a wax paper bag, moisture-proof and waterproof. Guo Xiao looked down and unfolded layer by layer until the rice paper inside was finally revealed. I don’t know how many times the rice paper has been folded. The **** the painting has also changed because of the creases. Guo Xiao holds the rice paper in one hand, and gently presses the crease with the other. His eyes follow his movements and sweep across the painting inch by inch. someone's girl.

Looking at the portrait, the man's eyes are like a deep pool, and a touch of tenderness gradually emerges.

This is 14-year-old An An. Liang Shao put the portrait in the recipe and sent her to her. He ran into him. In order to prevent him from knowing, she rarely acted like a baby with him, saying that he was afraid that he would be greedy for her recipe. The portrait was exposed, and her eyes rounded angrily, asking him to teach Liang Shao. Although they were all pretending, Guo Xiao liked it.

If time can always stop on that day, he is willing, she will always be his stepsister and stay by his side forever.

The candle flame jumped, and the man's cold face was nostalgic and gentle that he hadn't even noticed.

As the night got deeper and deeper, Guo Xiao wrapped up the portrait again, put it close to his chest, blew on the oil lamp, and lay down in his clothes. Although she lay down, Guo Xiao still looks like her in her mind. She is ten years old, she is thirteen years old, she who is married, and she who is holding Zhaozhao... scene after scene, tossing over and over again, remembering so many times. Epiglottis.

Wan Lai was silent, the man immersed in the memory suddenly opened his eyes.

The sound of horses' hoofs, and the sound of feathers breaking through the wind, became more and more dense.

Guo Xiao jumped up, grabbed the saber that he put on him, and rushed out of the big tent in a blink of an eye.

It was just a short effort. The outside was full of flames. The Liao army’s unbridled laughter filled the ears, coming from all directions. Guo Xiao jumped on his horse and looked far away. The night flames and the crowd of people couldn’t tell where the Liao soldiers came. How much, I only saw more and more grain trucks getting up.

"The son of the son, the Liao army is here!" Supervisor Ma Feng ran towards him embarrassedly while wearing a belt, disheveled.

"I'm going to meet the enemy, you take people out to transport food, how much can you save!" Guo Xiao sternly ordered, and after that he urged the horse to rush out.

Ma Feng panicked to prepare.

However, the rocket kept shooting from the outside, wherever there was no fire, it would shoot wherever there was no fire. When it hit the grain and grass, the grain and grass instantly turned into a sea of ​​fire. They hit the Dazhou soldiers and screamed on the ground one by one to put out the fire, but the fire rolled more and more. Burning more prosperous. At first, Ma Feng really wanted to be ordered to save food. Seeing that the soldiers around him died tragically with arrows one after another, Ma Feng was extremely frightened, no fighting spirit, and rushed outside alone after snatching an ownerless war horse.

"Shizi, let's get out!" The steed galloped, Ma Feng looked around, and suddenly found a familiar figure.

Guo Xiao turned his head and saw that he was taking a group of soldiers to flee. He shouted angrily: "The enemy is now, all deserters will be cut!" After roaring, he turned his horse's head again and rushed into the Liao army camp to fight.

Ma Feng hesitated, afraid that the Liao soldiers would be executed by Guo Xiao afterwards. He was in a dilemma. Suddenly, amidst the flames, a Liao cavalry raised a high sword and slashed towards Guo Xiao's back!

"Be careful, my son!" Ma Feng was horrified. Unfortunately, as soon as he spoke, he saw Guo Xiao slumped, and he was swallowed by the raging sea of ​​fire in a blink of an eye!

Ma Feng was shocked and horrified at first. He couldn't believe that the son of the dignified government official had died like this, but the Liao soldiers who rushed towards him like a ghost pulled his mind back in time. Even the brave generals like Guo Xiao were dead. If you don't run away, do you want to confess your life here?

"Drive!" With dozens of men and horses, Ma Feng desperately broke through, rushing into the boundless darkness all the way.

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After the Liao soldiers burned the grain and grass, they retreated. The grain and grass left by the army of 100,000 for several months were burned on the spot for a whole night. Ma Feng escaped for a certain distance and found that the Liao soldiers stopped running without catching up. They stopped where they were. Two thousand deserters slowly gathered around them. After the fire burned all night, they watched from a distance until the sky. It slowly turned on, and the scout determined that the Liao soldiers had retreated, and Ma Feng led the two thousand men back to the camp to check the casualties.

The fire was extinguished and the black smoke billowed. Before the deserters arrived, one could vaguely see the corpses all over the ground. What was even more disgusting was a burst of burnt... the smell of meat, that did not escape from the Liao Dynasty. The corpses of the soldiers killed by the soldiers were burned overnight. Some were all charred, ghosts and gods were indistinguishable, and some lay on the ground, their backs were burnt black, and their faces were half burned...

Ma Feng couldn't bear to look at it at a glance. With his memory, he was the first to rush to the place where Guo Xiao fell.

Sure enough, there was a completely charred corpse lying on his back, holding a long sword in his dark hands.

"Shizi..." Ma Feng softened his knees and knelt down.