"Subordinate...don't be afraid."

I said: "You are not afraid, is this princess not as good as you, a little thousand households?"

Such questioning is naturally a stealing of concepts.

In this world, apart from being impatient to live, how can anyone not be afraid of death?

But Wang Ping could not answer my words. Even he couldn't come up with a convincing enough reason for me to leave.

Liang Guo's sudden attack on the territory is definitely not a temporary intention, and they must have already known our army very well when they attacked the city during the civil strife in Daqing.

Zezhou City will eventually be conquered, just like Lu Lingjun and his team of less than 100,000 people will inevitably be overrun by Nie Ran's army, but he has to fight until the last moment, and Zezhou must also To stay until the last moment.

Allowing five thousand skirmishers to defend the city without any rules in fear, and defending the city to the death under the guidance of someone, the result is decidedly different. I know that even if I don't need to do anything, as long as I am willing to stay and live with them, the city can stay at least half a day longer.

Maybe half a day, neither can wait for reinforcements from all over the country to arrive, nor can Song Langsheng rush back to turn the tide, but at least, it can buy them more time to defend and reinforce to make more preparations.

When I stepped on the city wall again and looked at Liang Jun who was slowly approaching from the battlement, I remembered the last conversation between my father and me, and he suddenly said: "In my heart, you have always...are my daughter...forever... All."

At that time, I didn't say anything, but now I want to answer him.

I may not be able to be a princess all my life, but I am the daughter of my father, the daughter of my father, and I will never be a deserter.

We defended the city for a full day and night.

The moat had already been filled with the corpses of the two armies, and the hot oil, rolling stones, and arrow formations never stopped.

Looking around, the Liang Jun corpses under the city are all over the place, but they are attacking one after another as if they are inexhaustible, and their lives are like ants, and the killing will never stop.

Liang Jun's chariot was pushed toward the city gate again, and every time it shook, it seemed that the whole world trembled.

The city gate is about to be breached, but we have few troops left. It is a miracle that we can fight to this point.

Liang Jun's commander looked at me from a distance under the city wall. In the past, when the two countries were in a good union, he had a relationship with him. He knew what my status was in the Qing Kingdom, and he would definitely try to capture me alive. If the princess really falls above them, she will only become a hostage at the mercy of others. If she cannot be used by them, the torture and shame she will suffer is self-evident.

How could I give them a chance to capture a living Princess Xiangyi?

At this time, Ah Shang and several other shadow guards who were still alive stood by my side, and resolutely said: "Princess, we swear to protect you until the last moment."

I picked up a sword and said with Ah Shang, "Ben Gong doesn't know how to use swords, but it's okay to pretend."

It is enough to kill himself with one sword.

Ah Shang was stunned: "Princess, you want to..."

"When Liang Jun breaks the city, you will protect me from the siege until Liang Jun's head coach." I put the sword in the scabbard, held the handle in my hand, and smiled softly: "Ah, thank you for being able to accompany you. I'm done this last ride."

I can't remember the tragic scene of swords, swords, swords, and blood and rain, but when we stepped closer to the commander's flag and got closer and closer to the commander-in-chief of Liang Jun, at the end of the sky in the distance, Finally the sun rises.

The jade pendant on the chest came out of the neckline under the shaking of the horse. I looked down and took a look. It was carved by Song Langsheng for me before the expedition. After thinking about it carefully, he gave me this jade fan. The first gift, I'm afraid, is also the last.

He promised me that he would never let himself die on the battlefield, and that he would be reunited with me alive.

he made it.

But I promised him that I would obediently wait for him to come back and join hands with him to the end of the world, but I couldn't fulfill it.

I thought that I would die so gloriously, and it would be passed down as a good story in later generations. Since then, my reputation has spread far and wide, and I have been mentioned in the long river of history.

But when I approached Commander Liang Jun's front, I was calmly wiping my neck away under the arrow formation surrounded by them, when suddenly I heard a whistle, and a feathered arrow pierced into the chest of Commander Liang Jun impartially. .

This sudden change shocked me to the point that I forgot the correct posture to commit suicide. Could it be that Liang Jun's soldiers slipped wrongly? Or is there such a great archer hidden in the city of Zezhou that I didn't even know about it?

Everyone around was stunned. Coach Liang Jun swayed. He clutched his chest and ordered someone to take me down. Even though I knew that at this time, I should hurry up and take good care of myself, but I couldn't help but feel curious. Looking back in the direction of the arrow, I saw a man with a long spear in silver armor, galloping towards this side.

The ground trembled faintly under his feet, and behind the man came the sound of rolling horses' hooves.

I looked at the flying flag and was still in a daze.

The blade of the gun pierced into the armor, which was extremely harsh, but when I heard a bang, the sword that was swung at me by the commander of Liang Jun fell to the ground. The man turned his wrist, pulled out the barrel of the gun, and blood splashed. Just as the head coach Liang Jun fell off his horse, he wrapped his arms around him, took me on the back of his horse, and wrapped me in his arms. .

Then he said to me, "Sit tight."

I thought I read it wrong, thought I heard it wrong, wasn't his army on the way to attack the capital, how could they suddenly appear in Zezhou.

Nie Ran, Nie Ran, how could he come?

Liang Jun finally reacted, and several soldiers rushed towards this place. The Nie family army beside us tightly guarded us in the middle, and the commander of Liang Jun, who was lying on the ground, shouted at Nie Ran, "You are the rebels of the Qing Kingdom. , it should be the enemy of the Qing army with us! Why should we be the enemy of us!"

Nie Ran sneered, "How are we? That's our business! How can we allow foreign bandits to invade our country and kill my people?!"

The head coach Liang Jun said angrily: "You—you know that this is your coach Nie Guang..."

Before he could finish speaking, Nie Ran swung his spear across his arm, cutting off the words of the head coach Liang Jun in the blood.

At the same time, he whipped his whip and rode his horse, breaking a bloody road amid the encirclement and annihilation of the Liang army!

Along the way, the sharp blade stabbed in front of him countless times, and the blood of countless people splashed on his body, but all the attacks that swept in were blocked by his long spear.

Liang's army was far more powerful than the Nie family's army. In this hard battle, every step of the advance was exchanged by the soldiers with their own blood.

Nie Ran cut down one person again, and I saw from a distance the soldiers of the mysterious armor coming in front of me. The big "Qing" character on the commander's flag was the army led by Lu Lingjun. I was shocked and murmured to him: "Why..."

Why did the Nie army join forces with the Qing army to repel the Liang army?

Why?

Nie Ran didn't bother to answer me, there were fewer and fewer jīng cavalry around us, and every bit of his attention was on attacking the enemy, but his hands and feet were injured, and Liang Jun's offensive continued unabated. , he didn't let a single arrow hurt me in the slightest.

I never thought that the person who brought me out of this chaos and slaughter would be Nie Ran.

I don’t understand, I don’t understand at all, this Nie family army is their last stalwart teacher, and their last hope for restoring the country, but Nie Ran leads the army to fight against Liang Guo, what does he know? I don't know what kind of war he chose.

As we got farther and farther away from the battle circle, the Nie family guards who had been following us had let Nie Ran go first in order to cut off the road, but they never caught up.

The horse ran into the woods without looking back, and ran for a long time, until he could no longer hear the screams of slaughter in the distance. I know where Nie Ran is going to take me.

However, at the next moment, Nie Ran took hold of the reins and took me off the horse.

He was covered in blood, and he couldn't tell if it belonged to him or someone else. He calmly handed a bronze medal to me and said, "Across this forest is the Songjiang River. There are a few farmers by the river. You show them this thing, and they will take you in, and it will not be too late to leave when the storm subsides."

I didn't pick it up. He opened my fingers and put the bronze medal into my palm. Seeing that he was about to turn around, I opened my mouth and said, "You are seriously injured..."

"It's okay."

After he finished speaking, he got on his horse and walked out of the woods again. I was at a loss as I watched his retreating back, and then I saw him fall on the horse's back.

The horse was also injured and couldn't run too fast, so I hurried to the front and grabbed the reins, which made the horse stop.

Nie Ran had already fainted, his face was as pale as paper, and blood dripped down the saddle drop by drop. Even if he had reached the end of his life, he still wanted to rush to the battlefield to fight side by side with his subordinates.

I touched the horse's mane, and took the reins to walk to the Songjiang River step by step. The afterglow of the setting sun shone on the treetops.

The night fog, surging gently with the wind, is like a veil, dare not lift it up, dare not face it.

The candle in the house was almost half lit, and the doctor in the village bandaged Nie Ran's wound before slowly walking out the door, and said to me, "Young master has lost a lot of blood, but fortunately he didn't hurt his internal organs, so he needs to rest in peace. Put the prepared prescription on the table, and take the five patches for ten days, and you will be cured in a few days."

I nodded.

As I expected, this small village is inextricably linked with the Nie family, so as soon as the villagers saw Nie Ran, they went to find a doctor for him with great concern. I went all the way with Nie Ran and set aside two village houses for us to rest, but I didn't dare to ask any more questions.

I slowly stepped into the room. At this time, we all put on clean cotton and linen clothes. Recalling the thrill of the day, I didn't feel a little dazed.

I picked up the jade flute on the table and immersed the body of the flute in the copper basin to wash off the blood. I gave this jade flute to Xu Fang back then, but what I didn't expect was that Nie Ran would take it with him when he was on the battlefield.

I moved the wooden chair next to the room and sat down.

Nie Ran closed his eyes tightly and frowned slightly, as if he couldn't sleep because of the pain from the wound. I reached out to touch his forehead, feeling hot, and turned to pour him a basin of cold water, but he suddenly grabbed his wrist. I stayed for a while, but saw that his eyebrows moved slightly, and then slowly opened his eyes, his hoarse voice drifted in the night wind: "Zhefeng..."

I froze, what did he call me?

Seeing me stunned and at a loss, he looked around suspiciously, staring at me with soft warmth in his eyes, "Where are we?"

I looked at him in shock and replied blankly, "We... this is... by the river..."

"Jiang?" He blinked a little confusedly, "Aren't we going to Suiyang?"

There were bursts of crickets outside the house, and at that moment, I suddenly realized that Nie Ran in front of me was burned out and put myself on the way to Suiyang with me more than a year ago. He is the Xu Fang who wants to take He Feng far away.

A gust of wind extinguished the candles in the house, and it was instantly pitch black.

I hurriedly pulled out his hand, "I, I'm going to light a candle."

The flint was like it was out of action, and it couldn't hit the sparks again and again. I shook my hands, trying to ease my rapid breathing, and when I lit the candle again and turned around, I realized that he had fallen asleep again.

I slowly walked to Chuáng step by step and gently pushed him: "...Xu...Fang?"