(18) Landslides and cracks

Beifeng Road, Qing grassland, there are a few people who are silhouetted, reaching the sky from afar, reaching the earth from afar, and there are no traces of the roads in all directions.

The water and the back are originally alone. The vast sky and the earth are bounded on both sides. In ancient times, wars have never stopped, and business, travel, and Japanese are leisurely.

Beifeng Road is a spacious road connecting the Xiongnu grasslands and the Central Plains. This road passes through two peaks of Panlong Mountain. It connects the Xiongnu grasslands and the official road connecting the Chinese border city, which can directly lead to Dingzhou and Jiezhou.

Since ancient times, Beifeng Road has been like the ancient Beikou between the Northern Qin and the Tatars. During wars, there are constant wars here, but during peace, there are merchants and travelers every day, using their lives and many adventures to earn the considerable living expenses.

Before the sun could climb out, many torches had appeared on the grassland. The business travelers who had already set off at night worked tirelessly towards their destination, Jiezhou City. When the sky in the east was slightly bright and a hint of whiteness appeared, the team of business travelers had already entered Beifeng Road in Panlong Mountain. However, unlike in the past, you can see from a distance that the narrowest section of Beifeng Road was full of people.

When the business travelers arrived, the sun had slowly climbed out of the horizon and were trying to show their full picture. A Xiongnu army composed of 300 people stopped all the business travelers on this section of Beifeng Road. Several teams of business travelers gathered together, and about 200 people were arguing with the officers of the Xiongnu army.

But life is about life, after all, to save lives. When the Hun soldiers pulled out their sabers, the businessmen finally became timid. After a while, they had to return the same way, lamenting the instability of the situation.

The middle of the night had passed, and Shi Wei's iron mountain gate had fallen four times. From midnight to dawn, the Xiongnu army attacked six times, each time more violently, but each time more cautiously. Until now, the Xiongnu had lost about 4,000 people, including the more than 2,000 people who died in the first attack, and the number of them was less and less, with more than 600 casualties.

Shi Wei kept looking at the southeast with his telescope, hoping that the reinforcements from Jiezhou could arrive as soon as possible. According to estimates, the Huns could capture the mountain gate at most twice. At that time, the location was lost. With less than 10,000 workers on his side, he might really escape. From the heart, Shi Wei didn't want to escape, but in fact, he still used the midnight time to send most of the workers to escort to Jiezhou.

Finally, the sound of war drums below sounded again, and the Xiongnu army in the brigade winded up from below in three straight rows, no longer charging in one breath, and each of them was a little separated. Everyone paid close attention to the fall of the thunderbolts above, and there was no hedgehog car. After suffering the losses of a hundred people, the Xiongnu army rushed to the iron mountain gate that was about to be destroyed. The gate fell down again. The Xiongnu army in front of the mountain gate had already seen it, immediately retreated, and used a shield to block the bows and arrows.

With a bang, the mountain gate finally fell down, and a large area of ​​dust was raised. Like a signal, more Hun soldiers below were like receiving a horn of charge and rushed towards the mountain frantically.

In front of the mountain gate, hundreds of Hun soldiers were already fighting with Chinese soldiers. Shi Wei on the back post finally issued a second order: "Let it go!"

The prepared iron watermelon was thrown away from a distance and exploded in the air. Countless fire balls fell like rain. When they encountered something that could burn, the flames climbed up, and hundreds of people were surrounded by the flames, lightly or severely.

The sulphur bomb actually replaces the thorns explosion with thorn oil. Although it is not as powerful as the thorns explosion, it also has a considerable lethality. One by one, the sulphur bombs flew out, and three or four hundred Hun soldiers were wrapped in flames on the spot and burned to death. This time, Shi Wei was merciless and used all the ammunition.

I never knew that the Huns would be so fierce and fearless. Fire and explosions were terrible, but the Huns were like moths blowing fire, rushing up one after another, completely ignoring the dead companions beside them. As long as someone rushed into the mountain gate, he would stand a seat to resist the Chinese soldiers and wait for the next person to arrive.

The neat and orderly joint battles show that they are also conducting every attack in a planned manner, and that they are determined to fight for territory with their lives.

"Retrieve from the front and prepare to light the fire." Leng Fei received Shi Wei's order and raised his hand to chop over a Hun soldier in front of him, raised his sword and shouted at the Chinese soldiers. His body was covered in blood and blood in his eyes made people feel his hard work and courage.

When all the Chinese soldiers heard the order, they immediately began to retreat neatly, allowing the Xiongnu army to chase the mountain gate one by one and advance towards them. After retreating a hundred meters, they could barely retreat a hundred meters before reaching the place of Shi Wei's sentry. Suddenly, all the Chinese soldiers raised their shields and lay on the ground at the same time.

A loud bang spread from the mountain gate. A huge explosion occurred in the mountain area where Chinese soldiers retreated. Sand and stones flew away. The entire mountain was filled with countless smoke and dust. The explosion sounded throughout the sky, and the earth trembled, as if even the sun was trembling. The Xiongnu army, which had not yet rushed up below, began to face the huge sand and stones, and their limbs were separated by being crushed.

The Xiongnu army had not completely occupied the mountain gate after the previous six charges. This time, with the concession of Chinese soldiers, they thought they could successfully rush into the mountain village and reduce some casualties. This explosion ruined all the thoughts of the Xiongnu army and once again brought life to the Xiongnu army beyond the first five attacks.

No one dared to rush up any longer because what was coming from the large pieces of earth and rocks after the landslide was coming.

Shi Wei jumped off the whistle at the same time as everyone else. The powerful air flow above his head blew his hair. The strong wind cut his skin and it hurt so hard. Suddenly, a creaking sound came from beside him. Then a rumbling sound came. The whistle that Shi Wei was just stuck just collapsed due to the explosion due to several supporting rods. Some nearby soldiers and stone casting cars on both sides immediately became the targets of the whistle. Dozens of people were injured and dead. Even Shi Wei had to turn over and cut off the wooden sticks pressing towards him with the sword beside him to avoid it.

The explosion of hundreds of kilograms of explosives was really terrifying. The sand and stones with strong winds fell all over the sky. Even if the Chinese soldiers who were close to them raised their shields and tried hard to protect their heads, they still could not protect their whole body. When their body was hit by the sand and stones, they immediately felt bloody and heart-wrenching pain.

When all this is over, the flying sand and stones are gone, the smoke and dust are gone, and the mountain gate is blocked by countless huge earth and stones. Although it is not high for this mountain, it is enough for people to become an insurmountable barrier.

More than 5,000 Chinese soldiers got up one by one. Shi Wei shouted at this time: "Everyone, help all the wounded soldiers up, and the entire army followed me to retreat from the secret passage!"

Everyone started to act and check whether the injured nearby were still angry.

The sun had risen in mid-air. Shi Wei looked at the sky and showed a smile on his face, "I hope I can go back to Jiezhou and drink with General Quan. It seems that another war of changing colors is coming!"

The morning light shines on the city of Liang. It was already dawn, but the white clouds were rising but he had not yet got up. In the past few years, he only liked to complain about the most, that is, the morning court. He felt strange. Why have emperors liked to discuss matters among the court officials since ancient times. This is similar to the meetings of the board of directors, shareholders' meetings, parliament, people's congress, and standing committees arranged before dawn. In summer, they could barely sleep less, but after autumn, people became lazy and became more and more sleepy.

Thinking about Duan Qi's era, people who were slightly more normal work from 9 to 5. The morning court time was one of the things that Bai Yunqi wanted to change, but every time he proposed it, the old antique court officials, including Xie Dongshan, Kong and Beihai, all took out an attitude of being unchanged in ancient examples and blocked his opinions. It seemed that this matter had to be taken slowly.

This is also one of the fundamental reasons why this incident happened today. If it weren't for going to the morning court and going back to sleep, Bai Yunqi might have been up long ago. Linglong wouldn't have caught him and Jiang Wendi sleeping naked, and there wouldn't have been the scene where Bai Yunqi pretended to be sleepwalking and took advantage of Linglong. In the final analysis, it was the benefits brought by the morning court.

Linglong's embarrassment was really hard to describe when she was stopped by Jiang Wendi. She finally sorted out her clothes slowly, and stood in front of Jiang Wendi with her head down and did not dare to speak.

Jiang Wendi didn't speak or move Bai Yunqi, who was lying on her body and snoring, sat up and leaned over and pulled the quilt over and covered it. Bai Yunqi was completely covered. Jiang Wendi covered her naked breasts and looked up and down at Linglong's embarrassment. Linglong glanced at Jiang Wendi from time to time, and then noticed Jiang Wendi's gaze and shrank again. The two of them felt a numb and itchy feeling on their backs at the same time.

After a while, Ruan Ling took a deep breath, plucked up her courage to raise her head, and said to Jiang Wendi: "Sister Jiang, that... I'm sorry... the emperor just now... he's sleepwalking..."

She wanted to say "calling us", but when she turned around, she might be jealous of Jiang Wendi. Her husband slept with her, but dreamed that she called out "two" girls who he hadn't been intimate with. This fact made it hard not to be jealous.

Ruan Ling's words stopped. In fact, Jiang Wendi didn't care about this, but instead caught Bai Yunqi's wrist vein under the quilt. The sleepwalking symptoms can be big or small. Although she only knew a little from ancient books, she was still a little worried about her husband.

But from the pulse, Baiyunqi is normal and there is nothing wrong with it. This made Jiang Wendi puzzled. It was not until Ruan Ling spoke that she woke up from her memories of sleepwalking records. When she saw Ruan Ling's words, she asked, "How did you come here?"

The voice was cold, and the Linglong sisters felt cold in their hearts when they heard it. They remembered why they came. They were shocked. Ruan Ling hurriedly said: "The big thing is not good, something happened in the border area! Sister Jiang, look at this..."

While speaking, Ruan Ling took out a small note from her sleeve and walked forward to Jiang Wendi and continued: "We were in Sister Shui's room before. Sister Shui went out for some time in the middle of the day. We found a pigeon on her window. She was not afraid of people, so she caught it and played for a few times. Then she found this note and immediately rushed to give it to the emperor, but... the emperor..."

At the end, Ruan Ling's voice became smaller and smaller, and her head slowly lowered again. Bai Yunqi in the quilt could hear it clearly. The border was in a hurry and immediately opened her eyes. After Jiang Wendi looked at it, she was about to wake Bai Yunqi up immediately. However, Bai Yunqi suddenly opened the quilt and opened her eyes again. When he wanted to see the note, he swallowed it by him. If he was too awake at this time, with Jiang Wendi's intelligence, he would immediately know that he was not sleepwalking just now. Bai Yunqi didn't want to make that mistake, so he quickly bleeded and smiled at Jiang Wendi: "Good morning, my Mrs. Jiang!"

"You are still laughing, wake up and see, something big happened!" Jiang Wendi handed over the note unhappily. Bai Yunqi then got up from Jiang Wendi's body.

Jiang Wendi said as she quickly pulled the quilt over and covered it again. Bai Yunqi took the note and turned his head, pretending that Linglong and the others were stunned for a moment, and also covered her lower body with the quilt before saying embarrassedly: "Linglong...you...how are you here?"

"They are sending letters, please take a look! They are not serious and scared the little girl!" Jiang Wendi said with a blushing look at Linglong.

After reading the note, Bai Yunqi was not shocked. After thinking a little, he nodded and muttered: "It turns out that the Huns had the idea of ​​starting weapons, it's not bad! It seems that they should have suffered a great loss from the Master of the Stone Hall. As early as in Jiezhou, he planned everything in Panlong Mountain. Well, Linglong, you guys can sit down! Thank you for your hard work, come here!"

No one paid attention to Bai Yunqi's screams, but Linglong suddenly moved a few steps uneasyly. Ruan Long looked at the ground and whispered: "Emperor... Emperor, no... don't shout anymore. The palace maids and guards outside... were all knocked out by me!"

Bai Yunqi thought it was true, otherwise Linglong would not be able to get in, so she smiled and said, "You two little girls, don't worry about being like this. It's not that the Huns have come to the capital. Let's sit down first! I'll put on my clothes, Mrs. Jiang, do you still have to sleep?"

"Go to you, you're not serious in front of others, you're sleeping ghost! Hand over the clothes!"

In this world, only Bai Yunqi's wife dares to speak out to Bai Yunqi. A generation of literati, famous general, and wise king, in front of his wife, she is just a husband who does not allow women to take care of national affairs.

"Yes, obey the order!" Bai Yunqi smiled and handed the clothes to Jiang Wendi from the edge of the bed, and at the same time picked up his clothes and put them on the quilt.
Chapter completed!