Chapter Twenty-Five: Nanjing, Nanjing IV

However, within a day or two, Azig gathered his army, divided his troops into several routes, and went straight to Nanjing.

All prefectures and counties, almost without encountering any resistance, surrendered one after another.

When the Azig troops approached the city of Nanjing, the first thing to attack was not the city of Nanjing, but the Purple Mountain.

With a large number of artillery joined the battlefield, the form of war has also changed a lot, first of all, the commanding heights outside the city have been taken seriously, and the range of Hongyi cannons is naturally not up to dozens of miles, but shooting from a high place, there are still about ten miles.

Even as the altitude increases, this range increases. It couldn't be easier to bombard the walls.

Therefore, the Purple Mountain outside Nanjing has also become important.

If the Qing army occupies the Purple Mountain, although it cannot look down on the entire city of Nanjing and fire artillery at will, it can bombard the city wall of Nanjing from afar.

Therefore, the Purple Mountain is a battleground for soldiers. And the general guarding the Purple Mountain is Gao Yuanjue.

There were few useful generals in the city of Nanjing.

Gao Yuanjue is also a general among the shorties, after all, although Gao Yuanjue is young, but because of Luo Yulong's kindness to Gao Jie, he can be regarded as a high position. In addition, there is a blood feud with the Qing army, and he will never surrender

This matter of going out to guard the Purple Mountain was handed over to him.

Of course, the place of the Purple Mountain is vast, and in the city of Nanjing, where are there so many soldiers guarded, Gao Yuanjue's department is only a few thousand people, Gao Yuanjue, it is when his blood is strong, his father died in battle, and his mother did not withdraw from the front line, what kind of fate will it be, he can't think about it.

With the courage of blood. On the top of the Purple Mountain, engage the Qing army. However, they were outnumbered and had to retreat to the city of Nanjing.

Azig immediately surrounded the city of Nanjing, and set up a number of villages around the city, and he finally decided to set up a large camp on Yuhuatai, and also divided his troops to capture the nearby prefectures. Feed the army.

The defeat in this battle completely made Qian Qianyi lose confidence.

The soldiers led by Gao Yuanjue were all the family members of generals at all levels who stayed in Nanjing. is already the most elite man in Nanjing City. They relied on the terrain and did not hold out for a day. made Qian Qianyi extremely uneasy.

Within a day or two, Qian Qianyi's hair turned white.

He regretted the hundred claws scratching his heart, he had known that this was the case, he was not tempted by Ruan Dacheng in the first place, and he participated in the current matter, so that Luo Yulong's remnants withdrew, and this Nanjing City was much easier to defend. Knowing this, he retreated bravely at the beginning, not greedy for power. Knowing this, they didn't agree to Luo Yulong's invitation in the first place, they really dared to kill him.

But he didn't dare to think much in his heart, knowing that this situation was extremely tricky. doesn't have much confidence in holding Nanjing City, let alone what good end will he have after holding Nanjing City?

You can't advance, you can't retreat, you can't live, you can't die. Qian Qianyi felt that his position was extremely awkward.

Just thinking about it makes me sweat profusely. Can't help yourself.

"Sir." Liu Ru walked over with a pot of wine and said, "Are you still worried about the Qing army?" ”

Liu Ru has a temperament, which can be called intellectual. It's an atmosphere that calms down as long as you're around her.

"That's right." Qian Qianyi said: "What should I do? ”

Liu Ru sat next to Qian Qianyi, looking like a grandson, and said, "It depends on what the master wants?" ”

"Do you want to be famous for a thousand years, or be glorious and rich."

"Although Your Majesty has all kinds of wrongs, he can't talk about the master. After the defeat of the Northern Expedition, I couldn't get used to what they did, but the situation was like this, and the lord had to take advantage of the situation, but now the situation, Nanjing must not be defended. The disaster is within the Xiao wall, the two parties have a deep grudge, and they have never worked together, and the city can be defended, but sooner or later. ”

"One misstep is already unbearable, how can there be any more."

"The lord doesn't need to think about his children, the concubines are all arranged. I only hope that the lord will pay attention to the name of the clean. ”

Qian Qianyi slammed his cane on the ground and said, "Yes, it's already unbearable, how can you care?" ”

Liu Ru saw Qian Qianyi move his cane, and sighed slightly in his heart, knowing that Qian Qianyi thought of another past event. Qian Qianyi has always had a cane by his side, on which he carved a line of words with his own hands: "If you use it, you will do it, and if you give it up, you will hide it, but I am a husband with you." This sentence comes from the Analects, but Qian Qianyi uses things to metaphor people to express his mind.

It's just that after he surrendered to Cao Ying, an anonymous person sent another cane, which was exactly the same as Qian Qianyi's cane, and there was a sentence engraved on it: "If you don't hold it in danger, if you don't support it, you will use it for you." This sentence is also derived from the Analects.

There was a spicy satire on Qian Qianyi's behavior.

Qian Qianyi knew that this incident was done by an old friend, but he didn't know who it was.

This incident made Qian Qianyi not use a cane for a long time, but Qian Qianyi was old after all, and he was in an important position, and he was busy with official business, so he had to use it again, but he never used the above two canes again. Not a single word was carved on the cane again.

But Liu Ru knew that there was not a word on Qian Qianyi's cane. But these two lines of words were engraved in his heart.

Confucianism may have such and such bad things, but after reading it from a young age, few people don't mind the word "shame". If Qian Qianyi is really a big traitor and has the ability to spit on himself, he is a little better, but Qian Qianyi's literati personality is far better than that of a politician, and his temperament is not strong.

How can these things be treated as nothing.

Liu said: "Please rest assured, if something goes wrong, the concubine should go to Huangquan with the master." ”

Qian Qianyi sighed and said: "If you can be accompanied by such a person in this life, what more can the old husband ask for." ”

Liu said: "Except for the master, who will greet me with ten miles of red makeup?" ”

Liu Ru saw that Qian Qianyi had made up her mind, so she got up and went back, she didn't go back to do anything else, she wanted to change her clothes.

Women are all people who love beauty, and even when they are going to die, they must be dressed beautifully. Therefore, Liu Ru instructed the maid to boil water, she took off her clothes, washed her warm skin like congealed cream, and then got up wrapped in a bath towel and opened a large box with copper locks.

When the box was opened, it was suddenly a golden red.

Gold is the head, and red is clothing.

But I saw that above the golden head, a phoenix, wings ready to fly, there is a gold thread braided on it, just move slightly, it can't help but tremble, like a living thing, there are bead curtains below, a little finger big pearl, neatly aligned, full of color, like a tassel hanging down.

And under the head, there is also a headdress jewelry that does not know the golden jade color.

Liu Ru took these out, and took out the clothes underneath.

A set of red salutes is the bride's dress.

Although Qian Qianyi is very good to Liu Ru, Liu Ru is a concubine after all. It stands to reason that this wedding dress is not qualified to be worn.

But as a woman, how don't you want to enter through the door seriously. Liu Ru's hand caressed the top of the wedding dress, and she only felt that it was extremely soft, even better than her skin. She took off her bathrobe, transformed herself, and put on a red wedding dress.

Although the cloak was scattered and a little messy, the red wedding dress, taking advantage of her snow-white skin, seemed to have not left any traces on her body over the years, as if it was the same back then.

Liu Ru didn't need any maids, and brought her head and face jewelry by herself. Then coil up your hair to create a very complex hairstyle.

Generally speaking, this kind of complicated hairstyle requires a maid to help, and a person is too busy, but Liu Ru is very skillful, and he actually got it himself, looking through the diorama, it looks like a beauty in a New Year's painting. The red clothes are like fire, the face is like snow, and the two complement each other, and there are twelve points of beauty.

Qin Huai Bayan, famous in the United States, is it in vain?

Liu Ru dressed up everything, gently pushed open the attic, and walked out. For a while, all the servants and maids didn't dare to look directly at Liu Ruyi, lest they show their rudeness. But Liu Ru searched around, but he didn't find Qian Qianyi, so he couldn't help but ask the servant: "Where is the master?" ”

"Just now, Lord Ruan came to look for the master, and the master and Lord Ruan went out." The servant said.

Liu Ru's heart sank when she heard this, and a string of pearls fell from somewhere, and the broken thread rolled everywhere for a while.

Just like her heart.